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Asenath Barzani, an Iraqi woman
trained by her father in the 1600s as
a Torah scholar.
New York
These are among roughly 2,700
new entries in the new edition, to
he editors of the
be published Dec. 8 by Macmillan
Encyclopaedia Judaica
Reference USA and Israel's Keter
have confronted a whole new Publishing. The 22 volumes contain
world.
more than 21,000 entries on Jewish
In the more
life.
Encyclopaedia Judaica
than 30 years
A licensed,
since the first
online ver-
edition was
sion also
published,
will be avail-
Jewish life
able, but the
has been
hope is that
revitalized in
institutions,
the former
and some
Communist
individuals,
world, Las
will be willing
Vegas and
to fork over
Atlanta have
The Encyclopaedia Ju daica's soon-to-be-
$1,995 — the
become fast-
released new edition
online ver-
growing Jewish
sion will cost
communities and women have taken
a few hundred dollars more — to
a much more active role in Jewish life have everything they wanted to know
— and their contributions have been about the Jews printed and at their
increasingly recognized.
fingertips.
"The original edition did not take
The comprehensiveness offered by
into account that 50 percent of Jews
the collection is not available in any
Encyclopaedia Judaica
are women:' said
one online source,
Judith Baskin,
says Jay Flynn, a pub-
the director of
lisher with Thomson
Gale, which owns
the Jewish stud-
Macmillan Reference
ies program at
USA. "Certainly you
the University of
can go out and find
Oregon and the
a biography of Billy
encyclopedia's
assistant editor for
Crystal and you can
read it. What we're
women and gender.
really trying to deliv-
The new edition,
er" is accessibility and
the encyclopedia's
authority, Flynn says.
second, attempts
Plus, Jews buy
to rectify that
books out of propor-
oversight with
tion to their num-
more than 300 new
Michael Berenba urn, executive
bers, says Michael
entries on Jewish
editor of the new edition of the
Berenbaum, the
women, including
Encyclopaedia J udaica
encyclopedia's execu-
biographical entries
tive editor. "It's the
on well-known
smell of leather and all that stuff,"
figures such as former U.S. Rep.
says Berenbaum, a Holocaust scholar
Bella Abzug, D-N.Y., and entries on
known for his work in creating the
lesser-known women like Beatrice
Alexander — founder of the Madame U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
It took a lot of effort to create that
Alexander doll collection — and
Peter Ephross
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