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Julian A. Levinson is the Samuel Shetzer Professor of American Jewish Studies and Professor of English Language & Literature at the University of Michigan, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. His academic appointments bridge the Department of English Language & Literature and the Judaic Studies program, reflecting his interdisciplinary scholarly focus.
Levinson's research spans multiple interconnected fields including American Jewish literary culture, Modern Yiddish Studies, Holocaust cinema, Jazz and Literature, and the Bible as Literature. His work explores how Jewishness intersects with broader American cultural and religious traditions, particularly examining the literary expressions of Jewish identity within the American context. He investigates how Jewish writers have negotiated their place within American literary culture while maintaining distinctive cultural traditions, with special attention to Yiddish literary modernism and its American manifestations.
His publications reveal a consistent interest in the intersections of Jewish identity with American religious thought, literary modernism, and cultural representation. Levinson's scholarship often examines how Jewish writers and intellectuals have engaged with American Protestant traditions, biblical interpretation, and the construction of Jewish identity in America. His work on Yiddish literature in America, Holocaust representation in film, and Jewish storytelling traditions demonstrates his commitment to understanding Jewish cultural production within broader American frameworks.
Levinson's scholarly contributions have been recognized with a National Jewish Book Award for his work Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture.
As Associate Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, Levinson plays an active role in shaping Jewish studies programming at the University of Michigan. His current research explores the place of Jewishness in the nineteenth-century American religious imaginary, continuing his longstanding investigation of the complex relationship between Jewish identity and American cultural formation.
