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Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair by Maurice Samuels
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus’s cries of innocence were drowned out by a mob shouting “Death to Judas!” In this book, Maurice Samuels gives readers ...Show more
Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade by Rachel Cohen
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Category: Biography | 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
Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence by Lee Siegel
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Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives
Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre. In his spirited biography of this beloved American iconoclast, Lee S ...Show more
Mel Brooks - Disobedient Jew by Jeremy Dauber
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Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A spirited dive into the life and career of a performer, writer, and director who dominated twentieth-century American comedy
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography | 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
Peggy Guggenheim - The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography | 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
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