Garry Sturgess Garry Sturgess i(18380991 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Garry Sturgess Review of Michael Gawenda, The Powerbroker : Mark Leibler, an Australian Jewish Life and of Suzanne Rutland, Lone Voice : The Wars of Isi Leibler Garry Sturgess , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Biography and History , no. 6 2022; (p. 275-279)
— Review of The Powerbroker : Mark Leibler, an Australian Jewish Life Michael Gawenda , 2020 single work biography ; Lone Voice : The Wars of Isi Leibler Suzanne D. Rutland , 2021 single work biography 'Separate biographies of two brothers appearing roughly contemporaneously are rare, and with both of them making a strong case for why each of their subjects, Isi Leibler (1934) and Mark Leibler (1943), should be regarded as the pre-eminent Australian Jewish leaders of their generation. The brothers’ sense of competition as they championed Jewish causes together, as rivals, separately and in different lands, inevitably framed the question of who has contributed more while obscuring the value of their joint efforts and the overall worth of the duumvirate. On antiSemitism, Zionism, Soviet Jewry, Cold War analysis, and international diplomacy, particularly centred on the United Nations (both as a proactive forum for raising issues or as an anti-Israel collective in need of reform), their legacy has been farreaching, transcending parochial communal issues to speak of larger concerns. Indeed, they are both regarded as influential Jewish leaders internationally. Isi, who died in 2020, was an independent and acute observer of Israeli politics, earning his right to criticise by picking up sticks and living in Jerusalem since 1998; Mark continues to speak out on Indigenous rights and recognition, and is an ever-present voice fighting anti-Semitism and its anti-Israel proxy. (Introduction)
1 y separately published work icon Tom Keneally Interviewed by Garry Sturgess Garry Sturgess (interviewer), Canberra : National Library of Australia , 2019 18381647 2019 single work interview
1 y separately published work icon Li Yao Interviewed by Garry Sturgess Garry Sturgess (interviewer), Canberra : National Library of Australia , 2019 18381112 2019 single work interview
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