num_pages: 306
description: 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.
language: English
title: Rememberings: The World of a Russian-Jewish Woman in the Nineteenth Century
titlecomplete: Rememberings: The World of a Russian-Jewish Woman in the Nineteenth Century (The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies)
genres: Judaism, History
ratings_count: 37
series: The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies: Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture
publisher: CDL Press