Mary Antin

Mary Antin ( born June 13, 1881 in Polotsk, † May 15, 1949 in Suffern, New York) was an American author and activist for immigration rights. Born into a Jewish family in Polotsk in present-day Belarus born, she emigrated in 1894 with her mother and her siblings to Boston from. She later moved to New York City, where she applied for a position at the Teachers College of Columbia University and Barnard College. Antin is known for its 1912 published autobiography The Promised Land ( title of the German translation: From the Ghetto to the promised land ) that describes their assimilation into American culture. After its publication Antin lectured about their immigrant experience at many events across the country and was a Hauptverfechterin for Theodore Roosevelt and his Progressive Party.

Mary Antin was married to the German - American paleontologists and geologists Amadeus Grabau.

Works

• From Plotzk to Boston, Boston, 1899. EBook at Project Gutenberg (English)
• The Promised Land, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York 1912 German. From the Ghetto to the promised land. Publisher Robert Lutz, Stuttgart 1913. Authorized translation by M. and U. Stein Dorff. Full text on pds.lib.harvard.edu