TY - BOOK AU - Gordan,Rachel TI - Postwar stories: how books made Judaism American T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780197694367 AV - E184.355 G6 2024 U1 - 305.8924073 23 PY - 2024///] CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Jews KW - United States KW - History KW - 1945- KW - Antisemitism KW - 20th century KW - Antisemitism in literature KW - Jews in literature KW - American literature KW - Jewish authors KW - History and criticism KW - Society KW - ukslc KW - Society & culture: general KW - thema N1 - Also issued in print: 2024; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - 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 UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197694367.001.0001 ER -