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    The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present...
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    Judaism (redirect from Jewish religion)
    comprises the collective spiritual, cultural, and legal traditions of the Jewish people. Judaism evolved from Yahwism, an ancient Semitic religion of the late...
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    Jews (redirect from The Jewish Race)
    of the Berman Jewish DataBank Official website of the Jewish Agency for Israel Official website of The Jewish Encyclopedia Official website of the Jewish...
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    The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia (SJE; Russian: Краткая еврейская энциклопедия, romanized: Kratkaya Yevreyskaya Entsiklopedia) was published in 11 volumes...
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  • Jewish surnames are family names used by Jews and those of Jewish origin. Jewish surnames are thought to be of comparatively recent origin;: 190  the...
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  • The New Jewish Encyclopedia is an encyclopedia first published in 1962. The style is less academic than the Jewish Encyclopedia, in more up-to-date language...
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  • The Jewish apocrypha (Hebrew: הספרים החיצוניים, romanized: HaSefarim haChitzoniyim, lit. 'the outer books') are religious texts written in large part...
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  • (eds.). Encyclopedia of Judaism Online. Emergence of Jewish Denominations (MyJewishLearning.com) Jewish World Today. Overview: State of the Denominations...
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    Biblica The Jewish Encyclopedia Lists of encyclopedias New Catholic Encyclopedia Orthodox Encyclopedia Thomas F. Woodlock – a member of the board of...
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    Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). The term, which is derived from the Hebrew Sepharad...
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    Jewish holidays, also known as Jewish festivals or Yamim Tovim (Hebrew: ימים טובים, romanized: yāmīm ṭōvīm, lit. 'Good Days', or singular Hebrew: יום...
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    A Jewish wedding is a wedding ceremony that follows Jewish laws and traditions. While wedding ceremonies vary, common features of a Jewish wedding include...
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    God and human. Shabbat, the day of rest, is described in the Tanakh as God's sign ("ot") between Him and the Jewish people. The Torah provides detailed...
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    in the chapter "Nose" of the Jewish Encyclopedia (1901–1905) by Joseph Jacobs and Maurice Fishberg demonstrate that, contrary to the stereotype, the "Jewish"...
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  • the Hebrew model for the Septuagint c.b5% and nonaligned c. 25%. "On the Contemplative Life or Suppliants", Early Jewish Writings Jewish Encyclopedia:...
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    Jewish cuisine refers to the worldwide cooking traditions of the Jewish people. During its evolution over the course of many centuries, it has been shaped...
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    The Encyclopaedia Judaica is a multi-volume English-language encyclopedia of the Jewish people, Judaism, and Israel. It covers diverse areas of the Jewish...
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  • repudiation of Jewish identity, and converts to Christianity generally ceased to be considered part of the Jewish community. The Jewish Encyclopedia gives some...
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    Jewish mythology is the body of myths associated with Judaism. Elements of Jewish mythology have had a profound influence on Christian mythology and on...
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    now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing...
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    Jewish mysticism. A traditional Kabbalist is called a Mekubbal (מְקוּבָּל‎, Məqūbbāl, 'receiver'). The definition of Kabbalah varies according to the...
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    most significant Ashkenazi Jewish community in the world. Poland was a principal center of Jewish culture, because of the long period of statutory religious...
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    (2015), The New Perspective on Paul in Review, Direction, Spring 2015, Vol. 44 (No. 1), pp. 4–15. Jewish Encyclopedia, SIN Jewish Encyclopedia (1906),...
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    Star of David (redirect from Jewish Star)
    The Star of David (Hebrew: מָגֵן דָּוִד, romanized: Magen David, lit. 'Shield of David') is a generally recognized symbol of both Jewish identity and Judaism...
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    ethnicity, or religion, form the fourth largest Jewish community in the world, exceeded only by those in Israel, the United States and France.[2] As...
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    Asmodeus (category Demons in the Old Testament apocrypha)
    identified Shamdon as the father of Asmodeus. The Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906 rejects the otherwise accepted etymological relation between the Persian "Æshma-dæva"...
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    Islamic–Jewish relations comprise the human and diplomatic relations between Jewish people and Muslims in the Arabian Peninsula, Northern Africa, the Middle...
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    for in the year 139 BCE, the pretor Hispanus issued a decree expelling all Jews who were not Roman citizens. The Jewish Encyclopedia connects the two civil...
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  • the ants is a medieval Jewish legend about Solomon that is retold in the Jewish Encyclopedia and in Quran 27:18-19. In the legend, as retold in the Jewish...
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    Shabbat (redirect from Jewish Sabbath)
    a wish", and at least the 28th was known as a "rest-day". The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia advanced a theory of Assyriologists like Friedrich Delitzsch...
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