Memoirs of My People through a Thousand Years
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The anthologist, like the historian and the novelist, is an autobiographer is disguise. He is driven into the jungles and watering places of literature by instinct as well as by design. The ultimate form in which he exhibits his loot is dictated not only by public taste; it is above all the expression of those fundamental impulses and habits that…
Memoirs of My People Through a Thousand Years is an anthology of Jewish autobiographical writings from the eleventh to the twentieth centuries. Leo W. Schwarz, who assisted refugees in Europe and published his volume in the United States, hoped to show the “infinite diversity” of Jewish life. His anthology contains excerpts from writings of Jews from mainly European countries, including the German diarist and businesswoman Glikl of Hamel; the eighteenth-century English prizefighter Daniel Mendoza; the German painter Moritz Oppenheim; and the founder of modern Zionism Theodor Herzl.
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