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This is a directory of topics covered in the public domain Jewish Encyclopedia [1]. Although the JE was published in 1901-6 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. You may have to either:

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.

1 Brief Reminders
2 Transliteration of Hebrew
3 Happy editing!
- 3.1 Related projects
4 Alphabetical Listing of Topics

[edit] Brief Reminders

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}} 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, qof 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] Happy editing!

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[edit] Alphabetical Listing of Topics

Page	From - to	Remaining	Initial	Complete
A	Aach - 'Azzut Panim	2234	2234	0%
B	Ba'al - Byzantine Empire	1642	1642	0%
C1	Cabala - Chacham	222	321	31%
C2	Chacham Bashi - Georg Ludwig Cohn	204	321	36%
C3	Gustav Cohn - Jan Czynski	193	321	40%
D	Dabbasheth - Dyvin	549	549	0%
E	Eagle - Ezrahite	585	585	0%
F	Fable - Meyer B. Elhanan Fürth	469	469	0%
G	Gabbai - Gymnasium	525	525	0%
H	Moses M. Haarbleicher - Hyssop	1006	1006	0%
I	I(Yod) - Izraelita Magyar Néptanitó	388	388	0%
J	Jaarbooken vor de Israeliten - Moses Mordecai Juwel	741	741	0%
K	Kab - Abraham Gershon ben Ephraim Kuttower	463	463	0%
L1	Isaac La Peyerre - Salomon Frederik Levysohn	343	343	0%
L2	Fanny Lewald - Lysimachus	174	302	42%
M	Maacah - Mysticism	1034	1034	0%
N	Naamah - Nyons	384	384	0%
O	Oak and Terebinth - 'Ozer ben Meïr	197	197	0%
P1	Pablo Alvaro - Pi-Hahiroth	310	310	0%
P2	Abraham Pikes - Lionel Edward Pyke	309	309	0%
Q	-	0	10	100%
R	Raab - Carl Victor Ryssel	485	485	0%
S	Saadia - Henrietta Szold	1233	1233	0%
T	Ta'amim - Tyrol	376	376	0%
U	U-Ba Le-Tzion - Uzziel	39	66	41%
V	Vaez - Vulture	107	116	8%
W	Wa'ad Arba' Aratzot - Ludwig Wysber	185	297	38%
X	-	0	7	100%
Y	Ya'abez - Yusuf ibn Teshufin	74	90	18%
Z	Joseph Zabara - Paul Zweifel	174	174	0%
	Total	14,645	15,298	4.3%