Background
She was born in 1833 in Bobrujsk, Belorussia (currently Belarus), and grew up in Brest-Litovsk, in Minsk.
She was born in 1833 in Bobrujsk, Belorussia (currently Belarus), and grew up in Brest-Litovsk, in Minsk.
The book, 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), was originally published in Yiddish by a German press in 1910. Her husband, Chonon (Afansyi) Wengeroff was director of the Commercial Bank in Minsk and served the City Council from 1880 to 1892.