In A Human Rights Odyssey. Rabbi Isaac Levin was once a student at Miami University.  While the campus grounds are immaculate and characterized by Georgian architecture, Oxford .Ohio is a launchpad towards his career as a rabbi and social activist.  He begins his career by frequently leaving his Arcadian world and tutoring Black children in the inner city of nearby Hamilton.

In Evelyn Waugh's novel, Brideshead Revisited,  Oxford, England is an "enclosed and enchanted garden" filled with art, champagne, and aristocratic leisure, detached from the outside world.  Oxford is a site of nostalgia -a state of youth where the protagonist, Charles Ryder looks back on with mourning as the modern world and the two world wars destroy that innocence.

As an undergraduate student, Isaac Levin also visited Oxford, England, Versailles Palace, and the residences of both Peter and Catherine, the Great and take in the true meaning of the Arcadian existence.  As a religious leader, Rabbi Levin emphasized that idyllic places cannot keep out the problems of the world.  On the pulpit, he emphasized that people cannot hide from the world in their respective institutions.  The religious life is about leaving Arcadia and doing all that one can to repair the world.  This theme may be taken up in a future novel.