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In 1936, Joseph Margoshes (1866-1955), a writer for the New York Yiddish daily, "Morgen" Journal, published a memoir of his youth in Austro-Hungarian Galicia entitled Erinerungen fun mayn leben. In it, he evoked a world which had been changed almost beyond recognition as a result of the First World War, and was shortly to be completely obliterated by the Holocaust. In telling his own story, Margoshes gives the reader important insights into the manyfaceted Jewish life of Austro-Hungarian Galicia. We read of the Orthodox and the
Enlightened, urban and rural life, Jews and their gentile neighbours, and much more. The book is an important evocation of an entire Jewish society and civilization, and bears comparison with Yehiel Yeshaia Trunk's masterful evocation of Jewish life in Poland, "Poyln."
List of contents
Introduction by Ira Robinson and Simcha Fishbane. 1. Family Memoirs. 2. My Mother¿s Family. 3. My Father. 4. Reb Mordecai Peltz. 5. the Belzer Rabbi. 6. Ignatz Deutsch. 7. The Krakow Rabbi. 8. The Newspaper. 9. Hospitality. 10. The Talner Rebbe. 11. My Father¿s Death. 12. YaHäSh. 13. Jacob Werber, the Master of Haivri. 14. My Childhood. 15. Melamdim. 16. Gemara Melamdim. 17. My Two Girlfriends. 18. Haskalah. 19. Reb vovtshi¿s Kloyz. 20. In Tornow. 21. The Tarnow Kloyz. 22. Kloyz-boys. 23. Reb Naftoli Reb Pesakh¿s. 24. Shidukhim. 25. I Become a Khosn (Groom). 26. My Wedding. 27. After the Wedding.28. Village Work. 29. I Get ¿Shot¿. 30. I Get ¿Bound¿. 31. Riding a Horse. 32. I Become a Merchant. 33. Yozefov. 34. Velvele Damask. 35. Radomishla. 36. A Fallen ¿Takef¿. 37. At the Rebbe¿s in Dembitz. 38. A Strike in the Zgursk Manor. 39. Jews and Peasants. 40. Pritsim, Gendarmes and Priests. 41. Pritsim, Gendarmes and Priests (continued). 42. The ¿Wedding¿. 43. Shimshen Asheim. 44. Theft. 45. Shtsutsin (Szczuczyn). 46. The Sold-Off Estate. 47. Wet and Dry Years. 48. The Wet Year. 49. The Dry Year. 50. Uncle Moshe Lind. 51. Out of Yozefov. 52. The Shtsutsin Meadows. 53. Oshitz. 54. Uncle Khazkl. 55. Yitzhok Mordkhe Bernstein. 56. My Business Ventures in the Shtsutsin Meadows. 57. My Father-in-law and His Enemies. 58. Criminal Proceedings. 59. Pikolovka. 60. The Takeover of Pikolovka. 61. Punishment or Coincidence? Margoshes Family Genealogy. Glossary. Index.
About the author
Joseph Margoshes was born in Lemberg (Lvov/Lviv) and received a traditional Jewish education in Bible and Talmud as well as German language and European culture. He immigrated to America in 1989, returned to Europe in 1900 and came back to America in 1903 - this time to stay. At this time, he began working in the New York Yiddish Press and contributed to many newspapers and periodicals including the Morgen Journal.
Summary
In 1936, Joseph Margoshes (1866-1955), a writer for the New York Yiddish daily Morgen Journal, published a memoir of his youth in Austro-Hungarian Galicia. He evoked a world that had been changed almost beyond recognition as a result of the First World War and was shortly to be completely obliterated by the Holocaust. It is an important evocation of an entire Jewish society and civilization.
