Autobiography and Memoir

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Has Abstract	The general scholarly consensus has, until recently, held that autobiography is essentially foreign to the communal orientation of traditional Jewish literature and mentality. According to this school of thought, Jewish autobiography is viewed as an exclusively modern phenomenon deriving from those whose attachments to Jewish tradition have been attenuated or severed. The great majority of Jewish autobiographies of pre-Rousseauian origin are indeed best viewed as texts that include autobiographical elements, rather than as autobiography proper. A discussion of Jewish autobiographies must focus largely upon Hebrew and Yiddish texts because those written by East European Jews in German and the Slavic languages belong, with rare exceptions, more comfortably to the literary environment of those languages, rather than to the sphere of Jewish literature. The great exception is the first Rousseau-style autobiography of an East European Jew, Salomon Maimon, which was written in German. Maimon, however, was a trailblazer and, in his day, egregious in almost every respect; moreover, at the time in which he composed his autobiography, any form of secular literature in Hebrew, let alone Yiddish, was virtually nonexistent.	yivo
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Title	Autobiography and Memoir	yivo
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Core Alt Label	Memoirs autobiographical autobiographies autobiography memoir memoirs	yivo
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Core Pref Label	Autobiography and Memoir	yivo
Core Related 65	Abramovitsh Sholem Yankev yivo Agnon Shemuel Yosef yivo Assimilation yivo Babel Isaac yivo Ber Of Bolechow yivo Berdyczewski Mikhah Yosef yivo Bialik Hayim Nahman yivo Brenner Yosef Hayim yivo Buchach yivo Chagall Marc yivo Childhood yivo Conversion yivo Dubnow Simon yivo Ehrenburg Ilya Grigorevi… yivo Erik Maks yivo Erlich Henryk yivo Feierberg Mordekhai Zeev yivo Gender yivo Gintsburg Mordekhai Ahar… yivo Gnessin Uri Nisan yivo Gordon Yehudah Leib yivo Gottlober Avraham Ber yivo Gzeyres Takh Vetat yivo Hannover Natan Note yivo Haskalah yivo Hebrew Literature yivo Heder yivo Heller Yom Tov Lipmann yivo Hibat Tsiyon yivo Historiography yivo Holocaust yivo Jewish Anti Fascist Comm… yivo Kotik Yekhezkl yivo Lilienblum Mosheh Leib yivo Lithuania yivo Lviv yivo Maimon Salomon yivo Mandelshtam Osip Emilevi… yivo Markish Perets yivo Memory yivo Mikhoels Solomon Mikhail… yivo Nahman Of Bratslav yivo Natan Sternhartz Of Nemi… yivo Odessa yivo Poetry yivo Pogroms yivo Poland yivo Poznan yivo Prague yivo Prose yivo Purim yivo Ravitch Melech yivo Reform Religious yivo Saint Petersburg yivo Shtetl yivo Singer Isaac Bashevis yivo Trunk Yekhiel Yeshaye yivo Tsharni Daniel yivo Warsaw yivo Wassercug Mosheh yivo Wengeroff Pauline yivo Yeshiva yivo Yiddish Literature yivo Yivo yivo Yizker Bikher yivo	yivo
is Core Related 14 of	Folklore Ethnography And… yivo Galitsianer yivo German Literature yivo Kotik Yekhezkl yivo Maimon Salomon yivo Memory yivo Moriah yivo Munk Meir Avraham yivo Personal Hygiene And Gro… yivo Polish Literature yivo Rozental Shnayderman Est… yivo Shapiro Malkah yivo Wengeroff Pauline yivo Zeitlin Family yivo	yivo

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Autobiography and Memoir