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Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich (ICZ)
Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich (Jewish Community of Zürich), commonly shortened to ''ICZ'', is a united Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Jewish community, community, located in the city of Zürich, in the canton of Canton of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland. Consisting of approximately 2,500 members, the ICZ is the largest Jewish community in Switzerland. The community worships at Synagoge Zürich Löwenstrasse in Zürich-City, operates a community center with a kindergarten and Jewish library in Zürich-Enge, and is responsible for two cemeteries (''Unterer'' and ''Oberer Friesenberg''). History A Jewish community in Zürich was first mentioned in 1273, but during the 1349 pogrom the Jewish citizens were banned from Zürich, and the synagogue was abandoned. On 25 February 1352, Jewish citizens were allowed to live within the medieval town walls again. In 1363, the so-called "Judenschuol", a medieval term in Zürich for the synagogue situated at the Neumarkt (Zà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zürich-Enge
Enge is a quarter in district 2 (Zürich), District 2 of Zürich, Switzerland. History Enge was incorporated into Zürich in 1893, along with 11 other formerly independent Municipality, municipalities. In 2011, the population was 8,597. Enge, which is only 2.4 km2, is the smallest neighbourhood in district 2. Transportation Zürich Enge railway station is a stop of Zürich S-Bahn on the lines S2 (ZVV), S2, S8 (ZVV), S8, S21 (ZVV), S21 and S24 (ZVV), S24. Cultural heritage Enge is located in prehistoric swampland on small islands around Sechseläutenplatz, Zürich, Sechseläutenplatz and peninsulas in Zürich. It is situated between the Limmat and Lake Zurich. Prehistoric pile dwellings around Lake Zurich were set on piles in order to protect against the occasional flooding of the rivers Linth and Jona (river), Jona. Zürich–Enge Alpenquai, a locality of the Municipalities in the canton of Zürich, municipality of Zürich, is located on the shore of Lake Zurich in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burgrecht
A Burgrecht (''ius burgense, ius civile'') was a medieval agreement, most commonly in southern Germany and northern German-speaking Switzerland. It came to refer to an agreement between a town and surrounding settlements or to include the specific rights held by a city or town. The word ''Burgrecht'' is first used by the St. Gall monk Notker the German in about 1000 AD to refer to the Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of Roman civilization *Epistle to the Romans, shortened to Romans, a letter w ... civil law. Later, in the southern German region, it came to refer to inheritance laws and the rights that were tied to specific castle or town. In the territory, that would become Switzerland, starting in the 13th century, the term ''Burgrecht'' began to expand. It grew to mean any agreement between a town with other towns, monasteries, indiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hebraica
Hebrew (; ''Ê¿ÃŽbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and remained in regular use as a first language until after 200 CE and as the liturgical language of Judaism (since the Second Temple period) and Samaritanism. The language was revived as a spoken language in the 19th century, and is the only successful large-scale example of linguistic revival. It is the only Canaanite language, as well as one of only two Northwest Semitic languages, with the other being Aramaic, still spoken today. The earliest examples of written Paleo-Hebrew date back to the 10th century BCE. Nearly all of the Hebrew Bible is written in Biblical Hebrew, with much of its present form in the dialect that scholars believe flourished around the 6th century BCE, during the time of the Babylonian captivity. For this reason, Hebrew has been referred to by Jews as '' Lashon Hak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limmattaler Zeitung
''Limmattaler Zeitung'', commonly shortened to ''Limmattaler'', is a Swiss German-language daily newspaper, published in Dietikon in the Limmat Valley. History and profile The newspaper was first published in 1972 as ''Limmattaler Tagblatt'' by ''Der Limmattaler AG '', situated in Dietikon, Canton of Zürich. The current name ''Limmattaler Zeitung'' dates from a 2008 merger with the local newspaper ''Bezirksanzeiger Dietikon''. In 2010 the company was bought and absorbed by regional Swiss media conglomerate AZ Medien. See also * Limmat Valley The Limmat Valley (German: ''Limmattal'') is a river valley and a region in the Canton (Switzerland), cantons of Canton of Zürich, Zürich and Canton of Aargau, Aargau in Switzerland. Geography The Limmat () is a long river located in ... References External links * 1972 establishments in Switzerland Daily newspapers published in Switzerland German-language newspapers published in Switzerland Dietikon News ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Jositsch
Daniel Reuwen Jositsch (; born 25 March 1965) is a Swiss attorney and politician who currently serves on the Council of States for the Social Democratic Party representing the Canton of Zürich since 2015. He previously served on the National Council from 2007 to 2015. He briefly served on the Cantonal Council of Zürich before resigning from the post in the fall of 2007. In 2022 and 2023 he declared candidacy for Federal Council but both times was not officially nominated by his party. Early life and education Jositsch was born 25 March 1965 in Zürich, Switzerland to Peter Jositsch, an engineer and Edith (née Korek) Jositsch, a homemaker. He is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent from the Russian Empire on both his paternal and maternal side. His paternal great-grandfather, Benjamin Josselowitsch, became a Swiss citizen in 1913 by taking municipal citizenship in Geroldswil. There were several variants on the spelling of his last name including ''Joselowitz'' and ''Josselowitsch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordechai Piron
Mordechai Piron (; born Egon Pisk; 28 December 1921 – 28 May 2014) was the second chief military rabbi in the history of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), after his predecessor, Rabbi Shlomo Goren, created the position in 1948. Rabbi Piron served in the position from 1969 to 1980, with a rank of general. Upon his retirement from his IDF position, he relocated to Zürich, to serve till 1992 as rabbi of the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich (ICZ), the biggest Jewish congregation in Switzerland. Rabbi Piron has published several books on Jewish philosophy and theology and was the head of the '' Sapir Center for Jewish Education and Culture'' in Jerusalem. He was an advocate of interfaith dialogue among world religions, chaired '' The Israel Jewish Council for Interreligious Relations (IJCIR)'', and sat on the board of world religious leaders for ''The Elijah Interfaith Institute''. Life and military career Born in Vienna, Austria, Piron was the only child of Viennese religious J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigi Feigel
Sigi Feigel (17 May 1921 – 28 August 2004) was a Swiss attorney, President and Honorary President of the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich (ICZ), and notable for his campaigns against antisemitism and racism. Life and work Feigel was born in Zürich to Russian Jewish immigrants. He received his PhD in jurisprudence at the University of Zürich in 1949. From 1949 to 1977, he was the director of the textile factory inherited by his wife, Evi Heim. The firm was sold in 1977, and from 1983, Feigel worked as an attorney. Feigel was President of the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich (ICZ), Switzerland's biggest Jewish Community, from 1972 till 1987, and then became its Honorary President. He founded the ''Stiftung gegen Rassismus und Antisemitismus'' ("foundation against racism and antisemitism") (GRA) in the 1980s. In the 1990s, he was instrumental in the development of the Swiss anti-racism legislation (1995), and involved as a moderating voice of reason in the debate sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantons Of Switzerland
The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the Federated state, member states of the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. The nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy in the form of the first three confederate allies used to be referred to as the . Two important periods in the development of the Old Swiss Confederacy are summarized by the terms ('Eight Cantons'; from 1353 to 1481) and ('Thirteen Cantons', from 1513 to 1798).rendered "the 'confederacy of eight'" and "the 'Thirteen-Canton Confederation'", respectively, in: Each canton of the Old Swiss Confederacy, formerly also ('lieu/locality', from before 1450), or ('estate', from ), was a fully sovereignty, sovereign state with its own border controls, army, and currency from at least the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848, with a brief period of centralised government during the Helvetic Republic (1798–1803). The term has been widely used since the 19th century. "" The number of canton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zürich District
Zurich District is a district () of the Swiss canton of Zurich in Switzerland. History In 1814, the former district of Zürich was established including the municipalities – "Landgemeinden des Bezirks Zürich" (country municipalities) – surrounding the old city of Zürich, the so-called Altstadt. The district of Zürich as it exists today, was created on 1 July 1989, by splitting the former district of Zürich into three parts: * The western part became the district of Dietikon; * the eastern part became the district (respectively city) of Zürich with its subdivisions;The former 19 independent municipalities of 1893 and 1934, now called ''districts'' (German: ''Kreise''), too, form the subdivisions of the city of Zürich. Their subdivisions are called ''quarters'' (German: ''Quartiere''). * the municipality of Zollikon located east of Zürich was integrated into the district of Meilen. Therefore, since 1 July 1989, the district of Zürich ( SFOS number 0112) shares the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surb Valley
Surbtal is a river valley region in the Canton of Aargau, Switzerland. Geography The ''Surbtal'' (literally ''Surb valley'') is situated parallel to the Limmat Valley (''Limmattal'') in the Baden District, Aargau, Baden and Zurzach District, Zurzach districts of the Canton of Aargau in Switzerland. The valley is bounded by moraines of the Linth glacier; and in the east it passes over to the border of the Canton of Zürich respectively the drainage basin of the Wehn Valley (native German name: ''Wehntal''). Surbtal comprises the area of the municipalities: * Döttingen, Aargau, Döttingen * Endingen, Aargau, Endingen * Ehrendingen * Freienwil * Lengnau, Aargau, Lengnau * Schneisingen * Tegerfelden Surb The Surb is a long river in the Swiss cantons of Aargau and Zürich, where she rises on an altitude of MAMSL at the Municipalities of the canton of Zürich, municipality of Schöfflisdorf. The river drains the northern Wehntal, passing the municipalities of Ehrendingen, Leng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
