Collect. Read. Reflect.
Yale University Press in collaboration with The Leon D. Black Foundation
Jewish Lives Books 2015 – 2016
Jewish Lives Biography Series 2015 Books in Print “The time is now ripe for a short book… emphasizing his lasting importance as a politician and a philosopher. This book is accurate and well balanced. It presents Einstein’s Jewish heritage as he saw it himself, not as the core of his being, but as a historical accident bringing inescapable responsibilities.” freeman dyson, new york review of books
“[A] tightly focused, profoundly clarifying biography… A defining and affecting tribute to a modern master.” booklist, starred review
Sarah (Sarah Bernhardt) Robert Gottlieb
Moses Mendelssohn: Philosopher of the Enlightenment Shmuel Feiner
Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom Steven Weitzman
Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn’t Want to be One Mark Kurlansky
Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life Vivian Gornick
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life Joshua Rubenstein
Walther Rathenau: The Life of Weimar’s Fallen Statesman “This deft and sympathetic portrait captures both Guggenheim’s strangeness and her marvelousness... Unlucky in so many things, Peggy Guggenheim has been singularly fortunate in her biographer.” christopher benfey, author of a summer of hummingbirds
“A succinct, interesting, and compelling overview of the life of French politician and former Prime Minister Léon Blum. Pierre Birnbaum draws on a rich series of primary sources that bring Blum and his adversaries to life.” maud s. mandel, author of muslims and jews in france: history of a conflict
Shulamit Volkov
Moshe Dayan: Israel’s Controversial Hero Mordecai Bar-On
Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch Yair Zakovitch
Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt Saul Friedlander
Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade Rachel Cohen
Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life Berel Lang
Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life Dorothy Gallagher
“Those who found reading Proust too grand an undertaking over the years because of distractions and deficiencies of their own, might well rush to reconsider after confronting this dazzlingly elegant biography.” philip roth
spring 2016 books louis brandeis by Jeffrey Rosen
Rav Kook: Mystic in an Age of Revolution Yehudah Mirsky
Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician Allen Shawn
barbra streisand
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst
benjamin disraeli
David: The Divided Heart
by Neal Gabler
Adam Phillips
by David Cesarani
David Wolpe
Jewish Lives is the Winner of the National Jewish Book Award of 2014
Hillel Halkin
to learn more go to www.jewishlives.org
Jabotinsky: A Life Ben Gurion: Father of Modern Israel Anita Shapira
Jewish Lives Biography Series 2015 Books in Print “The time is now ripe for a short book… emphasizing his lasting importance as a politician and a philosopher. This book is accurate and well balanced. It presents Einstein’s Jewish heritage as he saw it himself, not as the core of his being, but as a historical accident bringing inescapable responsibilities.” freeman dyson, new york review of books
“[A] tightly focused, profoundly clarifying biography… A defining and affecting tribute to a modern master.” booklist, starred review
Sarah (Sarah Bernhardt) Robert Gottlieb
Moses Mendelssohn: Philosopher of the Enlightenment Shmuel Feiner
Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom Steven Weitzman
Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn’t Want to be One Mark Kurlansky
Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life Vivian Gornick
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life Joshua Rubenstein
Walther Rathenau: The Life of Weimar’s Fallen Statesman “This deft and sympathetic portrait captures both Guggenheim’s strangeness and her marvelousness... Unlucky in so many things, Peggy Guggenheim has been singularly fortunate in her biographer.” christopher benfey, author of a summer of hummingbirds
“A succinct, interesting, and compelling overview of the life of French politician and former Prime Minister Léon Blum. Pierre Birnbaum draws on a rich series of primary sources that bring Blum and his adversaries to life.” maud s. mandel, author of muslims and jews in france: history of a conflict
Shulamit Volkov
Moshe Dayan: Israel’s Controversial Hero Mordecai Bar-On
Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch Yair Zakovitch
Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt Saul Friedlander
Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade Rachel Cohen
Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life Berel Lang
Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life Dorothy Gallagher
“Those who found reading Proust too grand an undertaking over the years because of distractions and deficiencies of their own, might well rush to reconsider after confronting this dazzlingly elegant biography.” philip roth
spring 2016 books louis brandeis by Jeffrey Rosen
Rav Kook: Mystic in an Age of Revolution Yehudah Mirsky
Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician Allen Shawn
barbra streisand
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst
benjamin disraeli
David: The Divided Heart
by Neal Gabler
Adam Phillips
by David Cesarani
David Wolpe
Jewish Lives is the Winner of the National Jewish Book Award of 2014
Hillel Halkin
to learn more go to www.jewishlives.org
Jabotinsky: A Life Ben Gurion: Father of Modern Israel Anita Shapira
Collect. Read. Reflect.
Yale University Press in collaboration with The Leon D. Black Foundation
Jewish Lives Books 2015 – 2016
Jewish Lives Biography Series 2015 Books in Print “The time is now ripe for a short book… emphasizing his lasting importance as a politician and a philosopher. This book is accurate and well balanced. It presents Einstein’s Jewish heritage as he saw it himself, not as the core of his being, but as a historical accident bringing inescapable responsibilities.” freeman dyson, new york review of books
“[A] tightly focused, profoundly clarifying biography… A defining and affecting tribute to a modern master.” booklist, starred review
Sarah (Sarah Bernhardt) Robert Gottlieb
Moses Mendelssohn: Philosopher of the Enlightenment Shmuel Feiner
Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom Steven Weitzman
Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn’t Want to be One Mark Kurlansky
Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life Vivian Gornick
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life Joshua Rubenstein
Walther Rathenau: The Life of Weimar’s Fallen Statesman “This deft and sympathetic portrait captures both Guggenheim’s strangeness and her marvelousness... Unlucky in so many things, Peggy Guggenheim has been singularly fortunate in her biographer.” christopher benfey, author of a summer of hummingbirds
“A succinct, interesting, and compelling overview of the life of French politician and former Prime Minister Léon Blum. Pierre Birnbaum draws on a rich series of primary sources that bring Blum and his adversaries to life.” maud s. mandel, author of muslims and jews in france: history of a conflict
Shulamit Volkov
Moshe Dayan: Israel’s Controversial Hero Mordecai Bar-On
Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch Yair Zakovitch
Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt Saul Friedlander
Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade Rachel Cohen
Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life Berel Lang
Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life Dorothy Gallagher
“Those who found reading Proust too grand an undertaking over the years because of distractions and deficiencies of their own, might well rush to reconsider after confronting this dazzlingly elegant biography.” philip roth
spring 2016 books louis brandeis by Jeffrey Rosen
Rav Kook: Mystic in an Age of Revolution Yehudah Mirsky
Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician Allen Shawn
barbra streisand
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst
benjamin disraeli
David: The Divided Heart
by Neal Gabler
Adam Phillips
by David Cesarani
David Wolpe
Jewish Lives is the Winner of the National Jewish Book Award of 2014
Hillel Halkin
to learn more go to www.jewishlives.org
Jabotinsky: A Life Ben Gurion: Father of Modern Israel Anita Shapira
Collect. Read. Reflect.
Yale University Press in collaboration with The Leon D. Black Foundation
Jewish Lives Books 2015 – 2016