Series Jewish Lives - Yale University Press

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Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement by Julian E. Zelizer 27 copies
Abraham: The First Jew (Jewish Lives) by Anthony Julius 26 copies
Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power (Jewish Lives) by Marc Wortman 35 copies
Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair (Jewish Lives) by Maurice Samuels 38 copies
Alfred Stieglitz: Taking Pictures, Making Painters (Jewish Lives) by Phyllis Rose 36 copies, 1 review
Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon (Jewish Lives) by Robert Alter 13 copies
Arthur Miller: American Witness (Jewish Lives) by John Lahr 20 copies
Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success (Jewish Lives) by Alexandra Popoff 11 copies
Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power (Jewish Lives) by Neal Gabler 70 copies, 2 reviews
Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation (Jewish Lives) by Daniel C. Matt 33 copies, 1 review
Becoming Freud: the making of a psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips 135 copies, 1 review
Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures (Jewish Lives) by Adina Hoffman 45 copies, 2 reviews
Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel (Jewish Lives) by Anita Shapira 72 copies
Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade (Jewish Lives) by Rachel Cohen 79 copies
Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter (Jewish Lives) by Rachel Shteir 15 copies
Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream by Michael Shnayerson 39 copies, 4 reviews
Carole King: She Made the Earth Move (Jewish Lives) by Jane Eisner 14 copies, 1 review
David: The Divided Heart (Jewish Lives) by David Wolpe 91 copies, 2 reviews
Disraeli: The Novel Politician (Jewish Lives) by David Cesarani 60 copies
Edmond de Rothschild: Finding Zion (Jewish Lives) by James McAuley 1 copy
Einstein: His Space and Times by Steven Gimbel 66 copies
Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence (Jewish Lives) by Joseph Berger 37 copies
Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life by Vivian Gornick 134 copies, 6 reviews
Franz Boas: In Praise of Open Minds (Jewish Lives) by Noga Arikha 5 copies, 1 review
Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt (Jewish Lives) by Saul Friedländer 92 copies, 4 reviews
Gershom Scholem Master of the Kabbalah : a new biography by David Biale 42 copies, 2 reviews
Golda Meir: Israel’s Matriarch (Jewish Lives) by Deborah E. Lipstadt 26 copies
Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence (Jewish Lives) by Lee Siegel 58 copies, 4 reviews
Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want To Be One (Jewish Lives) by Mark Kurlansky 63 copies, 1 review
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death (Jewish Lives) by Lillian Faderman 93 copies, 4 reviews
Hayim Nahman Bialik: Poet of Hebrew (Jewish Lives) by Avner Holtzman 27 copies, 1 review
Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution (Jewish Lives) by George Prochnik 24 copies
Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream (Jewish Lives) by Francine Klagsbrun 13 copies
Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World (Jewish Lives) by Martin Goodman 41 copies
Houdini: The Elusive American (Jewish Lives) by Adam Begley 54 copies
Irving Berlin: New York Genius (Jewish Lives) by James Kaplan 40 copies, 5 reviews
Jabotinsky: A Life (Jewish Lives) by Hillel Halkin 67 copies, 2 reviews
Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch (Jewish Lives) by Yair Zakovitch 59 copies, 1 review
Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance (Jewish Lives) by Wendy Lesser 30 copies, 2 reviews
Judah Benjamin: Counselor to the Confederacy (Jewish Lives) by James Traub 38 copies
Julius Rosenwald: Repairing the World (Jewish Lives) by Hasia R. Diner 26 copies, 1 review
Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution (Jewish Lives) by Shlomo Avineri 54 copies
Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist (Jewish Lives) by Pierre Birnbaum 38 copies, 1 review
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life (Jewish Lives) by Joshua Rubenstein 81 copies, 1 review
Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician (Jewish Lives) by Allen Shawn 54 copies, 2 reviews
Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life (Jewish Lives) by Dorothy Gallagher 27 copies
Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation (Jewish Lives) by Kenneth Turan 17 copies, 2 reviews
Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet (Jewish Lives) by Jeffrey Rosen 101 copies, 3 reviews
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes by Anthony Gottlieb 25 copies, 1 review
Maimonides: Faith in Reason (Jewish Lives) by Alberto Manguel 46 copies, 1 review
Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows (Jewish Lives) by Arthur Lubow 24 copies
The Many Lives of Anne Frank (Jewish Lives) by Ruth Franklin 43 copies, 1 review
Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel (Jewish Lives) by Annie Cohen-Solal 113 copies, 4 reviews
Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent (Jewish Lives) by Paul Mendes-Flohr 51 copies, 2 reviews
Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew (Jewish Lives) by Jeremy Dauber 25 copies
Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah (Jewish Lives) by Ezra Glinter 5 copies
Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam (Jewish Lives) by Steven Nadler 30 copies
Mordecai M. Kaplan: Restless Soul (Jewish Lives) by Jenna Weissman Joselit 4 copies
Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of Modernity by Shmuel Feiner 54 copies
Moses: A Human Life by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg 98 copies, 2 reviews
Moshe Dayan: Israel's Controversial Hero (Jewish Lives) by Mordechai Bar-On 41 copies
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern (Jewish Lives) by Francine Prose 96 copies, 2 reviews
Philip Roth: Stung by Life by Steven J. Zipperstein 18 copies
Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life (Jewish Lives) by Berel Lang 41 copies
Proust: The Search by Benjamin Taylor 80 copies, 2 reviews
Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud (Jewish Lives) by Barry W. Holtz 61 copies
Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution (Jewish Lives) by Yehudah Mirsky 73 copies
Robert Oppenheimer: The Sphinx Without a Secret (Jewish Lives) by David Rieff 1 copy
Ruth: A Migrant’s Tale (Jewish Lives) by Ilana Pardes 26 copies
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt by Robert Gottlieb 103 copies, 2 reviews
Sidney Reilly: Master Spy (Jewish Lives) by Benny Morris 22 copies
Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom (Jewish Lives) by Steven Weitzman 54 copies
Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah (Jewish Lives) by Ian Buruma 69 copies, 1 review
Stan Lee: A Life in Comics (Jewish Lives) by Liel Leibovitz 55 copies, 3 reviews
Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker (Jewish Lives) by David Mikics 55 copies, 1 review
Stephen Sondheim: Life Isn't Easy by Daniel Okrent 16 copies, 1 review
Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films (Jewish Lives) by Molly Haskell 68 copies, 10 reviews
Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (Jewish Lives) by Derek Penslar 36 copies
Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver (Jewish Lives) by Peter E. Gordon 12 copies
Walther Rathenau: Weimar's Fallen Statesman (Jewish Lives) by Shulamit Volkov 42 copies
Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio (Jewish Lives) by David Thomson 77 copies, 1 review
Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman (Jewish Lives) by Itamar Rabinovich 46 copies, 2 reviews

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Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. 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. Jewish Lives is a partnership of Yale University Press and the Leon D. Black Foundation. Ileene Smith is editorial director. Anita Shapira and Steven J. Zipperstein are series editors. (English, Publisher)

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