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    The Jewish Letters; or, Philosophical, Historical and Critical Correspondence Between a Jew Traveler in Paris and His Correspondents in Various Places...
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    nationalism Race Reason Novels portal Persian embassy to Louis XIV Jewish Letters Though the manuscripts from which were set editions A and B have not...
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  • of Hebrew letters. The Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי,[a] Alefbet ivri), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square...
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    Jews (redirect from Jewish)
    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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    important Jewish communities arose. Rashi uses leshon Ashkenaz (Ashkenazi language) to describe Yiddish, and Byzantium and Syrian Jewish letters referred...
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    define racial character. Moritz Steinschneider, in his periodical of Jewish letters Hamaskir (3 (Berlin 1860), 16), discusses an article by Heymann Steinthal...
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  • young adult audience, the book aims to inform and validate. Letters from Rifka details a Jewish family's emigration from Russia in 1919, to Belgium and ultimately...
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    Consultation of Jewish Authorities was published in 1917 by the Jewish Publication Society. It was replaced by their Tanakh in 1985 Tanakh, Jewish Publication...
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    Judeo-Arabic (redirect from Arabic Jewish)
    you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Judeo-Arabic (Judeo-Arabic: ערביה יהודיה, romanized: ‘Arabiya Yahūdiya;...
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  • that the letters had a distinct connection with the mystic figures and symbols of the Jewish Kabbalah. Nöldeke in turn concluded that the letters were a...
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  • Israeli Jews (redirect from Jewish Israelis)
    question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Israeli Jews or Jewish Israelis (Hebrew: יהודים ישראלים Yêhūdīm Yīśrāʾēlīm) comprise...
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    Chai (symbol) (category Jewish symbols)
    prominently in modern Jewish culture; the Hebrew letters of the word are often used as a visual symbol. According to The Jewish Daily Forward, its use...
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    Judaism make up the Jewish-Canadian community, which manifests a wide range of Jewish cultural traditions and the full spectrum of Jewish religious observance...
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    Jewish Christians were the followers of a Jewish religious sect that emerged in Judea during the late Second Temple period (first century AD). These Jews...
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    Jewish languages are the various languages and dialects that developed in Jewish communities in the diaspora. The original Jewish language is Hebrew,...
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    of the Jewish population of Jerusalem following the Bar Kokhba revolt, they adapted to the societies in which they found themselves, yet letters, contracts...
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    its corollary, the Sütterlin-based handwriting) to be Judenlettern (Jewish letters) and prohibited their further use. German historian Albert Kapr has...
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    Jewish secularism (Hebrew: יהדות חילונית) refers to secularism in a Jewish context, denoting the definition of Jewish identity with little or no attention...
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    important Jewish communities arose. Rashi uses leshon Ashkenaz (Ashkenazi language) to describe the German language, and Byzantium and Syrian Jewish letters referred...
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  • יְצִירָה‎ Sēp̄er Yəṣīrā, Book of Formation, or Book of Creation) is a book on Jewish mysticism. Early commentaries, such as the Kuzari, treated it as a treatise...
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    of Greek, Roman, and Jewish letters of this period and observes that large letters are a normal feature when senders of letters, regardless of their education...
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    Etty Hillesum (category Jewish Dutch writers)
    was a Dutch Jewish author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam...
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    Dreidel (category Jewish games)
    "put in"). The letters served as a means to recalling the rules of the game. This theory states that when the game spread to Jewish communities unfamiliar...
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    instead of Hebrew letters. Zadkiel (Hebrew: צִדְקִיאֵל Ṣīḏqīʾēl, 'God is my Righteousness'), also known as Hasdiel, is an archangel in Jewish and Christian...
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    often to evoke themes of Jewishness or represent Israel. In some cases, actual Hebrew letters are substituted for Latin letters. For example, the alef א...
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    ben Torta. Seventeen letters discovered in the Judaean desert reveal some details on Bar Kokhba's personality. After the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73),...
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    Samson Raphael Hirsch (category 19th-century Jewish biblical scholars)
    concomitant" of the Letters, his Horeb, oder Versuche über Jissroel's Pflichten in der Zerstreuung, as a text-book on Judaism for educated Jewish youth. He had...
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  • Letters to Auntie Fori (2002) is a collection of letters collated in a book by Sir Martin Gilbert to Fori Nehru, explaining the history of Jewish people...
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    Jewish holidays, also known as Jewish festivals or Yamim Tovim (Hebrew: יָמִים טוֹבִים, romanized: yāmīm ṭōvīm, lit. 'Good Days', or singular Hebrew:...
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  • of family letters, diaries, photographs, and scrapbooks. In addition, the archive also holds the papers and artifacts of important Jewish organizations...
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