A World Apart : : A Memoir of Jewish Life in Nineteenth Century Galicia /

A World Apart : : A Memoir of Jewish Life in Nineteenth Century Galicia / / Joseph Margoshes.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
VerfasserIn:
Margoshes, Joseph,
MitwirkendeR:
Fishbane, Simcha,
Margolis, Rebecca,
Robinson, Ira,
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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Physical Description:1 online resource (204 p.)
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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

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