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| 1. | TABERNACLE: The portable tent-like structure that served the Israelites as a sanctuary during their wanderings in the wilderness and in the ...
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| 2. | LEMBERG Capital of Galicia, Austria; 180 miles east of Cracow and 60 miles from the Russian frontier. Its population in 1869 ...
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| 3. | ELIJAH OF YORK Tosafist; supposed to have been killed in the York massacre of 1190. In Tosef., Yoma, 27a, he is called Elijah ...
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| 4. | ELIJAH'S CHAIR: At every circumcision Elijah, "the angel of the covenant," as he is called in Malachi (iii. 1), is supposed to ...
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| 5. | ARIEL 1. Proper name of a man (Ezra viii. 16). The name is recognizable in the name of the Gadite clan ...
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| 6. | BOSTON: Capital and chief city of the state of Massachusetts in the United States.Nothing definite is known of Jews in Boston ...
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| 7. | NAZARETH Town in Galilee, situated in a valley to the north of the plain of Esdraelon. It is about 1,200 feet ...
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| 8. | ATTAR, IBN: A family name among the Sephardic Jews. In Arabic the word "attar" means "apothecary" or "spice-dealer"; but it is found ...
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| 9. | NAMES OF GOD. Like other Hebrew proper names, the name of God is more than a mere distinguishing title. It represents the Hebrew ...
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| 10. | TOLEDO: Several Jewish authors who wrote in Arabic were born and probably educated at Toledo, even after its conquest by the ...
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