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Publications reviewed include The Age (Melbourne), AJS Review, Arbitrium, Australian Book Review, Australian Historical Studies, Austrian Studies, Far Eastern Economic Review, (Toronto) Globe and Mail, History Australia, Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik, Journal of Asian American Studies, Jou...

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Published in:Biography (Honolulu) 2009-07, Vol.32 (3), p.573-638
Main Authors: Altizer, Nell, Angley, Patricia, Bell, Alana, Coullie, Janet Butler Judith Lütge, Fassiotto, Michael, Fischer, Lars, Kent, Noel, Merle, Gabriel, Morais, Dawn, Peterson, Barbara Bennett, Ward, Yvonne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asian Americans
Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)
Historical text analysis
Immunization
Japanese language
Journals (Academic)
Judaic studies
Literature
Musical performances
Organized crime
Personal relationships
Politics
Russian language
Smallpox
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Summary:Publications reviewed include The Age (Melbourne), AJS Review, Arbitrium, Australian Book Review, Australian Historical Studies, Austrian Studies, Far Eastern Economic Review, (Toronto) Globe and Mail, History Australia, Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik, Journal of Asian American Studies, Journal of Australian Studies, Journal of Jewish Studies, Journal of World History, Mitteilungsblatt des Instituts für soziale Bewegungen. Modern Austrian Literature, Le Monde des Livres, Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte, The New Yorker, New York Review of Books (NYRB), New York Times Book Review (NYTBR), Le Nouvel Observateur, Opera News, Review of Rabbinic Judaism, Times Literary Supplement (TLS), Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Washington Post National Weekly Edition (WP), Women's Review of Books, Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur, Zeitschrift für Germanistik, Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, and Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte; and from South Africa, Cape Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, Ideas, Irish Times, Journal of Southern African Studies, LitNet, Mail and Guardian, The Observer, Saturday Dispatch, The Star: Born to a Jewish merchant family in Siberia, educated (in Russian) in Harbin and (in English) in Shanghai, a graduate of the Hong Kong University medical program, an army medic interned at Sham Shui Po by the Japanese, a respected doctor, musician, amateur archaeologist and adventurer, Mr. Bard's curiosity should be an antidote for those who see professional life as the enemy of freedom, experimentation and mobility. . . . [...] she fails to weave together the jumble of facts she mercilessly throws at her readers into a compelling and coherent narrative.
ISSN:0162-4962
1529-1456
1529-1456
DOI:10.1353/bio.0.0117