A Jewish life on three continents : the memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden / translated, edited, and annotated, and with introductions and an afterword by Lee Shai Weissbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frieden, Menachem Mendel, 1878-1963.

Contributor:

Weissbach, Lee Shai, 1947-

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Lithuania--Biography.

Jews.

Jews, Lithuanian--United States--Biography.

Jews, Lithuanian.

Jews, Lithuanian--Israel--Biography.

Zionists--Israel--Biography.

Zionists.

Frieden, Menachem Mendel, 1878-1963.

Frieden, Menachem Mendel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (517 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This remarkable memoir by Menachem Mendel Frieden illuminates Jewish experience in all three of the most significant centers of Jewish life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It chronicles Frieden's early years in Eastern Europe, his subsequent migration to the United States, and, finally, his settlement in Palestine in 1921. The memoir appears here translated from its original Hebrew, edited and annotated by Frieden's grandson, the historian Lee Shai Weissbach. Frieden's story provides a window onto Jewish life in an era that saw the encroachment of modern ideas into a traditional society, great streams of migration, and the project of Jewish nation building in Palestine. The memoir follows Frieden's student life in the yeshivas of Eastern Europe, the practices of peddlers in the American South, and the complexities of British policy in Palestine between the two World Wars. This first-hand account calls attention to some often ignored aspects of the modern Jewish experience and provides invaluable insight into the history of the time.

Contents:

Menachem Mendel Frieden's apologia

My father's family

My mother's family

My father's house

Me and my youth

My entry into heder

On my way through yeshivot

Passover and the holiday cycle

More yeshiva studies

I study with rabbis

Matchmakers and marriage

America

I found the best woman

My journey to the land of Israel and my early activities there

The work of Americans in the land of Israel and my role in it

More on life in the land of Israel

Travels, the era of World War II, and illness

A second trip to the United States

Afterword : Menachem Mendel Frieden's journal and his life after 1947.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804786201

0804786208

OCLC:

831115248