Mary Antin
(1881-1949)
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Born Maryashe (Mashke)
Antin in Polotzk, Belarus!
Pale of Settlement: an area
Jews were permitted to
live!
Israel, her father,
emigrated in 1891 &
family followed in 1894
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Attended Chelsea Public
School in Boston!
Entered Girls’ Latin
School in Boston in 1898!
Later attends Teacher’s
College of Columbia and
Barnard College
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Began publishing poems
while still a school girl !
Publishes From Plotzk to
Boston (1899)!
Several short stories in
The Atlantic Monthly and
The Outlook!
The Promised Land (1912)!
They Who Knock at Our
Gates: A Complete Gospel of
Immigration (1914)
Mary Antin
(1881-1949)