Hilda Satt Polacheck's family emigrated from Poland to Chicago in 1892; bringing their old-world Jewish traditions with them into the Industrial Age. Throughout her career as a writer and activist; Polacheck (1882-1967) never forgot the immigrant neighborhoods; the markets; and the scents and sounds of Chicago's West Side. Here; in charming and colorful prose; she recounts her introduction to American life and the Hull-House community; her friendship with Jane Addams; her marriage; her support of civil rights; woman suffrage; and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; and her experiences as a writer for the WPA. "Scholars will find much to mine from Polacheck's vivid descriptions of urban life and socialist politics at a time of vast change. . . . General readers will be entranced by this sometimes dramatic; frequently funny; always engrossing autobiography."--Henry Kisor; Chicago Sun-Times "From the little details of immigrant life to the broad sweep of progressive politics; Hilda Satt Polacheck has given us an enormously valuable historical document. I Came a Stranger is the story of one of the 'obscure women' of history as she really was; an acute observer and an energetic actor in the public life of her time."--Ellen Carol DuBois; co-author of Feminist Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe Dena J. Polacheck Epstein is the author of Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War. Lynn Y. Weiner is the author of From Working Girl to Working Mother: The Female Labor Force in the United States; 1820-1980.
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