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Author Gordan, Rachel, author.

Title Postwar stories : how books made Judaism American / Rachel Gordan.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
©2024
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3202570~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction-NEW  808.8035 GOR    DUE 05-30-24
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Description xi, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Popularizing Judaism -- 1. From Race to Religion and the Challenge of Antisemitism -- 2. The Roots of 1940s Anti-Antisemitism Fiction -- 3. When Women Made Anti-Antisemitism Fiction Popular -- 4. The Limits of Anti-Antisemitism Literature -- 5. How Basic Is Basic Judaism? -- 6. Philip Bernstein and the 1950s Religious Revival -- 7. Life's "Old-Fashioned Jews" -- 8. "Why I Choose to Be a Jew" -- Conclusion: After the Middlebrow Moment.
Summary 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.
Subject Jews in literature.
American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
Jews -- United States -- History -- 1945-
Antisemitism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Antisemitism in literature.
ISBN 9780197694329
0197694322
9780197694336 (pbk.)
0197694330 (pbk.)
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