The Promised Land

CONTENTS: Introduction -- Within the Pale -- Children of the Law -- Both their Houses -- Daily Bread -- I Remember -- The Tree of Knowledge -- The Boundaries Stretch -- The Exodus -- The Promised Land -- Initiation -- “My Country” -- Miracles -- A Child’s Paradise -- Manna -- Tarnished Laurels -- Dover Street -- The Landlady -- The Burning Bush -- A Kingdom in the Slums -- The Heritage -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary. FIRST PARAGRAPH: I was born, I have lived, and I have been made over. Is it not time to write my life's story? I am just as much out of the way as if I were dead, for I am absolutely other than the person whose story I have to tell. Physical continuity with my earlier self is no disadvantage. I could speak in the third person and not feel that I was masquerading. I can analyze my subject, I can reveal everything; for she, and not I, is my real heroine. My life I have still to live; her life ended when mine began.