Making Sense of Israel’s Preemptive Strike on Hizballah
Was Iran deterred from planning something bigger?
August 26, 2024
Telling the Jewish Story to Post-World War II America
The middlebrow moment.
In her recent book Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American, Rachel Gordan examines a spate of publications—novels like Leon Uris’s Exodus, articles in Time magazine, apologetics like Rabbi Milton Steinberg’s Basic Judaism—that appeared in the 1940s and 50s and served to acquaint a large audience with the Jewish people. These were middlebrow works, very different from, say, the fiction of Saul Bellow or Philip Roth. Jesse Tisch writes in his review:
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Telling the Jewish Story to Post-World War II America
The middlebrow moment.