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.
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