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In 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.
Isabel Vincent, acclaimed author of Hitler's Silent Partners, 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. Bodies and Souls 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.
Bodies and Souls brings to light a dark, untold chapter in Jewish history. From the end of the 1860s until the beginning of WWII, thousands of young, impoverished Jewish women, most of them from the shtetls of Eastern Europe, were sold into slavery by the Zwi Migdal, a notorious gang made up entirely of Jewish mobsters. The gang controlled brothels in Latin America, South Africa, India and parts of the United States.
Although the captives had been forced into prostitution, local Jewish communities would not accept them. In response, these women who had been stolen from their homes and thrust into a life of sin, created the Society of Truth, a mutual aid organization based on love, honor to God and faith in each other. Isabel Vincent is the author of Hitler’s Silent Partners: Swiss Banks, Nazi Gold, and the Pursuit of Justice and See No Evil: The Strange Case of Christine Lamont and David Spencer. She is an investigative reporter for The National Post. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Marie Claire and many other international publications. She lives in Toronto. “In Bodies and Souls, Canadian journalist Isabel Vincent delves into that nether world of broken dreams, sordid brothels and tropical sunsets and produces a fascinating social history.” - Canadian Jewish NewsYou may also like
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