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Gordan, Rachel,

Postwar stories : how books made Judaism American / Rachel Gordan. - 1 online resource : illustrations. - Oxford scholarship online . - Oxford scholarship online. .

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Drawing on several archives, magazine articles, and nearly-forgotten bestsellers, Rachel Gordan examines how Jewish middlebrow literature helped to shape post-Holocaust American Jewish identity. Positive depictions of Jews in popular literature had a normalizing effect, while at the same time forging the notion of Judaism as an American religion distinct from Christianity but part of America's alleged 'Judeo-Christian' heritage.

Specialized.

ISBN: 9780197694367 No price

Standard No.: 10.1093/oso/9780197694367.001.0001 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Jews--History--United States--1945-
Antisemitism--History--United States--20th century.
Antisemitism in literature.
Jews in literature.
American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
Society.
Society & culture: general.

LC Class. No.: E184.355 / G6 2024

Dewey Class. No.: 305.8924073