Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture (Jewish Literature and Culture)

Cover......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 8
acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
PART 1 breathing free in the new world:transcendentalism and the jewish soul......Page 26
1 Songs of a Semite: Emma Lazarus and the Muse of History......Page 29
2 Ecstasies of the Credulous:Mary Antin and the Spirit of the Shtetl......Page 50
PART 2 battling the nativists: mystics, prophets, andrebels in interwar america......Page 66
3 ‘‘Pilgrim to a Forgotten Shrine’’:Ludwig Lewisohn and the Recovery of the Inner Jew......Page 69
4 Modernist Flasks, Jewish Wine:Waldo Frank and the Immanence of God......Page 89
5 Cinderella’s Dybbuk:Anzia Yezierska as the Voice of Generations......Page 106
PART 3 yiddish interlude......Page 132
6 From Heine to Whitman: The Yiddish Poets Come to America......Page 134
PART 4‘‘orating in new yorkese’’ :the languages of jewishness in postwaramerica......Page 156
7 ‘‘My Private Orthodoxy’’: Alfred Kazin’s Romantic Judaism......Page 160
8 The Jewish Writer Flies at Twilight:Irving Howe and the Recovery of Yiddishkayt......Page 184
Conclusion......Page 205
notes......Page 214
index......Page 238
Illustrations......Page 122