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: Paperback
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780295984162
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.