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The branch of knowledge dealing with past events.

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B’nai Noach

History; Israeli history

Children of Noah. Sons of Noah; refers to non-Jews who strive to live by the basic laws for humanity derived from the Torah.(See also Noachide Laws).

B’nai B'rith

History; Israeli history

Children of the Covenant. World's oldest and largest Jewish organization, founded in 1843 in New York, concerned with protecting Jewish interests around the world.

Soren Kierkegaard

History; Israeli history

(1813-1855) Christian philosopher; author of Fear and Trembling (1843); a meditation on the Binding of Isaac; Denmark.

Warsaw

History; Israeli history

City in central Poland, capital of Poland since 1596, with a Jewish population of 375,000 in 1939, representing 29 percent of the total city population. All Jewish institutions ...

Lublin

History; Israeli history

City in eastern Poland that was the center of Jewish learning in Poland. In 1939, the Jewish population was 40,000, 33 percent of the city total. In the spring of 1941 the ghetto ...

Kielce

History; Israeli history

City in southeast Poland. Jews first settled there in 1868, and numbered 24,000 by the year 1939. Most known for its anti-Jewish pogrom on July 4, 1946, when an angry mob, incited ...

Oswiecim

History; Israeli history

City in southern Poland that translates to Auschwitz in German. It was 80 percent Jewish in 1939, with 11 synagogues. Also refers to the forced-labor camp that became a ...