Many other cultural stereotypes-the learned Jew, the pious Jew, and the streetwise Jew as entrepreneur-were similarly dismissed" (Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2004). The deep tradition of non-violence in Jewish tradition was swept aside in his muscular reinterpretation of the modern Jewish identity. Among other writers speaking about Uris, Guardian writer Eric Homberger says, "He was, in truth, an educator of the American public in the Zionist interpretation of modern Jewish history. Leon Uris died of heart failure June 21, 2003, at the age of 78, at his home on Shelter Island, New York.
(For the extensive biographical overview of Leon Uris please see Exodus)
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