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Ba'al JE Hebrew word for possessor or owner of an object. In connection with many nouns, it expresses some relation between the person...
Ba'al And Ba'al-worship JE The wide-spread and primitive Semitic root ("ba'al") may be most nearly rendered in English by "possess." The term "Ba&#39...
Ba'al Ha-bayit JE In more modern usage, the constituent members of a congregation as contrasted with the "toshabim" (transient members or strangers)...
Baal-berith JE A form of Ba'al-worship prevailing in Israel (Judges viii. 33), and particularly in Shechem (Judges ix. 4). The term "Ba&#39...
Baal-gad JE A place situated at the northern limit of Palestine, in the valley of Lebanon, near Mount Hermon (Josh. xi. 17, xii. 7, xiii...
Baal-hamon JE A place mentioned in Cant. viii. 11, in which passage Solomon is said to have had a vineyard there: its identity is unknown...
Baal-hanan JE An Edomite king (Gen. xxxvi. 38). He is called the son of Achbor; but the name of his native city is not given. For this andother...
Baal-hazor JE A place situated near Ephraim, where Absalom possessed an estate (II Sam. xiii. 23). It was there that during a sheep-shearing...
Baal-hermon JE ...
Baal KorÉ JE Term applied to the person who reads the weekly portion from the Pentateuch—usually the ḥazan, though not necessarily...
Baal-meon JE A city in the eastern part of the Jordan district, which is designated in Numbers (xxxii. 3, 38), Joshua (xiii. 17), and Chronicles...
Baal-peor JE Name of a Canaanitish god. Peor was a mountain in Moab (Num. xxiii. 28), whence the special locality Beth-peor (Deut. iii...
Baal-perazim JE A place mentioned in the report of the battle between David and the Philistines in II Sam. v. 20 (compare I Chron. xiv. 11)...
Baal-shalisha JE A place mentioned in II Kings iv. 42, and in the Talmud (Sanh. 12a). Eusebius identifies it with Baithsarisa, 15 Roman miles...
Ba'al Shem JE Designation of certain people who were supposed to work miracles through the name of God. This belief in the miraculous power...
Elijah Baal Shem JE See Loans, Elijah. This article is Rated: 2.77 ...
Joel Baal Shem JE ...
Israel B Eliezer Ba'al Shem-Ṭob JE Founder of the sect of Ḥasidim; born about 1700; died at Miedzyboz (Medzhibozh), May 22, 1760. The little biographical...
Baal-tamar JE A place near Gibeah, mentioned in the account of the battle between the Benjamites and the other Israelites (Judges xx. 33)...
Ba'al Tokea' JE Term applied to the person who blows the Shofar.A. F. L. C. This article...
Baal-zebub JE Name of a god of the Philistine city of Ekron, mentioned only in connection with the illness of Ahaziah, king of Israel, in...
Baal-zebub In Rabbinical Literature JE ...
Baal-zephon JE An Egyptian locality in the neighborhood of the Red Sea. In spite of all attempted combinations (Dillmann-Ryssell on Ex. xiv...
Baalah JE A border town of Judah (Josh. xv. 9, 10; I Chron. xiii. 6) called elsewhere Kirjathjearim.2. A mount on the border of Judah...
Baalath JE A Danite city (Josh. xix. 44).2. A city built by Solomon mentioned in connection with Tadmor (I Kings ix. 18; II Chron. viii...
Baalath Beer JE A city in the possession of Simeon (Josh. xix. 8); but in the corresponding list of I Chron. iv. 33 called "Baal."J. Jr. G...
Baalbek JE A city situated at the base of the western slope of the Anti-Lebanon, in a fertile region. It is the Heliopolis of the Greek...
Judah Baale JE ...
Baalim JE Plural of "Baal"; occurs in the Bible fifteen times, always used with the article; not found in the Pentateuch nor in the...
Baalis JE King of the Ammonites, who was the leading spirit in the murder of Gedaliah (Jer. xl. 14). While the first element in the...
Baaltis JE ...
Baana JE Son of Ahilud, one of the twelve commissariat officers of Solomon. He had charge of the districts Taanach and Megiddo (I Kings...
Baanah JE Son of Rimmon the Beerothite, of Benjamin, who, with his brother Rechab, was an officer under Ishbosheth. He killed Ishbosheth...
Herman Baar JE American educator; born in 1826 at Stadthagen, near Hanover, Germany. He received a preliminary education at the gymnasium...
Ba'aras JE A place in the ravine Zerḳa Ma'in above the city of Macherus on the northeastern shore of the Dead Sea, where are...
Baasha JE Son of Ahijah and king of Israel. Owing to the weakness of Nadab, the successor of Jeroboam I., first king of Israel, Baasha...
Bab Al-abwab JE ...
Baba (the Great) JE Son of Nathaniel and grandson of Aḳbun, the high priests; a prominent leader and high priest of the Samaritans in the...
Baba JE Originally, "gate," a Talmudic technical term for section, part, or clause. A single Mishnah may be divided into two or three...
Baba Batra JE The third of the three Talmudic tractates of the order Neziḳin, dealing with man's responsibilities and rights as...
Baba Buch JE Judæo-German translation or adadaptation by Elijah Levita of an Italian version of the Anglo-Roman romance, "Sir Bevis...
Baba Ben BuṬa JE Teacher of the Law at the time of Herod, and perhaps a member of the prominent family known as "The Sons of Baba" ("Bene Baba")...
Baba Kamma JE The first of a series of three Talmudic treatises of the order Neziḳin dealing with damages. Baba Ḳamma is on...
Baba MeẒi'a JE The second of the three Talmudic tractates of the order Neziḳin. It treats of man's responsibility with regard to...
Tower Of Babel JE The story of the building of the city and the Tower of Babel as found in Gen. xi. 1-9 is briefly as follows: The whole human...
Babenhausen JE A city of Hesse, district of Starkenburg, Germany. Jews are reported to have resided here as early as 1320. At the request...
Babinovichi JE Town in the district of Orsha, government of Mohilev, Russia. In 1900, in a total population of 1,143 the Jews numbered about...
Solomon B Judah Ha- Babli JE ...
Simha Babovich JE Head man of the Karaites of the Crimea in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, and president of the Karaite Council...
Babski Refues JE The name applied in Yiddish to domestic and superstitious medicine. Common folk among the Jews in Russia and Poland believe...
Babylon JE The chief city of Babylonia, long the capital of the kingdom and empire that controlled the whole or a large part of the valley...
Babylonia JE A country in western Asia of varying limits at different periods. The natural boundaries were the Persian gulf on the south...
Babylonian Exile JE See Captivity, Babylonian. This article is Rated: 2.73 ...
Babylonian Punctuation JE ...
Babylonish Garment JE An article of dress mentioned in connection with the theft of Achan (Josh. vii. 21) during the spoil of the captured city...
The Valley Of Baca JE A valley mentioned in Ps. lxxxiv. 7 [6 A. V.]. Since it is there said that pilgrims transform the valley into a land of wells...
Bacau JE Capital of a district of the same name, situated in the southwest of Moldavia, a division of Rumania, with a population of...
Bacchides JE Syrian general; friend of the Syrian king Demetrius; and "ruler in the country beyond the river"—Euphrates. Demetrius...
Emilie Bach JE Artist and journalist; born at Neuschloss, Bohemia, July 2, 1840; died at Vienna April 29, 1890. She was directress of the...
Joseph Bach JE Hungarian rabbi; born in 1784; died at Budapest Feb. 3, 1866. After I. N. Mannheimer, he was the first German preacher of...
Karl Daniel Friedrich Bach JE German painter; born at Potsdam May, 1756; died at Breslau April 8, 1829 (according to some sources in 1826). As his father...
Bacharach JE City in the Prussian government district of Coblenz. On April 19, 1283, twenty-six Jews were murdered there, among them the...
Bacharach JE A name frequent among German Jews. From the twelfth, or at any rate from the fifteenth century, the name Bacharach, in various...
Abraham Aaron B Menahem Man (= Aaron Maneles) Bacharach JE Writer on religious subjects, and cantor of Posen, hence known also as Aaron Ḥazzan; flourished during the seventeenth...
Abraham Samuel Bacharach JE Rabbi; born about 1575; died in Gernsheim, grandduchy of Hesse, May 26, 1615. He seems to have come from the city of Worms...
Eva Bacharach JE Hebraist and rabbinical scholar; born at Prague about 1580; died in Sofia, 1651. She was the daughter of Isaac ben Simson...
Jair Hayyim Bacharach JE German rabbi; born at Leipnik, Moravia, 1639; died in Worms Jan. 1, 1702. At the age of twelve he came with his father, Samson...
Michael Bacharach JE Dayyan in Prague in the second half of the eighteenth century.Bibliography: Eisenstadt, Da'at Ḳedoshim, p. 224;...
Moses Samson Bacharach JE Son of Samuel and Eva Bacharach; born in 1607; died at Worms April 19, 1670. After the death of his father his mother took...
Eduard Bacher JE Austrian jurisconsult and journalist; born at Pastelberg March 17, 1846. Graduating from the University of Vienna, he engaged...
Julius Bacher JE German playwright and novelist; born in Ragnit, eastern Prussia, Aug. 8, 1810. He studied medicine in Königsberg, and...
Simon Bacher JE Neo-Hebraic poet; born Feb. 1, 1823, in Liptó-Szent-Miklós, Hungary died at Budapest Nov. 9, 1891. Bacher, whose...
Wilhelm Bacher JE Hungarian scholar and Orientalist; son of the Hebrew writer Simon; born in Liptó-Szent-Miklós, Hungary, Jan. 12...
Raphael Bachi JE Italian miniature-painter; lived at Paris in the middle of the eighteenth century. His name appears in the list of the Jews...
Jacob Ben Moses Bachrach JE A noted apologist of rabbinical Judaism; born at Seiny, inthe government of Suwalki, Russia, May 9, 1824; died in Bielostok...
Judah B Joshua Heskiel Bachrach JE Rabbi and Talmudist; born in Lithuania about 1775; died at Seiny, government of Suwalki, April 25, 1846. He was a lineal descendant...
Sigismund Bachrich JE Hungarian violinist and operatic composer; born at Zsambokrét, Hungary, Jan. 23, 1841. He began the study of the violin...
Jacob Backofen JE ...
Roger Bacon JE English philosopher and scholar of the thirteenth century; born at Ilchester, England, about 1214; died about 1294. He studied...
Badchen JE ...
Baden JE City in Lower Austria. After the expulsion of the Jews from Lower Austria in 1670, none lived in Baden until 1805, when the...
Grand Duchy Of Baden JE A state of the German empire, bounded on the north by Bavaria and Hesse; on the east by Bavaria, Württemberg, and Hohenzollern...
Badge JE Mark placed on the dress of Jews to distinguish them from others. This was made a general order of Christendom at the fourth...
Rock Badger JE ...
Badger Skins JE ...
Badhan JE A merrymaker, professional jester, whose business it is to entertain the guests at a marriage-feast with drollery, riddles...
Badis (muzaffar Nasir) JE Oldest son of King Habus of Granada, whom he succeeded in 1038. In a struggle with the Berbers, who wished to make his younger...
Samuel Baeck JE German rabbi; born at Kromau, Moravia, April 1, 1834. His father, Nathan, was rabbi in Kromau; his grandfather, Abraham, rabbi...
Francisco De Baena JE Spanish poet of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, brother of Juan Alfonso de Baena, and secretary to the governor Diego...
Juan Alfonso De Baena JE Spanish troubadour in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; born at Baena, Cordova. He was "escribano escribiente" (notarial...
Baer, Beer, Behr JE Jewish prænomen and family name, derived from the German "Bär" (bear). The Jews of Germany, like those of other...
Abraham Baer JE German cantor, musician, and composer; born in Russia Dec. 26, 1834; died at Gothenburg, Sweden, March 7, 1894. His father...
Adolf Baer (abraham) JE German physician and medico-forensic author; born in the province of Posen, Prussia, Dec. 26, 1834; educated at the universities...
Asher Baer JE Russian mathematician and engraver; born at Seiny, government of Suwalk, in the first quarter of the nineteenth century; died...
Dob B Samuel Baer JE Polish Ḥasidic writer of the end of the eighteenth century. He is the author of "Shibḥei ha-Besht" (Praises of...
Herman Baer JE American author; born of Jewish parents at Herxheim, Germany, Jan. 29, 1830; died at Charleston, S. C., Jan. 2, 1901. He emigrated...
Israel Baer JE ...
Issachar B Elhanan Baer JE Rabbi at Eibenschütz; born at Frankfort-on-the-Oder in the second half of the seventeenth century. He was the author...
Issachar Ben Pethahiah Ben Moses Baer JE Cabalist; lived at Kremnitz, Hungary, at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He seems to have traveled in the East and...
Issachar Ben Solomon Baer JE Biblical and rabbinical commentator; died at Wilna in 1807. He was the brother of Elijah b. Solomon, the Wilna gaon, and like...
Issachar B Leyser Baer JE ...
Joseph Baer JE Founder of a firm of booksellers of Frankfort-on-the Main; born in the last half of the eighteenth century; died in 1851....
Baer (dob) Of Meseritz JE First apostle of Ḥasidism and its most important propagator; born in Volhynia in 1710; died in Meseritz, Dec. 15, 1772...
Baer B Naphtali Ha-kohen JE ...
Baer (dob) Ben Nathan Nata Of Pinsk JE Russian rabbi of the first half of the eighteenth century. He was a descendant of Rabbi Nathan Nata Shapira of Cracow (who...
Seligman (sekel) Baer JE Writer on the Masorah, and editor of the Hebrew Bible; born at Mosbach (Baden), Sept. 18, 1825; died at Biebrich-on-the-Rhine...
Baer (dob) Ben Shraga JE Author; lived in Berlin at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He wrote "Naḥale Debash" (Streams of Honey), Berlin...
Baer (dob) Ben Uri PhŒbus JE Author, of the eighteenth century. He resided at Altona, Germany, where in 1737 he wrote "Be'er-Ṭob" (A Good Explanation)...
Issachar I Baermann JE ...
Baermann Of Limburg JE German writer; lived at Frankfort-on-the-Main at the end of the seventeenth century and at the beginning of the eighteenth...
Hermann Baerwald JE German educator; born at Nakel, in the province of Posen, Nov. 7, 1828. His academic education began at the gymnasium of Konitz...
Baeza JE City in the province of Jaen, Spain, which, as early as the Moorish rule, had a considerable Jewish community that suffered...
Bag JE A comprehensive term in the A. V. for various Hebrew words. The most adequate Hebrew expression for a large bag is "&#7717...
Bagdad JE Capital of the Turkish vilayet of the same name, which is situated in lower Mesopotamia on both sides of the Tigris. The vilayet...
BagÉ-la Ville JE Village in the canton Bagéle-Chalet, department of Ain, France. It was inhabited by Jews in the thirteenth and fourteenth...
Bagi JE A prominent Karaite family; lived in Constantinople in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. The family name...
Adolf Aron Baginsky JE German physician, and professor of diseases of children in the Berlin University; born May 22, 1843, at Ratibor (Prussian...
Benno Baginsky JE German physician; born at Ratibor, Prussia, May 24, 1848; privat-docent of the diseases of the ear, nose, and larynx, at the...
Bagnol JE See Levi b. Gershon. This article is Rated: 2.85 ...
Bagoas JE 1. General of the Persian king Artaxerxes Ochus (359-338 B.C.); is called "Bagoses" by Josephus ("Ant." xi. 7, § 1)....
Bagratuni JE The ancestors of the Armenian-Georgian family of Bagration, the first family entered in the list of the Russian nobility (published...
Bagris JE ...
Benito Lopez Bahamonte JE Spanish Christian; author of a Hebrew grammar for school use, entitled, "Gramatica de la Lengua Hebraica, Escrita en Castellano...
Bahia JE A city on the eastern coast of Brazil founded by the Portuguese in 1549. Its official name became Cidade do San Salvador da...
Bahiel JE A physician of the thirteenth century. He was court physician to King James I. of Aragon, and in that capacity was present...
Bahir JE Pseudonymous work attributed to the tanna Neḥunya ben ha-Ḳanah, a contemporary of Johanan ben Zaḳ&#7731...
Bahram Gor JE ...
Bahram Tshubin JE Persian general; king of Persia from June 27, 590, to June 26, 591. Hormiz IV. (578-590), through his cruelty, brought the...
Bahtawi, Abu Ya'akub Joseph, The Babylonian JE Karaite scholar; flourished in the ninth century. He was called "the teacher of the diaspora," and esteemed for his brilliant...
Bahur JE "A youth," particularly a student of the Talmud among the Ashkenazic Jews; called also "yeshibah baḥur" (academy youth)...
Elijah Bahur JE ...
Bahurim JE A locality in Benjamin to which Phaltiel accompanied his wife Michal from Gallim, when she was being conducted to David at...
Bahya (behai) Ben Asher Ben Halawa JE One of the most distinguished of the Biblical exegetes of Spain; born about the middle of the thirteenth century at Saragossa...
Bahya Ben Joseph Ibn Pakuda JE Dayyan and philosopher; flourished at Saragossa, Spain, in the first half of the eleventh century. He was the author of the...
Baiersdorf JE Small city in Bavaria, near Erlangen, once the summer abode of the margraves of Kulmbach-Bayreuth. Little is known concerning...
Samson Ben Manasse Baiersdorf JE Court Jew of the margrave Christian Ernst of Brandenburg-Bayreuth; died in 1712. He was highly esteemed at the court of the...
Baigneux-les-juifs JE Capital of a canton, arrondissement of Chatillon-sur-Seine, Côte d'Or, France. As the name indicates, there were...
Bail JE In English and American law, the obligation of sureties in a sum named, that the person under arrest in a civil or criminal...
Jean-sylvain Bailly JE Astronomer and publicist; born in Paris Sept. 15, 1736; guillotined Nov. 12, 1793. He was elected a member of the Acad&#233...
Bailments JE Delivery of personal property for the purpose of a trust. A bailment arises when one person (the bailee) is lawfully put in...
Bairamche JE ...
Baja JE City on the Danube, in the county of Bács-Bodrog, Hungary. As early as the end of the eighteenth century, Baja, owing...
Bajazet Ii JE Turkish sultan; born 1447; succeeded in 1481; died 1512. During his reign the Jews enjoyed a period of complete and uninterrupted...
Bak JE A family of Hebrew printers in Italy and Prague, who exercised their craft for two centuries. The name is said to be an abbreviation...
Sons Of Bakbuk JE A family of Nethinim that returned with Zerubbabel (see Ezra ii. 51 and the corresponding list of Neh. vii. 53). The identification...
Bakbukiah JE A Levite who returned with Zerubbabel (Neh. xii. 9); "second among his brethren" (Neh. xi. 17). He was one of those that lived...
Baker JE Among the Hebrews the task of preparing the daily supply of fresh bread fell to the housewife. It was only in the larger cities...
Bakewell Hall JE A large building in the neighborhood of the Guildhall, London, on the site now occupied by Gresham College. In a document...
Bakhchi-sarai JE Former residence of the Tatar khans (fifteenth century to 1783); now a town in the government of Taurida (Crimea), Russia...
Bakhmut JE City in the government of Yekaterinoslav, Russia. It has 4,000 Jews in a population of 19,000. The district of Bakhmut, including...
Simson Baki JE 1. Born either in Germany or Italy, and very probably related to the Bachi family, members of which flourished successively...
Baking JE The bread of the ancient Hebrews, like that of the Palestinians today, was not in the shape of thick loaves, but of thin cakes...
Samuel Bakonyi JE Hungarian deputy and publicist; born in Debreczin July 22, 1862. After graduating in law at the University of Budapest, he...
David Ben Joseph Coen Bakri JE Chief of the Algerian Jews; financier; born about 1770; decapitated Feb. 4, 1811. His great financial abilities placed him...
Jacob Cohen Bakri JE French consul at Algiers before its conquest by France; born in Algiers in 1763; died at Paris Nov. 23, 1836. Immensely rich...
Joseph Coen Bakri JE Chief of the Algerian Jews; financier; born at Algiers in the middleof the eighteenth century; died at Leghorn in 1817. He...
Isaac Moses Bakst JE Lecturer at the Jewish Rabbinical College of Jitomir; died there June 18, 1882; the father of Nicolai Bakst. He wrote "Sefer...
Nicolai Ignatyevich Bakst JE Russian physiologist; born in 1843. He studied at St. Petersburg University, from which he graduated Bachelor of Natural Science...
Ossip Isaakovich Bakst JE Son of Isaac and brother of Nicolai Bakst; died Oct. 8, 1895; was employed as interpreter (dragoman) in the Asiatic Department...
Baku JE Seaport, in the government of the same name, Transcaucasia, Russia, situated on the peninsula of Apsheron, on the west coast...
Balaam JE A son of Beor and a prophet of Pethor in Mesopotamia. The narrative relating to Balaam is found in Num. xxii.-xxiv. According...
Baladan JE See Berodach-baladan. This article is Rated: 3.04 ...
Balak JE According to Num. xxii.-xxiv., Balak was king of Moab when the Israelites emerged from their wanderings in the wilderness...
Balance JE The word is used for three Hebrew words: (1) "mo'znaim" (Jer. xxxii. 10; Job vi. 2; Ps. lxii. 9; Isa. xl. 12, 15; Lev...
Balandzhar JE ...
Joseph Balassa JE Hungarian philologist; born 1864, in Baja, Hungary; studied in Budapest, where he graduated in philosophy, and where he holds...
Baldachin JE ...
Baldness JE The Hebrews gave much care to the cultivation of their hair, which they kept long (compare Ezek. xliv. 20) except on such...
Balearic Isles JE A group of islands in the Mediterranean, belonging to Spain, situated to the east of Valencia, the three principal of which...
Abraham Ben Jacob Bali JE Karaite physician and ḥazan; lived at Foli (?) in the second half of the fifteenth century. He was the pupil of Shabbethai...
Moses Ben Abraham Bali JE Karaite physician and ḥakam at Cairo at the end of the fifteenth century and at the beginning of the sixteenth. He was...
Jewish Ballads JE ...
Ballads On Jewish Subjects JE In the folk-poetry of Europe a certain number of ballads deal with Jewish subjects or with Jewish persons. Of these may be...
M Ballaghi JE See Bloch, M. This article is Rated: 2.79 ...
Ballarat JE City in Victoria, Australia. Three years after the discovery of gold, in 1851, a congregation was formed with Henry Harris...
Ada Sara Ballin JE English author and journalist; born in London, England; educated at University College, London, where she obtained scholarships...
Joel Ballin JE Danish engraver, born in Vejle, Jutland, March 22, 1822; died in Copenhagen, March 21, 1885. He was a son of a merchant, Joseph... - an article in this name has previously been deleted.
Samuel Jacob Ballin JE Danish physician; born at Copenhagen, Oct. 21, 1802; died there March 24, 1866. He was the son of a merchant, Jacob Levin...
Davicion Bally JE Rumanian patriot; born at Bucharest Jan. 29, 1809; died at Jerusalem May 2, 1844. His great-grandfather, Chelebi Mentesh Bally...
Balm JE A term used six times in the A. V. as a translation of the Hebrew words , and . It is everywhere rendered resina in the Vulgate...
Balsam JE Word used as the translation (R. V., margin) of the Hebrew (Cant. v. 1) and of (ib. v. 13, vi. 2), for which the A. V....
Balta JE A town in Russia, situated near the Rumanian and Turkish frontiers. Its Jewish community dates from about the middle of the...
Balthazar JE ...
Orobio De Castro Balthazar JE ...
Baltic Provinces JE The three Russian governments bordering the Baltic sea—Courland, Livonia, and Esthonia; belonging formerly to Sweden...
Baltimore JE Port of entry and principal city of the state of Maryland, situated on an estuary of the Patapsco river about 12 miles from...
Bamah JE This word, which ordinarily designates a "high place" (see High Places), is introduced in Ezek. xx. 29 as a generic name for...
Bamberg JE City in Upper Franconia, Bavaria. As early as the beginning of the eleventh century Jews had settled at Bamberg. In the second...
Felix Bamberg JE German publicist; born at Unruhstadt, Germany, May 17, 1820; died in Saint-Gratien, near Paris, Feb. 12, 1893. He studied...
Samuel Bamberg JE Halakist and liturgist; lived about 1220. He was born in Metz, where he attended the rabbinical school, and was one of the...
BÉla Bamberger JE Hungarian lawyer and writer on political economy; born at Szegedin, Hungary, in 1854; studied law at Vienna and Budapest....
Édouard Adrien Bamberger JE French deputy and physician; born at Strasburg Sept. 25, 1825. After obtaining the degree of B. A. in 1843 he devoted himself...
Isaac Bamberger JE German rabbi; born at Angenrod, in the grand duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, Nov. 5, 1834; died at Königsberg Oct. 26, 1896...
Ludwig Bamberger JE German deputy and political economist; born in Mayence July 22, 1823; died in Berlin March 14, 1899. He studied law in 1842-45...
Seligman Baer Bamberger JE Talmudist of the old school and leader of the Orthodox party in Germany; born at Wiesenbronn, near Kitzingen, Bavaria, Nov...
Solomon Bamberger JE German rabbi and Talmudic author; born in Wiesenbronn, Bavaria, May 1, 1835. He is the son of the eminent rabbi Seligman Baer...
Bamoth-baal JE An elevated point in the land of Moab (Num. xxii. 41), which was allotted to the Reubenites (Josh. xiii. 17). It is probably...
Issachar Dob Baer Bampi JE Scholar and philanthropist; born 1823 at Minsk, Russia; died there March 10, 1888. He received a thorough Biblical and Talmudical...
Ban JE "herem": A proclamation devoting or consecrating to the Deity persons or things to be excluded from use, or, as was the rule...
Tanna Banaah JE ...
Moritz Band JE Austrian writer and art critic; born Oct. 6, 1864. At an early age he began to write for the press, chiefly feuilletons, humorous...
Daniel E Bandmann JE German-American actor; born at Cassel, Germany, in 1840. He made his début at the Court Theater, Neu Strelitz, when eighteen...
Benjamin Bandoff JE English pugilist; born in the first quarter of the nineteenth century; died after 1865. Bandoff entered the prize-ring to...
Eduard (ezekiel) Baneth JE German rabbi and scholar; born at Liptó-Szent-Miklós, Hungary, Aug. 9, 1855; son of Bernhard Baneth. After receiving...
Ezekiel Baneth JE Hungarian rabbi; born 1773 at Alt-Ofen; died Dec. 28, 1854. He was the son of the learned rabbi Jacob Banêt, an eminent...
Jerahmeel Dob (bernhard) Baneth JE Hungarian rabbi; born 1815 at Széchény; died Oct. 21, 1871. The youngest son of Ezekiel Baneth, he was one of the...
Banishment JE In ancient Israel an exclusion, permanent or temporary, from the native land, as a divine punishment. Adam's Banishment...
Emanuel Bank JE Russian lawyer; born at Luknik, government of Kovno, 1840; died at St. Maurice. Switzerland, July 29, 1891. He was the son...
Joshua Ben Isaac Bank JE Rabbi at Tulchin, Russia; born at Satanov in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was the author of the following...
Banking JE Speaking strictly, Banking means the taking of money on deposit (banks of deposit), and loaning it out on interest (banks...
Bankruptcy JE In modern law, the proceeding taken by the courts of justice with regard to debtors unable to pay their debts in full, when...
Bannaah, Bannay, Bannayah JE A Palestinian semi-tanna (see Bar Ḳappara) at the beginning of the third century. Not much of a halakic nature from...
Bannaim JE A supposed sect of an Essene order, among Palestinian Jews of the second century. The only passage in which the name occurs...
Joseph BÁnÓczi JE Hungarian scholar; born at Szt. Gál, county of Veszprém, Hungary, July 4, 1849. He was educated at the schools of...
Banquets JE Festive meals on occasions of the celebration of domestic, communal, and religious joy, and on welcoming as well as on parting...
Banu Aus JE An Arab tribe that came to Medina together with the Banu Khazraj (about 300), and settled there among the Jewish inhabitants...
Banu Bahdal JE A Jewish tribe in Medina which dwelt with the Banu Ḳuraiẓa. There is some uncertainty as to the correctness of...
Banu Kainuka'a JE A Jewish tribe in north Arabia, apparently the first Jews that settled at Medina, and the most powerful of all the Jewish...
Banu Kuraiẓa JE One of the Jewish tribes in Medina that, like the Banu al-Naḍir, seem to have consisted chiefly of descendants of Aaron...
Banu Al-naḌir JE A Jewish tribe in Medina. It appears to have been chiefly composed of priestly families, as this, together with the Banu &#7730...
Banus JE A teacher of Josephus ("Vita," § 2, Bάνος; in ed. Niese, Bάννος). He "lived...
Baptism JE A religious ablution signifying purification or consecration. The natural method of cleansing the body by washing and bathing...
Giovanni Giona Galileo Baptista JE Baptized Jew, professor of Hebrew, and librarian of the Vatican; born in Safed Oct. 28, 1588; died May 26, 1668. His Jewish...
Giovanni Salomo Romano Eliano Baptista JE Baptized Jew; ecclesiastical writer; born at Alexandria, Egypt; died in Rome March 3, 1589. He was a grandson of Elijah Levita...
Baptists JE A Christian denomination or sect denying the validity of infant-baptism or of any baptism not preceded by a confession of...
Haskel (ezekiel) Bapugee JE One of the Beni Israelites of Bombay, subedar-major in the Indian native army; died Feb. 14, 1878, and was buried with military...
Bar JE Aramaic equivalent of Hebrew Ben, "a son" or "son of." This article is...
Bar JE Town in the district of Mohilev, province of Podolia, Russia, on the River Rov, affluent of the Bug; with a Jewish population...
Bar Anina JE Palestinian scholar of the end of the fourth century; lived in Bethlehem, where he was the teacher of the church father Jerome...
Bar Cochbah Bar Cochba JE ...
Bar Dala, Bardala, Bar Dalia, Bardalia JE A place near Lydda, which once harbored a rabbinic seat of learning (B. M. 10a et seq.; see Rabbinowicz, "Diḳdu&#7731...
Bar Elasha JE ...
Simon Bar Giora JE Jewish leader in the revolt against Rome; born about the year 50, at Gerasa. To judge from his name he was the son of a proselyte...
Bar HebrÆus JE ...
Bar Jesus JE A Jewish magician described in Acts xiii. 6-11 as a "sorcerer, a false prophet," who, when Paul and Barnabas came to Cyprus...
Bar Kappara JE Palestinian scholar of the beginning of the third century, occupying an intermediate position between tanna and amora. His...
Bar Kokba And Bar Kokba War JE The insurrection of the Jews of Cyrene, Cyprus, and Egypt in the last years of the emperor Trajan had not been entirely suppressed...
Bar Koziba JE ...
Bar MiẒwah JE Hebrew term applied to a boy on completing his thirteenth year, who has then reached the age of religious duty and responsibility...
Bar Shalmon JE Legendary son-in-law of Ashmedai, king of the demons. Bar Shalmon, the scholarly and pious son of a rich merchant who had...
Bar Yokni JE A gigantic bird mentioned several times in the Talmud. An authority at the beginning of the third century, in relating a number...
Barabas JE The principal character in Christopher Marlowe's "The Rich Jew of Malta," first produced at the Rose Theater, Bankside...
Barabbas JE Prisoner of the Romans released by the procurator Pontius Pilate. The reason for his incarceration is given differently in...
M Barach JE See Maerzroth. This article is Rated: 2.91 ...
Rosa Barach JE Austrian authoress and educator; born at Neu-Rausnitz, Moravia, May 15, 1841. Educated at her native place and at Vienna,...
Isaac Baraffael (baruffall) JE Italian officer and communal worker; lived in Rome at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth...
Baraita JE An Aramaic word designating a tannaite tradition not incorporated in the Mishnah; later it was applied also to collections...
Baraita On The (treatise) Abot JE A Baraita consisting of eleven paragraphs on the excellences of the Torah and on the right way to become acquainted with it...
Baraita Of R Ada JE A Baraita on the calendar. The only one who speaks of such a Baraita is Abraham b. Ḥiyya ha-Nassi ("Sefer ha-'Ibbur...
Baraita On The Creation JE See Ma'aseh Bereshit.2. Under the title , L. Goldschmidt published a work (Strasburg, 1894) which he gave out to be an...
Baraita Of R Eliezer JE The customary name for the PirḲe R. Eliezer among the older scholars, as Rashi and in the 'Aruk. Some recent scholars...
Baraita Of R Eliezer JE ...
Baraita On The Erection Of The Tabernacle JE A Baraita cited several times by Hai Gaon, by Nathan ben Jehiel in the 'Aruk, as well as in Rashi, Yalḳut, and Maimonides...
Baraita Of The Forty-nine Rules JE Rashi, the Tosafists, Abraham ibn Ezra, Yalḳut, and Asher ben Jehiel mention a work, "Baraita of the Forty-nine Rules...
Baraita On The Heavenly Throne JE See Ma'ase Merkabah. This article is Rated: 2.94 ...
Baraita Of R Ishmael JE A Baraita which explains the thirteen rules of R. Ishmael, and their application, by means of illustrations from the Bible...
Baraita Of R Jose JE Name given by some of the old scholars to the Seder 'Olam Rabbah. Concerning another Baraita of the same name, see Br&#252...
Baraita Of Joseph B Uzziel JE A cabalistic Baraita, several times mentioned by Recanati. It is in manuscript form at Oxford, and is a commentary to the...
Baraita Of Joshua B Levi JE See "Revelation of Joshua b. Levi," in article Apocalyptic Literature, Neo-Hebraic, § 5. ...
Baraita On The Mystery Of The Calculation Of The Calendar JE A Baraita cited in the Talmud (R. H. 20b). Since special care was taken to keep it secret, it has not been preserved; but...
Baraita De-niddah JE This Baraita, expressly mentioned by Naḥmanides, and probably known to the Geonim and the German-French Talmudists of...
Baraita Of R Phinehas B Jair JE 1. See Midrash Tadshe.2. A Baraita printed by Grünhut, in "Sefer ha-Liḳḳuṭim," ii. 20b-21a. It contains...
Baraita On Salvation JE A haggadic Baraita, which Schönblum (Lemberg, 1877) published for the first time in the collection "Sheloshah Sefarim...
Baraita Of Samuel JE A Baraita of Samuel was known to Jewish scholars from Shabbethai Donolo in the tenth century to Simon Duran in the fifteenth...
Baraita De-sifre JE See Sifre, Zuṭṭa. This article is Rated: 2.84 ...
Baraita Of The Thirty-two Rules JE A Baraita giving the thirty-two hermeneutic rules according to which the Bible is interpreted. Abul-Walid ibn Janaḥ...
Barak JE A warrior; the son of Abinoam mentioned in Judges iv. 6, v. 12, as the most important ally of Deborah in the struggle against...
Julius Barasch JE Rumanian author and physician; born at Brody, Galicia, 1815; died at Bucharest, Rumania, March 31, 1863. His early education...
Diego Barassa JE Spanish physician and Marano, who openly avowed himself a Jew at Amsterdam about 1640. He was conversant with astronomy, medicine...
Jean Philippe Baratier JE Christian translator of Benjamin of Tudela's travels; born at Schwabach, Bavaria, in 1721; died in 1740. He was only thirteen...
Herman (hirsch) Baratz JE Russian lawyer and censor of Hebrew books; born at Dubno 1835; graduated from the Rabbinical School of Jitomir in 1859, and...
Barbados JE Island of the British West Indies in the Windward Group; colonized in 1625. It is probable that Jews were among the earliest...
Barbary States JE A region comprising the northwest of Africa from the Mediterranean to the Sahara, including Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli...
Barbaste Barbastro JE A city of Aragon, containing a Jewish community with special privileges that were confirmed by successive kings from time...
Ida Barber JE German authoress; born at Berlin July 9, 1842. She began her literary career when quite young, and published the following...
Barbers JE ...
MeÏr B Saul Barby JE Talmudist and rabbi; born about 1725 at Barby, a small city near Halberstadt, Prussia; died July 28, 1789, at Presburg. His...
Barcelona JE Capital of Catalonia, Spain; much praised by Jewish travelers and poets for its beauty and its picturesque situation; was...
Isaac Ben Reuben Barceloni JE See Isaac b. Reuben of Barcelona. This article is Rated: 2.75 ...
Barches JE Judίo-German for an oblong loaf of twisted bread, called in some countries also "Taatscher" or "Datscher." Both names...
Barda JE Formerly an important city (often mentioned by the Arabic geographers of the ninth and tenth centuries in connection with...
Elijah Bardach JE Merchant and Hebrew scholar; born at Lemberg 1794; died at Vienna April 11, 1864. He devoted his leisure time to the study...
Israel Isaac Ben Hayyim Moses Bardach JE Grammarian; lived in Lithuania at the end of the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Ṭa'ame Torah" (The Accents...
Julius Bardach JE Russian writer and teacher; born at Turijsk, province of Volhynia, 1828; died in Odessa in 1897 (?). He is said to have descended...
Barefoot JE In II Sam. xv. 30 it is mentioned that David, on his flight before Absalom, went Barefoot to show his grief. Micah i. 8, "to...
Bareheadedness JE Jewish custom has for ages required women to cover the hair as an evidence of their modesty before men, and required men to...
Barfat JE Name used by Jews in Provence and northern Spain; e.g., = "Barfat certifies as witness," found in an agreement between Pedro...
Bargains And Sales JE ...
Abraham De Bargas JE Translator into Ladino of the prayers composed by Malachi ben Jacob on the occasion of the earthquake at Leghorn, in January...
Jean Joseph Leandre BargÈs JE Honorary canon of Notre Dame of Paris, abbé and Orientalist; born in 1810 at Auriol (Bouches-du-Rhône); died in...
Bari JE Seaport town in Apulia, Italy, on the Adriatic; capital of the district of the same name. As the center of an extended trade...
Baris JE ...
Jacob Barit JE Russian Talmudist and communal worker; born at Simno, government of Suwalki, Sept. 12, 1797; died at Wilna March 6, 1883....
Marie Barkany JE Austrian actress; born at Kaschau, Hungary, March 2, 1862. She was one of the six daughters of a merchant at Kaschau, and...
Barki ( JE Writer; flourished in the seventeenth century at Salonica. He was, according to Azulai, a pupil of Ḥayyim Shabbethai...
Barlaam And Josaphat JE A romantic tale under this title, giving extracts from the life of Buddha and some of his parables in Christian form, which...
Barley JE A cereal often mentioned in the Old Testament as one of the common food-products of Palestine. It was and still is used as...
Thomas Barlow JE Bishop of Lincoln; born in Westmoreland in 1607; died Oct. 8, 1691. He was educated at Appleby, and removed thence to Queen&#39...
Joses Barnabas JE One of the Apostles, of the tribe of Levi and of the country of Cyprus. In Acts iv. 36 his name is given as "Bar Na&#7717...
Barnacle-goose JE A curious notion prevailed in the Middle Ages, that this bird (Branta leucopsis) was generated from the barnacle, a shell-fish...
Barnett Isaacs Barnato JE English "diamond king," promoter, and speculator; born in London July 5, 1852; committed suicide by jumping from the deck...
Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave JE French politician; member of the Assemblie Nationale; born at Grenoble in Dauphiny Oct. 22, 1761; guillotined in Paris Nov...
Ludwig Barnay JE German actor; born at Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 12, 1842. He was the son of the secretary of the Jewish congregation at that...
Aryeh Loeb Barnett JE Dayyan in London; locally known as "Rabbi Aryeh Loeb"; born at Krotoschin, in the grand duchy of Posen, in 1797; died in London...
Jacob Barnett JE Hebrew teacher at Oxford about 1613. He gave instruction to the students, under the direction of Richard Killye, regiusprofessor...
John Barnett JE English composer; born at Bedford, England, July 1, 1802; died at Cheltenham April 17, 1890. He made his début as a singer...
John Francis Barnett JE English musician; born at London Oct. 16, 1837; nephew of John Barnett. He was a pianoforte pupil of Dr. Wylde, and in 1850...
Lionel D Barnett JE English author; born at Liverpool 1871, educated at the High School, Liverpool, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he had...
Morris Barnett JE Dramatist and actor; born in 1800; died at Montreal March 18, 1856. He was originally trained for the musical profession,...
Henry Baron JE French painter; born at Besançon in 1816; died at Geneva in 1885. He was one of the foremost representatives of the historic...
Baron De Hirsch Fund JE ...
Jonas Baron JE Hungarian physician, surgeon, and lecturer on surgery at the University of Budapest, Hungary; born at Gyöngyös Nov...
Barrenness Barren JE The Hebrew word for "barren"— ('akar); feminine, ('aḳarah)—denotes probably "uprooted," in the...
Isaac Barrientos JE Author; otherwise unknown, but certainly not the same as Daniel Levi de Barrios; is the author of "Theologia Natural Contra...
Daniel Levi (miguel) De Barrios JE Spanish poet and historian; born 1625 at Montilla, Spain; died Feb., 1701, at Amsterdam. He was the son of a Marano, Simon...
Simon Levi De Barrios JE Son of Daniel Levi de Barrios; born March 17, 1665, at Amsterdam; died May 16, 1688, at Barbados. Member of Eẓ &#7716...
Mordecai Barrocas JE A Marano, physician, and poet. In Holland, at an advanced age, he openly returned to Judaism about the year 1605; and in celebration...
Valentinus Barruchius (baruch?) JE Spanish poet; lived probably in the twelfth century. He is said to have been a native of Toledo. He wrote in clear and ornate...
Jacob Barsimson JE One of the earliest Jewish settlers at New Amsterdam (New York). He arrived at that port on the ship "Pear Tree" July 8, 1654...
Bartenora JE ...
Barter JE The exchange of things of value, none of them being money. Barter is distinguished from a sale, where one of the things is...
Jacob Barth JE German professor of exegesis, religious philosophy, and Semitic languages; born at Flehingen, Baden, 1851. He studied Orientalia...
Jacob Salomon Bartholdy JE Prussian diplomat and art patron; uncle of the composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy; born May 13, 1779, in Berlin; died in...
Bartholomaion JE ...
Bartholomew JE One of the apostles; mentioned only in Matt. x. 3; Mark iii. 18; Luke vi. 14; Acts i. 13. Some writers identify him with the...
Bartholomew Raymundo JE ...
Giulio Bartolocci JE Italian student of Jewish literature;. born at Celleno April 1, 1613; died Oct. 19, 1687. He was a pupil of a baptized Jew...
Baruch JE 1. Son of Zabbai or Zaccai, who took part in strengthening the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah (Neh. iii. 20).2...
Apocalypse Of (greek) Baruch JE An apocryphal work, in which Baruch, the disciple of Jeremiah, gives an account of the revelation which he received in heaven...
Apocalypse Of (syriac) Baruch JE A pseudepigraphic work in which Baruch narrates his experiences during the periods just before and after the destruction of...
Book Of Baruch JE One of the Apocryphal or so-called deuterocanonic books of the Old Testament. It consists of two parts. The first (i. 1-iii...
Baruch JE Polish mechanic of the beginning of the eighteenth century; lived in Pogrebishche. He produced two magnificent brass candelabra...
Baruch JE A Jewish pioneer settler in Spain, whom the tradition of the Ibn Albaliahs regarded as the ancestor of their family. See Ibn...
Baruch B Moses Ibn Baruch JE Italian philosopher, Talmudist, and Bible commentator; lived at the end of the sixteenth century. He belonged to the old noble...
Baruch Of Benevento JE Cabalist in Naples during the first half of the sixteenth century. He was the teacher of Cardinal Ægidius of Viterbo...
Baruch B David JE A Talmudic author; lived at Gnesen (near Posen) in the beginning of the seventeenth century. He wrote: "Gedullat Mordecai"...
Baruch De Digne JE Rabbi of central France toward the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century; surnamed "Ha-Gadol"...
Baruch Ben Gershon Of Arezzo JE Italian writer; lived in the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Zikkaron li-Bene Yisrael" (Memorial for the Children...
Isaac Baruch JE ...
Baruch B Isaac (ha-kohen ?) JE Tosafist and codifier; flourished about 1200. He was born at Worms, but lived at Regensburg; hence he is sometimes called...
Baruch Ben Isaac Yaish JE ...
Jacob Baruch JE President ("Baumeister") of the Jewish congregation of Frankfort-on-the-Main at the beginning of the nineteenth century; father...
Baruch B Jacob (shklover) JE Talmudist, physician, and scientist; born at Shklov, White Russia, about 1740; died about 1812. He was one of the old-style...
[[Jacob [kohen-Ẓedek] Ben Moses Hayyim Baruch]] JE Editor at Leghorn during the latter part of the eighteenth century. He is known especially as the compiler and editor of a...
Joshua Boaz Ben Simon Ben Abraham Baruch JE A prominent Talmudist; lived at Sabionetta, later at Savigliano; died in 1557. He was a descendant of an old Judæo-Spanish...
Baruch Leibov JE A merchant who was burned at the stake in St. Petersburg July 15, 1738. He was one of the numerous Judæo-Polish merchants...
Loeb Baruch JE See Börne, Ludwig. This article is Rated: 2.88 ...
Baruch B Moses Of Prossnitz JE ...
Baruch B Samuel JE Rabbi of the Ashkenazim at Constantinople or in its neighborhood, in the last half of the sixteenth century. He is mentioned...
Baruch B Samuel JE Talmudist and prolific "payyeṭan"; flourished at the beginning of the thirteenth century; died at Mayence April 25,...
Baruch B Samuel Zanwill Ha-levi JE An Austrian rabbi of the eighteenth century; born at Leipnik, Moravia; officiated at Semlin, Croatia. He was the author of...
Simon Baruch JE American physician; born at Schwersenz, Prussia, July 29, 1840; educated at the Royal Gymnasium, Posen. Emigrating at an early...
Baruch B Solomon Kalai JE See Kalai. This article is Rated: 2.78 ...
Baruch Of Tulchin JE Russian rabbi and leader of the Ḥasidim of the Ukraine; born at Medzhibozh, government of Podolia, about 1750; died...
Baruch Uziel B Baruch JE See Forti, Baruch Uziel. This article is Rated: 2.92 ...
Baruch Yavan JE Polish financier; agent of the Polish prime minister Count Brühl; born at Starokonstantinov, government of Volhynia,...
Baruch B Ẓebi Hirsch JE A casuist; lived in Poland at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth. He wrote "Shema'tatade-Rab"...
Baruk She-amar JE The initial words of the introductory benediction recited before the reading of the Psalms ("Zemirot") or selections of the...
Baruk She-amar Samson B Eliezer JE ...
Barun Ibn Isaac JE ...
Adolph Solomonowich Barzhansky JE Russian composer and pianist; born at Odessa 1851; died there 1900. His father, a member of a prosperous firm well known both...
Barzilai JE See Judah ben Barzilai. This article is Rated: 2.81 ...
Giuseppe Barzilai JE Italian lawyer and Biblical commentator; born at Gradisca, near Triest, Austria, in 1828; studied at Casalmaggiore, province...
Salvatore Barzilai JE Italian deputy; born in Triest, Austria, July 5, 1860. Son of the Orientalist and archeologist Giuseppe Barzilai; studied...
Barzillai JE A wealthy Gileadite noble of Rogelim, who, together with two other prominent chieftains of the east-Jordanic territory, met...
Abraham Hezekiah B Jacob Basan JE Corrector of the press and author; lived in the second half of the eighteenth century at Amsterdam and Hamburg. He was at...
Jacob Ben Abraham Basan JE Ḥakam of the Portuguese community of Hamburg. In 1755 he published a prayer for a fast-day by the Portuguese congregation...
Abraham Basch JE German poet and teacher; born at Posen July 17, 1800; died at Berlin Sept. 24, 1841. Basch was a somewhat precocious child...
ÀrpÀd Basch JE Hungarian painter; born at Budapest 1873. He purposed at first to follow an industrial career, and attended the department...
Gyula Basch JE Hungarian painter; born at Budapest April 9, 1859. After completing his studies at the gymnasium, he attended the polytechnicinstitute...
Raphael Basch JE Austrian writer and politician; born at Prague, Bohemia, in 1813. After acquiring at that city a thorough familiarity with...
Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter Von Basch JE Austrian physician; born at Prague Sept. 9, 1837; best known as the body-physician of the emperor Maximilian of Mexico. Basch...
Victor Basch JE Professor of philosophy at the University of Rennes; born at Budapest, Hungary, in 1863; son of Raphael Basch. Removing in...
Baschwitz JE A family of printers, of which the following were the most prominent members: 1. Meïr Baschwitz: Born at Dyhernfurth...
Basel JE Capital of the canton of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, bordering on the grand duchy of Baden and on Alsace. Owing to its flourishing...
Basel Congress JE An international Zionist convention held at Basel on Aug. 29, 30, and 31, 1897, in the Stadt Casino, and which was called...
Basel-land JE A canton of Switzerland. It did not admit the French Jews, who had bought property in Liestal, the capital of the canton,...
Basel Program JE By this term is understood the program of Political Zionism drawn up at the first Basel Congress, as the aim of the political-Zionist...
Basemath JE ...
Abramo Basevi JE Italian composer and writer on music; born at Leghorn Dec. 29, 1818; died at Florence November, 1885. At first a physician...
Emmanuele Basevi JE Italian physician and medical writer; born at Pisa in 1799; died in Florence Sept. 18, 1869. Basevi studied at the high school...
George (joshua) Basevi JE Architect; born in London in 1794; died at Ely in 1845. He was the son of George Basevi, whose sister, Maria, had married...
Joachim Basevi JE Italian jurisconsult; born at Mantua 1780; died at Milan 1867. His intelligence and culture procured him so much celebrity...
Bashan JE The tract of country north of Gilead, the Yarmuk being the dividing-line. It stretches eastward along this southern limit...
Bashar Ben Phineas JE ...
Basmath Bashemath JE One of the wives of Esau. In Gen. xxvi. 34 she is described as "the daughter of Elon the Hittite." According to the same source...
Heinrich Jacob Bashuysen JE Christian printer of Hebrew books and Orientalist; born at Hanau, Prussia, Oct. 26, 1679; died about 1750. He founded a printing-establishment...
Elijah B Moses B Menahem Of Adrianople Bashyazi JE Karaite ḥakam; born at Adrianople about 1420; died there in 1490. After being instructed in the Karaite literature and...
Hillel Ben Moses Bashyazi JE Karaite scholar; lived at Constantinople in the first half of the sixteenth century. He was the author of a commentary upon...
Moses Ben Elijah Bashyazi JE Karaite scholar; great-grandson of Elijah Bashyazi; born at Constantinople in 1537; died in 1555. When but sixteen years of...
Basilea, Basila, Bassola, Basola, Basla JE A family originally from Basel in Switzerland (whence the name), but resident in the north of Italy and in Palestine from...
Basilisk JE The translation in the Revised Version of the Hebrew "ẓefa'" and "ẓif'oni" (Isa. xi. 8, xiv. 29, lix....
Basin JE The following Hebrew words are rendered "bason" in English: "aggan," "kefor," "mizraḳ," and "saf." Of these "aggan"...
Basket-tax JE The most burdensome and annoying of the special taxes imposed upon the Jews of Russia by the government. The edict concerning...
Baskets JE Four kinds of Baskets are mentioned in the Old Testament—"dud," "tene," "sal," and "kelub"—but unfortunately without...
Basmath JE daughter of King Solomon. See Bashemath. This article is Rated: 2...
Jacob Christian Basnage JE Protestant pastor; born at Rouen, France, Aug. 8, 1653; died in Holland Dec. 22, 1725. At the age of twenty-three he took...
Bason JE ...
Basque Provinces JE A district of Spain, including Guipuzcoa, Biscay, and Alava, extending along both sides of the Pyrenees, where the Basques...
Basra JE ...
Shabbethai B Joseph Bass JE Founder of Jewish bibliography; born at Kalisz 1641; died July 21, 1718, at Krotoschin. After the death of his parents, who...
Bassai JE ...
Hezekiah Mordecai B Samuel Bassani JE Rabbi of Verona, Italy; lived at the end of the sixteenth century and at the beginning of the seventeenth. He was the author...
Hugo Bassani JE Italian poet and composer; born in Padua June 5, 1851. He studied in Milan and was one of the favorite scholars of Anthony...
Isaiah Bassani JE Italian rabbi, of the first half of the eighteenth century; the son of Israel Hezekiah Bassani, who was a pupil of Moses Zacuto...
Israel Benjamin Bassani JE Rabbi at Reggio, Italy; born in 1703; died at Reggio Jan. 20, 1790 (5 Shebaṭ, 5550); son of Isaiah Bassani. He was a...
Jehiel B Hayyim Bassani JE Casuist and rabbi of Constantinople in the seventeenth century. His responsa (Constantinople, 1737) are valued for their keen...
Bassano JE City in the province of Venice, Italy. Here, as in all the surrounding places, Jews were living at a very early period, engaged...
Hendel Bassevi JE Daughter of Ebert Geronim, and second wife of Jacob Bassevi, son of Abraham Bassevi and president of the congregation of Prague...
Jacob Bassevi Von Treuenberg JE Court Jew and financier; born in 1580; died at Jung-BuntzlauMay 2, 1634. He entered business early in life, ultimately became...
Eliezer Bassin JE Missionary at Jassy, Rumania; born about 1840 in the government of Mohilev, Russia. In 1869 he went to Constantinople, where...
Bassora JE City in a vilayet of the same name in Asiatic Turkey, about 54 miles from the Persian gulf and 1¼ miles west of the Sha&#7789...
Lucilius Bassus JE Governor of Judea after the conquest of Jerusalem by Titus (70). He had formerly been prefect of the fleet at Ravenna, and...
Bastard JE In the English use of the word, a child neither born nor begotten in lawful wedlock; an illegitimate child. There is no Hebrew...
Diego Enriquez Basurto JE Marano poet of the seventeenth century; born in Spain. Like his father—the poet Antonio Enriquez Gomez—he resided...
Bat JE This well-known winged mammal (in Hebrew , Lev. xi. 19; Deut. xiv. 18; Isa. ii. 20) was considered by the Hebrews as belonging...
Bat Kol JE A heavenly or divine voice which proclaims God's will or judgment, His deeds and His commandments to individuals or to...
Bat-sheba JE A family of printers, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, whose name originates from the feminine name "Bath-sheba...
Al-hafiz Abu Mohammed Abd Allah Ibn Mohammed Ibn Al-sid Al BaṬalyusi JE Arabian philologist; born at Badajos (whence his name Al-Baṭalyusi = native of Badajos) in the second half of the eleventh...
Batanaea JE ...
Julius Bate JE English Biblical and Hebraic scholar; born about 1711; died at Arundel Jan. 20, 1771. He was educated at St. John's College...
Bath JE City, borough, and capital of the county of Somersetshire, England. Though as old as Roman times—in which it was known...
Bath JE ...
Bath-rabbim JE A term found only once in the Bible (Cant. vii. 4), apparently as the name of a gate at or near Heshbon. The passage is obscure...
Bath-sheba JE The daughter of Eliam (II Sam. xi. 3; but of Ammiel according to I Chron. iii. 5), who became the wife of Uriah the Hittite...
Stephen Bathori JE Prince of Transylvania 1571-76; king of Poland 1575-86, in succession to Henry of Anjou, who had left the kingdom in order...
Bathing Baths JE The clean body as an index and exponent of a clean soul, and thus of an approximation to holiness, is so natural a conception...
Bathyra JE Fortress and city founded by Zamaris, a distinguished Jew of Babylon, who about the year 20 crossed the Euphrates with 500...
Bathyra JE A family whose name is probably identical with that of the city of Bathyra. The name is so rare that all persons called "Bathyra"...
BaṬlanim JE Title of the ten men of leisure who, unoccupied by business of their own, devote their whole time to communal affairs and...
Szidor BÁtor (breisach) JE Hungarian composer; born at Budapest Feb. 23, 1860. He passed through the realschule and polytechnic in his native city, and...
Battery JE ...
Battlements JE ...
Bruno Bauer JE Christian theologian, philosopher, and historian; born Sept. 6, 1809, at Eisenburg, duchy of Saxe-Altenburg; died April 13...
George Lorenz Bauer JE Christian author of a theology of the Old Testament; born at Hippolstein, Bavaria, Aug. 14, 1755; died Jan. 13, 1806. In 1789...
Julius Bauer JE Austrian humorist; born at Raab-Sziget, Hungary, Oct. 15, 1853. Bauer was educated at home until 1873, when he went to Vienna...
Marie-bernard Bauer JE Chaplain of the Tuileries, Paris; born 1829 at Budapest, Hungary; died 1898. Through the Carmelite priest Augustin (whose...
Moritz Bauer JE Austrian physician; specialist in vaccination; born at Vienna Feb. 25, 1844. He received his education at his native town...
B KÁroly Baumgarten JE Hungarian jurist; born at Budapest Sept. 21, 1853, where he also finished his education; brother of Isidor Baumgarten. From...
Emanuel Baumgarten JE Austrian author and communal worker; born in Kremsier Jan. 15, 1828. In his youth he frequented various yeshibot, acquiring...
Isidor Baumgarten JE Hungarian jurist; born March 27, 1850, at Budapest, where he completed his education. Upon his graduation as doctor of law...
Bausk JE District town, government of Courland, Russia. According to the census of 1897 the population was 6,543, including some three...
Bavaria JE Kingdom in southern Germany. The settlement of Jewish merchants in Bavaria dates from the very earliest times. The legend...
Rudolphus Baynus (bayne) JE A Christian Hebraist of Cambridge; professor of the Hebrew language in Paris about the middle of the sixteenth century. He...
Bayonne JE Fortified city in the department of Basses-Pyrénées, in the extreme southwest of France. It is divided into Great...
Bayreuth JE Principality and capital city of the government district of Oberfranken, Bavaria. Mention is first made of the Jews of Bayreuth...
Bazarjik JE A small town of eastern Rumelia, twenty-four miles from Philippopolis, containing a Jewish community of 1,700 in a total population...
Abraham De Baze JE A prominent Jew in the principality of Orange, Burgundy, at the beginning of the sixteenth century. When the Jews were forced...
Bdellium JE A precious stone mentioned in Gen. ii. 12 by the side of gold and the "shoham" stone as one of the chief products of Havilah...
Be Abidan ( JE Supposed names of two places where, according to the Talmud, disputations between Jews and non-Jews were held. The location...
Be Rab JE A name which, in the Talmud, has various meanings and occurs in a variety of combinations. Its immediate signification, however...
Earl Of Beaconsfield JE ...
BÆan Bean JE A tribe destroyed by Judas Maccabeus (I Macc. v. 4; Josephus, "Ant." xii. 8, § 1) on account of its persistent attacks...
Beans JE ("pol"): The well-known vegetable, mentioned twice in the Old Testament. In II Sam. xvii. 28 it is referred to as a foodstuff...
Bear JE ("dob"): An animal often mentioned in the Old Testament, and evidently not rare in Palestine and Syria. Next to the lion...
Beard JE The modern Oriental cultivates his Beard as the sign and ornament of manhood: he swears by his Beard, touching it. The sentiment...
Beaucaire JE City in the department of Gard, France. A somewhat important Jewish community was founded here as early as the beginning of...
Beaucroissant JE Community of the canton of Rives, arrondissement of St. Marcellin lsère, France, a locality inhabited by Jews in 1337...
Beaugency JE ...
Eliezer Beaugency JE ...
Beautiful, The, In Jewish Literature JE To the speculative theory of the beautiful the Jews can not be said to have contributed fruitful thoughts. In the economy...
Bebai JE Name of a family, of whom, according to Ezra ii. 11 and I Esd. v. 13, 623 returned with Zerubbabel. According to Neh. vii...
Bebai JE The Palestinian and the Babylonian Talmudim, as also the Palestinian Midrashim, frequently cite an amora named Bebai, sometimes...
Bebai B Abaye JE A Babylonian scholar of the fourth and fifth amoraic generations (fourth century), son of the celebrated Abaye Naḥmani...
R Bebai B Abba JE A Palestinian haggadist, of uncertain date and rarely cited, whose name appears also as "Bebai Rabbah," "Beba Raba," and "Beba...
Ben Bebai JE A priestly family or gild having charge of the preparation of wicks for the Temple lamps (Sheḳ. v. 1; Yer. She&#7731...
Moses Ben Judah Bebri JE Ambassador from the sultan Mohammed IV. to King Charles XI. of Sweden; died May 29, 1673, at Amsterdam, where he was buried...
Becher JE 1. Son of Benjamin, mentioned in Gen. xlvi. 21 and in the genealogical list of I Chron. vii. 6, 8, but does not occur in the...
Alfred Julius Becher JE Austrian journalist, musician, and revolutionist; born at Manchester, England, in 1803 (or 1805); died at Vienna Nov. 23,...
Siegfried Becher JE Austrian economist; born at Plany, Bohemia, Feb. 28, 1806; died at Vienna March 4, 1873. He studied at the universities of...
Wolf Becher JE German physician and medical author; born at Filehne, province of Posen, Prussia, May 6, 1862. He received his education at...
Joseph Bechor Schor JE See Joseph ben Nathan Bekor Shor. This article is Rated: 3 ...
Bechorath JE An ancestor of Saul, and son of Aphiah (I Sam. ix. 1).J. Jr. G. B. L. This...
Adolf Beck JE Austrian physician and professor of physiology at the University of Lemberg; born Jan. 1, 1863, in Cracow, Galicia, of poor...
Jacob Ben Enoch Beck JE Dayyan and shoḥet at Leipnik, Moravia, at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth He was...
Karl Beck JE Austrian poet; born May 1, 1817, at Baja, Hungary; died April 10, 1879, at Währing, a suburb of Vienna. Although of Jewish...
Klinos Beck JE Hungarian singer; born in 1868 at Budapest, where he attended commercial schools. He received the elements of a thorough musical...
Matthew Frederick Beck JE German Orientalist and divine; born May 22, 1649; died Feb. 2, 1701. He studied Oriental languages under Vossius in Jena,...
Beck, Miksa, De Madaras JE Hungarian financier; born at Bács-Madaras, 1838. His parents settled at Budapest when he was still a child; and it was...
Moritz Beck JE Rumanian editor and schooldirector; born at Papa, Hungary. He is the editor of a bimonthly called "Revista Israelita," and...
Beck, NÁndor, De Madaras JE President of the Hungarian Hypotheken-Bank; born 1840 at Bács-Madaras; a younger brother of Miksa Beck. He was educated...
Bed JE In early as in later times the Bed of the poor was the bare ground, and the bedclothes the simple gown worn during the day...
Bedad JE Father of Hadad, one of the early kings of Edom (Gen. xxxvi. 35, and corresponding list I Chron. i. 46).J. Jr. G. B. L. ...
Bedan JE 1. A judge mentioned by Samuel in his farewell address (I Sam. xii. 11) among the judges that delivered Israel from their...
Jedaiah Bedaresi JE ...
Jassuda BÉdarride JE French jurisconsult; born at Aix, in Provence, in 1804; died there Feb. 4, 1882. He studied law at the Aix University; and...
Gustave Emanuel BÉdarrides JE French magistrate; born at Aix-les-Bains Feb. 20, 1817; died at Paris June 5, 1899. Graduating from the University of Paris...
Alfred H Beddington JE English communal worker; born 1835; died in London Jan. 23, 1900. He was connected with the management of several Jewish institutions...
Edward Henry Beddington JE Euglish communal worker; born 1819; died Oct. 31, 1872 He was a member of the council of the United Synagogue and of the committees...
Maurice Beddington JE English communal worker; born in 1821; died at Carshalton Sept. 9, 1898. Throughout his life he was identified with most of...
Abraham Ben Isaac Bedersi JE Provençal poet; born at Béziers (whence his surname "Bedersi"—native of Béziers). The dates of his birth...
Jedaiah Ben Abraham Bedersi JE Poet, physician, and philosopher; born at Béziers (whence his surname Bedersi) about 1270; died about 1340. His Proven&#231...
Bedford JE Borough and capital of the county of Bedfordshire, England; situated on the River Ouse. The earliest notice of Jews at Bedford...
Bedikah JE Term employed in the Talmud and ritual codes denoting the rigid scrutiny by meansof which the fitness or unfitness of a person...
Bee JE A honey-gathering insect frequently referred to in the Bible. Bee-keeping dates very far back, and it is quite probable that...
Theodore Johann Beelen JE Professor of Oriental languages at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium; born at Amsterdam at the beginning of the...
Beeliada JE A son of David (I Chron. xiv. 7), who in II Sam. v. 16 and I Chron. iii. 8 is called "Eliada." This is due to an intentional...
Beelzebub JE Name of a demon mentioned in the New Testament as chief of the demons (Matt. xii. 24-27; Mark iii. 22; Luke xi. 15-18). When...
Beer JE A halting-place of the Israelites near Arnon, in Moab, where they stopped during their wanderings in the desert (Num. xxi...
Aaron Beer JE Chief cantor of the Jewish congregation of Berlin; born 1738; died Jan. 3, 1821, in the fiftieth year of his official capacity...
Adolf Beer JE Austrian historian and educator; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Feb. 27, 1831. While still young he came under the influence...
Adolph Beer JE Austrian colonel; born 1833 in Prossnitz, Moravia; died Oct. 2, 1888, at Leibach, Carniola. He entered a school for military...
Alexander Beer JE Religious teacher and author in Munich, who wrote in 1826, under the direction of Abraham Bing, rabbi of Würzburg, and...
Amalie Beer JE German philanthropist and communal worker; died at Berlin June 22 (24), 1854. She was the wife of the banker Jacob Herz Beer...
August Beer JE German mathematician; born at Trier July 31, 1825; died at Bonn on the Rhine Nov. 18, 1863. Beer was educated at the technical...
Benjamin Ben Elijah Ha-rofe Beer JE An Italian, doubtless an artist, who lived in Italy, probably at Ferrara, during the fifteenth century. On a bronze medal...
Bernhard Beer JE German author; born July, 1801, at Dresden; died there July 1, 1861. His father, Hirsch Beer, and his mother, Clara, belonged...
Berthold Beer JE Austrian medical writer; born at Brünn, Moravia, April 24, 1859. Educated at the high schools of his native city, first...
Jacob Leyser Beer JE ...
Jules Beer JE Composer; son of Michael Beer, and nephew of Giacomo Meyerbeer; born 1833 in Paris, where he still (1902) resides. His first...
Max Josef Beer JE Austrian pianist and composer; born at Vienna Aug. 25, 1851. He studied with Dessoff, and was still very young when, on the...
Michael Beer JE German poet; brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer, the composer, and of Wilhelm Beer, the astronomer; born Aug. 19, 1800, in Berlin...
Moses Shabbethai Beer JE An Italian rabbi; born at Pesaro; died in Rome, May 6, 1835, where he officiated as rabbi from the year 1825. On Dec. 18,...
Peter (perez) Beer JE Austrian educationalist; born Feb. 19, 1758, at Neubydžow, Bohemia; died Nov. 8, 1838, at Prague. After having received...
Rachel Beer JE English journalist; daughter of Sassoon D. Sassoon. She was educated privately and spent two years in hospital training. SinceOct...
Wilhelm Beer JE Astronomer; brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer, the composer, and of Michael Beer, the poet; born in Berlin Jan. 4, 1797; died there...
Isaiah Beer-bing JE French journalist; born at Metz in 1759; died in Paris July 21, 1805. He entered early upon a literary career, and at the...
Beer Elim JE A Moabite town mentioned in the lament for Moab (Isa. xv. 8). It is probably to be identified with the Beer of the desert...
Beer Lahai Ro'i JE Name of a well in the desert south of Palestine on the road to Shur (Gen. xvi. 7 et seq.), known as the stopping-place of...
Beer-sheba JE A place situated on the southern boundary of Judea (compare Judges xx. 1; II Sam. xvii. 11; I Kings xix. 3) which was allotted...
Beera JE An Asherite (I Chron. vii 37).J. Jr. G. B. L. This article is Rated:&nbsp...
Beerah JE A descendant of Reuben, and head of the tribe at the time it was taken into captivity by Tiglath-pileser (I Chron.v. 6).J...
Beeroth JE One of the cities of the Gibeonites (Josh. ix. 17) which after the conquest fell to the lot of Benjamin (Josh. xviii. 25)...
Beet JE This well-known biennial root-plant is not mentioned in the Bible; according to De Candolle, it was not cultivated before...
Lola Beeth JE Austrian operatic singer; born Nov. 23, 1862, at Cracow, Galicia. The daughter of a well-to-do merchant, she spent her youth...
Beetle JE English equivalent in A. V. for the Hebrew "ḥargol" (Lev. xi. 22; R. V. "cricket"). It is here mentioned as a kind of...
Begging And Beggars JE Although it has made ample provision for the relief of the poor, the Mosaic legislation does not contain any prescription...
Émile Auguste BÉgin JE French physician and historical writer; born at Metz April 24, 1802 (according to some sources, April 23, 1803); died in Paris...
Louis Jacques BÉgin JE French surgeon and author; born at Liège, Belgium, Nov. 2, 1793; died in Gorriquen, near Lacrouan, Bretagne, April 13...
Martin Behaim JE See Zacuto, Abraham. This article is Rated: 2.8 ...
Judah Behak JE Russo-Hebrew writer; born at Wilna Aug. 5, 1820; died at Kherson Nov. 14, 1900. He was the last of the champions of progress...
Behalah JE A name commonly bestowed on several periods of great excitement in Lithuania and Poland, when, for various reasons, Jewish...
Jacob Joseph Ha-rofe Behar JE Chief rabbi of Bagdad about 1843, and author of two Hebrew works; viz., "Shir Ḥadash," a commentary upon the Song of...
Moses Shabbethai Behar JE Rabbi and author; lived in Salonica at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Author of a Hebrew book, "Torat Mosheh" (Salonica...
Nissim Behar JE Palestinian educator; born at Jerusalem, 1848. His father, Rabbi Eliezer Behar, having migrated from Rumania to Palestine...
Beheading JE As a regular capital punishment, Beheading does not seem to have been known to the Israelites before the time of the Greek...
Behemoth JE ...
Issachar Falkensohn Behr JE Lithuanian poet; born in 1746 at Zamosc, government of Lublin, Russian Poland, or, according to Recke and Napiersky, at Salaty...
Friedrich Jacob Behrend JE German physician; born at Neu-Stettin, Pomerania, June 12, 1803; died at Berlin May 30, 1889. He was educated for a mercantile...
Gustav Behrend JE German dermatologist, medical writer, and professor of medicine at the University of Berlin; born at Neu-Stettin, Prussia...
Henry Behrend JE Physician and communal worker; born in Liverpool in 1828; died in London Nov. 28, 1893. After completing a brilliant academical...
Israel B Behrend JE German physician and writer on medical subjects; born at Wittenburg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 1804; died at Rostock,March 13...
Jacob Friedrich Behrend JE German jurist; born at Berlin Sept. 13, 1833; finished his studies in his native city at the university. He became "Gerichtsassessor"...
Leffmann Behrends JE (LIEPMANN COHEN): Financial agent of the dukes and princes of Hanover; born about 1630; died at Hanover Jan. 1, 1714. His...
Sir Jacob Behrens JE Municipal worker at Bradford, England; born at Pyrmont, Germany, Nov., 1806; died at Torquay April 22, 1889. His father, removing...
Lazar Jakovlevich Behrmann JE Russian teacher and editor; born in Friedrichstadt, Courland, Sept. 26, 1830; died at St. Petersburg April 27, 1893. He received...
Vasili Lazarovich Behrmann JE Russian lawyer; son of Lazar Jakovlevich Behrmann; born in Mitau, Russia, Sept. 15, 1862; died at Cairo, Egypt, March 18,...
Isaac Wulfovich Beilin JE Russian teacher and physician; born in the first quarter of the nineteenth century; died at Wilna March 9, 1897. He was graduated...
Solomon Ben Abraham Beim JE Karaite ḥakam and ḥazan at Odessa; born there about 1820. Having received a good education from his father, who...
Syria Beirut JE City in Phenicia, at the mouth of the river of the same name, on the Mediterranean between Byblus and Sidon. In the El-Amarna...
Moses Beiser JE Austrian physician and philanthropist; born in Lemberg April 7, 1807; died in the same city Oct. 12, 1880. At twenty he entered...
Alfred Beit JE South African financier; born of a well-known Hamburg Jewish family in 1853. Beit went to Kimberley during the early days...
Beja JE City in Portugal that had, next to Santarem, the oldest Jewish community in Portugal. In a foro (charter) granted to the city...
Abraham Of Beja JE ...
Bekiin JE A small town in Palestine, between Jabneh and Lydda. It is mentioned as the seat of a Talmudical school founded by R. Joshua...
MeÏr Bekkayam JE ...
Joseph Ben Isaac Bekor Shor JE ...
Saadia Bekor Shor JE Alleged son of Joseph Bekor Shor, and reputed anthor of a frequently published poem on the number of letters in the Bible...
Bekorot JE Name of the fourth treatise—according to the order of the Mishnah—of Seder Ḳodashim ("Holy Things"). The...
Bel JE ...
Bel And The Dragon JE An Apocryphal tract, placed, in the Septuagint and Theodotion, among the additions to the Book of Daniel (see Apocrypha)....
Bela JE An early king of Edom, having his royal seat at Dinhabah; son of Beor (Gen. xxxvi. 32, 33; I Chron. i. 43, 44). The name "Dinhabah"...
Belais ( JE Rabbi and poet; born in Tunis 18th of Ab, 1773; died in London 1853. An eccentric personality, he had a curious career. First...
Abraham Belasco JE English pugilist; born in London, England, April 9, 1797; died there. Belasco entered the prize-ring in 1817, when he defeated...
David Belasco JE American dramatist; born in San Francisco in 1858 of English parents. He is of the same family as the English actor known...
David Belasco JE ...
Israel Belasco JE English pugilist; born in London in 1800; a brother of the better-known Abraham or "Aby" Belasco. His first appearance in...
Belfast JE Chief town of the county of Antrim, province of Ulster, Ireland. The Jewish community—a comparatively prosperous one&#8212...
Belgium JE One of the smaller states of western Europe. Under the Romans it formed one of the six provinces of ancient Gaul and bore...
Belgrade JE Capital of the kingdom of Servia, situated at the confluence of the Save and the Danube. After Sultan Sulaiman the Magnificent...
Belial JE A term occurring often in the Old Testament and applied, as would seem from the context in I Sam. x. 27; II Sam. xvi. 7, xx...
Belias (beliash JE Envoy from Morocco in 1608. He delivered to Maurice of Nassau, governor-general of the Netherlands, credentials from Muley...
Son Of AlÈgre Belid JE Prominent French Jew; lived in Toulouse at the beginning of the thirteenth century. His name figures in many deeds of conveyance...
Belief JE ...
Daniel Belilhos JE Preacher and teacher at Amsterdam. He had a thorough knowledge of Biblical and rabbinical literature, was a facile Hebrew...
Jacob Belilhos JE Relative of Daniel Belilhos; rabbi at Venice about 1680. He wrote "Binyan Ne'arim" (Edification of Youth) in refutation...
David Belilla JE One of the leading Jews in Cranganore, sixteen miles north of Cochin, southern India, about the middle of the sixteenth century...
Elijah Ben Moses I Belin JE German commentator and liturgical poet of the fifteenth century. He was rabbi, cantor, and teacher of Talmud and Rabbinic...
Elijah Ben Moses Ii Belin JE German Talmudist; died at Worms Feb. 26, 1587, having taken an active part in the affairs of the Jewish community in that...
Belinfante Family JE A Sephardic Jewish family who trace their ancestry to Joseph Cohen Belinfante, a fugitive from Portugal to Turkey in 1526...
Isaac Cohen Belinfante JE Poet and preacher at the great synagogue 'Eẓ Hayyim, Amsterdam; died in that city Sept. 7, 1781; son of Elijah Cohen...
Moses Ben Ẓaddik Ha-kohen Belinfante JE A Judæo-Dutch journalist, translator, and writer of school-books; born at The Hague Sept. 24, 1761; died there June 29...
Moses Eliezer Belinson JE Russian publisher and scholar; born at Odessa about 1835. He devoted himself chiefly to the study of the genealogy of old...
Miriam Mendes Belisario JE English authoress and teacher; born in London about 1820; died there 1885. She was a granddaughter of Isaac Mendes Belisario...
Israel Belkind JE Russian Hebraist and teacher; born in 1861 at Logoisk, government of Minsk, Russia; educated at the high school of Mohilev...
Queen Of Sheba Belkis JE ...
GrÉgoire Belkovsky JE Russian political economist; born at Odessa 1865. While a student he joined the Jewish nationalists of Odessa, and lectured...
wife of Joshua Falk Bella JE A woman of Talmudic learning; born at Lemberg about the middle of the sixteenth century; died at a very advanced age at Jerusalem...
Bellcayre JE City in Catalonia, Spain; had Jewish inhabitants in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It was the birthplace of David...
Belle-assez JE A daughter of Solomon ben Isaac, called "Rashi" (1040-1105,) and wife of R. Eliezer. Belle-Assez (not "Bellejeune," "Belle...
Lazarus (menahem) Belleli JE Greek polyglot writer and philologist; born in Corfu, Greece, Oct. 31, 1862. In 1877 he edited "'Aṭṭeret Ba&#7717...
Johann Joachim Bellermann JE Christian Hebraist and professor of theology at Berlin University; born at Erfurt Sept. 23, 1754; died at Berlin Oct. 25,...
Bellette JE Daughter of Menahem, and sister of Isaac ben Menahem called "the Great"; lived at Orleans in the middle of the eleventh century...
Bells JE The use of Bells for summoning seems to have arisen in the Far East, and was not customary in countries bordering the Mediterranean...
Bells Of The Law JE ...
Bellsom JE See Moses of Narbonne. This article is Rated: 2.87 ...
Ascarelli Bellucia JE ...
Belmont JE Jewish family in Alzey, Rhein-Hessen. It traces its origin to Isaac Simon, who at the end of the eighteenth century took the...
August Belmont JE American financier; born in Alzey, Germany, in 1816; died in New York city, Nov. 24, 1890. He was educated at Frankfort-on-the-Main...
Belmonte JE Portuguese Dutch Marano family, which traced its descent from Don Iago y Sampayo, to whom in 1519 King Manuel of Portugal...
B E ColaÇo Belmonte JE Lawyer and writer in Surinam, Dutch West Indies, about the middle of the eighteenth century. He published "Over de Hervorming...
Benvenida Cohen Belmonte JE Poetess; lived in London at the beginning of the eighteenth century. She was a sister of the Mæcenas Mordecai Nu&#241...
Francisco De Ximenes Belmonte JE Dutch diplomat; lived at Amsterdam during the first half of the eighteenth century. He was a nephew of Baron Manuel de Belmonte...
Isaac NuÑez Belmonte JE One of the most prominent of Oriental casuists; son of Moses Nuñez Belmonte; lived in Smyrna at the end of the eighteenth...
Isaac NuÑez (don Manuel de) Belmonte JE Dutch statesman; born in Amsterdam; died there in 1704. He was not a son of Jacob Belmonte who came from Madeira in 1614,...
Jacob Israel Belmonte JE One of the founders of the Portuguese-Jewish community of Amsterdam, his colleagues being Jacob Tirado and Solomon Palache...
Moses Belmonte JE Poet and translator; eighth child of Jacob Belmonte; born 1619; died at Amsterdam May 29, 1647. He was a pupil of Saul Morteira...
Moses Ben Joseph Belmonte JE Writer in Amsterdam during the first half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a poem in Hebrew prefixed to the...
Solomon Abendana Belmonte JE Jurist; born in Hamburg 1843; died there March 19, 1888. He was educated at the Johanneum and the gymnasium in that city;...
Belorado JE A city in the Spanish province of Burgos, which had Jewish inhabitants as early as the end of the eleventh century. The fuero...
Belovar JE Town in Croatia, Austria. The Jewish community of Belovar was founded about 1877, when some fifty Jewish families settled...
Belshazzar JE King of Babylon mentioned in Dan. v. and viii. as the son of Nebuchadnezzar and as the last king before the advent of the...
Belteshazzar JE The name given to Daniel by the chief of the eunuchs (Dan. i. 7). The writer of the Book of Daniel sees in the first syllable...
Diego De Hidalgo Beltran JE Poet; Spanish Marano of the seventeenth century; son of a Jew from Murcia. He was noted as an editor and commentator of Spanish...
Bemah JE ...
Bemidbar JE The Hebrew name for the Book of Numbers (see Numbers)J. Jr. G. B. L. This...
Bemidbar Rabbah JE The Midrash commentary upon Numbers, called in the editio princeps of Constantinople (1512) "Bemidbar Sinai Rabbah," and so...
BemoẒa'e Menuhah JE The "pizmon" of the "seliḥot" on the first Sunday in the octave preceding the New-Year, and therefore honored with a...
Ben-abinadab JE Commissariat officer of Solomon who married a daughter of his royal master. He was stationed in the district of Dor; that...
Ben Adret Solomon B Abr JE ...
Ben Ami JE See Rabinovich, I. M. This article is Rated: 3 ...
Ben-ammi JE Son of Lot, and ancestor of the Ammonites (Gen. xix. 38).G. G. B. L. This...
Ben Asher JE ...
Ben-avigdor JE Russian Hebrew novelist and publisher; born in Zheludok, government of Wilna, in 1867. He received the usual Biblical and...
Ben 'azzai JE A distinguished tanna of the first third of the second century. His full name was Simon b. 'Azzai, to which sometimes...
Ben Bag-bag JE An early tanna. At the end of the Mishnah Abot (v. 22, 23) two sentences are given concerning the study of the Torah; one...
Ben-baṬiah JE A man, at the time of the teachers of the Mishnah ("'Aruk," s.v. ), whose fist, being about the size of an adult's...
Ben Chananja JE A periodical published by Leopold Löw at Leipsic in 1844 with the subtitle "Blätter für Israelitisch-Ungarische...
Ben Dama JE Tanna of the beginning of the second century; a nephew of Ishmael b. Elisha. His inclination toward Hellenism and the Jud&#230...
Ben David JE ...
Abraham Ben-david JE Chief rabbi of Serres, European Turkey, for 16 years (1825-41); born 1788, died 1841; author of a volume of responsa, "Tiferet...
Ben-dekar JE Commissariat officer of Solomon, whose district in northern Dan included Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elon-Beth-hanan...
Ben Durand JE Diplomat and intermediary between Abd-el-Kader and the French government; died at Algiers in September, 1839. Clauzel and...
Ben Elasah JE A rich and prominent Palestinian of about the middle of the second century. He was the son-in-law of R. Judah ha-Nasi I.,...
Ben Eliezer JE ...
Solomon Ben-ezra JE Chief rabbi of the Jewish community of Smyrna, Asia Minor, in the second half of the eighteenth century, having succeeded...
Ben-hadad JE A name that would seem to mean simply "the son of Hadad," a well-known appellation of an Aramean and perhaps also of an Edomite...
Ben HÊ HÊ JE ...
Ben-hesed JE Commissariat officer of Solomon with residence in Aruboth in Judah (I Kings iv. 10, R.V.). His district was Hepher and Sochoh...
Ben Hinnom JE See Gehinnom. This article is Rated: 3.05 ...
Ben-hur JE Commissariat officer of Solomon "in the hill country of Ephraim" (I Kings iv. 8, R. V.).J. Jr. G. B. L. ...
Eliezer Ben Judah JE Palestinian editor; born at Luzhky, government of Wilna, Jan. 7, 1858; son of Judah Perlman—hence his name "Ben Judah...
Ben Kafron JE One of the three disciples of Menahem ben Saruk (last third of tenth century) who defended the honor of their teacher against...
Ben Kalba Sabbua' JE A rich and prominent man of Jerusalem who flourished about the year 70. According to the Talmud (Giṭ. 56a), he obtained...
Ben Kosiba JE ...
Ben La'anah JE Author of an apocryphal book. The name occurs only once in Yer. (Sanh. x. 28a), where it is said that among the apocryphal...
Ben Leb B Zadik JE ...
Ben MeÏr JE Palestinian nasi in the first half of the tenth century. His name was brought to light some twenty years ago by several fragments...
Ben Melak JE See Solomon ibn Melek. This article is Rated: 2.64 ...
Ben Naphtali JE Masorite; flourished about 890-940 C.E., probably in Tiberias. Of his life little is known. His first name is in dispute....
Ben Nazar JE ...
Ben-oni JE A play upon the name "Benjamin." According to Gen. xxxv. 18, it was the name given by the dying Rachel to her son Benjamin...
Ben Porath JE ...
Alphabet Of Ben Sira JE A small book containing a double list of proverbs—twenty-two Aramaic and twenty-two Hebrew—alphabetically arranged...
Ben Temalion JE A demon mentioned in the Talmud. When the Jewish sages, with Simon b. Yoḥai at their head, went to Rome to obtain the...
Ben-tigla JE See Ben-La'anah. This article is Rated: 3 ...
Ben Uzziel JE ...
Ben Yasus JE See Isaac ibn Jasos ibn Saktar. This article is Rated: 3 ...
Ben Zakkai JE ...
Judah LÖb Ben-ze'eb JE First Jewish grammarian and lexicographer of modern times; born near Cracow 1764; died at Vienna March 12, 1811. He received...
Ben Zita JE See Eleazar ben Ziṭa Abu al-Sari. This article is Rated: 2.83...
Ben Zoma JE Tanna of the first third of the second century. His full name is Simon b. Zoma without the title "Rabbi"; for, like Ben &#39...
Benaiah JE One of the Bene Parosh who took foreign wives (Ezra x. 25); in I Esd. ix. 26 he is called "Baanias."2. One of the Bene Pahath-moab...
Elijah Benamozegh JE Italian rabbi; born at Leghorn in 1822; died there Feb. 6, 1900. His father (Abraham) and mother (Clara), natives of Fez,...
Franz Ferdinand Benary JE German Orientalist; born at Cassel March 22, 1805; died at Berlin Feb. 7, 1880. The exact date of Benary's conversion...
Karl Albert Agathon Benary JE German philologist; born at Cassel 1807; died 1860; brother of Franz Ferdinand Benary. He received his education at the gymnasia...
Baron L Benas JE English communal worker; born in Liverpool, England, 1844. Has been throughout his life a leading figure in the Liverpool...
Benjamin Benash JE Cabalist of the beginning of the eighteenth century; son of Judah Löb Cohen of Krotoschin, Prussia. He wrote the "Shem-&#7788...
Bencemero JE Mediator, in 1526, between the Moors and the governor of Saffee and Azamor, employed by the Portuguese. He lived at Azamor...
Isaac Bencemero JE Relative of Abraham Bencemero of Azamor, the deliverer of Nuno Fernandes d'Atayde, commander-in-chief of Saffee. When...
Lazarus Bendavid JE German philosopher and reformer; born in Berlin Oct. 18, 1762; died there March 28, 1832. In his younger days he supported...
Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann JE German painter; born Dec. 3, 1811, in Berlin; died Dec. 27, 1889, at Düsseldorf. His father was a prominent banker of...
Rudolf Christian Eugen Bendemann JE German painter; born at Dresden Nov. 11, 1851; died May, 1884, at Pegli, near Genoa, Italy; educated at the Düsseldorf...
Alfred Philipp Bender JE Rabbi at Cape Town, South Africa; born at Dublin, Ireland, 1863; educated by his father, Rev. Philipp Bender, for many years...
Johann Heinrich Bender JE German jurist; born at Frankfort May or Sept. 29, 1797; died there Sept. 6, 1859. He studied law at Giessen, where he was...
Bendery JE District town in the government of Bessarabia. In 1898 it had a Jewish population of 12,000 out of a total of 33,000 inhabitants...
Menahem Manus Bendetsohn JE Russian pedagogue and Hebrew writer; born in Grodno 1817; died there March 20, 1888. After a careful Talmudic education in...
Bendig, MeÏr, Of Arles JE Talmudist at Arles, in the Provence, probably in the second half of the fifteenth century. He wrote the following works: (1)...
Bendin JE Same as Piotrkow (Vol. x. p. 572). This article is Rated: 2.84 ...
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Frits Emil Bendix JE Danish violoncellist and composer; born Jan. 12, 1847, at Copenhagen. He first studied with F. Rauch, and later with Friedrich...
Otto Julius Emanuel Bendix JE Danish oboist and pianist; born July 26, 1845, at Copenhagen; a brother of Frits Bendix. He first devoted himself to the study...
Victor Emanuel Bendix JE Danish violin virtuoso, pianist, and composer; born May 17, 1851, at Copenhagen; brother of Frits Bendix. He early manifested...
Bene-berak JE A town assigned to Dan (Josh. xix. 45). It was situated on the seacoast plain southeast of Joppa, and is to be identified...
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Salvatore De Benedetti JE Italian scholar; born April 18, 1818, at Novara, a town in Piedmont; died Aug. 4, 1891, at Pisa. In his time the public schools...
Benedict Viii JE Pope from 1012 to 1024. A great persecution of the Jews took place during his pontificate. A terrible earthquake and hurricane...
Benedict Xii (jacques De NovellÈs) JE A monk of the Cistercian order; elected pope Dec. 30, 1334; died April 25, 1342. Although he displayed the greatest zeal for...
Benedict Xiii (pedro De Luna) JE Antipope; born at Aragon about 1334; elected Sept. 28, 1394; died at Peñiscola June 1 (according to some, Nov. 29), 1424...
Benedict Xiv (prospero Lambertini) JE Two hundred and fifty-fourth pope; born at Bologna in 1675; elected pope Aug. 17, 1740; died May 3, 1758. This pope, who graciously...
Sir Julius Benedict JE Composer, conductor, and teacher of music; born at Stuttgart Nov. 27, 1804; died in London June 5, 1885. Showing considerable...
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Moses Benedict JE German banker and artist; born in 1772 at Stuttgart, Germany; died there July 8, 1852. He was destined for the profession...
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Benedict Of York JE Leading member of the Jewish community in York, England, at the end of the twelfth century; died in 1189. Together with Josce...
Benedictions JE Blessings, or prayers of thanksgiving and praise, recited either during divine service or on special occasions. They were...
Coenraad Benedictus JE "Mohel" and surgeon at Surinam, Dutch Guiana, about 1830. Nothing is known of his life nor of his literary activity other...
Edmund Benedikt JE Austrian jurist; born at Döbling, near Vienna, Oct. 6, 1851. He studied law at the University of Vienna, and after graduation...
Moritz Benedikt JE German journalist, publisher, and editor of the Vienna "Neue Freie Presse"; born at Gnatschitz, Moravia, May 27, 1849. On...
Moriz Benedikt JE Austrian neurologist; born at Eisenstadt, Hungary, July 6, 1835. Upon his graduation from the University of Vienna, where...
Rudolph Benedikt JE Austrian chemist; born at Döbling July 12, 1852; died in Vienna Feb. 6, 1896. He was educated at the Polytechnic (HighSchool)...
Mordecai B Abraham (marcus Benedict) Benet JE Talmudist and chief rabbi of Moravia; born in 1753 at Csurgό, a small vil lage in the county of Stuhlweissenburg, Hungary...
Naphtali Ben Mordecai Benet (benedict) JE Author and rabbi; born at the end of the eighteenth century; died October, 1857, at Schafa, Moravia, where he was rabbi. He...
Benevento JE City in southern Italy; capital of the province of the same name; about 32 miles northeast of the city of Naples. Benjamin...
Benfelden JE Town in Alsace, 17 miles from Strasburg. It was here, in the year 1348, when Europe was devastated by the Black Death (the...
Theodor Benfey JE German Sanskritist and comparative philologist; born at Nörten, Hanover, Jan. 28, 1809; became a convert to Christianity...
Bengazi JE City of Tripoli, Africa, on the east coast of the Gulf of Sidra. Little is known of the first settlement of the Jews there...
Arthur Benham JE Dramatic author; born 1875; died at Brighton, Eng., Sept. 8, 1895. He was a playwright of considerable promise, and was the...
Beni-israel JE Native Jews of India, dwelling mainly in the presidency of Bombay and known formerly by the name of Shanvar Telis ("Saturday...
Abraham Benisch JE Journalist and theologian; born at Drosau, a small town eight miles southwest of Klattau, Bohemia, in 1811; died at Hornsey...
Isaac B Jacob Benjacob JE Russian bibliographer, author, and publisher; born in Ramgola, near Wilna, Jan. 10, 1801; died in Wilna July 2, 1863. His...
Benjamin JE Youngest son of Jacob by Rachel, who died on the road between Beth-el and Ephrath, while giving him birth. She named him "Ben-oni"...
J J Benjamin Ii JE Rumanian traveler; born at Folticheni, Moldavia, in 1818; died at London May 3, 1864. Married young, he engaged in the lumber...
R Benjamin JE A tanna of the second century, contemporary of R. Eleazar ben Shammu'a, with whom he carried on some halakic controversy...
Benjamin Ben Aaron JE Ḥasidic writer; lived toward the end of the eighteenth century. He was a pupil of Israel Ba'al Shem-Ṭob, and...
Benjamin Aaron B Abraham JE ...
Benjamin B Abraham Anav JE ...
Benjamin Alessandro Kohen Vital JE ...
Benjamin B 'ashtor JE A Palestinian halakist of the third amoraic generation, contemporary of R. Ḥiyya b. Abba and senior to R. Hezekiah (Yer...
Benjamin Asya JE A Babylonian rabbinic scholar of the third and fourth amoraic generations (fourth century), contemporary of Rab Joseph and...
Sir Benjamin Benjamin JE Mayor of Melbourne; born at London in 1836. At the age of nine he accompanied his parents to Victoria. Associating himself...
Benjamin Of Canterbury JE English rabbi; disciple of Rabbi Tam; died at the beginning of the thirteenth century. He is mentioned in the list of medieval...
David Benjamin JE Communal worker; born in London in 1815; died there June 25, 1893. In 1835 he emigrated to Australia; and, while in Tasmania...
Benjamin B David Cases JE ...
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R Benjamin B Giddel JE A Palestinian amora of the fourth generation (fourth century), contemporary of R. Aḥa III. (Yer. Ma'as. Sh. v. 56b...
Benjamin Ginzakayah JE A Babylonian scholar of the third century, contemporary of Mar Samuel. All that is known of him is that death overtook him...
Hillel Benjamin JE Polish architect of the second half of the eighteenth century; born at Lasko. He was the builder of the synagogue at Lutomierz...
Benjamin B Ihi JE A Babylonian scholar of the second and third amoraic generations (third century); brother of Abbahu b. Ihi, the disciple of...
Benjamin B Isaac Of Carcassonne JE This scholar is known only by his translation from Latin into Hebrew, under the title of "'Ezer Eloah" (Divine Help),...
Benjamin B Japhet JE A Palestinian scholar of the third amoraic generation (third century), disciple of R. Johanan and senior to R. Zeïra...
Benjamin B Jehiel Ha-levi JE Polish Talmudist; lived at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Gib'at Benjamin" (Benjamin&#39...
Benjamin Ben Joab JE Payyeṭan; lived at Montalcino in the fourteenth century. His printed poems are: (1) A metrical introduction to the "Nishmat"...
Benjamin B Judah Loeb Cohen JE ...
Judah Philip Benjamin JE American statesman and lawyer; born at St. Croix, West Indies, in 1811; died in Paris, May 6, 1884. His parents were English...
Benjamin B Judah Of Rome JE ...
R Benjamin B Levi JE A Palestinian amora of the fourth century (third or fourth generation), junior contemporary of R. Ammi and R. Isaac (Yer....
Benjamin B Mattithiah JE Author of a large collection of responsa; flourished in Turkey in the first half of the sixteenth century. His occupation...
Benjamin Ben MeÏr JE Polish Talmudist and preacher; lived at Brody, Galicia, in the first half of the nineteenth century. He wrote "Imre Binyamin"...
Benjamin B MeÏr Ha-levi Of Nuremberg JE Rabbi at Salonica at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Although German by birth, being a descendant of Jacob Molin,...
Michael Henry Benjamin JE South African politician; born in London in 1822; died June 11, 1879.Early in life Benjamin went to Cape Colony (about the...
Moses Benjamin JE Beni-Israel military officer; born in 1830; died at Bombay in December, 1897. The son of a subedar (captain), he joined the...
Benjamin Ben Moses JE Italian scholar; lived at Rome at the beginning of the fifteenth century. He took an active part in the administration of...
Benjamin Ben Moses Nahawendi JE Karaite scholar and philosopher; flourished at Nahawend, Persia, at the end of the eighth century and the beginning of the...
Jerusalem Benjamin Nabon JE ...
Benjamin 'ozer B MeÏr JE Polish Talmudist; died at Zolkiev May 25, 1810. He was rabbi in Clementow, and afterward head of the yeshibah at Zolkiev....
Benjamin Salonica JE ...
Samuel Benjamin JE French soldier in the Carlist expedition against Madrid in 1837; distinguished for bravery and remarkable devotion to Boulan...
Benjamin B Samuel Of Coutances JE Talmudist and French liturgical poet of the first half of the eleventh century. The name of the place of his residence, Coutances...
Benjamin The Shepherd JE A shepherd who lived in Babylonia at the beginning of the third century. The Talmud has transmitted the formula of a blessing...
Simeon Benjamin JE English Hebrew grammarian, who published in 1773 at London "Da'at Ḳedoshim" (Knowledge of the Holy), a short Hebrew...
Benjamin Of Tiberias JE A rich Jew who, when the emperor Heraclius in 628 went to Jerusalem during the Persian war, was accused of hostility toward...
Benjamin Of Tudela JE A celebrated traveler of the twelfth century. Beyond his journey, no facts of his life are known. In the preface to his itinerary...
William Benjamin JE English pugilist; born at Northleach, Gloucestershire, England, in 1826. Benjamin's first match was with Tom Sayers, the...
Benjamin Wolf B Aaron JE ...
Wolf B Daniel Benjamin JE Rabbi in Chomsk, government of Grodno, Russia. He published "Naḥlat Binyamin" (Benjamin's Inheritance), festival...
Benjamin Wolf Eleazar JE ...
Benjamin Wolf Ben Isaac Levi JE Cabalist; lived at Leitmeritz, Bohemia, in the middle of the seventeenth century. He is the author of a work, "Amarot Tehorot"...
Benjamin Wolf Rapoport JE ...
Benjamin Wolf Ben Ẓebi Hirsch JE Judæo-German writer; lived in the eighteenth century in Germany. He was the author of "Sefer ha-Ḥesheḳ" (Book...
Benjamin Yerushalmi JE Exile from Jerusalem who lived at Bordeaux; said to have been one of the authors of Wehu Raḥum, recited in the morning...
Benjamin Ha-zẠddik JE A philanthropist of the tannaitic period. According to a Baraita, he was manager of certain charitable funds. Once there appeared...
Benjamin Ze'eb B Samuel Romaner JE ...
Benjamin Ze'eb Of Slonim JE Russian Talmudist; lived at the end of the eighteenth century; reputed pupil of Elijah b. Solomon of Wilna, and of the latter&#39...
Benjamin Ze'eb Wolf Ben Shabbethai JE Dayyan at Pinczow in the latter half of the seventeenth and at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He edited the Shul&#7717...
Benjamin Ben Zerah JE Payyeṭan; lived in southeastern Europe in the middle of the eleventh century. He is called by the later payye&#7789...
Louis Benloew JE French philologist; born at Erfurt Nov. 15, 1818; died at Dijon February, 1900. He studied at the universities of Berlin,...
Nathan Lazarus Benmohel JE The first conforming Jew obtaining a degree in a British university; born at Hamburg about 1800; died in 1869. He settled...
Henry Bennett JE Sergeant in the British army; born in England 1863; killed in action during the war with the Afridis, November, 1897. He was...
Solomon Bennett JE English theologian and engraver; born in Russia before 1780; died after 1841. He wrote a considerable number of works on Biblical...
Joseph Benoliel JE Portuguese translator; lived at Lisbon. He wrote the small book, "Porat Yosef" (Joseph's Fruitful Bough; see Gen. xlix...
Don Judah Benoliel JE Moroccan and Austrian consul at Gibraltar; president of the Jewish community there, and of the chamber of commerce; died in...
Benschen JE A Judæo-German word meaning either to say a blessing or to bless a person. It is derived from the Latin "benedicere"...
Simon Bensheim JE Member of the grandducal Oberrat (Upper House) of Baden; born at Mannheim Oct. 14, 1823; died there Oct. 26, 1898. Extremely...
Herbert Bentwich JE English lawyer and communal worker; born in London 1856; educated at University College and the University of London (LL.B...
Benveniste JE The name of an old, rich, and scholarly family of Narbonne, the numerous branches of which were found all over Spain and the...
Benveniste Ben Hiyyah Ben Aldayyan JE Physician and religious poet of the thirteenth century. Zunz mentions three metrical "baḳḳashahs" (supplications)...
Benveniste Ben Jacob JE One of the officers of the society Biḳḳur Ḥolim of the Spanish synagogue in Venice toward the end of the...
Benveniste B Labi JE A Jewish Mæcenas; son of "Prince" Solomon ibn Labi de la Caballeria; lived at Saragossa, later at Alcañiz, where...
Benveniste De Porta JE Bailie ("bayle") of Barcelona, Spain, and brother of Naḥmanides (whose secular name was Bon Astruc de Porta; see Gr&#228...
Benedix Benzion JE Russian physician and missionary to the Jews; born in a small town in the government of Kiev, Russia, in 1839. He spent several...
Benjamin Ze'eb Wolf Ben Jacob Ha-levi Benzion JE Talmudist; lived probably in Galicia in the middle of the eighteenth century. He was the author of "'Et Raẓon" (Time...
Samuel Benzion JE ...
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Beor JE 1. Father of Bela, king of Edon (Gen. xxxvi. 32; I Chron. i. 43). 2. Father of Balaam (Num. xxii. 5; xxiv. 3, 15; xxxi. 8...
Bequest JE A gift of personal property in a last will and testament. Modern English law and American law distinguish between a bequest...
Bera JE King of Sodom; one of the five kings constituting the confederacy under Amraphel (Gen. xiv. 2). Ber. Rabbah 42 playfully interprets...
[[Jacob [b Moses?] Berab]] JE Talmudist and rabbi; born at Moqueda near Toledo, Spain, in 1474; died at Safed April 3, 1546. He was a pupil of Isaac Aboab...
Berachah JE 1. A Benjamite who came to David and joined his forces at Ziklag (I Chron. xii. 3). 2. A valley where Jehoshaphat and his...
"the Hero" Berachah JE A Polish Jewish soldier who was killed in the battle near Moscow, in the Polish war against Russia in 1610. He was the son...
Berah Dodi JE Three piyyuṭim forming the Ge'ullah in the morning service of the first two days of Passover, and of Saturday between...
Berakah JE ...
Berakot JE The name of the first treatise of Seder Zeraim, the first Order of the Talmud. By the term "Berakot" a special form of prayer...
Jonah Borisovich Berchin JE Writer on early Russian-Jewish history; born at Krichev, government of Mohilev, 1865; died at Moscow Aug., 1889. Up to the...
Berdyansk JE District town and seaport in the government of Taurida Crimea, Russia, on the northwestern coast of the Sea of Azof, at the...
Berdychev JE A city in the government of Kiev, Russia; in historical and ethnographical relations part of Volhynia. It has one of the largest...
Berdyczew JE ...
Micah Joseph Berdyczewski JE Hebrew author; born in 1865. He represents, to some extent, the Nietzsche school of philosophy in the Hebrew literature of...
Berea JE Place where Bacchides encamped (I Macc. ix. 4). From the context it would seem to be near Jerusalem, though some scholars...
Berebi JE Title of learning in the period of the Tannaim, conferred especially upon scholars who were the sons of scholars, or upon...
R Berechiah I JE A Palestinian scholar of the second amoraic generation (third century), always cited without the accompaniment of patronymic...
R Berechiah Ii JE A Palestinian amora, of the fourth century. In the Talmud he is invariably cited by his prænomen alone; but in the Midrashim...
Berechiah Berak B Eliakim Goetzel JE A grandson of Berechiah b. Isaac; rabbi and preacher of Klementow, Poland, and Jaworow, Galicia; lived toward the end of the...
Berechiah Berak B Isaac Eisik JE Galician preacher; died in 1664 at Constantinople. He was educated by Nathan Shapira, rabbi of Cracow, and was appointed preacher...
Berechiah Ben Isaac Gerundi JE Payyeṭan; lived in the twelfth century, probably at Lunel. Although he wrote nothing on the Halakah, his brother Zerahiah...
Berechiah Ben Natronaikrespia Ha-nakdan JE Fabulist, exegete, ethical writer, grammarian, and translator; probably identical with Benedictus le Puncteur, an English...
Berechiah De Nicole JE English Tosafist; died after 1256. He was of the well-known Hagin family, and son of Rabbi Moses ben Yom-Ṭob of London...
Bered JE A son of Ephraim (I Chron. vii. 20). In the genealogy of Num. xxvi. 35 his place is taken by Becher. It may be that Bered...
Joselovich Berek JE Polish colonel under Kosciusko and Napoleon I.; born at Kretingen, government of Kovno, Russia, in the second half of the...
Martin Berendson JE German publisher; born at Hamburg in 1824; died June 24, 1899. He was the head of the well-known bookselling and publishing...
Gottlieb Michael Berendt JE German geologist; born in Berlin Jan. 4, 1836. He studied the science of mining; and in his work, "Die Diluvialablagerungen...
Berenger Of Narbonne JE Viscount of Narbonne in the eleventh century. In the midst of the important wars of that century waged for the assertion of...
Berenice JE City of the Cyrenaic Pentapolis, at the eastern extremity of the great Syrtis, near the river Lathon. The settlement of the...
Berenice JE Daughter of Costobar and Salome, sister of Herod I. Her marriage with her cousin Aristobulus was unhappy. The husband, being...
Berenice JE Daughter of Herod Agrippa I. and of Cypros, the daughter of Phasael; born in 28. She was first married to Marcus, son of the...
Bernhard Berenson JE Art critic and historian; born at Wilna, Russia, June 26, 1865. He was educated in America, and in 1887 was graduated at Harvard...
Issachar Baer B Samuel Berenstein JE Dutch rabbi; born in Leeuwarden, Holland, 1808; died in The Hague Dec. 13, 1893. He was the son of Rabbi Samuel b. Berish...
Samuel Ben Berish Berenstein JE Dutch rabbi; born in Hanover about 1767; died in Amsterdam Dec. 21, 1838. He was the descendant of a long line of distinguished...
Bererah JE The concept "Bererah," known to the later Babylonian Amoraim, is a development of the law of joint property, and, just as...
Bereshit JE ...
Bereshit Rabbah JE Expository Midrash to the first book of the Pentateuch, assigned by tradition to the amora Hoshaiah, commonly Osha'yah...
Bereza JE Town in the district of Pruszhany, government of Grodno, Russia; situated on the river Jazelda, on the road between Brest-Litovsk...
Berezino JE Village of Russia, in the government of Minsk, having a population (1898) of 1,900, almost exclusively Jews (1,824). About...
Berg JE An independent duchy until 1815; at present part of the Prussian Rhine province. Jews settled here at an early period. In...
Bergamo JE City in northern Italy. Here, as in other cities subject to the government of the Venetian republic, the right of residence...
Joseph Bergel JE Neo-Hebraic writer of the first part of the nineteenth century. He was a private teacher at Prossnitz, Moravia. In 1826 and...
Joseph Bergel JE Judæo-German writer, probably of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Ein Schön Göttlich Lied," a...
Joseph Bergel (bergl) JE Hungarian physician and author; born Sept. 2, 1802, at Prossnitz, died 1885 at Kaposvar. He was well versed in rabbinical...
Yom-Ṭob Bergel JE Merchant and communal worker of Gibraltar; born in 1812; died at Gibraltar Oct. 14, 1894. He was one of the wealthiest and...
Emile De Berger JE Austrian oculist and medical author; born at Vienna Aug. 1, 1855. He received his education at the University of Vienna.From...
Ernst Berger JE Austrian painter; brother of the oculist Baron Emile Berger; born at Vienna Jan. 3, 1857; educated at the gymnasium, the commercial...
Oscar Berger JE German electrotherapist and medical author; born at Münsterberg, Silesia, Nov. 24, 1844; died at Ober-Salzbrunn, Silesia...
Philippe BergÈr JE Christian professor of Hebrew; member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; born at Beaucourt, Haut-Rhin...
Samuel BergÈr JE French professor of Protestant theology; secretary and librarian of the Faculté de Théologie Protestante, Paris...
Michael Bergson JE Musician; born in Warsaw 1818; died at London March 9, 1898. He was a member of an eminent Jewish family of Warsaw, with which...
Jonas Bergtheil JE Pioneer of Natal, South Africa; born in England about 1815; died 1902; emigrated to South Africa about 1844, at a time when...
Beriah JE A son of Asher, representing, however, not an individual, but a clan (Gen. xlvi. 17; Num. xxvi. 44, 46). A member of the clan...
Beriah JE Cabalistic expression for the second of the four celestial worlds of the Cabala, intermediate between the World of Emanation...
Berit Milah JE ...
Berkamani JE Physician and author; lived probably in the first half of the thirteenth century, and wrote for an emir (Manṣur?) a...
Josselewicz Berko JE ...
Lajos Berkovits JE Hungarian violinist; born at Budapest in 1874. Here he passed through the schools and finished his musical education. He was...
Josef Berkowicz JE Officer in the Polish army; son of Colonel Berek (Berko). He took part in the battle of Kock, in 1809, in which his father...
Benzion Judah Ben Eliahu Berkowitz JE Russian Hebrew scholar; born July 23, 1803; died at Wilna May 11, 1879. He is the author of the following works devoted to...
Henry Berkowitz JE Russian-English educator; born at Warsaw in 1816; died in Gravesend April 5, 1891. He came to London in 1841, and attracting...
Henry Berkowitz JE American rabbi; born at Pittsburg, Pa., March 18, 1857. He was educated at the Central High School of his native city, at...
Anton (aron Wolf) Berlijn JE Conductor and composer; born at Amsterdam May 21, 1817; died there Jan. 16, 1870. He wrote nine operas, seven ballets, an...
Berlin JE Capital of Prussia and of the German empire. Though mentioned as early as the year 1225, it was an unimportant place during...
Berlin Congress JE A meeting of the great European powers at Berlin between June 13 and July 13, 1878, to settle questions arising out of the...
Abraham Berlin JE ...
Aryeh LÖb Ben Abraham MeÏr Berlin JE German rabbi; born 1738 at Fürth, Bavaria; died at Cassel May 21, 1814. When quite young Berlin was dayyan in his native...
David B (judah) Loeb Berlin JE Rabbi of the three united congregations, Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbeck; born probably at Eisenstadt, Hungary, in the second...
Fanny Berlin JE ...
Isaiah B (judah) Loeb Berlin JE The most eminent critic among the German Talmudists of the eighteenth century; born in Eisenstadt, Hungary, about October...
Jacob Berlin JE German Talmudist; born 1707, probably at Berlin; died 1749 at Fürth, Bavaria. He was a pupil of Jacob ha-Kohen, author...
Leo Berlin JE Russian lawyer; son of Moses Berlin; born at Vitebsk Nov. 22, 1854; received his education (1862-72) at a private school in...
Moses (moisei Josifovich) Berlin JE Scholar, communal worker, and government official; born at Shklov, Russia, 1821; died in St. Petersburg March 25, 1888. He...
Nahman Ben Simhah Berlin JE A polemical writer against reform; lived at Lissa, Germany, at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth...
Naphtali Ẓebi Judah Berlin JE Head of the yeshibah of Volozhin, Russia; born at Mir, in the government of Minsk, in 1817; died at Warsaw Aug. 10, 1893....
Noah Hayyim Ẓebi Hirsch B Abraham Meïr Berlin JE German Talmudist and rabbi; born at Fürth 1737; died at Altona March 5, 1802. He was the son of a well-to-do and learned...
Rudolf Berlin JE German ophthalmologist; born May 2, 1833, at Friedland, Mecklenburg-Strelitz; died at Rostock Sept. 12, 1897. He received...
Samuel Berlin JE German jurist; born at Bamberg Oct 11, 1807; died at Fürth Dec. 21, 1896. He was a son of Löb Berlin, of Bamberg...
Saul Berlin JE German Talmudist, and one of the most learned Jews of the Mendelssohnian period; born (at Glogau?) 1740; died in London Nov...
Abraham (adolf) Berliner JE German theologian; historian; born in Obersitzko, province of Posen, Prussia, May 2, 1833; received his first education under...
Emil Berliner JE American inventor; born in Hanover, Germany May 20, 1851. He was educated at the public schools of his native place and at...
Jekuthiel Berman JE Russian-Hebrew novelist; born in 1825; died in Moscow about 1889. He held for over thirty years a responsible position in...
Adolf Bermann JE Hungarian writer; born at Presburg in 1867. After completing the study of law he became an employee of the Hungarian Credit...
Issachar Ha-levi Bermann JE Philanthropist; born at Halberstadt Nisan 24, 1661; died there Tammuz 24, 1730; son of Judah Lehmann. At an early age he displayed...
Moriz Bermann JE Austrian author; born at Vienna March 16, 1823; died there June 12, 1895. Bermann, who came of a family of publishers, was...
Bern JE Capital of the Swiss Confederation. Jews resided within its territory as early as the sixth century, but the first documentary...
Maximilian Bern JE German author; born at Kherson, South Russia, Nov. 18, 1849, where his father practised medicine. On the latter's death...
Olga Bern JE Austrian author; wife of Maximilian Bern; born at Vienna July 5, 1865. She went on the stage under her own name, Wohlbr&#252...
Abraham NuÑez Bernal JE Spanish martyr; burned at the stake by the Inquisition of Cordova May 3, 1655. His martyrdom is celebrated in a work published...
Isaac (marcus) De Almeyda Bernal JE Spanish martyr; born in Montilla 1633; burned at the stake in St. Iago de Compostella(Galicia, Spain), in the month of March...
Maestro Bernal JE A Marano, ship-physician on the first voyage of Columbus to America. He had lived in Tortosa and had undergone public penance...
Ralph Bernal JE Politician and art-collector; died in 1854. His ancestors were of Spanish-Jewish origin. His father was Jacob Israel Bernal...
Abraham Bernard JE Russian physician; born in 1762. He studied at London in 1789; practised medicine in Hasenpoth, Courland, Russia; became district...
Bernard Of Clairvaux JE Church father; born 1091, near Dijon, France; died at Clairvaux Aug. 20, 1153. He was originally a monk of the Cistercian...
Bernard JE German poetess and authoress; born at Breslau, Silesia, about 1770; died about 1814. On her mother's side Bernard was...
Bernard Of Gordon JE Christian physician; born probably at Gordon in Guienne, department of Lot, France; professor of medicine at Montpellier about...
Hermann Bernard JE Teacher of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge, England; born of Austrian parents at Uman, or Human, a small town in southern...
Bernardinus Of Feltre JE Franciscan friar; born at Feltre, Italy, in 1439; died Sept. 28, 1494. He was one of the bitterest enemies the Jews ever had...
Isaac Bernays JE Chief rabbi in Hamburg; born 1792 at Mayence; died May 1, 1849, in Hamburg. After having finished his studies at the University...
Jacob Bernays JE German philologist; born at Hamburg Sept. 18, 1824; died at Bonn May 26, 1881. He was the eldest son of the ḥakam Isaac...
Michael Bernays JE German historian of literature; born at Hamburg Nov. 27, 1834; died at Carlsruhe Feb. 25, 1897; son of Ḥakam and brother...
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Julius D Bernd JE American merchant and philanthropist; born in 1830; died at Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 30, 1892. Bernd was a successful business...
Simon Bernfeld JE German publicist and rabbi; born in Stanislau, Galicia, Jan. 6, 1860. His father, who was a good rabbinical scholar and also...
Martin Bernhardt JE German neuropath and medical author; born at Potsdam April 10, 1844. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native place...
Sarah (rosine Bernard) Bernhardt JE French actress; born at Paris Oct. 22, 1844, of Dutch Jewish parentage. She was received into the Roman Catholic Church at...
Gottfried Bernhardy JE German philologist and historian of literature; born at Landsberg in the Neumark, province of Brandenburg, March 20, 1800...
Abram C Bernheim JE American lawyer; born at New York city Feb. 1, 1866; died there July 24, 1895. Bernheim was educated in public schools of...
Ernst Bernheim JE German historian; born at Hamburg Feb. 19, 1850. On completing his elementary and preparatory studies, he attended the universities...
Hippolyte Bernheim JE French physician and neurologist; born at Mülhausen, Alsace. He received his education in his native town and at the...
Solomon Bernich JE Scholar, poet, and adventurer of doubtful origin, who appeared in Holland about 1670 and attracted much attention. He spoke...
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Leopold Bernard Bernstamm JE Russian sculptor; born at Riga April 20, 1859. At the age of thirteen he entered the studio of Prof. D. Jensen at Riga, and...
Aaron (david) Bernstein JE German publicist, scientist, and reformer; born April 6, 1812, in Danzig; died Feb. 12, 1884, in Berlin. His was one of the...
BÉla Bernstein JE Hungarian rabbi and author; born in Várpalota, Hungary, 1868; was graduated as Ph.D. at Leipsic, 1890, and as rabbi at...
Bernard Bernstein JE Actor; born at Warsaw in 1861. He sang in the chorus of the Polish opera of that city, and appeared there as a comedian (1882)...
Eduard Bernstein JE Socialist leader, editor, and author; born in Berlin 1850. Beginning life as a clerk in a bank, Bernstein's mind became...
Elsa Bernstein JE German dramatist; daughter of Heinrich Porges, the friend of Richard Wagner; born at Vienna; educated at Munich; and, for...
Hermann Bernstein JE Russian-American writer; born Sept. 20, 1876, at Shirwindt, Russia. When he was seven years of age his parents moved to Mohilev...
Hirsch Bernstein JE Russian-American editor and publisher; born in Vladislavov (Neustadt-Schirvint), government of Suvalki, near the Prussian...
Hugo Karl Bernstein JE Hungarian dramatist; born in Budapest 1808; died at Milan 1877. He began the study of medicine, but lacking means sufficient...
Ignacy Bernstein JE Polish bibliophile and writer on proverbs; born at Vinnitza, government of Podolia, Jan. 30, 1836, where his father Samson...
Ignati Abramovich Bernstein JE Russian railroad engineer; born in Kremenetz, government of Volhynia, 1846; killed July 5, 1900, on the steamship "Odessa...
Israel Bernstein JE Russian Hebrew publicist; born about the middle of the nineteenth century at Velizh, government of Vitebsk; studied pharmacy...
Joseph ("joe") Bernstein JE American pugilist; born in November, 1877, in New York city. He first appeared in the ring in 1894, during which year he gained...
Joseph Bernstein JE Polish physician; born at Warsaw in 1797; died there in 1853. After graduating from the Warsaw Lyceum in 1815, hestudied medicine...
Julius Bernstein JE German physiologist and medical writer; born at Berlin Dec. 8, 1839; son of Aaron Bernstein (1822-84). He studied at the University...
Karl Ilyich Bernstein JE Russian jurist, professor of Roman law; born at Odessa Jan. 13, 1842; died at Berlin in 1894. He belongs, on the maternal...
Max Bernstein JE German author; born May 13, 1854, at Fürth, Bavaria; now (1902) practising law at Munich. His literary activity is directed...
Naphtali Herz Bernstein JE Author; lived in Russia about the first half of the nineteenth century. Being engaged in business, he devoted his leisure...
Nathan Osipovich Bernstein JE Russian physiologist; born at Brody, Galicia, in 1836; died in Odessa Feb. 9, 1891. He received his first education from his...
Leopold Bernstein-sinaieff JE Russo-French sculptor; born at Wilna Nov. 22, 1868. He studied drawing in his native town, and at the age of fourteen settled...
Bernstorff, Christian GÜnther, Count Of JE Danish and Prussian statesman; born April 3, 1769, in Copenhagen; died March 28, 1835. As early as 1787 he entered the diplomatic...
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BerŒa JE Identified with the modern Haleb or Aleppo, the scene of the death of Menelaus, who was killed by being smothered in ashes...
Berothah (berothai) JE A city of Hadadezer, from which David obtained much brass subsequently used by Solomon in making the brazen sea, pillars,...
Emile Berr JE French journalist; born at Lunéville, France, June 6, 1855. Having finished his classical studies at the Lyceum of Vanves...
George Berr JE French actor and dramatist; born at Paris July 31, 1867; brother of Emile Berr. He was educated at the lyceums of Vanves and...
Berr Isaac Berr Of Turique JE French manufacturer; born at Nancy in 1744; died at Turique, near Nancy, Nov. 5, 1828. He came of a rich and estimable family...
Michel Berr JE The first Jew to practise in France as a barrister; born at Nancy 1780; diedthere July 4, 1843. His father, Isaac Berr de...
Joseph Isaac Berruyer JE French Jesuit; born at Rouen Nov. 7, 1681; died at Paris Feb. 1758. He was the author of a work entitled "Histoire du Peuple...
Bershad JE Town in the district of Olgopol, province of Podolia, Russia, on the road between Olgopol and Balta, at the rivers Dakhna...
Sergei Aleksandrovich Bershadski JE Russian historian and jurist; born at Berdyansk March 30, 1850; died in St. Petersburg 1896. He graduated from the Gymnasium...
Isaiah Bershadsky JE Russian novelist; born in Saimoscha, near Slonim, government of Grodno, 1874; now a teacher in Yekaterinoslav. Bershadsky...
Mathias Bersohn JE Polish bibliographer, archeologist, and writer on fine arts; born at Warsaw 1826. He is the owner of a choice library which...
Bernard Bertensohn JE Russian teacher and translator; born at Odessa at the end of the eighteenth century; died there 1859. He received a careful...
Joseph Vasilievich Bertensohn JE Russian court-physician; born at Nikolaiev, government of Kherson, in 1835. He received his early education at the gymnasium...
Lev Bernardovich Bertensohn JE Russian physician; born at Odessa Aug. 10, 1850; son of Bernard and nephew of Joseph Bertensohn. He graduated in 1867 from...
Vasili Alekseyevich Bertensohn JE Russian agriculturist; born in Odessa Sept. 12, 1860. He belongs to the hereditary nobility, his father, Dr. Aleksei Vasilievich...
Ernest Bertheau JE Biblical and Oriental scholar; born Nov. 23, 1812, in Hamburg; died May 17, 1888, in Göttingen. In 1843 he was appointed...
Berthold Of Regensburg JE Monk and itinerant preacher; born about 1220; died in Regensburg (Ratisbon) Dec. 14, 1272. This most celebrated popular preacher...
Obadiah (yareh) B Abraham Bertinoro JE Celebrated rabbi and commentator on the Mishnah; lived in the second half of the fifteenth century in Italy; died in Jerusalem...
AbbÉ Bertolio JE French cleric; member of the Commune of Paris in 1790. The National Assembly conferred citizenship upon the Jews of Bordeaux...
Corneille Bonaventure Bertram JE Protestant clergyman and Hebraist; born at Thouars, France, in 1531; died at Lausanne, Switzerland, 1594. He studied at Poitiers...
Beruriah JE Daughter of the martyr R. Hananiah ben Teradion, and wife of R. Meïr; born in the first quarter of the second century...
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Beryl JE A stone, ranging in color from blue to pale yellow and found all over the world; three kinds are to be distinguished&#8212...
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Besalu JE City in Catalonia, Spain. Its small Jewish community had the same privileges as that of the neighboring Gerona, and was taxed...
BesanÇon JE City and county of France, in the department of Doubs. Although no mention is made of this city in Jewish sources, it is known...
Sir Walter Besant JE English writer; novelist; born at Porṭsmouth Aug. 14, 1836; educated at King's College, London, and at Christ&#39...
Beschau JE See Marriage Customs. This article is Rated: 3 ...
Beschreien JE A Judæo-German word for lauding a person or thing to such an extent as to cause him or it to be harmed by malevolent...
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Besor JE A wadi or river-bed where two hundred of the followers of David stopped while the rest of the force pursued the Amalekites...
Bessarabia JE Government in southwest Russia; separated by the Pruth and Danube from Rumania on the west, by the Dniester from Podolia and...
Emil Bessels JE German-American Arctic explorer and naturalist; born at Heidelberg June 2, 1847; died at Stuttgart March 30, 1888. At the...
Bet JE The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Its numerical value is two, wherefore the bet in the word (Gen. xxi. 12) is interpreted...
Bet Beltin JE A steep hill above the Euphrates, on which is built the modern town of Bir; lat. 37° 3' N., long. 38° E. Travelers...
Bet Din JE Rabbinical term for court-house or court. In view of the theocratic conception of the law, which pervades Biblical legislation...
Bet Hillel And Bet Shammai JE The "School (literally, "house") of Hillel" and the "School of Shammai" are names by which are designated the most famous...
Bet Ha-midrash JE High school; literally, "house of study," or place where the students of the Law gather to listen to the Midrash, the discourse...
Bet-talmud JE Hebrew monthly review, devoted to Talmudical and rabbinical studies and literature; founded in 1881 by Isaac Hirsch Weiss...
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Beth-anath JE A Canaanite city in the territory of Naphtali, the name of which contains, as one of its elements, the name of a god, Anath...
Beth-anoth JE City in the hills of Judah (Josh. xv. 59). It has been identified by both Conder and Buhl ("Geographie," p. 158) with the...
Beth-arabah JE A town situated, according to Josh. xv. 61, in the wilderness of Judah. It was a border-town between Judah and Benjamin, and...
Beth-aram JE A city east of the Jordan. The Talmud speaks of it as "Bethramta" (); Eusebius as "Bethramphta"; and Josephus as "Betharamatha...
Beth-arbel JE Mentioned only once (Hosea x. 14) as a city destroyed by Shalman. Opinions vary both as to the location of the place and as...
Beth-aven JE A city on the border of Benjamin in the wilderness (Josh. xviii. 12), east of Bethel (Josh. vii. 2) and west of Michmash (I...
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Beth-dagon JE The name of several places apparently in ancient Palestine. The second element is the name of the Philistine god Dagon. In...
Beth-diblathaim JE City of Moab (Jer. xlviii. 22) identical with Almon diblataim.J. Jr. G. B. L. ...
Beth-el JE A city famous for its shrine, on the boundary between Ephraim and Judea—the site of the present little village of B&#234...
Beth-emek JE A town on the border between Asher and Zebulun, belonging to the latter (Josh. xix. 27). It lay to the east of Acco; but its...
Beth Gubrin JE Name of a city mentioned in the Talmud and in the Midrash (Neubauer, "G. T." pp. 122 et seq.), called "Betogaboa" by Ptolemy...
Beth-haccerem JE According to Neh. iii. 14, a Judean city; described in Jer. vi. 1 as a high place visible at a great distance. Jerome (on...
David De Beth-hillel JE Beni-Israel; author of a book of "Travels," Madras, 1832, the first work by a Jew published in India. He describes his travels...
Beth-horon JE Name of two villages at the western end of the Ephraimitc mountains, called respectively "upper Beth-horon" (Josh. xvi. 5)...
Beth-jaazek JE According to the Mishnah (R. H. ii. 4), a large court in which the Sanhedrin awaited the announcement of the new moon. The...
Beth-jeshimoth JE Town in the district east of the Jordan, allotted to the tribe of Reuben according to Num. xxxiii. 49 and Josh. xii. 3, xiii...
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Beth-lehem-judah JE The modern Bait Laḥm, situated about 5 miles south of Jerusalem, some 15 minutes' walk east of the road to Hebron...
Beth-peor JE A place in the valley of the Jordan which, in Josh. xiii. 20, is apportioned to the Reubenites. In Deuteronomy (iii. 29, iv...
Beth-rehob JE An Aramaic city which sent reenforcements to the Ammonites during the war with David (II Sam. x. 6, 8; compareI Sam. 14, 47...
Beth-shan JE Fortified town of Canaan. The Baisân of to-day, in the lower part of the Jalûd chasm, 120 meters below the level...
Beth-she'arim JE According to rabbinic accounts, the Sanhedrin was destined to pass through ten exiles during the period 30-170, and to be...
Beth-shemesh JE A city of the hill-country between Judea and the coast on the southern side of Wadi Sarâar, called to-day 'Ain Shems...
Beth-shittah JE A place near Abel-meholah. To it the Midianites fled when pursued by Gideon (Judges vii. 22). The name occurs only here; the...
Beth-zur JE A city in southern Judea (Josh. xv. 58, I Chron. ii. 45; Neh. iii. 16) which was fortified by Rehoboam, (II Chron. xi. 7)...
Bethabara JE An unidentified place mentioned in John i. 28. According to Origen's reading, the name is brought into connection with...
Bethany JE A place referred to in the Gospels, and probably also in the Talmud, under the forms , and , but not mentioned in the Old...
Bethar JE City in Palestine, scene of the war of Bar Kokba (132-135), and mentioned as such in Mishnah Ta'anit iv. 6; Yer. Ta&#39...
Bethel JE An Italian-Jewish family, several members of which are known as liturgical poets and copyists. According to a family tradition...
Bethesda JE A pool in Jerusalem. According to John v. 2—the only passage wherein it is mentioned—it was "by the sheep market...
Bethphage JE Town mentioned in several passages of the New Testament (Matt. xxi. 1; Mark xi. 1; Luke xix. 29), in all of which it is brought...
Bethsaida JE A town in northern Palestine not mentioned in the Old Testament, but referred to in the Gospels, and by Josephus, Pliny, and...
Bethuel JE 1. According to Gen. xxii. 22, a descendant of Arphaxad (compare Gen. xi. 13-22). He was the son of Nahor and Milcah, and...
Bethulia JE Name of the city which, according to the Book of Judith, was besieged by Holofernes; the home of Judith. In the shorter version...
Betrothal JE The term "betrothal" in Jewish law must not be understood in its modern sense; that is, the agreement of a man and a woman...
Bettelheim JE Name of a Hungarian family. The first bearer of it is said to have lived toward the second half of the eighteenth century...
Betting JE The mutual agreement of two parties as to gain and loss upon a certain contingency. It seems to have been unknown in Biblical...
Paulina Beturia JE Roman proselyte to Judaism (about the year 50), known under the name "Sarah," who, according to her Latin epitaph, was eighty-six...
Beugnot, Auguste Arthur, Count JE French statesman and scholar; born at Bar-sur-Aube March, 1797; died at Paris March 15, 1865. Originally he adopted the profession...
Beuthen JE City of Prussian Silesia. No precise information is forthcoming as to when Jews first settled in the city. The mention of...
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Bevis Marks Synagogue JE The oldest Jewish house of worship in London; established by the Sephardic Jews in 1698, when Rabbi David Nieto took spiritual...
BeẒah JE Name of a Talmudic treatise of Seder Mo'ed, the second of the six "sedarim" or orders of the Talmud. Its place in the...
Bezai JE A family, 324 of whose members returned with Zerubbabel (Ezra ii. 17, and the parallel account, Neh. vii. 23). The name also...
Bezalel JE In Ex. xxxi. 1-6, the chief architect of the Tabernacle. Elsewhere in the Bible the name occurs only in the genealogical lists...
Bezalel JE Palestinian amora of the fourth century, who is known in Midrashic literature only as the author of haggadistic sentences...
Bezalel B Joseph (yosel) JE Russian Talmudist and rabbi at Orlo, government of Grodno, at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He is the author of...
Bezalel B Judah Ha-levi Of Zolkiev JE Polish Talmudist of the second half of the eighteenth century. He wrote a commentary to the sayings of the fathers (Frankfort-on-the-Oder...
Bezalel B Moses Ha-kohen JE Talmudist; born at Wilna, Russia, Jan. 14, 1820, where he died April 13, 1878. He was a competent Talmudist at the age of...
Bezalel Ben Solomon Of Kobryn JE Preacher at Slutzk, government of Minsk, Russia; later at Boskowitz, Moravia; died before 1659. He was the author of the following...
Bezek JE 1. The scene of battle between the tribes of Judah and Simeon, and the Canaanites and Perizzites (Judges i. 4-6). 2. Place...
Bezer JE A city of refuge in the territory of Reuben (Deut. iv. 43; Josh. xx. 8). It was also one of the cities allotted the Levites...
Bezetha JE According to Josephus, the name of a hill north of the Temple-mound, and separated from the latter by a valley. After the...
BÉziers JE Town of France in the department of Hérault. The date of the settlement of the Jews in Béziers is lost in antiquity...
Samuel Bapuji Bhorupkar JE Beni-Israel soldier; born near Bombay, India, about 1790. He entered the Fourth Bombay Regiment on Feb. 2, 1811. In 1813 he...
Alois Biach JE Austrian physician and medical writer; born in Lettowitz, Moravia, Austria, May 1, 1849. He was educated at the gymnasium...
Rudolf Bial JE Violinist, conductor, composer, and manager; born at Habelschwerdt, Silesia, Aug. 26, 1834; died at New York Nov. 13, 1881...
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Ẓebi Hirsch Ben Naphtali Herz Bialeh JE Rabbi and Talmudist; born about 1670 at Lemberg, Galicia; died Sept. 25, 1748, at Halberstadt, Prussia. He conducted a Talmudic...
Christian Hermann Friedrich Bialloblotzky JE Jewish convert to Christianity; born April 9, 1799, at Pattensen, near Hanover; died March 28, 1868, at Ahlden-on the-Aller...
Lithuania Bialystok JE ...
Abraham Ben Shem-Ṭob Bibago JE Spanish religious philosopher and preacher; born at Saragossa; resided in 1446 at Huesca, and was still living in 1489. At...
Der Bibel'sche Orient JE A magazine of which only two numbers appeared (Munich, 1821), these being supposed to be edited by Isaac Bernays. Its object...
Dmitri Gavrilovich Bibikov JE Russian soldier, administrator, and statesman; born 1792; died 1870. In 1837 Bibikov was appointed military governor of Kiev...
Bible Canon JE The Greek word κανών, meaning primarily a straight rod, and derivatively a norm or law, was first...
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Bible Editions JE The advantages of the newly discovered art of printing were quickly recognized by the Jews. While for the synagogue service...
Bible Exegesis JE Israel has been called "the People of the Book"; it may as fitly be called "the people of Scripture exegesis," for exegesis...
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Bible Manuscripts JE By this term are designated handwritten copies and codices of the Hebrew Bible as a whole, or of several books arranged in...
Bible In Mohammedan Literature JE Through intercourse at Mecca, at Medina, and on his various journeys in the seething, germinant Arabia of his day, Mohammed...
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Bible Translations JE Jewish translations of the Old Testament were made from time to time by Jews, in order to satisfy the needs, both in public...
Bibleitzy (biblists) JE Name given to a body of religious reformers, organized in the spring of 1882 among the Jewish working classes of Elizabethgrad...
Biblical Ethnology JE The view of race-relationship expressed in the Bible. It is customary to designate the tenth chapter of Genesis as the oldest...
Bibliography JE The science that deals with the description and classification of books. As applied to books of Jewish interest, it includes...
Bibliomancy JE The use of the Bible for magic or superstitious purposes. The practise of employing sacred books, or words and verses thereof...
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Paris BibliothÈque Nationale JE National library of France, founded in 1354. The Hebrew manuscripts in this library have always stood at the head of the Oriental...
Jacob Samuel Bick JE Austrian author; born in the eighteenth century; died in Brody, 1831. He was a satirical writer of force and ability, and...
Gustav Wilhelm Hugo Bickell JE Christian Hebraist and professor in the University of Vienna; born July 7, 1838, at Cassel. After graduating at Marburg, where...
Bidkar JE A captain under Jehu, by whom he was ordered to cast the body of Jehoram into the field of Naboth (II Kings ix. 25).J. Jr...
Bidpai Fables In Hebrew JE ...
Oskar Bie JE German archeologist and professor at the Technische Hochschule at Charlottenburg, near Berlin; born at Breslau Feb. 9, 1864...
Michael Lazar Biedermann JE Austrian jeweler and merchant; born at Presburg, Hungary, Aug. 13, 1769; died at Vienna Aug. 24, 1843. When fifteen years...
Henry Biegeleisen JE Polish critic and author; born 1855 in Galicia. He studied at the universities of Lemberg, Munich, and Leipsic, receiving...
Biel (bienne) JE Town in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. It had Jewish inhabitants as early as the city of Bern itself. In 1305 a few Jewish...
Bielgoraj JE A district town in the government of Lublin, Russian Poland. According to the "Zuk ha-'Ittim," during the uprising of...
Bieltzy JE District town of the government of Bessarabia, Russia. At the census of 1897 the population was 18,526, including over ten...
Julius Bien JE American lithographer; son of Emanuel M., ḥazan, lecturer, and lithographer; born at Naumburg, near Cassel, Hesse-Nassau...
Lev Moiseievich Bienstok JE Russian writer, educationist, and communal worker; born April 6, 1836, at Lukachi, government of Volhynia; died Oct. 22, 1894...
Joachim Heinrich Biesenthal JE Theologian and author; born at Lobsens, Posen, 1800; died in Berlin, 1886. He was destined for the rabbinate; but while attending...
Bigamy JE According to Merrill's "Encyclopedia of Law," ii. 192, bigamy consists in "going through the ceremony of marriage with...
Bigthan JE A eunuch of Ahasuerus, who, with Teresh, conspired against the king (Esther ii. 21, vi. 2). The conspiracy was discovered...
MeÏr Ben Halifah Bikayim JE Cabalist; lived in Turkey in the eighteenth century. He is the author of the following works: (1) "Golel Or" (Who Evolved...
Bikhakhanim JE Reigning princess of the Taman peninsula, Crimea. She was married in 1419 to the Genoese Jew Simeone de Guizolfi, who through...
Bikkure Ha-'ittim JE An annual edited and published in Vienna, 1820-31, by S. J. Cohen. It first appeared as a supplement to the Hebrew calendar...
Bikkurim JE Name of the last treatise of Seder Zera'im. It treats of the way of carrying out the commandment concerning first-fruits...
Bikkurim JE A Hebrew annual that appeared in Vienna for two years (1864, 1865), Naphtali Keller being its editor and publisher. The greatest...
Bildad JE One of the three friends of Job (Job ii. 11). The meaning of the name is not clear; opinions of scholars vacillate between...
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Bilgah JE One of the twenty-four divisions of the priests who officiated in the Temple. According to I Chron. xxiv. 14, Bilgah is the...
Bilhah JE A locality in southern Judea (I Chron. iv. 29), evidently the same as "Balah" (, Josh. xix. 3) and "Ba'alah" (, Josh....
Bilhah JE Rachel's handmaid, given by Rachel as a concubine to Jacob, to whom, according to Gen. xxx. 3 (compare Gen. xxix. 29,...
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Bilshan JE One of the important men who came to Jerusalem from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezra ii 2; Neh. vii. 7). In I Esd. v. 8 he is...
Bina Ben David JE Cabalist, and rabbi at Lockacze, Poland, in the middle of the seventeenth century. Bina was the author of "Zer Zahab" (Crown...
Binding JE The art of fastening together sheets of paper, leaves of parchment, or folios, and of covering them with parchment, leather...
Binding And Loosing JE Rabbinical term for "forbidding and permitting." The expression "asar" (to bind herself by a bond) is used in the Bible (Num...
Abraham Bing JE German rabbi and Talmudist; born in 1752 at Frankfort-on-the-Main; died in 1841 at Würzburg, Bavaria, where he had been...
Albert Bing JE Austrian physician; born at Nikolsburg, Moravia, Sept. 20, 1844. He attended the gymnasium in his native city, and studied...
Meyer Hermann Bing JE Danish art publisher and manufacturer; born at Copenhagen June 4, 1807; died there Sept. 15, 1883. As a boy he was employed...
Solomon Bing JE German physician; son of Dr. Abraham Bing of Bingen, and son-in-law of the well-known physician and scholar Joseph Solomon...
Bingen JE City of Hesse, situated on the Rhine. Jews lived there from the earliest times, for they are mentioned by the traveler Benjamin...
Binnui JE 1. A Levite (Ezra viii. 33). 2. One of the Bene Pahath Moab who had taken foreign wives (Ezra x. 30). 3. One of the Bene Bani...
Birah JE ...
Felix Victor Birch-hirschfeld JE German pathologist and medical author; born at Kluvensiek, near Rendsburg, in the province of Holstein, Prussia, May 2, 1842...
Birds JE The general designation for winged animals is "'of" (, Hosea ix. 11; Isa. xvi. 2) or "'of kanaf" (, Gen. i. 21), "&#7827...
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Ala Birmingham JE Capital of Jefferson county, Alabama, founded in 1871. The first congregation, Emanu-El, was organized in 1882; the corner-stone...
England Birmingham JE Chief town of Warwickshire. The Jewish community consists (1902) of a population of about 4,000, having grown to this number...
New Birth JE Renewal of a man's nature by casting aside the impurity of sin which cleaves to him from his former life, thus turning...
Birthday JE There are no positive data in the Bible or in rabbinical literature concerning birthday festivals among the ancient Jews....
Birthright JE The right of possession into which the eldest son is born. The first son born to the father occupied a prominent place in...
Births JE The number of births among the Jewish populations of the world is generally found to vary from that of the surrounding population...
Birzhi JE District of Poniwiezh, government of Kovno. The population of 1,500 includes 600 Jews, the majority of whom are engaged in...
Johanna Bischitz De Heves JE Hungarian philanthropist; born in Tata in 1827; died in Budapest March 28, 1898; daughter of a porcelain manufacturer and...
Louis Raphael Bischoffsheim JE French banker and philanthropist; born in Mayence, Germany, in 1800; died in Paris, Nov. 14, 1873. His father's sudden...
Raphael Jonathan Bischoffsheim JE Belgian financier and philanthropist; born at Mayence in 1808; died at Brussels Feb. 6, 1883. He left his native town when...
Raphael Jonathan Bischoffsheim JE Belgian financier and philanthropist; born at Mayence in 1808; died at Brussels Feb. 6, 1883. He left his native town when...
Raphael (nathan) Bischoffsheim JE Merchant and prominent philanthropist; born at Bischofsheim-on-the-Tauber, 1773; died at Mayence Jan. 22, 1814. He went to...
Bischofsheim-on-the-tauber JE City in the district of Mosbach, Baden. At Landa and the neighboring Tauber-Bischofsheim seven prominent Jews were tortured...
Bisenz JE Town in Moravia, Austria. About the earliest history of its Jews nothing is known. Pesina, whose "Mars Moravicus" was published...
Nahman Ben Benjamin Cohen Ẓedek Bishka JE Russian Talmudist; lived in the second half of the eighteenth century. Together with his brother, Shabbetai Bishka, he wrote...
Bishop Of The Jews JE Title given to an official of the Jews in the Rhine country and in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. At Cologne...
Bisliches JE Editor of some valuable Hebrew works of medieval authors; born at Brody, Austria, at the end of the eighteenth century; died...
Prince Otto Eduard Leopold Bismarck JE Prussian statesman; born at Schönhausen April 1, 1815; died at Friedrichsruh July 30, 1898; member of the Prussian Diet...
Bisna, Bisinah, Bisni (bizna) JE Palestinian scholar of the fourth amoraic generation (fourth century); contemporary of Berechiah II., with whom he appears...
Kalman Kohn Bistritz JE Hungarian Neo-Hebraic poet; lived at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was the author of the Purim drama "Goral...
MeÏr Kohn Bistritz JE Hungarian Neo-Hebraic poet and author; born in Vag-Bistritz, Hungary, 1820; died in Vienna Sept. 7, 1892. He lived the greater...
Bithiah JE Daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered of the tribe of Judah married (I Chron. iv. 18). In the Midrash (Lev. R. § 1) she is...
Bithynia JE A province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus, and the Euxine. A Jewish colony...
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Bittern JE From an examination of the passages in which "ḳippod" occurs it would seem that a bird is meant by the word. In Isa...
Isaac Bittoon JE English pugilist, fencing master, and teacher of "the noble art of self-defense"; born in 1778; died in Feb., 1838. His first...
Bitumen JE A substance said (in Gen. xi. 3) to have been used for mortar. It belongs to the class of hydrocarbons, and is a resultant...
Biurists JE A class of exegetes of the school of Mendelssohn. Not content with giving a simple meaning, most of the Biblical commentators...
Biztha JE One of the seven eunuchs of Ahasuerus, who was commanded to bring Vashti to the king (Esther i. 10).J. Jr. G. B. L. ...
Black Death JE A violent pestilence which ravaged Europe between March, 1348, and the spring of 1351, and is said to have carried off nearly...
Piotr Blanc JE Polish financier of the eighteenth century; court banker under King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski (1764-95); date and place...
Maria Theresa Bland JE English actress and singer; born in 1769 of Italian-Jewish parents; died at London Jan. 15, 1838. When only four years old...
Isaac B Solomon Blaser JE Russian rabbi and educator; born in Wilna about 1840. Educated to be a rabbi, he is recognized as the foremost pupil of Israel...
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Blasphemy JE Evil or profane speaking of God. The essence of the crime consists in the impious purpose in using the words, and does not...
Fritz Blau JE Austrian chemist; born at Vienna April 5, 1865. He received his education at the gymnasium and university of his native city...
Heinrich Blau JE German journalist and playwright; born in Neu-Stettin, Pomerania, Sept. 21, 1858. He received his education at the Jewish...
Ludwig Blau JE Hungarian scholar and publicist; born April 29, 1861, at Putnok, Hungary; educated at three different yeshibot, among them...
David Blaustein JE Educator; born May 5, 1866, at Lida, near Wilna, Russia. He received his first education in Hebrew in the ḥeder and...
Ozer Blaustein JE Russian teacher, and writer in Russian and Judæo-German; born at Dünaburg in 1840; died in Warsaw April 27, 1899...
Benjamin Blayney JE English divine and Hebraist; born 1728; died Sept. 20, 1801. He was educated at Oxford, took the master's degree in 1735...
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Bleeding JE In accordance with the pathology of its epoch, the Talmud declares, "At the head of the list of human ailments stands plethora...
Friedrich Bleek JE Christian theologian; born July 4, 1793, at Ahrensböck, Holstein; died at Bonn in 1859. After a preparatory course at...
Philip Johann Bleibtreu JE Jewish convert to Christianity; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main in the middle of the seventeenth century; died there in 1702...
BleichrÖder, Gerson, Baron Von JE German banker; born Dec. 22, 1822; died Feb. 19, 1893, in Berlin. At the age of sixteen he entered the banking firm founded...
Blemish JE The Hebrew term for "blemish" ( or ) seems to have originally meant a "black spot" (compare Gesenius-Buhl, "Handwörterbuch...
David S Bles JE Communal worker at Manchester; born at The Hague, Holland, in 1834; died at Vienna on Oct. 14, 1899. He was senior partner...
Blessing Of Children JE In the domestic life of the ancient Hebrews the mutual respect existing between parents and children was a marked feature...
Blessing And Cursing JE The Hebrew verb for "bless" is "berek" (). Since in Assyrian and Minæan the corresponding verb appears to be "karabu...
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Priestly Blessing JE One of the most impressive and characteristic features of the service both in the Temple of Jerusalem and in the synagogue...
Blin D'elbŒuf JE French manufacturer who introduced into France woolen cloth for ladies' use. It was soon considered the best in Europe...
Blind, The, In Law And Literature JE The ancient nations regarded blindness as the lowest degradation that could be inflicted upon man; hence gouging out the eyes...
Ferdinand Blind-cohen JE German student who made an attempt on the life of Prince Bismarck May 7, 1866, and on the following day committed suicide...
Blindness JE Statistics, wherever obtainable, show that the proportion of blindness is greater among modern Jews than among their non-Jewish...
Ivan Stanislavovich Blioch (bloch) JE Russo-Polish financier, economist, and railway contractor; distinguished as an advocate of universal peace; born at Radom...
Jekuthiel Ben Isaac Blitz JE Corrector of the press in the Hebrew printing-office of Uri Phoebus at Amsterdam; lived there in the second half of the seventeenth...
AndrÉ Bloch JE French musician; son of a rabbi at Wissembourg, Alsace; born in that city in 1873. At the age of seven Bloch began to compose...
[[Bloch [issachar] Baer B Samson Hasid]] JE Austrian rabbi of the eighteenth century; a native of Hamburg, and son of the author of the Tosafot Ḥadashim on the...
Bianca Bloch JE German authoress; born at Lauban, Silesia, Jan. 19, 1848, where her father was attendant at a local court. Owing to the reduced...
Elisa Bloch JE French sculptress; born at Breslau Jan. 25, 1848. After receiving a thorough education at Paris, whither her parents had removed...
Emil Bloch JE German otologist; born at Emmendingen, Baden, Dec. 11, 1847. He was educated at the universities of Heidelberg, Würzburg...
Gustave Bloch JE French historian and archeologist; born at Fegersheim, Alsace, July 21, 1848. After passing through the Ecole Normale Sup&#233...
Heinrich Bloch JE Austrian philologist; born Feb. 4, 1854, at Herman-Mestec, Bohemia; son of Moses Bloch, president of the Jewish Theological...
Hermann (hayyim) Bloch JE German author; born at Breslau April 26, 1826; died Nov. 19, 1896. He was a grandson on his mother's side of the learned...
Isaac Bloch JE French rabbi; born at Sultz, Alsace, July 17, 1848. He received his education at the lyceum at Strasburg and at the Jewish...
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Josef Bloch JE Violin virtuoso and composer; born at Budapest Jan. 5, 1862. He made his first appearance in public at the age of twelve,...
Josef Samuel Bloch JE Austrian rabbi and deputy; born at Dukla, a small city in Galicia, Nov. 20, 1850. His parents, who were poor, destined him...
Julienne Bloch JE French educator and writer; died Nov. 12, 1868. She was the eldest and most distinguished daughter of Simon Bloch, founder...
Bloch, Louis, JE Swiss educator; born in 1864; since 1896 privat-docent in archeology and mythology at the University of Zurich. Bloch has...
Ludwig Bloch JE German dramatist; born at Berlin Dec. 6, 1859; son of the theatrical publisher Eduard. Bloch was educated at the Friedrich-Wilhelm...
Marcus Eliezer Bloch JE German ichthyologist and physician; born at Ansbach in 1723; died in Carlsbad Aug. 6, 1799. His parents, being very poor,...
Mattithiah Ashkenazi Bloch JE Cabalist; lived at Jerusalem in the seventeenth century. A blind adherent and indefatigable apostle of Shabbethai Ẓebi...
Maurice Bloch JE French educator and writer; born at Colmar, Alsace, Aug. 5, 1853. He received his first education at the Jewish communal school...
Moritz Bloch (ballagi) JE Hungarian Christian theologian and lexicographer; born March 18, 1815, at Inócz, Zemplén, Hungary; died Sept. 1...
Moses Bloch JE French rabbi; born at Wintzenheim, Upper Alsace, Jan. 2, 1854; died Nov.,1901; educated at the Lycée Colmar, the Paris...
Moses Bloch JE German rabbi; born at Gailingen, Baden, in 1805; died at Buchau March 3, 1841. He pursued his Talmudical studies at Endingen...
Moses LÖb Bloch JE Rector of the rabbinical seminary at Budapest; born at Ronsperg (Bohemia) Feb. 15, 1815. Among his ancestors were Isaac, rabbi...
Philip Bloch JE Rabbi and author; born in Prussia May 30, 1841. He studied at the University of Breslau, and under Frankel, Grätz, and...
Rosine Bloch JE French singer; born in Paris in 1844; daughter of a merchant. She was very beautiful and had a magnificent mezzosoprano voice...
Samson (simson) B Isaac Ha-levi Bloch JE Galician author; born in Kulikow, near Lemberg, 1782; died there Oct. 7, 1845. He received the usual Talmudical education...
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Blogg JE German author; native of Neuwägen in Hanover; died Feb. 11, 1858. He was a teacher of the Hebrew language, and founded...
Blois JE Capital of the department of Loir-et-Cher, France. Although of small importance itself, Blois occupies a prominent place in...
Blood JE The importance of blood for the continuance of life must have been recognized even in most remote antiquity and under the...
Blood Accusation JE A term now usually understood to denote the accusation that the Jews—if not all of them, at all events certain Jewish...
Blood-money JE Ransom paid by a murderer to the avenging kinsmen of a murdered man, in satisfaction for the crime. Among the Anglo-Saxons...
Blood-money In Rumania JE According to the common law of Moldavia and Wallachia, the murder of a person entailed not only the execution of the murderer...
Blood-relationship JE Family connection between persons otherwise than by marriage. To the casual reader of the Old Testament, blood-relationship...
Maurice Bloomfield JE Professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology in Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.; born at Bielitz, Austrian Silesia...
Fanny Bloomfield-zeisler JE American pianist; sister of Maurice Bloomfield; born at Bielitz, Austrian Silesia, July 16, 1866. In 1868 her parents settled...
Karl Blosz JE German painter; born at Mannheim Nov. 24, 1860. He studied at the art school in Carlsruhe from 1880 to 1883, and was a pupil...
Henri Georges Stephan Adolphe Opper De Blowitz JE Special correspondent at Paris of the London "Times"; born at Blowitz, Bohemia, Dec. 28, 1825; died in Paris Jan. 18, 1903...
Ephraim Israel BlÜcher JE Austrian rabbi and author; born Oct. 2, 1813, at Glocksdorf, Moravia; died at Budapest April 6, 1882. For some years he was...
Abraham Blum JE French major; born in 1823; died at Boulogne, France, in 1894. He distinguished himself in the Crimean war in 1854, having...
David Blum JE German Talmudist of the middle of the sixteenth century; rabbi at Sulzburg, near Freiburg in Baden [?]. He was classed among...
Ernest Blum JE French dramatist; born in Paris Aug. 15, 1836. The son of an actor, he began at an early age to work for the theater. At eighteen...
Isaac August Blum JE French mathematician; born at Paris in 1831; died there Jan. 5, 1877. He entered in 1831 the Ecole Polytechnique and was graduated...
Julius Blum JE Austro-Egyptian financier; born at Budapest, Hungary, in 1843. In 1869 he became director of the Austro-Egyptian bank at Alexandria...
Leopold Blumenberg JE American soldier; born in the province of Brandenburg, Prussia, Sept. 28, 1827; died at Baltimore Aug. 12, 1876. He was the...
Marc A Blumenberg JE American musical critic and editor; born at Baltimore, Md., May 21, 1851; educated in the public schools of that city, and...
Aron Wolff Blumenfeld JE German composer; born at Kurnik, Posen, Feb. 29, 1828. In 1846 he went to Berlin, where he studied with Rungenhagen, and afterward...
Berish Blumenfeld JE Galician Hebraist; flourished in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was one of the wealthy Hebrew scholars of that...
Feitel (fadei) Blumenfeld JE Russian rabbi; born in 1826; died at Kherson Dec. 4, 1896. He graduated from the rabbinical college at Jitomir, and for about...
Hermann Fadeyevich Blumenfeld JE Russian lawyer, son of Feitel (Fadei); born in Kherson Sept. 2, 1861; received his education at the high school of his birthplace...
Ignatz (isaac) Blumenfeld JE Austrian publisher and merchant; born March 25, 1812, at Brody, Galicia; died Oct. 2, 1890, at Geneva, Switzerland. He was...
J C Blumenfeld JE Polish litterateur and revolutionist; born about 1810; died before 1840. Blumenfeld was one of the leaders of a band of young...
Simon Blumenfeldt JE Russian calligrapher; born in Mitau, Courland, 1770; died at the same place 1826. He possessed the gift of writing in characters...
Leo Blumenstock Von Halban JE Austrian physician; born at Cracow March 11, 1838; died there Feb. 28, 1897. Educated at the gymnasium and university of his...
Heinrich Blumenthal JE German manufacturer and philanthropist; born at Darmstadt, Hesse, March 12, 1824; died there March 27, 1901. Even as a boy...
Joseph Blumenthal JE American communal worker; born in Munich, Germany, Dec. 1, 1834; died in New York March 2, 1901. In 1839 he went to the United...
Mark Blumenthal JE American physician; born July 11, 1831, at Altenstadt-on-the-Iller, Bavaria.He came to America with his parents in Aug., 1839...
Nissen Blumenthal JE Russian ḥazan; born in Jassy, Rumania, 1805; died in Odessa Feb. 9, 1902. Though educated for the rabbinate, his excellent...
Oskar Blumenthal JE German author and playwright; born at Berlin March 13, 1852. He was educated at the gymnasium and the university of his native...
B'nai B'rith JE The largest and oldest Jewish fraternal organization. It has (1902) a membership of about 30,000, divided into more than 330...
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Wild Boar JE In Psalm lxxx. 14 the wild boar is introduced in a metaphor and described as coming out of the wood to root up the vine. Wild...
Eduard Boas JE German author and traveler; born at Landsberg-on-the-Warthe Jan. 1, 1815; died there June, 1853. He was destined for a commercial...
Ismar Boas JE German physician and medical author; born at Exin, province of Posen, Prussia, March 28, 1858. After having completed his...
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Boaz JE One of the relatives of Elimelech, husband of Naomi; a wealthy Judean, living at Bethlehem in Judah (Ruth ii. 1). He was one...
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Bobruisk JE City in a district of the same name, in the government of Minsk, Russia; situated on the right bank of the River Berezina...
Abraham B Moses Bocara JE Rabbi of the community of Leghorn Jews at Tunis, where he died in 1879. He was the author of "Ben Abraham," a work treating...
Boccaccio, Giovanni, In Jewish Literature JE Among the translations into Judæo-German of popular books and legends, such as Bevis of Hampton, the Arthur legend, and...
Samuel Bochart JE One of the greatest scholars of the seventeenth century, and an illustrious representative of the science and theology of...
Bochim JE Name of a place near Beth-el. The Septuagint reads in Judges ii. 1, "The place of weeping to Beth-el and to all Israel." It...
Hayyim B Benjamin Ze'eb Bochner JE Cabalist, Talmudist, and grammarian; born at Cracow, Galicia, in the first quarter of the seventeenth century; died at F&#252...
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Alfred Bock JE German novelist; born at Giessen, Hesse-Darmstadt, Oct. 14, 1859. He received his education at the gymnasium and the university...
M H Bock JE German educator; born at Magdeburg, 1784; died at Leipsic April 10, 1816, while on a journey. He was one of the ablest modern...
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Herman Bodek JE Galician Hebraist; born in Brody Sept. 27, 1820; died at Leipsic Aug. 19, 1880. He was descended from a highly respected family...
Bodek, Jacob, Of Lemberg JE Galician Hebraist; died at Lemberg 1856. He published "Ha-Ro'eh v-Mebaḳḳer Sifre Meḥabre Zemanenu" (Spectator...
Levi Bodenheimer JE Consistorial rabbi at Krefeld, in the Rhine province; born Dec. 13, 1807, at Carlsruhe; died Aug. 25, 1867, at Krefeld. He...
Johann Christian Georg Bodenschatz JE German Protestant theologian; born at Hof, Germany, May 25, 1717; died Oct. 4, 1797, at Baiersdorf near Erlangen. In his early...
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Julius Bodenstein JE German landscape-painter; born in Berlin Aug. 4, 1847. He studied at the Berlin Academy under Schütze and Hermann Schnee...
Bodleian Library JE The well-known University Library at Oxford, England. The building which at present forms the reading-room of the Bodleian...
Bodo JE Bishop and chaplain of Emperor Louis the Pious. After a dissolute life at court, he made (838) a pilgrimage to Rome, was converted...
Body In Jewish Theology JE In Hebrew the idea of "body" is expressed by the term "basar" (Assyrian, "bishru"), which, commonly translated "flesh," originally...
Johannes Boeschenstain JE German Hebraist; born at Eslingen in 1472; said to have been of Jewish parentage, this statement, however, being denied by...
Boethusians JE A Jewish sect closely related to, if not a development of, the Sadducees. The origin of this schism is recounted as follows...
Frederike Bognar JE German actress; born at Gotha Feb. 16, 1840. Her father was a singer, and Frederike was destined for a musical career. After...
Andrei Bogolyubski JE First grand duke of Russia (1169-74). He conquered Kiev after the death of Vladimir Monomakh (1169), but selected the northern...
Grigori Isaacovich Bogrov JE Russian writer; born March 13, 1825, in Poltava; died May 10, 1885, at Derevki, government of Minsk. He received his early...
Boguslav JE Town in the government of Kiev, Russia. It is mentioned in official documents dated 1195. Nothing is known of the date of...
Bohemia JE Crown land in the northernmost part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The history of the first settlement of Jews in Bohemia...
Moses BÖhm JE German physician; flourished in the middle of the eighteenth century. In 1740 he was engaged by the Jewish community of Halberstadt...
Israel B Joseph BÖhmer JE Russian Neo-Hebraist and lexicographer; born about 1820; died in Slutzk, government of Minsk, April 4, 1860. His father, R...
Joseph B MeÏr BÖhmer (v03p292001jpg) JE Lithuanian rabbi and Talmudist; born at Skudy in 1796; died May 7, 1864, at Slutsk. One of the most eminent pupils of R. &#7716...
Boil JE The rendering, in the English versions of the Scriptures, of the Hebrew word "sheḥin," which comes from a root meaning...
Bojanowo JE A town in the district of Ravditsch, province of Posen, Germany. A Jewish community of one hundred and forty-four souls dwelt...
Bokhara JE Capital of the khanate of the same name in Central Asia; a principal seat of Islam and, with Samarcand, a center of Mohammedan...
Leone Bolaffio JE Italian jurist; born at Padua July 5, 1848. He was educated at Padua; attended the public schools, the Talmudic college&#8212...
Luigi Filippo Bolaffio JE Italian journalist and publisher; born in Venice 1846, died at Milan 1901. While he was still a youth his parents moved to...
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Bolechow JE Town in the district of Dolina, Galicia, Austria, the population of which in 1890 was 4,402, of whom half were Jews. The Jewish...
Boleslaw I Chrobry JE King of Poland from 992 to 1025. According to the Polish preacher Matheusz Bembo, a contemporary of Sigismund III. (beginning...
Boleslaw Iii Krzywousty JE King of Poland from 1102 to 1139. In his time, according to Naruschewicz, the Jews spread through Poland and Lithuania as...
Boleslaw Pobozny JE Duke of Kalisz; died 1278. He was distinguished for his courage and administrative ability. Boleslaw aimed at furthering the...
Boleslaw V Wstydliwy JE King of Poland (1228-79). During his reign (1240) the Mongols under Batu-Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, invaded Poland...
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Bologna JE Capital of the province of Bologna and of the division of Emilia, in northern Italy. As early as the beginning of the fourth...
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Daniel Bomberg JE Christian printer and publisher of Hebrew works; born at Antwerp; died at Venice in 1549. After having learned from his father...
Bona Sforza JE Polish queen; born 1493; died 1557; second wife of King Sigismund I. She was remarkable for her beauty and energy, but thoroughly...
Bonafos JE French physician; lived in the second half of the fourteenth century at Perpignan, where he was president of the community...
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Menahem Ben Abraham Bonafos JE French philosopher; flourished at the end of the fourteenth century and at the beginning of the fifteenth. He was the author...
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Daniel Israel Bonafoux JE An active adherent of Shabbethai Ẓebi; lived at Smyrna in the seventeenth century. He was not disappointed when the...
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Louis-gabriel-ambroise Bonald JE French philosopher, politician, and anti-Jewish writer; born Oct. 2, 1774; died at Nomma Nov. 23, 1840. Being opposed to the...
David Bonan JE Rabbi of the Livornian community of Tunis; died in that city in 1850. After his death his family defrayed the expenses of...
Isaac Bonan JE Author; father of David Bonan; lived in Tunis at the end of the eighteenth century. After his death the following works of...
Napoleon Bonaparte JE See Napoleon I. This article is Rated: 2.90 ...
Bonastruc DesmaËstre JE Spanish controversialist at the disputation at Tortosa 1413-14. Bonastruc was a prominent citizen in Gerona. When, under a...
Isaac Bonastruc JE Rabbi at Palma in Majorca at the end of the fourteenth century; probably born in Barcelona. After the loss of his entire fortune...
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Fortunato De S Bonaventura JE Member of the Royal Academy of Science of Lisbon about the beginning of the nineteenth century. He attempted a history of...
Bonavoglio (hefez), Moses, Of Messina JE Sicilian physician; born at the end of the fourteenth century; died 1447. Renowned for his learning and eloquence, he was...
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Bondavi (en) JE Translator; brother of Samuel of Marseilles; lived at Tarascon in the first half of the fourteenth century. Bondavi assisted...
Bonjudes Bondavin JE Physician; lived at the end of the fourteenth century and the beginning of the fifteenth. He practised medicine at Marseilles...
Abraham Ben Yom-Ṭob Bondi JE Bohemian Talmudist; died 1787 at Prague. His posthumous work, "Zera' Abraham" (Seed of Abraham), essays on various treatises...
Elijah Ben Selig Bondi JE Austrian preacher; born at Prague at the end of the eighteenth century; died there about 1860. He studied Talmud at Presburg...
Jonas Bondi JE American rabbi; born at Dresden, Saxony, July 9, 1804; died at New York March 11, 1874. He was educated at the University...
Mordecai Bondi JE German author; lived at Dresden in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. He wrote, together with his brother Simon...
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Philip Bondi JE Austrian rabbi; born at Jinoschitz, Bohemia, Feb. 26, 1830. After having received a good education at home under the care...
Simon Bondi JE Lexicographer of the Talmud; lived at Dresden; died there Dec. 20, 1816. He wrote, together with his brother Mordecai, the...
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BÔne (bona) JE Town in the province of Constantine, Algeria, called by the Romans "Hippo Regius." It had many Jewish inhabitants as early...
Bonenfante Of Milhaud JE French physician; lived in the fourteenth century. He was the author of a medical treatise entitled "Gabriel," still extant...
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Jacob Ben David Ben Yom-Ṭob (bonjorn) Bonet JE Spanish astronomer; lived probably at Perpignan in the fourteenth century. He was the author of astronomical tables prepared...
Bonet De Lates JE Physician and astrologer; known chiefly as the inventor of an astronomical ring-dial by means of which solar and stellar altitudes...
Sen Bonet De Lunel JE French author of the Middle Ages. He wrote a supercommentary on Ibn Ezra's Bible commentary, which is mentioned by Nathaniel...
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Solomon Ben Reuben Bonfed JE Rabbi at Saragossa, and poet; lived at the end of the fourteenth century and the beginning of the fifteenth. His diwan, still...
Immanuel Ben Jacob Bonfils JE Physician, mathematician, and astronomer; lived at Orange, France, and later at Tarascon, in the fourteenth century. He was...
Joseph B Samuel Bonfils JE French Talmudist, Bible commentator, and "payyeṭan"; lived in the middle of the eleventh century. Of his life nothing...
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Bongodas Cohen JE Provençal physician; flourished in 1353. No details of his life can be ascertained. He was the author of a Latin work...
MeÏr Ben Solomon Bongodas JE Provençal poet; lived at the end of the thirteenth century. He is quoted in the diwan of Abraham Bedersi, who was chosen...
Bongoron JE Astronomer; lived at Perpignan in the middle of the fourteenth century. The name "Bongorn" or "Bonjorn" is the Proven&#231...
Boniface Viii (benedict Gaetan) JE One hundred and ninety-eighth pope; born at Anagni, Italy; elected pope Dec. 24, 1294; died 1303. He succeeded Celestin V...
Boniface Ix (pietro Tomacelli) JE Two hundred and eighth pope; born at Naples; elected pope Nov. 2, 1389; died at Rome in 1404. His pontificate was very favorable...
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Solomon Bonirac JE Spanish translator; lived at Barcelona in the middle of the fourteenth century. He translated from the Arabic into Hebrew...
Bonn JE City in Rhenish Prussia. It had a Jewish community at an early date. Ephraim ben Jacob of Bonn (b. 1133), as a boy of thirteen...
Jonas Ben Moses Bonn JE Physician; lived in Frankfort-on-the-Main in the seventeenth century. Though not in the employ of the community, his name...
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Ibn Yahya Bonsenior JE Chess expert. No details of his life can be obtained. The name is probably Provençal, and he lived certainly not later...
Astruc Bonsenyor JE From 1259, if not earlier, dragoman and Arabic secretary to Jaime I. of Aragon; died 1280. He was a native of Barcelona. He...
Astruc Bonsenyor JE Grandson of Astruc Bonsenyor, the dragoman of Jaime I. of Aragon; father of Judah Bonsenyor. He was a physician in Barcelona...
Isaac Bonsenyor JE Son or grandson of Judah Bonsenyor; lived in Barcelona; in 1391 became a Christian, and took the name Ferrario Gracia de Gualbis...
Judah (jaffuda) Bonsenyor JE Notary-general of Aragon, and translator from the Arabic; son of the elder Astruc, and, like his father, interpreter, first...
Bonviva JE French Tosafist; flourished probably early in the thirteenth century at Château-Thierry. He and his father are mentioned...
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Book-collectors JE The ideal of learning being so characteristically Jewish, it is natural that many Jews should have collected materials of...
Book Of Life JE The book, or muster-roll, of God in which all the worthy are recorded for life. God has such a book, and to be blotted out...
Book-plates (ex-libris) JE Labels with emblematic designs, with references to the names of the owners of the books in which they are inserted. Bookplates...
Book-trade JE The trade in books was carried on by Jews long before the invention of printing. A catalogue of a bookseller of the twelfth...
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Booth JE A rendering, in the English versions of the Bible, of the Hebrew word "sukkah"; also occasionally translated "pavilion" or...
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Marc Borchard JE German physician and author; born in Mecklenburg, 1808; died at Paris June 21, 1872. He graduated as M. D. at Halle, later...
Bruno Borchardt JE German physicist and author; born at Bromberg Nov. 17, 1859. Educated at Berlin, where he graduated as Ph.D., he was appointed...
Felix Borchardt JE German painter; born in Berlin March 7, 1857; studied at the Berlin Academy and with Max Michael; traveled extensively in...
Karl Wilhelm Borchardt JE German mathematician; born Feb. 22, 1817, at Berlin; died there June 27, 1880. He studied from 1839 to 1843 at Königsberg...
Bordeaux JE In medieval times capital of Guienne; to-day, of the department of La Gironde, France. It derives its name from Bourdelois...
Borders JE Ornamental designs surrounding printed pages. The first ornaments for title-pages consisted of arabesque borders with white...
Borek JE Borek is the birthplace of Elias Guttmacher, known by the name "Grätzer Raw."D. M. L. B. ...
Borerim JE Name of electors of a congregation, and applied particularly to the five distinguished representatives of the community in...
Borger JE Cabalist; lived at Zülz, Prussia, in the seventeenth century; corrector of the press in the printing-house of Shabbethai...
Moses Boris JE French colonel; born in the department of Meurthe in 1808; died in Paris June 13, 1884. At the age of twenty-six he entered...
Borisov JE Town and district in the government of Minsk, Russia; situated on a peninsula on the left bank of the Beresina, about fifty...
Borispol JE A village in the district of Pereyaslav, government of Poltawa. Its population of 10,000 embraces about 1,000 Jews. Of the...
Kalman Ben Phineas Seligman Borkum JE Court Jew of Duke Peter Biron of Courland; born in the middle of the eighteenth century; died at Mitau in 1828, on the same...
Gustav Jacob Born JE German histologist and medical author; born at Kempen, province of Posen, Prussia, April 22, 1851. He received his education...
Karl Ludwig BÖrne JE German political and literary writer; born May 6, 1786, at Frankfort-on-the-Main; died in Paris Feb. 12, 1837. The family...
Arthur Bornstein JE German author; born at Breslau March 23, 1867; studied at Breslau, Berlin, and Bern; and passed the state examination in Berlin...
Paul Bornstein JE German author; born in Berlin April 8, 1868; educated in and graduated from the university in that city, receiving the degree...
Borodavka JE Lithuanian farmer of taxes and distillery privileges; lived in the sixteenth century at Brest-Litovsk. He is first mentioned...
Samuel Hyman Borofsky JE Born at Wolkovyshki, government of Suvalki, Russian Poland, April, 1865. He was educated in the schools of his native place...
Isidor Borowski JE Soldier under Bolivar y Ponte, and, later, a Persian general; born at Warsaw, Poland, 1803; killed at the siege of Herat in1837...
Borrow JE See Commerce and Trade. This article is Rated: 2.91 ...
Borrower JE One who receives, at his own request, the property of another, for free use, upon the agreement that it shall be returned...
Moses Ben Solomon De Boshal (bostal) JE Turkish Talmudist and preacher of the seventeenth century. He wrote "Yismaḥ Mosheh" (Moses Rejoices), a homiletic commentary...
Bosheth JE Used concretely by the Prophets as "the shameful thing" to designate the Baalim and their images. (See Hosea ix. 10 and Jer...
Agron Machimovitsch Bosko JE ...
Wolf Boskovitz JE The first rabbi of the congregation of Budapest; died 1818. In 1787 the Jewish community at Pest was sufficiently large to...
Boskowitz JE Town in Moravia, about 21 miles to the north of Brünn. It has one of the oldest and most important communities in the...
Hayyim Ben Jacob Boskowitz JE Palestinian author; lived about the middle of the eighteenth century. He wrote the "Toẓe'ot Ḥayyim"(Life&#39...
Yom-Ṭob Lipman Ha-kohen Boslanski JE Russian rabbi; born 1824; died in Mir, government of Grodno, Dec. 26, 1892. In his younger days he was rabbi in Khaslavich...
Bosnia JE Province of the Balkan peninsula, on the frontier of Austria and of Montenegro. Formerly under Turkish rule, it came under...
Bosor JE 1. A city of Gilead, which Judas Maccabeus conquered (I Macc. v. 26, 36). It may be identified with the modern "Buṣr...
Bosora JE ...
Cimmerian Bosporus JE Name of the ancients for the strait of Yenikale or of Theodosia; on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. The country on both...
Bostanai JE First exilarch under Arabian rule; flourished about the middle of the seventh century. The name is Aramaized from the Persian...
Boston JE Capital and chief city of the state of Massachusetts in the United States.Nothing definite is known of Jews in Boston prior...
Botany JE The science that treats of plants. Like grammar and other sciences based on logical thought, scientific botany originated...
Botarel (boterello, Botril, Botrelli), Moses JE ...
Boton JE Spanish family, which immigrated to Salonica, Turkey, in 1492, and which has produced many eminent rabbis and Talmudists....
Bottle JE The Authorized Version (partly after the example of the Vulgate, which uses "lagena," I Sam. x. 3; "laguncula," Lam. iv. 2)...
BoulÉ JE Court of justice, or Sanhedrin; also the seat of the senate (Josephus, "B. J." v. 4, § 2; hence also , βο&#965...
Boundaries JE Limits of a tract of land. When the Hebrew tribes gave up their nomadic life and settled in Palestine in agricultural communities...
Bourgas JE City of eastern Rumelia (southern Bulgaria) and port on the Black Sea; six hours distant from Constantinople. The Jews of...
Bourges JE Capital of the department of Cher, France. From the beginning of the Middle Ages Jews dwelt in Bourges. It is recorded that...
Bovo Buch JE ...
Bow JE ...
Bowl JE ...
Box-tree JE Judging by Isa. lx. 13, the box-tree (A. V. "box") is a tree of the Lebanon, promised for the rebuilding of the Temple, together...
Bozecchi JE Prominent Italian family, the members of which when settling at Rome called themselves after their native place, Buzecchio...
Bozrah JE According to Isa. xxxiv. 6, lxiii. 1; Amos i. 12; Jer. xlix. 13, 22, one of the principal cities, or perhaps the capital,...
Hayyim Obadiah Ben Jacob Obadiah Di Bozzolo JE Talmudist and cabalist; lived at Salonica in the middle of the sixteenth century; probably a native of Bozzolo in Italy, wherefore...
Bracelets JE Ornaments in the form of rings for the arm, worn by the Hebrews, as well as by all ancient peoples. Besides serving as ornaments...
Jacob Brafmann JE Jewish convert to Christianity; born in Russia; died in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. After having tried many...
Bragadini JE Family of printers at Venice. After the decline of the Bomberg printing-press a fierce rivalry grew up at Venice among the...
BraganÇa JE City of Portugal, in the province of Tras-os-Montes. In 1250 nineteen of the Jews living there were accused of usury. They...
Bragin JE Village of Russia, in the government of Minsk, having a population (1898) of 4,520, including 2,248 Jews, of whom 256 were...
John Braham JE English tenor singer; born in London 1774; died there Feb. 17, 1856. His parents dying in his childhood, he became a chorister...
Tycho Brahe JE ...
Otto (abrahamsohn) Brahm JE German dramatic critic and manager; born in Hamburg Feb. 5, 1856. He studied philosophy, German philology, and the history...
Braila JE ...
Brailov JE Town in the district of Vinitza, government of Podolia. The population at the census of 1897 was 8,972, including 3,924 Jews...
Ruben Brainin JE Hebrew publicist and biographer; born in Russia in the last half of the nineteenth century; is now (1902) living in Berlin...
Simon Brainin JE Russian physician; born at Riga, Livonia, July 15, 1854. He graduated from the gymnasium of his birthplace; studied medicine...
Bramble JE A prickly shrub. The word serves as a translation for two Hebrew terms and a Greek one, all of which, however, should receive...
Leo Bramson JE Russian jurist and writer; born at Kovno April 17, 1869; graduated from the Moscow University as a "candidatus juris." He...
Fernando Alvarez Brandam JE Marano and physician at Lisbon in the seventeenth century; contemporary of Manuel Fernandez de Villa-Real, who characterizes...
Baruch Judah (ha-levi) Brandeis JE Bohemian rabbi and author; lived in the second half of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century at Prague...
Bezaleel Ben Moses (ha-levi) Brandeis JE Bohemian rabbi and author; died about 1750 at Jung-Bunzlau, where he was district rabbi and director of a Talmudic academy...
Frederick Brandeis JE Musician; born at Vienna July 5, 1832; died at New York May 14, 1899. He studied at the University of Vienna, and received...
Moses Brandeis JE German rabbi and Talmudic teacher; born about 1685; died June 24, 1761, in Mayence. As his surname indicates, he was famous...
Brandenburg JE Province of Prussia. In documents of the thirteenth century Jews are mentioned as living in the mark of Brandenburg and carrying...
Carl Eduard Cohen Brandes JE Danish author and politician; born at Copenhagen, Oct. 21, 1847; brother of George Brandes. At the age of eighteen he entered...
Ernst Immanuel Cohen Brandes JE Danish economist; born at Copenhagen Feb. 1, 1844; died there Aug. 6, 1892. He was a brother of the critic Georg Brandes and...
Georg Morris Cohen Brandes JE Danish author and critic; born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Feb. 4, 1842. He graduated in 1859, and for a short time studied law...
Ludvig Israel Brandes JE Danish physician; born in Copenhagen Oct. 26, 1821; diedthere Sept. 17, 1894. In 1839 he entered the University of Copenhagen...
Marthe (marthe-joséphine Brunschwig) BrandÈs JE French actress; born in Paris Jan. 31, 1862. She first studied design, sculpture, and music, and, finally, the drama. Successful...
Mordecai Ben Eliezer Brandes JE German Talmudist; lived at Frankfort-on-the-Main in the middle of the eighteenth century. Engaged by the Jewish community...
Benjamin Raphael Dias Brandon JE Dutch Talmudist and Hebrew author; died about 1750 at Amsterdam, where he was cantor. He wrote: "Orot ha-Miẓwot" (Lights...
Jacob Emile Édouard Brandon JE French genre painter; born at Paris July 3, 1831. A pupil of Picot, Montfort, and Corot, he entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts...
Jules Benjamin Brandon JE French officer and scion of an ancient Sephardic family that went to France from Spain after the exodus of 1492; born Sept...
Mordecai David BrandstÄdter JE Galician novelist; born Feb. 14, 1844, in Brzesko, Galicia. He received a good Talmudical education, and after his marriage...
Marcus Brann JE German historian; born in Rawitsch July 9, 1849; son of Rabbi Solomon Brann. He studied at the University of Breslau, attending...
Solomon Brann JE German rabbi; born in Rawitsch, Nov. 3, 1814. He attended for several years the yeshibah in Lissa, and continued his studies...
Moritz Brasch JE German philosopher and litterateur; born at Zempelburg, West Prussia, Aug. 18, 1843; died at Leipzig Sept. 14, 1895. He was...
Braslaw Nahman JE ...
Brass JE A composition of copper and zinc. The application of the word in the Bible is uncertain, as instruments of copper and bronze...
Bratzlav JE A town in the government of Podolia, Russia, situated on the right bank of the southern Bug. It was founded in the fourteenth...
Reuben Asher Braudes JE Hebrew novelist and journalist; born at Wilna, Russia, 1851; died in Vienna Oct. 18, 1902. Educated on the usual Talmudical...
Alexander Braudo JE Russian author; born in 1864. From 1889 until 1892 he was reviewer of literature on Russian history for the "Jahresbericht...
Josef Braun JE Austrian journalist, dramatist, and librettist; born at Budapest, May 5, 1840. Braun was educated for the profession of medicine...
Solomon Braun JE French lieutenant of artillery; born at Paris, 1868; died in Togbao, Sudan, in 1899. His father, a poor pedler, observing...
Abraham B Eliezer Braunschweig (brunschwig) JE Reviser of the rabbinical Bible published by the printer König of Basel in 1619; and assistant to Johannes Buxtorf, both...
Jacob Eliezer Braunschweig JE German rabbi and Talmudic author of the seventeenth and the eighteenth century; died in Vienna April 16, 1729. Of his life...
Moses Ben Mordecai Braunschweig JE Polish Talmudist; lived about the middle of the sixteenth century at Cracow. He wrote a commentary on Jacob Weil's widely...
Bravery JE ...
Abraham Bravo JE A financier living in London in 1710. He was a descendant of a Spanish-Portuguese family, and one of the earliest Anglo-Jewish...
Bray-sur-seine JE Small town situated between Provins and Montereau, in the department of Seine-et-Marne; belonged formerly to Champagne. In...
Brazen Sea JE The brazen laver of the Mosaic ritual; made by Solomon out of bronze captured by David at Tibhath and Chun, cities of Hadarezer...
Brazen Serpent JE An image set up by Moses which is said to have healed those who looked upon it. When the people of Israel, near the close...
Brazier JE ...
Brazil JE The largest of the South American states, extending from lat. 5° N. to 33° 45' S., long. 35° to 74&#176...
Breach Of Promise Of Marriage JE The refusal of either party to a contract of marriage to fulfil it. In order that there may be a breach of promise, there...
Breach Of Trust JE Violation by fraud or omission of any duty lawfully imposed upon a trustee, executor, or other person in a position of trust...
Bread JE Bread was the principal article of food among the Hebrews, while meat, vegetables, or liquids served only to supplement the...
Michel Jules Alfred BrÉal JE French philologist; born of French parentage at Landau, Rhenish Bavaria, March 26, 1832. He received his education at Weissenburg...
Breastplate JE A rendering of the Hebrew "shiryon" or "siryon," which would be more correctly translated "coat of mail" or "cuirass." The...
Breastplate Of The High Priest JE A species of pouch, adorned with precious stones, worn by the high priest on his breast when he presented in the Holy Place...
Breath JE ...
Adolph Brecher JE Austrian physician; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, in 1831; died at Olmütz April 13, 1894. He was the son of the physician...
Gideon (gedaliah B Eliezer) Brecher JE Austrian physician and author; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Jan. 12, 1797; died there May 14, 1873.Brecher, who was the first...
Bregenz JE ...
Eliezer B Moses Bregman JE Russian financier and philanthropist; born in Indura (commonly called by Russian Jews "Amdur"), government of Grodno, in 1826...
Moritz Wilhelm August Breidenbach JE German jurist; born at Offenbach-on-the-Main Nov. 13, 1796; died at Darmstadt April 2, 1857. He first attended the gymnasium...
Wolf Breidenbach JE German court agent and champion of Jewish emancipation; born in the village of Breidenbach, Hesse-Cassel, 1751;died in Offenbach...
Eduard Breier JE Austrian writer; born at Warasdin in Croatia Nov. 3, 1811; died at Zaiwitz near Znaim, Moravia, June 3, 1886. His first novel...
Max Breitenstein JE Austrian writer and translator; born at Iglau, Moravia, Nov. 10, 1855. He attended the gymnasium of his native city and the...
John Frederick Breithaupt JE Christian Hebraist and rabbinical scholar at the beginning of the eighteenth century; aulic councilor to the emperor and to...
Bremen JE Free city of the German empire; remarkable as one of the places where few Jews have ever dwelt. A baptized Jew, Paulus, is...
Samuel Friedrich Brenz JE Anti-Jewish writer; born at Osterburg, Bavaria, in the latter half of the sixteenth century; date and place of death unknown...
Bresch JE Translator of the Pentateuch into Judæo-German; lived in Germany in the sixteenth century, He is known only from De Rossi...
Brescia JE City and province of Lombardy, Italy. The Jews first settled there during Roman times. A commemorative stone, dating from...
Breslau JE ...
Aryeh LÖb Ben Hayyim Breslau JE German Talmudist and rabbi; born in 1741 at Breslau, Prussia; died April 22, 1809, at Rotterdam, Holland. He lived at Lissa...
Joseph B David Breslau JE German Talmudist and rabbi; born (probably at Breslau) in 1691; died Jan. 22, 1752, at Bamberg. He was at first a rabbi at...
Marcus Heymann Breslau JE Author and journalist; born at Breslau, Germany; died in London May 14, 1864. He went to London as a youth, and for a time...
Hermann Breslauer JE Austrian neuropath; born at Duschnik, Bohemia, Nov. 10, 1835. He was educated at the gymnasium at Pilsen and the University...
Max Breslauer JE German chemist; born at Trebnitz, Prussian Silesia, June 19, 1856. He received his education at the universities of Leipsic...
Emil Breslaur JE German musician and writer on musical pedagogics; born at Kottbus May 29, 1836. He first attended the gymnasium in his native...
Isaac Ben Elijah Levi Bresner JE Austrian educator; lived at Prague in the second half of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth. In 1795...
Heinrich Bresnitz JE Austrian author and journalist; born at Czernowitz, Bukowina, Austria-Hungary, 1844. In 1867 he established in Vienna a periodical...
MeÏr Israel Bresselau JE German notary and secretary of the Reform congregation of Hamburg; born 1785 (?); died in Hamburg Dec. 25, 1839. He was identified...
Harry Bresslau JE German historian; born in Dannenberg, Hanover, March 22, 1848. He studied history in Göttingen from 1866 to 1869; became...
Mendel Ben Hayyim Judah Bresslau JE Bookseller at Breslau (died 1829); author of articles in the periodical "Ha-Meassef," and of an allegorical ethical dialogue...
Brest-litovsk JE A fortified town in the government of Grodno, Russia, at the junction of the Mukhovetz river with the western Bug; capital...
Brestovitza JE Town in the district and government of Grodno, Russia, about forty miles south of the capital. From a record of a lawsuit...
Joseph Breuer JE Austrian physician; born Jan. 15, 1842, at Vienna. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna, whence in 1863 he graduated...
Bribery JE The offer or receipt of anything of value in corrupt payment for an official act done or to be done.The moral basis for the...
Brichany JE Town in the government of Bessarabia, Russia, with (in 1898) 7,303 Jewish inhabitants in a total population of 8,094. The...
Brick JE The expression "brick" (; translated once "tile" in A. V., Ezek. iv. 1) designates both the burnt and the sun-dried brick...
Bride JE The allegorical use of the name "Bride" for "Israel" is based upon Hosea ii. 19-20: "I will betroth thee forever," and, in...
Bridegroom And Bridegroom's Friends JE ...
Bridegroom Of Genesis (hatan Bereshit) JE ...
Bridegroom Of The Law (hatan Torah) JE The somewhat poetic designation of Bridegrooms of the Law and of Genesis are given to the persons called up in the synagogue...
Bridegroom Of The Torah JE ...
Bridle JE A term used in the English versions of the Bible interchangeably with bit to represent the three Hebrew words , and , which...
Brieg JE Town in Silesia; formerly the capital of the duchy of the same name. Jews settled there about 1324, chiefly because it was...
Ludwig Brieger JE German physician and medical writer; born at Glatz, in Prussian Silesia, July 26, 1849. He received his education at the gymnasium...
Brieli Judah Leon Ben Eliezer JE Rabbi in Mantua; born about 1643; died in 1722.Brieli, besides being a high Talmudical authority, as is shown in the responsa...
Brier JE ...
John Bright JE English statesman and orator; born at Greenbank, Nov. 16, 1811; died in Rochdale March 27, 1889. It has been stated that his...
Azriel Brill JE Hungarian rabbi and author; lived in the first half of the nineteenth century; assistant rabbi (dayyan) at Pest, Hungary....
Jehiel Brill JE Russian journalist. According to Zeitlin he was born in 1836 in Tultschin, Russian Poland; but Fuenn, who knew him well, states...
Joel Brill JE ...
Joseph Brill JE Russian teacher and Hebrew writer; born at Gorki, near Mohilev, on the Dnieper, 1839. He studied Talmud at the yeshibot of...
Samuel LÖw Brill JE Hungarian rabbi and Talmudical scholar; born Sept. 14, 1814, in Budapest; died April 8, 1897. He was carefully educated by...
Brimstone JE Sulfur in a solid state. It is found in Palestine, in the region along the banks of the Jordan and around the Dead Sea, both...
Brindisi JE Seaport on the coast of Calabria, Italy, whence the ancient Romans embarked for the East. Jews undoubtedly settled there at...
Brisk JE ...
Aaron B MeÏr Brisker JE ...
Bristol JE Commercial seaport city in the counties of Gloucester and Somerset, England. Jews settled very early at Bristol, which was...
London British Museum JE Chief library and museum of the United Kingdom. It contains many books and objects of Jewish interest. The Hebrew MSS.: ...
Brittany JE Ancient province of France corresponding to the present departments of Finistère, Côtes-du-Nord, Morbihan, Ile et...
Briviesca JE The ancient Virovesca; city in Old Castile, not far from Burgos. A Jewish community dwelt there, which in 1290 was taxed 11...
Josef B Brociner JE President of the Union of Hebrew Congregations of Rumania; born in Jassy, Rumania, Oct., 1846. From 1864 to 1866 he studied...
Abraham Ben Saul Broda JE Bohemian Talmudist; born about 1640 at Bunzlau; died April 11, 1717, at Frankfort-on-the-Main. Saul Broda sent his son to...
Abraham B Shalom Broda JE Russian rabbinical author; born in Wilna about the beginning of the nineteenth century; died there after 1860. His father...
Benjamin B Aaron Broda JE Lithuanian rabbi and Talmudist; died Sept. 1, 1818, at Grodno. He was the best-known Talmudist of the five sons of Aaron Broda...
Brodski JE A family which has produced many rabbis and notable men in the last three hundred years. It is a branch of the Schor family...
Adolph Brodsky JE Russian violinist; born in Taganrog March 21, 1851. At the age of nine he played in a concert at Odessa, attracting much attention...
Brody JE See Galicia. This article is Rated: 2.66 ...
Heinrich Brody JE Austrian rabbi; born May 21, 1868, at Ungvár, Hungary; descendant of Abraham Broda. Educated in the public schools of...
SÁndor BrÓdy JE Hungarian author and journalist; born at Erlau in 1863. After attending the schools of that city he devoted himself entirely...
Sigmund BrÓdy JE Hungarian journalist, and member of the Upper House of the Hungarian Parliament; born Nov. 15, 1840, at Miskolcz. He attended...
Broglie, Victor-claude, Prince De JE French statesman; opponent of Jewish emancipation; born at Paris, 1757; beheaded in 1794 for intriguing against the French...
Broker JE One who acts as middleman between seller and buyer, or makes it his business to bring buyer and seller together; also one...
Jew Brokers JE A term used to indicate the Jewish merchants who had the right of trading at the Royal Exchange, London. The word "brokers"...
Bromberg JE See Posen. This article is Rated: 2.86 ...
Brooch JE A term which occurs in I. Mace. x. 89, xi. 58, xiv. 44, as the translation of the Greek πόρπη; Latin...
Brooklyn JE See New York. This article is Rated: 2.86 ...
Brother JE Son of the same father and mother (or of either), but principally son of the same father and mother (see Gen. xlii. 3, 4,...
Brotherhoods JE See Fraternities. This article is Rated: 2.88 ...
Brother-in-law JE See Levirate. This article is Rated: 2.75 ...
Brotherly Love JE The love for one's fellow-man as a brother. The expression is taken from the Greek word Φιλα&#948...
Richard Brothers JE English visionary and founder of Anglo Israelism; born Dec. 25, 1757, at Placentia, Newfoundland; died at London Jan. 25,...
Hugh Broughton JE English Christian divine and rabbinical scholar; born 1549 at Oldbury, Shropshire; died at Tottenham, near London, Aug. 4...
Brovary JE Small town in the government of Chernigov, Russia. In 1898 it had 1,344 Jewish inhabitants in a population of 5,166. Most...
Saul Brown JE See under New York. This article is Rated: 2.72 ...
William Brown JE Scottish clergyman; born 1766; died 1835; for forty-three years minister of Eskdalemuir, Scotland. He is the author of "Antiquities...
Robert Browning JE English poet; born in Clerkenwell, London, 1812; died at Venice Dec. 12, 1889. From his somewhat Jewish appearance, knowledge...
Isaac BroydÉ JE Russian Orientalist; born at Porozowo, government of Grodno, Russia, Feb. 23, 1867. After attending the gymnasium at Grodnohe...
Bruchsal JE City in the grand duchy of Baden. Jews resided here as early as the beginning of the twelfth century. In 1337 the Jews of...
Abraham Jacob Bruck JE Russian educator; author of works in Hebrew and in Russian; born in the district of Rossienny 1820; died in Yekaterinoslav...
Jacob Bruck JE Hungarian physician and author; born at Pápa Oct. 20, 1845; died at Budapest 1901; brother of Lajos Bruck. He studied...
Julius Bruck JE German dentist and writer on dentistry; born at Breslau Oct. 6, 1840; died there, April 20, 1902. He studied dentistry and...
Lajos Bruck JE Hungarian painter; born at Pápa, county of Veszprim, Nov., 1846. Though his father intended him for commercial life,...
Max (miksa) Bruck JE Hungarian painter; born at Budapest 1863; a brother of Lajos Bruck. He graduated from the schools of his native city, and...
Moses Bruck JE Hungarian theological writer; born about 1812 in Prerau, Moravia; died in 1849. He studied at Prague, and, as he could find...
Solomon B Hayyim BrÜck JE Austrian Hebraist; born in the latter part of the eighteenth century; died about 1846. He is the author of "Ḥa&#7731...
Henrietta Bruckman JE Founder of the first Jewish women's lodge in America; born in Bohemia April, 1810; died in New York city April, 1888....
Lucien Levy Bruhl JE ...
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Adolf BrÜll JE German writer and theologian; born in Kojetein, Moravia, April 27, 1846; son of Rabbi Jakob Brüll. He was educated at...
Ignaz BrÜll JE Austrian composer; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Nov. 7, 1846. In 1848 his parents removed to Vienna, where he became a pupil...
Jakob BrÜll JE Austrian Talmudist and author; born at Neu-Raussnitz, Moravia, Nov. 16, 1812; died at Kojetein Nov. 29, 1889. He attended...
Nehemiah BrÜll JE Rabbi and scholar of varied attainments; born March 16, 1843, at Neu-Raussnitz, Moravia; died Feb. 5, 1891, at Frankfort-on-the-Main...
Israel Bruna JE ...
Angelo Brunetti JE Popular Roman leader, and advocate of the emancipation of the Jews; born in Rome 1800; died there Aug. 10, 1849. Inspired...
BrÜnn JE Capital of Moravia. It possessed a Jewish community as early as the twelfth century. At the instigation of Capistrano, the...
Arnold William Brunner JE American architect; the son of William Brunner and Isabelle Solomon; was born in New York city Sept. 25, 1857. He was educated...
Sebastian Brunner JE Austrian Catholic theologian, editor, and anti-Jewish writer; born Dec. 10, 1814, in Vienna; died in Währing, near Vienna...
LÉon LÉvy Brunswich JE French dramatist; born at Paris April 20, 1805; died at Havre April 29, 1859. Favoritecollaborator of Ad. de Leuven, he wrote...
Brunswick JE Duchy of Germany, the capital of which has the same name. The first settlement of Jews in the duchy was at Blankenburg; for...
Brusa JE City of Anatolia, 54 miles from Constantinople and 21 miles from the port of Moudania. According to some chroniclers, the...
Brusilov JE Town in the government of Kiev, Russia, with a Jewish population (1898) of 2,800, in a total of 6,500. Of the 541 Jewish artisans...
Brussels JE Capital of Belgium. There are no records as to the date when Jews first settled in Brussels; but as many of them were scattered...
Brutish JE A term applied by the Biblical writers to men whose disposition or spirit was like that of beasts. It is used in close conjunction...
Judah Loeb Ben David Brutzkus JE Russian writer; born 1870 at Polangen, in the government of Courland; studied at the gymnasium and University of Moscow, from...
BrÜx JE Town of Bohemia, 14 miles north of Saaz. Documents prove that, as early as the fourteenth century, Jews were living at Br&#252...
Bryansk JE Town in the government of Grodno, Russia, with a Jewish population (1898) of 2,365, in a total population of 6,342. Of the...
Solomon Buber JE Galician scholar and editor of Hebrew works; born at Lemberg Feb. 2, 1827. His father, Isaiah Abraham Buber, was versed in...
Charles Adolphus Buchheim JE Professor of the German language and German literature at King's College, London; born in Moravia1828; died at London...
Bucharest JE Ancient capital of Wallachia, and the present capital of Rumania. The oldest Jewish tombstone is dated 1682; but Jews settled...
Bernhard Buchbinder JE Austrian journalist; born July 6, 1854, in Budapest, where he received his education, being destined for a mercantile career...
Carl August Buchholz JE German Christian lawyer and author; born in the latter half of the eighteenth century; died at Lübeck Nov. 15, 1843....
P Buchholz JE German rabbi; born Oct. 2, 1837; died in Emden, Hanover, Sept. 20, 1892. He became rabbi of Märkisch-Friedland in 1863...
Adolf BÜchler JE Austrian historian and theologian; born Oct. 18, 1867, at Priekopa, Hungary. In 1887 he began his theological studies at the...
Alexander BÜchler JE Born in Fülek, Hungary, in 1869; son of the Talmudist rabbi Phineas Büchler of Moór. He was educated at the...
Wolf B David Hakohen Buchner JE Hebrew stylist; born at Brody in the latter half of the eighteenth century and lived into the nineteenth. In his boyhood Buchner...
Buchsbaum JE Family of Jewish physicians of Frankfort-on-the-Main, whose activity extended over a century. Its prominent members were:...
Buckler JE ...
Abraham Cohen Bucuresteanu (bucureshteanu) JE Rumanian publicist; born at Bucharest 1840; died there Jan. 24, 1877. From his earliest youth he was passionately fond of...
Abraham David B Asher Anshel Buczacz JE Galician Talmudist; born 1770 at Nadworna; died 1840 at Buczacz. Even as a boy he attracted, by his acuteness in Talmudic...
Buda JE ...
Purim Of Buda JE In 1684 the Christian armies laid siege to Buda (Ofen) to drive out the Turks, who had held possession of the city from 1541...
Budapest JE The capital of Hungary. Of the several congregations within this tripartite city, Buda (Ofen), Ó-Buda (Alt-Ofen), and...
Budek JE Polish Catholic priest; canon of Wislica at the beginning of the fifteenth century, and one of the most vigorous Jew-baiters...
Max BÜdinger JE Austrian historian; born April 1, 1828, at Cassel, Germany; died at Vienna Feb. 23, 1902; son of Moses Mordecai Büdinger...
Moses Israel Ben Isaac BÜdinger JE Teacher at Metz at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth. He devoted himself to Hebrew grammar...
Moses Mordecai BÜdinger JE German educator; born at Maidorf, a village in Hessen, Jan., 1783; died at Cassel Jan. 31, 1841. At the age of twenty he became...
Simon Budny JE Calvinist priest of Lithuania in the sixteenth century; founder of the Polish sect of the Budnians, who were surnamed "Half-Jews"...
Budushchnost JE Russo-Jewish weekly, established (1900) and edited by S. O. Gruzenberg. Like the "Voskhod," it gives valuableinformation concerning...
Budweis JE City of Bohemia. Jews were settled there in the first half of the fourteenth century, possibly earlier. In 1337 the community...
La Buena EspÉranza JE Title of a Jewish weekly, published in Judæo-Spanish and in rabbinic characters at Smyrna since 1874. It first appeared...
Bueno (bonus) JE Family of Spanish origin, members of which, including many physicians and scholars, have settled in southern France, Italy...
Buenos Ayres JE ...
Buffalo JE A name common to different species of Bovidœ. The best known is the Bubalus buffelus, or Bos bubalus, generally called...
Buffalo JE The second city in New York state. Its first connection with the history of the Jews occurred in 1825, when Mordecai M. Noah...
Buk JE Town in Prussia, province of Posen, which, after the second partition of Poland, in 1793, passed under Prussian rule. Jews...
Bukki JE 1. Son of Jogli, prince of the tribe of Dan, who represented his tribe in the division of the land (Num. xxxiv. 22). 2. Son...
Bukowina JE An eastern province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire for the history of which see Czernowitz. ...
Bul JE The name of the month in which the building of Solomon's Temple was completed, as mentioned in I Kings vi. 38. It would...
Raphael Moses Ben Joseph De Bulah JE Palestinian Talmudist and rabbi; died at Jerusalem March 23, 1773, where he had been rabbi, and had conducted a Talmudic school...
Solomon Ben Raphael Moses De Bulah JE Turkish Talmudist; born at Jerusalem, where his father, Raphael Moses ben Joseph de Bulah, was rabbi; died 1786 at Salonica...
Bulan JE King of the Chazars, who in 620 embraced Judaism. Joseph, "Chaghan" (king) of the Chazars, in answer to a letter from &#7716...
Abraham Ibn Bulat (v03p425001jpg) JE Talmudic scholar; lived in Spain in the fifteenth century. He was the disciple of Isaac de Leon, and in a vigorous dispute...
Judah Ben Joseph Ibn Bulat (v03p425002jpg) JE Spanish Talmudist and rabbi; born at the end of the fifteenth century at Estella, Navarre; died probably at Constantinople...
Bulgaria JE Principality of southeastern Europe, under the suzerainty of Turkey. According to Josephus ("Ant." xxii.) and Belloguet ("Les...
Bull JE ...
Bull Worship Among Ancient Hebrews JE ...
Bullock JE ...
Bulls, Papal, Concerning Jews JE ...
Bulrush JE A rush or reed. The term "bulrush" in the Bible occurs once as a translation for "agmon" (Isa. lviii. 5) and twice for "gome"...
Bulwark JE ...
Bun JE As a personal prenomen this name is a dialectic abridgment of "Abun" ("Abin," "Rabin"; see Jastrow, "Dictionary," 147a; compare...
Edmund Bunney JE English preacher and Hebrew scholar; born at Vache, near Chalfont, St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, in 1540; died at Carwood, Yorkshire...
Bunzlau JE ...
MeÏr Ben Ephraim Fishel Bunzlau (bumslo) JE Bohemian rabbi and Talmudist; born at Bunzlau (Jewish-German, "Bumslo"); died Nov. 23, 1770, at Prague, where he had been...
Buol-schauenstein, John Rudolph, Count Von JE Austrian diplomat; born Nov. 21, 1763; died Feb. 12, 1834, in Vienna. He entered the diplomatic service, and was sent as ambassador...
Burden Of Proof JE In law, the obligation resting upon one or other of the parties to a suit to bring proof of a fact when the opposite party...
Meno Burg JE German military officer; was born in Berlin Oct. 9, 1789; died there Aug. 26, 1853. His father was in very poor circumstances...
Burgdorf JE Town in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. It contained a few Jewish inhabitants in the fourteenth century. In 1347 Simon, a...
Elijah Hai Vita Burgel (burgil) JE Rabbi of Tunis; son of Nathan Burgel. He is the author of "Migdanot Natan," a work in two parts. The first part, printed with...
Joseph Burgel JE Rabbi of Tunis; son of Elijah Ḥai Burgel; born in 1791; died at Tunis in 1857. He was the author of "Zar'a de-Yosef...
Nathan Ben Abraham Burgel JE Rabbi at Tunis about 1750; pupil of Isaac Lumbroso. Considered a rabbinical authority, people from far and near brought him...
Hugo BÜrger JE German dramatist; born in Breslau April 22, 1846; now (1902) living at Berlin. He came to Berlin at the age of twelve, and...
Solomon Ben David BÜrger JE ...
Theodor BÜrger JE Rabbi and preacher in Szegedin, Hungary, 1843-47. Two years after entering upon his office he published a book, "Der Talmud...
Burglary JE In English and American law burglary is the offense of breaking into a dwelling-house at night, with the intent to commit...
Burgos JE City of Old Castile, having a long-established, large, wealthy, and cultured Jewish community up to the time of the expulsion...
Burgundy JE ...
Burial JE Placing the corpse in the earth or in caves of the rock, the chief modes adhered to by the Jewish people of disposing of the...
Burial Society JE Organization for providing proper burial rites. There is hardly a congregation of Jews in the world without an association...
Barthold Dowe Burmania JE Dutch statesman and ambassador to the court of Vienna; lived in the eighteenth century. He was a man of broad humanitarian...
Burning Bush JE The name commonly given to the tree from which the angel of Jehovah manifested himself to Moses in a flame of fire; the distinctive...
Burning Of The Dead JE ...
Burnt Offering JE The ordinary translation in modern versions of the Hebrew "'olah" (). This term does not mean literally "burnt offering...
Bury St Edmunds JE Town of Suffolk, England, and seat of a monastery the ruins of which still exist. Under the rule of Abbot Hugh (1173-80) the...
Bush JE ...
Isidor Bush (busch) JE Litterateur, publicist, and viticulturalist; born in Prague, Bohemia, Jan. 15, 1822; died in St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 5, 1898...
Lewis Bush JE American soldier; born in Philadelphia; died 1777; member of the well-known Bush family, Jewish merchants of Philadelphia...
Solomon Bush JE American soldier; born in Philadelphia; son of Matthias Bush, one of the signers of the non-importation agreement (Oct. 25...
William Bertrand Busnach JE French dramatist; born in Paris March 7, 1832; nephew of the composer Fromental Halévy. His father was associated with...
Naphtali Busnash JE Chief of the Algerian Jews and statesman; born at Algiers in the middle of the eighteenth century; assassinated June 28, 1805...
Bustani JE ...
Butchers JE ...
Matheus Butrymowicz JE Polish statesman and landlord of the eighteenth century; a descendant of one of the oldest families of Lithuania and Samogitia...
Montana Butte JE ...
Laemmlein Buttenwieser JE German Talmudist and linguist; born in Wassertrüdingen, Bavaria, Jan. 16, 1825; died in New York city Sept. 23, 1901...
Johannes Buxtorf (buxtorff) JE The principal founder of rabbinical study among Christian scholars; born Dec. 25, 1564, at Kamen, Westphalia; died Sept. 13...
Johannes Buxtorf JE Johannes Buxtorf, the son of the elder; known as Johannes Buxtorf II.; Christian Hebraist; born at Basel Aug. 13, 1599; died...
Johannes B Buxtorf JE Nephew of Johannes Jakob Buxtorf; born Jan. 8, 1663; died June 19, 1732. He was professor of Hebrew at Basel, and published...
Johannes Jakob Buxtorf JE Professor of Hebrew at Basel; son of Johannes Buxtorf II. by his fourth wife; born Sept. 4, 1645; died April 4, 1705. According...
Johannes Rudolphus Buxtorf JE Great-grandson of Johannes Buxtorf I.; born at Basel Oct. 24, 1747; died 1815. After completing his studies in his native...
Buz JE Second son of Nahor (Gen. xxii. 21). From the language of the genealogical lists, however, it is to be inferred that the name...
Buzaglio, Buzagli, JE Cabalist; born in Morocco (where his father was "rosh yeshibah") at the beginning of the eighteenth century; died in 1780...
William Buzaglo JE English inventor and empiric; died at London in 1788. His first claim to distinction was his introduction of stoves made on...
Buzecchi JE ...
Byelaya Tzerkov JE Town in the government of Kiev, Russia. Its Jewish settlement must have been formed after 1550, when the waywode of Kiev,...
Byelaya Vezh JE ...
Byelostok JE Town in the government of Grodno, Russia; by rail 52 miles southwest of Grodno; one of the youngest in Lithuania. Little is...
Byelsk JE Town in the government of Grodno, Russia. It is impossible to name the exact date when Jews first settled here. In the sixteenth...
Byeshenkovichi JE Town in the district of Lepelsk, government of Vitebsk, Russia. In 1898, in a total population of 5,000, about 4,000 were...
Emil Byk JE Austrian lawyer and deputy; born Jan. 14, 1845, at Janow, near Trembowla, in Galicia.In 1885 Byk was chosen chairman of the...
Bykhov JE District town in the government of Mohilev, Russia. At the census of 1898 the total population was 6,536, including 3,172...
Byron, George Gordon, Lord JE English poet; born in Halles street, London, Jan. 22, 1788; died at Missolonghi, Greece, April 19, 1824. The only one of his...
Byzantine Expire JE Name given to the eastern division of the Roman empire. On May 11, 330, Constantinople became the capital of the Roman empire...

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