Being for Myself Alone: Origins of Jewish Autobiography

by Marcus Moseley

This is a work of unprecedented scope, tracing the origins of Jewish autobiographical writing from the early modern period to the early twentieth century. Drawing on a multitude of Hebrew and Yiddish texts, very few of which have been translated into English, and on contemporary autobiographical theory, this book provides a literary/historical explanatory paradigm for the emergence of the Jewish autobiographical voice. The book also provides the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804751579
• ISBN13: 9780804751575
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"