In the context of the middle-1950s, Israel was a mythological frontier. In fact, at one point, Ari is taught by his father to use a bullwhip.” Corral,’ the screenplay Uris wrote just before he undertook ‘Exodus.’ Uris wrote a Western, based in Israel. “I have a much more simple view,” said Nadel.

Or, to connect Ari to the difficult relationship that Uris had with his father, along with the public image Uris constructed of himself. In one way, it’s easy to connect a straight line between Ari and Uris’ experience as a U.S. Take the character of Ari ben Canaan, for example. Nadel, professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, strikes a middle ground between critical and pop analysis in his book. Nadel, author of “Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller” (University of Texas Press). At one point, the book flew out of stores at 2,500 copies a day! Although few critics thought of Uris as a major writer, for more than a decade, he was one of the most popular writers in America, said Ira B. “Exodus” has gone through 87 printings with sales of more than 7 million. Uris’ literary goal was to remake the image of the Jew, using myth to shape history. Ari ben Canaan with a rifle in his right hand and a woman on his left. The image in “Exodus” is of the Jew as fighter. all those steeped in self-pity – all these have been left where they rightfully belong, on the cutting-room floor,” Leon Uris announced when his novel, “Exodus,” first was published in 1958. all those good folks who spend their chapters hating themselves, the world, and all their aunts and uncles.

“All the cliché Jewish characters who have cluttered up our American fiction.

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