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Jabotinsky - A Life by Hillel Halkin
28.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
An insightful new biography of the most controversial and perhaps most fervent of all Zionist political figures Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was a man of huge paradoxes and contradictions and has been the most misunderstood of all Zionist politicians--a first-rate novelist, a celebrated Russian journ ...Show more
Jabotinsky: Zionism's Samson by Hillel Halkin
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Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Lives
Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was a man of huge paradoxes and contradictions and is one of the most misunderstood Zionist political leaders - a first-rate novelist, a celebrated Russian journalist, and founder of the branch of Zionism now headed by Benjamin Netanyahu. This biography, the first in Engl ...Show more
Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch by Yair Zakovitch
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Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Lives
A powerful hero of the Bible, Jacob is also one of its most complex figures. Bible stories recounting his life often expose his deception, lies, and greed, then puzzlingly attempt to justify them. In this book an eminent biblical scholar looks at Jacob and his life story as it is presented in the Bible, ...Show more
Jerome Robbins - A Life in Dance by Wendy Lesser
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Category: No Category | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A lively and inspired biography celebrating the centennial of this master choreographer, dancer, and stage director Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company. Robbins, who ...Show more
Karl Marx - Philosophy and Revolution by Shlomo Avineri
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | 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
Leon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist by Pierre Birnbaum
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
Leon Blum (1872-1950) was many things: a socialist and political activist, leader of the Popular Front; a dedicated statesman who served as France's prime minister three times; a hero who courageously opposed anti-Semitism, Nazi aggression, and the pro-German Vichy government; a passionate lover of wome ...Show more
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life by Joshua Rubenstein
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the Bolshevik revolution on the meagre foundation of a E ...Show more
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life by Joshua Rubenstein
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Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Lives
Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the Bolshevik revolution on the meager foundation of a E ...Show more
Man Ray - The Artist and His Shadows by Arthur Lubow
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Lee Miller traveled to Paris in 1929 in search of Man Ray. But when she called at his studio at 31 bis rue Campagne-Première, the concierge informed her that hélas, the man she sought had just departed for his summer holiday. What to do? She retreated to a nearby bar, the Bateau Ivre, that was known to ...Show more
Mark Rothko - Toward the Light in the Chapel by Annie Cohen-Solal
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Category: Art | Series: Jewish Lives
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 ...Show more
Martin Buber: A Life of Faith & Dissent by Paul Mendes-Flohr
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Category: Judaica | 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
Menasseh Ben Israel - Rabbi of Amsterdam by Steven Nadler
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Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) was among the most accomplished and cosmopolitan rabbis of his time, and a pivotal intellectual figure in early modern Jewish history. He was one of the three rabbis of the "Portuguese Nation" in Amsterdam, a community that quickly earned renown worldwide for its mercanti ...Show more