The Historian's Past in Three Recent Jewish Autobiographies.
This article focuses on three Jewish autobiographies: Evyatar Friesel's The Days and the Seasons; Jacob Katz's With My Own Eyes: The Autobiography of a Historian; and Raul Hilberg's The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian. Although there is a tradition of autobiographical writin...
| Publicado en: | Jewish Social Studies Vol. 5; no. 3; pp. 132 - 161 |
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Indiana University Press
Spring/Summer99
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| Sumario: | This article focuses on three Jewish autobiographies: Evyatar Friesel's The Days and the Seasons; Jacob Katz's With My Own Eyes: The Autobiography of a Historian; and Raul Hilberg's The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian. Although there is a tradition of autobiographical writing in Jewish literature reaching back into the Renaissance, the discipline of Jewish history is certainly not blessed with a plethora of autobiographies. Among the leading authors of Jewish history are Simon Dubnow, Gershom Sholem, and Benzion Dinur. |
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