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"To read about #American #Jews this summer, you only need to open the newspaper. For better or worse, and probably for worse, Jews have been all too much in the news of late.

Seventy years ago, the situation was quite different. With #WorldWarII moving into the realm of history, in the mid-1950s Jews were being depict­ed not as alien or disreputable #immi­grants but rather as mem­bers of a respect­ed Amer­i­can #reli­gion, reflected in a mid­dle­brow #literary #cul­ture that reached a main­stream audience. That was true at the end of the 1955 beach #reading season when an unlikely pair of popular #novels made a splash on the #NewYorkTimes #Bestsellers list.

Patrick Dennis (the pen name of Edward Everett Tanner III) published his first #novel, “Auntie Mame,” in August of 1955. “Mame” quickly reached number one on the fiction #bestseller list. A few weeks later, Dennis’s novel ceded the top spot to Herman Wouk’s “Marjorie Morningstar.”

jta.org/2025/06/12/ideas/70-ye

Jewish Telegraphic Agency · 70 years ago, these beach reads explained Jews to AmericaBy Rachel Gordan
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I read The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng. 3.5⭐

Emotional, slow-paced historical fiction mostly set in and around a Japanese garden in the jungle highlands of Malaya after WWII.

📚 #StoryGraph Reads the World #Challenge
✅ Prompt 7: Malaysia

I probably would have enjoyed it more if I had any interest in gardening.

👉 Check the content warnings.

app.thestorygraph.com/books/29

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