TITLE:
Bodies and souls : the tragic plight of three Jewish women forced into prostitution in the Americas / Isabel Vincent.
Publication Date:
2005
Publication Information:
[Toronto] : Random House Canada,
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
276 p. : ill.
Summary:
From the end of the 1860s until the beginning of the Second World War, thousands of young, impoverished Jewish women, most of them from the hard-scrabble shtetls of Eastern Europe, were sold into slavery by a notorious gang of mobsters called the Zwi Migdal. While the enterprise controlled brothels in various locales, its main centres of operation were Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and, to a lesser extent, New York City.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780679311621
