Cities with a population over 1000 database. 2013.
ḤASIDISM — ḤASIDISM, a popular religious movement giving rise to a pattern of communal life and leadership as well as a particular social outlook which emerged in Judaism and Jewry in the second half of the 18th century. Ecstasy, mass enthusiasm, close knit … Encyclopedia of Judaism
EDREHI (Heb. אדרעי), MOSES BEN ISAAC — (c. 1774– c. 1842), Moroccan scholar. Edrehi was born in agadir , Morocco, but when the Jews were expelled from that city Moses, while still a boy, was taken with his parents to mogador , and after 1784 to Rabat. He began to preach in public at… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ELIJAH BEN ḤAYYIM — (1530?–1610?), rabbi and halakhist, known as Maharanaḥ or M orenu ha Ra v ib n Ḥ ayyim. Elijah was born in Adrianople and in about 1575 was appointed chief rabbi of Constantinople. His writings – including novellae, discussions on most of the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ḤAFEẒ ḤAYYIM — (Heb. חָפֵץ חַיִים), kibbutz in the southern Coastal Plain of Israel, 3 mi. (5 km.) S.E. of Gederah, affiliated with Po alei Agudat Israel . In 1937 Ha Kibbutz ha Me uhad members founded a village there, Sha ar ha Negev, but later moved north to… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ḤAZZAN (Hazan) — ḤAZZAN (Hazan), Turkish family, apparently of Spanish origin. Many of its members were scholars. In addition to Israel Moses b. Eliezer Ḥazzan , the following members of the family may be mentioned. JOSEPH BEN ELIJAH ḤAZZAN (d. after 1694) was a… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
KANIUK, YORAM — (1930– ), Israeli writer. Kaniuk, who was born in Tel Aviv, fought in the War of Independence, during which he was wounded, spent the 1950s as journalist and painter in New York, and in 1961 settled down in Tel Aviv. One of the country s most… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
POLEMICS AND POLEMICAL LITERATURE — There were internal polemics with Jewish sectarians in the talmudic and post talmudic periods, and a rich Jewish polemical literature in the Middle Ages. It does not include the continuous and sustained controversies which characterize rabbinical … Encyclopedia of Judaism
