Jewish Lives Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Jewish Lives books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: January 2026
Publication Order
Medallions (By: Diana Kuprel,Zofia Nalkowska)
Buy on Amazon1946
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt (By: Robert Gottlieb)
Buy on Amazon2010
Moses Mendelssohn (By: Shmuel Feiner)
Buy on Amazon2010
Emma Goldman (By: Vivian Gornick)
Buy on Amazon2011
Hank Greenberg
Buy on Amazon2011
Solomon (By: Steven Weitzman)
Buy on Amazon2011
Leon Trotsky (By: Joshua Rubenstein)
Buy on Amazon2011
Franz Kafka (By: Saul Friedländer)
Buy on Amazon2012
Walther Rathenau (By: Shulamit Volkov)
Buy on Amazon2012
Moshe Dayan (By: Mordechai Bar-On)
Buy on Amazon2012
Jacob (By: Yair Zakovitch)
Buy on Amazon2012
Bernard Berenson (By: Rachel Lara Cohen)
Buy on Amazon2013
Primo Levi (By: Berel Lang)
Buy on Amazon2013
Becoming Freud (By: Adam Phillips)
Buy on Amazon2014
Lillian Hellman (By: Dorothy Gallagher)
Buy on Amazon2014
Rav Kook (By: Yehudah Mirsky)
Buy on Amazon2014
Jabotinsky (By: Hillel Halkin)
Buy on Amazon2014
David (By: David J. Wolpe)
Buy on Amazon2014
Leonard Bernstein (By: Allen Shawn)
Buy on Amazon2014
Ben-Gurion (By: Anita Shapira)
Buy on Amazon2014
Mark Rothko (By: Annie Cohen-Solal)
Buy on Amazon2015
Einstein (By: Steven Gimbel)
Buy on Amazon2015
Léon Blum (By: Pierre Birnbaum)
Buy on Amazon2015
Peggy Guggenheim (By: Francine Prose)
Buy on Amazon2015
Proust (By: Benjamin Taylor)
Buy on Amazon2015
Groucho Marx (By: Lee Siegel)
Buy on Amazon2016
Disraeli (By: David Cesarani)
Buy on Amazon2016
Barbra Streisand (By: Neal Gabler)
Buy on Amazon2016
Louis D. Brandeis (By: Jeffrey Rosen)
Buy on Amazon2016
Moses (By: Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg)
Buy on Amazon2016
Warner Bros (By: David Thomson)
Buy on Amazon2017
Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films (By: Molly Haskell)
Buy on Amazon2017
Hayim Nahman Bialik (By: Avner Holtzman)
Buy on Amazon2017
Yitzhak Rabin (By: Itamar Rabinovich)
Buy on Amazon2017
Rabbi Akiva (By: Barry W. Holtz)
Buy on Amazon2017
Julius Rosenwald (By: Hasia R. Diner)
Buy on Amazon2017
Harvey Milk (By: Lillian Faderman)
Buy on Amazon2018
Gershom Scholem (By: David Biale)
Buy on Amazon2018
Menasseh ben Israel (By: Steven Nadler)
Buy on Amazon2018
Jerome Robbins (By: Wendy Lesser)
Buy on Amazon2018
Ben Hecht (By: Adina Hoffman)
Buy on Amazon2019
Martin Buber (By: Paul Mendes-Flohr)
Buy on Amazon2019
Alfred Stieglitz (By: Phyllis Rose)
Buy on Amazon2019
Karl Marx (By: Shlomo Avineri)
Buy on Amazon2019
Irving Berlin (By: James Kaplan)
Buy on Amazon2019
Theodor Herzl (By: Derek J. Penslar)
Buy on Amazon2020
Houdini (By: Adam Begley)
Buy on Amazon2020
Stan Lee (By: Liel Leibovitz)
Buy on Amazon2020
Stanley Kubrick (By: David Mikics)
Buy on Amazon2020
Heinrich Heine (By: George Prochnik)
Buy on Amazon2020
Bugsy Siegel (By: Michael Shnayerson)
Buy on Amazon2021
Man Ray (By: Arthur Lubow)
Buy on Amazon2021
Judah Benjamin (By: James Traub)
Buy on Amazon2021
Abraham Joshua Heschel (By: Julian E. Zelizer)
Buy on Amazon2021
Admiral Hyman Rickover (By: Marc Wortman)
Buy on Amazon2022
Becoming Elijah (By: Daniel C. Matt)
Buy on Amazon2022
Ruth (By: Ilana Pardes)
Buy on Amazon2022
Sidney Reilly (By: Benny Morris)
Buy on Amazon2022
Arthur Miller (By: John Lahr)
Buy on Amazon2022
Mel Brooks (By: Jeremy Dauber)
Buy on Amazon2023
Maimonides (By: Alberto Manguel)
Buy on Amazon2023
Elie Wiesel (By: Joseph Berger)
Buy on Amazon2023
Amos Oz (By: Robert Alter)
Buy on Amazon2023
Henrietta Szold (By: Francine Klagsbrun)
Buy on Amazon2024
Frequently Asked Questions
The recommended reading order for the Jewish Lives series is publication order: 1. Medallions (By: Diana Kuprel,Zofia Nalkowska) (1946), 2. Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt (By: Robert Gottlieb) (2010), 3. Moses Mendelssohn (By: Shmuel Feiner) (2010), 4. Emma Goldman (By: Vivian Gornick) (2011), 5. Hank Greenberg (2011), and 59 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The Jewish Lives series by Mark Kurlansky contains 64 books. The series began in 1946 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
The Jewish Lives series is written by Mark Kurlansky. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
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