Isabel Vincent's groundbreaking exploration brings to light a dark
chapter in our recent history: the white slave trade and the
international Jewish mobsters behind it.
From the end of the 1860s until the beginning of the Second World
War, thousands of young, impoverished Jewish women, most of them
from the hard-scrabble shtetls of Eastern Europe, were sold into
slavery by a notorious gang of mobsters called the Zwi Migdal.
While the enterprise controlled brothels in various locales, its
main centres of operation were Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and, to
a lesser extent, New York City.
To recruit vulnerable country girls, pimps would target villages of
desperate poverty, where they posed as respectable suitors of
considerable means who had made their money abroad. They would
arrange sham marriages to their victims and promise them an easy
life in the New World. But once they'd crossed the ocean, these
Jewish women found themselves caught up in the white slave trade.
Under frequently brutal conditions, the young women had to service
the needs of a booming population of immigrant men. An added
hardship to endure was being vehemently shunned by the
"respectable" Jewish community. Banned from synagogue and reviled
by their neighbors, the women were forbidden from partaking in the
sacred Jewish burial ritual. So prostitutes banded together to form
the Society of Truth, with the promise to do all could they could
to help each other be buried in dignity. Through the society the
women observed religious life together, setting up private
synagogues and kosher kitchens. Cast aside by their community, they
created their own: a society of love, honour to God and faith in
each other.
With the determination and skill of her training as an
investigative journalist, Isabel Vincent tells an unforgettable and
gripping tale of a shameful chapter in recent history.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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