Contents; Note to This Edition, to Translation, Transliteration, and Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Map; Introduction; 1. Preface by Dr. Karpeles; 2. Foreword to the Second Edition; 3. Preamble; 4. A Year in My Parents' House; 5. The Beginning of the Era of Enlightenment; 6. In the New City; 7. The Change of Garb; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This full, critical edition of the Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother uses women's experience to depict the emergence of Jewish modernity in Russia in the nineteenth century and comment upon the role of gender in shaping Jewish experience
