From Plotzk to Boston: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

From Plotzk to Boston, credited to Mary Antin, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of From Plotzk to Boston by Mary Antin. Read by Sue Anderson. An intensely personal account of the immigration experience as related by a young Jewish girl from Plotzk (a town in the government of Vitebsk, Russia). Mary Antin, with her mother, sisters, and brother, set out from Plotzk in 1894 to join their father, who had journeyed to the "Promised Land" of America three years before. Fourth class railroad cars packed to suffocation, corrupt crossing guards, luggage and persons crudely "disinfected" by German officials who feared the cholera, locked "quarantine" portside, and, finally, the steamer voyage and a famiily reunited. For anyone who has ever wondered what it was like for their grandparents or great grandparents to emmigrate from Europe to the United States last century, this is a fascinating narrative. Mary Antin went on to become an immigration rights activist. She also wrote an autobiography, The Promised Land, published in 1912, which detailed her assimilation into American culture. (Summary by Sue Anderson) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: From Plotzk to Boston
• Author credits: Mary Antin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 1:53:17

Catalogue topics

• memoir
• immigration

Track guide

1. 0 - Foreward and Prefatory — 12:42
2. 1 - Section 1 — 29:13
3. 2 - Section 2 — 24:24
4. 3 - Section 3 — 18:22
5. 4 - Section 4 — 28:37

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