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Isaac Deutscher
Isaac Deutscher (1907-1967)

historian, sociologist, journalist, biographer

  • Jagiellonian University, University of Warsaw

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The Prophet Armed
Stalin
The Prophet Unarmed
The Prophet Outcast
Lenin's childhood
Trotsky
The prophet
Stalin
Ṭrotsḳi
סטאלין
The Unfinished Revolution
Ironies of history
Stalin, a political biography
Russia in transition
Marxism in our time
Marxism, wars, and revolutions
Russia, China, and the West
The great purges
Soviet trade unions
The great contest
Heretics and renegades, and other essays
The non-Jewish Jew and other essays
Non-Jewish Jew
On Socialist man
Russia In Transition
The Non-Jewish Jew
Revolutionary Marxist students in Poland speak out, 1964-1968
La Russie après Staline
Hi Yudayateki Yudayajin
Soviet Trade Unions: Their Place in Soviet Labour Policy (Russian Studies : Perspectives on the Revolution)
The Great Contest
Marxism in our time
Reportagen aus Nachkriegsdeutschland
Ōinaru kyōsō
On socialist man
Deutscher on the Chinese cultural revolution
Heretics and renegades
The tragedy of Polish communism between the wars
Roshia kaumei go-ju-nen
Der Maoismus
La révolution inachevée
Myths of the cold war
Russia: what next?
The Soviet seven-year plan
Myths of the cold war
המהפכה הבלתי גמורה
El judío no sionista y otros ensayos
Sovjet - Vesten
Russia
Ironies of history
Russia after Stalin
Trotskiy v izgnanii
Polémica sobre la guerra Árabe-Israeli
The great contest
Russian revolution 1917
Russia in transition
Our socialist man
Russia, China, and the West
El judío no sionista y otros ensayos
Russia in transition, and other essays
The great contest
On socialist man
Die ungelöste Judenfrage
Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997)

philosopher, historian, diplomat, historian of ideas, sociologist, political scientist

  • University of Oxford, St Paul's School

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Russian Thinkers
Karl Marx
Personal impressions
Trois essais sur la condition juive
Manhiguto shel Ṿaitsman
Chaim Weizmann
Reshamim ishiyim
Karl Marx, his life and environment
Four Essays on Liberty
The sense of reality
The hedgehog and the fox
Against the Current
The proper study of mankind
The magus of the north
Political Ideas in the Romantic Age
The roots of romanticism
The Crooked Timber of Humanity
Three critics of the Enlightenment
The First and the Last
Concepts and categories
The age of enlightenment
The Soviet Mind
Letters, 1928-1946
Washington despatches, 1941-1945
Liberty
Vico and Herder
Flourishing
Freedom and Its Betrayal
Building
Fathers and children
Isaiah Berlin, en toutes libertés
Essays on J. L. Austin
Historical inevitability
Unfinished dialogue
Enlightening
Two concepts of liberty
The Power of Ideas
Selected writings
Revolutionary Russia
Conversations with Isaiah Berlin
Tolstoy and History
Sobre la libertad
Jewish slavery and emancipation
Affirming
The life and opinions of Moses Hess
Der Nationalismus
The age of enlightenment; the eighteenth century philosophers
Montesquieu
John Stuart Mill and the ends of life
Mr. Churchill in 1940
Chaim Wiezmann
Chaim Weizmann
First Love and Other Stories
Chaim Weizmann as leader
Istorii︠a︡ svobody
Le Hérisson et le Renard
Contra la corriente
Romanticism and liberation [and] Romanticism and social change
Einstein and humanism
História universal dos judeus
Zionist politics in wartime Washington
Historical inevitability
Neged ha-zerem
Two concepts of liberty
John Stuart Mill and the ends of life, etc
Filosofii︠a︡ svobody
Oblicza liberalizmu
Four essays on liberty
ha-Ḳipod ṿeha-shuʻal
Chaim Wiezmann
Fathers and children
The divorce between the sciences and the humanities
Istorii︠a︡ svobody
Adam Zamoyski
Adam Zamoyski (born 1949)

historian of Eastern Europe, historian, journalist

  • University of Oxford, Downside School

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Napoleon
Chopin
The Last King of Poland
Paderewski
Chopin
The noble house of Starzénski
The Polish way
The forgotten few
Holy madness
Moscow 1812
Phantom terror
Warsaw 1920
Poland
Rites of peace
Rites of Peace
1812
The Land of the Winged Horsemen
Poland
The Czartoryski Museum
The battle for the marchlands
Phantom Terror
Warsaw 1920
Poland's parliamentary tradition
Rites of Peace - the Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna
Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie i Kolekcja Ksiazat Czartoryskich
The Princes Czartoryski Museum
Holy Madness
Orły nad Europą
1812
1812: NAPOLEON'S FATAL MARCH ON MOSCOW
RITES OF PEACE: THE FALL OF NAPOLEON AND THE CONGRES OF VIENNA
Holy madness
Warszawa 1920
Varsovia 1920
1815
Napoleao - O homem por tras do mito
Izabela
Napoleon Lib/E
Last King of Poland
Własna droga
Forgotten Few
Varsovia 1920
Glenn O. Phillips
Glenn O. Phillips (born 1945)

historian

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African American leaders of Maryland
The African Diaspora Experience, 4th edition
The Caribbean Basin initiative
Adolf Rosenberg
Adolf Rosenberg (1850-1906)

art historian, editing staff

  • Köllnisches Gymnasium

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Leonardo da Vinci
Vautier
Eberlein
Sebald und Barthel Beham
A. von Werner
Antoine Watteau
Terborch und Jan Steen
Thorwaldsen
Teniers der Jüngere
E. von Gebhardt
Adriaen und Isack van Ostade [Liebhaber-Ausg.]
Prell
P.P. Rubens, des Meisters Gemälde in 551 Abbildungen
Lenbach
Raffael
Defregger
Teniers der jüngere
Geschichte des Kostüms
The work of Rubens
Geschichte der modernen Kunst
Antoine Watteau
Handbuch der Kunstgeschichte
Friedrich August von Kaulbach
Friedrich August von Kaulbach
Geschichte der modernen Kunst
Geschichte der modernen Kunst
Geschichte der modernen Kunst
Raffael, des meisters Gemälde
Thorwaldsen
Lenbach
The work of Rubens reproduced in over five hundred illustrations
P. P. Rubens
Lenbach
Die Rubensstecher
Geschichte des kostüms
Lenbuch
Der kupferstich in der schule und unter dem einflusse des Rubens (Die Rubensstecher) von Adolf Rosenberg
Rembrandt
Adriaan und Isaak van Ostade
Handbuch der Kunstgeschichte
Teniers der Jüngere
De Erinyum religione cultu imaginibus
Friedrich August von Kaulbach
The work of Raffael
Terborch und Jan Steen
Raffael
Leonardo da Vinci
Adriaen und Isack van Ostade
Defregger
Hannah Adams
Hannah Adams (1755-1831)

theologian, historian

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A memoir of Miss Hannah Adams
The truth and excellence of the Christian religion exhibited
A summary history of New-England
A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations, Jewish, Heathen, Mahometan and ..
A dictionary of all religions and religious denominations
A view of religions, in two parts
An alphabetical compendium of the various sects
The history of the Jews
A view of religions
An abridgement of the history of New-England
An abridgment of the history of New-England
Die geschichte der Juden von der zerstoerung Jerusalems and bis auf die gegenwartigen zeiten ..
An abridgment of the history of New-England, for the use of young persons ..
A summary history of New-England, from the first settlement at Plymouth, to the acceptance of the federal constitution
The truth and excellence of the Christian religion exhibited in two parts
A concise account of the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews
A narrative of the controversy between the Rev. Jedidiah Morse, D.D. and the author
A view of religions, in three parts..
A dictionary of all religions and religious denominations, Jewish, heathen, Mahometan and Christian, ancient and modern
An alphabetical compendium of the various sects which have appeared in the world from the beginning of the Christian aera to the present day
Abridgment of the History of New-England, for the use of young persons
An abridgement of the History of New-England, for the use of young persons
A view of religion, in two parts
An alphabetical compendium of the various sects which have appeared in the world from the beginning of the Christian aera to the present day
The history of the Jews from the destruction of Jerusalem to the nineteenth century
A dictionary of all religions and religious denominations
Letters on the Gospels
A view of religions, in two parts
The history of the Jews from the destruction of Jerusalem to the present time
A concise account of the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews /.
A view of religions
The Close communion of the Baptists contrary to the word of God
A memoir of Miss Hannah Adams
Die geschichte der Juden von der Zerstörung Jerusalems an bis auf die gegenwärtigen Zeiten
An alphabetical compendium of the various sects which have appeared in the world from the beginning of the Christian era to the present day. With an appendix, containing a brief account of the different schemes of religion now embraced among mankind. The whole collected from the best authors, ancient and modern
A summary history of New-England
Dave Smith
Dave Smith (1940-2019)

archivist, historian, librarian

  • University of California, Berkeley

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Anders Leonard Bygdén
Anders Leonard Bygdén (1844-1929)

librarian, philosopher, biographer, historian

  • Uppsala University

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