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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gurwitz, Z., 1859- author.
- Series:
- Jews and Judaism (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
- Jews and Judaism : History and Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gurwitz, Z., 1859-.
- Gurwitz, Z.
- Jews, Russian--Texas--San Antonio--Biography.
- Jews, Russian.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (441 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 In 1910, at the age of fifty-one, Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz made the bold decision to emigrate with his.
- 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:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8955-5
- OCLC:
- 946788150
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