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| Zwi Migdal was featured in ]'s "Scum" and ]'s "The Man from Buenos Aires." | Zwi Migdal was featured in ]'s "Scum" and ]'s "The Man from Buenos Aires." | ||
| Zwi Migdal is described by ] is her book ''Bodies and Souls''. | |||
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Zwi Migdal was a gang in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that lured thousands of Jewish women from eastern Europe, especially Poland, and forced them to become prostitutes in cities like New York, Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro. It operated from the 1860s to 1939.
Zwi Migdal was featured in I.B. Singer's "Scum" and Sholem Aleichem's "The Man from Buenos Aires."
Zwi Migdal is described by Isabel Vincent is her book Bodies and Souls.