Meyer Levin
1) Compulsion
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 genius who longs for a companion whom he can idolize and worship. Obsessed with Nietzsche's idea of the superhuman, both boys decide to prove
...Author
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
Science and mysticism collide in this romantic fable from the acclaimed author of Compulsion and The Old Bunch.
When Félicité, a young French researcher, travels to Jerusalem to study the secrets of life alongside renowned professor Uriel Buchhalter, she is surprised to find the older man's heart as engaging as his mind. But their relationship is complicated when American scientist, Joe Schwartz-bitterly jealous of his rival's personal and professional...
3) The harvest
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
The Harvest is the great, definitive novel of the creation of the Jewish state and the triumphant efforts of the Jewish people to survive and become a nation.
4) The settlers
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
Set in Palestine from the turn of the century to the Balfour Declaration, this novel revolves around a large Russian immigrant family facing a new life in a barren land.
5) Eva
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1959.
Language
English
Description
A novel of the Holocaust, first published in 1959, is a fictionalized account of Ida Loew, a young Jewish girl from Poland who survived the Jewish pogroms of the Nazis and the Auschwitz camp.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
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, he found the voice he had been waiting for. The Obsession, widely regarded as one of Meyer Levin's finest works, is a candid account of his struggle to...
13) Compulsion
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Orson Welles portrayed lawyer Clarene Darrow, in a story based very closely on the 1924 Chicago murder case of Loeb-Leopold, in which two wealthy law-school students are on trial.
