Autobiography / Jewish Studies / Literature and Criticism / Fiction
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Imagining
Lives
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. This is the first comprehensive
study of the autobiographical genre in Yiddish literature. Jan
Schwarz offers portraits of seven major Yiddish writers, showing
the writers' 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.
Jan Schwarz is lecturer in the department of German at Northwestern University and lecturer in the Committee on Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago. For more information contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu |
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