Autobiographical Jews : essays in Jewish self-fashioning / Michael Stanislawski.

Publication | Library Call Number: PN842 .S73 2004

Series: The Samuel & Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies
Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Stanislawski, Michael, 1952-
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2004
Language: English

Physical Description: xiv, 209 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: autobiography, the Jews, and episodic memory
Josephus's life
In the culture of the rabbis: Asher of Reichshofen and Glikl of Hameln
Two Russian Jews: Moshe Leib Lilienblum and Osip Mandelstam
Autobiography as farewell I: Stefan Zweig
Autobiography as farewell II: Sarah Kofman.
ISBN: 0295984155
0295984163 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-203) and index.

Introduction: autobiography, the Jews, and episodic memory -- Josephus's life -- In the culture of the rabbis: Asher of Reichshofen and Glikl of Hameln -- Two Russian Jews: Moshe Leib Lilienblum and Osip Mandelstam -- Autobiography as farewell I: Stefan Zweig -- Autobiography as farewell II: Sarah Kofman.
Subjects: Jewish prose literature--History and criticism.
Autobiography--Jewish authors.
Jewish authors--Biography--History and criticism.
Jews--Historiography.
Autobiographical memory.
Judaism and literature.
Self-perception.
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