Product Description: The Promised Land (1912) edited here with illustrations from photographs, is the autobiography of Mary Antin, was an American author and immigration rights activist. It tells the story of her early life in what is now Belarus and her immigration to the United States in 1894...read more

Product Description: The "infant phenomenon" in literature is rarer than in more physical branches of art, but its productions are not likely to be of value outside the doting domestic circle. Even Pope who "lisped in numbers for the numbers came," did not add to our Anthology from his cradle, though he may therein have acquired his monotonous rocking-metre...read more

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: Mary Antin, author of the much-celebrated Promised Land, corresponded with a wide range of people including Theodore Roosevelt, Tomas A. Waston, and Israel Zangwill. This is a collections of her letters from 1899-1949. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Fleeing the anti-Semitic rule of Russia's czar, Masha and her family immigrate to America, where bright, inquisitive Masha can finally go to school--something she was forbidden to do before. 15,000 first printing.

A Jewish child's story of her life in Russia and as an immigrant in nineteenth century America