The Jewish Encyclopedia- 12 Volumes by Isidore Singer

This is a great tool I suggest:

A discriptive record of the history, religion,literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day (1900's)

It is a out of copyright material

for more: http://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Encyclopedia-12-Volumes/dp/B000B68W5S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263567932&sr=8-1

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Kent Hendricks

Keep an eye on the Pre-Pub page.

david the psalter

Yes, the jewish encyclopedia is on the pre pub. go brothers and let us get it fast. it is of great value to have this work as a tool to biblical studies. well done Logos

Rev. D.

David, I am unfamiliar with this source, but I trust your opinion regarding this resource, even though I don't know you. I just ordered it on pre-pub. Also, I did a quick review on-line and, although someone said this encyclopedia is available to view for free on-line, I believe purchasing it, and being able to access it and use the tools available in Logos, is priceless. Thanks for sharing because I might have missed this on pre-pub.

Blessings,

Christina

Praiser

Keep an eye on the Pre-Pub page.

Kent,

I thought I had ordered this on CD but when I went back to my PrePub orders page it wasn't there. I tried to order it again on CD and it still doesn't show up.

I then selected the download version to make it register in my PrePub order page. I would still prefer to have it on CD. There is a problem with the CD ordering part of this listing.

Thanks.

George Somsel

David, I am unfamiliar with this source, but I trust your opinion regarding this resource, even though I don't know you. I just ordered it on pre-pub. Also, I did a quick review on-line and, although someone said this encyclopedia is available to view for free on-line, I believe purchasing it, and being able to access it and use the tools available in Logos, is priceless. Thanks for sharing because I might have missed this on pre-pub.

Blessings,

Christina

I don't think you'll regret having it. It's quite an amazing resource. I have it in PDF form which I got from e-bookshuk.com for a ridiculously low price when they had a sale on a number of works.

Tom Reynolds

You might also be interested in the companion volume, Joseph Jacobs, The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Guide to Its Contents, An Aid to Its Use. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1906. Perhaps Logos can throw it in as an added bonus ;-).

Here's their statistics of interest section:

In the production of The Jewish Encyclopedia, no
less than 16,606 general articles were written, which
treated more than 150,000 subsidiary subjects. To
do this, about 9,630,210 words were penned, of which
8,168,950 were found acceptable and approved. To
furnish this vast amount of matter, about 75,000
separate works were consulted, excluding the Biblical,
Talmudic, and Apocryphal books and their subdivisions.
The rate at which the volumes were produced
was nearly four volumes a year, eleven volumes having
been issued between Feb., 1902 and Dec. 29, 1905.
Each volume exceeds 700 pages in bulk, so that 7,700
pages of type were set; and these were read in galleyproof,
page-proof, and plate-proof, for corrections, by
more than fifty persons.

The composition of the Encyclopedia was done by
typesetting machines, whose operators played as many
as 28,000 ems per day—quite a notable feat, when the
technical character of the work is considered, and when
it is borne in mind that words from as many as seven
to ten languages were in almost constant use. The
presses on which this work was printed were of the
cylinder type; and four of them were occupied thirty
days in printing a single volume.
The illustrations scattered through the twelve volumes
number 2,464. Of these 63 are maps and
plans ranging from the time of Blakewell Hall to the
yard-and-one-half long map of New York, 112 are devoted
to specimens of Hebrew typography, 187 to
costumes and 333 to portraits. The illustrations of
Biblical topics number 208, and there are many deeds
and over a hundred examples of Hebrew manuscripts.
Particular attention has been paid to the reproductions
of ceremonial objects, which number more than 240.
The most elaborately illustrated volume is the eleventh,
which contains 306 illustrations; next come vol. viii.
with 248, vol. x. with 243, and vol. iv. with 230. The
average is about 205 per volume.

Rev. D.

You might also be interested in the companion volume, Joseph Jacobs, The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Guide to Its Contents, An Aid to Its Use. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1906. Perhaps Logos can throw it in as an added bonus ;-).

Here's their statistics of interest section:

In the production of The Jewish Encyclopedia, no
less than 16,606 general articles were written, which
treated more than 150,000 subsidiary subjects. To
do this, about 9,630,210 words were penned, of which
8,168,950 were found acceptable and approved. To
furnish this vast amount of matter, about 75,000
separate works were consulted, excluding the Biblical,
Talmudic, and Apocryphal books and their subdivisions.
The rate at which the volumes were produced
was nearly four volumes a year, eleven volumes having
been issued between Feb., 1902 and Dec. 29, 1905.
Each volume exceeds 700 pages in bulk, so that 7,700
pages of type were set; and these were read in galleyproof,
page-proof, and plate-proof, for corrections, by
more than fifty persons.

The composition of the Encyclopedia was done by
typesetting machines, whose operators played as many
as 28,000 ems per day—quite a notable feat, when the
technical character of the work is considered, and when
it is borne in mind that words from as many as seven
to ten languages were in almost constant use. The
presses on which this work was printed were of the
cylinder type; and four of them were occupied thirty
days in printing a single volume.
The illustrations scattered through the twelve volumes
number 2,464. Of these 63 are maps and
plans ranging from the time of Blakewell Hall to the
yard-and-one-half long map of New York, 112 are devoted
to specimens of Hebrew typography, 187 to
costumes and 333 to portraits. The illustrations of
Biblical topics number 208, and there are many deeds
and over a hundred examples of Hebrew manuscripts.
Particular attention has been paid to the reproductions
of ceremonial objects, which number more than 240.
The most elaborately illustrated volume is the eleventh,
which contains 306 illustrations; next come vol. viii.
with 248, vol. x. with 243, and vol. iv. with 230. The
average is about 205 per volume.

Tom, what a great resource! I'm going to review this resource now in hopes that it will prepare me to understand and utilize the actual encyclopedia before I receive it.

Christina

david the psalter

I encourage all or who are interested in studying the Old Testament and New testament and Judaism to buy this great resource.

About the Author

Isidore Singer ---

SINGER, ISIDORE, editor (originator of THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA) and writer, b. Weisskirchen, Moravia, 1859; d. New York city, 1939. He studied at the Universities of Vienna and Berlin (Ph.D., 1884), and founded and published the

Allgemeine Osterreichische Literaturzeitung (1884-85).
Becoming a literary secretary to Count Alexandre Foucher de Careil, French ambassador at Vienna, he followed him to Paris, where he joined the press bureau of the French Foreign Office and also became editor-in-chief of

La vraie parole (1893-94). Through this paper, which he founded to counteract the anti-Semitism propagated by Edouard Drumont's La Libre parole, Singer defended Alfred Dreyfus fearlessly.
Encouraged by an editorial written for the

American Hebrew Singer went to New York city (1895) to carry out his life work, The Jewish Encyclopedia. Having done the preliminary work together with Richard J. H. Gottheil and Kaufmann Kohler, he became managing editor of the encyclopedia, and was in charge of the department of modern biography (for the period from 1750 to 1904).
Singer was managing editor also of the

International Insurance Encyclopedia (1909) and co-editor Kuno Francke of Harvard University) of the German Classics of the 19th and 20th Centuries He was founder (1922) and literary director of the interdenominational Amos Society, a monotheistic world league for better understanding among peoples, and president of the Justice Lodge of the B'nai B'rith.
Singer was a prolific writer in three languages. His works include: Berlin, Wien und der Antisemitismus Presse und Judentum (1882); Sollen die Juden werden? (1884); Die bieden Elektren—

humanistische Bildung und der klassische Unterricht (1884); Auf meiner Mutter (Hebrew trans., Solomon Fuchs, 1888); Le prestige de la France en Europe (1889); La question (1893); Anarchie et antisemitisme (1894); Der Kampf ums Recht (1902); Russia at the Bar of People (1904); Christ or God? (1908); Social (1923); A Religion of Truth, Justice and Peace which was issued by the Amos Society and claimed to be "a challenge to church and synagogue to lead in the realization of the social and peace gospel of the Hebrew prophets."
Singer edited The World's Debt to the Jew (6 vols.), translated books from French into German, including treatises by James Darmesteter and Zadoc Kahn. Singer's favorite idea was the establishment of world peace and of close spiritual cooperation of Jews and Christians. "This little man," wrote Gutzon Borglum, "with his vast dome and sparkling eyes, whom I tried in my own modest way, as a tribute to a friend, to fix in bronze as a type of Jewish thinker, involuntarily reminds me of his great predecessors, and models, Leibnitz and Diderot." Extensive tribute was paid Singer on the occasion of his sixtieth (1919) and seventieth (1929) birthdays.

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david the psalter

I encourage all or who are interested in studying the Old Testament and New testament and Judaism to buy this great resource.

MJ. Smith

And please preload the appropriate headings into the topic wiki.

Ted Hans

Hi David,

Thanks in bring this resource to my attention. Another question is how does The Jewish Encyclopedia- 12 Volumes by Isidore Singer compares to the

The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia (10 vols. plus Reading Guide &
Index)

Thanks again, i have placed an order on prepub.

Ted.

david the psalter

Come on folks go ahead and buy a copy of the Jewish Encyclopedia. By the way If you want to have access to it visit: www.jewishencyclopedia.com to have soem idea about it.

david the psalter

What is following is taken from wikipedia.com

The Jewish Encyclopedia was an encyclopedia originally published in New York between 1901 and 1906 by Funk and Wagnalls. It contained over 15,000 articles in 12 volumes on the history and then-current state of Judaism and the Jews as of 1901. It is now a public domain resource.

Jenny Mendelsohn, of University of Toronto Libraries, in an online guide to major sources of information about Jews and Judaism, writes of this work, "Although published in the early 1900s, this was a work highly regarded for its scholarship. Much of the material is still of value to researchers in Jewish History." ^[1] Rabbi Joshua L. Segal of the Reform movement called it "a remarkable piece of Jewish scholarship" and added, "For events prior to 1900, it is considered to offer a level of scholarship superior to either of the more recent Jewish Encyclopedias written in English."^[2]

The Jewish Encyclopedia and Wissenschaft des Judentums

The scholarly style of the Jewish Encyclopedia is very much in the mode of Wissenschaft des Judentums studies, an approach to Jewish scholarship and religion that flourished in 19th-century Germany; indeed, the Encyclopedia may be regarded as the culmination of this movement.^[3] In the 20th century, the movement's members dispersed to Jewish Studies departments in the United States and Israel. The scholarly authorities cited in the Encyclopedia—besides the classical and medieval exegetes—are almost uniformly Wissenschaft figures, such as Leopold Zunz, Moritz Steinschneider, Solomon Schechter, Wilhelm Bacher, J.L. Rapoport, David Zvi Hoffman, Heinrich Graetz, etc. This particular scholarly style can be seen in the Jewish Encyclopedia's almost obsessive attention to manuscript discovery, manuscript editing and publication, manuscript comparison, manuscript dating, and so on; these endeavors were among the foremost interests of Wissenschaft scholarship.

The Jewish Encyclopedia is an English language work, but the vast majority of the encyclopedia's contemporary sources are German language sources, since this was the mother tongue of the Wissenschaft scholars and the lingua franca of scholarship in general in that period. Of the works cited which are not German—usually the more classical works—the large part are either Hebrew or Arabic. The only heavily cited English-language source of contemporary scholarship is Solomon Schechter's publications in the Jewish Quarterly Review. The significance of the work's publication in English rather than German or Hebrew is captured by Harry Wolfson writing in 1926 (Schwarz 1965):

The editors and authors of the Jewish Encyclopedia proved prescient in their choice of language, since within that same span of 25 years, English rose to become the dominant language of academic Jewish scholarship and among Jews worldwide. Wolfson continues that "if a Jewish Encyclopedia in a modern language were planned for the first time [i.e., in 1926], the choice would undoubtedly have fallen upon English."