More than perhaps any other textual genre, an encyclopedia comes about through the collaboration of multiple participants. In the case of the Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, these include at the institutional level the Saxonian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig, under whose auspices the work was completed; the Simon Dubnow Institute, whose agenda provided the framework for the project design; and the publishers, J.B. Metzler, who are widely acknowledged for their expertise in preparing encyclopedic works.

Above all, thanks are due to the authors …