Jewish Lives
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.
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Arthur Miller
American Witness
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 9780300276794
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: February 2024
Sales Date: 2024-02-13
Imprint: Yale University Press
264 Pages
Spinoza
Freedom's Messiah
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300248920
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: February 2024
Sales Date: 2024-02-13
Imprint: Yale University Press
216 Pages
Amos Oz
Writer, Activist, Icon
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300250176
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: September 2023
Sales Date: 2023-09-26
Imprint: Yale University Press
200 Pages
Betty Friedan
Magnificent Disrupter
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 9780300220025
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: September 2023
Sales Date: 2023-09-12
Imprint: Yale University Press
384 Pages
Golda Meir
Israel’s Matriarch
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300253511
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: August 2023
Sales Date: 2023-08-15
Imprint: Yale University Press
288 Pages
Elie Wiesel
Confronting the Silence
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300228984
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: May 2023
Sales Date: 2023-05-23
Imprint: Yale University Press
360 Pages
Alfred Dreyfus
The Man at the Center of the Affair
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300254006
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: February 2024
Sales Date: 2024-02-27
Imprint: Yale University Press
224 Pages
Maimonides
Faith in Reason
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300217896
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: March 2023
Sales Date: 2023-03-21
Imprint: Yale University Press
256 Pages
Mel Brooks
Disobedient Jew
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300244274
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: March 2023
Sales Date: 2023-03-07
Imprint: Yale University Press
216 Pages
Henrietta Szold
Hadassah and the Zionist Dream
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300247787
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: March 2024
Sales Date: 2024-03-05
Imprint: Yale University Press
256 Pages
Sidney Reilly
Master Spy
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300248265
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: October 2022
Sales Date: 2022-10-25
Imprint: Yale University Press
208 Pages
Ruth
A Migrant’s Tale
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300255072
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: October 2022
Sales Date: 2022-10-04
Imprint: Yale University Press
232 Pages
Herod the Great
Jewish King in a Roman World
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300228410
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: March 2024
Sales Date: 2024-03-12
Imprint: Yale University Press
248 Pages
Becoming Elijah
Prophet of Transformation
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300242706
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: March 2022
Sales Date: 2022-03-15
Imprint: Yale University Press
248 Pages
Admiral Hyman Rickover
Engineer of Power
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300243109
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: February 2022
Sales Date: 2022-02-15
Imprint: Yale University Press
328 Pages
Abraham Joshua Heschel
A Life of Radical Amazement
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300233216
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: October 2021
Sales Date: 2021-10-26
Imprint: Yale University Press
328 Pages

Arthur Miller
American Witness
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 9780300276794
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: February 2024
Sales Date: 2024-02-13
Imprint: Yale University Press
264 Pages
Spinoza
Freedom's Messiah
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300248920
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: February 2024
Sales Date: 2024-02-13
Imprint: Yale University Press
216 Pages
Amos Oz
Writer, Activist, Icon
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300250176
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: September 2023
Sales Date: 2023-09-26
Imprint: Yale University Press
200 Pages
Betty Friedan
Magnificent Disrupter
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 9780300220025
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: September 2023
Sales Date: 2023-09-12
Imprint: Yale University Press
384 Pages
Golda Meir
Israel’s Matriarch
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300253511
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: August 2023
Sales Date: 2023-08-15
Imprint: Yale University Press
288 Pages
Elie Wiesel
Confronting the Silence
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300228984
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: May 2023
Sales Date: 2023-05-23
Imprint: Yale University Press
360 Pages
Alfred Dreyfus
The Man at the Center of the Affair
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300254006
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: February 2024
Sales Date: 2024-02-27
Imprint: Yale University Press
224 Pages
Maimonides
Faith in Reason
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300217896
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: March 2023
Sales Date: 2023-03-21
Imprint: Yale University Press
256 Pages
Mel Brooks
Disobedient Jew
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300244274
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: March 2023
Sales Date: 2023-03-07
Imprint: Yale University Press
216 Pages
Henrietta Szold
Hadassah and the Zionist Dream
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300247787
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: March 2024
Sales Date: 2024-03-05
Imprint: Yale University Press
256 Pages
Sidney Reilly
Master Spy
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300248265
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: October 2022
Sales Date: 2022-10-25
Imprint: Yale University Press
208 Pages
Ruth
A Migrant’s Tale
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300255072
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: October 2022
Sales Date: 2022-10-04
Imprint: Yale University Press
232 Pages
Herod the Great
Jewish King in a Roman World
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300228410
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: March 2024
Sales Date: 2024-03-12
Imprint: Yale University Press
248 Pages
Becoming Elijah
Prophet of Transformation
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300242706
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: March 2022
Sales Date: 2022-03-15
Imprint: Yale University Press
248 Pages
Admiral Hyman Rickover
Engineer of Power
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300243109
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: February 2022
Sales Date: 2022-02-15
Imprint: Yale University Press
328 Pages
Abraham Joshua Heschel
A Life of Radical Amazement
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 9780300233216
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: October 2021
Sales Date: 2021-10-26
Imprint: Yale University Press
328 Pages