Pauline Wengeroff

Memoirs of a Grandmother

Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume Two
Übersetzer: Magnus, Shulamit S

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the second volume of an unabridged, critical edition of Pauline Wengeroff's "Memoirs of a Grandmother," the only full-scale memoir by a woman to chronicle Russian Jewish society's shift from traditionalism to modernity through the experience of women and families.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780804768801
• ISBN-10: 0804768803
• Artikelnr.: 40921138

Autorenporträt

Shulamit S. Magnus is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Oberlin College. Her edition of the first volume of Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother won the National Jewish Book Award for Women's Studies (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Preface
2. The Second Period of the Enlightenment
3. My Engagement
4. My Bridal Year
5. Arrival in Konotop. Wedding.
6. Four Years in my In-Law's House
7. The Transformation
8. Further Destinies Unfold
9. Alexander II
10. My Wise Mother Said Two Things
11. Kovno
12. Vilna
13. Helsingfors
14. Petersburg
15. The Dangerous Operation: The Reform of My Kitchen
16. The Third Generation
17. The Death of My Husband