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Henry Abramson, the Glossary

Henry Abramson (born 1963) is a Canadian historian who is the current dean of the Lander College of Arts and Sciences at Touro College in Flatbush, New York.^[1]

34 relations: Alhambra Decree, Brooklyn, Cedarhurst, New York, Cornell University, Daf Yomi, Dean (education), Doctor of Philosophy, Flatbush, Florida Atlantic University, Harvard University, Haskalah, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Iroquois Falls, Jewish history, Judaism, Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, Lawrence, Nassau County, New York, Mendel Weinbach, Miami, Michael Marrus, Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, Natan Gamedze, New York City, Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem, Paul Robert Magocsi, Rebbe, Shevchenko Scientific Society, The Holocaust, Tomer Devorah, Touro University System, University of Oxford, University of Toronto, Warsaw Ghetto, Zvi Gitelman.
Florida Atlantic University faculty
Historians of the University of Oxford
Touro College faculty

Alhambra Decree

The Alhambra Decree (also known as the Edict of Expulsion; Spanish: Decreto de la Alhambra, Edicto de Granada) was an edict issued on 31 March 1492, by the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain (Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon) ordering the expulsion of practising Jews from the Crowns of Castile and Aragon and its territories and possessions by 31 July of that year.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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Cedarhurst, New York

Cedarhurst is a village in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.

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Daf Yomi

Daf Yomi (דף יומי, Daf Yomi, "page of the day" or "daily folio") is a daily regimen of learning the Oral Torah and its commentaries (also known as the Gemara), in which each of the 2,711 pages of the Babylonian Talmud is covered in sequence.

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Dean (education)

Dean is a title employed in academic administrations such as colleges or universities for a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, over a specific area of concern, or both.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.

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Flatbush

Flatbush is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Florida Atlantic University

Florida Atlantic University (Florida Atlantic or FAU) is a public research university with its main campus in Boca Raton, Florida and satellite campuses in Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter, and Fort Pierce.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Haskalah

The Haskalah (הַשְׂכָּלָה; literally, "wisdom", "erudition" or "education"), often termed the Jewish Enlightenment, was an intellectual movement among the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, with a certain influence on those in Western Europe and the Muslim world.

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel.

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Iroquois Falls

Iroquois Falls is a town in Northern Ontario, Canada, with a population of 4,537 at the 2016 census.

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Jewish history

Jewish history is the history of the Jews, their nation, religion, and culture, as it developed and interacted with other peoples, religions, and cultures.

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Judaism

Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.

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Kalonymus Kalman Shapira

Kalonimus Kalman Szapiro (English: Kalonymus Kalman Shapira or Klonimus Kalmish Szapiro) (20 May 1889–3 November 1943), was the Grand Rabbi of Piaseczno, Poland, who authored a number of works and was murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

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Lawrence, Nassau County, New York

Lawrence is a village in Nassau County, New York, United States.

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Mendel Weinbach

Chona Menachem Mendel (Mendel) Weinbach (September 24, 1933 – December 11, 2012) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, educator, author, and speaker.

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Miami

Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.

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Michael Marrus

Michael Robert Marrus (February 3, 1941December 23, 2022) was a Canadian historian of the Holocaust, modern European and Jewish history and international humanitarian law.

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Moses ben Jacob Cordovero

Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (משה קורדובירו Moshe Kordovero &lrm;; 1522–1570) was a central figure in the historical development of Kabbalah, leader of a mystical school in 16th-century Safed, Ottoman Syria.

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Natan Gamedze

Natan Gamedze (born 1963, Swaziland) is a Haredi rabbi and lecturer.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem

Ohr Somayach (also Or Samayach or Ohr Somayach International) is a yeshiva based in Jerusalem founded in 1970 catering mostly to young Jewish men, usually of college age, who are already interested in learning about Judaism.

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Paul Robert Magocsi

Paul Robert Magocsi (born January 26, 1945) is an American professor of history, political science, and Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto.

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Rebbe

A Rebbe (translit) or Admor (אדמו״ר) is the spiritual leader in the Hasidic movement, and the personalities of its dynasties.

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Shevchenko Scientific Society

The Shevchenko Scientific Society, founded in 1873, is a Ukrainian scientific society devoted to the promotion of scholarly research and publication.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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Tomer Devorah

Tomer Devorah or The Palm Tree of Deborah (תומר דבורה) was written in Hebrew in the middle of the 16th century by Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, a Jewish kabbalist in Safed, Ottoman Syria.

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Touro University System

Touro University is a private Jewish university system headquartered in New York City, with branches throughout the United States as well as one each in Germany, Israel and Russia.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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University of Toronto

The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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Warsaw Ghetto

The Warsaw Ghetto (Warschauer Ghetto, officially Jüdischer Wohnbezirk in Warschau, "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; getto warszawskie) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust.

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Zvi Gitelman

Zvi Gitelman is a professor of Political Science, and Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Abramson

Also known as Abramson, Henry.

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Florida Atlantic University faculty

Historians of the University of Oxford

Touro College faculty

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