Considered a masterpiece of antifascist world literature, Medallions stands as the culmination of Nalkowska's literary style, a style the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz once …
A revealing biography of Sidney Reilly, the early twentieth-century virtuoso of espionage “Mr. Morris’s dogged research . . . lends impressive rigor to this portrait of an …
When the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Thomas Toivi Blatt was twelve years old. He and his family lived in the largely Jewish town of Izbica in the Lublin district …
From one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sigmund Freud comes a strikingly original biography of the father of psychoanalysisBecoming Freud is the story of the young …
An insightful biography of the most controversial and perhaps most fervent of all Zionist political figures “A beautifully written short biography of an exceedingly interesting …
The life and thought of a forceful figure in Israel’s religious and political life Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) was one of the most influential—and controversial—rabbis of …
