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Mary Antin
American author and immigration rights activist
Mary Antin (born Maryashe Antin; June 13, – May 15, ) was an American author and immigration rights activist. She is best known for her autobiography The Promised Land, an account of her emigration and subsequent Americanization.
Life
Mary Antin was the second of six children born to Israel and Esther Weltman Antin, a Jewish family living in Polotsk, in the Vitebsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus). Israel Antin emigrated to Boston in , and three years later he sent for Mary and her mother and siblings.[3]
She married Amadeus William Grabau, a geologist, in , and moved to New York City where she attended Teachers College of Columbia University and Barnard College.
Pictures of mama mary Antin was best known for her autobiography, The Promised Land (), for her lectures and writings advocating immigration, and for her support of Theodore Roosevelt and his Progressive Party. Collection consists of a typed bound volume of 34 pages, entitled My Cuttyhunk Journal, May ,Antin is best known for her autobiographyThe Promised Land, which describes her public school education and assimilation into American culture, as well as life for Jews in Czarist Russia. After its publication, Antin lectured on her immigrant experience to many audiences across the country.
During World War I, while she campaigned for the Allied cause, her husband's pro-German activities precipitated their separation and her physical breakdown.
Amadeus was forced to leave his post at Columbia University to work in China, where he became "the father of Chinese geology." She was never physically strong enough to visit him there.
During World War II, Amadeus was interned by the Japanese and died shortly after his release in Mary Antin died of cancer on May 15, [1][2]
Legacy
She is commemorated on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail.[4]
Notes
Further reading
- Antin, Mary ().
From Plotzk to Boston: An Immigrant's Story. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
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- Antin, Mary (). The promised land, by Mary Antin; with illustrations from photographs. Boston and Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton, Mifflin and ide Press. LCCN&#;
- Antin, Mary () [previously published ]. The promised land. introduction and notes by Werner Sollors.
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- Mary, Antin (). They who knock at our gates; a complete gospel of immigration. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. LCCN&#;
- Mazur, Allan (). A Romance in Natural History: The Lives and Works of Amadeus Grabau and Mary Antin.
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Mary Antin (–) was an American writer and activist. Born in Russia in what is now Belarus, Antin emigrated with her family as a child. This was documented, along with her assimilation and education in America, in her autobiography The Promised Land (Houghton Mifflin, ).Syracuse, New York: Garret. LCCN&#;
- Antin, Mary (). Salz, Evelyn (ed.). Selected letters of Mary Antin (1st&#;ed.).
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