Memories of Two Generations: A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas

by Alexander Z. Gurwitz

Book Overview

The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history

In 1910, at the age of fifty-one, Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz made the bold decision to emigrate with his wife and four children from southeastern Ukraine in Tsarist Russia to begin a new...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817360743
• ISBN13: 9780817360740
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher