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The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip

An exuberant biography of the world's greatest escape artist

Award-winning author Francine Klagsbrun reveals the complex life and work of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah and a Zionist trailblazer

"Amos Oz (1939-2018) was one of Israel's most prolific and prominent writers, as well as a regular contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the author of dozens of novels, essay collections, and novellas written between 1965 and shortly before his death. In this first published biography of Oz, the celebrated translator, literary critic, and biblical scholar Robert Alter explores Oz's relationship with his family, beginning with the suicide of his mother, Fania Klausner, when he was twelve years old, and goes on to review his time in Kibbutz Hulda, which he entered at fourteen following his separation from his father, Arieh Klausner; his family's right-wing Zionism; his writing career; his activism in support of a pluralistic Israel; and his work as an international lecturer. In examining Oz's life and work, Alter brings together testimony from Oz and his circle, as well as close readings of his central works, to present the inner world and public persona of Amos Oz.--Dust jacket.

A new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism

In tracing the life of Golda Meir, Deborah E. Lipstadt explores the history of the Yishuv and Jewish state from the 1920s through the 1973 Yom Kippur War, all while highlighting the contradictions and complexities of a person who was only the third woman to serve as a head of state in the twentieth century.

A spirited dive into the life and career of a performer, writer, and director who dominated twentieth-century American comedy

As an orphaned survivor and witness to Auschwitz, Eliezer Wiesel (1928-2016) became a torchbearer for victims and survivors of the Holocaust at a time when the world preferred to forget. This portrait presents Wiesel as both a revered Nobel laureate and a man of complex psychological texture.

An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world's foremost bibliophiles

Explores the extraordinary life of Sarah Bernhardt - the daughter of a courtesan who became a world famous actress.

The story of the prophet Elijah's transformation from fierce zealot to compassionate hero and cherished figure in Jewish folklore

A riveting exploration of the brilliant, combative, and controversial "Father of the Nuclear Navy"

A biography of the rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who became a symbol of the marriage between religion and social justice

A biography of the elusive but celebrated Dada and Surrealist artist and photographer connecting his Jewish background to his life and art

A moral examination of one of the first Jewish senators, confidante to Jefferson Davis, and champion of the cause of slavery

A rich, provocative, and lyrical study of one of Germany's most important, world-famous, and imaginative writer

A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayist

A lively and engaging biography of the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States, a man fiercely committed to protecting all minorities

A new biography of the seminal twentieth-century historian and thinker who pioneered the study of Jewish mysticism and profoundly influenced the Zionist movement

Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasy

An unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar

A fresh, vivid look at Disraeli's life, achievements, and temperament that casts doubts on his much-touted commitment to Jewish rights

A memoir of deportation, escape, and survival. In economical prose, Richard Glazar weaves a description of Treblinka and its operations into his evocation of himself and his fellow prisoners as denizens of an underworld. Glazar gives us compelling images of these horrors in a tone that remains thoughtful but sober, affecting but simple.

Recalling his experience of the ghetto at six years old, Michal Glowinski, attentive to the distance between a child's experience and an adult's reflection, revisits the images and episodes of his childhood. He explores the horror of those years, the fragility of existence, and the fragmented nature of memory itself.

Summoning the vanished world of Jewish livestock dealers in rural Germany, this is a picture of what it was like to live as a Jew in a small German town before and after the Nazis came to power. Hans Frankenthal tells his story the horrors of the Holocaust survived by one man, and its aftermath.