The Junior Jewish Encyclopedia: Fourteenth Revised Edition

Now in its fourteenth edition, thoroughly revised and updated, this book remains an outstanding one-volume compendium of the vast treasury of Jewish knowledge, the many facets of the complex world of the Jew of yesterday and today. At its first appearance, the Junior Jewish Encyclopedia won the coveted award of the Jewish Book Council of America. This volume contains articles by thirty scholars and specialists on every aspect of Jewish life the world over. Written to be understood by the younger reader, the articles are brought to life by hundreds of reproductions of paintings, drawings, photographs and maps.