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Title: From Plotzk to Boston

Author: Mary Antin

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From Plotzk to Boston
Author: Mary Antin
Year: 1899
Keywords: Biography, Immigrants, Poland, USA, Jews
Source: Project Gutenberg

With a foreword by Israel Zangwill

Mary Antin's vivid description of all she and her dear ones went through, enables us to see almost with our own eyes how the invasion of America appears to the impecunious invader. It is thus "a human document" of considerable value, as well as a promissory note of future performance. The quick senses of the child, her keen powers of observation and introspection, her impressionability both to sensations and complex emotions—these are the very things out of which literature is made; the raw stuff of art. Her capacity to handle English—after so short a residence in America—shows that she possesses also the instrument of expression. More fortunate than the poet of the Ghetto, Morris Rosenfeld, she will have at her command the most popular language in the world, and she has already produced in it passages of true literature, especially in her impressionistic rendering of the sea and the bustling phantasmagoria of travel.

(Israel Zangwill)

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