Uncertain Travelers: Conversations with Jewish Women Immigrants to America (HBI Series on Jewish Women)
By Marjorie AgosÃn.
Description
Donated by the Jewish Women's Center of Pittsburgh. Over a three-year period, award-winning Chilean poet and human rights activist Marjorie Agosín interviewed nine Jewish women immigrants who arrived in the US from Europe and Latin America between 1939 and the 1970s. Some came as children, others as adults; some were well-off, others refugees. These conversations reveal diverse experiences of exile as well as multiple attitudes toward North American politics, people, and culture. "What I found most amazing as I grew to know these women," Agosín writes, "was...
ISBN(s)
0874519454, 9780874519457