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1LITERATURE, JEWISH — Literature on Jewish themes and in languages regarded as Jewish has been written continuously for the past 3,000 years. What the term Jewish literature encompasses, however, demands definition, since Jews have lived in so many countries and have… …
2Immigration to the United Kingdom (1922-present day) — Since the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1922 [The name of the country was formally changed in 1927 from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern… …
3literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
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5DAY AND NIGHT — The profound psychological effect made on man by the regular change from day to night is a theme in the aggadah, epitomized in Adam s fear upon watching the first sunset (Av. Zar. 8a). In the Scriptures and in the aggadah, night has negative… …
6Literature of Morocco — Moroccan literature is a literature written in (Moroccan) Arabic, Berber or French, and of course particularly by people of Morocco, but also of Al Andalus. 1000 1500Moroccan literature saw its first flowering in the period of the Almoravid… …
7Literature of Romania — Romanian literature is literature written by Romanian authors, although the term may also be used to refer to all literature written in the Romanian language.HistoryBeginningsThe earliest surviving document in Romanian is Neacşu s Letter written… …
8Literature of Eritrea — The literature of Eritrea in the Tigrinya language dates, as far as is currently known, from the late 19th century. It was initially encouraged by European missionaries, but suffered from the general repression of Eritrean culture under Fascist… …
9literature, Welsh — The characteristics of Welsh literature of the twentieth century are its concern with place and landscape, language and nationhood, the individual within the community, industrial and economic decline, and the politics of identity: what it… …
10Literature — is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means acquaintance with letters (from Latin littera letter). In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non fiction.DefinitionsThe word literature has… …
