Vallentine Mitchell

Monica Porter dedikálásával! A könyv gerince kissé megtört, a borító szélei kopottak. Monica Porter. Deadly Carousel. A Singer's Story of the Second World War. London, 2006. Vallnetine Mitchell. XIV + [2] + 201 + [7] p. + 12 t. (kétoldalas fekete-fehér fotómelléklet). A...

They called Vali Rácz the Hungárián Marlene Dietrich, partly perhaps because she once performed wearing a man's top hat. But, as this enticing book makes perfectly clear, that is not the reason her name needs to be honoured. Jerusalem's Yad Vashem institution knew precisely why she had to be...

The World is a Wedding moves from Bernard Kops' childhood years of absolute poverty in London's Jewish East End through to the dens of Soho and his emergence as a major writer in the 1950s. Along the way Kops survived years of despair; drug addiction and madness, roaming aimlessly across London,...