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Memories of two generations : a Yiddish life in Russia and Texas / Alexander Z. Gurwitz ; edited by Bryan Edward Stone ; translated by Rabbi Amram Prero.
Van Pelt Library E184.37.G87 A3 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gurwitz, Z., 1859-1947, author.
- Series:
- Jews and Judaism (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
- Jews and Judaism: history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Gurwitz, Z., 1859-1947.
- Gurwitz, Z.
- Jews, Russian--Texas--San Antonio--Biography.
- Jews, Russian.
- Texas--San Antonio.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Memories of Two Generations is the 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1. Childhood
- 2. In the heder
- 3. The holidays: High Holy days
- 4. The holidays: Fall and Winter
- 5. The holidays: Spring and Summer
- 6. Half a yeshiva bocher
- 7. A student in Minsk
- 8. The Volozhin Yeshiva
- 9. From student to bridegroom
- 10. Married and widowed
- 11. On the road
- 12. Settled in Pavlograd
- 13. Leaving for America
- 14. From sea to San Antonio
- 15. Resuming a life
- 16. Jews we are!
- Notes:
- Translated from the Yiddish.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-406) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780817319038
- 0817319034
- OCLC:
- 921821711
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