Title The Story of a Life : Memoirs of a Young Jewish Woman in the Russian Empire / Anna Pavlovna Vygodskaia ; translated and edited by Eugene M. Avrutin and Robert H. Greene

Published Dekalb, Illinois : Northern Illinois University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource Contents Childhood Years (Belorussia and Poland, 1870-1880) -- Gymnasium Years (Vilʹna, 1880-1885) -- Student Years (St. Petersburg, 1885-1889) -- Between School and Life (Vilʹna-Petersburg, 1890) Summary Anna Pavlovna Vygodskaia's autobiography, originally published in 1938, is a rare and fascinating historical account of Jewish childhood and young adult life in Tsarist Russia. At a time when the vast majority of Jews resided in small market towns in the Pale of Settlement, Vygodskaia liberated herself from that world and embraced the day-to-day rhythms, educational activities, and new intellectual opportunities in the imperial capital of St. Petersburg. Her story offers a unique glimpse of Jewish daily life that is rarely documented in public sources--of neighborly interactions, children's games and household rituals, love affairs and emotional outbursts, clothing customs, and leisure time.Most first-person narratives of this kind reconstruct an isolated and self-contained Jewish world, but The Story of a Life uniquely describes the unprecedented social opportunities, as well as the many political and personal challenges, that young Jewish women and men experienced in the Russia of the 1870s and 1880s. In addition to their artful translation, Eugene M. Avrutin and Robert H. Greene thoroughly explicate this historical context in their introduction Analysis Tsarist Russia, Pale of Settlement, Vygodskaia, Russia in the 1870s and 1880s Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed December 17, 2019) Subject Vygodskai︠a︡, Anna Pavlovna, 1868- -- Childhood and youth SUBJECT Vygodskai͡a, Anna Pavlovna, 1868- -- Childhood and youth Subject Jews -- Belarus -- Babruĭsk -- Biography Jews -- Belarus -- Babruĭsk -- Social life and customs Jews -- Education -- Russia -- History -- 19th century -- Sources Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Russia -- History -- 19th century -- Sources Childhood and youth of a person Jews Jews -- Cultural assimilation Jews -- Education Jews -- Social life and customs SUBJECT Babruĭsk (Belarus) -- Biography Subject Belarus -- Babruĭsk Russia Genre/Form Biographies History Sources Form Electronic book Author Avrutin, Eugene M. Greene, Robert H., 1975-2020. ISBN 9781609090463 1609090462 9781501757945 1501757946

Other Titles Istorii︠a︡ odnoĭ zhizni. English

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