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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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• Full title: Memoirs of a Grandmother
• Subtitle: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume One
• Author: Pauline Wengeroff
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780804768795
• ISBN: 080476879X
• ID: 04718814
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 752 g
• Dimensions: 161 × 152 × 31 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. June 2010

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