Autobiographical Jews : Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (224 pages)
- Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies .
- Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Autobiography, the Jews, and Episodic Memory -- 1/ Josephus's Life -- 2/ In the Culture of the Rabbis: Asher of Reichshofen and Glikl of Hameln -- 3/ Two Russian Jews: Moshe Leib Lilienblum and Osip Mandelstam -- 4/ Autobiography as Farewell I: Stefan Zweig -- 5/ Autobiography as Farewell II: Sarah Kofman -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Jewish prose literature -- History and criticism. Autobiography -- Jewish authors. Jewish authors -- Biography -- History and criticism. Jews -- Historiography. Autobiographical memory. Judaism and literature. Self-perception.