Goldenshtayn Mayn Lebensgeshikhte

The book The Story of My Life. Various Events and Episodes of an Orphan by Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn is the adventurous autobiography, in Yiddish, of a Lubavitcher Chassid, Pinchas-Dov Goldenshteyn, who lived and worked in Moldova, Czarist Russia, and eventually settled in Palestine. It was published in Petach Tikvah (1928-29). Goldenshteyn’s great-granddaughter, Cynthia Unterman from New York, asked the scholar Michoel Rotenfeld to translate it in English. An academic, annotated, scholarly editioned is planned for the future. The illustrations Mrs. Unterberg commissioned from renowned Jewish artist Shoshannah Brombacher are published separately in this pictorial. They show scenes of Jewish life in Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century and can be enjoyed with or without the original text.

Shoshannah Brombacher is a Dutch artist who lived in Berlin, Jerusalem, and New York. She has a PHD in Jewish literature. After she discovered Chassidic stories about the Baal Shem Tov in her father’s study in Holland, Chassidism became an influence for life, which shows in these illustrations
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