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Autobiographical Jews

Author : Michael Stanislawski
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295803797
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Autobiographical Jews written by Michael Stanislawski and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Stanislawski considers The Life by first-century historian Josephus; compares the early modern autobiographies of Asher of Reichshofen (Book of Memories) and Glikl of Hameln (Memoirs); analyzes the radically different autobiographies of two Russian Jewish writers, the Hebrew Enlightenment author Moshe Leib Lilienblum and the famous Russian poet Osip Mandelstam; and looks at two autobiographies written out of utter despair in the midst and in the wake of World War II, Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday and Sarah Kofman’s Rue Ordener, Rue Labat. These writers’ attempts to portray their private and public struggles, anxieties, successes, and failures are expressions of a basic drive for selfhood which is both timeless and time-bound, universal and culturally specific. The challenge is to attempt to unravel the conscious from the unconscious distortions in these texts and to regard them as artifacts of individuals’ quests to make sense of their lives, first and foremost for themselves and then, if possible, for their readers.

Being For Myself Alone

Author : Marcus Moseley
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804763974
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Being For Myself Alone written by Marcus Moseley and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-13 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

People of the Book

Author : Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299150143
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book People of the Book written by Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors are highly productive and respected Jewish-American scholars, critics, and teachers from departments of English, history, American studies, Romance literature, Slavic studies, art, women's studies, comparative literature, anthropology, Judaic studies, and philosophy.

Writing Our Lives

Author : Steven Joel Rubin
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 9780827603936
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Writing Our Lives written by Steven Joel Rubin and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 1991 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-eight selections from the writings of some of the best-known American-Jewish novelists, dramatists, critics, and historians span the social and cultural history of American Jews in the twentieth century. Often joyous, occasionally tragic, they provide a fascinating record—from immigration to assimilation, from life in the ghetto to the current movement by many to recapture their Jewish identity. At once personal and historical, the selections are poignant and moving testimonies to the perseverance of the American-Jewish people.

Autobiographies of American Jews

Author : Harold Uriel Ribalow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autobiographies of American Jews written by Harold Uriel Ribalow and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from the adventurous lives of Jewish men and women exemplifying their adjustment to and participation in American life, mostly between 1880 and 1920.

My Future Is in America

Author : Jocelyn Cohen
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814716954
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book My Future Is in America written by Jocelyn Cohen and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-04-05 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1942, YIVO held a contest for the best autobiography by a Jewish immigrant on the theme “Why I Left the Old Country and What I Have Accomplished in America.” Chosen from over two hundred entries, and translated from Yiddish, the nine life stories in My Future Is in America provide a compelling portrait of American Jewish life in the immigrant generation at the turn of the twentieth century. The writers arrived in America in every decade from the 1890s to the 1920s. They include manual workers, shopkeepers, housewives, communal activists, and professionals who came from all parts of Eastern Europe and ushered in a new era in American Jewish history. In their own words, the immigrant writers convey the complexities of the transition between the Old and New Worlds. An Introduction places the writings in historical and literary context, and annotations explain historical and cultural allusions made by the writers. This unique volume introduces readers to the complex world of Yiddish-speaking immigrants while at the same time elucidating important themes and topics of interest to those in immigration studies, ethnic studies, labor history, and literary studies. Published in conjunction with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

Black White and Jewish

Author : Rebecca Walker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101647566
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Black White and Jewish written by Rebecca Walker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal together, and in 1969 their daughter, Rebecca, was born. Some saw this unusual copper-colored girl as an outrage or an oddity; others viewed her as a symbol of harmony, a triumph of love over hate. But after her parents divorced, leaving her a lonely only child ferrying between two worlds that only seemed to grow further apart, Rebecca was no longer sure what she represented. In this book, Rebecca Leventhal Walker attempts to define herself as a soul instead of a symbol—and offers a new look at the challenge of personal identity, in a story at once strikingly unique and truly universal.

Life in a Jewish Family: An Autobiography, 1891-1916 (The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 1)

Author : Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross)
Publisher : ICS Publications
ISBN 13 : 1939272467
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Life in a Jewish Family: An Autobiography, 1891-1916 (The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 1) written by Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) and published by ICS Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This initial volume of the Collected Works of Edith Stein offers, for the first time in English, the unabridged biography of Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), depicting her life as a child and young adult. Her text ends abruptly because the Nazi SS arrested, then deported, her to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942. The ebook version contains a fully linked Index, Map and List of Places. Edith Stein is one of the most significant German-Jewish women of the 20th century. At the age of twenty-five she became the first assistant to Edmund Husserl, the founder of Phenomenology. She was much in demand as a writer and lecturer after her conversion from atheism to Catholicism. Later, as a Discalced Carmelite nun, she maintained her intellectual pursuits until she, like so many others, became a victim of the Nazi persecution that raged across Eastern Europe. By making this landmark work available in English, the Institute of Carmelite Studies provides an eye-witness account of persons and activities on the scene at the time when psychology and philosophy became separate disciplines. In addition to photographs and a map, this volume is enhanced with a preface, the foreword and afterword, notes, and a list of places associated with Edith Stein’s life. It is our aim that these, together with Edith Stein’s text, may help bring into relief the many background details of the rich autobiographical work she has left us. **Chosen "Best Spirituality Book of 1986" by the Catholic Press Association**

Against Autobiography

Author : Lia Nicole Brozgal
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803240422
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Against Autobiography written by Lia Nicole Brozgal and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Tunisian Jewish intellectual Albert Memmi, like that of many francophone Maghrebian writers, is often read as thinly veiled autobiography. Questioning the prevailing body of criticism, which continues this interpretation of most fiction produced by francophone North African writers, Lia Nicole Brozgal shows how such interpretations of Memmi’s texts obscure their not inconsiderable theoretical possibilities. Calling attention to the ambiguous status of autobiographical discursive and textual elements in Memmi’s work, Brozgal shifts the focus from the author to theoretical questions. Against Autobiography places Memmi’s writing and thought in dialogue with several major critical shifts in the late twentieth-century literary and cultural landscape. These shifts include the crisis of the authorial subject; the interrogation of the form of the novel; the resistance to the hegemony of vision; and the critique of colonialism. Showing how Memmi’s novels and essays produce theories that resonate both within and beyond their original contexts, Brozgal argues for allowing works of francophone Maghrebi literature to be read as complex literary objects, that is, not simply as ethnographic curios but as generating elements of literary theory on their own terms.

The Jewish Body

Author : Maria Diemling
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004167188
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Body written by Maria Diemling and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores perceptions of the "Jewish body" in variety of early modern Jewish sources. It discusses, among other topics, ideas of the ideal body in normative sources, the influence of Kabbalistic ideas on Jewish-Christian discourse and the link between melancholy and exile.

Autobiographies of American Jews

Author : Jewish Publication Society of America
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Autobiographies of American Jews written by Jewish Publication Society of America and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself

Author : Judy Blume
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1665980818
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself written by Judy Blume and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally J. Freedman was ten when she made herself a movie star. She would have been happy to reach stardom in New Jersey, but in 1947 her older brother Douglas became ill, so the Freedman family traveled south to spend eight months in the sunshine of Florida. That’s where Sally met her friends Andrea, Barbara, Shelby, Peter, and Georgia Blue Eyes—and her unsuspecting enemy, Adolf Hitler. Dear Chief of Police: You don’t know me but I am a detective from New Jersey. I have uncovered a very interesting case down here. I have discovered that Adolf Hitler is alive and has come to Miami Beach to retire. He is pretending to be an old Jewish man... While she watches and waits, and keeps a growing file of letters under her bed, Sally’s Hitler will play an important—though not quite starring—role in one of her grandest movie spectaculars.

Darkness to Light with Hope

Author : Abraham Gold
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477133895
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book Darkness to Light with Hope written by Abraham Gold and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All these years while my children were growing up, it was too difficult for me to talk about my past. The immense terrifying madness that had erupted in history, and in the conscience of humankind was too painful As my children grew up they started to ask questions about their grandmother and grandfather. Finally I told them a little history of the war in Europe. The Nazis in Germany set out to build a society in which there simply would be no room for the Jews. Toward the end of their reign, their goal changed; they wanted to leave behind a world in ruins in which Jews would never to have existed. The Germans everywhere in Russia, in the Ukraine, and in Lithuania, carried out the Final Solution by turning their machine guns on more than a million Jews, who were not only killed but were denied burial in a cemetery. It is obvious that the war, which Hitler and his accomplices waged, was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory. Yet having lived through this experience, I could not keep silent no matter how difficult, if not impossible, it was for me to speak. I had many things to say, I did not have the words to tell them. How was I to speak of what happened without trembling, heartbroken for all eternity, The hungerthirstfeartransportselectionfirechimney. When it came to tell them, what did happen to their grandparents, aunts and uncles, no words came out of my mouth, we all started to cry. In 1974, November I was given a testimonial dinner for serving as post Commander of the J.W.V. in Orangeburg New York. The editor of our towns newspaper came to our house to interview me knowing that I was a Holocaust survivor.

In Search

Author : Meyer Levin
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1625670885
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book In Search written by Meyer Levin and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-08-06 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed autobiography of the Chicago journalist and author hailed as “the most significant American Jewish writer” of the mid-twentieth century (Los Angeles Times). Raised in the notorious Bloody Nineteenth Ward in Chicago, Meyer Levin landed a job at the Chicago Daily News at eighteen. He pursued reporting as a means to support his fiction writing, yet it was as a war correspondent that Levin found his voice. One of the first Americans to enter the concentration camps during World War II and record the horrors there, Levin also helped smuggle Jews from Poland to Palestine, capturing the events in his now classic film The Illegals. In this vivid chronicle, Levin traverses America, France, Spain, Eastern Europe and Palestine, incisively documenting some of the most important events of the twentieth century. Yet In Search is equally the story of Levin’s quest to define his Jewishness to himself and to the world. Both personal and universal, it affords a glimpse into a singular life and career and is, as Levin puts it, “more than a book about the Jews; it seeks to touch the human spirit.”

The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia ...

Author : Isaac Landman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia ... written by Isaac Landman and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memory Guide My Hand

Author : Julie Meadows
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781876733490
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Memory Guide My Hand written by Julie Meadows and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Political Autobiographies and Memoirs in Antiquity

Author : Gabriele Marasco
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004182993
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Political Autobiographies and Memoirs in Antiquity written by Gabriele Marasco and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the examination of political autobiographies and memoirs, some preserved in their entirety, others known only from fragments, this book offers a fascinating picture of the way characters who stand out in history saw and represented themselves and their own political actions.