Biographies of prominent Jews have always aroused great interest. Published as a serious and long works of an individual, and mini-biography in collections such as "One Hundred Great Jews." The first could be of interest to individual professionals, the second is given no more information than the articles of the encyclopedia.
The book presents the series were compiled in such a way as to avoid these extremes. Written language alive, they are intended to provide all necessary information about the outstanding personality in a convenient volume.
The Jewish people gave the world a lot of great people. Some of them, like King Solomon, Christopher Columbus, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, known to everyone. And about the lives of other famous Jews, such as "father" John von Neumann computer, the Nobel laureate Karl Landsteiner (immunologist, who discovered blood groups), many readers will learn the first time. Thinkers, scientists, doctors, writers, sportsmen ... How many achievements and many unusual destiny!
From the pages of books in this series you get off living people - without edification, without preconceived evaluations. Each has left its memory, each made history.
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