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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. This is the first comprehensive study of the autobiographical genre in Yiddish literature. Jan Schwarz offers portraits of seven major Yiddish writers, showing the writers' 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.
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"The Yiddish autobiographer tells the story not only of a life gone by, but in this case of a community and a culture lost. Jan Schwarz's reflections on this angle in "Imagining Lives" offer a valuable addition to the field of Jewish literature." Tzivia Gover, author of "Mindful Moments for Stressful Days"" "Full of incisive comments on the texts it describes, displaying wide-ranging erudition on the length and depth of Yiddish autobiography, "Imagining Lives" is a must-read introduction to the genre." Jeremy Dauber, Columbia University" "The Yiddish autobiographer tells the story not only of a life gone by, but in this case of a community and a culture lost. Jan Schwarz's reflections on this angle in "Imagining Lives" offer a valuable addition to the field of Jewish literature."--Tzivia Gover, author of "Mindful Moments for Stressful Days" "Full of incisive comments on the texts it describes, displaying wide-ranging erudition on the length and depth of Yiddish autobiography, "Imagining Lives" is a must-read introduction to the genre."--Jeremy Dauber, Columbia University
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Jan Schwarz is lecturer in the department of German at Northwestern University and lecturer in the Committee on Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago.
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- PublisherUniversity of Wisconsin Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0299209601
- ISBN 13 9780299209605
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages254
- EditorJan Schwarz
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ISBN 13: 9780299209605
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