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Memories of two generations : a Yiddish life in Russia and Texas Alexander Z. Gurwitz ; edited by Bryan Edward Stone ; translated by Rabbi Amram Prero.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Yiddish Series: Jews and Judaism (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press 2016Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (441 pages) illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780817389550
  • 0817389555
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Memories of Two Generations : A Yiddish Life in Russia and TexasDDC classification:
  • 947/.004924
LOC classification:
  • E184
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- Editor's Introduction -- 1. Childhood -- 2. In the Heder -- 3. The Holidays: High Holy Days -- 4. The Holidays: Fall and Winter -- 5. The Holidays: Spring and Summer -- 6. Half a Yeshiva Bocher -- 7. A Student in Minsk -- 8. The Volozhin Yeshiva -- 9. From Student to Bridegroom -- 10. Married and Widowed -- 11. On the Road -- 12. Settled in Pavlograd -- 13. Leaving for America -- 14. From Sea to San Antonio -- 15. Resuming a Life -- 16. Jews We Are! -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- Editor's Introduction -- 1. Childhood -- 2. In the Heder -- 3. The Holidays: High Holy Days -- 4. The Holidays: Fall and Winter -- 5. The Holidays: Spring and Summer -- 6. Half a Yeshiva Bocher -- 7. A Student in Minsk -- 8. The Volozhin Yeshiva -- 9. From Student to Bridegroom -- 10. Married and Widowed -- 11. On the Road -- 12. Settled in Pavlograd -- 13. Leaving for America -- 14. From Sea to San Antonio -- 15. Resuming a Life -- 16. Jews We Are! -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Translated from the Yiddish.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-406) and index.

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