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.
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9780197694367 No price
10.1093/oso/9780197694367.001.0001 doi
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.