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  2. Haskalah - Wikipedia

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    The Haskalah was multifaceted, with many loci which rose and dwindled at different times and across vast territories. The name Haskalah became a standard self-appellation in 1860, when it was taken as the motto of the Odessa-based newspaper Ha-Melitz, but derivatives and the title Maskil for activists were already common in the first edition of Ha-Meassef from 1 October 1783: its publishers ...

  3. History of the Jews in Odesa - Wikipedia

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    [10]: 100 Even after the Russian government had dissolved all Jewish Kehillah in 1844, the Odesa Kehillah continued to function as a semi-autonomous body in the region, whose meetings were held at regular intervals. [4]: 43 Between 1837 and 1844, the number of Jewish merchants who were members of the kuptsy category increased from 169 to 221 ...

  4. Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews of Russia

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    The Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews of Russia (Hebrew: Hevra Mefitsei Haskalah; Russian: Obshchestvo dlia rasprostraneniia prosveshcheniia mezhdu evreiami v Rossii, or OPE; sometimes translated into English as "Society for the Spread of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia") was an educational and civic association that promoted the acculturation of Russian Jews and their ...

  5. List of state routes in Alabama - Wikipedia

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    Often more than one route number shares the same roadway, so identifying which route the mile markers are for is often difficult. In no case does a state route number mirror a U.S. Highway number. As such, the following state routes do not exist: 11, 29, 31, 43, 45, 72, 78, 80, 82, 84, 90, 98, 231, 278, 280, 331, 411, or 431.

  6. List of Underground Railroad sites - Wikipedia

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    Appoquinimink Friends Meetinghouse — Odessa [17] Corbit–Sharp House — Odessa [24] The Tilly Escape site, Gateway to Freedom: Harriet Tubman's Daring Route through Seaford — Seaford [24] [25] Friends Meeting House — Wilmington [17] Thomas Garrett House — Wilmington [24]

  7. File:Map of the Jewish Diaspora in the World.svg - Wikipedia

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    Empty map: File:World map (Miller cylindrical projection, blank).svg; Some sources available on page Jews on the English Wikipedia; Number of Jews per country considering enlarged estimates: World Jewish Population in the World. Berman Jewish DataBank (2018). Retrieved on 22 June 2019. Author: Allice Hunter

  8. Zionism - Wikipedia

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    Zionism initially emerged in Central and Eastern Europe as a secular nationalist movement in the late 19th century, in reaction to newer waves of antisemitism and in response to the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment. [5] [6] The arrival of Zionist settlers to Palestine during this period is widely seen as the start of the Israeli–Palestinian ...

  9. Menachem Mendel Lefin - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] In 1791, he published a French-language pamphlet advocating for Jewish reform, criticizing the Hasidic movement for opposing integration. [2] Among his influential works is a Musar text titled Cheshbon Ha-Nefesh (Moral Accounting), which was published in 1808, based in part on the ethical program described in the autobiography ...