"In this autobiography, Puah Rakovsky (1865-1955), who broke with her traditional upbringing to become a professional educator, Zionist activist, and feminist leader, tells of her experiences as a Jewish woman in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Poland. Her passionate account offers unprecedented entree into the life experience of East European Jewry in a period of massive social change.

Published in the original Yiddish in 1954, the work appears here in English for the first time, annotated and with a historical introduction by Paula E. Hyman."--BOOK JACKET.