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A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs by David Lehman
36.95 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Encounters
Part of the Jewish Encounter series In "A Fine Romance, "David Lehman looks at the formation of the American songbook--the timeless numbers that became jazz standards, iconic love songs, and sound tracks to famous movies--and explores the extraordinary fact that this songbook was written almost exclusiv ...Show more
Ben-Gurion: A Political Life by Shimon Peres
45.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Jewish Encounters Ser.
Part of the Jewish Encounter series Israel's current president gives us a dramatic and revelatory biography of Israel's founding father and first prime minister. Shimon Peres was in his early twenties when he first met David Ben-Gurion. Although the state that Ben-Gurion would lead through war and peace ...Show more
Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity by Rebecca Goldstein
32.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Encounters
In 1656, Amsterdam's Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty-three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious s ...Show more
Emma Lazarus by Esther Schor
19.95 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Encounters
Emma Lazarus's most famous poem gave a voice to the Statue of Liberty, but her remarkable life has remained a mystery until now. She was a woman so far ahead of her time that we are still scrambling to catch up with her-a feminist, a Zionist, and an internationally famous Jewish American writer before t ...Show more
Jews and Power by Ruth R. Wisse
35.00 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Encounters Ser.
Taking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with God constituted a treaty with the most powerful force in the universe; this later transforme ...Show more
The Eichmann Trial by Deborah E Lipstadt
42.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Jewish Encounters
The Rise of Abraham Cahan by Seth Lipsky
44.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Encounters Ser.
The first general-interest biography of the legendary editor of "The Jewish Daily Forward," the iconic Yiddish-language newspaper of the laboring masses that inspired, educated, and entertained millions of readers, helped redefine journalism during its golden age, and transformed American culture. Abrah ...Show more
The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem by Jeremy Dauber
49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Encounters Ser.
The first comprehensive biography of one of the most beloved authors of all time: the creator of "Tevye the Dairyman," the stories that inspired "Fiddler on the Roof." Novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist, and editor, Sholem Aleichem was one of the founding giants of modern Yiddish literature and ...Show more
Wicked Son by David Mamet
22.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Encounters Ser.
David Mamet's interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have internalized that hatred. Using the metaphor of the Wicked Son at the Passover seder (the child who asks, "What does this story mean to you?") Mamet con ...Show more
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