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Ben Hecht - Fighting Words, Moving Pictures by Adina Hoffman
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayistHe was, according to Pauline Kael, "the greatest American screenwriter." Jean-Luc Godard called him "a genius" who "invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies t ...Show more
Ben Hecht - Fighting Words, Moving Pictures by Adina Hoffman
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayistHe was, according to Pauline Kael, "the greatest American screenwriter." Jean-Luc Godard called him "a genius" who "invented 80 pe ...Show more
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century by Adina Hoffman
Category: Biography Memoir
Beautifully written, and composed with a novelist's eye for detail, this book tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged. Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriyya and was forced to flee during the war in 1948. He traveled on foot to Lebanon ...Show more
Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza by Adina Hoffman
Category: Judaica
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect several pieces of rag paper and parchment. It was the un ...Show more
The House of Windows by Adina Hoffman
Category: Travel Literature
House of Windows is a compelling evocation of Jerusalem seen through the prism of the neighbourhood where Hoffman has lived for nearly a decade since moving from the United States. By focusing on the day-to-day rhythms of this close-knit community - practically a self contained village within the bustli ...Show more
Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City by Adina Hoffman
Category: History
A remarkable view of one of the world’s most beloved and troubled cities, Adina Hoffman’s Till We Have Built Jerusalem is a gripping and intimate journey into the very different lives of three architects who helped shape modern Jerusalem. The book unfolds as an excavation and opens with the arrival in 1 ...Show more
Till We Have Built Jerusalem - Architects of a New City by Adina Hoffman
Category: History
A biographical excavation of one of the world's great, troubled cities A remarkable view of one of the world's most beloved and troubled cities, Adina Hoffman'sTill We Have Built Jerusalem is a gripping and intimate journey into the very different lives of three architects who helped shape modern Jerusa ...Show more
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