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  • - Philosophy and Revolution
    af Shlomo Avineri
    223,95 kr.

    A new exploration of Karl Marx's life through his intellectual contributions to modern thought

  • af Francine Klagsbrun
    198,95 kr.

    Award-winning author Francine Klagsbrun reveals the complex life and work of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah and a Zionist trailblazer

  • - The Artist and His Shadows
    af Arthur Lubow
    223,95 kr.

    A biography of the elusive but celebrated Dada and Surrealist artist and photographer connecting his Jewish background to his life and art

  • - A Life of Radical Amazement
    af Julian E. Zelizer
    198,95 kr.

    A biography of the rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who became a symbol of the marriage between religion and social justice

  • - Counselor to the Confederacy
    af James Traub
    238,95 kr.

    A moral examination of one of the first Jewish senators, confidante to Jefferson Davis, and champion of the cause of slavery

  • - The Dark Side of the American Dream
    af Michael Shnayerson
    208,95 kr.

    The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip

  • af Vivian Gornick
    188,95 kr.

  • - Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
    af Adina Hoffman
    178,95 kr.

    A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayist

  • - The Charismatic Leader
    af Derek Penslar
    223,95 kr.

    From an eminent historian of Zionism comes a masterful new biography of Theodor Herzl

  • - The Making of a Psychoanalyst
    af Adam Phillips
    133,95 kr.

    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 skeptical of the writing of such stories. In this biography, Adam Phillips, whom the New Yorker calls "e;Britain's foremost psychoanalytical writer,"e; emphasizes the largely and inevitably undocumented story of Freud's earliest years as the oldest-and favored-son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and suggests that the psychoanalysis Freud invented was, among many other things, a psychology of the immigrant-increasingly, of course, everybody's status in the modern world. Psychoanalysis was also Freud's way of coming to terms with the fate of the Jews in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. So as well as incorporating the writings of Freud and his contemporaries, Becoming Freud also uses the work of historians of the Jews in Europe in this significant period in their lives, a period of unprecedented political freedom and mounting persecution. Phillips concludes by speculating what psychoanalysis might have become if Freud had died in 1906, before the emergence of a psychoanalytic movement over which he had to preside.

  • - The Poet of Shame and Guilt
    af Saul Friedlander
    143,95 kr.

  • - A Journey Through Jewish Baghdad
    af Violette Shamash & Shmuel Moreh
    298,95 kr.

    According to legend, the Garden of Eden was located in Iraq, and for millennia, Jews resided peacefully in metropolitan Baghdad. Memories of Eden reconstructs the last years of the oldest Jewish Diaspora community in the world through the recollections of Violette Shamash, a Jewish woman who was born in Baghdad in 1912. The result is a deeply textured memoir.

  • - Writing the Revolution
    af George Prochnik
    223,95 kr.

    A rich, provocative, and lyrical study of one of Germany's most important, world-famous, and imaginative writer

  • - A Life of Faith and Dissent
    af Paul Mendes-Flohr
    223,95 kr.

    The first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber

  • - A Life in Comics
    af Liel Leibovitz
    223,95 kr.

    Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he created-Spider-Man and Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four-occupy Hollywood's imagination and production schedules, generate billions at the box office, and come as close as anything we have to a shared American mythology. This illuminating biography focuses as much on Lee's ideas as it does on his unlikely rise to stardom. It surveys his cultural and religious upbringing and draws surprising connections between celebrated comic book heroes and the ancient tales of the Bible, the Talmud, and Jewish mysticism. Was Spider-Man just a reincarnation of Cain? Is the Incredible Hulk simply Adam by another name? From close readings of Lee's work to little-known anecdotes from Marvel's history, the book paints a portrait of Lee that goes much deeper than one of his signature onscreen cameos.

  • af Michal Glowinski
    283,95 kr.

    Recalling his experience of the ghetto at six years old, Michal Glowinski, attentive to the distance between a child's experience and an adult's reflection, revisits the images and episodes of his childhood. He explores the horror of those years, the fragility of existence, and the fragmented nature of memory itself.

  • - A Story of Survival
    af Thomas Toivi Blatt
    208,95 kr.

  • - His Space and Times
    af Steven Gimbel
    143,95 kr.

    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 moral principles. An avowed pacifist, Einstein's mistrust of authority and outspoken social and scientific views earned him death threats from Nazi sympathizers in the years preceding World War II. To him, science provided not only a means for understanding the behavior of the universe, but a foundation for considering the deeper questions of life and a way for the worldwide Jewish community to gain confidence and pride in itself. Steven Gimbel's biography presents Einstein in the context of the world he lived in, offering a fascinating portrait of a remarkable individual who remained actively engaged in international affairs throughout his life. This revealing work not only explains Einstein's theories in understandable terms, it demonstrates how they directly emerged from the realities of his times and helped create the world we live in today.

  • - The Making of an American Movie Studio
    af David Thomson
    163,95 kr.

    Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasy

  • - Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power
    af Neal Gabler
    143,95 kr.

    Barbra Streisand has been called the "e;most successful...talented performer of her generation"e; by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "e;one of the natural wonders of the age."e; Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment-from a popular vocalist to a first-rank Broadway star in Funny Girl to an Oscar-winning actress to a producer and director. But she has also become a cultural icon who has transcended show business. To achieve her success, Brooklyn-born Streisand had to overcome tremendous odds, not the least of which was her Jewishness. Dismissed, insulted, even reviled when she embarked on a show business career for acting too Jewish and looking too Jewish, she brilliantly converted her Jewishness into a metaphor for outsiderness that would eventually make her the avenger for anyone who felt marginalized and powerless. A Neal Gabler examines Streisand's life and career through this prism of otherness-a Jew in a gentile world, a self-proclaimed homely girl in a world of glamour, a kooky girl in a world of convention-and shows how central it was to Streisand's triumph as one of the voices of her age.

  • - The Shock of the Modern
    af Francine Prose
    146,95 kr.

    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 gallery was the acknowledged center of the postwar New York art scene, and her museum on the Grand Canal in Venice remains one of the world's great collections of modern art. Yet as renowned as she was for the art and artists she so tirelessly championed, Guggenheim was equally famous for her unconventional personal life, and for her ironic, playful desire to shock. Acclaimed best-selling author Francine Prose offers a singular reading of Guggenheim's life that will enthrall enthusiasts of twentieth-century art, as well as anyone interested in American and European culture and the interrelationships between them. The lively and insightful narrative follows Guggenheim through virtually every aspect of her extraordinary life, from her unique collecting habits and paradigm-changing discoveries, to her celebrity friendships, failed marriages, and scandalous affairs, and Prose delivers a colorful portrait of a defiantly uncompromising woman who maintained a powerful upper hand in a male-dominated world. Prose also explores the ways in which Guggenheim's image was filtered through the lens of insidious antisemitism.

  • - American Filmmaker
    af David Mikics
    223,95 kr.

    "Stanley Kubrick revolutionized Hollywood with movies like Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange, and electrified audiences with The Shining and Full Metal Jacket. David Mikics takes readers on a deep dive into Kubrick's life and work, illustrating his intense commitment to each of his films."--Provided by publisher.

  • - A Life in Films
    af Molly Haskell
    133,95 kr.

    A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented "e;Everything about me is in my films,"e; Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker, Molly Haskell explores the full range of Spielberg's works for the light they shine upon the man himself. Through such powerhouse hits as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., Jurassic Park, and Indiana Jones, to lesser-known masterworks like A.I. and Empire of the Sun, to the haunting Schindler's List, Haskell shows how Spielberg's uniquely evocative filmmaking and story-telling reveal the many ways in which his life, work, and times are entwined. Organizing chapters around specific films, the distinguished critic discusses how Spielberg's childhood in non-Jewish suburbs, his parents' traumatic divorce, his return to Judaism upon his son's birth, and other events echo in his work. She offers a brilliant portrait of the extraordinary director-a fearful boy living through his imagination who grew into a man whose openness, generosity of spirit, and creativity have enchanted audiences for more than 40 years.

  • - A Human Life
    af Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
    133,95 kr.

    An unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar

  • - The Elusive American
    af Adam Begley
    223,95 kr.

    An exuberant biography of the world's greatest escape artist

  • - Rabbi of Amsterdam
    af Steven Nadler
    223,95 kr.

    An illuminating biography of the great Amsterdam rabbi and celebrated popularizer of Judaism in the seventeenth century

  • - Soldier, Leader, Statesman
    af Itamar Rabinovich
    154,50 kr.

    An insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995, yet he remains an unusually intriguing and admired modern leader. A native-born Israeli, Rabin became an inextricable part of his nation's pre-state history and subsequent evolution. This revealing account of his life, character, and contributions draws not only on original research but also on the author's recollections as one of Rabin's closest aides. An awkward politician who became a statesman, a soldier who became a peacemaker, Rabin is best remembered for his valiant efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and for the Oslo Accords. Itamar Rabinovich provides extraordinary new insights into Rabin's relationships with powerful leaders including Bill Clinton, Jordan's King Hussein, and Henry Kissinger, his desire for an Israeli-Syrian peace plan, and the political developments that shaped his tenure. The author also assesses the repercussions of Rabin's murder: Netanyahu's ensuing election and the rise of Israel's radical right wing.

  • - Toward the Light in the Chapel
    af Annie Cohen-Solal
    143,95 kr.

    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 with a series of painful experiences, especially as a student at Yale, where he felt marginalized for his origins and ultimately left the school. The decision to become an artist led him to a new phase in his life. Early in his career, Annie Cohen-Solal writes, "e;he became a major player in the social struggle of American artists, and his own metamorphosis benefited from the unique transformation of the U.S. art world during this time."e; Within a few decades, he had forged his definitive artistic signature, and most critics hailed him as a pioneer. The numerous museum shows that followed in major U.S. and European institutions ensured his celebrity. But this was not enough for Rothko, who continued to innovate. Ever faithful to his habit of confronting the establishment, he devoted the last decade of his life to cultivating his new conception of art as an experience, thanks to the commission of a radical project, the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas. Cohen-Solal's fascinating biography, based on considerable archival research, tells the unlikely story of how a young immigrant from Dvinsk became a crucial transforming agent of the art world-one whose legacy prevails to this day.

  • af Szymon Laks
    208,95 kr.

    The story of the orchestra at Auschwitz told by its conductor. Laks recounts the iconceivable spectacle of SS guards growing teary-eyed at the sound of familiar melodies and in the next moment giving themselves up to the furies of extermination.

  • - Survival in Treblinka
    af Richard Glazar
    293,95 kr.

    A memoir of deportation, escape, and survival. In economical prose, Richard Glazar weaves a description of Treblinka and its operations into his evocation of himself and his fellow prisoners as denizens of an underworld. Glazar gives us compelling images of these horrors in a tone that remains thoughtful but sober, affecting but simple.