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The Promised Land by Mary Antin with illustrations from photographs.
Mary Antin
American author and immigration rights activist
Mary Antin (born Maryashe Antin; June 13, 1881 – May 15, 1949) was an American author and immigration rights activist.
She is best known for her 1912 autobiography The Promised Land, an account of her emigration and subsequent Americanization.
Life
Mary Antin was the second of six children born to Israel and Esther Weltman Antin, a Jewish family living in Polotsk, in the Vitebsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus).
Israel Antin emigrated to Boston in 1891, and three years later he sent for Mary and her mother and siblings.[3]
She married Amadeus William Grabau, a geologist, in 1901, and moved to New York City where she attended Teachers College of Columbia University and Barnard College.
Antin is best known for her 1912 autobiographyThe Promised Land, which describes her public school education and assimilation into American culture, as well as life for Jews in Czarist Russ