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The promised land / by Mary Antin ; with illustrations from photographs.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 7828
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Antin, Mary, 1881-1949, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antin, Mary, 1881-1949.
- Antin, Mary.
- Jewish women.
- Jews--United States--Biography.
- Jews.
- Jews--Belarus--Polatsk--Biography.
- Americanization.
- Immigrants.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel 7828)
- Physical Description:
- xv, 373 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Houghton Mifflin, 1938.
- Summary:
- Antin emigrated from Polotzk (Polotsk), Belarus [Russia], to Boston, Massachusetts, at age 13. She tells of Jewish life in Russia and in the United States.
- Notes:
- Thirty-second impression, October, 1938.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 7828: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Ink inscription on front free endleaf recto: For Patricia O'Rilla Moore - her very own book, from her very own "Grandmother" Mary Antin June 1941.
- OCLC:
- 1298686272
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