Books with title Sanpriel: The Promised Land

An extraordinary popular success when it was first published in 1912, The Promised Land is a classic account of the Jewish American immigrant experience. Mary Antin emigrated with her family from theEastern European town of Polotzk to Boston in 1894, when she was twelve years old. Preternaturally inquisitive, Antin was a provocative observer of the identity-altering contrasts between Old World andNew. Her narrative — of universal appeal and rich in its depictions of both worlds — captures a large-scale sociocultural landscape and paints a profound self-portrait of an iconoclast seeking to reconcile herheritage with her newfound identity as an American citizen.

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From the fly leaf: "The Promised Land is a personal memoir, but is illustrative of scores of unwritten lives and is an affirmation of American values, offering convincing evidence that the large numbers of immigrants who have entered the country have had much to contribute from their past heritage. For this Second Edition, in which the original texas of 1912 is reprinted without change, a new Foreword has been written by the distinguished historian, Oscar Handlin."

Excerpt from The Promised LandI was born, I have lived, and I have been made over. Is it not time to write my life's story? I am just as much out of the way as if I were dead, for I am absolutely other than the person whose story I have to tell. Physical continuity with my earlier self is no disadvantage. I could speak in the third person and not feel that I was masquerading. I can analyze my subject, I can reveal everything; for she, and not I, is my real heroine. My life I have still to live; her life ended when mine began.A generation is sometimes a more satisfactory unit for the study of humanity than a lifetime; and spiritual generations are as easy to demark as physical ones. Now I am the spiritual offspring of the marriage within my conscious experience of the Past and the Present. My second birth was no less a birth because there was no distinct incarnation. Surely it has happened before that one body served more than one spiritual organization. Nor am I disowning my father and mother of the flesh, for they were also partners in the generation of my second self; copartners with my entire line of ancestors. They gave me body, so that I have eyes like my father's and hair like my mother's. The spirit also they gave me, so that I reason like my father and endure like my mother. But did they set me down in a sheltered garden, where the sun should warm me, and no winter should hurt, while they fed me from their hands?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

The Promised Land is Mary Antin’s mature autobiography. In it, she tells the story of what she considers her escape from bondage in Eastern Europe and her finding of freedom in America. When her family moved to Boston from Eastern Eur ope, she was able to go to public schools and use public libraries. Whereas the Old World represents, for her, lack of freedom and a predetermined identity, she sees the New World as representing freedom and the ability to choose her own identity.This would be a good book for people to read about equality and immigrants assimilating into society.

"One of the first great works of American Jewish literature." -The New York Times "The life-story of an eager, observant, reflective, aspiring, and always original young woman whose formative years have been divided between the stifling restrictions of the 'Pale' ad the glorious freedom of America. Polotzk, in the government of Vitebsk, was the scene of her infancy and early childhood; Boston and its suburbs that of her maidenhood and young womanhood - with the broad Atlantic separating as by a chasm none too wide the amazingly disparate halves of this growing period....The bitter lot of the Russian Jew is depicted by the author in a way to wring the heart, but the gloom and horror of it all are relieved by irresistible touches of humor, while the charity and largeness of view displayed by this daughter of a hated and ill-used race are beyond praise....The infectious optimism and high courage of the book, as well as the vigor and picturesqueness of its style, with its frequent touches of humor, gleams of mirth, and suggestions of poetry, win the reader at the outset and hold him enthralled to the final page." -The Dial "Few recent American books have made as strong an impression on the reading public as 'The Promised Land,' Mary Antin's book about a little Russian girl immigrant and her life in America. It is a convincingly hopeful contribution to a great problem as well as a vivid and telling personal narrative....There is a deeply moving power in the rapid utterance and intense purpose that inform every page of Mary Antin's self-revelation. To know what American stands for in the vision of an ambitious, sensitive, and hitherto hindered foreigner makes the careless American catch his breath and feel humbled in spirit....It is quite impossible to give any adequate idea of this compelling story - the story of a self-centered girl, who yet escaped the evils of self-consciousness. Knowing, though in part, our shortcomings as benefactors of struggling aliens who hold out beseeching hands to us, we read this disclosure of an ideal America as it lived in the hearts of this emigrant family, and take courage, thanking God for the heritage given us by our fathers, and profoundly hopeful for its preservation and increase in our hands. The autobiography ends when its author feels herself truly an American, having been educated in the Boston public schools and Barnard College....A pen so eloquent and a mind so open to every good influence, mental and spiritual." -The Outlook "It is the plain story of the growth and development of a Russian immigrant girl in America, who finds her place, after much groping and many struggles, and who succeeds so well in growing up to her opportunities and her environment that she is able to tell in virile and beautiful English the tale of her life in 'The Promised Land.' Will interest every new citizen and every American who likes to hear his country spoken of in terms of appreciation as well as of intelligent criticism." -Book Bulletin of the Chicago Public Library "Told with a picturesqueness, a distinction, and poetic touch that make 'The Promised Land' as interesting as the best fiction. For the author has the gift of making literature out of the slightest incident - of touching 'the palpable and the familiar with golden exhalations of the dawn.' The historian will find in 'The Promised Land' material of great value and undoubted accuracy, not only as to municipal government and social conditions in a community within the Russian Pale, but also as to the development of certain characteristics of the Russian Jew, which are here freely admitted." -The Literary Digest

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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. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.

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