Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years by N O Body

Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years by N O Body

The first translation into English of a startling 1907 memoir of a writer who was born a boy, was raised as a girl, and who lived as a man. Who was the real N.O. Body, and why did he go to such lengths to hide not just his name but his Jewish identity?

"This is a very interesting and beautifully written memoir by somebody who would have been called a hermaphrodite in the nineteenth centuryThe work gives a fascinating picture of the childhood experiences of the anonymous author and is full of sensitive and often moving observations on the plights of sexual ambiguity in childhood. The style, apparently so simple and relatively dispassionate, is extremely effective in pulling the reader into the story." * Chandak Sengoopta *

N. O. Body was the pseudonym of Karl M. Baer, the director of the Berlin B'nai B'rith until his emigration from Germany in 1938. He died in Israel in 1956. Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Sciences at Emory University. He is the author or editor of more than seventy books, including Jewish Self-Hatred and Smoke: A Global History of Smoking (coedited with Zhou Xun). Dr. Hermann Simon is the director of the Neue Synagoge Berlin-Centrum Judaicum Foundation and is the coauthor and coeditor of Jews in Berlin. Deborah Simon is a teacher of English and translation studies at Humboldt University, Berlin.

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ISBN 13	9780812220612
ISBN 10	0812220617
Title	Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years
Author	N O Body
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Pennsylvania Press
Year published	2009-04-24
Number of pages	160
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