Most personal and geographic names (in Israel) from the Bible are given in the accepted Hebrew form. The conceptual foundation of the SJE is characterized by a thematic bipolarity: Eretz Israel, and in particular the State of Israel on the one hand, and Russian (i.e., Soviet) Jewry on the other, which nevertheless does not exclude the broad scope of different aspects of the lives and history of Jews in all the other countries of the diaspora.
Most personal and geographic names in Israel from the Bible are written in the conventional Hebrew form. The theoretical underpinning of the SJE is characterized by a dichotomous structure: Eretz Israel, particularly the State of Israel, on one side; Russian Jewry (i.e., Soviet Jewry), on the other, yet still including the wide range of Jewish life and history in all the other countries of the diaspora.