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- The Book of Esther is a book of the Hebrew Bible and of the Christian ... The Book of Esther is set in the third year of Ahasuerus, a king of ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- work on Halakhah (Jewish law). He was also a key leader of the Jewish community ... Born to a Spanish Jewish family, Karo and his parents were forced ...13 KB (2,057 words) - 21:32, 4 June 2023
- the first group of Jews, numbering 42,360, who returned from the Babylonian ... Judah for more than two decades. It was he who laid the foundation of the ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:52, 13 June 2023
- was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, who is sometimes confused with ... Jude the apostle is widely viewed as a saint by different branches ...13 KB (2,095 words) - 08:48, 12 May 2024
- It is characterized by a liberal attitude toward the Jewish law and ... as obsolete. In North America, this led to a split between the denominations ...19 KB (2,867 words) - 03:01, 8 December 2022
- The Epistle to the Galatians is a book of the New Testament. It is ... extreme dismay at those among the Galatians who had accepted this teaching ...16 KB (2,432 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- father and son and the consequent search for a mentor, and the struggle to ... (d. 1985), Jewish immigrants from Poland who were Hasidic. His father was ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- extant use in Natural History Pliny) is "an object that protects ... Closely related to the amulet is the talisman (from Arabic tilasm; ...13 KB (2,101 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976) was ... As a student, he met Niels Bohr in Göttingen in 1922. A fruitful ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:14, 4 May 2023
- Described as a 'scrap of paper' that changed history, the ... declaration regarding the establishment of a homeland for the Jews while ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 05:52, 26 August 2023
- , born Stanisław Władysław Rejment, was a Polish author. He won the Nobel ... any trouble for having published in Galicia a work not allowed under the ...13 KB (2,005 words) - 23:19, 17 May 2023
- August 1, 1626 – c. September 17, 1676) was a rabbi and Kabbalist who claimed ... studies at an early age and soon developed a strong mystical and ascetic ...24 KB (3,736 words) - 10:16, 26 January 2023
- also Hebrew Christians or Christian Jews) is a term which can have two meanings ... brunt of persecution from their fellow Jews, who rejected Jesus' messiahship ...32 KB (4,998 words) - 08:45, 3 April 2024
- The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Roman ... The story revolves around Judith, a daring and beautiful widow. During ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- in Ceneda (now Vittorio Veneto). Appointed a professor at what is now Columbia ... Conegliano was a Jew by birth. When he, his father, and siblings converted ...14 KB (2,015 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- ) (November 28, 1829 – November 20, 1894) was a Russian pianist ... to Russia in 1848 where he worked as a musician to the sister-in-law ...7 KB (986 words) - 06:51, 31 July 2023
- the earliest Hellenistic Jewish philosophers who attempted to reconcile the ... and Eusebius. Written in the form of a dialogue addressed to the king ...7 KB (1,086 words) - 06:27, 12 August 2023
- or Shabbes in Ashkenazic pronunciation), is the weekly day of rest in Judaism ... gradually replaced Saturday with Sunday as a day of special worship and ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
- Writers in the UK. accessdate 2008-03-26 ), is an influential ... A polyglot and polymath, he is often credited with redefining the ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 14:58, 21 May 2024
- יהודה הלוי) (c. 1075-1141 C.E.) was a Jewish Spanish philosopher ... Judah Ha-Levi is regarded as one of the greatest Hebrew poets. More ...27 KB (4,480 words) - 20:50, 4 October 2022
