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        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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        Elie Wiesel

        Elie Wiesel

        Confronting the Silence

        Jewish Lives

        by Joseph Berger

        Price: $26.00

        ISBN: 9780300228984

        Publisher: Yale University Press

        Pub Date: May 2023

        Sales Date: 2023-05-23

        Imprint: Yale University Press

        360 Pages

        Golda Meir

        Golda Meir

        Israel’s Matriarch

        Jewish Lives

        by Deborah E. Lipstadt

        Price: $26.00

        ISBN: 9780300253511

        Publisher: Yale University Press

        Pub Date: August 2023

        Sales Date: 2023-08-15

        Imprint: Yale University Press

        288 Pages

        Maimonides

        Maimonides

        Faith in Reason

        Jewish Lives

        by Alberto Manguel

        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

        Mel Brooks

        Disobedient Jew

        Jewish Lives

        by Jeremy Dauber

        Price: $26.00

        ISBN: 9780300244274

        Publisher: Yale University Press

        Pub Date: March 2023

        Sales Date: 2023-03-07

        Imprint: Yale University Press

        216 Pages

        Arthur Miller

        Arthur Miller

        American Witness

        Jewish Lives

        by John Lahr

        Price: $26.00

        ISBN: 9780300234923

        Publisher: Yale University Press

        Pub Date: November 2022

        Sales Date: 2022-11-01

        Imprint: Yale University Press

        264 Pages

        Sidney Reilly

        Sidney Reilly

        Master Spy

        Jewish Lives

        by Benny Morris

        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

        Ruth

        A Migrant’s Tale

        Jewish Lives

        by Ilana Pardes

        Price: $26.00

        ISBN: 9780300255072

        Publisher: Yale University Press

        Pub Date: October 2022

        Sales Date: 2022-10-04

        Imprint: Yale University Press

        232 Pages

        Betty Friedan

        Betty Friedan

        Magnificent Disrupter

        Jewish Lives

        by Rachel Shteir

        Price: $27.00

        ISBN: 9780300220025

        Publisher: Yale University Press

        Pub Date: September 2023

        Sales Date: 2023-09-12

        Imprint: Yale University Press

        384 Pages

        Becoming Elijah

        Becoming Elijah

        Prophet of Transformation

        Jewish Lives

        by Daniel C. Matt

        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

        Admiral Hyman Rickover

        Engineer of Power

        Jewish Lives

        by Marc Wortman

        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

        Abraham Joshua Heschel

        A Life of Radical Amazement

        Jewish Lives

        by Julian E. Zelizer

        Price: $26.00

        ISBN: 9780300233216

        Publisher: Yale University Press

        Pub Date: October 2021

        Sales Date: 2021-10-26

        Imprint: Yale University Press

        328 Pages

        Judah Benjamin

        Judah Benjamin

        Counselor to the Confederacy

        Jewish Lives

        by James Traub

        Price: $26.00

        ISBN: 9780300229264

        Publisher: Yale University Press

        Pub Date: October 2021

        Sales Date: 2021-10-05

        Imprint: Yale University Press

        200 Pages

        Man Ray

        Man Ray

        The Artist and His Shadows

        Jewish Lives

        by Arthur Lubow

        Price: $26.00

        ISBN: 9780300237214

        Publisher: Yale University Press

        Pub Date: September 2021

        Sales Date: 2021-09-14

        Imprint: Yale University Press

        216 Pages

        Bugsy Siegel

        Bugsy Siegel

        The Dark Side of the American Dream

        Jewish Lives

        by Michael Shnayerson

        Price: $26.00

        ISBN: 9780300226195

        Publisher: Yale University Press

        Pub Date: February 2021

        Sales Date: 2021-02-09

        Imprint: Yale University Press

        248 Pages

        Amos Oz

        Amos Oz

        Writer, Activist, Icon

        Jewish Lives

        by Robert Alter

        Price: $26.00

        ISBN: 9780300250176

        Publisher: Yale University Press

        Pub Date: September 2023

        Sales Date: 2023-09-26

        Imprint: Yale University Press

        200 Pages

        Heinrich Heine

        Heinrich Heine

        Writing the Revolution

        Jewish Lives

        by George Prochnik

        Price: $26.00

        ISBN: 9780300236545

        Publisher: Yale University Press

        Pub Date: November 2020

        Sales Date: 2020-11-24

        Imprint: Yale University Press

        336 Pages

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