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| Brian David Josephson Brian David Josephson, FRS (born 4 January, 1940; Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh physicist. He became a Nobel Prize laureate in 1973 at the age of 33 with Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever, and he predicted the eponymous Josephson effect. Brian_David_Josephson | |
| Leo Frank Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) was an American man who became the only known Jew in history to be lynched on American soil. The manager of a pencil factory in Atlanta, Georgia, Frank was convicted in the rape and murder of a pencil-factory worker, 13-year-old Mary Phagan. Leo_Frank | |
| Dietrich Eckart Dietrich Eckart (23 March 1868 - 26 December 1923) was a German politician, one of the important early members of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP, or Nazi party) and a participant of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. Dietrich_Eckart | |
| History of antisemitism The history of antisemitism, hostile actions or discrimination against Jews as a religious or ethnic group goes back many centuries. Antisemitism has been called "the longest hatred." History_of_antisemitism | |
| One-state solution The one-state solution, also known as the binational solution, is a proposed approach to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Though increasingly debated in academic circles, especially outside the United States, this approach remains outside the range of alternatives in official efforts to resolve the conflict as well as in mainstream analysis, where it is eclipsed by the two-state solution, most recently agreed upon in principle by the government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority at the November 2007 Annapolis Conference. One-state_solution | |
| Henry Waxman Henry Arnold Waxman (born September 12, 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is an American politician. He has represented Henry_Waxman | |
| Rudolf Höss Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höß (in English commonly Hoess or Höss; November 25, 1901 – April 16, 1947) was an SS-Obersturmbannführer and from May 4, 1940 to November 1943 was the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, where it is estimated that more than a million people were killed. Rudolf_Höss | |
| Dorohoi Dorohoi is a city in the Botoşani County, Romania, on the right bank of the Jijia River, which broadens into a lake on the north. Dorohoi used to be a market for the timber and farm produce of the north Moldavian highlands; merchants from the neighboring states flocked to its great fair, held on the June 12. Dorohoi | |
| Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain For the period of Spanish cultural flourishing in the 17th century, see Spanish Golden Age.The Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain, also known as the Golden Age of Arab (or Moorish) Rule in Iberia, refers to a period of history during the Muslim rule of the Iberian Peninsula (the former Roman and Visigothic Hispania) in which Jews were generally accepted in society and Jewish religious, cultural, and economic life blossomed. Golden_age_of_Jewish_culture_in_Spain | |
| Rahm Emanuel Rahm Israel Emanuel (born November 29, 1959) is a jewish American politician currently serving as White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama. He served previously as Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Rahm_Emanuel | |
| Magen David Adom Magen David Adom (, abbr. MDA or Mada) is Israel's national emergency medical, disaster, ambulance and blood bank service. The name means "Red Shield of David" but is usually translated as "Red Star of David". Since June 2006, Magen David Adom has been officially recognized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as the national aid society of the state of Israel under the Geneva Conventions, and a member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Magen_David_Adom | |
| History of the Jews in Poland The history of the Jews in Poland dates back over a millennium. Poland was home to the largest and most significant Jewish community in Europe and served as the center for Jewish culture, ranging from a long period of religious tolerance and prosperity among the country's Jewish population, to its nearly complete genocidal destruction by Nazi Germany in the 20th century during the German occupation of Poland and the Holocaust. History_of_the_Jews_in_Poland | |
| Emma Lazarus Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 November 19, 1887) was an American poet born in New York City.She is best known for "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; its final lines were engraved on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in 1912. The sonnet was solicited by William Maxwell Evarts as a donation to an auction, conducted by the "Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty" to raise funds to build the pedestal. Emma_Lazarus | |
| Greek–Turkish relations Greek–Turkish_relations | |
| 43 Group The 43 Group was an English anti-fascist group set up by Jewish ex-servicemen after World War II. They did this when, upon returning to London, they encountered British fascist organisations such as Jeffrey Hamm's "British League of Ex-Servicemen" and later Oswald Mosley's reformed British Union of Fascists, or BUF. 43_Group | |
| Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain Talk:Golden_age_of_Jewish_culture_in_Spain | |
| Cautious User_talk:Cautious | |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center The Simon Wiesenthal Center (often abbreviated SWC), with headquarters in Los Angeles, California, was established in 1977, named for Simon Wiesenthal, the famous Nazi hunter. According to its mission statement, it is "an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to repairing the world one step at a time. Simon_Wiesenthal_Center | |
| Morley Harper User_talk:Morley_Harper | |
| Yishuv Yishuv (, literally "settlement") or Ha-Yishuv (the Yishuv, , or the full term הישוב היהודי בארץ ישראל Hayishuv Hayehudi b'Eretz Yisrael ("The Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel") is the term used in Hebrew referring to the body of Jewish residents in the Holy Land before the establishment of the State of Israel. Yishuv | |
| Law of Return Talk:Law_of_Return | |
| James Florio James Joseph "Jim" Florio (born August 29, 1937) is a Democratic politician who served as the 49th Governor of New Jersey from 1990 to 1994, the first Italian American to hold the position. He also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for 15 years between 1975 and 1990. James_Florio | |
| John Harsanyi John Charles Harsanyi () (born May 29, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary; died August 9, 2000 in Berkeley, California, United States) was a Hungarian-Australian-American economist and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner.He is best known for his contributions to the study of game theory and its application to economics, specifically for his developing the highly innovative analysis of games of incomplete information, so-called Bayesian games. John_Harsanyi | |
| Aezram User_talk:Aezram | |
| Nazi concentration camp badges Nazi concentration camp badges, primarily triangles, were part of the system of identification in Nazi camps. They were used in the concentration camps in the Nazi-occupied countries to identify the reason the prisoners had been placed there.The triangles were made of fabric and were sewn on jackets and shirts of the prisoners. These mandatory badges of shame had specific meanings indicated by their color and shape. Nazi_concentration_camp_badges | |
| List of Israeli civilian casualties in the Second Intifada list of Israeli non-combatant casualties of the Second Intifada. List_of_Israeli_civilian_casualties_in_the_Second_Intifada | |
| Stutthof concentration camp Stutthof was the first concentration camp built by the Nazi Germany regime outside of Germany. Stutthof_concentration_camp | |
| Judaism's view of Jesus Talk:Judaism's_view_of_Jesus | |
| Nazi concentration camp badges Talk:Nazi_concentration_camp_badges | |
| Yedioth Ahronoth Yedioth Ahronoth (, , lit. Latest News) is a daily newspaper published in Tel Aviv, Israel. Since the 1970s, it has been the most widely circulated paper in Israel. Yedioth_Ahronoth | |
| Qisarya The settlement of Qisarya () was established in 1884 by Circassian Bushnaks (Muslim immigrants from Bosnia) who built a small fishing village on the ruins of Caesarea Maritima by the Crusader fortress near Caesarea on the Mediterranean coast. The village decline in economic importance occurred when a railway was built bypassing the port, ruining their livelihood. Qisarya | |
| Flag of Israel The flag of Israel was adopted on October 28, 1948, five months after the country's establishment. It depicts a blue Star of David on a white background, between two horizontal blue stripes. The blue color is mandated only as "dark sky-blue", and varies from flag to flag, ranging from a hue of pure blue, sometimes shaded almost as dark as navy blue, to hues about 75% toward pure cyan and shades as light as very light blue. Flag_of_Israel | |
| Ber Borochov Dov Ber Borochov (June 21, 1881 - December 17, 1917) was a Marxist Zionist and one of the founders of the Labor Zionist movement as well as a pioneer in the study of Yiddish as a language. He was born in the town of Zolotonosha, Ukraine, under the Russian Empire. Ber_Borochov | |
| World War II crimes in Poland Approximately six million Polish citizens, divided nearly equally between non-Jewish and Jewish, perished during World War II. Most were civilians killed by the actions of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and their allies. At the Nuremberg Tribunal, three categories were established. These categories were waging war, war crimes and crimes against humanity. World_War_II_crimes_in_Poland | |
| Occupation of the Baltic states occupation of the Baltic states is the period in the history of the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) which started with the military occupation and annexation by the Soviet Union in 1939 and ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and re-establishment of the independent and democratic Baltic states. Occupation_of_the_Baltic_states | |
| Arnold Rothstein Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein (January 17, 1882New York businessman and gambler who became a famous kingpin of organized crime. Rothstein was also widely reputed to have been behind baseball's Black Sox Scandal, in which the 1919 World Series was fixed. His notoriety inspired several fictional characters based on his life, including "Meyer Wolfsheim" in F. Arnold_Rothstein | |
| Kfar Etzion massacre Kfar Etzion massacre was an act committed by Arab armed forces on May 13, 1948, the day before the Declaration of Independence of the state of Israel. Kfar_Etzion_massacre | |
| Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. (September 12, 1892 publisher of the 20th century, and founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.. His contemporaries included the likes of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, and (of the previous generation) Frank Nelson Doubleday, J. Henry Harper and Henry Holt. Knopf paid special attention to the quality of printing, binding, and design in his books, and earned a reputation as a purist in both content and presentation. Alfred_A._Knopf,_Sr. | |
| Treblinka extermination camp Talk:Treblinka_extermination_camp | |
| Kfar Malal Kfar Malal () is an agricultural moshav in the Sharon region in central Israel. Originally established as Ein Hai (lit. Fountain of the Living) in 1916, it was later named after Rabbi Moshe Leib Lilienblum (משה לייב לילינבלום), whose acronym in Hebrew is MLL (מל"ל). Kfar_Malal | |
| Danish resistance movement Danish resistance movement () was an underground insurgency movement to resist the German occupation of Denmark during World War II. Due to the unusually lenient terms given to Denmark by the Nazi occupation authority, the movement was slower to develop effective tactics on a wide scale than in some other countries. Danish_resistance_movement | |
| Free City of Danzig The Free City of Danzig (; ) was an autonomous Baltic Sea port and city-state including over two hundred surrounding towns, villages and settlements, established on January 10, 1920, in accordance with the terms of Part III, Section XI of the Treaty of Versailles of 1919, which split it off from Germany along with other territories of the German Empire. Free_City_of_Danzig | |
| Elsa Erich Elsa Erik (or Elsa Ehrich) was an Nazi wardress during World War II. She worked first as an Aufseherin at Ravensbrück, and was later transferred to Majdanek. Little personal information is known about Erich. In August 1940 she volunteered to be a warden at Ravensbrück, in 1942 she was transferred to Majdanek. Elsa_Erich | |
| Hildegard Lächert Hildegard Lächert (January 20, 1920 in Berlin – 1995) was a German nurse and a notable female guard (Aufseherin) at several German World War II concentration camps. She became notorious for her service at Ravensbrück, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau. After the war she spent 27 years in prison altogether for her brutal treatment of inmates during her service. Hildegard_Lächert | |
| Maria Mandel Maria Mandel (also spelled Mandl), (January 10 1912 - January 24, 1948) was infamous for her key role in the Holocaust as a top-ranking official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp where she is believed to have been directly responsible for the deaths of over 500,000 female prisoners.Mandel was born in Münzkirchen, Oberösterreich, Austria. Maria_Mandel | |
| Bromberg-Ost Bromberg-Ost or Konzentrationslager Bromberg-Ost , was the female subcamp of the German concentration camp Stutthof between 1944-1945, in the city of Bydgoszcz.The direct order to set up subcamp Bromberg-Ost was issued on 12 September, 1944, by the superintendent of Stutthof concentration camp, Paul Werner Hoppe. Bromberg-Ost | |
| Israel–Gaza Strip barrier Israeli Gaza Strip barrier (see mapseparation barrier first constructed under the leadership of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Completely encircling the Gaza Strip, the barrier is made up of wire fencing with posts, sensors and buffer zones on lands bordering Israel, and concrete and steel walls on lands bordering Egypt. Israel–Gaza_Strip_barrier | |
| Israel, Palestinians, and the United Nations Issues relating to the state of Israel, the Palestinian people and other aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict occupy a large amount of debate time, resolutions and resources at the .The adoption of UNSCOP's recommendation to partition Palestine by the United Nations General Assembly in 1947 was one of the earliest decisions of the UN. Israel,_Palestinians,_and_the_United_Nations | |
| ODESSA ODESSA, (for German Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen, “Organization of Former SS Members”) is an international Nazi network believed to have been set up towards the end of World War II by a group of SS officers in order to prevent their prosecutions for war crimes. ODESSA | |
| War of Attrition Talk:War_of_Attrition |
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