you can't assume that any of the last names are actually Jewish, no matter how Jewish they may sound to you, or how many Jewish families you know with that name. The third most common Jewish surname in America (after Cohen and Levy) is Miller, which is also obviously a very ...
A very large majority of the 2,800 personal names (referring to about 15,000 persons) contained in the Old Testament convey a special meaning, apart from their personal application, while the meanings of the remainder probably have merely been obscured by textual corruption or the insufficient ...
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A number of words which can be traced back to Middle Persian, in part even to the Avesta language, have been brought to light and incorporated in the Persian dictionary; likewise interesting word-formations and meanings of well-known words which were not to be found elsewhere. Further interest...
In order to understand this and other different product images, symbolic man-ifestations, and meanings of Russian food stores for ex-Soviet Jewish migrants in Israel and Germany it is necessary to understand the tensions surrounding self-im-ages and statuses with which ex-Soviet Jewish participants...
’ We should always interpret this word combining all three meanings. We must have the discipline to teach in an ethical way. An ethical way to interact with a person through a rebuke is one evoked by love, not animosity, jealousy, or a lust for power. Another way to provide love is ...
As in all Semitic languages, the concrete meanings of the word-stems are more or less apparent and present in the consciousness of the speaker or writer in all the derived word-forms. Hebrew, moreover, admits of almost no compounds, except in proper names. There is a great lack of ...
The one by Dreisin is interesting because it gives the meanings in the Lithuanian and southern dialects. Harkavy has published a Judæo-German-English and English-Judæo-German dictionary, though it must be said that the Judæo-German which it contains is mainly corrupt German. ...
In the introductory section of Sefer Hakhmoni as well as in Sefer ha-mazzalot Donnolo ascribes to the term tli two distinct meanings. Firstly, it is the imaginary line connecting the two points known as "lunar nodes," along which the orbit of the Moon intersects the terrestrial ecliptic....
2.2 Food as the Foundation of Socio-Cultural IdentityAs soon as the scarcity of food during the initial phase had been resolved to someextent and the refugees’ very lives were no longer threatened by starvation, moremeanings and functions could be ascribed to the phenomenon of‘food’and it ...