basle committee
61BIS — An acronym for Bank for International Settlements, based in Basle, Switzerland. It has a primarily regulatory role in the international finance markets. It issues standards and policy lines for the conduct and liquidity requirements for banks… …
62BERIḤAH — (Heb. בְּרִיחָה; flight ), name of an organized underground operation moving Jews out of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, the Baltic countries, and the U.S.S.R. into Central and Southern Europe between 1944 and 1948 as a step …
63PO'ALEI ZION — PO ALEI ZION, movement that tried to base itself upon the Jewish proletariat whose ideology consisted of a combination of Zionism and socialism. Attempts to combine Jewish nationalism and Zionism with socialism were made by zhitlovsky and syrkin… …
64TROTSKY (Bronstein), LEV DAVIDOVICH — (Leon; 1879–1940), Russian revolutionary, Soviet and Communist leader. Trotsky was the son of a Jewish farmer of Ivanovka, Ukraine. He studied mathematics at Odessa University, but gave up his studies to devote himself to revolutionary activities …
65Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon railway — The Bern Lötschberg Simplon (BLS) railway, known since the merger of the old BLS with the Bern Neuenburg Bahn (BN), the Gürbetal Bern Schwarzenburg Bahn (GBS) and the Simmentalbahn (SEZ) in 1997 as the BLS Lötschbergbahn, is the largest standard… …
66Dan-Air — For the Danish airline, see Danair. Dan Air Services IATA DA ICAO DAN Callsign …
67Brummana — Infobox City Lebanon official name = Brummana native name = برمانا governorate = Mount Lebanon Governorate district = Matn District elevation m lo =700 |elevation m hi=800 mapx = 33.8659 mapy = 35.5950Brummana ( ar. برمانا) is a town in the Matn… …
68Nones, Benjamin — (1757–1826) US soldier. Nones was born in Bordeaux, France, and came to the United States during the revolutionary period. He served as an aide to General Washington, with the rank of major, and was cited for bravery in battle. After… …
Who’s Who in Jewish History after the period of the Old Testament
69Weizmann, Chaim — (1874–1952) Zionist leader and first president of Israel. Between the two World Wars, the Zionist Movement was dominated by the personality of Dr Chaim Weizmann. A Russian born research chemist, he moved with assurance in the political and… …
Who’s Who in Jewish History after the period of the Old Testament
70Textual criticism — Carmina Cantabrigiensia, Manuscript C, folio 436v, 11th century Textual criticism (or lower criticism) is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts.… …
