A Woman's Life : Pauline Wengeroff and Memoirs of a Grandmother. /

This biography of an extraordinary woman memoirist from nineteenth-century Russia illustrates the impact of modernization in Jewish society, and especially on women's lives.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Magnus, Shulamit
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, The, 2015.
Colección:Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
Temas:
Wengeroff, Pauline, > 1833-1916.
Jews > Belarus > Minsk > Biography.
Jewish women > Belarus > Minsk > Biography.
Jewish women > Belarus > Social life and customs.
Juifs > Biélorussie > Minsk > Biographies.
Juives > Biélorussie > Minsk > Biographies.
Juives > Biélorussie > Mœurs et coutumes.
Jewish women.
Jewish women > Social life and customs.
Jews.
Minsk (Belarus) > Biography.
Belarus.
Belarus > Minsk.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Plates
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Map: Important places in Pauline Wengeroff's life
  • Introduction: A Biography of a Person and a Book
  • 1. Pauline Wengeroff: Memory and History
  • Sculptures in Memory
  • Tsarist Jewry Policies and Jewish Society under Alexander II and III
  • Selective Integration: The Emergence of a New Russian Elite, and Elitism
  • 2. Tradition and Its Demise: Gender and Class in Wengeroff
  • 'Crows in Peacock Feathers': Wengeroff, Chonon, and the Russian Jewish Nouveaux Riches
  • Scenes from a Marriage
  • Love and Betrayal
  • Chonon's Fall
  • Religion and Gender in Wengeroff's Marriage
  • Domestication and Its Discontents: Wengeroff and Women's Work
  • 3. Complicity, Victimization, Guilt: Wengeroff as Agent of Acculturation and Assimilation
  • 'Empty, Empty, Unspeakably Empty': Chonon's Death
  • Wengeroff the Modern Jewish Bourgeoise: Philanthropy and the New Jewish Meaning
  • 4. Who Was Pauline Wengeroff? On Reading and Misreading Memoirs
  • Wengeroff and Conversion from Judaism
  • Excision: Sculpting Family and Memoirs
  • Love and Rage
  • 5. Hope
  • Zionism
  • Associations, Enemies, Friends
  • How Does a Woman Write? or, Pauline Wengeroff's Room of Her Own
  • Reception: Grandchildren
  • 6. Wengeroff in America
  • On the Resonance of Conversion and Fear of Dissolution in Early Twentieth-Century Jewry
  • JPS and Jewish Boundary Lines
  • JPS, American Jewish Identity Politics, and Memoirs
  • Ephraim, Conversion, and Modern Jewish Identity
  • Epilogue: A Woman's Life
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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