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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. Visit the Jewish Lives website.

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        Arthur Miller

        Arthur Miller

        American Witness

        Jewish Lives

        by John Lahr

        Spinoza

        Spinoza

        Freedom's Messiah

        Jewish Lives

        by Ian Buruma

        Amos Oz

        Amos Oz

        Writer, Activist, Icon

        Jewish Lives

        by Robert Alter

        Betty Friedan

        Betty Friedan

        Magnificent Disrupter

        Jewish Lives

        by Rachel Shteir

        Golda Meir

        Golda Meir

        Israel’s Matriarch

        Jewish Lives

        by Deborah E. Lipstadt

        Elie Wiesel

        Elie Wiesel

        Confronting the Silence

        Jewish Lives

        by Joseph Berger

        Alfred Dreyfus

        Alfred Dreyfus

        The Man at the Center of the Affair

        Jewish Lives

        by Maurice Samuels

        Maimonides

        Maimonides

        Faith in Reason

        Jewish Lives

        by Alberto Manguel

        Mel Brooks

        Mel Brooks

        Disobedient Jew

        Jewish Lives

        by Jeremy Dauber

        Henrietta Szold

        Henrietta Szold

        Hadassah and the Zionist Dream

        Jewish Lives

        by Francine Klagsbrun

        Sidney Reilly

        Sidney Reilly

        Master Spy

        Jewish Lives

        by Benny Morris

        Ruth

        Ruth

        A Migrant’s Tale

        Jewish Lives

        by Ilana Pardes

        Herod the Great

        Herod the Great

        Jewish King in a Roman World

        Jewish Lives

        by Martin Goodman

        Becoming Elijah

        Becoming Elijah

        Prophet of Transformation

        Jewish Lives

        by Daniel C. Matt

        Admiral Hyman Rickover

        Admiral Hyman Rickover

        Engineer of Power

        Jewish Lives

        by Marc Wortman

        Abraham Joshua Heschel

        Abraham Joshua Heschel

        A Life of Radical Amazement

        Jewish Lives

        by Julian E. Zelizer

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