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  • Leon Uris, 1964.(Getty Images)
    Leon Uris, 1964.(Getty Images)
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    Macho Man

    Exodus recast Israel’s founders as swaggering heroes and secured Leon Uris a place on the Jewish bookshelf even though, as a new biography shows, he was a mediocre writer and a troubled person

    byAdam Kirsch
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    Tale of Two Cities

    For groups with wildly different ideas about what it means to be a Jew in Israel, Hebron is a battleground

    byDaniella Cheslow
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    Yesterday’s Hero

    Fifty years after the publication of Exodus, is it time to let Ari Ben Canaan go?

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    Abominable Showman

    Talented and terrifying, Otto Preminger left no taboo unbroken

    byChris Dumas
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    Celluloid Promised Land

    A French filmmaker tackles the birth of Israel

    byNatasha Lehrer
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