Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture by Julian Levinson eBook Translated by Shirley Kumove

Translated by Shirley Kumove

many of which have never been published before

They range from statements of the obvious to profound commentaries on subjects as varied as arranging a marriage

a position she maintained for more than twenty-five years

in poems of Ukrainian forests and folk heroes

Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture by Julian Levinson eBook Translated by Shirley KumoveHow 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 culturein particular the visionary tradition identified with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitmanled 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