02799oam 22006134a 450 991045435010332120210107033349.01-281-78566-097866117856660-253-00028-9(CKB)1000000000691363(EBL)362714(OCoLC)476194229(SSID)ssj0000151888(PQKBManifestationID)11158011(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000151888(PQKBWorkID)10321964(PQKB)11663282(OCoLC)298134996(MdBmJHUP)muse16575(MiAaPQ)EBC362714(EXLCZ)99100000000069136320071116d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrExiles on Main Street[electronic resource] Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture /Julian LevinsonBloomington Indiana University Pressc20081 online resource (257 p.)Jewish literature and culture Exiles on main street Description based upon print version of record.0-253-35081-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-223) and index.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.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 Jews in literatureGroup identity in literatureJewsUnited StatesIdentityAmerican literatureJewish authorsHistory and criticismElectronic books. Jews in literature.Group identity in literature.JewsIdentity.American literatureJewish authorsHistory and criticism.810.9/8924Levinson Julian969983MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910454350103321Exiles on Main Street2204862UNINA