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The national biographies, on the other hand, usually offer an evaluation of the subject's contributions. Oxford University Press also produces the digital version of its Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and makes it available by subscription. The digital forms of these two resources supplement their print versions. Computer access to the information contained in these works significantly increases their utility and the service that they provide to scholars.

Although both products offer advance search features which allow combination of searches according to various criteria such as name, dates, occupation. American National Biography Online allows readers to focus their research in specialized collections, such as Black History. This free database provides lists of works and brief biographical data concerning authors writing in Hebrew since the s.

Another project that serves as a biographical and bibliographical guide to Hebrew authors is the Hebrew author database maintained by the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature and freely available on the Web. Entries include a short biography, a list of books published in Hebrew, and a list of books in translation. In addition to the above resources, several commercial biographical databases provide useful and reliable information about Jewish individuals.

Wilson's Biography Reference Bank. Covering a larger number of individuals, Biography Reference Bank pulls content from more resources—in particular, more periodical titles. While both of these products feature full-text articles from resources across a range of ethnic groups, disciplines, and subject areas, neither includes a single biographical or subject biographical tool devoted exclusively to Jews.

The only way to locate biographies of Jewish persons in these two databases is to know who you are looking for. This second group of publishers have produced print versions of many core works of Jewish biography, which should be included in the resources offered by Biography Reference Bank. Pinnolis, a reference librarian at the Goldfarb Library at Brandeis University.

The site functions as a portal to academic, organizational, and individual sources in Jewish music. Among many other things, it provides details about individual musicians and online biographies of Jewish composers and performers. An enormous number of websites exist that are devoted to individuals and provide extensive biographical sketches, photographs, critical articles, web lines, and bibliographies.

Paul Celan Homepage polyglot. The Saul Bellow Society website features a definitive annotated bibliography of Bellow's works and includes full-text access to the society's newsletter. Most institutions are able to digitize only a fraction of their collections. Although an increasing number of digitized primary sources are becoming available electronically, to understand the full range of a repository's holdings, one should search its findings aids.

Aaron Ciechanover [ 18 ] [ 55 ] [ 56 ]. Avram Hershko [ 18 ] [ 55 ]. Roger D. Martin Chalfie [ 64 ]. Ada Yonath [ 55 ]. Dan Shechtman [ 67 ]. Robert Lefkowitz [ 69 ]. Arieh Warshel [ 11 ] [ 71 ]. Michael Levitt [ 11 ] [ 71 ]. Martin Karplus [ 11 ] [ 71 ]. David Baker [ 76 ]. Otto Fritz Meyerhof [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Karl Landsteiner [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 78 ].

Otto Heinrich Warburg [ 17 ] [ 18 ]. Ernst Boris Chain [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Hermann Joseph Muller [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 78 ].

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Gerty Cori [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Tadeusz Reichstein [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Selman Waksman [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Fritz Albert Lipmann [ 78 ]. Joshua Lederberg [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Marshall Warren Nirenberg [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Salvador Luria [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Julius Axelrod [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Gerald Edelman [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. David Baltimore [ 18 ] [ 78 ].

Howard Martin Temin [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Baruch Samuel Blumberg [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow [ 18 ] [ 35 ] [ 78 ]. Daniel Nathans [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Baruj Benacerraf [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. John Vane [ ]. Michael Stuart Brown [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Joseph L. Goldstein [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Stanley Cohen [ 18 ] [ 35 ] [ 78 ]. Rita Levi-Montalcini [ 18 ] [ 78 ] [ ]. Gertrude B.

Harold E. Edmond H. Fischer [ ]. Alfred G. Gilman [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Martin Rodbell [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Stanley B. Prusiner [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Robert F. Furchgott [ 10 ] [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Paul Greengard [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Eric Kandel [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Sydney Brenner [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Robert Horvitz [ 18 ] [ 78 ]. Andrew Fire [ 78 ]. Ralph M. Bruce Beutler [ 67 ] [ 78 ] [ ].

James E. Rothman [ 11 ] [ ] [ ]. Randy Schekman [ 11 ] [ ] [ ]. Michael Rosbash [ ] [ ] [ ]. Harvey J. David Julius [ ] [ ]. Drew Weissman [ ] [ ] [ ]. Gary Ruvkun [ ] [ ]. Albert A. Michelson [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ ]. Gabriel Lippmann [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ ]. Albert Einstein [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ ] [ ]. James Franck [ 16 ] [ ]. Gustav Hertz [ 16 ] [ 17 ].

Otto Stern [ 16 ] [ ]. Isidor Isaac Rabi [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ ]. Wolfgang Pauli [ ] [ ]. Ilya Frank [ ] [ ]. Donald A. Robert Hofstadter [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ ]. Eugene Wigner [ ] [ ]. Richard Feynman [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ ] [ ]. Julian Schwinger [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ ]. Hans Bethe [ ]. Murray Gell-Mann [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ ] [ ]. Dennis Gabor [ 16 ] [ ]. Leon Cooper [ ] [ ] [ ].

Brian David Josephson [ 16 ]. Aage Niels Bohr [ ]. Ben Roy Mottelson [ 16 ] [ ]. Burton Richter [ 16 ] [ ]. Arno Allan Penzias [ 16 ] [ ]. Sheldon Glashow [ 16 ] [ ]. Steven Weinberg [ 16 ] [ ]. Arthur Leonard Schawlow [ ]. Leon M. Lederman [ 16 ] [ 35 ] [ ]. Melvin Schwartz [ 16 ] [ ]. Jack Steinberger [ 16 ] [ ]. Jerome Isaac Friedman [ ]. Georges Charpak [ ].

Martin Lewis Perl [ ]. Frederick Reines [ ]. David Morris Lee [ 47 ] [ ]. Douglas D. Osheroff [ 47 ]. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji [ ]. Zhores Alferov [ 47 ] [ ]. Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov [ ]. Vitaly Ginzburg [ ]. David Gross [ 55 ] [ ] [ ]. David Politzer [ ]. Roy J. Glauber [ ]. Saul Perlmutter [ 67 ] [ ] [ ] [ ]. Serge Haroche [ ].

Michael Kosterlitz [ ]. Rainer Weiss [ ]. Barry Barish [ ] [ ]. Arthur Ashkin [ ] [ ] [ ]. Roger Penrose [ ] [ ]. Andrea Ghez [ ] [ ] [ ]. Siglos X—XV ;. Zeitlin, Kirjath Sepher, Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana — Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur 8 vols. Fruehling, Biographisches Handbuch der in der k. Mortara, Indice alfabetico dei rabbini e scrittori israeliti in Italia Buber, Anshei Shem , lay and rabbinic leaders in Lemberg Lvov from —;.

Eisenstadt, Dor, Rabbanav ve-Soferav 6 vols. Volume 5 is devoted exclusively to the United States;. Pfeffer, Distinguished Jews of America — Israel Honorarium 5 vols. Volumes 2—5 contain biographical sketches of American Jews. Olitzky, L. Sussman, and M. Hyman and D. Roth, Mag Bibl, —56; Waxman, Literature, 2 2 , —16; 3 2 , ; 4 2 , —66, —47, and index S.

Ribalow, Autobiographies of American Jews , 3—14 introd. Mazeh, Zikhronot , 4 ; L. Schwarz, Memoirs of My People , introduction, 13—26, a popular survey of autobiographies. Source: Encyclopaedia Judaica. All Rights Reserved. Download our mobile app for on-the-go access to the Jewish Virtual Library. Category » Hebrew and Jewish. Akdamut Millin.

Animal Tales. Arthurian Legends. Biblical Exegesis. Biographies and Autobiographies. Book of Jashar. Book of the Covenant. Book of the Wars of the Lord. Brit Ivrit Olamit. Children's Literature. English Literature. Exempla of the Rabbis. Fiction, Hebrew. Geonic Literature. Halakhic Periodicals. Hebrew Book Titles. Hebrew Grammar. Hebrew Language.

Hebrew Literature, Modern. Hellenistic Jewish Literature. Hermetic Writings. Hungarian Literature. Homiletic Literature. Illuminated Manuscripts, Hebrew. Jewish Publishers. Journals and Newspapers. Linguistic Literature, Hebrew. Literature, Jewish. Razim, Sefer Ha-. In Medieval Hebrew Literature The biographic genre was also unknown to medieval Hebrew literature and there is almost no writing in the field.

The Influence of Hagiography on Biography Hagiography, however, influenced the fate of biographic literature probably more than historiography.