From Plotzk to Boston: Enriched edition. An Immigrant's Journey to Embracing the American Dream

by Mary Antin

From Plotzk to Boston by Mary Antin is a biographical story about the author's life. As an immigration activist, Antin felt it was important to chronicle the journey she went on to get from Poland in the years leading up to the 1900s. It primarily focuses on her observations of life in unfamiliar surroundings, the emotional trials endured by her family, and the hardships that accompanied their passage to and eventual settlement in Boston, Massachusetts.

49 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 27, 2019

About the author

Born to a Jewish family in Polotsk, Mary Antin immigrated to the Boston area with her mother and siblings in 1894, moving from Chelsea to Ward 8 in Boston's South End, a notorious slum, as the venue of her father's store changed. ... Antin is best known for her 1912 autobiography The Promised Land, which describes her public school education and assimilation into American culture, as well as life for Jews in Czarist Russia.