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I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl
Hilda Polacheck
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Paperback. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 789. Weight in Grams: 440.
Hilda Satt Polacheck's family emigrated from Poland to Chicago in 1892, bringing their old-world Jewish traditions with them into the Industrial Age. Throughout her career as a writer and activist, Polacheck never forgot the immigrant neighborhoods, markets, and scents and sounds of Chicago's West Side. In charming and colorful prose, Polacheck recounts her introduction to American life and the Hull-House community; her chance meeting with Jane Addams and their subsequent long friendship and working relationship; her marriage; her support of civil rights and women's suffrage; her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; and her experiences as ... Read more
Hilda Satt Polacheck's family emigrated from Poland to Chicago in 1892, bringing their old-world Jewish traditions with them into the Industrial Age. Throughout her career as a writer and activist, Polacheck never forgot the immigrant neighborhoods, markets, and scents and sounds of Chicago's West Side. In charming and colorful prose, Polacheck recounts her introduction to American life and the Hull-House community; her chance meeting with Jane Addams and their subsequent long friendship and working relationship; her marriage; her support of civil rights and women's suffrage; her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; and her experiences as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Series
Women in American History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252062186
SKU
V9780252062186
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About Hilda Polacheck
Hilda Satt Polacheck (1882–1967) was a writer, activist, and teacher. Dena J. Polacheck Epstein (d. 2013) is the author of Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War. Lynn Y. Weiner is a professor emerita of history at Roosevelt University and the author of From Working Girl to Working Mother: The Female Labor Force in the United States, 1820-1980.
Reviews for I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl
"Scholars will find much to mine from Polacheck's vivid descriptions of urban life and socialist politics at a time of vast change. . . . General readers will be entranced by this sometimes dramatic, frequently funny, always engrossing autobiography."
Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times "From the little details of immigrant life to the broad sweep of progressive politics, Hilda Satt Polacheck has ... Read more
Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times "From the little details of immigrant life to the broad sweep of progressive politics, Hilda Satt Polacheck has ... Read more