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.
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.
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
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
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