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Mary Antin (1881–1949)

Autor/a de The Promised Land

6+ obres 312 Membres 8 Ressenyes

Obres de Mary Antin

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Women's America: Refocusing the Past (1982) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions333 exemplars
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America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers (1990) — Col·laborador — 118 exemplars
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Col·laborador — 68 exemplars
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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Altres noms
Antin, Maryashe (birth)
Data de naixement
1881-06-13
Data de defunció
1949-05-15
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de defunció
Suffern, New York, USA
Llocs de residència
Polotsk, Belarus
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Educació
Teachers College of Columbia University
Barnard College
Boston Latin School
Professions
activist (immigration rights)
autobiographer
public lecturer
poet
Relacions
Grabau, Amadeus W. (husband)
Biografia breu
Maryashe Antin was born to a Jewish family in Polotsk (then Russia). She studied with private tutors before the whole family emigrated to the USA in 1894, settling in Boston. There her name was shortened to Mary. Helped by her teachers, Mary Antin completed grammar school in four years. She began to fulfill her literary ambitions by publishing some poems in Boston newspapers, which made her a local celebrity and a symbol of immigrant achievement. She also published From Plotzk to Boston (1899), a collection of her letters, which earned enough to pay for her education at Girls’ Latin School (now Boston Latin Academy). In 1901, she married Amadeus William Grabau, a geologist, with whom she had a son, and moved to New York City. Mary attended Barnard College and Teachers College of Columbia University. At age 30, she wrote a bestselling autobiography, The Promised Land (1912) and went on a national lecturer tour. After the USA entered World War I, she lectured in support of the Allied cause, but her husband voiced his pro-German sympathies, causing a serious rift in their marriage. Mary Antin became ill and retired from public life. By 1919, the couple had separated, and the following year, Grabau left the USA for China. Mary Antin returned to Massachusetts, where she worked part-time as a social worker.

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This author met Meher Baba in the 1930's when Baba came to New York. This narrative offers a fascinating view of life in Belarus for Orthodox Jews, and then the experience of the harrowing journey to the U.S. and the poverty of the ghetto. The strength of her spirit, hope, intelligence and friendships give wings to her aspirations.
 
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libMNLL | Hi ha 5 ressenyes més | Mar 27, 2022 |
I've decided to try “The Promised Land” by Mary Antin, with expectation of a crushing depression setting in:

“Could it be that the country's vices are now (finally) harmful to society?”

I'd say that the countries vices were always harmful to the country, with the need to endlessly consume, renew, rebuild, scrap and start over. But only now that "general prosperity supports the stability of all governments" is NO longer the case for the vast majority of people in the USA, regardless of race, the wounds inflicted by the vices have started to fester. The adherence to a mythology of the self-made man can be soul-crushing to those 99.9% that can't pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Carnegie is still seen as a goal, as opposed to a mass murderer. And the new generation of Trumps and Hiltons and Kardashians have bled their insanity into the American fabric, without any acceptance of the simple fact that those fuckers all emerged from wombs with deep pockets.

The “end” of America was written on the wall a real long time, simply because I do not know of almost anyone of America’s generation of today who can honestly say that they are in a better place economically, health-wise or spiritually than their parents. So, contrary to the nightly suckfests to show the NASDAQ index and Standard and Poor ratings, I know very few Americans who have more than their nostrils above water, so they almost all have started to question what kind of life democracy can promise.

I actually think that the process going on in the USA is essentially that which happened 100-150 years ago in Europe, when the natural resources started petering out, and the hope is that the States turn in the same way that Europe did: towards greater social justice and safety nets. Hopefully, without the necessity of 2 World Wars in the meantime.
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antao | Hi ha 5 ressenyes més | Sep 26, 2020 |
Brief account of a young girl and her family's journey from Russia to America. The father has preceded them and after 3 years, they are finally able to join him. The children and their mother encounter multiple obstacles along the way, especially in passing into Germany. Since cholera was raging at the time, passengers were subjected to special steamings and cleanings of themselves and their belongings. Prices for passage were often increased.
The voyage across the Atlantic was particularly difficult, with seasickness prevalent among the passengers. It is hard to imagine these difficult journeys when travel today is so much simpler.
#FromPlotzkToBoston #MaryAntin
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rmarcin | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Sep 2, 2020 |
We get it, you were precocious and lucky. And grew up to be earnest.

Mary Antin's memoir about early childhood in a Russian Jewish community, emigrating to Boston (?) with her family, and the process by which American patriotism replaced Judaism as the definitive faith of her character and life. There's an overall tone of nerdy arrogance to the writing, reminiscent of Annie Dillard's and Agatha Christie's writings about childhood, though sadly minus most of the wry humor. But here and there are some beautiful passages evocative of landscape and the individual's smallness relative to the vastness of cultural and national identity.… (més)
 
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amelish | Hi ha 5 ressenyes més | Sep 12, 2013 |

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Obres
6
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6
Membres
312
Popularitat
#75,595
Valoració
½ 3.6
Ressenyes
8
ISBN
45

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