Ludwig Lewisohn was an imposing figure on the literary landscape of America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century. A product of two continents and several ethnic communities, he sought to give new life to an American culture he...

Ludwig Lewisohn spent his career arguing for what he saw as the need for cultural traditions that would support the development of firm individual identities. He held that people of other backgrounds should develop their traditions with the same...

Novelist, literary critic, editor, and translator, Ludwig Lewisohn achieved success and recognition as a man of letters from the 1920s to the 1940s. But despite his fame, his numerous publications, his position as associate editor of the Nation, his...

Ludwig Lewisohn was an established writer, though a controversial figure socially and professionally, when he took up residence in Paris in the mid-twenties. Unlike the many writers then in Paris who sought to break from tradition, Lewisohn advocated a...