Yale University Press is launching a new biographyseries, Jewish Lives, as “a collaboration with the Leon D. Black Foundation,” acquired for the press by Ileene Smith, who is editorial director of the line. Black is credited with conceiving the line in answer to a question from one of his sons about the meaning of Jewish identity. Black writes, “I see this library of biography as a powerful opportunity for Jewish families, congregations, schools, and general readers to enrich with pride their understanding of Jewish life through history.” Historians Anita Shapira of Tel Aviv University and Steven J. Zipperstein of Stanford […]
