Jewish Lives

Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution by George Prochnik

Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution

Jewish Lives

George Prochnik

336 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction biography challenging informative reflective fast-paced
Judah Benjamin: Counselor to the Confederacy by James Traub

Judah Benjamin: Counselor to the Confederacy

Jewish Lives

James Traub

200 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon by Robert Alter

Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon

Jewish Lives

Robert Alter

200 pages • hardcover • 2023

Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter by Rachel Shteir

Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter

Jewish Lives

Rachel Shteir

384 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction biography feminism history informative medium-paced
Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World by Martin Goodman

Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World

Jewish Lives

Martin Goodman

248 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction biography history religion
Menasseh Ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam by Steven Nadler

Menasseh Ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam

Jewish Lives

Steven Nadler

312 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction biography history religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Alfred Stieglitz: Taking Pictures, Making Painters by Phyllis Rose

Alfred Stieglitz: Taking Pictures, Making Painters

Jewish Lives

Phyllis Rose

272 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction art autobiography biography essays informative reflective medium-paced
Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation by Daniel C. Matt

Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation

Jewish Lives

Daniel C. Matt

248 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction biography religion challenging reflective medium-paced
Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement by Julian E. Zelizer

Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement

Jewish Lives

Julian E. Zelizer

328 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction biography history emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence by Joseph Berger, Joseph Berger

Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence

Jewish Lives

Joseph Berger, Joseph Berger

342 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction biography emotional reflective sad slow-paced