Exiles on Main Street

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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: American literature, jewish authors,  Jews, united states,  Group identity in literature,  American literature,  Jewish authors,  History and criticism,  Jews,  Identity,  Jews in literature