Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia

[1] Although it was originally planned as an abridged translation of the English-language Encyclopaedia Judaica, it became clear as the work progressed that readers raised in the Soviet Union would not be familiar with the concepts lying at the foundation of the cultural and historical system known as Jewish civilization.

Therefore, these concepts were elaborated on in greater detail in the SJE, and terms were introduced which lacked equivalents in modern Russian.

[1] A group of editors worked on the SJE who prepared articles with the participation of invited specialists and also academic consultants, including the well-known Israeli academics and public figures Shraga Abramson, Mordechai Altschuler, Shlomo Pines, Hayim Tadmor, Chone Shmeruk, Hayyim Schirmann, Menachem Stern, Yaakov Tsur, Yaakov Landau, Israel Bartal, and Michael Liebman.

The senior academic editors were Peretz Hein, Yosef Glozman, Amnon Ginzai, and Mark Kipnis.

[2] In 2005, the Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia (EJE), Russian: Электронная еврейская энциклопедия, romanized: Elektronnaja Evrejskaja Entsiklopedia) was made available on the internet,[3] presenting an expanded and more precise version of the SJE.