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Righteous Gentiles
Title bestowed by Yad Vashem (the Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority) on certain gentiles who rescued Jews in opposition to Nazi efforts to annihilate them. The distinction is granted according to stringent criteria…
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Rise of the Family
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Ritual Requirements and Customary Practices
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Robinow, Familie
In der Geschichte der Hamburger Kaufmannsfamilie R. spiegeln sich beispielhaft zwei historische Entwicklungen im 19. Jahrhundert, die für viele deutsche Juden prägend waren: Ein erfolgreicher sozioökonomischer Aufstieg i…
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Romanian Jews after World War I
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Romanian State Yiddish Theater
Established in Bucharest on 1 August 1948, the first Romanian State Yiddish Theater was located on the premises of the Baraşeum Theater in the Jewish quarter of Bucharest, where Jewish actors had given Romanian-language …
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Romm Family
Family of printers and publishers in Vilna. The Romm family’s printing house, the largest in Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century, operated continuously for more than 120 years. In the central period of its activity,…
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Ropshits-Dzikov Hasidic Dynasty
Hasidic dynasty founded by Naftali Tsevi Horowitz of Ropshits (1760–1827), a leader of Hasidism in Galicia. Naftali Tsevi was a student of Menaḥem Mendel of Rimanov (1745–1815) and, to a lesser extent, of Ya‘akov Yitsḥak…
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Rosenthal Family
Leading maskilim and shtadlanim (political leaders) of Hungarian Jewry. Naftali Rosenthal (Naftali Mohr; 1727–1798) was, after Koppel Theben, the most important lay national figure of eighteenth-century Hungarian Jewry. …
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Rostow am Don
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Royte Velt, Di
Yiddish journal published in Kharkov between 1924 and 1933. Di royte velt (The Red World) was established at the initiative of Moisei Ravich-Cherkasskii, head of the press department of the Ukrainian Communist Party’s Ce…
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Rudolf Christiani
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Russia
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Russia
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Russian Civil War
With the retreat of the German occupying forces at the end of World War I in November 1918, much of the former Russian Empire was plunged into the chaos of another war as several forces sought to consolidate control over…
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Russian Criticism and Scholarship (Literary Criticism and Scholarship)
One of the salient features of modern literary criticism is the proliferation of schools, approaches, and methodologies. In his cross-cultural survey made in 1961, the eminent scholar of comparative literature René Welle…
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Russian Government Initiatives
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Russian Jewish Writing from the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century
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Russian Literature
Like secular Jewish literature, Russian literature invented itself relatively late. The eighteenth-century aristocrats who sought to create a national literature in Russian faced language problems (they spoke, by prefere…
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Russian Revolution of 1905
During the Revolution of 1905, or, more accurately, 1904–1907, sizable sectors of the Jewish community in the Russian Empire entered the arena of national politics. The upheaval began in the fall of 1904, when public opi…
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