Language:
German
Pages:
20 pages (1 1/2 space) :
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Typewritten manuscript (photocopy).
Year of publication:
1962
Keywords:
Hammerschlag, Moritz,
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B'nai B'rith.
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Christmas.
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Education, Primary 19th century.
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Education, Secondary 19th century.
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Children.
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Fasts and feasts Judaism.
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Marriage.
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Women authors.
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Jewish way of life.
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Austria.
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Prague.
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Autobiographies
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Biographical sources
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Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoir was written in 1962 in Chicago. Childhood in well-to-do Jewish family. Description of turn-of-the-century Prague and its culture. Living circumstances in a bourgeois household with maids and nannies at the end of the 19th century. Lilli Hammerschlag was enrolled in a German girl's school (Maedchenlyceum), which was mainly attended by Jewish children. Excellent education. First influential friendships with schoolmates. Strict societal rules of contacts between the sexes. Cultural activities and evenings at the German theater of Prague. Summer vacations with hiking tours in the Austrian alps. Religious life limited to the high Jewish holidays, despite the fact that her father was in the executive board of the temple. Recollections of her pious maternal grandmother. Memories of Christmas celebrations with her nanny. Description of historical events such as the tragic death of crown prince Rudolph in 1889. Engagement of her sister Gertrud and romance with the brother of the groom, who became her husband in 1903.
Note:
Available on microfilm
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German
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Synopsis in file
URL:
http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=406806&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
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