Table of Contents for Being For Myself Alone
Table of Contents for
Being For Myself Alone
Acknowledgments
1.Autobiography: The Elusive Subject
Generic Dilemmas
Rousseau's Confessions as Autobiographical Paradigm
The "Children of Jean Jacques" in Jewish Eastern Europe
In and Around the Self: The Critical Discourse
2.Intertextual Relations: Jewish Autobiographical Encounters
Autobiography as "Text"/Autobiography as "Discourse"
Symptoms of Transition: The Crystallization of Autobiographical Discourse
Cross-Cultural Fashionings of the Self
Arrested Development: The Constitution of a Jewish Autobiographical Field
3.Autobiography as Reading
The "Tradition" Model for the Study of Jewish Autobiography
Sephardic Origins I: Valley and Vision: Abraham Yagel's Gei' bizzayon
Sephardic Origins II: "Un coup de dés n'abolira jamais le hasard": Yehudah Aryeh
Modena's Hayyei yehudah
Ashkenazic Origins I: Scrolls of Lamentation and Lament
Ashkenazic Origins II: The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln
The Function of the First Person in Pre-Modern Jewish Narrative: An Overview
4.Pre-Modern Jewish Autobiography and the Radical Hermeneutics of Michah Yosef Berdichevsky
Worlds Within Worlds
The Voice of the Individual and the Burden of Inheritance: Berdichevsky's
Autobiographical Counter-Tradition
The Crystallization of an Autobiographical Hermeneutic
Michah Yosef Berdichevsky Before the Speculum of Bin Gorion: The Collected
Works as Encylopaedia
From Re-Collection to Recollection: The Great Memory of Bin Gorion
Miriam: The Summing Up
5.Jewish Autobiographical Writing at the Time of Rousseau
Synchronicities
Jacob Emden's Megillat sefer
Nathan of Nemirov's Yemei maharnat
6.Domesticating Rousseau: Mordechai Aaron Guenzberg's 'Avi'ezer
"I am not the father of this book, rather its mother, for in pain did I bear it"
The Conception of the Child
Generation and Gender: Discourses on Power
Autobiographies in Dialogue: From 'Avi'ezer to Hatt'ot ne'urim
7.Ramifications Of The Self: Cultural Landscapes of Jewish Autobiography
Autobiography against Autobiography: Traditionalist Versions of the Self
Semiotics of Autobiographical Behavior
Buried Autobiographies
Summons to Autobiography/Response
Matrices of the Jewish Autobiographical Self
"Time present and time past/Are both perhaps present in time future,/And time future contained in time past."
Reference Matter
Notes
Bibliography
Index