Memories of Two Generations - A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas

Informationen zum Autor Bryan Edward Stone is a professor of history at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas, and has taught as a visiting professor at the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His book The Chosen Folks: Jews on the Frontiers of Texas won the Southern Jewish Historical Society Book Prize in 2011. He is the managing editor of the annual journal Southern Jewish History . Rabbi Amram Prero was born in Jerusalem, studied at the University of Chicago, and was ordained by the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago. He served as a rabbi in Lexington, Kentucky, and Rochester, Minnesota; directed the Hillel Society at the University of Florida in Gainesville; and served as national director of the B'nai B'rith Youth Commission and the American Zionist Youth Commission. He served as rabbi of Congregation Agudas Achim in San Antonio from 1958 until 1981. Klappentext In 1910, at the age of fifty-one, Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz made the decision to emigrate from southeastern Ukraine to begin a new life in Texas. In 1935, in his seventies, Gurwitz composed a retrospective autobiography, Memories of Two Generations, that recounts his personal story both of the rich history of the lost Jewish world of Eastern Europe and of the rambunctious development of frontier Jewish communities in the US. Zusammenfassung Memories of Two Generations is the 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz! an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio! Texas! in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Z Gurwitz, Alexander Z. Gurwitz, Alexander Z./ Stone Gurwitz, Z. Gurwitz
• Assisted by: Bryan Edward Stone (Editor), Amram Prero (Translation)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9780817319038
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1903-8
• No. of pages: 536
• Series: Jews and Judaism: History and Culture Series; Jews and Judaism: History and; Jews and Judaism: History and; Jews and Judaism: History and Culture Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies