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31Archdiocese of Paris — Paris † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Paris ARCHDIOCESE OF PARIS (PARIBIENSIS) Paris comprises the Department of the Seine. It was re established by the Concordat of 1802 with much narrower limits than it had prior to the Revolution,… …
32Nomina Anatomica — The modification of the Basle N. or BNA system of anatomic terminology adopted in 1955 by the International Congress of Anatomists in Paris, France. The International Anatomical Nomenclature Committee was responsible for continued revisions of… …
33Ferrara — • Archdiocese immediately subject to the Holy See Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Ferrara Ferrara † …
34BANKING AND BANKERS — Antiquity There is little likelihood that financial transactions played a prominent role in the pre Exilic epoch in Ereẓ Israel; according to the ethos of Jewish society, then founded on a pronounced agrarian structure, lending was part of the… …
35RUSSIA — RUSSIA, former empire in Eastern Europe; from 1918 the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (R.S.F.S.R.), from 1923 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.); from 1990 the Russian Federation. Until 1772 ORIGINS The penetration… …
36ROMANIA — ROMANIA, country in East Central and South East Europe, in the Carpatho Danubian region, north of the Balkan Peninsula, partly on the littoral of the Black Sea. The territory comprising Romania was known as Dacia in antiquity; Jewish tombstones,… …
37EDUCATION, JEWISH — This entry is arranged according to the following outline. Bibliography at the end of a section is indicated by (†). in the biblical period the nature of the sources historical survey the patriarchal period and the settlement the kingdom the… …
38PHILANTHROPY — Introduction At the close of the 18th century the communal system of fund raising for charity with authority vested in the charity overseers (Gabba ei Ẓedakah) – to tax members of the community in order to ensure appropriate giving – was on the… …
39Compulsory sterilization — Part of a series on Discrimination General forms …
40BODENHEIMER, MAX ISIDOR — (1865–1940), one of herzl s first assistants, a founder of the World Zionist Organization, and one of the first directors of the jewish national fund . Bodenheimer was born in Stuttgart and began to practice law in Cologne in 1890. Despite an… …
