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