
	Where results make sense

Topic: Jewish Encyclopedia

Related Topics

List of encyclopedias

Encyclopedia

History of the Jews in France

Jewish denominations

Jewish

Funk and Wagnalls

Korbanot

Judaism

Anusim

Marrano

Most Holy Place

The Devil and his names

Temple in Jerusalem

Pub

Land of Israel

In the News (Wed 11 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Jew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Defeats in the Jewish-Roman Wars in the years 70 CE and 135 notably contributed to the numbers and geography of the diaspora, as significant numbers of the Jewish population of the Land of Israel were expelled and sold to slavery throughout the empire.
		The advent of the Jewish Enlightenment (see Haskalah) of the 1700s and the subsequent emancipation of the Jewish populations of Europe and America in the 1800s, changed the situation, allowing Jews to increasingly participate in, and become part of, secular society.
		The patriarch Abraham was a migrant to the land of Canaan from Ur of the Chaldees.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jew (6276 words)

	Jewish Encyclopedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Jewish Encyclopedia was an encyclopedia originally published between 1901 and 1906 by Funk and Wagnalls.
		For example, the names of the tractates of the Talmud are generally abbreviated; it is left to the reader to know that "Sanh." is Sanhedrin a tractate in the order of Nezikin or that "Git." is Gittin, a tractate in Nashim.
		Online version of the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia; their approach to transliteration of Hebrew and Aramaic is explained at [3]
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_Encyclopedia (326 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906.
		The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations.
		Since the original work was completed almost 100 years ago, it does not cover a significant portion of modern Jewish History (e.g., the creation of Israel, the Holocaust, etc.).
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com (202 words)

	Encyclopedia of Jewish Symbols
		Ellen Frankel is the Editor-in-Chief of the Jewish Publication Society as well as a free-lance writer and professional storyteller.
		Betsy Platkin Teutsch is a designer of Jewish ritual objects, a Jewish educator, and the illustrator of numerous publications.
		Ellen Frankel and Betsy Platkin Teutsch, writer and artist, have brought their extensive knowledge and talents together to create The Encyclopedia of Jewish Symbols, the first reference guide of its kind, designed for use by educators, artists, rabbis, folklorists, feminists, Jewish and non-Jewish scholars, and lay readers.
	www.judaicartkits.com /catalog/encyclopedia_of_jewish_symbols.htm (196 words)

	Brest-Litovsk - from the Jewish Encyclopedia
		The Jewish population of the city in 1897 was 30,252, in a total population of 46,542; that of the district (including the city) was in the same year 45,902, in a total of 218,366, or 21.02 per cent.
		From the “Pinkes” (Jewish Archives) of Lithuania it appears that the Jewish communities of the grand duchy at that time were indebted to the Jewish community of Brest to the amount of 2,143 kop groschen (in 1655 the indebtedness had increased to 32,912 kop groschen, not including interest to the amount of 14,015 kop groschen).
		Of the forty-two Jewish Lithuanian councils held from 1623 to 1761, nineteen met at Brest or at one of the cities in its district.
	www.jewishgen.org /belarus/je_brest_litovsk.htm (4119 words)

	Geneaology Gems THE JEWISH OBSERVER, LOS ANGELES
		Like me, Chuck is a Jewish genealogy fanatic, but he is also blessed with a photographic memory which means that he had memorialized not only the entire genealogy of his own family but of mine as well.
		Small though the Jewish population may be compared to the rest of the world, it is still a staggering task to assemble all of the world's Jewish genealogies, which perhaps explains why no list of this sort has ever before been attempted.
		Although this is a guide to Jewish family names, I have also included entries on six notable figures from Jewish history who do not have family names: King David (1043 B.C.E.-973 B.C.E.), Hillel the Great (70 B.C.E.-10 C.E.), Rashi (1040-1105), the Maharal of Prague (1525-1609), the Baal Shemtob (1700-1760) and the Gaon of Vilna (1720-1797).
	www.jewishobserver-la.com /GeneaologyGems.html (2528 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jewish Calendar
		The earliest appearance of the new moon was long ascertained by direct observation, and authoritatively settled by a commission of the Sanhedrin, and the intelligence then made known to the Jews at large, first by means of fire signals, and later on through special messengers.
		Of its twelve names now found in the Jewish calendar only seven occur in the Hebrew text, but the whole twelve appear as the main divisions of the Megillath Ta'anith (Scroll of Fasting), which in its original form is referred to a date before the Christian Era.
		According to the current Jewish reckoning the calendar is dated from the Creation of the World, which is considered to have taken place 3760 years and 3 months before the commencement of the Christian Era.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03166a.htm (1179 words)

	Jews, Jewish, The Jewish People - The Peace Encyclopedia
		A series of analyses was performed to address whether modern Jewish Y-chromosome diversity derives mainly from a common Middle Eastern source population or from admixture with neighboring non-Jewish populations during and after the Diaspora.
		A multidimensional scaling plot placed six of the seven Jewish populations in a relatively tight cluster that was interspersed with Middle Eastern non-Jewish populations, including Palestinians and Syrians.
		The Jewish population in Israel comprises of inhabitants of heterogeneous ethnic backgrounds.
	peace.heebz.com /jews.html (4562 words)

	Jewish Heritage Society: JSEE - Vol. 1, No. 4
		Jewish schools on the territory of the former Soviet Union: Guide-book.
		The boarders of "Russia" and "Russian" (to the encyclopedia's perspective) do not necessarily coincide with the contemporary boarders of Russian Federation, but rather correspond to the territory of the Russian Empire and the USSR in each given historical period.
		He presented a paper at the 12th World Congress of Jewish Studies on the "The Notion of Stone ("even") in the Bible" and is working on a comparative study of stone motifs in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Koran.
	www.jewish-heritage.org /jsee14.htm (2387 words)

	Amazon.com: The New Jewish Encyclopedia: Books: David Bridger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Compiled and edited by David Bridger (with the assistance of Samuel Wolk), The New Jewish Encyclopedia presents an comprehensive and alphabetical discussion of topics, places, names, and events central to Jewish history and identity.
		Offering a library's worth of Jewish knowledge in a single, 541-page volume, The New Jewish Encyclopedia is superbly written, organized, and illustrated with fl-and-white photographs.
		Presenting a vast wealth of history, folklore, and faith, The New Jewish Encyclopedia is a core addition to personal and academic Judaic Studies reference collections.
	www.amazon.com /New-Jewish-Encyclopedia-David-Bridger/dp/0874411203 (724 words)

	Plontch Memorial - Encyclopedia of Jewish Life ...
		The Jewish population was 753 in 1857, and 1,025 (total 2,561) in 1921.
		In October 1942, its 2,000 inhabitants including refugees were transferred to Sandomierz and on October 29 deported to the Belzec death camp.
		Five days after the liberation of Poland, 40 Jewish survivors were murdered by the Polish Armia Krajowa partisans.
	www.plontch.net /encyclopedia.htm (229 words)

	The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But the encyclopedia offers more than statistics: the numbers come to life through more than 600 fl-and-white photographs, most of which are from the archives of Israel's Yad Vashem museum.
		The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust reclaims the distinctive culture of thousands of Jewish communities lost during the Holocaust.
		Representing the work of more than 80 international scholars and based on decades of research at Yad Vashem, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust tells the story of a world that can no longer be visited.
	www.nyupress.org /jewishlife (779 words)

	Vol. IX, Page 666 et seq.: "The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia"
		This was transformed into the Jewish Bureau in 1926, and, its functions having been absorbed by local organizations, it was abolished in 1930.
		Between 1908 and 1912 the Jewish socialist parties in Russia were hard-hit by the pressure of political and economic reaction, but by the end of the period the movement began to revive.
		It was different from the other Jewish socialist parties mainly in the fact that it had a broader conception of the proletariat and it emphasized the significance of Hebrew cultural work.
	www.come-and-hear.com /uje/uje_666.html (1524 words)

	Encyclopedia Talmudit (Windows) at Kabbalah Software
		His vision, which started with the idea of gathering the spiritual treasures of the Jewish people in the area of Talmud, and which began to coalesce even during his lifetime (he died Khol haMoed Pesakh 1949), along with the preparation of thousands of filecards, turned into the pages and volumes of the Encyclopedia Talmudit (ET).
		By treating the encyclopedia as a canonical text and its contents as worthy of a concordance, the CD displays power that cannot be found in print.
		The ET CD has preserved the scent of Torah and the style of the encyclopedia, together with the use of the digital media for information retrieval that had been unavailable till now in the paper medium.
	www.jewishshopsonline.com /product124.html (695 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Austrian-Jewish Literature
		Jewish writing is a constitutive element of modern Austrian literature.
		The Jewish cultural networks were destroyed and many intellectuals deported and murdered, although others succeeded in fleeing the country.
		The oppositional Jewish discourse was maintained by a relatively small group of highly vocal and prolific participants, who joined forces with other intellectuals in resisting xenophobic and sexist politics.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1468 (642 words)

	[No title]
		The Forward." He is an avid sports fan, a veteran of nine marathons, a onetime Hollywood actor, and a student of American Jewish gangsters.
		He is also compiling the encyclopedia’s profiles of athletes and gangsters.
		The Jewish impact is certainly palpable, in all aspects of the business, from singers and songwriters to producers and managers.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3034716,00.html (512 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Teaching of Moses Maimonides
		Moses ben Maimun (Arabic, Abu Amran Musa), Jewish commentator and philosopher, was born of Spanish Jewish parents at Cordova in 1135.
		The difference between the two Jewish thinkers is, however, as remarkable as the resemblance.
		While Spinoza teaches that the way to attain the knowledge which confers immortality is the progress from sense-knowledge through scientific knowledge to philosophical intuition of all things sub specie æternitatis, Moses holds that the road to perfection and immortality is the path of duty as described in the Law of God.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09540b.htm (1000 words)

	AllRefer.com - liturgy, Jewish (Judaism) - Encyclopedia
		liturgy, Jewish, rites, observances, and procedures of Judaism.
		Additional liturgical elements, such as hymns, vary with the different Jewish communities.
		The Jewish liturgy is traditionally in Hebrew, with a few elements in Aramaic.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/liturgyJe.html (244 words)

	Amazon.ca: Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics: A Compilation of Jewish Medical Law on All Topics of Medical ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Amazon.ca: Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics: A Compilation of Jewish Medical Law on All Topics of Medical Interest: Books: Avraham Steinberg,Fred Rosner
		Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics: A Compilation of Jewish Medical Law on All Topics of Medical Interest (Hardcover)
		Be the first person to review this item.
	www.amazon.ca /Encyclopedia-Jewish-Medical-Ethics-Compilation/dp/1583305920 (183 words)

	Jewish Encyclopedia - Articles of Faith
		The recital of this "Kalimah" is the first of the five pillars of practical religion in Islam, and one converted to Islam must repeat it verbatim; so that among the conditions required of every believer with reference to confession is the duty to repeat it aloud at least once in a lifetime.
		Righteousness, according- to Jewish belief, was not conditioned of the acceptance of the Jewish religion.
		And the righteous among the nations that carried into practise the seven fundamental laws of the covenant with Noah and his descendants were declared to be participants in the felicity of the hereafter.
	www.sacred-texts.com /jud/aof.htm (3039 words)

	Subject Research: Jewish Studies
		Encyclopedia articles, written by subject authorities, provide information useful for gaining a basic understanding of a topic and getting started with a research project.
		The Blackwell companion to Jewish culture: from the eighteenth century to the present.
		This Jewish Studies network is one of the oldest Internet projects in the humanities, initially operating under the name He'Asif, starting in 1987.
	www.union.edu /PUBLIC/LIBRARY/research/subject_jud.htm (1872 words)

	The Zionist Jew, According to the Jewish Encyclopedia
		Jewish Coalition; served on the executive board of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, [couldn't that be considered a conflict of interest?]the Executive Committee of the N. Regional Advisory Board of the
		Two of those early Jewish converts, Karl Marx and Ferdinand Lassal were to become commanding figures to the history of socialism; one as the father of scientific socialism, the other as the founder of the German Socialist party.
		The next important phenomenon of this period is the splitting and liquidating process which occurred with the Jewish socialist parties under the influence of the communist movement.
	www.sweetliberty.org /zionism.htm (3538 words)

	Vol. VII, Page 170: "The Jewish Encyclopedia"
		In all the editions of the “Toledot” the doctrine of Jesus is summed up in the statements that he was the son of God, born of a virgin mother, a descendant of David and the promised Messiah; this he proved from passages of Scripture, in the rabbinic-Talmudic manner.
		It is clear, therefore, that the Jewish legends deny the resurrection of Jesus; the halakic assertion that
		The Antichrist is born of a wandering virgin, the latter being, according to one version, a Danitic, hence Jewish, woman, while the father belongs to the Latin race (corresponding to the Roman soldier Panthera).
	www.come-and-hear.com /je/je_170.html (2856 words)

	TES - Largest Distributor of Jewish Software, Hebrew Language and Bible Software ()
		Five years in the making, and filmed on four continents, Heritage: Civilization and the Jews became a landmark, a television portrait of the Jewish experience with a scope and depth that is unlikely to ever be duplicated.
		The film details the stories of illegal Jewish immigration, the siege of Jerusalem, major battles, and the rise of the young state's warriors and statesmen, including the first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion.
		A living testimony to the unswerving faith and dedication of the Jewish people to the Torah and to their beloved Rabbi's during the most trying times, and under the most harsh and unusual circumstances.
	www.jewishsoftware.com /default.asp?aid=316&page=category&id=5 (771 words)

	JHS Partners: Russian Jewish Encyclopedia - Index (English) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Russian Jewish Encyclopedia (RJE) is the first attempt to create a publication devoted entirely to the Russian Jewry, its history and role in Russia.
		This part will also consist of two volumes and will include articles on general subjects, such as Jewish institutions, political parties, periodicals, education, on Jewish contributions to various spheres of culture, science, society and economy.
		The editors are also planning to publish an additional eighth volume that would contain bibliographical articles which for different reasons were not included in the first part.
	www.jewish-heritage.org /reee.htm (299 words)

	Jewish Symbolism
		The complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906.
		A description of various Jewish signs and symbols, including the mezuzah, tefillin, tzitzit and tallit, yarmulke, menorah, Star of David, and chai.
		This case is known as a mezuzah ("doorpost"), because it is placed upon the doorposts of the house.
	www.symbols.net /jewish (540 words)

	A Comprehensive Jewish Encyclopedia
		The JPS Guide to Jewish Traditions is a fast and comprehensive way to learn practically anything relating to Jewish traditions, from life cycles to customs; such as divorce, kashrut, and festivals.
		The JPS Guide to Jewish Traditions is an exceptional encyclopedia, with well-organized and clear answers to difficult questions regarding the reasoning and significance behind Jewish traditions.
		Overall, The JPS Guide to Jewish Traditions is a well-written and detailed encyclopedia for any audience seeking answers to questions concerning Jewish traditions.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/reviews/jps.html (342 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)