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1 day ago · The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination ...
3 days ago · The term Ashkenazi also refers to the Nusach Ashkenaz, the liturgical tradition used by Ashkenazi Jews in their siddur (prayer book). A nusach is defined by a liturgical tradition's choice of prayers, the order of prayers, the text of prayers, and melodies used in the singing of prayers. [citation needed]
4 days ago · The Catholic Priest & Martyr Who Helped Free Communist Poland: The Heroic Story of Blessed Father Jerzy Popiełuszko Blessed Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, Public Domain
1 day ago · Zionism was a colonizing and expansionist ideology and movement", and that "Zionist ideology and practice were necessarily and elementally expansionist." Morris describes the Zionist goal of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine as necessarily displacing and dispossessing the Arab population. [184]
3 days ago · Dictionaries of the languages of early common law. Law French & Law Latin. For background see 'The three languages of the common law' in Baker, The Common law tradition: lawyers, books and the law ( Legal Hist. B167d) and the sources mentioned in the footnotes. Baker’s Manual of Law French at KL44.BAK 1990 is the best guide for anyone needing ...
2 days ago · Witchcraft, as most commonly understood in both historical and present-day communities, is the use of alleged supernatural powers of magic. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft. Traditionally, "witchcraft" means the use of magic or supernatural powers to inflict harm or misfortune on others, and this remains the most common and widespread ...
4 days ago · History of Latin. One of the seven ceiling frescoes painted by Bartolomeo Altomonte in his 80th year for the library of Admont Abbey. An allegory of the Enlightenment, it shows Aurora, goddess of dawn, with the geniuses of language in her train awakening Morpheus, god of dreaming, a symbol of man. The geniuses are Grammar, Didactic, Greek ...
