It was the million-selling novel that shaped a generation of Jews — does anybody still read it?
Leon Uris' epic 'Exodus,' and the film it inspired, once played a crucial role in changing American attitudes to Israel
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Editor’s Note: This article was first published in the Forward on March 17, 2014. Even with St. Patrick’s Day upon us, it’s hard to say just when and where the first major alliance between the Jews and the Irish was forged in this country, but the Chicago office of Dankmar Adler, architect and engineer, back…
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Culture Are These The Best Biblical Novels Of All Time?
With Passover fast approaching, “Exodus” has been on my mind. No, not the biblical story; the 1958 novel by Leon Uris that served as a sort of bible to the generation of American Jews who had survived the Holocaust, as well as their children. My mom used to carry a tattered copy to the beach…
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Fast Forward Harvey Weinstein To Direct Film On Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
(JTA) — Film producer Harvey Weinstein said he will adapt a novel about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising for the silver screen. Weinstein, who has produced dozens of popular and Academy Award-winning films like “The King’s Speech” and the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, wrote in an op-ed that he plans to direct a film next…
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Culture How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel
Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel By Leah Garrett Northwestern University Press, 275 pages, $34.95 Which works of Jewish literature do we remember, and which do we forget? The story we like to tell about American Jewish literature in the mid-20th century is that in the 1950s, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud…
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Culture Of Goldie Hawn, Barry Levinson, Leon Uris and 10 Other Things About Jewish Maryland
1) 238.200 Jews live in Maryland. 2) Born in Portugal, businessman Jacob Lumbrozo became Maryland’s first Jewish resident in 1656. 3) Mendes Cohen, who was immortalized in a recent exhibit at the Jewish Museum of Maryland, helped to defend Ft. McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore in 1846. 4) Starting out his professional career as…
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Culture How the Jews Made America Irish
Even with St. Patrick’s Day upon us, it’s hard to say just when and where the first major alliance between the Jews and the Irish was forged in this country, but the Chicago office of Dankmar Adler, architect and engineer, back in 1879, might be a good place to start. There, Adler decided to hire…
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Opinion The Year Pete Seeger Didn’t Sing in Hebrew
Pete Seeger, California, 1950s / Public Domain In the spring of 1998, Pete Seeger headlined a free concert in Central Park celebrating Israel’s 50th birthday, sponsored by the Cantors’ Assembly. The event prompted a critical press release from the Zionist Organization of America, protesting the Cantors’ Assembly’s giving a platform to a harsh critic of…
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