From Plotzk to Boston by Mary Antin
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"From Plotzk to Boston" by Mary Antin is a memoir published in 1899. It chronicles Antin's emigration from Polotsk in the Russian Empire to the United States in 1894, when she was thirteen years old. Originally written as letters to her uncle in Yiddish, the work describes her family's arduous journey across Europe and the Atlantic, capturing their encounters with bureaucratic obstacles, cultural shock, and harsh travel conditions, before concluding with an
emotional reunion in Boston. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Antin, Mary, 1881-1949 |
|---|---|
| Commentator | Zangwill, Israel, 1864-1926 |
| Title | From Plotzk to Boston |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Plotzk_to_Boston |
| Credits |
Produced by Arie Tuinman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 74.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | E151: History: America: United States |
| Subject | Antin, Mary, 1881-1949 |
| Subject | Jews -- United States -- Biography |
| Subject | Immigrants -- United States -- Biography |
| Subject | Jews -- Poland -- Plock -- Biography |
| Subject | United States -- Ethnic relations |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 20638 |
| Release Date | Feb 21, 2007 |
| Last Update | Jan 1, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 347 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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