A Woman's Life

Pauline Wengeroff was bornin 1833 into a pious Jewish family in Bobruisk in the Pale of Settlement (nowBelarus); she died in 1916 in Minsk. Her life, as recounted in this biography,based in part on Shulamit Magnus’s award-winning critical edition ofWengeroff’s Memoirs of a Grandmother , was one of upheaval andtransformation during Russian Jewry’s passage from tradition to modernity. Remarkably,Wengeroff's narrative refracts communal experience and larger cultural,economic, and political developm