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121Israel — /iz ree euhl, ray /, n. 1. a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948. 5,534,672; 7984 sq. mi. (20,679 sq. km). Cap.: Jerusalem. 2. the people traditionally descended from Jacob; the Hebrew or Jewish people. 3 …
122Joachim Neugroschel — (January 13, 1938 – May 23, 2011) was a well known literary translator from French, German, Italian, Russian, and Yiddish, and also to German. He also published poetry and was a poetry magazine founder. Biography Joachim Neugroschel was born in… …
123ALPHABET, HEBREW — The origin of alphabetic script has always been a subject of human curiosity. According to Greek mythology, script was brought to Greece from Phoenicia. This tradition was accepted by the Greek and Roman writers, some of whom developed it even… …
124RESPONSES — the victims the world THE VICTIMS Behavior of the Victims In a chapter entitled Auschwitz: The Death of Choice in Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit, the Holocaust scholar lawrence langer writes: After we peel the veneer of… …
125Old Norse — dǫnsk tunga, dansk tunga ( Danish tongue ), norrœnt mál ( Norse language ) Spoken in Nordic countries, Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales, Isle of Man, Normandy, Vinland, the Volga and places in between …
126Rudolf Rocker — Infobox Person name = Rudolf Rocker caption = Rudolf Rocker birth date = birth date|1873|3|25|mf=y birth place = Mainz, Germany death date = death date|1958|9|19|mf=y death place = Crompond, New York, United States other names = known for =… …
127Meshuggah — For the Yiddish and Hebrew word meshuga , see List of English words of Yiddish origin and List of English words of Hebrew origin. Meshuggah Meshuggah in Melbourne, Australia, 2008 Background i …
128Beatrice Bellman — Beatrice Bellman, more commonly known as Beattie, was a character from a series of television advertisements by British Telecom, famously played by Maureen Lipman. She was created, originally named Dora , by Richard Phillips, a Jewish advertising …
