"Banished from Their Father's Table": Loss of Faith and Hebrew Autobiography

by Alan Mintz

Book Overview

In this work of literary history and criticism, Alan Mintz details the development of a new mode in Hebrew prose narrative--the autobiography. Against the historical background of the Haskalah (Enlightenment), Mintz explores the work of three key writers: M. Z. Feierberg, M. Y. Berdichevsky, and Y. H. Brenner. At the turn of the century, these Hebrew writers found in autobiography a way of telling the truth about the realities of the self, its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253338573
• ISBN13: 9780253338570
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher