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1. Abraham Of Lerida JE Physician, surgeon, and astrologer. All that is known of him is that, on September 12, 1468, he couched a cataract in the...
2. Abraham Ha-levi JE Tosafist, not yet fully identified. In "Pisḳe Tosafot" an Abraham ha-Levi is quoted who is not known otherwise than...
3. Abraham Ha-levi JE ...
4. Abraham Ha-levi Ben Eliezer Ha-zaken JE Spanish exile in Palestine, author and cabalist of the early part of the sixteenth century. He was brother-in-law of Abraham...
5. Abraham Ha-levi Shimshuni Of Prague JE ...
6. Abraham Lichtstein JE ...
7. Abraham Of Lunel JE A celebrated French philologist of the sixteenth century, who is said to have mastered twenty languages. He embraced Christianity...
8. Abraham (abulmeni) Maimuni I JE See Maimon, Abraham ben Moses. This article is Rated: 2.79 ...
9. Abraham Maimuni Ii JE ...
10. Abraham Malak JE Russian rabbi; only son of Dob Baer of Mezhirich, who was the first leader of the South Russian Ḥasidim; follower of...
11. Abraham Malaki JE A poet who flourished at Carpentras, near Avignon, about the end of thethirteenth century. In his poem, "The Flaming Sword...
12. Abraham Maneles JE See Bachrach, Abraham. This article is Rated: 2.87 ...
13. Abraham (alluf) Massaran JE ...
14. Abraham Ben Mattathias JE Compiler of the ("Kuh-Buch"), a collection of animal fables in Judæo-German prose and verse, published at Verona in...
15. Abraham Medina JE ...
16. Abraham Meir JE See Meiri, Abraham. This article is Rated: 2.90 ...
17. Abraham Ben Meir Abi Zimra JE ...
18. Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra JE ...
19. Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Kamnial JE ...
20. Abraham Ben Meir Ha-kohen JE Rabbi and hymn-writer of the end of the eleventh century; lived probably at Speyer. He was a colleague of Rashi, with whom...
21. Abraham Ben Meir Ha-levi Epstein JE ...
22. Abraham Ben Menahem Manasseh Bacharach JE ...
23. Abraham Meshullam Ben Abigdor JE ...
24. Abraham Ben Meshullam Of Modena JE Hebrew scholar; one of the correctors of the first edition of the Zohar, published at Mantua in 1558-60, in praise of which...
25. Abraham De Meyrargues JE A physician who lived in Marseilles, France, during the first quarter of the fifteenth century. He is mentioned in commercial...
26. Abraham Minz JE ...
27. Abraham The Monk JE A Palestinian friar who lived in a monastery on Mount Sinai. He was born about the close of the sixth century, and became...
28. Abraham Monson JE ...
29. Abraham Of Montpellier JE Commentator on the greater part of the Talmud. His commentaries on Ḥullin and Ketubot are quoted by Jacob ben Moses...
30. Abraham Ben Mordecai Farissol JE ...
31. Abraham Ben Mordecai Galante JE ...
32. Abraham Ben Mordecai Ha-levi JE An Egyptian rabbi of the end of the seventeenth century. In 1691 he edited at Venice his father's responsa, "Darke No&#39...
33. Abraham Morpurgo JE ...
34. Abraham Ben Moses (schedel) JE Printer and corrector for the press; flourished in Prague about 1600. Abraham met with some success in authorship. He translated...
35. Abraham Ben Moses Alashkar JE ...
36. Abraham B Moses Cohen JE A learned rabbi, probably of Spanish origin; lived in Italy during the first half of the sixteenth century; died about 1550...
37. Abraham Ben Moses De Fano JE ...
38. Abraham Ben Moses Kolomiti JE ...
39. Abraham Ben Moses Of Regensburg JE German tosafist, who flourished about 1200 at Ratisbon, Germany. His interpretations of the Talmud and halakic decisions are...
40. Abraham Motal Of Salonica JE ...
41. Abraham Ben Musa (moses) JE Moroccan rabbi and cabalist of the first half of the seventeenth century, who studied the Cabala with Abraham Azulai. He wrote...
42. Abraham Naftali Hirsch Ha-levi Spitz Ben Moses JE ...
43. Abraham Nahmias JE Translator of Thomas Aquinas' "Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics." See Nahmias, Abraham, 1. ...
44. Abraham Nahmias Of Venice JE ...
45. in Joseph Caro's "berit Joseph" Abraham Nahmias JE ...
46. Abraham Nahmias JE ...
47. Abraham Ben Nathan JE French author; born in the second half of the twelfth century, probably at Lunel, Languedoc. He received his education in...
48. Abraham Of Niort JE Talmudic commentator; lived at Niort (now in the department of Deux Sèvres), France, in the second half of the fourteenth...
49. Abraham Ben Nissim Hayyun JE ...
50. Philip Abraham JE English and Hebrew author; born 1803; died in London, Dec. 17, 1890. He published: (1) "The Autobiography of a Jewish Gentleman"...
51. Phinehas Abraham JE West Indian merchant; born in the island of Jamaica about the beginning of the nineteenth century; and died Feb. 19, 1887...
52. Abraham Prochownik JE A legendary personage said to have been nominated prince of Poland, in 842, under the following circumstances: After the death...
53. Abraham ProvenÇal JE ...
54. Abraham Of Przemysl JE Polish rabbi who flourished about the close of the seventeenth century; son of Judah Loeb, rabbi of Ulanov, in Galicia. At...
55. Abraham Ben Raphael Halfon JE ...
56. Abraham Ben Raphael Di Lonzano JE ...
57. Abraham Ben Raphael Meldola JE ...
58. Abraham Reuben JE ...
59. Abraham Saba JE A preacher in Castile, where he was born in the middle of the fifteenth century. He became a pupil of Isaac de Leon. At the...
60. Abraham Ibn Sahl JE ...
61. Abraham Samuel JE Talmudist, preacher, and liturgical poet; flourished about the middle of the sixteenth century. He was a pupil of Abraham...
62. Abraham Ben Samuel JE Physician in Barcelona about 1030; contemporary of Abraham ben Ḥiyyah. He was highly esteemed at the court of Count...
63. Abraham Ben Samuel Ben Aldemagh JE Hebrew poet of the thirteenth century, some of whose verses are found in Hebrew translations of Maimonides' Arabic commentary...
64. Abraham Ben Samuel Cohen Of Lask JE A Jewish ascetic who flourished at the end of the eighteenth century. He went to live at Jerusalem in 1785, but afterward...
65. Abraham Ben Samuel Hasdai JE ...
66. Abraham Ben Samuel Meyuhas JE ...
67. Abraham Son Of Samuel The Pious JE An eminent Talmudic scholar and elegist, the brother of Judah the Pious (of the Ḳalonymus family); was born at Speyer...
68. Abraham, Samuel, Of Sofia JE A Turkish Talmudist who flourished in the middle of the seventeenth century. In collaboration with Michael ben Moses ha-Kohen...
69. Abraham Sanci JE ...
70. Abraham Ben Saul Broda JE ...
71. Abrahan Schrenzel JE ...
72. Abraham Ha-sephardi JE Hebrew poet and ritualist. He was rabbi at Arta in 1521. Though not a Karaite, he has been credited with the authorship of...
73. Abraham Ben Shabbethai Cohen Of Zante JE Physician and poet; born in Crete in 1670; died in 1729. He must have removed at an early period to Zante. He studied under...
74. Abraham Shalom JE ...
75. Abraham Shalom Ben Isaac Ben Judah Ben Samuel JE ...
76. Abraham Shamsuli JE ...
77. Abraham Ben Shem-Ṭob JE Medical writer; born in the middle of the thirteenth century, probably at Marseilles, where his father, Shem-Ṭob ben...
78. Abraham Ben Shem-Ṭob Bibago JE ...
79. Abraham Ben Sherira JE Gaon in Pumbedita; successor to Rabbi Joseph bar Abba, from 816 to 828. He was inclined to mysticism, and was reputed to have...
80. Abraham Shmoilovich JE A Lithuanian merchant known also as "The Honorable Sir Abraham, the Jew of Turisk," who flourished at the end of the sixteenth...
81. Abraham ShofeṬ (ben Samuel) JE A Karaite leader; lived in Poland at the end of the seventeenth century. He was a favorite of King John Sobieski (1674-96)...
82. Abraham Ibn Shoshan Of Cairo JE Rabbi in Cairo, Egypt, in the sixteenth century, who together with RaDBAZ (David ibn Abi Zimra), gave a decision on a point...
83. Abraham Ibn Shoshan JE Well-known philanthropist and financier; member of the famous Spanish family, to which the Sassoons trace their descent. He...
84. Abraham Ben Simeon Haide (haida) JE ...
85. Abraham Ben Simeon Ben Judah Ben Simeon Of Worms JE Cabalist; born 1410; died 1440. He was the author of "Segullat Melakim" (Royal Devices), a treatise containing information...
86. Abraham Siralavo JE ...
87. Abraham Ben Solomon JE Talmudic scholar, who flourished in Italy at the beginning of the thirteenth century. Some of his interpretations and decisions...
88. Abraham Ben Solomon Akra JE An Italian scholar and editor of scientific works; lived at the end of the sixteenth century. He edited the work "Meharere...
89. Abraham Ben Solomon Conti JE ...
90. Abraham Solomon Of Saint Maximin JE Physician, who flourished in the fifteenth century, being in high favor with René of Anjou, count of Provence. C&#230...
91. Abraham Ben Solomon Selama JE ...
92. Abraham Ben Solomon Of Torrutiel JE Historian; lived at the end of the fifteenth century and at the beginning of the sixteenth. When only nine or ten years old...
93. Abraham Ben Solomon Treves Ẓarfati JE ...
94. Abraham Ben Solomon Yarhi Ẓarfati JE ...
95. Abraham Ben Solomon Of Zamora JE Eschatological writer of the thirteenth century. His work exists in the library of Munich (Codex 47, 7d), but has not yet...
96. Abraham Sulmar JE ...
97. Abraham Talmid JE ...
98. Abraham Ibn Tavvah JE See Tuvvah, Abraham ibn. This article is Rated: 2.83 ...
99. Abraham Tawil Ben Isaac JE ...
100. Abraham Of Toledo JE Physician of King Alfonso the Wise of Castile, who esteemed him highly; flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century...
101. Abraham Troki Ben Josiah JE ...
102. Abraham Of Troyes JE Head of the community of Troyes, France; lived about the middle of the twelfth century. He was a contemporary of Rabbenu Tam...
103. Abraham Of Valladolid JE ...
104. Abraham Del Vecchio Of Ferrara JE ...
105. Abraham Ha-yakini JE One of the chief agitators in the Shabbethaian movement, the son of Pethahiah of Constantinople; born—according to a...
106. Abraham Ben Yefet (japheth) JE Karaite poet; born about the beginning of the fifteenth century; died after 1460. He traced his descent to Moses Dar'i...
107. Abraham YiẒhaki Of Salonica JE See Hoeshel, Abraham Joshua. This article is Rated: 2.92 ...
108. Abraham Ben Yom-Ṭob Bondi JE ...
109. Abraham Ben Yom-Ṭob Of Jerusalem JE Astronomer and rabbi of Constantinople; born about 1480. He was a pupil of Elijah Mizraḥi, and is quoted by Joseph Caro...
110. Abraham Ben Yom-Ṭob Of Tudela JE Commentator, who flourished in Spain about 1300. He was the author of a commentary on Baba Batra, which is still extant in...
111. Abraham Ẓarfati JE ...
112. Abraham Ẓarfati (ben Solomon Treves) JE ...
113. Abraham Ibn ẒarẒal JE ...
114. Abraham Ẓebi Of Piotrkow JE Polish Talmudist; flourished at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was a rabbi in several Polish communities, including...
115. Abraham Abrahams JE Writer on sheḥiṭah (laws of ritualistic killing of animals); born at Siedlce in Poland, December, 1801, and died...
116. Barnett Abrahams JE Dayyan, or assistant rabbi, of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of London, England, and principal of Jews' College...
117. Israel Abrahams JE English author and teacher; born in London, November 26, 1858; son of Barnett Abrahams. He received his education at Jews&#39...
118. Louis Barnett Abrahams JE Head master of the Jews' Free School, London; born at Swansea, South Wales, 1842. He was educated in the Jews' School...
119. Nicolai Christian Levin Abrahams JE Danish scholar, professor of the French language and literature at the University of Copenhagen; born at Copenhagen Sept....
120. Abraham Abrahamson JE German medalist and master of the Prussian mint; born at Potsdam, 1754 (1752?); died in Berlin, July 23, 1811. As an engraver...
121. August Abrahamson JE Swedish philanthropist, and founder of the Sloid Seminary of Nääs, near Göteborg; born Dec. 29, 1817, at Karlskrona...
122. David Abrahamson JE German physician; born in Danzig, 1740; died there in 1800. He studied medicine at Königsberg, and from 1775 practised...
123. Meyer Abrahamson (abramson) JE A German physician and writer on medicine; born at Hamburg, 1764; died there October 21, 1817. He graduated from the University...
124. Mikhail Solomonovich Abramovich JE Russian poet, son of Solomon (Shalom) Abramovich; born at Berditchev in 1859, and educated at the Gymnasium of Jitomir. At...
125. Solomon (shalom) Jacob Abramowitsch JE A Hebrew and Judæo-German writer; born at Kopyl, Lithuania, in 1836. He studied Talmud at the ḥeder and bet ha-midrash...
126. Harriet Abrams JE English soprano vocalist and composer; born 1760; died in the first half of the nineteenth century. She was the eldest of...
127. Arthur Von Abramson JE Russian civil engineer; born at Odessa, March 3, 1854. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native city, and studied mathematics...
128. Bernard Abramson JE Russian physician of the nineteenth century. He was a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Science, and for...
129. Joshua (osias) Abrass JE A famous ḥazan, or cantor; born in Austria about 1820, and died at Odessa in 1883. He was cantor in Tarnopol, 1840-42...
130. Abravalla JE The richest Jew in Valencia. He was forced during the persecution of 1391 to accept Christianity. The jurados of Valencia...
131. Abarbanel Abravanel JE One of the oldest and most distinguished Spanish families, which traces its origin from King David. Members of this family...
132. David Abravanel Dormido JE ...
133. Abraxas JE A term of Gnostic magic, of uncertain etymology. According to Irenæus ("Adversus Hæreses," i. 24, 3-7), the Gnostic...
134. Abrech JE The proclamation of the criers on the approach of Joseph (Gen. xli. 43). It has been variously explained. Some favor an Egyptian...
135. Paul D' Abrest JE Journalist; born at Prague, 1850; died at Vöslau, near Vienna, in July, 1893. He received his education at the Lyc&#233...
136. Abrogation Of Laws JE In Deut. xiii. 1 (xii. 32, A. V.) Moses is described as saying: "What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt...
137. Absalom JE Third son of King David, born in Hebron in the early years of that king's reign. His mother, Maachah, was the daughter...
138. Absalom's Tomb JE A tomb twenty feet high and twenty-four feet square, which late tradition points out as the resting-place of Absalom. It is...
139. Absalom JE One of the five sons of John Hyrcanus, who was thrown into prison withhis mother and two of his brothers when Judas Aristobulus...
140. Absalom The Elder JE A Tanna, the dates of whose birth and death are unknown. A homiletic interpretation of Ex. xiv. 15 is recorded in his name...
141. Absalom Ben Moses Mizrahi JE ...
142. Solomon Absban JE Rabbi of Aleppo about 1580; was a grandson of Jacob Berab. He was highly esteemed for his learning, prudence, sagacity, and...
143. The Absolute JE A philosophic term indicating a being or substance free from contingency and external determination. It is defined by the...
144. Abstinence JE Refraining from enjoyments which are lawful in themselves. Abstinence can be considered a virtue only when it serves the purpose...
145. Pollion Abtalion JE A leader of the Pharisees in the middle of the first century B.C. and by tradition vice-president of the great Sanhedrin of...
146. Son Of Mordecai (marco) Of Modena Abtalion (ottaviano) JE Italian Hebrew scholar; born in Modena in 1529; died in Ferrara in 1611. From the fact that Azariah dei Rossi in his "Meor...
147. Abtalion Ben Solomon JE Italian rabbi; born at Consiglio about 1540; died Oct. 26, 1616. He was a pupil of Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen, rabbi of...
148. David Abterode (aptrod) JE Rabbinical writer; great-grandfather of David Sinzheim; probably born at Abterode near Frankfort-on-the-Main, in which town...
149. Abtolmus JE ...
150. Abu JE Arabic word meaning "father." With its different cases aba (accusative) and abi (genitive), as well as its abbreviated form...
151. Abu Aaron Of BagdẠd JE ...
152. Abu Abdallah Mohammed Alnasir JE Almohade sultan; ruler of Morocco and southern Spain at the beginning of the thirteenth century. The rule of the Almohade...
153. Abu Ali JE See Jephet. This article has not yet been rated. ...
154. Abu Amram Joseph Ibn Hasdai JE ...
155. Abu Amram (imram) Musa (moses) Al-sa'afram Al-tiflisi JE ...
156. Abu Amramites JE ...
157. Abu Anan Yishak Ben Ali Ben Yishak JE ...
158. Abu Ayub (sulaiman Ibn Al-muallim) Of Seville JE ...
159. Abu Al-barakah Hibat Allah JE ...
160. Abu Fadhl Hasdai JE ...
161. Abu Al-faraj Furkan Ibn Asad JE See Joshua ben Judah. This article has not yet been rated. ...
162. Abu Al-fihm Lawi Ibn Ya'kub Ibn Al-tabben JE See Al-Tabben, Levi ben Jacob ibn. This article has not yet been rated...
163. Abu Al-hasan Ibn Sahl JE ...
164. Abu Ibrahim Ishak Ibn Barun JE ...
165. Abu Ibrahim Ishak Ibn Halfon JE ...
166. Abu Ibrahim Ishak Ibn Jasos Ibn Sartar JE ...
167. Abu Isa Al-ispahani JE See Obadiah Abu. This article is Rated: 2.47 ...
168. Abu Ishak Al-elviri JE Mohammedan poet; lived in Spain toward the middle of the eleventh century. In one of his poems he attacked Jews in general...
169. Abu Ishak Ibrahim Ibn Sahl Al-israili Of Seville JE Spanish poet of the thirteenth century; died at sea in 1259 or 1260. Under the pressure of the Almohade rule he embraced the...
170. Abu Ishak Ibrahim Ibn Zahab JE ...
171. Abu Ishak Ibn Al-muhajir JE Spanish-Arabic vizier of the middle of the twelfth century mentioned in the "Diwan" (collection of poems) of Moses ibn Ezra...
172. Abu Jacob Ben Noah JE See Yusuf ben Noah, Abu Ya'aḳub. This article has not yet been...
173. Abu Karib Tubba JE ...
174. Abu-omar Joseph Ibn Hasdai JE See Joseph ibn Ḥassdai. This article is Rated: 2.79 ...
175. Abu Sahl Adonim Ben Tamim Of Kairwan JE See Dunash ben Tamim. This article is Rated: 2.74 ...
176. Ali Abu Sahl JE ...
177. Isaac Ben Solomon Ibn Abu Sahula JE See Isaac ben Solomon ibn Abu Sahula. This article is Rated: 2.78...
178. Abu Said JE ...
179. Abu Sari Sahl Ben MaẒliah JE ...
180. Abu Sulaiman Daud Ibn Husain JE See Daud ibn Husain. This article is Rated: 2.78 ...
181. Abu Sulaiman Ibn Al-muhajir JE ...
182. Abu Talib JE Imaginary name of the Mohammedan disputant in the controversial epistles of Samuel Maroccanus (see Abbas, Samuel abu Na&#7779...
183. Abu Ya'akub Ibn Bahlul JE ...
184. Abu Ya'akub Ibn Noah JE ...
185. Abu Yusuf JE ...
186. Abu Yusuf Ben Isaac Ibn Shaprut JE ...
187. Abu Yusuf Ha-zaken JE See Joseph ha-Zaḳen. This article is Rated: 2.94 ...
188. Abubus JE Father of Ptolemy, who murdered Simon at Jericho, where he was stationed as military officer. (I Macc. xvi. 11, 15.) G. B...
189. Abudarham JE A family name borne by Spanish Jews, for the first time by David Abudarham, who was a tax-collector and elder of the congregation...
190. David Ben Joseph Ben David Abudarham JE A commentator on the Synagogue liturgy, who lived at Seville, Spain, about 1340, and was a pupil of Jacob ben Asher. He belonged...
191. Abudiente JE Name of a Marano family living at Lisbon. Gideon Abudiente, about the end of the sixteenth century, is the earliest bearer...
192. Samson Abudiente JE ...
193. Abu-l-fadhl Daud JE ...
194. Abu-l-kheir JE A Spanish scholar and translator, who flourished in the fifteenth century. He was expelled from Spain in 1492, and settled...
195. Abu-l-rabi JE See Solomon ben Abraham ben Baruch. This article is Rated: 2.90 ...
196. Abu-l-sar Ben Juta JE ...
197. Abu Al-walid Merwan Ibn Janah JE ...
198. Abulafia JE Name of a widely scattered Jewish family of Spanish origin, one of whose branches, for the sake of clearer designation, bore...
199. Abraham Ben Samuel Abulafia JE One of the earliest cabalists; born 1240 at Saragossa, in Aragon; died some time after 1291. Very early in life he was taken...
200. Abu Al-faraj Bar HebrÆus JE ...
201. Judah Ben Samuel Ha-levi (ibn Allevi) Abulhassan JE ...
202. Abumai JE Gaon in Sura from 811 to 819; brother of Rabbi Mordecai. He appears to have been the father of the gaon of Sura, Cohen-&#7826...
203. Abumai Ben Abraham JE Gaon in Pumbedita from 810 to 814. No responsa in his name are known. See Geonim. A. K. ...
204. Abun Astruc JE See Astruc, Desmaister ben. This article is Rated: 2.94 ...
205. Abun Ben Saul JE An elegist who was probably a pupil of Isaac Alfasi and, most likely, is the one whose death Moses ibn Ezra deplores in a...
206. Abun Ben Sharada JE A Spanish poet; flourished at the beginning of the eleventh century, first at Lucena, afterward at Seville. None of his poetical...
207. Abyss JE Term for the (Gen. vii. 11) of the Old Testament, used in the apocalyptic, New Testament, and cabalistic literature for the...
208. Abyssinia JE ...
209. Acacia JE A hard and durable but light wood; at first yellowish, but gradually turning very dark, like ebony. Of this the Ark and its...
210. Academies In Babylonia JE The Jews of Babylonia, no doubt, shared in the changes and movements that Ezra and his successors, who came from Babylonia...
211. Academies In Palestine JE According to an oft-quoted tradition of Hoshayah (a collector of Tannaite traditions, who lived in Cæsarea in the first...
212. Moses AÇan JE Identical perhaps with the Moses ben Joseph Ḥazan, who lived in 1245 at Toledo, and maintained business connections...
213. Moses De Zaragua AÇan JE Native of Catalonia, who flourished in the fourteenth century. He wrote a rimed treatise on chess in the Catalonian dialect...
214. Jacob Acaz JE Keeper of the royal lions in Saragossa. In 1384 or 1385, by order of King Pedro of Aragon, Acaz took some lions to Navarre...
215. Acbara JE ...
216. Accad JE Word occurring once in the Old Testament (Gen. x. 10), as the name of a city; one of the four cities which formed the beginning...
217. Accents In Hebrew JE Symbols denoting vocal stresses on particular syllables in pronouncing words or sentences. 1. In every word we utter, one...
218. Musical Value Of Accents JE ...
219. Acceptance JE In law, the assent by one party to an offer made by another, or to any act which becomes operative only by such assent; in...
220. Accessories JE In English and American law an accessory is a person who, without committing a criminal act with his own hands, or without...
221. Accho JE ...
222. Accident JE Term used in philosophy to express a characteristic of an object or notion which does not necessarily follow from its nature...
223. Isaac Acco JE ...
224. Accommodation Of The Law JE An adaptation of laws to circumstances; the mitigation of the rigor of a law in order to reconcile it with the exigencies...
225. Accusatory And Inquisitorial Procedure JE Two methods by which persons suspected of crime may be tried. In the Inquisitorial method the judges or other officials seek...
226. Aceldama JE An ancient ossuary on the southern extremity of Jerusalem, near the ravine of Hinnom. The field once contained rich clay deposits...
227. Achan JE The son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, who committed sacrilege during the capture of the city...
228. Achawa JE 1. German annual published at Leipsic (C. L. Fritzsche) under the title, "Achawa, Jahrbuch für 1865=5625," from 1865...
229. Achbor JE Father of Baal-hanan (comp. Hannibal), king of Edom (Gen. xxxvi. 38, 39, and in the corresponding list of I Chron. i. 49)...
230. Acheron JE The fiery river of Hades in Greek mythology, mentioned in Plato's "Phædo," 113a, which figures also in Jewish eschatology...
231. Achish JE King of Gath in the time of David and Solomon (I Sam. xxi.-xxix. 1; I Kings, ii.). David, when fleeing from Saul, twice sought...
232. Achmetha JE Name given in the Old Testament (Ezra, vi. 2) to the Persian city called by the Greeks Ecbatana or Agbatana. In Old Persian...
233. Achor JE A valley near Jericho. From Josh. xv. 7 it would appear that it was situated upon the northern boundary of Judah. Its exact...
234. Achsa JE Daughter of Caleb (I Chron. ii. 49), who was promised by her father to the man who should capture Kirjath-sepher. Othniel...
235. Benedict (bendet ben Joseph ha-levi) Achselrad JE A darshan, or preacher, of Lemberg in the first half of the seventeenth century. He was the author of several homiletical...
236. Achshaph JE Town mentioned in Josh. xi. 1 and xii. 20 as the seat of a north Canaanitish king. Robinson ("Biblical Researches," iii. 55...
237. Achzib JE 1. A town of Judah, in the southern Shephelah or lowland (Josh. xv. 44), coupled with Mareshah in Micah, i. 14, where it appears...
238. Acme JE Jewish slave of Livia, wife of the Emperor Augustus. During the family troubles which clouded the last nine years of Herod&#39...
239. CristÓval Acosta JE Spanish physician and botanist of the sixteenth century. He was born in Africa, whither his parents fled when exiled from...
240. Duarte NuÑes D' Acosta JE Merchant at Hamburg during the first half of the seventeenth century; descendant of a prominent Marano family from Portugal...
241. GerÓnimo NuÑez D' Acosta JE ...
242. Joan D' Acosta JE Jester at the court of Peter the Great of Russia in the first half of the eighteenth century. Originally he was a broker at...
243. Luis D' Acosta JE Marano of Villa-Flor, Portugal; born in 1587. At the age of forty-five, he was condemned to the galleys because he had been...
244. Uriel Acosta JE ...
245. Acqui JE A city on the Bormida, in the province of Alessandria, Italy, famous for its hot springs and its ancient Roman ruins. According...
246. Talmudical Acquisition (law) JE ...
247. Acquittal In Talmudic Law JE The Jewish court for hearing capital offenses was composed of twenty-three judges, and according to the opinion of many sages...
248. Acra JE Fortress built by Antiochus Epiphanes in the year 173 B.C. at Jerusalem, on an outlying spur of the Temple mount toward the...
249. Acre JE City and seaport of Phenicia, situated on a promontory at the foot of Mount Carmel (compare Josephus, "Ant." ii. 10, &#167...
250. Acrostics JE Compositions, usually rhythmical, in which certain letters (generally the first or last of each line), taken consecutively...
251. Ignatz (ignatius) AcsÁdy JE Hungarian historian; born at Nagy-Károly, September, 9, 1845. He was educated at Debreczin and Budapest, and he began...
252. Acts Of Parliament Relating To The Jews Of England JE The legislature of England expresses its will in formal documents known as Acts, and thus the record of the legislative enactments...
253. Adafina JE ...
254. Adah JE One of Lamech's two wives (Gen. iv. 19, 20). The name is mentioned in the poem in verses 23 and 24.The names of Lamech&#39...
255. Adah JE Wife of Esau (Gen. xxxvi. 2-16), thought by modern writers to be added by the final redactor (R) of the Pentateuch. Adah is...
256. Adaiah JE 1. A man of Boscath, father of Jedidah, the mother of King Josiah (II Kings, xxii. 1). 2. Two members of the Bani family who...
257. Samuel Adalberg JE Polish author; born at Warsaw in 1868. He published "Liber Proverbiorum Polonicorum cum Adagiis ac Tritioribus Dictis ad instar...
258. Adam JE The Hebrew and Biblical name for man, and also for the progenitor of the human race. In the account of the Creation given...
259. Book Of Adam JE The Talmud says nothing about the existence of a Book of Adam, and Zunz's widely accepted assertion to the contrary ("G...
260. Adam JE City near the Jordan. In Josh. iii. 16, Adam is described as the city "that is besideZaretan," on the Jordan, near the spot...
261. Adam Kadmon JE The various philosophical (Gnostic) views concerning the original man are, in spite of their differences, intimately related...
262. Adamah JE Fortified city of Naphtali, northwest of the Sea of Galilee (Josh. xix. 36); identified by Conder with modern 'Admah,...
263. Adamant JE This term occurs three times in the Old Testament (Ezek. iii. 9, Zech. vi. 12, Jer. xvii. 1), and is used as a translation...
264. Adamantius JE Jewish physician, author, and naturalist (ἰατρικ࿶ν λόγω&#957...
265. Antony Samuel Adam-salomon JE French sculptor; born at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, in the department of Seine-et-Marne, France, 1818; died in Paris, April...
266. Hannah Adams JE American author of a Jewish history; born at Medfield, near Boston, in 1755 or 1756; died at Brookline, Mass., November 15...
267. John Adams JE Second president of the United States; born at Braintree, Mass., Oct. 19 (old style), 1735; died at Quincy, Mass., July 4...
268. Adar JE 1. A Benjamite, son of Bela (I Chron. viii. 3). 2. A border town of Judah (Josh. xv. 3). G. B. L. ...
269. Adar JE The twelfth ecclesiastical and sixth civil month (Esth. iii. 7, ix. 1; Ezra, vi. 15). It has usually twenty-nine days, of...
270. The Seventh Of Adar JE According to tradition or calculation (compare Deut. xxxiv. 8 and Josh. i. 11, iii. 2. iv. 19), the anniversary of the death...
271. Adar Sheni (weadar) JE The Second, or intercalary, Adar, the thirteenth month of a Jewish embolismic year; it has twenty-nine days and the first...
272. Isaac Ben Samuel Adarbi JE A casuist and preacher of the Shalom Congregation of Salonica; lived in the sixteenth century. He was the pupil of Joseph...
273. Adarsa JE A village in Judea, thirty furlongs from Beth-horon, and a three days' march from Gazera. Eusebius ("Onomasticon," s.v...
274. Moses Ben Samuel Adavi JE A Talmudic scholar and author, who flourished in Tunis about the middle of the eighteenth century. He was a pupil of Isaac...
275. Adbeel JE A name found in the genealogical list of the sons of Ishmael, in Gen. xxv. 13, and in the corresponding list of I Chron. i...
276. Adda JE The name of two amoraim, neither of whom had a distinguishing patronymic or cognomen. The elder was a Palestinian, and lived...
277. Adda B Abimi (bimi) JE A Palestinian amora of the fourth generation, disciple of R. Ḥanina b. Pappi, and contemporary of R. Hezekiah. It is...
278. Adda B Ahabah (ahwah) JE 1. A Babylonian amora of the second generation (third and fourth centuries), frequently quoted in both the Jerusalem and the...
279. Adda Of CÆsarea (kisrin) JE A disciple of R. Johanan, and a teacher in the third amoraic generation. Because of his cognomen he is erroneously supposed...
280. Calendar Of Adda JE ...
281. Adda B Hunya JE The homiletic observation on Eccl. i. 4 ("One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth...
282. Adda B Matna JE A Babylonian amora of the fourth century, disciple of Abaye and of Raba. He appears to have obtained some halakic information...
283. Meshohaah Adda JE A disciple of R. Judah b. Ezekiel, who instructed Raba how to measure city limits for the regulation of Sabbath walks (&#39...
284. Adda B Minyomi JE A Babylonian amora of the third century, junior contemporary of Rabina I. and of Huna Mar b. Iddi. He is sometimes quoted...
285. Adda B Simon JE A Palestinian amora, who is known chiefly for ethical rules quoted in the name of his predecessors (Yer. Ber. ii. 4d; Yer...
286. Addan JE A city of Babylonia, some of the inhabitants of which migrated with the Jews under Zerubbabel, but were unable to prove their...
287. Adder JE Reptile mentioned only in Gen. xlix. 17. It is the modern Arabic shiphon, a horned sand-snake, or Cerastes haselquistii (Hart...
288. Addir Hu JE A hymn in the Seder, the home service for Passover eve, and so called from its initial words, but also known by its refrain...
289. Joseph Addison JE English essayist; born at Milston, in England, May 1, 1672; died June 17, 1719. He has been fittingly characterized as "the...
290. Lancelot Addison JE English clergyman and author; father of Joseph Addison; born at Meaburn Town Head, in the parish of Crosby Ravensworth, Westmoreland...
291. Addo JE ...
292. Addon JE ...
293. Adelaide JE Capital city of South Australia. The history of the Jewish community of this city is closely connected with a pioneer settler...
294. Adelkind JE A prænomen; also a family name among the Jews. As the former it is found in a list of martyrs in Nuremberg in the year...
295. Wolf Adelsohn JE Russian-Hebrew scholar and teacher; born in Lithuania about the beginning of the nineteenth century; died in Odessa, August...
296. Aden JE Port in western Arabia on the shores of the Red Sea, near the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb; a British possession since 1839. In...
297. Solomon Ben Joshua Adeni JE Arabian author and Talmudist, who lived during the first half of the seventeenth century at Sanaa and Aden in southern Arabia...
298. G A Adersbach JE German poet; died in 1823. He belonged to the generation that, in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, took anactive...
299. Adhan JE A family of northern Africa, several members of which figure in Jewish literature. The family name was originally Aldahhan...
300. Solomon Ben Masud Adhan JE Translator and author, who lived in the first half of the eighteenth century. He went from Tafilet, Morocco, to Amsterdam...
301. Adiabene JE A district in Mesopotamia between the Upper Zab (Lycus) and the Lower Zab (Caprus), though Ammianus ("Hist." xviii., vii....
302. Jacob Adibe JE A Jew, exiled from Portugal in 1496, who dwelt at Azamor in the province of Duccala, Morocco. In 1512 the ruler of Azamor...
303. Adido JE See Hadido. This article is Rated: 3.00 ...
304. Adiel JE 1. A prince of the family of Simeon, who captured Gedor in the days of Hezekiah (I Chron. iv. 36). 2. A priest, son of Jahzerah...
305. Adino The Eznite JE In II Sam. xxiii. 8 et seq., in which the names of David's heroes are recorded, occur two mysterious words, (according...
306. Adiya JE ...
307. Adjiman JE Jewish family in Turkey, several members of which were treasurers and intendants-general of the janizaries. Meir Adjiman,...
308. Talmudical Mode Of Adjuration JE ...
309. Adler JE A family that came originally from Frankfort, but which has been connected for more than a century with the chief rabbinate...
310. Abraham Jacob ("koppel") Adler JE German rabbi, educator; born in 1813; died at Worms in 1856. He was the son of Isaac Adler, associate rabbi in Worms, and...
311. Cyrus Adler JE Librarian of the Smithsonian Institution; founder of the American Jewish Historical Society. He was born at Van Buren, Arkansas...
312. Dankmar Adler JE German-American architect and engineer; born in Stadt-Lengsfeld, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, July 3, 1844; died in Chicago, April...
313. David Baruch Adler JE Danish banker and politician; born May 16, 1826, at Copenhagen; died there December 4, 1878. In 1846 he became a partner in...
314. Elkan Nathan Adler JE Lawyer, and collector of Hebrew manuscripts; born at London, 1861; son of Chief Rabbi Nathan Adler. His early training was...
315. Felix Adler JE Founder of the Society for Ethical Culture, educator, and author; second son of Rabbi Samuel Adler; was born at Alzey, Germany...
316. George Adler JE German economist and author; born at Posen, May 28, 1863. His thesis for the doctor's degree (1883) was on Rodbertus-Jagetzow...
317. Gottlieb Adler JE Austrian physicist and mathematician; born March 7, 1860; died Dec. 15, 1893, at Stecken, Bohemia. After receiving his early...
318. Guido Adler JE Austrian writer on music; born at Eibenschütz, Moravia, Nov. 1, 1855. His father, Joachim, a physician, died in 1857...
319. Helene Adler JE German teacher and writer; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1849, in the same house in which Ludwig Börne was born, and...
320. Hermann Adler JE Chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British empire; born in the city of Hanover, May, 1839; second son of...
321. Isaac Adler JE Son of Rabbi Samuel Adler, American physician and professor of clinical medicine in the New York Polyclinic Medical School...
322. Jacob Adler JE Judæo-German actor; born at Odessa, Russia, January 1, 1855. Influenced by a Jewish troupe which came from Rumania to...
323. Karl Friedrich Adler JE Austrian jurist; born at Prague, Bohemia, March 31, 1865. He is the son of Moritz Adler, author of "Der Krieg, die Congressideen...
324. Lazarus (levi) Adler JE German rabbi, of the period of transition; born at Unsleben, Bavaria, Nov. 10, 1810; died at Wiesbaden, Jan. 5, 1886. He studied...
325. Liebmann Adler JE American rabbi; born at Lengsfeld, near Eisenach, Saxe-Weimar, Germany, January 9, 1812; died in Chicago, Ill., January 29...
326. Marcus Nathan Adler JE Born at Hanover, June 17, 1837; the eldest son of Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler; conspicuous for his labors in connection...
327. Michael Adler JE English rabbi; born July 27, 1868. He was educated at Jews' Free School, Jews' College, and University College, London...
328. Nathan Adler JE German cabalist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Dec. 16, 1741; died there Sept. 17, 1800. As a precocious child he won the...
329. Nathan Marcus Adler JE Chief rabbi of the British empire; born in the city of Hanover, Germany, January 15, 1803; died at Brighton, England, on January...
330. Samuel Adler JE German-American rabbi, Talmudist, and author; born at Worms, Germany, Dec. 3, 1809; died in New York, June 9, 1891. From his...
331. Victor Adler JE Austrian physician, journalist, and leader of the Austrian labor movement; born at Prague, June 24, 1852. Having been graduated...
332. Admah JE A town named in the genealogical list of Canaan (Gen x. 19), whose king was Shinab (Gen. xiv. 2, 8). It was destroyed together...
333. Admissions In Evidence JE The best evidence in Jewish law must be attested by at least two witnesses, and be of a disinterested and impartialcharacter...
334. Admon B Gaddai JE One of three police-court judges in Jerusalem mentioned in the Talmud—the others being Ḥanan b. Abishalom (&#7716...
335. Admoni JE ...
336. Adoi JE Name of the father of Hananiah, a resh galuta (prince of the captivity), who flourished about 700. It is interesting as exhibiting...
337. Degli Adolescentoli JE One of the four or five noble families which, according to legend, were transported by Titus (70-81) from Jerusalem to Rome...
338. Sir John Adolphus JE English lawyer, historical and political writer; born at London in 1768; died there July 16, 1845. His grandfather, a Jew...
339. Adomim Ben Tamim JE See Dunash ben Tamim. This article is Rated: 3 ...
340. Adonai JE This word occurs in the Masoretic text 315 times by the side of the Tetragram YHWH (310 times preceding and five times succeeding...
341. Adonai Adonai JE The pizmon (hymn) on the thirteen Attributes of God in the seliḥot (propitiatory prayers) for the fifth intermediate...
342. Adonai Bekol Shofar JE A short pizmon of four stanzas, each ending and commencing with the respective halves of Ps. xlvii. 6. It is chanted in the...
343. Adonai Melek JE A refrain of frequent occurrence, particularly during the services of the days of penitence, built up of the following Scriptural...
344. Adoni-bezek JE Canaanitish king (Judges, i. 5-7), in the town of Bezek. He was routed by Judah and fled, but was caught. His thumbs and great...
345. Adonijah JE 1. Fourth son of David, by Haggith. After Absalom's death he claimed to be the rightful heir to the throne, by summoning...
346. Adonim Ha-levi JE See Dunash ben Labrat. This article is Rated: 2.81 ...
347. Adoniram JE Superintendent of the collection of taxes in the reigns of David, Solomon, and Rehoboam ("Adoram," II Sam. xx. 24; "Hadoram...
348. Adonis (baal Of The Phenicians) JE ...
349. Adonis Plant JE ...
350. Adoni-zedek JE King of Jerusalem at the time of the Hebrew invasion of Palestine (Josh. x. 1, 3). He led a coalition of five of the neighboring...
351. Adon 'olam JE One of the few strictly metrical hymns in the Jewish liturgy, the nobility of the diction of which and the smoothness of whose...
352. Adoption JE The adrogatio of the older Roman law—a legal process by which a man can create betweenhimself and a person not his child...
353. Adoraim JE Fortified city built by Rehoboam in Judah; now called Dura (II Chron. xi. 9 et seq.).G. B. L. ...
354. Adoram JE ...
355. Forms Of Adoration JE The various gestures and postures expressive of homage. In religious adorations these gestures and postures were originally...
356. Adrammelech JE 1. Mentioned in II Kings, xvii. 31, as a god of Sepharvaim, which until recently was supposed to be the Hebrew name for the...
357. Adret JE A prominent Spanish-Jewish family, members of which are known from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. In Spanish documents...
358. Moses Adret JE Cabalist of the eighteenth century; lived and died in Smyrna. He possessed an extraordinary memory and was thoroughly acquainted...
359. Solomon Ben Abraham Adret JE Spanish rabbi; born in 1235 at Barcelona; died in 1310. As a rabbinical authority hisfame was such that he was designated...
360. Adrianople JE A city of Turkey in Europe with a population of 70,000, of whom about 8,000 are Jews. The first trace of a Jewish settlement...
361. MatthÆus Adrianus JE Hebraist of the sixteenth century. He was a Jew of Spanish descent, but at an early age migrated to Germany, where he embraced...
362. Adriel JE The Meholathite to whom Merab (Saul's daughter) was given in marriage instead of to David (I Sam. xviii. 19); son of Barzillai...
363. Adula Of Tunis JE A Jew who, to avoid being baptized, committed suicide in the house of the catechumen in Rome, on May 2, 1666, at the moment...
364. Adullam JE An old Canaanitish capital in western Judah (Gen. xxxviii. 1; Josh. xii. 15, xv. 35). It was fortified by Rehoboam (II Chron...
365. Adultery JE Sexual intercourse of a married woman with any man other than her husband. The crime can be committed only by and with a married...
366. Adummim JE Steep road leading from the plain of Jericho to the hilly country around Jerusalem. It was a part of the boundary between...
367. Adummim JE ...
368. Advent Of Messiah JE ...
369. Adventists JE A Christian sect. Among the chief tenets of the Adventist faith are: (1) The restoration of the Jews to the Holy Land (see...
370. Ægidius Of Viterbo JE Cardinal and Christian cabalist; born in 1470 at the Villa Canapina, in the diocese of Viterbo, of rich and noble parents...
371. Ælia Capitolina JE ...
372. Paulus Æmilius JE Hebrew bibliographer, publisher, and teacher; born at Rödlsee, Germany, probably in the first quarter of the sixteenth...
373. Ashmedai) Æshma (asmodeus JE In the Mazdian religion the chief of the dævas, or demons. Though the oldest sections of the Avesta—the Gathas&#8212...
374. Æsop's Fables Among The Jews JE Recent research has shown an intimate relation between the fables associated with the name of Æsop and the jatakas, or...
375. Alexander Stepanovich Afanasyev-chuzhbinski JE Christian Russian author and ethnographer (1817-75); he was an enlightened writer who did justice to the Jews. In his "Poyezdka...
376. Caleb B Elijah B Judah Afendopolo JE Polyhistor, brother of Samuel ha-Ramati, ḥakam of the Karaite congregations in Constantinople and of Judah Bali, brother-in-law...
377. Affinity JE ...
378. Affras Rachmaelovich JE A Jewish merchant of Mohilev and Riga, who lived about the end of the sixteenth century. Affras figured prominently in Lithuania...
379. Afghanistan JE Country of Asia, lying to the northwest of India. The Afghans themselves have a tradition that they are descendants of the...
380. Aaron Afia JE A physician, philosopher, and mathematician of Salonica, who lived about 1540. He was the teacher of Daniel ben Pera&#7717...
381. Afikomen JE A piece broken off the cake of unleavened bread, maẓẓah (usually from the middle one of the three cakes called...
382. Africa JE The Bible has no general name for Africa, any more than it has for Europe or Asia. The word "Ham," from the Hebrew root (to...
383. Sextus Julius Africanus JE ...
384. Benjamin Aga JE Leader of the Karaites of the Crimea, who died in 1824. He was the royal treasurer of Selim Ghyrey Khan, the last Tatar ruler...
385. Agabus JE A Jew of Jerusalem; one of the prophets who, after the dispersion of the early followers of Jesus, came to the city of Antioch...
386. Agag JE King of the Amalekites, taken by King Saul after a successful expedition against him (I Sam. xv.). His life was spared by...
387. Adolf Agai JE Physician and journalist; born March 31, 1836, at Jankovacz, Hungary. His father, Joseph Rosenzweig, at the age of thirteen...
388. Agape JE The name given to the communion meals of the early Christians, at which the rich and the poor, the master and the slave, sat...
389. Agate JE A precious stone, mentioned four times in the Authorized Version of the Bible—twice as the translation of kadkod (Isa...
390. Agde JE A town in the department of Hérault, France, two miles from the Mediterranean Sea and thirty miles from Montpellier....
391. Old Age JE Various terms are used in the Bible to designate the declining years of life. The most frequent is zaḳen (old, and old...
392. Alleged Conference Of Ageda JE In an English pamphlet, entitled "A Narrative of the Proceedings of a Great Council of Jews Assembled on the Plain of Ageda...
393. Agen JE A town in the department of Lot-et-Garonne, France, on the banks of the Garonne, southeast of Bordeaux. Some Jews settled...
394. Law Of Agency JE The Law of Agency deals with the status of a person (known as the agent) acting by direction of another (the principal), and...
395. The Seven Ages Of Man In Jewish Literature JE The Biblical allusions to the various stages of human life (Jer. vi. 11, li. 22; Ps. cxlviii. 12) and the metaphors in Holy...
396. The Aggada JE ...
397. Aggadists JE ...
398. The Proud King Aggei JE The original idea of the legend concerning the Proud King Aggei, which appears in various forms in folk-lore, is found also...
399. Agla JE A cabalistic sign used as a talisman. It is a combination of the initial letters of "Attah Gibbor Le'olam Adonai," the...
400. Agnates JE In Roman law, kindred on the paternal side only: the word is used in contradistinction to cognati, kindred on the mother&#39...
401. Agnosticism JE A term invented by Prof. Thomas H. Huxley in 1869, expressive of opposition to the claims of the Christian gnostic as "the...
402. Agobard JE Archbishop of Lyons; born 779. died June 6, 840; one of the principal opponents of Judaism in the ninth century. In his time...
403. Agram (zagreb) JE Austro-Hungarian city, capital of Croatia and Slavonia, situated near the Save river, about 160 miles from Vienna. The first...
404. Agrarian Laws JE With the settlement of the Israelites in Canaan, and the consequent transition from their former nomadic mode of life to agricultural...
405. Agricultural Colonies In The Argentine Republic (argentina) JE Excepting certain settlements of Jewish farmers in Brazil referred to elsewhere (pp. 265, 266), agriculture among the Jews...
406. Agricultural Colonies In Canada JE Agricultural activity among Jews in Canada is a sequel to Russo-Jewish immigration occasioned by persecution. The Mansion...
407. Agricultural Colonies In Palestine JE Since the dispersion of the Jews from their native land, many efforts have been made to induce them to return to Palestine...
408. Agricultural Colonies In Russia JE The idea of colonizing the Jews as agriculturists in Russia originated with the Polish historian Czacki and Nathan Nata (Notkin)...
409. Agricultural Colonies In The United States JE With the exception of the partly successful experiment by thirteen Jewish families in the state of New York in 1837 (see below)...
410. Agriculture JE Agriculture was the basis of the national life of the Israelites; state and Temple in Palestine were alike founded on it....
411. Agrigentum JE A town on the south coast of Sicily; was the seat of a large Jewish congregation as early as the time of Pope Gregory the...
412. Agrippa I JE King of Judea; born about the year 10 B.C. ("Ant." xiv. 9, § 2); died suddenly in 44. His career, with its abundant and...
413. Agrippa Ii JE Son of Agrippa I. He was born in the year 28, and according to a statement that is not uncontradicted (Photius, "Bibliotheca...
414. Caius Julius Agrippa JE Mentioned as propretor of the Roman province of Asia in an inscription at Ephesus; was probably a descendant of the royal...
415. Simonides Agrippa JE Youngest son of Flavius Josephus, the historian, by his second wife, a Jewess of distinguished family from the island of Crete...
416. Agrippina JE The depraved daughter of Germanicus and wife of the emperor Claudiuś, who at times interested herself in the internal...
417. Agudat Ahim JE A name adopted by many Jewish societies throughout the world, the members of which pledge themselves to brotherly love, and...
418. Aguilar JE A district in the Spanish province of Valencia, which sheltered a considerable Jewish congregation in the Middle Ages. In...
419. Antonio D' Aguilar JE See Cohen, Faya. This article is Rated: 2.95 ...
420. David Uzziel D' Aguilar (avelar) JE Friend and contemporary of De Barrios, and praised by the latter in the "Relacion de los Poetas." He is known for his translation...
421. Diego D' Aguilar JE A Marano who flourished in the eighteenth century; born probably in Spain; died at London in 1759. In 1722 he went from Lisbon...
422. Aguilar, Ephraim Lopez Pereira, Baron D' JE Second Baron d'Aguilar; born in Vienna in 1739; died at London, 1802. In 1757 he was naturalized in England, where he...
423. Grace Aguilar JE English novelist and writer on Jewish history and religion; born at Hackney, London, June 2, 1816; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main...
424. Jacob De Aguilar JE Pupil of Abraham de Fonseca at Hamburg, and ḥakam in one of the Brazilian communities, about 1640. M. K. ...
425. Moses Raphaelde Aguilar (aguylar) JE Born probably in Portugal; died in Amsterdam, Dec. 15, 1679. He was ḥakam and principal of the Talmud Torah at Amsterdam...
426. 'agunah JE A woman whose husband has either abandoned her or, being absent, has not been heard from for some time. Having no proof of...
427. Agur Ben Jakeh JE The compiler of a collection of proverbs found in Prov. xxx. The text (ver. 1) seems to say that he was a "Massaite," the...
428. Aha JE The name of nearly fourscore rabbis quoted in the Talmud and in midrashic literature. Some of these are misnamed through the...
429. Aha (ahai) I JE A tanna of the second century, junior contemporary of Simon ben Yoḥai, with whom, as well as with others of the fourth...
430. Aha (ahai) Ii JE A Palestinian amora of the first amoraic generation (third century), surnamed Berabbi, Ha-Gadol or Roba ("the Great"). He...
431. Aha (ahai) Iii JE A Palestinian amora of the fourth century and associate of the most prominent teachers of the fourth amoraic generation, R...
432. Aha JE Brother of Abba, the father of Jeremiah b. Abba; a contemporary of Abba Arika (third century). The latter said that in the...
433. Aha B Adda JE An amora of the fourth century; born and educated in Palestine. He emigrated to Babylonia, where he became a disciple of Rab...
434. Aha Areka JE ...
435. Aha B Awya JE A Babylonian halakist of the third generation of Amoraim. He once visited Palestine, where he attended the lectures of Rab...
436. Aha Bardala JE A Babylonian amora of the first generation, a contemporary of Abba Areka (Suk. 26a; Beẓah, 14a; Giṭ. 14a). S....
437. Aha Of Difti JE A Babylonian amora of the sixth generation (fifth century), frequently found in halakic discussion with Rabina II. For a time...
438. Aha (ahai) B Hanina JE A Palestinian amora of the third and fourth centuries. He collected rare Baraitot among the leading scholars of Daroma in...
439. Aha Bar Huna JE A Babylonian amora of the fourth generation, disciple of Rabbah b. Naḥmani and of Sheshet. Ḥisda, another teacher...
440. Aha B Iḳa JE A Babylonian amora of the fourth century, junior contemporary of Raba, and nephew of Aḥa b. Jacob. He is frequently...
441. Aha Of Irak JE A Babylonian, who is alleged to have invented the Assyrian or Babylonian (superlinear) system of vowel-points and accents...
442. Aha B Isaac JE A Palestinian amora of the third generation (fourth century), junior contemporary of Zeira I., Ami I., and Abba (Ba) b. Mamel...
443. Aha B Jacob JE A Babylonian amora, senior contemporary of Abaye and Raba (B. ḳ. 40a), and a disciple of Huna, head of the academy at...
444. Aha B Joseph JE A Babylonian amora who flourished in the fourth and fifth centuries. His life was an unusually long one; for in his youth...
445. Aha (ahai) B Minyomi JE A Babylonian amora of the fourth generation (fourth century), disciple of Naḥman b. Jacob, and contemporary of Abaye...
446. Aha (ahai) B Papa JE A Palestinian amora of the third generation (fourth century). He was the contemporary of Abbahu ("Die Ag. der Pal. Amor."...
447. Aha B Rab JE A Babylonian amora of the third and fourth generations (fourth century). He was a contemporary of Rabina I. and the senior...
448. Aha (ahai) B Raba JE A Babylonian amora, son of Raba b. Joseph, and a contemporary of Amemar II. and of Ashi; died in 419. During the last five...
449. Aha Sar Ha-birah JE A Palestinian amora of the third generation (fourth century), contemporary of Tanḥum b. Ḥiyya of Ke-far Acco....
450. Aha (ahai) Of Shabha JE A prominent Babylonian Talmudist of the eighth century. He enjoys the distinction of being the first rabbinical author known...
451. Aha B Shila Of Kefar Tamrata JE A haggadist of the second amoraic generation (third century). Commenting on Esth. ii. 23, "And it was written in the book...
452. Aha B Tahlifa JE Babylonian amora of the fourth and fifth centuries; disciple of Raba, friend of Aḥa b. Ika, and senior colleague of...
453. Aha B 'ulla JE Babylonian amora, who flourished in the fourth century; disciple of Ḥisda (Shab. 54b, 66a). He emigrated to Palestine...
454. Aha B Zeira JE ...
455. Ahab JE King of northern Israel, 875-853 B.C. He was the son and successor of Omri, the founder of Samaria, and the first king of...
456. Son Of Kolaiah Ahab JE One of the first captives deported by Nebuchadnezzar to Babylonia. As a false prophet he incurred the displeasure of Jeremiah...
457. Ahabah Rabbah JE The initial words, and hence the names, of the two benedictions that precede the Shema'; the former used in the morning...
458. Ahabah (ahawah, Aha, Ahwa) B Zeira (zera) JE Palestinian amora of the fourth century, who taught at Cæsarea (Yer. Ḥal. i. 57a; Yer. Pes. ii. 29b), son of R...
459. Ahadboi JE Babylonian amora of the sixth and seventh generations. He was president of the academy of Sura in its declining days, but...
460. Ahadboi B Ammi JE Babylonian amora of the fourth generation (fourth and fifth centuries), a disciple of Rab Ḥisda and Rab Sheshet (Pes...
461. Ahadboi B Matnah JE Babylonian amora of the fourth generation, and contemporary of Raba b. Joseph (Shab. 24a, 60b). His sister, being ill, willed...
462. Ahai JE An appellation given to several rabbis who ordinarily bear the prænomen Aḥa, under which name they are grouped...
463. Ahai B Josiah JE Tanna of the fourth and fifth generations (second century). His father, Josiah, was probably the well-known tanna R. Josiah...
464. Ahali-taurat JE The name adopted by the Persian Jews of Hamadan, Demavend, Teheran, and other districts, in contra-distinction to Persian...
465. Aharah JE ...
466. Aharonim JE A technical term used in later rabbinical literature generally to indicate authorities who are contemporaries of the person...
467. Ahasuerus JE 1. Persian king, identical with Xerxes (486-465 B.C.). The Book of Esther deals only with one period of his reign. It tells...
468. The Legend Of Ahasuerus JE ...
469. Ahava JE A river—possibly a canal or branch of the Euphrates—upon the banks of which Ezra halted his expedition on its...
470. Ahawa JE ...
471. Ahaz JE Son of King Jotham. His reign is memorable as that in which Judah first became vassal to Assyria, and Assyrian (Babylonian)...
472. King of Judah Ahaziah JE Son and successor of Jehoram, and grandson of Jehoshaphat. His reign, like that of his namesake of Samaria, was very brief...
473. King of Israel Ahaziah JE Son and successor of Ahab, king of northern Israel. In his brief reign of less than two years (853-852 B.C.) he continued...
474. Aher JE ...
475. Ahiab JE ...
476. Ahiah JE ...
477. Ahiam JE Son of Sharar the Hararite. He was one of the thirty mighty men of David (II Sam. xxiii. 33). In I Chron. xi. 35, he is called...
478. Ahiasaf JE A Hebrew annual, published in Warsaw by the "Aḥiasaf" Publication Society. It was founded in 1893, and had immediate...
479. Ahiezer JE 1. Son of Ammishaddai, chief of the tribe of Dan in the second year after the Exodus (Num. i. 12), who brought his offering...
480. Ahijah (the Prophet) JE A prophet from Shiloh, who foretold to Jeroboam that he would become king (I Kings, xi. 29). Later he prophesied the downfall...
481. Ahijah, Ahiah, Ahijahu JE Etymology of the name uncertain. 1. Youngest son of Jerahmeel; or it is possible to take the name as that of his first wife...
482. Ahijah JE A leader among the Babylonian Jews of the second century, perhaps a resh galuta (exilarch). He was the chief ally of Hananiah...
483. Ahikam JE Son of Shaphan, the scribe, and father of Gedaliah. He was sent by King Josiah to consult Huldah, the prophetess, about the...
484. Ahiḳar JE Hero of a wide-spread legend, and supposed author of a number of proverbs. His name has been variously distorted, but probably...
485. Ahimaaz JE 1. Father of Ahinoam, wife of Saul (I Sam. xiv. 50). 2. Commissary-general of Solomon in Naphtali, who married Basmath, the...
486. Ahimaaz Ben Paltiel JE Liturgical poet, and author of a family chronicle; born in Capua, Italy, 1017; died about 1060 in Oria. Very little is known...
487. Ahimelech JE 1. Son of Ahitub, grandson of Phinehas, and great-grandson of Eli. He was priest at Nob during David's halt in his flight...
488. Ahin JE ...
489. Bendich Ahin JE Mathematician and physician at Arles during the second half of the fourteenth century. Nostradamus says that Ahin was an excellent...
490. Ahinoam JE 1. Daughter of Ahimaaz and wife of Saul, first king of Israel (I Sam. xiv. 50). 2. The Jezreelitess captured by David while...
491. Ahiram JE Son of Benjamin (Num. xxvi. 38; called Ehi in Gen. xlvi. 21). In the corresponding list of I Chron. viii. 1 he appears as...
492. Ahishar JE The overseer of Solomon's household (I Kings, iv. 6), whose position was one of responsibility similar to that of Joseph...
493. Ahithophel JE A native of Giloh in the highlands of Judah, and privy councilor to David. He was a man of extraordinary sagacity and insight...
494. Ahithophel Loosbuch JE A book of fate used in popular divination and named after Ahithophel. In Jewish legends of the Middle Ages Ahithophel plays...
495. Ahitub JE Father of Ahimelech, priest of Nob (I Sam. xxii. 9-19). The name Ahitub means, properly, "good friend," "good brother"; and...
496. Ahlab JE A city which Asher failed to conquer (Judges, i. 31). Perhaps this is identical with the later Gush Halab, which is the same...
497. Hermann Ahlwardt JE One of the most notorious of anti-Semitic agitators; born December 21, 1846, at Krien, near Anklam, in the province of Pomerania...
498. Ahmed Hamdi Pasha JE ...
499. Ahmed Pasha JE Turkish vizier and viceroy of Egypt under Solyman II., the Magnificent (1520-1566). He received these honors as rewards for...
500. Aholiab JE ...