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Autore |
Wengeroff Pauline <1833-1916.> |
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Titolo |
Memoirs of a grandmother : scenes from the cultural history of the Jews of Russia in the nineteenth century / / Pauline Wengeroff ; translated with an introduction, notes and commentary by Shulamit S. Magnus |
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2010 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (386 p.) |
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Collana |
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Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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MagnusShulamit S. <1950-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Jews - Belarus - Minsk |
Jews - Belarus - Minsk - Social life and customs |
Minsk (Belarus) Biography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note to This Edition, to Translation, Transliteration, and Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Preface -- 2. Foreword to the Second Edition -- 3. Preamble -- 4. A Year in My Parents’ House -- 5. The Beginning of the Era of Enlightenment -- 6. In the New City -- 7. The Change of Garb -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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