Jewish Lives series by Yale University Press

Rosie Perera

These three in particular would be interesting to get in Logos:

• David: The Divided Heart - currently the #1 Best Seller in Christian New Testament Biographies on Amazon, probably because of the recent news that Warner has optioned it for a film. The book "examines some of the contradictions in David’s personality."
• Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom
• Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch

But also some of their other biographies of influential Jewish people in that series would be of interest:

• Becoming Freud
• Moshe Dayan: Israel's Controversial Hero
• Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life
• Walther Rathenau: Weimar's Fallen Statesman
• Leonard Bernstein
• Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel
• Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt
• Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life
• Moses Mendelssohn
• Albert Einstein: His Space and Times

These additional ones are names I don't recognize but if you end up going for completeness of the series they should be included. I'm sure they are intriguing people.

• Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life
• Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life
• Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution
• Jabotinsky (about Vladimir Jabotinsky, "a first-rate novelist, a celebrated Russian journalist, and the founder of the branch of Zionism now headed by Benjamin Netanyahu")
• Bernard Berenson
• Sarah (about Sarah Bernhardt)

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But you are missing at least two:

• Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel
• Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want to Be One

http://www.jewishlives.org shows planned volumes as well (though I certainly hope they intend to expand that list later).

Rosie Perera said:

These additional ones are names I don't recognize but if you end up going for completeness of the series they should be included. I'm sure they are intriguing people.

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• Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution
• Jabotinsky

I actually think those two, plus David ben Gurion, are the ones I'd be most interested in. Vladimir Jabotinsky and Abraham Isaac Kook are both extremely important persons in modern Jewish history. You can't understand modern Israel without knowing about them. As it happens, the Jabotinsky Museum was the first place I visited during my recent trip to Israel (apart from the airport and the hotel, naturally).

I recommend reading the first review on the Jabotinsky volume. It's fairly long, but does a great job of arguing why it's important for [American Evangelical] Christians to be aware of Israeli history.

Btw, we already have some of Kook's writings on prepub: Abraham Isaac Kook: The Lights of Penitence, the Moral Principles, Lights of Holiness, Essays, Letters, and Poems.