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  • known by his Arabic name Said al-Fayyumi, was a prominent rabbi, Jewish philosopher ... in 882 c.e.. The name "Saadia" is apparently the Hebrew equivalent ...
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  • [[Image:Legend of the Jew calling the Devil from a Vessel of Blood ... Blood libels are sensationalized allegations that a person or group ...
    24 KB (3,634 words) - 18:14, 31 October 2023
  • September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970) was a Latvian-born American painter ... canvases of the 1950s and 1960s engender a sense of sublimity through ...
    20 KB (3,031 words) - 08:33, 10 March 2023
  • Christoph Probst (November 6, 1919 – February 22, 1943) was a student ... and Professor Kurt Huber. Probst became a member of the White Rose group ...
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  • Born in New York City, his father, William, was from a non-practicing ... was an innovative producer of vaudeville (he is generally credited with inventing ...
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  • ) (November 22, 1893 - July 25, 1991) was a Soviet politician and ... As a trusted lieutenant, Stalin used Kaganovich to implement some ...
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  • representatives of Byzantine learning, and a strong advocate of Aristotelian ... in liturgy, ethics, and poetry. He was a student not only of Western ...
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  • Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name ... Leviticus is a source of two of the Bible's most famous sayings ...
    17 KB (2,713 words) - 00:25, 19 November 2023
  • Satyagraha (Sanskrit, meaning "Truth-force") was a term ... Gandhi's philosophy of satyagraha also had a profound impact ...
    17 KB (2,735 words) - 22:38, 3 April 2020
  • Primo Levi (July 31, 1919 – April 11, 1987) was a Jewish Italian ... He is also the author of The Periodic Table which contains 21 reflections ...
    16 KB (2,482 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
  • Karaites, Karaite Judaism or Karaism is a Jewish denomination characterized ... "Readers (of Scripture)," and is derived from the old Hebrew ...
    17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
  • , Khirbet Qumran) is located on a dry plateau about a mile inland ... comes from the fact that the scrolls provide a treasure chest of information ...
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  • of God, the Ebionites saw Jesus as a mortal human being, who by ... Scholarly knowledge of the Ebionites is limited and fragmentary, deriving ...
    19 KB (2,894 words) - 18:00, 12 February 2024
  • A Rabbi, in Judaism, is a religious teacher and, in modern times, ... The word "Rabbi" is derived from the Hebrew root word רַב ...
    21 KB (3,138 words) - 16:07, 7 December 2022
  • Julius Streicher (February 12, 1885 – October 16, 1946) was a prominent ... and his wife Anna Weiss. He came from a devout Catholic family and ...
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  • A first baseman primarily for the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg was one ... Despite losing four prime seasons to World War II and another to a ...
    29 KB (4,518 words) - 21:15, 17 January 2024
  • The Saint Thomas Christians are a group of Christians from the Malabar ... 1956; Vellian 2001. The Portuguese started a Latin diocese in Goa (1534 ...
    27 KB (3,937 words) - 22:35, 11 January 2024
  • The nation of Ammon or the Ammonites were a people living east of ... northwestern Arabia east of Gilead in what is today called Jordan and Syria. ...
    18 KB (2,883 words) - 07:34, 25 July 2023
  • The Babylonian exile (or Babylonian captivity) is the name generally ... in 537 B.C.E. They came to Jerusalem with a tradition refined by the rise ...
    18 KB (2,780 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
  • (original: The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the ... vivid nature imagery with the supernatural in a perplexing allegorical tale ...
    18 KB (2,959 words) - 15:42, 30 April 2023

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