Graph search
826 entity pages
Reform, Religious
The movement for religious reform in modern Judaism began in Central Europe around the beginning of the nineteenth century as a response to the confrontation between traditional Jewish thought and practices and the value…
ep
Refugees and Emigrants
ep
Refuseniks
A term referring to Jews who as of the early 1970s applied to leave the Soviet Union for Israel and were refused permission to emigrate. Often remaining refused for long periods—in some cases, nearly 20 years—the Jewish …
ep
Regional Councils
ep
Regional Judicial Institutions
ep
Reizes Brothers
(also Reizeles; Raices; and Ickowicz), rabbis and martyrs. Ḥayim ben Yitsḥak Reizes (1687–1728), a wealthy and educated man who knew Latin, served as a rabbi in Kamionka and a rabbinic judge in Lwów, and was a delegate t…
ep
Relations with Society and the State
ep
Relations with the Central Powers
ep
Relations with the Romanian Population
ep
Religion
ep
Religious Identity
ep
Religious Year
The rhythm of Jewish life in Eastern Europe was governed substantially by the Jewish calendar, although the calendar of the majority culture impinged on Jewish lives as well. Merchants’ calendars published in Hebrew in t…
ep
Renaşterea Noastră
Weekly publication issued in Bucharest by its editor, Samu (Samuel I.) Stern. The first issue was published on 14 September 1924, under the title Renaşterea (Renaissance); its goal was to promote the ideology of a litera…
ep
Resources for Genealogical Research
ep
Revista Cultului Mozaic din R.P.R.
Romanian trilingual journal. Revista cultului mozaic din R.P.R. (Periodical of the Mosaic Religion in the Romanian People’s Republic) was started as an irregular monthly on 19 October 1956 and was published twice a month…
ep
Revolution, Civil War, and Pogroms
ep
Revolutionary Activity and Terrorism
ep
Richard Simon
ep
Richard Weiner
ep
Riddles
Riddles have been described (by the American folklorist Roger Abrahams) as a traditional form of licensed aggression, since the aim of the riddler is to confuse the listener by giving hints that point to the right answer…
ep