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  2. Irvin D. Yalom - Wikipedia

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    Yalom was born in Washington, D.C. [1] About fifteen years prior to his birth in the United States, Yalom's Jewish parents emigrated from Belarus and eventually opened a grocery store in Washington DC.

  3. List of English words of Yiddish origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).

  4. Parchment - Wikipedia

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    The equivalent material made from calfskin, which was of finer quality, was known as vellum [2] (from the Old French velin or vellin, and ultimately from the Latin vitulus, meaning a calf); [3] while the finest of all was uterine vellum, taken from a calf foetus or stillborn calf.

  5. Anglo-Saxon runes - Wikipedia

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    A rune in Old English could be called a rūnstæf (perhaps meaning something along the lines of "mystery letter" or "whisper letter"), or simply rūn. Futhorc inscriptions hold diverse styles and contents. Ochre has been detected on at least one English runestone, implying its runes were once painted.

  6. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...

  7. Shalom - Wikipedia

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    Shalom (Hebrew: שָׁלוֹם šālōm) is a Hebrew word meaning peace and can be used idiomatically to mean hello. [1] [2]As it does in English, [citation needed] it can refer to either peace between two entities (especially between a person and God or between two countries), or to the well-being, welfare or safety of an individual or a group of individuals.

  8. When Nietzsche Wept (novel) - Wikipedia

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    First edition (publ. Basic Books) When Nietzsche Wept is a 1992 novel by Irvin D. Yalom, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist, and psychotherapist.

  9. Vellum - Wikipedia

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    Quran from the 7th century written on vellum. Though Christopher de Hamel, an expert on medieval manuscripts, writes that "for most purposes the words parchment and vellum are interchangeable", [8] a number of distinctions have been made in the past and present.