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Exiles on main street : Jewish American writers and American literary culture / Julian Levinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levinson, Julian.
- Series:
- Jewish literature and culture.
- Jewish literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Jews--United States--Identity.
- Jews.
- Group identity in literature.
- Jews in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How have Jews reshaped their identities as Jews in the face of the radical newness called America? Julian Levinson explores the ways in which exposure to American literary culture -- in particular the visionary tradition identified with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman -- led American Jewish writers to a new understanding of themselves as Jews. Discussing the lives and work of writers such as Emma Lazarus, Mary Antin, Ludwig Lewisohn, Waldo Frank, Anzia Yezierska, I. J. Schwartz, Alfred Kazin, and
- Contents:
- Breathing free in the New World : transcendentalism and the Jewish soul
- Battling the nativists : mystics, prophets, and rebels in interwar America
- Yiddish interlude
- "Orating in New Yorkese" : the languages of Jewishness in postwar America.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-78566-0
- 9786611785666
- 0-253-00028-9
- OCLC:
- 476194229
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