Yale University Press in collaboration with The Leon D. Black Foundation

Jewish Lives Books 2015 – 2016

Collect. Read. Reflect.

Books in PrintSarah (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 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

Rav Kook: Mystic in an Age of Revolution Yehudah Mirsky

Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician Allen Shawn

Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips

David: The Divided Heart David Wolpe

Jabotinsky: A Life Hillel Halkin

Ben Gurion: Father of Modern Israel Anita Shapira

Jewish Lives Biography Series 2015“[A] tightly focused, profoundly clarifying biography… A defining and affecting tribute to a modern master.” booklist, starred review

“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

“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 bookslouis brandeis by Jeffrey Rosen barbra streisand by Neal Gablerbenjamin disraeli by David Cesarani

to learn more go to www.jewishlives.org

“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

Jewish Lives is the Winner of the National Jewish Book Award of 2014

Books in PrintSarah (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 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

Rav Kook: Mystic in an Age of Revolution Yehudah Mirsky

Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician Allen Shawn

Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips

David: The Divided Heart David Wolpe

Jabotinsky: A Life Hillel Halkin

Ben Gurion: Father of Modern Israel Anita Shapira

Jewish Lives Biography Series 2015“[A] tightly focused, profoundly clarifying biography… A defining and affecting tribute to a modern master.” booklist, starred review

“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

“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 bookslouis brandeis by Jeffrey Rosen barbra streisand by Neal Gablerbenjamin disraeli by David Cesarani

to learn more go to www.jewishlives.org

“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

Jewish Lives is the Winner of the National Jewish Book Award of 2014

Yale University Press in collaboration with The Leon D. Black Foundation

Jewish Lives Books 2015 – 2016

Collect. Read. Reflect.

Books in PrintSarah (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 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

Rav Kook: Mystic in an Age of Revolution Yehudah Mirsky

Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician Allen Shawn

Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips

David: The Divided Heart David Wolpe

Jabotinsky: A Life Hillel Halkin

Ben Gurion: Father of Modern Israel Anita Shapira

Jewish Lives Biography Series 2015“[A] tightly focused, profoundly clarifying biography… A defining and affecting tribute to a modern master.” booklist, starred review

“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

“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 bookslouis brandeis by Jeffrey Rosen barbra streisand by Neal Gablerbenjamin disraeli by David Cesarani

to learn more go to www.jewishlives.org

“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

Jewish Lives is the Winner of the National Jewish Book Award of 2014

Yale University Press in collaboration with The Leon D. Black Foundation

Jewish Lives Books 2015 – 2016

Collect. Read. Reflect.