Table of Contents

The Havard Circle, The Yard from Santayana to T.S. Eliot - Portrait of the Scholar as a Young Man: Harry Levin - Leaving the Yard: Leo Marx. The Columbia Sphere, Refractions of Lionel Trilling: Cynthia Ozick, Steven Marcus, Carolyn Heilbrun - Unfolding Hebrew Prose: Robert Alter - The Lessons of Yiddish Culture: Ruth R. Wisse - Judaic Traditions in Literature. Music and Art

About the Author

Susanne Klingenstein is associate professor of writing and humanistic studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author of Jews in the American Academy, 1900-1940 (forthcoming in paper from Syracuse University Press, see below), she has contributed many articles on American Jewish literature and culture to scholarly journals.