Samuel Enoch — (born in Hamburg, October 81814; died in Fulda December 311876) was a German rabbi.He attended the Johannæum in Hamburg and the Talmudic lectures of Ḥakam Isaac Bernays, entered the University of Würzburg, and also became a pupil of Rabbi Abraham … Wikipedia
ZIONISM — This article is arranged according to the following outline: the word and its meaning forerunners ḤIBBAT ZION ROOTS OF ḤIBBAT ZION background to the emergence of the movement the beginnings of the movement PINSKER S AUTOEMANCIPATION settlement… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
List of German Jews — The Jewish presence in Germany is older than Christianity; the first Jewish population came with the Romans to the city Cologne. A Golden Age in the first millennium saw the emergence of the Ashkenazi Jews, while the persecution and expulsion… … Wikipedia
Torah im Derech Eretz — Part of a series of articles on Jews and Judaism … Wikipedia
Israel — /iz ree euhl, ray /, n. 1. a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948. 5,534,672; 7984 sq. mi. (20,679 sq. km). Cap.: Jerusalem. 2. the people traditionally descended from Jacob; the Hebrew or Jewish people. 3 … Universalium
ISRAEL PRIZE — The Israel Prize, instituted in 1953, is awarded by the minister of education and culture on the recommendation of judges appointed for each subject for outstanding work in the following fields: Jewish Studies (and Rabbinical Literature),… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
COLOGNE — (Ger. Köln), city in Germany. Founded in 50 C.E. as the Roman Colonia Agrippinensis, seat of the provincial and military administration, it is likely to have attracted a Jewish population at an early date. A Jewish cemetery, assumed to have… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
KREFELD — KREFELD, city in N. Rhine Westphalia, Germany. The first Jew living in Krefeld was mentioned in 1617, and in 1728 there were five Jewish families settled in the town. By Prussian royal decree (1743), the city council refused admittance to Jews,… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
LION — Called in the Talmud the king of the beasts (Ḥag. 13b), the lion has many Hebrew names: (אַרְיֵה (aryeh) or אֲרִי (ari), and לָבִיא (lavi) fem. לְבִיאָה (levi ah), both of which are used for the lion in general, כְּפִיר (kefir), usually a young… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Menachem Begin — מנחם בגין 6th Prime Minister of Israel In office 21 June 1977 – 10 October 1983 Preceded by Yitzhak Rabin … Wikipedia
