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edit- Aach (JE | WP GWP G) A small town in the circle of Constance, Baden, Germany, at one time belonging to the landgraviate of Nellenburg. The first...
- Aachen (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1019: Aix-la-Chapelle
- Aargau (JE | WP GWP G) A canton in northern Switzerland, formerly the only one in which Jews were permitted to live. The two townships Endingen and...
- Aaron JE (JE | WP GWP G) One of two brothers who play a unique part in the history of the Hebrew people. He was the elder son of Amram and Jochebed...
- Aaron's Rod JE (JE | WP GWP G) A rod which, in the hands of Aaron, the high priest, was endowed with miraculous power during the several plagues that preceded...
- Aaron's Tomb (JE | WP GWP G) the burial-place of Aaron, which, according to Num. xx. 23-28, was Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom. A later tradition...
- Aaron (JE | WP GWP G) An amora mentioned twice in the Babylonian Talmud (B. Ḳ. 109b, Men. 74b). in both places he is represented as furnishing...
- Aaron Abayob (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A324: Abiob, Aaron
- Aaron Abba ha-Levi ben Johanan JE (JE | WP GWP G) A prominent rabbi; born about the close of the sixteenth century; died in Lemberg, June 18, 1643. He was president of a rabbinical...
- Aaron Abraham ben Baruch Simeon ha-Levi JE (JE | WP GWP G) A cabalist, born in the first quarter of the sixteenth century. He published a small cabalistic work, "Iggeret ha-Te'...
- Aaron ben Abraham ibn Hayyim (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A38: Aaron (ben Abraham) ibn Ḥayyim,
- Aaron ben Abraham ben Samuel Schlettstadt (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A12: Schlettstadt, Aaron, ben Abraham ben Samuel
- Aaron ben Abraham ben Vidal Zarfati (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A13: Ẓarfati, Aaron ben Abraham ben Vidal
- Aaron Alfandari (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1183: Alfandari
- Aaron ben Asher of Karlin (Rabbi Aaron II of Karlin) JE (JE | WP GWP G) One of the most famous rabbis of the Ḥasidim in northwestern Russia; born in 1802; died June 23, 1872. He had an immense...
- Aaron the Babylonian (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A91: Aaron ben Samuel ha-Nasi
- Barney Aaron (JE | WP GWP G) English pugilist, nicknamed "The Star of the East"; born in London, November 21, 1800, at Duke's Place, Aldgate; died...
- Aaron ben Benjamin Porges (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P449: Porges, Aaron ben Benjamin
- Aaron ben Benjamin Wolf JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Berlin and also at Frankfort-on-the-Oder; born about 1670; died in Frankfort-on-the-Oder, July 25, 1721. His father...
- Aaron Berechiah ben Moses ben Nehemiah of Modena JE (JE | WP GWP G) Italian cabalist, who died in 1639. He was a pupil of Rabbi Hillel of Modena (surnamed Ḥasid we-Ḳaddosh, that...
21 – 40
edit- Aaron the Bookseller JE (JE | WP GWP G) Italian dealer in Hebrew and other ancient manuscripts; flourished at the beginning of the fourteenth century. He spent seven...
- Aaron of Canterbury JE (JE | WP GWP G) English exegete, mentioned in "Minchat Yehudah" (The Offering of Judah) by Judah ben Eliezer on Deut. xxvi. 2, in association...
- Aaron of Cardena JE (JE | WP GWP G) A cabalist, about whose life little is known. He wrote a book containing "profound secrets" under the title of "Ḳarnayim"...
- Aaron Chorin (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C474: Chorin, Aaron
- Aaron Cupino JE (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist and head of a yeshibah at Constantinople; flourished about the close of the seventeenth century. He was a pupil...
- Aaron ben David Cohen of Ragusa JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi in Ragusa; born about 1580. His maternal grandfather was Solomon Oheb, also rabbi in the same city. Aaron studied in...
- Aaron ben David Hayyun (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H437: Ḥayyun, Aaron ben David
- Aaron, Son of the Devil JE (JE | WP GWP G) the name given to a portrait or caricature of an English Jew of the year 1277, drawn on a forest-roll of the county of Essex...
- Aaron ibn El-bargardi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A29: Bargardi, Aaron ibn el
- Aaron ben Eliezer JE (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist, who flourished in the thirteenth century. That he was considered a great man at that time is proved by the...
- Aaron ben Eliezer JE (JE | WP GWP G) A liturgical poet, who lived in Safed from the year 1545. He was the author of a collection of poems and prayers printed at...
- Aaron ben Eliezer Lipman JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of the town of Zempelburg, West Prussia, formerly included in the kingdom of Poland; flourished toward the middle of...
- Aaron ben Elijah, the Younger, of Nicomedia JE (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite theologian, born in Cairo about 1300; died in Constantinople in 1369. to distinguish him from Aaron ben Joseph, the...
- Aaron Ezekiel Harif JE (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian scholar; died at Nikolsburg, April 10, 1670. As successor to Gerson Ashkenazi he held the post of rabbi in Nikolsburg...
- Aaron Franco Pinhero (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F300: Franco, Aaron Pinhero
- Aaron ben Gershon abu al-Rabi of Catania JE (JE | WP GWP G) Sicilian scholar, cabalist, and astrologer; flourished between 1400 and 1450. He was a son-in-law of Don Moses Gabbai, an...
- Aaron Hamon (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H188: Hamon, Aaron
- Aaron (ben Abraham ben Samuel) ibn Hayyim (JE | WP GWP G) Moroccan Biblical and Talmudic commentator; flourished at the beginning of the seventeenth century at Fez; died at Jerusalem...
- Aaron ben Hayyim JE (JE | WP GWP G) An exegete who lived in the first half of the nineteenth century at Grodno, Russia. He wrote "Moreh Derek" (He Who Shows the...
- Aaron ibn Hayyim (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H392: Ḥayyim, Aaron ibn
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edit- Aaron ben Hayyim Abraham Hakohen Perahyah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A41: Peraḥyah, Aaron ben Ḥayyim Abraham ha-Kohen
- Aaron ben Hayyim ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) Nephew of Simeon of Coucy-leChâteau and of Jacob of Corbeil; flourished about 1200. in 1227, after having compared all...
- Aaron ben Isaac de La Papa (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A43: La Papa, Aaron ben Isaac de
- Aaron ben Isaac of Rechnitz (JE | WP GWP G) Author of a midrashic commentary on the Bible, the first portion of which (Genesis) was published in 1786 at Sulzbach under...
- Aaron ben Isaac Sason (JE | WP GWP G) Author and Talmudist; born in Constantinople in 1629. He was a grandson of Aaron ben Joseph Sason, an eminent Talmudist, and...
- Israel Aaron (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi; born at Lancaster, Pa., Nov. 20, 1859. His father was a native of Hesse-Darmstadt, where he served many years...
- Aaron ben Israel Broda (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A47: Broda, Aaron ben Israel
- Aaron ben Jacob ben David Hakohen JE (JE | WP GWP G) French ritualist; one of a family of scholars living at Narbonne, France (not Lunel, as Conforte and others say), who was...
- Aaron ben Jacob ha-Levi Horowitz (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A49: Horowitz, Aaron ben Jacob ha-Levi
- Aaron ben Jacob of Karlin (JE | WP GWP G) Known among the Ḥasidim as Rabbi Aaron the Great, orsimply as the "Preacher" or "Censor"; born in 1738; died 1771. He...
- Aaron Jaroslaw JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J163: Jaroslaw, Aaron
- Aaron Jeiteles (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A52: Jeiteles, Aaron
- Aaron of Jerusalem JE (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite of the eleventh century. He was acknowledged by the Rabbinites as one of the principal representatives of Karaitic...
- Aaron of Jitomir JE (JE | WP GWP G) A disciple of Baer of Mezhirich and a representative of the sect of the Ḥasidim: born about 1750; died about 1820. He...
- Jonas Aaron ((redirects to History of the Jews in Philadelphia JE)) (JE | WP GWP G) First known Jewish resident of Philadelphia; mentioned in an article entitled "A Philadelphia Business Directory of 1703,"...
- Aaron ben Joseph of Beaugency (JE | WP GWP G) French Bible commentator and rabbinical scholar, who flourished in the twelfth century at Beaugency, near Orleans. He was...
- Aaron ben Joseph of Buda (Ofen) (JE | WP GWP G) A Judæo-German poet of the seventeenth century, who was captured in the city of Ofen, the capital of Hungary, on September...
- Aaron ben Joseph ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist and critic; a direct descendant of Zerahiah ha-Levi, and probably, like him, a native of Gerona, Spain; flourished...
- Aaron ben Joseph, the Karaite JE (JE | WP GWP G) Eminent teacher, philosopher, physician, and liturgical poet in Constantinople; born in Sulchat, Crimea, about 1260; died...
- Aaron ben Joseph Sason (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudic author; born toward the middle of the sixteenth century, probably at Salonica, where he received his rabbinical education...
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edit- Aaron Kupino (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A25: Aaron Cupino
- Aaron Levi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M743: Montezino, Antonio
- Aaron ha-Levi of Barcelona (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish Talmudist of the end of the thirteenth century; author of the first book of religious instruction among the Jews of...
- Aaron ha-Levi ben Moses of Staroselye (JE | WP GWP G) A Talmudic scholar and cabalist of note, who flourished in Poland during the latter part of the eighteenth century and the...
- Aaron ha-Levi Oettingen (JE | WP GWP G) Galician rabbi; born about the beginning of the eighteenth century; died in Lemberg about 1769. He was one of a prominent...
- Aaron of Lincoln JE (JE | WP GWP G) English financier; born at Lincoln, England, about 1125; died 1186. He is first mentioned in the English pipe-roll of 1166...
- Aaron Markovich of Wilna (JE | WP GWP G) Agent (court Jew) of King Ladislaus IV. of Poland in the seventeenth century. The only known document in which his name occurs...
- Aaron ben Meir of Brest (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian rabbi; born about the beginning of the eighteenth century at Brest-Litovsk (), Russia; died there Nov. 3, 1777...
- Aaron ben Menahem Mendel (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi, who flourished at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He wrote "Seyag la-Torah" (Fence to the Law), which...
- Aaron ben Meshullam ben Jacob of Lunel (JE | WP GWP G) Ritualist; flourished about the end of the twelfth century and the beginning of the thirteenth; died about 1210 (according...
- Aaron ben Mordecai of Rödelheim (JE | WP GWP G) Translator, who flourished early in the eighteenth century. He translated the two Targums on Esther into Judæo-German...
- Aaron ben Moses ben Asher (JE | WP GWP G) A distinguished Masorite who flourished in Tiberias in the first half of the tenth century. He was descended from a family...
- Aaron Moses ben Jacob Taubes (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A73: Taubes, Aaron Moses ben Jacob
- Aaron ben Moses Meir Perls (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A74: Perls, Aaron ben Moses Meir
- Aaron Moses ben Mordecai (JE | WP GWP G) One of the few cabalistic writers of recent times in East Prussia: author of a work, "Nishmat Shelomoh Mordecai" (The Soul...
- Aaron ben Moses Mosessohn (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M949: Mosessohn, Aaron ben Moses
- Aaron Moses Padua (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A77: Padua, Aaron Moses
- Aaron ben Moses Teomim (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinical scholar; born about 1630, probably in Prague, where the Teomim-Fränkel family, from Vienna, had settled; died...
- Aaron ben Moses ben Zebi Hirsch Teomim (JE | WP GWP G) See Teomim, Aaron.
- Aaron ben Nathan Nata' of Trebowla JE (JE | WP GWP G) Author; flourished about the middle of the eighteenth century. He published at Zolkiev, in 1755, "Shem Aharon" (Aaron'...
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edit- Aaron of Neustadt (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist who with Shallum and Jaekel of Vienna formed a triumvirate of Talmudic scholars in Austria at the end of the fourteenth...
- Aaron ben Perez of Avignon (JE | WP GWP G) French rabbi and scholar; born about the middle of the thirteenth century; died in the first quarter of the fourteenth century...
- Aaron of Pesaro (JE | WP GWP G) Flourished in the sixteenth century at Pesaro, Italy, and wrote "Toledot Aharon" (The Generations of Aaron), an index to Scriptural...
- Aaron ben Phinehas (JE | WP GWP G) Member of the rabbinical college of Lemberg, and appears in that capacity among the rabbis who had to decide a case in matrimonial...
- Aaron of Pinsk (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi in Kretingen, in the government of Kovno, and afterward in Pinsk, where he died in 1841. He wrote "Tosafot Aharon,"...
- Aaron Sabaoni (JE | WP GWP G) Editor of Moses Albaz's cabalistic ritual, "Hekal ha-Ḳodesh," to which he added notes, and which was printed in...
- Aaron ben Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew author; born about 1620; flourished in Germany during the latter half of the seventeenth century. He published his...
- Aaron ben Samuel of Hergershausen (JE | WP GWP G) A simple farmer of Hergershausen (Hessen), who was the first person in Germany to attempt, at the beginning of the eighteenth...
- Aaron Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See K28: Kaydanower, Aaron Samuel
- Aaron Samuel ben Moses Shalom of Kremnitz (JE | WP GWP G) Author of "Nishmat Adam," Hanau, 1611, which contains dissertations on the nature of the soul, purpose of man's existence...
- Aaron ben Samuel ha-Nasi (JE | WP GWP G) A personage who was considered until recently a fictitious creation of the Traditionists (Zunz) —those who, in their...
- Aaron ibn Sargado JE (JE | WP GWP G) Gaon in Pumbedita and a son of Joseph ha-Kohen. According to the chronicle of Sherira, Sargado officiated from 943 to 960...
- Aaron Selig ben Moses of Zolkiev (JE | WP GWP G) Author; flourished in the seventeenth century. He wrote "'Amude Sheba'" (Seven Pillars) containing: (1) Commentaries...
- Aaron Solomon (JE | WP GWP G) Merchant of Philadelphia, Pa., who, about 1777, signed an agreement to take the colonial paper currency sanctioned by King...
- Aaron ben Solomon Amarillo (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1358: Amarillo, Aaron ben Solomon
- Aaron ben Solomon ben Hasun (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist who flourished in Turkey at the beginning of the sixteenth century. He ranked high among the prominent Oriental...
- Aaron ben Solomon ben Simon ben Zemah Duran (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A97: Duran, Aaron ben Solomon ben Simon ben Ẓemaḥ
- Aaron of Trani (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A98: Trani, Aaron of
- Massa Di Carrara Aaron (Hayyim) Volterra (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A99: Volterra, Aaron (Ḥayyim), Massa di Carrara
- Aaron ben Wolf (JE | WP GWP G) -- See W259: Wolfssohn, Aaron
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edit- Aaron Worms (JE | WP GWP G) Chief rabbi of Metz and Talmudist; son of Abraham Aberle; born July 7, 1754, at Geislautern, a small village near Saarbrü...
- Aaron of York (Fil Josce) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish financier and chief rabbi of England; born in York before 1190; died after 1253. He was probably the son of Josce of...
- Aaron Zalaha (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A103: Zalaha, Aaron
- Aaron ben Zerah (JE | WP GWP G) French Jew, who suffered martyrdom at Estella in Navarre, March 5, 1328. Banished from his original home in 1306 by order...
- Aaron Ben-zion ibn Alamani (JE | WP GWP G) Dayyan, or judge, and prominent Jew of Alexandria in the twelfth century. His family name probably means al-Umani, or "the...
- Aaron Zorogon (JE | WP GWP G) Turco-Jewish scholar, who flourished about the middle of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Bet Aharon" (House...
- Aaronites (Aaronides) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1980: Cohen,
- Aaronsburg (JE | WP GWP G) A post village situated in Haines township, Center county, Pennsylvania, founded by Aaron Levy in 1786, and named for him...
- Av (JE | WP GWP G) the Babylonian name adopted by the Jews for the fifth month of the year, corresponding to part of the modern July and part...
- Ninth Day of Av (JE | WP GWP G) Day set aside by tradition for fasting and mourning, to commemorate the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple by the Chaldeans...
- Fifteenth Day of Av (JE | WP GWP G) Popular festival in Judea during the time of the Second Temple, corresponding approximately to the fifteenth day of August...
- Abaddon (JE | WP GWP G) in rabbinic and New Testament literature, the second department of Gehenna, the nether world; almost synonymous with Sheol...
- Juan de la Abadia (JE | WP GWP G) A Marano of the fifteenth century. He engaged in a project to subvert the Inquisition in Aragon; failing in this, he joined...
- Abadias UNR(JE | WP GWP G) Son of Jezelus, one of the sons of Joab, found in the list of those who returned with Ezra (I Esd. viii. 35). in the corresponding...
- Abagtha (JE | WP GWP G) A chamberlain of Ahasuerus (Esth. i. 10). The name is probably of Persian origin.G. B. L. ...
- Abana River JE (JE | WP GWP G) A river rising in the Anti-Libanus, flowing through Damascus, and disappearing in the Meadow lakes. Reference to it is found...
- Abarbanel JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A631: Abravanel
- Abarbanel Library in Jerusalem (JE | WP GWP G) A collection of books intended for a national Jewish library; founded by Dr. Joseph Chazanowicz, one of the Zionist leaders...
- Abarim (JE | WP GWP G) A term applied to the edge of the Moabite plateau. From its most prominent headland, Mount Nebo, the western part of Judea...
- Abaye JE (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora; born about the close of the third century; died 339 (see Academies in Babylonia). His father, Kaylil, was...
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edit- Abba (JE | WP GWP G) the Aramaic word for "Father," "my Father," which, together with the Greek equivalent, occurs three times in the New Testament...
- Abba (JE | WP GWP G) A word signifying "father," used as a masculine name as early as the time of the Tannaites (see Peah, ii. 6; Yeb. 15a; see...
- Abba (JE | WP GWP G) A brother of Rabban Gamaliel, probably Gamaliel II.; perhaps identical with Abba, a contemporary of Johanan ben Zakkai, mentioned...
- Abba bar Abba (JE | WP GWP G) A Babylonian amora of the second and third centuries, distinguished for piety, benevolence, and learning. He is known chiefly...
- Abba b. Abina (JE | WP GWP G) An amora who flourished in the third century. He was a native of Babylonia and a pupil of Rab. He emigrated to Palestine,...
- Abba of Acre (Acco) JE (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian amora who flourished at the end of the third century. He was greatly respected by Abbahu and praised as an example...
- Abba Arika JE (JE | WP GWP G) Celebrated Babylonian amora and founder of the Academy of Sura; flourished in third century; died at Sura in 247. His surname...
- Abba bar Benjamin bar Hiyya (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian scholar of the third and fourth centuries, contemporary of R. Abbahu. While the country of his birth can not...
- Abba b. Bizna (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian amora of the fourth century, who is occasionally mentioned as a haggadist, and as having handed down certain...
- Abba Bumsla (Ben Solomon) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A130: Bumsla, Abba
- Abba of Carthage (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian amora, who flourished at the end of the third century. His birthplace was Carthage, and it is incorrect to refer...
- Abba Cohen of Bardela JE (JE | WP GWP G) A scholar of the last tannaitic generation (about the beginning of the third century). The few Halakot emanating from him...
- Abba Doresh (JE | WP GWP G) A tanna, whose period can not be determined. Two of his interpretations have been preserved in Sifre, Deut. 308 and 352, and...
- Abba (Rabba) bar Dudai (JE | WP GWP G) Head of the Academy of Pumbedita from 772 till about 780. Sherira Gaon adds to Abba's name the words "our grandfather...
- Abba Glusk Leczeka (JE | WP GWP G) A poem by Adalbert von Chamisso, published in 1832. It relates the story of one Abba, who, at the age of sixty, attracted...
- Abba Gorion of Sidon (JE | WP GWP G) A tanna, who flourished in the second century. He handed down to posterity a saying of Abba Saul (Mishnah, Ḳid. iv....
- Abba Hanin (JE | WP GWP G) and his son, ABBA JOSE. See Ḥanin, Abba, and Jose, Abba. This article...
- Abba bar Hiyya b. Abba (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian amora, who flourished at the beginning of the fourth century. He was the son of Ḥiyya bar Abba, the well-known...
- Abba Hoshaya of Turya (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian wool-washer of the third century, of whose scholarly attainments, if he had any, nothing is recorded, but whose...
- Abba Huna ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H964: Huna, Abba, ha-Kohen
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edit- Abba (JE | WP GWP G) A Babylonian amora of the third century, the son of Jeremiah b. Abba and a pupil of Rab. He lived at Sura and transmitted...
- Abba Jose ben Dositai (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A142: Jose, Abba, ben Dositai
- Abba Jose ben Hanin JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J422: Jose, Abba, ben Ḥanin
- Abba Jose of Mahuza (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A144: Jose, Abba, of Maḥuza
- Abba Judah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A146: Abba Judan
- Abba Judan (JE | WP GWP G) A philanthropist who lived in Antioch in the early part of the second century. As an example of his generosity, it is recorded...
- Abba Kolon (JE | WP GWP G) A mythical Roman mentioned in a Talmudic legend concerning the foundation of Rome, which, according to the Haggadah, was a...
- Abba ben Mari (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R18: Rabba ben Mari
- Abba Mari ben Eligdor (JE | WP GWP G) A distinguished Talmudist, an eminent philosopher, and an able physicist and astronomer; flourished in the fourteenth century...
- Abba Mari ben Isaac of St Gilles (JE | WP GWP G) Flourished about the middle of the twelfth century, and lived at St. Gilles, near Lunel, in Languedoc. According to Benjamin...
- Abba Mari ben Joseph ibn Caspi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A151: Caspi, Abba Mari ben Joseph ibn
- Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph Don Astruc (En Astruc) of Lunel JE (JE | WP GWP G) (Graetz and others have, incorrectly, En Duran): Leader of the opposition to the rationalism of the Maimonists in the Montpellier...
- Abba b. Martha (JE | WP GWP G) A Babylonian scholar of the end of the third century and beginning of the fourth. He seems to have been in poor circumstances...
- Abba bar Memel (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian amora, who lived toward the end of the third century. He belonged to the circle of Ammi at Tiberias, and enjoyed...
- Joseph Abba Nasia (JE | WP GWP G) Chief justice in Majorca, 1405; died, 1439.Bibliography: Zunz, Zur Gesch. und Literatur, p. 517.G. ...
- Abba bar Pappai (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian amora, of the fourth century who died 375. As the second link in the transmission by tradition ofLevi's...
- Abba Sakkara (JE | WP GWP G) Insurrectionary leader; lived in the first century in Palestine. According to Talmudic accounts (Giṭ. 56a), he took...
- Abba Saul ben Botnit (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A158: Saul, Abba b. Botnit
- Abba Saul (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S277: Saul, Abba
- Abba of Sidon (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian amora of the latter part of the third century or the early part of the fourth. He is mentioned only once, as...
161 – 180
edit- Abba the Surgeon (Umana) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Mentioned in the Talmud as an example of genuine Jewish piety and benevolence (Ta'anit, 21b et seq.). Although dependent...
- Abba (Ba) bar Zabdai JE (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian amora, who flourished in the third century. He studied in Babylonia, attending the lectures of Rab and Huna...
- Abba bar Zebina (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian amora of the fourth century. He was a pupil of R. Zeira, in whose name he transmitted many sayings. He was employed...
- Abbahu JE (JE | WP GWP G) A celebrated Palestinian amora of the third amoraic generation (about 279-320), sometimes cited as R. Abbahu of Cæsarea...
- Abbas (JE | WP GWP G) This name does not appear in the long lists of Jewish names in pre-Islamic Arabia, nor does it occur among the Jews in general...
- Aaron Abbas (Abas) (JE | WP GWP G) Editor and printer at Amsterdam, at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He was the publisher of two works: (1) Aaron...
- Joseph Abbas (JE | WP GWP G) Copyist of "MS. Kauffmann," No. 45; lived at the end of the seventeenth century.
- Judah ibn Abbas of Fez (JE | WP GWP G) A poet, and author of the piyyuṭ "Et Sha'are Raẓon." He was the first Jew known by the name of Abbas; died...
- Judah b. Samuel ben Abbas (JE | WP GWP G) A Spaniard of the thirteenth century. This form of his name is authenticated in the headings of his two works in "MS. Loewe...
- Moses Abbas (JE | WP GWP G) A name borne by several persons of whom the following three are mentioned in Zunz ("Literaturgesch." p. 342): 1. Moses Abbas...
- Moses Judah Abbas (JE | WP GWP G) A Hebrew poet; lived about the middle of the seventeenth century at Rosetta, in Egypt. He was a descendant of the Abbas family...
- Raphael ben Joshua Abbas (Abas) (JE | WP GWP G) Printer and editor at Amsterdam; contemporary, and undoubtedly a relative, of Aaron Abbas. He supplemented the work of Aaron...
- Samuel b. Isaac Abbas (Abas, Abatz)]] (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi in the latter half of the seventeenth century at Amsterdam, where his death occurred about 1693. He translated into...
- Samuel abu Nasr ibn Abbas (JE | WP GWP G) A son of Judah ibn Abbas of Fez; lived in the twelfth century. Joseph Sambari and the "Yuchasin" call him Samuel ben...
- Yom-Tob ben Jonah Abbas (JE | WP GWP G) Mentioned in the responsa of Judah ben Asher (fols. 30 and 35).
- Jacob ben Moses ibn Abbasi (JE | WP GWP G) Translator and scholar, who flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century at Huesca, Spain. His father, Moses ibn...
- Joseph Abbasi (JE | WP GWP G) A wealthy Jew of Oporto, where, in 1376, he was farmer of taxes for the city and its territory.Bibliography: Mendes do Remedios...
- Moses Abbasi (Abbas) (JE | WP GWP G) Disciple of Rabbi Ḥasdai ben Solomon of Valencia and Tudela (1378). He corresponded with Isaac ben Sheshet and the poet...
- Abbassid Califs (JE | WP GWP G) the position of the Jews during the five centuries of the domination of the Abbassid Califs (750-1258) differed from that...
- Abbaye (JE | WP GWP G) An amora. See Abaye.
181 – 200
edit- Abbaye of Constantinople (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudic scholar of the sixteenth century. He carried on a learned correspondence with Samuel di Medina (), rabbi of Salonica...
- Av Beit Din (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Title, according to some scholars, of the judge next in authority to the nasi (prince or president), and who would, accordingly...
- Abbreviations (JE | WP GWP G) the oldest term for abbreviation, = νοταρικόν, is found in tannaitic literature...
- Abd (JE | WP GWP G) An Arabic word that forms the first part of many compound proper names of Jews of Arabic-speaking countries. The name following...
- Abda (JE | WP GWP G) 1. The father of Adoniram, the superintendent of the tax levied by Solomon (I Kings, iv. 6). 2. A Levite residing in Jerusalem...
- Abd-al-daim (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Abd-al-Aziz, son of Muhasan ha-Israeli, physician and descendant of a line of Jewish physicians. Abd-al-Daim flourished...
- Abd-al-malik (JE | WP GWP G) Ommiad calif who ruled at Damascus 685 to 705, and who, unlike his predecessors, was not very religious, but showed a certain...
- Abdallah (JE | WP GWP G) As a Jewish name the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew Obadiah and similar names. Its first appearance among the Jews was not...
- Abdallah ibn Saba (JE | WP GWP G) A Jew of Yemen, Arabia, of the seventh century, who settled in Medina and embraced Islam. Having adversely criticized Calif...
- Abdallah ibn Salam (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish convert to Islam in the time of Mohammed; died 663. According to the Moslems, he was one of the most important Jewish...
- Abdallah ibn Saura (JE | WP GWP G) One of those whom Moslem traditionists number among Mohammed's opponents in Medina. He was the rabbi of the Banu Tha'...
- Abdallah ibn Ubaiy (JE | WP GWP G) A chief of the Arab tribe Banu al-Khazraj at Medina and a powerful opponent of Mohammed, who had undermined Abdallah's...
- Abdan (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian scholar of the first amoraic generation, who lived about the beginning of the third century. As a disciple and...
- Abdeel (JE | WP GWP G) Father of Shelemiah, who was one of the men ordered by King Jehoiakim to capture Jeremiah and his scribe Baruch (Jer. xxxvi...
- Abdi (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Son of Malluch, a Levite descended from Merari (I Chron. vi. 44). 2. Father of Kish, a Levite, also of the family of Merari...
- Abdi Heba (JE | WP GWP G) A king of Jerusalem about 1400 B.C., whose name (read by some, Ebed Tob) is recorded in the El-Amarna Tablets. From...
- Abdias (JE | WP GWP G) Obadiah, the prophet (IV Esd. i. 39).G. B. L.
- Abdiel (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Guni, of the tribe of Gad (I Chron. v. 15). G. B. L. This article...
- Abdima (JE | WP GWP G) Name of several Palestinian amoraim, known also in Babylonia. One of them is mentioned in thePalestinian Talmud simply as...
- Abdima (Dimi) of Haifa (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian amora of the third generation (third and fourth centuries). He was a recognized authority in halakic matters...
201 to 300
edit201 – 220
edit- Abdima (Dimi) bar Hamar (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian who immigrated into Babylonia; senior contemporary of Raba and Joseph, of the fourth century. His name is connected...
- Abdima b Hamdure (JE | WP GWP G) An amora of the third century. He is probably identical with (Mar) bar Hamdure, the disciple of Samuel (Shab. 107b; compare...
- Abdima Nachota (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian amora of the fourth century; contemporary of the Babylonian amoraim Rab Ḥisda and Rab Joseph. He was senior...
- Abdima (Abdimi) of Sepphoris (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian amora of the fifth century; disciple of R. Mana III. and of R. Huna II. He was a distinguished scholar in his...
- Abdimi Mallacha (JE | WP GWP G) A contemporary of R. Ḥiyya b. Abba and Jacob b. Acha, who was one of the numerous class of scholars engaged in...
- Abdimus ben R Jose (JE | WP GWP G) One of the variants of the popular name of R. Menahem ben R. Jose. The other forms are Abirodimus, Avradimus, Vradimas, and...
- Abdon (JE | WP GWP G) 1. One of the last of the Ephraimite judges; a son of Hillel of Pirathon. He aided in restoring order in central Israel after...
- Abdon (JE | WP GWP G) A city in the domain of Asher, given to the Levites, Bene Gershon (Josh. xxi. 30, and in the corresponding list of I Chron...
- Moses ben Reuben Abdon (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Rome in 1543, and a member of the communal board of administrators (stewards of the ghetto) up to the year 1564....
- Abduction (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudic jurisprudence bases the decree prohibiting this offense upon the eighth of the Ten Commandments, which it interprets...
- Abd-ul-hamid II (JE | WP GWP G) Thirty-fourth Ottoman sultan; born Sept. 22, 1842; succeeded his brother, Murad V., Aug. 31, 1876. The Turkish Jews rightly...
- Abd-ul-malik (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A187: Abd al-Malik
- Abd-ul-mejid (JE | WP GWP G) Sultan of Turkey, 1839-61. If the Jews of Turkey owe their deliverance from the unremitting outrages and excesses of the janizaries...
- Abd-ul-mesih (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1936: Asher ben Levi
- Abednego (JE | WP GWP G) the name given to Azariah, one of Daniel's three companions at the court of Nebuchadnezzar. The name is evidently a corruption...
- Abel (JE | WP GWP G) the younger brother of Cain and the second son of Adam and Eve. He was the first shepherd, while Cain was a tiller of the...
- Abel (JE | WP GWP G) Prefixed to six names of places, cognate with the Assyrian abalu (to be full, fruitful), and its probable derivatives ablutum...
- Abel-beth-maachah (JE | WP GWP G) A place-name occurring six times in the Old Testament. The question whether Abel was one place and Beth-maachah another, or...
- Abel-cheramim (JE | WP GWP G) Mentioned only in Judges, xi. 33 (a Deuteronomistic document) as the place where Jephthah paused in his pursuit and slaughter...
- Abel-maim (JE | WP GWP G) A tract in Upper Galilee, now known as Abil-el-Ḳamch, taken by the Syrians under Ben-hadad (II Chron. xvi. 4)....
221 – 240
edit- Abel-meholah (JE | WP GWP G) the name occurs three times in the Old Testament: (1) in Judges, vii. 22 it is stated that Gideon followed the Midianites...
- Abel-mizraim (JE | WP GWP G) Occurs only in Genesis (l. 11). It is interpreted by Septuagint, Vulgate, and the Peshito (followed by A. V.) as "Mourning...
- Abel-shittim JE (JE | WP GWP G) Found only in Num. xxxiii. 49; but ha-Shittim ("The Acacias"), evidently the same place, is mentioned in Num. xxv. 1, Josh...
- Solomon ben Kalman Halevi Abel (JE | WP GWP G) Russian educator and ethical writer; born March 11, 1857, at Novomyesto-Sugint (Neustadt), district of Rossieny, government...
- Peter Abelard (JE | WP GWP G) French scholastic, philosopher, and theologian—the boldest thinker of the twelfth century; born 1079 in a small village...
- Abele, Abraham Cohen, of Kalisz (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A370: Abraham Abele Gombiner
- Abele Zion (JE | WP GWP G) According to Jost and others, those Karaites who, after the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, left the Holy City, and...
- Marcus Abeles (JE | WP GWP G) Physician and instructor (privat-docent) at the University of Vienna; born at Nedraschitz, Bohemia, in 1837; died at Vienna...
- Simon Abeles (JE | WP GWP G) A supposed martyr of the Roman Catholic Church in Prague. According tothe report of the Jesuit John Eder, he was killed by...
- Abelites (JE | WP GWP G) A North-African Christian sect, probably of gnostic antecedents, limited to a few small communities in the neighborhood of...
- Ilia Solomonovich Abelman (JE | WP GWP G) A Russian astronomer; born at Dünaburg, now Dvinsk, in 1866; died at Wilna, December 29, 1898. His early education was...
- Judah ben Isaac Abelson (JE | WP GWP G) A merchant, who devoted the greater part of his time to study; lived toward the end of the eighteenth century at Sherwenty...
- Aben in Jewish Names (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A176: Ibn
- Abenabaz (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A170: Abbas, Moses ibn
- Moyses Abenabez (JE | WP GWP G) See Moses ben Moses of Calatayud.
- David Abenatar Melo (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M387: Melo, David Abenatar
- Abendana (JE | WP GWP G) the name of a number of Spanish- and Portuguese-Jewish (Sephardic) families in Amsterdam and London. The first person to assume...
- Isaac Abendana (JE | WP GWP G) Teacher of Hebrew at Oxford University. Born about the middle of the seventeenth century; died about 1710. He was a brother...
- Jacob Abendana (JE | WP GWP G) Ḥakam of London; born 1630; died Sept. 12, 1695. He was the oldest son of Joseph Abendana, and attended the rabbinical...
- Joseph Abendana (JE | WP GWP G) A refugee from the rage of the Spanish Inquisition who settled in Hamburg; he was related to the Chakam of that name...
241 – 260
edit- Aben-ezra (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I14: Ibn Ezra, Judah
- Kanah Abengdor (Abigdor, Abengedor) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A242: Ḳanah, Abigdor
- Joseph Abenheim (JE | WP GWP G) Violinist and orchestra leader; born at Worms in 1804; died Jan. 18, 1891, at Stuttgart. He received his first musical instruction...
- Abenhuacar (JE | WP GWP G) See Wakkar, Samuel ibn.
- Daniel Abensur (JE | WP GWP G) A Portuguese Jew, who died in Hamburg in 1711. At one time he advanced a considerable sum of money to the Polish Crown, and...
- Jacob Abensur (JE | WP GWP G) Probably a son of Daniel Abensur; was also Polish minister resident at Hamburg, after 1695. By instituting private religious...
- Joseph Abentrevi (JE | WP GWP G) Physician in ordinary to King James I. of Aragon, by whom, in January, 1271 or 1272, Abentrevi was allotted an annual allowance...
- Eliau Abenyuly of Gibraltar (JE | WP GWP G) See Eliau ibn Yulee
- Aberdeen (Scotland) (JE | WP GWP G) the chief city of northern Scotland, capital of Aberdeenshire. Jews have but recently settled in this city, the only synagogue...
- Abraham Aberle (Rabel) (JE | WP GWP G) Moravian Hebraist; lived at Austerlitz in the third decade of the nineteenth century. All his literary productions—poems...
- Abraham ben Abraham Solomon Aberle (JE | WP GWP G) called also Abele Posveller. See Abraham Abele ben Abraham Solomon. This...
- Jacob Benedict (Bennet) Aberle (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A252: Benedict (Bennet), Jacob (Aberle)
- Solomon b. Abraham Aberle (Abril) (JE | WP GWP G) Author of "Binyan Shelomoh" (The Structure of Solomon), homilies on the Pentateuch, published at Shklov in Posen, 1789 (see...
- Rab Aberle (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A439: Abraham of Hamburg
- Isaac b. Abraham Cohen Zedek of Cracow Aberles (JE | WP GWP G) Author of "Sefer Toledot YiẓChaḳ" (The Generation of Isaac), homilies on the Pentateuch, only the first part...
- Abetment (JE | WP GWP G) the legal term for encouraging, aiding, or instigating an illegal act. The abettor may take no part in the actual commission...
- Abi and Ab in Proper Names (JE | WP GWP G) Abi and Ab are used both as the first element, as in Abijah, Abishur, Abinoam, Abner, and as the second element, as in Eliab...
- Abi Ayub (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A658: Sulaiman ibn Almuallim
- Abi Sahula (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A677: Isaac ben Solomon ibn Abu Sahula
- Abi Zimra (JE | WP GWP G) A family which can be traced from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century, of which the following were the more important:...
261 – 280
edit- Abraham ben Meir Abi Zimra (JE | WP GWP G) Flourished in Malaga, and seems to have left his home in 1492, going to Oran, and dwelling later in Tlemçen. He enjoyed...
- David ben Solomon Abi Zimra (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A262: David ben Solomon Abi Zimra
- Abiah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A300: Abijah
- Abiasaph (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E21: Ebiasaph
- Abiathar (JE | WP GWP G) A son of Ahimelech or Ahijah (melech and yah apparently interchanging; compare I Sam. xiv. 3, xxii. 9); the chief priest of...
- Abiathar (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian amora, the contemporary of R. Judah (217-299) and of his successor, R. Ḥisda, the head of the Sura Academy...
- Abiathar ibn Crescas ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A267: Crescas, Abiathar ibn
- Joseph ben Isaac Abiathar (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A334: Abitur, Joseph ben Isaac
- Abiathar ha-Kohen of Cairo (JE | WP GWP G) Nagid (chief) of the Egyptian Jews, which office he inherited from his ancestors. He flourished at the end of the eleventh...
- Abiathar ha-Kohen of Saragossa (JE | WP GWP G) Founder of a widespread noble Spanish family that flourished in the fifteenth century. He had two daughters, Esther and Leah...
- Abib (JE | WP GWP G) Name of the first month of the Hebrew year (Ex. xii. 2; compare xiii. 4), corresponding to the Babylonian and postexilian...
- Abibas (JE | WP GWP G) A mythical son of R. Gamaliel, the teacher of Paul, concerning whom a Christian legend existed that he and his father were...
- Johann Georg Abicht (JE | WP GWP G) Christian Hebraist; born 1672 at Königsee, in the principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt; died 1740. He studied first...
- Abida (JE | WP GWP G) A son of Midian, and grandson of Abraham and Keturah (Gen. xxv. 4, and in the genealogical list in I Chron. i. 33). G. B....
- Abidan (JE | WP GWP G) A son of Gideoni, chief of the tribe of Benjamin after the Exodus (Num. i. 11, ii. 22, vii. 60, 65, x. 24). G. B. L. ...
- Abiel (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Father of Kish and Ner, and grandfather of Saul (I Sam. ix. 1, xiv. 51). Another account makes him the great-grandfather...
- Abiezer (JE | WP GWP G) 1. A clan of Manasseh, the most important member of which was Gideon, in whose time the seat of the clan was at Ophrah on...
- Judah ben Isaac Abiezer of Tiktin (JE | WP GWP G) A Jewish author of the nineteenth century. He resided in Jerusalem and wrote "Mishmeret haBerit" (The Charge of the Covenant)...
- Abigail (JE | WP GWP G) A daughter of Jesse and sister of David, who married Jether the Ishmaelite, and became the mother of Amasa (I Chron. ii. 16...
- Abigdor (JE | WP GWP G) A prænomen, as well as a family name, which first appeared in the Middle Ages and which is still in use. in Russia it...
281 – 300
edit- Abraham Abigdor JE (JE | WP GWP G) A physician, philosopher, and translator; born in Provence, probably at Arles, in 1350. He should not be confounded with Maestro...
- Avigdor Cohen JE (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi, distinguished for learning and wealth, who lived in Ferrara about the middle of the fifteenth century. Joseph...
- Avigdor ben Elijah ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) the earliest of the great Talmudists of Austria; flourished about the middle of the thirteenth century. He was the pupil of...
- Avigdor de Fano (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A284: Fano, Abigdor de
- Avigdor Hayyim (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H393: Ḥayyim, Abigdor
- Avigdor ben Isaac (JE | WP GWP G) A French rabbinic scholar; lived during the second half of the thirteenth century. He is probably identical with the "Abigdor...
- Avigdor ben ha-Kanah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See K85: Ḳanah
- Avigdor Kara (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A242: Ḳanah, Abigdor
- Avigdor ben Menahem (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist; lived at the beginning of the fifteenth century. The Bodleian collection of manuscripts contains responsa...
- Avigdor ben Moses (JE | WP GWP G) Lived in the sixteenth century in Cracow. He translated certain portions of the prayer-book into German.Bibliography: Steinschneider...
- Avigdor ben Nathan of Avignon (JE | WP GWP G) French Talmudist; flourished in the thirteenth and at the beginning of the fourteenth centuries. He was the teacher of Abraham...
- Avigdor ben Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) A rabbi in Pruzhany, Rushony, Wilkowyszky, and Selva (Lithuania and Poland), from 1719 to 1768. Toward the close of his life...
- Avigdor ben Simha (JE | WP GWP G) A German author, who was born in Glogau in the second quarter of the eighteenth century. After having been a tutor for some...
- Avigdor b. Simon Costellez (JE | WP GWP G) -- See K383: Kosteliz (Costellez), Abigdor b. Simon
- Solomon ben Abraham Abigdor JE (JE | WP GWP G) A Hebrew translator; born in Provence in 1384. Assisted by his father, Abraham Bonet ben Meshullam, he, at the early age of...
- Avigdor Zuvidal (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi of German descent, who flourished in the sixteenth century; died Nov. 13, 1601. David de Pomis, in the preface...
- Abihail (JE | WP GWP G) 1. The father of Zuriel, a Levite of the family of Merari (Num. iii. 35). 2. Wife of Abishur (I Chron. ii. 29). 3. Son of...
- Abihu (JE | WP GWP G) He is mentioned in Ex. xxiv. 1, 9, where he and his brother are classed with Moses and Aaron as the leaders or chiefs of the...
- Abihud (JE | WP GWP G) A grandson of Benjamin, mentioned in the genealogical list of I Chron. viii. 3. G. B. L. ...
- Abijah (JE | WP GWP G) Name of several Old Testament personages, of whom the following are the most notable:1.—Biblical Data: Son of Samuel...
301 to 400
edit301 – 320
edit- Abila (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A302: Abilene
- Abilene (JE | WP GWP G) A small district of Syria on the eastern slope of Anti-Libanus. It was so called from the town of Abila, on the northern declivity...
- Abilene (JE | WP GWP G) A village situated northwest of Sepphoris (Neubauer, "Géographie du Talmud," p. 259). According to Grätz ("Gesch...
- Abimael (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Joktan (Gen. x. 28); found also in the corresponding genealogical list of Shem's descendants in I Chron. i. 22...
- Abimelech >> Abimelech, Abimelech (Judges) JE (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Son of Gideon (surnamed Jerubbaal), the great "judge" of Israel. By virtue of his father's dictatorship or semiroyalty...
- Abimi (JE | WP GWP G) the name of several Amoraim, distinguished for proficiency in the Halakah. The most prominent of these are the following:1...
- Abimi b. Abbahu (JE | WP GWP G) A scholar of the third century. Abimi's native country and parentage are doubtful. He is always cited as Abimi, the son...
- Abimi of Hagronia (JE | WP GWP G) A Babylonian amora of the fourth century, disciple of Raba b. Joseph and teacher of Rab Mordecai, the colleague of Rab Ashi...
- Abin R (JE | WP GWP G) Rabin is a contraction of R. Abin, and appears more frequently in the Babylonian than in the Palestinian Talmud. R. Abin and...
- Abin (JE | WP GWP G) An eminent cabalist of Le Mans (about 1040), a descendant of R. Simon of Le Mans, and grandfather of R. Simon the Great, the...
- Abin ben Adda (JE | WP GWP G) A Babylonian amora of the fourth century, disciple of Rab Judah ben Ezekiel and senior contemporary of Raba ben Joseph. Although...
- Benedict Abin (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A989: Ahin, Bendich
- Abin b. Rab Hisda (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian amora, a disciple of R. Johanan (Giṭ. 5b). in addition to some halakic opinions, a few exegetical remarks...
- Abin b. Hiyya (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian amora of the fourth generation, and a colleague of R. Jeremiah. His teachers, R. Zeira I. and R. Hila, were...
- Abin b. Kahana (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian amora, one of the teachers of R. Abun ben Ḥiyya (Tem. 20b), and junior colleague of R. Hoshaya II. (Yer...
- Abin ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian amora of the second half of the fourth century, distinguished as an original haggadist. in the midrashic literature...
- Abin Naggara (JE | WP GWP G) A Babylonian amora of the second and third generations. A carpenter by trade, he devoted his nights to study; and Rab Huna...
- Abin b. Nahman (JE | WP GWP G) A beloved disciple of R. Judah ben Ezekiel (B. M. 107a). He is mentioned as a transmitter of Baraitot (Yeb. 84b; B. B. 94b)...
- Abin ben Tanhum bar Terifon (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian scholar who, by a curious calculation, tries to prove that the Biblical saying, "That soul shall be cut off...
- Abina (JE | WP GWP G) An amora of the third and fourth centuries, always cited without any cognomen. He was a Babylonian by birth, a disciple of...
321 – 340
edit- Abinadab (JE | WP GWP G) 1. A resident of Kirjath-jearim, who kept the Ark of the Covenant in his house during the twenty years immediately following...
- Abinoam (JE | WP GWP G) Father of Barak; is mentioned in Judges, iv. 6, 12, v. 1, 12. in all the Greek versions the name is transliterated Abineem...
- Abinu Malkenu (JE | WP GWP G) the initial words and name of a portion of the liturgy recited with special solemnity on the Penitential Days from New Year...
- Aaron Abiob JE (JE | WP GWP G) Author of "Shemen ha-Mor" (Oil of Myrrh), a commentary on the Book of Esther. He flourished in Salonica about 1540, and his...
- Simon b. David Abiob (JE | WP GWP G) Cabalist of the seventeenth century. He removed to Hebron, one of the chief gathering-places of the Jewish mystics of his...
- Abiram (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Eliab, one of the conspiratorsagainst Moses (Num. xvi. 1; Ps. cvi. 17). Deut. xi. 6 places him in the tribe of Reuben...
- Abishag (JE | WP GWP G) A beautiful Shunammite, brought by the servants of David to his harem to minister to the aged king in the hope of reviving...
- Abishai (JE | WP GWP G) A son of David's sister Zeruiah. Abishai ranked as a general in command second only to his brother Joab (II Sam. x. 10...
- Abishalom (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A637: Absalom
- Abishua (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Son of Phinehas and great-grandson of Aaron, the high priest, ancestor of Ezra (Ezra vii. 5). Found also in the genealogy...
- Abishur (JE | WP GWP G) A Jerahmeelite, son of Shammai (I Chron. ii. 28, 29).
- Abital (JE | WP GWP G) A wife of David, who bore to him, during his residence at Hebron, his fifth son, Shephatiah (II Sam. iii. 4, I Chron. iii...
- Abitub (JE | WP GWP G) A Benjamite (I Chron. viii. 11).
- Joseph ben Isaac ben Stans ibn Abitur (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist and liturgical poet, who, according to statements made by Moses ben Ezra, and according to one of Abitur's own...
- Abiud (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Zerubbabel, from whom was descended Joseph, the husband of Mary, the mother of Jesus (Matt. i. 13). He is omitted from...
- Ablat (JE | WP GWP G) A Gentile sage and astrologer in Babylonia. The close friendship which existed between him and Mar Samuel (died 254) shows...
- Ezmel (Samuel) de Ablitas JE (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Don Juceph; born in the village of Ablitas, near Tudela, from which place he derived his name; died in 1342. He was...
- Ablution (JE | WP GWP G) For the purpose of actual or ritual purification, ablutions or washings form an important feature of the Jewish religious...
- Abner (JE | WP GWP G) Cabalist and teacher of Isaac of Acco (Acre) about 1150, mentioned by Isaac as a great authority in mystic philosophy.Bibliography:...
- Abner (JE | WP GWP G) According to I Chron. viii. 29-33, and Josephus ("Ant." vi. 6, § 3), an uncle of Saul; while I Sam. xiv. 51 and Josephus...
341 – 360
edit- Abner of Burgos (JE | WP GWP G) A Jewish convert to Christianity and polemical writer against his former religion; born 1270; died 1348, or a little later...
- Abnimus Hagardi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See O26: Œnomaos of Gadara
- Abo (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the government of Abo-Björneborg in Finland, Russia, situated near the entrance of the Auraioki river into...
- Aboab ((redirects to Isaac Aboab I JE)); also >> Immanuel Aboab JE, Isaac Aboab of Castile JE, Samuel Aboab JE (JE | WP GWP G) the name of an ancient and widely distributed Spanish family, among whose members were many most able scholars. The family...
- 'Abodah (JE | WP GWP G) Originally the benediction recited during the morning sacrifice while the Temple still existed, and afterward the benediction...
- 'Abodah of the Day of Atonement (JE | WP GWP G) An essential part of the Musaf service of that day, based upon the detailed account given in the Mishnah Yoma of the sacrificial...
- Music of 'Abodah (JE | WP GWP G) By its liturgical position, the "'Abodah" stands out as the central point of the services on the Day of Atonement. The...
- 'Abodah Zarah (JE | WP GWP G) the name of one of the treatises of the Mishnah, of the Tosefta, and of the Babylonian and the Palestinian Talmud, belonging...
- Juan Fernandez Abolafio (JE | WP GWP G) A Marano of Seville, who lived in the fifteenth century. He was among those who endeavored most zealously to prevent the introduction...
- Abolition of Slavery (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1605: Anti-slavery Movement
- Abolitionists, Jewish, in America (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1605: Antislavery Movement
- Abomination (JE | WP GWP G) Rendering in the English versions of different Biblical terms denoting that which is loathed or detested on religious grounds...
- Abomination of Desolation (JE | WP GWP G) An expression occurring in Matt. xxiv. 15 and Mark, xiii. 14 (A. V.), where the Greek text has τὸ βδέ...
- Abot (JE | WP GWP G) the name of a small but highly valuable treatise of the Mishnah containing the oldest collection of ethical maxims and aphorisms...
- Abot de-Rabbi Nathan JE (JE | WP GWP G) A work which in the form now extant contains a mixture of Mishnah and Midrash, and may be designated as a homiletical exposition...
- Abrabalia (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish statesmen who flourished in Aragon in the latterhalf of the thirteenth century. Joseph was minister of finance to...
- Abrabanel JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A631: Abravanel
- David (Manuel Martinez) Abrabanel Dormido (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D443: Dormido, David Abravanel
- Abracadabra (JE | WP GWP G) Magic word or formula used in incantations, especially against intermittent fever or inflammation, the patient wearing an...
- Abraham (JE | WP GWP G) According to the Bible, Abraham (or Abram) was the father of the Hebrews. The Biblical account of the life of Abram is found...
361 – 380
edit- Apocalypse of Abraham JE (JE | WP GWP G) An apocryphon that has been preserved in Old Slavonic literature. Its title does not fully explain its contents, for about...
- Abraham's Bosom JE (JE | WP GWP G) in the New Testament and in Jewish writings a term signifying the abodeof bliss in the other world. According to IV Macc....
- Abraham's Oak (JE | WP GWP G) A famous and venerable oak (Quercus pseudo-coccifera) which still stands at Mamre, half an hour's journey west of Hebron...
- Testament of Abraham (JE | WP GWP G) An apocryphal book, published for the first time by Montague Rhodes James, in two different recensions, in Robinson's...
- Tower of Abraham (JE | WP GWP G) Often mentioned in the Book of Jubilees as a mansion of great importance, said to have been built on the height of Hebron...
- Abraham ben Aaron de Boton (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A366: Boton, Abraham ben Aaron de
- Abraham Aaron ben Shalom Brody (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A367: Brody, Abraham Aaron ben Shalom
- Abraham ben Aaron Troki (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A368: Troki, Abraham ben Aaron
- Abraham Abele ben Abraham Solomon (JE | WP GWP G) Known as Abele Posveller (from Poswol in the government of Kovno); acting rabbi of Wilna; died July 29, 1836. He was considered...
- Abraham Abele Gombiner (JE | WP GWP G) Polish Talmudist; born about 1635 at Gombin, in Russian Poland; died at Kalisz about 1683. He was a son of Ḥayyim ha-Levi...
- Abraham Abele ben Jeremiah (JE | WP GWP G) Interpreter of the Masora; flourished in the middle of the eighteenth century at Kalwaria, in the government of Suwalki, Russian...
- Abraham Abele ben Naphtali (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi in Kherson in the first half of the nineteenth century; author of "Bet Abraham" (House of Abraham), Szydlkow, 1837,...
- Abraham ben Abigdor (JE | WP GWP G) Bohemian rabbi; born in the latter part of the fifteenth century; died at Prague, Oct. 7, 1542. For the last twenty years...
- Abraham ben Abigdor Kara (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A242: Ḳanah, Abraham ben Abigdor
- Abraham Aboab (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A344: Aboab
- Abraham Abraham (JE | WP GWP G) English author and communal worker; died March 31, 1863, at Liverpool. He resided at Liverpool for forty years, during thirty...
- Jacob Abraham (Abram) (JE | WP GWP G) German medalist and lapidary; born at Strelitz in 1723; died at Berlin, June 17, 1800. He learned the art of engraving from...
- Abraham Abush ben Levi Hirsch Katzenellenbogen (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A378: Katzenellenbogen, Abraham Abush ben Levi Hirsch
- Adolphe Abraham (JE | WP GWP G) French colonel; born at Thionville, France, March 21, 1814. When eighteen he enlisted as a volunteer, and was assigned to...
- Abraham ibn Akra ben Solomon (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A588: Abraham ben Solomon Akra
381 – 400
edit- Abraham ibn Alfakar (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A381: Alfakar, Abraham ibn
- Abraham Alashkar (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A382: Alashkar, Abraham
- Abraham Alfaquin (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A383: Alfaquin, Abraham
- Abraham Algazi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A384: Algazi, Abraham
- Abraham al-Tabib (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1319: Al-Tabib, Abraham
- Abraham Amigo JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1399: Amigo, Abraham
- Abraham of Aragon JE (JE | WP GWP G) A skilful oculist, who flourished in the middle of the thirteenth century. Shortly after the Council of Béziers, in 1246...
- Abraham Aryeh Loeb b. Judah ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) A Talmudic author and rabbi, who lived at Stryzhow (Galicia, Austria) at the close of the eighteenth century and the beginning...
- Abraham (Asher Jacob) ben Aryeh Loeb Kalmankes (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1928: Asher, Jacob Abraham ben Aryeh Loeb Ḳalmanḳes
- Abraham (Ben Gedaliah) ben Asher (JE | WP GWP G) A commentator; native of Safed, Syria; held rabbinical office at Aleppo in the second half of the sixteenth century. He was...
- Abraham ben Asus de Bourgueil (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1598: Burgil Family
- Abraham Auerbach JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A392: Auerbach, Abraham
- Abraham of Augsburg JE (JE | WP GWP G) Proselyte to Judaism; died a martyr's death Nov. 21, 1265. He seems to have adopted his new faith with such enthusiasm...
- Abraham of Avila (JE | WP GWP G) A pseudo-Messiah and wonder-worker, who lived at the end of the thirteenth century. There seems to be some doubt concerning...
- Abraham ben Azriel of Bohemia (JE | WP GWP G) A Bohemian Talmudist and grammarian, who flourished in the first half of the thirteenth century and probably lived at Prague...
- Abraham Bali ben Jacob (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B170: Bali, Abraham
- Abraham de Balmes ben Meir JE (JE | WP GWP G) Italian physician and translator of the early sixteenth century; born at Lecce, in the old kingdom of Naples; died at Venice...
- Abraham ben Baruch (JE | WP GWP G) Writer on ritual; brother of Meir of Rothenburg; lived in southern Germany about the end of the thirteenth century. He wrote...
- Abraham ben Baruch Mizrahi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A399: MizraḤi, Abraham ben Baruch
- Abraham of Beja (JE | WP GWP G) A learned Jew who lived in Alemtejo, Portugal, during the latter half of the fifteenth century. Being an extensive traveler...
401 to 500
edit401 – 420
edit- Abraham Bendig (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A401: Bendig, Abraham
- Abraham ben Benjamin Aaron (JE | WP GWP G) A Polish Talmudist of the first half of the seventeenth century; died at Brest, Lithuania, in 1642. He was rabbi at Tarnopol...
- Abraham ben Benjamin Ze'eb Brisker (JE | WP GWP G) Polish author of the seventeenth century; went to Vienna, and, on the expulsion of the Jews from that city in 1670, went to...
- Abraham Benveniste (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A404: Benveniste, Abraham
- Bernard Abraham (JE | WP GWP G) French brigadier-general of artillery, retired; born at Nancy, Jan. 12, 1824. His father, who was a member of the Jewish Consistory...
- Abraham Bibago ben Shem-Tob (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A406: Bibago ben Shem-Ṭob, Abraham
- Abraham of Bohemia (JE | WP GWP G) Prefect of the Jews of Great and Little Poland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. in 1512 King Sigismund I. of Poland...
- Abraham ibn Bolat (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A408: Bolat, Abraham ibn
- Abraham Broda ben Saul (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A409: Broda, Abraham, ben Saul
- Abraham Brunschwig (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1418: Braunschweig, Abraham
- Abraham Cabrit (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A411: Cabrit, Abraham
- Abraham de Caslar ben David (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C225: Caslari, Abraham ben David
- Abraham (Vita) de Cologna (JE | WP GWP G) An Italian rabbi, orator, and political leader; born at Mantua, 1755; died at Triest, 1832. While holding the post of rabbi...
- Abraham of Cologne (Ben Alexander) (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; flourished about 1240. He was considered the most eminent pupil of Eleazar of Worms. Solomon ben Adret relates...
- Abraham Conque of Hebron (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A415: Conque (Cuenqui),Abraham, of Hebron
- Abraham ben Daniel (JE | WP GWP G) Poet and rabbi; born at Modena in 1511. For several years he was a tutor at Viadana, Modena, Rivarolo, Arezzo, and Forli,...
- Abraham ibn Daud Halevi JE (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish astronomer, historian, and philosopher; born at Toledo about 1110; died, according to common report, a martyr about...
- Abraham ben David UNR (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Y67: Yiẓḥaḳi, Abraham
- Abraham ben David of Ostrog (Volhynia) (JE | WP GWP G) Commentator; flourished about 1500. He wrote ("Furnace for Gold"), a commentary on the Targumim to the Pentateuch. Some also...
- Abraham ben David of Posquières JE (JE | WP GWP G) French Talmudic commentator; born in Provence, France, about 1125; died at Posquières, Nov. 27, 1198. Son-in-law of Abraham...
421 – 440
edit- Abraham ben David Provençal (JE | WP GWP G) Italian Talmudist of the sixteenth century. He was a member of an illustrious family of Italian rabbis who came originally...
- Abraham Dob Baer ben David of Ovruch (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Jitomir, Russia, about 1840. His Talmudic studies were pursued under Mordecai, rabbi of Chernobyl and a disciple...
- Abraham Dob Baer ben Solomon (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi in Orsha in the latter half of the eighteenth century. He wrote ("Abraham's Well"), containing Glosses on the First...
- Abraham ben Eliezer (JE | WP GWP G) Commentator (probably a contemporary of Elijah Mizrachi); lived in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, probably at...
- Abraham ben Eliezer ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) Polish darshan, or preacher: flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was the great-grandson of Issachar...
- Abraham ben Eliezer ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist; flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century. Probably he was a pupil of R. Meir of Rothenburg...
- Abraham ben Eliezer ha-Levi Berukim (JE | WP GWP G) A cabalistic writer; born before 1540; lived for a long time in Jerusalem, and died at an advanced age in 1600. A pupil of...
- Abraham ben Elijah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P311: Pikes, Abraham
- Abraham ben Elijah Broda (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A429: Broda, Abraham ben Elijah
- Abraham ben Elijah ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) German ritualist; flourished in the fifteenth century. His epitome of the precepts governing prohibited articles of food was...
- Abraham ben Elijah of Wilna JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Talmudist and author; born in Wilna about 1750; died there Dec. 14, 1808. The son of Elijah, the gaon of Wilna, a...
- Émile Abraham (JE | WP GWP G) French playwright; born at Paris, 1833. He devoted himself entirely to the drama, as playwright, as theatrical critic, and...
- Abraham ben Ephraim Niederländer Sopher of Prague (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N279: Niederländer,Abraham ben Ephraim, Sopher of Prague
- Abraham ben Ephraim ben Sancho (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A434: Sancho, Abraham ben Ephraim ben
- Abraham ibn Ezra JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I11: Ibn Ezra
- Abraham Galante (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A531: Galante, Abraham ben Mordecai
- Abraham Gascon (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G80: Gascon, Abraham
- Abraham Guer Di Cordova (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A527: Abraham the Monk
- Abraham of Hamburg (JE | WP GWP G) Warden and leading spirit of the Ashkenazic community of London; born at Hamburg after 1650; died at London after 1721. By...
- Abraham ibn Hassan ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Author of a work on the six hundred and thirteen Biblical precepts, published as an appendix to the "first" rabbinic Bible...
441 – 460
edit- Abraham ben Hayyim (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Narbonne, where he lived in the first half of the thirteenth century. He was a brother of Reuben ben Ḥayyim...
- Abraham Hayyim ben Gedaliah (JE | WP GWP G) Galician Talmudist. He flourished early in the nineteenth century, was a disciple of the brothers Phinehas and Samuel Horowitz...
- Abraham ben Hayyim Lisker (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L458: Lisker, Abraham ben Ḥayyim
- Abraham ben Hayyim ben Remok (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish scholar; born in Barcelona about the middle of the fourteenth century. He wrote a commentary on the Psalms which is...
- Abraham Hayyim Rodriguez (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A445: Rodriguez, Abraham Ḥayyim
- Abraham Heilbut (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A446: Heilbut, Abraham
- Abraham de Herrera (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A447: Herrera, Abraham de
- Abraham bar Hillel (JE | WP GWP G) One of the few Hebrew poets in Egypt; lived in the second half of the twelfth century, and wrote the "Megillah Zuṭṭ...
- Abraham bar Hiyya ha-Nasi JE (JE | WP GWP G) A celebrated Jewish mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher of the twelfth century. He lived in Barcelona in 1136. According...
- Abraham ben Isaac Auerbach (JE | WP GWP G) Liturgical poet of the seventeenth century; born at Kosfeld and became rabbi at Münster. During a visit to Amsterdam...
- Abraham ben Isaac Bedaresi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B491: Bedersi, Abraham ben Isaac
- Abraham ben Isaac of Granada JE (JE | WP GWP G) Cabalist of the thirteenth century. He wrote: (1) A work on the Cabala, under the title of "Sefer ha-Berit." This is quoted...
- Abraham ben Isaac Hayyot (JE | WP GWP G) Commentator; lived in the seventeenth century. He is the author of "Holek Tamim" (He Who Walks Perfect), explaining the laws...
- Abraham ben Isaac ben Jehiel of Pisa (JE | WP GWP G) Grandson of the famous philanthropist, Jehiel of Pisa, whose charity did much to alleviate the sufferings of the Spanish exiles...
- Abraham ben Isaac ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) A hymn-writer who flourished in Germany about 1096; probably the son of Isaac ben Eleazar ha-Kohen, who lived in Mentz in...
- Abraham ben Isaac ha-LevỊ (JE | WP GWP G) A Spanish Talmudist and author; born at Barcelona in the early part of the fourteenth century; died at Narbonne in October...
- Abraham ben Isaac ibn Migas (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A457: Migash, Abraham ben Isaac ibn
- Abraham b. Isaac of Narbonne JE (JE | WP GWP G) born probably at Montpellier about 1110; died at Narbonne, 1179. His teacher was Moses b. Joseph b. Merwan ha-Levi, and during...
- Abraham ben Isaac Shalom (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A459: Shalom, Abraham ben Isaac
- Abraham ben Israel Cohen Rapoport (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R112: Rapoport
461 – 480
edit- Abraham Israel Pereyra (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P190: Pereyra, Abraham Israel
- Jacob Abraham (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A377: Abraham (Abram), Jacob
- Abraham ben Jacob Berab (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A463: Berab, Abraham ben Jacob
- Abraham ben Jacob de Boton (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A464: Boton, Abraham ben Jacob de
- Abraham ben Jacob Moses Helin (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H560: Helin, Abraham ben Jacob Moses
- Abraham ben Jacob Zemah (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian rabbi and author; born about 1670. He was a rabbi at Jerusalem, and a member of the bet din, or rabbinical tribunal...
- Abraham Jafe Kalmankes (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A467: Ḳalmanḳes, Abraham Jafe
- Abraham Jaghel ben Hananiah Dei Galicchi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A468: Jaghel, Abraham
- Abraham Jedidiah ben Menahem Simson (JE | WP GWP G) See Basilah, Abraham Jedidiah.
- Abraham ben Jehiel Cohen Porto (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A470: Porto, Abraham ben Jehiel
- Abraham Jekuthiel Salman Lichtenstein (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A471: Lichtenstein, Abraham
- Abraham Jesofovich (JE | WP GWP G) Secretary of the treasury of Lithuania under King Sigismund I. of Poland; born in the middle of the fifteenth century; died...
- Abraham (Jacob Joseph) ben Joel Ashkenazi Katzenellenbogen (JE | WP GWP G) -- See K135: Katzenellenbogen, Abraham
- Abraham ben Joseph ha-Levi of Cracow JE (JE | WP GWP G) Polish commentator, born at Cracow about 1620; died, probably in Hamburg, about 1670, or at least some time after 1659. In...
- Abraham ben Joseph of Orleans (JE | WP GWP G) French Talmudist; lived at Orleans, and perhaps at London, in the twelfth century. He belongs to the older tosafists, and...
- Abraham ben Joseph Solomon Hahazan (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite rabbi at Koslov, now Eupatoria, Crimea, in the first half of the nineteenth century. His father, Joseph Solomon, whom...
- Abraham Joshua Hoeshl (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Kolbushowa, and later at Miedzyboz, Poland; lived inthe beginning of the nineteenth century. He wrote two commentaries...
- Abraham ben Josiah of Jerusalem (JE | WP GWP G) A Karaite author, who flourished in the first half of the eighteenth century. He went from Palestine to the Crimea, where...
- Abraham ben Josiah ha-Rofe (JE | WP GWP G) A Karaitic scholar and physician, born in Troki, a town near Wilna, in Lithuania, about 1636; died there in 1688. He was one...
- Abraham Judaeus (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A435: Abraham ibn Ezra
481 – 500
edit- Abraham Judaeus Medicus (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A577: Abraham ben Shem-Ṭob
- Abraham ben Judah (JE | WP GWP G) Flourished in the thirteenth century at Barcelona, Spain. According to de Rossi ("Dizionario," p. 237) there is, among the...
- Abraham ben Judah (JE | WP GWP G) A physician who wrote in Hebrew a medical work, "Mareot ha-Shetanim" (Aspects of the Urine); date of birth and death unknown...
- Abraham ben Judah Berlin (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; died at Amsterdam March 13, 1730; son of the famous court Jew, Jost Liebman, and disciple of Isaiah Horowitz...
- Abraham ben Judah de Boton (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A485: Boton, Abraham ben Judah de
- Abraham ben Judah Eberlen (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E19: Eberlen, Abraham ben Judah
- Abraham ben Judah Elimelech (Almalik) (JE | WP GWP G) A cabalistic writer who lived at Pesaro (Italy) about the end of the fifteenth century and was probably a Spanish exile. He...
- Abraham ben Judah Hadida (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H42: Ḥadida, Abraham ben Judah
- Abraham ben Judah ibn Hayyim (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H397: Ḥayyim, Abraham ben Judah ibn
- Abraham ben Judah Loeb (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M243: Maskillejson, Abraham
- Abraham ben Judah Loeb Saraval (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A491: Saraval, Abraham ben Judah Loeb
- Abraham ben Judah Segre (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A492: Segre, Abraham ben Judah
- Abraham Kabassi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A493: Kabassi, Abraham
- Abraham Kimhi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A494: Ḳimḥi, Abraham
- Abraham Kirimi JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See K236: Kirimi, Abraham
- Abraham Klausner (JE | WP GWP G) -- See K264: Klausner, Abraham
- Abraham Kolisker (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A497: Kolisker, Abraham
- Abraham Konat ben Solomon (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C705: Conat, Abraham, ben Solomon
- Abraham Laniado ben Isaac (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A499: Laniado, Abraham, ben Isaac
- Abraham Laniado ben Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A500: Laniado, Abraham, ben Samuel
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