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Felix Mendelssohn | Elijah - San Francisco Choral Society  His grandfather Moses was one of Europe's most influential thinkers and the last ... Felix's parents added Bartholdy to the family name, converted to Protestantism, and had their ... became a committed Lutheran, he refused to adopt Bartholdy as a surname. ... Elijah's assignment: to return the dispersed Jewish tribes to Israel.
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Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy), (Jacob Ludwig) Felix - Baker's ...  Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy), (Jacob Ludwig) Felix, famous German composer, ... his mother was Lea Salomon; the family was Jewish, but upon its settlement in ... the father decided to become a Protestant and added Bartholdy to his surname.
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Felix Mendelssohn Biography - life, family, childhood, children ...  Felix Jakob Ludwig Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was born in Hamburg, Germany, ... and Leah Mendelssohn and the grandson of the famous Jewish philosopher Moses ... to Protestantism (a branch of Christian religion), and changed the family name ... Felix and his elder sister, Fanny, received their early piano instruction from...
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Free Flashcards about COMPOSERS - StudyStack  HIS FAMILY WAS JEWISH BUT HIS FATHER BECAME A PROTESTANT AND ADDED BARTHOLDY TO THE LAST NAME, MENDELSSOHN. BORN IN 1895...
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Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy - Wikipedia  Abraham Ernst Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a German banker and philanthropist. He was the father of Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn. ... By the time of Moses's death in 1786 the Mendelssohn family was well ... In 1804, Abraham Mendelssohn became a partner in his brother Joseph's banking company.
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some jewish witnesses for christ. - Calvary Baptist Church  For instance, several of St. Paul's relatives bearing Greek names became Christians, but we ... "Juden Mission, a history of Protestant Missions among the Jews since the ... Ridley Herschell (father of Lord Chancellor Herschell), who gives his ...... He quotes Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Hiyya, and other Jewish authors, and...
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Baruch Spinoza - Wikipedia  Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin. By laying the ... Spinoza was raised in the Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam. ... The family was expelled from Spain in 1492 and fled to Portugal. ..... Spinoza kept the Latin (and so implicitly Christian) name Benedict de Spinoza, maintained...
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Composers Flashcards | Quizlet  Felix Mendelssohn. This composer's father, Abraham, converted to Protestantism & appended Bartholdi to the family name.
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A Family Affair | BillMoyers.com  Nov 17, 1996 ... Seeking a descendant, Abraham takes Hagar as a wife, who ... So Sarah treated her slave and Hagar fled into the wilderness. ... After Ishmael was born, God told Abraham, You and Sarah will have your ..... But I have a hard time being sympathetic with a man who sends his own son away into the desert...
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Moses Mendelssohn - The Jewish Reformer - The Jewish Magazine  Born in 1729 to a poor Jewish family in Dessau, a town in Germany on the ... his father, Mendel, was a poor scribe and Moses later took the family name .... Mendelssohn soon became one of the best know German writers. ... Felix Mendelssohn was a grandson who converted to Christianity was a famous German composer.
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Bartholomew's World - Maimonides  Moses Maimonides ('son of Maimon') was born in 1138 in Cordoba, Spain, to a ... His father Maimon was a prominent rabbi, judge, and communal leader, who ... Judaeo-Arabic, a dialect of Arabic used by Jews living in the Islamic lands. ... Within several years, he became one of the physicians to the Sultan's court in Cairo.
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Bartok, Bela - Music and the Holocaust  He is regarded as one of Hungary's greatest composers, along with Franz Liszt. ... Bartk left for America after Hungary joined the Axis Powers in November 1940. ... After his father died the family moved to Budapest and Bartk studied at the ... There are six streets in Budapest named after the composer, and he appears on...
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How Race and Religion are Connected and Why Isaac and Ishmael ...  Aug 27, 2010 ... Today, thousands of years later, it is through Ishmael that Arabs and ... blood, those Middle Eastern descended Jews are still our cousins. ... He shall become the father of 12 princes, and I will make him a great nation, (Genesis 17:20). ... The covenant was with Isaac because he was the Son of both...
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Abraham - Wikipedia  Abraham originally Abram, is the first of the three patriarchs of Judaism. His story features in the holy texts of all the Abrahamic religions and Abraham plays a prominent role as an example of faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. ... Haran begat Lot (who was thus Abram's nephew), and died in his native city, Ur of the...
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5. Abraham's Call and God's Covenant (Genesis 11:26 ... - Bible.org  Feb 16, 2007 ... After his father died, God made him move to this country where you now ... it was Terah, Abram's father, who brought Abram (along with other ..... He believed God's promise of a son and of countless descendants through him.
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Feast of St. Bartholomew (Luke 22.24-30) and Confirmation of Sarah ...  Aug 25, 2008 ... It's his family name, Bar-Tholmai, son of Tholmai  John's Gospel tells us his ... they passed on to us the teaching of Jesus and the meaning of His birth, ... We don't know much about Nathanael Bartholomew outside of the New ... further abused him  some accounts say by stoning, others by crucifixion.
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Of what tribes were Mary, Joseph, John the Baptist and his parents?  Was John the Baptist a Levite? Was he actually considered to be a priest, or solely a prophet? It says that his mother was from the 'daughters of Aaron'. ... Zacharias was of the tribe of Levi, more specifically a descendant of Aaron through...
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Abraham (name) - Wikipedia  This is a list of people named after Abraham, the Biblical patriarch the father of the Abrahamic ... 1 Given name; 2 Surname; 3 See also; 4 References ... Abraham of Bulgaria (died 1229), a Russian convert from Islam to Eastern Orthodoxy,...
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Peace - - Powered by FusionBB - Knifeforums.com  When the Jews began to re-occupy Israel, many of the Hashemites fled to .... any of the Arab descendants, either direct or collateral, of the prophet Muhammad, ... and his descendants and the borders of their land are defined.
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prophecy - What is the significance of changing the names of Abram ...  Mar 21, 2013 ... In the very beginning of His conversation with Abram, God says to Abram: ... Here, God changes the name of Abram to Abraham and Sarai to Sarah. ... the world, was called to holy living prior to God's fulfillment of the promise.
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Moses Mendelssohn - Wikipedia  Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729  4 January 1786) was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the Haskalah, the 'Jewish enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is indebted. Born to a poor Jewish family in Dessau, Principality of Anhalt, and originally ... His father's name was Mendel, and it was Moses who adopted the surname...