Results for: books tagged ‘Jewish’
Free Association: Steven Berkoff
What made Steven Berkoff? Born in the East End in 1937 and educated at Hackney Downs Grammar (Harold Pinter's old school), throughout his life as actor, director and playwright, Steven ... More
Via Dolorosa: David Hare
'My whole life, it's been assumed, Western civilisation is an old bitch gone in the teeth. And so people say, go to Israel. Because in Israel at least people are ... More
Life is Beautiful: Roberto Benigni
Winner of the Best Picture at the 1998 European Film Awards and the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. 'A masterpiece. Romantic, hilarious, and astonishingly moving.' Chicago ... More
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Nathan Englander
Nathan Englander's first work of fiction, published when he was in his late twenties, landed him firmly in the company of Bellow, Malamud, Singer and Roth, with ten delightfully irreverent ... More
Howard Katz: Patrick Marber
Patrick Marber's blackly comic play about a hard-nosed and successful Jewish showbiz agent dealing with a mid-life crisis follows his Dealer's Choice and Closer to complete a loose trilogy set ... More
Mahler's Conversion: Ronald Harwood
'I belong nowhere.'Obsessed with power and fame, Gustav Mahler rejects his Jewish background and his friends with devastating consequences.Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), a composer and conductor of passion and genius, was ... More
Menuhin: Humphrey Burton
This is the first full length, cradle-to-grave study of Yehudi Menuhin, one of the best known and best loved of the twentieth century's classical musicians. Menuhin was born in New ... More
The Pianist & Taking Sides: Ronald Harwood
The Pianist is based on the memoir by Wladyslaw Szpilman, directed by Roman Polanski. It charts the extraordinary but true story of a Polish pianist whose family all perished during ... More
The Gun and the Olive Branch: David Hirst
'An epic tale . . . told relentlessly well. If you want to read a serious account of the price of Zionism, and a sobering review of Israel's new role ... More
Conspirators: Michael Andre Bernstein
Galicia, Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and the East, the worldly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of assassinations ... More
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