Jewish Autobiographies

THE PROMISED LAND

BY MARY ANTIN

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CONTENTS

	Introduction	xi
I.	Within the Pale	1
II.	Children of the Law	29
III.	Both Their Houses	42
IV.	Daily Bread	60
V.	I Remember	79
VI.	The Tree of Knowledge	111
VII.	The Boundaries Stretch	137
VIII.	The Exodus	163
IX.	The Promised Land	180
X.	Initiation	206
XI.	"My Country"	222
XII.	Miracles	241
XIII.	A Child's Paradise	252
XIV.	Manna	264
XV.	Tarnished Laurels	276
XVI.	Dover Street	286
XVII.	The Landlady	301
XVIII.	The Burning Bush	321
XIX.	A Kingdom in the Slums	337
XX.	The Heritage	359
	Acknowledgments	365
	Glossary	367

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Mashke and Fetchke	Frontispiece
The Grave-Digger of Polotzk	24
Heder (Hebrew School) for Boys in Polotzk	34
The Wood Market, Polotzk	52
My Father's Portrait	70
My Grandfather's House, where I was born	80
The Meat Market, Polotzk	98
Sabbath Loaves for Sale (Bread Market, Polotzk)	124
Winter Scene on the Dvina	144
Union Place (Boston) where my New Home waited for Me	184
Twoscore of my Fellow-Citizens—Public School, Chelsea	230
Wheeler Street, in the Lower South End of Boston	264
Harrison Avenue is the Heart of the South End Ghetto	288
I liked to stand and look down on the Dim Tangle of Railroad Tracks below	298
The Natural History Club had Frequent Field Excursions	328
Bates Hall, where I spent my Longest Hours in the Library	342
The Famous Study, that was fit to have been preserved as a Shrine	346
The Tide had rushed in, stealing away our Seaweed Cushions	362

From Plotzk to Boston

BY

Mary Antin