Wengerhoff, Pauline

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

Penn State University Press, 2020.

New Book.

Item #7372
ISBN: 9781883053611

Paperback. 306 pp.

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 other work like this survives.

Wengeroff details her traditional Jewish life in mid-19th century Russia and then the many changes brought on by the Jewish Enlightenment.

Price: $25.00