Title A world apart : a memoir of Jewish life in nineteenth century Galicia / Joseph Margoshes ; translated from Yiddish by Rebecca Margolis and Ira Robinson

Published Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 195 pages) Series Judaism and Jewish life Judaism and Jewish life. Contents Family memoirs -- My mother's family -- My father -- Reb Mordecai Peltz -- The Belzer rabbi -- Ignatz Deutsch -- The Krakow rabbi -- The newspaper -- Hospitality -- The Talner rebb -- My father's death -- Yaha"sh -- Jacob Werber, the master of Haivri -- My childhood -- Melamdim -- Gemara melamdim -- My two girlfriends -- Haskalah -- Reb Vovtshi's kloyz -- In Tarnow -- The Tarnow kloyz -- Kloyz-boys -- Reb Naftoli Reb Pesakh's -- Shidukhim -- I become a khosn (groom) -- My wedding -- After the wedding -- Village work -- I get shot -- I get bound -- Riding a horse -- I become a merchant -- Yozefov -- Velvele Damask -- Radomishla -- A fallen takef -- At the rebbe's in Dembitz -- A strike in the Zgursk manor -- Jews and peasants -- Pritsim, gendarmes, and priests -- Pritsim, gendarmes, and priests (continued) -- The wedding -- Shimshen Asheim -- Theft -- Shtsutsin (Szczuczyn) -- The sold-off estate -- Wet and dry years -- The wet year -- The dry year -- Uncle Moyshe Lind -- Out of Yosefov -- The Shtsutsin meadows -- Oshitz -- Uncle Khazkl -- Yitshok Mordkhe Bernstein -- My business ventures in the Shtsutsin meadows -- My father-in-law and his enemies -- Criminal proceedings -- Pikolovka -- The takeover of Pikolovka -- Punishment or coincidence? Summary In 1936, Joseph Margoshes (1866-1955), a writer for the New York Yiddish daily Morgen Journal, published a memoir of his youth in Austro-Hungarian Galicia entitled Erinerungen fun mayn leben. In this autobiography, he evoked a world that had been changed almost beyond recognition as a result of the First World War and was shortly to be completely obliterated by the Holocaust. In telling his story, Margoshes gives the reader important insights into the many-faceted Jewish life of Austro-Hungarian Galicia.We read of the Orthodox and the Enlightened, urban and rural life, Jews and their gentile neighbors, and much more. This book is an important evocation of an entire Jewish society and civilization and bears comparison with Yehiel Yeshaia Trunk's masterful evocation of Jewish life in Poland, Poyln Notes Includes index Subject Margoshes, Joseph, 1866-1955 -- Childhood and youth SUBJECT Margoshes, Joseph, 1866-1955 fast Subject Jews -- Ukraine -- Lʹviv -- Biography Jews -- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- Social life and customs Orthodox Judaism -- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- History BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Childhood and youth of a person Economic history Jews Jews -- Social life and customs Orthodox Judaism SUBJECT Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century Lʹviv (Ukraine) -- Biography Subject Europe -- Galicia Ukraine -- Lʹviv Genre/Form Biographies History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781618110589 1618110586 1934843105 9781934843109

Other Titles Erinerungen fun mayn leben. English

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