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Moses: A Human Life by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
An unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, acclaimed for her many books on Jewish thought, turns her attention to Moses ...Show more
Moshe Dayan: Israel's Controversial Hero by Mordechai Bar-On
41.95 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Lives
Instantly recognizable with his iconic eye patch, Moshe Dayan (1915-1981) was a powerful yet controversial figure in Israel from the 1950s through 70s. A fearless warrior and a strong-headed, charismatic politician, he was admired for his leadership as Chief of Staff of the Israel Defence Forces during ...Show more
Peggy Guggenheim - The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
39.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters as Jackson Pollock and Man Ray. In her time, there was no stronger advocate for the groundbreaking and the avant-garde. Her midtown galle ...Show more
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
25.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art. One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters ...Show more
Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life by Berel Lang
39.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the Italian Fascist Militia and deported to Auschwitz. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, he was one of only 24 who survived the eleven months before the camp's l ...Show more
Proust: The Search by Benjamin Taylor
27.57 AUD
39.95 (30% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
"Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different emotional upheavals, fired Proust's imagination and, albeit sometimes completely transformed, appeared in his work. The result is a very subtle, thought-provoking book."-Anka M ...Show more
Proust: The Search by Benjamin Taylor
25.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century "Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different emotional upheavals, fired Proust's imagination and, ...Show more
Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud by Barry W. Holtz
37.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Lives
A compelling and lucid account of the life and teachings of a founder of rabbinic Judaism and one of the most beloved heroes of Jewish history Born in the Land of Israel around the year 50 C.E., Rabbi Akiva was the greatest rabbi of his time and one of the most important influences on Judaism as we know ...Show more
Rav Kook: Everything is Rising by Yehudah Mirsky
34.95 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Lives
Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential - and controversial - rabbis of the twentieth century. A maverick thinker, he combined strict traditionalism with an embrace of modernity and its heresies, Orthodoxy and tolerance, scholasticism and ecstasy, and passionate nationalism wi ...Show more
Rav Kook - Mystic in a Time of Revolution by Yehudah Mirsky
29.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
The life and thought of a forceful figure in Israel's religious and political life Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential--and controversial--rabbis of the twentieth century. A visionary writer and outstanding rabbinic leader, Kook was a philosopher, mystic, poet, jurist, com ...Show more
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt by Robert Gottlieb
39.95 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Lives
Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious career - redefining the very nature of her art - to her amazing (and highly public) romantic life to her indomitable spirit. Well into her seventies, after the amputation of her leg, she was performing under bombardm ...Show more
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt by Robert Gottlieb
39.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious career (redefining the very nature of her art) to her amazing (and highly public) romantic life to her indomitable spirit. Well into her seventies, after the amputation of her leg, she was performing under bombardmen ...Show more