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Jewish Lives

Book Review: “Irving Berlin: New York Genius” — A Significant Life

Biographer James Kaplan was aided by the assistance of Irving Berlin’s two elder daughters, and that makes this biography particularly valuable.

By: Benjamin Sears Filed Under: Books, Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Benjamin Sears, Irving Berlin, Jewish Lives, Yale-University-Press

Book Review: A Concise, Conscientious Guide to the Life and Work of Alfred Stieglitz

The book will stand as a good first stop for anyone interested in Alfred Stieglitz, 20th-century photography, or American modern art.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Alfred Stieglitz, Jewish Lives, Phyllis Rose, Yale-University-Press

Book Review: Hebrew Poet Hayim Nahman Bialik — Not the Whole Story

We learn a great deal about Hayim Nahman Bialik’s life in this biography. But the volume does not live up to its subtitle.

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Avner Holtzman, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew Poetry, Jewish Lives, Yale-University-Press

Book Review: “Peggy Guggenheim, The Shock of the Modern” — The Woman Behind a Remarkable Legacy

Although there is a strangely dour tinge to this biography of Peggy Guggenheim, Francine Prose is ultimately fair.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Francine Prose, Jewish Lives, Peggy Guggenheim, The Shock of the Modern, Yale-University-Press

Book Review: An Evocative Biography of Zionist Agitator and Writer Vladmir Jabotinsky

There’s room to wonder if Vladmir Jabotinsky would have accepted Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu as his legitimate Zionist heirs.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Harvey Blume, Hillel Halkin, Israel, Jabotinsky: A Life, Jewish Lives, Jewish nationalism, Judaism, Revisionism, Short Fuse, Vladmir Jabotinsky, Yale-University-Press, Zionism

Book Review: The “Jewish Lives” Series — Biography Simplified But Illuminating

YUP’s uneven Jewish Lives offers a series of short, accessible biographies that could become a significant literary mural, showcasing the scope of Jewish culture.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Adam Phillips, Becoming Freud, Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade, Culture Vulture, Dorothy Gallagher, Hillel Halkin, Jewish Lives, Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life, Rachel Cohen, Robert Gottlieb, Sarah Bernhardt, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Yale-University-Press

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