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Author Gurwitz, Z., 1859-1947, author.

Title Memories of two generations : a Yiddish life in Russia and Texas / Alexander Z. Gurwitz ; edited by Bryan Edward Stone ; translated by Rabbi Amram Prero.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press 2016.
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (441 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Jews and Judaism: history and culture
Jews and Judaism (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Note Description based upon print version of record.
Contents Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- Editor's Introduction -- 1. Childhood -- 2. In the Heder -- 3. The Holidays: High Holy Days -- 4. The Holidays: Fall and Winter -- 5. The Holidays: Spring and Summer -- 6. Half a Yeshiva Bocher -- 7. A Student in Minsk -- 8. The Volozhin Yeshiva -- 9. From Student to Bridegroom -- 10. Married and Widowed -- 11. On the Road -- 12. Settled in Pavlograd -- 13. Leaving for America -- 14. From Sea to San Antonio -- 15. Resuming a Life -- 16. Jews We Are! -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note Translated from the Yiddish.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-406) and index.
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Subject Gurwitz, Z., 1859-1947.
Gurwitz, Z., 1859-1947.
Jews, Russian -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Biography.
Jews, Russian.
Texas -- San Antonio.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Added Author Gurwitz, Z., 1859-1947.
Stone, Bryan Edward, 1967-
Prero, Amram, 1915-1991.
Other Form: Print version: Gurwitz, Alexander Z. Memories of Two Generations : A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,c2016 9780817319038
ISBN 9780817389550 electronic book
0817389555 electronic book