From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a meditation on the deeply Jewish and surprisingly spiritual roots of Stan Lee and Marvel Comics Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. - The Guardian. - New Yorker Superb.
Journal Distinguished. - Wall St. - New York times Exemplary.
More praise for Jewish Lives: Excellent.
In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award.
Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present.
Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences.
About Jewish Lives: Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity.
Was Spider-Man just a reincarnation of Cain? Is the Incredible Hulk simply Adam by another name? From close readings of Lee\'s work to little-known anecdotes from Marvel\'s history, the book paints a portrait of Lee that goes much deeper than one of his signature onscreen cameos.
It surveys his cultural and religious upbringing and draws surprising connections between celebrated comic book heroes and the ancient tales of the Bible, the Talmud, and Jewish mysticism.
This illuminating biography focuses as much on Lee\'s ideas as it does on his unlikely rise to stardom.
The characters he created--Spider-Man and Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four--occupy Hollywood\'s imagination and production schedules, generate billions at the box office, and come as close as anything we have to a shared American mythology.
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a meditation on the deeply Jewish and surprisingly spiritual roots of Stan Lee and Marvel Comics Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee
