Search results for "Who is a Jew?" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The Amalekites were a biblical people and enemy of the Israelites ... Amalekites are said to have descended from a common ancestor named Amalek ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:37, 24 July 2023
- of the University of Virginia. The house is of Jefferson's own design ... Monticello was designated a World Heritage Site in 1987, an honor ...14 KB (2,117 words) - 21:15, 9 November 2022
- of Flora (c. 1135 – March 30, 1202), was a Christian visionary and abbot ... The son of a court official in Calabria, Italy, Joachim followed at ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 05:54, 5 April 2024
- The Kingdom of Morocco is a country in North Africa. The full Arabic ... Morocco is an ethnically diverse country with a rich culture and civilization ...40 KB (5,727 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- Nuclear fission is the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into parts ... when they break apart. This makes possible a self-sustaining chain reaction ...31 KB (4,827 words) - 10:09, 11 March 2023
- Andalusia, located in the southern portion of Spain, is one of the ... on its southern border. Its eastern neighbor is the autonomous community of ...14 KB (2,046 words) - 19:54, 26 July 2023
- of Schiller and Goethe—but Heine was only a half-hearted Romantic. Having ... Heine is often labeled the first of the "post-Romantic" ...13 KB (2,100 words) - 08:29, 21 January 2024
- , Safad) is a city in the Northern District of Israel. It is a center ... of Christian biblical tradition, it became a major center of Jewish intellectual ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 18:37, 22 December 2022
- A gift or present is the transfer of money, property, and so forth ... Gifts are generally gratuitous and contrasted with the strictures ...16 KB (2,568 words) - 23:38, 10 December 2022
- shaped American mass media—from putting a radio in every home, to advancing ... shtetl near Minsk, Russia (now in Belarus) to a poor Jewish family. Given the ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- Basilides (early second century) was a Gnostic Christian religious ... Basilides was a pupil of a hearer of St. Peter, Glaucias by name, ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 11:07, 20 September 2023
- In Jewish tradition, a cantor or hazzan is a musician trained in the ... In Christianity, a cantor or chanter (Gk. ψάλτης) is the chief ...15 KB (2,193 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- The Parable of the Good Samaritan is a famous New Testament parable ... ). It is one of the most frequently quoted of Jesus' parables. ...15 KB (2,463 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987), was a Golden Globe-winning American ... trade in his teen years in the Catskills as a tummler in the Borscht Belt. ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:25, 15 January 2023
- The Talmud (Hebrew: תלמוד) is a record of rabbinical discussions ... 039;s Oral Law; and the Gemara (c. 500 C.E.), a rabbinical discussion of the ...32 KB (4,820 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- André Malraux (November 3, 1901 - November 23, 1976) was a French ... grandmother, Adrienne Lamy. His father, a stockbroker, committed suicide ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- that Jesus never existed, and that his story is actually a syncretism of previous ... of most biblical scholars and historians is that Jesus was a historical ...41 KB (6,172 words) - 22:02, 17 February 2023
- Desmond Mpilo Tutu (October 7, 1931 - December 26, 2021) was a South ... the term "Rainbow Nation" as a metaphor to describe post-apartheid ...30 KB (4,335 words) - 09:58, 29 January 2024
- Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1525 – 1609) was a major Talmudic scholar ... The Maharal is famously associated with the legend of the golem, in ...15 KB (2,356 words) - 08:30, 12 May 2024
- (May 22, 1859 – July 7, 1930), was a Scottish author most noted ... at the University of Edinburgh, including a period working in the town ...14 KB (2,161 words) - 11:09, 16 August 2023
