The
Jewish Encyclopedia is an
English encyclopedia containing over 15,000 articles on the history, culture, and state of
Judaism and the
Jews up to the
early 20th century. It was originally published in 12 volumes by
Funk and Wagnalls of
New York between 1901 and 1906 and reprinted in the 1960s by
KTAV Publishing House. The work's scholarship is still highly regarded: the
American Jewish Archives has called it "the most monumental Jewish scientific work of modern times" and Rabbi Joshua L. Segal noted that, "For events prior to 1900, it is considered to offer a level of scholarship superior to either of the more recent Jewish Encyclopedias written in English." It is now in the
public domain and hosted at various sites around the internet.