Jewish Lives Biography Series

Author Annie Cohen-Solal will be speaking at 13 venues across the US between March and September 2015

Anita Shapira, author of Ben Gurion: Father of Modern Israel will speak on January 15th from 7-8:30 at Northeastern University, Alumni Center, 716 Columbus Place.

New Biography of Leonard Bernstein is accompanied by lively book trailer in which author Allen Shawn and his brother, actor Wallace Shawn converse about the many facets of Bernstein's life and music.

The Divided Heart and Real Life of King David: Rabbi David Wolpe speaks about his new book "David: The Divided Heart" at Temple Emanu-el, New York, 7pm.

Adam Phillips, one of the world's foremost authorities on Freud, is joined by novelist and critic Daphne Merkin for a discussion of Phillip's striking new biography of the father of psychoanalysis, Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst.

A Conversation with Hillel Halkin (author of Jabotinsky), Rebecca Kobrin (Columbia University), and Edward Rothstein (New York Times). Moderated by Abe Socher (Editor of the Jewish Review of Books)

JCC Manhattan to Host Yehudah Mirsky Speaking About His Book on Rav Kook February 23, 2014 5 to 7pm Free

Join Berel Lang, author of the new biography of Primo Levi, published by Yale University Press, together with Jewish and Holocaust studies academics, Steven Zipperstein and Nancy Harrowitz discussing the life, work, and thought of the Primo Levi.

Rachel Cohen's Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade Receives Rave Reviews!

The 12th book in the Jewish Lives Series is released! Available at bookstores and online in hard cover and e-book formats