Memoirs of a Grandmother : Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume One
Pauline Wengeroff
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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Ano:
2010
Edição:
1
Editora:
Stanford University Press
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
384
ISBN 10:
0804775044
ISBN 13:
9780804775045
Série:
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Arquivo:
EPUB, 3.88 MB
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english, 2010