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Bratslav Hasidism
A controversial Hasidic school, focused on the personality and teachings of Naḥman ben Simḥah (1772–1810), and named after the Podolian town of Bratslav, where he resided from 1802 until the last few months of his life.
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Broda Family
Rabbinic family, originating in Bohemia, that settled in Galicia, Lithuania, and Hungary. The surname Broda (Braude, Broide, Braudo) indicates that the family’s origins were likely in the city of Brod, though the name co…
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B’nai B’rith (Israel)
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Central Committee of Jews in Poland
The most prominent official Jewish institution in Poland following the Holocaust, the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, CKŻP) attended to the needs of Jews from fall 1944 until 1950. …
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Chabad Lubawitsch Hamburg
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Commissariat for Jewish National Affairs
Established in January 1918, the Commissariat for Jewish National Affairs (Evreiskii Komissariat; EVKOM) was affiliated with the People’s Commissariat for Nationality Affairs (Narodnyi Komissariat po delam Natsionalnoste…
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Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Jews played a prominent role in the Communist Party from its inception: it came into being as the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party (RSDWP) in 1903, becoming the Russian Communist Party (of…
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Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm)
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Dehmelhaus Stiftung
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Demokratischer Verein Bremen
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Deutsches Reich. Geheime Staatspolizei. Staatspolizeileitstelle Hamburg
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Deutsches Reich. Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda
Das Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (RMVP) war im nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Reich für die inhaltliche Lenkung der Presse, der Literatur, der Bildenden Kunst, des Films, des Theaters, der Musi…
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Die Gartenlaube. Redaktion Leipzig
Die Gartenlaube war ein Vorläufer moderner Illustrierten und das erste große erfolgreiche deutsche Massenblatt. Sie erschien ab 1853 in Leipzig im Verlag Ernst Keil. Der erste Herausgeber war bis 1862 Ferdinand Stolle, d…
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Doctors’ Plot
Antisemitic campaign that unfolded in the Soviet Union between 1948 and 1953. The so-called Doctors’ Plot has historically been viewed as the culmination of the vicious antisemitic campaign undertaken by Stalin in the fi…
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Dzigan and Shumacher
Comedy team that performed in Yiddish theaters, cabarets, and films. Shimen (Szymon) Dzigan (1905–1980) and Yisroel Shumacher (or Szumacher; 1908–1961) were both born in Łódź. Dzigan was apprenticed as a teenager to a ta…
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Département des Bouches-de-l'Elbe
Departement Nr. 128 des ersten Französischen Kaiserreichs. Es entstand als eines von vier hanseatischen Departements am 1. Januar 1811 infolge der Annexion des Gebietes durch Frankreich und wurde nach dem Sieg der Alliie…
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Ecclesia Catholica. Congregatio Sancti Officii
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Einsatzgruppen
As operational units of the Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service; SD) and Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police; Sipo), the Einsatzgruppen (Action Squads) accompanied the German army during the Nazi conquests of Austria, Cz…
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Evangelische Landeskirche (Hamburg)
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Evsektsiia
Jewish section of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Socialists viewed nations as ephemeral creations of the capitalist order, and expected them to disappear with the advent of socialism. Vladimir Lenin pointed app…
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