Israeli history

Israeli history

The history of Israel encompasses the history of the modern State of Israel, as well as that of the Jews in the Land of Israel.

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ghetto

History; Israeli history

The ghetto was a section of a city where all Jews from the surrounding areas were forced to reside. The Nazis revived the medieval ghetto in creating their compulsory “Jewish Quarter” ...

L'havdil

History; Israeli history

The difference. Used to contrast, as a form of modesty, something great to something far less significant.

Herod

History; Israeli history

The Second Testament of the Christian Bible mentions four (“kings” through the grace of Rome) by that name: 1) Herod the Great, a Judaized (or proselytized) Idumaen, ruled Judea tyrannically with ...

Righteous Gentiles

History; Israeli history

Term applied to those non-Jews who saved Jews from their Nazi persecutors at the risk of their own lives.

Herbert Baum Group

History; Israeli history

Small, clandestine anti-Nazi organization founded in Berlin at the beginning of the Nazi regime by Herbert and Marianne Baum. It was composed of young people, primarily Jewish members of the ...

Death's Head detachments

History; Israeli history

Originally members of these units guarded the concentration camps. In 1938 they participated, alongside the Verfügunstruppen, in the occupation of Austria, the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia. In ...

Redemption of the first born son. The rite of relieving the first male child born to parents not descended from Aaron or Levi of certain religious obligations by redeeming him from a member of the ...