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Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel (Cultural Expressions) Paperback – September 30, 2015

by Leah Garrett (Author)
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WINNER, 2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award  Finalist, 2015 National Jewish Book Awards    

Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel shows how Jews, traditionally castigated as weak and cowardly, for thefirst time became the popular literary representatives of what it meantto be a soldier and what it meant to be an American. Revisitingbest-selling works ranging from Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead to Joseph Heller's Catch-22, and uncovering a range of unknown archival material, Leah Garrett shows how Jewish writers used the theme of World War II to reshape theAmerican public's ideas about war, the Holocaust, and the role of Jewsin postwar life. In contrast to most previous war fiction these new"Jewish" war novels were often ironic, funny, and irreverent and soughtto teach the reading public broader lessons about liberalism,masculinity, and pluralism.
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  1. Part of series
    Cultural Expressions
  2. Print length
    288 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Northwestern University Press
  5. Publication date
    September 30, 2015
  6. Dimensions
    6 x 1 x 9 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0810131757
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0810131750
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WINNER, 2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book AwardFinalist, 2015 National Jewish Book Awards A "scholarly and provocative book." - The Wall Street Journal.

"A probingly intelligent book" that shows a "rare understanding not just of American Jewish life and culture during World War II and its aftermath, but of U.S. society in all its glorious complexity for all seasons. . In today's academic environment [Garrett] is a refreshing exception to the prevailing tendentiousness and fashionable prejudices, a model of accurate and fair characterization." The Washington Times.

"For anyone who still believes the myth that American Jews didn't talk about the Holocaust until 1961 or 1967, pile these best-sellers onto the mountain of evidence that Jews were fascinated and shaken by the genocide and began to respond vociferously as soon as they learned about it. An important new book... Garrett makes her case very well." The Forward Newspaper.

". . .Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel is an exciting, wide-ranging, and necessary book. Its powerful and welcome perspective and sturdy research make it an important platform for future studies." The Jewish Book Council Magazine.

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LEAH GARRETT is Loti Smorgon Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life and Culture at Monash University in Australia. She has published four books and numerous articles on Jewish literature. Garrett's scholarship has been devoted to understanding how Jewish authors in an array of languages used their literary discourse to enact, reimagine, and subvert conventional ideas about the relationship between Jews and the modern world.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Northwestern University Press (September 30, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0810131757
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0810131750
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches
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I am a Professor and Director of Jewish Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York. I have published five books in Jewish studies and have won and was shortlisted for numerous literary prizes. My new book, X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War Two, has been featured on CNN, Time Magazine, the Washington Post, the Guardian, CSPAN and a range of other venues. The Daily Telegraph called it "A thrilling story, well-told" while the Times of London labelled it as "gripping" and The Jerusalem Report called it "stunning...an incredible moving story of Jewish heroism." X Troop is being translated into Hebrew, Polish and Russian.

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    5.0 out of 5 stars Ms. Garrett, using the lens of literature, ...
    Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2016
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    Ms. Garrett, using the lens of literature, deftly examines a sensitive and not often discussed dimension of Jewish culture- the almost Manichean theme of "Talmudic" versus "Muscular" Jews. I only wish she had done a deeper dive into this subject. I found it interesting how she dissected the various post-World War II authors portrayals of Jewish soldiers, based both on their own experiences in that war and, perhaps, also on their perceptions of reader audience expectations. Also of interest was her analysis of how (but not so much on the "why') Hollywood deviated from the depiction of the Jewish soldiers in the novels to those in movie-land. As a career Army officer who grew up with the novels and movies Ms. Garrett analyzes,, and went on to serve in Vietnam, in combat, at the "tip of the spear," in an Infantry Company (Purple Heart, inter-alia), I could not help comparing my experience and motivations with those of the authors in 'Young Lions," and found myself hoping that Ms. Garrett continues to explore, and open for discussion the topics she exposes in her well written and thoughtful work.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars I especially appreciated many of Garrett's insights into one of my favorite writers, Joseph Heller
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    Scholarly yet very accessible for the Layman "Young Lions" is a fascinating look at post-WWII Popular Culture with compelling argument for the impact of Jewish War Novelists in illuminating the the Shoah,the War itself and the reality of Jews as Americans and not some alien "Other...I especially appreciated many of Garrett's insights into one of my favorite writers,Joseph Heller,and his masterpiece "Catch 22"...Highly recommended...
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