Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture by Julian Levinson Yiddish Language now collected into one volume

now collected into one volume for the first time

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Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture by Julian Levinson Yiddish Language now collected into one volumeHow 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 culturein particular the visionary tradition identified with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitmanled 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