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Schmidt's Jewish identity is mentioned throughout the show. On episode 5 of season 3, Schmidt seeks out the advice of his rabbi. When Schmidt and Cece get married at the end of season 5, the wedding ceremony is a mixed Jewish-Indian one. Like his character, actor Max Greenfield is Jewish. [156] 2012 Felicity Smoak: Arrow
In the Yiddish literature and in the whole Ashkenazi Jewish imaginary, is cited many Romani characters in books and musics like in Di Alte Tsigayner ('The Old Romani'), Di Kleine Tsigayner ('The Little Romani') and Budapesht ('Budapest'). The last one is about a Romani band that plays tragic love songs to a Jewish boy that have a broken heart ...
The Jewish Encyclopedia connects the two civil wars raging during the last decades of the first century BC, one in Judea between the two Hasmonean brothers Hyrcanus II and Aristobulus II, and one in the Roman republic between Julius Caesar and Pompey, and describes the evolution of the Jewish population in Rome:
The Roma Sub Rosa series (1991–2012) by Steven Saylor, starts with Roman Blood (1991); the books cover the period 92 BC to 46 BC. The Marcus Didius Falco series by Lindsey Davis, starts with The Silver Pigs; set in the reign of Vespasian. The SPQR series by John Maddox Roberts. The Marcus Corvinus (fictional character) series by David Wishart
A peculiarity of Yiddish names for Ashkenazi Jews was recording legal names in diminutive form. These dimunitive forms could be either hypocoristics (pet names) or deprecative. This tradition was more widespread for female names rather than for male names. There was a wide variety of suffixes added to a normative form of the name.
Roman is a masculine given name meaning from Rome, which originated within the Roman Empire, via Latin. In its initial sense, the title " Roman ", ( Romanus in Latin and Romanos in Greek) denotes a member of the Roman Empire, or belonging to or identifying with Roman (or Byzantine) culture.
Ariel This melodic, gender-neutral name is used to describe the city of Jerusalem and has a fierce meaning of “Lion of God.” (Plus, a p. Timeless classics, modern favorites, and totally unique ...
Darko Maver, a lauded fictional Yugoslav artist whose gruesome sculptures turned out to be photos of real murders found on rotten.com by Eva and Franco Mattes. David J. Broadfoot, the Member of Parliament from Kicking Horse Pass, representing the New Apathetic Party, a character played by Canadian comedian Dave Broadfoot.