![]() 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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