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    son of lower middle-class Jewish parents, Frieda (née Sass) and Jacob "Yankel" Grajonca, who had emigrated from Russia before the rise of Nazism. There...
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    mainly in Hasidic communities. Current performers include Motty Ilowitz, Yankel Miller and Yoel Lebowits. Various forms of modern Jewish entertainment which...
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    Lúthien, another servant of Morgoth, Sauron, takes the form of a vampire. In Yankel Krümmel's Matrice Granit, the story of Gregorius the Strigoi is told. Terry...
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    its wake, several Jews were seriously injured; one Orthodox Jewish man, Yankel Rosenbaum, was killed; and a non-Jewish man, allegedly mistaken by rioters...
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  • thereby touching off the Crown Heights riots, during which an Australian Jew, Yankel Rosenbaum, was fatally stabbed by Lemrick Nelson. August 28: A 4 train crashes...
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    Army had a large demand for military wind bands and choirs. Some cavalry regiments maintained equestrian bands of torban players, and cantonist schools...
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    with Our Story Liverpool, a local LGBT history project, the late artist Yankel Feather recounts his experiences of cottaging in public toilets off Princes...
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    Cato's injuries while removing members of Schneerson's motorcade instead. Yankel Rosenbaum, a visiting rabbinical student from Australia, was killed in the...
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    convicted of crimes while three were charged but not convicted. Rosenbaum, Yankel 29 Australian Jew New York City Crown Heights, Brooklyn New York 1991 Being...
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    thereby touching off the Crown Heights riots, during which an Australian Jew, Yankel Rosenbaum, was fatally stabbed by Lemrick Nelson. March 11, 1992 – Manuel...
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    some anti-gay laws in Russia in 2013 and the incident with the "Pussy-riot" band in 2012 causing a growing criticism on the subject inside and outside Russia...
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  • Nazi uniforms. The year is now 1943. Four young people, Luba, Geivish, Yankel and Elia, carry a coffin into the ghetto. Gens catches them and arrests...
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    witnessing first-hand the growing crisis, Mitchell and his close friend, Yankel Ginzburg, an American artist and humanitarian, who had family in Tver, Russia...
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    Hillairet (1997, p. 679) François (2000, p. 97) Bacqué, Marie-Hélène; Fijalkow, Yankel (2006). "En attendant la gentrification: discours et politiques a la Goutte...
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  • Keizo Yamada, 92, Japanese Olympic long-distance runner (1952). Jacques Yankel, 99, French artist. Yūtokutaishi Akiyama, 85, Japanese engraver and photographer...
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