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 return to historical roots for "ultimate reality," but called for the reassessment of history in humanistic terms. In his autobiography Mid-Channel (1929) he wrote: "We ... must somehow have values that we create to uphold within an order that gives them meaning." Much of his writing was shaped around this principle as he interpreted it from a Judaic point of view. Another major influence in his work was Freudian psychology. Although he had "except on the ground of mere human friendliness ... little in common with the 'expatriates,'" he included among his friends and acquaintances publisher Edward Titus, British expatriate writer Sisley Huddleston, editor and translator Harold J. Salemson, critic Pierre...