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Moishe Lewis, the Glossary

Moishe Lewis (born Losz, sometimes known as Morris Lewis, 1888–1950) was a Jewish labour activist in eastern Europe and Canada.^[1]

Avi Lewis

Avram David "Avi" Lewis (born May 1967) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, former host of the Al Jazeera English show Fault Lines and former host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) current-affairs programs CounterSpin and On the Map. Moishe Lewis and Avi Lewis are Canadian people of Belarusian-Jewish descent and Lewis family (Canada).

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Belarus

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.

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Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks (italic,; from большинство,, 'majority'), led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF; Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif, FCC) was a federal democratic socialistThe following sources describe the CCF as a democratic socialist political party.

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Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish-American architect, artist, professor and set designer. Moishe Lewis and Daniel Libeskind are Lewis family (Canada).

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David Lewis (Canadian politician)

David Lewis (born David Losz; June 23 or October 1909 – May 23, 1981) was a Canadian labour lawyer and social democratic politician. Moishe Lewis and David Lewis (Canadian politician) are Belarusian Jews, Canadian people of Belarusian-Jewish descent, Lewis family (Canada), people from Svislach and Polish emigrants to Canada.

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Forced displacement

Forced displacement (also forced migration or forced relocation) is an involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region.

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General Jewish Labour Bund

The General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia (translit), generally called The Bund (Der Bund, cognate to Bund) or the Jewish Labour Bund (Der Yidisher Arbeter-Bund), was a secular Jewish socialist party initially formed in the Russian Empire and active between 1897 and 1920.

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Jewish Labor Committee

The Jewish Labor Committee (JLC) is an American secular Jewish labor organization founded in 1934 to oppose the rise of Nazism in Germany.

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Kalmen Kaplansky

Kalmen Kaplansky, (January 5, 1912 – December 10, 1997) was a civil, human rights and trade union activist in Canada. Moishe Lewis and Kalmen Kaplansky are Canadian civil rights activists, Canadian socialists, Jewish Canadian activists, Jews from the Russian Empire and Polish emigrants to Canada.

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Michele Landsberg

Michele Landsberg OC, (born 12 July 1939) is a Canadian journalist, author, public speaker, feminist and social activist. Moishe Lewis and Michele Landsberg are Lewis family (Canada).

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Montreal

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.

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Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism, organized labour, criticism of corporate globalization, fascism and capitalism. Moishe Lewis and Naomi Klein are activists from Montreal, Canadian socialists and Lewis family (Canada).

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New Democratic Party

The New Democratic Party (NDP; Nouveau Parti démocratique, NPD) is a federal political party in Canada.

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Ontario New Democratic Party

The Ontario New Democratic Party (Nouveau Parti démocratique de l'Ontario; abbr. ONDP or NDP) is a social democratic political party in Ontario, Canada.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Polish–Soviet War

The Polish–Soviet War (late autumn 1918 / 14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic before it became a union republic in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution, on territories which were previously held by the Russian Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy following the Partitions of Poland.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Shtetl

Shtetl or shtetel is a Yiddish term for the small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish populations which existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust.

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Stephen Lewis

Stephen Henry Lewis (born November 11, 1937) is a Canadian politician, public speaker, broadcaster, and diplomat. Moishe Lewis and Stephen Lewis are Canadian people of Belarusian-Jewish descent and Lewis family (Canada).

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Svislach

Svislach or Svisloch (Svislač,; Свислочь; Świsłocz; סיסלעוויטש) is a town in Grodno Region, Belarus.

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Tanning (leather)

Tanning, or hide tanning, is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather.

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The Workers Circle

The Workers Circle or Der Arbeter Ring (דער אַרבעטער־רינג), formerly The Workmen's Circle, is an American Jewish nonprofit organization that promotes social and economic justice, Jewish community and education, including Yiddish studies, and Ashkenazic culture.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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References

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

Also known as Maishe Lewis, Moishe Losz, Morris Lewis, Moshe Lewis.

Moishe Lewis, the Glossary

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See also

19th-century Belarusian people

20th-century Belarusian Jews

Canadian Ashkenazi Jews

Canadian civil rights activists

Canadian people of Belarusian-Jewish descent

Canadian people of the Russian Civil War

Canadian trade unionists

Jewish Canadian activists

Lewis family (Canada)

People from Svislach

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