The Donigers of Great Neck : a mythologized memoir / Wendy Doniger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doniger, Wendy, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Doniger, Wendy.

Sanskritists.

Authors, American.

Jewish women.

Families.

New York (State)--Great Neck.

Doniger, Wendy--Family.

Jewish women--New York (State)--Great Neck--Biography.

Authors, American--New York (State)--Great Neck--Biography.

Sanskritists--New York (State)--Great Neck--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

172 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"This is the story of the contrasting Judaisms that Wendy Doniger's two parents brought from their very different homes in Europe during World War I; of their paths to a shared but sharply bifurcated life in America during World War II, her father a publisher, her mother a political activist; and of the ways in which their attitudes to religion in general, and Judaism in particular, influenced the author's development as a Jewish woman and a scholar of religion"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 My Parents' Childhoods in Europe (and America) p. 7

2 Who Lester Was p. 22

3 Who Rita Was p. 38

4 Who They Were to One Another p. 67

5 Who They Were to Me p. 98.

Notes:

"The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Doniger, Wendy. Donigers of Great Neck.

ISBN:

9781512603514

1512603511

9781512603521

151260352X

OCLC:

1098039323