ISBN:
080479071X
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9780804790710
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 220 pages)
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map
Series Statement:
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Uniform Title:
Memoiren einer Grossmutter
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wengeroff, Pauline, 1833-1916 Memoirs of a grandmother : Volume 2
DDC:
305.892/404786
Keywords:
Wengeroff, Pauline
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Wengeroff, Pauline
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Jews Biography
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Jews Social life and customs
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Social Scientists & Psychologists
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Jews
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Jews ; Social life and customs
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HISTORY / Jewish
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Biographies
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Minsk (Belarus) Biography
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Belarus ; Minsk
Abstract:
Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother offers a unique first-person window into traditionalism, modernity, and the tensions linking the two in nineteenth-century Russia. Wengeroff (1833-1916), a perceptive, highly literate social observer, tells a gripping tale of cultural transformation, situating her narrative in the experience of women and families.In Volume Two, Wengeroff claims that Jewish women were capable and desirous of adopting the best of European modernity but were also wedded to tradition, while Jewish men recklessly abandoned tradition and forced their wives to do the same. The result was not only marital and intergenerational conflict but also catastrophic cultural loss, with women's inability to transmit tradition in the home leading to larger cultural drift. Two of Wengeroff's children converted when faced with anti-Jewish educational and professional discrimination, unwilling to sacrifice secular ambitions and visions for the sake of a traditional culture they did not know. Memoirs is a tale of loss but also of significant hope, which Wengeroff situates not in her children but in a new generation of Jewish youth reclaiming Jewish memory. To them, she addresses her Memoirs, giving an "orphaned youth"--orphaned of their past and culture--a "grandmother"
Abstract:
Preface -- The second period of enlightenment -- My engagement -- The bridal year -- Arrival in Konotop. Wedding -- Four years in my in-laws' house -- The transformation -- Further destinies unfold -- Alexander II -- My wise mother said two things -- Kovno -- Vilna -- Helsingfors -- Petersburg -- The dangerous operation: reform of the kitchen -- The third generation -- My husband's death
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Translated from the German
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