Jewish society

The qahal (), sometimes spelled kahal, was a theocratic organizational structure in ancient Israelite society according to the Hebrew Bible, and an Ashkenazi Jewish system of a self-governing community or kehila from medieval Christian Europe (France, Germany, Italy). This was adopted in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (16th–18th centuries) and its successor states, with an elected council of laymen, the 'qahal', at the helm of each kehila. This institution was exported also further to the east as Jewish settlement advanced. In Poland it was abolished in 1822, and in most of the Russian Emp

pejorative term used for a Jewish person that holds antisemitic views

social process or ideology where Jews give up or lose connection to their own heritage

Left-wing ideologies and movements among Jews

perceiving oneself as a Jew

names used by Jews and of Jewish origin

Jewish prankster (1757–1811)

Jewish religious views on interfaith marriages

organized efforts of Jews

in Judaism, the special inheritance rights of the firstborn son, either literally or metaphorically in relation to Israel as the firstborn among the nations

aspect of history