Jewish Lives Biography Series Announces New Titles-Harry Houdini and Allen Ginsberg

PRLog (Press Release) - Feb. 19, 2013 - Jewish Lives, a book series of Jewish biographies, announced the addition of two new titles to its impressive list of subjects.Harry Houdini by Ricky Jay and Allen Ginsberg by Ed Hirsch join a long list of forthcoming titles including Saul Friedlander on Franz Kafka, Rachel Cohen on Bernard Berenson, and Annie Cohen-Solal on Mark Rothko. Published titles include Robert Gottlieb on Sarah Bernhardt, Vivian Gornick on Emma Goldman, Mark Kurlansky on Hank Greenberg, Joshua Rubenstein on Leon Trotsky, Steven Weitzman on Solomon, and Shmuel Feiner on Moses Mendelssohn.For the complete list, go to http://www.jewishlives.org.

The Jewish Lives Book Series, a collaboration of the Leon D. Black Foundation and Yale University Press is a major series of brief, interpretive biography offering an indispensable guide to illuminating the range and depth of the Jewish experience. At http://www.Facebook.com/jewishlives readers can sign up for posts about how these intriguing Jewish lives continue to impact us today as well as the Jewish Lives Quote of the Week.