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January 7, 2025

The First English-Language Jewish Encyclopedia, and Its Unfulfillable Promises

“It will, at last, make the Jew thoroughly understood.”

Between 1901 and 1906, Funk & Wagnalls published a twelve-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which remains a monumental work of Jewish scholarship. Jenna Weissman Joselit explains its origins and the hype it generated:

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January 7, 2025

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    “It will, at last, make the Jew thoroughly understood.”

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