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  • Howard Fast

    Life and Literature in the Left Lane

    de Gerald Sorin ...
    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    A biography of the Jewish American, left-wing author of Spartacus that explores his identity, his work, and his politics.Howard Fast's life, from a rough-and-tumble Jewish New York street kid to the rich and famous author of close to one hundred books, rivals the Horatio Alger myth. Author of bestsellers such as Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road, My Glorious Brothers, and Spartacus, Fast joined the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Irving Howe

    A Life of Passionate Dissent

    de Gerald Sorin ...
    "[A] fine biography . . . Sorin traces the shifts and turns in a life that wound up creating one of America's most thoughtful leftists." — The Washington PostA New York Times "Notable Book of the Year"Winner of the 2003 National Jewish Book Award for HistoryDeeply passionate, committed to social reform and secular Jewishness, ardently devoted to ... ... Leer más

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  • Saul Bellow

    "I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer"

    de Gerald Sorin ...
    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    Saul Bellow: "I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer" offers a fresh and original perspective on the life and works of Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize winner in Literature in 1976. Author Gerald Sorin emphasizes Bellow's Jewish identity as fundamental to his being and the content and meaning of his fiction. Bellow's work from the 1940s to 2000, when he wrote his last novel at the age of 84, centers ... Leer más

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  • Schlepping Through the Alps

    My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd

    de Sam Apple ...
    Hans Breuer, Austria’s only wandering shepherd, is also a Yiddish folksinger. He walks the Alps, shepherd’s stick in hand, singing lullabies to his 625 sheep. Sometimes he even gives concerts in historically anti-Semitic towns, showing slides of the flock as he belts out Yiddish ditties.When New York-based writer Sam Apple hears about this one-of-a-kind eccentric, he flies overseas and signs on as ... Leer más

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  • How Can I Help?

    A Week in My Life as a Psychiatrist

    de David Goldbloom, M.D., Pier Bryden, M.D. ...
    A humane behind-the-scenes account of a week in the life of a psychiatrist at one of Canada’s leading mental health hospitals. How Can I Help? takes us to the frontlines of modern psychiatric care.How Can I Help? portrays a week in the life of Dr. David Goldbloom as he treats patients, communicates with families, and trains staff at CAMH, the largest psychiatric facility in Canada. This highly ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Tears of Rage

    de John Walsh ...
    As the host of the immensely popular America's Most Wanted, John Walsh has been instrumental in the capture of nearly four hundred and fifty of this country's most dangeroues fugitives. However, few know the full story of the personal tragedy behind his public crusade: the 1981 abduction and murder of his six-year-old son, Adam. Here, for the first time, Walsh, his wife Revé, and their closest ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Gate

    A Memoir

    de Francois Bizot ...
    In 1971 a young French ethnologist named Francois Bizot was taken prisoner by forces of the Khmer Rouge who kept him chained in a jungle camp for months before releasing him. Four years later Bizot became the intermediary between the now victorious Khmer Rouge and the occupants of the besieged French embassy in Phnom Penh, eventually leading a desperate convoy of foreigners to safety across the ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • The Full Severity of Compassion

    The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai

    de Chana Kronfeld ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000) was the foremost Israeli poet of the twentieth century and an internationally influential literary figure whose poetry has been translated into some 40 languages. Hitherto, no comprehensive literary study of Amichai's poetry has appeared in English. This long-awaited book seeks to fill the gap.Widely considered one of the greatest poets of our time and the most important ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • The Humor Code

    A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny

    de Peter McGraw, Joel Warner ...
    Part road-trip comedy and part social science experiment, a scientist and a journalist “shed fascinating light on what makes us laugh and why” (New York Post).Two guys. Nineteen experiments. Five continents. 91,000 miles. The Humor Code follows the madcap adventures and oddball experiments of Professor Peter McGraw and writer Joel Warner as they discover the secret behind what makes things funny. ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Imagining the Kibbutz

    Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film

    de Ranen Omer-Sherman ...
    Series series Dimyonot
    In Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that became history’s most successfully sustained communal enterprise. Inspired in part by the kibbutz movement’s recent commemoration of its centennial, this study responds to a significant gap in scholarship. Numerous sociological and economic studies have appeared, but no ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Elie Wiesel

    Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives

    de Steven T. Katz, Alan Rosen ...
    "Illuminating . . . 24 academic essays covering Wiesel's interpretations of the Bible, retellings of Talmudic stories . . . his post-Holocaust theology, and more." — Publishers WeeklyNobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the accomplished author of novels, essays, tales, and plays as well as portraits of seminal figures in Jewish life and ... Leer más

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  • Benjamin Fondane's Ulysses

    Bilingual Edition

    Traducido por Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody ...
    de Figure Foundation ...
    Series series Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
    From 1923, when he emigrated from Bucharest, to his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, Benjamin Fondane made a unique and independent-minded contribution to the literary and intellectual life of Paris. One of the most significant pieces in Fondane’s body of work is the long poem Ulysses, first published in 1933. Fondane considerably revised his text during the dark years of occupied Paris, ... Leer más

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