This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Switzerland.
Vladimir Lvovich Burtsev was a revolutionary activist, scholar, publisher and editor of several Russian language periodicals. He became famous by exposing a great number of agents provocateurs, notably Yevno Azef in 1908. Because of his own revolutionary activities and his harsh criticism of the imperial regime, including personal criticism of emperor Nicholas II, he was imprisoned several times in various European countries. In the course of his life, Burtsev fought oppressive policies from Tsarism in Imperial Russia, followed by the Bolsheviks and later Adolf Hitler's National Socialism.
Sergei Aleksandrovich Nilus was a Russian religious writer, self-described mystic, and prolific anti-Semite.
Ion I. Moța was the deputy leader of the Romanian fascist Legionary Movement, killed in battle during the Spanish Civil War.
Cesare G. De Michelis is a scholar and professor of Russian literature at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
Hadassa Ben-Itto was an Israeli author and jurist. She was best known for her bestselling book The Lie That Wouldn't Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Michael Hagemeister is a German historian and Slavist, an authority on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and on Sergei Nilus.
The history of the Jews in Switzerland extends back at least a thousand years. Jews and Judaism have been present in the territory of what is now Switzerland since before the emergence of the medieval Old Swiss Confederacy in the 13th century.
Count Armand Alexandre de Blanquet du Chayla was a French nobleman who converted to Russian Orthodoxy. He is chiefly remembered for giving crucial evidence and/or testimony for the prosecution at the Berne Trial in 1935 against the notorious Protocols of Zion.
Theodor Tobler was a Swiss chocolatier and businessman, best known as the creator, along with Emil Baumann, of the Swiss chocolate brand Toblerone.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a fabricated text purporting to detail a Jewish plot for global domination. Largely plagiarized from several earlier sources, it was first published in Imperial Russia in 1903, translated into multiple languages, and disseminated internationally in the early part of the 20th century. It played a key part in popularizing belief in an international Jewish conspiracy.
Georges Brunschvig was a Swiss lawyer and president of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG). Internationally, he is best known for representing the plaintiff in the 1934–35 "Berne Trial".
Ulrich Fleischhauer was a leading publisher of antisemitic books and news articles reporting on a perceived Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory and "nefarious plots" by clandestine Jewish interests to dominate the world.
Hanna Johansen was a Swiss writer.
Jakob Klaesi was a Swiss psychiatrist most notable for his contributions to the sleep therapy and his phenomenological analysis of expression.
Paul Sutermeister was a Swiss theologian, pastor and contributing editor of the Berner Tagblatt.
Benedikt Gletting was a 16th-century Swiss poet. Little is known about his life, but his ballads were popular in early modern Switzerland and were repeatedly edited during the 17th century. A native of Bütschwil, he lived in Bern from at least 1540, and later in various places in the Bernese Oberland before again taking residence in Berne in 1561. He has composed a number of songs praising individual sites in the Bernese Oberland, including Frutigen, Mülenen, Aeschi and Reichenbach, as well as songs about Bern and Murten. He is also the author of religious ballads, including a long song about the biblical Joseph. A song beginning O usserwölte Eydgnoschafft called for unity at a time of confessional division in the wake of the Swiss Reformation. This song was edited by Hanns In der Gand in a shortened version in 1934 under the title Vermahnlied an die Eidgenossenschaft and in this form was reprinted in various Swiss songbooks during the 20th century.
The following is a timeline of the history of the municipality of Bern, Switzerland.
The history of the Jews in Bern dates back to at least the Middle Ages. Following the expulsion and persecution of Jews during and after the Black Death epidemic, few Jews were able to live or work in the canton until the 19th century. The Jewish community of Bern was founded in 1948 and is active to this day.
