Autobiographical Jews: Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning

by Michael Stanislawski

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295984155
• ISBN13: 9780295984155
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"