Memoirs of a Grandmother: Pauline Wengeroff and 19th‑Century Jewish Life
Date: Thu, May 21, 2026
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Venue: Wake County, Raleigh
Price: Free
Category: Community
Join Dr. Karen Auerbach as she discusses 19th-century East European Jewish life through the memoirs of Pauline Wengeroff, a Jewish woman who chronicled her family’s history in the Russian Empire across three generations. First published in German in 1908, Pauline's memoirs provide a window into the traditions and everyday lives of Jewish people, from holiday rituals and marriage to education and economic life, and the ways in which they sought to navigate modernity in this tumultuous era.Karen Auerbach is an associate professor in the Department of History and the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She is the author of The Nighttime Butterfly: A Catholic Woman and Her Jewish Family in Warsaw at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Yale University Press, 2025) and The House at Ujazdowskie 16: Jewish Families in Warsaw after the Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2013) as well as numerous articles in English and Polish.Register here to receive a Zoom link.
