Memoirs of a Grandmother : Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume One
Pauline Wengeroff, Shulamit S. Magnus
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 family and offering a gendered account (and indictment) of assimilation.In Volume 1 of Memoirs of a Grandmother, Wengeroff depicts traditional Jewish society, including the religious culture of women, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas I, who wished "his" Jews to be acculturated to modern Russian life.
Година:
2010
Издание:
1
Издателство:
Stanford University Press
Език:
english
Страници:
386
ISBN 10:
0804775044
ISBN 13:
9780804775045
Серия:
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Ser.
Файл:
EPUB, 3.88 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2010