How Does Hilda Satt Polacheck's Autobiography Reflect the Larger 19th Century Immigrant Experience?

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How Does Hilda Satt Polacheck Autobiography Reflect The Larger 19th Century Immigrant Experience?
Hilda Satt Polacheck chronicles her life as a member of the Polish Jewish community who has settled in the U.S. The autobiography provides a firsthand account and experience of an ordinary immigrant woman in the 19th century. The narrator became Americanized over time, and worked in a factory to support her mother siblings but also going to the University of Chicago (Polacheck 89-93). The memoir highlights the challenges faced by new immigrants including language barriers and cultural adjustment to a new place. The autobiography will the provide clues to the experiences of immigrants to America in the 19th century
Despite the notion that life in America would be rosy, Polacheck’s family encountered difficulties to integrate in America. Even Europeans such as the Polacheck family were not fully accepted if they were different from the dominant Anglo-American culture, with misconceptions about Jews.
The immigrants largely settled in the U.S which was seen as the l...