TSCHLENOW, JEHIEL — (Yefim Vladimirovich; 1863–1918), Zionist leader. Born in Kremenchug, Ukraine, into a well todo ḥasidic family, Tschlenow studied medicine in Moscow where his family had settled in 1876. He graduated as a physician in 1888 and became a well known … Encyclopedia of Judaism
PETROGRAD CONFERENCE — PETROGRAD CONFERENCE, seventh national conference of the Russian Zionists and the first after the February 1917 Revolution. It opened on June 6, 1917. Five hundred and fifty two delegates, representing 140,000 shekel holders from 680 cities and… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Jechiel — oder Jehiel ist der Name oder Namensteil folgender Personen: Ascher ben Jechiel (* 1250; † 1327; auch unter den Namen Ascheri und Rosch bekannt), mittelalterlicher Talmudist Jehiel Baschan (Yehiel Bassan), jüdischer Gelehrter, Autor von Responsen … Deutsch Wikipedia
LANGUAGE WAR — (Ger. Sprachenkampf), campaign waged during the winter of 1913/14 by the Hebrew Teachers Union in Ereẓ Israel against the hilfsverein der deutschen juden over the issue of the language of instruction in Hilfsverein educational institutions. The… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
MINSK CONFERENCE — MINSK CONFERENCE, the second conference of Russian Zionists, held publicly and with the government s permission in Minsk from Sept. 4 to Sept. 10, 1902. The number of representatives was estimated at 526. The Minsk Conference was in essence the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Elisheva Bichovsky — Elisheva Bichovsky, née à Riazan (Russie) en 1888 et décédée à Tibériade (Israël) le 27 mars 1949, est une poétesse et auteure de langue hébraïque, née de parents non juifs et qui émigra en Terre d Israël en 1927. Sommaire 1 Biog … Wikipédia en Français
BALFOUR DECLARATION — BALFOUR DECLARATION, official statement which arthur james balfour , the British foreign secretary, addressed to Lionel Walter Rothschild (2nd Baron Rothschild) on November, 2, 1917. It conveyed a declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
HERZL, THEODOR — (Binyamin Ze ev; 1860–1904), founder of political Zionism and the World Zionist Organization. Herzl was born in Budapest, Hungary, to an affluent family and educated in the spirit of German Jewish enlightenment. In 1878 he entered the law faculty … Encyclopedia of Judaism
KAUFMAN, AVRAHAM YOSIFOVICH — (1885–1971), Jewish public figure, head of Jewish communities in the Far East. He was born in Mglin, Chernigov province, into a family of Ḥasidim and, on his mother s side, he was great grandson of the founder of this movement, shneur zalman of… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
TECHNION, ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — TECHNION, ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Israel s major engineering university; situated in Haifa. paul nathan of Berlin, one of the leaders of the hilfsverein der deutschen juden , was the father of the plan for a technical school in Haifa.… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
