Items with the category: Biography | Jewish Book Council

Cover of Mother's Century: A Survivor, Her People and Her Times

Mother’s Century: A Survivor, Her People and Her Times

Richard L. Hermann

Cover of Renegade Women in Film & TV

Renegade Women in Film & TV

Elizabeth Weitzman

Cover of Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas

Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas

Cover of Edith Halpert, The Downtown Gallery, and the Rise of American Art

Edith Halpert, The Downtown Gallery, and the Rise of American Art

Rebecca Shaykin

Cover of Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss

Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss

Stephanie Wittels Wachs

Cover of My Life through My Dresses: Growing Up Socialist

My Life through My Dresses: Growing Up Socialist

Marina Berkovich

Cover of Waging Justice: A Doctor's Journey to Speak Truth and Be Bold

Waging Justice: A Doctor’s Journey to Speak Truth and Be Bold

Cover of A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus

A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus

Frederic Raphael

Cover of Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch

Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch

Cover of In the Lion's Shadow: The Iranian Schindler and his Homeland in the Second World War

In the Lion’s Shadow: The Iranian Schindler and his Homeland in the Second World War

Fariborz Mokhtari

Cover of Irena's Jars of Secrets

Irena’s Jars of Secrets

Marcia Vaughan; Ron Mazellan, illus.

Cover of The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story

The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story

Mary-Kay Wilmers

Essay

Writing Biography: The Historian’s Challenge, Part 2

On Tuesday, Gerald Sorin wrote about ambivalence toward the genre of biography. Today, he considers the question: Can the biographer or their readers really know the…

Gerald Sorin

November 8, 2012

Cover of Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent

Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent

Cover of Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane

Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane

Essay

Writing Biography: The Historian’s Challenge, Part 1

Gerald Sorin’s most recent book, Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane, is now available. Gerald won the 2003 National Jewish Book Award in History for…

Gerald Sorin

November 6, 2012