Wayne State University Press, Date: 2010-08-18. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st edition, 1st printing, Wayne State University hardcover w/ DJ, 2010. Book is VG+, w/ clean text, binding so tight it seems to have never been read; would be fine if not for bumped upper rear corner. DJ is VG+, w/ a corresponding bump; otherwise in great shape. Free delivery confirmation. 2010. Wayne State University Press ISBN 0814334431 9780814334430 [US]

Wayne State University Press, Date: 2010-08-17. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. 2010. Wayne State University Press ISBN 0814334431 9780814334430 [US]

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Our Exodus: Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel's Founding Story. ISBN 0814334431 9780814334430 [GB]

ISBN10: 0814334431, ISBN13: 9780814334430, [publisher: Wayne State University Press] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Despite the dramatic circumstances of its founding, Israel did not inspire sustained, impassioned public discussion among Jews and non-Jews in the United States until Leon Uris's popular novel Exodus was released in 1958. Uris's novel popularized the complicated story of Israel's founding and, in the process, boosted the morale of post-Holocaust Jewry and disseminated in popular culture positive images of Jewish heroism. Our Exodus: Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel's Founding Story examines the phenomenon of Exodus and its largely unrecognized influence on post-World War II understandings of Israel's beginnings in America and around the world.Author M. M. Silver's extensive archival research helps clarify the relevance of Uris's own biography in the creation of Exodus. He situates the novel's enormous popularity in the context of postwar America, and particularly Jewish American culture of the 1950s and early 1960s. In telling the story of the making of and the response to Exodus, first as a book and then as a film, Silver shows how the representation of historical events in Exodus reflected needs, expectations, and aspirations of Jewish identity and culture in the post-Holocaust world. He argues that while Uris's novel simplified some facts and distorted ...
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