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

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

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"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.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Electronic book from JSTOR
Main Author:	Stanislawski, Michael, 1952-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2004.
Series:	Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies.
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.

Table of 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.