Alfred Dreyfus
The Man at the Center of the Affair
ISBN: PB: 9780300281804,
ISBN: HB: 9780300254006,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
224 pp., 21,6x14,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
224 pp., 21,6x14,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents.
On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus's cries of innocence were drowned out by a mob shouting "Death t...
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Elie Wiesel
Confronting the Silence
ISBN: PB: 9780300281835,
ISBN: HB: 9780300228984,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
360 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
360 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Biography category.
As an orphaned survivor and witness to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1...
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Spinoza
Freedom's Messiah
ISBN: PB: 9780300281866,
ISBN: HB: 9780300248920,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
216 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
216 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time.
Baruch (Benedictus) Spinoza (1632-1677) was a radical free thinker who led a life guided by...
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Abraham
The First Jew
ISBN: HB: 9780300266801,
Yale University Press,
March 2025
392 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
392 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradictions in Judaism throughout its history.
In this new biography of Abraham, Judaism's foundational figure, Anthony Julius offers an account of...
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Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg
The Whole Equation
ISBN: HB: 9780300254495,
Yale University Press,
March 2025
392 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
392 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
Kenneth Turan brings to life the extraordinary partnership of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg and their role in creating the film industry as we know it.
One was a tough junkman's son, the other a cosseted mama's boy, but they dreamed the same m...
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Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Becoming the Messiah
ISBN: HB: 9780300222623,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
320 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
320 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
The life and thought of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, one of the most influential – and controversial – rabbis in modern Judaism.
The Chabad-Lubavitch movement, one of the world's best-known Hasidic groups, is driven by the belief that we are on the...
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Ayn Rand
Writing a Gospel of Success
ISBN: HB: 9780300253214,
Yale University Press,
September 2024
264 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
264 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A deeply researched biography of the prominent and divisive writer Ayn Rand, whose pro-capitalist novels and nonfiction have influenced three generations of Americans.
Biographer Alexandra Popoff traces the life and creative achievement of Ayn Rand...
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Herod the Great
Jewish King in a Roman World
ISBN: HB: 9780300228410,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
248 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
248 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great during the turmoil of the Roman revolution.
Herod the Great (73-4 BCE) was a phenomenally energetic ruler who took advantage of the chaos of the Rom...
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Henrietta Szold
Hadassah and the Zionist Dream
ISBN: HB: 9780300247787,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
256 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
256 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Award-winning author Francine Klagsbrun reveals the complex life and work of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah and a Zionist trailblazer.
Henrietta Szold (1860-1945) is renowned as the founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of Ame...
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Arthur Miller
American Witness
ISBN: PB: 9780300276794,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
264 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
264 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller's dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights.
Distinguished theater critic John Lahr brings unique perspective to the life of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), the p...
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