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A world apart : a memoir of Jewish life in nineteenth century Galicia
Erinerungen fun mayn leben. English
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- Creator
- Joseph Margoshes ; translated from Yiddish by Rebecca Margolis and Ira Robinson
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2008
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- vii, 195 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781618110589, 9781934843109, 1618110586, 1934843105
- OCLC
- ocn922977815, ocn769188622, ocn224897188
- Includes index.
- Family memoirs -- My mother's family -- My father -- Reb Mordecai Peltz -- The Belzer rabbi -- Ignatz Deutsch -- The Krakow rabbi -- The newspaper -- Hospitality -- The Talner rebb -- My father's death -- Yaha"sh -- Jacob Werber, the master of Haivri -- My childhood -- Melamdim -- Gemara melamdim -- My two girlfriends -- Haskalah -- Reb Vovtshi's kloyz -- In Tarnow -- The Tarnow kloyz -- Kloyz-boys -- Reb Naftoli Reb Pesakh's -- Shidukhim -- I become a khosn (groom) -- My wedding -- After the wedding -- Village work -- I get shot -- I get bound -- Riding a horse -- I become a merchant -- Yozefov -- Velvele Damask -- Radomishla -- A fallen takef -- At the rebbe's in Dembitz -- A strike in the Zgursk manor -- Jews and peasants -- Pritsim, gendarmes, and priests -- Pritsim, gendarmes, and priests (continued) -- The wedding -- Shimshen Asheim -- Theft -- Shtsutsin (Szczuczyn) -- The sold-off estate -- Wet and dry years -- The wet year -- The dry year -- Uncle Moyshe Lind -- Out of Yosefov -- The Shtsutsin meadows -- Oshitz -- Uncle Khazkl -- Yitshok Mordkhe Bernstein -- My business ventures in the Shtsutsin meadows -- My father-in-law and his enemies -- Criminal proceedings -- Pikolovka -- The takeover of Pikolovka -- Punishment or coincidence?
Subjects
- Margoshes, Joseph, 1866-1955 -- Childhood and youth.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Lʹviv -- Biography.
- Jews -- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- Social life and customs.
- Orthodox Judaism -- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- History.
- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
- Lʹviv (Ukraine) -- Biography.