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  2. Musar movement - Wikipedia

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    The Musar movement (also Mussar movement) is a Jewish ethical, educational and cultural movement that developed in 19th century Lithuania, particularly among Orthodox Lithuanian Jews. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Hebrew term Musar ( מוּסַר ) is adopted from the Book of Proverbs (1:2) describing moral conduct, instruction or discipline, educating ...

  3. Jewish medicine - Wikipedia

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    Jewish practitioners participated in the exchange of knowledge between Christian and Muslim writers and practitioners. The degree to which Jewish women practiced midwifery in the Middle Ages depended largely on the areas in which they lived. In Iberia, for instance, Jews were well accustomed to a mix of Muslim, Christian, and their own Jewish ...

  4. Jewish studies - Wikipedia

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    In addition, the university has several institutes dedicated to specific subjects of Jewish studies, such as the Institute of Contemporary Jewry, [8] the Institute for Research in Jewish Law, [9] the Institute of Archaeology, [10] the Center for Jewish Art, [11] the Jewish Music Research Center, [12] the Center for Jewish Education, [13] and ...

  5. Google Scholar - Wikipedia

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    Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. . Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes peer-reviewed online academic journals and books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, and other ...

  6. Criticism of Judaism - Wikipedia

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    The Jewish practice of brit milah, or circumcision of infant males, has been attacked in both ancient and modern times as "painful" and "cruel," or tantamount to genital mutilation. [ 41 ] Hellenistic culture found circumcision to be repulsive: Circumcision was regarded as a physical deformity, and circumcised men were forbidden to participate ...

  7. Medical genetics of Jews - Wikipedia

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    Jewish populations, and particularly the large Ashkenazi Jewish population, are ideal for such research studies, because they exhibit a high degree of endogamy, and at the same time are a large group. Jewish populations are overwhelmingly urban and are concentrated near biomedical centers where such research has been carried out.

  8. Hasdai ibn Shaprut - Wikipedia

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    Jaén Monument to Hasdai ibn Shaprut in Jaén, Spain. Hasdai (Abu Yusuf ben Yitzhak ben Ezra) ibn Shaprut (Hebrew: חסדאי אבן שפרוט; Arabic: حسداي بن شبروط, Abu Yussuf ibn Shaprut) born about 915 at Jaén, Spain; died about 970 at Córdoba, Andalusia, was a Jewish scholar, physician, diplomat, and patron of science.

  9. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies - Wikipedia

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    Gershon Hundert: winner of the Judaica Reference Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries (2008) [25] Moshe Idel: winner of the Israel Prize for Jewish thought (1999) [26] Sara Japhet: former president of the World Union of Jewish Studies (2005-2009); winner of the Israel Prize for Biblical studies (2004). [27]