Guenzburg, Lilienblum, and the Shape of Haskalah Autobiography

Haskalah autobiography, as S. Werses has surveyed it, is a wide field which includes such well known figures as I. S. Reggio, S. D. Luzzatto, M. H. Letteris, A. Gottlober, S. Y. Fuenn, J. L. Gordon, M. A.Guenzburg, and M. L. Lilienblum. The fact that these names are well known—and known to us from w...

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Main Author: Mintz, Alan L. 1947-2017 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press 1979
In: AJS review
Year: 1979, Volume: 4, Pages: 71-110
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Summary:Haskalah autobiography, as S. Werses has surveyed it, is a wide field which includes such well known figures as I. S. Reggio, S. D. Luzzatto, M. H. Letteris, A. Gottlober, S. Y. Fuenn, J. L. Gordon, M. A.Guenzburg, and M. L. Lilienblum. The fact that these names are well known—and known to us from works other than their autobiographies—is significant. Most of these works are accounts of the author's literary and cultural activity, and they interest us now, if they do at all, as portals to a more complete comprehension of that activity. Reggio, for example, describes his call to Jewish learning and the progress of his career as a scholar; in provoking detail in the pages of Ha-maggid, Luzzatto gives an authorized version of the canon of his works; Letteris and Fuenn offer not so much portraits of themselves as reminiscences of such famous figures from the milieu in which they worked as Rappaport and Krochmal; and Gottlober deflects attention from himself in another way by confining himself to an ethnographic account of the Volhynia and Podolia of his youth.
ISSN:1475-4541
Contains:Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0364009400000428