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  • Easter is also linked to the Jewish Passover, especially for its position ... The observance of any non-Jewish holiday by Christians is believed ...
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  • Greenberg was one of the first Jewish superstars in American professional ... to play baseball on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, even though ...
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  • her choreographic innovations was "music visualization," a style ... a quota in order to reduce the number of Jewish students in its New York ...
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  • with establishing the first military music bands. While initially well ... soldiers, and marched to distinctive music, the Mehter, similar to a ...
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  • starting at sunset, a practice inherited from Jewish tradition ... (Nativity plays), special festive music for organ, vocal and brass ...
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  • The term medieval music encompasses European music written during ... The only medieval music which can be studied is that which was written ...
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  • century, though one can argue that his music was not as groundbreaking ... Goodman was born in Chicago, the ninth of 12 children of poor Jewish ...
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  • odd choice considering that her father was Jewish and her stepmother was Protestant ... dancing school, along with other sporadic music jobs. In 1914 she sold her ...
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  • the Maccabee). There was a prospering Jewish presence in Gaza until the ... geographic area, in an attempt to erase Jewish ties to the land. ...
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  • recreational drugs, tobacco, modern popular music, dancing, "mixed bathing ... Jewish fundamentalism is a phenomenon particularly in Israel, where ...
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  • job is to test humankind. However, in the Jewish apocrypha and rabbinical ... a few times. The idea took form in later Jewish writings, however, and was ...
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  • Of Jewish and Creole descent, Pissarro was father to a large family ... of City & Country. New York: Jewish Museum, 2007. ISBN 9780300124798 ...
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  • Members of Jewish Igbo believe that they are descendants of Jews who ... The Igbo have a rhythm of music which consists of drums , flute, Ogene ...
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  • had a lasting influence on later Jewish prophets as well as on Christian ... ::I will not listen to the music of your harps. ::But let justice roll ...
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  • #039;, used as a cover for attacking Jewish business, would not contravene ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Category:Image wanted ...
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  • entire postwar development of American folk music. He was a first-hand observer ... Guthrie's body of music consists of hundreds of songs, ballads ...
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  • and Baha'i followers. An old Jewish cemetery on Nevis proves ... 50, they dance while a live band plays music. Bells on their baggy, vivid ...
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  • Betty (Bellin), came from a family of Jewish immigrants from Spain, and ... mother placed Sassoon and his brother in a Jewish orphanage, where they stayed ...
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  • Planck was extremely gifted when it came to music: He took singing ... visitors. The tradition of jointly playing music had already been established ...
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  • )) was a Russian—Jewish existentialist writer and philosopher. He ... 31 (February 13), 1866, in Kiev into a Jewish family. He obtained an education ...
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