The Promised Land

This 1912 classic of the JewishAmerican immigrant experience was aninstant critical and popular success. Itsauthor arrived in Boston from Russia asa 12-year-old in the 1890s. Her movingnarrative of Old and New World cultureswas acclaimed by The New YorkTimes as "a unique contribution to ourmodern literature and to our modernhistory."Reprint of the Houghton MifflinCompany, Boston and New York, 1912edition.