Against the Tide:Re-discovering Early Jewish American Literary History

MICHAEL P. KRAMER teaches in the English department at Bar-Ilan University, where he directs the Shachter Family Project in Literature and leads the William Solomon Jewish Arts Seminar in the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing. He is the author of Imagining Language in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War and has edited and co-edited numerous volumes, including, most recently, Modern Jewish Literatures: Intersections and Boundaries and The Turn around Religion in America: Literature, Culture, and the Work of Sacvan Bercovitch. He is currently working on an annotated translation of S. Y. Agnon's And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight.