DLB: Dictionary of Literary Biography (400+ digitized volumes & growing)

This set includes Dictionary of Literary Biography, Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series and Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Series. It features comprehensive literary biographies written by recognized literary scholars (Prof. Lynne Tatlock, for one) and critics. You'll find profiles of more than 143,000 authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights - living and dead. The biographies discuss the lives and careers of the literary figures profiled, along with the critical response to their works.

Here are some volumes specifically related to Jewish culture and Arabic culture, too.

• Writers in Yiddish
• Holocaust Novelists
• Twentieth Century American Jewish Fiction Writers
• Twentieth Century Arabic Writers
• Arabic Literary Culture, 500 -925

Many other volumes include Jewish content and in them you will find entries on Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Rashi, and lesser known writers like Ilse Aichinger,Rachel Korn, and Celia Dropkin.