I came a stranger : the story of a Hull-House girl

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I came a stranger : the story of a Hull-House girl

by Hilda Satt Polacheck ; edited by Dena J. Polacheck Epstein ; with an introduction by Lynn Y. Weiner

(Women in American history)(Illini books)

University of Illinois Press, 1991

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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 a writer for the Works Progress Administration.

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