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Birth and Birthing
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The birth of a child in the premodern period was accompanied by many fears, anxiety, and a sense of powerlessness. There were many possible dangers for both the mother and the baby. In traditional Jewish life, these dang…
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Black Book
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Account of Nazi atrocities against Jews in the Soviet Union. The first plenary session of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) in May 1942 set up a subcommittee to collect material on Nazi crimes against the Jewish po…
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Black Book
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Account of Nazi atrocities against Jews in the Soviet Union. The first plenary session of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) in May 1942 set up a subcommittee to collect material on Nazi crimes against the Jewish po…
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Bleicherode
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Blessings
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Blessings, Curses, and Other Expressions (Talk)
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As psycho-ostensive expressions that are highly characteristic formulaic utterances in Yiddish, blessings and curses are typically inserted parenthetically into longer statements and purport to reflect the speaker’s emot…
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Blessings, Curses, and Other Expressions (Talk)
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As psycho-ostensive expressions that are highly characteristic formulaic utterances in Yiddish, blessings and curses are typically inserted parenthetically into longer statements and purport to reflect the speaker’s emot…
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Block, Fritz
Subject, Person · 1889-01-13–1955-01-23 · Architekt, Fotograf · Warburg (Westfalen) · entity page
Architekt, Fotograf, geb. 13.1.1889 Warburg (Westfalen), gest. 23.1.1955 Los Angeles. B. gehörte in den zwanziger Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts zu den führenden Vertretern des Neuen Bauens in Hamburg. Ab 1908 studierte B. …
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Blood Libels and Host Desecration Accusations
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The blood libel was an accusation of Jewish “ritual murder,” which held that Jews kidnapped and murdered innocent Christians (particularly young boys) in order to make use of the blood of their victims for purposes of Je…
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Blood Libels and Host Desecration Accusations
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The blood libel was an accusation of Jewish “ritual murder,” which held that Jews kidnapped and murdered innocent Christians (particularly young boys) in order to make use of the blood of their victims for purposes of Je…
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Bohemia and Moravia
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Bohemia and Moravia
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Bohemia and Moravia
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The lands of the Bohemian crown (also referred to as Bohemian lands or Czech lands) comprised the geographic regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia (after 1742, only the part of Silesia that remained part of the Habsbu…
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Bohemia and Moravia
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The lands of the Bohemian crown (also referred to as Bohemian lands or Czech lands) comprised the geographic regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia (after 1742, only the part of Silesia that remained part of the Habsbu…
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Bohemia and Moravia
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Bohemia and Moravia
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Bonn
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book
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Book Design and Illustration
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The tradition of design and illustration in East European Hebrew and Yiddish printing is connected to the history of itinerant families of printers who wandered in Central and Eastern Europe, transporting their typograph…
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Book Design and Illustration
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The tradition of design and illustration in East European Hebrew and Yiddish printing is connected to the history of itinerant families of printers who wandered in Central and Eastern Europe, transporting their typograph…
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