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The Island Within and Jewish Revelation: A Surprise Hit of the 1920s
Ist Teil von
American Jewish History, 2015-07, Vol.99 (3), p.217-241
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Contemporary writers and thinkers as disparate as H.L. Mencken, James thurber, Horace Kallen and anzia Yezierska acclaimed Up Stream, and israeli President Chaim Weizmann remembered it in 1948 as Lewisohn's "great book." on purely literary grounds, it was the finest work Lewisohn ever wrote.4 especially in the chapters on Germany and South Carolina, Lewisohn achieved a minor classic, writing with sensory precision and elegiac restraint on the shocks and respites, illusions and disillusions of his assimilating family. "5 On occasion, from 1915 to 1921, in reviews and the introductions of plays, Lewisohn honored the suffering and moral dignity of east european Jews. but, as late as 1921, when he finished Up Stream, he still identified himself as a cosmopolitan intellectual who transcended a "tribal" nationalism - an identity he shared with many fellow intellectuals of Jewish origin and some of gentile origin.6 even in Up Stream, although he granted at one point that " alienation from my race .