{"product_id":"bodies-and-souls-the-tragic-plight-of-three-jewish-women-forced-into-prostitution-in-the-americas-9780060090241","title":"Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced Into Prostitution in the Americas","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the second half of the nineteenth century, several thousand impoverished young Jewish women from Eastern Europe were forced into prostitution in the frontier colonies of Latin America, South Africa, India, and parts of the United States by the Zwi Migdal, a notorious criminal gang of Jewish mobsters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsabel Vincent, acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eHitler's Silent Partners\u003c\/em\u003e, tells the remarkable true story of three such women--Sophia Chamys, Rachel Liberman, and Rebecca Freedman--who, like so many others, were desperate to escape a hopeless future in Europe's teeming urban ghettos and rural shtetls. \u003cem\u003eBodies and Souls\u003c\/em\u003e is a shocking and spellbinding account of a monumental betrayal that brings to light a dark and shameful hitherto untold chapter in Jewish history--brilliantly chronicling the heartbreaking plight of women rejected by a society that deemed them impure and detailing their extraordinary struggles to live with dignity in a community of their own creation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVincent, Isabel:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eIsabel Vincent is an award-winning investigative journalist currently working for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eBodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eHitler's Silent Partners: Swiss Banks, Nazi Gold, and the Pursuit of Justice\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eSee No Evil: The Strange Case of Christine Lamont and David Spencer\u003c\/em\u003e. Her work has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, the New \u003cem\u003eYork Times T Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eL'Officiel\u003c\/em\u003e (Paris), and many other international publications. She lives in New York City. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50409398567186,"sku":"9780060090241","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a50f84a1-5a84-4cc6-b85c-2dd099815a5f.jpg?v=1729286181","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bodies-and-souls-the-tragic-plight-of-three-jewish-women-forced-into-prostitution-in-the-americas-9780060090241","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}