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Rosin, also called colophony or Greek pitch, is a solid form of resin obtained from pines and some other plants, mostly conifers, produced by heating fresh liquid resin to vaporize the volatile liquid terpene components. It is semi-transparent and varies in color from yellow to black. At room temperature rosin is brittle, but it melts at stove-top temperature. It chiefly consists of various resin acids, especially abietic acid. The term "colophony" comes from colophonia resina, Latin for "resin from Colophon", an ancient Ionic city.
The surname Katzenellenbogen originated in the Rhineland, Germany. The surname is derived from the County of Katzenelnbogen and the Castle Katzenelnbogen. The origin of the name comes from Chatti Melibokus. Chatti Melibolus is an old tribe who reside in the southern part of the mountains in the Bergstraße region, which is part of Hesse in Germany. Most descendants were Jewish. The literal translation means "The cats elbow".
Jurbarkas is a city in Tauragė County, in Samogitia, Lithuania. It is on the right-hand shore of the Neman at its confluence with the tributaries Mituva and Imsre. The town became an important road junction after a bridge was built over the Neman in 1978.
The Folkspartei was founded after the 1905 pogroms in the Russian Empire by Simon Dubnow and Israel Efrojkin. The party took part in several elections in Poland and Lithuania in the 1920s and 1930s and did not survive the Shoah.
Klemperer is a German-language occupational surname literally meaning "tinker". It is suggested that in the case of the conductor's immediate family the original name was Klopper - one who knocks on doors to get people to go to Synagogue - and was later changed to the better sounding Klemperer which rhymes with Emperor.
Basch is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Das Jüdisch-Theologische Seminar, The Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau was an institution in Breslau for the training of rabbis, founded under the will of Jonas Fränckel, and opened in 1854. The seminary was closed in 1938 by Nazi Party officials after the Kristallnacht.
Olesno is a town in Opole Voivodship, Poland about 42 kilometres (26 mi) north-east of the city of Opole. It is the capital of Olesno County and seat of the Gmina Olesno.
Hanna Rosin is an American author and writer. She is the co-host of the NPR podcast Invisibilia with Alix Spiegel. She is co-founder of DoubleX, a women's site connected to the online magazine Slate.
Gans is a Dutch and German noun meaning "goose".
Hanratty is a surname, and may refer to:
The Hebraization of surnames is the act of adopting a Hebrew surname in exchange for a diaspora name. For many diaspora Jews who migrated to the Land of Israel, taking a Hebrew surname was a way to erase remnants of their diaspora experience and to assimilate into a new shared identity as Mizrahi Jews and Palestinian Jews and later as Israeli Jews
The General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania was a Jewish socialist party in Lithuania, adhering to the political line of the General Jewish Labour Bund.
Rosin is a solid form of resin obtained from pines and some other plants.
Red rosin paper is a 100% recycled heavy duty felt paper used in construction such as underlayment under flooring and siding. The name "rosin-sized sheathing paper", commonly used to describe the material, comes from the rosin used in the paper, the process of sizing it to add the rosin, and its use by builders. "Alum-rosin size was invented by Moritz Friedrich Illig in Germany in 1807..." and is known to have been used as a building paper by 1850.
Sephardic Bnei Anusim is a modern term used to define the contemporary Christian descendants of estimated quarter of a million 15th-century Sephardic Jewish which were coerced or forced to convert to Catholicism during the 14th and 15th century in Spain. The vast majority of Conversos remained in Spain and Portugal, their descendants in both these countries numbering in the millions. The small minority of Conversos who did emigrate normally chose destinations where Sephardic communities already existed, particularly in the Ottoman Empire and North Africa, but also more tolerant cities in Europe, immediately reverting to Judaism. Although a few did their travel to Spanish America, doing so was particularly difficult since only those Spaniards who could certify no recent Muslim or Jewish ancestry were allowed to travel to the New World. Nevertheless, the constant flow of Spanish emigration to Latin America up until well into the 20th century has resulted to many Latin Americans having Converso ancestry, in the same way as modern Spaniards do.
Dennis Rosin is a German footballer who plays as a midfielder for Sportfreunde Lotte.
