About Professor Shulamit S. Magnus

Shulamit S. Magnus is Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and

History, Oberlin College. She is a social and cultural historian of the

Jews, specializing in the history of Jewish women and the workings of

gender in Jewish societies.

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She is the author of numerous articles and five books, including the

2-volume Pauline Wengeroff, Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes

from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth

Century, which won the National Jewish Book Award, and A Woman's Life:

Pauline Wengeroff and Memoirs of a Grandmother, a biography of Wengeroff

and of her memoirs: how that work, the first of its kind by a Jewish woman, came

to be published in the form in which we have it, and why Wengeroff crafted the

Memoirs' particular narrative of the emergence of Jewish modernity and its impact

on Jewish women and families in the way she did.