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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: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Jewish Lives series? Start with "Medallions (By: Diana Kuprel,Zofia Nalkowska)" (1946) and follow publication order through all 64 books.
The complete Jewish Lives reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Medallions (By: Diana Kuprel,Zofia Nalkowska)
1946
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt (By: Robert Gottlieb)
2010
Moses Mendelssohn (By: Shmuel Feiner)
2010
Emma Goldman (By: Vivian Gornick)
2011
Hank Greenberg
2011
Solomon (By: Steven Weitzman)
2011
Leon Trotsky (By: Joshua Rubenstein)
2011
Franz Kafka (By: Saul Friedländer)
2012
Walther Rathenau (By: Shulamit Volkov)
2012
Moshe Dayan (By: Mordechai Bar-On)
2012
Jacob (By: Yair Zakovitch)
2012
Bernard Berenson (By: Rachel Lara Cohen)
2013
Primo Levi (By: Berel Lang)
2013
Becoming Freud (By: Adam Phillips)
2014
Lillian Hellman (By: Dorothy Gallagher)
2014
Rav Kook (By: Yehudah Mirsky)
2014
Jabotinsky (By: Hillel Halkin)
2014
David (By: David J. Wolpe)
2014
Leonard Bernstein (By: Allen Shawn)
2014
Ben-Gurion (By: Anita Shapira)
2014
Mark Rothko (By: Annie Cohen-Solal)
2015
Einstein (By: Steven Gimbel)
2015
Léon Blum (By: Pierre Birnbaum)
2015
Peggy Guggenheim (By: Francine Prose)
2015
Proust (By: Benjamin Taylor)
2015
Groucho Marx (By: Lee Siegel)
2016
Disraeli (By: David Cesarani)
2016
Barbra Streisand (By: Neal Gabler)
2016
Louis D. Brandeis (By: Jeffrey Rosen)
2016
Moses (By: Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg)
2016
Warner Bros (By: David Thomson)
2017
Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films (By: Molly Haskell)
2017
Hayim Nahman Bialik (By: Avner Holtzman)
2017
Yitzhak Rabin (By: Itamar Rabinovich)
2017
Rabbi Akiva (By: Barry W. Holtz)
2017
Julius Rosenwald (By: Hasia R. Diner)
2017
Harvey Milk (By: Lillian Faderman)
2018
Gershom Scholem (By: David Biale)
2018
Menasseh ben Israel (By: Steven Nadler)
2018
Jerome Robbins (By: Wendy Lesser)
2018
Ben Hecht (By: Adina Hoffman)
2019
Martin Buber (By: Paul Mendes-Flohr)
2019
Alfred Stieglitz (By: Phyllis Rose)
2019
Karl Marx (By: Shlomo Avineri)
2019
Irving Berlin (By: James Kaplan)
2019
Theodor Herzl (By: Derek J. Penslar)
2020
Houdini (By: Adam Begley)
2020
Stan Lee (By: Liel Leibovitz)
2020
Stanley Kubrick (By: David Mikics)
2020
Heinrich Heine (By: George Prochnik)
2020
Bugsy Siegel (By: Michael Shnayerson)
2021
Man Ray (By: Arthur Lubow)
2021
Judah Benjamin (By: James Traub)
2021
Abraham Joshua Heschel (By: Julian E. Zelizer)
2021
Admiral Hyman Rickover (By: Marc Wortman)
2022
Becoming Elijah (By: Daniel C. Matt)
2022
Ruth (By: Ilana Pardes)
2022
Sidney Reilly (By: Benny Morris)
2022
Arthur Miller (By: John Lahr)
2022
Mel Brooks (By: Jeremy Dauber)
2023
Maimonides (By: Alberto Manguel)
2023
Elie Wiesel (By: Joseph Berger)
2023
Amos Oz (By: Robert Alter)
2023
Henrietta Szold (By: Francine Klagsbrun)
2024
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