A World Apart : : A Memoir of Jewish Life in Nineteenth Century Galicia / / Joseph Margoshes.
In 1936, Joseph Margoshes (1866-1955), a writer for the New York Yiddish daily Morgen Journal, published a memoir of his youth in Austro-Hungarian Galicia entitled Erinerungen fun mayn leben. In this autobiography, he evoked a world that had been changed almost beyond recognition as a result of the...
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Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Judaism and Jewish Life
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Author’s Forward
- 1. Family Memoirs
- 2. My Mother’s Family
- 3. My Father
- 4. Reb Mordecai Peltz
- 5. The Belzer Rabbi
- 6. Ignatz Deutsch
- 7. The Krakow Rabbi
- 8. The Newspaper
- 9. Hospitality
- 10. The Talner Rebbe
- 11. My Father’s Death
- 12. YaHa”Sh
- 13. Jacob Werber, the Master of Haivri
- 14. My Childhood
- 15. Melamdim
- 16. Gemara Melamdim
- 17. My Two Girlfriends
- 18. Haskalah
- 19. Reb Vovtshi’s Kloyz
- 20. In Tarnow
- 21. The Tarnow Kloyz
- 22. Kloyz-boys
- 23. Reb Naftoli Reb Pesakh’s
- 24. Shidukhim
- 25. I Become a Khosn [Groom]
- 26. My Wedding
- 27. After the Wedding
- 28. Village Work
- 29. I Get “Shot”
- 30. I Get “Bound”
- 31. Riding a Horse
- 32. I Become a Merchant
- 33. Yozefov
- 34. Velvele Damask
- 35. Radomishla
- 36. A Fallen “Takef ”
- 37. At the Rebbe’s in Dembitz
- 38. A Strike in the Zgursk Manor
- 39. Jews and Peasants
- 40. Pritsim, Gendarmes, and Priests
- 41. Pritsim, Gendarmes, and Priests (continued)
- 42. The “Wedding”
- 43. Shimshen Asheim
- 44. Theft
- 45. Shtsutsin (Szczuczyn)
- 46. The Sold-off Estate
- 47. Wet and Dry Years
- 48. The Wet Year
- 49. The Dry Year
- 50. Uncle Moshe Lind
- 51. Out of Yozefov
- 52. The Shtsutsin Meadows
- 53. Oshitz
- 54. Uncle Khazkl
- 55. Yitzhok Mordkhe Bernstein
- 56. My Business Ventures in the Shtsutsin Meadows
- 57. My Father-in-law and His Enemies
- 58. Criminal Proceedings
- 59. Pikolovka
- 60. The Takeover of Pikolovka
- 61. Punishment or Coincidence?
- Margoshes Family Genealogy
- Glossary
- Index