 Welcome to the Jewish Encyclopedia Topics Project
These pages contain a directory of topics covered in the public domain Jewish Encyclopedia [1]. Although the JE was published in 1901-1906 and thus does not cover major 20th century events such as the Holocaust, and the foundation of the State of Israel, it has few equals in providing a comprehensive English-language synthesis of pre-20th Century scholarship and opinions on Jewish history, religion, culture, and biography. Be aware, though, that more modern scholarship, and a more modern viewpoint-- in these topics is not covered; the best general source for this is the Encyclopedia Judaica -- in the second edition of 2006-7. It is not free, but all academic libraries have it, and most medium sized public libraries also . The "redlinked" items on the lists do not have direct equivalents in Wikipedia at present.
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- Criticism of Moses: the article could use some counterpoints, like most other criticism articles have in some form or another, as right now it is simply a list of criticisms.-- g.j.g (talk) 21:30, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Allegations for his Jewishness are not well sourced and there is a stormy discussion on the aritcle's talk page whether to refer to his alleged Jewish background in the aritcle body. It was previously included in special ethnicity entry in the infobox and in the lead and early life paragraph.--Gilisa (talk) 10:25, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
- Maimonides : The "Philosophy" paragraph contain correct data but with no citations. It's not too much work I guess.--Gilisa (talk) 16:21, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
- Book of Ezekiel - Why is there no discussion of some of the most famous and perplexing passages in the entire Hebrew Bible? Ezekiel complained about people burning their children to death. "And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?" (Ezek. 16:20-21) The Book of Ezekiel then states that God purposely gave bad laws which discouraged life and, by some interpretations, these laws led the people to believe that they should offer gifts of their first born by fire. This contradicts the text of the Torah as we know it, and all of Jewish and Christian interpretation of it. Nonetheless, Ezekiel talks about this as a point of view apparently accepted as truthful by at least some major segment of the population. See the discussion page for my start on this.
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This is now stagnant. - Translate
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see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism#Rival Biblical views - Cleanup:
Jewish mythology - needs to be rewritten to be inline with our other mythology articles.
Three Oaths - needs a serious cleanup, and should be rewritten with reliable sources, avoiding primary sources and original research (which are currently the main sources used in the article, leading to disagreement in interpretation).
Square Hebrew: this looks to be in serious need of cleanup and referencing. - Expand:
Yom Ha'atzmaut - quite short for an article of such importance
University of Florida Hillel - One of the most popular student organizations at University of Florida Wikiversity: School of Jewish Studies. Part of the new open content university, Wikiversity. - Stubs: Category:Judaism stubs, Category:Hebrew Bible stubs, Category:Synagogue stubs
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Translate from Hebrew: Translate to Hebrew: Gemara, Chief Rabbi, David Gans, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, David Bar Hayim, Jacob of Lissa, Nosson Zvi Finkel, Bezalel Ashkenazi, Solomon Schechter, Av Beit Din, Howard Fast, Guardian of Zion Award, Martin Gilbert, Israeli wine, Uri Davis, Aaron Valero, Mordechai Weingarten Add geographic coordinates: to articles in Category:Israel articles missing geocoordinate data Add images: Photograph of El Al's corporate headquarters at Tel Aviv Airport | | | Discussion board
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| | | You may do the following things to make the redlinks go blue: - Create a new article for the topic; or
- Redirect the redlink if there is a corresponding article on Wikipedia which bears an alternative name; and
- Merge any relevant material from the JE into Wikipedia.
- There are several articles that are present in the Jewish Encyclopedia which already have topics in Wikipedia, but Wikipedia does not have some or any of the content which is present in the Jewish Encyclopedia. In many cases this is obvious when the article is about a Jewish topic (e.g., an aspect of the Torah) and contains much information easily collected from popular knowledge, but little or no information from academic studies. This is particularly obvious when an article contains no historical-critical information. If you spot an article that has such an appearance, it may be worth checking the corresponding article(s) on the Jewish Encyclopedia.
Once done, please do not delete the topic from the list (now blue-linked), but preserve it so we can continue to compare JE articles to their equivalents in Wikipedia (cf the 1911 verification project). [edit] Method As part of your efforts to start a new article or augment existing articles on Wikipedia, you are welcome to copy and paste the text from the JE. Click on the external link next to each entry on the list to see a digital transcription of the original JE article. The transcriptions on the JE website have not been edited, so please check the text against the accompanying facsimile of the page from the hard-copy volume. DO NOT indiscriminately dump text from the JE into Wikipedia! At a minimum, please: - format the text according to the Wikipedia Manual of Style;
- correct any spelling errors;
- rephrase any awkward-sounding prose to improve clarity and flow;
- remove 19th century references unless they really move the text along.
You are also encouraged to research and update the articles with new information. When you have finished editing your article, add the {{JewishEncyclopedia|article=...|url=...}} template. This practice not only creates a proper reference of the source of the text, but will also help locate articles which demand updates since some of the information from the JE may be obsolete. For a good example of a Wikipedia article adapted from the JE, see Yiram of Magdiel. [edit] Transliteration of Hebrew In the following lists, some changes have been made to the spelling of the article titles. In transliterating the Hebrew consonants chet ח, tet ט, tsadi צ, kuf ק, the JE uses dotted versions of the letters h, t, z, and k [2]. Because many Wikipedians work from machines that cannot display these diacritics, these characters have been converted to ch, t, tz, and q for the purpose of listing the titles. [edit] Related projects [edit] Alphabetical Listing of Topics |
