"A Touch of Wildness"
Ralph Melnick
752 pages
30 illustrations
1998
Published in cooperation with the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
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Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn, Volume I "A Touch of Wildness" Ralph Melnick |
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. 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. 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. | "Ralph Melnick's study of Ludwig Lewisohn will be recognized as one of the great American biographies. Volume one, "A Touch of Wildness," is in itself a prodigy of research, organization, and style. Lewisohn, more than four decades in his grave, is reborn in Melnick's work."—Stanley F. Chyet, Hebrew Union College | ||||||||||
| $44.95s / ISBN 0-8143-2692-7 752 pages 30 illustrations 1998 Published in cooperation with the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives |
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