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.
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 P...
With critical essays by leading scholars from Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Israel, this is the first volume devoted to Jewish filmmaking and films with Jewish themes and characters in Latin America.
With critical essays by leading scholars from Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Israel, this is the first volume devoted to Jewish filmmak...
