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Memoirs of a grandmother : scenes from the cultural history of the Jews of Russia in the nineteenth century / Pauline Wengeroff ; translated with an introduction, notes and commentary by Shulamit S. Magnus.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wengeroff, Pauline, 1833-1916.
- Series:
- Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C
- Standardized Title:
- Memoiren einer Grossmutter. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wengeroff, Pauline, 1833-1916.
- Wengeroff, Pauline.
- Jews--Belarus--Minsk--Biography.
- Jews.
- Jews--Belarus--Minsk--Social life and customs.
- Minsk (Belarus)--Biography.
- Minsk (Belarus).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (386 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Pauline Wengeroff, the only nineteenth-century Russian Jewish woman to publish a memoir, sets out to illuminate the "cultural history of the Jews of Russia" in the period of Jewish "enlightenment," when traditional culture began to disintegrate and Jews became modern. Wengeroff, a gifted writer and astute social observer, paints a rich portrait of both traditional and modernizing Jewish societies in an extraordinary way, focusing on women and the family and offering a gendered account (and indictment) of assimilation. In Volume 1 of Memoirs of a Grandmother, Wengeroff depicts traditional Jewish society, including the religious culture of women, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas I, who wished "his" Jews to be acculturated to modern Russian life.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note to This Edition, to Translation, Transliteration, and Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Preface
- 2. Foreword to the Second Edition
- 3. Preamble
- 4. A Year in My Parents’ House
- 5. The Beginning of the Era of Enlightenment
- 6. In the New City
- 7. The Change of Garb
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804775045
- 0804775044
- OCLC:
- 670411337
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