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UNINA9910782401603321 |
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Autore |
Levinson Julian |
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Titolo |
Exiles on Main Street [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture / / Julian Levinson |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-78566-0 |
9786611785666 |
0-253-00028-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Collana |
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Jewish literature and culture Exiles on main street |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Jews in literature |
Group identity in literature |
Jews - United States - Identity |
American literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-223) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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