Jewish Lives is a biography series published by Yale University Press and the Leon D. Black Foundation.
[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.
[6] In 2017, the Leon D. Black Foundation launched JewishLives.org, an ecommerce store where Jewish Lives books and collections are sold.
[7] As of 2025, Jewish Lives includes the following titles: Antiquity Arts / Culture Business Entertainment Law / Politics Literary Arts Philosophy / Religion Rogues Science