Exiles on main street: Jewish American writers and American literary culture

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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Breathing Free in the New World: Transcendentalism and the Jewish Soul 1. Songs of a Semite: Emma Lazarus and the Muse of History 2. Ecstasies of the Credulous: Mary Antin and the Spirit of the Shtetl Part 2. Battling the Nativists: Mystics, Prophets, and Rebels in Interwar America 3. Pilgrim to a Forgotten Shrine: Ludwig Lewisohn and the Recovery of the Inner Jew 4. Modernist Flasks, Jewish Wine: Waldo Frank and the Immanence of God 5. Cinderella's Dybbuk: Anzia Yezierska as the Voice of Generations Part 3. Yiddish Interlude 6. From Heine to Whitman: The Yiddish Poets Come to America Part 4. Orating in New Yorkese: The Languages of Jewishness in Postwar America 7. My Private Orthodoxy: Alfred Kazin's Romantic Judaism 8. The Jewish Writer Flies at Twilight: Irving Howe and the Recovery of Yiddishkayt Conclusion Notes Index

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