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Jerome Robbins - A Life in Dance by Wendy Lesser
37.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | 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
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life by Joshua Rubenstein
35.95 AUD
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 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
29.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Jewish Lives
Martin Buber: A Life of Faith & Dissent by Paul Mendes-Flohr
44.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
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
32.95 AUD
37.95 (13% off)
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
Proust: The Search by Benjamin Taylor
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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
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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
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt by Robert Gottlieb
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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 bombardm ...Show more