LEADER 03427oam 22005054a 450 001 9910524708803321 005 20230621135858.0 010 $a9780814344668 010 $a0814344666 035 $a(CKB)4100000006996602 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5526564 035 $a(OCoLC)1055134368 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse68276 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88588 035 $a(Perlego)2998827 035 $a(oapen)doab88588 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006996602 100 $a19971003d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn$eVolume 1: "A Touch of Wildness" /$fRalph Melnick 210 $cWayne State University Press$d2018 210 1$aDetroit :$cWayne State University Press,$d1998. 210 4$dİ1998. 215 $a1 online resource (773 pages) 311 08$a9780814344675 311 08$a0814344674 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $av. 1. A touch of wildness -- v. 2. This dark and desperate age. 330 $aAn 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. 606 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAuthors, American 676 $a813/.52 676 $aB 700 $aMelnick$b Ralph$01141173 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524708803321 996 $aThe Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn$92784210 997 $aUNINA