Items with the category: Biography | Jewish Book Council

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 Call Me Phaedra: The Life and Times of Movement Lawyer Fay Stender

Call Me Phaedra: The Life and Times of Movement Lawyer Fay Stender

Cover of Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement

Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement

Cover of Clear It With Sid!: Sidney R. Yates and Fifty Years of Presidents, Pragmatism, and Public Service

Clear It With Sid!: Sidney R. Yates and Fifty Years of Presidents, Pragmatism, and Public Service

George Van Dusen

Cover of Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show

Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show

Cover of Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century

Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century

Alexandra Popoff

Cover of Rivers of Light: The Life of Claire Myers Owens

Rivers of Light: The Life of Claire Myers Owens

Miriam Kalman Friedman

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 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