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Ben-Gurion: A Political Life by Shimon Peres
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Jewish Encounters Ser.
Part of the Jewish Encounter series Israel's current president gives us a dramatic and revelatory biography of Israel's founding father and first prime minister. Shimon Peres was in his early twenties when he first met David Ben-Gurion. Although the state that Ben-Gurion would lead through war and peace ...Show more
Jews and Power by Ruth R. Wisse
Category: History | Series: Jewish Encounters Ser.
Taking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with God constituted a treaty with the most powerful force in the universe; this later transforme ...Show more
The Dairy Restaurant by Ben Katchor
Category: Food and Drink | Series: Jewish Encounters Ser.
Ben Katchor retells the history of where we choose to eat--a history that starts with the first man who was allowed to enter a walled garden and encouraged by the garden's owner to enjoy its fruits. He examines the biblical milk-and-meat taboo, the first vegetarian practices, and the invention of the re ...Show more
The Rise of Abraham Cahan by Seth Lipsky
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Jewish Encounters Ser.
The first general-interest biography of the legendary editor of "The Jewish Daily Forward," the iconic Yiddish-language newspaper of the laboring masses that inspired, educated, and entertained millions of readers, helped redefine journalism during its golden age, and transformed American culture. Abrah ...Show more
The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem by Jeremy Dauber
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Jewish Encounters Ser.
The first comprehensive biography of one of the most beloved authors of all time: the creator of "Tevye the Dairyman," the stories that inspired "Fiddler on the Roof." Novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist, and editor, Sholem Aleichem was one of the founding giants of modern Yiddish literature and ...Show more
Wicked Son by David Mamet
Category: Politics | Series: Jewish Encounters Ser.
David Mamet's interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have internalized that hatred. Using the metaphor of the Wicked Son at the Passover seder (the child who asks, "What does this story mean to you?") Mamet con ...Show more
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