Talk:The Jewish Encyclopedia

message: images from JE is labelled template:PD-US, might we same label at :commons:template:JewishEncyclopedia? --Sheynhertz 18:57, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If that is acceptable on Commons, absolutely. I hedged in my answer above because I don't know what are the permissible licencing/PD claims on Commons. -- Jmabel | Talk 23:22, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  PD-US..? 

message: This was in the "see also" list; we don't link into "Wikipedia" namespace from articles; see Wikipedia:Self-reference.
* Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
Jmabel | Talk 08:26, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moved from article 

message: I've tried and failed to access the online JE several times the last few days; does anyone know what's happening with it? - Jmabel | Talk 06:41, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's back. - Jmabel | Talk 04:34, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Online encyclopedia dead? 

message: What does one make of the new :Category:Palestinian rabbis and :Category:Talmud rabbis in Palestine, should they be renamed to something like :Category:Rabbis of ancient Palestine? so that it does not connect, and become confused with, the way the word "Palestinian" is used today (meaning the very unJewish modern Arab Palestinians, who have nothing to do with these rabbis!) Thanks. IZAK 09:48, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category:Palestinian rabbis 

message: Note: Many articles about the rabbis of the Talmud and Mishnah are derived from the archaic Jewish Encyclopedia, published between 1901-1906, over one hundred years ago (when the Middle East was still under the thumb of the Ottoman Turks) and which used the archaic expressions "Palestine" when referring to the Land of Israel, and to the Jews living in the areas of the historical Land of Israel as "Palestinians." This is a big mistake that requires constant attention and correction, especially when copying and editing articles from the Jewish Encyclopedia or from similarly archaic sources such as Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897). At this time, no-one uses the term/s "Palestinian/s" (in relation to anything associated with Jews or the land they lived in and which they regarded as their homeland) nor by any type of conventional Jewish scholarship, particularly at the present time when the label "Palestinian" is almost entirely identified with the Palestinian Arabs who are mostly Muslims. Finally, kindly take note that the name Palestinian Talmud is also not used and it redirects to the conventional term Jerusalem Talmud used in Jewish scholarship. Thank you. IZAK 13:41, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Not using "Palestine" or "Palestinian" for Talmud and rabbis to avoid confusion

message: Makes sense, I'll try to remember.  However, there was a period when everyone referred to the land of Israel as Palestine.  Therefore, to say something like "in 1940 Shlomo Pines emigrated to Israel" would appear to be an anachronism.  Don't we have to use the term "Palestine" during a certain period for historical accuracy?  What is this period?  From Roman conquest until 1948?  Thanks.  Dfass 15:03, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not using "Palestine" or "Palestinian" for Talmud and rabbis 

message: The above is it's Web Version and name. Anyone wish to include it in the article? --Ludvikus (talk) 16:23, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[JewishEncyclopedia.com]] 

message: Please could someone add a table similar to that which is found in Dictionary of National Biography#First series contents. -- PBS (talk) 08:12, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  First edition contents 

message: Hi,
The owners of the online edition of the JE have placed a (c) below a illustration at (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5-aaron-s-rod). I thought that the mere reproduction of public domain photo/painting/illustration is also in the public domain? Is their (c) valid? Prsaucer1958 (talk) 16:44, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright on Illustrations 

message: The WP pages for Isidore Singer and Cyrus Adler link to this page, naming it as their work.  However, this page does not name them as the editors of this Encyclopedia, and as far as I've found, this page does not name the encyclopedia's editors.
Further, the title of Singer's and Adler's encyclopedia appears to be, The Jewish encyclopedia: a descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day, which complete title is not mentioned here.
The year of publishing appears to be 1901, also by Funk and Wagnalls.
If this isn't their encyclopedia, their pages should not link here, a page for their correct encyclopedia might be created, and this page might name who ever edited this encyclopedia.  However, if this is their encyclopedia, they could be named here as editors, and the encyclopedia's complete title might be provided.
Any one of these measures would ease my doubts about this issue. Downstrike (talk) 07:11, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Did you try going to their public website and navigating there as much as possible, trying to find your answers in there as much as possible? I know that the site is not the best in the world in terms of easily retrieving the info you're looking for, but that should be the first stop. Other that that the option would be to get a hold of the printed copies. In any case, I believe they were the main editors and they should be named here as such. Such a simple step should end the confusion, I would think. I think the publication of the volumes started in 1901, but it ended in 1906. warshy (¥¥) 22:10, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edited by Isidore Singer and Cyrus Adler, or Not? Suggestion 

message: These two sections mentioned must be merged into Bibliography section. There are dead links in Bibliography section. The links to the Internet Archive in "Further reading" section could be moved there. The present separation looks unnecessary. The information on first and last articles of each volume can be merged into Bibliography, too, I think.-- İskenderBalas💬 21:22, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging "Bibliography" and "Further reading" sections 

message: Apparently the fore-title is The Jewish Encyclopedia. So this should article be renamed; that is exchanged with  which now redirects here? --P64 (talk) 18:19, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to The Jewish Encyclopedia 

message: The edition in public domain is not always accurate there has been much research since then  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flamingoflorida (talk • contribs) 00:42, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old edition  

message: The article needs a sentence or two about who Isidore Singer was and why he wanted to create an encyclopedia. It talks a lot about potential supporters of the work finding his views unacceptable, but doesn't say what those unacceptable views were. Hypershock (talk) 11:10, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who was Singer? 

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Jewish Encylopedia. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  Regards, SONIC678 15:15, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't understand the discussion there and what it is supposed to achieve. All WP articles that have links to the source articles at the Jewish Encyclopedia online version/site link to entries at Encyclopedia Judaica, and the Encyclopedia's online site is called JewishEncylopedia.com? warshy (¥¥) 17:26, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Jewish Encylopedia" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]