Imagining lives; autobiographical fiction of Yiddish writers.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Imagining lives; autobiographical fiction of Yiddish writers.

Schwarz, Jan.

U. of Wisconsin Press

2005

241 pages

$45.00

Hardcover

PJ5128

"The best novel is a person's life"--Sholem Aleichem. To fill a gap in the critical study of the sometimes slighted literary autobiography genre in Yiddish literature, Schwarz (German, Northwestern U.; Jewish studies, U. of Chicago) e...

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