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Author Gurwitz, Z., 1859-1947, author

Title Memories of two generations : a Yiddish life in Russia and Texas Alexander Z. Gurwitz ; edited by Bryan Edward Stone ; translated by Rabbi Amram Prero
Published Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press 2016
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Description 1 online resource (441 pages) illustrations
Series Jews and Judaism: history and culture
Jews and Judaism (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
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
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Translated from the Yiddish
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-406) and index
Subject Gurwitz, Z., 1859-1947
Gurwitz, Z., 1859-1947
Jews, Russian -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Biography
HISTORY / Europe / Eastern
HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Jews, Russian
Texas -- San Antonio
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Gurwitz, Alexander Z
Stone, Bryan Edward
Prero, Amram
ISBN 9780817389550
0817389555