Exiles on Main Street Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture

Name: Exiles on Main Street Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture
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ISBN: 9780253350817

ISBN-10: 0253350816

ISBN-13: 9780253350817

Edition: 2008

Authors: Julian Levinson

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Delineates the creative dialogue between Jewish writers and American culture

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 7/2/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Breathing Free in the New World: Transcendentalism and the Jewish Soul



Songs of a Semite: Emma Lazarus and the Muse of History



Ecstasies of the Credulous: Mary Antin and the Spirit of the Shtetl



Battling the Nativists: Mystics, Prophets, and Rebels in Interwar America



"Pilgrim to a Forgotten Shrine": Ludwig Lewisohn and the Recovery of the Inner Jew



Modernist Flasks, Jewish Wine: Waldo Frank and the Immanence of God



Cinderella's Dybbuk: Anzia Yezierska as the Voice of Generations



Yiddish Interlude



From Heine to Whitman: The Yiddish Poets Come to America



"Orating in New Yorkese": The Languages of Jewishness in Postwar America



"My Private Orthodoxy": Alfred Kazin's Romantic Judaism



The Jewish Writer Flies at Twilight: Irving Howe and the Recovery of Yiddishkayt


Conclusion


Notes


Index