Autobiographical Jews: Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)

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.--jacket. 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. Michael Stanislawski. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 196-203) And Index.