Memories of Two Generations: A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas Gurwitz Alexander Z.
Memories of Two Generations: A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas Gurwitz Alexander Z. The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in…
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Memories of Two Generations: A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas Gurwitz Alexander Z.
The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish historyIn 1910, at the age of fifty-one, Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz made the bold decision to emigrate with his wife and four children from southeastern Ukraine in Tsarist Russia to begin a new life in Texas. As a boy, he studied in traditional yeshivas and In 1935, in his seventies, Gurwitz composed a retrospective autobiography, Memories of Two Generations, that recounts his personal story both of the rich history of the lost Jewish world of Eastern Europe and of the rambunctious development of frontier Jewish communities in the United States.In both Europe and America, Gurwitz inhabited an almost exclusively Jewish world.