• The Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation is an independent French organization founded by Isaac Schneersohn in 1943 in the town of Grenoble, France...
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  • Isaac Schneersohn (category French people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent)
    Liberation and became the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation. Schneersohn remained President of the CDJC and editor of its Revue until his death...
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    Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI). Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation (Grenoble) "Holocaust centre slated". The Tuscoola News...
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    Léon Poliakov (category French people of Russian-Jewish descent)
    Russian Jewish family, Poliakov lived in Italy and Germany until he settled in France. He cofounded the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation, established...
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    The First Jewish–Roman War of 70 CE and Bar Kokhba revolt of 135, with their severe Roman reprisals, led to the breakup of much of Jewish society and...
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    "telling"; plural: Haggadot) is a Jewish text that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder. According to Jewish practice, reading the Haggadah at the...
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    Jews (redirect from Jewish)
    other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. The Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים‎, ISO 259-2: Yehudim, Israeli pronunciation: [jehuˈdim]) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious...
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    interpret Jewish scripture. Although there are now profound differences among Jewish denominations of Rabbinic Judaism with respect to the binding force of halakha...
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    savior and liberator figure in Jewish eschatology who is believed to be the future redeemer of the Jews. The concept of messianism originated in Judaism...
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  • Victims of War; however, the bureau then held them in secret, refusing to release copies later, even to the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation (CDJC)...
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  • the direct control of the Pope until 1790, and a small Jewish community continued to live there in relative isolation. From the time of the French Revolution...
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    Sefirot (redirect from Tree of Sephiroth)
    alleged introduction of multiplicity into Jewish monotheism. The seeming plurality of the One God is a result of the spiritual evolution of God's light, which...
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    literature, in its broadest sense, is the entire spectrum of rabbinic writings throughout Jewish history. However, the term often refers specifically to...
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    "book" bound editions of the Pentateuch, whereas the "scroll" form is called a sefer Torah ("book [of the] Torah"). In modern Jewish practice: A printed...
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    The Holocaust in Russia (category World War II prisoner of war massacres)
    During World War II, Léon Poliakov established the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation (1943) and after the war, he assisted Edgar Faure at...
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    American Jewish Committee, while the French prosecution presented many documents that it had obtained from the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation. The...
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    The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present...
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    History of the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation (CDJC)". Archived from the original on 16 March 2015. "Auschwitz-Birkenau: 4 out of 10 German...
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    National Library of Israel (NLI; Hebrew: הספרייה הלאומית, romanized: HaSifria HaLeumit; Arabic: المكتبة الوطنية في إسرائيل), formerly Jewish National and...
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  • Jews and Halloween (category Jewish culture)
    Halloween, but liberal denominations of Judaism such as the Reform movement permit celebrating the holiday. The Jewish holiday of Purim has often been compared...
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    Yiddish (category Jewish languages)
    other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish (ייִדיש‎, יידיש‎ or אידיש‎, yidish or idish, pronounced [ˈ(j)ɪdɪʃ], lit. 'Jewish'; ייִדיש-טײַטש‎, historically...
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  • Research Center, May 12, 2015 Ain, Stewart. "Staying The Course: John Paul II built a closeness between the Vatican and Jewish community, and Jewish leaders...
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  • Drancy internment camp (Mémorial de la Shoah de Drancy) Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation (Paris) Mémorial de la Shoah (Paris) Mémorial des Martyrs...
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  • Holocaust survivors (category Aftermath of the Holocaust)
    devoted to documentation of the Holocaust at the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation. In Israel, the Yad Vashem memorial was officially established...
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    Giovanni Palatucci (category People from the Province of Avellino)
    topic of scholarly debate. A national commission of historians recommended by the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities, the Center for Contemporary Jewish...
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    Judæo-Spanish Language (Ladino) and Literature, Jewish Encyclopedia Yitshak (Itzik) Levy An authentic documentation of Ladino heritage and culture Sephardic Studies...
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    acronym. YIVO is now a partner of the Center for Jewish History, and serves as the de facto recognized language regulator of the Yiddish language in the...
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    Romaniote Jews (redirect from Jewish Greeks)
    ethnic Jewish community native to the Eastern Mediterranean. They are one of the oldest Jewish communities in existence and the oldest Jewish community...
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    Judeo-Persian (category Endangered languages of Iran)
    Judeo-Persian refers to both a group of Jewish dialects spoken by the Jews living in Iran and Judeo-Persian texts (written in Hebrew alphabet). As a collective...
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    department (Brittany). The Camp de Rivesaltes, in the department of Pyrénées-Orientales. The Jewish detainees were sent to Drancy internment camp, near Paris...
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