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The rebbe's daughter : memoir of a Hasidic childhood

Title
The rebbe's daughter : memoir of a Hasidic childhood / Malkah Shapiro ; translated, with an introduction and commentary by Nehemia Polen.
Author
Shapiro, Malkah, 1894-1971.
Publication
Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 2002.

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Description
xlviii, 253 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
The memoir of an eleven year old girl awakening to physical maturity, religious consciousness and an intense curiosity about the mysteries of hasidic spirituality and Kabbalah. It is a rare window into the world of a hasidic girl in pre-World War I Eastern Europe.
Uniform Title
  • ‏מדין לרחמים. English
  • Mi-din le-raḥamim. English
Alternative Title
  • ‏מדין לרחמים.
  • Mi-din le-raḥamim.
Subject
  • Shapiro, Malkah, 1894-1971 > Childhood and youth
  • Shapiro, Malkah, 1894-1971 > Family
  • Hapstein family
  • Hapstein family
  • Shapiro, Malkah, 1894-1971
  • Shapiro, Malkah, 1895-
  • Jewish girls > Poland > Kozienice > Biography
  • Hasidim > Poland > Kozienice > Biography
  • Childhood and youth of a person
  • Families
  • Hasidim
  • Jewish girls
  • Chassidismus
  • Kozienice (Poland) > Biography
  • Poland > Kozienice
  • Kozienice
  • Juden
Genre/Form
  • Autobiography
  • autobiographies (literary works)
  • Autobiographies
  • Biographies
  • Autobiographies.
Note
  • ‏תרגום חלקי של: מדין לרחמים.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-246) and index.
ISBN
  • 0827607253
  • 9780827607255
LCCN
2001050733
OCLC
  • ocm48550710
  • 48550710
  • SCSB-1243616
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library