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Abraham
Abraham (Arabic: إبراهيم Ibrahim), originally Abram, is the common patriarch of the three Abrahamic religions.
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Adler
Adler is a surname of German origin meaning eagle, and has a frequency in the United Kingdom of less than 0.004%, and of 0.008% in the United States.
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Alexander Beider
Alexander Beider is the author of reference books in the field of Jewish onomastics and the linguistic history of Yiddish.
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Alfandari
Alfandari was a family of eastern rabbis prominent in the 17th and 18th centuries, found in Smyrna, Constantinople, and Jerusalem.
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Alhambra Decree
The Alhambra Decree (also known as the Edict of Expulsion; Spanish: Decreto de la Alhambra, Edicto de Granada) was an edict issued on 31 March 1492, by the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain (Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon) ordering the expulsion of practicing Jews from the Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon and its territories and possessions by 31 July of that year.
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Aliyah
Aliyah (עֲלִיָּה aliyah, "ascent") is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel in Hebrew).
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Almeida
Almeida may refer to.
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Alsace
Alsace (Alsatian: ’s Elsass; German: Elsass; Alsatia) is a cultural and historical region in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland.
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Altschul
Altschul or Altshul is a Jewish surname of Ashkenazi origin.
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Altschuler
Altschuler, Altshuler, Altschuller, Altshuller, Altschueler, Altshueler, or Alschuler is a Jewish surname of Ashkenazi origin.
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Amiot
Amiot may refer to:; People.
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Antonio Rizzolo
Antonio Rizzolo (born 22 April 1969) is an Italian football manager and former professional player.
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Aramaic language
Aramaic (אַרָמָיָא Arāmāyā, ܐܪܡܝܐ, آرامية) is a language or group of languages belonging to the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic language family.
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Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or simply Ashkenazim (אַשְׁכְּנַזִּים, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation:, singular:, Modern Hebrew:; also), are a Jewish diaspora population who coalesced in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium.
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Asturias
Asturias (Asturies; Asturias), officially the Principality of Asturias (Principado de Asturias; Principáu d'Asturies), is an autonomous community in north-west Spain.
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Auerbach
Auerbach, German for "meadow brook", may refer to the following.
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Avotaynu (magazine)
Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy is a magazine that focuses on Jewish genealogy and family history published by Avotaynu Inc.
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Balearic dialect
Balearic (balear) is the collective name for the dialects of Catalan spoken in the Balearic Islands: mallorquí in Majorca, eivissenc in Ibiza, and menorquí in Menorca.
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Banks (surname)
Banks is a surname.
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Barcelona
Barcelona is a city in Spain.
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Barron
Barron may refer to.
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Béjar
Béjar is a town and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León.
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Behar
Behar, BeHar, Be-har, or B'har (— Hebrew for "on the mount," the fifth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 32nd weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ninth in the Book of Leviticus.
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Bene Israel
The Bene Israel ("Sons of Israel"), formerly known in India as the "Shanivar Teli" caste (Saturday Oil Presser caste) and later as the "Native Jew Caste", are a historic community of Jews in India.
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Benjamin
Benjamin was the last-born of Jacob's thirteen children (12 sons and 1 daughter), and the second and last son of Rachel in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition.
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Bergenfield, New Jersey
Bergenfield is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.
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Berliner
Berliner is most often used to designate a citizen of Berlin, Germany, but may also refer to.
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Berlinsky
Berlinsky is a surname.
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Bingen am Rhein
Bingen am Rhein is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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Birnbaum
Birnbaum ("pear tree") may refer to.
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Bischoffsheim
Bischoffsheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
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Cantarini
Cantarini is an Italian surname.
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Cantor
A cantor is a person who leads people in singing, or sometimes in prayer.
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Carballo (name)
Carballo is originally a (Spanish, Galician, Catalan and Basque), surname.
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Carvajal
Carvajal (also spelled Carbajal) is a surname and place name of Spanish origin.
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Castro (surname)
Castro is a Romance (Italian, Portuguese and Spanish-Galician) surname coming from Latin castrum, a fortification.
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Cavalry (1936 Italian film)
Cavalry (Italian:Cavalleria) is a 1936 Italian drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Elisa Cegani and Luigi Carini.
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Chait
Chait, also transliterated as Khait, is a Jewish family name, from חייט, Tailor.
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (before 31 October 145120 May 1506) was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer.
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Circumcision
Male circumcision is the removal of the foreskin from the human penis.
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Cohen (surname)
Cohen (כֹּהֵן, kōhēn, "priest") is a Jewish surname of biblical origins (see: Kohen).
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Common ostrich
The ostrich or common ostrich (Struthio camelus) is either of two species of large flightless birds native to Africa, the only living member(s) of the genus Struthio, which is in the ratite family.
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Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna (Wiener Kongress) also called Vienna Congress, was a meeting of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich, and held in Vienna from November 1814 to June 1815, though the delegates had arrived and were already negotiating by late September 1814.
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Converso
A converso (feminine form conversa), "a convert", (from Latin, "converted, turned around") was a Jew who converted to Roman Catholicism in Spain or Portugal, particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries, or one of their descendants.
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Crescas
Crescas (קרשקש) is a Judaeo-Catalan family name, prominent in the former Crown of Aragon.
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Crypto-Judaism
Crypto-Judaism is the secret adherence to Judaism while publicly professing to be of another faith; practitioners are referred to as "crypto-Jews" (origin from Greek kryptos – κρυπτός, 'hidden').
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Cultural assimilation
Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble those of a dominant group.
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David
David is described in the Hebrew Bible as the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah.
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David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion (דָּוִד בֶּן-גּוּרִיּוֹן;, born David Grün; 16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973) was the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first Prime Minister of Israel.
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David Cassel
David Cassel (7 March 1818 – 22 January 1893) was a German historian and Jewish theologian.
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Deutsch (surname)
Deutsch is a surname, meaning German in German.
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Dresden
Dresden (Upper and Lower Sorbian: Drježdźany, Drážďany, Drezno) is the capital city and, after Leipzig, the second-largest city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany.
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Dreyfus
Dreyfus may refer to.
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Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of the European continent.
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Ejidatarios de Bonfil
Club Deportivo Ejidatarios de Bonfil is a Mexican football club that plays in the Tercera División de México.
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Elhanan
Elhanan may refer to.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Espinosa (surname)
Espinosa or Espinoza is a Spanish and Portuguese surname.
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Franco (name)
Franco is a common surname (also as a first name) in Italian, in Portuguese and in Spanish which derives from the word "Frank" (itself a diminutive of the name Francis), in reference to the Germanic tribe of the Franks, who invaded Gaul during the Migration Period.
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Frank (surname)
Frank is a German surname.
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Frankel
Frankel is the surname of.
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Frankfurt
Frankfurt, officially the City of Frankfurt am Main ("Frankfurt on the Main"), is a metropolis and the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany.
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Frankfurter Judengasse
The Frankfurter Judengasse (from German: “Jews' Alley”) was the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt and one of the earliest ghettos in Germany.
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Fulda
Fulda (historically in English called Fuld) is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district (Kreis).
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Galante
Galante is a surname.
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Gans (surname)
Gans is a Dutch and German noun meaning "goose".
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Ganz Works
The Ganz Works or Ganz (or Ganz Művek, Ganz enterprises or Ganz companies) was a group of companies operating between 1845 and 1949 in Budapest, Hungary.
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Genoa
Genoa (Genova,; Zêna; English, historically, and Genua) is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy.
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Genovese
Genovese is an Italian surname meaning, properly, someone from Genoa.
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Gerber
Gerber may refer to.
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German name
Personal names in German-speaking Europe consist of one or several given names (Vorname, plural Vornamen) and a surname (Nachname, Familienname).
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Given name
A given name (also known as a first name, forename or Christian name) is a part of a person's personal name.
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Golda Meir
Golda Meir (גּוֹלְדָּה מֵאִיר;, born Golda Mabovitch, May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was an Israeli teacher, kibbutznik, stateswoman, politician and the fourth Prime Minister of Israel.
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Goldberg
Goldberg or Goldberger may refer to.
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Goose
Geese are waterfowl of the family Anatidae.
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Gordon (surname)
Gordon is a surname with numerous origins.
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Grünberg
Grünberg or Gruenberg (German for green mountain) may refer to.
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Greenberg
Greenberg is a surname common in North America, with anglicized spelling of the German Grünberg (green mountain) or the Jewish Ashkenazi Yiddish Grinberg, an artificial surname.
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Grodno
Grodno or Hrodna (Гродна, Hrodna; ˈɡrodnə, see also other names) is a city in western Belarus.
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Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian late-Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.
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Haim
Chayyim (חַיִּים, Classical Hebrew:, Israeli Hebrew), also transcribed Haim, Hayim, Chayim, or Chaim (English pronunciations), is a name of Hebrew origin which means "life".
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Halakha
Halakha (הֲלָכָה,; also transliterated as halacha, halakhah, halachah or halocho) is the collective body of Jewish religious laws derived from the Written and Oral Torah.
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Hamburg
Hamburg (locally), Hamborg, officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),Constitution of Hamburg), is the second-largest city of Germany as well as one of the country's 16 constituent states, with a population of roughly 1.8 million people. The city lies at the core of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region which spreads across four German federal states and is home to more than five million people. The official name reflects Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, a city-state and one of the 16 states of Germany. Before the 1871 Unification of Germany, it was a fully sovereign state. Prior to the constitutional changes in 1919 it formed a civic republic headed constitutionally by a class of hereditary grand burghers or Hanseaten. The city has repeatedly been beset by disasters such as the Great Fire of Hamburg, exceptional coastal flooding and military conflicts including World War II bombing raids. Historians remark that the city has managed to recover and emerge wealthier after each catastrophe. Situated on the river Elbe, Hamburg is home to Europe's second-largest port and a broad corporate base. In media, the major regional broadcasting firm NDR, the printing and publishing firm italic and the newspapers italic and italic are based in the city. Hamburg remains an important financial center, the seat of Germany's oldest stock exchange and the world's oldest merchant bank, Berenberg Bank. Media, commercial, logistical, and industrial firms with significant locations in the city include multinationals Airbus, italic, italic, italic, and Unilever. The city is a forum for and has specialists in world economics and international law with such consular and diplomatic missions as the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the EU-LAC Foundation, and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning. In recent years, the city has played host to multipartite international political conferences and summits such as Europe and China and the G20. Former German Chancellor italic, who governed Germany for eight years, and Angela Merkel, German chancellor since 2005, come from Hamburg. The city is a major international and domestic tourist destination. It ranked 18th in the world for livability in 2016. The Speicherstadt and Kontorhausviertel were declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO in 2015. Hamburg is a major European science, research, and education hub, with several universities and institutions. Among its most notable cultural venues are the italic and italic concert halls. It gave birth to movements like Hamburger Schule and paved the way for bands including The Beatles. Hamburg is also known for several theatres and a variety of musical shows. St. Pauli's italic is among the best-known European entertainment districts.
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Hassan (surname)
Hassan (also spelled Hasan, Hassane, Hassen, Hasson, Hassin, Hassine, Hacen, Hasen, Hasin, Hass, Hassa, Hasa, Hess, Cassin, Chassan, Chasan, Chasson, Chason, Khassan, Khasan, Cassan, Casan, Hazan, Hasso, Hassanein, Hasnen, Hassani, Hasani, Alhassan, Al-Hassan, Lassana, Alassane, Lacen, Lasanah, Assan, Asan, Asanov/Asanova, Hasanov/Hasanova, Khasanov/Khasanova, Hasanoff, Jasanoff, Hasanović, Hasanovic, Asanović, Hasanovich, Hasanovski/Hasanovska, Asanovski/Asanovska, O'Hassan, Haasan, or Hasaan) is an Arabic, Irish, Scottish, or Hebrew surname.
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Hazzan
A hazzan or chazzan (חַזָּן, plural; Yiddish khazn; Ladino hassan) is a Jewish musician or precentor trained in the vocal arts who helps lead the congregation in songful prayer.
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Hebraization of surnames
The Hebraization of surnames (also Hebraicization) (עברות, Ivrut, "Hebraization") is the act of adopting a Hebrew surname in exchange for their diaspora names.
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Hebrew language
No description.
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Hebrew name
Hebrew names are names that have a Hebrew language origin, classically from the Hebrew Bible.
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Heinrich Guggenheimer
Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer (born 21 July 1924) is a German-born American mathematician who has contributed to knowledge in differential geometry, topology, algebraic geometry, and convexity.
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Hildesheim
Hildesheim (Eastphalian: Hilmessen) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany with 103,804 inhabitants.
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Hildesheimer
Hildesheimer is a German surname.
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Hindu
Hindu refers to any person who regards themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of Hinduism.
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Holy Roman Emperor
The Holy Roman Emperor (historically Romanorum Imperator, "Emperor of the Romans") was the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire (800-1806 AD, from Charlemagne to Francis II).
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Hyatt
Hyatt Hotels Corporation is an American multinational hospitality company that manages and franchises of luxury hotels, resorts, and vacation properties.
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Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula, also known as Iberia, is located in the southwest corner of Europe.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.
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Jacob
Jacob, later given the name Israel, is regarded as a Patriarch of the Israelites.
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Jason Shoemark
Jason Shoemark (born 5 February 1981 in Whangarei, New Zealand) is a professional rugby union player who serves as a centre for the Hawke’s Bay in the ITM Cup.
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Jessica Voorsanger
Jessica Voorsanger (born 1965) is an American artist and academic, living and working in London.
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Jewish diaspora
The Jewish diaspora (Hebrew: Tfutza, תְּפוּצָה) or exile (Hebrew: Galut, גָּלוּת; Yiddish: Golus) is the dispersion of Israelites, Judahites and later Jews out of their ancestral homeland (the Land of Israel) and their subsequent settlement in other parts of the globe.
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Jewish emancipation
Jewish emancipation was the external (and internal) process in various nations in Europe of eliminating Jewish disabilities, e.g. Jewish quotas, to which Jewish people were then subject, and the recognition of Jews as entitled to equality and citizenship rights on a communal, not merely individual, basis.
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Jewish Encyclopedia
The Jewish Encyclopedia is an English encyclopedia containing over 15,000 articles on the history, culture, and state of Judaism and the Jews up to the early 20th century.
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Jewish name
The Jewish name has historically varied, encompassing throughout the centuries several different traditions.
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Jews
Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.
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Johann Jakob Schudt
Johann Jakob Schudt (January 14, 1664 – February 14, 1722) was a German polyhistor and Orientalist.
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José Leite de Vasconcelos
José Leite de Vasconcelos Cardoso Pereira de Melo (7 July 1858 – 17 May 1941) was a Portuguese ethnographer, archaeologist and prolific author who wrote extensively on Portuguese philology and prehistory.
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Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
Joseph II (Joseph Benedikt Anton Michael Adam; 13 March 1741 – 20 February 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 and ruler of the Habsburg lands from 1780 to his death.
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Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine
The Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal on ayurvedic medicine.
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Julio Caro Baroja
Julio Caro Baroja (13 November 1914 – 18 August 1995) was a world-renowned Spanish anthropologist, historian, linguist and essayist.
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Kassel
Kassel (spelled Cassel until 1928) is a city located at the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany.
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Kaufmann
Kaufmann is a surname with many variants such as Kauffmann, Kaufman, and Kauffman.
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Ketubah
A ketubah (pl. ketubot) is a special type of Jewish prenuptial agreement.
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Kinnui
A kinnui or kinui (translated as "nickname") is the secular name held by Jewish people in relation to the language spoken by the country they reside in, differing from their Biblical Hebrew name.
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Kohen
Kohen or cohen (or kohein; כֹּהֵן kohén, "priest", pl. kohaním, "priests") is the Hebrew word for "priest" used colloquially in reference to the Aaronic priesthood.
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Kornberg (surname)
Kornberg is an habitational German, Swedish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname.
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Kraków
Kraków, also spelled Cracow or Krakow, is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland.
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La Porta
La Porta d'Ampugnani (A Porta d'Ampugnani) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.
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Legnica
Legnica (archaic Polish: Lignica, Liegnitz, Lehnice, Lignitium) is a city in southwestern Poland, in the central part of Lower Silesia, on the Kaczawa River (left tributary of the Oder) and the Czarna Woda.
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Leon
Leon, Léon (French) or León (Spanish) may refer to.
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Leopold Zunz
Leopold Zunz (יום טוב צונץ—Yom Tov Tzuntz, ליפמן צונץ—Lipmann Zunz; 10 August 1794 – 17 March 1886) was the founder of academic Judaic Studies (Wissenschaft des Judentums), the critical investigation of Jewish literature, hymnology and ritual.
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Leser Landshuth
Leser Landshuth (15 January 1817 – 23 March 1887) was a German Jewish liturgiologist.
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Levi (surname)
Levi or Lévi is a Jewish surname.
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Levite
A Levite or Levi is a Jewish male whose descent is traced by tradition to Levi.
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Limburg (Netherlands)
Limburg (Dutch and Limburgish: (Nederlands-)Limburg; Limbourg) is the southernmost of the 12 provinces of the Netherlands.
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Lion
The lion (Panthera leo) is a species in the cat family (Felidae).
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List of European Jewish nobility
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Lord George Gordon
Lord George Gordon (26 December 1751 – 1 November 1793) was a British politician best known for lending his name to the Gordon Riots of 1780.
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Lousada
Lousada is a town and municipality of the Porto district, in northern Portugal.
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Maple Leaf Foods
Maple Leaf Foods Inc. is a major Canadian consumer packaged meats company.
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Marchant
Marchant is a surname.
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Meldola
Meldola (Mèdla) is a town and comune near Forlì, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
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Metonymy
Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.
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Miranda (surname)
Miranda is a Spanish, Portuguese, Sephardic Jewish and Italian surname of Latin origin, meaning "worthy of admiration".
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Mocatta
Mocatta (also de Mattos Mocatta, Lumbroso de Mattos Mocatta and Lumbrozo de Mattos Mocatta) is the name of a prominent Anglo-Jewish family originally from Spain known for philanthropy, leadership and sponsorship of arts and letters, particularly in the United Kingdom.
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Montefiore
Montefiore is a surname associated with the Montefiore family, Sephardi Jews who were diplomats and bankers all over Europe and who originated from the Iberian Peninsula, namely Spain and Portugal, and also France, Morocco, England, and Italy.
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Moritz Steinschneider
Moritz Steinschneider (30 March 1816, Prostějov, Moravia, Austria – 24 January 1907, Berlin) was a Bohemian bibliographer and Orientalist.
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Mortara
Mortara may refer to.
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Muriel (given name)
Muriel is a feminine given name in the English language.
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Napoleon
Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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Navarro
Navarro may refer to.
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New Christian
New Christian (cristiano nuevo; cristão-novo; cristià nou) was a law-effective and social category developed from the 15th century onwards, and used in what is today Spain and Portugal as well as their New World colonies, to refer to Sephardi Jews and Muslims ("Moors") who had converted to the Catholic Church, often by force or coercion.
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Ochs (surname)
Ochs is a German language surname meaning "ox", and may refer to.
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Oppenheim
Oppenheim is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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Paiva
Paiva is a Portuguese family surname, of toponymic origin in Paiva, today Castelo de Paiva, Portugal.
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Pappo
Norberto Aníbal Napolitano, known by his stage name Pappo (La Paternal, 10 March 1950 – Luján, 24 February 2005), was an Argentine electric guitarist, singer-songwriter and composer.
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Paradiso
Paradiso (Italian: Heaven, literally: Paradise); may refer to.
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Partitions of Poland
The Partitions of Poland were three partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place toward the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the state, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland and Lithuania for 123 years.
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Patronymic
A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (i.e., an avonymic), or an even earlier male ancestor.
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Pear
The pear is any of several tree and shrub species of genus Pyrus, in the family Rosaceae.
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Phonetics
Phonetics (pronounced) is the branch of linguistics that studies the sounds of human speech, or—in the case of sign languages—the equivalent aspects of sign.
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Pisa
Pisa is a city in the Tuscany region of Central Italy straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea.
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Polack
In the contemporary English language, the nouns Polack (and) or Polak are ethnic slurs and derogatory references to a person of Polish descent.
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Polak
Polak is the Polish noun for a Pole.
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Polish name
Polish names, have two main elements: the imię, the first name, or given name; and the nazwisko, the last name, surname or family name.
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Polk
Polk may refer to.
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Pollak
Pollak is a surname, and may refer to.
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Pollock (surname)
Pollock is a surname of Scottish origin.
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Pool (surname)
Pool is an English and Dutch surname.
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Poole
Poole is a large coastal town and seaport in the county of Dorset, on the south coast of England.
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Porto
Porto (also known as Oporto in English) is the second-largest city in Portugal after Lisbon and one of the major urban areas of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Posner
Posner is a surname of German origin, meaning "a person from the city of Posen", now Poznań in Poland.
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Poznań
Poznań (Posen; known also by other historical names) is a city on the Warta River in west-central Poland, in the Greater Poland region.
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Pozner
Pozner is a surname.
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Prague
Prague (Praha, Prag) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and also the historical capital of Bohemia.
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Prime Minister of Israel
The Prime Minister of Israel (רֹאשׁ הַמֶּמְשָׁלָה, Rosh HaMemshala, lit. Head of the Government, Hebrew acronym: רה״מ; رئيس الحكومة, Ra'īs al-Ḥukūma) is the head of government of Israel and the most powerful figure in Israeli politics.
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Rabbi
In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah.
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Rabe
Rabe may refer to.
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Rabinovich
Rabinovich (also spelled Rabinovitch) (Рабино́вич, רבינוביץ), is a Russian Ashkenazi Jewish surname, Slavic for "son of the rabbi".
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Rabinowitz
Rabinowitz (also Rabinowicz) (רבינוביץ), is a Polish Ashkenazi Jewish surname, Slavic for "son of the rabbi".
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Reza Shah
Reza Shah Pahlavi (رضا شاه پهلوی;; 15 March 1878 – 26 July 1944) was the Shah of Iran from 15 December 1925 until he was forced to abdicate by the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran on 16 September 1941.
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Rhine
--> The Rhine (Rhenus, Rein, Rhein, le Rhin,, Italiano: Reno, Rijn) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian, Swiss-German and then the Franco-German border, then flows through the German Rhineland and the Netherlands and eventually empties into the North Sea.
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Robbins (name)
Robbins is an English language surname.
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Robinson (name)
Robinson is an English language patronymic surname, originating in England.
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Robles
Robles (Spanish for "oaks") may refer to.
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Romain
Romain may refer to.
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Romanel
Romanel may refer to.
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Romanelli
Romanelli is a family name of Italian origin.
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Rosenberg (surname)
Rosenberg is a Germanic-language family name and toponym.
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Rothschild family
The Rothschild family is a wealthy Jewish family descending from Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, who established his banking business in the 1760s. Unlike most previous court factors, Rothschild managed to bequeath his wealth and established an international banking family through his five sons, who established themselves in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna, and Naples. The family was elevated to noble rank in the Holy Roman Empire and the United Kingdom. During the 19th century, the Rothschild family possessed the largest private fortune in the world, as well as the largest private fortune in modern world history.The House of Rothschild: Money's prophets, 1798–1848, Volume 1, Niall Ferguson, 1999, page 481-85The Secret Life of the Jazz Baroness, from The Times 11 April 2009, Rosie Boycott The family's wealth was divided among various descendants, and today their interests cover a diverse range of fields, including financial services, real estate, mining, energy, mixed farming, winemaking and nonprofits.The Rothschilds: Portrait of a Dynasty, By Frederic Morton, page 11 The Rothschild family has frequently been the subject of conspiracy theories, many of which have antisemitic origins.
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Rubenstein
Rubenstein may refer to.
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Rubinstein
Famous persons named Rubinstein include.
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.
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Schaechter-Gottesman
The Schaechter-Gottesman family is a leading family in Yiddish language and cultural studies.
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Schechter
Schechter or Schachter (from Yiddish shochet, 'to slaughter'. Hebrew:שכטר also Shechter) is also a German surname.
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Schneider (surname)
Schneider (German for "tailor", literally "someone who cuts," from the verb schneiden "to cut") is a very common surname in Germany.
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Schumacher
Schumacher or Schuhmacher is an occupational surname (German, "shoemaker", pronounced, both variants can be used as surnames, with Schumacher being the more popular one, however, only the variant with two "h"s can also be used as a job description in modern German spelling).
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Schuster
Schuster ("shoemaker", "cobbler") is a common family name in German.
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Schwarzschild (disambiguation)
Schwarzschild is the German-derived surname borne by various individuals.
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Sephardi Jews
Sephardi Jews, also known as Sephardic Jews or Sephardim (סְפָרַדִּים, Modern Hebrew: Sefaraddim, Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm; also Ye'hude Sepharad, lit. "The Jews of Spain"), originally from Sepharad, Spain or the Iberian peninsula, are a Jewish ethnic division.
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Seville
Seville (Sevilla) is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville, Spain.
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Shapiro
Shapiro, and its variations such as Shapira, Schapiro, Schapira, Sapira, Spira, Sapiro, Szapiro (in Polish) and Chapiro (in French), is a Jewish surname which can be either Ashkenazi or Sephardi.
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Shechita
In Judaism, shechita (anglicized:; שחיטה;; also transliterated shehitah, shechitah, shehita) is slaughtering of certain mammals and birds for food according to kashrut.
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Shield
A shield is a piece of personal armour held in the hand or mounted on the wrist or forearm.
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Shulman
Shulman is a Jewish-Ashkenazi surname that means literally "shul-man" ("synagogue-man").
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Siegfried Kracauer
Siegfried Kracauer (February 8, 1889 – November 26, 1966) was a German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist.
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Silva (disambiguation)
Silva is a Portuguese and Galician surname.
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Snyders
Snyders, or Snyder's, may refer to.
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Sofer
A Sofer, Sopher, Sofer SeTaM, or Sofer ST"M (Heb: "scribe", סופר סת״ם) (female: soferet) is a Jewish scribe who can transcribe sifrei Torah, tefillin, and mezuzot, and other religious writings.
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Sommerfeld (disambiguation)
Sommerfeld as a surname may refer to.
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Speyer
Speyer (older spelling Speier, known as Spire in French and formerly as Spires in English) is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, with approximately 50,000 inhabitants.
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Spielmann
Spielmann or Spielman is a German occupational surname, which means "jester", from the Middle High German spilære.
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Strauss
Strauss, Strauß or Straus is a common Germanic surname.
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Sulzberg
Sulzberg or Sulzburg is the name of a number of places, castles or mountains.
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Surname
A surname, family name, or last name is the portion of a personal name that indicates a person's family (or tribe or community, depending on the culture).
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Synagogue
A synagogue, also spelled synagog (pronounced; from Greek συναγωγή,, 'assembly', בית כנסת, 'house of assembly' or, "house of prayer", Yiddish: שול shul, Ladino: אסנוגה or קהל), is a Jewish house of prayer.
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The Edge Chronicles
The Edge Chronicles is a children's fantasy novel series by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell.
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Trier
Trier (Tréier), formerly known in English as Treves (Trèves) and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city in Germany on the banks of the Moselle.
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Tussenvoegsel
A tussenvoegsel in Dutch linguistics is a word that is positioned between a person's first name and the main part of the last name similar to Irish or Scottish surname prefixes, French ''particules'' or German von.
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Utting
Utting is a municipality in the district of Landsberg in Bavaria in Germany.
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Van Ryn
Van Ryn is a surname.
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Verdugo
Verdugo may refer to.
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Vila Real
Vila Real is a municipality and simultaneously the capital and largest city of the Vila Real District, northern Portugal.
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Waal
Waal may refer to.
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Wahl (surname)
Wahl is a surname.
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Wechsler
Wechsler is a German word meaning "exchanger" (from Wechsel, "(ex)change").
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Wrocław
Wrocław (Breslau; Vratislav; Vratislavia) is the largest city in western Poland.
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1782 Edict of Tolerance
The 1782 Edict of Tolerance (Toleranzedikt vom 1782) was a religious reform of Emperor Joseph II during the time he was emperor of the Habsburg Monarchy as part of his policy of Josephinism, a series of drastic reforms to remodel Austria in the form of the ideal Enlightened state.
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Ashkenazi Jewish surnames, Bejar (surname), Bexar (surname), Jewish surnames, Sephardic surnames.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_surname
