Wilson, Jonathan

"Before Johan Cruyff and Diego Maradona, modern soccer was shaped by legends like Guszt?v Sebes, B?la Guttman, M?rton Bukovi, Egri Ebstein, and Imre Herschel. In the 1920s and 1930s, they gathered with fellow players and coaches in the coffeehouses Budapest and invented soccer as we know it today. By the 1940s their culture was gone and these men and women, many of whom were Jewish, would be dead, interned, or in exile, their contributions to the beautiful game forgotten. In 'The Names Heard Long Ago', Jonathan Wilson invites readers into the pre-World War II era, when Hungary first established professional leagues. An unprecedented number of middle-class people in both countries took an interest in the sport. They were largely university educated, and they instinctively applied academic techniques and analysis to the game. 'The Names Heard Long Ago' is as much about the individuals who cultivated the way the game is played as it is a tale of a way of life that was wiped out by fascism"--OCLC.

Chronicles the life of twentieth century Jewish artist Marc Chagall, focusing on how Chagall's experiences, relationships, and world views influenced his art.

In 1924 British Palestine, Mark Bloomberg, a disillusioned London painter, arrives with his American wife and accidentally witnesses the murder of a prominent Orthodox Jew and becomes embroiled in an investigation which threatens both their marriage and their lives.