Re: Jewish Encyclopedia

[Michael Davis <michaelinchicago...>]

The Jewish Encyclopedia has been online for a while. I think it is a
wonderful resource. IMHO for subjects before the beginning of the 20th
century, it is better than the Encyclopedia Judaica.

Michael


--- dchevan (at) snet(dot)net wrote:
> Here is an interesting site that I just found this morning. Maybe
> some of you already know about it, but I thought the group would find
> it worth knowing about.  Apparently, the 12-volume Jewish
> Encyclopedia (1901-1906) is now part of the public domain and has
> been made available at:
> 
> http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/index.jsp
> 
> There are quite a few articles on Jewish music.  The encyclopedia is
> nearly 100 years old so many are out of date, but still interesting
> to read and worth the browse.
> The site is free quite user friendly.
> dc

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