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Arthur Miller - American Witness by John Lahr
$50.00 AUD
Category: Theatre | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller's dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights. Distinguished theater critic John Lahr brings unique perspective to the life of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), the playwright who almost single-handedly propelled twentiet ...Show more
Barbara Streisand by Neal Gabler
$43.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: Jewish Lives
Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful...talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "one of the natural wonders of the age." Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment-from a popular vocalist to a first-rank Broadway star in Funny ...Show more
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips
$45.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives
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 sceptical of the writing of ...Show more
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives
Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade by Rachel Cohen
$34.95 AUD
$37.95 (7% off)
Category: Film | Series: Jewish Lives
Few would have predicted that Bernard Berenson, from a poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family, would rise above poverty. Yet Berenson left his crowded home near Boston's railyards and transformed himself into the world's most renowned expert on Italian Renaissance paintings, with a beautiful villa and ...Show more
Einstein - His Space and Times by Steven Gimbel
$28.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A revealing new portrait of Albert Einstein, the world's first scientific "superstar" 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 understandin ...Show more
Irving Berlin - New York Genius by James Kaplan
$34.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment | 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
Mark Rothko - Toward the Light in the Chapel by Annie Cohen-Solal
$49.95 AUD
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
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography | 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
Peggy Guggenheim - The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
$37.00 AUD
Category: Art | 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
Proust: The Search by Benjamin Taylor
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary | 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
$26.00 AUD
Category: Literary | 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