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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
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
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
Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah by Ian Buruma
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time Baruch (Benedictus) Spinoza (1632–1677) was a radical free thinker who led a life guided by strong moral principles despite his disbelief in an al ...Show more
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