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The density of the Jewish settlement in the Moshav in 1905
The Hebrew text: The yellow area covers the distribution of the Jews of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, their original places of residence and their immigration areas.

The expression 'Eastern European Jewry' has two meanings. Its first meaning refers to the current political spheres of the Eastern European countries and its second meaning refers to the Jewish communities in Russia and Poland. The phrase 'Eastern European Jews' or 'Jews of the East' (from German: Ostjuden) was established during the 20th century in the German Empire and in the western provinces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, aiming to distinguish the integrating Jews in Central Europe from those Jews who lived in the East. This feature deals with the second meaning of the concept of Eastern European Jewry- the Jewish groups that lived in Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, Romania, Hungary and modern-day Moldova in collective settlement (from Hebrew: Kibbutz- קיבוץ). Many of whom spoke Yiddish.

At the beginning of the 20th century, over 6 million Jews lived in Eastern Europe. They were organized into large and small communities, living in big cities such as Warsaw (with a population of about 300,000 Jews) as well as in small towns with populations of only tens or hundreds of Jews.

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History of the Jews in Europe

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Yiddish dialects

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Ashkenazi Jews

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Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry

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The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

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Fiddler on the Roof

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Hasidic Judaism

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Aba Dunner

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religious activist, who represented and worked for the interests of European Jewry, first as the personal assistant to Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld, then as...

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Tallit

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Khazars

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History of a Jewish Kingdom in Europe) Mosad Bialik, Tel Aviv, 1951. "Poliak sought the origins of Eastern European Jewry in Khazaria" (Golden 2007a, p...

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Jewry Wall

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Pale of Settlement

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Semion Goldin

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research fellow at the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and Eastern European Jewry in Israel. Goldin is responsible for the programmatic development...

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Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev

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Bloodlands

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Soviet invasion of Poland

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Solomon Grayzel

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Moisei Beregovsky

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Gershon Agron

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Galician Jews

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approximately 45.4% Poles, 42.9% Ruthenian, and 0.8% Germans. Most of Galician Jewry lived poorly, largely working in small workshops and enterprises, and as...

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Languages of Europe

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over 250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family. Out of a total European population of 744 million as of...

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