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Jewel Thief (ज्वैलथीफ) (1967 film)
Jewel Thief (ज्वैलथीफ), 1967 Hindi suspense thriller directed by Vijay Anand for Navketan, starring Dev Anand, Vyjayanthimala, Ashok Kumar, Tanuja; music S.D. Burman; mistaken-identity jewel-heist plot partly shot in Sikkim; Filmfare Best Sound Design 1968.
Jeweled Voice Broadcast
The Jeweled Voice Broadcast (玉音放送, Gyokuon hōsō) was Emperor Hirohito's radio announcement on August 15, 1945 that Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration, ending the war.
Jewell (singer)
Jewell (Jewell Caples, later Jewell Peyton), 1968-2022, American R&B singer, "First Lady" of Death Row Records from 1992; sang hooks for Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and 2Pac; distinct from Jewel Kilcher and Eilen Jewell.
Jewell Loyd
Jewell Loyd, born 1993, American WNBA guard for the Las Vegas Aces, formerly Seattle Storm; three-time WNBA champion, 2023 scoring leader, 2015 Rookie of the Year, two-time Olympic gold medalist.
Jewellery
Jewellery is decorative personal adornment worn on the body, made from metals, gemstones, and other materials; global gold jewelry demand hit a record US$172bn in 2025 despite falling volumes.
Jewels (ballet)
Jewels (Balanchine, 1967): the first full-length abstract, plotless three-act ballet, created for New York City Ballet; acts Emeralds, Rubies, Diamonds set to Fauré, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, inspired by Van Cleef & Arpels.
Jewels Sparkles
Jewels Sparkles (Dario Rodriguez, born 2001, Miami) is a Cuban-Puerto Rican American drag queen based in Tampa, runner-up on RuPaul's Drag Race season 17, drag granddaughter of Trinity the Tuck, with two maxi challenge wins and a Las Vegas residency.
Jewish agricultural colonies in Argentina
Jewish agricultural colonies in Argentina were farming settlements for Eastern European Jewish immigrants, begun with Moisés Ville in 1889 and organized by the Jewish Colonization Association.
Jewish American literature
Jewish American literature is fiction, poetry, drama, and memoir by American Jewish writers, anchored by the postwar generation of Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and Philip Roth.
Jewish American philosophy
Jewish American philosophy is the philosophical work of Jewish thinkers in the United States, shaped by immigration, religious freedom, and figures like Kaplan and Heschel.
Jewish anarchism
Jewish anarchism was a Yiddish-language anarchist movement that arose among Jewish workers in Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century, with centers in London and New York.
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (Еврейский антифашистский комитет) was a Soviet Jewish propaganda organization founded in 1942, headed by Solomon Mikhoels, and dissolved in 1948; twelve of its leaders were executed in 1952.
Jewish atheism
Jewish atheism: Jewish identity or culture held without belief in God, possible because Judaism is ethnoreligious. Covers kofer be'ikkar, Spinoza, the Bund, Humanistic Judaism, and Israeli and US survey data.
Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Еврейская автономная область)
Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Еврейская автономная область, Yiddish yidishe avtonome gegnt), also called Birobidzhan: Russia's only autonomous oblast, in the Far East on the Amur border with China. Founded 1928, oblast status 1934 as a Soviet Jewish homeland; capital Birobidzhan; population 144,428 (2025), Jews 0.56%.
Jewish Bolshevism
Jewish Bolshevism, or Judeo-Bolshevism, is an antisemitic conspiracy theory claiming communism and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution were Jewish plots; historians reject it as myth rooted in Protocols-style tropes, used by Nazis to justify murdering Jews.
Jewish Brigade
The Jewish Brigade (Jewish Infantry Brigade Group, Hebrew חי"ל) was a 5,000-strong British Army formation of Palestine Jewish volunteers formed September 1944 under Brigadier Ernest Benjamin, fought in Italy in 1945, aided Holocaust survivors, and fed the IDF.
Jewish cemetery
Jewish cemetery (beit kevarot, beit olam): a burial ground governed by Jewish law requiring in-earth burial, served by the chevra kadisha, with distinct medieval history, notable sites such as Altona and Bet She'arim, and active European preservation programs.
Jewish cemetery of Salonica
The Jewish cemetery of Salonica (Thessaloniki), also called the old Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki, was one of Europe's largest Jewish cemeteries, with over 300,000 graves; destroyed in 1942-43, its site is now Aristotle University.
Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki
The Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki, known as La Puerta Redonda, served the city's Sephardic community from the 15th century until its 1942 destruction, after which Aristotle University was built on the site.
Jewish cemetery preservation in Europe
Jewish cemetery preservation in Europe is the organized effort to protect, document, and restore Jewish burial sites, combining legal advocacy, EU funding, and rabbinical supervision.
Jewish Christianity
Jewish Christianity, also called Christian Jews, is the modern scholarly label for ancient groups who believed in Jesus while keeping Jewish practice, notably the Ebionites and Nazarenes.
Jewish Combat Organization
The Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB, Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa) was an underground Jewish armed resistance group formed July 28, 1942, in the Warsaw ghetto; led by Mordechai Anielewicz, it led the April 19–May 16, 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising.
Jewish community of Babylonia under the Parthians
The Jewish community of Babylonia under the Parthians (יהודי בבל) was the self-governing Jewish population of Mesopotamia under Parthian rule from 129 BCE to 224 CE.
Jewish copper plates of Cochin
The Jewish copper plates of Cochin (കൊച്ചി യഹൂദ ശാസനം) are a royal charter issued in 1000 CE by the Chera king Bhaskara Ravi Varman to the Jewish merchant Joseph Rabban.
Jewish cuisine
Jewish cuisine, also called Jewish cooking, is the family of regional cuisines of Jewish communities worldwide, including Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi styles, all shaped by kosher law.
Jewish culture
Jewish culture, also known as Jewish civilization, is the shared practices, texts, languages, foods, and historical memory through which Jews, religious and secular alike, have lived for two millennia.
Jewish day school
Jewish day school: full-time K-12 schools combining general studies with Judaic subjects and Hebrew, spanning Orthodox yeshivas to Reform and community schools; American movement grew from the 1920s, with enrollment now rising across denominations.
Jewish Defense League
Jewish Defense League (JDL), also called the League, a militant Jewish nationalist organization founded by Meir Kahane in Brooklyn in 1968; FBI-designated right-wing terrorist group known for anti-Soviet and anti-Arab attacks, with no active U.S. chapters today.
Jewish deicide
Jewish deicide, also called the Christ-killer charge, is the claim that Jews bear collective, eternal guilt for the death of Jesus, explicitly repudiated by the Catholic Church in 1965.
Jewish diaspora (תפוצות)
Jewish diaspora (תפוצות; galut, exile): Jewish settlement outside the land of Israel, from the Assyrian and Babylonian deportations (8th–6th centuries BCE) through the Roman-era dispersion to today's 15.8 million Jews, 8.5 million of them outside Israel.