Auteur: Nadler Steven Nadler

There is a popular and romantic myth about Rembrandt and the Jewish people. One of history’s greatest artists, we are often told, had a special affinity for Judaism. With so many of Rembrandt’s works …

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an illuminating biography of the great Amsterdam rabbi and celebrated popularizer of Judaism in the seventeenth century Menasseh ben Israel (1604–1657 …

A biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the reader into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden Age. Frans Hals was one of the greatest portrait painters in history, and his style …

A critical biography of Rene Descartes, whose first principle ("I think therefore I am.") reshaped modern philosophy. Often called the father of modern philosophy, Ren Descartes set the int …