Autobiographical Jews
Subtitle: Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: August 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780295984155
Subjects: Jewish Studies; Literary studies: general; Biography / Autobiography; Religion; Ethnic Cultures - General; Historical - General; Jewish; Judaism - History; Autobiography; Biography; History and criticism; Jewish authors; Jewish prose literature
First sentence: The problem I discuss in these essays is the nature of autobiographical writing by Jews over the centuries, and specifically the ways in which such writings can legitimately be used as sources for Jewish history.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.