Pauline Wengeroff was born in 1833 into a pious Jewish family in Bobruisk (in what is now Belarus), and she died in 1916 in Minsk. Her life, as recounted in this biography, based in part on Shulamit M
Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother offers a unique first-person window into traditionalism, modernity, and the tensions linking the two in nineteenth-century Russia. Wengeroff (1833?1916), a
"A stunning piece of work. Wengeroff's recreation of a life during the transition from traditional to modern Jewish culture in nineteenth-century Russia is engrossing, powerfully written, and often ly
