The Life And Work Of Ludwig Lewisohn
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The Life And Work Of Ludwig Lewisohn A Touch Of Wildness
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Author : Ralph Melnick
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 1998
The Life And Work Of Ludwig Lewisohn A Touch Of Wildness written by Ralph Melnick and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, Ludwig Lewisohn (1882-1955) struggled with feelings of alienation in Christian America that were gradually resolved by his developing Jewish identity, a process reflected in hundreds of works of fiction, literary analysis, and social criticism. A friend and associate of Sinclair Lewis, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Paul Robeson, Edward G. Robinson, Theodore Dreiser, H. L. Mencken, Stephen Wise, Maurice Samuel, and a host of others, Lewisohn impacted the intellectual, cultural, religious, and political worlds of two continents. This first volume, chronicling his life until 1934, is followed by a second volume that portrays Lewisohn's last decades as an outspoken opponent of Nazi Germany, a leading promoter of Jewish rescue and resettlement in Palestine, a member of Brandeis University's first faculty, and one of the earliest voices advocating Jewish renewal in America. Born in Berlin, Lewisohn moved with his family in 1890 to South Carolina. Identified by others as a Jew, he remained an outsider throughout his youth. As a graduate student at Columbia University, warnings that a Jew could not secure a position teaching English forced him to abandon his studies. The Broken Snare (1908), Lewisohn's story of a young woman's acceptance of her deepest thoughts and desires, paralleled his own reaction to this isolation. Attacking the social mores of his age, the novel was judged as scandalous by critics. In time Lewisohn became a notable scholar and translator of German and French literature, teaching at Wisconsin and Ohio State. Following his mother's death in 1914, he began to explore the Jewish life he had rejected, and by 1920 became a Zionist committed to fighting assimilation. Accusatory and inflammatory, his memoir Up Stream (1922) struck at the very heart of American culture and society, and caused great controversy and lasting enmity. As strong emotional influences, the women in Lewisohn's life-his mother and four wives-helped to frame his life and work. Believing himself liberated by the woman he declared his "spiritual wife" while legally married to another, he proclaimed the artist's right to freedom in The Creative Life (1924), abandoned his editorship at The Nation, and fled to Europe. Lewisohn's fictionalized account of his failed marriage, The Case of Mr. Crump (1926), once again attacked the empty morality of this world and won Sigmund Freud's praise as the greatest psychological novel of the century. A creator of one of Paris's leading salons, Lewisohn ended his leisurely writer's life in 1934 to awaken America to the growing Nazi threat. Poised to face the unfinished marital battle at home, but anxious to engage in the coming struggle for Jewish survival and the future of Western civilization, he set sail, unsure of what lay ahead.
The Life And Work Of Ludwig Lewisohn This Dark And Desperate Age
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Author : Ralph Melnick
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 1998
The Life And Work Of Ludwig Lewisohn This Dark And Desperate Age written by Ralph Melnick and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This second volume portrays Lewisohn's last decades as an outspoken opponent of Nazi Germany, a leading promoter of Jewish resettlement in Palestine, a member of Brandeis University's first faculty, and one of the earliest voices advocating Jewish renewal in America. Despite his activism, Lewisohn was no longer welcome in Zionist circles by 1948 as a result of his "unacceptable" opinions concerning British intransigence, organizational politics, and, particularly, Jewish cultural and religious decline. However, the invitation to join the newly established Brandeis University as its only full professor provided him with the opportunity he sought to contribute to the reshaping of American Jewry. Lewisohn's efforts would later bear fruit in the Jewish renewal movement of the next generation.
The Life And Work Of Ludwig Lewisohn
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Author : Ralph Melnick
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2018-02-05
The Life And Work Of Ludwig Lewisohn written by Ralph Melnick and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-05 with History categories.
An imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, Ludwig Lewisohn (1882-1955) struggled with feelings of alienation in Christian America that were gradually resolved by his developing Jewish identity, a process reflected in hundreds of works of fiction, literary analysis, and social criticism. Born in Berlin, Lewisohn moved with his family in 1890 to South Carolina. Identified by others as a Jew, he remained an outsider throughout his youth. Lewisohn became a notable scholar and translator of German and French literature, teaching at Wisconsin and Ohio State. Following his mother's death in 1914, he began to explore the Jewish life he had rejected, and by 1920 became a Zionist committed to fighting assimilation. Accusatory and inflammatory, his memoir Up Stream (1922) struck at the very heart of American culture and society, and caused great controversy and lasting enmity. As strong emotional influences, the women in Lewisohn's life—his mother and four wives—helped to frame his life and work. Believing himself liberated by the woman he declared his "spiritual wife" while legally married to another, he proclaimed the artist's right to freedom in The Creative Life (1924), abandoned his editorship at The Nation, and fled to Europe. Lewisohn's fictionalized account of his failed marriage, The Case of Mr. Crump (1926), once again attacked the empty morality of this world and won Sigmund Freud's praise as the greatest psychological novel of the century. A creator of one of Paris's leading salons, Lewisohn ended his leisurely writer's life in 1934 to awaken America to the growing Nazi threat. Poised to face the unfinished marital battle at home, but anxious to engage in the coming struggle for Jewish survival and the future of Western civilization, he set sail, unsure of what lay ahead.
The Life And Work Of Ludwig Lewisohn This Dark And Desperate Age
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Author : Ralph Melnick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Life And Work Of Ludwig Lewisohn This Dark And Desperate Age written by Ralph Melnick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Authors, American categories.
A biography of Lewisohn (1882-1955), an American Jewish writer, editor, and critic. In vol. I, pp. 137-141 discuss Lewisohn's rejection for a university teaching post due to antisemitism. Pp. 278-282 relate to WASP critiques of this Jew for presuming to think he could understand American culture. Pp. 612-633 deal largely with his public criticism, from 1933, of the Nazi regime in Germany, including its genocidal attitude toward Jews. He hoped that the West would be moved to fight Hitler and provide refuge for Jews. In vol. II, ch. 40 (pp. 297-324), "Holocaust Revealed, " highlights Lewisohn's Zionism as a reaction to Jewish assimilation and to the Western, Christian world's indifference to the fate of the Jews in the Holocaust. He criticized the West's failure to oppose the rise of Nazism and to provide safe havens, as Roosevelt had promised, to Jews (e.g. in Hungary) whom Hitler had not yet murdered. Lewisohn's novel "Breathe upon These" (1944) blamed the British for closing the gates to Palestine in the faces of Jews who might have found refuge there.
Life And Work Of Ludwig Lewisohn Volume Ii
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Author : Ralph Melnick
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2018-02-05
Life And Work Of Ludwig Lewisohn Volume Ii written by Ralph Melnick and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-05 with Social Science categories.
An imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, Ludwig Lewisohn (1882–1955) struggled with feelings of alienation in Christian America that were gradually resolved by his developing Jewish identity, a process reflected in hundreds of works of fiction, literary analysis, and social criticism. This second volume portrays Lewisohn's last decades as an outspoken opponent of Nazi Germany, a leading promoter of Jewish resettlement in Palestine, a member of Brandeis University's first faculty, and one of the earliest voices advocating Jewish renewal in America. Despite his activism, Lewisohn was no longer welcome in Zionist circles by 1948 as a result of his "unacceptable" opinions concerning British intransigence, organizational politics, and, particularly, Jewish cultural and religious decline. However, the invitation to join the newly established Brandeis University as its only full professor provided him with the opportunity he sought to contribute to the reshaping of American Jewry. Lewisohn's efforts would later bear fruit in the Jewish renewal movement of the next generation.
Ludwig Lewisohn The Artist And His Message
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Author : Adolph Gillis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933
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Ludwig Lewisohn
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Author : Fred A. Mandell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
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Ludwig Lewisohn
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language : en
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Release Date : 1939*
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Ludwig Lewisohn The Artist And His Message
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Author : Adolph Gillis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-06-01
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Exiles On Main Street
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Author : Julian Levinson
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2008-07-02
Exiles On Main Street written by Julian Levinson and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-02 with Literary Collections categories.
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. Discussing the lives and work of writers such as Emma Lazarus, Mary Antin, Ludwig Lewisohn, Waldo Frank, Anzia Yezierska, I. J. Schwartz, Alfred Kazin, and Irving Howe, Levinson concludes that their interaction with American culture led them to improvise new and meaningful ways of being Jewish. In contrast to the often expressed view that the diaspora experience leads to assimilation, Exiles on Main Street traces an arc of return to Jewish identification and describes a vital and creative Jewish American literary culture.
