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Obras de Sylvia Horwitz

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Conocimiento común

Otros nombres
Horwitz, Sylvia Laibman
Fecha de nacimiento
1912
Fecha de fallecimiento
1995-06-18
Género
female
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento
New York, New York, USA
Lugares de residencia
New York, New York, USA
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Educación
Case Western Reserve University
Ocupaciones
biographer
teacher
Organizaciones
Overseas School of Rome
Biografía breve
Sylvia Horwitz, née Laibman, was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from Case Western University in 1932 and moved to New York City, where she worked as a copywriter and as a teacher at the New School for Social Research. She married Louis Horwitz, a social worker, with whom she had a son. In 1945, at the end of World War II, her husband was working with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency to resettle refugees in Europe, and she got on one of the first ships of American civilians allowed to join their spouses there. In Rome, when she found that there was no school for English-speaking children, she helped start the Overseas School of Rome and served as its first director. Her stay in Rome also sparked an interest in art and archeology that eventually led to her books Toulouse-Lautrec: His World (1973), Francisco Goya: Painter of Kings and Demons (1974), and The Find of a Lifetime: Sir Arthur Evans and the Discovery of Knossos (1980).

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The Find of a Lifetime. A wonderful read of the discovery of Knossos ( the oldest town in Europe) with a civilization dating back to 2500 BC and the Englishman who carried out the dig and mostly financed it from his own pocket. The problem I have with this book is that each time I finish it I start it again. I have been reading it for years.
 
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Novak | otra reseña | Oct 29, 2017 |
This would have been a passable biography, if it hadn't been for the rather uncritical approach which Horwitz took to some of Evans' less defensible decisions while excavating Knossos, and if, you know, the errors in Greek history and the unquestioning assumptions about gender and society hadn't given me a facial tic of epic proportions.
 
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siriaeve | otra reseña | Apr 19, 2010 |

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Obras
3
Miembros
80
Popularidad
#224,854
Valoración
½ 3.3
Reseñas
2
ISBNs
9
Idiomas
1

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