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enwiki-00000030-0000-0000-0000 | "Bassy" Bob Brockmann
"Bassy" Bob Brockmann is an American record producer, recording and mixing engineer. | {
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He has collaborated on recordings with The Fugees, Notorious BIG, Craig Mack, Toni Braxton, Babyface, Cee Lo Green, Soulive, Surface, Brian McKnight, Christina Aguilera, Brandy, Mary J Blige, Faith Hill, Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow and the Dixie Chicks. | {
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enwiki-00000030-0001-0000-0000 | "Bassy" Bob Brockmann
Brockmann attended the University of Miami for music and played trumpet in The Brooklyn Funk Essentials. | {
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enwiki-00000030-0001-0000-0001 | "Bassy" Bob Brockmann
From 1998 to 2007, Brockmann owned NuMedia Studios on lower Broadway in New York City. | {
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enwiki-00000030-0002-0000-0000 | "Bassy" Bob Brockmann, Awards and honors
Brockmann has been nominated for more than 30 Grammy Awards, and has won twice: for Christina Aguilera's 2000 album Mi Reflejo and for Kirk Franklin's 1999 album The Nu Nation Project. | {
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enwiki-00000030-0002-0000-0001 | "Bassy" Bob Brockmann, Awards and honors
His mix of "There You'll Be" from the film Pearl Harbor was nominated for a 2001 "Best Song" Oscar. | {
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enwiki-00000031-0000-0000-0000 | "Believing Women" in Islam
"Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an is a 2002 book by Asma Barlas, published by the University of Texas Press. | {
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According to Barlas, the Qur'an does not support patriarchy and modern day Muslims were not properly interpreting the text. | {
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She argues that the Qur'an supports equal spousal and marital rights and does not differentiate among sex and gender. | {
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enwiki-00000031-0000-0000-0003 | "Believing Women" in Islam
Barlas attributes incorrect interpretations of the Qur'an to the hadith, shariah, and sunnah. | {
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Barlas stated that men were mostly the ones who had developed shariah. | {
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enwiki-00000031-0001-0000-0000 | "Believing Women" in Islam, Background
As of 2002, Barlas was the head of the Ithaca College Department of Politics, and the interim director of the college's Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity. | {
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enwiki-00000031-0001-0000-0001 | "Believing Women" in Islam, Background
She is a Muslim and believes the Qur'an is of divine origin. | {
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enwiki-00000031-0002-0000-0000 | "Believing Women" in Islam, Content
Kristin Zahra Sands of the New York University Department of Middle Eastern Studies described the book as a Quranic exigesis rather than being an eternal study of exigesis. | {
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Barlas criticizes the traditional use of the hadith (sayings of Muhammed, not in the Quran) and tafsir (interpretation of the Quran), texts she sees as important to the misogynistic customs and beliefs in contemporary Islam, in Part I; these texts are often used together with the Qur'an in Islam. | {
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enwiki-00000031-0002-0000-0002 | "Believing Women" in Islam, Content
She advocates using itjihad (informed independent thought). | {
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The author has criticized some English translations of the Qur'an, and she argued that the document may be explored in any language. | {
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The main references used for the portions regarding the traditions of the Quran and tafsir are secondary sources and English translations. | {
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enwiki-00000031-0004-0000-0000 | "Believing Women" in Islam, Content
Sands described "Believing Women" as "Building particularly on the work of Fazlur Rahman and Farid Esack". | {
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enwiki-00000031-0005-0000-0000 | "Believing Women" in Islam, Reception
Sands argued that the book is "an interesting contribution to contemporary Muslim thought that will be useful in teaching a broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses." | {
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enwiki-00000031-0005-0000-0001 | "Believing Women" in Islam, Reception
Sands stated that due to the book's use of Islamic and feminist terminology, it would be best used "selectively" in introductory classes. | {
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Sands argued that the book should have been "engaging more fully with the Arabic interpretative tradition" and that the book should not criticize a translation if it accurately reflects the original Arabic. | {
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enwiki-00000031-0006-0000-0000 | "Believing Women" in Islam, Reception
Jane I. Smith of the Hartford Seminary stated that the book was "a well-constructed and thoughtfully written work, the arguments clearly developed and the prose a pleasure to read." | {
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enwiki-00000031-0007-0000-0000 | "Believing Women" in Islam, Reception
Carolyn M. Craft of Longwood University wrote that the book is important for larger public libraries and academic libraries, and that it complements Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective by Amina Wadud. | {
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enwiki-00000032-0000-0000-0000 | "Big Boy" Teddy Edwards
"Big Boy" Teddy Edwards was an American blues musician, from the United States, who recorded 23 songs from 1930 to 1936. | {
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enwiki-00000032-0000-0000-0001 | "Big Boy" Teddy Edwards
Edwards was active in the Chicago area of the United States. | {
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enwiki-00000032-0000-0000-0002 | "Big Boy" Teddy Edwards
There is very little biographical information published on Edwards' life. | {
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Edwards played the tiple, a ten-stringed instrument, and was the only recorded blues tiple player during the period he was active. | {
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Edwards was also proficient on the guitar. | {
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enwiki-00000032-0001-0000-0002 | "Big Boy" Teddy Edwards
Contemporary blues musician Big Bill Broonzy recalled working with Edwards, as well as Edwards working with Papa Charlie Jackson. | {
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enwiki-00000032-0001-0000-0003 | "Big Boy" Teddy Edwards
Prolific session pianist Black Bob also recorded with Edwards on several of his later records. | {
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enwiki-00000032-0001-0000-0004 | "Big Boy" Teddy Edwards
Edwards' song "Louise", recorded in 1934, was covered by Broonzy as "Louise Louise Blues". | {
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enwiki-00000032-0002-0000-0000 | "Big Boy" Teddy Edwards, Recordings
Between 1930 and 1936, Edwards recorded 23 songs for the Vocalion, Melotone, Bluebird, Brunswick, and Decca record labels. | {
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enwiki-00000032-0002-0000-0001 | "Big Boy" Teddy Edwards, Recordings
Edwards was given several pseudonyms by the record companies that issued his recordings; these included "Teddy Edwards", ""Big Boy" Teddy Edwards", and "Eddy Teddy". | {
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enwiki-00000032-0002-0000-0002 | "Big Boy" Teddy Edwards, Recordings
Edwards' 1930 and 1931 records differ from his later output, singing with a simple tiple accompaniment. | {
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All of Edwards' sessions after this show him in a band setting with more of a pop music style, being accompanied by Big Bill Broonzy, Black Bob, and others. | {
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enwiki-00000033-0000-0000-0000 | "Big Willie" Robinson
"Big Willie" Robinson (1942-2012) was an American street racer, bodybuilder, and president of the International and National Brotherhood of Street Racers. | {
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enwiki-00000033-0000-0000-0001 | "Big Willie" Robinson
He was active in the street racing community in Los Angeles, especially in the 1960s and 1970s, where he gained attention of the Los Angeles Police Department, the local media, and politicians. | {
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enwiki-00000033-0000-0000-0002 | "Big Willie" Robinson
The Watts riots led to Robinson using drag racing as a method of addressing street violence fueled by racial tensions and police violence. | {
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enwiki-00000033-0000-0001-0000 | "Big Willie" Robinson
He married fellow street racer Tomiko Robinson in the late 1960s, who became an integral part of the street racing community until her death in 2007. | {
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enwiki-00000033-0000-0001-0001 | "Big Willie" Robinson
With the support of Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley, Robinson founded Brotherhood Raceway Park in 1974 and the dragstrip maintained a presence on Terminal Island until 1994. | {
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enwiki-00000033-0000-0001-0002 | "Big Willie" Robinson
Robinson died in 2012. | {
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enwiki-00000033-0001-0000-0000 | "Big Willie" Robinson, History
Robinson was born and raised in New Orleans. | {
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He spent a year at Louisiana State University in 1960. | {
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enwiki-00000033-0001-0000-0002 | "Big Willie" Robinson, History
Robinson recalled in 1994 how he came out of history class to find his 1953 Oldsmobile 98, a gift from his father, with its headlights and windows smashed and its tires slashed as the result of a racially motivated attack by a group of white people who were angry at the university's integration. | {
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He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960s, where he attended UCLA. | {
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enwiki-00000033-0001-0000-0004 | "Big Willie" Robinson, History
After financial difficulties following his parent's separation, he went to work at a local body shop before joining the street racing scene. | {
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enwiki-00000033-0002-0000-0000 | "Big Willie" Robinson, History
He was drafted in the army during the Vietnam War and was medically discharged in 1966. | {
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enwiki-00000033-0002-0000-0001 | "Big Willie" Robinson, History
He returned to Los Angeles in 1966 and returned to racing. | {
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enwiki-00000033-0002-0000-0002 | "Big Willie" Robinson, History
Robinson quickly gained notoriety and became synonymous with Los Angeles street racing in the period. | {
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enwiki-00000033-0003-0000-0000 | "Big Willie" Robinson, History
After the Watts riots of 1965, Robinson founded the International and National Brotherhood of Street Racers in 1968 with support from the LAPD, whose officers first attended his drag racing events in Compton, Inglewood, and Watts undercover. | {
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enwiki-00000033-0003-0000-0001 | "Big Willie" Robinson, History
Paul Norwood, executive vice president of the organization stated that “there was a lot of tension and the police thought this was a good way for the people to get rid of their anxiety and anger by allowing them to do this on weekends.” | {
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enwiki-00000033-0003-0000-0002 | "Big Willie" Robinson, History
The organization at its height grew to over 80,000 members in 38 states and 9 countries. | {
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enwiki-00000033-0004-0000-0000 | "Big Willie" Robinson, History
Support from Mayor Tom Bradley was instrumental in the opening of the organization's track in 1974, named Brotherhood Raceway Park. | {
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In 1977, Bradley commented: "It provides not only an opportunity to give these youngsters an outlet, but it helps build brotherhood. | {
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They are built upon the theme of brotherhood through street racing.” | {
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enwiki-00000033-0004-0000-0003 | "Big Willie" Robinson, History
The track closed in 1984 but re-opened again in 1993, after Robinson persuaded the Los Angeles Harbor Commission to allow its reopening for two years. | {
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Some reports from officers indicate that crime dropped when the track was open. | {
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enwiki-00000033-0004-0001-0000 | "Big Willie" Robinson, History
A retired deputy sheriff stated, “pretty much all the cops knew [that] when Willie’s track is open, it definitely makes a difference ... virtually all the street racing stopped because now they had a place to go.” | {
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enwiki-00000033-0004-0001-0001 | "Big Willie" Robinson, History
In a 1994 article for Sports Illustrated, Robinson commented: "Black, white, yellow, brown, skinheads, Nazi party members, Muslims, we got 'em all. | {
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They're all here at the track, and they're communicatin'. | {
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And once they start communicatin', they start likin' each other, and once they start likin' each other, they forget about the hate." | {
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Robinson's mantra reportedly was If you're racing, you're not killing. | {
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enwiki-00000033-0005-0000-0000 | "Big Willie" Robinson, History
In his 2012 obituary published in the Los Angeles Times, Robinson was described as "a gentle giant who promoted organized drag racing as a way to unite people of all races and classes and ease racial tensions." | {
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enwiki-00000034-0000-0000-0000 | "Big" Donnie MacLeod
Donald Archie "Big Donnie" MacLeod (December 11, 1928 – January 3, 2003) was a Canadian politician. | {
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enwiki-00000034-0000-0000-0001 | "Big" Donnie MacLeod
He represented the electoral district of Cape Breton West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1981 to 1988. | {
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He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. | {
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enwiki-00000034-0001-0000-0000 | "Big" Donnie MacLeod
Born in 1928 at Marion Bridge, Nova Scotia, MacLeod served 23 years as a municipal councillor for Cape Breton County. | {
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enwiki-00000034-0001-0000-0001 | "Big" Donnie MacLeod
MacLeod first attempted to enter provincial politics in the 1978 election, finishing third in the Cape Breton West riding. | {
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enwiki-00000034-0001-0000-0002 | "Big" Donnie MacLeod
MacLeod ran again in the 1981 election, and defeated the incumbent David Muise by 390 votes to win the seat. | {
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enwiki-00000034-0001-0000-0003 | "Big" Donnie MacLeod
He was re-elected in the 1984 election, defeating Liberal Russell MacKinnon by 1,110 votes. | {
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enwiki-00000034-0001-0000-0004 | "Big" Donnie MacLeod
He was defeated by MacKinnon when he ran for re-election in 1988. | {
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"Bufo" scorteccii, formerly known as Duttaphrynus scorteccii, is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. | {
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It is endemic to Yemen, with its range restricted to a plateau near the western region of Mafhaq. | {
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Its natural habitats are shrubland as well as wetland areas. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0000-0000-0000 | "Bund" in Latvia
The "Bund" in Latvia (Yiddish: „בּונד“ אין לעטלאנד, “bund„ in letland) was a Jewish socialist party in Latvia between the two World Wars, adhering to the political line of the General Jewish Labour Bund. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0001-0000-0000 | "Bund" in Latvia, The beginnings of the Latvian Bund
In 1919 the branch of the General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia in Latvia separated itself from the mother party and constituted a separate party of its own. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0001-0000-0001 | "Bund" in Latvia, The beginnings of the Latvian Bund
After the conclusion of Latvian War of Independence, in the fall of 1920 a Central Bureau of the Latvian Bund was constituted. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0001-0000-0002 | "Bund" in Latvia, The beginnings of the Latvian Bund
The Latvian Bund became an autonomous organization affiliated with the Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0001-0000-0003 | "Bund" in Latvia, The beginnings of the Latvian Bund
The Bund had one seat in the Central Committee of the Latvian Social Democratic Workers Party. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0001-0001-0000 | "Bund" in Latvia, The beginnings of the Latvian Bund
The Bund, as well as other left-wing groups in Latvia after the Latvian War of Independence, was under suspicion as Communist supporters. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0001-0001-0001 | "Bund" in Latvia, The beginnings of the Latvian Bund
On June 20, 1921 the president of the party Abraham Braun "Sergei" (1881-1940) was sentenced to death by a military tribunal for spreading Communist propaganda but released after international socialist outcry over the sentence. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0002-0000-0000 | "Bund" in Latvia, The beginnings of the Latvian Bund
The relations among Jewish socialists and with the rest of the socialist movement were far better than in Poland; during elections of 1918 two Bundists were elected, then four at the Riga municipal council election in 1919, on a common list of the Social Democratic bloc, which gained 36 of the 96 seats. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0003-0000-0000 | "Bund" in Latvia, The beginnings of the Latvian Bund
The party published the biweekly Di naye tsayt for seven years. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0003-0000-0001 | "Bund" in Latvia, The beginnings of the Latvian Bund
The Perecklub movement was the youth wing of the Bund and its students' union was called Zukunft. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0004-0000-0000 | "Bund" in Latvia, 1934 coup and underground struggle
The party held its sixth and last congress in Daugavpils on January 27–28, 1934. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0004-0000-0001 | "Bund" in Latvia, 1934 coup and underground struggle
According to Daniel Blatman, there were 500 active members of the Latvian Bund in 1934. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0005-0000-0000 | "Bund" in Latvia, 1934 coup and underground struggle
After the 1934 Latvian coup d'état the Bund aligned with the illegal, underground Socialist Workers and Peasants Party of Latvia (LSSZP). | {
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enwiki-00000036-0005-0000-0001 | "Bund" in Latvia, 1934 coup and underground struggle
In August 1934 the LSSZP formed a special committee, to lead the underground Jewish socialist movement and Bund activists participated in this committee. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0005-0000-0002 | "Bund" in Latvia, 1934 coup and underground struggle
The first LZZSP congress, held in July 1935, recognized the Bund as an autonomous organization under the same terms as the Bund had previously aligned with the Latvian Social Democratic Workers Party. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0005-0000-0003 | "Bund" in Latvia, 1934 coup and underground struggle
In November 1936 Bund activists were arrested. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0006-0000-0000 | "Bund" in Latvia, The Bundist members of the Latvian Parliament
As pointed out by Frank Gordon, "Between the two world wars Latvia was the only country where the Bund had a parliamentary representative of its own. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0006-0000-0001 | "Bund" in Latvia, The Bundist members of the Latvian Parliament
"., and Bund was only one of a few Jewish parties represented in the 1st Saeima, 2nd Saeima, 3rd Saeima and 4th Saeima. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0007-0000-0000 | "Bund" in Latvia, The Bundist members of the Latvian Parliament
Itzhak Berss (Īzaks Berss), father of Lipman Bers, represented the interests of the Bund in the Constitutional Assembly of Latvia, elected in April 1920. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0007-0000-0001 | "Bund" in Latvia, The Bundist members of the Latvian Parliament
He was later the director of Riga Jewish gymnasium where Yiddish was the language of education. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0007-0000-0002 | "Bund" in Latvia, The Bundist members of the Latvian Parliament
From 1922 until 1934 he was Riga City councilman. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0007-0000-0003 | "Bund" in Latvia, The Bundist members of the Latvian Parliament
He was removed from office after the 1934 Latvian coup d'état on the grounds of "political unreliability". | {
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enwiki-00000036-0007-0000-0004 | "Bund" in Latvia, The Bundist members of the Latvian Parliament
On June 14, 1941 he was arrested and deported by Soviets to Siberia from where he was released only in 1956. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0008-0000-0000 | "Bund" in Latvia, The Bundist members of the Latvian Parliament
Dr. Noah Meisel, Daugavpils city council member, was subsequently elected for the Bund in the 1st Saeima in 1922, and again in 1925 and 1928, but was not reelected in 1931. | {
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enwiki-00000036-0008-0000-0001 | "Bund" in Latvia, The Bundist members of the Latvian Parliament
He was arrested and deported by the Soviet authorities after the Soviet invasion and annexation of Latvia in 1940 and died in exile in far Northern Russia in 1956. | {
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