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Coverage: 20th century Coverage: 20th century Publisher: Wayne State University Press Publisher: Wayne State University Press Publisher: Wayne State University Press Subject: Authors, American--20th century--Biography Subject: LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish Date: 1998 Date: 2018 Collection: Wayne State University eBooks-
The life and work of Ludwig Lewisohn. volume I. “a touch of wildness”
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. Lewiso…