Jewish Lives is a biography series published by Yale University Press and the Leon D. Black Foundation. It was founded in 2006 and the first book was published in 2010.[1]
The series explores the lives of influential Jews from antiquity through the present, including Moses, Albert Einstein, Louis D. Brandeis, Barbra Streisand, David Ben-Gurion, Emma Goldman, and more.
Jewish Lives titles have been favorably reviewed[2][3][4][5] by New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
In 2014, Jewish Lives won the National Jewish Book of the Year Award, marking the first time the Jewish Book Council awarded a series the prize.[6]
In 2017, the Leon D. Black Foundation launched JewishLives.org, an ecommerce store where Jewish Lives books and collections are sold. The Jewish Lives Podcast was launched in 2019.[7]
Works in the series
As of 2023, Jewish Lives includes the following titles:
Antiquity
- Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud by Barry W. Holtz (2017)
- David: The Divided Heart by David Wolpe (2014)
- Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation by Daniel C. Matt (2022)
- Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch by Yair Zakovitch (2012)
- Moses: A Human Life by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg (2016)
- Ruth: A Migrant's Tale by Ilana Pardes (2022)
- Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom by Steven Weitzman (2011)
Arts / Culture
- Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade by Rachel Cohen (2013)
- Irving Berlin: New York Genius by James Kaplan (2019)
- Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician by Allen Shawn (2014)
- Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose (2015)
- Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows by Arthur Lubow (2021)
- Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance by Wendy Lesser (2018)
- Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel by Annie Cohen-Solal (2014)
- Alfred Stieglitz: Taking Pictures, Making Painters by Phyllis Rose (2019)
Business
- Julius Rosenwald: Repairing the World by Hasia R. Diner (2017)
Entertainment
- Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt by Robert Gottlieb (2010)
- Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew by Jeremy Dauber (2023)
- Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn’t Want to Be One by Mark Kurlansky (2011)
- Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures by Adina Hoffman (2019)
- Houdini: The Elusive American by Adam Begley (2020)
- Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker by David Mikics (2020)
- Stan Lee: A Life in Comics by Liel Leibovitz (2020)
- Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence by Lee Siegel (2015)
- Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films by Molly Haskell (2016)
- Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power by Neal Gabler (2016)
- Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio by David Thomson (2017)
Law / Politics
- Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel by Anita Shapira (2014)
- Judah Benjamin: Counselor to the Confederacy by James Traub (2021)
- Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist by Pierre Birnbaum (2015)
- Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet by Jeffrey Rosen (2016)
- Moshe Dayan: Israel’s Controversial Hero by Mordechai Bar-On (2012)
- Disraeli: The Novel Politician, by David Cesarani (2016)
- Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life by Vivian Gornick (2011)
- Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader by Derek Penslar (2020)
- Jabotinsky: A Life by Hillel Halkin (2014)
- Golda Meir: Israel's Matriarch by Deborah Lipstadt (2023)
- Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death by Lillian Faderman (2018)
- Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman by Itamar Rabinovich (2017)
- Walther Rathenau: Weimar’s Fallen Statesman by Shulamit Volkov (2011)
- Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life by Joshua Rubenstein (2011)
Literary Arts
- Hayim Nahman Bialik: Poet of Hebrew by Avner Holtzman (2017)
- Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter by Rachel Shteir (2023)
- Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution by George Prochnick (2020)
- Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life by Dorothy Gallagher (2013)
- Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt by Saul Friedländer (2013)
- Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life by Berel Lang (2013)
- Arthur Miller: American Witness by John Lahr (2022)
- Amos Oz: Writer, Activist Icon by Robert Alter (2023)
- Proust: The Search by Benjamin Taylor (2015)
- Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence by Joseph Berger (2023)
Philosophy / Religion
- Maimonides: Faith in Reason by Alberto Manguel (2023)
- Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam by Steven Nadler (2018)
- Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent by Paul Mendes-Flohr (2019)
- Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement by Julian E. Zelizer (2021)
- Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution by Yehudah Mirsky (2013)
- Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution by Shlomo Avineri (2019)
- Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of Modernity by Shmuel Feiner (2010)
- Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah by David Biale (2018)
Rogues
- Sidney Reilly: Master Spy by Benny Morris (2022)
- Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream by Michael Shnayerson (2021)
Science
- Einstein: His Space and Times by Steven Gimbel (2015)
- Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips (2014)
- Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power by Marc Wortman (2022)
References
- ↑ "Yale Launches New Jewish Biography Series". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
- ↑ Cole, Diane (2021-09-24). "'Judah Benjamin' Review: The Ultimate Outsider". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
- ↑ Joselit, Jenna Weissman (2021-02-09). "Was Bugsy Siegel the 'Supreme Gangster'? A Biography Makes the Case". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
- ↑ Jordan, Jonathan W. (2022-02-11). "'Admiral Hyman Rickover' Review: The Navy's Atomic Generator". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
- ↑ Alter, Robert (2019-05-02). "A New Biography of Martin Buber Explores a Life of Wrestling With Faith". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
- ↑ "2014 National Jewish Book Award Winners Announced". Tablet Magazine. 2015-01-14. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
- ↑ JewishBoston, Judy Bolton-Fasman for. "Yale Jewish Lives Series Highlights Biographies of Diverse Jews". JewishBoston. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
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