Postwar Stories by UF Professor Rachel Gordan- This link opens in a new window
Rachel Gordan’s new book "Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American" is about the transformation of Jews and Judaism in the US from “the least understood of all major religions” to a part of the American landscape. Gordan discusses two strands of midcentury middlebrow literature. One is the anti-antisemitism novels of the 1940s. The other is the literature of the 1940s and 1950s that introduced Judaism to the broader American public.