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My Father’s Journey: A Memoir of Lost Worlds of Jewish Lithuania

By Sara Reguer

Book information

Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9781618114150
DOI
10.1515/9781618114150
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (25035268 bytes)
Pages
155\264
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-26 17:26:27

Description

Born into a leading Lithuanian-Jewish rabbinic family, Moshe Aron Reguer initially followed the path of traditional yeshiva education. His adolescence coincided with World War I and its upheavals, pandemics, and pogroms, as well as with new ideas of Haskala, Zionism, and socialism. His memoir, recently discovered and here translated and published for the first time, discusses his internal struggles and describes the world around him and the people who influenced him. Moshe Aron Reguer wrote his memoir at the age of 23, on the eve of his departure for Eretz Israel in 1926. However, his story did not end there, but continued in British Mandated Palestine and the United States. He kept in touch with the family in Brest-Litovsk until the Nazis destroyed Jewish Lithuania, and some of their correspondence is included within this volume.

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