The Jewish encyclopedia in 16 volumes

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Encyclopedia is "a body of knowledge about Judaism and its culture, past and present", at a fair statement of its authors. The book first presents all periods of the history of the Jewish people — Talmudic and rabbinic, modern and contemporary. Described in detail all kinds of spiritual and social creativity of the Jewish people — the religion, philosophy, literature, law, traditions, and folklore. Affected by biblical and Judeo-Hellenistic literature, the Talmud, Rabbinism, the Kabbala and Hasidism, reformism, cultural and national movement. Attempts to present in the form of encyclopedia results of a century of international research in the field of "Jewish science" resulted in the emergence of the "Jewish Encyclopedia" published in 1901-06 he English in new York in 12 volumes, with a firm Funk Wagnall et on the initiative of Isidor singer. It is the "Jewish Encyclopedia" was the basis of the Russian-speaking Jewish encyclopedia. Publishers took care of the additions and improvements needed in the Russian edition. Giving in the translation of all the most considerable article of the American Encyclopedia, edition of the Russian translation found it necessary to make numerous amendments to a series of satisfactory articles. The editors have developed their own departments concerning the history of Jews in Poland, Lithuania and Russia and their current state.

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