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  1. David Lewis - Ours is dab page, but this one is missing - JE English merchant and philanthropist; born in London 1823; died in Liverpool Dec. 4, 1885. Settling in Liverpool in 1840, he ......
  2. Samuel Lewis - We now have articles on both people. &letter=L JE] English money-lender and philanthropist; born in Birmingham 1837; died in London Jan. 13, 1901. Lewis began work when thirteen years ......
  3. Lichtenstadt Ours is dab JE Bohemian Talmudist; lived at Prague in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was the author of "Shesh ha-Ma'arakah," ......

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  1. Eliezer Liebermann (Libermann) JE Talmudist of the first half of the nineteenth century. According to G. Wolf, in his biography of Isaac Noah Mannheimer ......
  2. Felix Liebermann JE German historian; born July 20, 1851, in Berlin. Destined for a commercial career, he began business life in a Berlin ......
  3. Mattathias ben Asher Lemle Liebermann JE Rabbi and preacher in Prague in the second half of the seventeenth century; died there 1709. He was the author ......
  4. Das Liebermann'sche Jahrbuch JE
  5. Emil Liebling JE German pianist; born at Pless, Silesia, April 12, 1851. After a course in piano at the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst, ......
  6. Oskar Matthias Eugen Liebreich JE German physician and pharmacologist; born at Königsberg, East Prussia, Feb. 14, 1839;younger brother of Richard Liebreich. He studied first chemistry ......
  7. Richard Liebreich JE English ophthalmologist; born at Königsberg, East Prussia, June 30, 1830; brother of Oskar Liebreich. He received his education at the ......
  8. Light and Air JE See Neighboring Owners. ......
  9. Light of Truth JE
  10. Benediction on Lightning JE The Mishnah (Ber. ix. 2) prescribes, "At the sight of shooting stars or of lightning, and at hearing earthquakes, thunder, ......
  11. Ephraim Moses Lilien JE Austrian artist; born at Drohobicz, Galicia, in 1874. Lilien's artistic inclinations became evident early in life. He was apprenticed to ......
  12. Max Lilienthal JE Rabbi and educator; born at Munich Nov. 6, 1815; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, April 5, 1882; educated at the University ......
  13. Moses b. Isaac Judah Lima JE Lithuanian rabbinical scholar, one of the so-called Aḥaronim; born in the second decade of the seventeenth century; died about 1670. ......
  14. Baruch ben Judah Löb Lindau JE German mathematician; born at Hanover in 1759; died at Berlin Dec. 5, 1849. He wrote: "Reshit Limmudim," a text-book of ......
  15. Lindo JE One of the oldest and most esteemed of London Sephardic families; it traces its descent back to Isaac Lindo, who ......
  16. Alexander Lindo JE English merchant; died in London in 1818. He was connected with the West India trade, and in this connection entered ......
  17. David Abarbanel Lindo JE English communal worker; born in London Aug. 14, 1772; died there Feb. 26, 1852. He was an uncle of Lord ......
  18. Elias Chayyim Lindo JE English author and historian; born in 1783; died in London June 11, 1865. He spent the first half of his ......
  19. Moses Lindo JE Planter and merchant in South Carolina; born probably in England; died at Charleston, S. C., April 26, 1774. He seems ......
  20. Isaac Joel Linetzki JE Russo-Yiddish humorist; born at Vinnitza Sept. 8, 1839, in which town his father, Joseph Linetzki, was a Ḥasidic rabbi. At ......
  21. Henri Julius Lion JE Dutch journalist; born March 23, 1806, at Elberfeld; died Oct. 19, 1869. In 1824 he entered the Prussian army, and ......
  22. Isaac Jacob Lion JE Dutch journalist; born at Amersfort Dec. 17, 1821; died at The Hague Aug. 27, 1873. Settling in Amsterdam, he occupied ......
  23. Siegfried Lipiner JE Austrian poet; born at Yaroslav, Galicia, Oct. 24, 1856; educated at the gymnasia in Tarnow and Vienna and at the ......
  24. Lipkin JE Russo-Jewish family which derives its origin from Dob Bär Lipkin, rabbi of Plungian in the first half of the eighteenth ......
  25. Clara Lipman JE American actress; born in Chicago. She made her début as an ingénue with Modjeska in 1888, and subsequently played similar ......
  26. Samuel Philippus Lipman JE Dutch jurist; born in London April 27, 1802; died at Hilversum July 7, 1871. He was educated at Glueckstadt, Hamburg, ......
  27. Yom-Tob ben Solomon Lipmann-Mülhausen JE Austrian controversialist, Talmudist, and cabalist of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. According to Bishop Bodecker of Brandenburg, who wrote a ......
  28. Lipovetz JE Town in the government of Kiev, Russia. In 1897 it had a total population of 6,068, of which 4,500 were ......
  29. Chaim David Lippe JE Austrian publisher and bibliographer; born Dec. 22, 1823, at Stanislawow, Galicia; died Aug. 26, 1900, at Vienna. For some time ......
  30. Edouard Lippmann JE French engineer; born at Verdun Feb. 22, 1833. Educated at his native town, the lycée at Metz, and the Ecole ......
  31. Eduard Lippmann JE Austrian chemist; born at Prague Sept. 23, 1842; educated at the gymnasium of Vienna and the universities of Leipsic and ......

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  1. Gabriel Hirsch Lippmann JE German rabbi; born at Memmelsdorf, Bavaria; died at Kissingen May 26, 1864. He went in his early youth to Burgpreppach, ......
  2. Maurice Lippmann JE French engineer; born at Ville d'Avray (Seine-et-Oise) Sept. 27, 1847. He received his diploma as bachelor of law in 1869. ......
  3. Lippold JE German physician and financier; born at Prague; lived at Berlin in the sixteenth century. He was in great favor with ......
  4. Lipschütz (Lüpschütz, Lipschitz, Libschitz) JE Name of a family of Polish and German rabbis; derived from "Liebeschitz," name of a town in Bohemia.Aryeh Löb Lipschütz: ......
  5. Eugene Lisbonne JE Lawyer, and a member of the French Senate; born at Nyons, near Avignon, Aug. 2, 1818; died at Montpellier Feb. ......
  6. Abraham ben Chayyim Lisker JE Russian rabbi of the seventeenth century; native of Brest-Litovsk. After studying in the yeshibot of Lublin and Cracow, Lisker was ......
  7. Lissa - Ours is a dab page - JE Town of Prussia. Originally a village, it was incorporated in 1534; and soon afterward the first Jews settled there, with ......
  8. Morris Lissack JE English author and communal worker; born at Schwerin-on-the-Wartha, grand duchy of Posen, in 1814; died in London Jan. 13, 1895. ......
  9. Abraham Lissauer JE German physician and anthropologist; born at Berent, West Prussia, Aug. 29, 1832; educated at the gymnasium of his native town ......
  10. Heinrich Lissauer JE German physician; born at Neidenburg Sept. 12, 1861; died at Hallstadt, Upper Austria, Sept. 21, 1891; son of Abraham Lissauer. ......
  11. Eleazer ben Solomon (Zalman) Lisser JE Polish scholar; lived at Kleczewo in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was the author of a twofold commentary on ......
  12. Joshua Falk Lisser JE Prominent rabbi and Talmudist of the second half of the eighteenth century; a descendant of Joshua Falk Kohen of Lemberg ......
  13. Literaturblatt des Orients JE
  14. Modern Hebrew Literature JE Modern Hebrew literature (1743-1904), in distinction to that form of Neo-Hebraic literature known as rabbinical literature (see Literature, Hebrew), which ......
  15. Lithuanian Council JE Long before the Union of Lublin, probably with the beginning of the sixteenth century, the Jews of Poland and Lithuania ......
  16. Lucius Nathan Littauer JE American congressman and manufacturer; born in Gloversville, N. Y., Jan. 20, 1859. He graduated from Harvard University in 1878, after ......
  17. Litte of Regensburg JE
  18. Isaachar bär Litthauer JE Polish-German Talmudist; flourished at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He wrote: "Iggeret Yissakar," on morality and religion, in the form ......
  19. Liturgische Zeitschrift JE
  20. Litwack JE Dutch mathematician; born in Poland about 1760; died Jan. 15, 1836; buried at Ouerveen. A disciple of Moses Mendelssohn, he ......
  21. Liwa ben Bezaleel JE
  22. Elijah ben Moses Ashkenazi Loans JE German rabbi and cabalist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main 1555; died at Worms July, 1636. He belonged to the Rashi family, and ......
  23. Jacob ben Jehiel Loans JE Physician in ordinary to the German emperor Frederick III. (1440-93), and Hebrew teacher of Johann Reuchlin; died at Linz about ......
  24. Joseph Loanz JE
  25. Löb Aryeh ben Eliah of Bolochow JE Russian rabbi; born at Satanov, government of Podolia, 1801; died at Zaslavl, government of Volhynia, Sept. 2, 1881; a descendant ......
  26. Löb Aryeh Ha-Kohen of Styria JE Rabbi at Rozniatow and afterward at Styria; died in 1813. He was the author of the following works: "Ḳeẓot ha-Ḥoshen," ......
  27. Löb Aryeh ben Meïr JE Lithuanian rabbi; lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His notes on Rashi and on Elijah Mizraḥi's commentaries on the ......
  28. Löb Aryeh ben Tobiah JE Lithuanian Talmudic scholar and printer; died at Wilna Oct. 24, 1812. He enjoyed great consideration in Wilna on account of ......
  29. Löb ben Baruch Bendet JE Rabbi of Byelostok, Russia, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; author of "Sha'agat Aryeh" (Byelostok, 1805), novellæ on the treatise ......
  30. Löb b. Joseph (Reb Löb Sarah's) JE Early Ḥasidic rabbi; died in Yaltushkov, Podolia, about 1797. His was the strangest and most mysterious character of the many ......
  31. Löb Judah b. Ephraim JE Rabbi of the second half of the seventeenth century; probably born in Wilna, from which city his father, Ephraim b. ......
  32. Löb Judah b. Isaac JE Polish rabbi; died in Cracow about 1730; grandson of R. Joshua, author of "Maginne Shelomoh." He officiated as rabbi at ......
  33. Löb Judah ben Joshua JE Bohemian scholar; lived at Prague in the middle of the seventeenth century. He filled the office of secretary to Simon ......
  34. Löb Ha-Levi of Brody JE Galician rabbi of the beginning of the nineteenth century; held office first at Podhajce, then at Brody. Among his contemporaries ......
  35. Löb ben Meïr JE

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  1. Löb Mokiach of Polonnoye JE Polish preacher and leader of the Ḥasidic party in the second half of the eighteenth century. Löb was a pupil ......
  2. Löb ben Moses Ha-Kohen JE Polish rabbi of the eighteenth century; author of "Pene Aryeh" (Novidvor, 1787), novellæ on the Talmud, to which is added ......
  3. Löb of Polonnoye JE
  4. Löb ben Samuel Tzebi Hirsch JE Russian rabbi; born probably at Pinczow, government of Kielce, Poland, about 1630; died at Brest-Litovsk 1714. Löb was on his ......
  5. Löb of Shpola JE Early Ḥasidic rabbi; died at an advanced age Oct. 4, 1810. It is said that he was a poor "melammed" ......
  6. Löb (Aryeh) ben Zachariah JE Polish rabbi; born at Cracow about 1620; died there 1671. When a young man he was called as rabbi to ......
  7. Lobato JE Marano family, several of whose members lived at Amsterdam. The best-known members of the family are:Diego Gomez Lobato (called also ......
  8. Rehuel Lobatto JE Dutch mathematician; born at Amsterdam June 6, 1797; died at Delft Feb. 9, 1866. He sprang from a Portuguese Marano ......
  9. Arthur Löbel JE Austrian physician; born at Roman, Rumania, May 15, 1857; educated at the gymnasium of Czernowitz and the universities of Vienna ......
  10. Hirschel Löbel JE
  11. Löbele of Prossnitz JE
  12. Moses Jeshurun Lobo JE Spanish poet; lived at Amsterdam in the seventeenth century. He was one of the poets who celebrated the martyrdom of ......
  13. Isidore Loeb JE French scholar; born at Sulzmatt (Soultzmatt), Upper Alsace, Nov. 1, 1839; died at Paris, June 3, 1892. The son of ......
  14. Louis Loeb JE American artist; born at Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 7, 1866. At the age of thirteen he was apprenticed to a lithographer ......
  15. Morris Loeb JE American chemist; born at Cincinnati, Ohio, May 23, 1863; son of Solomon Loeb; educated at the New York College of ......
  16. Louis Loewe JE English Orientalist and theologian; born at Zülz, Prussian Silesia, 1809; died in London 1888. He was educated at the yeshibot ......
  17. Eduard Loewenthal JE German writer and editor; born March 12, 1836, at Ernsbach, Württemberg; educated at the high school at Stuttgart and at ......
  18. Emanuel Loewy JE Austrian archeologist; born at Vienna Sept. 1, 1857; educated at the gymnasium and university of his native city (Ph.D. 1882). ......
  19. The Logos JE
  20. David Lolli JE Italian physician; born at Göritz 1825; died at Triest 1884; son of Samuel Vita Lolli; studied medicine at Padua and ......
  21. Eude Lolli JE Italian rabbi; born at Göritz Aug. 23, 1826; educated at the lyceum of his native town and at the rabbinical ......
  22. Lomazy JE Town in the district of Bialy, near Brest-Litovsk, Russia. Though in 1566 there was no Jew among its 400 house-owners, ......
  23. Lombroso (Lumbroso) - Our article is redirect to Cesare Lombroso - JE Sephardic family, members of which lived in Tunis, Marseilles, and Italy. The two forms of the family name are doubtless ......
  24. London Committee of Deputies of British Jews JE A body formed to safeguard the interests of British Jews as a religious community. It can be traced to a ......
  25. Jacob ben Judah Chazzan London JE English scholar; born in London at the beginning of the eighteenth century. When quite young he went to Amsterdam, where ......
  26. Solomon b. Moses Raphael London JE Russian author and publisher; lived at Novogrudok, Lithuania, in the first half of the eighteenth century. He was the pupil ......
  27. Saadia ben Abraham Longo JE Turkish Hebrew poet; lived at Constantinople about the middle of the sixteenth century. A manuscript in the Bodleian Library (Neubauer, ......
  28. Abraham ben Raphael de Lonzano JE Austrian grammarian; lived at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He was baptized at Idstein and took the name of ......
  29. Menahem ben Judah ben Menahem de Lonzano JE Palestinian Masoretic and midrashic scholar, lexicographer, and poet; died after 1608 in Jerusalem. His nativity is unknown, but it has ......
  30. Looking-Glass JE
  31. Lopez JE A family of Sephardic Jews several of whom were distinguished for scholarly attainments.Eliahu Lopez: Dutch ḥakam of the seventeenth century. ......
  32. Manasseh Masseh Lopez JE English politician; born in Jamaica Jan. 22, 1755; died at Maristow House, Devonshire, 1831; descended from ancient Sephardic stock. Both ......
  33. Lopez-Laguna JE
  34. Lopez Rosa JE Portuguese Marano family of Lisbon, which owned a printing establishment there in 1647.Duarte Lopez Rosa: Physician; born at Beja. Duarte ......

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  1. Loria JE
  2. Achille Loria JE Italian political economist; born at Mantua March 2, 1857; educated at the lyceum of his native city and the universities ......
  3. Gino Loria JE Italian mathematician; born at Mantua May 19, 1862; educated at the Mantua lyceum and at the University of Turin, becoming ......
  4. Ibn Vives Lorki JE
  5. Lorraine JE
  6. Lost Property JE
  7. Lots JE Means of determining chances. Primitive peoples, and occasionally those on a higher plane of culture, resort to lots for the ......
  8. Lotteries JE
  9. Lousada (of Peak House) JE Name of a family that has held for many generations large possessions in Jamaica. A member of the family was ......
  10. Love-Feast JE
  11. Robert Loveman JE American poet; born at Cleveland, Ohio, April 11, 1864; educated and now (1904) residing at Dalton, Ga.; M.A., University of ......
  12. Ermanno Lövinson JE German historian; born in Berlin June 3, 1863; educated at Berlin University (Ph.D. 1888). Since 1889 he has lived in ......
  13. Israel Lovy JE French cantor and synagogal composer; born near Danzig Sept., 1773; died in Paris Jan. 7, 1832. He received a Talmudic ......
  14. Maurice A. Low JE Anglo-American writer; born in London July 14, 1860. Educated at King's College School in that city, and afterward in Austria, ......
  15. Asher ben Aryeh Löb Löw JE Chief rabbi of Carlsruhe; born at Minsk in 1754; died at Carlsruhe July 23, 1837. He studied under his father, ......
  16. Samuel Löw JE Talmudist; son of Naṭe (V08p193001.jpg = Nathan) ha-Levi; born at Kolin, Bohemia, about 1720; died May 20, 1806, at Boskowitz, ......
  17. August Löwe JE Russian mathematician and author of mathematical works. Of his books the best known are: "Obscheponyatnaya Teoriya Perspectivy," 1858; "Obscheponyatnaya Prakticheskaya ......
  18. Löwe ben Bezaleel JE
  19. Joel Löwe JE German commentator; born in 1760; died in Breslau Feb. 11, 1802. He signed his name in Hebrew writings as Joel ......
  20. Konrad Löwe JE Austrian actor; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Feb. 6, 1856. He took a law course at the University of Vienna, and ......
  21. Ludwig Löwe JE German physician; born at Berlin March 11, 1844. After graduating from the gymnasium, he attended the universities of Jena, Würzburg, ......
  22. Moses Samuel Löwe (Johann Michael Siegfried Löwe) JE German painter and engraver; born at Königsberg, Prussia, June 24, 1756; died there May 10, 1831. Aided by the friendship ......
  23. Julius Löwenberg JE German geographer; born at Strzelno, Prussia, 1800; died at Berlin Dec. 12, 1893. He was educated in Berlin, where he ......
  24. Leopold Löwenfeld JE German physician; born in Munich Jan. 23, 1847; educated at the gymnasium and university in his native city (M.D. 1870). ......
  25. Max Löwengard JE German rabbi; born in Württemberg; died at Basel May 25, 1876. He was a friend of Berthold Auerbach and a ......
  26. Levi Saul Löwenstamm JE
  27. Saul Löwenstamm JE Rabbi and Talmudist; born at Rzeszow 1717; died at Amsterdam June 19, 1790. He is known as the author of ......
  28. Baruch Solomon Löwenstein JE Russian mathematician; born at Wolodarka, Russia, in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. He wrote: "Bikkure ha-Limmudiyyot," explanations of ......
  29. Bernhard Löwenstein JE Austrian rabbi; born at Meseritz, province of Posen, Feb. 1, 1821; died at Lemberg March 15, 1889. Upon the recommendation ......
  30. L. H. Löwenstein JE Hebrew scholar; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main about 1850. He was reviser in the publishing-house of Isaac Lehrberger at Rödelheim, which office ......
  31. Leopold Löwenstein JE German rabbi; born in Gailingen, Baden, Dec. 1, 1843. He attended the gymnasium at Bischofsheim-on-the-Tauber, receiving at the same time ......
  32. Rudolf Löwenstein JE German author; born at Breslau Feb. 20, 1819; died at Berlin Jan. 6, 1891. When only nine years of age ......
  33. Nathan Löwenthal JE Russian histologist; born in 1856; educated at the Academy for Physicians and Surgeons at St. Petersburg and at the universities ......
  34. Naumann Löwenthal JE German teacher and writer; born Feb. 25, 1819, at Schmiegel; died at Posen Feb. 28, 1855. He attended the gymnasium ......
  35. Isaac Löwi JE German rabbi; born at Adelsdorf, near Erlangen, Bavaria, Jan. 31, 1803; died at Fürth Dec. 26, 1873. He received his ......
  36. Jacob Mordecai ben Judah Löb Löwinsohn JE Russo-Polish scholar and journalist; born in Grodno 1832; died in Warsaw Feb. 13, 1878. A son of the rabbi of ......
  37. Adolf Löwy JE German physiologist; born in Berlin June 29, 1862; educated at the gymnasium and university of his native city (M.D. 1885), ......
  38. Albert Löwy JE English rabbi and communal worker; born at Aussee, Moravia, Dec., 1816. He studied first at Olmütz, and then moved to ......
  39. Jacob Ezekiel Löwy JE German rabbi and author; born at Hotzenplotz, Austrian Silesia, Aug. 24, 1814; died at Beuthen Nov. 20, 1864. After attending ......
  40. Luach JE

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  1. Heschel Abramovich Lubarsky JE Russian writer; born at Balta Sept., 1878. He was educated in a family of Ḥasidim, in the Odessa Commercial School, ......
  2. Philipp Lubelski JE Polish physician; born at Zamosc 1788; died at Warsaw Feb. 3, 1879. He began his career as an army surgeon ......
  3. Meïr ben Gedaliah Lubln (MaHaRaM) JE Polish rabbi; born at Lublin (?) 1558; died there May 3, 1616. He was descended from a family of rabbis, ......
  4. Hugo Lubliner JE German dramatist; born at Breslau April 22, 1846. He studied at the industrial school in Berlin, and became manager of ......
  5. Oziasz Louis (Ludwik) Lubliner JE Polish writer; born 1809; died at Warsaw 1868. After the Polish revolution of 1831 he settled in Brussels, where he ......
  6. Solomon Lublinsky JE German journalist and writer; born at Johannisberg, Prussia, Feb. 18,1868. He was occupied for a time as a clerk in ......
  7. Luboml JE Town in the government of Volhynia, Russia. Jews lived there as early as the sixteenth century, though the attitude of ......
  8. Louis Arthur Lucas JE African explorer; born in London Sept. 22, 1851; died at sea Nov. 20, 1876. After traveling in the United States ......
  9. Lucuas JE Toward the end of the reign of the emperor Trajan, in 116, the Jews of Cyrene rebelled, their leader being ......
  10. Luke JE
  11. Lulab JE Name given to the festive palm-branch which with the Etrog is carried and waved on the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot). ......
  12. Luliani ben Tabrin JE Palestinian scholar of the beginning of the fourth century. The name, which is the equivalent of "Julianus ben Tiberianus," has ......
  13. Lumbroso JE
  14. Jacob Lumbrozo JE Physician, planter, and trader resident in the palatinate of Maryland, America, in the middle of the seventeenth century; born at ......
  15. Abraham Moses Luncz JE Russian scholar and editor; born Dec. 9, 1854, at Kovno, Russia; went when very young to Jerusalem, where he still ......
  16. Luntz JE Name of a family descended from the Loans, or Loanz, family of Worms. According to a family tradition, Elijah, the ......
  17. Isaac Luperio (Lupercio) JE A Jew, perhaps a Marano, of Spanish descent; lived at Smyrna. His apology, written in Spanish and directed against a ......
  18. Lüpschütz JE
  19. Luria - We have dab page which lists 4 different ones - JE A family with wide ramifications and several of whose members were distinguished for mystical tendencies and rabbinical knowledge.Abraham b. Nissan ......
  20. Amatus Lusitanus JE
  21. Lutzyn JE Russian town in the government of Vitebsk; it is situated near a chain of mountains and surrounded by lakes and ......
  22. Simchah Isaac ben Moses Luzki JE Karaite writer and bibliographer; born at Lutsk at the end of the seventeenth century; died, according to Firkovich, at Chufut-Kale, ......
  23. Aaron Moses ben Tzebi Hirsch Lwow JE Grammarian, scribe, and dayyan of Lemberg in the eighteenth century. He wrote: "Shirah Ḥadashah" (Zolkiev, 1764), a Hebrew grammar in ......
  24. Abraham de Lyon JE One of the first Jewish settlers in Georgia, U. S. A.; ancestor of the well-known family of that name which ......
  25. George Lewis Lyon JE English journalist and communal worker; born at Portsea, England, Dec. 11, 1828; died in London Feb. 14, 1904. After acting ......
  26. Hart Lyon JE
  27. Myer Leon (Myer Leoni) JE Operatic singer and ḥazzan; died at Kingston, Jamaica, about 1800; uncle of John Braham; both he and his nephew were ......
  28. Robert Lyon - We have three different Roberts Lyon - JE American journalist; born in London, England, Jan. 15, 1810; died in New York city March 10, 1858. After a brief ...... #Israel Lyons JE Hebrew teacher and author; born in Poland; died 1770. He emigrated to England and settled in Cambridge. Here he practised ......
  29. Israel Lyons JE English astronomer, botanist, and mathematician; born at Cambridge 1739; died in London 1775; son of Israel Lyons. In his earliest ......
  30. Jacques Judah Lyons JE American minister; son of Judah and Mary Lyons; born in Surinam, Dutch Guiana, Aug. 25, 1814; died in New York ......
  31. Nicolas de Lyra JE French exegete; born at Lyre, near Evreux, Normandy, about 1270; died at Paris Oct. 23, 1340. The only certain dates ......
  32. Lysias - We have different Lysias - JE Syrian statesman of royal descent; died 162 B.C. (I Macc. iii. 32; Josephus, "Ant." xii. 7, § 2). When Antiochus ......
  33. Lysimachus JE Anti-Jewish Alexandrian writer; lived before Apion. Like the Stoic Chæremon, he went beyond even Manetho in his inimical account of ......
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