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About this Article (Lublin)
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To treat the history of Jewish settlement in Lublin, this entry is divided into two articles, the first on the pre-Partition period and the second on the post-Partition period until the present.
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About this Article (Music)
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To survey the traditional music of East European Jews along with the participation of Jews in majority musical culture, this entry includes six articles. The overview defines genres and provides historical context. Music…
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About this Article (Poetry)
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This entry includes articles on poetry in Hebrew and Yiddish, respectively. For further discussion of works in those languages, see Hebrew Literature; and Yiddish Literature. For works by Jews in other languages, see Bel…
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About this Article (Poland)
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To treat the history of Jewish presence in the Polish lands, this entry includes three chronologically arranged articles. The first covers early history through the third Polish partition in 1795; the second covers the p…
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About this Article (Population and Migration)
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To treat the demography of the Jewish population of Eastern Europe—its size, its movement within the region, and migration from it—this entry includes three articles. The principal division is chronological, using World …
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About this Article (Printing and Publishing)
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To survey the history of Jewish publishing activity in Eastern Europe, this entry is divided chronologically into two articles, the first covering the period up to 1800 and the second from 1800 until 2000. For further di…
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About this Article (Prose)
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This entry includes articles on fiction writing and the development of the novel in Hebrew and Yiddish, respectively. For further discussion of works in those languages, see Hebrew Literature; and Yiddish Literature. For…
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About this Article (Rabbinate)
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To survey the history of the rabbinate in Eastern Europe, this entry is divided chronologically into two articles, the first covering the period up to 1800 and the second from 1800 until 2000. For religious and scholarly…
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About this Article (Rabbinic Literature)
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To survey religious and scholarly writings by East European rabbis, this entry is divided chronologically into two articles, the first covering the period up to 1800 and the second from 1800 until 2000. For the role of t…
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About this Article (Relations between Jews and Non-Jews)
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To treat the subject of the interaction between Jews and the majority populations of the areas of Eastern Europe in which they lived, this entry includes two articles. The first provides a historical overview, analyzing …
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About this Article (Russia)
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To treat the history of Jewish settlement and cultural and political activity in Russia, this entry includes three chronologically arranged articles. Russian Empire covers the period from 1772, when the first partition o…
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About this Article (Sport)
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To treat Jewish participation in sporting activities, this entry includes two articles. The first surveys the topic with attention to the relationship between Jewish sporting clubs and political organizations and youth m…
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About this Article (Talk)
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To treat the many types of talk characteristic of Jews of Eastern Europe, this entry begins with a general overview, which discusses speech in relation to the multilinguism of East European Jewish culture, followed by fo…
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About this Article (Theater)
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This entry surveys the history of East European Jewish theater, including the emergence of a Jewish theater audience; the rise of professional Jewish theater in Yiddish, Hebrew, and non-Jewish languages; Jewish theater’s…
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About this Article (Yeshiva)
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This entry is divided into two articles, one treating the yeshiva in the period before 1800 and the other covering the following two centuries. The first article focuses on Poland, the location of the most significant ye…
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About this Article (Yiddish Literature)
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To survey the development of Yiddish literature in Eastern Europe from earliest times until the present, this entry comprises two articles. The first treats early (“Old Yiddish”) literature; the second treats Yiddish lit…
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Abramovich, Rafail
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(1880–1963), revolutionary and publicist. Born in Dünaburg (Dvinsk; mod. Daugavpils, Latvia), Rafail Abramovich (originally surnamed Rein) studied in a modern (nonclassical) secondary school and later at Riga Polytechnic…
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Abramovitsh, Sholem Yankev
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(Mendele Moykher-Sforim; 1835–1917), Hebrew and Yiddish writer. Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh is acknowledged, almost universally, as the founder of modern artistic prose in Hebrew and Yiddish. Born to a middle-class family …
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Acculturation
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Acsády, Ignác
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(1845–1906), historian, journalist, and fiction writer. Ignác Acsády (Adler until 1875) was born in Nagykároly, Hungary, the oldest son of a wealthy landowner. Acsády’s father served as head of the Jewish community of Ha…
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