Jews in American Academy, 1900-1940: The Dynamics of Intellectual Assimilation (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)

Tracing the hardwon appointments of Jews as professors at Ivy League bastions of Anglo-Saxon culture, Klingenstein (writing and humanistic studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) depicts the careers and impact of intellectual mainstreaming on several men of letters from philologist Leo Weiner at turn-of-the-century Harvard to Lionel Trilling, Columbia's first Jewish professor of English and American literature in 1939. Includes several photos. Originally published in 1991 by Yale U. Press from her doctoral dissertation (U. of Heidelberg, 1990). A sequel is planned. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.