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Revision as of 07:01, 15 April 2009
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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 on Jewish history, religion, culture, and biography. The "redlinked" items on the lists do not have direct equivalents in Wikipedia at present.Template:WPJewish nav
You may do the following things to remove the redlinks:
- 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 BEFORE deleting the topic heading from the list.
- 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.
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.
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.
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