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Kalfon, Shalom

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
Shalom Kalfon (né Shalom Kalfon-Poney) was born in Sefrou, Morocco in 1927. He attended the Em Habanim schools in Sefrou and Fez and thereafter the Hebrew Teachers Seminar in Casablanca. He became a Zionist youth counselor and was active in clandestine Aliya (ʿAliya Bet – see Zionism Among Sephardi/Mizraḥi Jewry). In 1947, he attempted clandestine immigration to Palestine on the ship Yehuda ha-Levi which was intercepted by the British navy and was interned in Cyprus for three months. In 1948, he…

Judeo-Malayalam

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Jewish Malayalam Norman A. Stillman

Wine

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Food and Drink - Wine and Alcoholic Beverages Norman A. Stillman

Contributor Biographies. Contributors

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
Abdar, CarmellaPhD Among her main areas of expertise are folk art and material culture of Yemenite Jews, mainly rural communities. She has published several articles: “The dress code as an expression of ethno-religious status of the Jews”; “The Habbanic bride’s dress in 1950s in Israel—a bridge between past and present”; “The Yemenite jewelry and the myth of antiquity” She wrote the book Weaving a Story [Hebrew, 1999] about a village in Yemen and edited the book Maʾase Rokem: Dress and Jewelry in…
Date: 2015-09-03

Assaka

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see SousNorman A. Stillman

Ben Nūrīʾel, Bābāʾī

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see Bābāʾī ben NūrīʾelNorman A. Stillman

Henna

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see Clothing, Jewelry and Make-up; MarriageNorman A. Stillman

La Esperanza

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see La Buena Esperansa, Izmir, 1874-1917, La Buena Esperansa, Izmir, 1842Norman A. Stillman

Milan

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see ItalyNorman A. Stillman

Beni Hayoun

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see Dra’aNorman A. StillmanBibliography: S

Great Britain

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see United KingdomNorman A. Stillman

Karasu

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see CarassoNorman A. Stillman

Seattle

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see United States of AmericaNorman A. Stillman

Manastir

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see Monastir (Bitola, Manastir)Norman A. Stillman

Mendes, Alvaro

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see Ben Yaʿesh (also Ibn Yaʿish or Abenæs), SolomonNorman A. Stillman

Yosef ben Isaac Ben Nayim

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see Ben Nāʾīm FamilyNorman A. Stillman

Rav ha-Kolel

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see Hakham Bashi (Chief Rabbi)Norman A. Stillman

Sābāwī Yūnis al-

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see FarhūdNorman A. Stillman

Ezekiel's Tomb (al-Kifl)

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
The traditional tomb of the biblical prophet Ezekiel is situated in the village of al-Kifl (coll. Ir. Ar. al-Chifl) on the Euphrates River, 32 kilometers (20 miles) south of the town of Hilla in central Iraq. The name of the town is from Ezekiel’s epithet of Dhū ʾl-Kifl (the Guarantor) in Islamic lore (Ezekiel, Ar. Ḥizqīl, is not mentioned in the Qurʾān). The first known mention of the tomb is in the Epistle of Sherira Gaon ( Iggeret Rav Sherira Gaʾon) in the tenth century. Benjamin of Tudela visited the shrine around 1170 (Adler ed., pp. 67-68). His account notes that “people come from a distanc…

Mahdiyya, al-

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
Al-Mahdiyya is a coastal city in present-day Tunisia, 200 kilometers (124 miles) south of Tunis, founded by the first Fatimid caliph, ʿUbayd Allāh al-Mahdī (r. 909–934), to be his capital in place of Qayrawan. The establishment of a capital on the coast represented a singular break with Islamic tradition, which since the time of the conquests in the seventh century was to build new urban administrative centers inland away from the Byzantine Sea (as the Mediterranean was called). Al-Mahdiyya did not replace Qayrawan …
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