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Agriculture
From their earliest days, a small proportion of East European Jews engaged in agriculture. Jews began to penetrate the region’s agricultural economy in the late sixteenth century. In particular, many Jews leased the grea…
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Agudas Akhim
(Association of Brothers; Pol., Przymierze Braci), cultural and social organization. Founded in Lemberg (Lwów) in 1882, Agudas Akhim aimed to sever the traditional connection of Galician Jewry to German language and cult…
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Akiva
General Zionist youth movement. Akiva’s beginnings, and its main followers, were in western Galicia and Silesia. Its origins can be traced to a Zionist youth group formed in Kraków in 1901. Members of that group founded …
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Alfred Wiener
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Amulets and Talismans
Items generally worn around the neck or on the wrist, meant to protect or aid those who carried or wore them. The Hebrew word for amulet, kame‘a, is evidently connected to the notion of tying or binding. Jewish amulets a…
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Amulettenstreit
Der Privatgelehrte Jakob Emden, Sohn des Altonaer Oberrabbiners Zwi Aschkenasi, bezichtigte im Februar 1751 den neuen Oberrabbiner Jonathan Eibeschütz der Ketzerei.Zum Beweis führte er ein angebliches Manuskript Eibeschü…
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An-ski Ethnographic Expedition and Museum
From 1912 to 1914, S. An-ski (Shloyme Zaynvl Rapoport) headed ethnographic expeditions to the Pale of Jewish Settlement. After a limited display of the expeditionary collection in 1914, it was exhibited at the Jewish Mus…
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Angels
Jewish tradition considers angels to be messengers of God, but holds that they must not be substituted for God. Isaiah 63:9 speaks of the angel of God’s divine countenance—an important designation in Jewish mysticism tha…
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Anticosmopolitan Campaign
Euphemism for the victimization of the Jewish intelligentsia in the late Stalin years. The anticosmopolitan campaign did not commence as an anti-Jewish offensive, but rather as a concomitant of the policy of promoting “S…
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Antisemitic Parties and Movements
Political groups seeking to limit the role of Jews in Central and East European states and societies emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century against the background of economic crisis, ethnic and political te…
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Antisemitism
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APPENDIX 1: SELECTED PRINT RESOURCES
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APPENDIX 2: SELECTED WEB RESOURCES
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APPENDIX: CANTORS
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APPENDIX: CZECH WRITERS
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APPENDIX: HEBREW WRITERS
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APPENDIX: HUNGARIAN WRITERS
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APPENDIX: JEWISH FILM PERSONALITIES
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APPENDIX: JEWISH ROMANIAN WRITERS
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APPENDIX: PROMINENT JEWISH CHESS PLAYERS
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