02792nam 2200637Ia 450 991080982750332120200520144314.01-281-78566-097866117856660-253-00028-9(CKB)1000000000691363(EBL)362714(OCoLC)476194229(SSID)ssj0000151888(PQKBManifestationID)11158011(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000151888(PQKBWorkID)10321964(PQKB)11663282(OCoLC)298134996(MdBmJHUP)muse16575(MiAaPQ)EBC362714(EXLCZ)99100000000069136320071116d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrExiles on main street Jewish American writers and American literary culture /Julian Levinson1st ed.Bloomington Indiana University Pressc20081 online resource (257 p.)Jewish literature and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-35081-6 Includes bibliographical references 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 Jewish literature and culture.American literatureJewish authorsHistory and criticismJewsUnited StatesIdentityGroup identity in literatureJews in literatureAmerican literatureJewish authorsHistory and criticism.JewsIdentity.Group identity in literature.Jews in literature.810.9/8924Levinson Julian1705635MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809827503321Exiles on Main Street4092505UNINA