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Alfred Stieglitz - Taking Pictures, Making Painters by Phyllis Rose
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A fascinating biography of a revolutionary American artist ripe for rediscovery as a photographer and champion of other artists Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of artists even though his accomplishments are often overshadowed by his role as Georgia O'Keef ...Show more
Amos Oz - Writer, Activist, Icon by Robert Alter
Category: Reference | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist Amos Oz (1939-2018) was one of Israel's most prolific and prominent writers, as well as a regular contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the author of dozens of novels, essay col ...Show more
Ben Hecht - Fighting Words, Moving Pictures by Adina Hoffman
Category: No Category | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayistHe was, according to Pauline Kael, "the greatest American screenwriter." Jean-Luc Godard called him "a genius" who "invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies t ...Show more
Bugsy Siegel - The Dark Side of the American Dream by Michael Shnayerson
Category: History | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip "A highly readable, fast-moving contribution to the annals of 20th-century organized crime."--Kirkus Reviews In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (1906-19 ...Show more
Einstein - His Space and Times by Steven Gimbel
Category: Science | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A revealing new portrait of Albert Einstein, the world's first scientific "superstar" 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 understandin ...Show more
Elie Wiesel - Confronting the Silence by Joseph Berger
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize As an orphaned survivor and witness to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) compelled the world to confront the Holocaust with his searing memoir Night. How did this soft-spo ...Show more
From the Ashes of Sobibor - A Story of Survival by Thomas Toivi Blatt; Christopher R. Browning (Foreword by)
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival is an invaluable, firsthand account of a child's survival in a Nazi concentration camp in Poland during World War II. When the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Thomas Toivi Blatt was twelve years old. He and his family lived in the largely Jewis ...Show more
Groucho Marx - The Comedy of Existence by Lee Siegel
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre. In his spirited biography of this beloved American iconoclast, Lee S ...Show more
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death by Lillian Faderman
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Harvey Milk was a complex man. There were seemingly many Harveys as he drifted for years through various stages, fumbling to find the niche from which he could fulfill the high, vague aspirations of his childhood.... Each earlier "life" represented some genuine (if contradictory) aspect of Harvey Milk-a ...Show more
Irving Berlin - New York Genius by James Kaplan
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A fast-moving, musically astute portrait of arguably the greatest composer of American popular music Irving Berlin (1888-1989) has been called--by George Gershwin, among others--the greatest songwriter of the golden age of the American popular song. "Berlin has no place in American music," legendary com ...Show more
Karl Marx - Philosophy and Revolution by Shlomo Avineri
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Karl Marx (1818-1883)-philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist, current affairs journalist, and editor-was one of the most influential and revolutionary thinkers of modern history, but he is rarely thought of as a Jewish thinker, and his Jewish background is either overlooked or misrepresented. He ...Show more
Martin Buber: A Life of Faith & Dissent by Paul Mendes-Flohr
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
The first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber An authority on the twentieth‑century philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965), Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major biography in English in thirty years of this seminal modern Jewish thinker. Th ...Show more