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Julian Levinson

Julian Levinson is the Samuel Shetzer Professor of American Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture (Indiana University Press) and the translator of Flames from the Earth: A Novel from the Łódź Ghetto by Isaiah Spiegel (Northwestern University Press).

Shtetl Revenant

Fall 2025

Shtetl Revenant

By: Julian Levinson

Chaim Grade's Anatevka finally meets the world.

Nobody’s Fool

Summer 2023

Nobody’s Fool

By: Julian Levinson

After Saul Bellow translated "Gimpel the Fool," he, Irving Howe, and Lazer Greenberg had a lechaim over schnapps. But nobody talked with Isaac Bashevis Singer.

In the Beginning, There Was Angst

Spring 2021

In the Beginning, There Was Angst

By: Julian Levinson

Where a committed secularist would raise up the literary in place of the sacred, Adam Kirsch’s discussions in The Blessing and the Curse read more like a coda to the sacred scriptures.

Winter 2013

Movies and Monotheism

By: Julian Levinson

At age 97, Herman Wouk returns to Moses and goes postmodern.

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