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.
Author(s): Nora Glickman
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 190
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Series Preface......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 11
THE JEWISH WHITE SLAVE TRADE AND THE UNTOLD STORY OF RAQUEL LIBERMAN......Page 14
CHAPTER I The Jewish White Slave Trade......Page 15
CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS:......Page 17
THE “POLACAS”:......Page 18
THE TRAFFICKERS, THE POLACAS AND THE YIDDISH THEATER:......Page 19
THE “EZRAT NASHIM”:......Page 20
ALBERT LONDRES’ DRAMATIC VOYAGE:......Page 21
THE VICTORY OFCHIEF INSPECTOR JULIO ALSOGARAY AND JUDGE RODRIGUEZ OCAMPO:......Page 23
A MODERN PERSPECTIVE ON THE ISSUE OF JEWISH WHITE SLAVERY:......Page 24
NOTES......Page 25
Shalom Asch: (1880–1957)......Page 27
Sholem Aleichem: (1859–1916)......Page 28
Leib Malach: (1894–1935)......Page 29
Isaac Bashevis Singer: (1904–1992)......Page 34
II THE WHITE SLAVE TRADE IN LATIN AMERICAN FICTION:15......Page 36
Manuel Gálvez: (1882–1962)......Page 37
David Viñas: (1929)......Page 39
César Tiempo: (1906–1980)......Page 40
Mario Szichman: (1945)......Page 43
Moacyr Scliar: (1937-)......Page 45
III THE WHITE SLAVE TRADE IN CINEMA......Page 46
NOTES......Page 52
CHAPTER III Raquel Liberman......Page 54
I RAQUEL LIBERMAN: THE HISTORICAL VERSION......Page 55
II THE UNKNOWN RAQUEL......Page 56
RAQUEL LIBERMAN IN FICTION:......Page 61
NOTES......Page 62
DOCUMENTATION ON RAQUEL LIBERMAN:......Page 64
DOCUMENTATION ON YAACOV FERBER:......Page 67
CHAPTER V Correspondence......Page 68
OTHER LETTERS:......Page 70
I LETTERS TRANSLATED FROM YIDDISH INTO ENGLISH......Page 71
2 Yaacov’s Photo and Letter and from the Ship......Page 76
3 Yaacov Sends a Postcard to Raquel from the Ship:......Page 77
4 Yaacov to Raquel: (Part of this letter is missing)......Page 79
6 Yaacov to Raquel [Pages missing]......Page 84
7 Yaacov to Raquel:......Page 89
8 Yaacov to Raquel:......Page 90
9 Yaacov to Raquel: Second Letter from Cacharí, Argentina.......Page 99
10 Raquel to Yaacov:......Page 103
11 Raquel to Yaacov:......Page 105
12 Helke to Her Brother Yaacov, in Hospital:......Page 106
II LETTERS TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH INTO ENGLISH:......Page 110
1 Helke, Raquel’s Sister-in-Law to Raquel:......Page 113
2 Eugenia, Raquel’s Friend, to Raquel:......Page 116
3 David, Raquel’s Older Son, to His Mother:......Page 117
4 Mauricio, Raquel’s Younger Son, to His Mother:......Page 118
6 Note written in back of Raquel’s photograph:......Page 119
CHAPTER VI Photographs......Page 123
PHOTOS OF RAQUEL LIBERMAN AND HER RELATIVES:......Page 124
PHOTOGRAPHS AND DOCUMENTATION OF THE ZWI MIGDAL:......Page 126
Bibliography......Page 149
Index......Page 151
