Jewish Life on Three Continents - The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden

Zusatztext "This rich memoir captures the tumultuous historical epoch through the prism of individual self-reflection! laying bare the havoc wrought on the Jewish world by processes of migration! adaptation! and nation building a century ago. Indeed! it highlights the transnational character of Jewish life in the early twentieth century." Informationen zum Autor Lee Shai Weissbach is Professor of History at the University of Louisville. His previous publications include The Synagogues of Kentucky: Architecture and History (1995), and Jewish Life in Small-Town America: A History (2005) . Klappentext An annotated edition of a memoir that relates a fascinating life story and contains a wealth of historical information about late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Jewish life in Eastern Europe, America, and Israel. Zusammenfassung An annotated edition of a memoir that relates a fascinating life story and contains a wealth of historical information about late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Jewish life in Eastern Europe, America, and Israel.

Product details

• Authors: Menachem Mendel Frieden, Lee (TRN) Weissbach
• Assisted by: Lee Weissbach (Translation), Lee Shai Weissbach (Translation)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.05.2013
• EAN: 9780804783637
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-8363-7
• No. of pages: 520
• Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His; Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies