6/28/2023 0 Comments Author of exodus novelA testament to Jewish resourcefulness, the Jews of the world worked together, often illegally in the eyes of their respective nations, to shuttle their brethren into the land that would become the State of Israel.Įxodus fictionalizes the inspirational story of the ship Exodus 1947, which carried more than 4, 500 displaced Holocaust victims to the Holy Land. After World War II, most nations, including British controlled Palestine, were surprisingly unwilling to accept Jewish refugees. A worldwide phenomenon, Uris’s Exodus galvanized worldwide Jewry and helped establish an international Jewish identity. Jewish literature is rife with stories of the Holocaust and the establishment of Israel, but Leon Uris’s 1958 novel Exodus used history to make history.
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