Tangled loyalties (dedikált példány)

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Rubenstein uncovers the man behind the controversies, the gifted writer whose life embodied all the tragic dilemmas of a Russian Jewish intellectual under totalitarianism.
Journalist, novelist, and poet, Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967) was one of the' most important Russian cultural figures of the 20th century. In vivid detail, Tangled Loyalties draws extensively on new material from Russian archives, from Ehrenburg's private correspondence, and from interviews with scores of family members and friends to tell Ehrenburg's story. This penetrating biography will challenge our assumptions about collaboration, assimilation, dissent, and moral survival.
"A convincing, judicious and enjoyable biography."
— New York Times Book Review
"A solid and eloquent work." —New Republic
"Finding a good subject is a biographer's first hurdle, and in choosing Ilya Ehrenburg, Joshua Rubenstein flew right over the bar." —Dissent
"For those seeking to grasp the terrible moral dilemmas of... Tovább

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Rubenstein uncovers the man behind the controversies, the gifted writer whose life embodied all the tragic dilemmas of a Russian Jewish intellectual under totalitarianism.
Journalist, novelist, and poet, Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967) was one of the' most important Russian cultural figures of the 20th century. In vivid detail, Tangled Loyalties draws extensively on new material from Russian archives, from Ehrenburg's private correspondence, and from interviews with scores of family members and friends to tell Ehrenburg's story. This penetrating biography will challenge our assumptions about collaboration, assimilation, dissent, and moral survival.
"A convincing, judicious and enjoyable biography."
— New York Times Book Review
"A solid and eloquent work." —New Republic
"Finding a good subject is a biographer's first hurdle, and in choosing Ilya Ehrenburg, Joshua Rubenstein flew right over the bar." —Dissent
"For those seeking to grasp the terrible moral dilemmas of intellectuals living under a ruthless totalitarianism and who accepted its fundamental ideological thrust, this meticulously researched work is indispensable."
— Hadassah
"Prodigious research, along with important interviews with a hundred of Ehrenburg's contemporaries and their children, make this the freshest and the most complete Ehrenburg biography to date." —Russian Review
Joshua Rubenstein is the Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International usa and an Associate at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. He has written for the Nation, the New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, and the NewYork Times, among other publications.
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