Jewish Lives

1.
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern 3.59 avg rating — 776 ratings
2.
Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life
Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life 3.76 avg rating — 331 ratings
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Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst 3.96 avg rating — 342 ratings
4.
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death 4.30 avg rating — 374 ratings
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Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films
Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films 3.29 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet
Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet 3.75 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream
Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream 3.85 avg rating — 452 ratings
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Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt 3.51 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence
Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence 3.15 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Irving Berlin: New York Genius
Irving Berlin: New York Genius 4.38 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life 3.72 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel
Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel 3.61 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel
Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 181 ratings
14.
David: The Divided Heart
David: The Divided Heart 4.07 avg rating — 247 ratings
15.
Jabotinsky: A Life
Jabotinsky: A Life 4.05 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want To Be One
Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want To Be One 3.67 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade
Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade 4.21 avg rating — 71 ratings
18.
Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah
Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah 3.91 avg rating — 208 ratings
19.
Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician
Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician 4.01 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence
Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence 4.38 avg rating — 69 ratings
21.
Arthur Miller: American Witness
Arthur Miller: American Witness
by: John Lahr
3.96 avg rating — 54 ratings
22.
Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew
Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew 3.67 avg rating — 78 ratings
23.
Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World
Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World 4.02 avg rating — 84 ratings
24.
Moshe Dayan: Israel's Controversial Hero
Moshe Dayan: Israel's Controversial Hero 3.80 avg rating — 85 ratings
25.
Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power
Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power 4.49 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of Modernity
Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of Modernity 4.08 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud
Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud 4.21 avg rating — 81 ratings
28.
Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution
Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution 3.84 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman
Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman 4.11 avg rating — 94 ratings
30.
Einstein: His Space and Times
Einstein: His Space and Times 3.78 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution
Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution 4.18 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Moses: A Human Life
Moses: A Human Life 3.80 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Golda Meir: Israel’s Matriarch
Golda Meir: Israel’s Matriarch 4.05 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures 3.73 avg rating — 84 ratings
35.
Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life
Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life 3.26 avg rating — 31 ratings
36.
Proust: The Search
Proust: The Search 4.09 avg rating — 101 ratings
37.
Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows
Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows 3.56 avg rating — 32 ratings
38.
Judah Benjamin: Counselor to the Confederacy
Judah Benjamin: Counselor to the Confederacy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 59 ratings
39.
Sidney Reilly: Master Spy
Sidney Reilly: Master Spy 3.73 avg rating — 33 ratings
40.
Maimonides: Faith in Reason
Maimonides: Faith in Reason 3.77 avg rating — 79 ratings
41.
Disraeli: The Novel Politician
Disraeli: The Novel Politician 3.53 avg rating — 36 ratings
42.
Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah
Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah 4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings
43.
Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist
Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist 3.85 avg rating — 48 ratings
44.
Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life
Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life 3.42 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Walther Rathenau: Weimar's Fallen Statesman
Walther Rathenau: Weimar's Fallen Statesman 3.50 avg rating — 32 ratings
46.
Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation
Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation 4.30 avg rating — 74 ratings
47.
Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch
Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch 3.87 avg rating — 54 ratings
48.
Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution
Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution 4.08 avg rating — 26 ratings
49.
Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement
Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement 4.26 avg rating — 42 ratings
50.
Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio
Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio 3.17 avg rating — 238 ratings
51.
Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter
Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter 3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
52.
Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom
Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom 3.64 avg rating — 36 ratings
53.
Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream
Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream 4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings
54.
Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent
Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent 4.48 avg rating — 67 ratings
55.
Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader
Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader 3.85 avg rating — 53 ratings
56.
Ruth: A Migrant’s Tale
Ruth: A Migrant’s Tale 3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Alfred Stieglitz: Taking Pictures, Making Painters
Alfred Stieglitz: Taking Pictures, Making Painters 4.16 avg rating — 31 ratings
58.
Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance
Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance 3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings
59.
Julius Rosenwald: Repairing the World
Julius Rosenwald: Repairing the World 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings
60.
Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam
Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings
61.
Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon
Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
62.
Houdini: The Elusive American
Houdini: The Elusive American 3.59 avg rating — 116 ratings
63.
Stan Lee: A Life in Comics
Stan Lee: A Life in Comics 3.77 avg rating — 186 ratings
64.
Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success
Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
65.
Hayim Nahman Bialik: Poet of Hebrew
Hayim Nahman Bialik: Poet of Hebrew 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Abraham: The First Jew
Abraham: The First Jew really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power
Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power 3.64 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt
Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt 3.58 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker
Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker 3.78 avg rating — 268 ratings
70.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah
Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah 4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair
Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair 4.32 avg rating — 116 ratings
72.
The Many Lives of Anne Frank
The Many Lives of Anne Frank 4.27 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation
Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation 4.30 avg rating — 50 ratings