7/4/2023 0 Comments Leon uris books in order![]() ![]() ![]() Uris's aim was spelled out at the end of Armageddon: "Just keep the arms coming to Israel."Īmerican characters appear in his novels largely through their devotion to the cause of Jewish statehood - as, for example, the journalist Mark Parker in Exodus. ![]() Many other cultural stereotypes - the learned Jew, the pious Jew, and the streetwise Jew as entrepreneur - were similarly dismissed.Īmericans responded to Paul Newman in the 1960 film of Exodus, playing the role of the sensitive, suntanned, Uzi-toting Jew as fighter. The deep tradition of non-violence in Jewish tradition was swept aside in his muscular reinterpretations of the modern Jewish identity. He was, in truth, an educator of the American public in the Zionist interpretation of modern Jewish history. Like Herman Wouk, who had a similar passion for contemporary historical storytelling, Uris could stimulate and move his readers by a vivid dramatisation of the Warsaw ghetto (in Mila 18, 1961), the Berlin airlift (in Armageddon, 1963), or the 1956 Sinai campaign (in Mitla Pass, 1988), while giving them a sense that they were encountering the presence of the past. ![]()
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