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1. Moses Of Leon JE ...
2. Moses Ha-levi AlḲabiẒ JE Prominent rabbi of the first half of the sixteenth century; father of Solomon Alḳabiẓ. About 1530 he officiated...
3. Moses Ha-levi Ha-nazir JE Palestinian rabbi of the seventeenth century. He was the father of Joseph ha-Levi and son-in-law of the Talmudist Abraham...
4. Moses Lima Ben Isaac JE ...
5. Moses Ben Maimon JE Talmudist, philosopher, astronomer, and physician; born at Cordova March 30, 1135; died at Cairo Dec. 13, 1204; known in Arabic...
6. Moses B MeÏr Of Ferrara JE Italian tosafist of the thirteenth century, whose tosafot were used by the compiler of the "Haggahot Maimuniyyot." Moses himself...
7. Moses MeÏr Kamanker JE ...
8. Moses Ben Menahem (prÄger) JE Cabalist of Prague; disciple of R. David Oppenheim; lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He wrote: "Wa-Ya&#7731...
9. Moses Mizorodi Ben Judah Maruli JE Karaite scholar; lived at Constantinople in the second half of the sixteenth century. He was ayounger contemporary of Judah...
10. Moses Ben Nahman Gerondi JE Spanish Talmudist, exegete, and physician; born at Gerona (whence his name "Gerondi") in 1194 (Gans, "Ẓemaḥ Dawid...
11. Moses Ha-naḲdan JE ...
12. Moses Naphtali Hirsch Ribkas JE ...
13. Moses Nathan Ben Judah JE Liturgical poet of the fourteenth century; perhaps identical with the Catalonian parnas Moses Nathan, who was still living...
14. Moses Navarro JE ...
15. Moses B Noah Isaac LipschÜtz JE ...
16. Moses Of Palermo JE Sicilian translator from the Arabic into Latin; lived in the second half of the thirteenth century. According to a document...
17. Moses Of Paris JE Exegete; lived in the middle of the twelfth century. According to Gross, he is identical with Moses ben Jehiel ben Mattathiah...
18. Moses Of Pavia JE Italian scholar of the eleventh century. According to Kaufmann, he is identical with the teacher Moses of Pavia, who, about...
19. Moses Saerteles (saertels) B Issachar Ha-levi JE Exegete; lived at Prague in the first half of the seventeenth century. His name () is a matronymic from "Sarah." He published...
20. Moses Ben Samuel Ben Asher JE French Talmudist; flourished at Perpignan in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Both Moses and his father possessed...
21. Moses B Samuel Of Roquemaure JE Physician and translator of the fourteenth century; lived at Avignon, Toledo, and Seville. At Toledo he wrote a poem, before...
22. Moses Ibn Tibbon JE ...
23. Moses B Samuel Zuriel JE ...
24. Sason Mordecai Moses JE Turkish cabalist and Talmudist; born, 1747; lived in Bagdad, where he died in the year 1831. He was the author of: "&#7730...
25. Moses Shedel JE ...
26. Moses B Shem-Ṭob JE ...
27. Moses B Shemaiah JE Scholar and preacher in the latter part of the seventeenth century. He was the author of a commentary on the Pentateuch, containing...
28. Moses Ben Shneor JE ...
29. Silas Meyer Moses JE President of the Bank of Bombay; second son of M. S. Moses; born in Bombay Nov. 23, 1845. He was educated in that city, and...
30. Moses Ben Simhah Of Lutsk JE Karaite scholar of the first half of the eighteenth century; father of Simḥah Isaac, author of the "Oraḥ &#7826...
31. Moses Of Smolensk JE Russian engraver of the twelfth century. In a collection of documents published by Professor Kunik of the Russian Academy...
32. Moses Sofer JE ...
33. Moses (levi) B Solomon Of Beaucaire JE French writer; lived at Salon in the early part of the fourteenth century. He was the teacher of Kalonymus b. Kalonymus of...
34. Moses B Solomon D'escola JE ...
35. Moses Ben Solomon Ha-kohen Ashkenazi JE German tosafist; lived at Mayence in the twelfth century. It appears, however, that Moses was a native of France ("Or Zarua&#39...
36. Moses Ben Solomon Of Salerno JE Italian philosopher and commentator of the thirteenth century. Between 1240 and 1250 he wrote a commentary on Maimonides&#39...
37. Moses Ben Solomon Ben Simeon Of Burgos JE Spanish cabalist of the thirteenth century; pupil of Jacob ha-Kohen of Provence. Hebrew manuscript No. 1565, 8 in the Bodleian...
38. Moses Taku Of Tachau JE See Taku, Moses b. Ḥasdai. This article is Rated: 2.85 ...
39. Moses Ben Todros JE Spanish rabbi; lived about 1150. He was for many years nasi of Narbonne, and was both prominent as a scholar and well known...
40. Moses Di Trani JE ...
41. Moses Uri B Joseph Ha-levi JE Rabbi at Emden and one of the founders of the Spanish-Portuguese community at Amsterdam; born 1544, probably at Wittmund;...
42. Moses Wallich JE ...
43. Moses Of Worms JE Legendary rabbi of the eleventh century; reputed to have been the greatest magician and necromancer of his time (Tritheim...
44. Moses Ibn Yahya JE ...
45. Moses Ben Yom-Ṭob JE English Masorite and grammarian. He is quoted by Moses ben Isaac as his teacher ("Sefer ha-Shoham," ed. Collins, p. 37), and...
46. Moses Zacuto JE ...
47. Moses Zarah Eidlitz JE ...
48. Moses Zeeb Wolf Ben Eliezer JE Lithuanian rabbi of the beginning of the nineteenth century; born at Grodno; died at Byelostok. He was at first head of the...
49. Aaron Ben Moses Mosessohn JE German rabbi; born probably in Glogau; died at Ansbach, Bavaria, 1780; was a descendant of the Ẓebi family (see Br&#252...
50. Miriam Mosessohn (markel) JE Russian-Hebrew authoress; born at Kovno 1841. At the age of thirteen she removed with her parents to Suwalki, where she continued...
51. Henry Mosler JE American genre painter; born in New York city June 6, 1841. He was taken to Cincinnati when a child and began to study art...
52. Lucien Moss JE American philanthropist; born at Philadelphia May 25, 1831; died there April 19, 1895; eldest son of Eliezer L., and grandson...
53. Mary Moss JE American authoress; born at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 24, 1864. Since 1902 she has been a prolific contributor...
54. Benjamin Mosse JE Rabbi of Avignon, France; born at Nimes Dec. 8, 1832; died at Marseilles July 24, 1892. Mosse was the founder of the monthly...
55. Markus Mosse JE German physician; born Aug. 3, 1808, at Grätz, in the province of Posen; died there Nov. 10, 1865. On account of his...
56. Rudolf Mosse JE German publisher and philanthropist; son of Dr. Markus Moses; born May 8, 1843, at Grätz, Posen. He began his career...
57. Hayyim Nissim Raphael Mossiri JE Turkish rabbinical writer; died about 1800 at Jerusalem, whither he had gone from Salonica. He was the author of "Be'er...
58. Mostar JE Capital of the district of Mostar, in the province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria. It had in 1895 a total population of...
59. Mosul JE Town of Asiatic Turkey; situated 220 miles northwest of Bagdad, on the right bank of the Tigris; capital of the province of...
60. Moritz Moszkowski JE German pianist and composer; born Aug. 23, 1854, at Breslau, where he received his early musical education. After a further...
61. Abraham Ben Jacob Of Salonica Motal JE Turkish rabbi of the seventeenth century; born about 1568; died in 1658. He was a pupil of R. Samuel Ḥayyun, author...
62. Benjamin B Abraham Of Constantinople Motal JE Turkish scholar of the first half of the seventeenth century. He is said to have been an exceptional grammarian and to have...
63. Motazilites; Motekallamin JE ...
64. Moth JE ...
65. Mother JE Although the father was considered the head of the family among the Hebrews of old, and the mother therefore occupied an inferior...
66. Samuel Ben Sa'adias Ibn MoṬoṬ JE Spanish commentator and translator; lived in the second half of the fourteenth century in Guadalajara, where he probably was...
67. Simeon Ben Moses Ben Simeon MoṬoṬ JE Jewish mathematician of the fifteenth century; probably lived in Lombardy. No Jewish author mentions him, nor is anything...
68. Emanuel De La Motta JE Early settler in South Carolina; born in the Spanish West Indies Jan. 5, 1761; died May 15, 1821. His family is said to have...
69. Jacob De La Motta JE American physician; son of Emanuel de la Motta; born about 1789; died at Charleston, S. C., Feb. 13, 1845. He studied medicine...
70. Mountain Jews JE ...
71. Mourners Of Zion JE ...
72. Mourning JE Manifestation of sorrow and grief over the loss, by death or otherwise, of a relative, a friend, an honored leader or prophet...
73. Mouse JE An animal enumerated among the unclean "creeping things" in Lev. xi. 29. In I Sam. vi., where the reference is to the mice...
74. Movable Property JE ...
75. Mstislavl JE District town in the government of Moghilef, Russia. A Jewish community existed here in the sixteenth century. There is reason...
76. Mu'aṬi JE Rabbi in Constantinople in the middle of the seventeenth century. He wrote "Yashir Mosheh" (Leghorn, 1655; Amsterdam, 1735)...
77. Abu Al-bayan Ibn Al- Mudawwar JE Karaite court physician to the last Egyptian Fatimite califs and later to Saladin, who pensioned him when he was sixty-three...
78. Elias Ibn Al- Mudawwar JE Arabic poet and physician; lived at Ronda, probably in the first half of the twelfth century (the year 1184 which Jacobs gives...
79. David Mugnon JE Spanish scholar and author; died at Venice in 1629. He wrote a work in Spanish entitled "Tratado de la Oracion y Meditacion...
80. Lucien MÜhlfeld JE French novelist and dramatic critic; born at Paris Aug. 4, 1870; died there Dec. 1, 1902. After completing his studies at...
81. Yom-Ṭob Lipmann MÜhlhausen JE ...
82. Abraham Muhr JE German philanthropist; born at Berlin April 7, 1781; died at Breslau June 12, 1847. In addition to a thorough course in Hebrew...
83. Julius Muhr JE German genre painter; born at Plesse, Silesia, June 21, 1819; died at Munich in 1865. He studied first at the Academy of Berlin...
84. Simon Muhr JE American merchant, manufacturer, and philanthropist; eldest son of Henry Muhr; born at Hürben, Bavaria, April 19, 1845...
85. Samuel MÜhsam JE Austrian rabbi; born at Landsberg, Prussian Silesia, May 22, 1837. He received his education at the gymnasium at Oppeln and...
86. Abu Al-faraj Harun Ben Al-faraj Al- MuḲaddasi JE ...
87. Mulberry JE The berry-like fruit of the black or common mulberry (Morus nigra). It is not mentioned in the Hebrew Old Testament, although...
88. Samuel Israel Mulder JE Dutch educationist; born at Amsterdam June 20, 1792; died there Dec. 29, 1862. He was educated by his father and by David...
89. Mule JE A hybrid between the ass and horse. The Hebrew term is "pered"; feminine, "pirdah." (For "rekesh," which some render by "mule...
90. MÜlhausen JE City in Alsace. Its Jewish community is of comparatively recent foundation. In 1784 there were no Jews in Mülhausen,...
91. David Heinrich MÜller JE Austrian Orientalist; born July 6, 1846, at Buczacz, Galicia. He studied in Vienna, Leipsic, Strasburg, and Berlin, and became...
92. Gabriel MÜller JE Dayyan at Mattersdorf, Hungary; born Oct. 3, 1836, at Nadas. He received much of his education in his father's (&#7716...
93. Joel MÜller JE German rabbi and Talmudist; born 1827 at Ungarisch-Ostra, Moravia; died at Berlin Nov. 6, 1895. He received a thorough Talmudic...
94. Munah JE ...
95. Abu Al-faraj Ibn ṢadaḲah Munajja JE Samaritan writer; lived in the twelfth century, probably at Damascus. His father was a renowned poet (whence the son's...
96. MÜnden JE Town in the province of Hanover, Prussia. Its Jews are first mentioned in the sixteenth century. When Duke Heinrich the Younger...
97. Munich JE Capital of Bavaria, Germany. It has (1904) a total population of 499,959, including 8,739 Jews. When Jews first went there...
98. Moses Munius JE French rabbi; said to be a descendant of Löwe ben Bezaleel; born 1760 at Mutzig; died May, 1842, at Rixheim. On finishing...
99. Eduard Munk JE German philologist; born Jan. 14, 1803, at Gross Glogau; died there May 3, 1871; cousin of Salomon Munk. He studied from 1822...
100. Hermann Munk JE German physiologist; born at Posen Feb. 3, 1839; brother of Immanuel Munk; educated at the universities of Berlin and G&#246...
101. Immanuel Munk JE German physiologist; born at Posen May 20, 1852; died in Berlin Aug. 1, 1900; brother of Hermann Munk. He studied medicine...
102. Salomon Munk JE At Paris. French Orientalist; born at Gross Glogau May 14, 1803; died in Paris Feb. 5, 1867. He received his first instruction...
103. Bernhard MunkÁcsy JE Hungarian philologist and ethnologist; born at Nagy-Varad (Grosswardein) March 12, 1860; educated in his native city and at...
104. Sebastian MÜnster JE German Hebraist and cosmographer; born 1489 at Ingelheim; died at Basel May 23, 1552. He was educated at Heidelberg and T&#252...
105. Hugo MÜnsterburg JE American psychologist; born at Danzig, Prussia, June 1, 1863. After being trained at the gymnasium of his native city he studied...
106. Bernhard MÜnz JE Austrian writer; born Feb. 1, 1856, at Leipnik, Moravia; educated at the University of Vienna (Ph.D. 1877). After leaving...
107. Moses MÜnz (minz) JE Hungarian rabbi; born about 1750 in Podolia; died 1831 at Alt-Ofen. For several years he lived at Brody, Galicia, where he...
108. Sigmund MÜnz JE Austrian writer; brother of Bernhard Münz; born at Leipnik, Moravia, May 7, 1859; studied at the universities of Vienna...
109. MÜnzenberg JE ...
110. Armin MurÁnyi JE Hungarian lawyer and journalist; born at Asszonyfa (County Raab), May 8, 1841; died at Budapest April 30, 1902. After studying...
111. Murcia JE Capital of the former kingdom of Murcia, where Jews were living as early as the period of Moorish rule. When King James of...
112. Murder JE ...
113. Murviedro JE City in the old kingdom of Valencia. Its Jewish community had special privileges, and a plot of ground was assigned to it...
114. Hayyim Ibn Musa JE Spanish controversialist, physician, and Biblical commentator; born at Bejar, not far from Salamanca, about 1390; died in...
115. Musa Of Tiflis JE Karaite founder of a new sect in the beginning of the ninth century; a native of Za'faran, a town of Persia; hence his...
116. Musa Ibn Ṭubi (abu 'imran Musa Ibn Ṭubi Al-ishbili) JE Spanish-Arabic poet; flourished in Seville in the first half of the fourteenth century. He was the author of an Arabic poem...
117. Musaf JE Additional offering or prayer. Besides the regular morning and afternoon sacrifices offered in the Temple, the Law provided...
118. Musarnikes JE Name colloquially applied in Russia to the followers of R. Israel Lipkin (Salanter) in the study of religio-ethical works...
119. Museum Zur Belehrung Und Unterhaltung FÜr Israeliten JE ...
120. Museus JE ...
121. Music And Musical Instruments JE The development of music among the Israelites was coincident with that of poetry, the two being equally ancient, since every...
122. Synagogal Music JE It has been shown in the article Cantillation (Jew. Encyc. iii. 537b) that the desire to read the Scriptures in the manner...
123. Musrim JE ...
124. Adolf Mussafia JE Austrian Romance philologist; born at Spalato, Dalmatia, Feb. 15, 1835. At first intended for the medical profession, he became...
125. Benjamin Ben Immanuel Mussafia (musaphia) JE Physician and philologist of the seventeenth century, who in his Latin work on medicine calls himself Dionysius; born about...
126. Hayyim Isaac Mussafia JE Talmudist; born at Jerusalem 1760; died at Spalato, Dalmatia, June 10, 1837. He studied chiefly under David Pardo of Sarajevo...
127. Mussarnikes JE ...
128. Mutuality JE ...
129. Asher Isaac Myers JE English journalist; born in London 1848; died there May 11, 1902. After an early training in the clothing business Myers became...
130. Maurice William Myers JE American librarian; born in London, England, Feb. 18, 1821; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 8, 1899. He emigrated to New York...
131. Walter Myers JE English physician and toxicologist; born 1871 at Birmingham; died Jan. 21, 1901, at Para, Brazil. He was educated at King...
132. Myrtle JE An evergreen, aromatic shrub which flourishes in the spring and summer on hillsides and near watercourses. In the Bible it...
133. Mikhail Ignatyevich Mysh JE Russian jurist; born at Koretz, Volhynia, Jan. 2, 1846; educated at the Jewish government school of his birthplace, at the...
134. Mysticism JE ...