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Elie Wiesel - Confronting the Silence by Joseph Berger
41.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life by Vivian Gornick
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Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Lives
Emma Goldman is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of the inner self. The right to stay alive in one's senses, ...Show more
Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life by Vivian Gornick
35.95 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Lives
"Emma Goldman" is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of the inner self. The right to stay alive in one's sense ...Show more
Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt by Saul Friedlander
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
A highly original and engaging appraisal of Kafka's life, work, legacy, and thought Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence-in his many letters, in his extensive diaries, and especial ...Show more
Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt by Saul Friedlander
34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence - in his many letters, extensive diaries, and especially in his fiction. This stimulating book investigates some of the sources of Kafka's pers ...Show more
Gershom Scholem - Master of the Kabbalah by David Biale
37.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A new biography of the seminal twentieth-century historian and thinker who pioneered the study of Jewish mysticism and profoundly influenced the Zionist movement Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was perhaps the foremost Jewish intellectual of the twentieth century. Pioneering the study of Jewish mysticism as ...Show more
Golda Meir: Israel's Matriarch by Deborah E. Lipstadt (Contribution by)
34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
In the eyes of millions of American Jews, she could do no wrong. For close to five decades, for better and for worse, she shaped how American Jews saw and understood Israel and its place in the world. If the laudatory works depict a woman who built a nation, sent men into battle, negotiated treaties, sp ...Show more
Groucho Marx - The Comedy of Existence by Lee Siegel
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Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence by Lee Siegel
35.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
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
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Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Hayim Nahman Bialik: Poet of Hebrew by Avner Holtzman
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Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Lives
A moving inquiry into the dramatic life, epic success, and ultimate tragedy of the great Hebrew poet By the time he was twenty-eight, Hayim Nahman Bialik was already considered the National Hebrew Poet. He had only published a single collection, but his deeply personal poetry established a profound link ...Show more
Irving Berlin - New York Genius by James Kaplan
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Category: Biography & Memoir | 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