Encyclopaedia Judaica

• More than 21.000 articles written by an international team of scholars
• Completely updated for today’s students and researchers
• 2.600 new entries researched and written for this edition
• 600 maps, tables and illustrations within the text
• more than 150 pages of stunning, full-color photo inserts
• 30.000 new bibliographical listings

Die Encyclopaedia Judaica ist eine englischsprachige Kulturenzyklopädie, die auf deutsche Ursprünge zurückgeht. Das Erscheinen der deutschen Encylopaedia Judaica (1928-34, Berlin: Eschkol, hrsg. v. Nahum Goldmann) musste wegen der Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten nach nur 10 von 15 geplanten deutschsprachigen und 2 hebräischen Bänden eingestellt werden.

Steve Levin berichtete am 27.12.2006 in der Pittsburgh-Post Gazette in seinem Artikel “New 22-volume Encyclopaedia Judaica published. It’s a 16 million-word reference collection of ‘everything Jewish”:

“Although the Encyclopaedia Judaica was published in 1972, the process began a half-century earlier in Germany. The rise of Hitler scuttled the German-language project after it was half finished. A new effort during the 1950s sputtered only to begin again in 1966.

After its publication in 1972, the encyclopaedia immediately became the primary source of information about all Jewish subjects. The first edition was full of mini-masterpieces, such as the original 83-page, 120.000-word entry on ‘Kabbalah,’ or Jewish mysticism, by Gershom Scholem, and the section on Biblical Archeology, which included the political, national, religious and cultural forms of modern Zionism. The encyclopaedia was called a ‘changing point in (Jewish) consciousness’ by one 1972 reviewer.

The upcoming edition seeks to have a similar impact. Part of the challenge in assembling the encyclopedia’s content, said executive editor Michael Berenbaum, was incorporating the vast changes in the Jewish world in the past 34 years. (...)

‘It’s significant for non-Jews,’ Dr. Sarna said (he edited the American biographies division). ‘The Encyclopaedia Judaica has been, since its publication in 1972, the basic source people go to for up-to-date information about Jewish subjects’.”

22 Bände, erschienen im Dezember 2006 bei Macmillan Reference USA, zum Preis von nur 1780,- € statt Listenpreis von derzeit ca. 2225,- € innerhalb D, A und CH versandkostenfrei. Preise Europa u. weltweit 1850,- € plus Versandkosten.

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Die englischsprachige Kulturenzyklopädie zu jüdischem Leben, jüdischer Kultur, Geschichte und Religion

“The guiding principle of the editors of Encyclopaedia Judaica Second Edition was to retain the broad, solid scholarship of the original edition while giving voice to the present generation. From the achievements and contributions of Jewish women, to new Holocaust awareness, from Jewish Law and Community Life, to Popular Culture, the Encyclopaedia celebrates the achievements of Jews and illuminates their history.”

“Certain encyclopaedias receive canonical status in the field, said Jonathan Sarna, a professor of Jewish history at Brandeis University and author of ‘American Judaism.’ Encyclopaedia Judaica achieved that status.”

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