Bugsy Siegal
June 3, 2021
Michael Shnayerson— By the age of twelve, Siegel was essentially spending his days as he pleased—but what he pleased to do, more than play games, was embark on petty crime…. READ MORE
Tag: Jewish Lives
Marriage in the Movies of Stanley Kubrick
August 19, 2020
David Mikics— We usually don’t remember that Stanley Kubrick made movies about marriage, but he did. Three of his films center on a married couple, and all of them are… READ MORE
Gershom Scholem: The Private Life of an Intellectual
November 16, 2018
David Biale— While researching my biography of the historian Gershom Scholem for Yale’s Jewish Lives series, I came across virtually unknown evidence that Scholem fell in love in 1934 with… READ MORE
To Go or Not To Go
March 13, 2018
Hasia R. Diner— Balancing the choices open to them—staying put; going to a big city in Europe, the Ottoman Empire, or North Africa; or emigrating to the new world— consumed… READ MORE
Shining a Spotlight on Jewish Lives
May 9, 2017
To celebrate the launch of the new Jewish Lives series website, you can get 25% off purchases of books in the series and enter for a chance to win all 35 books…. READ MORE
In Bed with the Avant-garde: The Peggy Guggenheim Story / Interview with Francine Prose by David Ebony
October 8, 2015
David Ebony— An eccentric heiress with an all-consuming passion for avant-garde art and artists, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) just happened to change the course of 20th-century art during her tumultuous lifetime…. READ MORE
In Bed with the Avant-Garde—The Peggy Guggenheim Story: Interview with Francine Prose by David Ebony
David Ebony— An eccentric heiress with an all-consuming passion for avant-garde art and artists, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) just happened to change the course of 20th-century art during her tumultuous lifetime…. READ MORE
Analyzing Freud, the Master of Psychoanalysis
May 30, 2014
“Biographers, Freud knew even as a young man, spoke on other people’s behalf—like parents, doctors, rabbis, and politicians. Psychoanalysis was to be a medical treatment which enabled people to speak… READ MORE
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