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Full Title

Memoirs of a Grandmother Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume One 1st Edition

Author(s)

Pauline Wengeroff

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9780804775045, 9780804768795

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Pauline Wengeroff, the only nineteenth-century Russian Jewish woman to publish a memoir, sets out to illuminate the “cultural history of the Jews of Russia” in the period of Jewish “enlightenment,” when traditional culture began to disintegrate and Jews became modern. Wengeroff, a gifted writer and astute social observer, paints a rich portrait of both traditional and modernizing Jewish societies in an extraordinary way, focusing on women and the family and offering a gendered account (and indictment) of assimilation. In Volume 1 of Memoirs of a Grandmother, Wengeroff depicts traditional Jewish society, including the religious culture of women, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas I, who wished “his” Jews to be acculturated to modern Russian life.