Pauline Wengeroff

Pauline Wengeroff
Born	Pessele Epstein 1833 (1833) Bobrujsk, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	1916 (aged 82–83)
Notable works	Memoiren einer Grossmutter. Bilder aus der Kulturgeschichte der Juden Russlands in 19. Jahrhundert (1908, 1910)
Spouse	Chonon Wengeroff ​ ​ (m. 1849; died 1892)​
Children	Semyon Vengerov Isabelle Vengerova

Pauline Wengeroff (1833–1916), born Pessele Epstein, was the author of a first-of-its kind memoir by a Jewish woman, in which she refracts a period in Jewish history—the emergence and unfolding of Jewish modernity in nineteenth-century Russian Poland—through the experience of women and families.

Her two-volume memoirs, Memoiren einer Grossmutter, Bilder aus der Kulturgeschichte der Juden Russlands im 19 Jahrhundert ('Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century'), were originally published in German (with some Hebrew and Yiddish and a few words in Polish) by the German-Jewish publishing house, Poppelauer, beginning in 1908. The work was subsequently re-published several times to rave reviews in the Jewish and non-Jewish presses.^[1]