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1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages) |
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1. The classical trio. Setting the stage -- A whistle of defiance -- 2. In America. The trials of a Yiddish writer -- An American Yiddish poet visits Poland, 1934 -- 3. After the Holocaust. Of a world that is no more |
| Summary |
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. Imagining Lives: Autobiographical Fiction of Yiddish Writers 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. 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.--Publisher description |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Autobiographical fiction, Yiddish -- History and criticism
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Yiddish literature -- History and criticism
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Authors, Yiddish.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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Authors, Yiddish
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Autobiographical fiction, Yiddish
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Yiddish literature
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0299209636 |
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9780299209636 |
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0299209601 |
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9780299209605 |
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