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Raab JE Chief town of the county of the same name, possessing one of the oldest Jewish communities in Hungary. As early as 1490 a...
Rab Ashi JE ...
Raba JE Babylonian amora of the third generation. The exact time at which he lived is uncertain, although he was a friend of &#39...
Raba (b Joseph B Hama) JE Babylonian amora of the fourth generation; born about 280 C.E. at Maḥoza (where his father was a wealthy and distinguished...
Raba B Ada JE Babylonian amora of the third generation; pupil of R. Judah b. Ezekiel at Pumbedita (Beẓah 33b). He quoted sayings by...
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Rabai Of Rob JE Youngest sabora of the first generation; succeeded R. Simona as head of the Academy of Pumbedita; died in 550. Sherira says...
Rabbah (rabbath) JE Capital of the Ammonites, where, according to Deut. iii. 11, the bed of the giant Og was shown. David besieged and took the...
Rabbah B Abuha JE Babylonian amora of the second generation; teacher and father-in-law of R. Naḥman b. Jacob. He was related to the house...
Rabbah Gaon (mar Raba) JE Gaon at Pumbedita from 640 to 650 (Halevy, "Dorot ha-Rishonim," iii. 177; comp. "Sefer ha-'Iṭṭur," i. 59b)...
Rabbah B Hana (r Abba B Hana Of Kafri) JE Babylonian amora of the first generation; nephew of R. Ḥiyya and cousin of Abba Arika (Rab; Sanh. 5a). Like Rab, he...
Rabbah Bar Bar Hana JE Babylonian amora of the second generation; grandson of Ḥana, the brother of Ḥiyya. He went to Palestine and became...
Rabbah B Hanan JE Babylonian amora of the fourth generation; pupil of Rabbah bar Naḥmani and a colleague of Abaye, who was of the same...
Rabbah B Hiyya Of Ctesiphon JE Babylonian amora of the second generation. He is said to have performed the ceremony of ḥaliẓah in a manner which...
Rabbah B Huna JE Babylonian amora of the third generation; died in 322; son of R. Huna, the head of the Academy of Sura (Heilprin, "Seder ha-Dorot...
Rabbah B Liwai JE Babylonian amora of the fourth generation; contemporary of Raba b. Joseph b. Ḥama, two of whose decisions he proved...
Rabbah B Mari JE Babylonian amora of the fourth generation, who resided for a time in Palestine and then returned to his home (Yoma 78a), where...
Rabbah B Matna JE Babylonian amora of the fourth generation; contemporary and colleague of R. Zera II. Rabbah was slow and careful in his methods...
Rabbah B Nahman B Jacob JE Babylonian amora of the third generation; contemporary of Rabbah b. Huna, with whom he was closely associated. The latter...
Rabbah B Nahmani JE Babylonian amora of the third generation; born about 270; died about 330; a descendant of a priestly family of Judea which...
Rabbah Of ParziḲi JE Babylonian amora of the sixth generation; contemporary of R. Ashi, with whom he often had discussions (Soṭah 26b; Pes...
Rabbah B Samuel JE Babylonian amora of the second half of the third century; son of Mar Samuel of Nehardea. He was an associate of R. &#7716...
Rabbah B Shela JE Babylonian amora of the fourth generation; contemporary of Raba, and a judge (Ket. 104b), probably at Pumbedita. His strict...
Rabbah Tusfa'ah (tosefa'ah) JE Babylonian amora of the seventh generation. He was a pupil of Rabina I. (Suk. 32a; comp. Halevy, "Dorot ha-Rishonim," iii...
Rabbah B Ufran JE Babylonian amora of the third century. He transmitted a haggadic aphorism of R. Eleazar b. Pedat (Meg. 15b); and an independent...
Rabban JE Title given only to patriarchs, the presidents of the Sanhedrin. The first person to be called by this title was the patriarch...
Joseph Rabban JE ...
Rabbenu Ha-Ḳadosh JE ...
Rabbi JE Hebrew term used as a title for those who are distinguished for learning, who are the authoritative teachers of the Law, and...
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Mordecai Ben Abraham Rabbiner JE Russian rabbi; born at Sloboda, a suburb of Bauske, Courland, 1758; died at Bauske 1830; a descendant on his mother's...
Rabbiner Seminar FÜr Das Orthodoxe Judenthum JE This institution was founded at Berlin by Dr. Israel Hildesheimer for the training of Orthodox rabbis. In accepting the call...
IsraËl Michel Rabbinowicz JE Russo-French author and translator; born at Horodetz, near Kobrin, government of Grodno, June 6, 1818; died in London May...
Raphael Nathan Rabbinovicz JE Talmudical scholar and antiquarian; born at Novo-Zhagory, government of Kovno, Russia, in 1835; died at Kiev Nov. 28, 1888...
Saul Phinehas Rabbinowitz JE Russian Neo-Hebrew publicist and historian; born in Taurogen, government of Kovno, April 8, 1845. At the age of five he was...
Johann Jacob Rabe JE German translator of the Mishnah and the Talmud; born 1710 in Lindflur, Unterfranken; died Feb. 12, 1798. He was city chaplain...
Mattithiah Simhah B Judah LÖb Rabener JE Austrian Hebraist and educator; born in Lemberg Jan. 23, 1826. After receiving the usual rabbinical education, he took up...
Rabin B Adda JE Babylonian amora of the third generation; brother of Rabbah b. Adda and pupil of Judah b. Ezekiel of Pumbedita(Beẓah...
Rabina I JE Babylonian amora of the fifth generation; died about 420. He was a pupil of Raba b. Joseph b. Ḥama, and his extreme...
Rabina Ii (b Huna) JE Babylonian amora of the seventh generation. He did not remember his father, R. Huna, who died while Rabina was still a child...
Rabina Iii Of Umza JE Sabora of the first generation; died Adar, 508. Nothing further about him is known (Sherira Gaon, in Neubauer, "M. J. C."...
Leon Rabinovich JE Russian physicist and journalist; born at Brestovitz, government of Grodno, Jan. 2, 1862. He is descended on his father&#39...
Osip Aaronovich Rabinovich (rabbinowitz) JE Russian Jewish author and journalist; born Jan. 14, 1817, at Kobelyaki, government of Poltava; died at Meran, Tyrol, Oct....
Joshua Ben Elijah Rabinovitz JE Russian rabbi; born at Shat, near Kaidan, in 1818; died at Nesvizh, government of Minsk, March 18, 1887. Rabinovitz was instructed...
Samuel Jacob Rabinovitz JE Russian rabbi and author; born in Chelm, government of Kovno, 1857. He became rabbi at Jevije in 1887, and was called in the...
Shalom Rabinovitz JE Russian journalist and novelist; born in Pereyaslav, government of Poltava, 1859. At the age of twenty-one he became government...
Lydia Rabinowitsch-kempner JE Physician; born at Kovno, Russia, Aug. 22, 1871; educated at the girls' gymnasium of her native city, and privately in...
Elijah David Ben Benjamin Rabinowitz JE Russian rabbi; born at Pikeln, government of Kovno, June 11, 1845. He studied Talmud and rabbinics under his father (who was...
Hirsch (Ẓebi Hakohen) Rabinowitz JE Russian scientist and publicist: born at Linkovo, near Poneviezh, government of Kovno, Feb. 23, 1832; died in St. Petersburg...
Isaac (ish Kovno) Rabinowitz JE Russian poet; born in Kovno Oct. 13, 1846; died in New York (U. S. A.) March 9, 1900. He began to compose Hebrew songs at...
Joseph Rabinowitz JE Russian missionary to the Jews; born in Orgeyev, Bessarabia, Sept. 23, 1837; died in Kishinef May 12, 1899. He wasbrought...
Raca (reḲa) JE Noun formed from the adjective "reḳ" (="empty"), and applied to a person without education and devoid of morals (comp...
The Jewish Race JE ...
Races Of The Old Testament JE The ancient Hebrews from time to time came in contact with peoples who were obviously of different speech, customs, or physique...
Rachel JE Laban's younger daughter, who became one of Jacob's wives (Gen. xxix. 26-28). Her first meeting with Jacob occurred...
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Adolph M Radin JE American rabbi; born at Neustadt-Schirwindt, Poland, Aug. 5, 1848. He received his Talmudical education at Volozhin and Eiseshok...
David Radner JE Hebrew writer; born Feb. 22, 1848, at Wilna, Russia; died there Nov. 11, 1901. He translated into Hebrew Schiller's "William...
Anton RadÓ JE Hungarian poet and author; born at Moor June 29, 1862; son of the grammarian Adolf Roder. He studied classical and modern...
Arthur Raffalovich JE Russian economist; born at Odessa in 1853; a member of the well-known banking family of that name. He studied economics and...
Raframi (ben Papa) JE Babylonian amora of the fourth century. In his youth he was a pupil of R. Ḥisda (Shab. 82a), in whose name he transmits...
Rafram Ii JE Babylonian amora of the seventh generation; he was a pupil of R. Ashi, to whom he frequently addressed questions (Ket. 95b...
Abraham Ben Solomon Ragoler JE Lithuanian Talmudist of the eighteenth century; born at Wilna; brother of Elijah b. Solomon (Elijah Wilna). Ragoler was preacher...
Elijah Ben Jacob Ragoler JE Russian rabbi and cabalist; born at Neustadt Sugind, government of Kovno, in 1794; died at Kalisz Nov. 5, 1849; a descendant...
Friedrich Von Weila Ragstatt JE Convert to Christianity; born in Germany 1648. His Jewish name was probably Weil, whence his surname von Weila. He embraced...
Aaron Ben David Hakohen Ragusano JE ...
Rahab JE Originally a mythical name designating the abyss or the sea; subsequently applied to Egypt. Job ix. 13 and xxvi. 12 indicate...
Rahab JE A woman of Jericho who sheltered the spies sent by Joshua to search out the land. Having arrived at Jericho, the two spies...
David Rahabi JE Indian calendar-maker; born in the state of Cochin about the middle of the eighteenth century. His father, Ezekiel Rahabi...
Nissim Rahamim JE Turkish rabbinical writer; lived at Smyrna; died there 1828. He was the author of a Hebrew work entitled "Har ha-Mor" (Salonica...
Rahem Na 'alaw JE A dirge of the Sephardim, chanted by those taking part in the sevenfold processional circuit around the bier before interment...
Moritz Rahmer JE German rabbi; born Dec. 12, 1837, at Rybnik, Prussian Silesia; died at Magdeburg March 2, 1904. After studying at the seminary...
Astruc Raimuch (remoch) JE Physician of Fraga in the fourteenth century. As an Orthodox Jew he visited Benveniste ibn Labi of Saragossa and other prominent...
Rain JE Palestine did not require such laborious artificial irrigation as Egypt; Yhwh supplied it with, "water of the rain of heaven"...
Rainbow JE This phenomenon of nature is mentioned but rarely in the Old Testament. The beauty of the rainbow is dwelt upon (Ecclus. [Sirach]...
Ra'is JE Until the time of Maḥmud II., the title of the presiding officer or head of a community in Egypt. Each Judæo-Egyptian...
Joseph B David Tebele Rakower (bloch) JE Polish rabbi and Hebraist; died in Eibenschütz, Moravia, Nov., 1707. He was rabbi of Eibenschütz, whither he had...
Abraham Abel Rakowski JE Austrian author; born at Maryampol, Austrian Galicia, Dec., 1855. He studied Talmud under his father (who was a rabbi) and...
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Ramah JE Word (meaning "height") of frequent occurrence as an element in the place-names of the mountain districts of Palestine; as...
Ramath-lehi JE Place on the frontier between Judah and Philistia; mentioned only in the story of Samson (Judges xv. 9, 14, 17). The name...
Ramathaim-zophim JE Birthplace of Samuel according to the present text of I Sam. i. 1, which, however, is corrupt. The usual interpretation, "Ramathaim...
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Ramesses JE Egyptian city; one of the "treasure cities" built by the Israelites in their servitude (Ex. i. 11: "Raamses"); the point from...
Rami B Ezekiel JE Babylonian amora of the third generation; younger brother of Judah b. Ezekiel, the founder of the Academy of Pumbedita. He...
Ram B Hama JE Babylonian amora of the third generation; a pupil of R. Ḥisda, and a fellow student of Raba, who was somewhat his junior...
Rami B Tamre JE Babylonian amora of the third generation; a native of Pumbedita, and probably a pupil of R. Judah. He once went to Sura on...
Ramoth-gilead JE One of the cities of refuge, in the east-Jordan district, in the tribe of Gad; apportioned to the Levites (Josh. xx. 8, xxi...
Ram's Horn JE ...
Ramsgate JE Seaside resort on the Kentish coast of England. This small town owes its importance in modern Anglo-Jewish history to its...
Ran JE ...
Randar JE Name originally applied to the tenants of a fee-farm, or even of an entire village, in Poland, Lithuania, and Little Russia...
Maier Randegger JE Austrian educationist; born at Randegg Feb. 9, 1780; died at Triest March 12, 1853. He was educated at home, at Lengau (Switzerland)...
Morris Ranger JE English financier; born in Hesse-Cassel about 1830; died at Liverpool April,1887. He joined the Liverpool Exchange, and at...
Paul Ranschburg JE Hungarian psychiatrist; born at Raab Jan. 3, 1870. On taking his degree of M. D. at the University of Budapest in 1894, he...
Joseph Ransohoff JE American physician; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 26, 1853. After graduating from the Medical College of Ohio (M.D. 1874)...
Ransom JE Captivity being considered a punishment worse than starvation or death (B. B. 8b, based on Jer. xv. 2), to ransom a Jewish...
Elijah B Menahem (elijah Rapoport) Rapa JE Italian Talmudist of the sixteenth century. He was the author of "Be'er Mayim Ḥayyim" (Corfu, 1599), on Talmudic...
Menahem Abraham B Jacob Ha-kohen (menahem Rapoport) Rapa (porto) JE Italian rabbi and author; lived at Porto, in the district of Verona, and at Cremona; died Dec. 30, 1596. He was a descendant...
Simhah Ben Gershom Ha-kohen Rapa (portrapa) JE Talmudic scholar and author of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; born at Porto, Italy; died at Vienna. He was a younger...
Raphael JE One of the archangels. The word occurs as a personal name in I Chron. xxvi. 7 (A. V. and R. V. "Rephael"), but it is not found...
Frederick Melchior Raphael JE English soldier; born in London 1870; died at Spion Kop, Natal, Jan. 24, 1900; son of George C. Raphael; educated at Wellington...
Henry Lewis Raphael JE English financier and economist; born at London 1832; died at Newmarket May 11, 1899; son of Louis Raphael. He was senior...
Raphael Ben Jekuthiel SÜsskind Ha-kohen JE Talmudist and author; born in Livonia Nov. 4, 1722; died at Altona Nov. 26, 1803. He was educated at Minsk under Aryeh L&#246...
Mark Raphael JE Italian convert to Christianity; flourished at Venice at the beginning of the sixteenth century. He was a halakist of some...
Morris Jacob Raphall JE Rabbi and author; born at Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 3, 1798; died at New York June 23, 1868. At the age of nine he was taken...
Rapoport JE Family, the various branches of which claim a common Kohenitic origin. The names of Rapa or Rappe ha-Kohen () are met with...
Philip Rappaport JE American lawyer and journalist; born in 1845, at Fürth, Bavaria, where he was educated. Removing to the United States...
Edouard Rappoldi JE Austrian violinist: born at Vienna Feb. 21, 1839. He studied at the Vienna Conservatorium under Jansa, Hellmesberger, B&#246...
Rappoltsweiler JE Town of Upper Alsace. The earliest known official document concerning its Jews dates from 1321. In that year Louis IV., Emperor...
Lazar (eleazar) Raschkow JE German physician and writer; born at Raschkow, province of Posen, 1798; died Aug. 2, 1870. He received his early instruction...
SÜsskind Raschkow JE German poet; died at Breslau April 12, 1836. He was the author of the following works: "Yosef we-Asenat," a drama (1817);...
Hayyim Raschpitz (raschwitz) JE Scholar of the seventeenth century; martyred, probably at Prague. He wrote the prayer "'Iyyun Tefillah," on the persecutions...
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Rashi (solomon Bar Isaac) JE French commentator on Bible and Talmud; born at Troyes in 1040; died there July 13, 1105. His fame has made him the subject...
Rashi Chapel JE ...
Abraham B Menahem Manish Rathaus JE ...
Walther Rathenau JE German naturalist, banker, and writer; born in Berlin Sept. 29, 1867; educated at the universities of Berlin (M. D. 1889)...
Ratibor JE ...
Ratisbon JE Bavarian city; capital of the Upper Palatinate; formerly a free city of the German empire. The great age of the Jewish community...
Alphonse-marie Ratisbonne JE French convert to Catholicism; brother of Marie-Théodore Ratisbonne; born at Strasburg May 1, 1812; died at Jerusalem...
Marie-thÉodore Ratisbonne JE French convert to Catholicism; born at Strasburg Dec. 18, 1802; died at Paris Jan. 10, 1884; son of the president of the Jewish...
Dob Baer Ben Abraham Bezaleel Ratner JE Russian Talmudist; born at Wilna about 1845. He is the author of: "Mebo la-Seder 'Olam Rabbah," on Josef ben Ḥalafta&#39...
Isaac Ratner JE Russian mathematician; born at Shklov in 1857. He has written mathematical and astronomical articles for various journals...
Raudnitz JE Town of Bohemia. According to tradition it is one of the oldest three communities of Bohemia, the other two being Bunzlau...
Saly (samuel Hirsch Ben Menahem) Raunheim JE American mining-engineer; born in Frankfort-on-the-Main June 7, 1838; died in New York city Sept. 9, 1904. He was educated...
Samson Rausuk JE Hebrew poet; born at Wilkowiski, Lithuania, in 1793; died in London Sept. 11, 1877. He pursued at his native place the career...
Raven JE The first bird specifically mentioned in the Old Testament (Gen. viii. 7), where it is referred to in connection with Noah...
Ravenna JE Italian city, capital of the province of Ravenna. A Jewish community existed in Ravenna from very early times; during an attack...
Victor Meyer Rawicz JE German rabbi; born at Breslau Aug. 19, 1846. He attended the Jewish theological seminary and the university of his native...
Joshua Hayyim Rawnitzki JE Russian author; born Aug. 14, 1845, at Odessa. His first literary efforts appeared in "Ha-Ḳol," and he soon became a...
David Raynal JE French statesman; born at Paris Feb. 26, 1841; died Jan. 28, 1903. The son of a merchant, he was brought up for a commercial...
Isidor Rayner JE American senator; born at Baltimore, Md., April 11, 1850. He was educated at the University of Virginia (1866-70), pursuing...
William Solomon Rayner JE Merchant and financier; born in Oberelzbach, Bavaria, Sept. 23, 1822; died in Baltimore, Md., March 1, 1899. In 1840 he removed...
Raziel JE Angel, first named in the Slavonic Book of Enoch (written before the common era; see Jew. Encyc. i. 591, s.v. Angelology)...
Book Of Raziel JE Collection of secret writings, probably compiled and edited by the same hand, but originally not the work of one author. This...
Razsvyet JE The purpose of the journal was to diffuse light among the ignorant Jewish masses of Russia; and accordingly its motto was...
Reading JE City of Berks county, Pa. A few Jewish immigrants settled here before 1847, when Reading became a city. In 1864 a cemetery...
Real Estate JE Landed property. The differences between landed or immovable and chattel or movable property have been indicated in the articles...
Rebekah JE Daughter of Bethuel, sister of Laban, and wife of Isaac (Gen. xxii. 23, xxiv. 29, 67). Abraham sent his servant Eliezer to...
Aaron Rebenstein JE ...
Abraham Josephovich Rebichkovich JE ...
Rebuke And Reproof JE "Faithful are the wounds of a friend," says the Old Testament proverb (Prov. xxvii. 6), doubtless referring to reproof. A...
Recanati JE Town in Italy, on the Musone, and in the province of Macerata; formerly included in the Pontifical States. Jews are known...
Recanati JE Italian family deriving its name from the city of Recanati in the former Papal States. Subjoined is the family tree: (see...
Rechabites JE Members of a family descended from Hammath, the progenitor of the house of Rechab; otherwise known as the Kenites (I Chron...
Recife (pernambuco) JE Brazilian city and seaport; capital of the state of Pernambuco. It was merely a collection of fishermen's huts when occupied...
Hermann (hayyim Ẓebi Ben Solomon) Reckendorf JE German scholar and author; born in Trebitsch in 1825; died about 1875. Having acquired a thorough acquaintance with the Hebrew...
Record JE ...
Recording Angel JE The angel that, in popular belief, records the deeds of all individuals for future reward or punishment. The keeping of a...
Red Heifer JE According to Yhwh's instructions to Moses and Aaron the Israelites prepared for sacrifice a red heifer which was free...
Red Sea JE References to the Red Sea under that name are not found earlier than the Apocrypha (Judith v. 12; Wisdom x. 18, xix. 7; I...
Robert De Reddinge JE English preaching friar, of the Dominican order; converted to Judaism about 1275. He appears to have studied Hebrew and by...
Redemption JE ...
Henry Redlich JE Polish engraver in copper; born at Lask, government of Piotrkow, 1840; died at Berlin Nov. 7, 1884. He went at an early age...
Anton Ree JE German educationist; born at Hamburg Nov. 16, 1815; died Jan. 13, 1891. He was educated at Kiel, during which time he wrote...
Anton Ree JE Danish pianist and author; born in Aarhuus, Jutland, Oct. 5, 1820; died in Copenhagen Dec. 20, 1886. He studied in Hamburg...
Bernhard Philip Ree JE Danish editor and politician; born in Aarhuus; Jutland, July 18, 1813; died there Nov. 13, 1868; son of Hartvig Philip Ree...
Hartvig Philip Ree JE Danish merchant and author; born in Fredericia, Jutland, Oct. 12, 1778; died in Copenhagen Oct. 1, 1859. On the death of his...
Julius Ree JE Danish merchant and political author; born in Aarhuus, Jutland, June 1, 1817; died in Copenhagen Sept. 3, 1874; son of Hartvig...
Reed JE Rendering given in the English versions for several words used to designate rush-like water-plants of various kinds. These...
Ada Reeve JE English actress: born in London about 1870. Her parents were themselves connected with the dramatic profession, her father...
Reform Advocate JE Jewish weekly; first issued Feb. 20, 1891, at Chicago. Founded by Charles E. Bloch, of the Bloch Publishing Company, and published...
Reform Judaism From The Point Of View Of The Reform Jew JE By Reform Judaism is denoted that phase of Jewish religious thought which, in the wake of the Mendelssohnian period and in...
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Cities And Places Of Refuge JE ...
Barthel Regenbogen JE German meistersinger of the latter part of the thirteenth century; lived as a smith at Mayence. He was remarkable for his...
La RÉgÉnÉration JE ...
Regensburg JE ...
Reggio JE Italian city on the Strait of Messina; capital of the province of Reggio di Calabria. The presence of Jews in Calabria as...
Abraham (vita) Ben Azriel Reggio JE Italian rabbi and cabalist; born at Ferrara in 1755; died at Göritz Jan. 8, 1842. Reggio studied under Samuel Lampronti...
Isaac Samuel (yashar) Reggio JE Austro-Italian scholar and rabbi; born at Göritz, Illyria, Aug. 15, 1784; died there Aug. 29, 1855. Reggio studied Hebrew...
Issachar Ezekiel Reggio JE Italian rabbi and grammarian; born at Ferrara in 1774; died in 1837, on the 1st of Elul. He was a pupil of Graziadio Neppi...
Leone Reggio JE Italian rabbi; born at Ferrara in 1808; died there Sept. 23, 1870; son of Zaccaria Reggio, chief rabbi of Ferrara. At the...
Carl Rehfuss JE German educationist; born in 1792 at Altdorf-im-Breisgau; died in 1842 at Heidelberg. From 1809 to 1816 he occupied the position...
Rehoboam JE Son of Solomon by Naamah the Ammonitess (I Kings xiv. 21), and his successor on the throne in Jerusalem. Solomon's administrative...
Rab Rehumai (i) JE Babylonian amora of the fifth generation; pupil of Raba b. Joseph b. Ḥama. He addressed some questions to Abaye (Pes...
Rehumai Ii JE Babylonian amora of the seventh generation; pupil of Rabina I., for whom he expounded a saying of Huna b. Taḥlifa (Zeb...
Rehumai Iii JE One of the early saboraim; died in 505, in the month of Nisan. In 'Er. 11a he is mentioned with his contemporary R. Jose...
AladÁr Reich (rajk) JE Hungarian lawyer and deputy; born at Baja June 25, 1871; educated at the gymnasium of his native city and at the universities...
Ignaz (eizig) Reich JE Hungarian teacher and author; born at Zsámbék 1821; died at Budapest April 18, 1887. He received his early instruction...
Moritz Reich JE German writer; born at Rokitnitz, Bohemia, April 20, 1831; died there March 26, 1857. The son of an indigent shoḥe&#7789...
Reichenberg JE City of Bohemia. No Jews were allowed to live there until after the law of Oct. 26, 1860, which repealed the restrictions...
Leonhard Reichenheim JE German manufacturer and politician; born at Bernburg May 3, 1814; died at Berlin Jan. 26, 1868. At the age of fourteen he...
Emanuel Reicher JE Austrian actor; born July 18, 1849, at Bochnia, Austria. Reicher's theatrical life is divided into two periods: the first...
Hedwig Reicher - Kindermann JE German prima donna; born at Munich July 15, 1853; died at Triest June 2, 1883; daughter of the baritone August Kindermann...
Moses Ha-kohen Reicherson JE Hebrew grammarian; born in Wilna, Oct. 5, 1827; died in New York April 3, 1903. After studying Talmud, Hebrew, and European...
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Reichskammerknecht JE ...
Abraham Reif JE Galician poet; born at Mosciska, Galicia, 1802; died in 1859. He came early under the influence of the school of the Me&#39...
Jacob Reifmann JE Russian author and philosopher; born April 7, 1818, at Lagow, near Opatow, Russian Poland; died at Szczebrszyn Oct. 13, 1895...
Reinach JE German family which emigrated to France in the first half of the nineteenth century. As its most eminent members may be mentioned:...
Isaac Jacob B Solomon Naphtali Reines JE Russian rabbi, and founder of the "Mizraḥi," or Orthodox, branch of the Zionist organization; a descendant of Saul Wahl...
Moses Reines JE Russian scholar and author; born at Lida (where his father, R. Isaac Jacob Reines, was rabbi) in 1870; died there March 7...
Jacob (reb Yankele) Reinowitz JE Member of the London bet din; born at Wilkowisk, Poland, in 1818; died in London May 17, 1893. At twenty-eight years of age...
Jacob B Joseph Reischer JE Austrian rabbi; born at Prague; died at Metz Feb. 1733. He was the son of R. Joseph, author of "Gib'ot 'Olam," and...
Frederick Reitlinger JE French jurist; born at Ichenhausen, Bavaria, June 18, 1836. He attended the Saint Anna College at Augsburg. After having pursued...
Adrian Reland JE Dutch Christian Hebraist and Orientalist; born at Ryp, near Alkmaar, Holland, July 17, 1676; died at Utrecht Feb. 5, 1718...
ReligiÖse Wochenschrift FÜr GottglÄubige GemÜther JE ...
Remainders And Reversions JE In Anglo-American law the owner of property (especially of land) may and often does grant or devise it to one person for years...
RemaḲ (moses Ben Jacob Cordovero) JE Rabbi of Safed and cabalist; born in 1522; died June 25, 1570. He belonged to a Spanish family, probably of Cordova, whence...
Ernst Julius Remak JE German physician; born at Berlin May 26, 1849; son of Robert Remak. He received his education at the universities of Breslau...
Robert Remak JE German physician; born at Posen July 26, 1815; died at Kissingen Aug. 29, 1865. He studied medicine at the University of Berlin...
Rembrandt (rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Ryn) JE Dutch painter; born at Leyden July 15, 1606 or 1607; died at Amsterdam Oct. 8, 1669. He was a contemporary of Manasseh ben...
Eduard Remenyi JE Hungarian violinist; born in Eged, Hungary, 1830; died at New York, May 15, 1898. He studied under Böhm at the Vienna...
Remnant Of Israel JE Concept of frequent occurrence in the utterances of the Prophets, and closely interwoven in their peculiar construction of...
Joseph Ernest Renan JE French Semitic scholar and thinker; born at Tréguier Feb. 23, 1823; died at Paris Oct. 2, 1892. Destined for the priesthood...
Rent; Repairs JE ...
Repentance JE The noun occurs only in post-Biblical literature, but it is derived from the vocabulary of the Bible. Maimonides' dictum...
Vale Of Rephaim JE Fertile plain in Judah; the scene of David's battles with the Philistines (Isa. xvii. 5; II Sam. v. 18 et seq., xxiii...
Rephidim JE Place on the edge of the desert of Sin, where the children of Israel encamped after crossing that desert. The people suffered...
Replevin JE ...
Representative Themes JE Anticipating in some measure the modern use of the leitmotif, the cantors of the synagogues, as soon as the traditional material...
Reptiles JE In the Biblical account of creation the "creeping things" are divided into the "moving" creatures of the sea (Gen. i. 20)...
Rescission JE ...
Resh JE Twentieth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, perhaps so called because the shape of the letter in the Phenician alphabet (see...
Resh Galuta JE ...
Resh Kallah JE The highest officer, except the president, in the academies of Sura and Pumbedita. In each of the two schools there were seven...
Resh LaḲish JE ...
Residence JE ...
Responsa JE ...
Responses JE The congregational answers to the utterances of the officiant. These were originally what the responses to the benedictions...
Responses To Benedictions JE Any portion of the liturgy which begins with the words "Blessed be Thou, O Lord" ("Baruk attah Adonai"), or which ends with...
Restraint Of Persons JE ...
Restraints On Alienation JE Restraints on the power to sell or encumber land are known to many systems of jurisprudence. The institution of the year of...
Resurrection JE Like all ancient peoples, the early Hebrews believed that the dead go down into the underworld and live there a colorless...
Retaliation JE In the early period of all systems of law the redress of wrongs takes precedence over the enforcement of contract rights,...
Moriz Rethy JE Hungarian mathematician; born at Nagy-Körös Nov. 3, 1846; educated at Budapest and Vienna, and at the universities...
Reuben JE Eldest son of Jacob (Gen. xlvi. 8, xlix. 9) by Leah (ib. xxix. 32), to whom he once carried mandrakes which he had found in...
Tribe Of Reuben JE Tribe of Israel, descended from Reuben, Jacob's first-born son, through Reuben's four sons, Hanoch, Phallu or Pallu...
Reuben David Tebele Ben Ezekiel JE Polish Talmudist and printer of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His name is generally followed by the word ("Troppau"?)...
Reuben Ben Hayyim JE Provençal Talmudist; flourished about the middle of the thirteenth century; brother of the liturgical poet Abraham ben&#7716...
Reuben Ben Hoshke JE ...
Reuben Ha-sefardi JE Reputed author of "Kelimmat ha-Goyim," a work which attacks Christianity, probably written by Profiat Duran (Efodi) in 1349...
Reuben Ben Strobilus JE Jew of the second century C.E.; eminent both as a scholar and for the part he took in the affairs of his time. From references...
David Reubeni JE Arab adventurer; born about 1490 in central Arabia, in Khaibar, as he himself stated; died in Llerena, Spain, after 1535....
Johann Von Reuchlin JE German humanist; born Feb. 22, 1455, at Pforzheim; died June 30, 1522, at Liebenzell, near Hirschau, Württemberg. He...
Reuel JE ...
Eduard Wilhelm Reuss JE Protestant theologian; born in Strasburg July 18, 1804; died there April 15, 1891. He studied Oriental languages with Gesenius...
MÓr RÉvai JE Hungarian deputy; born at Eperies in 1860; educated at the universities of Budapest and Leipsic. In 1880 he entered the publishing-house...
Revelation (book Of) JE The last book in the New Testament canon, yet in fact one of the oldest; probably the only Judæo-Christian work which...
Revelation JE Term used in two senses in Jewish theology; it either denotes (1) what in rabbinical language is called "Gilluy Shekinah,"...
Revenge JE ...
Giuseppe Revere JE Italian dramatist and humorist; born at Triest in 1812; died Nov. 22, 1889. He was destined by his parents for a commercial...
Admission Of Reverts JE The rabbinical law takes notice of apostates ("mumarim"; the popular name "meshummadim" is of somewhat modern origin); and...
Revised Version JE ...
Revista Israelita JE ...
Revue Des Etudes Juives JE French quarterly, founded July, 1880, at Paris by the Société des Etudes Juives, and published under the editorship...
Revue IsraÉlite JE ...
Revue Orientale JE A periodical issued in Brussels at irregular intervals. It was published in the French language and was devoted to Jewish...
Jean FranÇois Rewbell JE Alsatian deputy of the French National Assembly from 1789 to 1791, and its president in the latter year; born at Colmar Oct...
Rezin JE Last king of the Damascene dynasty; slain in 732 B.C. With Pekah, King of Israel, he planned a campaign against Ahaz, King...
Hugo Rheinhold JE German sculptor; born March 26, 1853, at Oberlahnstein, Prussia; died at Berlin Oct. 2, 1900. At the age of sixteen, after...
Rhinoceros JE ...
Rhode Island JE One of the original thirteen states of the American Union. The settlement of Jews in the state dates back to 1658 (see Newport)...
Rhodes JE Turkish island in the Ægean Sea, and the largest in the Sporades group. This island has successively borne different...
Ri JE ...
Riba JE ...
Ribash JE ...
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JoÃo Pinto Ribeiro JE Portuguese scholar; curator of the royal archives in Torre do Tombe, at Lisbon; died in that city Aug. 11, 1649. He was the...
Moses Ben Ẓebi Naphtali Hirsch Sofer Ribkas JE Russian Talmudist; died at Wilna in 1671 or 1672. He was a member of a Prague family, but settled early in life at Wilna....
Riblah JE Town in the country of Hamath. It is now an insignificant hamlet, known as Riblah, in the Baḳa'ah, the broad valley...
David Ricardo JE English political economist and publicist; born in London April 19, 1772; died Sept. 11, 1823. The Ricardo family removed...
Immanuel Hay Ben Abraham Ricchi (raphael) JE Italian rabbi, cabalist, and poet; born at Ferrara 1688 (1693, according to Jellinek in "Orient, Lit." vii. 232); killed near...
Paulo Riccio JE Jewish convert to Christianity in the first half of the sixteenth century. He was a native of Germany, and after his conversion...
Abraham Rice JE American Talmudist and rabbi; born 1800 at Gagsheim, near Würzburg, Bavaria; died in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 29, 1862. As...
Isaac Leopold Rice JE American lawyer, author, and chess-player; born Feb. 22, 1850, at Wachenheim in the Rhenish Palatinate. When six years of...
Joseph Mayer Rice JE American physician and editor; born May 27, 1857, at Philadelphia, Pa. He was educated at the public schools of Philadelphia...
Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson JE English physician and friend of the Jews; born at Somersby 1828; died in London Nov. 21, 1896. He received his degree of M...
Joseph ShaliṬ Ben Eliezer Richetti JE Rabbi of the second half of the seventeenth century; born in Safed, whence he removed to Italy. He was the author of "Sefer...
Julia Richman JE American educator; born in New York city Oct. 12, 1855. She was educated in the public schools of New York and at the Normal...
Richmond JE Capital of Virgina, and, during the Civil war, of the Confederate States of America. By 1785 it had a Jewish community of...
Augustinus Ricius JE Jewish convert to Christianity and astronomer of the fifteenth century. He was a disciple of Abraham Zacuto, and wrote a work...
Jacob David B Zeeb Ridbaz (willowski) JE Russian rabbi and commentator; born Feb. 7, 1845, in Kobrin, government of Grodno, Russia. He was successively rabbi at Izballin...
Riddle JE Among the ancients, as witness the story of Œdipus and the Sphinx, a riddle was a more serious matter than in modern...
Paul Rieger JE German rabbi and historian; born at Dresden July 4, 1870. He was educated at Dresden and at the universities of Breslau (Ph...
Solomon Riemann JE Traveler of the nineteenth century; died at Vienna about 1873. He was for a time a rich merchant, having made large investments...
Elias Elkan Ries JE American electrical engineer; born at Randegg, Baden, Germany, Jan. 16, 1862. When only three years of age he was taken by...
Gabriel Riesser JE German advocate of the emancipation of the Jews; born at Hamburg April 2, 1806; died there April 22, 1863; youngest son of...
Lazarus Jacob Riesser JE German rabbi, born 1763 in the valley of Riess (hence the name "Riesser"); died March 7, 1828, at Hamburg; father of Gabriel...
Rieti JE Italian family, deriving its name from the city of Rieti in the Pontifical States. Members of it are found at Rieti as early...
Rif JE ...
Riga JE Capital of the government of Livonia, Russia; situated on the River Düna, about 6 miles from its mouth.Jews are first...
Right Of Eminent Domain JE The inherent power of the sovereign or state to take private property, generally land, for public use, especially for a highway...
Right And Left JE The right side of things is recognized in many ways as better than the left. The south and north sides of the earth are distinguished...
Right And Righteousness JE Renderings given in the English versions of the Hebrew root "ẓadaḳ" and its derivatives "ẓaddiḳ,"...
Right Of Way JE The law in general distinguishes between the right of private way (that is, A's right to pass over a certain strip of...
Moses Rigotz JE See Concordance, Talmudical. This article is Rated: 2.84 ...
Rime JE The early Hebrews have been credited with the knowledge and use of rime. Judah Provencal, according to Azariah dei Rossi ("Me&#39...
Rimini JE Italian town situated on the Adriatic, about 28 miles east-southeast of Forli. It is noted as the place where Gershon Soncino...
Rimmon JE Town of the tribe of Zebulun, on the northeast frontier (Josh. xix. 13, R. V.); the Septuagint renders it, more correctly...
Moses Rimos (remos) JE Physician, poet, and martyr; born at Palma, Majorca, about 1406; died at Palermo 1430. He was a relative of the Moses Rimos...
Rindfleisch JE German nobleman of Röttingen, Franconia; persecutor of the Jews in the thirteenth century. During the civil war waged...
Max Ring JE German novelist, lyric poet, and dramatist; born Aug. 4, 1817, at Zauditz, Silesia; died March 28, 1901, at Berlin. He first...
Rings JE Finger-rings, like rings for the ears and the nose, were used as ornaments by the Jews as early as the Biblical period (Ex...
Moses Rintel JE Australian rabbi; born in Edinburgh 1823; died at Melbourne, Victoria, 1880; son of Myer Rintel, Hebraist and Talmudical scholar...
Riparian Owners JE There being but little river navigation in the Holy Land, the Mishnah says nothing as to the rights and duties of landowners...
Joseph ShalliṬ Ben Eliezer Riquetti JE Scholar of the seventeenth century. He spent his youth at Safed, and subsequently settled at Verona. There in 1646 he published...
Rishonim JE Name applied to the authorities who lived before the one who quotes them. The designation is found in the Talmud, where it...
Rites JE ...
Johann Stephanus Rittangel JE German controversial writer; born at Forscheim, near Bamberg; died at Königsberg 1652. It is stated that he was born...
Immanuel Heinrich Ritter JE German rabbi; born March 13, 1825, in Ratibor, Prussian Silesia; died July 9, 1890, in Johannisbad, Bohemia. While studying...
Julius Ritter JE German physician and author; born in Berlin Oct. 4, 1862; son of Immanuel H. Ritter. He received his degree of M. D. from...
Ritual JE ...
Ritual Murder JE ...
Riva Di Trento JE Small town on the Lake of Guarda, under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Trent. Christoforo Madruz, Cardinal of Trent and...
Rivera JE Spanish Jewish family that appears in American history at an early date. The family seems to have come from Seville, Spain...
Rivista Israelitica JE ...
Miron Davidovich Rivkin JE Russian writer; born in Vitebsk in 1869. His father, who was employed as clerk in the police department, was a Talmudist of...
Rizpah JE Daughter of Aiah and concubine of Saul. After Saul's death Rizpah, with the other women of his harem (comp. II Sam. iii...
Roads JE In primitive times the chief use of roads in Palestine was to afford communication with markets. Later on roads were used...
Robbery JE The Mishnah and the Gemara deal with the robber even less severely than Scripture, the reason probably being that, when speaking...
Mordecai Robbio JE Talmudist of the seventeenth century; lived probably in northern Italy. Under the title "Shemen ha-Mor" he wrote responsato...
Robert Of Bury St Edmunds JE Alleged martyr of a blood accusation at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, in 1181. No details are known of the circumstances...
Rahel Robert JE See Levin, Rahel. This article is Rated: 2.62 ...
Antonio Rodriques Da Robles JE English Marano merchant and shipper; born at Fundăo, Portugal, about 1620. It is probable that he was one of the Neo-Christians...
Isaac (vicente) De Rocamora JE Spanish monk, physician, and poet; born about 1600 of Marano parents at Valencia; died April 8, 1684, at Amsterdam. Educated...
Rochester JE Capital of Monroe county, and the third city in size in the state of New York. According to the latest census (1900) it has...
RÖdelheim JE Prussian town near Frankfort-on-the-Main. A Jewish community existed there probably as early as the middle of the thirteenth...
Julius Rodenberg JE German poet and author; born at Rodenberg, Hesse, June 26, 1831. He studied law at the universities of Heidelberg, G&#246...
Anton Roder JE See Rado, Anton. This article is Rated: 2.78 ...
Martin RÖder JE German composer and conductor; born in Berlin April 7, 1851; died at Boston, Mass., June 7, 1895; studied at the Königliche...
Michael Levi Rodkinson JE ...
Rodosto JE Port of Turkey in Europe on the Sea of Marmora, 78 miles west of Constantinople. The city had a Jewish community as early...
Juan Rodrigo De Castel-branco JE ...
Hippolyte Rodrigues JE French banker and writer; born at Bordeaux in 1812; died at Paris 1898. He was a son of Isaac Rodrigues-Henriques, head of...
Olinde Rodrigues JE French economist and reformer; born at Bordeaux Oct. 16, 1794; died at Paris Dec. 26, 1850. He was a pupil of the Ecole Normale...
Rodriguez JE In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many persons bearing the surname Rodriguezwere condemned by the Inquisition to...
Roe JE Rendering in the Authorized Version of the Hebrew which is sometimes translated also "roebuck" and "wild roe," and occasionally...
Roebuck JE ...
Eleazar Sussmann B Isaac Roedelsheim JE Dutch scholar, probably of German descent; lived in the first half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of the following...
Meyer (marcus) Roest JE Dutch bibliographer; born at Amsterdam 1821; died there 1890. Becoming connected with a firm of booksellers, he acquired a...
Daniel B Samuel B Daniel Ha-dayyan Rofe JE Italian physician of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; lived at Pisa and Perugia. He devoted much time to the study...
Daniel B Solomon Rofe JE Italian physician and scholar of the fifteenth century; born at Fano. References to him occur under date of 1430, 1448, and...
August Rohling JE Catholic theologian and anti-Semitic author; born in 1839 at Neuenkirchen, province of Hanover, Prussia. He studied at M&#252...
Ro'im JE ...
Jacob Ben Isaac Ibn Bakoda Roman JE Bibliographer and writer, of Spanish descent; born at Constantinople about 1570; died at Jerusalem in 1650. He was possessed...
Samuel Aaron Romanelli JE Neo-Hebrew poet; born at Mantua Sept. 19, 1757; died at Casale Monferrato Oct. 17, 1814. A man of great gifts but unsteady...
Benjamin Zeeb Wolf Ben Samuel Romaner JE Rabbi and preacher in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He officiated as darshan in Semigrod, and later in Dessau...
Samuel Romanin JE Italian historian; born at Triest in 1808; died at Venice Sept. 9, 1861. Having at an early age lost his parents, who died...
Salomo Romano Eliano JE ...
Leone Romano JE Italian scholar; born at Rome 1292; died there after 1350. Romano was a friend of the naturalist Benjamin b. Judah, together...
Moritz Heinrich Romberg JE German physician; born at Meiningen, Saxony, Nov. 11, 1795; died in Berlin June 16, 1873. He graduated as doctor of medicine...
Rome JE Capital in ancient times of the Roman republic and empire; in modern times, of the papal dominions and of the kingdom of Italy...
Daniel B Jehiel Romi JE Scholar and poet of the tenth and eleventh centuries; probably a brother of R. Nathan, author of the "'Aruk." He wrote...
Joseph Romi JE Name by which Joseph b. Judah Ḥamiẓ, a pupil of Leon of Modena, is erroneously known. He was the author of "Belil...
Romm JE Family of printers and publishers of Hebrew books in Wilna. The family formerly lived in Grodno, where the book-dealer Baruch...
Joseph RoŃa JE Hungarian sculptor; born at Lovas Berény Feb. 1, 1861. He was destined by his parents for a mercantile career, and studied...
Samuel RÓna JE Hungarian dermatologist; born at Halas April 1, 1857; educated at Budapest. He was appointed assistant to Prof. Kaposi at...
Bezalel B Joel Ronsburg JE Bohemian Talmudist and rabbi; born 1760; died Sept. 25, 1820, in Prague, where he was dayyan and head of the yeshibah. Zacharias...
Root JE The fundamental or elementary part of a word. So far as is known no Hebrew equivalent of the term "root" was used with a philological...
David Roquemartine JE French scholar; a native of Roquemartine; flourished in the fourteenth century. He was the author of "Zekut Adam," giving...
Jacob HebrÆus (immanuel Bocarro Frances Y Rosales) Rosales JE Physician, mathematician, astrologer, and poet; born in 1588 or, according to some, in 1593, at Lisbon; died either at Florence...
Rosanes JE Family, originally from Rosas, a Spanish seaport. Members of it emigrated to Portugal at the end of the fifteenth century...
Jacob Rosanes JE German mathematician; born Aug. 16, 1842, at Brody, Galicia. He received a common-school education in his native town and...
Rose JE This flower is not mentioned in the Bible, and the earliest reference to it occurs in Ecclus. (Sirach) xxiv. 14. It is mentioned...
Arnold Josef RosÉ JE Romanian violinist; born at Jassy Oct. 24, 1863. He began his musical studies at the age of seven, and at ten entered the...
Rosebery, Hannah, Countess Of JE English social leader and philanthropist; born in London July 27, 1851; died at Dalmeny Park, Scotland, Nov. 19, 1890; only...
Mordecai Raphael Ben Jacob Rosello (ruscelli) JE Scholar and liturgical poet of the first half of the sixteenth century; born in Barcelona, where his family occupied a prominent...
Joseph B Isaac Rosen JE Ab bet din and, subsequently, rabbi in Russia; born in the first half of the nineteenth century at Horodok, near Pinsk; died...
Mathias Rosen JE Polish banker and member of the council of state; born at Warsaw 1804; died there 1865. In 1846 he succeeded to his father&#39...
Milton Joseph Rosenau JE American physician; born at Philadelphia Jan. 1, 1869; educated at the University of Pennsylvania (M.D. 1889). For more than...
William Rosenau JE American rabbi; born at Wollstein, Germany, May 30, 1865. He attended successively the gymnasium of Hirschberg (Silesia),...
Hyman Pollock Rosenbach JE American journalist; born at Philadelphia Sept. 16, 1858; died there March 4, 1892. He was connected with the "Public Ledger"...
Ottomar Ernst Felix Rosenbach JE German physician; born Jan. 4, 1851, at Krappitz, Silesia, where his father, Samuel Rosenbach, practised medicine. He received...
Arnold Rosenbacher JE Austrian lawyer and communal worker; born in Prague April 4, 1840; educated at the gymnasium and the university of his native...
Daniel Bezalel Rosenbaum JE ...
Abraham Hayyim Rosenberg JE Russian-American writer; born at Pinsk, Russia, Oct. 17, 1838; a descendant of the Jaffe family. Educated at home and at the...
Albert Rosenberg JE German physician: born Sept. 17, 1856, at Schloppe, West Prussia; educated at the University of Berlin (M.D. 1880). Of his...
Julius Rosenberg JE Hungarian deputy; born at Kis-Czell Sept. 12, 1856; educated at Steinamanger and Raab, later studying law at Budapest (LL...
Moritz Rosenberg JE ...
Josef Michel Rosenblatt JE Austrian barrister; born March 20, 1853, at Cracow, Galicia, in which city he received his education, graduating from the...
Mordecai Ben Menahem Rosenblatt JE Russian rabbi; born at Autopoli, government of Grodno, on the 3d of Iyyar, 1837. After having studied under Isaac Hirsch,...
Simon W Rosendale JE American lawyer; born at Albany, N. Y., June 23, 1842; graduated from Barre Academy, Vermont. He was admittedto the bar in...
Jacob Rosenfeld JE Russian journalist and publisher; born in Austria 1839; died in Minsk, Russia, 1885. His parents emigrated to Russia, where...
Leopold Rosenfeld JE Danish composer; born in Copenhagen July 21, 1849. He was originally destined for a mercantile career, and spent six years...
Mordecai Jonah Rosenfeld JE Galician author of Hebrew books; born at Dynow, near Przemysl, Galicia, Oct. 21, 1797; died at Sosnica June 5, 1885. When...
Morris Rosenfeld JE Yiddish poet; born at Boksha, government of Suwalki, Russian Poland, Dec. 28, 1862, educated at Boksha, Suwalki, and Warsaw...
Samson Wolf Rosenfeld JE German rabbi; born at Markt Uhlfeld, Bavaria, Jan. 4, 1780; died at Bamberg May 12, 1862. At the age of thirteen he entered...
Sydney Rosenfeld JE American dramatist; born in Richmond, Va., Oct. 26, 1855; educated in the public schools of Richmond and New York.When the...
George Rosenhain JE German mathematician; born June 10, 1816, at Königsberg, Prussia; died there May 14, 1887. He was privat-docent at the...
Jakob (jacques) Rosenhain JE German pianist; born at Mannheim. Dec. 27, 1813; died at Baden-Baden March 21, 1894. A one-act piece of his entitled "Der...
Moritz Rosenhaupt JE German cantor; born at Offenbach on the Glan, Rhenish Prussia, March 14, 1841, where his father was rabbi and teacher; died...
Ernst Friedrich Karl RosenmÜller JE Christian Orientalist and theologian; born Dec. 10, 1768, at. Hesselberg; died at Leipsic Sept. 17, 1835. He studied at Erlangen...
Baron Von (christian Knorr) Rosenroth JE Christian Hebraist; born at Alt-Randen, in Silesia, July 15, 1631. After having completed his studies in the universities...
Moses Rosensohn JE Russian Hebraist; born in the first quarter of the nineteenth century at Wilna, where he lived all his life in affluent circumstances...
Samuel Siegmund Rosenstein JE German physician; born at Berlin Feb. 20, 1832; son of Rabbi Elhanan Rosenstein, and grandson of Rabbi Rosenstein of Bonn...
Rosenthal JE One of several families of that name flourishing in Russia. The ancestor of this particular family was Solomon of Wirballen...
David Rosenthal JE Polish physician; born 1808 at Tarnogrod, Lublin; died 1889. His father was district physician of Zamoisk and on the staff...
David Augustus Rosenthal JE German physician and author; born at Neisse, in Silesia, in the year 1812; died at Breslau March 29, 1875. He was educated...
Eduard Rosenthal JE German jurist; born Sept. 6, 1853, at Würzburg. He studied at Würzburg, Heidelberg, and Berlin (LL.D., Würzburg...
Eliezer (lazar) Rosenthal JE German bibliographer and owner of a famous collection of books at Hanover; born April 13, 1794, at Nasielsk, in the government...
Ferdinand Rosenthal JE German rabbi; born at Kenese, Hungary, Nov. 10, 1839; educated at several Talmud Torahs, the gymnasium at Vienna, and the...
Harry Louis Rosenthal JE English exegete; born about 1860 at Vladislavov (Neustadt-Schirwindt), Poland. In 1869 he accompanied his mother and sisters...
Herman Rosenthal JE American author, editor, and librarian; born at Friedrichstadt, province of Courland, Russia, Oct. 6, 1843; educated at Bauske...
Isidor Rosenthal JE German physiologist; born at Labischin, near Bromberg, Posen, July 16, 1836; died in 1904. Graduating as M.D. from the University...
Jacob Rosenthal JE Polish physician; born at Warsaw; son of David Rosenthal; studied medicine at Berlin and Warsaw. In 1870 he became physician...
Joseph Rosenthal JE Russo-Jewish scholar; born at Suwalki, in the government of the same name in Russian Poland, Feb. 14, 1844. He began the study...
Julius Rosenthal JE American lawyer; born in Liedolsheim, grand duchy of Baden, Germany, Sept. 17, 1828. He was educated at the lyceum at Rastadt...
Leon (judah LÖb B Moses Ha-levi) Rosenthal JE Russian financier, philanthropist, and communal worker; born in Wilna Nov. 16, 1817; died in Locarno, Switzerland, June 19...
Markus Rosenthal JE ...
Max Rosenthal JE American painter and engraver; born at Turek, near Kalisz, Russian Poland, Nov. 23, 1833. He studied at Berlin under Karl...
Moritz Rosenthal JE Austrian physician; born at Grosswardein, Hungary, 1833; died in Vienna Dec. 30, 1889. Educated at the University of Vienna...
Moritz Rosenthal JE Austrian pianist; born at Lemberg 1862; studied successively under Galath, Mikuli, and Raphael Joseffy. In 1875 the family...
Samuel Rosenthal JE Chess - master; born 1838 in Suwalki, Russian Poland; died in Paris Sept. 25, 1902. After the last Polish revolution he fled...
Solomon Rosenthal JE Hungarian scholar; born in Moór, Hungary, June 13, 1764; died at Pesth April 8, 1845. His father, Naphtali Rosenthal...
Toby Edward Rosenthal JE American artist; born at New Haven, Conn., March 15, 1848. He received a public-school education at San Francisco, whither...
Hugo Rosenthal-bonin JE German author; born at Berlin Oct. 14, 1840; died at Stuttgart April 7, 1897. After having studied natural science at the...
Adolf Rosenzweig JE German rabbi; born Oct. 20, 1850, at Turdossin, Hungary. He studied at the gymnasium at Budapest and at the rabbinical seminary...
Gerson Rosenzweig JE Russian-American editor, author, and poet; born at Byelostok, Russia, April, 1861. He received his education in the Jewish...
Julie Eichberg Rosewald JE American prima donna; fourth daughter of Moritz Eichberg, cantor in Stuttgart; born in that city March 7, 1847. After finishing...
Andrew Rosewater JE American engineer; born in Bohemia Oct. 31, 1848. When very young he removed with his family to the United States, settling...
Edward Rosewater JE American editor and newspaper proprietor; born at Bukovan, in Bohemia, in 1841. He was educated at the high school of Prague...
Victor Rosewater JE American editor and economist; born in Omaha, Neb., 1871; son of Edward Rosewater; educated in Columbia University, New York...
Rosh JE ...
Rosh Ha-shanah JE ...
Rosh Ha-shanah JE Eighth treatise of the order Mo'ed; it contains (1) the most important rules concerning the calendar year together with...
Rosh Yeshibah JE ...
David Rosin JE German theologian; born at Ròsenberg, Silesia, May 27, 1823; died at Breslau Dec. 31, 1894. Having received his early...
Heinrich Rosin JE German jurist; born at Breslau Sept. 14, 1855. In 1880 he established himself as privat-docent in the law department of the...
Heinrich Rosin JE German physician; born at Berlin Aug. 28, 1863; son of David Rosin. He studied at Breslau and Freiburg (M.D. 1887), and in...
Isaac Rosnosky JE American merchant and communal worker; born at Wollstein, Prussia, Nov. 6, 1846; son of Henry and Zelda Rosnosky. He went...
Azariah Ben Moses Dei Rossi JE Italian physician and scholar; born at Mantua in 1513 or 1514; died in 1578. He was descended from an old Jewish family which...
Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi JE Italian Christian Hebraist; born Oct. 25, 1742, in Castelnuovo; died in Parma March, 1831. He studied in Ivrea and Turin....
Moses Ben Jekuthiel De Rossi JE Roman rabbi of the fourteenth century. Between 1373 and 1390 he wrote a compendium of Jewish rites, entitled "Sefer ha-Tadir...
Solomon Rossi JE Rabbi and composer; lived in Mantua during the latter part of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century....
Rossiena (rossieny) JE District city in the government of Kovno, Russia. It had a prosperous Jewish community in the first half of the nineteenth...
Rostock JE ...
Rostof JE Russian fortified commercial and manufacturing town on the Don; formerly in the government of Yekaterinoslaf; since 1888 included...
Rota JE ...
Moritz Roth JE Swiss physician; born at Basel Dec. 25, 1839; educated at the universities of Würzburg, Göttingen, Berlin, and Basel...
Philipp Roth JE German violoncellist; born at Tarnowitz, Upper Silesia, Oct. 25, 1853; died at Berlin June 9, 1898. He studied under Wilhelm...
Wilhelm Roth JE Austrian rhinologist; born at Kluckno, Hungary, Oct. 10, 1848. He received his education at the gymnasium at Eperies, Hungary...
Rothenburg JE Town of Middle Franconia, Bavaria, situated on the Tauber, 41 miles west of Nuremberg. Jews must have been settled there as...
Eliakim Gottschalk Rothenburg JE ...
Moses Ben Mordecai SÜsskind Rothenburg JE German rabbi; born about 1665; died at Altona Jan. 12, 1712. He was successively rabbi of Tykoczin, Brest-Litovsk, and Altona...
Rothschild JE Celebrated family of financiers, the Fuggers of the nineteenth century, deriving its name from the sign of a red shield borne...
David Rothschild JE German rabbi and author; born at Hamm, Westphalia, Nov. 16, 1816; died at Aachen Jan. 28, 1892. After completing his studies...
Rothschild, Menahem Mendel (bacharach, Ashkenazi) JE German rabbi; born in Frankfort-on-the-Main about 1650; died in Worms Oct., 1731. He was the grandson of Isaac, head of the...
Moritz Rott (rosenberg) JE Austrian actor, nephew of the composer Ignaz Moseheles; born at Prague Sept. 17, 1797; died in Berlin 1860. He was the leading...
Rouelle JE ...
Rouen JE Ancient capital of Normandy, and now the administrative center of the department of Seine-Inférieure; situated on the...
Roussillon JE Province of ancient France, now forming the department of Pyrénées-Orientales. Jews settled there in the early part...
Leo S Rowe JE American economist; born in McGregor, Iowa, Sept. 17, 1871. He entered the Arts Department of the University of Pennsylvania...
Markus RÓzsavÖlgyi (rosenthal) JE Hungarian composer; born at Balassa-Gyarmath 1787; died at Pesth Jan. 23, 1848. Having a native love for music, he went at...
Joseph RÓzsay JE Hungarian physician; born at Lackenbach March 15, 1815; died at Budapest May 19, 1885. Educated at Nagy-Kanizsa, Szombathely...
Marcus Rubin JE Danish statistician and author; born in Copenhagen March 5, 1854. He studied at the university of his native city (B.A. 1871)...
Solomon Rubin JE Galician Neo-Hebrew author; born in Dolina, Galicia, April 3, 1823. He was educated for the rabbinate, but, being attracted...
Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein JE Russian pianist and composer; born Nov. 16 (28), 1829, in the village of Wechwotynetz (Vikhvatinetz), near Jassy, Bessarabia...
Isaac Rubinstein JE Austrian deputy; born at Czernowitz in 1805; died at Ischl Sept. 1, 1878. He was a member of the town council and vice-president...
Josef Rubinstein JE Russian pianist and composer; born at Staro-Constantinov Feb. 8, 1847; died by his own hand at Lucerne Sept. 15, 1884. He...
Nikolai (nicholas) Rubinstein JE Russian pianist; born in Moscow June 2, 1835; died in Paris March 23, 1881; brother of Anton Rubinstein. He received his early...
Susanna Rubinstein JE Austrian psychologist; born at Czernowitz, Bukowina, Sept. 20, 1847. She was the daughter of an Austrian deputy. In 1870 she...
Ernst Traugott Rubo JE German jurist; born at Berlin July 8, 1834; died there March, 1895. Educated at the University of Heidelberg (LL.D. 1857)...
Julius Rubo JE German jurist; born at Halberstadt June 9, 1794; died at Berlin March 13, 1866. He attended the gymnasium in Halberstadt,...
Jules Rueff JE French merchant and ship-owner; born at Paris Feb. 16, 1854. At an early age he turned his attention to colonial affairs and...
Rufina JE Smyrna Jewess; lived about the third century of the common era. Her name has been perpetuated in a Smyrniot Greek inscription...
Rufus JE Roman general in the first century of the common era. In the battles after Herod's death the Romans were assisted against...
Rufus Annius JE ...
Tineius Rufus JE Governor of Judea in the first century of the common era. Jerome, on Zech. viii. 16, has "T. Annius Rufus," and the editor...
Christian Friedrich RÜhs JE German historian and anti-Jewish writer; born at Greifswald March 1, 1781; died at Florence Feb. 1, 1820. As professor of...
Golden Rule JE ...
The Thirty-two Rules Of Eliezer B Jose Ha-gelili JE Rules laid down by R. Eliezer b. Jose ha-Gelili for haggadic exegesis, many of them being applied also to halakic interpretation...
The Seven Rules Of Hillel JE Rules given to the sons of Bathyra by Hillel I. as the chief guides for the interpretation of the Scriptures and for the deduction...
The Thirteen Rules Of R Ishmael JE Thirteen rules compiled by Rabbi Ishmael b. Elisha for the elucidation of the Torah and for making halakic deductions from...
Isaac RÜlf JE German rabbi and author; born Feb. 10, 1834, in Holzhausen, near Marburg in Hessen; died at Bonn Sept. 19, 1902. He was educated...
Romania JE Kingdom of southern Europe. If the assertions of Romanian historians are to be accepted, Jews lived in Romania for a considerable...
Isaac Moses Rumsch JE Russian teacher and Hebrew author; born in the village of Zezemer, government of Wilna, April 6, 1822; died in 1894. At the...
Solomon Zalman Runkel JE Rabbi of Mayence and afterward of Worms; died before 1426. Runkel was a cabalist, as is shown by his work "Ḥatan Damim"...
Henry Russell JE English composer and singer; born at Sheerness Dec. 24, 1812; died in London Dec. 7; 1900. He appeared in infancy in Christmas...
Russia JE [Much of the history of the Jews of Russia having already appeared under the headings Alexander, Armenia, Caucasus, Cossacks...
Russki Yevrei JE ...
Rustchuk JE City of Bulgaria, on the southern bank of the Danube. It was founded by the Russians in 968, was occupied in turn by the Greeks...
Rusticanus JE ...
Book Of Ruth JE The Book of Ruth, which is poetically idyllic in character, although the narrative is in the form of prose, contains an episode...
Ruth Rabbah JE A haggadic and homiletic interpretation of the Book of Ruth, which, like that of the four other scrolls ("megillot"), is included...
Carl Victor Ryssel JE German Protestant theologian; born at Reinsberg, Saxony, Dec. 18, 1849; died at Zurich. March 2, 1905. Having completed his...

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