The promised land
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Sollors, Werner, writer of introduction.
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Adult Nonfiction - South Wing Main Floor
921 Antin
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lx, 305 pages : illustrations
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English

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Interweaving introspection with political commentaries, biography with history, The Promised Land (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. A feeling of divisionsbetween Russia and America, Jews and Gentiles, Yiddish and Englishever-present in her narrative, is balanced by insights, amusing and serious, into ways to overcome them. In telling the story of one person, The Promised Land illuminates the lives of hundreds of thousands. This Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition includes eighteen black-and-white photographs from the book's first edition and reprints for the first time Antin's essay "How I wrote The Promised Land."

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Antin, M., & Sollors, W. (1997). The promised land . Penguin.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Antin, Mary, 1881-1949 and Werner, Sollors. 1997. The Promised Land. Penguin.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Antin, Mary, 1881-1949 and Werner, Sollors. The Promised Land Penguin, 1997.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Antin, Mary, and Werner Sollors. The Promised Land Penguin, 1997.

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