Research Catalog

Title

Portrait of a Jew / Albert Memmi ; translated from the French by Elisabeth Abbott.

Author

Memmi, Albert

Publication

• New York : The Orion Press, [1962]
• ©1962

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Details

Additional Authors

• Abbott, Elisabeth
• Orion Press, publisher.

Description

325 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"In this memoir and extended meditation on Jewish identity and senti-Semitic stereotypes written in France in the early 1960s, Albert Memmi paints a portrait of himself as a secular Jew"--Google Books.

Uniform Title

Portrait d'un juif. English

Alternative Title

Portrait d'un juif.

Subject

• Memmi, Albert 1920-2020
• 1939-1945
• Autobiography > Jewish authors
• Jews > Africa, North > History
• Jews > Social conditions
• Jews > Psychology
• Antisemitism
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• antisemitism
• Autobiography > Jewish authors
• Antisemitism
• Jews
• Jews > Psychology
• Jews > Social conditions
• Identität
• Jews > Identity
• Jews > History > Philosophy
• Jewish question
• Jewish philosophy > 20th century
• North Africa
• Juden

Genre/Form

• Autobiography
• autobiographies (literary works)
• History
• Autobiographies
• Autobiographies.

Note

• "To a great extent a self-portrait."

Contents

Preface -- pt. 1. The misfortune of being a Jew: The Malaise ; Hostility ; The problem ; The separation ; The difference ; The accusation -- pt. 2. The mythical Jew: Am I a biological figure? ; The biological figure ; Am I an economic figure? ; The economic figure ; The meaning of the indictment ; The myth -- pt. 3. The shadowy figure: The Jew and the religion of others ; The Jew, the nation and history ; The Jew and the city ; The Jew and politics ; From uneasiness to persecution ; The shadowy figure -- pt. 4. The heritage: The will to leave ; Solidarity ; The heritage ; The burden of the heritage -- Conclusion: The oppressed.

LCCN

61014185

OCLC

• ocm00385872
• 385872
• SCSB-184409

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library