Jewish Thinkers Book Club
Jewish Thinkers Book Club
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The Jewish Thinkers Book Club presents the great minds that continue to shape our world in the fields of science, religion, law, and philosophy.
January
Einstein: His Space and Times
By Steven Gimbel
“Incisive” —The Times of London
A revealing new portrait of Albert Einstein, the world’s first scientific “superstar”
February
Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent
By Paul Mendes-Flohr
“Exquisite” —Amir Eshel, Stanford University
The first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber
March
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst
By Adam Phillips
“An audacious book” —The New Yorker
From one of the world's foremost thinkers about psychoanalysis, comes a strikingly original biography of its founder.
April
Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of Modernity
By Shmuel Feiner
“A fascinating portrait” —Library Journal
The “German Socrates,” Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) was the most influential Jewish thinker of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
May
Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life
By Vivian Gornick
“Gripping” —The Boston Globe
Emma Goldman is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution.
June
Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud
By Barry W. Holtz
“Lively and thought-provoking” —Publishers Weekly
A compelling and lucid account of the life and teachings of a founder of rabbinic Judaism and one of the most beloved heroes of Jewish history
July
Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet
By Jeffrey Rosen
“Compelling” —LA Review of Books
A riveting new examination of the leading progressive justice of his era, published in the centennial year of his confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court
August
Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life
By Berel Lang
“A fresh vision”—Jewish Book Council
A groundbreaking biography shining new light on Levi’s role as an important Holocaust writer, innovative moral thinker, and chemist.
September
Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution
By Yehudah Mirsky
“Learned, luminous and uncannily timely”—Jewish Review of Books
Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) was one of the most influential—and controversial—rabbis of the twentieth century.
October
Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom
By Steven Weitzman
“Engrossing, elegant, and erudite” —The Jewish Daily Forward
An insightful meditation on the Solomonic desire to know all of life's secrets, and on the role of this desire in world history.
November
Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution
By Shlomo Avineri
“A pleasure to read” —Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
A new exploration of Karl Marx's life through his intellectual contributions to modern thought
December
Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam
By Steven Nadler
“Truly excellent” —Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton
An illuminating biography of the great Amsterdam rabbi and celebrated popularizer of Judaism in the seventeenth century