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By Marcus Moseley

ISBN-10: 0804751579

ISBN-13: 9780804751575

This is a piece of extraordinary scope, tracing the origins of Jewish autobiographical writing from the early sleek interval to the early 20th century. Drawing on a large number of Hebrew and Yiddish texts, only a few of which were translated into English, and on modern autobiographical conception, this booklet offers a literary/historical explanatory paradigm for the emergence of the Jewish autobiographical voice. The e-book additionally offers the English reader with an advent to the works of imperative figures within the background of Hebrew and Yiddish literature, and it comprises dialogue of fabric that hasn't ever been submitted to literary severe research in English.

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