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YIVO | Arts
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VISIT A CJH PARTNER WEB SITE. YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH. Scissor and Iron, Our People (Big Prize). Polish/Yiddi. All societies and all religions codify their laws and traditions. Jews do so in two ways: the minhagim,. A kind of list of local Jewish customs (and prohibitions), which is practiced alongside halakhah,. The laws derived from the Talmud and binding on all Jews. It is these unique customs make perfect backdrops, plot points, and catalysts for dramas acted out on stage or in film. Defec...
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YIVO | Rapoport, Shloyme Zaynvl
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VISIT A CJH PARTNER WEB SITE. YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH. Rapoport, Shelomoh Yehudah. Members of the Vilner Trupe, Poland, ca. 1919, including Dovid Herman (top row, left), M. Kowalski (second from left), Alter Kacyzne (third) Shloyme Zaynvl Rapoport (fourth), Frieda Blumenthal (next to Rapoport), Chaim Sznejer (to Blumenthal’s left), Sonia Alomis (front row, left), and Leyb Kadison (front row, right). (YIVO). SEE MEDIA RELATED TO THIS ARTICLE. An-ski Ethnographic Expedition and Museum. That he l...
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YIVO | Shtetl
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VISIT A CJH PARTNER WEB SITE. YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH. View of the marketplace, Rezhishtshev (Rzhyshchiv, Ukr.), ca. 1900. The arrow points to the birthplace of Yiddish writer Lamed Shapiro. (YIVO). SEE MEDIA RELATED TO THIS ARTICLE. Find more information about. At the Center for Jewish History:. SEARCH LIBRARY and ARCHIVES CATALOG. You will be redirected. To the Web site for the. Origins of the Shtetl. The World of the Shtetl. The Transformation of the Shtetl: Poland and the Soviet Union.
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YIVO | Religion
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VISIT A CJH PARTNER WEB SITE. YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH. A crowd of Hasidic men greeting the Spinker rebbe, Vişeu. Hasidism’s basic tenets are associated with the teachings of the eighteenth-century figure Yisra’el ben Eli`ezer, known as the Ba’al Shem Tov. Master of the Good Name, abbreviated to Besht). The Besht seen as a healer, miracle worker, and mystic. Spills out into the streets). The Besht’s disciples included community rabbis and Torah scholars such as Ya’akov Yosef of Polnoye. This ti...
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YIVO | Ber of Bolechów
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VISIT A CJH PARTNER WEB SITE. YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH. Find more information about. At the Center for Jewish History:. SEARCH LIBRARY and ARCHIVES CATALOG. You will be redirected. To the Web site for the. In some sources, Ber Birkenthal; 1723 1805), wine merchant, Hebrew writer, and memoirist. Born in the Polish province of Ruthenia (later Galicia. His successful business required extensive travel to Hungary. For the tasting, mixing, and importation of nonritual wines such as Máslás, Tokay, an...
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YIVO | Language & Literature
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VISIT A CJH PARTNER WEB SITE. YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH. The History of Yiddish. A page from the Worms Maḥzor,. 1272 This page contains t. Hebrew, also known as the holy tongue, was not used for everyday communication between Jews in Eastern Europe. It and another ancient language, Aramaic, were used for study and prayer, and for official records and documents. Highly educated Jews also used Hebrew in written correspondence. And proclaimed Yiddish the national language of the Jewish people.
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YIVO | Glossary
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VISIT A CJH PARTNER WEB SITE. YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH. Pl, ‘agunot;. Lit, chained or anchored ) A married woman who either cannot prove the death of her husband or has been refused a get. Get] Under Jewish law she is prohibited from remarrying until she has been released from their union by her husband. Commonly aggadah or hagadah; pl., agadot. Sections of classical rabbinic literature. Of an exegetical or homiletical (as opposed to legal) nature. Agadah. Oraḥ ḥayim, Yoreh de‘ah, Even ha-‘ezer,.
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YIVO | Economic Life
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VISIT A CJH PARTNER WEB SITE. YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH. Négociants et marchands Israélites. Jewish Traders and Merchants). Denis Auguste Marie Raffet. Print depicting Jewish merchants in Odessa, from Voyage dans la Russie. By Anatole Demidoff (Paris: Ernest Bourdin, 1840). (Gross Family Collection). SEE MEDIA RELATED TO THIS ARTICLE. Find more information about. At the Center for Jewish History:. SEARCH LIBRARY and ARCHIVES CATALOG. You will be redirected. To the Web site for the. Until their e...
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VISIT A CJH PARTNER WEB SITE. YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH. Navigation: Getting Around the Site. Images, Audio, and Video. Welcome to The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. This Web site is your portal into the study of East European Jewry. This User Guide includes helpful information that will make using the encyclopedia easier. Box is located in the top right corner of every page of the site and allows you to search the entire contents of the encyclopedia. (Read more about Search. Is at...
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