{"product_id":"exiles-on-main-street-9780253350817","title":"Exiles on Main Street","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow have Jews reshaped their identities as Jews in the face of the radical newness called America? This book 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . Exiles on Main Street is an original contribution to the continuing story of the creative encounter between Jewish writers and America.Summer 2009\u003c\/p\u003e * Jewish Book World *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLevinson's well-researched book makes a significant contribution to studies of Jewish American Literature and Jewish Cultural continuity.2007\u003c\/p\u003e -- S.L. Kremer * Choice Reviews Online *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . a standout work in the field of American Jewish Literature . . . Levinson is well-attuned to the critical trends and thinking that are prevalent in the world of literary scholarship and applies them to the book's selected authors and texts in a way that is fresh and thoughtful. . . December 12, 2008\u003c\/p\u003e -- Shana Rosenblatt Mauer * Jerusalem Post *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1. Breathing Free in the New World: Transcendentalism and the Jewish Soul\u003cbr\u003e 1. Songs of a Semite: Emma Lazarus and the Muse of History\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ecstasies of the Credulous: Mary Antin and the Spirit of the Shtetl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2. Battling the Nativists: Mystics, Prophets, and Rebels in Interwar America\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"Pilgrim to a Forgotten Shrine\": Ludwig Lewisohn and the Recovery of the Inner Jew\u003cbr\u003e 4. Modernist Flasks, Jewish Wine: Waldo Frank and the Immanence of God\u003cbr\u003e 5. Cinderella's Dybbuk: Anzia Yezierska as the Voice of Generations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3. Yiddish Interlude\u003cbr\u003e 6. From Heine to Whitman: The Yiddish Poets Come to America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 4. \"Orating in New Yorkese\": The Languages of Jewishness in Postwar America\u003cbr\u003e 7. \"My Private Orthodoxy\": Alfred Kazin's Romantic Judaism\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Jewish Writer Flies at Twilight: Irving Howe and the Recovery of Yiddishkayt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MH - Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577268310359,"sku":"9780253350817","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253350817.jpg?v=1746094602","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/exiles-on-main-street-9780253350817","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}