Well, at some point in the book, the term, "white slavery" is used and we've
both heard of that before. I've read books about girls being trafficked from
Russia and Eastern Europe in our time. I just didn't know about these Russian
Jewish peasant girls. They were often from religious families. Men came to the
families, representing themselves as wealthy Jewish men from America who wanted
to marry a young girl from their country of origin. The Russian Jews were
poverty stricken and mistreated and the idea of one of their daughters escaping
their misery, was very appealing.
Miriam
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I never heard that particular abusive treatment of women/girls, but tragically
it is an ugly part of human history, occurring in every known civilization.
We humans are so messed up and so flawed, I sometimes lose hope. But if we
don't continue to resist, then we truly are lost.
Carl Jarvis
On 7/2/20, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And it is, most of the time. But when you read fiction, sometimes you
learn unpleasant historical facts. I began reading a book called, The
Third Daughter. It's about a Russian Jewish girl whose family was left
homeless after a pogrom in the late eighteen hundreds. And what I'm
learning from this book is that there were Jewish gangsters who used
various methods to lure girls from their families in Russia, and then
trafficked them to Argentina where they were used as prostitutes.
This is a piece of Jewish history that I've never heard before.
Miriam
