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Title: The Promised Land

Author: Mary Antin

Release Date: March 23, 2007 [EBook #20885]

Language: English

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THE PROMISED LAND

[Illustration: MASHKE AND FETCHKE]

THE
PROMISED LAND

BY MARY ANTIN

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

[Illustration]

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1912

COPYRIGHT, 1911 AND 1912, BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

_Published April 1912_

To the Memory of
JOSEPHINE LAZARUS
Who lives in the fulfilment