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CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS....................................................................................................................... 1. AUTOBIOGRAPHY: THE ELUSIVE SUBJECT...........................................................................7 Generic Dilemmas............................................................................................................................7 Rousseau's Confessions as Autobiographical Paradigm ...........................................................11 The "Children of Jean Jacques" in Jewish Eastern Europe......................................................19 In and Around the Self: The Critical Discourse..........................................................................24 2. INTERTEXTUAL RELATIONS: JEWISH AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ENCOUNTERS........58 Autobiography as "Text"/Autobiography as "Discourse".........................................................58 Symptoms of Transition: The Crystallization of Autobiographical Discourse........................62 Cross-Cultural Fashionings of the Sel..........................................................................................66 Arrested Development: The Constitution of a Jewish Autobiographical Field.......................70 III. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS READING..........................................................................................100 The "Tradition Model for the Study of Jewish Autobiography...............................................100 Sephardic Origins I: Valley and Vision: Abraham Yagel's Gei hizzayon...............................114 Sephardic Origins II: "Un coup de des n'abolira jamais le hasard": Yehudah Aryeh Modena's Hayyei yehudah...........................................................................................................135 Early-Modern Autobiography in Ashkenaz I: Scrolls of Lamentation and Lament.............179 Early Modern Autobiography in Ashkenaz II: The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln............187 The Function of the First Person in Pre-Modern Jewish Narrative: An Overview..............208 IV. PRE-MODERN JEWISH AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND THE RADICAL HERMENEUTICS OF MICHAH YOSEF BERDICHEVSKY.......................................................................................283 Worlds within Worlds..................................................................................................................283 The Voice of the Individual and the Burden of Inheritance: Berdichevsky's Autobiographical Counter-Tradition.........................................................................................301 The Crystallization of an Autobiographical Hermeneutic.......................................................307 Michah Yosef Berdichevsky Before the Speculum of Bin Gorion: The Collected Works as Encylopaedia.................................................................................................................................347 From Re-Collection to Recollection: The Great Memory of Bin-Gorion...............................354 Miriam: The Summing Up...........................................................................................................361 V. JEWISH AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITING AT THE TIME OF ROUSSEAU..................413 Synchronicities..............................................................................................................................413 Jacob Emden's Megillat sefer......................................................................................................415 Nathan of Nemirov's Yemei maharnat........................................................................................438 VI. DOMESTICATING ROUSSEAU: MORDECHAI AARON GUENZBERG'S AVIEZER...473 "I am not the father of this book, rather its mother, for in pain did I bear it"......................473 The Conception of the Child.......................................................................................................484 Generation and Gender: Discourses on Power.........................................................................492 Autobiographies in Dialogue: From Aviezer to Hatt'ot ne'urim..............................................506 VII. RAMIFICATIONS OF THE SELF: CULTURAL LANDSCAPES OF JEWISH AUTOBIOGRAPHY...........................................................................................................................531 Autobiography against Autobiography: Traditionalist Versions of the Self........................531 The Semiotics of Autobiographical Behaviour..........................................................................565 Buried Autobiographies...............................................................................................................574 Summons to Autobiography/Response.......................................................................................589 Matrices of the Jewish Autobiographical Self...........................................................................596 "Time present and time past/Are both perhaps present in time future,/And time future contained in time past."...............................................................................................................610 Notes to Chapter XX BIBLIOGRAPHY...............................................................................................................................656 Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Autobiography.
Autobiography -- Jewish authors.
Jewish authors -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Jewish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Self in literature.