A NEW EDITION of Encyclopaedia Judaica is coming soon:

Second edition of Encyclopaedia Judaica launched in Frankfurt
By Oliver Bradley Updated: 09/Oct/2006 22:18

FRANKFURT (EJP)--- The December release of the second edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica was announced at this week’s Frankfurt Book Fair. More than thirty years after first publishing the Encyclopaedia Judaica, Thomson Gale, part of the Thomson Corporation and Keter Publishing House have renewed their partnership to prepare a second, completely revised edition.

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The Encyclopaedia Judaica, Second Edition will incorporate more than three decades of changes and the latest scholarship - such as new archaeological sites, theories and analytical methodologies.

It will feature original works by top scholars representing all major universities and centres of research in Jewish studies which will expand the scope and relevance of the first edition. According to Flynn, even more clarity and substance has been added through the substantial reworking of about 12,000 entries.

“The Holocaust segment alone features more than 50 entirely new articles,” Flynn said. In addition, all bibliographies were brought up-to-date.

“Nothing has been compromised for this second edition,” [publisher Jay] Flynn said. He told EJP that the Encyclopaedia will feature more than 22,000 signed entries on Jewish life, culture, history and religion, including 2,500 brand-new entries and some 11,000 updated entries across all topics. It will provide an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature. Kabbalah, Zionism, Jewish contributions to world cultures, gender issues and New World geographic areas of the United States, Canada and Latin America are dealt with in-depth.

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