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
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SUBJECT |
Vygodskai͡a, Anna Pavlovna, 1868- -- Childhood and youth
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Jews -- Belarus -- Babruĭsk -- Biography
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Jews -- Belarus -- Babruĭsk -- Social life and customs
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Jews -- Education -- Russia -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
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Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Russia -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
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Childhood and youth of a person
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Jews
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Jews -- Cultural assimilation
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Jews -- Education
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Jews -- Social life and customs
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Babruĭsk (Belarus) -- Biography
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Belarus -- Babruĭsk
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Russia
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Sources
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Avrutin, Eugene M.
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Greene, Robert H., 1975-2020.
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ISBN |
9781609090463 |
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1609090462 |
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9781501757945 |
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1501757946 |
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