A Jewish Life on Three Continents : the Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden.

A Jewish Life on Three Continents : the Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden.

This remarkable memoir by Menachem Mendel Frieden illuminates Jewish experience in all three of the most significant centers of Jewish life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It chronicles Frieden's early years in Eastern Europe, his subsequent migration to the United Sta...

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Main Author: Weissbach, Lee
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2013.
Series:Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C.
Subjects:
Frieden, Menachem Mendel, > 1878-1963.
Frieden, Menachem Mendel, > 1878-1963
Jews > Lithuania > Biography.
Jews, Lithuanian > United States > Biography.
Jews, Lithuanian > Israel > Biography.
Zionists > Israel > Biography.
Jews
Jews, Lithuanian
Zionists
Israel
Lithuania
United States
Biographies
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Table of Contents:
  • The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden: An Introduction; A Note on Translation and Editing; A Note on References; Acknowledgments; Menachem Mendel Frieden's Apologia; My Father's Family; My Mother's Family; My Father's House; Me and My Youth; My Entry into Heder; On My Way through Yeshivot; Passover and the Holiday Cycle; More Yeshiva Studies; My Studies with Rabbis; Matchmakers and Marriage; America; I Found the Best Woman; My Journey to the Land of Israel and My Early Activities There; The Work of Americans in the Land of Israel and My Role in It; More on Life in the Land of Israel.
  • Travels, the Era of World War II, and IllnessA Second Trip to the United States; Afterword: Menachem Mendel Frieden's Journal and His Life after 1947; Glossary; Index.

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