Our Exodus: Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel's Founding Story

by M.M. Silver

Examines the phenomenon of Exodus and its influence on post-World War II understandings of Israel's beginnings.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814334431
• ISBN13: 9780814334430
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.8"