The Jewish Women's Archive has released "Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia". This major new addition to the JWA site integrates a vast amount of high-quality articles and images from a CD of the same name, published in 2006 by Shalvi Publishing Ltd.

The migration of the Encyclopedia from a CD-ROM format to a Drupal-based website means a dramatic increase in access to the articles in the Encyclopedia; it also facilitates a wide range of conversations about the history of Jewish. Users may now share any article in the Encyclopedia with their friends on a variety of social networks; they may also post updates and revisions to the articles via a comments section on the JWA site.

Welcoming Websites worked closely with JWA to ensure that all of the content from the original Encyclopedia was migrated properly into the Drupal site. In addition to over 2,000 articles and 1,000 images, the work also included the migration of glossary terms and definitions for Hebrew, Yiddish, and other foreign-language terms. Welcoming Websites also developed front-end display features for the Encyclopedia, including pop-up glossary definitions, as well as pages which allow users to browse the Encyclopedia by time period, keyword, and country.

We are very excited for the future of the Encyclopedia. Making this high-quality, in-depth body of work available online means that the story of many eminent Jewish women will continue to be told and retold for a long time to come.