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Hamburger Gesellschaft für jüdische Genealogie
In den letzten Jahrzehnten des 19. Jahrhunderts fand die Beschäftigung mit der Ahnenforschung (Genealogie) in jüdischen Familien Deutschlands wachsendes Interesse. Ein organisatorischer Zusammenschluss jüdischer Genealog…
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Hans Maier (Politiker)
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Hans Rost
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Hardship and Relief
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Haskalah and Jewish Nationalism
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Haskalah in Galicia
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Haskalah in Russia
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Hayoets
Yiddish social and political newspaper published in Romania from 12 June 1874 until 5 January 1913. In 1882, its editors concluded an agreement with the Bucharest representatives of the Central Committee for the Coloniza…
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He-Ḥaluts and Youth Movements
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He-Ḥaluts in Russia
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Health and Healing
The approach of the East European Jewish population to health care made no distinction between what would now be considered “scientific” medicine and “folk” medicine. This openness to combining folk remedies and magical …
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Health Care Facilities
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Health Care Personnel
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Hebrew (Language)
Hebrew in Eastern Europe (traditionally called in Hebrew and Yiddish loshn koydesh, “the holy tongue,” or by modernizers loshn ivri, sefas ever, or ivris) was never strictly speaking a vernacular, though Jews lacking a s…
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Hebrew Criticism and Scholarship (Literary Criticism and Scholarship)
The stirrings of Hebrew literature in Galicia and Lithuania in the first half of the nineteenth century were accompanied by early critical appraisals. In the periodicals Bikure ha-‘itim (The First Fruits of the Times; 18…
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Hebrew Literary Journals (Literary Journals)
The first Hebrew literary journals appeared in Galicia just when a literary center in that language began to flourish there in the early nineteenth century. The earliest examples were annuals or single publications of li…
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Hebrew Literature
The tradition of Hebrew belles lettres in Eastern Europe began with anti-Hasidic satires by Galician maskilim in the 1820s and ended with desperate attempts to preserve the remnants of Hebrew literary activity in Poland …
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Hebrew Literature (Children’s Literature)
Children’s literature began to take form in Hebrew at the end of the eighteenth century, following the Haskalah (Enlightenment) movement in Western Europe. Books and stories for young readers in that language then became…
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Hebrew Poetry (Poetry)
Hebrew poetry in Eastern Europe emerged in a direct line from works written at the end of the eighteenth century in German Haskalah centers where Hebrew literature had first taken form. Naftali Herts Wessely, the most pr…
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Hebrew Prose (Prose)
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, shortly after the focal point of maskilic literature had shifted from Central to Eastern Europe, modern Hebrew fiction was invented in Galicia. This unprecedented event sprang …
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