POPULATION — THE JEWISH POPULATION Growth by Aliyah In 1882 the Jewish population of Ereẓ Israel numbered some 24,000, roughly 5% of the total, and about 0.3% of the world Jewish population. Since then there has been an almost continuous flow of aliyah, which … Encyclopedia of Judaism
BNEI AKIVA — (Heb. בְּנֵי־עֲקִיבָא, Sons of Akiva ), the youth movement of Ha Po el ha Mizrachi , named after the tanna R. Akiva . It was founded in Jerusalem in 1929. Chief Rabbi Avraham Yiẓḥak kook served as the spiritual leader of the movement. From the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
GOLDMAN, EDWIN FRANKO — (1878–1950), U.S. bandmaster, brother of Mayer clarence goldman . Goldman was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and studied music at the National Conservatory, New York, where Anton Dvořak taught him composition. He began his career as solo cornetist … Encyclopedia of Judaism
GRODZISK WIELKOPOLSKI — (Ger. Graetz; Yid. גריידיץ), town in W. Poland, formerly in the province of Posen (Prussia). Jewish merchants frequented the town in the middle of 16th cantury and settled there at the end of the century The Jewish population numbered 374 in 1663 … Encyclopedia of Judaism
KIBBUTZ MOVEMENT — The kibbutz, or kevuẓah (plural: kibbutzim, kevuẓot) is a voluntary collective community, mainly agricultural, in which there is no private wealth and which is responsible for all the needs of the members and their families. The kibbutz movement… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
MORPURGO — MORPURGOa, North Italian family of Austrian origin. Its earliest known member was Israel b. Pethahiah isserlein (1390–1460), who settled in Marburg, Styria, and became known also as R. Israel Marburg. In 1624 members of the Marburger or Marpurger … Encyclopedia of Judaism
SCOUTING — The Jewish youth movements which emerged in the first half of the 20th century in central and eastern Europe (e.g., blau weiss ) were influenced more by the German variety (mainly the Wandervögel) than by the British scouting movement founded by… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
POLITICAL LIFE AND PARTIES — Introduction It was largely due to the existence of the pre state political parties, which had conducted intensive political activities for almost half a century within the framework of the yishuv , under the British Mandate for Palestine, that… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Meyuchas — The Meyuchas (Meyuhas) are a Jerusalem Sephardi family that has produced notable rabbis and merchants for hundreds of years. They trace their ancestry to Spain before the Alhambra Decree.[1] Modern settlement on the site of the City of David… … Wikipedia
