Search results for "Who is a Jew?" - New World Encyclopedia
From New World Encyclopedia
- 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
