The Complete Collection
The Complete Jewish Lives Collection includes all 68 books published in the series to date.*
It’s the perfect gift for your synagogue, home, or office. It will be the highlight of your library.
Antiquity
Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud, by Barry W. Holtz
David: The Divided Heart, by David Wolpe
Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation, by Daniel C. Matt
Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World, by Martin Goodman
Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch, by Yair Zakovitch
Moses: A Human Life, by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Ruth: A Migrants Tale, by Ilana Pardes
Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom, by Steven Weitzman
Arts / Culture
Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade, by Rachel Cohen
Irving Berlin: New York Genius, by James Kaplan
Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician, by Allen Shawn
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern, by Francine Prose
Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows, by Arthur Lubow
Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance, by Wendy Lesser
Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel, by Annie Cohen-Solal
Alfred Stieglitz: Taking Pictures, Making Painters, by Phyllis Rose
Business
Julius Rosenwald: Repairing the World, by Hasia R. Diner
Entertainment
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt, by Robert Gottlieb
Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew, by Jeremy Dauber
Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn’t Want to Be One, by Mark Kurlansky
Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures, by Adina Hoffman
Houdini: The Elusive American, by Adam Begley
Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker, by David Mikics
Stan Lee: A Life in Comics, by Liel Leibovitz
Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence, by Lee Siegel
Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films, by Molly Haskell
Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power, by Neal Gabler
Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio, by David Thomson
Law / Politics
Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel, by Anita Shapira
Judah Benjamin: Counselor to the Confederacy, by James Traub
Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist, by Pierre Birnbaum
Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet, by Jeffrey Rosen
Moshe Dayan: Israel’s Controversial Hero, by Mordechai Bar-On
Disraeli: The Novel Politician, by David Cesarani
Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair, by Maurice Samuels
Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life, by Vivian Gornick
Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader, by Derek Penslar
Jabotinsky: A Life, by Hillel Halkin
Golda Meir: Israel’s Matriarch, by Deborah E. Lipstadt
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death, by Lillian Faderman
Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman, by Itamar Rabinovich
Walther Rathenau: Weimar’s Fallen Statesman, by Shulamit Volkov
Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream, by Francine Klagsbrun
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life, by Joshua Rubenstein
Literary Arts
Hayim Nahman Bialik: Poet of Hebrew, by Avner Holtzman
Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter, by Rachel Shteir
Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution, by George Prochnick
Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life, by Dorothy Gallagher
Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt, by Saul Friedländer
Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life, by Berel Lang
Arthur Miller: American Witness, by John Lahr
Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon, by Robert Alter
Proust: The Search, by Benjamin Taylor
Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence, by Joseph Berger
Philosophy / Religion
Maimonides: Faith in Reason, by Alberto Manguel
Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam, by Steven Nadler
Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent, by Paul Mendes-Flohr
Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement, by Julian E. Zelizer
Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution, by Yehudah Mirsky
Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution, by Shlomo Avineri
Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of Modernity, by Shmuel Feiner
Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah, by David Biale
Spinoza: Freedom’s Messiah, by Ian Buruma
Rogues
Sidney Reilly: Master Spy, by Benny Morris
Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream, by Michael Shnayerson
Science
Einstein: His Space and Times, by Steven Gimbel
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst, by Adam Phillips
Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power, by Marc Wortman
*Jewish Lives publishes 6-8 titles each year. For a list of forthcoming titles, click here.