Talk:Encyclopaedia Judaica

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message: I have removed this sentence from the article:
 
:The new edition has also encountered criticism from some scholars, especially those from the Orthodox community, who take issue with the currency of many of the entries, as well as its secular point of view.  the Seforim blog: Shnayer Leiman - The New Encyclopaedia Judaica: Some Preliminary Observations
First, the reference is to a blog, which is not a reliable source. It is possible that the article was published elsewhere and only later posted on a blog, but in this case a reference to the original publication must be provided. Secondly, the author of the article makes quite a few criticisms of the Encyclopaedia Judaica Second Edition, but I did not find any statement supporting the claim that the criticism of the Second Edition comes "especially ... from the Orthodox community, who take issue with the currency of many of the entries, as well as its secular point of view." Beit Or 21:50, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Shnayer Leiman - The New Encyclopaedia Judaica: Some Preliminary Observations

message: I've added a  tag re: the material on the response to the 2nd edition. 
At the moment the article is so completely one-sided as to read like a press release from Gale Corp.  In my view Shnayer Leiman's review removed above is a much more honest assessment, from a scholar who as professor at Brooklyn College, visiting professor at Yeshiva University, and a teacher in his time at Harvard, Yale and Hebrew University, (and an author of several articles in the 1972 edition) is rather better placed than a few generalist librarians to make such a judgment. 
See also these comments from an insider on the project, who quit in response to the poverty of the way the revision was put together.  Jheald (talk) 12:19, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
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message: Do you recommend adding :File:Michael Oren official portrait.jpg to the article? The point is to show the symbolic importance of the EJ, used in this pic as a background to an official portrait of then ambassador Michael Oren. DGtal (talk) 08:58, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I wouldn't recommend. The Encyclopedia's importance should be based solely on the scholarly quality of the content of its articles. And, after almost 4 decades of its first publication it is still being judged daily on that score. In my view, the track record is mixed. It has some very good articles, and some not so good ones. But it is still a very important and overall useful research tool. warshy (¥¥) 16:54, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
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message: Gale Biography in Context lists a bunch of (perhaps brief) reviews for this encyclopedia, if needed. Library Journal, Booklist, etc. czar 18:18, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
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