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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American philosopher, novelist and public intellectual. She has written ten books, both fiction and nonfiction.

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American philosopher, novelist and public intellectual. in philosophy of science from Princeton University and is sometimes grouped with novelists, such as Richard Powers and Alan Lightman, who create fiction that is knowledgeable of, and sympathetic toward, science.

Rebecca Goldstein write novels of philosophy, where a question takes the central role more than any of the characters. The question I see in this novel is not only the role of luck (mazel) in history, which might also be called the role of chance or Fortune, but a more specific question of what Jews must do to survive

com's Rebecca Goldstein Author Page. Rebecca Goldstein is a MacArthur Fellow, a professor of philosophy, and the author of five novels and a collection of short stories. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Mazel means luck in Yiddish, and luck is the guiding force in this magical and mesmerizing novel that spans three generations. Sasha Saunders is the daughter of a Polish rabbi who abandons the shtetl and wins renown as a Yiddish actress in Warsaw and New York. Her daughter Chloe becomes a professor of classics at Columbia. Chloe s daughter Phoebe grows up to become a mathematician who is drawn to traditional Judaism and the sort of domestic life her mother and grandmother rejected.

After Rebecca Newberger Goldstein grew up in White Plains, New York, and graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College, receiving the Montague Prize for Excellence in Philosophy, and immediately went on to graduate work at Princeton University, receiving her P. While in graduate school she was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship and a Whiting Foundation Fellowship.

Mazel is the imp of metaphysics. Brimming with es, Sasha's life covers almost eighty years and brings her from the Old World to the New. Mazel is the legacy she passes down to her daughter, Chloe, a freethinker of the sixties, and to her granddaughter, Phoebe, a mathematician of the nineties. This enormously delicious and appealing multigenerational novel is as rich, dense, and layered as a piece of Sacher torte.

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After Cass Seltzer's book becomes a surprise best seller, he's dubbed "the atheist with a soul" and becomes a celebrity. He wins over the stunning Lucinda Mandelbaum, "the goddess of game theory," and loses himself in a spiritually expansive infatuation. A former girlfriend appears: an anthropologist who invites him to join in her quest for immortality through biochemistry. From the acclaimed writer and thinker-whose award-winning books include both fiction and nonfiction-a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden but essential role in today's debates on love, religion, politics, and science.

Goldstein expands on a story in her collection, Strange Attractors (1992), in. .

Goldstein expands on a story in her collection, Strange Attractors (1992), in this lively exploration of the ways chance intermingles with determinism in human lives. Sasha Saunders' beloved granddaughter is about to have a baby, and Sasha is so angry she could spit. Goldstein expands on a story in her collection, Strange Attractors (1992), in this lively exploration of the ways chance intermingles with determinism in human lives.