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Series
Publisher
Jewish Lights Pub
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 197 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Create a meaningful and happy Hanukkah in your home-with story, celebration, food and song.
This newly-designed, easy-to-use edition of a classic spiritual sourcebook offers updated information, more family ideas, and new resources for every aspect of your holiday celebration.
Information on every aspect of Hanukkah is covered, including:
• The story of Hanukkah
• Celebrating-for families of every constellation
• Songs and prayers in English,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Jewish Lights Publishing
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 381 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Remember, retell, recreate, and relive the Exodus experience-with the stories, rituals, foods, and songs of Pesah.
This revised and expanded edition of the classic spiritual sourcebook offers updated information, more ideas, and new resources for every aspect of the Festival of Freedom.
An inspiring and practical how-to guide, Passover clearly explains all the vital information that you need to fully honor-and to fully enjoy-this sacred celebration,...
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Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
233 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 bombardment for soldiers during World War I and toured America for the ninth time. Though the Bernhardt literature is vast, this is the first English-language...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
151 p. : 1 ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of the inner self. The right to stay alive in one's senses, to enjoy freedom of thought and speech, to reject the arbitrary use of power--these were key demands in the many public protest movements she helped mount. Anarchist...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xiv, 164 p. : port. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles the Jewish-American baseball player who, in 1934, risked his chance to beat Babe Ruth's home run record by sitting out a game on Yom Kippur, and describes his impact on Jewish-American history.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
viii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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, the owner of a beautiful villa and an immense private library in the hills outside Florence. The explosion of the Gilded Age art market and Berenson's work for dealer Joseph...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Language
English
Description
"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 skeptical of the writing of such stories. In this biography, Adam Phillips, whom the New Yorker calls "Britain's foremost psychoanalytical writer," emphasizes the largely and inevitably...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
vi, 171 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dorothy Gallagher confronts the conundrum that was Lillian Hellman--a woman with a capacity to inspire outrage as often as admiration. Exploring Hellman's leftist politics, her Jewish and Southern background, and her famous testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Gallagher also undertakes a new reading of Hellman's carefully crafted memoirs and plays, in which she is both revealed and hidden. Gallagher sorts through the facts...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
viii, 162 pages : portrait ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 Siegel views the life of Groucho through the lens of his work on stage, screen, and television. The author uncovers the roots of the performer's outrageous...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mark Rothko was not only one of the most influential American painters of the twentieth century; he was a scholar, an educator, and a deeply spiritual human being. Born Marcus Yakovlevich Rotkovitch, he emigrated from the Russian Empire to the United States at age ten, already well educated in the Talmud and carrying with him bitter memories of the pogroms and persecutions visited upon the Jews of Latvia. Few artists have achieved success as quickly,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
viii, 211 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of one of twentieth century America's most influential patrons of the arts that covers her personal life, uncompromising spirit, and relationships with such modern masters as Jackson Pollock and Man Ray.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
viii, 284 pages : portrait ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
viii, 292 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lauded as a "great Jew," excoriated by antisemites, and one of Britain's most renowned prime ministers, Benjamin Disraeli has been widely celebrated for his role in Jewish history. But is the perception of him as a Jewish hero accurate? In what ways did he contribute to Jewish causes? In this groundbreaking, lucid investigation of Disraeli's life and accomplishments, David Cesarani draws a new portrait of one of Europe's leading nineteenth-century...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A riveting new examination of the leading progressive Supreme Court justice of his era. According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was 'the Jewish Jefferson,' the greatest critic of what he called 'the curse of bigness' in business and government since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of his Supreme Court confirmation on June 1, 1916, Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet argues that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
x, 225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Only Avivah Zornberg could tell the story of Moses in such a way as to situate him on the very cusp of the sacred and the human while showing how completely he participates in both. Only Zornberg has the prodigious scholarship to draw out from her sources the uniquely anguished and creative energy of Moses' life. In doing so she makes a plea for a Jewish ethics grounded in the outsider, the one who stutters and falls, while at the same time returning...
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