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Biography series From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jewish Lives is a biography series published by Yale University Press and the Leon D. Black Foundation. It was founded in 2006 and the first book was published in 2010.[1]
The series explores the lives of influential Jews from antiquity through the present, including Moses, Albert Einstein, Louis D. Brandeis, Barbra Streisand, David Ben-Gurion, Emma Goldman, and more.
Jewish Lives titles have been favorably reviewed[2][3][4][5] by the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
In 2014, Jewish Lives won the National Jewish Book of the Year Award, marking the first time the Jewish Book Council awarded a series the prize.[6]
In 2017, the Leon D. Black Foundation launched JewishLives.org, an ecommerce store where Jewish Lives books and collections are sold. The Jewish Lives Podcast was launched in 2019.[7]
As of 2024, Jewish Lives includes the following titles:
Antiquity
Arts / Culture
Business
Entertainment
Law / Politics
Literary Arts
Philosophy / Religion
Rogues
Science
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