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Autobiographical Jews
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Author : Michael Stanislawski
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2012-09-20
Autobiographical Jews written by Michael Stanislawski and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-20 with Social Science categories.
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
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Author : Marcus Moseley
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2005-06-13
Being For Myself Alone written by Marcus Moseley and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Writing Our Lives
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Author : Steven Joel Rubin
language : en
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Release Date : 1991
Writing Our Lives written by Steven Joel Rubin and has been published by Jewish Publication Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
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.
Memory Guide My Hand
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Author : Julie Meadows
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Memory Guide My Hand written by Julie Meadows and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Holocaust survivors categories.
Memory Guide My Hand
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Author : Julie Meadows
language : en
Publisher:
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Memory Guide My Hand written by Julie Meadows and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) categories.
Autobiographies Of American Jews
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Author : Harold Uriel Ribalow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Autobiographies Of American Jews written by Harold Uriel Ribalow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with History categories.
Excerpts from the adventurous lives of Jewish men and women exemplifying their adjustment to and participation in American life, mostly between 1880 and 1920.
In Search
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Author : Meyer Levin
language : en
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Release Date : 2014-08-06
In Search written by Meyer Levin and has been published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.”
My Future Is In America
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Author : Jocelyn Cohen
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2008-04-05
My Future Is In America written by Jocelyn Cohen and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-05 with Religion categories.
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.
Darkness To Light With Hope
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Author : Abraham Gold
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2012-08
Darkness To Light With Hope written by Abraham Gold and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 hunger thirst fear transport selection fire chimney. 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 town's newspaper came to our house to interview me knowing that I was a Holocaust survivor.
A Life To Live
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Author : Israel Kipen
language : en
Publisher: Hybrid Publishers
Release Date : 2018-11-01
A Life To Live written by Israel Kipen and has been published by Hybrid Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Israel Kipen's A Life to Live is a rare and most valuable autobiographical work. No other to this day written by an Australian Jew so intimately recreates an age and milieu forever gone and complements it with 40 years of living in Australia.