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Imagining Lives : Autobiographical Fiction of Yiddish Writers / Jan Schwarz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schwarz, Jan, 1954-
- Series:
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, Yiddish.
- Yiddish literature--History and criticism.
- Yiddish literature.
- Autobiographical fiction, Yiddish--History and criticism.
- Autobiographical fiction, Yiddish.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 241 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wisc. : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In interwar and post-Holocaust New York, Yiddish autobiographers responded to the upheaval of modern Jewish life in ways that combined artistic innovation with commemoration for a world that is no more. "Imagining Lives: Autobiographical Fiction of Yiddish Writers" is the first comprehensive study of the autobiographical genre in Yiddish literature. Jan Schwarz offers portraits of seven major Yiddish writers, showing the writer's struggles to shape the multiple identities of their ruptured lives in autobiographical fiction. This analysis of Yiddish life-writing includes discussions of literary representation, self and collectivity, and memory in modern Jewish literature. Schwarz shows how Yiddish autobiographical fiction fuses novelistic elements and memoiristic truthfulness in ways that also characterize Jewish life-writing in English and Hebrew. His accessible style, biographical sketches, glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish words, and careful survey of notable texts takes readers on an incomparable journey through modern Yiddish literature."
- Contents:
- 1. The classical trio. Setting the stage
- A whistle of defiance
- 2. In America. The trials of a Yiddish writer
- An American Yiddish poet visits Poland, 1934
- 3. After the Holocaust. Of a world that is no more.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-229) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612269844
- 9781282269842
- 1282269844
- 9780299209636
- 0299209636
- OCLC:
- 233574009
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb06635 hdl
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