UID:
almafu_9959232556202883
Format:
1 online resource (257 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-281-78566-0
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9786611785666
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0-253-00028-9
Series Statement:
Jewish literature and culture
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-35081-6
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=362714
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