TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vygodskaia,Anna Pavolovna
AU  - Avrutin,Eugene M.
AU  - Dubnow,Simon
AU  - Greene,Robert H.
TI  - The Story of a Life: Memoirs of a Young Jewish Woman in the Russian Empire 
T2  - NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
SN  - 9781501757945
AV  - DS135.B383 
U1  - 305.892/404721092B 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Jews
KW  - Cultural assimilation
KW  - Russia
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Sources
KW  - Education
KW  - Belarus
KW  - Babruĭsk
KW  - Biography
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Jewish Studies
KW  - Memoir
KW  - Soviet & East European History
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Tsarist Russia, Pale of Settlement, Vygodskaia, Russia in the 1870s and 1880s
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Foreword --; From the Author --; CHAPTER ONE Childhood Years (Belorussia and Poland, 1870-80) --; CHAPTER TWO Gymnasium Years (Vil'na, 1880-85) --; CHAPTER THREE Student Years (St. Petersburg, 1885-89) --; CHAPTER FOUR Between School and Life (Vil'na-St. Petersburg, 1890) --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501757945
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501757945
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501757945/original
ER  -