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Pigs
The prohibition to consume pork is perhaps the most familiar aspect of kashrut, the system of Jewish dietary laws, even though the pig is only one of a number of unclean animals mentioned in the Pentateuch. In Jewish mem…
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Pilgrimage
Throughout their history, East European Jews have participated in three types of pilgrimages: (1) pilgrimages to pray and petition at cemeteries in various localities of Eastern Europe; (2) pilgrimages by Hasidim to visi…
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Pilgrimage
Throughout their history, East European Jews have participated in three types of pilgrimages: (1) pilgrimages to pray and petition at cemeteries in various localities of Eastern Europe; (2) pilgrimages by Hasidim to visi…
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Pilpul in Eastern Europe
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Pilpul in Eastern Europe
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Pinczow
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Pinsker, Simḥah and Lev
Secular Jewish figures active in nineteenth-century Russia. Simḥah Pinsker (1801–1864) was an educator and translator of Karaite documents; his son Lev (often Yehudah Leib or Leon; 1821–1891) was a leader of the Ḥibat Ts…
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Pinsker, Simḥah and Lev
Secular Jewish figures active in nineteenth-century Russia. Simḥah Pinsker (1801–1864) was an educator and translator of Karaite documents; his son Lev (often Yehudah Leib or Leon; 1821–1891) was a leader of the Ḥibat Ts…
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Piotrków
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Pirnitz
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Piyyut
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Piza, Joseph de Mose
Rabbiner, Kantor, Journalist und Übersetzer, geb. 28.2.1824 Altona, gest. 26.9.1879 Hamburg. P. studierte in Göttingen und Heidelberg Philosophie und arbeitete später als Lehrer in Oldenburg. 1854 wurde er als Sprachlehr…
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Planning and Standardization of Yiddish (Language)
The planning of Yiddish, insofar as both formulation and implementation are concerned, has primarily come from nongovernmental sources (as is also the case with English, German, Italian, and many other languages), except…
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Planning and Standardization of Yiddish (Language)
The planning of Yiddish, insofar as both formulation and implementation are concerned, has primarily come from nongovernmental sources (as is also the case with English, German, Italian, and many other languages), except…
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Plaut, Max
Jurist, Ökonom und Gemeindeführer, geb. 17.10.1901 Sohrau (Oberschlesien), gest. 8.3.1974 Hamburg. P.s Eltern verließen Oberschlesien 1919, als in den von Polen beanspruchten Gebieten Unruhen ausbrachen. P. hingegen schl…
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Play
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Poems
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Poems for special occasions
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Pogroms
In general usage, a pogrom is an outbreak of mass violence directed against a minority religious, ethnic, or social group; it usually implies central instigation and control, or at minimum the passivity of local authorit…
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Pogroms
In general usage, a pogrom is an outbreak of mass violence directed against a minority religious, ethnic, or social group; it usually implies central instigation and control, or at minimum the passivity of local authorit…
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