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

Abstract

A brief overview of the earliest scholarship on early Jewish American history and literature (including Cyrus Adler, Mayer Kayserling, Max J. Kohler, George Alexander Kohut, Isaac Markens, Oscar Straus, and Simon Wolf) is offered as an introduction to “Before the Flood,” a special issue of SAJL that presents recent, innovative scholarship on early Jewish American literature.