Autobiographical Jews : essays in Jewish self-fashioning by Stanislawski, Michael, 1952- instant download

Autobiographical Jews : essays in Jewish self-fashioning by Stanislawski, Michael, 1952- instant download

1 online resource (xiv, 209 pages), \"Autobiographical Jews examines the nature of autobiographical writing by Jews from antiquity to the present, and the ways in which such writings can legitimately be used as sources for Jewish history, Drawing on current literary theory, which questions the very nature of autobiographical writing and its relationship to what we normally designate as the truth, and, to a lesser extent, the new cognitive neurosciences, Michael Stanislawski analyzes a number of crucial and complex autobiographical texts written by Jews through the ages.\"--Jacket, Includes bibliographical references (pages 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, Print version record, Koret Jewish Book Awards (nominated), 2005, National Jewish Book Awards (nominated), 2005