in the form in which we have them, on Wengeroff's puzzling omissions in them, and on the ability of her Memoirs to be read both as an apologia for tradition, and in particular, women's traditional roles, and as a defense of assimilation: A Woman's Life: Pauline Wengeroff and Memoirs of a Grandmother (Littman, 2016). After years of striving and competition for success, Wengeroff's husband, Chonon (Afanasy) Wengeroff became director of the Commercial Bank in Minsk and served the City Council from 1880 to 1892. Wengeroff and her husband founded vocational schools for poor Jewish children in Minsk; she insisted on Jewish observance there that she had been unable to enforce in her own home. She was also patron to various Jewish artists. Several of Wengeroff's children were very accomplished: Semyon (Simon) Vengerov was a founder of Russian literary criticism. Isabella Vengerova was a prominent pianist and teacher of music. Zinaida Vengerova was a prolific, accomplished Symbolist and feminist author and critic. Awards 2010: National Jewish Book Award in the Women's Studies category for Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume OneReferences Bibliography A Woman's Life: Pauline Wengeroff and Memoirs of a Grandmother. The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization (2016) Pauline Wengeroff, Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century 2 vols. annotated translation with critical introduction. Stanford University Press (2010; 2014) Magnus, Shulamit S. "Pauline Wengeroff and the Voice of Jewish Modernity." In Gender and Judaism. New York and London: 1995, 181–190. Magnus, Shulamit S. "Kol Isha: Women and Pauline Wengeroff's Writing of an Age." Nashim 7 (2004): 28–64. Magnus, Shulamit S. "Sins of Youth, Guilt of a Grandmother: M. L. Lilienblum, Pauline Wengeroff, and the Telling of Jewish Modernity in Eastern Europe." Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 18 (). “Pauline Wengeroff: Between Tradition and Modernity, East and West,” in Anthony Polonsky, Hanna Węgrzynek, Andrzej Żbikowski, eds., New Directions in the History of the Jews in the Polish Lands (forthcoming, Academic Studies Press, Newton, MA: 2018) “Wengeroff in America: A Study in the Resonance of Conversion and Fear of Dissolution in Early Twentieth Century American Jewry,” Jewish Social Studies (Winter/ Feb., 2016): 142–187. “Between East and West: Pauline Wengeroff and her Cultural History of the Jews of Russia ,” in The German-Jewish Experience Revisited, eds. Steven Aschheim and