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Encyclopedias
- Encyclopaedia Judaica 17 volumes
including initial index volume, 1971-72.
From www.wikipedia.org : “The Encyclopaedia Judaica is a 26-volume English-language encyclopedia of the Jewish people and their faith, Judaism. It covers diverse areas of the Jewish world and civilization, including Jewish history in all eras, culture, holidays, language, scripture, and religious teachings. It was first published in 1971-1972 in sixteen volumes. It was published in Jerusalem by Keter Publishing House and in New York by the Macmillan Company. Between 1972 and 1994, ten annual yearbooks were collected in a 1973-1982 events supplement and a 1983-1992 events supplement was added. Together these volumes contain more than 15 million words in over 25,000 articles. Its general editors were, successively, Cecil Roth and Geoffrey Wigoder. It is described as the result of about three decades of study and research by about 2,200 contributors and 250 editors around the world. The English-language Judaica is also available on CD-ROM. The CD-ROM version is enhanced by at least 100,000 hyperlinks and several other features including videos, slide shows, maps, music and Hebrew pronunciations. Because of its comprehensive scope, authority, and widespread availability, the Encyclopaedia Judaica is recommended by the Library of Congress and by the Association of Jewish Libraries for use in determining the authoritative romanization of names of Jewish authors. Its guidelines for transliterating Hebrew into English are followed by many academic books and journals. In July 2003, Thomson Gale announced that it acquired the rights to publish a second edition of Encyclopaedia Judaica, expecting to publish in December 2006 under one of its imprints, Macmillan Reference USA. Gale has published other substantial revisions of major reference works in the field of religion in recent years, including second editions of The Encyclopedia of ReligionThe New Catholic Encyclopedia. Together with original publishers Keter Publishing House, Gale has declared its intent update of wholesale sections of Encyclopaedia Judaica for the new edition, including the entries on the Holocaust, American Jewry, Israel and others. Fred Skolnik, who served as a co-editor on the original edition of Judaica, has been retained as Editor-in-Chief for the 2nd edition. American Holocaust scholar Michael Berenbaum serves as the editor for the Holocaust and Americana sections of the encyclopedia. It is estimated that the new edition will contain at least 22,000 articles.” and
- Encyclopaedia Judaica second edition 22 volumes including
initial index volume, 2006. http://www.encyclopaediajudaica.com
From the publisher Thomson Gale’s Macmillan Reference USA imprint under license from Keter Publishing House: "In 1972, the Encyclopaedia Judaica fulfilled the longstanding dream of capturing the full richness of Jewish culture in a single authoritative publication, heralded in the scholarly community as one of the best reference works ever compiled. Nearly 35 years in the making, and the work of the same U.S.-Israeli collaboration that produced the original, the second edition presents the latest scholarship on historic topics as well as extensive new treatments of contemporary Jewish life, including added emphasis of the role of women and explorations of the full global scope of the Diaspora."
- Encyclopedia of the Holocaust 4 volumes 1990.
From Drew University’s Center for Holocaust / Genocide Study: “Edited by Israel Gutman, the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (Macmillan, 1990) is the most recognized reference book on the Holocaust. Four volumes, in traditional encyclopedia style, are entirely dedicated to the Holocaust. According to the editor the ‘encyclopedia deals in depth with the sources and motivations for all manifestations relating to or forming part of the Holocaust.’ The first volume of the book has a forward with a basic introductory overview of the Holocaust written by Elie Wiesel. The approximately 1000 entries include, but are not limited to names, events, countries, concentration camps, ghettos, murder sites, political movements, and resistance movements. Most entries are followed by a bibliography. All contributors to the encyclopedia are reputable Holocaust scholars and academics. Entries are written from a multi-disciplinary perspective and in length from a long paragraph to 19 pages. Special features include a glossary, chronology and six appendices. They are: major Jewish organizations in Germany 1893-1943; Structure of the einsatzgruppen; Nuremberg Trial results; Subsequent Nuremberg proceedings; Subsequent British trial results; Estimated Jewish losses in the Holocaust. Only the last volume has an index, though the first volume has a table of contents. Although the encyclopedia is easy to read and use and contains no disturbing pictures, it is not recommended for users younger than high school age.”
- Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia 2
volumes edited by Paula E. Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore
1997.
From Books in Print: "The first Jewish women arrived in America in 1654. Jewish Women in America traces their exploits and successes in all spheres of activity in all regions of the USA from 1654 to the present day. Sponsored by The American Jewish Historical Society (Waltham, MA), multidisciplinary specialists have fashioned this contribution to US as well as to Jewish and women's history. B&w photos supplement the encyclopedic text, featuring some 900 entries (the majority being biographies of individual women): from Lina Abarbanell, a 20th century operetta star and Broadway producer, to Miriam Shomer Zunser, pre- World War II journalist, playwright, and artist. Bella Abzug, pictured in her trademark hats, has of course died since her inclusion. The editors address the difficult issue of defining who is a Jew. Includes an annotated bibliography and guide to archival resources. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. This encyclopedia provides the first standard reference work on the lives, history and activities of Jewish women in the United States. Covering a period which extends from the arrival of the first Jewish women in North America in 1654 to the present, this two-volume set presents the most comprehensive and detailed portrait of American Jewish women ever published, and brings together for the first time the wealth of recent scholarship on this subject. Includes: * Biographical entries on over 800 individual women. * 128 topical articles on organizations such as Hadassah, the National Council of Jewish Women, Mizrachi, and the Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. * Major essays on Jewish women's participation in the movement for women's suffrage, social reform, civil rights, and the recent women's movement. * The activities of Jewish women in politics, business, education, the arts, and religion. * A readable, inviting format with over 500 large photographs. * Bibliographies at the end of each entry which include overviews of major scholarship in the field, complete citations of more general works and citations of additional bibliographical and reference sources. * The comprehensive index includes citations to every substantive discussion in the entries as well as all proper names appearing in the text, such as organizations, book, song and film titles, schools, and individuals. The Encyclopedia provides information on American Jewish women in all fields of endeavor, and pays special attention to the work of women in the arts, academics, law, the labor movement, education, science, medicine, journalism and publishing, and on the lives of ordinary Jewish women during all time periods and in all regions of the United States."
- International Hebrew Heritage Library 10 volumes 1969.
Jewry’s contributions to art, music, politics, science, etc.
Volumes 1 and 2 Illustrated History of the Jews; Volume 3 Great Jews in Art; Volume 4 Great Jews in Music; Volume 5 Great Jews in Science; Volume 6 Great Jews in the Performing Arts; Volume 7 Great Jewish Military Heroes; Volume 8 Great Jewish Statesman; Volume 9 Great Sages of the Jewish People; Volume 10 Great Jews in Sports.
- Jewish Encyclopedia 13 volumes including guide,
edited by Cyrus Adler 1901 – 1906.
From www.wikipedia.org : “The Jewish Encyclopedia was an encyclopedia originally published 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 says 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] Reform Jewish rabbi Joshua L. Segal calls it, "a remarkable piece of Jewish scholarship" and adds, ‘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]"
- Junior Judaica: Encyclopaedia Judaica for Youth 6 volumes.
- Universal Jewish Encyclopedia 10 volumes including
combined reading guide and index, 1939-1943.
From Duke University Library’s online catalog: “The Universal Jewish encyclopedia in 10 volumes: an authoritative and popular presentation of Jews and Judaism since the earliest times.”
Dictionaries
- Dictionary of Comparative Religion by S.G. F. Brandon 1970.
- Complete English-Hebrew Dictionary by Reuben Alcalay 1965.
- Complete Hebrew-English Dictionary by Reuben Alcalay 1965.
- Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary
by Uriel Weinreich YIVO 1968.
- Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion
by RJ Zwi Werblowsky and Geoffrey Wigoder 1997.
- Random House Unabridged Dictionary of the English
Language 1971.
Bible and Commentaries
- Biblical Chant by A W Binder 1959.
- Chumash Stone edition 1994.
- Cruden’s Complete Concordance to Old and New Testaments
first published 1737 based on King James Authorised Version.
- JPS Torah Commentary 5 volumes.
From the Jewish Publication Society: “Written by four outstanding Torah scholars, the JPS Torah Commentary represents a fusion of the best of the old and new. Utilizing the latest research to enhance our understanding of the biblical text, it takes its place as one of the most authoritative yet accessible Bible commentaries of our day. The JPS Torah Commentary series guides readers through the words and ideas of the Torah. Each volume is the work of a scholar who stands at the pinnacle of his field. Every page contains the complete traditional Hebrew text, with cantillation notes, the JPS translation of the Holy Scriptures, aliyot breaks, Masoretic notes, and commentary by a distinguished Hebrew Bible scholar, integrating classical and modern sources. Each volume also contains supplementary essays that elaborate upon key words and themes, a glossary of commentators and sources, extensive bibliographic notes, and maps.” The four scholars are Nahum M. Sarna on Genesis and Exodus, Baruch A. Levine on Leviticus, Jacob Milgrom on Numbers, and Jeffrey H. Tigay on Deuteronomy.
- New English Bible with Apocrypha standard edition Oxford
and Cambridge University Presses (Protestant) 1970.
- Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible
with Brief Dictionaries of the Hebrew and Greek Words
by James Strong 1890.
- Tikkun Korim (Hebrew) 1990.
- Tikkun for Torah Readers
Congregation Beth El of Montgomery County 5758.
- Torah Reader's Compendium Tikkun Kestenbaum edition 2001.
Rabbinic Texts
- Babylonian Talmud Soncino edition with translation 30 volumes
including index. Printed with the original Vilna page opposite
its English translation.
- Babylonian Talmud Schottenstein edition with translation
73 volumes.
- Babylonian Talmud The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition 20
volumes including A Reference Guide. (Please note that only 38
of the anticipated 46 volumes have been published.)
- The Book of Legends / Sefer Ha-Aggadah: Legends from the
Talmud and Midrash by Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Y.H. Rawnitzky
From Schocken Books: “The first complete English translation of the Hebrew classic Sefer Ha-Aggadah brings to the English-speaking world the greatest and best-loved anthology of classical Rabbinic literature ever compiled. First published in Odessa in 1908-11, it was recognized immediately as a masterwork in its own right, and reprinted numerous times in Israel. The Hebrew poet Hayim Nahman Bialik and the renowned editor Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, the architects of this masterful compendium, selected hundreds of texts from the Talmud and midrashic literature and arranged them thematically, in order to provide their contemporaries with easy access to the national literary heritage of the Jewish people -- the texts of Rabbinic Judaism that remain at the heart of Jewish literacy today. Bialik and Ravnitzky chose Aggadah -- the non-legal portions of the Talmud and Midrash -- for their anthology. Loosely translated as ‘legends’, Aggadah includes the genres of biblical exegesis, stories about biblical characters, the lives of the Talmudic era sages and their contemporary history, parables, proverbs, and folklore. A captivating melange of wisdom and piety, fantasy and satire, Aggadah is the expressive medium of the Jewish creative genius. The arrangement of this compendium reflects the theological concerns of the Rabbinic sages: the role of Israel and the nations; God, good and evil; human relations; the world of nature; and the art of healing. Here, the reader who wants to explore traditional Jewish views on a particular subject is treated to a selection of relevant texts at his fingertips but will soon become immersed in a way of thinking, exploring, and questioning that is the hallmark of Jewish inquiry. ‘Whatever the imagination can invent is found in the Aggadah,’ wrote the historian Leopold Zunz, ‘its purpose always being to teach man the ways of G-d.’ The Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah, now available in William Braude's superbly annotated translation, enables modern Jews to experience firsthand the richness and excitement of their cultural inheritance.”
- Jewish Dietary Laws Rabbinical Assembly and United
Synagogue 1982.
- Kitzur Shulhan Arukh (transliteration of the title varies)
4 volumes.
From www.wikipedia.org : “The Kitzur Shulkhan Arukh in effect summarises the Shulkhan Arukh of Joseph KaroJewish Hungarian customs up to the 19th century. The title page of the first edition is instructive, ‘[the book] is written for G-d-fearing Jews who are not in a position to study and comprehend the (original full) Shulkhan Arukh and its commentaries, and is composed in a Hebrew that can be easily understood.’ The Kitzur states what is permitted and what forbidden without ambiguity. To determine a ruling, Ganzfried based his decisions on three halakhic authorities: Rabbi Jacob of Lissa; Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the first rebbe of Chabad Lubavitch, author of the Shulchan Aruch HaRav; and Rabbi Abraham Danzig, author of Chayei Adam. In cases of disagreement he adopted the majority view. This closely mirrors the method Karo used in composing his Shulkhan Arukh; his three main decisors were Rabbi Isaac Alfasi, Maimonides and Rabbi Asher ben Jehiel. This work was explicitly written as a popular text and as such does not follow the structure of the Shulkhan Arukh itself; it is thus not considered binding in the same way. It became immensely popular after its publication due to its simplicity. It is still popular within Orthodox Judaism, as a framework for study, if not always for practice.” with reference to all subsequent commentaries and incorporating
- Midrash Rabbah Soncino translation 8 of 10 volumes.
[missing Volumes 1 and 2]
From historic Soncino Press: “Midrash Rabbah, one of the monumental productions of Rabbinic literature, is the most striking testimony to the joy and reverence with which the Jews have cherished the Bible. It is an essential commentary on the Torah, containing a treasury of homiletic, ethical, and moral interpretations of the Scriptures as expounded by the Rabbis during Talmudic times. The Midrash represents, in a unique form, the essence of Judaism, its ethical standards, and its insight into the human heart. It spans the gamut of human knowledge, with passages about astronomy, medicine, metaphysics, and much more. For centuries the Midrash has been the staple that nourishes the Jewish imagination. Jews have always sought and found comfort and inspiration in the Midrash by understanding Biblical history in the light of their own experiences. The modern reader will find much in the Midrash that is both fascinating and inspiring. This elegant ten-volume set includes the complete English translation of the Midrash Rabbah on the Five Books of the Torah and on the Five Megilloth.”
Liturgy
- The Traditional Prayer Book Rabbinical Council
by David de Sola Pool 1960.
Miscellaneous Works
- Amy Vanderbilt’s Etiquette 1972.
- 150 Year Calendar 1900 – 2050 (Hebrew and Gregorian)
- Recommended Jewish Book List Congregation Beth El
of Montgomery County Family Education
- Yiddish American Popular Songs 1895 to 1950 : a Catalog
Based on the Lawrence Marwick Roster of Copyright Entries,
LOC 1992.