Biographies

Wolpe, D. (2014). David: the divided heart. Yale University Press. 
Weitzman, S. (2011). Solomon: The lure of wisdom. Yale University Press. 
Holtz, B. W. (2017). Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud. Yale University Press. 
Wiesel, E. (2009).
Rashi. Schocken. (epub)
Rudavsky, T. M. (2010). Maimonides. John Wiley & Sons. 
Nadler, S. M. (2018). Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam. Yale University Press. 
Etkes, I., & Green, Y. J. (2002). The Gaon of Vilna:
the man and his image.
Univ of California Press. 
Etkes, I. (2012). The Besht: Magician, mystic, and leader. Brandeis University Press.
Etkes, I. (2014). Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady: The origins of Chabad Hasidism. Brandeis University Press. 
Scholem, G. G. (2016). Sabbatai Ṣevi: The mystical messiah, 1626–1676 . Princeton University Press. 
Feiner, S. (2010). Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of modernity. Yale University Press. 
Sorkin, D. (2012). Moses Mendelssohn and the religious enlightenment. Halban Publishers. 
Mirsky, Y. (2014). Rav Kook: Mystic in a time of revolution. Yale University Press. 
Rakeffet-Rothkoff, A. (2001). Bernard Revel: Builder of American Jewish Orthodoxy. Varda Books. 
Miller, C. (2014). Turning Judaism outward: A biography of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe. Kol Menachem. 
Telushkin, J. (2016). Rebbe: The life and teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the most influential Rabbi in modern history. Harper Collins. 
Cohn-Sherbok, D. (2006). Dictionary of Jewish biography. A&C Black.