Language:
German
Pages:
175 + 193 pages :
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
1950
Keywords:
Jews Childhood and youth
;
Education, Elementary.
;
Jewish families Religious life.
;
Jewish teachers.
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
Growing up in a Yiddish and Russian environment in Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania) on the banks of the Njemen River. His father was a tailor. A big part of the memoir is devoted to Matthias’ opposition to the ‘Cheder’, the traditional elementary school where Jewish boys were educated by rabbis. He nevertheless stayed in his pre-ordained track, continuing his Cheder studies at more advanced Talmud schools in the town of Rogol (? Ariogala, Lithuania) and in the city of Kjelmü (Kielmy, Lithuania). After working in a friend’s lumber business, floating the tree trunks down the river, an accident rendered him almost blind, and he spent 6 months in the eye hospital in Königsberg. He became a private teacher for well-to-do Jewish families, and he taught for some time in his own Cheder in the village of Maklow. When he worked as a private tutor on an estate in the Lithuanian woods, he became permanently blind.
Note:
Matthias Salzberg is probably identical with Matityahu Salzberg, author of the Hebrew language novel ‘Shurat ha-kavod’ about Jews in Lithuania.
,
German
URL:
http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=729475&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
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