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Jewish Sabbath
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Bund
BUND jewish socialist workers' association. The Bund (full name in Yiddish: Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeiter-Bund in Rusland und Poylen, translated as "General association of Jewish workers in Russia and Poland") was founded in Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1897. It was opposed to the... Read more |
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Jewish dietary laws
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Yitzhak Shamir
Yitzhak Shamir , 1915-, Zionist activist and Israeli politician, b. Poland. Emigrating (1935) to Palestine, he was twice arrested by the British for participating in a militant Jewish organization; in 1946 he fled to France. Returning (1948) to Israel , he served in the secret service until 1965.... Read more |
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Elijah ben Solomon
Elijah ben Solomon 1720-97, Jewish scholar, called the Gaon of Vilna, b. Lithuania. A leading Jewish scholar of his time, he opposed the spread of Hasidism in Lithuania and Poland because he feared that the creation of these new groups would weaken the Jewish community. His many influential works... Read more |
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Jewish Autonomous Region
Jewish Autonomous Region or Birobidzhan , autonomous region (1995 pop. 211,900), c.13,800 sq mi (35,700 sq km), Khabarovsk Territory, Russian Far East, in the basins of the Biro and Bidzhan rivers, tributaries of the Amur. The capital is Birobidzhan. The region is bounded on the south by China... Read more |
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Aliyah
ALIYAH Hebrew term for Jewish immigration to Palestine. The Hebrew word for "ascent," aliyah (also aliya ) is the term used in both religious tradition and secular Zionism to refer to Jewish immigration to Palestine. Within those ideological frameworks, emigration from Israel is called... Read more |
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National Council of Jewish Women
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN. The National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) was founded in 1893 as a result of the Jewish Women's Congress held at the Chicago World's Fair. Early leaders included Hannah G. Solomon, Rebekah Kohut, and Sadie American. The group... Read more |
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Jewish Colonization Association
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION Philanthropic organization (also known as the ICA and the PICA, or Palestine Jewish Colonization Association) founded in 1891. Baron Maurice de Hirsch founded the ICA to assist Jews in Europe and Asia to flee persecution and go to countries in the Western... Read more |
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Jewish Legion
JEWISH LEGION Four battalions of Jewish volunteers in the British army during World War I. On the urging of Russian Zionist Vladimir Ze Read more |
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