Autobiographical Jews examines the nature of autobiographical writing by Jews from antiquity to the present, and the ways in which such writings can legitimatel

This is a work of unprecedented scope, tracing the origins of Jewish autobiographical writing from the early modern period to the early twentieth century. Drawi

Twenty-eight selections from the writings of some of the best-known American-Jewish novelists, dramatists, critics, and historians span the social and cultural

Excerpts from the adventurous lives of Jewish men and women exemplifying their adjustment to and participation in American life, mostly between 1880 and 1920.

The contributors are highly productive and respected Jewish-American scholars, critics, and teachers from departments of English, history, American studies, Rom