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Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
… biographies: The World Online Encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World Zemereshet (Hebrew) In this …
Isaac Eliyahu Navon
… WWI, one of the most prosperous communities of Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire. The scholars of Adrianpole … (Jewish enlightenment) and Jewish nationalism. Educated Jews from eastern and central Europe who settled in … Yosef Halevi, one of the pioneers in the research of the Jews of Ethiopia and Yemen and a journalist and a poet, was …
Simeon Bar-Isaac
… and they are marked by the pain of the persecutions of the Jews in Bar-Isaacs' lifetime. Sources: Encyclopedia Judaica …
Max Weinreich
… 1945, pp. 13. Full biography at The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe . … Yiddish linguist … Yiddish … …
Else Lasker-Schüler
… … German-Jewish poet and playwright … 0 … Poet … German Jews … Else Lasker-Schüler …
Israel Najara
… Born in Eretz-Israel to a distinguished family of Jews from Spain . Najara lived and worked in Damascus , …
Herman Svet
… In New York, he published several works, including Russian Jews in Music (1960), J ews in Russian Musical Culture in …
Shmuel Zanvel Pipe
… songs and games, folk anecdotes about Napoleon and the Jews, Yiddish songs of Soviet Russia and sources of folk … notes, and indices. Source: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. … Yiddish folklorist … Folklore … …
Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin (Maharil)
… period of the Hussite wars, which brought misery upon the Jews of the Rhine, of Thuringia, and of Bavaria, all of whom … dispersed, and the very soldiers who had threatened the Jews now came to them to beg bread and received food from … therefore, a faithful picture of the life of the German Jews. It was first published, with various additions, at …
Yehiel 'Adaki
… and worked as a goldsmith, a common profession among the Jews of Yemen, while at the same time, continuing with his … with Rabbi Shalom Giat, a famous singer among the Yemenite Jews from Manakhah, who, upon visits to Sana'a, was always … to non-Yemenites. He added that the Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews make fun of how we [the Yemenites, O.R.] sing. I felt …