Rememberings: The World of a Russian-Jewish Woman in the Nineteenth Century

by Pauline Wengeroff

Book Overview

Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture, The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland, no. 9

Memoir (translated from the German) of a Jewish woman in 19th-century Russia, with scholarly introduction and analysis.

Pauline Wengeroff's memoir tells what it was like to be a Jewish girl and a Jewish woman in 19th-century Russia, as foundations of faith and tradition eroded around her No...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883053587
• ISBN13: 9781883053581
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

History from a woman's perspective

Being an avid reader, I rarely read a woman's perspective on history, but Pauline Wengeroff's story opened my eyes to Jewish history from a totally different viewpoint. The story is magnificent and a must for independent minded women of any age. People of the twenty-first century will be able to identify easily with a woman of the 1840-1860's. Conditions of life change, but people don't.