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On Long Winter Nights... - Memoirs of a Jewish Family in a Galician Township, 1870-1900 (Paperback)
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On Long Winter Nights... - Memoirs of a Jewish Family in a Galician Township, 1870-1900 (Paperback)
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The reader is given an intimate memoir of Jewish adolescence and
life from a young woman's perspective in an Eastern European shtetl
at the end of the nineteenth century. Hinde Bergner, future mother
of one of Yiddish literature's greatest poets and grandmother of
one of Israel's leading painters, recalls the gradual impact of
modernization on a traditional world as she finds herself caught
between her thirst for a European education and true love, and the
expectations of her traditional family. Written during the late
1930s as a series of episodes mailed to her children, and never
completed due to Bergner's murder at the hand of the Nazis, the
memoir provides details about her teachers and matchmakers,
domestic religion and customs, and the colorful characters that
peopled a Jewish world that is no more. Translated from the Yiddish
and with a critical introduction by Justin Cammy, it is a lively
addition to the library of Jewish women's memoir, and should be of
interest to students of Eastern European Jewish culture and women's
studies.
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