Adina Hoffman: 4 books
Till We Have Built Jerusalem
Architects of a New City
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
A biographical excavation of one of the world’s great, troubled cities
A remarkable view of one of the world’s most beloved and troubled cities, Adina Hoffman’s Till We Have Built Jerusalem is a gripping and intimate journey into the very different lives of three architects who helped...
Sacred Trash
The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
**NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST
Part of the Jewish Encounter series**
One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect...
House of Windows
Portraits From a Jerusalem Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
A brilliant and moving evocation of the rhythms of life (and the darker shadows below it) in a working-class quarter of the world’s most fascinating and divided city.
In the tradition of the literature of place perfected by such expatriate writers as M. F. K. Fisher and Isak Dinesen, Adina Hoffman’s...
Ben Hecht
Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayist
He was, according to Pauline Kael, “the greatest American screenwriter.” Jean-Luc Godard called him “a genius” who “invented 80 percent of what is used...