Citation

Danis FS. Affilia 2005; 20(3): 362-367.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0886109905277657

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Sexual violence against girls and young women may have contributed to the reasons why Jews left Russia in the early 1900s and immigrated to the United States. A common feature of anti-Jewish pogroms rape continues today to be an instrument of war and oppression. The author speculates on the reasons why her great grandmother left Russia alone at age 18 to sail for America, and draws connections between her work today and her family herstory.