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  • - Writing the Revolution
    av George Prochnik
    275,-

    A rich, provocative, and lyrical study of one of Germany's most important, world-famous, and imaginative writer

  • av Francine Klagsbrun
    249,-

    Award-winning author Francine Klagsbrun reveals the complex life and work of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah and a Zionist trailblazer

  • - Israel's Controversial Hero
    av Mordechai Bar-On
    296,-

    Instantly recognizable with his iconic eye patch, Moshe Dayan (19151981) was one of Israel's most charismaticand controversialpersonalities. As a youth he earned the reputation of a fearless warrior, and in later years as a leading military tactician, admired by peers and enemies alike. As chief of staff during the 1956 Sinai Campaign and as minister of defense during the 1967 Six Day War, Dayan led the Israel Defense Forces to stunning military victories. But in the aftermath of the bungled 1973 Yom Kippur War, he shared the blame for operational mistakes and retired from the military. He later proved himself a principled and talented diplomat, playing an integral role in peace negotiations with Egypt.In this arresting biography, Mordechai Bar-On, Dayan's IDF bureau chief, offers an intimate view of Dayan's private life, public career, and political controversies, set against an original analysis of Israel's political environment from pre-Mandate Palestine through the early1980s. Drawing on a wealth of Israeli archives, accounts by Dayan and members of his circle, and firsthand experiences, Bar-On reveals Dayan as a man unwavering in his devotion to Zionism and the Land of Israel. Moshe Dayan makes a unique contribution to the history of Israel and the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

  • - An Imperious Life
    av Dorothy Gallagher
    296,-

    A fresh look at Hellman's restless life, her extraordinary plays, and her autobiographical myths

  • - A Life in the Picture Trade
    av Rachel Cohen
    296,-

  • - A Revolutionary's Life
    av Joshua Rubenstein
    211,-

  • - The Matter of a Life
    av Berel Lang
    296,-

  • - Prophet of Transformation
    av Daniel C. Matt
    287,-

    The story of the prophet Elijah's transformation from fierce zealot to compassionate hero and cherished figure in Jewish folklore

  • - Engineer of Power
    av Marc Wortman
    245,-

    A riveting exploration of the brilliant, combative, and controversial "Father of the Nuclear Navy"

  • - The Artist and His Shadows
    av Arthur Lubow
    275,-

    A biography of the elusive but celebrated Dada and Surrealist artist and photographer connecting his Jewish background to his life and art

  • - A Life of Radical Amazement
    av Julian E. Zelizer
    245,-

    A biography of the rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who became a symbol of the marriage between religion and social justice

  • - Counselor to the Confederacy
    av James Traub
    275,-

    A moral examination of one of the first Jewish senators, confidante to Jefferson Davis, and champion of the cause of slavery

  • - The Dark Side of the American Dream
    av Michael Shnayerson
    245,-

    The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip

  • - Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
    av Adina Hoffman
    196,-

    A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayist

  • - The Charismatic Leader
    av Derek Penslar
    283,-

    From an eminent historian of Zionism comes a masterful new biography of Theodor Herzl

  • - The Poet of Shame and Guilt
    av Saul Friedländer
    185,-

  • - Toward the Light in the Chapel
    av Annie Cohen-Solal
    214,-

    Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He immigrated to the United States at age ten, taking with him his Talmudic education and his memories of pogroms and persecutions in Russia. His integration into American society began with a series of painful experiences, especially as a student at Yale, where he felt marginalized for his origins and ultimately left the school. The decision to become an artist led him to a new phase in his life. Early in his career, Annie Cohen-Solal writes, "e;he became a major player in the social struggle of American artists, and his own metamorphosis benefited from the unique transformation of the U.S. art world during this time."e; Within a few decades, he had forged his definitive artistic signature, and most critics hailed him as a pioneer. The numerous museum shows that followed in major U.S. and European institutions ensured his celebrity. But this was not enough for Rothko, who continued to innovate. Ever faithful to his habit of confronting the establishment, he devoted the last decade of his life to cultivating his new conception of art as an experience, thanks to the commission of a radical project, the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas. Cohen-Solal's fascinating biography, based on considerable archival research, tells the unlikely story of how a young immigrant from Dvinsk became a crucial transforming agent of the art world-one whose legacy prevails to this day.

  • - A Life of Faith and Dissent
    av Paul Mendes-Flohr
    275,-

    The first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber

  • - A Life in Comics
    av Liel Leibovitz
    275,-

    Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he created-Spider-Man and Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four-occupy Hollywood's imagination and production schedules, generate billions at the box office, and come as close as anything we have to a shared American mythology. This illuminating biography focuses as much on Lee's ideas as it does on his unlikely rise to stardom. It surveys his cultural and religious upbringing and draws surprising connections between celebrated comic book heroes and the ancient tales of the Bible, the Talmud, and Jewish mysticism. Was Spider-Man just a reincarnation of Cain? Is the Incredible Hulk simply Adam by another name? From close readings of Lee's work to little-known anecdotes from Marvel's history, the book paints a portrait of Lee that goes much deeper than one of his signature onscreen cameos.

  • av Michal Glowinski
    343,-

    Recalling his experience of the ghetto at six years old, Michal Glowinski, attentive to the distance between a child's experience and an adult's reflection, revisits the images and episodes of his childhood. He explores the horror of those years, the fragility of existence, and the fragmented nature of memory itself.

  • - Philosophy and Revolution
    av Shlomo Avineri
    275,-

    A new exploration of Karl Marx's life through his intellectual contributions to modern thought

  • - His Space and Times
    av Steven Gimbel
    213,-

    The commonly held view of Albert Einstein is of an eccentric genius for whom the pursuit of science was everything. But in actuality, the brilliant innovator whose Theory of Relativity forever reshaped our understanding of time was a man of his times, always politically engaged and driven by strong moral principles. An avowed pacifist, Einstein's mistrust of authority and outspoken social and scientific views earned him death threats from Nazi sympathizers in the years preceding World War II. To him, science provided not only a means for understanding the behavior of the universe, but a foundation for considering the deeper questions of life and a way for the worldwide Jewish community to gain confidence and pride in itself. Steven Gimbel's biography presents Einstein in the context of the world he lived in, offering a fascinating portrait of a remarkable individual who remained actively engaged in international affairs throughout his life. This revealing work not only explains Einstein's theories in understandable terms, it demonstrates how they directly emerged from the realities of his times and helped create the world we live in today.

  • - The Making of an American Movie Studio
    av David Thomson
    199,-

    Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasy

  • - Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power
    av Neal Gabler
    185,-

    Barbra Streisand has been called the "e;most successful...talented performer of her generation"e; by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "e;one of the natural wonders of the age."e; Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment-from a popular vocalist to a first-rank Broadway star in Funny Girl to an Oscar-winning actress to a producer and director. But she has also become a cultural icon who has transcended show business. To achieve her success, Brooklyn-born Streisand had to overcome tremendous odds, not the least of which was her Jewishness. Dismissed, insulted, even reviled when she embarked on a show business career for acting too Jewish and looking too Jewish, she brilliantly converted her Jewishness into a metaphor for outsiderness that would eventually make her the avenger for anyone who felt marginalized and powerless. A Neal Gabler examines Streisand's life and career through this prism of otherness-a Jew in a gentile world, a self-proclaimed homely girl in a world of glamour, a kooky girl in a world of convention-and shows how central it was to Streisand's triumph as one of the voices of her age.

  • - The Shock of the Modern
    av Francine Prose
    184,-

    One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters as Jackson Pollock and Man Ray. In her time, there was no stronger advocate for the groundbreaking and the avant-garde. Her midtown gallery was the acknowledged center of the postwar New York art scene, and her museum on the Grand Canal in Venice remains one of the world's great collections of modern art. Yet as renowned as she was for the art and artists she so tirelessly championed, Guggenheim was equally famous for her unconventional personal life, and for her ironic, playful desire to shock. Acclaimed best-selling author Francine Prose offers a singular reading of Guggenheim's life that will enthrall enthusiasts of twentieth-century art, as well as anyone interested in American and European culture and the interrelationships between them. The lively and insightful narrative follows Guggenheim through virtually every aspect of her extraordinary life, from her unique collecting habits and paradigm-changing discoveries, to her celebrity friendships, failed marriages, and scandalous affairs, and Prose delivers a colorful portrait of a defiantly uncompromising woman who maintained a powerful upper hand in a male-dominated world. Prose also explores the ways in which Guggenheim's image was filtered through the lens of insidious antisemitism.

  • - American Filmmaker
    av David Mikics
    283,-

    "Stanley Kubrick revolutionized Hollywood with movies like Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange, and electrified audiences with The Shining and Full Metal Jacket. David Mikics takes readers on a deep dive into Kubrick's life and work, illustrating his intense commitment to each of his films."--Provided by publisher.

  • - A Life in Films
    av Molly Haskell
    175,-

    A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented "e;Everything about me is in my films,"e; Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker, Molly Haskell explores the full range of Spielberg's works for the light they shine upon the man himself. Through such powerhouse hits as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., Jurassic Park, and Indiana Jones, to lesser-known masterworks like A.I. and Empire of the Sun, to the haunting Schindler's List, Haskell shows how Spielberg's uniquely evocative filmmaking and story-telling reveal the many ways in which his life, work, and times are entwined. Organizing chapters around specific films, the distinguished critic discusses how Spielberg's childhood in non-Jewish suburbs, his parents' traumatic divorce, his return to Judaism upon his son's birth, and other events echo in his work. She offers a brilliant portrait of the extraordinary director-a fearful boy living through his imagination who grew into a man whose openness, generosity of spirit, and creativity have enchanted audiences for more than 40 years.

  • - A Human Life
    av Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
    200,-

    An unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar

  • - The Elusive American
    av Adam Begley
    275,-

    An exuberant biography of the world's greatest escape artist

  • - Rabbi of Amsterdam
    av Steven Nadler
    283,-

    An illuminating biography of the great Amsterdam rabbi and celebrated popularizer of Judaism in the seventeenth century

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