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Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American By Rachel Gordan, Oxford University Press, 2024, 309 pp., ISBN 9780197694336, $24.95 (paper).
After World War IL, fiction and non-fiction books redefined religion. Rachel Gordan notes how in Laura Hobson's novel and later Oscar-winning film Gentleman's Agreement, the character Phil concludes that he and his Jewish friend, Dave, are essentially the same kind of people. Gordan examines fiction and non-fiction books and articles from the post-WWII era to the 1960s and connects the dots to help us understand how...