What religion did Vitika Kempner and Abba Kovner have in common?
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Vitka Kempner Vitka Kempner (14 March 1920–2012) was a Lithuanian Jewish partisan leader during World War II. She served in the United Partisan Organization (Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye) and, alongside Rozka Korczak and founder Abba Kovner, assumed a leadership role in its successor group, the Avengers (Nokmim) — the only known undefeated ghetto uprising in the history of the Holocaust.
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Abba Kovner Abba Kovner (Hebrew: אבא קובנר‎ ‎ ; March 14, 1918 – September 25, 1987) was a Jewish Hebrew and Yiddish poet, writer and partisan leader. He became one of the great poets of modern Israel. He was a cousin of the Israeli Communist Party leader Meir Vilner.
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Hans Meiser (bishop) Hans Meiser (16 February 1881, Nuremberg - 8 June 1956, Munich) was a German Protestant theologian, pastor and from 1933 to 1955 the first 'Landesbischof' of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.
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Emilia Baeyertz Emilia Louise Baeyertz (née Aronson; 29 March 1842 – 26 April 1926) was a Welsh Christian evangelist, born to a devout Jewish family in Wales, who described herself as "the Christian Jewess". She was home schooled due to her poor health and suffered a breakdown when her fiancé was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Her family sent her to Australia to live with her sister to help her recovery, where she fell in love with and secretly married an Anglican Christian man.
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Tammy Faye Messner Tamara Faye LaValley Bakker "Tammy" Messner (March 7, 1942 – July 20, 2007) was an American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show host, and television personality. She was married from 1961 to 1992 to televangelist, and later convicted felon, Jim Bakker. She co-hosted with him on "The PTL Club" (1976–1987). She was a participant in the 2004 season of the reality show "The Surreal Life".
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Kristina från Duvemåla Kristina från Duvemåla "("Kristina from Duvemåla")" is a Swedish musical written by former ABBA members Björn Ulvaeus (lyrics) and Benny Andersson (music). It's based on a series of four novels by Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg detailing a family's poverty-driven migration from Sweden to America in the mid-19th century: "The Emigrants", "Unto a Good Land", "The Settlers", and "The Last Letter Home".
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Herman David Koppel Herman David Koppel (Copenhagen, 1 October 1908 – Copenhagen, 14 July 1998) was a composer and pianist of Jewish origin.
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Shalom Dovber Shalom Dovber is a Jewish name.
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Gertrud Luckner Gertrud Luckner (26 September 1900, Liverpool, England, UK – 31 August 1995, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) was a Christian social worker involved in the German resistance to Nazism. A member of the banned German Catholic Peace Movement, she organised food packages for Jews deported to Poland, and travelled Germany giving assistance to Jewish families. On one such journey, she was arrested, and spent the remainder of the war in Ravensbrück concentration camp. She was named as righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1966.
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Native Ukrainian National Faith The Native Ukrainian National Faith (Ukrainian: Рі́дна Украї́нська Націона́льна Ві́ра, "Rídna Ukrayíns'ka Natsionál'na Víra"; widely known by the acronym РУНВі́ра, RUNVira) or Sylenkoism is a branch of the Slavic Native Faith ("Rodnovery") specifically linked to Ukraine that was founded in the 1960s by Lev Sylenko (born 1921) among the Ukrainian diaspora in North America. The doctrine of this tradition, and of the organisations which develop within it, revolves around a sacred writing composed by Sylenko himself, the "Maha Vira" ("Mighty Faith").
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Hebrew Catholics Hebrew Catholics (in modern Israeli Hebrew עברים קתולים "Ivrím Qatholím") are a movement of Jews converted to the faith of the Catholic Church and Catholics of non-Jewish origin who choose to keep Mosaic traditions in light of Catholic doctrine. The phrase was coined by Elias Friedman (1987) who was himself a converted Jew.
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John P. Meier John Paul Meier (born 1942) is an American biblical scholar and Roman Catholic priest. He is author of the series "A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus" (5 v.), six other books, and more than 70 articles for peer-reviewed or solicited journals or books.
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William Sloane Coffin William Sloane Coffin Jr. (June 1, 1924 – April 12, 2006) was an American Christian clergyman and long-time peace activist. He was ordained in the Presbyterian church and later received ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ. In his younger days he was an athlete, a talented pianist, a CIA agent, and later chaplain of Yale University, where the influence of Reinhold Niebuhr's social philosophy led him to become a leader in the Civil Rights Movement and peace movements of the 1960s and 1970s. He also was a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. He went on to serve as Senior Minister at the Riverside Church in New York City and President of SANE/Freeze (now Peace Action), the nation's largest peace and justice group, and prominently opposed United States military interventions in conflicts such as the Vietnam War to the Iraq War. He was also an ardent supporter of gay rights.
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Ya'akov Zerubavel Ya'akov (Vitkin) Zerubavel (January 14, 1886 - June 2, 1967) was a Jewish Zionist activist, writer, publisher, and one of the leaders of the Poale Zion movement.
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Maria Åkerblom Maria Åkerblom (September 14, 1898 – February 25, 1981) was the leader of the Finnish Åkerblom Movement, an evangelical movement sometimes called a "cult". She had also served some time in prison. Her movement deemed her a prophet and began in the 1920s. Maria Åkerblom is characterized by Aarni Voipio as a "sleeping preacher", that is, a person who peaches in a state of trance.
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Rachael Kohn Rachael Kohn (born 1953) is an Australian author and broadcaster who since 1992 has presented and produced programs on Religion and Spirituality for ABC Radio National, beginning with Religion Report, Religion Today, and since 1997, The Spirit of Things. She has also produced award winning features for Encounter as well as two part television documentaries on The Dead Sea Scrolls (2000) and on Buddhism East and West (2001) as well as Paws for Thought on animals and spirituality for Compass on ABC TV. The Spirit of Things is heard across Australia each Sunday at 18:05PM AEST and Tuesday at 13:05 and Wednesday at 02.05 and online at www.abc.net.au/rn/spiritofthings. For 6 years (ending in January 2009) Kohn also was Producer and Presenter of The Ark on Radio National which focused on Religious History. Kohn is a popular speaker on Religion and Spirituality in Australia and she has published two books, The New Believers: Re-imagining God (HarperCollins 2003) and Curious Obsessions in the History of Science and Spirituality (ABC Books, now HarperCollins 2007).
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Anabaptism Anabaptism (from Neo-Latin "anabaptista", from the Greek ἀναβαπτισμός : ἀνά- "re-" and βαπτισμός "baptism") is a Christian movement which traces its origins to the Radical Reformation in Europe. The movement is generally seen as an offshoot of Protestantism, although this view has been challenged by some Anabaptists.
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Franz Wasner Franz Mathias Wasner (December 28, 1905 – June 21, 1992) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and the director and conductor of the Trapp Family Singers and a missionary. In the quasi-fictionalized stage and screen musical "The Sound of Music", he is represented by the character Max Detweiler.
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Peter Hans Kolvenbach Peter Hans Kolvenbach {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'SJ', '4': "} (30 November 1928 – 26 November 2016), was the twenty-ninth Superior General of the Society of Jesus, the largest male Catholic religious order.
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Sarah Avraham Sarah Avraham (Hebrew: שרה אברהם‎ ‎ ; born 1993/1994) is an Indian-born Israeli Muay Thai kickboxer. She converted to Judaism and moved to Israel after the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
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Dov Lior Dov Lior (Hebrew: דב ליאור‎ ‎ , born 1933) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi, who serves as the Chief Rabbi of Hebron and Kiryat Arba in the southern West Bank. He is also the rosh yeshiva of the Kiryat Arba Hesder Yeshiva, and also heads the "Council of Rabbis of Judea and Samaria".
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Stan Fortuna Father Stan Fortuna, C.F.R., (born June 9, 1957) is a Catholic priest notable for his evangelical musical contributions of various genres, primarily Catholic-based jazz and hip hop.