Julian Levinson

Exiles on Main Street

Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

In contrast to the often expressed view that the diaspora experience leads to assimilation, Exiles on Main Street traces an arc of return to Jewish identification and describes a vital and creative Jewish American literary culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 583g
• ISBN-13: 9780253350817
• ISBN-10: 0253350816
• Artikelnr.: 23366454

Autorenporträt

Julian Levinson is the Samuel Shetzer Professor of American Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Breathing Free in the New World: Transcendentalism and the Jewish
Soul
1. Songs of a Semite: Emma Lazarus and the Muse of History
2. Ecstasies of the Credulous: Mary Antin and the Spirit of the Shtetl
Part 2. Battling the Nativists: Mystics, Prophets, and Rebels in Interwar
America
3. "Pilgrim to a Forgotten Shrine": Ludwig Lewisohn and the Recovery of the
Inner Jew
4. Modernist Flasks, Jewish Wine: Waldo Frank and the Immanence of God
5. Cinderella's Dybbuk: Anzia Yezierska as the Voice of Generations
Part 3. Yiddish Interlude
6. From Heine to Whitman: The Yiddish Poets Come to America
Part 4. "Orating in New Yorkese": The Languages of Jewishness in Postwar
America
7. "My Private Orthodoxy": Alfred Kazin's Romantic Judaism
8. The Jewish Writer Flies at Twilight: Irving Howe and the Recovery of
Yiddishkayt
Conclusion
Notes
Index