Browse by category
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips
$26.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Jewish Lives
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | 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
Einstein: His Space and Times by Steven Gimbel
$39.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Jewish Lives
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 understanding of time was a man of his times, always politically engaged and driven by strong mora ...Show more
Gershom Scholem - Master of the Kabbalah by David Biale
$37.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A new biography of the seminal twentieth-century historian and thinker who pioneered the study of Jewish mysticism and profoundly influenced the Zionist movement Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was perhaps the foremost Jewish intellectual of the twentieth century. Pioneering the study of Jewish mysticism as ...Show more
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life by Joshua Rubenstein
$25.95 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 meagre foundation of a E ...Show more
Mark Rothko - Toward the Light in the Chapel by Annie Cohen-Solal
$47.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | 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
Peggy Guggenheim - The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
$43.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | 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
$28.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | 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
Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life by Berel Lang
$38.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Jewish Lives
In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the Italian Fascist Militia and deported to Auschwitz. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, he was one of only 24 who survived the eleven months before the camp's l ...Show more
Proust: The Search by Benjamin Taylor
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | 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
$22.95 AUD
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
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt by Robert Gottlieb
$36.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | 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
1 - 12 of 12