Mary Antin est surtout connue pour son autobiographie "La Terre Promise", qui raconte son éducation dans une école publique et son assimilation à la culture américaine, ainsi que les expériences des Juifs dans la Russie tsariste. Née dans une famille juive à Polotsk, Antin a immigré dans la région de Boston avec sa mère et ses frères et sœurs en 1894. Son œuvre offre un regard émouvant sur l'expérience de l'immigrant et la quête d'identité dans un nouveau pays. Le récit d'Antin offre un aperçu profond des défis et des triomphes de l'adaptation à une société étrangère.
The narrative offers a personal account of the author's immigration journey from Polotsk, Russia to Boston at age 11 in 1894. Through vivid storytelling, Mary Antin captures the challenges and experiences faced by impoverished immigrants arriving in America. This work serves as a significant historical document, providing insight into the immigrant experience during that era. The republished edition preserves the original text and artwork, making it accessible to modern readers while highlighting its historical importance.
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 the Eastern 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 and New. 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 her heritage with her newfound identity as an American citizen.
For the centennial of its first publication: a new edition of a seminal work on the American immigrant experience Weaving introspection with political commentary, biography with history, The Promised Land, first published in 1912, brings to life the transformation of an Eastern European Jewish immigrant into an American citizen. Mary Antin recounts "the process of uprooting, transportation, replanting, acclimatization, and development that took place in [her] own soul" and reveals the impact of a new culture and new standards of behavior on her family. A feeling of division—between Russia and America, Jews and Gentiles, Yiddish and English—ever-present in her narrative is balanced by insights, amusing and serious, into ways to overcome it. In telling the story of one person, The Promised Land illuminates the lives of hundreds of thousands. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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The story vividly portrays the experiences of young immigrants in early twentieth-century America, highlighting their struggles and aspirations. Through the lens of Mary Antin's own background as an immigrant civil activist, it offers insights into the challenges faced by those seeking a new life, capturing the essence of hope and resilience amidst adversity.
