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1. Jaarbooken Vor De Israeliten JE ...
2. Jaazer JE A city east of the Jordan, in or near Gilead (Num. xxxii. 1, 3; I Chron. l.c.), and inhabited by the Amorites. It was taken...
3. Jabal Ibn Jawwal JE Jewish Arabic poet of the seventh century; contemporary of Mohammed. According to Ibn Hisham ("Kitab Sirat Rasul Allah," ed...
4. Abu Al-Ṭayyib Al- Jabali JE Karaite scholar of the tenth century. His full name is said to have been Samuel ben Asher ben Manṣur. The surname "al-Jabali"...
5. Jabbok JE One of the principal tributaries of the Jordan; first mentioned in connection with the meeting of Jacob and Esau and with...
6. Jabesh JE Principal city of Gilead, east of the Jordan. It is first mentioned in connection with the war between the Benjamites and...
7. Jabez JE Eponym of a clan of the Kenite family of the Rechabites, which clan was merged into the tribe of Judah. I Chron. ii. 55 refers...
8. Barzillai Ben Baruch Jabez JE Turkish Talmudist of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; son-in-law of Elijah Ḥako, author of "Ruaḥ Eliyahu...
9. Isaac Ben Solomon Ben Isaac Ben Joseph Ha-doresh Jabez JE Turkish Biblical exegete and preacher in the second half of the sixteenth century; a descendant of Joseph Jabez. He wrote:...
10. Joseph Ben Hayyim Jabez JE Spanish theologian of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He lived for a time in Portugal, where he associated with Joseph...
11. Jabin JE King of Hazor; head of one of the great confederations which faced Joshua in his conquest of Canaan (Josh. xi.). He summoned...
12. Daniel E Jablonski JE German Christian theologian and Orientalist; born Nov. 26, 1660, in Danzig; died May 25, 1741, in Berlin. After spending some...
13. Jabneh JE Philistine city; taken by Uzziah, who demolished its wall (II Chron. xxvi. 6). Jabneh is mentioned with Gath and Ashdod, two...
14. Jaca JE City of Aragon, Spain. Jews were settled here as early as the eleventh century, during which the city became the seat of a...
15. Jachin JE 1. The righthand pillar of the two brazen ones set up in the porch of the Temple of Solomon, that on the left or north being...
16. Jackal JE ...
17. JÄcklin (jacob) JE Jewish financier of Ulm in the fourteenth century; married the daughter of the "Grossjuden" Moses of Ehingen. Jäcklin...
18. Harry Jackson JE English actor; born in London 1836; died there Aug. 13, 1885. At an early age he left England for Australia, where he adopted...
19. Jacob JE Third patriarch; son of Isaac and Rebekah, and ancestor of the Israelites. Hewas born when his father was sixty years old...
20. Blessing Of Jacob JE Name given to the chapter containing the prophetic utterances of Jacob concerning the destiny of his twelve sons as the fathers...
21. Jacob JE Tanna of the second century; probably identical with Jacob b. Ḳorshai (= "the Ḳorshaite," or "of Ḳorsha")...
22. Jacob B Aaron Of Karlin JE Russian rabbi and author; died at Karlin, government of Minsk, 1855. He was a grandson of Baruch of Shklov, the mathematician...
23. Jacob B Abba JE Babylonian scholar of the third century; junior to Rab (B. M. 41a). He was an expert dialectician, and prevailed in argument...
24. Jacob B Abba Mari JE ...
25. Jacob Bar Abina (abin; Bun) JE Palestinian amora of the fourth century. He is known as having transmitted the haggadot of Samuel b. Naḥman, Abbahu...
26. Jacob Ben Abraham Faitusi JE Tunisian scholar; died at Algiers July, 1812. He settled in the later part of his life at Jerusalem, whence he was sent as...
27. Jacob Bar Aha JE Palestinian amora of the third generation (latter part of the third century); contemporary of R. Ze'era. He rarely gives...
28. Jacob Ben Amram JE Polemical writer of the seventeenth century. He wrote in 1634, in Latin, a book against the religion of the Christians, with...
29. Jacob Ben Asher JE German codifier and Biblical commentator; died at Toledo, Spain, before 1340. Very little is known of Jacob's life; and...
30. Abril) Benedict (benet) Jacob (aberle JE Rabbi at Alt-Ofen at the beginning of the nineteenth century; son of Mordecai b. Abraham Benet (Marcus Benedict). Jacob was...
31. Jacob Ben Benjamin Zeeb Sak JE About 1665 Jacob was appointed rabbi of Trebitsch, later of Ungarisch-Brod, and after the death of Ephraim he officiated in...
32. Benno Jacob JE German rabbi and Biblical scholar; born at Breslau Sept. 8, 1862; educated at the gymnasium, the university, and the theological...
33. Jacob Berah De-bat Samuel JE Mari b. Rachel b. Samuel. See under Gaon; Mar.
34. Jacob Bar Berateh De-elisha Aher JE ...
35. Jacob Çadique (Ẓaddik) JE Spanish physician and writer; born at Ucles in the second third of the fourteenth century. He devoted himself to the study...
36. Jacob Of Chinon JE French tosafist; lived about 1190-1260. He was a pupil of Isaac ben Abraham of Dampierre and a teacher of Perez of Corbeil...
37. Jacob Of Corbeil JE French tosafist of the twelfth century. He was the brother of Judah of Corbeil, author of tosafot to various treatises of...
38. Jacob Of Coucy JE French tosafist of the thirteenth century; mentioned in tosafot to Ḳiddushin (43b, 67a), by Mordecai, and in Joseph...
39. Jacob Ben David ProvenÇal JE French Talmudist of the fifteenth century; not to be confounded with the astronomer Jacob ben David ben Yom-Ṭob Po&#39...
40. Jacob B Eleazar JE Spanish grammarian of the first third of the thirteenth century. The assumption that he lived in the first third of the twelfth...
41. Jacob B Eliezer JE ...
42. Jacob Ben Ephraim JE Syrian Talmudist of the tenth century. From Salmon b. Jeroham's commentary to Psalms (cxl. 6) it appears that Jacob b...
43. Jacob Ben Ephraim Of Lublin JE Polish rabbi; died in Lublin 1648. At first he occupied the post of rabbi and instructor at the yeshibah of that city, whence...
44. Jacob Of Fulda JE ...
45. Jacob The Galilean JE Son of the Judah who caused an uprising against the Romans at the time of the taxation under Quirinius. Jacob followed his...
46. Jacob Gebulaah (gebulaya) JE Palestinian scholar of the third century; disciple of Johanan (Yer. Yeb. viii. 9b). He seems also to have sat at the feet...
47. Jacob B Gershom Ha-gozer JE German Talmudist of the twelfth century. He was a nephew of Ephraim b. Jacob of Bonn, with whom he carried on a scientific...
48. Jacob The Gnostic JE See James (the Just).
49. Jacob Ben Hananeel Sekili JE Bible commentator and cabalist; lived in the fourteenth century. He was the author of "Minḥat ha-Bikkurim," the first...
50. Jacob Ben Hayyim Ben Isaac Ibn Adonijah JE Masorite and printer; born about 1470 at Tunis (hence sometimes called Tunisi); died before 1538. He left his native country...
51. Jacob B Immanuel ProvenÇal JE ...
52. Israel Jacob JE German banker and philanthropist; born April 14, 1729, at Halberstadt; died Nov. 25, 1803. He was widely respected for his...
53. Jacob Ben Israel Ha-levi JE Rabbi of Zante; died on that island in 1634. He was a native of Morea, Greece, and passed the earlier part of his life at...
54. Jacob B Jacob Ha-kohen JE Spanish cabalist of the end of the thirteenth century; born at Soria; buried at Segovia; also called Gikatilla, according...
55. Jacob Ben Jacob Moses Of Lissa JE German Talmudist; died in Stryj, Galicia, May 25, 1832. He was a great-grandson of Ẓebi Ashkenazi and a pupil of Meshullam...
56. Jacob Ben Jekuthiel JE French Talmudic scholar; born at Rouen; died at Arras in 1023. Jacob became known by the fact that he was the bearer of a...
57. Jacob Ben Jeremiah Mattithiah Ha-levi JE German translator of the seventeenth century. He translated into Judæo-German Abraham Jagel's "Leḳaḥ...
58. Jacob Ben Joel JE Russian rabbi in Brest-Litovsk in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He wrote: "She'erit Ya'aḳob," containing...
59. Jacob Ben Joseph Israel JE French scholar; lived at Pont-Audemer in the twelfth century; pupil of Jacob Tam, with whom he carried on a correspondence...
60. Jacob Joshua Ben Ẓebi Hirsch JE Polish rabbi; born at Cracow in 1680; died at Offenbach Jan. 16, 1756. On his mother's side he was a grandson of Joshua...
61. Jacob Judah Aryeh Leon JE ...
62. Jacob Ben Judah Hazzan Of London JE English codifier of the thirteenth century. His grandfather was one Jacob he-Aruk (possibly Jacob le Long). In 1287 Jacob...
63. Jacob Ben Judah LÖb JE Polish rabbi; lived in the second half of the eighteenth century. Educated as a Talmudist, he became rabbi of Krasnopolie...
64. Julius Jacob JE German landscape- and portrait-painter; born in Berlin April 25, 1811; died there Oct. 20, 1882. He studied under Wach at...
65. Jacob Of Kefar Hanan (hanin) JE Palestinian amora of the third generation (3d and 4th cent.). Jacob is especially known as a haggadist (Pesiḳ. iv. 30b...
66. Jacob Of Kefar HiṬṬaya JE Palestinian scholar of the second century; contemporary of Judah I. Jacob is said to have been in the habit of visiting his...
67. Jacob Of Kefar Neburaya JE Judæo-Christian of the fourth century. Neburaya is probably identical with Nabratain, a place to the north of Safed,...
68. Jacob Of Kefar Sekanya (simaÏ) JE Judæo-Christian of the first century; mentioned on two occasions, in both Talmuds and in the Midrash. Meeting R. Eliezer...
69. Jacob B Korshai JE ...
70. Jacob Ha-levi He-hasid JE French rabbi and cabalist; lived in the thirteenth century, at Marvège. It was said that by prayers and invocations he...
71. Jacob Loanz B Jehiel JE ...
72. Jacob Of London JE First known presbyter of the Jews of England; appointed to that position by King John in 1199, who also gave him a safe conduct...
73. Jacob Of Lunel JE ...
74. Jacob Ben MeÏr Tam JE Most prominent of French tosafists; born at Ramerupt, on the Seine, in 1100; died at Troyes June 9, 1171. His mother, Jochebed...
75. Jacob Ben Mordecai JE German scholar; flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A native of Fulda, he was generally called "Jacob...
76. Jacob Ben Mordecai Ha-kohen JE Gaon of Sura from 801 to 815; succeeded Hilai ben Mari. He officiated fourteen years, according to a text of Sherira ("M....
77. Jacob Ben Moses Ben Abun JE Head of the yeshibah of Narbonne, France. As Abraham b. David in his "Sefer ha-Ḳabbalah" (MS. quoted by Abraham Zacuto...
78. Jacob Ben Moses Of Bagnols JE Provençal theologian of the second half of the fourteenth century; lived successively at Salon, Avignon, and Argon. He...
79. Jacob B Moses MÖlln JE ...
80. Jacob Ibn Na'im JE Rabbi of Smyrna toward the end of the seventeenth century. He corresponded with Ḥayyim Benveniste, author of "Keneset...
81. Jacob Ben Naphtali JE Talmudist of Gnesen; flourished about 1650. His father was clerk of the Jewry in Great Poland (), and died in 1646. Jacob...
82. Jacob Ben Naphtali Ha-kohen JE Italian printer; born in Gazolo; lived in the sixteenth century. For some time prior to 1556 he was the manager of Tobiah...
83. Jacob Ben Nathanael Ibn Al-fayyumi JE Rosh yeshibah of the Yemen Jews in the second half of the twelfth century. All that is known of him is that at the suggestion...
84. Jacob Bar NaṬronai JE Gaon of Sura (911-924). After the death of his predecessor, Shalom bar Mishael, the Academy of Sura became impoverished and...
85. Jacob Nazir JE French exegete; flourished in the second half of the twelfth century; one of the five sons of Meshullam ben Jacob of Lunel...
86. Jacob Ben Nissim Ibn Shahin JE Philosopher; lived at Kairwan in the tenth century; younger contemporary of Saadia. At Jacob's request Sherira Gaon wrote...
87. Jacob Ben Obadiah Sforno JE Italian scholar; lived at Venice in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was the author of a work entitled "Iggeret...
88. Jacob Of Orleans JE French tosafist; died as a martyr in London Sept. 3, 1189. He was one of the most distinguished pupils of Rabbenu Tam, being...
89. Jacob Of Pont Saint-maxence JE French tax-farmer of the fourteenth century. With Manecier of Vesoul and his brother Vivant he was appointed (1360) by Charles...
90. Jacob B Reuben JE Karaite Bible exegete of the eleventh century. He wrote a brief Hebrew commentary on the entire Bible, which he entitled "Sefer...
91. Jacob Ben Reuben Ibn Ẓur JE Talmudist and rabbi of Fez; born in the latter part of the seventeenth century; died after 1750. That his reputation as a...
92. Jacob Roman Ibn Pakuda JE ...
93. Jacob Ben Samson JE French tosafist and liturgist; flourished at Paris or at Falaise in the first third of the twelfth century. He is mentioned...
94. Jacob B Samuel Sirkes JE ...
95. Jacob Ben Sheshet Gerondi JE Spanish cabalist of Gerona (whence his surname "Gerondi") in the thirteenth century. He was the author of "Sha'ar ha-Shamayim...
96. Jacob Ben Solomon JE French tosafist; born at Courson, department of the Yonne; flourished between 1180 and 1250. He was a pupil of Samson of Sens...
97. Jacob Ben Sosa JE Idumean leader. In the great war against Rome, 67-70, when Simon bar Giora went on a raid through Idumæa to take provisions...
98. Jacob Temerls JE ...
99. Jacob Tub (tawus) JE ...
100. Jacob Uziel JE ...
101. Jacob Of Vienna JE Austrian rabbi and Biblical commentator of the fourteenth century. The Munich MSS. (Hebrew) contain a commentary on the Pentateuch...
102. Jacob (b Judah) Weil JE ...
103. Jacob Ben Wolf Kranz Of Dubno (dubner Maggid) JE Russian preacher; born at Zietil, government of Wilna, about 1740; died at Zamosc Dec. 18, 1804. At the age of eighteen he...
104. Jacob B Yakar JE German Talmudist; flourished in the first half of the eleventh century. He was a pupil of Gershom b. Judah in Mayence, and...
105. Jacob Ben Zabda JE Palestinian amora of the fourth generation (4th cent.); junior contemporary, and probably pupil, of Abbahu, in whose name...
106. Abraham Jacobi JE American physician; born at Hartum, near Minden, Westphalia, May 6, 1830; educated at the universities of Greifswald, G&#246...
107. Heinrich Otto Jacobi JE German philologist; born at Tütz, West Prussia, 1815; died in Berlin 1864. He studied at Berlin University, and received...
108. Karl Gustav Jakob Jacobi JE German mathematician; born Dec. 10, 1804, at Potsdam; died at Berlin Feb. 18, 1851; brother of Moritz Hermaun Jacobi. He studied...
109. Moritz Hermann Jacobi JE German physicist; born Sept. 21, 1801, at Potsdam; died March 10, 1874, at St. Petersburg. He was established as architect...
110. Samuel Jacobi JE Danish physician; born in Yaroslav, Galicia, 1764; died in Copenhagen 1811. He studied the Talmud for some years, but later...
111. George Jacobs JE American rabbi of English Sephardic descent; born in Kingston, Jamaica, Sept. 24, 1834; died in Philadelphia July 14, 1884...
112. Henry S Jacobs JE American rabbi; born in Kingston, Jamaica, March 22, 1827; died in New York Sept. 12, 1893. He studied for the Jewish ministry...
113. Joseph Jacobs JE Critic, folklorist, historian, statistician, communal worker; born Aug. 29, 1854, at Sydney, N. S. W.; educated at Sydney...
114. Joseph Jacobs JE English conjurer; born at Canterbury 1813; died Oct. 13, 1870. He first appeared in London at Horn's Tavern, Kennington...
115. Simeon Jacobs JE Judge in the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope; born in 1830; died in London June 15, 1883. He became a barrister of...
116. Paul Jacobsohn JE German physician and hygienist; born in Berlin Sept. 30, 1868; educated at the gymnasium in Berlin and the universities of...
117. Jacobson JE Danish family of engravers, of whom the first important member was Aaron Jacobson (1717-75), who, in the middle of the eighteenth...
118. Eduard Jacobson JE German dramatist; born at Gross Strelitz, Silesia, Nov. 10, 1833 (M.D. Berlin, 1859); died in Berlin Jan. 29, 1897. He established...
119. Heinrich Jacobson JE German physician; born Oct. 27, 1826, at Königsberg, East Prussia; died Dec. 10, 1890, at Berlin; educated at the gymnasium...
120. Heinrich Friedrich Jacobson JE German jurist and writer on ecclesiastical law; born at Marienwerder June 8, 1804; died at Königsberg March 19, 1868...
121. Israel Jacobson JE German philanthropist and reformer; born in Halberstadt Oct. 17, 1768; died in Hanover Sept. 14, 1828. Originally his father&#39...
122. Ludwig Lewin Jacobson JE Danish surgeon; born in Copenhagen Jan. 10, 1783; died there Aug. 29, 1843. He received his early education at the German...
123. Nathan Jacobson JE American surgeon; born in Syracuse, N. Y., June 25, 1857. He was graduated from Syracuse University, and took a postgraduate...
124. Johann Eduard Jacobsthal JE German architect; born at Stargard, Pomerania, Sept. 17, 1839. He studied at the architectural academy in Berlin, and, after...
125. Johann Jacoby JE German physician and statesman; born at Königsberg, Prussia, May 1, 1805; died there March 6, 1877. The son of a well-to-do...
126. Louis Jacoby JE German engraver; born June 7, 1828, at Havelberg, Brandenburg, Germany; pupil of the engraver Mandel of Berlin, in which city...
127. Jacopo (jacomo) Sansecondo JE Italian musician of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; born about 1468. Jacopo was an eminent violinist; his reputation...
128. Heinrich Jacques JE Austrian deputy; born in Vienna Feb. 24, 1831; shot himself Jan. 25, 1894. He studied philosophy and history at Heidelberg...
129. Jacques Pasha (jacques Nissim Pasha) JE Turkish army surgeon; born in 1850 at Salonica; died there Aug. 25, 1903. The son of a physician, he was sent at an early...
130. Josef Jadassohn JE German physician; born at Liegnitz Sept. 10, 1863. He was educated at the universities of Göttingen, Breslau, Heidelberg...
131. Solomon Jadassohn JE German composer and music teacher; born at Breslau, Prussia, Aug. 13, 1831; pupil at the Breslau gymnasium and of Hesse (pianoforte)...
132. Jaddua JE High priest at the time of the Second Temple. According to Neh. xii. 11, his father's name was Jonathan, but according...
133. The Kenite Woman Jael JE Wife of Heber, the Kenite (Judges iv. 17). Jabin, the king of Canaan, "that reigned in Hazor," had tyrannized over Israel...
134. Jaen JE Capital of the province of Jaen in Andalusia, Spain. It possessed a flourishing Jewish community as early as the thirteenth...
135. Jaffa JE City of Palestine and Mediterranean port, 35 miles northwest of Jerusalem. In ancient times it was Palestine's only point...
136. Jaffe (joffe) JE Family of rabbis, scholars, and communal workers, with members in Germany, Austria, Russia, Great Britain, Italy, and the...
137. Abraham Ben Hananiah Dei Galicchi Jagel JE Italian catechist, philosopher, and cabalist; born at Monselice; lived successively at Luzzara, Venice, Ferrara, and Sassuolo...
138. Jagel, Gamaliel Ben Hananiah, Of Monselice JE Italian scholar; lived at Ferrara, later at Parma, in the seventeenth century. He filled the position of chief rabbi or head...
139. Jahrzeit JE Judæo-German term denoting the anniversary of a death, commemorated by mourning and by reciting the Ḳaddish. The...
140. Jahvist JE The name given in modern Bible criticism to the supposed author of those portions of the Pentateuch (or of the Hexateuch)...
141. Jail JE ...
142. Jair JE A contemporary of Moses, called in the Pentateuch "son of Manasseh," who in the beginning of the conquest took from the Amorites...
143. Mordecai B David Jalomstein JE American journalist; born in Suwalki, Russian Poland, 1835; died in New York city Aug. 18, 1897. He was well versed in Talmudic...
144. Jamaica JE Largest island in the British West Indies. It has a total population of 644,841 (1901), of whom about 2,400 are Jews. When...
145. James JE Name of three persons prominent in New Testament history. (see image) Synagogue at Spanish Town, Jamaica.(From a photograph...
146. General Epistle Of James JE Letter of exhortation and instruction, written by "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ," and addressed "to...
147. David (david Belasco) James JE English comedian; born at Birmingham 1839; died in London Oct. 3, 1893. Under the auspices of Charles Kean, James made his...
148. Jamnia JE ...
149. Janina JE City in Albania, European Turkey, on the lake of Janina.The community, which was flourishing in the middle of the nineteenth...
150. Jannai JE ...
151. Jannes And Jambres JE Names of two legendary wizards of Pharaoh "who withstood Moses" (II Tim. iii. 8) by imitating "with their enchantments" the...
152. David Janowski JE Russian chess-player; born May 25, 1868, in Russian Poland. He learned to play chess as a child, but did not make a serious...
153. Januarius JE Talmudic name of a legendary hero; it is taken from the name of the first of the twelve Roman months. R. Johanan, in Yer....
154. Japheth JE One of the sons of Noah, and the ancestor of a branch of the human race called "Japhetites." Japheth and his two brothers...
155. Japheth Ha-levi JE Karaite Bible translator and commentator; flourished at Jerusalem between 950 and 980. He was one of the most able Bible commentators...
156. Japhia JE 1. King of Lachish, and one of the five kings who, entering into a confederacy against Joshua (Josh. x. 3), were killed by...
157. Japho JE ...
158. Jare JE Name of an ancient Italian family of scholars dating back to the fifteenth century. Giuseppe Jaré: Italian rabbi;...
159. Jargon JE ...
160. Nehorai Jarmon JE ...
161. Josef (josef Cohen) Jarno JE Austrian actor; born at Budapest Aug. 24, 1866. He was educated for a mercantile career, but went on the stage when nineteen...
162. Jaroslaw JE ...
163. Aaron Jaroslaw JE One of the Biurists; a tutor in the house of Mendelssohn; afterward teacher at Lemberg. His commentary on the Book of Numbers...
164. Book Of Jasher JE A book, apparently containing heroic songs, mentioned twice in the Old Testament: in the account of the battle of Gibeon a...
165. Jason JE High priest from 174 to 171 B.C.; brother of the high priest Onias III. During the absence of Onias, who had been summoned...
166. Jason Of Cyrene JE Judæo-Hellenistic historian. He wrote a history of the Maccabean revolt in five books, from which the author of II Maccabees...
167. Jassy (jaschi) JE City of Rumania. Jassy contains the oldest and most important Jewish community of Moldavia, of which principality it was formerly...
168. Ignaz Jastrow JE German economist and statistician; born Sept. 13, 1856, at Nakel. Having studied at Breslau, Berlin, and Göttingen (Ph...
169. Joseph Jastrow JE American psychologist; born Jan. 30, 1863, at Warsaw, Poland. He accompanied his father, Dr. Marcus Jastrow, to the United...
170. Marcus (mordecai) Jastrow JE American rabbi and scholar; born June 5, 1829, at Rogasen, Prussian Poland; died Oct. 13, 1903, at Germantown, Pa.; fifth...
171. Jastrow, Morris, Jr JE American Orientalist and librarian; son of Marcus Jastrow; born Aug. 13, 1861, at Warsaw, Poland. His family removed to the...
172. Jativa JE City in the kingdom of Valencia. The Jews of this locality were granted special privileges by Don Jaime, the conqueror of...
173. Emile Javal JE French physician and deputy; born May 5, 1839, at Paris; son of Leopold Javal. Emile studied both medicine and mineralogy...
174. Ernest Leopold Javal JE French administrative officer; born Sept. 25, 1843, at Paris; died there Sept. 1, 1897; son of Leopold Javal. He was a lieutenant...
175. Leopold Javal JE French politician; born at Mülhausen Dec. 1, 1804; died at Paris March 28, 1872. The son of a wealthy merchant, he entered...
176. Javan JE Name of one of the seven sons of Japheth, given in the list of nations (Gen. x. 2, 4; comp. I Chron. i. 5, 7), and as such...
177. Samuel Isaac Jawlikar JE Beni-Israel; born about 1820 in Bombay. He enlisted in the Third Bombay Native Light Infantry April 4, 1840; was promoted...
178. Mount Jearim JE ...
179. Jebus JE ...
180. Jebusites JE One of the nations that occupied Palestine at the time of the invasion of the Israelites. In the list of the sons of Canaan...
181. Jeconiah JE ...
182. Jedaiah Penini JE ...
183. Jedidah JE Mother of Josiah, King of Judah; daughter of Adaiah. of Boscath, and wife of Amon (II Kings xxi. 26, xxii. 1). The name means...
184. Jedidiah (gottlieb) Ben Abraham Israel JE Galician preacher and Masorite; lived at Lemberg in the seventeenth century. He wrote: "Ahabat ha-Shem," fifty haggadic expositions...
185. Jedidiah Ben Moses Of Recanati JE Italian scholar; flourished in the second half of the sixteenth century. At the request of Immanuel di Fano, Jedidiah translated...
186. Jedidja JE ...
187. Jeduthun JE The name of one of the three great orders or gilds of Temple singers, in charge of the music of the Temple from David&#39...
188. Jehiel Anaw JE ...
189. Jehiel Ben Asher JE Liturgical poet; flourished in Andalusia in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. He was the author of four liturgical poems...
190. Jehiel B Jekuthiel Anaw JE ...
191. Jehiel Ben Joseph Of Paris JE Tosafist and controversialist; born at Meaux at the end of the twelfth century; died in Palestine in 1286. His French name...
192. Jehiel Michael Ben Eliezer JE Rabbi at Nemirov, Russia; murdered May, 1648. When the hordes of Chmielnicki, taking Nemirov, began the work of pillage and...
193. Jehiel Michael Ben Judah LÖb JE Rabbi of Berlin; died March, 1728. After filling the office of rabbi in several Polish communities he removed about 1701 to...
194. Jehiel Michael Ben Uzziel Of Glogau JE Rabbinical author; died in Vienna 1730. He was well versed in the Midrashim, and was the author of "Nezer ha-Ḳodesh...
195. Jehiel Of Pisa JE Philanthropist and scholar of Pisa; died there Feb. 10, 1492. The wealth he had acquired in the banking business he spent...
196. Jehoahaz JE Son of Jehu; second king in the fifth dynasty of northern Israel; reigned 814-797 B.C. During the period of his rule Syria...
197. Jehoash JE ...
198. Jehoiachin JE King of Judah; son and successor of Jehoiakim (II Kings xxiv. 6); reigned a little over three months. He was scarcely on the...
199. Jehoiada JE High priest under Ahaziah, Athaliah, and Jehoash (Joash). By his marriage with the princess Jehosheba or Jehoshabeath, daughter...
200. Jehoiakim JE King of Judah (608-597 B.C.); eldest son of Josiah, and brother and successor of Jehoahaz (Shallum), whom Pharaohnecho had...
201. Jehonadab (jonadab) JE Son of Rechab, a Kenite (I Chron. ii. 55), the founder of the so-called Rechabites (I Chron. ii. 55; Jer. xxxv. 6-7). The...
202. Jehoram (joram) JE King of Israel (852-842 B.C.); son of Ahab and Jezebel; brother and successor of Ahaziah. Like his predecessors, Jehoram worshiped...
203. Jehoshabeath JE Daughter of Jehoram, King of Judah, and wife of the high priest Jehoiada, together with whom she saved her brother's son...
204. Jehoshaphat JE Son of Asa; fourth king of Judah (873-c. 849 B.C.); contemporary of Ahab, Ahaziah, and Jehoram, kings of Israel. He inaugurated...
205. Valley Of Jehoshaphat JE A valley mentioned by the prophet Joel (Joel iv. [A. V. iii.] 2, 12), where, after the return of Judah and Jerusalem from...
206. Jehovah JE A mispronunciation (introduced by Christian theologians, but almost entirely disregarded by the Jews) of the Hebrew "Yhwh...
207. Jehovah-jireh JE Name given by Abraham to the place where he sacrificed a ram instead of his son Isaac (Gen. xxii. 14). The name may be an...
208. Jehu JE Son of Jehoshaphat and grandson of Nimshi, founder of the fifth Israelitish dynasty (842-743 B.C.); died 815 B.C., in the...
209. Jehuda JE ...
210. Jehudi B Sheshet JE Hebrew philologist of the tenth century; pupil of Dunash b. Labraṭ. He is known exclusively through the polemic in which...
211. Jeiteles (jeitteles) JE Austrian family of some importance, which can be traced back to the first half of the eighteenth century. Aaron (Andreas)...
212. Alois Jeiteles JE Austrian physician and poet; born June 20, 1794 (or 1795), at Brünn, Moravia; died there April 16, 1858. He studied philosophy...
213. Rabbi Jekel JE ...
214. Jekuthiel Ibn Hasan JE Statesman and scientist of the eleventh century; lived in Saragossa. According to Geiger, he is identical with the astronomer...
215. Jekuthiel Ben Judah Ha-kohen JE Grammarian of Prague; lived in the second half of the thirteenth century. Baer claimed to have seen a manuscript which gave...
216. Jekuthiel Ben LÖb Gordon JE Russian physician and cabalist; born at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Even as a young man he enjoyed a reputation...
217. Jekuthiel Ben Solomon JE French physician; lived at Narbonne in the second half of the fourteenth century. In 1387 he translated into Hebrew, under...
218. Jekuthiel Of Wilna JE ...
219. Aryeh LÖb Jelin JE Rabbi of Byelsk, government of Grodno, Russia; born 1820; died April 2, 1886. He was one of the most prominent Russian rabbis...
220. Jellinek JE Austrian family whose name has been rendered illustrious by the great preacher Adolf Jellinek. Adolf Jellinek: Austrian...
221. Abraham Naphtali Hirz Ben Mordecai Jener JE Polish rabbi; born at Yanov 1806; died at Cracow July 14, 1876. He was a pupil of his father and of his brother Johanan, and...
222. Jephthah JE Judge of Israel during six years (Judges xii. 7); conqueror of the Ammonites. According to Judges xi. 1, he was a Gileadite...
223. Jerahmeel JE David, while he was a refugee at the court of Achish, King of Gath, is said to have made a raid against the "south of the...
224. Jeremiah JE Son of Hilkiah; prophet in the days of Josiah and his sons. § I. Life: In the case of no other Israelitish prophet...
225. Book Of Jeremiah JE Contents: At the beginning of the book is a superscription (i. 1-3) which, after giving the parentage of Jeremiah, fixes the...
226. Epistle Of Jeremiah JE A Greek apocryphon, being a fictitious letter which Jeremiah is supposed to have written to the Jews who were about to be...
227. The Lamentations Of Jeremiah JE ...
228. Jeremiah JE Polish rabbi in the second half of the eighteenth century; head of the yeshibah at Mattersdorf, Hungary, in which he devoted...
229. Jeremiah JE Palestinian scholar of the fourth century; always quoted by the single name "Jeremiah," though sometimes that name is used...
230. Jeremiah B Abba JE Babylonian amora of the third century; disciple and fellow of Rab (Ber. 27b). In Yerushalmi his patronymic is often omitted...
231. Jeremiah Of Difta JE Babylonian amora of the fourth century; contemporary of Papi (B. B. 52a; 'Ab. Zarah 40a). Rabbina, who eventually assisted...
232. Jeremiah Ben Eleazar JE Palestinian scholar of the second century; contemporary of Simeon b. Gamaliel, the father of Judah I. He is known through...
233. Jeremiah Ben Jacob Ben Israel Naphtali JE German Talmudist and philanthropist; died in Halberstadt before 1664. Like his father, Jacob (Jockel Halberstadt), Jeremiah...
234. Jerez De La Frontera JE ...
235. Jericho JE A city in the Jordan valley, opposite Nebo (Deut. xxxii. 49), to the west of Gilgal (Josh. iv. 19). Owing to its importance...
236. Jeridie-terjume JE Title of a Jewish periodical, written in Judæo-Spanish, and printed in rabbinic characters, which was published at Constantinople...
237. Jeroboam JE Name of two kings of Israel. The meaning generally attached to the name is "[he] strives with [oppresses] the people," or...
238. Jeroham Ben Meshullam JE French Talmudist; flourished in the first half of the fourteenth century. According to Gross, he lived in Languedoc, but on...
239. Jerome (eusebius Hieronymus Sophronius) JE Church father; next to Origen, who wrote in Greek, the most learned student of the Bible among the Latin ecclesiastical writers...
240. Jersey City JE ...
241. Jerubbaal JE A name given to Gideon by his father, Joash (Judges vi. 32), because the men of the city of Ophrah demanded that he turn over...
242. Jerusalem JE Capital at first of all Israel, later of the kingdom of Judah; chief city of Palestine; situated in 31° 46′ 45&#8243...
243. Jerusalem JE ...
244. Jeschurun JE Periodical published in Frankfort-on-the-Main and subsequently in Hanover. Founded in Oct., 1854, it was issued as a monthly...
245. Jeschurun (zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums) JE Periodical edited and published by Joseph Isaac Kobak. Among its contributors were S. L. Rapoport, S. D. Luzzatto, A. H. Weiss...
246. Jesharelah JE ...
247. Jeshibah JE ...
248. Jeshua Ben Judah JE Karaite exegete and philosopher; flourished, probably at Jerusalem, in the second half of the eleventh century; pupil of Joseph...
249. Jeshurun JE Poetical name for Israel, occurring four times in the Bible (Deut. xxxii. 15, xxxiii. 5, 26; Isa. xliv. 2; in the last-cited...
250. Samuel Jesi JE Italian engraver; born at Milan 1789; died at Florence Jan. 17, 1853. He was a pupil of G. Longhi at the Academy of Milan...
251. Jesse JE Father of David, son of Obed, and grandson of Boaz and Ruth. He is called "the Bethlehemite" (I Sam. xvi. 1, 18; xvii. 58)...
252. Sir George Jessel JE English master of the rolls; born in London 1824; died there March 21, 1883; youngest son of Zadok Aaron Jessel. Educatedat...
253. Jesurun JE A family whose members were descendants of the Spanish exiles, and are found mainly in Amsterdam and Hamburg. The earliest...
254. Jesus Of Nazareth JE Founder of Christianity; born at Nazareth about 2 B.C. (according to Luke iii. 23); executed at Jerusalem 14th of Nisan, 3789...
255. Jesus B Phabi JE High priest (c. 30 B.C.). He was deposed by Herod the Great, his office being given to Simon, the son of Boethus, the king&#39...
256. Jesus Sirach JE ...
257. Jesus Ben Zappha JE General (στρατηγός) of Idumæa in the first century, appointed by the revolutionary...
258. Jethro JE Priest of Midian and father-in-law of Moses (Ex. iii. 1 et al.). In the account of the marriage of his daughter Zipporah to...
259. Jew (the Word) JE Up to the seventeenth century this word was spelled in Middle English in various ways: "Gyu," "Giu," "Gyw," "Iu," "luu," "Iuw...
260. The Jew JE Jewish monthly whose avowed object finds expression in its subtitle as "being a defense of Judaism against all adversaries...
261. Jew Bill JE ...
262. Jew Of Malta JE ...
263. Jacob Jewell JE Owner of the largest traveling circus in England; died Sept., 1884; tenant, under W. Holland, of North Woolwich Gardens for...
264. Jewesses JE Anthropologically considered, Jewesses present certain distinctive physiognomic and epidermic characteristics marking them...
265. Jewish Abend-post JE Yiddish newspaper, issued daily except Saturday and Jewish holidays, established in New York Feb. 3, 1899, by Jacob Saphirstein...
266. Jewish Advance JE ...
267. Jewish Advocate JE ...
268. The Jewish Chronicle JE Oldest and most influential Anglo-Jewish newspaper; published in London, England; next to the "Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums...
269. Jewish Chronicle (baltimore; Boston; Mobile) JE ...
270. The (jüdische Colonialbank) Jewish Colonial Trust JE The financial instrument of the Zionist movement. Its establishment was suggested at the First Zionist Congress, held at Basel...
271. Jewish Colonization Association JE Society founded by Baron de Hirsch Sept., 1891, and incorporated at London under the Companies' Acts of 1862-90, with...
272. Jewish Comment JE A weekly published at Baltimore, Md., since May 29, 1895. Its first editor was Max Myers; he was succeeded by Louis H. Levin...
273. The Jewish Criterion JE American weekly newspaper; established at Pittsburg, Pa., Feb; 8, 1895, by S. Steinfirst and Joseph Mayer. Rabbi Samuel Greenfield...
274. The Jewish Exponent JE A weekly published in Philadelphia and Baltimore since 1887, when it was founded by the Jewish Exponent Publishing Company...
275. Jewish Expositor JE ...
276. Jewish Free Press JE ...
277. Jewish Gazette JE ...
278. Jewish Herald JE ...
279. Jewish Historical Society Of England JE After the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition in 1887, it was proposed by Lucien Wolf to form a historical society to continue...
280. Jewish Lads' Brigade JE Military association of English Jewish boys, formed, organized, and directed by Col. Albert E. W. Goldsmid "to instil into...
281. The Jewish Ledger JE Weekly journal; founded in New Orleans, La., Jan. 4, 1895, by A. Steeg, who is still (1904) its publisher. Its first editor...
282. The Jewish Messenger JE Weekly; published in New York city; founded and edited by R. Samuel M. Isaacs (Jan., 1857). Upon his death his son Abram S...
283. Jewish Morning Journal (morgen Journal) JE The first Yiddish daily morning newspaper; established in New York July 2, 1901, by Jacob Saphirstein, who is still (1904)...
284. Jewish News JE ...
285. Jewish Progress JE ...
286. Jewish Publication Society Of America JE Society for "the publication and dissemination of literary, scientific, and religious works giving instruction in the principles...
287. Jewish Quarterly Review JE Journal of Jewish science; founded in London Oct., 1888; edited by Israel Abrahams and C. G. Montefiore. While containing...
288. Jewish Record (london) JE ...
289. The Jewish Record JE Weekly; published in Philadelphia, Pa., from 1874 until the spring of 1887. Alfred T. Jones was the editor, and later Henry...
290. Jewish Reformer JE ...
291. The Jewish Review JE ...
292. The Jewish Review And Observer JE American weekly newspaper; founded under the name "The Jewish Review" in Nov., 1893, by M. Machol and his son Jacob Machol...
293. Jewish Sabbath Journal JE ...
294. Jewish Schoolfellow JE ...
295. Jewish South JE ...
296. The Jewish Spectator JE The first Jewish weekly journal in the southern United States; founded in Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 19, 1885, by M. Samfield and...
297. Jewish Theological Seminary Of America JE Rabbinic seminary established in New York city under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary Association; founded...
298. Jewish Tidings JE ...
299. London Jewish Times JE ...
300. The; A Journal of Reform and Progress Jewish Times JE A weekly published in New York city. The first number appeared on March 5, 1869, Moritz Ellinger being the publisher, and...
301. Jewish Times And Observer JE ...
302. Jewish Tribune JE ...
303. Jewish Voice JE American weekly newspaper; published in St. Louis, Mo., since Jan. 1, 1888. The present editor, M. Spitz, founded on Aug....
304. Jewish Weekly Review JE ...
305. Jewish Women JE ...
306. The (die Yiddische Welt) Jewish World JE Yiddish daily paper; founded in New York city June 27, 1902, by the Lebanon Printing and Publishing Company (president, H...
307. The Jewish World JE The fourth Jewish newspaper published in London, immediately on the passing of the "Jewish Record." Its first number was issued...
308. Abraham Jonah B Isaiah Jewnin JE Russian Talmudist; a native of Paritz, government of Minsk; died at Grodno June 12, 1848, while still young. He was the author...
309. Jewry JE Originally a designation for Judea and sometimes for the entire Holy Land. The term was afterward applied to any special district...
310. Jews' College JE Rabbinical seminary in London, England; it owes its existence to the chief rabbi Dr. N. M. Adler; the first stone was laid...
311. Jews' Walk JE Name given to the southeast corner of the colonnade in the Royal Exchange, London, owing to the fact that the Jewish brokers...
312. Jezdegerd JE ...
313. Jezebel JE Daughter of Ethbaal, King of Sidon, and wife of Ahab, second king of the fourth dynasty of Israel, founded by Omri (I Kings...
314. Jezelus JE 1. Father of Sechenias, the chief of a family that returned with Ezra from captivity (I Esd. viii. 32). In Ezra viii. 5 he...
315. Jezreel JE See Esdraelon.2. A city of Issachar, mentioned with Chesulloth and Shunem (Josh. xix. 18). Owing to its importance, Jezreel...
316. Solomon Ballajce Jhiratkar JE Beni-Israel soldier; enlisted in the 14th Regiment Bombay N. L. I. in 1818; promoted jemidar Jan. 10, 1839; subahdar Jan....
317. Jid JE ...
318. Jidische Illustrirte Zeitung JE See Peridicals.
319. Jidische Volksbibliothek JE ...
320. Jidischer Puck JE ...
321. Jitomir JE ...
322. Joab JE Son of Zeruiah, David's sister (II Chron. ii. 16), and commander-in-chief of David's army. Joab first appears after...
323. Joab JE Jewish family to which belonged Aaron b. Samuel ha-Nasi, who lived for some time at Oria in Apulia in the second half of the...
324. Joab Ben Jehiel JE Liturgical poet; lived at Rome in the fourteenth century. He belonged to the Beth-El family, and was the author of five piyyu&#7789...
325. Joseph Joachim JE Hungarian violinist; born at Kittsee, near Presburg, Hungary, June 28, 1831. He began to study the violin when he was five...
326. Philip J Joachimsen JE American jurist and communal worker; born in Breslau Nov., 1817; died in New York city Jan. 6, 1890. He emigrated to New York...
327. Ferdinand J Joachimsthal JE German mathematician; born May 9, 1818, at Goldberg, Silesia; died April 5, 1861, at Breslau. In the year of his graduation...
328. Georg Joachimsthal JE German physician; born at Stargard, Pomerania, May 8, 1863. He graduated as doctor of medicine from the University of Berlin...
329. Joash JE Son of Ahaziah and Zibiah of Beer-sheba; eighth king of Judah (II Kings xii. 1, 2). Joash was the only descendant of the house...
330. Job JE Titular hero of the Book of Job. He was a native of Uz, rich, very pious, and upright, and he had seven sons and three daughters...
331. The Book Of Job JE A dramatic poem in forty-two chapters, the characters in which are Job, his wife (mentioned only once, ii. 9), his three friends&#8212...
332. Testament Of Job JE Greek apocryphal book, containing a haggadic story of Job. It was first published by Angelo Mai in the seventh volume of the...
333. Well Of Job JE A deep well, situated just below the junction of the valley of Hinnom with that of Jehoshaphat, the channel of the Kidron...
334. Jobab JE Son of Joktan the Shemite (Gen. x. 29; I Chron. i. 23).2. Son of Zerah of Bozrah; second king of Edom (Gen. xxxvi. 33, 34...
335. Joceus (joce) Of York JE English Jew of the preexpulsion period; leader of the York community at the time of the massacre in 1190. He is mentioned...
336. Jochanan JE ...
337. Jochebed JE Wife and aunt of Amram, and mother of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam (Ex. vi. 20). She was the daughter of Levi, and was born in...
338. Waldemar Jochelson JE Russian explorer and ethnologist; born in Wilna Jan. 1, 1856. He graduated from the gymnasium of Wilna, and became identified...
339. Jod JE ...
340. Joel JE The superscription of the second book of the so-called Minor Prophets names as the author of the book "Joel, the son of Pethuel...
341. Book Of Joel JE The prophecies of the Book of Joel are divided into two parts, comprising respectively (1) ch. i. 2-ii. 17 and (2) ch. ii...
342. David JoËl JE German rabbi and author; born Jan. 12, 1815, at Inowrazlaw, Posen; died Sept. 7, 1882, at Breslau; brother of Manuel Jo&#235...
343. Joel B Isaac Ha-levi JE German tosafist of the twelfth century; born probably at Bonn; died at Cologne about 1200. Joel studied in his youth at Ratisbon...
344. Joel B Judah Selki Ha-levi (lÄmmel?) JE Author of "Dibre ha-Iggeret," a description of the sufferings of the Jews of Glogau when that town was besieged by the Prussians...
345. Karl JoËl JE German philosophical writer; born March 27, 1864, at Hirschberg, Silesia; son of Rabbi H. Joël of that city and nephew...
346. Lewis Joel JE British consul-general to Chile; born in Dublin 1824; died in London Feb. 28, 1899. He was educated at Bristol; in May, 1861...
347. Manuel JoËl JE German rabbi; born Oct. 19, 1826, at Birnbaum, province of Posen; died at Breslau Nov. 3, 1890; son of Rabbi Heimann Jo&#235...
348. Joel Ibn Shu'aib JE ...
349. Johanan B Baroka JE Teacher of the second century (second and third tannaitic periods); disciple of Joshua b. Hananiah and colleague of Eleazar...
350. Johanan Gadi JE Eldest of the five sons of Mattathias the Maccabee (I Macc. ii. 2; Josephus, "Ant." xii. 6, § 1), though the least important...
351. Johanan B Gudgada JE Scholar and chief gatekeeper at the Temple in the last years of its existence (Tosef., Sheḳ. ii. 14); senior of Joshua...
352. Johanan Ben Ha-horanit JE Palestinian tanna of the first generation; disciple of Hillel (according to Frankel, "Darke ha-Mishnah," p. 53, note 8, a...
353. Johanan Ben Isaac Of Holleschau JE Rabbi of the German community of London at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He edited "Teshubot ha-Geonim," responsa...
354. Johanan Ben Jehoiada JE High priest under Artaxerxes Ochus (359-338 B.C.); perhaps identical with the one mentioned in Neh. xii. 11 ("Johanan" being...
355. Johanan Ben Kareah JE General of the Israelites at the time of Nebuchadnezzar (c. 586 B.C.). After the kingdom of Judea had been destroyed by the...
356. Johanan Ben Meriya JE Palestinian amora of the fifth or sixth generation (4th and 5th cent.). Johanan is frequently mentioned in the Talmud of Jerusalem...
357. Johanan B Nappaha (ha-nappah) JE Palestinian scholar; born at Sepphoris in the last quarter of the second century; died at Tiberias 279. He is generally cited...
358. Johanan B Ha-nazuf JE Friend of Gamaliel II. (first and second centuries). It is related that Ḥalafta once went to Tiberias and found Gamaliel...
359. Johanan B Nuri JE Tanna of the first and second centuries; junior of Gamaliel II. and senior of Akiba (Sifra, Ḳedoshim, iv. 9; 'Ar...
360. Johanan Ha-sandalar JE Tanna of the second century; one of Akiba's disciples that survived the Hadrianic persecutions and transmitted the traditional...
361. Johanan B Torta JE Scholar of the first and second centuries; contemporary of Akiba. When Akiba hailed Bar Kokba as the Messiah, the latter exclaimed...
362. Johanan B Zakkai JE The most important tanna in the last decade of the Second Temple, and, after the destruction of Jerusalem, the founder and...
363. Johannes De Capua JE ...
364. Johannes Hispalensis JE Baptized Jew who flourished between 1135 and 1153; his Jewish name is unknown and has been corrupted into "Avendeut," "Avendehut"...
365. Johannes Pauli JE German humorist and convert to Christianity; born about 1455; died at Thann 1530. He became a distinguished preacher of the...
366. Johannes (david) Toletanus JE ...
367. Johannesburg JE Largest city in the Transvaal and principal center of Jewish life in South Africa. The Jewish community there is estimated...
368. Joseph (asher ben Joseph Fulda) Johlson JE German Bible translator and writer on educational topics; born in 1777 at Fulda; died atFrankfort-on-the-Main June 13, 1851...
369. John JE ...
370. John Albert JE King of Poland (1492-1501). He ascended the throne of Poland in the same year in which his brother Alexander Jagellon became...
371. John The Baptist JE Essene saint and preacher; flourished between 20 and 30 C.E.; fore-runner of Jesus of Nazareth and originator of the Christian...
372. John Of Capua JE Italian convert to Christianity, and translator; flourished between 1262 and 1269. He translated Rabbi Joel's Hebrew version...
373. John Casimir JE King of Poland (1648-68). He was elected to the throne with the aid of Chmielnicki, who after the election returned to the...
374. John Of Giscala (johanan ben Levi) JE Native of the small Galilean city of Giscala ( ), who took an important part in the great war against Rome (66-70). He was...
375. The Gospel Of John JE ...
376. John Hyrcanus JE ...
377. John Sobieski JE King of Poland (1674-96). During his reign Poland had already lost its prominent position among European peoples, and, except...
378. John Of Valladolid JE Jewish convert to Christianity; born 1335. An able speaker, and possessed of some knowledge of rabbinical literature, he persuaded...
379. Johnson JE American family, members of which have attained distinction in Ohio, Texas, and New York. The family is from England, the...
380. Joiada JE Son of Eliashib, high priest about 450 B.C. (Neh. xii. 10-11, 22). One of his children became a son-in-law of Sanballat the...
381. Joigny JE Chief town in the department of the Yonne (the ancient Champagne), France, situated on the River Yonne. It had an important...
382. Joint Owners JE In the Mishnah joint owners are known as "shuttafin." When the joint owners are coheirs the Mishnah speaks of them as "the...
383. Joinville JE French town in the department of Haute-Marne; in the Tosafot occur , and other variants (Yoma 81; 'Er. 24; Ber. 8; Bek...
384. Joktan JE Younger son of Eber and progenitor of thirteen Arabic tribes (Gen. x. 25-29; I Chron. i. 19-23), many of which—as Hazarmaveth...
385. Zechariah Isaiah B Mordecai Jolles JE Rabbinical scholar and author; born at Lemberg about 1814; died at Minsk, Russia, May 14, 1852. In 1834, after having married...
386. Heymann (hayyim Ben Abraham) Jolowicz JE German preacher and author; born Aug. 23, 1816, at Santomischl, province of Posen; died at Königsberg, Prussia, Jan....
387. Jonadab JE ...
388. Jonah JE Prophet in the days of Jeroboam II.; son of Amittai of Gath-hepher. He is a historical personage; for, according to II Kings...
389. Book Of Jonah JE The Book of Jonah stands unique in the prophetical canon, in that it does not contain any predictions, but simply relates...
390. Jonah JE Palestinian amora of the fourth century; leading rabbinical authority in the fourth amoraic generation. With Jose II., his...
391. Jonah (abu Al-walid Merwan Ibn Janah) JE ...
392. Jonah Ben Judah Gershon JE Rabbi and author; died in Wilna 1808. He was dayyan of that city, and devoted his time to the study of the Tosefta, which...
393. Jonah Landsopher JE ...
394. Benjamin Franklin Jonas JE American lawyer, soldier, and statesman; born in Williamstown, Grant county, Kentucky, July 19, 1834. In early youth he removed...
395. Emil Jonas JE German writer and publicist; born July 14, 1824, at Schwerin, Mecklenburg; educated at the gymnasium of his native city and...
396. Émile Jonas JE French musician; born at Paris March 5, 1827. He entered the Conservatoire in 1841, where he took the first prize in harmony...
397. Moses Jonas JE ...
398. Jehonathan Jonathan JE 1. Son or descendant of Gershom, son of Moses. He officiated as a priest to the idol of Micah—a service continued in...
399. Jonathan (nathan) JE Tanna of the second century; schoolfellow of Josiah, apart from whom he is rarely quoted. Jonathan is generally so cited without...
400. Jonathan Ben Absalom JE General of Simon Maccabeus. At the command of the latter he took possession of Joppa, and drove out the inhabitants in order...
401. Jonathan B 'akmai JE Palestinian amora of the third generation. According to Yer. Ter. xi. he was one of the teachers of Abbahu. It is probable...
402. Jonathan (nathan) B Amram JE Semi-tanna of the second and third centuries; disciple of Judah I. and senior of Jannai, who consulted him concerning ritual...
403. Jonathan B Anan JE Son of the high priest Anan; was appointed by Vitellius high priest in the place of Joseph Caiaphas, at the time of the Passover...
404. Jonathan (nathan) Of Bet Gubrin JE Palestinian scholar of the third century; junior of Joshua b. Levi and senior of Simon b. Pazzi (Cant. R. i. 1). He confined...
405. Jonathan Ben David Ha-kohen Of Lunel JE French philosopher; flourished in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He defended Maimonides against the severe attacks...
406. Jonathan Ben Eleazar JE Palestinian scholar of the third century; contemporary of Ḥanina b. Ḥama (Shab. 49a et seq.); disciple of Simon...
407. Jonathan Ben Horkinas (archinas) JE Palestinian scholar of the first century; contemporary of Eleazar b. Azariah and a disciple of the school of Shammai. He was...
408. Jonathan Ben Jacob JE Hungarian Talmudist and author; flourished at Buda (Ofen) toward the end of the seventeenth century. In 1688, when Buda was...
409. Jonathan Ben Joseph JE Lithuanian rabbi and astronomer; lived at Risenoi, government of Grodno, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In addition...
410. Jonathan Levi Zion JE Representative of the Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main in its defense against the attacks of John Pfefferkorn. When...
411. Jonathan Maccabeus JE Son of Mattathias; leader of the Jews in the Maccabean wars from 161 to 143 B.C. He is called also Apphus (Ἀπ&#966...
412. Jonathan The Sadducee JE Friend of the Hasmonean prince John Hyrcanus (135-104 B.C.). As the Pharisees belittled the prince's fitness for the office...
413. Jonathan Sar Ha-birah JE ...
414. Jonathan Ben Uzziel JE Hillel's most distinguished pupil (Suk. 28a; B. B. 134a). No halakot of his have been preserved, though a tradition makes...
415. Aaron B Ẓebi Jonathanson JE Russian Hebraist and poet; born about 1815; died in Kovno July 27, 1868. His father, a great-grandson of Jonathan Eybesch&#252...
416. Alfred T Jones JE American editor and communal worker; born in Boston July 4, 1822; died at Philadelphia Oct. 3, 1888. In 1842 he became a resident...
417. Thomas Jones JE English publisher; convert to Judaism; born in 1791; died in London May 25, 1882. By birth a Roman Catholic, his change of...
418. Joppa JE ...
419. Joram JE ...
420. The Jordan JE Principal river of Palestine, formed by the confluence of three streams rising respectively at (1) Baniyas (Paneas), (2) Tell...
421. Jose (joseph), Abba, Ben Dositai (dosai; Derosai; Dosa) JE Palestinian tanna of the second century; mentioned as both halakist and haggadist. He transmitted a halakah of R. Jose the...
422. Jose, Abba, Ben Hanin JE Palestinian tanna of the last decades before the destruction of the Temple; contemporary of Eliezer B. Jacob and of &#7716...
423. Jose, Abba, Of Mahuza JE Scholar of the third (?) century; mentioned once only (Mek., Beshallaḥ, Wayeḥi, 3), a haggadah of his being transmitted...
424. Jose B Abin JE Palestinian amora of the fifth generation (4th cent.); son of R. Abin I. (Bacher, "Ag. Pal. Amor." iii. 724) and the teacher...
425. Issi) Ben Akabya (akiba) Jose (isi JE Tanna of the beginning of the third century. The name "Issi" or "Assa" is derived from "Jose," and was borne by many tannaim...
426. Jose The Galilean JE Tanna; lived in the first and second centuries of the common era. Jose was a contemporary and colleague of R. Akiba, R. &#7788...
427. Jose Ben Halafta JE Palestinian tanna of the fourth generation (2d cent.). Of his life only the following few details are known: He was born at...
428. Jose B Jacob B Idi JE Palestinian amora of the fourth generation (4th cent.). He was the colleague of R. Judan of Magdala (Yer. Ta'an. i. 3)...
429. Jose Ben Joezer Of Zeredah JE Rabbi of the early Maccabean period; possibly a disciple of Antigonus of Soko, though this is not certain. He belonged to...
430. Jose (joseph) Ben Johanan JE President of the Sanhedrin in the second century B.C.; a native of Jerusalem. He and Jose b. Joezer were the successors and...
431. Jose Ben Jose JE The earliest payyeṭan known by name; flourished, at the latest, about the end of the sixth century in Palestine. He...
432. Jose B Judah JE Tanna of the end of the second century. He is principally known through his controversies with R. Judah I. As specimens of...
433. Jose B KaẒrata (kuẓira; Kaẓra) JE Palestinian amora of the first amoraic generation; son-in-law of R. Jose. Kohut is of the opinion that the surname is derived...
434. Jose Ha-kohen ("the Pious") JE Tanna of the second generation; flourished in the first and second centuries; pupil of Johanan ben Zakkai. It is said of him...
435. Jose Of Mallahaya JE Palestinian amora of the fourth generation. According to his explanation of Ps. lvii. 5 the disasters that overtook the Jews...
436. Jose Of Maon JE Popular preacher of the beginning of the third century; delivered his addresses in a synagogue at Tiberias which bore the...
437. Jose B Nehorai JE Palestinian amora of the first generation; halakot are transmitted in his name by Johanan (Rashi, B. M. 41a). Of his haggadic...
438. Jose B Saul JE Palestinian amora of the first generation (3d cent.). He is known chiefly as a transmitter of the sayings and traditions of...
439. Rafael Joseffy JE American piano virtuoso; born in 1852 in Hunfalu, Hungary. In the following year the family moved to Miskolcz, where he spent...
440. Joselin) Of Rosheim (joseph Ben Gershon Loanz) Josel (joselmann JE The great advocate ("shtadlan") of the German Jews during the reigns of the emperors Maximilian I. and Charles V.; born about...
441. Joseph JE Eleventh son of Jacob and the elder of the two sons of Rachel; born at Haran (Gen. xxx. 24). The meaning given to the name...
442. Joseph (high Priest) JE 1. Son of Ellem () of Sepphoris; installed by Herod for one day (Yom Kippur) as a substitute for the high priest, who had...
443. Joseph Ii JE German emperor; born March 13, 1741; died Feb. 20, 1790, at Vienna. As German emperor his sovereignty was one in name only...
444. Joseph JE Prominent Jewish family which settled in Canada toward the close of the eighteenth century. It was descended from Naphtali...
445. Joseph Ben Abba JE Gaon of Pumbedita for a period of two years; died in 816 (Sherira Gaon; Neubauer, "M. J. C." i. 37). Abraham ibn Daud ("Sefer...
446. Joseph Ibn Abitur JE ...
447. Joseph Ben Abraham JE Liturgical poet. Seven prayers bearing the name "Joseph ben Abraham" are found in the Siddur of Avignon. Zunz identifies this...
448. Joseph Ben Abraham Issachar BÄrman Minkdam JE Dutch scholar of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He translated into Judæo-German the Targum to Canticles (Amsterdam...
449. Joseph Ben Abraham Ha-kohen Ha-ro'eh JE Karaite philosopher and theologian; flourished in Babylonia or Persia in the first half of the eleventh century; teacher of...
450. Joseph Ben Ahmad Ibn Hasdai JE Egyptian physician and medical writer; lived in Cairo at the beginning of the twelfth century. Although his biographer, Ibn...
451. Joseph The Apostate JE Jewish convert to Christianity in the first half of the fourth century. He was one of the assessors of the rabbinical school...
452. Joseph Ben Ardut JE ...
453. Joseph Of ArimathÆa JE Wealthy Jew (probably a member of the Essene fraternity) who, out of sympathy with Jesus, gave him burial in one of the tombs...
454. Joseph Of Arles JE French Talmudist and cabalist of the sixteenth century. A letter signed "Joseph " (= "of Arles") is found among the halakic...
455. Joseph The Astronomer JE ...
456. Joseph De Avila JE ...
457. Joseph Ben Baruch JE Tosafist of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Gross identifies him with Joseph of Clisson. Joseph resided for some time...
458. Joseph Al-baṢir JE ...
459. Joseph Bekor Shor JE ...
460. Joseph Ben Berechiah JE Rabbi of Kairwan and a pupil of Jacob bar Nissim; flourished in the tenth century. He carried on a scientific correspondence...
461. Joseph Caspi JE ...
462. Joseph Of Chartres JE French elegiac poet; born in the second half of the twelfth century (Zunz ["Literaturgesch." p. 470] says that he flourished...
463. Joseph Of Chinon JE French Talmudist; lived about the middle of the thirteenth century. According to Zunz, Joseph was a son of Nathanael the Holy...
464. Joseph Of Clisson JE ...
465. David Joseph JE German architect; born July 4, 1863, at Königsberg, eastern Prussia; educated at the gymnasium of his native town and...
466. Joseph David JE Rabbi of Salonica; flourished in the first half of the eighteenth century; contemporary of Solomon Amarillo and Joseph Covo...
467. Joseph Ben David Heilbronn Of Eschau JE German Masorite; lived at The Hague in the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Sefer Mebin Ḥidot" (Amsterdam,...
468. Joseph Ben David Ha-yewani JE Greek grammarian and lexicographer; flourished at the end of the thirteenth or about the middle of the fourteenth century...
469. Joseph David Ben Ẓebi JE Russian rabbi and author; born in Zetil, government of Grodno, 1767; died in Mir, government of Minsk, 1846. He was the grandson...
470. Joseph Of Dreux JE French Talmudist of the first half of the thirteenth century. His name occurs in a manuscript in the British Museum collection...
471. Joseph Ben Elimelech Of Torbin JE Polish scholar of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Ben Ẓiyyon" (Amsterdam, 1690), containing mnemonic...
472. Joseph Of Gamala JE Son of a midwife (Josephus, "Vita," § 37). With Chares he incited the inhabitants of Gamala to revolt against Agrippa...
473. Joseph Ben Gorion JE Author of the "Sefer Yosippon," a history of the Jews from the time of the destruction of Babylon (539 B.C.) to the downfall...
474. Joseph Ibn Hasan JE Arabic author of the fifteenth century or earlier. In 1467 he wrote "Muḥsin al-Adab," on culture, in fifty ḳa&#7779...
475. Joseph Hazzan Ben Judah Of Troyes JE ...
476. Henry Samuel Joseph JE English convert to Christianity; born in 1801; died at Strasburg, Alsace, Jan. 28, 1864. At first a preacher in the synagogue...
477. Joseph Bar Hiyya JE Gaon of Pumbedita from 828 to 833. In the controversy between Daniel and the exilarch David ben Judah, the gaon Abraham ben...
478. Joseph Ben Ibrahim Ibn Wakar JE ...
479. Joseph Ben Isaac Bekor Shor Of Orleans JE French tosafist, exegete, and poet; flourished in the second half of the twelfth century; pupil of Jacob Tam, Joseph Caro...
480. Joseph B Isaac Of Chinon JE French tosatist; lived in the second half of the twelfth and at the beginning of the thirteenth century. He is mentioned as...
481. Joseph Ben Isaac Ha-levi JE ...
482. Joseph Israel JE ...
483. Jacob Joseph JE Russian-American rabbi; born at Krozhe, government of Kovno, Russia, 1848; died at New York July 28, 1902. He studied in the...
484. Joseph Ben Jacob JE Gaon of Sura about 930-936 and 942-948. He was chosen by the exilarch David ben Zakkai to fill the place of Saadia (c. 930)...
485. Joseph B Jacob Isaac JE Rabbi at Yampol, Russia, later at Zamoscz; died in 1807. He was the author of "Mishnat Ḥakamim," on various subjects...
486. Joseph Ben Jacob Of Pinczow JE Lithuanian Talmudist of the seventeenth century. He was a pupil of Ẓebi Hirsch, rabbi in Lublin. In 1687 he was rabbi...
487. Joseph Ben Jacob Ibn Ẓaddik JE Spanish rabbi, poet, and philosopher; died at Cordova 1149. A Talmudist of high repute, he was appointed in 1138 dayyan at...
488. Joseph Ben Johanan JE French rabbi of the fourteenth century. He was a native of Treves (, read by Carmoly "Troyes"), and seems to have been the...
489. Joseph B Joshua B Levi JE Amora of the third century; educated by his father (Shab. 68a; Ber. 8b; Yeb. 9a). He was the son-in-law of Judah ha-Nasi;...
490. Joseph Ben Joshua Ben MeÏr Ha-kohen JE Historian and physician of the sixteenth century; born at Avignon Dec. 20, 1496; died at Genoa in 1575 or shortly after. His...
491. Joseph Ben Judah Ibn 'aknin JE Disciple of Moses Maimonides; born about 1160; died 1226. For the first twenty-five years of his life he lived with his father...
492. Joseph Ben Kalonymus Ha-nakdan JE German Masorite and liturgical poet; flourished in the first half of the thirteenth century. He was the author of a long acrostic...
493. Joseph Kara JE ...
494. King Of The Chazars Joseph JE ...
495. Joseph (jose) B Kisma JE Tanna of the first and second centuries; contemporary and senior of Hananiah b. Teradion. He is never cited in connection...
496. Joseph Ha-kohen JE ...
497. Joseph De Lamego JE See Capateiro, Joseph.
498. Joseph (b Jacob) Of Mandeville (morell) JE French exegete; pupil of Abraham ibn Ezra. He wrote a supercommentary on that scholar's commentary on Exodus (Neubauer...
499. Joseph Ben MeÏr JE Liturgical poet of the thirteenth century; perhaps uncle of Meïr of Rothenburg. He was the author of a dirge beginning...
500. Joseph Ben MeÏr Te'omim JE ...
501. Joseph Ben Mordecai Gershon Ha-kohen JE Polish Talmudist; born at Cracow 1510; died 1591. He began his studies in the Talmud at an early age, and became the head...
502. Joseph Ben Mordecai Ha-kohen JE Turkish rabbi and liturgist of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; born in Jerusalem. He was a pupil of Moses Galante...
503. Joseph B Mordecai Troki JE ...
504. Morris Joseph JE English rabbi; born in London May 28, 1848; educated at Jews' College in that city. He was appointed rabbi of the North...
505. Joseph (joslein) Ben Moses JE Bavarian Talmudist; born at Höchstädt about 1420; died after 1488. A few details of Joseph's life are known...
506. Joseph (josel) Ben Moses Frankfurt JE Dayyan at Fürth in the first half of the eighteenth century; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main; author of "Torat Yosef,"...
507. Joseph B Moses Phinehas JE Polish rabbi; born 1726; died at Posen 1801. He was a man of wealth and influence, and of great piety. His father-in-law,...
508. Joseph Ben Moses Of Trani JE ...
509. Joseph Ben Moses Of Troyes JE French Talmudist of the first half of the twelfth century. Isaac ben Samuel the Elder quotes in his responsa Talmudic explanations...
510. Joseph Ha-nagid JE ...
511. Joseph Nasi Of Naxos JE ...
512. Joseph Ben Nathan Official JE French controversialist; lived, probably at Sens, in the thirteenth century. He was a descendant of Todros Nasi of Narbonne...
513. Joseph Nazir Ben Hayyim Moses Ha-levi JE Palestinian rabbi; born at Hebron about 1650; died probably at Cairo 1719. He studied under Moses Galante and became rabbi...
514. Joseph Ben Noah Ha-baṢri (abu Ya'ḳub Yusuf ibn Nuḥ) JE Karaite scholar of the eighth and ninth centuries; brother of Nissim ben Noah. He translated the Pentateuch into Arabic, with...
515. Joseph (maestro) De Noves JE French physician of Avignon who lived in the middle of the fifteenth century, and was highly esteemed throughout the south...
516. Joseph B Petros JE Palestinian amora of the first generation (3d cent.). He was the father of Joshua b. Levi's first wife (Yer. M. K. iii...
517. Joseph B Phinehas JE ...
518. Joseph Ibn Plat JE Rabbinical authority of the twelfth century; born presumably in southern Spain, whence he went to Provence and settled in...
519. Joseph Porat Ben Moses JE Tosafist of the thirteenth century. The surname "Porat" is an allusion to Gen. xlix. 22. According to Gross, Joseph Porat...
520. Joseph Ben Samuel JE See Bonfils, Joseph ben Samuel.
521. Samuel A Joseph JE Australian pioneer and politician; born in London 1824; died in Sydney, New South Wales, Sept. 25, 1898. At the age of eighteen...
522. Joseph Samuel Ben Abraham Ben Joseph Ben Abraham Baruch Ben Neriah JE French rabbi; born at Aix, Provence; flourished at Avignon toward the end of the thirteenth century. Like his father, Abraham...
523. Joseph Ben Samuel Ha-hazzan JE Karaite ḥakam of Halicz, Galicia; died in 1700; pupil of R. Nissim. He was the author of the following works, none of...
524. Joseph Ben Samuel Ibn Rey JE Italian rabbi; died prematurely in Venice April 2, 1608. His epitaph (Wolf, "Bibl. Hebr." iv. 1213) leaves it to be supposed...
525. Joseph ShalliṬ Ben Eliezer Richetti (riqueti) JE Italian scholar; born at Safed, Palestine; lived in the second half of the seventeenth century at Verona, where he directed...
526. Joseph Ben Sheshet Latimi JE Spanish liturgical poet; lived at Lerida in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In 1308 he wrote a prayer entitled "Elef...
527. Joseph Ben Solomon (joseph Darshan Of Posen) JE German preacher; born at Posen in 1601; died there in 1696. When a youth Joseph studied at Byelaya Tzerkov, Russia, where...
528. Joseph Ben Solomon Of Carcassonne JE French liturgical poet of the eleventh century. He wrote a Ḥanukkah "yoẓer" beginning "Odeka ki anafta," which...
529. Joseph Solomon Delmedigo JE ...
530. Joseph Taitazak JE ...
531. Joseph Ṭob Elem JE ...
532. Joseph Ben Tobiah JE Farmer of the Egyptian royal revenues from about 220 to 198 B.C.; nephew, on his mother's side, of the high priest Onias...
533. Joseph Ben Uri Sheraga JE Russian liturgist of the seventeenth century; born in Kobrin, government of Grodno. He was the author of "Ma'arakah &#7716...
534. Joseph Ben Uzziel JE Supposed author of a cabalistic work which is often quoted by Recanati, in his commentary on the Pentateuch, under the title...
535. Joseph Zabara (joseph ben Meïr Zabara) JE Spanish physician, satirist, and poet of the beginning of the thirteenth century; born and died in Barcelona. He studied in...
536. Joseph B Zachariah JE Jewish general of the Maccabean period. He, together with Azariah, was left in charge of the forces when the Maccabean brothers...
537. Joseph Ben Ẓaddik JE Rabbi in Arevalo, Spain, during the fifteenth century; author of a treatise entitled "Zeker Ẓaddiḳ," on ritual...
538. Joseph Ẓarfati JE Convert to Christianity and missionary to the Jews at Rome; died before 1597. He accepted Christianity in 1552, taking the...
539. Joseph (josel) Ben Zeeb Wolf Levi JE Rabbi in Lesla during the first half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a supercommentary on Rashi to the Pentateuch...
540. Michael Josephs JE English Hebraist and communal worker; born in Königsberg Oct. 8, 1763; died in London Feb. 9, 1849. He left his native...
541. Walter Josephs JE English educationist and communal worker; born in London Nov. 22, 1804; died Jan. 24, 1893. He was closely connected with...
542. Josephstadt JE ...
543. Flavius Josephus JE General and historian; born in 37 or 38; died after 100. He boasts of belonging to the Hasmonean race on his mother's...
544. Joshua (jehoshua) JE Name of several Biblical personages.In Hebrew (Deut. iii. 21; Judges ii. 7) and commonly (Judges ii. 7a; Ex. xvii. 9; Josh...
545. Book Of Joshua JE The first book of the second greater division in the Hebrew canon, the "Nebi'im," and therefore also the first of the...
546. The Samaritan Book Of Joshua JE Samaritan chronicle, written in Arabic; so termed because the greater part of it is devoted to the history of Joshua. It was...
547. Joshua (bruno) JE Physician and scholar of Treves; lived in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. He treated Bruno, Archbishop of Treves (1102-4)...
548. Joshua B Abin JE Palestinian amora of the fourth century whose name is associated chiefly with haggadot. He transmitted a haggadah of Levi...
549. Joshua (jesus) Ben Damnai JE High priest about 62-63 C.E. He was appointed by King Agrippa II., after Anan, son of Anan, had been deposed (Josephus, "Ant...
550. Joshua (jesus) Ben Gamla JE A high priest who officiated about 64 C.E. He married therich widow Martha of the high-priestly family Boethos (Yeb. vi. 4)...
551. Joshua B Hananiah JE A leading tanna of the first half-century following the destruction of the Temple. He was of Levitical descent (Ma'as...
552. Joshua HÖschel Ben Joseph JE Polish rabbi; born in Wilna about 1578; died at Cracow Aug. 16, 1648. In his boyhood he journeyed to Przemysl, Galicia, to...
553. Joshua HÖschel Ben MeÏr JE Rabbinical author; lived in the eighteenth century; died at Jerusalem; a contemporary of Elijah Wilna. Hewrote "Maẓmia&#7717...
554. Joshua HÖschel Ben Saul JE Polish rabbi; died in Wilna at an advanced age Sept. 9, 1749. He was named after his grandfather, R. Höschel of Lublin...
555. Joshua Joseph Ben David Halevi JE Rabbi of Venice and Hebrew poet; lived in the seventeenth century. He composed elegies ("ḳinot") on the deaths of Samuel...
556. Joshua B Karha JE Tanna of the second century; contemporary of the patriarch Simeon b. Gamaliel II. Some regard him as the son of Akiba who...
557. Joshua B Levi JE Palestinian amora of the first half of the third century. He was the head of the school of Lydda in southern Palestine, and...
558. Joshua (falk) Lisser Ben Judah LÖb JE German Talmudist; born in Lissa, Posen. He was schoolmaster at Hamburg toward the end of the seventeenth century, and was...
559. Joshua Ben Mordecai Falk Hakohen JE American Talmudist; born at Brest-Kuyavsk, government of Warsaw, in 1799; died at Keokuk, Iowa, in 1864. While still a young...
560. Joshua (ha-kohen) Ben Nehemiah JE Palestinian amora of the fourth century. He seems to have devoted himself almost entirely to the Haggadah, for no halakic...
561. Joshua B Perahyah JE President ("nasi") of the Sanhedrin in the latter half of the second century B.C. He and his colleague Nittai of Arbela were...
562. Joshua Phabi JE ...
563. Joshua Of Shiknin JE Amora of the third century; known especially as a transmitter of Levi's Haggadah. He also quotes a haggadic sentence by...
564. Josiah JE King of Judah from 639 to 608 B.C.; son and successor of Amon and grandson of Manasseh. His mother was Jedidah, the daughter...
565. Josiah JE Tanna of the second century; the most distinguished pupil of R. Ishmael. He is not mentioned in the Mishnah, perhaps because...
566. Josiah Hazzan JE ...
567. Josippon JE ...
568. Grigori Andreiyevich Jossa JE Russian mining engineer; born about 1800; died in St. Petersburg 1874. Jossa graduated from the St. Petersburg school of mines...
569. Isaac Marcus Jost JE German historian; born at Bernburg Feb. 22, 1793; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Nov. 22, 1860. Jost was one of a poor family...
570. Jost Liebmann JE Court Jew and court jeweler of Elector Frederick III. of Brandenburg (King Frederick I. of Prussia), and one of the elders...
571. Jotapata JE City in Galilee to the north of Sepphoris, strongly fortified by Josephus (Josephus, "Vita," § 37). In the Mishnah (&#39...
572. Jotham JE Youngest son of Gideon or Jerubbaal. On the death of Gideon (Judges viii. 33) the children of Israel fell back into the slough...
573. Journal Scientifique De La Theologie Juive JE ...
574. Jewish Journals JE ...
575. Joy JE The feeling of gladness and rejoicing.—Biblical Data: Cant. R. i. 4 enumerates ten different terms for joy, and W&#252...
576. Juan De Abadia JE ...
577. Juan Rodrigo De Castel-branco JE Portuguese physician; born at Castel-Branco, Portugal, in 1511;died at Salonica in 1568. He was a descendant of a Marano family...
578. Juan De Sevilla JE Representative of the Maranos in 1482, and a wealthy tax-farmer; lived in Jerez de la Frontera. In 1481, when ordered to answer...
579. Juan De Valladolid JE Spanish poet and Marano of lowly station; born about 1420 in Valladolid. He lived at the courts of Naples, Mantua, and Milan...
580. Jubal JE Son of Lamech; "the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe" (Gen. iv. 19-21, R. V.); that is, he was the "father"...
581. Jubilee JE ...
582. Book Of Jubilees JE Midrashic commentary on the Book of Genesis and on part of the Book of Exodus, in the form of an apocalypse, containing the...
583. Judacaria JE ...
584. The JudÆans JE A society organized in New York Jan. 28, 1897, upon lines similar to those of the Maccabæans in London, England. It was...
585. JudÆo-christians JE ...
586. JudÆo-german JE The language spoken by the German Jews in Russia, former Poland, Austria, Rumania, and lately in America and South Africa...
587. JudÆo-german Literature JE The earliest known Judæo-German translation of the Maḥzor belongs to the fourteenth century, and Isaac ben Eliezer&#39...
588. JudÆo-greek And JudÆo-italian JE Although the Greek which is spoken and written by Jews in various parts of the Balkan Peninsula differs scarcely at all from...
589. JudÆo-persian JE Language spoken by the Jews living in Persia. The earliest evidence of the entrance of Persian words into the language of...
590. JudÆo-persian Literature JE At the present stage of research it is not possible to arrange the literature of the Jews written in Persian but in Hebrew...
591. JudÆo-spanish Language (ladino) And Literature JE Judæo-Spanish is a dialect composed of a mixture of Spanish and Hebrew elements, which is still used as the vernacular...
592. Judah JE The fourth son of Jacob and Leah; born in Padan-aram (Gen. xxix. 35). It is he who suggests the sale of Joseph to the Ishmaelite...
593. Kingdom Of Judah JE The legitimate successor of the kingdom established by David was the smaller kingdom to the south, which remained true to...
594. Tribe Of Judah JE The tribe of Judah is said to have been descended from the patriarch Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah (Gen. xxix. 35)...
595. Judah (coadjutor of Josephus) JE The Sanhedrin of Jerusalem commissioned Judah and Joezar to assist Josephus (66 C.E.) in pacifying the people and inducing...
596. Judah (jewish Prince) JE Son of Simeon Tharsi. When Antiochus VII., Sidetes, sent his general Cendebæus against Simeon, the latter, too old for...
597. Judah ("rabbi Mor") JE Chief rabbi of the Jews in Portugal and treasurer of King Don Diniz, with whom he enjoyed great favor; died before 1304. He...
598. Judah JE Treasurer to Ferdinand, King of Portugal; appointed in 1378. After the king's death he became the favorite of his queen...
599. Judah JE Family members of which settled in Newport, R. I., New York, Charleston, Richmond, Philadelphia, Montreal, Jamaica, and Surinam...
600. Judah (russian Family) JE Family prominent in the communal life of Grodno and Lithuania during the greater part of the sixteenth century. Judah Bogdanovich...
601. Judah I JE Patriarch; redactor of the Mishnah; born about 135; died about 220. He was the first of Hillel's successors to whose name...
602. Judah Ii JE Patriarch; son of Gamaliel III. and grandson of Judah I.; lived at Tiberias in the middle of the third century. In the sources...
603. Judah Iii JE Patriarch; son of Gamaliel IV. and grandson of Judah II. The sources do not distinguish between Judah II. and Judah III.,...
604. Judah Iv JE Patriarch; son of Gamaliel V. and grandson of Hillel II. Beyond his name and the fact that he officiated during the last two...
605. Judah Ben Abraham JE Pupil of Rashi; flourished at the beginning of the twelfth century. He studied under Rashi with Shemaiah (father-in-law of...
606. Judah B Abun JE Spanish poet; lived in Seville. He was probably the son of that Abun to whom Moses ibn Ezra dedicated several poems and whose...
607. Judah B Ammi JE Palestinian amora of the third generation (4th cent.); the son, perhaps, of the celebrated R. Ammi (Bacher, "Ag. Pal. Amor...
608. Judah Aryeh LÖb Ben Joshua HÖschel JE Rabbi at Slutsk, government of Minsk, Russia, in the middle of the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Torah Or" (Berlin...
609. Judah Aryeh Of Modena JE ...
610. Judah Aryeh Ben Ẓebi Hirsch JE French Hebraist; flourished in the beginning of the eighteenth century; born in Krotoschin, Germany. He lived at Avignon and...
611. Judah Ben Asher JE German Talmudist; later, rabbi of Toledo, Spain; born in western Germany June 30, 1270; died at Toledo July 4, 1349; brother...
612. Judah B Baba JE Tanna of the second century; martyred (at the age of seventy) during the persecutions under Hadrian. At that time the government...
613. Judah Ben Barzillai JE Spanish Talmudist of the end of the eleventh and the beginning of the twelfth century. Almost nothing is known of his life...
614. Judah B Bathyra JE ...
615. Judah Benveniste JE ...
616. Judah De Blanis JE Italian physician; lived at Perugia in the middle of the sixteenth century. David de Pomis, in his "De Medico Hebræo...
617. Judah The Blind JE ...
618. Judah Of Corbeil JE Tosafist of the thirteenth century. He wrote tosafot to a great number of Talmudical treatises, and is quoted in the "Kol...
619. Judah Ha-darshan Ben Moses JE French Bible commentator; lived at Toulouse in the first half of the eleventh century. He is often quoted by Rashi in his...
620. Judah B David Cagliari JE ...
621. Judah Ben David Of Melun JE French tosafist of the first half of the thirteenth century; son of the tosafist David of Melun (department of Seine-et-Marne)...
622. Judah Ben Eli JE Karaite grammarian and liturgical poet; died at Jerusalem, where he was rosh yeshibah,in 932. He was the author of a grammatical...
623. Judah Ben Eliezer JE Lithuanian Talmudist and philanthropist; born at Wilna; died there March 18, 1762, having officiated as dayyan, communal secretary...
624. Judah Ben Elijah Tishbi JE Karaite scholar and liturgical poet; flourished at Belgrade in the first half of the sixteenth century; grandson of Abraham...
625. Judah Ben Enoch JE Chief rabbi and preacher of Pfersee, Bavaria; lived at the end of the seventeenth century. His sermons for the festivals of...
626. Judah B Ezekiel JE Babylonian amora of the second generation; born in 220; died at Pumbedita in 299. He was the most prominent disciple of Rab...
627. Judah Ibn Ezra JE ...
628. Judah Ibn Ghayyat JE ...
629. Judah Hadassi JE ...
630. Judah Hayyuj JE ...
631. Judah B Hiyya JE Palestinian amora of the first generation (3d cent.); son of the famous R. Ḥiyya. In Midr. Shemuel xi., and in Yer....
632. Judah Ben Ilai JE One of the most important tannaim of the second century; born at Usha, a city of Galilee (Cant. R. ii.). His teachers were...
633. Judah Ben Isaac JE French tosafist; born in Paris 1166; died there 1224 (Solomon Luria, Responsa, No. 29). According to Gross he was probably...
634. Judah B Isaac Ibn Shabbethai Ha-levi JE ...
635. Judah B Isaac Ibn Wakar JE See Ibn Wakar, Judah ben Isaac.
636. Judah Ben Joseph Perez JE Rabbi at Venice and Amsterdam in the first half of the eighteenth century. He wrote: "Seder Ḳeri'e Mo'ed," cabalistic...
637. Judah Judghan JE ...
638. Judah B Kalonymus B MeÏr JE German historian and Talmudic lexicographer; flourished in the second half of the twelfth century. Judah came from one of...
639. Judah Ibn Kuraish JE Hebrew grammarian and lexicographer; born at Tahort, northern Africa; flourished in the eighth and ninth centuries. In his...
640. Judah Ben Lakish JE Tanna of the second century. His name occurs only in the Tosefta and the Mekilta. He is the author of the halakah to the effect...
641. Judah Leon Di Leone JE Italian rabbi from 1796 to 1835. Sent as a messenger from Hebron to Rome, he became rabbi in the latter city during the troublous...
642. Judah Leone B Isaac Sommo JE Italian writer and dramatic critic and manager; died after 1591. A scion of the Portaleone family of Mantua, he lived first...
643. Judah Ha-levi JE Spanish philosopher and Hebrew poet; born at Toledo, southern Castile, in the last quarter of the eleventh century; died in...
644. Judah Ha-levi Ben Shalom JE Palestinian amora of the fourth generation; flourished in the second half of the fourth century. Few halakot of his are recorded...
645. Judah LÖb Ben Joshua (hÖschke) JE Rabbi at Busk, Poland (now Austrian Galicia), in the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Leb Aryeh," containing homilies...
646. Judah LÖb Ben Simeon JE Rabbi and physician; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main about the middle of the seventeenth century; died at Mayence in 1714. He...
647. Liwa) Ben Bezaleel Judah LÖw (lÖb JE Austrian Talmudist and mathematician; born aboutthe second decade of the sixteenth century in Posen, whither his family had...
648. Judah LÖw Ben Obadiah Eilenburg JE Russian rabbi of the sixteenth century; succeeded Naphtali Herz as rabbi of Brest-Litovsk about 1570. His signature appears...
649. Judah Ben MeÏr Ha-kohen Hazaken JE French Talmudist; lived about the year 1000. According to the sources, he was surnamed "Léon," "Léonṭe," "L&#233...
650. Judah Ben Menahem JE Italian liturgical poet; lived, probably at Rome, in the middle of the twelfth century; father of the Roman dayyan Menahem...
651. Judah Minz JE ...
652. Judah Ben Moses Of Arles JE A scholar of the second half of the eleventh century who enjoyed a great reputation and authority not only in France, but...
653. Judah Ben Moses B Daniel JE ...
654. Judah Ben Nathanael JE French liturgical poet; lived at Beaucaire in the first quarter of the thirteenth century. Al-Ḥarizi, who became acquainted...
655. Judah B Pedaya JE Palestinian amora of the first generation (3d cent.); nephew of Bar Ḳappara. Among his numerous pupils the most important...
656. Judah Poki (puki) Ben Eliezer Tshelebi JE Karaite scholar; lived at Constantinople; died before 1501; nephew of Elijah Bashyazi. According to Steinschneider, the surname...
657. Judah B Samuel Ibn 'abbas JE ...
658. Judah Ben Samuel He-hasid Of Regensburg JE Ethical writer and mystic; died Feb. 22, 1217 ("Oẓar Ṭob," 1878, p. 045; Berliner, "Magazin," 1876, p. 220; "Kerem...
659. Judah Ibn Shabbethai JE Spanish poet of the end of the twelfth century. He has been identified with the physician Judah b. Isaac of Barcelona, who...
660. Judah B Sheneor Of Evreux JE French liturgical poet of the thirteenth century. He maintained a correspondence with Jacob b. Solomon of Courson (c. 1260)...
661. Judah Siciliano JE Italian poet of the fourteenth century. He earned a livelihood by giving lessons in poetry and by writing occasional poems...
662. Judah Ben Simeon Ben Pazzi JE Palestinian amora and haggadist of the beginning of the fourth century. He frequently transmits halakic and haggadic aphorisms...
663. Judah Ibn Tibbon JE ...
664. Judah Zeeb Ben Ephraim JE Hungarian Talmudist of the seventeenth century; son of Ephraim ben Jacob ha-Kohen, whose home in Ofen he left for Jerusalem...
665. Judah B Zippori JE Instigator of an uprising against Herod the Great. Shortly before the latter's death two prominent scribes of Jerusalem...
666. Judaism JE The religion of the Jewish people (II Macc. ii. 21, viii. 1, xiv. 38; Gal. i. 13 = , Esth. R. iii. 7; comp. , Esth. viii....
667. Judaizers JE ...
668. Judaizing Heresy (zhidovstvu-yushchaya Yeres) JE A Christian heresy which first made its appearance in Novgorod during the reign of Grand Duke Ivan Vassilyevich III. (second...
669. Judas The Essene JE Saint renowned for his prophetic powers in the time of King Aristobulus (105-104 B.C.). Josephus ("Ant." xiii. 11, §...
670. Judas The Galilean JE Leader of a popular revolt against the Romans at the time when the first census was taken in Judea, in which revolt he perished...
671. Judas Iscariot JE One of the twelve Apostles of Jesus; he betrayed his master and delivered him up to the priests for judgment (Matt. x. 4;...
672. Judas Maccabeus JE Son of the priest Mattathias, and, after his father's death, leader against the Syrians. When he entered on the war he...
673. Max Judd JE American manufacturer, consul-general, and chess-player; born Dec. 27, 1851, at Cracow, Austria; emigrated to the United States...
674. Der Jude JE Weekly magazine published in Altona, Germany, from April 10, 1832, to Dec. 31, 1833, by Gabriel Riesser. Its chief aim was...
675. Der (new York) Jude JE ...
676. Epistle Of Jude JE ...
677. Judea JE ...
678. JudenbÜhl JE ...
679. Judenburg JE One of the oldest cities of Styria, Austria; the ancient Idunum. The name of Judenburg occurs in a document of 1075. Then...
680. Judendeutsch JE ...
681. Judeneid JE ...
682. Judengeleit JE ...
683. Judenherbergen JE ...
684. Judenhut JE Tall, conical hat, generally yellow, serving, in conformity with the decrees of the fourth Lateran Council (1215), as a distinguishing...
685. Judenschreinsbuch JE Collection of deeds belonging to Jews in the St. Lawrence parish of the city of Cologne (Germany); since the thirteenth century...
686. Judenschule (schola Judæorum) JE The usual German expression for "synagogue" in medieval times. It seems to have been first used in the charter of Frederick...
687. JudenstÄttigkeit JE Archaic technical term for the legal status of a Jewish community, and as such identical with the more frequent term "Judenschutz...
688. Judge JE The common Hebrew equivalent for "judge" is "shofeṭ," a term found also in the Phenician as "sufeṭ" (= "regulator")...
689. Book Of Judges JE In the Hebrew canon, the second book of the Earlier Prophets, placed between Joshua and Samuel. § I. Name: The book...
690. Period Of Judges JE The present form of the Book of Judges has given rise to the phrase "time of the Judges," which covers the period from the...
691. Judgment JE The sentence or final order of a court in a civil or criminal proceeding, enforceable by the appropriate modes of execution...
692. Day Of Judgment JE ...
693. Divine Judgment JE The final decision by God, as Judge of the world, concerning the destiny of men and nations according to their merits and...
694. Judicial Procedure JE ...
695. Judicial Records JE ...
696. Judicial Sales JE ...
697. JÜdisch-theologisches Seminar (frÄnckelscher Stiftung) JE Institution in Breslau for the training of rabbis, founded under the will of Jonas Fränckel, and opened in 1854. Commercial...
698. JÜdische Chronik JE ...
699. Das JÜdische Literaturblatt JE ...
700. JÜdische Monatsschrift JE ...
701. Die JÜdische Presse JE Weekly periodical published in Berlin since 1869. Its editors have been S. Enoch and Israel Hildesheimer and his son Hirsch...
702. Der JÜdische Schulbote JE ...
703. JÜdische Turnzeitung JE A Jewish monthly; published in Berlin by Herman Jalowicz as the official organ of the Jüdischer Turnverein Bar Kochba...
704. Das JÜdische Volksblatt JE ...
705. JÜdische Volksschule JE ...
706. JÜdische Volkszeitung JE ...
707. Das JÜdische Weltblatt JE ...
708. JÜdische Zeitschrift FÜr Wissenschaft Und Leben JE Quarterly publication issued in Breslau from 1862 to 1873 (11 vols.) by Abraham Geiger. It was originally Geiger's intention...
709. JÜdisches Centralblatt JE ...
710. JÜdischheit JE Medieval German expression for the Jewish community of a certain locality or of a whole country. Thus the gilds of Speyer...
711. Book Of Judith JE An Apocryphal book in sixteen chapters. The book receives its title from the name of its principal character, Judith ( = "Jewess"...
712. Madame Judith JE French actress; born in Paris Jan. 30, 1827. She began her theatrical career at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques...
713. Judith Montefiore College JE Theological seminary founded in 1869 by Sir Moses Montefiore in honor of his wife, Lady Judith Montefiore, at Ramsgate. Kent...
714. Judith Of Worms JE ...
715. Juiverie JE ...
716. Julian The Apostate (flavius Claudius Julianus) JE Roman emperor; born Nov. 17, 331; reigned from Nov., 361, till June, 363.The recognition of Christianity as the religion of...
717. Julian Of Toledo JE Primate of Spain; born in Toledo (where he was also baptized); died in 690. He was the first of the long list of ecclesiastical...
718. Julianus JE Leader of a Samaritan rebellion at Nablus in 530 against the Romans; son of Samaron or Sabarona or, according to another reading...
719. Julianus B Tiberianus JE ...
720. JÜlich JE City of Rhenish Prussia, near Aix-la-Chapelle, situated on the Ruhr. In 1227 Emperor Frederick II. conferred upon Count Wilhelm...
721. Julius Iii (giovanni Maria Del Monte) JE Two hundred and twenty-eighth pope; born at Rome 1487; elected pope Feb. 8, 1550;died March 22, 1555. Personally he was favorably...
722. Julius Archelaus JE Son of Chelcias ("Ant." xix. 9, § 1; xx. 7, § 1 [without "Julius"]), and, to judge from his name, a Hellenized Jew...
723. Henriette Julius JE ...
724. Nikolaus Heinrich Julius JE German physician and prison-reformer; born at Altona, Germany, Oct. 3, 1783; died at Hamburg Aug. 20, 1862. He received his...
725. Julius Of Pavia JE One of the first European Jews of the Middle Ages known by name. About 760 he disputed at Pavia with Magister Peter of Pisa...
726. Julius Sextus Africanus JE ...
727. Juma-i-bala JE Turkish city on the Bulgarian frontier, four hours from Dubnitza. The community here dates from the middle of the eighteenth...
728. Jung-bunzlau JE Town in northeastern Bohemia. Its Jewish community, one of the oldest in the province, was formerly one of the largest in...
729. Junior Right JE System of tenure in which a father's property descends to the youngest son; ultimogeniture as opposed to primogeniture...
730. Juniper JE The traditional rendering of "rotem" in I Kings xix. 4, 5; Ps. cxx. 4; and Job xxx. 4, adopted by Aquila and the Vulgate,...
731. Jurisdiction JE The authority of a court of law to decide cases of certain kinds. This depends on the kind of matter in dispute; on the locality...
732. Jus Gazaka JE The usual Italian term for the right of Ḥazaḳah, especially with regard to the rent of houses in the ghetto of...
733. Jus PrimÆ Noctis JE Alleged seigniorial right to marital privileges. The feudal lords had the right of giving heiresses in marriage, and there...
734. Justin Martyr JE Church Father, who in his works, written in Greek (the Διάλογος πρ&#8056...
735. Justinian JE Emperor of the Eastern, or Byzantine, Empire from 527 to 565. During his long reign he issued many decrees relating to the...
736. Jacob Ben Abraham Justo (Ẓaddik) JE Portuguese chartographer; flourished in Palestine (Wolf, "Bibl. Hebr." i., No. 1097) in the first half of the seventeenth...
737. Dr Justus JE Convert to Christianity and writer against the Jews; born at Costinasti, Rumania, about 1860. Until the age of twenty he lived...
738. Justus Of Tiberias JE Historical writer and one of the leaders of the Jews against the Romans in Galilee in the year 66. What is known of him comes...
739. Jutrzenka JE Jewish weekly published at Warsaw in the Polish language. Its first number appeared July 5, 1861; and the paper continued...
740. Juvenal JE ...
741. Moses Mordecai Juwel JE Galician scholar; lived at Brody in the first half of the nineteenth century. He translated from the German into Hebrew Hufeland&#39...