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- Court Jew is a term for Jewish leaders who rose to positions of influence in Christian European noble houses. The first historical examples of ...12 KB (1,873 words) - 20:25, 28 May 2020
- The Wandering Jew is a figure from medieval Christian that spread ... identity and aspects of his character. He is often called Ahasuerus, although ...18 KB (2,872 words) - 22:50, 3 May 2023
- suicide at the age of 23. Today, the book is often dismissed as misogynistic ... however, it continues to be held up as a great work of lasting genius ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- The First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament traditionally ... "Peter, an apostle of Jesus," and a number of Church Fathers accepted ...7 KB (1,040 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- Louis Wirth (August 28, 1897 – May 3, 1952) was a German born, Jewish ... As a member of the Jewish immigrant minority, Wirth understood first ...10 KB (1,432 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- Johannes Pfefferkorn (1469 – 1523) was a German-Jewish convert to ... minded Catholics soon caused the opening of a broader investigation. Pfefferkorn ...12 KB (1,811 words) - 07:19, 5 April 2024
- the other main group of European Jewry, who arrived earlier in Europe ... The Ashkenazi Jews developed a distinct liturgy and culture, influenced ...20 KB (2,890 words) - 04:05, 18 August 2023
- who became known in his capacity as a Roman citizen as Flavius Josephus, ... was a first-century Jewish historian and apologist who survived and ...15 KB (2,242 words) - 17:37, 28 March 2024
- Nieder-Siegersdorf, Niederschlesien) was a German philosopher born of ... nine. He was only 12 when he was married to a girl from Nesvizh, and at the ...7 KB (1,116 words) - 01:01, 4 February 2023
- the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The uprising is the most famous example of ... fighters fired upon German troops and after a few days the troops retreated ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 21:21, 9 November 2022
- Orthodox Judaism is the Jewish tradition that adheres to a relatively ... Gentile world. The Hasidic movement, which is a subset of Haredi Judaism ...17 KB (2,525 words) - 02:20, 18 November 2022
- Südfeld Simon Miksa in Pest, Hungary, was a Zionist leader, physician, ... He was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization together with ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- Shammai (50 B.C.E. – 30 C.E.) was a famous Jewish scholar of the ... Shammai was likely a Palestinian Jew. His family was relatively well ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 13:10, 27 January 2023
- In Judaism, the term Bar Mitzvah (Hebrew: בר מצוה) refers to ... become responsible for their actions and thus a special ceremony is held for ...10 KB (1,502 words) - 07:59, 20 September 2023
- A yarmulke (Hebrew: יאַרמלקע meaning "cap") is a ... According to the Talmud, a Jewish man is required to cover his head ...15 KB (2,303 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- The Book of Tobit (or Book of Tobias in older Catholic Bibles) is ... The book tells the story of a righteous Jew of the Tribe of Naphtali ...8 KB (1,317 words) - 15:33, 30 January 2024
- meaning the "Other One" or "outcast"), was a rabbi ... The Tannaim were rabbinic sages in Judaism, who over a period of 130 ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 09:06, 30 December 2021
- The Epistle to the Romans is one of the books of the New Testament ... The main message of the Epistle is that salvation is available to ...13 KB (2,049 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- (Dictionary of National Biography). He was a pioneer of modern philosophy ... Space, Time and Deity was one of the last attempts by a British philosopher ...15 KB (2,284 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- an esteemed British chemist and physicist, who vastly expanded chemical knowledge ... Robert Davy and Grace Millett. He grew up in a household of humble means. ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 20:56, 9 February 2024
- The book of 3 Maccabees is found in most Orthodox Bibles as a part ... it shares with the other Maccabean books a concern with issues such as ...9 KB (1,497 words) - 06:44, 13 June 2023
- Joseph Albo (יוסף אלבו) (c. 1380 – c. 1444) was a Jewish ... To counter the anti-Jewish polemic of the time, Albo sought to forge ...13 KB (2,036 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- (February 10, 1890 – May 30, 1960) was a Russian poet and writer best ... 10, 1890. His parents were Leonid Pasternak, a prominent Jewish painter and ...9 KB (1,413 words) - 18:30, 31 March 2023
- Ernst Cassirer (July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German-Jewish ... Cassirer played a mediating role between the two major traditions ...13 KB (1,820 words) - 19:34, 13 February 2024
- it has retained to modern times. It lies in a lush valley in the Jebel Akhdar ... first the Greeks and then the Romans, it was a target of the Arab conquest ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- A bagel (Yiddish yi-Hebr|בײגל) beygl) sometimes beigel, is a bread ... to bagels, but are somewhat bigger, have a wider hole, and are drier and ...17 KB (2,751 words) - 05:40, 26 August 2023
- A Gentile is a non-Jew, the term being a common English translation ... Law also provided protection for Gentiles who settled among the Jews. The ...20 KB (3,103 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 – August 9, 1942) was a German philosopher ... intensified, she was secretly transferred to a convent in the Netherlands ...16 KB (2,393 words) - 20:38, 8 August 2023
- 039; and Heroes' Remembrance Authority) is Israel's official memorial ... The origin of the name is from a Biblical verse (Isaiah, chapter 56 ...14 KB (2,168 words) - 09:59, 22 May 2023
- ; April 4, 1931 in Kaunas, Lithuania – June 12, 1999 in Chicago ... A brilliant scholar, he invested greatly in his students, brought ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 00:03, 9 January 2023
- from William Shakespeare's Othello, a play concerning a biracial couple.]] Intermarriage is the marriage between two people of different backgrounds ...21 KB (3,227 words) - 12:55, 7 February 2023
- Moses Mendelssohn (September 6, 1729 – January 4, 1786) was a German ... In 1783, Mendelssohn published Jerusalem, a forcible plea for freedom of ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 16:58, 10 November 2022
- was born in Galicia, later immigrated as a Zionist to Israel, and died ... Agnon, called by many "a man of unquestionable genius" and ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 20:00, 21 April 2023
- ==Who is a Jew?== According to traditional Jewish law, someone is considered ... *[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/who-is-a-jew Who is a Jew? ...32 KB (4,804 words) - 20:55, 4 October 2022
- Masada (a romanization of the Hebrew מצדה, Mitzada, from מצודה ... are very difficult. The top of the plateau is flat and rhomboid-shaped, about ...14 KB (2,172 words) - 16:17, 7 November 2022
- The book of 4 Maccabees is a homily or philosophic discourse praising ... clear, reasonable thinking about true virtue is the key to overcoming every ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- Shavuot (or Shavuos; "Weeks") is a Jewish holiday that occurs ... In the Hebrew Bible, Shavuot is also called the Feast of Weeks, the ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 13:22, 27 January 2023
- philosopher, theologian, and historian, and a pioneer of modern Jewish scholarship ... during an ongoing historical process, became a central theme of later Jewish ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- Herodias, also Herodiade (c. 15 B.C.E. – after 39 C.E.), was a Jewish ... whom she lived in Rome and Judea. While on a visit to Rome, her brother ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 11:05, 22 January 2024
- humorous rants. King became well-known as a Jewish comedian and satirist ... Medical Center in Jerusalem, established a scholarship fund for American ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 04:26, 17 June 2023
- , literally "head of the year") is a Jewish holiday, commonly ... Rosh Hashanah is the first of the High Holidays or "Days of Awe ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 19:18, 16 December 2022
- of Judaism so that non-Jews will also have a share in the world to come ... According to the Biblical narrative, a flood covered the whole world ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 09:58, 11 March 2023
- Ecclesiology, in Christian theology, is the study of doctrine pertaining ... Gentile members in what had been essentially a Jewish messianic movement. ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 18:54, 11 March 2024
- 2 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible which focuses ... #039; more straightforward history. Is also appears to have been influenced ...12 KB (1,773 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
- Mál'akhî—"my messenger") is a book of the Hebrew Bible ... Nothing is known of Malachi's personal life, or indeed if he ...17 KB (2,748 words) - 20:37, 17 May 2023
- July 22, 1619), born Giulio Cesare Russo, was a Roman Catholic priest and a ... Born in Brindisi, Kingdom of Naples, to a family of Venetian merchants ...12 KB (1,816 words) - 17:58, 25 October 2022
- 21, 1982), also known as Gerhard Scholem, was a Jewish philosopher and historian ... Scholem is best known for his collection of lectures, Major Trends ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 17:57, 14 December 2023
- Leo Baeck (May 23, 1873 – November 2, 1956) was a twentieth-century ... 1933, after the Nazis seized power, he became a leader of the representative ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 20:03, 25 October 2022
- 1 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical book written by a Jewish author ... The setting of the book is about a century after the conquest of Judea ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:32, 13 June 2023
- Hungarian Jewish journalist and playwright who became the founder of modern ... from anti-Semitism and that the creation of a Jewish state was the only solution ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 17:56, 30 April 2023
- Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death ... He was born in Kappsta, Sweden, to Raoul Oscar Wallenberg (1888-1912 ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:37, 8 December 2022
- A beth din, also spelled beit din or bet din (Hebrew: בית דין ... Since then, no single beth din has emerged as a central authority of Jewish ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 17:59, 29 September 2023
- Pierre Charron (1541 - 1603) was a French philosopher and Roman Catholic ... Pierre Charron was born in Paris, one of the twenty-five children ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 05:20, 24 November 2022
- and Midrash: literal and allegorical. It is said that only those with the ... The Haggadah is part of Judaism's Oral law (תורה שבעל ...13 KB (1,890 words) - 17:38, 27 January 2024
- Elie) (September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016) was a world-renowned Hungarian Romanian ... Wiesel was a passionate and powerful writer and author of more than ...25 KB (3,747 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
- also have written Ezra-Nehemiah. His work is an important source of information ... In the Herbrew Masoretic text, Chronicles is part of the third section ...18 KB (2,889 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- (January 14, 1892 – March 6, 1984) was a prominent German anti-Nazi ... of the Bishop of Chichester, George Bell, who was at the time the strongest ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 23:11, 15 May 2023
- and lawyer. He was born British, and died a resident in England. He held ... Benjamin was born a British subject in Christiansted, Saint Croix ...16 KB (2,409 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- Israel Jacobson (October 17, 1768 - September 14, 1828, Berlin) was ... married into the family of the wealthy court Jew Hertz Samson and later inherited ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 06:05, 11 March 2024
- The Book of Esther is a book of the Hebrew Bible and of the Christian ... The Book of Esther is set in the third year of Ahasuerus, a king of ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- work on Halakhah (Jewish law). He was also a key leader of the Jewish community ... Born to a Spanish Jewish family, Karo and his parents were forced ...13 KB (2,057 words) - 21:32, 4 June 2023
- the first group of Jews, numbering 42,360, who returned from the Babylonian ... Judah for more than two decades. It was he who laid the foundation of the ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:52, 13 June 2023
- It is characterized by a liberal attitude toward the Jewish law and ... as obsolete. In North America, this led to a split between the denominations ...19 KB (2,867 words) - 03:01, 8 December 2022
- was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, who is sometimes confused with ... Jude the apostle is widely viewed as a saint by different branches ...13 KB (2,095 words) - 06:38, 28 February 2023
- The Epistle to the Galatians is a book of the New Testament. It is ... extreme dismay at those among the Galatians who had accepted this teaching ...16 KB (2,432 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- father and son and the consequent search for a mentor, and the struggle to ... (d. 1985), Jewish immigrants from Poland who were Hasidic. His father was ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- extant use in Natural History Pliny) is "an object that protects ... Closely related to the amulet is the talisman (from Arabic tilasm; ...13 KB (2,101 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976) was ... As a student, he met Niels Bohr in Göttingen in 1922. A fruitful ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:14, 4 May 2023
- Described as a 'scrap of paper' that changed history, the ... declaration regarding the establishment of a homeland for the Jews while ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 05:52, 26 August 2023
- August 1, 1626 – c. September 17, 1676) was a rabbi and Kabbalist who claimed ... studies at an early age and soon developed a strong mystical and ascetic ...24 KB (3,736 words) - 10:16, 26 January 2023
- , born Stanisław Władysław Rejment, was a Polish author. He won the Nobel ... any trouble for having published in Galicia a work not allowed under the ...13 KB (2,005 words) - 23:19, 17 May 2023
- also Hebrew Christians or Christian Jews) is a term which can have two meanings ... brunt of persecution from their fellow Jews, who rejected Jesus' messiahship ...32 KB (4,998 words) - 08:45, 3 April 2024
- in Ceneda (now Vittorio Veneto). Appointed a professor at what is now Columbia ... Conegliano was a Jew by birth. When he, his father, and siblings converted ...14 KB (2,015 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Roman ... The story revolves around Judith, a daring and beautiful widow. During ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- ) (November 28, 1829 – November 20, 1894) was a Russian pianist ... to Russia in 1848 where he worked as a musician to the sister-in-law ...7 KB (986 words) - 06:51, 31 July 2023
- or Shabbes in Ashkenazic pronunciation), is the weekly day of rest in Judaism ... gradually replaced Saturday with Sunday as a day of special worship and ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
- the earliest Hellenistic Jewish philosophers who attempted to reconcile the ... and Eusebius. Written in the form of a dialogue addressed to the king ...7 KB (1,086 words) - 06:27, 12 August 2023
- Writers in the UK. accessdate 2008-03-26 ), is an influential ... A polyglot and polymath, he is often credited with redefining the ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 08:15, 23 January 2023
- יהודה הלוי) (c. 1075-1141 C.E.) was a Jewish Spanish philosopher ... Judah Ha-Levi is regarded as one of the greatest Hebrew poets. More ...27 KB (4,480 words) - 20:50, 4 October 2022
- and fully American. Gratz believed women had a responsibility to educate their ... the daughter of Joseph Simon (1712–1804), a respected Jewish tradesman ...8 KB (1,118 words) - 01:42, 8 December 2022
- from Arabic for "shaking off") is an Arabic term for "uprising ... suicide bombing of Israeli targets became a popular method of resistance ...16 KB (2,421 words) - 10:58, 6 March 2024
- Gershom ben Judah, (c. 960 -1040?) was a French rabbi, best known ... also known as Sir Leofitin. His early life is surrounded with legends of ...14 KB (2,372 words) - 17:56, 14 December 2023
- The Prophet Abraham is claimed by Jews as the ancestor of the Israelites ... of past eras and move forward to building a world of religious co-operation. ...30 KB (4,716 words) - 23:04, 8 April 2021
- referred to as "Bunin brocade," is one of the richest in the language ... province in central Russia. He came from a long line of landed gentry ...7 KB (1,081 words) - 06:34, 11 March 2024
- as late at 600 C.E.. The Axial Age plays a central, foundational, or crucial ... Jaspers was led to realize the possibility of a political unity of ...15 KB (2,330 words) - 07:19, 23 August 2023
- Ablution is a term referring to washing, and can mean ordinary washing ... in Judaism: tevilah, full body immersion in a mikvah (ritual bath) or body ...20 KB (3,118 words) - 04:49, 14 June 2023
- January 30, 1961) was an American journalist who gained international celebrity ... papers, and was read by eight to ten million people a day. ...14 KB (2,067 words) - 17:28, 30 January 2024
- His "milieu therapy," however, is still widely used in the treatment ... Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a wood merchant ...16 KB (2,237 words) - 04:43, 22 November 2023
- Saul Bellow (June 11, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a writer who achieved ... He remains one of the forerunners in shedding a positive light on ...18 KB (2,867 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- In the New Testament, Judas Iscariot (died April 29–33 C.E.) is ... Despite his notorious role in the Gospel narratives, Judas is still ...31 KB (5,055 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose ... Human history and archaeology show that a basic urge to express emotion ...26 KB (3,752 words) - 21:15, 27 November 2021
- 'ibn Gabiyrol)(c. 1021 – c. 1058), a Moorish Jewish poet and philosopher ... in his teens. At the age of 16 he wrote a poem later included in the ...24 KB (3,826 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- Nazareth is the capital and largest city in the North District of ... Modern-day Nazareth is nestled in a hollow plateau some 1,200 feet ...14 KB (2,200 words) - 15:58, 11 November 2022
- drama and sexual intrigue, in which she is ultimately vindicated, despite ... Tamar is one of only five women mentioned in Matthew's version ...15 KB (2,478 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- second wife Helen Pitts Douglass (sitting) who was white, a famous nineteenth ... "to mix" + genus "kind") is the mixing of different races ...21 KB (3,025 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- image = [[Image:19480516 PalestinePost Israel is born.jpg|200px]]| ... The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli daily English language broadsheet ...8 KB (1,170 words) - 02:34, 1 August 2022
- translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is considered to be the only playwright ... have speculated that Marlowe may have been a secret agent of the queen) ...25 KB (3,850 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
- Hillel (הלל) was a famous Jewish religious teacher who lived in ... *"That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That ...16 KB (2,728 words) - 13:17, 22 January 2024
- was an American author of historical fiction who wrote many bestselling books ... and Anna (née Blumberg) Uris. His father, a Polish-born immigrant, was ...24 KB (3,406 words) - 16:05, 28 November 2023
- 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 ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
