The Jewish White Slave Trade and the Untold Story of Raquel Liberman

ISBN-13: 9780815333005 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 204 str.

Nora Glickman

Opis

Describes the prostitution industry form Poland to Argentina from the 1880s to the 1930s. The text follows the life and career of Raquel Liberman, a Polish Jewish prostitute and victim of the white slave trade. Her struggle with the Zwi Migdal, which controlled the recruitment and deployment of Jewish prostitutes, was widely publicised in newspapers and magazines. This book offers an intimate view of how the affair caught the public imagination, and was interpreted and transformed by the artistic imagination.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The Jewish White Slave Trade; Chapter 2 The Jewish White Slave Trade in Literature; Chapter 3 Raquel Liberman; Chapter 4 Documentation; Chapter 5 Correspondence; Chapter 6 Photographs;

O autorze

Authored by Glickman, Nora