Days of Our Lives.
The Scarce Autobiography
Inscribed
Pesotta, Rose. Days of Our Lives. Boston: Excelsior Publishers, 1958.
8vo.; red cloth, stamped in black; cloth and pages fresh and bright; bold red and yellow dust-jacket; jacket spine faded, heel with small chip, else good.
First edition; number of copies unknown but certainly few—the book is not listed in any bibliography and we have never heard of the publishers. A presentation copy, inscribed: To Julius Borenstein with cordial regard Rose Pesotta February 10, 1958 New York.
In Days of Our Lives (dedicated “in memory to all those who...perished in the two World Wars, the world-shaking Russian Revolution, and the Nazi invasion”) Pesotta speaks movingly of her childhood in Tsarist Russia, of her contact with Jewish revolutionaries, and of her own growing identity as a Jew, as a woman, and as a worker. The book offers a rare first-hand account of early 20th-century life from the perspective of a Jewish feminist labor activist; inherent in Pesotta’s memoir is not only her own tale but also the stories of the thousands of women like her whose autobiographies have not yet been recovered.
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