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Bodies and Souls - The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced Into Prostitution in the Americas (Paperback, Annotated edition) Loot Price: R419
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Bodies and Souls - The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced Into Prostitution in the Americas (Paperback, Annotated edition)

Isabel Vincent

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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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Imprint: HarperCollinsPublishers
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 2006
First published: December 2006
Authors: Isabel Vincent
Dimensions: 203 x 136 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 276
Edition: Annotated edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-009024-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
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LSN: 0-06-009024-3
Barcode: 9780060090241

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