Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture by Julian Levinson eBook author Mikhail Krutikov focuses on

author Mikhail Krutikov focuses on the second half of the dramatic writing career of Soviet Yiddish writer Der Nister

a little-known tale from the blackest days of the war

Alexander Grinberg

Translated by Shirley Kumove

They range from statements of the obvious to profound commentaries on subjects as varied as arranging a marriage

Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture by Julian Levinson eBook author Mikhail Krutikov focuses onHow 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 culturein particular the visionary tradition identified with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitmanled 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