... have written in other languages, including Hebrew (Shmuel Yosef Agnon) and Polish (Bruno Schulz). Unlike Georg Lukács, Meir Wiener represented his life story as a slow and painful process of self-realization, rather than a direct path to communism. In his memoirs, which he began writing in Moscow...

...Pauline Wengeroff (1833–1916), an elderly Russian Jewish woman, wrote a set of memoirs about Jewish society in nineteenth-century Russia. Considered “one of the best works of Jewish memoir literature,” Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia...

...In this foreword to the second edition of her memoirs, Pauline Wengeroff expresses her grateful pleasure for the warm reception given to the first edition. Pauline Wengeroff memoirs foreword second edition It fills my old heart with inner, grateful pleasure that my modest little book has found...

...In this preamble, Pauline Wengeroff reflects on the experiences and observations that she recorded in her memoirs. She remembers a joyful, worry-free childhood in her parents' home, followed by sorrow and happiness in the lives of the Jews in Russia, and events in her own home. Wengeroff's memoirs...

... history, the Jews are at the center of the historical narrative. As a genre, self-texts were practiced by both Jewish and Christian writers during the early modern period. This genre persisted among the Jews of seventeenth-century Alsace, as evidenced by the memoirs composed by Asher of Reichshofen...

..., and their assumption of indirect authority/authorship. It looks at a variety of gendered prefacing gestures by translators such as Anne Dacier, Aphra Behn, Frances Brooke, and Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni. The chapter also analyzes Elizabeth Griffith's 1771 English translation of the “memoirs” and (apocryphal) letters...

... writers Shtok Fradel Masculinity dance prohibitions Haskalah German Jewish literature Yiddish literature Israel Joshua Singer memoirs rabbinic literature when satan visits a polish town, he convinces the Jews to hold a masquerade ball. Yet in Yiddish writer Israel Joshua Singer’s 1930...

...Pauline Wengeroff's memoirs offer a genuine insight into Jewish society in nineteenth-century Russia. Through her narrative, Wengeroff describes momentous events during a transitional period in the life of Russian Jews, whose lot and suffering have earned the sympathy of the entire civilized world...