Julian Levinson

Julian Levinson has taught at the University of Michigan since 2000. He offers a range of classes, including American Jewish Culture, Jewish Storytelling, the Bible as literature, Literature of the Holocaust, Reading Poetry, and introductory courses on Judaism and Jewish civilization. His publications include the book Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literature Culture (winner of a 2008 National Jewish Book Award), as well as articles and book chapters on subjects including the image of the Jew in Protestant biblical hermeneutics; Hollywood's engagements with the Bible; Jews and Cold War Culture; Yiddish literary modernism; and Jewish literary representations of Mormons.

He is also active in the movement to recover and preserve lesser-known works of Jewish literature. In recent years, he has translated numerous works of poetry and fiction from Spanish and Yiddish into English. He has just completed translations of Flames from the Earth, a novel about the Lodz Ghetto written in Yiddish by survivor-novelist Isaiah Spiegel (Northwestern University Press), as well as short fiction by the pioneering Argentine-Jewish writer Rebeca Mactas.