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Profile: Julian Levinson
Title: Associate Professor
Degree:
Ph.D., Columbia 2000
Ph.D., Columbia 2000
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Research Interests
Primary Interests
Jewish American Literature
Secondary Interests
Modern Jewish Literatures, Translation Theory, Religion and Literature, Postwar American Literature and Culture, American Poetry
Publications
Book
Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary
Culture,
Indiana University Press, 2008, Winner of 2008 National Jewish Book Award in
American Jewish Studies
“The Maimed Body and the
Tortured Soul: Holocaust Survivors in American Film,” in The Yale Journal of Criticism, 17.1 (2004): 141-160.
“Is There a Jewish Text In
This Class? Jewish Modernism in the Multicultural Academy,” Michigan Quarterly Review, 42.1. (2003):
195-210.
“Transmitting Yiddishkeit:
Irving Howe and Jewish American Literature,” Jewish Culture and History, (vol.2, no.2, Winter 1999): 42-65.
Essays in Collected Volumes
“Connoisseurs of Angst: the
Jewish Mystique in Postwar
American Culture,” Philosemitism in
History, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, edited by Jonathan
Karp and Adam Sutcliff
“People of the (Secular)
Book: Literary Anthologies and the Making of Jewish Identity in Postwar
America.” In Religion or Ethnicity? :
Jewish Identities in Evolution, edited by Zvi Gitelman. Rutgers University
Press, 2009.
“Die Juedische Wanderschaft Von Harry Maor,” (“The Jewish
Wanderings of Harry Maor”) in Vergegenwaertigungen
des Zerstoerten Juedischen Erbes, ed. Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik,
Kassel: Kassel University Press, 2004. 211-216.
Translations (From Yiddish)
“Symposium,” (Symposium) by
Rueben Ludwig, Tikkun Magazine, (Vol.
18. No 5. September/October 2003): 59.
“In the Subway,” (In subvey)
by Moyshe-Leyb Halpren, Tikkun Magazine,
(Vol. 18. No 3. March/April 2003)
Miscellaneous
“Frankz Kafka: Living with
an Inscrutable God.” Sh’ma: A Journal of
Jewish Responsibility. September, 2008
“The Passing of Dr. Mordkhe
Schaechter.” Pakn Treger, Summer,
2007.
“Walt Whitman in Yiddish,” Tikkun Magazine, (Vol. 18. No 5.
September/October 2003): 57-59, 69.
“Moyshe-Leyb Halpern: A
Yiddish Modernist Poet in New York,”
Tikkun Magazine, (Vol. 18. No 3. March/April 2003): 63-66.
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