A Woman's Life : Pauline Wengeroff and Memoirs of a Grandmother. / Shulamit Magnus
2015
DS135.B383 W46635 2016eb
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Title
A Woman's Life : Pauline Wengeroff and Memoirs of a Grandmother. / Shulamit Magnus
Author
ISBN
9781789624816
1789624819
9781906764524
1906764522
1789624819
9781906764524
1906764522
Imprint
Oxford : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, The, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xx, 324 pages)
Call Number
DS135.B383 W46635 2016eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1226585115
Summary
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.
In 1908, Pauline Wengeroff published the first piece of writing by a woman in the history of Jewish literature to tell the story of a life and a family with historical consciousness and purpose. It is also the first account in this literature to make women, and men, the focus of inquiry. Shulamit Magnus's biography of this extraordinary woman lets readers share Wengeroff's life, her aspirations, and her disappointments, making a significant contribution both to women's history and to our understanding of the emergence and shape of Jewish modernity.
In 1908, Pauline Wengeroff published the first piece of writing by a woman in the history of Jewish literature to tell the story of a life and a family with historical consciousness and purpose. It is also the first account in this literature to make women, and men, the focus of inquiry. Shulamit Magnus's biography of this extraordinary woman lets readers share Wengeroff's life, her aspirations, and her disappointments, making a significant contribution both to women's history and to our understanding of the emergence and shape of Jewish modernity.
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Formatted Contents Note
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
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
Series
Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
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Print version: Magnus, Shulamit A Woman's Life : Pauline Wengeroff and Memoirs of a Grandmother Oxford : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, The,c2015
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