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Early Settlement
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Early Soviet Period
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East European Cantorial Music in the United States
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East Slavic Texts
Two groups of literary works were translated from Hebrew into East Slavic in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The first group, earlier and shorter than the other, consists mainly of historical accounts integrated …
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Eating Out
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Economic Life
The economic opportunities open to Jews of Eastern Europe over their history were limited by non-Jewish society—largely through legislation. Thus, in order to understand Jewish economic life, it is important to have a cl…
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Economic Trials
Cases mounted in the first half of the 1960s in the Soviet Union involving a disproportionately high number of Jewish defendants. The nature of the Soviet regime—in which state ownership of all capital was a basic ingred…
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Eduard Schweizer
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Egalitatea
Weekly publication issued in Bucharest from 1890 to 1916, and again from 1919 to 1940. The longest-enduring Jewish periodical in Romania, Egalitatea (Equality) started out as an emancipationist newspaper, “dedicated excl…
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Ehrenstamm Family
Leaders in the textile industry of Moravia. The Ehrenstamm family came to prominence in the early nineteenth century. Its head was Veit Ehrenstamm (1760–1827), son of Salomon Jakob Kolin, a minor Jewish merchant from Pro…
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Elsewhere in Eastern Europe
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Emanzipation
Der Begriff E. wird als Epochenbezeichnung für eine etwa 100 Jahre dauernde Auseinandersetzung um die bürgerliche und politische Gleichberechtigung der Juden verwendet. Diese Epoche begann mit der Aufklärung und endete m…
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Enlightened Absolutism, Cultural Reform, and Emancipation
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Entertainers
While itinerant entertainers of all kinds were a part of European culture in general, and even though they are poorly documented, a bare outline of this phenomenon among East European Jews can be sketched. Among the earl…
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Epstein Family
Bankers and industrialists in Warsaw. Jakub Epstein (1771–1843) was a merchant, Polish army officer, and Freemason. His sons Josef (1795–1876), Adam (1799–1870), Jan (1805–1885), and Herman (1806–1867) all played leading…
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Erich Brauer
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Erik Aurelius
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Ernst Elster
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Ernst Frey
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Erwin Reisner
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