Shaft Among the Jews
Author | : Ernest Tidyman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780552093095 |
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Author | : Ernest Tidyman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780552093095 |
Author | : Ernest Tidyman |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780297995999 |
Author | : Ernest Tidyman |
Publisher | : Dynamite |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2016-07-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1524100196 |
Who is John Shaft? John Shaft is a private eye. John Shaft is a black man made of muscle and ice, and he has no prejudices. John Shaft will kill anyone... black or white. When the cloistered daughter of Harlem's crime boss discovers the true nature of her father's work, she runs off to be as bad as Dad. By the time she disappears, she's into sex, liquor, dope, and a few other scenes. Now, Big Daddy wants Shaft to get his baby back. The tough, take-no-guff detective goes to work... and the Mafia, the Black militants, the NYPD, and City Hall go to work on him. The original and unabridged Shaft novel by Ernest Tidyman, the 1970 tour de force of hardboiled crime fiction that introduced an unsuspecting world to a cultural icon.
Author | : Claude Brown |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2011-12-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 145163157X |
The autobiography of a young black man raised in Harlem. A realistic description of life in the ghetto.
Author | : Steve Aldous |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2015-10-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786499230 |
Mention Shaft and most people think of Gordon Parks' seminal 1971 film starring Richard Roundtree in a leather coat, walking the streets of Manhattan to Isaac Hayes' iconic theme music. But the black private dick who inspired the blaxploitation film genre actually made his debut on the printed page as the creation of a white novelist. Ernest Tidyman was a seasoned journalist down on his luck when he decided to try his hand at fiction. Shaft was the result, giving Tidyman the break he was looking for. He went on to become an Academy Award winning screenwriter and respected film producer. Based on extensive research of Tidyman's personal papers, this book tells the story of Shaft from the perspective of his creator. The author provides new insight and analysis of the writing of the Shaft novels, as well as the production of the films and TV series. First-ever coverage of the forgotten Shaft newspaper comic strip includes previously unseen artwork. Also included is Shaft's recent reappearance on the printed page, in both comic book and prose form.
Author | : A. B. Yehoshua |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2000-05-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547541058 |
“A masterpiece” about faith, race, and morality at a medieval turning point, from the National Jewish Book Award winner and “Israeli Faulkner” (The New York Times). It’s edging toward the end of the year 999 when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant from Tangiers, takes two wives—an act of bigamy that results in the moral objections of his nephew and business partner, Raphael Abulafia, and the dissolution of their once profitable enterprise of importing treasures from the Atlas Mountains. Abulafia’s repudiation triggers a potentially perilous move by Attar to set things right—by setting sail for medieval Paris to challenge his nephew, and his nephew’s own pious wife, face to face. Accompanied by a Spanish rabbi, a Muslim trader, a timid young slave, a crew of Arab sailors, and his two veiled wives, Attar will soon find himself in an even more dangerous battle—with the Christian zealots who fear that Jews and others they see as immoral infidels will impede the coming of Jesus at the dawn of a new millennium. From the author of A Woman in Jerusalem, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, this is an insightful portrait of a unique moment in history as well as the timeless issues that still trouble us today. “The end of the first millennium comes to represent only one of many breaches—between north and south, Christians and Jews, Jews and Muslims, Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews, men and women—across which A. B. Yehoshua's extraordinary novel delivers us.” —The New York Times
Author | : David F. Walker |
Publisher | : Dynamite |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2016-02-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1606908561 |
Like an unstoppable force of nature, private detective John Shaft is back with a vengeance. Ernest Tidyman s iconic detective returns in the first original Shaft novel in more than forty years, and he s as bad as ever. When the Godfather of crime in Harlem reaches out to Shaft for a favor, the hardboiled detective finds himself caught in a web of violence and murder. No one is safe as the bullets start to fly and the bodies start to drop, leaving Shaft with only two options: kill or be killed.
Author | : Alan Scott Haft |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2015-02-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0815608004 |
Alan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love. Harry Haft was a sixteen-year-old Polish Jew when he entered a concentration camp in 1944. Forced to fight other Jews in bare-knuckle bouts for the perverse entertainment of SS officers, Harry quickly learned that his own survival depended on his ability to fight and win. Haft details the inhumanity of the "sport" in which he must perform in brutal contests for the officers. Ultimately escaping the camp, Haft’s experience left him an embittered and pugnacious young man. Determined to find freedom, Haft traveled to America and began a career as a professional boxer, quickly finding success using his sharp instincts and fierce confidence. In a historic battle, Haft fights in a match with Rocky Marciano, the future undefeated heavyweight champion of the world. Haft’s boxing career takes him into the world of such boxing legends as Rocky Graziano, Roland La Starza, and Artie Levine, and he reveals new details about the rampant corruption at all levels of the sport. In sharp contrast to Elie Wiesel’s scholarly, pious protagonist in Night, Harry Haft is an embattled survivor, challenging the reader’s capacity to understand suffering and find compassion for an antihero whose will to survive threatens his own humanity. Haft’s account, at once dispassionate and deeply absorbing, is an extraordinary story and an invaluable contribution to Holocaust literature.
Author | : Steven Collins |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2016-03-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 145168438X |
Like many modern-day Christians, Dr. Collins struggled with what seemed to be a clash between his belief in the Bible and the research regarding ancient history--a crisis of faith that inspired him to embark on an expedition that has led to one of the most exciting finds in recent archaeology.
Author | : Irene Gut Opdyke |
Publisher | : Ember |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2016-03-08 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0553538845 |
"No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful."--School Library Journal, starred I did not ask myself, "Should I do this?" but "How will I do this?" Through this intimate and compelling memoir, we are witness to the growth of a hero. Much like The Diary of Anne Frank, In My Hands has become a profound testament to individual courage. You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defierof the SS and the Nazis, all at once. When the war began, Irene Gut was just seventeen: a student nurse, a Polish patriot, a good Catholic girl. Forced to work in a German officiers' dining hall, she learns how to fight back. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence. Irene eavesdropped on the German's plans. She smuggled people out of the work camp. And she hid twelve Jews in the basement of a Nazi major's home. To deliver her friends from evil, this young woman did whatever it took--even the impossible.