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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 This remarkable memoir by Menachem Mendel Frieden illuminates Jewish experience in all three of the most significant centers of Jewish life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It chronicles Frieden's early years in Eastern Europe, his subsequent migration to the United States, and, finally, his settlement in Palestine in 1921. The memoir appears here translated from its original Hebrew, edited and annotated by Frieden's grandson, the historian Lee Shai Weissbach. Frieden's story provides a window onto Jewish life in an era that saw the encroachment of modern ideas into a traditional society, great streams of migration, and the project of Jewish nation building in Palestine. The memoir follows Frieden's student life in the yeshivas of Eastern Europe, the practices of peddlers in the American South, and the complexities of British policy in Palestine between the two World Wars. This first-hand account calls attention to some often ignored aspects of the modern Jewish experience and provides invaluable insight into the history of the time. 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.
