| Autobiographical Jews: Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning Subjects: Jewish prose literature -- History and criticism; Autobiography -- Jewish authors; Jewish authors -- Biography -- History and criticism; Jews -- Historiography; Autobiographical memory; Self-perception; 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. Michael Stanislawski is Nathan J. Miller Professor of History, Columbia University. He is the author of Zionism and the Fin de Siècle, For Whom Do I Toil? , and Psalms for the Tsar. |