Being For Myself Alone : Origins of Jewish Autobiography / Marcus Moseley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moseley, Marcus, Author.

Series:

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (672 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This is a work of unprecedented scope, tracing the origins of Jewish autobiographical writing from the early modern period to the early twentieth century. Drawing on a multitude of Hebrew and Yiddish texts, very few of which have been translated into English, and on contemporary autobiographical theory, this book provides a literary/historical explanatory paradigm for the emergence of the Jewish autobiographical voice. The book also provides the English reader with an introduction to the works of central figures in the history of Hebrew and Yiddish literature, and it includes discussion of material that has never been submitted to literary critical analysis in English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

1. Autobiography: The Elusive Subject

2. Intertextual Relations: Jewish Autobiographical Encounters

3. Autobiography as Reading

4. Pre-Modern Jewish Autobiography and the Radical Hermeneutics of Michah Yosef Berdichevsky

5. Jewish Autobiographical Writing at the Time of Rousseau

6. Domesticating Rousseau: Mordechai Aaron Guenzberg’s ’Avi’ezer

7. Ramifications Of The Self: Cultural Landscapes of Jewish Autobiography

Reference Matter

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

0-8047-6397-6

OCLC:

1294425447