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The branch of knowledge dealing with past events.

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sofer

History; Israeli history

Used as a general designation for scholars and copyists in both talmudic and later literature; a “scholastic,” a learned researcher whose vocation was the study and teaching of ...

takkanah

History; Israeli history

Correction; a rabbinic edict that supersedes the existing halacha.

Yesha

History; Israeli history

Yesha is the Hebrew acronym for Judea, Samaria and Gaza (Yehuda, Shomron, Aza), also referred to as “the territories.” The Yesha Council was founded in the late 1970s as the ...

United Nations War Crimes Commission

History; Israeli history

The Commission was established following discussions between representatives of the Allied powers in London, on October 20, 1943, and first met in January 1944.

Gesia Cemetery

History; Israeli history

The largest Jewish cemetery in Warsaw just outside the location of the old Warsaw Ghetto. Of the approximately 300,000 tombstones contained in the cemetery, more than 100,000 are ...

Reichskommissariat fur das Ostland

History; Israeli history

The name for the German civil administration in the eastern occupied territories of the USSR. There was a separate Reichskommissariat for the Ukraine. The Reichskommissariat was ...