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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 374

biography

Marty Glickman (left), and Sam Stoller, at sea en route to the 1936 Olympics. (Courtesy, Nancy Glickman via JTA)
August 7, 2024, 1:44 am
How the US caved to antisemitism and snubbed a Jewish Olympian at 1936 Berlin Games
In new book ‘Marty Glickman,’ historian and professor Jeffrey Gurock unlocks the life of a sports hero and announcer whose proud Jewish identity was a model for countless young fans
By Rich Tenorio
Judge Irving Kaufman (Kaufman Family Photo Collection)
May 26, 2024, 4:54 pm
Biography tries to move judge out from under shadow of controversial Rosenberg spy case
Irving R. Kaufman, remembered primarily for sending couple to electric chair, shifted over time from being almost unquestioningly pro-government to an upholder of individuals’ rights
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A very young Elida (left) with Stanislava and her daughter Audra, who hid Elida (renamed Rita) on their farm from late 1943 to the end of the war. (Courtesy of Zipora Klein Jakob)
May 4, 2024, 7:10 am
The amazing true story of a baby illegally born and smuggled out of Kovno ghetto
Elida Freidman Goldberg Katzman changed names, families, countries and continents numerous times as she grappled until her premature death with being a Holocaust orphan from birth
By Renee Ghert-Zand
'Fatherland,' by Burkhard Bilger (Courtesy); and Karl Gonner's undated prisoner of war photo. (Dépôt central des archives de la justice militaire)
October 4, 2023, 4:24 am
The ‘reasonable Nazi’ defended by the French villagers he oversaw
In his new book ‘Fatherland,’ Burkhard Bilger tells about his 1992 discovery that his grandfather had been tried for war crimes in postwar France – but that’s not the whole story
By Robert Philpot
Prime Minister Golda Meir pays a visit to the Na'aran kibbutz in the West Bank on November 28, 1972. (Moshe Milner/GPO)
August 15, 2023, 11:47 pm
How should Golda Meir be remembered? Deborah Lipstadt weighs in
50 years after end of Meir’s term as PM, longtime historian and current US envoy pens a new biography of the leader – but chooses to skim over her time leading the nation
By Amy Spiro
FILE - In this June 29, 1956 file photo, actress Marilyn Monroe, left, and playwright Arthur Miller embrace on the lawn of Miller's home in Roxbury, Conn., several hours before they were married in White Plains, New York. (AP Photo, File)
April 22, 2023, 2:40 am
The rags-to-riches story of Arthur Miller, Pulitzer-winning son of Jewish immigrants
A new biography by John Lahr in Yale’s Jewish Lives Series tracks the successes (and many failures) of a beloved American writer whose tragic characters were inspired by his life
By JP O’ Malley
'The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century,' by Prof. Matthias B. Lehmann. (Courtesy)
April 11, 2023, 10:24 pm
How Orient Express’s Baron Maurice de Hirsch changed the track of Jewish migration
In bio ‘The Baron,’ Prof. Matthias B. Lehmann takes a new approach to history-telling by following the man who helped resettle Jews in locales ranging from Istanbul to Argentina
By Rich Tenorio
Robert Caro, left, and Robert Gottlieb in a still from 'Turn Every Page,' directed by Lizzie Gottlieb. (Claudia Raschke/ Courtesy of Wild Surmise Productions, LLC / Sony Pictures Classics)
December 30, 2022, 9:03 pm
New doc chronicles adventures of towering US-Jewish writer-editor duo of 50 years
In ‘Turn Every Page,’ out Dec. 30, Lizzie Gottlieb captures the often tense relationship between her father, editing great Robert Gottlieb, and lauded political author Robert Caro
By Jacqueline Cutler
Detail from 'Portrait of Stella' by artist Maira Kalman, from 'One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World' by Michael Frank (Avid Reader Press)
December 29, 2022, 12:26 am
99-year-old Holocaust survivor is a final portal into vibrant life of prewar Rhodes
In ‘One Hundred Saturdays,’ Stella Levi shares with author Michael Frank her memories of centuries-old traditions of the Aegean island’s Sephardic community destroyed by the Nazis
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Sigmund Freud in his study at Berggasse 19 in Vienna, 1934. (Freud Museum London)
September 26, 2022, 11:01 am
How Sigmund Freud fled Nazi Austria, leaving siblings who perished in the Holocaust
In his new book ‘Saving Freud,’ award-winning journalist Andrew Nagorski explores the history surrounding the father of modern psychology’s harrowing escape to safety in London
By JP O’ Malley
Zalman Shazar, Golda Meir, David Ben Gurion and Giora Josephtal at a Labor party conference in Tel Aviv on April 8, 1959. (Hans Pinn/GPO)
September 7, 2022, 2:14 am
Biography revisits the life of Golda Meir, the anti-feminist feminist leader
Author Pnina Lahav’s ‘The Only Woman in the Room’ examines the career of Israel’s fourth prime minister by exploring how being a woman shaped — or twisted — her path
By Amy Spiro
Edmond J. Safra, at age 16, eating breakfast in Geneva in 1948. As a teenager in the late 1940s, he lived out of hotels and conducted business for his father in Europe. (Edmond J. Safra Foundation)
September 1, 2022, 11:50 pm
New biography delves into mysterious backstory of billionaire banker Edmond J. Safra
Few truly knew the private Safra, who died tragically after scaling up his family’s small Beirut business into a hugely successful global financial operation on four continents
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu casts his vote in the Likud primaries at a polling station in Tel Aviv on August 10, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 16, 2022, 10:44 pm
Netanyahu autobiography ‘Bibi: My Story’ due out in November
In statement announcing memoir’s release, former PM says his tale ‘is woven with that of Israel’; book will range from early years to negotiations with US presidents
By Agencies
Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover, father of nuclear powered submarines, boards the USS Nautilus from the Navy Tug 534 in the Narrows below Brooklyn, New York on August 25, 1958. (AP Photo/Pool)
June 11, 2022, 1:17 am
How a Jewish immigrant from the shtetl became the father of America’s nuclear Navy
Abrasive, controversial and tenacious, Admiral Hyman Rickover was called ‘the greatest engineer to ever live’ by Jimmy Carter. A new biography tells his incredible life story
By Rich Tenorio
Author Rich Cohen (left) and his father Herb Cohen with 'Mick Jagger,' New York, 2016. (Courtesy of Rich Cohen)
May 27, 2022, 1:28 pm
From Brooklyn gang to the Oval Office: Meet negotiator extraordinaire Herb Cohen
Rich Cohen’s latest book, ‘The Adventures of Herbie Cohen,’ is part biography and part family memoir, centering on his father, an international deal-making guru
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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