Meyer Levin: 13 books

In 1951, Meyer Levin’s wife gave him a copy of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, which had just been published in France. Levin was already a successful writer in his mid-forties, searching for a way to bear witness to his experiences as a war correspondent in Europe. In Anne Frank’s diary,...

Acclaimed as “the most significant American Jewish writer of his time” by the Los Angeles Times, Meyer Levin amassed an astonishing and diverse body of work before his death in 1981. The first of two autobiographies, In Search was originally published in 1950. Raised in the notorious Bloody...

The Old Bunch chronicles the lives of nineteen Jewish men and women on Chicago’s west side, a spawling-yet-intimate portrait of American life during the Great Depression, by an author the LA Times hailed as “the most significant American Jewish writer of his time.” Among the various lives...

An extraordinary classic from the most significant American Jewish writer of the 20th century, award winning author Meyer Levin. What makes a man? When Félicité, a young French researcher, travels to Jerusalem to study alongside renowned professor Uriel Buchhalter, she doesn’t expect...

Judd Steiner and Artie Straus have it all: wealth, intelligence, and the world at their feet as part of the elite, upper-crust Jewish community of 1920s Chicago. Artie is handsome, athletic, and popular, but he possesses a hidden, powerful sadistic streak and a desire to dominate. Judd is a weedy introvert,...

“A fine American novel—one of the best I ever read.” —Ernest Hemingway THE PRICE OF PROGRESS For Chicago physician, Mitch Wilner, July 4th, 1937, began as a typical holiday—a leisurely afternoon at the beach with his wife and young children. But by the end of the day, a peaceful...

Acclaimed as the Jewish War and Peace, The Settlers, along with its sequel The Harvest, marks the crowning achievement of the author Norman Mailer hailed as “one of the best American writers working in the realistic tradition.” At the turn of the twentieth century, Feigel and Yankel Chaimovitch...

“The culmination of a prodigiously productive and important career.” -- Norman Mailer When the Chaimovitch family fled the Russian pogroms at the turn of the twentieth century, they did so hoping their family could flourish in, Eretz Yisroel, the land of their ancestors. Twenty years later,...

For the first time in eBook format, a beloved classic from the most significant American Jewish writer of the 20th century, award-winning author Meyer Levin. He’s never felt this way before… Johnnie didn’t plan on falling for Frankie—she was too young, too naïve, and his best...

Oggi ricostruire fatti di sangue è diventato un intrattenimento di massa – più o meno l'unico, si direbbe. Ma c'è stata un'epoca non lontana, e peraltro abbastanza sanguinaria, in cui l'assassinio gratuito di un ragazzo da parte di due suoi coetanei veniva presentato, sulle prime pagine di...

Two hundred years ago, in a remote hut in the Carpathian Mountains, there lived a wonder-worker named Rabbi Israel. Some now say that he never existed; the like has been said of King Arthur and of Jesus Christ; their legends remain with us. Some say that Israel was never a rabbi, but rather an unlearned...

Psychotherapy Pearls began as a personal project to capture as many of the clinical insights as possible from the careers of its two authors, Fred Levin and Meyer Gunther. Such wisdom accumulates piecemeal only from the continued intensive experience of working each day with patients who are suffering...

While energy efficiency projects could partly meet new energy demand more cheaply than new supplies, weak economic institutions in developing and transitional economies impede developing and financing energy efficiency retrofits. This book analyzes these difficulties, suggests a 3-part model for projectizing...