Mary Antin's the Promised Land Constraints of Women in the Jewish Community

Abstract

This thesis is based on the study of the cultural and social conditions in Mary Antin’s The Promised Land, which is an autobiographical account .The purpose of this study is the vision of Mary Antin’s example of discrimination and oppression against the Jewish people .In This story, Mary Antin is talking on behalf all the Jewish women who being oppressed by Jewish orthodoxy (the Jewish religion is based on the discrimination against both sexes). Likewise, this study defined the concept of Promised Land in Jewish society and tackles the transformation from discrimination into freedom in the United State as a symbol of liberation. To conclude, the writing becomes a therapy which allows the author to express himself, to claim and to communicate.