Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume One
(Book #1 in the Memoirs of a Grandmother Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:080476879X
ISBN13:9780804768795
Release Date:June 2010
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:384 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"
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