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Bodies and Souls The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas

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ISBN-10: 0060090235

ISBN-13: 9780060090234

Edition: 2005

Authors: Isabel Vincent

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In the second half of the 19th 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. These unwitting Jewish women were procured for the thousands of new European immigrants who came to establish these colonies. The import of these women left a legacy in each of these countries: the rise of anti-Semitism. Bodies and Souls brings to light a dark, untold chapter in Jewish history - a topic previously hidden because of the extreme shame surrounding it. From the end of the 1860s until the beginning of WWII, thousands of young, impoverished…    
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Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Isabel Vincent is an award-winning investigative journalist currently working for the New York Post . She is the author of Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas ; Hitler's Silent Partners: Swiss Banks, Nazi Gold, and the Pursuit of Justice ; and See No Evil: The Strange Case of Christine Lamont and David Spencer . Her work has appeared in the New Yorker , the New York Times "T" Magazine , the Independent , Marie Claire , L'Officiel (Paris), and many other international publications. She lives in New York City.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Gentlemen from America
The End of the World
The Streets of the Women
The Queen
The Work of Sisyphus
The Miracle
"Burning Ground"
Epilogue: "The Jews of the Jews"
Notes
Bibliography
Index