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Arzamas
Arzamas (Арзама́с) is a city in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Tyosha River (a tributary of the Oka), east of Moscow.
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Balak (parsha)
Balak (— Hebrew for "Balak," a name, the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 40th weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the Book of Numbers.
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Baranavichy Voblast
Baranavichy Oblast (Баранавіцкая вобласць, Барановичская Область) was a territorial unit in the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic created after the annexation of West Belarus into the BSSR in November 1939.
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Belarusian Peasants' and Workers' Union
The Belarusian Peasants' and Workers' Union or the Hramada (Беларуская Сялянска-Работніцкая Грамада (Lacinka: Biełaruskaja Sialanska-Rabotnickaja Hramada), Białoruska Włościańsko-Robotnicza Hromada was a socialist agrarian political party created in 1925 by a group of Belarusian deputies to the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic that included Branislaw Tarashkyevich, Symon Rak-Michajłoŭski (be), Piotra Miatła (be), and the founder of Hramada Pavieł Vałošyn (be). The group received logistical help from the Soviet Union, and financial aid from the Comintern.
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Bohdanow
Bohdanow was before World War II a property in Belarus.
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Border Protection Corps
The Border Protection Corps (Korpus Ochrony Pogranicza, KOP) was a Polish military formation that was created in 1924 to defend the country's eastern borders against armed Soviet incursions and local bandits.
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Brisker method
The Brisker method, or Brisker derech, is a reductionistic approach to Talmud study innovated by Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk (Brest, Belarus), as opposed to the traditional approach which was rather holistic.
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Chaim Berlin
Chaim Berlin (1832, Valozhyn – 1912, Jerusalem) (חיים ברלין) was an Orthodox rabbi and chief rabbi of Moscow from 1865 to 1889.
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Chaim of Volozhin
Chaim of Volozhin (also known as Chaim ben Yitzchok of Volozhin or Chaim Ickovits; January 21, 1749 – June 14, 1821)Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliography: Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, pp. 347-349; idem, Kiryah Ne'emanah, pp. 156-158; Lewin, Aliyyot Eliyahu (ed. Stettin), p. 70; Schechter, Studies in Judaism, p. 85, Philadelphia, 1896; Jatzkan, Rabbenu Eliyah mi-Wilna, pp. 100-106, St.
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Chaim Soloveitchik
Chaim (Halevi) Soloveitchik (Yiddish: חיים סאָלאָווייטשיק, Chaim Sołowiejczyk), also known as Reb Chaim Brisker (1853 – 30 July 1918), was a rabbi and Talmudic scholar credited as the founder of the popular Brisker approach to Talmudic study within Judaism.
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Chaim Walkin
Chaim Walkin (born 1945 in Shanghai, China) is an Orthodox rabbi, dean and lecturer.
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Chaim Zhitlowsky
Chaim Zhitlowsky (Yiddish: חײם זשיטלאָװסקי; Хаим Осипович Житловский) (April 19, 1865 - May 6, 1943) was a Jewish socialist, philosopher, social and political thinker, writer and literary critic born in Ushachy, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Usachy Raion, Vitebsk Region, Belarus).
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Diana Arbenina
Diana Sergeyevna Arbenina (née Kulachenko, Дзiяна Сяргееўна Кулачэнка; Диа́на Серге́евна Арбе́нина, born July 8, 1974, Valozhyn, Minsk Oblast, Belarus SSR) is a Russian singer, musician, poet, leader of the rock group Nochniye Snaiperi.
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Districts of Belarus
Districts of Belarus (raion) are second-level administrative territorial entities of Belarus.
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Ein HaNetziv
Ein HaNetziv (עֵין הַנְּצִי"ב, lit. Spring of the Netziv) is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel.
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Electoral districts of Poland (1935–39)
According to the 1935 Polish Constitution, the country was divided into 104 electoral districts, and the Sejm consisted of 208 members.
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Ezra Brudno
Ezra Selig Brudno, (May 28, 1877 - December 12, 1954) was an Jewish American author of fiction and non-fiction.
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Francišak Kušal
Francišak Kušal (Францішак Кушаль, also Frantsishak Kushal, Franz Kushel, February 16, 1895, Piaršai, Russian Empire - May 1969, Rochester, New York, United States) was a Belarusian and Polish militaryman and politician.
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House of Tyszkiewicz
The Tyszkiewicz family (Tyszkiewiczowie, singular: Tyszkiewicz, Тышкевічы, singular: Тышкевіч, Tiškevičiai, singular: Tiškevičius, Тишкевичі, singular: Тишкевич, Тышкевичи, singular: Тышкевич) was a wealthy and influential Polish-Lithuanian magnate family of Ruthenian origin, with roots traced to the times of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
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Irving Bunim
Irving M. Bunim was a businessman, philanthropist and a lay leader of Orthodox Jewry, in particular the Young Israel movement in the United States from the 1930s until his death in 1980.
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Israel Rogosin
Israel Rogosin (March 15, 1887 – April 1971) was an eminent American industrialist in the textile industry and a philanthropist.
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Ivyanets
Ivyanets (Iвяне́ц,; Ивенец; Iwieniec), also known as Ivianec, is a town in Valozhyn District, Minsk Voblast, Belarus.
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Joshua Steinberg
Joshua Steinberg (Осий (Иошуа) Штейнберг; born in Wilna 1839; died 1908) was a Russian Jewish writer and educator.
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Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014) was an American actress known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks.
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List of Belarus-related topics
The location of Belarus An enlargeable map of the Republic of Belarus This is a list of topics related to Belarus.
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List of cities and largest towns in Belarus
This is a list of the largest cities and towns in Belarus, including cities with population of over 5000, as assembled by the National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus.
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List of cities in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
There were many major cities in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
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M7 highway (Belarus)
М7 highway connects Minsk with Lithuanian border (it continues in Lithuania as). It is a part of European Route and Branch B of Pan-European Corridor IX.
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Maria Rogowska-Falska
Maria Rogowska-Falska, also known as Maryna Falska (2 February 1877, Dubno – 7 September 1944, Warsaw) – was a teacher, pedagogue, activist.
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Max Kalish
Max Kalish (March 1, 1891 – 1945) was American sculptor born in Valozhyn, Belarus, and best known for his sculptures of laborers.
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Meir Bar-Ilan
Meir Berlin, later Hebraized to Meir Bar-Ilan, (1880 at Volozhin, Russian Empire – 1949 at Jerusalem, Israel) was an Orthodox rabbi and leader of Religious Zionism, the Mizrachi movement in the United States and the British Mandate of Palestine.
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Menachem Mendel Schneersohn
Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (September 9, 1789 (29 Elul 5549) – March 17, 1866 (13 Nissan 5626) OS) also known as the Tzemach Tzedek was an Orthodox rabbi, leading 19th century posek, and the third Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad Lubavitch chasidic movement.
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Michał Sopoćko
Blessed Michael (in Polish: Michał) Sopoćko (November 1, 1888 – February 15, 1975) was a Roman Catholic priest and professor at Vilnius University.
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Michał Tyszkiewicz (1761–1839)
Michał Tyszkiewicz (Mykolas Tiškevičius; 1761 – September 4, 1839) was a member of the noble Tyszkiewicz family and polkovnik in the French Grande Armée during Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812.
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Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz
Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz (1913 – 27 June 2011) was a respected Haredi Lithuanian Torah leader and rosh yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel, for over 70 years.
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Mikhail Pavlov (politician)
Mikhail Pavlov (Михаи́л Па́влов, Міхаіл Паўлаў) (September 1, 1952 – June 6, 2010) was a Belarusian statesman, and was Mayor of Minsk.
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Minsk Region
Minsk Region or Minsk Voblasć or Minsk Oblast (Мі́нская во́бласць, Minskaja voblasć; Минская о́бласть, Minskaja oblastj) is one of the regions of Belarus.
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Molodechno Region
Maladzyechna Voblast or Molodechno Oblast (Маладзечненская вобласць, Молодечненская область) was a Voblast of the Byelorussian SSR.
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Moshe Shatzkes
Moshe Shatzkes (משה שאצקס; 1881–1958) was a renowned rabbi, Talmudic scholar and noted genius, commonly known as the "Lomzhe/Łomża Rov".
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Moshe Soloveichik
Moshe Soloveichik (1879, Valozhyn – 1941), was an Orthodox rabbi.
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Nachum Kaplan
Reb Menachem Nachum ben Uzziel Kaplan (1811 in Baisogala – October 25, 1879) was a Lithuanian Talmudist, philanthropist,Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography.
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Naliboki forest
Naliboki Forest (Belarusian: Налібоцкая пушча, Nalibotskaya Pushcha (pushcha: wild forest, primeval forest)) is a large forest complex in the northwestern Belarus, on the right bank of the Neman River, on the Belarusian Ridge.
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Names of Belarusian places in other languages
This page lists some names of places in Belarus, as they are called in Belarusian and in other languages spoken by ethnic groups which are or have been represented within Belarusian territory.
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Nowogródek Voivodeship (1919–1939)
Nowogródek Voivodeship (Województwo nowogródzkie) was a unit of administrative division of the Second Polish Republic between 1919 and 1939, with the capital in Nowogródek (now Navahrudak, Belarus).
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Osadnik
Osadniks (osadnik/osadnicy, "settler/settlers, colonist/colonists") were veterans of the Polish Army and civilians who were given or sold state land in the Kresy (current Western Belarus and western Ukraine) territory ceded to Poland by Polish-Soviet Riga Peace Treaty of 1921 (and occupied by the Soviet Union in 1939 and ceded to it after World War II).
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Paper Brigade
The Paper Brigade was the name given to a group of residents of the Vilna Ghetto who hid a large cache of Jewish cultural items from YIVO (the Yiddish Scientific Institute), saving them from destruction or theft by Nazi Germany.
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Pavel Kallaur
Pavel Uladzimiravich Kalaur (Павел Уладзіміравіч Калаур), or Pavel Vladimirovich Kallaur (Павел Владимирович Каллаур; born 1962, Stolin District, Brest Region, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR) is a Belarusian economist and head of the National Bank of Belarus from 27 December 2014.
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Pinechas (parsha)
Pinechas, Pinchas, Pinhas, or Pin'has (— Hebrew for "Phinehas," a name, the sixth word and the first distinctive word in the parashah) is the 41st weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the eighth in the Book of Numbers.
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Rakaw
Rakaw (in Belarusian; Rakov in Russian; Raków in Polish) is an urban settlement in Valozhyn Raion, Minsk Region, Belarus.
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Refael Shapiro
Rabbi Refael Shapiro (1837–1921) was the famed Rosh Yeshiva of the Volozhin yeshiva located in the town of Volozhin, Russia, (now Valozhyn, Belarus), and a son-in-law of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (the Netziv).
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Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce
The Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg or ERR) was a Nazi Party organization dedicated to appropriating cultural property during the Second World War.
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Russian cross (religion)
Russian Orthodox cross is a variation of the Christian cross with two crossbeams, of which the higher one is horizontal and longer, and the lower one is diagonal.
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Shlomo Heiman
Shlomo Heiman, (1892–1945) commonly known by the informal "Reb Shlomo", was a Rabbi, Talmudist, and Rosh Yeshiva of some of the most prominent yeshivas in Europe and the United States.
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Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman
Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman (July 2, 1868–June 1, 1953) was a renowned Orthodox Jewish Talmudic scholar, Posek and rabbi and served as a Dayan of the London Beth Din.
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Simhah Reuben Edelmann
Simhah Reuben Edelmann (born in Wilna January 1821; died in Warsaw December 1892 - pen name: Sar-Shalom Ha'adulami) was a Russian grammarian and commentator.
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Soviet raid on Stołpce
Soviet raid on Stołpce refers to the events of the night of August 3/4, 1924, when a group of 150 Soviet agents, commanded by Lieutenant Boryshkevich, raided the town of Stołpce (now Stowbtsy, Belarus), which back then was a railroad border crossing between Second Polish Republic and the Soviet Union.
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Theodore Millon
Theodore Millon (August 18, 1928 – January 29, 2014) was an American psychologist known for his work on personality disorders.
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Vileyka Voblast
Vileyka Voblast (Вілейская вобласць, Вилейская область) was a territorial entity in the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic created out of the eastern powiats of the Wilno Voivodeship after the annexation of West Belarus (then part of Poland) into the BSSR in November 1939.
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Vilna Gaon
Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, (ר' אליהו בן שלמה זלמן Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman) known as the Vilna Gaon (דער װילנער גאון, Gaon z Wilna, Vilniaus Gaonas) or Elijah of Vilna, or by his Hebrew acronym HaGra ("HaGaon Rabbenu Eliyahu") or Elijah Ben Solomon (Sialiec, April 23, 1720 – Vilnius October 9, 1797), was a Talmudist, halakhist, kabbalist, and the foremost leader of misnagdic (non-hasidic) Jewry of the past few centuries.
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Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich
Vincent Dunin-Marcinkievič (Вінцэнт (Вінцук) Дунін-Марцінкевіч; Wincenty Dunin-Marcinkiewicz; c. 1808–1884) was a Belarusian writer, poet, dramatist and social activist and is considered as one of the founders of the modern Belarusian literary tradition and national school theatre.
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Vishnyeva
Vishnyeva (Ві́шнева, Višnieva; Вишнево, Vishnevo; Wiszniew; Vyšniavas; וישנעווע, Vishneve) is an agrotown in Valozhyn Raion, Minsk Region, Belarus, near the border with Lithuania.
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Volozhin yeshiva
The Volozhin Yeshiva, also known as Etz Chaim Yeshiva, was a prestigious Lithuanian yeshiva (talmudical college) located in the town of Volozhin, Russia, (now Valozhyn, Belarus).
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Vyacheslav Kebich
Vyacheslav Frantsevich Kebich (Вячаслаў Францавіч Кебіч, Вячесла́в Фра́нцевич Ке́бич; born 10 June 1936 in a village near Wołożyn, Poland) is a political figure from Belarus.
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Wilno Voivodeship (1926–1939)
The Wilno Voivodeship (województwo wileńskie) was one of 16 Voivodeships in the Second Polish Republic, with the capital in Wilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania).
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Yeshiva Toras Moshe
Yeshiva Toras Moshe is an English-speaking Litvish Orthodox Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel.
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Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik
Yitzchok Zev Halevi Soloveitchik (Hebrew: יצחק זאב הלוי סולובייצ'יק), also known as Velvel Soloveitchik ("Zev" means "wolf" in Hebrew, and "Velvel" is the diminutive of "wolf" in Yiddish) or as the Brisker Rov ("rabbi of/from Brisk", (19 October 1886, Valozhyn – 11 October 1959, Jerusalem), was an Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva of the Brisk yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel. He was a son of Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk. He is also commonly referred to as the GRYZ, an acronym for Gaon Rabbi Yitzchok Zev ("sage Rabbi Isaac Wolf") and "The Rov".
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Zelig Reuven Bengis
Zelig Reuven Bengis (1864 – 21 May 1953) was the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem for the Edah HaChareidis.
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References
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