A Woman's Life : Pauline Wengeroff and Memoirs of a Grandmother. / Shulamit Magnus
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.
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from JSTOR |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oxford : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, The, 2015. |
| Series: | Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
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Table of Contents:
- 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