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  2. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. - Wikipedia

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    Her Jewish grandmother, Sylvia Simon, takes Margaret to Rosh Hashanah services and hopes her granddaughter will embrace Judaism. Margaret befriends Nancy, a neighbor who is the same age. Nancy seems confident and knowledgeable about many subjects, including sex.

  3. Israeli citizenship law - Wikipedia

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    Israeli citizenship law details the conditions by which a person holds citizenship of Israel. The two primary pieces of legislation governing these requirements are the 1950 Law of Return and 1952 Citizenship Law. Every Jew has the unrestricted right to immigrate to Israel and become an Israeli citizen. Individuals born within the country ...

  4. Louis Armstrong - Wikipedia

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    In his memoir, Louis Armstrong + the Jewish Family in New Orleans, La., the Year of 1907, he described his discovery that this family was also subject to discrimination by "other white folks" who felt that they were better than Jews: "I was only seven years old but I could easily see the ungodly treatment that the white folks were handing the ...

  5. Frankenberger thesis - Wikipedia

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    Frankenberger thesis. The Frankenberger thesis, also Frankenreiter thesis, is a thesis that is widely considered to be refuted in historical research and which claims Adolf Hitler 's Jewish descent. Referring to the parentage of Hitler's father Alois Hitler - who was born in 1837 as the illegitimate son of the housemaid Anna Maria Schicklgruber ...

  6. Musk family - Wikipedia

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    The Musk family is a wealthy family of South African origin that is largely active in the United States and Canada. The Musks are of English, Anglo-Canadian, Pennsylvania Dutch, and Swiss descent. The family is known for its entrepreneurial endeavours. [1] [2] [3] Elon Musk was formerly the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net ...

  7. Fiddler on the Roof - Wikipedia

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    Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Dairyman) and other tales by Sholem Aleichem. The story centers on Tevye, a milkman in the village of Anatevka ...

  8. Minyan - Wikipedia

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    In Judaism, a minyan ( Hebrew: מניין \ מִנְיָן mīnyān [minˈjan], lit. (noun) count, number; pl. מניינים \ מִנְיָנִים ‎ mīnyānīm [minjaˈnim]) is the quorum of ten Jewish adults required for certain religious obligations. In more traditional streams of Judaism, only men 13 and older may constitute a minyan ...

  9. Bernile Nienau - Wikipedia

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    Nienau, her mother Karoline, and her maternal grandmother Ida (née Morgenstern) Voit (1867-1942) moved to Munich around 1928. Voit, a widow or divorcee, was a Roman Catholic teacher of Jewish descent. Bernile was one-quarter Jewish, "mixed race of the second degree" according to the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. Though subject to some discrimination ...