Being for Myself Alone.Being For Myself Alone Marcus Moseley Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. 1450 Page Mill Rd., Palo Alto Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , CA 94304 0804751579 $70.00 www.sup.org Being For Myself Alone: Origins Of A Jewish Autobiography, deftly written by Marcus Moseley (Hebrew and Yiddish Literature teacher at New York University New York University, mainly in New York City; coeducational; chartered 1831, opened 1832 as the Univ. of the City of New York, renamed 1896. It comprises 13 schools and colleges, maintaining 4 main centers (including the Medical Center) in the city, as well as the , Harvard University, and Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. ) is an invaluable compendium of studies and analysis of the origins of Jewish autobiographical writing from the early modern period to the early twentieth century. Expertly and professionally authored, Being For Myself Alone offers readers an in-depth education on a great order of untranslated Hebrew and Yiddish texts, as well as an extensive understanding of historical literature and documentation from the works of Jewish societal constructs, authors, groups and iconoclastic i·con·o·clast n. 1. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions. 2. One who destroys sacred religious images. figures. Being For Myself Alone is very strongly recommended to all students of Judaic Studies for its seminal understanding and compilation of greatly unrecognized and lost information on the intricate and damaged past of the Jewish culture. |
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