The most recent biography in Yale University’s Jewish Lives series is “Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures,”written by Adina Hoffman, an award-winning essayist and biographer and former film critic for the American Prospect and the Jerusalem...

Jewish Lives is a major series of interpretative biographies that explores the range and depth of Jewish experience, from antiquity through the present.The books in this series, in partnership with Yale University Press, include Jews in every field of...