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by Sara Reguer (Author)
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.
Author Biography
Sara Reguer has been chair of the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY, for over 25 years. During that time she introduced a number of specialized courses including one on the Jewish Woman, one on economic history of the Jews, and one on Italian Jews. She has published in a wide variety of areas, including Jewish women, the politics of the Jordan River, and Winston S. Churchill. She is co-editor and co-author of The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times (2003), and most recently authored The Most Tenacious of Minorities: The Jews of Italy (2013).
