Imagining Lives Autobiographical Fiction of Yiddish Writers
| Author/creator | Schwarz, Jan, 1954- Author |
| Other author | American Council of Learned Societies. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Madison : University of Wisconsin Press Chicago : Chicago Distribution Center [Distributor] |
| Description | 256 p. 09.000 x 06.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book |
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| Summary | Annotation     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.<i>Imagining Lives: Autobiographical Fiction of Yiddish Writers</i>is the first comprehensive study of the autobiographical genre in Yiddish literature. Jan Schwarz offers portraits of seven major Yiddish writers, showing the writer's 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.<br />    Schwarz shows how Yiddish autobiographical fiction fuses novelistic elements and memoiristic truthfulness in ways that also characterize Jewish life-writing in English and Hebrew. His accessible style, biographical sketches, glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish words, and careful survey of notable texts takes readers on an incomparable journey through modern Yiddish literature. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2004025718 |
| ISBN | 9780299209605 |
| ISBN | 0299209601 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780299209605 |
| Stock number | 00027486 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |