ORḤOT ḤAYYIM — (Heb. אׁרְחוֹת חַיִּים; Ways of Life ), or Zavva at Rabbi Eliezer (Heb. צַוָּאַת רבִּי אֱלִיעזֶר; The Ethical Will of Rabbi Eliezer ), one of the most popular and best known short treatises on ethics and moralistic behavior in medieval Hebrew… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
BRENNER, JOSEPH ḤAYYIM — (1881–1921), Hebrew writer. A disciple of the psychology approach to literature and a writer of the uprooted generation, Brenner became a key figure of the school in modern Hebrew literature; he focused and ruthlessly exposed the anxieties, self… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
BAR-DAROMA (Schermeister), ḤAYYIM ZE'EV — (1892–1970), Israeli geographer. Bar Daroma was born on a farm near Volkovysk, Poland, and in his youth studied in the famous Lithuanian yeshivot of Mir and Slobodka, secretly acquiring at the same time a knowledge of Russian and secular subjects … Encyclopedia of Judaism
GAMZU, ḤAYYIM — (1910–1982), Israel drama and art critic. Born in Chernigov, Russia, he went to Palestine with his parents in 1923, and later left to study art and philosophy at the Sorbonne and the University of Vienna. The director of the Tel Aviv Museum, from … Encyclopedia of Judaism
NISSIM, ABRAHAM ḤAYYIM — (1878–1952), Iraqi government official and member of Parliament; born in Baghdad. Nissim served as an employee in the administration of the sultan s estates; he later became a senior officer of the German railways in Iraq. After the British… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
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
MATZ, ISRAEL — (1869–1950), U.S. manufacturer, philanthropist, and patron of Hebrew literature and scholarship. Matz, who was born in Kalvarija, Russian Poland, immigrated to America in 1890. He became an accountant, later entering the drug business. In 1906 he … Encyclopedia of Judaism
JERUSALEM — The entry is arranged according to the following outline: history name protohistory the bronze age david and first temple period second temple period the roman period byzantine jerusalem arab period crusader period mamluk period … Encyclopedia of Judaism
NEWSPAPERS, HEBREW — This article is arranged according to the following outline: the spread of the hebrew press main stages of development In Europe Through the Early 1880s ideology of the early press in europe until world war i in europe between the wars the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
LINGUISTIC LITERATURE, HEBREW — This article is arranged according to the following outline: introduction foreword the beginning of linguistic literature linguistic literature and its background the development of linguistic literature Foreword: A Well Defined Unit the four… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
