Mary Antin

Being a Jew in Russia at the end of the 19th century was not easy at all. Jews were persecuted because of their religion. So the Jews found …

An intensely personal account of the immigration experience as related by a young Jewish girl from Plotzk (a town in the government of Viteb…

This book is composed of 24 short stories, published in 1918 by the Atlantic Monthly Press, and is the second collection of "modern sho…

In 1914, over one million immigrants arrived in the United States, following in the footsteps of approximately ten million others who had ar…

In this extended essay, Mary Antin asks us to consider three questions:First: A question of principle: Have we any right to regulate immigra…