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1. Miggo JE An Aramaic word contracted from "min gaw" (= "from within"), meaning to proceed from the content of a sentence or circumstance...
2. Migration JE Removal from one region to another. Ever since the Exile, Jews have been forced to wander from country to country, and a full...
3. JoÃo Migues JE See Nasi, Joseph (João Migues)...
4. Mihaileni JE Small town in the district of Dorogoi, Rumania. It was formerly called Vladeni and Tirgu-Nou, and was founded in 1792 by a...
5. Mi-kamokah JE Opening words of the verse Ex. xv. 11, which, with verse 18 of the same chapter ("Adonai Yimlok," etc.), is regularly employed...
6. David Ibn Merwan MiḲmaṢ JE ...
7. MiḲwa'ot JE Treatise in the Mishnah and the Tosefta in the order Ṭohorot. The legal code of the Pentateuch prescribes a bath for...
8. MiḲweh JE Literally, a "collection," a "collected mass," especially of water (Gen. i. 10; Ex. vii. 19; Lev. xi. 36; comp. Isa. xxii...
9. Milan JE Capital of Lombardy, and the largest commercial city of Italy. Jews settled there under Roman rule and were persecuted even...
10. Milcah JE 1. Daughter of Haran, and wife of her uncle Nahor (Gen. xi. 29). She bore eight sons, the youngest of whom was Bethuel, father...
11. Milcom JE ...
12. Miles Of Marseilles JE Provençal physician and philosopher; born at Marseilles 1294. In some manuscripts he is designated by the name "Bongodos...
13. Joseph Ben Moses Milhau JE French scholar and liturgical poet; lived at Carpentras in the second half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of...
14. Moses Ben Michael Milhau JE French scholar and poet; lived at Carpentras in the second half of the eighteenth century. Moses Milhau seems to have been...
15. Milhaud JE Village in the department of Gard, France. In Renan-Neubauer, "Les Rabbins Français," p. 665, its name is given as ....
16. Milk JE A common article of food among the ancient Hebrews.—Biblical Data: Palestine is praised in the Bible as a "land flowing...
17. Mill And Millstone JE ...
18. Albert Millaud (arthur Paul David) JE French journalist and playwright; born at Paris in 1836; died there Oct. 22, 1892; son of Moïse Millaud. When only eighteen...
19. Edouard Millaud JE French barrister and statesman; born at Tarascon, Bouches-du-Rhône, Sept. 27, 1834; educated at Lyons, and there admitted...
20. MoÏse-polydore Millaud JE French journalist and banker; born at Bordeaux Aug. 27, 1813; died at Paris 1871. The son of a poor Jewish tradesman, he received...
21. Millennium JE The reign of peace, lasting one thousand years, which will precede the Last Judgment and the future life. The concept has...
22. Millet JE An important species of grain which grows chiefly in sandy regions. In Arabia, Italy, and elsewhere a bread, excellent when...
23. Henry Hart Milman JE Historian; born in London Feb. 10, 1791; died there Sept. 24, 1868. His career at Oxford was a brilliant one. He first became...
24. Eliakim Milsahagi JE ...
25. Milwaukee JE Metropolis of the state of Wisconsin. The oldest congregation of Milwaukee, Bene Jeshurun, was organized in 1855 by L&#246...
26. Mi-mizrah Umi-ma'arab JE ...
27. Min JE Term used in the Talmud and Midrash for a Jewish heretic or sectarian. Its etymology is obscure, the most plausible among...
28. Judah (löb) B Joel Minden JE German lexicographer; lived at Berlin in the sixth decade of the eighteenth century. In 1760 he published there, with the...
29. LÖb B Moses Minden JE Cantor and poet; born at Selichow (from which he is called also Judah b. Moses Selichower), in Lesser Poland, in the seventeenth...
30. Hirschel De Minerbi JE Count of Oscarre; Italian diplomat; descendant of a wealthy and illustrious Jewish family of Triest; born April 25, 1838;...
31. Mines And Mining JE Mines did not exist in the land inhabited by the Israelites. In the description of Palestine in Deut. viii. 9, it is true...
32. Minhag JE ...
33. Minhah Prayer JE The afternoon devotional service of the Jewish liturgy. The term is probably derived from Elijah's prayer at "the time...
34. Minir JE Family of scholars of Tudela, members of which are met with in the East and in Italy.Abraham ben Joseph Minir (probably a...
35. Minis JE American family especially prominent in the South. Its founder, Abraham Minis, went from England to America in 1733. The family...
36. Phinehas Minkovsky JE Russian cantor; born at Byelaya Tzerkov April, 1859. His father, Mordecai, a descendant of Yom-Ṭob Lipmann Heller, was...
37. Oscar Minkowski JE German physician; born at Alexoten, near Kovno, Russia, Jan. 13, 1858; educated at the universities of Freiburg, Strasburg...
38. Minneapolis JE Chief commercial city of the state of Minnesota. In 1900 it had in a total population of 202,718 a Jewish community of about...
39. Minnesota JE One of the northwestern states of the American Union. It has a Jewish population of about 13,000, distributed in the following...
40. Solomon Zalkind Minor JE Russian rabbi and author; born at Wilna 1827; died there Jan. 21, 1900. He received his elementary education from his father...
41. Minorca JE ...
42. Minority JE ...
43. Minsk JE Russian city; capital of the government of the same name. Of the history of its Jewish community very little is known. In...
44. Nikolai Maksimovich Minski JE Russian poet and writer; born at Glubokoye, government of Wilna, in 1855. At the age of twelve Nikolai removed to Minsk and...
45. Minters JE Persons authorized to strike coinage on behalf of a government. As early as 555 a certain Priscus struck coins at Ch&#226...
46. Minyan JE Literally, "count"; the quorum necessary for public worship. The smallest congregation which is permitted to hold public worship...
47. Minz JE Family of rabbis and scholars, deriving its name from the town of Mayence and founded in the fifteenth century. The family...
48. Miphkad JE Name of a gate mentioned in connection with the repair of the wall of Jerusalem by Nehemiah (Neh. iii. 31). It seems that...
49. Mirabeau, Gabriel Honore Riqueti, Comte De JE French statesman of the revolutionary era; born at Bignon March 9, 1749; died at Paris April 2, 1791. Sent by De Calonne on...
50. Miracle JE An event which can not be explained by ordinary natural agencies, and which, therefore, is taken as an act of a higher power...
51. Lalla Miranda JE Australian singer; born in Melbourne 1876. Both of her parents were singers, and she herself sang in public when only thirteen...
52. Meshullam Zalman Ben David (neumark) Mirels JE German rabbi; born about 1620 at Vienna; died Nov. 28, 1706, at Altona. When, in 1670, the Jews were expelled from Vienna...
53. Ẓebi Hirsch Ben Aaron Mirels JE German Talmudist; rabbi of Schwerin in the middle of the eighteenth century. He received his early education in London. After...
54. Jules Isaac MirÈs JE French financier; born at Bordeaux Dec. 9, 1809; died at Marseilles in 1871. A broker in 1848, he became, after the February...
55. Miriam JE Prophetess; daughter of Amram and sister of Moses and Aaron (I Chron. vi. 3; Ex. xv. 20; Num. xxvi. 59). When Moses was left...
56. Solomon Zalman Ben Judah LÖb Mirkes JE Lithuanian Talmudist of the eighteenth century; a native of Mir, government of Minsk. He published at Königsberg in 1769...
57. Mirror JE An object having a nearly perfect reflecting surface. In ancient times mirrors were invariably made of metal; in Egypt, of...
58. Mi-sheberak JE ...
59. Mishle Sindabar JE ...
60. Mishnah JE A noun formed from the verb "shanah," which has the same meaning as the Aramaic "matnita," derived from "teni" or "tena."...
61. Mishneh Torah JE ...
62. Mississippi JE One of the southern states of the United States of America; admitted to the Union in 1817. In 1682 La Salle took possession...
63. Missouri JE One of the central states of the United States; admitted to the Union in 1821. While yet a territory it was inhabited by Jewish...
64. Mitau JE Capital of the government of Courland, Russia; situated about 20 miles from Riga on the Drixa, an arm of the River Aa. The...
65. Miter JE A head-dress; one of the sacred garments of the priests. The high priest's miter was designated as "miẓnefet," and...
66. Mitnaggedim JE Title applied by the Ḥasidim to their opponents, i.e., to the Orthodox Jews of the Slavonic countries who have not become...
67. Mitrani JE ...
68. David Moses Mitzkun JE Russian Hebraist; born May, 1836; died in Wilna July 23, 1887. He was a writer of Hebrew prose and poetry, and maintained...
69. Mi'un JE A Hebrew word signifying "refusal, denial, or protest"; used technically by the Rabbis to denote a woman's protest against...
70. Mixed Marriage JE ...
71. Mizmor Le-dawid JE The superscription to Ps. xxix., chanted on Sabbaths before the evening service, and at morning service while the scroll of...
72. Mizmor Shir Le-yom Ha-shabbat JE The superscription to Ps. xcii., chanted with Ps. xciii. before the commencement of evening service on Sabbaths (including...
73. Mizpah JE Name of several places in Palestine. It is derived from (= "to look"), on account of which it is translated in certain instances...
74. Mizrah JE Hebrew term denoting the rising of the sun, the east (Num. xxi. 11; Ps. I. 1); also used to designate an ornamental picture...
75. Mizrahi JE Family living in the Orient, to which belong some well-known rabbinical authors. There are two main branches: one in Constantinople...
76. Mizraim JE ...
77. MiẒwah JE ...
78. Mnemonics JE Certain sentences, words, or letters used to assist the memory. Such aids are employed in the Mishnah, in both Talmuds, and...
79. Moab JE District and nation of Palestine. The etymology of the word is very uncertain. The earliest gloss is found in the Septuagint...
80. Moabite Stone JE Name usually given to the only known surviving inscribed monument of ancient Moab. It was discovered in 1868 at Dhiban, the...
81. Mobile JE ...
82. Mocatta JE An Anglo-Jewish family which can be traced back to one of the earliest of the resettlers in England. David Mocatta: English...
83. Jules Moch JE French officer; colonel of the 130th Regiment of Infantry; born at Sarrelouis Aug. 4, 1829; died at Paris Aug. 8, 1881. On...
84. Mod'ai JE Family of Turkish authors. Ḥayyim Mod'ai (the Elder): Rabbinical author; born at Safed 1709; died there 1784...
85. Marx Model JE Court Jew to Margrave William Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1703-1723) From 1691 Model and his family were exempt from...
86. Modena JE City in central Italy; formerly the capital of the duchy of Modena. Of its Jewish community, which has been, during the last...
87. Modena JE An Italian family the most distinguished members of which are: Aaron Berechiah Modena. See Aaron Berechiah ben Moses ben...
88. Joseph Samuel Modiano JE Turkish rabbinical author; lived at Salonica at the end of the eighteenth century. He belonged to a family originally from...
89. Elia Modigliani JE Italian traveler, naturalist, and author; born at Florence June 13, 1861; graduated at Pavia in 1883. From early youth he...
90. Modin (moda'im, Modi'im, ModeÏn, Modi'it) JE ...
91. Simson Ha-kohen Modon JE Poet; born in Mantua Aug. 1, 1679; died there June 10, 1727. He received a thorough education and was recognized as an accomplished...
92. Leonello Modona JE Italian Orientalist; born at Cento in 1841; educated at the Istituto degli Studi Superiori of Florence. Besides compiling...
93. Mo'ed JE Name of an order of the Mishnah and the Tosefta both in Babli and in Yerushalmi. The name "Mo'ed," which is mentioned...
94. Mo'ed ḲaṬan JE Treatise in the Mishnah, in the Tosefta, and in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. It deals principally with the regulations...
95. Mogador JE Seaport of Morocco, on the Atlantic; founded by Sidi Mohammed ibn Abdallah in 1759. It has a total population of 19,000, including...
96. Moghilef (mohilev) JE Capital of the government of the same name in White Russia; situated on the Dnieper. Though the city was well known as an...
97. Joseph Al- Moghrabi (maghrabi) JE ...
98. Sigmund (selig) Mogulesko JE American comedian; born in Kaloraush, Bessarabia, Dec. 16, 1858; now residing in New York. He possessed a fine voice from...
99. Mohammed JE Founder of Islam and of the Mohammedan empire; born at Mecca between 569 and 571 of the common era; died June, 632, at Medina...
100. Mohel JE ...
101. Samuel Mohilewer JE Russian rabbi and Zionist; born in Hluboka, government of Wilna, April 25, 1824; died in Byelostok June 10, 1898. His father...
102. Abraham Mendel Mohr JE ...
103. Moineshti JE Small town in Moldavia, district of Bakau. The census of 1820 reported forty-two Jewish taxpayers in the town, who constituted...
104. MoÏse JE American Jewish family descended from Abraham Moïse, who was born in Alsace and emigrated to the West Indies, where he...
105. MoÏseville JE ...
106. David Al- Mokames JE ...
107. Mordecai Mokiah JE ...
108. Molad JE ...
109. Moldavia JE ...
110. Mole JE Traditional rendering of the Hebrew "ḥaparparah" (Isa. ii. 20). Some give "mole" as the translation also of "&#7717...
111. Jacob Ben Moses Ha-levi Molin JE ...
112. Isaac Molina JE Egyptian rabbi of the sixteenth century; a native of Venice. He had a controversy with Joseph Caro on the subject of R. Gershom&#39...
113. Joseph Franz Molitor JE German Christian cabalist; born June 8, 1779, in Ober Ursel, in the Taunus; died in Frankfort-on-the-Main March 23, 1860....
114. Solomon Molko JE Marano cabalist; born a Christian in Portugal about 1500; died at Mantua in 1532. His baptismal name probably was Diogo Pires...
115. Albert Moll JE German physician; born at Lissa May 4, 1862; educated at the universities ofBreslau, Freiburg, Jena, and Berlin (M.D. 1885)...
116. MÖlln (molin) JE Name of a family of Mayence. The name , which, according to D. Kaufmann ("Der Grabstein des R. Jacob ben Moses ha-Levi," in...
117. Francisco Molo JE Dutch financier and statesman; lived in the seventeenth century. In 1679 he settled in Amsterdam as financial agent of John...
118. Moloch (molech) JE In the Masoretic text the name is "Molech"; in the Septuagint "Moloch." The earliest mention of Molech is in Lev. xviii. 21...
119. Julius Lazarus Mombach JE Musician and composer; born in Pfungstadt 1813; died at London, England, Feb. 8, 1880. In 1828 he went to London and received...
120. Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen JE Jurist, archeologist, and historian; born Nov. 30, 1817, at Garding, Sleswick-Holstein; died Nov. 1, 1903, at Charlottenburg...
121. Monastir JE Capital of Rumelia, European Turkey; 400 miles west of Constantinople; the ancient Vitolia. It has a population of 65,000...
122. Monatsschrift FÜr Die Geschichte Und Wissenschaft Des Judenthums JE The oldest and most important monthly devoted to the science of Judaism. It was founded by Zacharias Frankel in Dresden in...
123. Moncalvo JE Small town in the province of Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. Jews settled there after their expulsion from France. The community...
124. Ludwig Mond JE English chemist; born at Cassel, Germany, March 7, 1839; educated at the Polytechnic School, Cassel, and at the universities...
125. Monday And Thursday Prayer JE ...
126. Money JE As far back as the history of Israel can be traced, gold and silver were used as standards of value and mediums of exchange...
127. Money-lending JE ...
128. David Monies JE Danish portrait and genre painter; born in Copenhagen June 3, 1812; died there April 29, 1894. He was admitted to the school...
129. Judah Monis JE American scholar. Hannah Adams in her "History of the Jews" says that he was born in Algiers about 1683, and that he died...
130. Monogamy JE In Judaism the Law tolerated though it did not enact polygamy; but custom stood higher than the Law. From the period of the...
131. Monotheism JE The belief in one God. The French writer Ernest Renan has propounded the theory that the monotheistic instinct was a Semitic...
132. Monreal JE City in Navarre, situated three miles from Pamplona; to be distinguished from a city of the same name in Aragon. A small number...
133. Monster JE ...
134. Hyman Montagu JE English numismatist and lawyer; died in London Feb. 18, 1895; son of Samuel Moses (having later assumed the name ofMontagu)...
135. Montagu, Sir Samuel, Bart JE English banker and communal worker; born at Liverpool Dec. 21, 1832; son of Louis Samuel, his name, "Montagu Samuel," having...
136. Montalban JE City in Aragon; not to be confused with Montalban in Castile, in the archbishopric of Toledo, which was also inhabited by...
137. Filotheo Eliau (elijah) Montalto JE Portuguese physician; born at Castello Branco in the middle of the sixteenth century; died at Tours, France, in 1616. According...
138. Montana JE One of the northwestern states of the American Union. It was organized as a territory in 1864, and admitted as a state in...
139. R Eliezer Montauban JE ...
140. Monte Di PietÀ JE ...
141. Montefiore JE Anglo-Jewish family which derives its name from a town in Italy. In 1856 there were three towns so named in the Pontifical...
142. MontÉlimar JE Capital of the department of the Drome, France. A large number of Jews lived here from the beginning of the fourteenth century...
143. Antonio De (aaron Levi) Montezinos JE Marano traveler of the seventeenth century. He claimed that while journeying in South America about 1641 near Quito, Ecuador...
144. Montezinos Library JE Division of the library of the Portuguese Rabbinical Seminary 'Eẓ Ḥayyim at Amsterdam, Holland. It was bequeathed...
145. Montgomery JE ...
146. Month JE A unit of time; the period between one new moon and another. According to the account of Creation in Genesis, it was decreed...
147. Andrea Di Monti JE ...
148. Monticelli JE Small town in the province of Piacenza, northern Italy, with a Jewish community dating from the expulsion of the Jews from...
149. Anton De Montoro JE Spanish poet of the fifteenth century; born in Montoro 1404; died after March, 1477; son of Fernando Alfonso de Baena Ventura...
150. Montpellier JE Capital of the department of Hérault, a part of the old province of Languedoc, France. It is sometimes called also "Har...
151. Montreal JE Metropolis of the Dominion of Canada, situated on an island in the St. Lawrence River; the most important center of Jewish...
152. Monuments In Their Bearing On Biblical Exegesis JE For centuries the evidence of the authenticity of the Old Testament Scriptures had to be sought from within; of contemporaneous...
153. Monzon JE Town near Lerida in the ancient kingdom of Aragon, Spain. It had a considerable Jewish community, the members of which were...
154. Abraham (the Elder) Monzon JE Rabbi of the latter part of the sixteenth century; died at Constantinople. He was a pupil of Bezaleel Ashkenazi, and on account...
155. Abraham (the Younger) Monzon JE Rabbinical and Talmudic scholar of the middle of the sixteenth century. He was originally from Tetuan in Morocco, where he...
156. Moon JE The most common Hebrew word for, the moon is "yeraḥ," the root of which is probably akin to "araḥ," so that the...
157. Solomon Moos JE German otologist; born at Randegg, near Constance, Germany, July 15, 1831; died at Heidelberg July 15, 1895; educated at the...
158. Henry Samuel Morais JE American writer and minister; born May 13, 1860, at Philadelphia, Pa.; educated at private and public schools of that city...
159. Sabato Morais JE American rabbi; born at Leghorn, Italy, April 13, 1823; died at Philadelphia Nov. 11, 1897. He was the elder son and the third...
160. Olympia Fulvia Morata JE ...
161. Moravia JE Austrian province, formerly part of the kingdom of Bohemia, containing 44,255 Jews in a total population of 2,437,706 (1900)...
162. Morawczyk JE Family of Polish scholars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries coming originally from Moravia. Jehiel Michael Morawczyk:...
163. Morbidity JE Tendency to disease. The ratio of sickness among the Jews has not yet been satisfactorily studied, although the ratio of deaths&#8212...
164. Mordecai JE Chief minister of Ahasuerus and one of the principal personages of the Book of Esther. He was the son of Jair, a Benjamite...
165. Mordecai JE An American family of German origin, the founder of which settled in the United States in the second half of the eighteenth...
166. Mordecai Astruc JE French liturgical poet; lived at Carpentras about the end of the seventeenth century. He was the author of several liturgical...
167. Mordecai Dato (ben Judah) JE Italian payeṭan; lived in Ferrara in the sixteenth century. The name "Dato" is the Italian equivalent of "Nathan." He...
168. Mordecai B David JE ...
169. Mordecai Of Eisenstadt JE ...
170. Mordecai Ben Eliezer Jonah JE Austrian commentator; lived in Lemberg in the latter part of the sixteenth century. He published an ethical discourse on the...
171. Mordecai En Crescas D'orange JE ...
172. Mordecai B Hillel B Hillel JE German halakist of the thirteenth century; died as a martyr at Nuremberg Aug. 1, 1298. Mordecai belonged to one of the most...
173. Mordecai B Isaac Of Carpentras JE French Talmudist; flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Mordecai lived in Carpentras (department of Vaucluse)...
174. Mordecai B Isaac Ḳimhi JE ...
175. Mordecai Ben Jacob (mordecai Singer) JE Polish translator; lived in Cracow; died 1575. He translated into Judæo-German the Book of Proverbs (Cracow, 1582) and...
176. Mordecai Jaffe JE ...
177. Mordecai Ben Jehiel (michael Ha-levi) JE Russian grammarian and ab bet din of Slawatyetz-on-the-Bug; lived at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He wrote "Mera...
178. Mordecai Ben Joseph Of Avignon JE Provençal Talmudist; flourished in the middle of the thirteenth century; a contemporary of the Dominican Pablo Christiani...
179. Mordecai Ben Judah (mordusch) JE Polish ritualist; lived at Lamkumsh; died 1584. He edited the Maḥzor with the commentary of Abraham Abigdor, to which...
180. Mordecai Ben Judah (aryeh LÖb) Ashkenazi JE Dutch ritualist; lived in Amsterdam in the early part of the seventeenth century. He was a disciple of Abraham Rovigo, whose...
181. Mordecai Ben Judah Ha-levi JE Chief rabbi of Cairo, Egypt; preacher and Biblical commentator; flourished in the seventeenth century; died at Jerusalem....
182. Mordecai Ben Judah LÖb Of Lemberg JE Commentator; lived in the latter part of the seventeenth century. He was rabbi of Dobri, Bohemia. His commentary to the Pentateuch...
183. Mordecai Ha-kohen Of Safed JE Cabalist and scholar; flourished in the second half of the sixteenth century. He was a pupil of the famous cabalist Israel...
184. Mordecai Mokiah JE Shabbethaian prophet and false Messiah; born in Alsace about 1650; died at Presburg May 18, 1729. The death of Shabbethai...
185. Mordecai Ben Naphtali Hirsch Kremsir JE Polish commentator; died in Cracow 1670. He was a disciple of Shabbethai Sheftel. His most important work is a commentary...
186. Maestro Mordecai Nathan JE French physician; lived at Avignon in the middle of the fifteenth century. He corresponded with Joseph Colon, who highly praises...
187. Mordecai Ben Nathan Ben Eliakim Ben Isaac Of Strasburg JE French commentator; lived at Corbeil about the end of the thirteenth century. He was the author of a commentary on the "Sefer...
188. Mordecai Ben Nissan Ha-zaḲen JE Karaite scholar; lived at Krasnoi-Ostrog, Poland, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He studied under Joseph ben...
189. Mordecai B Shabbethai JE Liturgical poet of the thirteenth century; a native either of Italy or of Greece. His penitential prayers ("seliḥot")...
190. Mordecai Ẓemah B Gershon (soncin) JE ...
191. Lazare Mordo JE Physician and honorary rabbi of Corfu; born 1744; died 1823; studied at Venice and Padua. In 1814 he was appointed chief physician...
192. Moreno (morenu) JE According to the interpretation of Moses ibn Ḥabib, a proper name, which was adopted as a family name by Spanish-Portuguese...
193. Morenu JE Term used since the middle of the fourteenth century as a title for rabbis and Talmudists; and the abbreviation (= ) was...
194. Moresheth-gath JE City in Palestine, apparently the native place of the prophet Micah; mentioned in connection with Lachish, Achzib, Mareshah...
195. Altes Und Neues Morgenland JE Monthly magazine published in Basel, Switzerland. It was edited by Samuel Preiswerk and appeared for six years (1838-44)....
196. Karl Morgenstern JE German landscape-painter; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Oct. 25, 1812; died there Jan. 10, 1893. He received his education...
197. Lina Morgenstern JE German authoress and communal worker; born in Breslau Nov. 25, 1830. The Revolution of 1848 led her to interest herself in...
198. Michael (mikhail Grigoryevich) Morgulis JE Russian jurist and author; born at Berdychev March 25, 1837. His parents, who were well-to-do people, gave him a good education...
199. Moriah JE 1. A district in Palestine containing several mountains, on one of which Abraham was commanded by God to sacrifice his son...
200. Albert Moritz JE American naval engineer; born at Cincinnati, Ohio, June 8, 1860. He was educated at the College of the City of New York, graduating...
201. Morocco JE Sultanate in northwestern Africa. In antiquity it formed a considerable part of Mauritania. The latter was originally an independent...
202. Giulio (samuel Ben Nahmias B David B Isaac B David Ba'al Teshubah) Morosini JE Italian convert from Judaism to Christianity; born at Venice 1612; died in 1687. He was descended from a wealthy family which...
203. Morpurgo JE Austro-Italian family, originally from Marburg, Styria. Carlo Morpurgo: Italian writer; born June 20, 1841, at Cairo, Egypt...
204. Samson Ben Joshua Moses Morpurgo JE Italian rabbi, physician, and liturgist; born at Gradiska, Austria, in 1681; died at Ancona April 12, 1740. When a boy of...
205. Lewis Morrison JE American actor, born at Jamaica, W. I., 1845. Morrison removed to the United States before his twentieth year and on the outbreak...
206. Godfrey Morse JE American lawyer; brother of Leopold Morse; born at Wachenheim, in Rhenish Bavaria, May 19, 1846; he removed to America in...
207. Leopold Morse JE American congressman; merchant; born at Wachenheim, Rhenish Bavaria, Aug. 15, 1831; died in Boston, Mass., Dec. 15, 1892....
208. Mortality JE Death-rate. The bulk of the Jews are known to live in the most overcrowded and unsanitary sections of cities in Europe and...
209. Mortara Case JE A case of forcible abduction in which a child named Edgar Mortara was violently removed from the custody of his parents by...
210. Edgar Mortara JE ...
211. Marco Mortara JE Italian rabbi and scholar; born at Viadana May 7, 1815; died at Mantua Feb. 2, 1894. Having graduated from the rabbinical...
212. Saul Levi Morteira (mortera) JE Dutch rabbi of Portuguese descent; born about 1596 at Venice; died at Amsterdam Feb. 10, 1660. In a Spanish poem Daniel Levi...
213. Mortgage JE Written document for securing a debt upon property, possession of which is not necessarily delivered to the creditor. The...
214. Edward Morton JE English journalist and playwright; born 1858. For many years he was dramatic critic on the "Referee" and other London papers...
215. Martha Morton JE American playwright; born Oct. 10, 1865, in New York city; educated in the public schools and at the Normal College. Among...
216. Edward Morwitz JE American physician and journalist; born at Danzig, Prussia, June 11, 1815; settled in Philadelphia 1850; died there Dec. 13...
217. Joseph Moscat JE ...
218. Judah Aryeh (leone) Moscato JE Italian rabbi, poet, and philosopher of the sixteenth century; born at Osimo, near Ancona; died at Mantua before 1594. After...
219. Felix Moscheles JE English artist; born in London Feb. 8, 1833; studied painting in Paris and Antwerp, and exhibited his first pictures in those...
220. Ignaz Moscheles JE Austrian pianist; born at Prague May 30, 1794; died at Leipsic March 10, 1870. After a short course with Zadrahka and Horzelsky...
221. Tobias Moschides JE ...
222. Judah Leon Ben Moses Mosconi JE Bulgarian scholar and Talmudist; born at Ocrida 1328. Owing to the wars which agitated Bulgaria in the fourteenth century...
223. Moscow JE Russian city; capital of the government of the same name. Jews began to appear in Moscow in early times, but only as individuals...
224. Mose JE ...
225. Alfred Mosely JE English financier; born at Clifton 1855. He was educated at the Bristol Grammar School, and afterward went to South Africa...
226. Julius Mosen (moses) JE German poet; born at Marieney, Saxony, July 3, 1803; died at Oldenburg Oct. 10, 1867. He was educated at Plauen, and studied...
227. Solomon Hermann Von Mosenthal JE Austrian dramatist and poet; born at Cassel, Hesse-Nassau, Germany, Jan. 14, 1821; died at Vienna Feb. 17, 1877. He attended...
228. Moser JE An informer, denunciator, or delator; synonyms are "masor" (abstract, "mesirah"), "delator" (), and "malshin" (abstract, "malshinut")...
229. Moses Moser JE German merchant known as a friend of Heine; born 1796; died at Berlin Aug. 15, 1838. He was educated for a business career...
230. Moses JE The birth of Moses occurred at a time when Pharaoh had commanded that all male children born to Hebrew captives should be...
231. Assumption Of Moses JE ...
232. Blessing Of Moses JE Name given to the chapter in Deuteronomy (xxxiii.) containing the prophetic utterances of Moses concerning the destiny of...
233. Children Of Moses JE The legendary descendants of Moses who dwell beyond the mythical River Sambaṭion. The pathetic conception of the Jewish...
234. Moses Ben Aaron JE Moravian and German rabbi; born at Lemberg about 1705; died at Nikolsburg, Moravia, Dec. 28, 1757. After having studied in...
235. Moses Ben Abraham Abinu JE Christian convert to Judaism; printer and author; born at Nikolsburg; died at Amsterdam in 1733 or 1734. According to Wolf...
236. Moses Ben Abraham Ha-Ḳadosh JE Lithuanian rabbi; born probably at Brest-Litovsk in the beginning of the seventeenth century; died at Grodno April 28, 1681...
237. Moses Ben Abraham Of NÎmes JE Liturgical poet and astronomer; lived at Avignon in the second half of the fifteenth century. He was the author of a liturgical...
238. Moses Ben Abraham Of Pontoise JE Tosafist; lived in the twelfth century. He was a disciple of Jacob Tam, with whom he carried on an active scientific correspondence...
239. Moses Ben Abraham ProvenÇal JE Rabbi of Mantua about the middle of the sixteenth century. In opposition to the opinion of Meïr Katzenellenbogen of Padua...
240. Moses AÇan (hazzan) De Zaragua JE Spanish poet; born in Catalonia; perhaps the Moses Açan who lived in Cuenca, and who, when King Alfonso X. (the Wise)...
241. Adolph Moses JE American rabbi; born at Kletchevo, Prussian Poland, May 3, 1840; died at Louisville, Ky., Jan. 7, 1902. He was a son of Israel...
242. Moses Ben Amram Ha-parsi JE ...
243. Moses Of Arles JE French scholar of the second half of the tenth century. Moses is the earliest scholar of the city of Arles of whom there is...
244. Moses B Asher JE Masorite; father of Aaron; generally called Ben Asher; lived at Tiberias in the second half of the ninth century. His father...
245. Moses Of Baalbek JE ...
246. Moses B Benjamin Ha-sofer Of Rome JE Liturgical poet of the twelfth century; he wrote several piyyuṭim for the Passover and the Feast of Weeks, as well as...
247. Moses B Benjamin Wolf JE Polish physician; flourished at Kalisz in the second half of the seventeenth century. He wrote in Yiddish two medical works:...
248. Moses Botarel JE Spanish scholar; lived in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. He was a pupil of Jacob Sefardi (the Spaniard), who instructed...
249. Moses Botarel Farissol JE Astronomer and mathematician of the second half of the fifteenth century. He wrote a work on the calendar entitled "Meleket...
250. Moses Cordovero JE Physician; lived at Leghorn in the seventeenth century. Conforte praises him as a good physician, and also on account of his...
251. Moses Cordovero JE ...
252. Moses Of Crete JE Pseudo-Messiah of the middle of the fifth century. In spite of Ashi's efforts to restrain within limits the expectation...
253. Moses Ben Daniel Of Rohatyn JE Galician author of the end of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Sugyot ha-Talmud," a methodology of the Talmud...
254. Moses Ha-darshan JE French exegete; lived at Narbonne about the middle of the eleventh century. According to a manuscript in the possession of...
255. Moses Ben David Ben Naphtali JE ...
256. Moses Eisenstadt Ben Isaac JE ...
257. Moses Eliakim Beri'ah Ben Israel JE Polish preacher; born at Cozienice; died there in 1825. He wrote "Be'er Mosheh" (Jusefow, n.d.), homilies arranged according...
258. Moses Ben Elijah Ha-levi JE Karaite scholar and poet; lived at Chufut-Kale, in the Crimea, in the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work entitled...
259. Moses Ben Enoch JE Founder of Talmud study in Spain; died about 965. He was one of the four scholars that went from Sura, the seat of a once...
260. Moses Of Evreux JE French tosafist, and author of a siddur ("Semaḳ" No. 154); flourished in the first half of the thirteenth century. Moses...
261. Moses Germanus JE ...
262. Moses Ibn Gikatilla JE ...
263. Moses B Habib JE ...
264. Moses Harif Ii (phinehas Moses Ben Israel) JE Chief rabbi of Lemberg, where he died Sept. 17, 1702. Moses was a grandson of Moses Ḥarif I. ben Solomon, and appears...
265. Moses Hasid JE Austrian ethical writer; lived at Prague in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was the author of a "Ẓawwa&#39...
266. Moses Ben Isaac JE Austrian author; lived at Bisenz, Moravia, in the latter half of the sixteenth century. He was the author of: "Darash Mosheh"...
267. Moses Isaac B Baruch Of Redwitz JE ...
268. Moses Ben Isaac Bonems JE Polish rabbi; born at Cracow; died at Lublin Nov. 25, 1668. He was a great-grandson of Moses Isserles, and later became the...
269. Moses Ben Isaac Hanessiah JE English grammarian and lexicographer of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. His mother probably was a Jewess...
270. Moses B Isaac Judah Lima JE ...
271. Moses Isaac Judah LÖb Ben Naphtali Hirz JE Rabbi and cabalist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main; died at Pinczow, Russian Poland, in 1682 (in 1662 according to Wolf, "Bibl...
272. Moses Isaac Of Kelmy JE Russian preacher, known as the "Kelmer maggid"; born in Slonim, government of Grodno, 1828; died in Lida, government of Wilna...
273. Moses Ben Isaac Leoni JE Italian scholar and Talmudist; born at Urbino Nov. 30, 1566; died in 1641. At the age of thirteen Moses became the pupil of...
274. Moses Ben Isaac (gajo) Of Rieti JE Italian physician, philosopher, and poet; born at Rieti in 1388; died at Rome about 1460. After having received instruction...
275. Isaac S Moses JE American rabbi; born Dec. 8, 1847, at Santomischel, Posen. He was educated at Santomischel, Gleiwitz, and Breslau. The rabbinical...
276. Moses Ben Isaiah Ha-kohen JE Polish rabbi of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was a pupil of Solomon Luria, and was successively rabbi of Miedzyboz...
277. Moses Israel JE Oriental rabbi; born at Jerusalem in the latter half of the seventeenth century; died at Alexandria about 1740. Sent out to...
278. Moses B Israel Isserles JE ...
279. Moses Ben Israel Of Landsberg JE German Talmudist and Hebrew scholar at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He was styled by his contemporaries "the father...
280. Moses Ben Issachar JE Rabbi at Aussee, Moravia, in the second half of the seventeenth century; nephew of Mordecai Jaffe. He wrote: "Holek be-Derek...
281. Moses Ben Jacob Of Coucy (semag) JE The "SeMaG" of Moses of Coucy deals with the 365 prohibitions and the 248 commandments of the Mosaic law, separately expounding...
282. Moses Ben Jacob Of Russia JE Born in Schadow, near Schavli, Lithuania, 1449; died in the first quarter of the sixteenth century, in the Crimea, probably...
283. Moses Ben Jehiel Ben Mattathiah JE ...
284. Moses B Jekuthiel De Rossi JE ...
285. Joseph Hayyim Elijah Moses JE Cabalist and Talmudist; grandson of a chief rabbi of Bagdad; one of the leaders of the Jewish community there (1904). He wrote...
286. Moses B Joseph Hazzan JE ...
287. Moses Ben Joseph Ha-kohen JE Liturgical poet of the latter part of the twelfth century; perhaps the Moses ben Joseph who aided the oppressed Jews in the...
288. Moses Ben Joseph Ben Merwan Ha-levi JE French Talmudist; flourished about the middle of the twelfth century. He was a nephew and pupil of Isaac ben Merwan ha-Levi...
289. Moses B Joseph Of Rome JE Liturgical poet and rabbinical authority of the thirteenth century. One of his liturgical poems has been included in the German...
290. Moses Ben Joshua Of Narbonne (maestro Vidal Blasom) JE French philosopher and physician; born at Perpignan at the end of the thirteenth century; died after 1362. His education in...
291. Moses Judah LÖb B Samuel JE Russian rabbi and author; born in Turetz, government of Minsk; died at Minsk in 1889. He was a son-in-law of Rabbi David Tebele...
292. Moses (mesharsheya) Kahana Ben Jacob JE Gaon of Sura from 832 to 843; son of the gaon (801-815) Jacob ha-Kohen ben Mordecai. Moses is reputed to have been a student...
293. Moses Kalfo JE Italian scholar; lived at the beginning of the eleventh century at Bari, where he taught at the yeshibah. He is known through...
294. Moses B Kalonymus JE ...
295. Moses Kapsali JE ...
296. Moses Of Kiev JE Russian Talmudist; lived in the first half of the twelfth century. Moses seems to have been in western Europe in consequence...
297. Moses Ha-kohen JE Rabbi of Salonica in the first half of the eighteenth century; author of a collection of responsa entitled "Kehunnat &#39...
298. Moses Ha-kohen Of Corfu JE Greek Talmudist and liturgical poet; flourished at the end of the sixteenth century. He was the author of"Yashir Mosheh" (Mantua...
299. Moses Kohen B Eliezer JE ...
300. Moses Ha-kohen Of Lunel JE French Talmudist; flourished about 1200. Moses was one of the rabbis who criticized Maimonides' writings. He wrote a series...