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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
- quot; or "the Unitarians"), was a Berber, Muslim dynasty that ... defeat at the Battle of Las Navas in 1212 by a coalition of Christian princes ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 08:17, 23 July 2023
- [[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
- 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 ...8 KB (1,265 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- Christoph Probst (November 6, 1919 – February 22, 1943) was a student ... and Professor Kurt Huber. Probst became a member of the White Rose group ...9 KB (1,303 words) - 21:41, 10 December 2023
- representatives of Byzantine learning, and a strong advocate of Aristotelian ... in liturgy, ethics, and poetry. He was a student not only of Western ...17 KB (2,731 words) - 06:49, 18 April 2024
- ) (November 22, 1893 - July 25, 1991) was a Soviet politician and ... As a trusted lieutenant, Stalin used Kaganovich to implement some ...19 KB (2,687 words) - 06:04, 6 March 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- , 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 ...18 KB (2,848 words) - 16:03, 7 December 2022
- 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 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
- Julius Streicher (February 12, 1885 – October 16, 1946) was a prominent ... and his wife Anna Weiss. He came from a devout Catholic family and ...9 KB (1,295 words) - 21:15, 4 October 2022
- 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
- Yom Kippur (Hebrew:יוֹם כִּפּוּר meaning Day of Atonement ... In the Bible, the day is called Yom HaKippurim (Leviticus 23:27) and ...20 KB (3,188 words) - 16:40, 4 June 2023
- Philo of Alexandria and as Philo Judaeus, was a Hellenized Jewish philosopher ... that the highest perception of truth is possible only after a study ...29 KB (4,517 words) - 04:00, 24 November 2022
- Chassidus, meaning "piety") is a Haredi Jewish religious movement ... when European Jews had grown disillusioned as a result of the failed messianism ...28 KB (4,280 words) - 08:41, 20 January 2024
- of the great rabbi Hillel the Elder and a high authority in the Sanhedrin ... Gamaliel is known to the Christian world as the Pharisaic leader who ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- The Book of Daniel, written in Hebrew and Aramaic, is a book in both ... The book has two distinct parts: a series of six narratives (chapters ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- The Greek word λόγος, or logos, is a word with various meanings ... " and "reason." It indicates a rational explanation in contrast ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- Although a major figure in the protectionist wing of the Conservative ... Before and during his political career Disraeli was well-known as ...28 KB (4,114 words) - 23:17, 11 January 2023
- (September 29, 1881 - October 10, 1973) was a notable Austrian-American economist ... Ukraine), where his father was stationed as a construction engineer. Both ...19 KB (2,970 words) - 02:41, 5 November 2022
- The Epistle to the Philippians is a book of the New Testament in the ... Besides its joyful character, the letter is also unique in its attitude ...10 KB (1,691 words) - 20:40, 17 May 2023
- Extortion is a criminal offense that occurs when a person either obtains ... Extortion is obtaining money or property by threat to a victim's ...10 KB (1,531 words) - 12:32, 21 January 2023
- – August 7, 1938), was a Russian actor and theater director. His ... organized his realistic techniques into a coherent and usable ‘system ...19 KB (2,723 words) - 17:50, 16 May 2020
- the tallit (prayer shawl). This practice is derived from biblical commandments ... . The Jewish sage Maimonides includes wearing the tzitzit as a major ...20 KB (3,211 words) - 00:42, 3 May 2023
- Copepods are a group of generally minute aquatic crustaceans found ... species this armor, and the entire body, is almost totally transparent. ...10 KB (1,426 words) - 02:55, 8 January 2024
- known as Huguenots) substantial rights in a nation still considered essentially ... as king, supposedly saying "Paris is well worth a Mass." The ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 17:25, 6 October 2020
- Alinsky was a passionate believer that social justice could be achieved ... A man both hated and revered, he is known as the father of community ...25 KB (3,909 words) - 02:30, 21 April 2023
- Anti-Semitism (alternatively spelled antisemitism) is hostility toward ... racial anti-Semitism focused on Jews as a racially distinct group, regardless ...52 KB (8,069 words) - 12:28, 14 October 2023
- spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most ... Billy Wilder is sometimes confused with director William Wyler. This ...22 KB (3,248 words) - 17:40, 31 October 2023
- and Auschwitz III (Monowitz), a work camp. The first two of ... German occupation. The Auschwitz camps were a major element in the perpetration ...26 KB (4,084 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- Max Horkheimer (February 14, 1895 – July 7, 1973) was a Jewish-German ... outcomes of the idea of Enlightenemt, a central idea in western civilization ...10 KB (1,416 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- November 27, 1874 – November 9, 1952) was a chemist, statesman, President ... When Israel declared its independence, a life's dream was realized ...21 KB (3,201 words) - 16:52, 21 January 2024
- from 75 B.C.E. until her death in 67 B.C.E. A supporter of a religious reform ... The daughter of a prominent Pharisaic family, Alexandra was the wife ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 01:53, 23 December 2022
- According to the Bible, Elisha was a powerful prophet in the Kingdom ... Elisha was also a major political actor. He consorted with kings and ...20 KB (3,192 words) - 21:43, 7 January 2019
- ) was a Syrian queen (240-after 274 C.E.). After her husband's ... and became the new ruler with her infant son. A woman of broad education, she ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 05:50, 13 June 2023
- ) was a pogrom in Nazi Germany on November 9–10, 1938. On a single ... in Germany and German-controlled lands as a part of Hitler's anti ...26 KB (3,708 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- (November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a twentieth-century Russian and ... Schnittke's father was born in Frankfurt to a Jewish family of ...10 KB (1,316 words) - 18:06, 20 July 2023
- Giacomo Meyerbeer (September 5, 1791 — May 2, 1864) was a noted ... Meyerbeer was born to a Jewish family in Tasdorf, near Berlin, Germany ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 20:19, 14 December 2023
- Thaddeus Stevens (April 4, 1792 – August 11, 1868), was a member ... hardships during his childhood, including a club foot. His father was an ...9 KB (1,431 words) - 02:49, 19 April 2023
- The term bard (бард) refers to popular poets who put their verses ... These romances were traditionally written in a minor key and performed with ...11 KB (1,802 words) - 08:06, 20 September 2023
- Bel and the Dragon is an apocryphal Jewish story which appears as ... As a literary genre, the story of Daniel and the priests of Bel is ...11 KB (1,817 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- and experience of the Jewish people. Judaism is not only a religion, but an ... use of philosophical inquiry to search for a deeper understanding of Judaism ...28 KB (4,179 words) - 03:01, 1 August 2022
- Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population ... independent church state which was ruled by a series of powerful archbishops ...19 KB (2,898 words) - 01:56, 23 December 2022
- A blue law, in the United States and Canada, is a type of law designed ... Contrary to popular belief, there is no evidence to support the assertion ...11 KB (1,685 words) - 23:53, 11 January 2023
- quot; Seymour, Louise Lang, and Yale Joel at a cafe in the Bois de Boulogne ... (November 20, 1911 – November 10, 1956), a Polish born American photographer ...11 KB (1,618 words) - 08:09, 28 January 2024
- fourteenth through seventeenth centuries who adopted Christianity, either ... of Spain from Islamic control resulted in a wave of intolerance toward ...22 KB (3,432 words) - 16:11, 6 November 2022
- Lakes. Radin believed that to understand a culture other than one's ... of Adolf and Johanna Radin. His father was a physician and a rabbi of the ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 01:29, 23 November 2022
- Meir David Kahane (Kahane being a variation on Cohen or "priest ... views, exemplified in his promotion of a theocratic "Greater Israel ...20 KB (3,012 words) - 04:16, 9 November 2022
- of Jesus of Nazareth. Scholars often draw a distinction between Jesus as ... and a minority "The nonhistoricity thesis has always been controversial ...44 KB (6,589 words) - 16:59, 22 February 2023
- canon'. The etymology of the word is misleading, but it does indicate ... omit them from the Bible, or include them in a section designated Apocrypha ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- (Greek: ανομια), in theology, is the idea that members of a ... The topic of antinomianism is quite complex because it involves the ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 06:34, 31 July 2023
- time in the period between 27 to 33 C.E.. It is often considered by religious ... The first week of the Easter Season is known as Easter Week. ...23 KB (3,508 words) - 17:05, 10 October 2020
- حافظ شیرازی in Persian) was a Persian mystic and poet who ... Very little credible information is known about Hafez's life ...10 KB (1,669 words) - 16:39, 21 January 2024
- frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel, a Jewish author who wrote primarily ... To some degree, Celan wrote the way he did as a response to Theodor Adorno ...19 KB (3,103 words) - 16:50, 21 November 2022
- between tradition and progressive modernism is an important concern in many ... for the fiction of Philip Roth, the novelist who evokes his era at Weequahic ...23 KB (3,273 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- between an organization and the public is a necessary one. The quality ... started his career in public relations as a newspaper boy. Before he was ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 00:54, 13 January 2023
- composer known particularly for his waltzes, a form of music he was instrumental ... #039; son, Johann Strauss II, also pursued a career as a waltz conductor ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 14:55, 1 August 2022
- prominence by the first century C.E. It is also the alleged resting place ... change and to defeat at the hands of Judith, a legendary Jewish Queen. ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- Slovakia (Slovensko) is a landlocked country in Central Europe with ... nineteenth century, and, ultimately, toward a joint state. Slovakia chose ...34 KB (4,817 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
- ) (October 1, 1912 – June 15, 1992), also known as Lev Gumilev, ... Neo-Eurasianism is a Russian school of thought, popularized in Russia ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- ) (December 12, 1905 – September 14, 1964), was a prominent Soviet ... emancipated Jewish family, he did not receive a traditional Jewish education ...10 KB (1,566 words) - 16:18, 14 November 2022
- Freedom of religion is a political principle guaranteeing freedom ... of humankind toward the realization of a world of peace. ...36 KB (5,594 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- Degenerate art is the English translation of the German entartete ... The early twentieth century was a period of wrenching changes in the ...20 KB (2,833 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- Adoptionism is a minority Christian belief that Jesus was born merely ... of Judaism, in which the concept of a trinity of divine persons in ...13 KB (1,947 words) - 06:15, 15 June 2023
- Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was a legendary ... Johnson was also a significant figure in the transition of Delta blues ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- higher wages for his workers—notably $5.00 a day—which brought thousands ... structure of society. His plan of producing a large number of inexpensive ...32 KB (4,898 words) - 15:22, 25 January 2023
- Paul or The Apostle Paul, (4–64 C.E.) is widely credited with the early ... Saul is described in the New Testament as a Hellenized Jew and Roman ...56 KB (9,113 words) - 00:50, 23 December 2022
- A ghetto is an area where people from a specific ethnic background ... Today the term ghetto is used to describe a blighted area of a city ...30 KB (4,539 words) - 23:27, 21 October 2023
- in 1947, Portuguese India included a number of enclaves on India ... Fall of Constantinople in 1453, discovered a new sea route to India by way ...22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 April 2023
- Nelly Sachs, (December 10, 1891 – May 12, 1970) was a German poet ... Margareta (Karger) Sachs and William Sachs, a prosperous manufacturer and ...11 KB (1,767 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- дрович Бро́дский) was a Russian emigre poet and essayist ... Brodsky was born into a Jewish family in Leningrad, the son of a professional ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 07:19, 10 August 2022
- The Epistle to Titus is a book of the New Testament, one of the three ... While the letter is addressed from Paul, many scholars today doubt ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:11, 13 February 2024
- Paul Joseph Goebbels (October 29, 1897 – May 1, 1945) was a German ... Goebbels earned a Ph.D. from Heidelberg University in 1921, on the ...35 KB (5,510 words) - 00:39, 11 August 2022
- an Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer who became a Nazi hunter after ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...23 KB (3,477 words) - 22:10, 29 January 2023
- "doorpost"; pl. mezuzot) refers to a small kosher parchment inscribed ... The mezuzah must be handwritten in Hebrew on a special parchment, which is ...13 KB (2,058 words) - 16:32, 9 November 2022
- The Star of David is a widely recognized symbol of Judaism, named ... While the symbol has had a varied emotional history for the Jewish ...12 KB (2,021 words) - 19:53, 9 February 2023
- Apostasy is the formal renunciation of one's religion. One who ... Apostasy is distinguished from heresy in that the latter refers to ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- early Christian apologist and saint. Born to a pagan family and trained in ... Justin's time, he evidently stirred up a sufficient quantity of controversy ...34 KB (5,421 words) - 21:24, 4 October 2022
- Union. The plot was supposedly hatched by a number of by Jewish doctors ... Simultaneously in Czechoslovakia during a November 1952 public conference ...12 KB (1,709 words) - 16:33, 29 January 2024
- (September 28, 1905 – February 2, 2005) was a world champion heavyweight ... After rising to the top of the heavyweight ranks, Schmeling fought ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 00:59, 9 November 2022
- Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914), was a Danish-born ... leading those such as Theodore Roosevelt who were in positions to make ...11 KB (1,754 words) - 01:12, 8 February 2023
- in eighteenth century Europe. Among Jews, he is often referred to the The Gra—from ... displayed extraordinary talent while still a child. By the time he was 20 ...13 KB (1,989 words) - 16:13, 13 February 2024
- to parents named Eliezer and Sara in Okopy, a small village that over the ... The title Baal Shem Tov is usually translated as "Master of the ...23 KB (3,822 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- 1986) was an American writer, allegorist, and a well-known Jewish-American ... College of New York in 1936. He worked for a year at $4.50 a day as a teacher ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 15:38, 29 September 2023
- (also spelled "Menasseh"), was a Portuguese-Jewish rabbi, kabbalist ... Born to a family of Portuguese Marranos who settled in Amsterdam, ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 06:43, 5 November 2022
- Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926), was a magician ... Houdini was born as Erik Weisz in Budapest, Hungary to a Jewish family; ...11 KB (1,684 words) - 20:47, 29 January 2022
- Old-time music is a form of North American folk music, with roots ... to old-time music, one can experience a musical history and an understanding ...26 KB (3,894 words) - 00:03, 18 November 2022
- 2002) was an Israeli diplomat and politician who was for many years the voice ... Born in South Africa, he excelled as a student of foreign languages ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- writer, teacher, reformer, and briefly a politician who became the first ... At 87 years of age, Felton is also the oldest freshman senator to ...12 KB (1,826 words) - 01:42, 8 December 2022
- ) (January 27, 1891 – August 31, 1967) was a Soviet writer, journalist ... Ehrenburg was a controversial figure in Soviet literature. He began ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 23:54, 22 January 2023
- during his era, he began his career as a socialist while in school, ... and Daisy Baum Lippmann. The family lived a comfortable, if not privileged ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 22:27, 3 May 2023
- famous for their study Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American ... He graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in 1914, and started to ...13 KB (1,965 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- as the Wisdom of Solomon or simply Wisdom) is one of the Deuterocanonical ... and a Hebrew translation of the Wisdom of Solomon is mentioned by ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 18:44, 20 November 2023
- Yahweh (יהוה) (ya•'we) is the primary Hebrew name of God ... In Christian Bibles, Yahweh is usually translated as "the LORD ...25 KB (4,138 words) - 10:00, 22 May 2023
- to the most important prayer in Judaism that is recited every morning and evening ... The text of the first part of the Shema is as follows: Hear, O Israel: ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 13:27, 27 January 2023
- The New Kingdom is the period in ancient Egyptian history between ... Pharaohs, such as Ramesses II and Akhenaten who tried to introduce monotheism ...12 KB (1,918 words) - 16:32, 11 November 2022
- André-Gustave Citroën (November 2, 1878 - July 3, 1935) was a French ... was related to the famous British philosopher A.J. Ayer. The Citroen family ...12 KB (1,874 words) - 20:01, 26 July 2023
- Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (May 24, 1870 – July 9, 1938) is a well ... may not have been correct at the time but it is universally understood that ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- B.C.E.; Old Persian Dārayawuš: "He Who Holds Firm the Good" ... building on the work of Cyrus the Great who divided the territory into ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- Refugee was defined as a legal group in response to the large numbers ... The lead international agency coordinating refugee protection is the ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- Norbert Elias (June 22, 1897 - August 1, 1990) was a German sociologist ... For Elias, society consists of individuals who are in relationship ...13 KB (1,741 words) - 02:41, 16 November 2022
- era and the beginning of the Renaissance is admittedly arbitrary, the date ... The only medieval music which can be studied is that which was written ...36 KB (5,655 words) - 04:07, 9 November 2022
- "The Hedgehog and the Fox" is the title of an essay by Isaiah ... The title is a reference to a fragment attributed to the ancient Greek ...12 KB (1,826 words) - 15:38, 30 April 2023
- of Midian and Moses' father-in-law, who sheltered Moses for 40 years ... sacrifice to the Hebrew God Yahweh and hosted a sacrificial feast with Aaron ...13 KB (2,051 words) - 02:58, 1 August 2022
- Charles-Valentin Alkan (November 30, 1813 – March 29 1888) was a ... Alkan was born Charles-Valentin Morhange to a Jewish family in Paris ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- ) (February 15, 1923 - June 18, 2011) was a human rights activist ... main inspirations in encouraging Sakharov, a prominent Soviet physicist ...13 KB (1,796 words) - 09:55, 23 May 2023
- Léon Samoilovitch Bakst (May 10, 1866 - December 28, 1924) was a ... Leon was born in Grodno (currently Belarus) into a middle-class Jewish ...13 KB (1,809 words) - 20:08, 25 October 2022
- Camille Pissarro (July 10, 1830 – November 13, 1903) was a French ... Of Jewish and Creole descent, Pissarro was father to a large family ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 18:56, 25 November 2023
- Jewish movement began in Germany and saw a flowering of intellectual life ... Germania Inferior, and Germania Magna is not known. The first authentic ...56 KB (8,438 words) - 08:48, 3 April 2024
- Fritz Haber (December 9, 1868 – January 29, 1934) was a German chemist ... His mother died in childbirth. His father was a prominent chemicals merchant ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 07:04, 15 April 2024
- William S. Paley (September 28, 1901 – October 26, 1990), coming ... Drell. Paley's father, Samuel, was a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant ...12 KB (1,903 words) - 20:44, 24 November 2022
- ) is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel, often ... since the founding of the Jewish state. A large portion of the population ...24 KB (3,637 words) - 10:25, 26 September 2023
- The Sinai Peninsula is a triangle-shaped peninsula located in Egypt ... Sinai is a land of contrasts. The desert interior comes to an abrupt ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 22:24, 29 January 2023
- Akiva—also spelled Akiba or Aqiba—was a Judean sage of the late first ... #039;s strong yet flexible adherence to a tradition which refused to ...23 KB (3,911 words) - 07:17, 16 June 2023
- William Howard Schuman (August 4, 1910 – February 15, 1992) was ... He was among a number of notable American composers, including Aaron ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 10:50, 12 May 2023
- Twelve Apostles listed in the New Testament, who were chosen by Jesus to heal ... (apostolos), which means one who is sent on a mission, a commissioned ...30 KB (4,741 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- Oskar Schindler (April 28, 1908 - October 9, 1974) was a Sudeten German ... today's Jewish population his name is synonymous with courage, and ...27 KB (4,326 words) - 04:39, 18 November 2022
- , translated as Sea of Salt), is a salt lake lying on the border between ... in the Great Rift Valley. The Jordan River is its main tributary. ...24 KB (3,779 words) - 08:53, 28 January 2024
- ]); formerly known as Cochin), a city in the Indian state of Kerala ... Since 1102 C.E., Kochi has been the seat of the Kingdom of Cochin ...42 KB (5,911 words) - 04:06, 4 March 2023
- Alfred Tarski (January 14, 1901 – October 26, 1983) was a logician ... spelling: Tajtelbaum) in Warsaw to parents who were Polish Jews in comfortable ...27 KB (4,019 words) - 20:34, 20 July 2023
- Agrippa II (b. 27/28 C.E.), was a Roman client king who sided with ... Educated in Rome, Agrippa was a thoroughly Hellenistic Jew. After ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 06:49, 16 June 2023
- , see also other titles) is an antisemitic literary forgery that purports ... Numerous independent investigations have repeatedly proven it to be ...66 KB (9,730 words) - 23:42, 22 October 2023
- Religious exclusivism is the doctrine that the adherents of a particular ... Exclusivism is most prevalent in Abrahamic religions. In Jewish tradition ...15 KB (2,291 words) - 10:03, 29 July 2022
- Under his leadership, Columbia became a world renowned university. ... Murray Butler, daughter of Nicholas Murray, a clergyman and writer. He enrolled ...14 KB (2,044 words) - 23:32, 14 November 2022
- – June 14, 2009) was an American scholar, a professor of philosophy and ... He was known for his academic research into a wide range of philosophical ...15 KB (2,047 words) - 10:33, 11 April 2024
- A shofar ( ˈʃoʊfər —Heb: שופר) is a horn that is used as a musical instrument for ...13 KB (2,151 words) - 14:23, 27 January 2023
- years by the Inquisition for his libertinism (a philosophical movement in France ... things by endowing them with “mens,” a sort of divine mind or innate ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 03:56, 1 May 2023
- Dönmeh, a derogatory term meaning "apostate," refers to ... seventeenth century, after Sabbatai Zevi, who had a wide following among ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 17:24, 30 January 2024
- 10 (ten) is a natural number A natural number is any number that is ... that follows 9 and precedes 11. It is an integer and a cardinal number ...13 KB (1,819 words) - 06:26, 13 June 2023
- The First Epistle to Timothy is one of the three Pastoral Epistles ... While Paul is traditionally recognized as the author of 1Timothy, ...14 KB (2,135 words) - 17:23, 28 March 2024
- The Acts of Thomas is is one of the New Testament apocrypha, describing ... India, where he traveled after being sold as a slave by the resurrected Jesus ...27 KB (4,575 words) - 05:44, 15 June 2023
- (March 19, 1906 – June 1, 1962) was a high-ranking Nazi and SS Obersturmbannführer ... Born in Solingen, Germany, Adolf Eichmann was the son of a businessman ...27 KB (4,132 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
- (also known as the Festival of Lights) is an eight-day Jewish holiday ... In Hebrew, the word Hanukkah is written he|חנֻכה or ...28 KB (4,314 words) - 19:38, 29 January 2022
- was the first American playwright to create a realistic portrayal of African ... two plays and left three others uncompleted; a sixth piece was assembled from ...13 KB (1,987 words) - 02:44, 4 November 2022
- as Bar Kokhva or Bar Kochba) was a messianic Jewish leader who ... by the leading Jewish sage Rabbi Akiva, who believed him to be the promised ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 07:58, 20 September 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
- II. The term was coined by Adolf Eichmann, a top Nazi official who supervised ... 20, 1942. During the conference, there was a discussion held by a group ...14 KB (2,250 words) - 19:48, 26 March 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
- The Negev Desert is located in modern day Israel, expanding nearly ... The triangular-shaped desert's apex is on the south. ...13 KB (2,056 words) - 04:27, 11 March 2023
- "Bee" in the Hebrew language), was a prophetess and the only female ... Judges chapter five renders this same story in poetic form, and it ...14 KB (2,226 words) - 08:58, 28 January 2024
- 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
- Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, was a Dominican friar who became ... (Dominican House of Studies) in Cologne. A year before his death, he made ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
