{"title":"Biography \u0026 Memoirs","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse our Biography \u0026amp; Memoirs collection. New Arrival.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"louis-d-brandeis-american-prophet-by-jeffrey-rosen","title":"Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet by Jeffrey Rosen","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" aria-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA riveting new examination of the leading progressive justice of his era, published in the centennial year of his confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccording 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. 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Combining narrative biography with a passionate argument for why Brandeis matters today, Rosen explores what Brandeis, the Jeffersonian prophet, can teach us about historic and contemporary questions involving the Constitution, monopoly, corporate and federal power, technology, privacy, free speech, and Zionism.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"TRIL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43220474265662,"sku":"ney1787285424083","price":10.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/0075\/8846\/files\/louis-d-brandeis-american-prophet-by-jeffrey-rosen_1.jpg?v=1787285429"},{"product_id":"rav-kook-mystic-in-a-time-of-revolution-by-yehudah-mirsky","title":"Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution by Yehudah Mirsky","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" aria-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe life and thought of a forceful figure in Israel’s religious and political life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) was one of the most influential—and controversial—rabbis of the twentieth century. A visionary writer and outstanding rabbinic leader, Kook was a philosopher, mystic, poet, jurist, communal leader, and veritable saint. The first chief rabbi of Jewish Palestine and the founding theologian of religious Zionism, he struggled to understand and shape his revolutionary times. His life and writings resonate with the defining tensions of Jewish life and thought.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA powerfully original thinker, Rav Kook combined strict traditionalism and an embrace of modernity, Orthodoxy and tolerance, piety and audacity, scholasticism and ecstasy, and passionate nationalism with profound universalism. Though little known in the English-speaking world, his life and teachings are essential to understanding current Israeli politics, contemporary Jewish spirituality, and modern Jewish thought. This biography, the first in English in more than half a century, offers a rich and insightful portrait of the man and his complex legacy. Yehudah Mirsky clears away widespread misunderstandings of Kook’s ideas and provides fresh insights into his personality and worldview. Mirsky demonstrates how Kook's richly erudite, dazzlingly poetic writings convey a breathtaking vision in which \"the old will become new, and the new will become holy.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"TRIL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43220474298430,"sku":"bwr1787285426275","price":11.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/0075\/8846\/files\/rav-kook-mystic-in-a-time-of-revolution-by-yehudah-mirsky_1.jpg?v=1787285431"},{"product_id":"theo-an-autobiography-by-theodore-bikel","title":"Theo: An Autobiography by Theodore Bikel","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" aria-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eAn award-winning actor on screen and stage (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Defiant Ones\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e The African Queen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e The Sound of Music\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e My Fair Lady\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e Fiddler on the Roof\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), an activist for civil rights and progressive causes worldwide, and a singer whose voice has won him great applause, Theodore Bikel here tells his own compelling life story. Born in Austria, raised in Palestine, educated in England, and with a stellar career in the United States and around the world, Bikel offers a personal history parallel to momentous events of the twentieth century. In an eloquent, fiercely committed voice, he writes of the Third Reich, the birth of the State of Israel, the McCarthy witch hunts of the 1950s, the tumultuous 1960s in America, and events in the Middle East.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" aria-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this edition celebrating Bikel’s ninetieth birthday, he looks back in a new chapter at his youth in prewar Vienna, his adolescent years, his continued joy in performing timeless songs, his return to Vienna in recent years, and the active life that keeps him feeling young even after nearly a century of adventure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"ING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43220474331198,"sku":"nvz1787285426447","price":18.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/0075\/8846\/files\/theo-an-autobiography-by-theodore-bikel_1.jpg?v=1787285431"},{"product_id":"lost-in-translation-a-life-in-a-new-language-by-eva-hoffman","title":"Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman","description":"\u003cspan\u003eWhen her parents brought her from the war-ravaged, faded elegance of her native Cracow in 1959 to settle in well-manicured, suburban Vancouver, Eva Hoffman was thirteen years old. 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But her perspective also made her a keen observer of an America in the flux of change. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA classically American chronicle of upward mobility and assimilation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLost in Translation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is also an incisive meditation on coming to terms with one’s own uniqueness, on learning how deeply culture affects the mind and body, and finally, on what it means to accomplish a translation of one’s self.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"PNGN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43220474363966,"sku":"pyw1787285428209","price":9.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/0075\/8846\/files\/lost-in-translation-a-life-in-a-new-language-by-eva-hoffman_1.jpg?v=1787285433"},{"product_id":"the-diaries-of-marya-zaturenska-1938-1944-edited-by-mary-hinton","title":"The Diaries of Marya Zaturenska, 1938-1944, edited by Mary Hinton","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" aria-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eAt age thirty-six, acclaimed poet Marya Zaturenska's work reached its full potential even as she battled emotional and physical illness. Recently rediscovered diaries, published here for the first time, reflect that crucial period in the poet's life. Born in Kiev, Russia, Marya Zaturenska moved to New York City at the age of eight. To help support her family, she dropped out of public high school and held various jobs in a factory, a publishing house, and bookstore. By taking night courses she managed to complete high school. Meanwhile, she wrote poetry, some of which appeared in national magazines. In time, Zaturenska would publish eight books of poetry and a biography of Christina Rossetti for which she won critical acclaim. With her husband, Horace Gregory, she wrote \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA History of American Poetry, 1900-1940\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—and counted among her literary contemporaries Willa Cather, Theodore Raethke, May Sarton, Muriel Rukeyser, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Padraic and Mary Colum, and Malcolm Cowley. Significantly, these papers reveal a woman whose life brimmed with creativity, love of family, and good humor in the face of despair. Her keen poet's eye offers biting commentary on New York's literary scene. 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Popkin uses Zelda’s experience to bring to life a larger story of American Jews and American women in the twentieth century, with the vividness that comes from having a lively character at its center. At the same time, this will also be a story about a woman whose powerful personality profoundly influenced several generations of a family. Popkin makes the case that even if she sometimes burnished her stories to create what he calls “legends of Zelda,” she was one of the most articulate female members of the generation of Jews who fought their way into the American middle class during the decades of the 1920s and 1930s. \\n\\nZelda’s life is a rich source of evidence about the experience of American Jewish women and offers perspectives that are frequently at odds with analyses based on men’s lives. The story of Zelda, her generation, and its rich and significant legacy will create a compelling portrait and detailed tapestry of an iconic woman and her time. \\n\\n \"}' data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":513,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"12\":0}' data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;\"\u003eZelda Popkin’s adventurous life could have made her the protagonist of one of her own novels. In his brilliant telling of the story of her life, her historian grandson, Jeremy D. 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Her freedom is cut short when her parents kidnap her and dump her with a Chasidic rabbi—a “cult buster” known for “reforming” wayward Jewish girls—in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRossi spends the next couple of years in a repressive, misogynistic culture straight out of the nineteenth century, forced to trade in her pink hair and Sex Pistols T-shirt for maxi skirts and long-sleeved blouses and endure not only bone-crunching boredom but also outright abuse and violence.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Punk-Rock Queen of the Jews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is filled with wonderfully rich characters, hilarious dialogue, and keen portraits of the secretive hothouse Orthodox world and the struggling New York City of the 1980s: dirty, on the edge, but fully vital and embracing.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"ING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43220474724414,"sku":"pfk1787285441331","price":11.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/0075\/8846\/files\/the-punk-rock-queen-of-the-jews-a-memoir-by-rossi_1.jpg?v=1787285446"},{"product_id":"the-life-of-jews-in-poland-before-the-holocaust-a-memoir-by-ben-zion-gold","title":"The Life of Jews in Poland before the Holocaust: A Memoir by Ben-Zion Gold","description":"\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c!--td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; color: #000000;\" data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"Ben-Zion Gold’s memoir brings to life the world of a million Jews in pre-World War II Poland who were later destroyed by the Nazis. Warmly recalling the relationships, rituals, observances, and celebrations, Gold evokes the sense of family and faith that helped him through the catastrophe that followed. With him we experience the life and institutions of the time: the Heder and hooky playing, his encounter with Hassidism, the courtship and marriage of his oldest sister, and the author’s own first inkling of love. And with him, we recapture the memories that made life worth living in the face of disaster, along with the experience of the human capacity for evil that tested and transformed his faith as it devastated his world. 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Roskies recalls his own intellectual odyssey as a Yiddish scholar; his life in the original Havurah religious commune in Somerville, Massachusetts, in the 1970s; his struggle with the notion of aliyah while studying in Israel; his visit to Russia at the height of the Soviet Jewry movement; and his confrontation with his parents' memories in a bittersweet pilgrimage to Poland. Along the way, readers of Yiddishlands meet such prominent figures as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Melekh Ravitch, Itsik Manger, Avrom Sutzkever, Esther Markish, and Rachel Korn. \\n\\nWith Yiddishlands, readers take a whirlwind tour of modern Yiddish culture, from its cabarets and literary salons to its fierce ideological rivalries and colorful personalities. 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Beginning with a flashback to his grandmother's storybook wedding in 1878, Yiddishlands brings to life the major debates, struggles, and triumphs of the modern Yiddish experience, and provides readers with memorable portraits of its great writers, cultural leaders, and educators. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRoskies's story centers around Vilna, Lithuania, where his mother, Masha, was born in 1906 and where her mother, Fradl Matz, ran the legendary Matz Press, a publishing house that distributed prayer books, Bibles, and popular Yiddish literature. After falling in love with Vilna's cabaret culture, an older man, and finally a fellow student with elbow patches on his jacket, Masha and her young family are forced to flee Europe for Montreal, via Lisbon and New York. 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