Memoirs of a Grandmother : Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century.
Material type: TextSeries: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture SerPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (386 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780804775045Subject(s): Jews -- Belarus -- Minsk -- Biography | Jews -- Belarus -- Minsk -- Social life and customs | Minsk (Belarus) -- Biography | Wengeroff, Pauline, -- 1833-1916Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Memoirs of a Grandmother : Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth CenturyDDC classification: 305.892/404786 B LOC classification: DS135Online resources: Click to ViewIntro -- Contents -- Note to This Edition, to Translation,Transliteration, and Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Map -- Introduction -- 1. Preface by Dr. Karpeles -- 2. Foreword to the Second Edition -- 3. Preamble -- 4. A Year in My Parents' House -- I. Part One -- II. Part Two -- 5. The Beginning of the Era of Enlightenment -- I. Lilienthal -- II. Yeshiva Boys [Bokhurim] -- 6. In the New City -- I. It Was a Pretty Picture -- II. One Sabbath -- III. Eva's Wedding -- 7. The Change of Garb -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
This full, critical edition of the Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother uses women's experience to depict the emergence of Jewish modernity in Russia in the nineteenth century and comment upon the role of gender in shaping Jewish experience.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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