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61Zeder — Sf erw. fach. (9. Jh.), mhd. zeder, cēder m., ahd. zēdarboum, cēderboum m. Entlehnung Entlehnt aus l. cedrus, das aus gr. kédros stammt, dessen weitere Herkunft nicht geklärt ist. Das maskuline Genus im Mittelhochdeutschen ist eine Nachwirkung… …
62Zeder — Le nom désigne le cèdre en allemand. Il est le plus souvent porté par des Juifs askhénazes et semble avoir une valeur symbolique liée à un verset des Psaumes (voir Teitelman). Avec le même sens : Zederbaum, Zederboim, Ceder, Cederbaum, Cederbom,… …
63ABRAMOVITSH, SHOLEM YANKEV — (Jacob, also Mendele Moykher Sforim; 1835 or 1836–1917), Hebrew and Yiddish writer, often called the grandfather of modern Judaic literature. Abramovitsh was born in Kapulia (Kopyl), near Minsk; he lived in Berdichev from 1858 to 1869 and… …
64BERDICHEV — BERDICHEV, town in the historic region of Volhynia, now in Zhitomir district, Ukraine. Apart from two single references to individual Jews from Berdichev in 1593 and 1602, there is no evidence that a Jewish community existed in Berdichev before… …
65BLOOD LIBEL — BLOOD LIBEL, the allegation that Jews murder non Jews, especially Christian children, in order to obtain blood for the Passover or other rituals: most blood libels occurred close to Passover, being basically a another form of the belief that Jews …
66EICHENBAUM (Gelber), JACOB — (1796–1861), Haskalah poet, educator, and mathematician. Born in Krystianopol, Galicia, he was married at the age of 11, but divorced when his father in law suspected him of secular leanings. He married again in 1815 and settled in Zamosc where… …
67HASKALAH — (Heb. הַשְׂכָּלָה), Hebrew term for the Enlightenment movement and ideology which began within Jewish society in the 1770s. An adherent of Haskalah became known as a maskil (pl. maskilim). The movement continued to be influential and spread, with …
68INFORMERS — (Heb. malshinim, slanderers ; moserim, informers ; delatorim, delators ), informers or slanderers who denounce individual Jews or the Jewish people in general to a foreign ruler. In Talmudic Tradition The attitude of the Talmud toward such… …
69KATTOWITZ CONFERENCE — KATTOWITZ CONFERENCE, a convention of Ḥibbat Zion societies from various countries held in Kattowitz (i.e. katowice , then in Germany) in 1884. With the activation of the movement to settle Ereẓ Israel in the early 1880s and the establishment of… …
70LIFSHITS, SHIYE-MORDKHE — (1829–1878), pioneering Yiddish lexicographer, author, and a theoretician of the Yiddishist movement in the 19th century. With a solid intellectual background (he was a student of mathematics, physics, chemistry, languages) Lifshits propounded… …
