Memoirs of a Grandmother – Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russ…

Memoirs of a GrandmotherScenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume One\nAuthor(s): Pauline Wengeroff, Shulamit S. Magnus\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804768795, 978-0804768795\nSynopsis\nPauline 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.\n\n In Volume 1 of Memoirs of a Grandmother, Wengeroff depicts traditional Jewish society, including the religious culture of women, during the r.