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Alfred Stieglitz - Taking Pictures, Making Painters by Phyllis Rose
44.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | 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
34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Arthur Miller - American Witness by John Lahr
34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller's dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights. Distinguished theater critic John Lahr brings unique perspective to the life of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), the playwright who almost single-handedly propelled twentiet ...Show more
Barbara Streisand by Neal Gabler
37.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful...talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "one of the natural wonders of the age." Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment-from a popular vocalist to a first-rank Broadway star in Funny ...Show more
Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power by Neal Gabler
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
An enthralling appreciation of the monumentally gifted popular artist and cultural icon who challenged Hollywood's standards of beauty and glamour Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful...talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "on ...Show more
Becoming Elijah - Prophet of Transformation by Daniel C. Matt
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Category: No Category | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
The story of the prophet Elijah's transformation from fierce zealot to compassionate hero and cherished figure in Jewish tradition "In a series on Jewish Lives, this volume is about the Jewish life--the one that goes on forever. Becoming Elijah blends meticulous scholarship with bold literary and poet ...Show more
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips
39.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
Becoming Freud is the story of the young Freud - Freud up until the age of fifty - that incorporates all of Freud's many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that involved the telling and revising of life stories, but he was himself sceptical of the writing of ...Show more
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Jewish Lives
Ben Hecht - Fighting Words, Moving Pictures by Adina Hoffman
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Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Ben Hecht - Fighting Words, Moving Pictures by Adina Hoffman
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Category: No Category | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, 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 pe ...Show more
Einstein - His Space and Times by Steven Gimbel
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Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Einstein: His Space and Times by Steven Gimbel
37.95 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Lives
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 mora ...Show more