Memoirs of a Grandmother - Scenes From Cultural History of Jews of Russia in Nineteenth

Zusatztext "[T]hanks to Shulamit S. Magnus, Wengeroff's latest and most devoted editor and translator, English speakers have an opportunity to read a faithful and complete translation . . . of this extraordinary book." Informationen zum Autor Shulamit S. Magnus is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History and Chair of Jewish Studies at Oberlin College. She is the author of Jewish Emancipation in a German City: Cologne. 1798–1871 (Stanford University Press, 1997). Klappentext This full, critical edition of the Pauline Wengeroff's "Memoirs of a Grandmother" uses women's experience to depict the emergence of Jewish modernity in Russia in the nineteenth century and comment upon the role of gender in shaping Jewish experience. Zusammenfassung This full, critical edition of the Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother uses women's experience to depict the emergence of Jewish modernity in Russia in the nineteenth century and comment upon the role of gender in shaping Jewish experience.

Product details

• Authors: Pauline Wengeroff, Pauline/ Magnus Wengeroff
• Assisted by: Shulamit Magnus (Translation), Shulamit S Magnus (Translation), Shulamit S. Magnus (Translation)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2010
• EAN: 9780804768795
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6879-5
• No. of pages: 384
• 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; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous