Born into a leading LithuanianJewish rabbinic family Moshe Aron Reguer initially followed the path of traditional yeshiva education. His adolescence coincided with World War I and its upheavals pandemics and pogroms as well as with new ideas of Haskala Zionism and socialism. His memoir recently discovered and here translated and published for the first time discusses his internal struggles and describes the world around him and the people who influenced him. Moshe Aron Reguer wrote his memoir a