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The Promised Land
Author: Mary Antin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Year: 1912
Source: Project Gutenberg

With illustrations from photographs

Antin was born in Russian Poland. She tells of early childhood in Polotzk (Plotz) , the journey to Ameirca, and life in Boston. The 17 photos make the book--from "The Grave Digger of Polotzk" to "Harrison Avenue is the heart of the South End Ghetto. " Interweaving introspection with political commentary, biography with history, this book, first published in 1912, brings to life the transformation of an East European Jewish immigrant into an American citizen. Mary Antin recounts "the process of uprooting, transportation, replanting, acclimitization, and development that took place in my own soul, " and reveals the impact of a new culture and new standards of behavior on her family. Now a classic.