A World Apart: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Nineteenth Century Galicia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781934843635)

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 First World War and was shortly to be completely obliterated by the Holocaust. In telling his story, Margoshes gives the reader important insights into the many-faceted Jewish life of Austro-Hungarian Galicia.We read of the Orthodox and the Enlightened, urban and rural life, Jews and their gentile neighbors, and much more. This book is an important evocation of an entire Jewish society and civilization and bears comparison with Yehiel Yeshaia Trunk's masterful evocation of Jewish life in Poland, Poyln.

Author: Joseph Margoshes
ISBN-10: 1934843636
ISBN-13: 9781934843635
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2008
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.43d