A Prophet Among Us: Jewish Writing and the American Religious Imaginary

Julian Levinson is the Samuel Shetzer Professor of American Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the emergence of new models of Jewish identity in the United States at the intersection of discourses of religion, aesthetics, and citizenship. He has also written about cinematic representations of the Holocaust, Jewish storytelling, code-switching in American Yiddish literature, and Yiddish literary modernism.

His first book was Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture (Indiana University Press, 2008). His translation of Flames From the Earth, a novel about the Lodz Ghetto by the Yiddish writer Isaiah Spiegel, is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press.