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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...
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Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
ix, 191 pages : portrait ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The commonly held view of Albert Einstein is of an eccentric genius for whom the pursuit of science was everything. But in actuality, the brilliant innovator whose Theory of Relativity forever reshaped our understanding of time was a man of his times, always politically engaged and driven by strong moral principles. An avowed pacifist, Einstein's mistrust of authority and outspoken social and scientific views earned him death threats from Nazi sympathizers...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
viii, 162 pages : portrait ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The cultural and psychological roots of Groucho Marx's genius are explored, uncovering the source of the performer's outrageous intellectual acuity and hilarious insolence toward convention and authority in his early upbringing and Marx family dynamics. -- Publisher's description.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
x, 282 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 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,...
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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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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xi, 237 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) rose from modest means as the son of a peddler to immense wealth at the helm of Sears, Roebuck. Yet his most defining legacy stands not upon his business acumen but on the pioneering changes he introduced to the practice of philanthropy. While few may recall Rosenwald's name--he refused to have it attached to the buildings, projects, or endowments he supported--his passionate support of Jewish and African American causes...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Language
English
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A biography of the director details his many films and describes how his unique and evocative gift for storytelling evolved from experiences in his own life, including his parents' divorce and his return to Judaism after his son was born.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
viii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasy Warner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early twentieth century through its ascent to the pinnacle of Hollywood influence and popularity.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
272 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An insider?s perspective on the life and influence of Israel?s first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination.
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