Word: judaica
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...most cherished accomplishment is helping to edit the Encyclopaedia Africana. Every people in the world had an encyclopedia but black people. There's an Encyclopaedia Judaica, Encyclopaedia Britannica and finally, at the turn of the 21st century, we have one as well...
...composition Kri’ot, the first piece of Israeli classical music to join a solo saxophone—played by Radnofsky—and a string quartet. Oliveros’ premier received a five-minute standing ovation from the audience. Sponsored by the Combined Jewish Philanthropies and the Judaica Division of the Harvard College Library, the night celebrated the Israeli independence day through a selection of musical works by some of Israel’s most esteemed composers of classical music. Violet Gilboa, the curator and producer of the show, said that its purpose was to educate the community...
Today, the shelves are organized into sections from the more traditional philosophy to Judaica...
Twersky's colleagues described him as a leader who helped establish the academic study of Judaica as a rigorous discipline and someone who set a religious example for his community...
Irving Moskowitz is no household name. Even in Miami Beach, where the 69-year-old doctor lives most of the time, he is barely known, except perhaps as the husband of the nice lady who runs the Judaica shop over on Lincoln Road. In Los Angeles, where he made a considerable fortune, Moskowitz is renowned--in the tiny, working-class town of Hawaiian Gardens, that is--for taking over its bingo parlor and turning it into a multimillion-dollar money machine...