Marie Syrkin
Subtitle: values beyond the self
By: Carole S. Kessner.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: HBI series on Jewish women; Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life
Publisher: Brandeis University Press; University Press of New England
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Waltham, Mass; Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9781584654513
Subjects: Syrkin, Marie, -- 1899-1989; Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life; Intellectuals -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; Zionists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; Jewish scholars -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; Jewish authors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Marie's birthright; title: A Bronx adolescence; title: That fabulous summer: Maurice; title: Elopement and annulment; title: Marriage, motherhood, tragedy; title: David, divorce, and the death of Nachman; title: A new life: Charles; title: An unorthodox marriage: Palestine and Hollywood; title: At the nexus of the "Jewish problem"; title: On the Jewish Frontier: the twenty-first Zionist Congress; title: The war, the White Paper, and the rescue of Jews; title: Wartime horrors: personal unhappiness; title: Postwar projects: DP camps, Blessed is the match, Israel; title: Academia at last: the Brandeis years.