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

by JulianLevinson (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2008

  $35.62

  How 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.