1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910691700803321

Titolo

Problems with holiday purchases? [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Office of Consumer and Business Education, , [2001]

Collana

FTC consumer alert

Disciplina

070.5797

011.53

640.73

381.1

Soggetti

Consumer complaints

Retail trade - Corrupt practices

Christmas shopping

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Apr. 15, 2003).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910524708803321

Autore

Melnick Ralph

Titolo

The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn : Volume 1: "A Touch of Wildness" / / Ralph Melnick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wayne State University Press, 2018

Detroit : , : Wayne State University Press, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

9780814344668

0814344666

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (773 pages)

Disciplina

813/.52

B

Soggetti

Authors, American - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

v. 1. A touch of wildness -- v. 2. This dark and desperate age.

Sommario/riassunto

An imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, Ludwig Lewisohn (1882-1955) struggled with feelings of alienation in Christian America that were gradually resolved by his developing Jewish identity, a process reflected in hundreds of works of fiction, literary analysis, and social criticism. Born in Berlin, Lewisohn moved with his family in 1890 to South Carolina. Identified by others as a Jew, he remained an outsider throughout his youth. Lewisohn became a notable scholar and translator of German and French literature, teaching at Wisconsin and Ohio State. Following his mother's death in 1914, he began to explore the Jewish life he had rejected, and by 1920 became a Zionist committed to fighting assimilation. Accusatory and inflammatory, his memoir Up Stream (1922) struck at the very heart of American culture and society, and caused great controversy and lasting enmity. As strong emotional influences, the women in Lewisohn's life-his mother and four wives-helped to frame his life and work. Believing himself liberated by the woman he declared his "spiritual wife" while legally married to another,



he proclaimed the artist's right to freedom in The Creative Life (1924), abandoned his editorship at The Nation, and fled to Europe. Lewisohn's fictionalized account of his failed marriage, The Case of Mr. Crump (1926), once again attacked the empty morality of this world and won Sigmund Freud's praise as the greatest psychological novel of the century. A creator of one of Paris's leading salons, Lewisohn ended his leisurely writer's life in 1934 to awaken America to the growing Nazi threat. Poised to face the unfinished marital battle at home, but anxious to engage in the coming struggle for Jewish survival and the future of Western civilization, he set sail, unsure of what lay ahead.