Born in Vienna, Henny Wenkart is holds the Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University and has published scholarly articles, stories, reviews and poetry. She lives in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts Bernard Cooperman holds the Louis L. Kaplan Chair of Jewish History at the University of Maryland. He received his academic training in Jewish history at Brandeis and Harvard Universities and has published numerous articles and edited scholarly volumes on the history of Italian and Sephardic Jewries
Translator's Dedication
vii
A Note to the Present Edition
xi
Author's Introduction
xiii
My Childhood in Lithuania
1
(26)
My Parents and My First Home
3
(5)
A Wealthy Household
8
(8)
I Start School
16
(9)
The Synagogue
25
(2)
The Cycle of the Jewish Year
27
(42)
Purim
29
(5)
Pesach
34
(12)
Counting the Omer and Shvuos
46
(1)
Summer Fast Days
47
(5)
Rosh Hashonoh
52
(3)
Yom Kippur
55
(4)
Sukkos
59
(3)
Alms on Rosh Chodesh
62
(2)
Chanukkah
64
(5)
First Changes
69
(36)
Lilienthal and the Beginning of Enlightenment
71
(9)
The Czar's Decree
80
(6)
The Move to the New City
86
(1)
Uprooting the Old Cemetery
87
(3)
Sabbath in the New City
90
(4)
The Gzeyreh
94
(2)
Chaveh's Wedding
96
(9)
The Haskalah in Our Home and Beyond
105
(14)
Second Period of the Enlightenment
107
(12)
Romance
119
(32)
My Engagement
121
(22)
My Wedding in Konotop
143
(4)
My Wedding Day
147
(4)
Married Life
151
(64)
Four Years in the House of My In-Laws
153
(4)
The Midwife
157
(7)
The Change
164
(10)
Out on Our Own
174
(2)
Cherished Visitors
176
(7)
Alexander II
183
(3)
My Wise Mother's Prediction
186
(2)
In Lithuania Again
188
(7)
Vilna
195
(3)
Helsingfors
198
(7)
St. Petersburg
205
(5)
The Dangerous Operation: The Reform of the Kitchen
210
(5)
The Third Generation
215
(30)
Our Children
217
(10)
Our Vocational Schools
227
(6)
Jews in the Arts
233
(5)
The Death of My Husband
238
(7)
Appendix How Jews Used to Dress
245
(8)
Editor's Afterword A Life Unresolved
253
(41)
Pauline Wengeroff's Family Tree
294
(5)
Glossary
299
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