Joseph Margoshes 
A World Apart 
A Memoir of Jewish Life in Nineteenth Century Galicia

In 1936, Joseph Margoshes (1866-1955), a writer for the New York Yiddish daily Morgen Journal, published a memoir of his youth in Austro-Hungarian Galicia entitled Erinerungen fun mayn leben. In this autobiography, he evoked a world that had been changed almost beyond recognition as a result of the First World War and was shortly to be completely obliterated by the Holocaust. In telling his story, Margoshes gives the reader important insights into the many-faceted Jewish life of Austro-Hungarian Galicia.We read of the Orthodox and the Enlightened, urban and rural life, Jews and their gentile neighbors, and much more. This book is an important evocation of an entire Jewish society and civilization and bears comparison with Yehiel Yeshaia Trunk’s masterful evocation of Jewish life in Poland, Poyln.

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Introduction by Ira Robinson and Simcha Fishbane. 1. Family Memoirs. 2. My Mother’s Family. 3. My Father. 4. Reb Mordecai Peltz. 5. the Belzer Rabbi. 6. Ignatz Deutsch. 7. The Krakow Rabbi. 8. The Newspaper. 9. Hospitality. 10. The Talner Rebbe. 11. My Father’s Death. 12. Ya Ha”Sh. 13. Jacob Werber, the Master of Haivri. 14. My Childhood. 15. Melamdim. 16. Gemara Melamdim. 17. My Two Girlfriends. 18. Haskalah. 19. Reb vovtshi’s Kloyz. 20. In Tornow. 21. The Tarnow Kloyz. 22. Kloyz-boys. 23. Reb Naftoli Reb Pesakh’s. 24. Shidukhim. 25. I Become a Khosn (Groom). 26. My Wedding. 27. After the Wedding.28. Village Work. 29. I Get “Shot”. 30. I Get “Bound”. 31. Riding a Horse. 32. I Become a Merchant. 33. Yozefov. 34. Velvele Damask. 35. Radomishla. 36. A Fallen “Takef”. 37. At the Rebbe’s in Dembitz. 38. A Strike in the Zgursk Manor. 39. Jews and Peasants. 40. Pritsim, Gendarmes and Priests. 41. Pritsim, Gendarmes and Priests (continued). 42. The “Wedding”. 43. Shimshen Asheim. 44. Theft. 45. Shtsutsin (Szczuczyn). 46. The Sold-Off Estate. 47. Wet and Dry Years. 48. The Wet Year. 49. The Dry Year. 50. Uncle Moshe Lind. 51. Out of Yozefov. 52. The Shtsutsin Meadows. 53. Oshitz. 54. Uncle Khazkl. 55. Yitzhok Mordkhe Bernstein. 56. My Business Ventures in the Shtsutsin Meadows. 57. My Father-in-law and His Enemies. 58. Criminal Proceedings. 59. Pikolovka. 60. The Takeover of Pikolovka. 61. Punishment or Coincidence? Margoshes Family Genealogy. Glossary. Index.

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Ira Robinson is Chair in Quebec and Canadian Jewish Studies in the Department of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, where has taught since 1979. He has written, edited, and translated seventeen books, including Cyrus Adler: Selected Letters, which won the Kenneth Smilen Award for Judaica non-fiction; Renewing Our Days: Montreal Jews in the Twentieth Century, which won a Toronto Jewish Book Award; Moses Cordovero’s Introduction to Kabbala: An Annotated Translation of His Or Ne’erav; Rabbis and Their Community: Studies in the Eastern European Orthodox Rabbinate in Montreal, 1896-1930, which won a J.I. Segal Prize; A History of Antisemitism in Canada; History, Memory, and Jewish Identity, and, most recently, Les Juifs Hassidiques de Montréal (2019). He is president of the Canadian Society for Jewish Studies, and past president of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies and the Jewish Public Library of Montreal. He is the 2013 winner of the Louis Rosenberg Canadian Jewish Studies Distinguished Service Award of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies.