• The Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation was an independent French organization founded by Isaac Schneersohn in 1943 in the town of Grenoble,...
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  • Isaac Schneersohn (category French people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent)
    Liberation and became the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation. Schneersohn remained President of the CDJC and editor of its Revue until his death...
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    Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI). Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation (Grenoble) "Holocaust centre slated". The Tuscoola News...
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    Léon Poliakov (category French people of Russian-Jewish descent)
    Russian Jewish family, Poliakov lived in Italy and Germany until he settled in France. He cofounded the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation, established...
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    Jews (redirect from Jewish)
    other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. The Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים‎, ISO 259-2: Yehudim, Israeli pronunciation: [jehuˈdim]) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious...
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  • the direct control of the Pope until 1790, and a small Jewish community continued to live there in relative isolation. From the time of the French Revolution...
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  • Victims of War; however, the bureau then held them in secret, refusing to release copies later, even to the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation (CDJC)...
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    The Judaeo-Aramaic languages are those varieties of Aramaic and Neo-Aramaic languages used by Jewish communities. Aramaic, like Hebrew, is a Northwest...
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    interpret Jewish scripture. Although there are now profound differences among Jewish denominations of Rabbinic Judaism with respect to the binding force of halakha...
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    The Holocaust in Russia (category World War II prisoner of war massacres)
    During World War II, Léon Poliakov established the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation (1943) and after the war, he assisted Edgar Faure at...
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    literature, in its broadest sense, is the entire spectrum of works authored by rabbis throughout Jewish history. The term typically refers to literature from...
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    Giovanni Palatucci (category People from the Province of Avellino)
    topic of scholarly debate. A national commission of historians recommended by the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities, the Center for Contemporary Jewish...
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    savior and liberator figure in Jewish eschatology who is believed to be the future redeemer of the Jews. The concept of messianism originated in Judaism...
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    Judeo-Persian (category Endangered languages of Iran)
    Judeo-Persian refers to both a group of Jewish dialects spoken by the Jews living in Iran and Judeo-Persian texts (written in Hebrew alphabet). As a collective...
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    American Jewish Committee, while the French prosecution presented many documents that it had obtained from the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation. The...
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    Sefirot (redirect from Tree of Sephiroth)
    His will. In later Jewish literature, the ten sefirot refer either to the ten manifestations of God; the ten powers or faculties of the soul; or the ten...
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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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  • Drancy internment camp (Mémorial de la Shoah de Drancy) Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation (Paris) Mémorial de la Shoah (Paris) Mémorial des Martyrs...
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    "book" bound editions of the Pentateuch, whereas the "scroll" form is called a sefer Torah ("book [of the] Torah"). In modern Jewish practice: A printed...
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  • Research Center, May 12, 2015 Ain, Stewart. "Staying The Course: John Paul II built a closeness between the Vatican and Jewish community, and Jewish leaders...
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    History of the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation (CDJC)". Archived from the original on 16 March 2015. "Auschwitz-Birkenau: 4 out of 10 German...
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  • Holocaust survivors (category Aftermath of the Holocaust)
    devoted to documentation of the Holocaust at the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation. In Israel, the Yad Vashem memorial was officially established...
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    Yiddish (category Jewish languages)
    other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish (ייִדיש‎, יידיש‎ or אידיש‎, yidish or idish, pronounced [ˈ(j)ɪdɪʃ], lit. 'Jewish'; ייִדיש-טײַטש‎, historically...
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    acronym. YIVO is now a partner of the Center for Jewish History, and serves as the de facto recognized language regulator of the Yiddish language in the...
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    Judæo-Spanish Language (Ladino) and Literature, Jewish Encyclopedia Yitshak (Itzik) Levy An authentic documentation of Ladino heritage and culture Sephardic Studies...
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    "telling"; plural: Haggadot) is a Jewish text that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder. According to Jewish practice, reading the Haggadah at the...
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    Jean-Pierre Lévy (resistance leader) (category Jewish French military personnel)
    Children's Villages in France and the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation. Lévy also served on the central committee of the International League Against...
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  • Jews and Halloween (category Jewish culture)
    Halloween, but liberal denominations of Judaism such as the Reform movement permit celebrating the holiday. The Jewish holiday of Purim has often been compared...
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    de Gurs was donated to the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation) in Paris by the Hansbacher family....
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  • Yevanic language (category Jewish languages)
    the flame goes out: documentation of the Yevanic dialect. 2014. Sponsored by the Latsis Foundation. "Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages". Oxford Centre...
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