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  2. Cossacks - Wikipedia

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    This institutionalized method of control bred discontent among the Cossacks. By the end of the 16th century, they began to revolt, in the uprisings of Kryshtof Kosynsky (1591–1593), Severyn Nalyvaiko (1594–1596), Hryhorii Loboda (1596), Marko Zhmailo (1625), Taras Fedorovych (1630), Ivan Sulyma (1635), Pavlo Pavliuk and Dmytro Hunia (1637 ...

  3. History of the Cossacks - Wikipedia

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    The Don Cossacks known for their attacks on the Ottoman Empire and its vassals (like the Tatars), although they did not shy away from pillaging other neighbouring communities. Their actions exacerbated the tension at the southern border of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ( Kresy ), resulting in almost constant low-level warfare in those ...

  4. Jewish Cossacks - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, Jewish students also played an important role in the battalion of White Don Cossacks led by Vasily Chernetsov, so that a whole regiment of the battalion was called the “Jewish Legion”. The Chernetsov Cossacks (Chernetsovtsy) gained prominence by initiating armed resistance against Bolsheviks in the Don area. [12]

  5. Cossack uprisings - Wikipedia

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    The Cossacks provided refuge for runaway serfs and bandits, and often mounted unauthorized raids and pirate expeditions against the Ottoman Empire. [9] While the Cossack hosts in the Russian Empire served as buffer zones on its borders, the expansionist ambitions of the empire relied on ensuring control over the Cossacks, which caused tension ...

  6. Holocaust theology - Wikipedia

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    Wishing to prevent deviation from the established order of prayers, he opposed the composition of new prayers to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. [16] There were Messianist Zionists, at the other end of the spectrum, who also saw the Holocaust as a collective punishment for ongoing Jewish unfaithfulness to God. Mordecai Atiyah was a ...

  7. Pogroms in the Russian Empire - Wikipedia

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    In the adult animated musical drama film American Pop, set during Imperial Russia during the late 1890s, a rabbi's wife and her young son Zalmie escape to America while the rabbi is killed by the Cossacks. In the animated film An American Tail, set during and after the 1880s pogroms, Fievel and his family's village is destroyed by a pogrom ...

  8. 12 Holocaust Books That Everyone Should Read

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    3. Denial: Holocaust History on Trial by Deborah E. Lipstadt. In her 1993 book, Denying the Holocaust, Lipstadt took on a Holocaust denier she called “one of the most dangerous spokespersons for ...

  9. Martyrdom in Judaism - Wikipedia

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    The events described in the Bible known as the Binding of Isaac is the primal and archetypal example of martyrdom in the Torah. Abraham is called upon to fulfill God 's commandment to slaughter his son Isaac , [ 5 ] and Isaac to willingly submit to this and offer his life up as a korban [ 6 ] or "sacrifice" and hence, if need be, dying as a ...