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The Study of Early German-Jewish Autobiographies
Publication Date: January 2004
Publisher(s): Association for Jewish Studies; Association for Jewish Studies
Author(s): Liliane Weissberg; Liliane Weissberg
Series: AJS Perspectives: The Newsletter of the Association for Jewish Studies, Spring-Summer 2004, pp.8-9.
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Culture and religion (Literature)
Culture and religion (Religion and religious groups)
Keywords: Literature; History; Acculturation; Judaic Studies
Type: Report
Coverage: Germany Germany
Abstract:
The author examines the content and form of German-Jewish autobiographies from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, discussing how they parallel and/or subvert German literary models of autobiographical writing.