On Long Winter Nights

Zusammenfassung In this intimate memoir of a young Jewish woman’s adolescence and life in a nineteenth century Eastern European shtetl, Hinde Bergner recalls the gradual impact of modernization on a traditional world as she finds herself caught between her thirst for a European education, true love, and the expectations of her traditional family.

Product details

• Authors: Hinde Bergner
• Assisted by: Hinde Bergner (Editor), Justin Daniel Cammy (Editor), Justin Daniel Cammy (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2005
• EAN: 9780674019690
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01969-0
• No. of pages: 125
• Series: Harvard Center for Jewish Stud; Harvard Center for Jewish Stud
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories