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LAG B'OMER

Lag B'Omer is a Jewish holiday celebrated on the 18th day of Iyar, the 33rd day of the Omer, and is a day of celebration for the whole nation of Israel. According to tradition, the students of the great sage Rabbi Akiva, who had been dying in great numbers, stopped dying on this day, and this is why it is a day of celebration, or rejoicing. It is also the day on which Rabi Shimon bar Yochai died, and although not normally an occasion for celebration, tradition has it that upon his death he revealed great wisdom, and so on Lag B'Omer he is also celebrated with people flocking to his grave in the city of Meron, singing and dancing and lighting bonfires.
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BENJAMIN OF TUDELA

Benjamin of Tudela was a Jewish rabbi. He was born in the twelfth century at Navarre and died in 1173. He is chiefly known by his Itinerary, a record of his journey through Italy, Greece, Palestine, Persia, and other parts of Asia, as well aa Egypt and Sicily. His notes were first published in Hebrew at Constantinople in 1543, being afterwards translated into most European languages.
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HERMANN ADLER

Hermann Adler was a German Jewish scholar. He was born in 1839 at Hanover and died in 1911. Educated at London University, in 1863 he became principal of the Jews' College in London. In 1879 he was appointed assistant to his father, the chief rabbi in the British Empire, and in 1891 succeeded to the office of chief rabbi himself. Hermann Adler distinguished himself by his liberal and sympathetic outlook on life, and was prominent in moves for social improvement.
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MEIER GOLDSCHMIDT

Meier Aaron Goldschmidt was a Danish novelist. He was born in 1819 and died in 1887. In 1840 he founded what became the most famous of Danish newspapers, The Corsair, celebrated for its brilliant wit and audacious satire. In 1845 he published his first novel, A Jew, which was translated into English and several other European languages. In 1847 he published a collection of short stories, and began the issue of another newspaper, North and South. His chief novels are Homeless, The Heir, The Haven, and The Vacillator. He also published a series of short stories of Jewish life, and a play, The Rabbi and the Knight. His style is said to be one of the most graceful in the language.
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MORDECAI KAPLAN

Mordecai Menahem Kaplan was an American rabbi and philosopher. He was born in 1881 at Svencionys, Lithuania and died in 1983. After emigrating with his family to the USA in 1889, Kaplan studied theology and became ordained as a rabbi in 1902. He founded the Jewish Center in New York in 1916 and in 1922 the Society for the Advancement of Judaism. He was a reformist, campaigning for a more equal role for women within the Jewish religion.
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RABBI

A rabbi is the chief religious leader of a synagogue.
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SHOLEM ALEICHEM

Sholem Aleichem is the pen name of the Ukrainian writer Solomon Rabinowitz. He was born in 1859 and died in 1916. A former rabbi, he left Russia in 1905 and travelled to the USA and Switzerland. The film Fiddler on the Roof is based on his works about small east European Jewish towns.
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EDWARD G ROBINSON

Edward G Robinson (real name Emanuel Goldenberg) was a Romanian-born American actor. He was born in 1893 at Bucharest and died in 1973 of cancer. He arrived in the USA when he was ten years old and abandoned his plans to become either a rabbi or a lawyer after taking up acting at college. He appeared on Broadway in 1915, before making his film debut in the 1923 The Bright Shawl.
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RABBI

Rabbi is American slang for a senior official who exerts influence or patronage on behalf of a person.
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