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Creating Jewishness in a post-religious age: Leon Uris’ Exodus and S.Y. Agnon’s Only Yesterday paint Israel’s history in broad and fine strokes
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
Fifty years after the publication of Exodus, is it time to let Ari Ben Canaan go?
Talented and terrifying, Otto Preminger left no taboo unbroken
