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1 online resource (517 pages) |
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Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C |
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Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C
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| Contents |
The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden: An Introduction; A Note on Translation and Editing; A Note on References; Acknowledgments; Menachem Mendel Frieden's Apologia; My Father's Family; My Mother's Family; My Father's House; Me and My Youth; My Entry into Heder; On My Way through Yeshivot; Passover and the Holiday Cycle; More Yeshiva Studies; My Studies with Rabbis; Matchmakers and Marriage; America; I Found the Best Woman; My Journey to the Land of Israel and My Early Activities There; The Work of Americans in the Land of Israel and My Role in It; More on Life in the Land of Israel |
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Travels, the Era of World War II, and IllnessA Second Trip to the United States; Afterword: Menachem Mendel Frieden's Journal and His Life after 1947; Glossary; Index |
| Summary |
This remarkable memoir by Menachem Mendel Frieden illuminates Jewish experience in all three of the most significant centers of Jewish life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It chronicles Frieden's early years in Eastern Europe, his subsequent migration to the United States, and, finally, his settlement in Palestine in 1921. The memoir appears here translated from its original Hebrew, edited and annotated by Frieden's grandson, the historian Lee Shai Weissbach. Frieden's story provides a window onto Jewish life in an era that saw the encroachment of modern i |
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Print version record |
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Frieden, Menachem Mendel, 1878-1963.
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Frieden, Menachem Mendel, 1878-1963. fast (OCoLC)fst01953477 |
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Jews -- Lithuania -- Biography
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Jews, Lithuanian -- United States -- Biography
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Jews, Lithuanian -- Israel -- Biography
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Zionists -- Israel -- Biography
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Jews.
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Jews, Lithuanian.
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Zionists.
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Israel.
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Lithuania.
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United States.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780804786201 |
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0804786208 |
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