In the second half of the nineteenth century; several thousand impoverished young Jewish women from Eastern Europe were forced into prostitution in the frontier colonies of Latin America; South Africa; India; and parts of the United States by the Zwi Migdal; a notorious criminal gang of Jewish mobsters.Isabel Vincent; acclaimed author of Hitler's Silent Partners; tells the remarkable true story of three such women—Sophia Chamys; Rachel Liberman; and Rebecca Freedman—who; like so many others; were desperate to escape a hopeless future in Europe's teeming urban ghettos and rural shtetls. Bodies and Souls is a shocking and spellbinding account of a monumental betrayal that brings to light a dark and shameful hitherto untold chapter in Jewish history—brilliantly chronicling the heartbreaking plight of women rejected by a society that deemed them impure and detailing their extraordinary struggles to live with dignity in a community of their own creation.
#26557 in Books HarperTorch 2003-03-18 2003-03-18Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 7.00 x .92 x 7.00l; .92 #File Name: 0060014016224 pagesHarperTorch
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