02539oam 22004334a 450 991048056500332120210915044552.00-8143-4503-4(CKB)4100000006996625(MiAaPQ)EBC5526609(OCoLC)1056689244(MdBmJHUP)muse68284(EXLCZ)99410000000699662520181005d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLife and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn, Volume II"This Dark and Desperate Age" /Volume II /Ralph MelnickVolume II /Baltimore, Maryland :Project Muse,2018Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2018©20181 online resource (621 pages)Originally published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [1998].0-8143-4504-2 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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. This second volume portrays Lewisohn's last decades as an outspoken opponent of Nazi Germany, a leading promoter of Jewish resettlement in Palestine, a member of Brandeis University's first faculty, and one of the earliest voices advocating Jewish renewal in America. Despite his activism, Lewisohn was no longer welcome in Zionist circles by 1948 as a result of his "unacceptable" opinions concerning British intransigence, organizational politics, and, particularly, Jewish cultural and religious decline. However, the invitation to join the newly established Brandeis University as its only full professor provided him with the opportunity he sought to contribute to the reshaping of American Jewry. Lewisohn's efforts would later bear fruit in the Jewish renewal movement of the next generation.Authors, American20th centuryBiographyElectronic books. Authors, American813/.52Melnick Ralph971790MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910480565003321Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn, Volume II2209487UNINA