Celia Gurevitch Jewish Community Library

I personally know Ari, who sent the message below, which should be of interest to readers of this blog,

We are pleased to announce that on March 1, 2009, the Jewish Women’s Archive will launch the free, online version of Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Previously available only on CD-ROM, the Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive source on the history of Jewish women and includes more than 1,700 biographies, 300 thematic essays, and 1,400 photographs and illustrations (minus a few for which we do not have web display permission). The Encyclopedia nearly doubles the content available on our website (jwa.org) and gives Internet users all over the world free and easy access to a wealth of information. A press release is attached. We encourage you to forward it to your friends and colleagues.

For the next two weeks we will making final pre-release adjustments. If you are interested in participating in the Preview/Beta, please email adavidow@jwa.org ; if you would like to get a sense of who is in the Encyclopedia, or to find out more, please visit http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/preview

Our formal press release is at http://qa.jwa.org/press/2009/2009-0202-encyclopedia.html