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Vincent, Isabel, 1965-
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Jewish women -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- Social conditions.
Jewish women -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- Social conditions.
Prostitution -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro.
Prostitution -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Social conditions.
Buenos Aires (Argentina) -- Social conditions.
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Bodies and souls : t...
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Bodies and souls : the tragic plight of three Jewish women forced into prostitution in the Americas / Isabel Vincent.
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Vincent, Isabel, 1965-
New York : William Morrow, c2005.
Subjects
Jewish women -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- Social conditions.
Jewish women -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- Social conditions.
Prostitution -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro.
Prostitution -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Social conditions.
Buenos Aires (Argentina) -- Social conditions.
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0060090235 :
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xii, 276 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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1st ed.
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Journalist Vincent reveals for the first time the forced slavery and prostitution of thousands of Jewish women from the 1860s to the beginning of World War II. Young and poor, they were sold or duped into slavery, forced to become prostitutes by the Zwi Migdal, a notorious gang of Jewish mobsters. They left behind the grinding poverty and anti-Semitism of Eastern Europe's urban ghettos and rural shtetls to find themselves in brothels in South America, Latin America, South Africa, India, and New York. Though these women were forced into this, the Jewish community deemed them unclean. Barred from synagogues and shunned by their coreligionists, they were also forbidden from partaking in Jewish burial. Eventually they formed The Society of Truth, a religious order of love, honor to God, and faith in one another that established women-only synagogues, kosher kitchens, and cemeteries.--From publisher description.
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Ewa Beach P/S Library
Adult Nonfiction
306.742 Vi
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Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
306.742 Vi
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