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From Plotzk to Boston
''From Plotzk to Boston'' is an 1899 memoir by author and immigration activist Mary Antin (1881–1949). It chronicles her emigration from her hometown of Polotsk in the Russian Empire (now modern Belarus) to the United States in 1894, focusing primarily on her observations of life in unfamiliar surroundings, the emotional trials endured by her family, and the hardships that accompanied their passage to and eventual settlement in Boston, Massachusetts. Her first major publication, it laid the groundwork for her later autobiography and most famous work, The Promised Land (1912).
== Publication origins and inspiration ==
Compiled from a series of letters that Antin wrote to her uncle describing her family's journey to America in 1894, ''From Plotzk to Boston'' was inspired by the difficulties that compelled them to leave their homeland as well as Antin's own literary upbringing. Born Maryashe Antin to Israel Pinchus and Esther Antin in 1881, she spent her early years living with her Russian-Jewish family in Polotsk, where she received a private education until a combination of illness and business failures depleted the family's resources and prompted them to immigrate to the United States. Upon arriving in 1894, Antin proceeded to enroll in primary school where her proficiency for the English language allowed her to excel academically and gain positive notice from her teachers. Recognizing her literary talent, they encouraged her writing and secured a publishing deal for her first book with the help of local Jewish philanthropists. Drawing from her correspondence with her uncle, Antin translated her writings from Yiddish to English and consolidated the materials into a memoir. Titled ''From Plotzk to Boston'' due to a misprinting of the name of her hometown, its release in 1899 provided a valuable source of income to fund Antin's continued education.〔
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