Jewish lives

Author

Friedlander, Saul Taylor, Benjamin Gabler, Neal Cesarani, David Siegel, Lee Rosen, Jeffrey Diner, Hasia R Thomson, David Lesser, Wendy Lahr, John Prochnik, George Shnayerson, Michael Matt, Daniel Chanan Pardes, Ilana Alter, Robert Shteir, Rachel Lipstadt, Deborah E Samuels, Maurice Popoff, Alexandra Buruma, Ian

1) Franz Kafka: the poet of shame and guilt

Author

Friedlander, Saul

2) Proust: the search

Author

Taylor, Benjamin

3) Barbra Streisand: redefining beauty, femininity, and power

Author

Gabler, Neal

Series

Jewish lives

Pub. Date

2016.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

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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 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...

4) Disraeli: the novel politician

Author

Cesarani, David

5) Groucho Marx: the comedy of existence

Author

Siegel, Lee

6) Louis D. Brandeis: American prophet

Author

Rosen, Jeffrey

7) Julius Rosenwald: repairing the world

Author

Diner, Hasia R.

8) Warner Bros: the making of an American movie studio

Author

Thomson, David

Series

Jewish lives

Pub. Date

[2017]

Physical Desc

viii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasy Warner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early twentieth century through its ascent to the pinnacle of Hollywood influence and popularity. The Warner Brothers-- Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack-- arrived in America as unschooled Jewish immigrants,...

9) Jerome Robbins: a life in dance

Author

Lesser, Wendy

10) Arthur Miller: American witness

Author

Lahr, John

11) Heinrich Heine: writing the revolution

Author

Prochnik, George

12) Bugsy Siegel: the dark side of the American dream

Author

Shnayerson, Michael

Series

Jewish lives

Pub. Date

[2021]

Physical Desc

xvi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Language

English

Description

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"In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel (1906-1947) rose from desperate poverty to ill-gotten riches, from an early-twentieth-century family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side to a kingdom of his own making in Las Vegas. In this captivating portrait, author Michael Shnayerson sets out not to absolve Bugsy Siegel but rather to understand him in all his complexity. Through the 1920s, 1930s, and most of...