- Title Pages
- STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE
- Dedication
- <i>The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden</i> An Introduction
- <i>A Note on Translation and Editing</i>
- <i>A Note on References</i>
- <i>Acknowledgments</i>
- 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 Illness
- A Second Trip to the United States
- Afterword: Menachem Mendel Frieden’s Journal and His Life after 1947
- Glossary
- Index
Menachem Mendel Frieden’s Apologia
Menachem Mendel Frieden’s Apologia
- Chapter:
- (p.xlvi) (p.1) Menachem Mendel Frieden’s Apologia
- Source:
- A Jewish Life on Three Continents
- Author(s):
Lee Shai Weissbach
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
Frieden’s apologia recounts his inner impulse to record all that was preserved in his memory about his own life and that of his family, which encompasses the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. Though a Lithuanian Jew set into a life of migration as a result of the Lithuanian Diaspora, Frieden concedes that his account does not aspire nor does it pretend to provide new insights concerning Jewish life during this historic migration. Instead, he is interested mainly in the life of his own family members—an interest motivated by a profound lack of recorded history from generations past.
Keywords: autobiography, memoir, primary sources, confessional
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- Title Pages
- STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE
- Dedication
- <i>The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden</i> An Introduction
- <i>A Note on Translation and Editing</i>
- <i>A Note on References</i>
- <i>Acknowledgments</i>
- 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 Illness
- A Second Trip to the United States
- Afterword: Menachem Mendel Frieden’s Journal and His Life after 1947
- Glossary
- Index