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71JEWISH SUCCESSOR ORGANIZATIONS — in Germany, organizations for tracing and recovering heirless Jewish property of those Jews who were victims of the Nazis. Jewish Restitution Successor Organization (JRSO) The Americans were foremost in setting up a framework, and the first… …
72Jewish Science — is a Judaic group comparable with the New Age movement. It is not a separate sect, many members also attending services at conventional synagogues. It is an interpretation of Jewish philosophy that was originally conceived by Rabbi Alfred G.… …
73Jewish quota — was a percentage that limited the number of Jews in various establishments. In particular, in 19th and 20th centuries some countries had Jewish quotas for higher education, a special case of Numerus clausus. These were an attempt to limit the… …
74Jewish Care — is a British charity, working mainly in London and South East England, providing health and social welfare support services for vulnerable members of the Jewish community. Tony Blair, when he was British Prime Minister, said of the charity:… …
75Jewish assimilation — is a social and religious process of loss of the Jewish identity of an individual by marriage to a spouse that is not Jewish, or the abandonment of the Jewish religion to adopt another religion which is more common, and thus more acceptable at… …
76Jewish Secularism — refers to the largest section of the Jewish people who are secular as well as the body of work produced by secular Jews over the past 250 years. Statistics in America and throughout the world now reveal that almost half of all Jews define… …
77Jewish emancipation — was the abolition of discriminatory laws as applied especially to Jews in Europe in the nineteenth century, the recognition of Jews as equal to other citizens, and the formal granting of citizenship to European Jews. Emancipation was a major goal …
78Jewish Polish history during the 19th century — Jewish Polish history during the 1800s:Jews of Poland within the Russian Empire (1795 1918) Main articles: History of Poland (1795 1918) and History of the Jews in Russia and Soviet Union Official Russian policy would eventually prove to be… …
79JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL, THE — JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL, THE, the literary arm of the organized Jewish community. The Council was established in 1946 in North America and became an international organization in 2005 with the establishment of the Jewish Book Council in Israel. The… …
80JEWISH SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY — (or ŻPS, the initials of the party s name in Polish), party existing in Galicia from 1905 to 1920, the equivalent there of the bund . In the early 1890s attempts were made in Galicia to establish a Jewish workers party to be federatively joined… …
