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91OSTRYNA — (in Jewish sources אוֹסְטְרִין), town in Grodno district, Belarus. Jews are first mentioned in Ostryna some time before 1569 as contractors of customs and taxes. In 1623 the Lithuanian Council (see councils of the lands ) placed Ostryna under the …
92PRESS — This article is arranged according to the following outline: introduction in australia and new zealand in belgium in canada in czechoslovakia in england yiddish press in france in germany and austria between the two world wars after world war ii… …
93SADAN (Stock), DOV — (1902–1989), Yiddish and Hebrew writer and scholar. Born in Brody, Eastern Galicia, from his youth Sadan was an ardent Zionist and active in the propagation of the Hebrew language and culture. In the early 1920s he was a leader of the He Ḥalutz… …
94SCHORR, JOSHUA HESCHEL — (commonly known as Osias Schorr; 1818–1895), scholar, editor, and second generation Galician Haskalah leader. Born in Brody, Galicia, to a prominent and affluent family, Schorr became a successful merchant, but devoted much of his time to Jewish… …
95SHAZAR (Rubashov), SHNEUR ZALMAN — (1889–1974), third president of the State of Israel, scholar and writer, member of the First to Third Knessets. Shazar (acronym for Shneur Zalman Rubashov) was born in the Belorussian town of Mir in the province of Minsk. In 1892, after a… …
96UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, country in N. America. This article is arranged according to the following outline: introduction Colonial Era, 1654–1776 Early National Period, 1776–1820 German Jewish Period, 1820–1880 East European Jewish Period,… …
97WARSAW — (Pol. Warszawa), originally capital of the Masovia region; from the 16th century, capital of Poland. Jews were apparently living in Warsaw by the end of the 14th century, but the first explicit information on Jewish settlement dates from 1414. In …
98ZS (Zionist Socialists) — ZS (Zionist Socialists), Zionist socialist party, mainly in Russia and Eastern Europe. At its third conference (Kharkov, May 15–20, 1920), the Ẓe irei Zion movement in Russia decided to become the Zionist Socialist Party – ZS (The letter Z in the …
99Fatah — فتح Leader Mahmoud Abbas Founder Yasser Arafat Founded 1959 Headquarters Ramallah, Pale …
100Hamas — حركة المقاومة الاسلامية …
