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Death and the Dead
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There is a shared foundation in all of Jewish culture with respect to death, the primary and most influential principle of which concerns the impurity of the dead. From this belief derives the need to distance the dead f…
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Debts, Communal
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Jewish public bodies (communal and supracommunal councils) accumulated enormous debts running into hundreds of thousands of Polish zlotys in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and were unique to the Polish–Lithuani…
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Defining the Shtetl
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Demographic Structure
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Demons
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In East European Jewish culture, the demon—variously referred to as ruaḥ (spirit), mazik (evildoer), ḥitson (the external one), and shed (demonic spirit)—embodied forces of evil. Jews imagined demons as various sorts of …
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Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft
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Die »Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft e.V.« wurde 1966, ein Jahr nach Aufnahme der diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Israel, in Berlin gegründet. Die vorhergehenden Initiativen der »F…
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Dilemmas of Double Identity
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Dissemination of East European Cantorial Music
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Dissidence, Renewal, and Emigration in Late Soviet Jewish Writing
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Dogs
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The word dog is used as a derogatory term in numerous biblical texts (Ps. 22: 17; 59:7, 15). The Talmud poses numerous restrictions on owning dogs, including “keeping them on a chain” (Bava kama 7:7), and also not owning…
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Dress
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The determinants of Jewish attire, aside from those that affected everyone in the general society, included the requirements of halakhah, communal regulations, restrictions imposed by state and local authorities, and the…
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Dror
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The name of two different youth organizations, disconnected geographically, but related to each other ideologically and politically. The term dror means “freedom.” The Zionist Socialist Federation “Dror” originated in Ki…
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Early Cinema
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Early Haskalah
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Early History
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Early History
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Early Jewish Printing in Poland
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Early Modern Autobiographical Texts
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Early Modern Messianism
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Early Modern Period
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