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501 to 600

501 – 520

Emanuel Hecht (JE | WP GWP G) German educationist; born 1821 in Nordheim, Bavaria; died Feb. 25, 1862, in Hoppstädten, Birkenfeld-Oldenburg. On graduating...
Ferdinand Heckscher (JE | WP GWP G) German actor; born at Berlin 1806; died at Sondershausen Feb. 28, 1891. Heckscher, who had a fine bass voice, began his theatrical...
Samuel ben Meïr Heckscher (JE | WP GWP G) German scholar; lived at Altona in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; author of a work entitled "Ḳinah 'Al...
Heder, Cheder (JE | WP GWP G) Colloquial name for a Jewish old-fashioned elementary school. The Talmudical expression "tinnokot shel bet rabban" (children...
Hedyot (JE | WP GWP G) Term used in Mishnah, Talmud, and Midrash to designate a private person, a commoner, not belonging to the class of kings,...
Hefez, Chefez (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G143: Gentili
Hefez b. Yazliah [he], Chefez b. Yazliah (JE | WP GWP G) Halakist; lived toward the end of the tenth century. Rapoport assumes him to have beena Palestinian, but it is more probable...
Hefker (JE | WP GWP G) Ownerless property, rendered so either by the formal renunciation of the owner, or by an act of the court (Giṭ. 36b)...
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (JE | WP GWP G) German philosopher; born at Stuttgart 1770; died at Berlin 1831. After studying at theUniversity of Tübingen he became...
Hegesippus (JE | WP GWP G) One of the earliest writers of the Christian Church; lived at Rome, whither he had gone about 150 from Palestine or Syria...
He-Haluz, He-Chaluz (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew magazine or year-book which appeared irregularly between 1852 and 1889. Its German title, "Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen...
Heidelberg (JE | WP GWP G) University town in the grand duchy of Baden, Germany; it has a population of 40,240, including 882 Jews. The community there...
Philip Heidenheim (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and teacher; born at Bleicherode June 14, 1814. In 1834 he was called as teacher to Sondershausen, where he worked...
Wolf (Benjamin) ben Samson Heidenheim JE (JE | WP GWP G) German exegete and grammarian; born at Heidenheim in 1757; died at Rödelheim Feb. 23, 1832. At an early age Heidenheim...
Heidingsfeld (JE | WP GWP G) Bavarian city, on the Main, near Würzburg. It has a population of 4,154, including 100 Jews (1903). That it contained...
Red Heifer (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R157: Red Heifer
David Heilbron [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch physician; born at the Hague July 4, 1762; died at Amsterdam 1847. He was educated at the University of Leyden, graduating...
Heilbronn (JE | WP GWP G) Town of Württemberg in the district of the Neckar. There was an important community there in 1298, when Rindfleisch and...
Abraham ben Moses Ashkenazi Heilbronn (Heilprin) (JE | WP GWP G) Chief rabbi of Lemberg; born in 1578; died Jan. 2, 1649. His father was related to R. Solomon Edels. Abraham Heilbronn wrote:...
Jacob ben Elhanan Heilbronn (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and mathematician; flourished in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. After occupying various rabbinates...

521 – 540

Joseph ben Elhanan Heilbronn (JE | WP GWP G) German Hebrew scholar; lived at Posen in the sixteenth century. Nepi-Ghirondi's "Toledot Gedole Yisrael" (p. 203) mentions...
Abraham ben Judah Heilbut (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist; lived at Altona in the middle of the eighteenth century. In July, 1751, he wrote there "Binah Rabbah," a...
Ferdinand Heilbuth (JE | WP GWP G) French painter; born at Hamburg in 1826; died Nov. 19, 1889, at Paris, where he had been naturalized ten years previously...
Heilprin JE (JE | WP GWP G) Besides the numerous Heilbrons, Heilbronners, Heilpruns, and Heilbruns who are known to have lived between the middle of the...
Abraham ben Moses Heilprin (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H519: Heilbronn, Abraham ben Moses Ashkenazi
Angelo Heilprin JE (JE | WP GWP G) American naturalist, geologist, and traveler; son of Michael Heilprin; born March 31, 1853, at Sátoralja-Ujhely, Hungary...
Eliezer b. Mordecai Heilprin (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; born probably in Yaroslav, Galicia, in 1648; died at Fürth in 1700. He was rabbi successively in Gross...
Jehiel ben Solomon Heilprin JE (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian rabbi, cabalist, and chronicler; born about 1660; died at Minsk about 1746. He was a descendant of Solomon Luria...
Joel ben Isaac Heilprin [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Polish Ḥasidic rabbi; lived at Ostrog in the middle of the seventeenth century. He was known as "Ba'al Shem I.,"...
Joel ben Uri Heilprin (JE | WP GWP G) Galician thaumaturge; lived at Satanow in the first half of the eighteenth century. Possessed of a fair knowledge of medicine...
Louis Heilprin (JE | WP GWP G) American encyclopedist; son of Michael Heilprin; born in Miskolcz, Hungary, July 2, 1851. He emigrated with his parents to...
Michael Heilprin (JE | WP GWP G) Polish-American scholar, author, and philanthropist; born in Piotrkow, Russian Poland, Feb. 23, 1823; died in Summit, N. J...
Phinehas Mendel Heilprin (JE | WP GWP G) Polish Hebraist; born in Lublin Nov., 1801; died in Washington, D.C., Jan. 30, 1863. Trained in the study of the Talmud and...
Michael Heim (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian jurist; born Aug. 18, 1852, at Jakosič, Slavonia. He studied law at the University of Vienna (1871-75), and...
Heine (JE | WP GWP G) the family made illustrious by the poet can be traced back on the father's side to one Isaac Heine (Hehne), who lived...
Ephraim Veitel Heine (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E420: Ephraim, Veitel-Heine
Gustav Heine, Freiherr von Geldern JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian publicist; born June 18, 1812, at Düsseldorf; died Nov. 15, 1886, at Vienna; brother of Heinrich Heine. On completing...
Heinrich Heine (JE | WP GWP G) German lyric poet and essayist; born at Düsseldorf Dec. 13, 1797; died in Paris Feb. 17, 1856; son of Samson Heine and...
Maximilian Heine (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; youngest brother of Heinrich Heine; born at Düsseldorf (1805 according to Embden; Strodtmann gives...
Solomon Heine (JE | WP GWP G) German merchant and philanthropist; born in Hanover 1767; died in Hamburg Dec. 26, 1844. Going to Hamburg when he was sixteen...

541 – 560

Klara Heinefetter (Madame Stöckl) (JE | WP GWP G) German singer; born at Mayence Feb. 17, 1816; died at Vienna Feb. 24, 1857. In 1829 she accompanied her eldest sister, Sabine...
Sabine Heinefetter (JE | WP GWP G) German soprano opera-singer; born Aug. 19, 1809, at Mayence; died insane Feb. 18, 1872, at Illenau, Baden. Beginning life...
Heinrich Heinemann [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) German actor; born at Bischofsburg, East Prussia, Sept. 15, 1842. After graduating from the Friedrich-Wilhelm gymnasium, Berlin...
Jeremiah Heinemann [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German author; born at Sandersleben July 20, 1778; died in Berlin Oct. 16, 1855; son of Rabbi Joachim Heinemann. In 1808 he...
Heir (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I140: Inheritance
Moritz Heitler [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian physician; born at Korompa, Hungary, March 21, 1847. He was educated at the gymnasia at Hódmezö-V&#225...
Hekal (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1778: Ark of the Law
Hekal ha-'Ibriyyah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Hekalot Rabbati; Hekalot Zutarti (JE | WP GWP G) Two mystic writings attributed to Ishmael ben Elisha; indiscriminately referred to by the various names of "Sefer Hekalot...
Hekdesh (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew name for an asylum or a hospital; found in many medieval Jewish documents (see Charity; Jew. Encyc. v. 71, s.v. Egypt...
Ephraim ben Samuel Sanvel Hekscher (JE | WP GWP G) President of the Jewish congregation at Altona at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He was the author of: "Dibre &#7716...
Hela (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E116: Ela.
Helam (JE | WP GWP G) A place east of the Jordan where the Syrians under Hadarezer were defeated by David (II Sam. x. 16, 17). The Vulgate, following...
Helbo, Chelbo JE (JE | WP GWP G) Amora who flourished about the end of the third century, and who is frequently mentioned in both Talmuds. It seems that &#7716...
Anna Held (JE | WP GWP G) French comedienne; born Sept. 19, 1880, in Paris; educated at Fontainebleau. Her début was made in "Miss Helyett" at...
Heldai (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Captain of the service of the Temple for the twelfth month in the time of David; a native of Netophah and a descendant...
Helena JE (JE | WP GWP G) Queen of Adiabene, wife of Monobaz I., and mother of Monobaz II.; died about 56 C.E. Her name and the fact that she was her...
Helez (JE | WP GWP G) 1. One of David's thirty guards, and captain for the seventh month of the service of the Temple; an Ephraimite (II Sam...
Helicon DAB (JE | WP GWP G) Court fool, and a favorite of the Roman emperor Caligula (37-41); an Egyptian by birth. He appears to have been especially...
Abraham ben Jacob Moses Helin (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Helin was on his father's side a great-grandson of Solomon...

561 – 580

Jacob Moses ben Abraham Ashkenazi Helin (JE | WP GWP G) Polish Talmudist; born about 1625; died about 1700. He studied at Lublin under R. Naphtali ha-Kohen and R. Heshel, and was...
Heliodorus (JE | WP GWP G) Treasurer or, according to II Macc. iii.7, R. V., chancellor of Seleucus IV., Philopator. At the instigation of Apollonius...
Heliopolis (On) (JE | WP GWP G) Egyptian city, whence came Poti-pherah, Joseph's father-in-law (Gen. xli. 45, 50; xlvi. 20). It is mentioned also in Ezek...
Helkath Hazzurim (JE | WP GWP G) Name of the place where the combat between Joab's and Abner's men took place, in which all on both sides were slain...
Helkias (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1470: Ananias, Son of Onias
Hell (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G115: Gehenna
Hellenism (JE | WP GWP G) Word used to express the assimilation, especially by the Jews, of Greek speech, manners, and culture, from the fourth century...
Isidor Heller [pl] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian author; born May 5, 1816, at Jung-Bunzlau, Bohemia; died at Arco, Tyrol, Dec. 19, 1879. He was studying to become...
Jehiel b. Aaron Heller (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi; born in Koidanov, government of Minsk. 1814; died at Plungian, government of Kovno, Nov. 14, 1861. He was a...
Joshua ben Aaron Heller [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi and preacher; born 1814; died at Telshi, government of Kovno, June 2, 1880. After having been for several years...
Menahem Heller (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H575: Heller, Ẓebi Hirsch
Seligmann Heller JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian poet and journalist; born at Raudnitz, Bohemia, July 8, 1831; died in Vienna Jan. 8, 1890. After completing his course...
Stephen Heller (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian pianist and composer; born at Budapest May 15, 1815; died in Paris Jan. 14, 1888. He was originally destined for...
Yom-Tob Lipmann ben Nathan ben Moses Levi Heller JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and liturgical poet; born at Wallerstein, Bavaria, 1579; died at Cracow Sept. 7, 1654. Erroneously the editor of the...
Zebi Hirsch Heller (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian rabbi; died at Alt-Ofen Oct. 28, 1834. Heller was rabbi at Bonyhád. In 1834 he was called to Alt-Ofen as successor...
Helmet (JE | WP GWP G) in olden times the helmet seems to have been worn only by kings, military officers, and other important officials. At least...
Helpful Thoughts (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Franz Heltay (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian deputy; born in Szentes March 15, 1861; studied law and political economy in Budapest. After having become a member...
Heman (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Son of Joel and grandson of the prophet Samuel; surnamed "the Singer"; a Kohathite (I Chron. vi. 19). He was one of the...
Hemdan (JE | WP GWP G) the eldest son of Dishon the Horite (Gen. xxxvi. 26). In the parallel list in I Chron. i. 41 this name is changed to "Hamran"...

581 – 600

Félix Hément [fr] (JE | WP GWP G) French educator; born at Avignon Jan. 22, 1827; died at Nanterre (Seine) Oct. 5, 1891. Hément was a schoolmaster all...
Michel Hemerdinger (JE | WP GWP G) French jurist; born at Colmar, Alsace, May 1, 1809; died in Paris June 22, 1880. After taking the degree of bachelor of letters...
Hemerobaptists (JE | WP GWP G) Division of Essenes who bathed every morning before the hour of prayer in order to pronounce the name of God with a clean...
Hen (JE | WP GWP G) There is no mention of the hen in the Old Testament, though "barburim abusim" (I Kings v. 3) is taken in B. M. 86b for "fattened...
Hen, Chen (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G402: Gracian
Hena (JE | WP GWP G) Rabshakeh's enumeration of the monarchies reduced by the King of Assyria terminates with the words "Hena' we-&#39...
Ernest Hendlé [fr] (JE | WP GWP G) French statesman; born at Paris Feb. 15, 1844; died Feb. 7, 1900. Hendlé was educated for the bar and had a brilliant...
Hendricks (JE | WP GWP G) American family whose genealogy may be found on page 346.
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg (JE | WP GWP G) German Bible exegete; born Oct. 20, 1802, at Fröndenberg, Westphalia; died at Berlin May 28, 1869; studied theology and...
Alfred, Freiherr von Henikstein (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian general; born Aug. 11, 1810, at Ober-Döbling; died Jan. 29, 1882, in Vienna. He was the son of the banker Joseph...
Elise Henle (JE | WP GWP G) German novelist and dramatist; born in Munich 1830; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Aug. 18, 1892; she was a niece of the poetess...
Elkan Henle [de] (JE | WP GWP G) One of the earliest champions of the emancipation of the Jews in Bavaria; born Dec. 7, 1761, in Fürth; died there Oct...
Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle (JE | WP GWP G) After spending two years in Paris, where he took a postgraduate course, he returned to Germany and became assistant to Johannes...
Sigmund von Henle [de] (JE | WP GWP G) Bavarian deputy; born June 30, 1821; died at Munich Oct. 9, 1901. He was a descendant of Löb Berlin, the district rabbi...
Eduard Heinrich Henoch JE (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Berlin June 16, 1820. After taking the degree of M.D. there (1843), he began to practise as a specialist...
Moses Henochs (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist; lived at Jerusalem about 1570. He was the author of "Mar'ah ha-Sorefet," a devotional work, translated into...
Henriques (JE | WP GWP G) This American family, connected with that of the same name in Amsterdam and London, traces its pedigree back to Jacob Henriques...
Amos Henriques [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) English physician; born in Jamaica 1812; died June 5, 1880. He went to England in 1830 to study medicine, entered St. Thomas&#39...
David Quixano Henriques (JE | WP GWP G) Anglo-Jewish reformer; born May 13, 1804; died in London March 6, 1870; son of Abraham Q. Henriques. He was a director of...
Jacob Quixano Henriques (JE | WP GWP G) West-Indian merchant; born at Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1811; died in London Oct. 17, 1898. A son of Abraham Q. Henriques, he...

601 to 700

601 – 620

Robert Martin Henriques [da; sv] (JE | WP GWP G) Danish musician, composer, and author; born in Copenhagen Dec. 14, 1858. He received instruction in violoncello from Bendix...
Isabella Henriquez (Enriquez) (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish poetess; lived at Madrid; died after 1680. She distinguished herself in the different academies at Madrid. Isaac (Fernando)...
Henry II (JE | WP GWP G) King of Castile; born at Seville in 1333; died in 1379; illegitimate brother of Pedro I. He was as hostile to the Jews as...
Emma Henry (JE | WP GWP G) English poetess; born Sept. 17, 1788; died Dec. 30, 1870; daughter of the Rev. Solomon Lyon, professor of Hebrew at Cambridge...
Henry A Henry (JE | WP GWP G) Anglo-American rabbi and Hebraist; born in London 1800; died at San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 4, 1879. He was educated at the...
Michael Henry (JE | WP GWP G) English journalist and mechanician; born at Kennington, London, Feb. 19, 1830; died in London June 15, 1875. He was educatedat...
August Wilhelm Eduard Theodor Henschel (JE | WP GWP G) German physician and botanist; born in Breslau Dec. 20, 1790; died there July 24, 1856; educated at the medical and surgical...
Elias H Henschel (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Breslau April 4, 1755; died in 1839; father of A. W. Henschel. He commenced life as an errand-boy...
Georg (Isidor) Henschel (JE | WP GWP G) German composer and baritone singer; born Feb. 18, 1850, at Breslau, where he studied with Wandelt and Schäffer. He made...
Hep! Hep! (JE | WP GWP G) A cry stated to have been used by the Crusaders during their attacks upon the Jews. It appears, however, to have been first...
Hepher (JE | WP GWP G) 1. A son of Gilead (Num. xxvi. 32, xxvii. 1; Josh. xvii. 2-3). The clan was known as the Hepherites (Num. xxvi. 32). 2. One...
Hephzi-bah UNR (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Name to be borne by the restored Jerusalem (Isa. lxii. 4), in token that God will not abandon it. 2. Name of the queen...
Adolf Hepner (JE | WP GWP G) German-American journalist; born at Schmiegel, Posen, Nov. 24, 1846; educated at the gymnasium at Lissa, the rabbinical seminary...
Heraldry (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C551: Coat of Arms
Herbs (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1363: Botany
Moriz Herczeghy [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian physician and author; born in Budapest Aug. 19, 1815; died in Vienna Dec. 23, 1884. He studied medicine in Budapest...
Manó de Szentpéteri Herczel [hu; he] (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian physician; born in Szegedin July 1, 1861; studied successively in his native city, in Ujvidék, in Budapest...
Johann Gottfried Von Herder (JE | WP GWP G) German Protestant theologian, poet, and writer; born at Mohrungen, East Prussia, Aug. 25, 1744; died at Weimar Dec. 21, 1803...
Paulus (Pablo) de Heredia (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish anti-Jewish writer; born about 1405 in Aragon; died at an advanced age after 1486. Baptized late in life, he attacked...
Hereford (JE | WP GWP G) County town of Herefordshire, England, situated on the River Wye, of some commercial importance in early times. When Richard...

621 – 640

Herem, Cherem (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E544: Excommunication
Heres UNR (JE | WP GWP G) City in Egypt, mentioned in Isa. xix. 18: "In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language...
Heresy and Heretics >> Heresy in Judaism JE (JE | WP GWP G) the Greek term άίρεσις originally denoted "division," "sect," "religious" or "philosophical...
Heritage (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I140: Inheritance
Hermanmiestetz JE (JE | WP GWP G) City in Bohemia. Jews were living there as early as 1509, engaged in commerce and money-lending; but the Jewish community...
Ludimar Hermann (JE | WP GWP G) German physiologist; born in Berlin Oct. 21, 1838; M.D. Berlin, 1859. He engaged in practise in his native city, and in 1865...
Hermeneutics (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1029: Bible Exegesis
Books of Hermes (JE | WP GWP G) Hermes (the Greek Mercury), in popular belief the leader of souls to Hades, was in later times identified in Egypt with the...
Hermon (JE | WP GWP G) Mountain on the northeastern border of Palestine; the culminating point of the Anti-Lebanon range, at the springs of the Jordanand...
Herod I (JE | WP GWP G) King of Judea 40-4 B.C.; founder of the Herodian dynasty; born about 73 B.C.; son of Antipater, and, consequently, of Idumean...
Herod II (JE | WP GWP G) King of Chalcis; son of Aristobulus and Berenice; grandson of Herod I. and the first Mariamne; brother of Agrippa I. and Herodias...
Herod Agrippa I (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A912: Agrippa
Herod Agrippa II (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A913: Agrippa
Herod Antipas (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1597: Antipas (Herod Antipas)
Herod Philip (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H635: Philip Herod
Pedigree of Herodian Dynasty (JE | WP GWP G) On page 361 is a genealogical tree of the family of Herod, which succeeded the Hasmoneans. The family was of Idumean origin...
Herodians (JE | WP GWP G) Priestly party under the reign of King Herod and his successors; called by the Rabbis "Boethusians," as adherents of the family...
Herodias (JE | WP GWP G) Daughter of Aristobulus and Berenice and granddaughter of Herod I...
Herodium (JE | WP GWP G) Fortified city three leagues south of Jerusalem; founded by Herod I. It was built on a rocky and rugged hill. Its citadel...
Heron (JE | WP GWP G) Enumerated among the unclean birds (Lev. xi. 19 [R. V. margin, "ibis"]; Deut. xiv. 18; comp. Targ. , where the context points...

641 – 660

Alonzo de Herrera (JE | WP GWP G) Cabalist; born in Spain; died in Amsterdam, Holland, 1631. According to D. L. de Barrios, Herrera was descended from the famous...
Leo Herrmann (JE | WP GWP G) French painter; born in Paris July 12, 1853. He was a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at Paris, and exhibited his first...
Sir William Herschel (JE | WP GWP G) English astronomer; born at Hanover Nov. 15, 1738; died at Slough, near Windsor, England, Aug. 22, 1822. His Jewish descent...
Lord Farrer Herschell (JE | WP GWP G) Lord Chancellor of England; born 1837; died March 1, 1899. His father was the Rev. Ridley H. Herschell. He was educated at...
Ridley Haim Herschell (JE | WP GWP G) Missionary to the Jews; born at Strzelno, Prussian Poland, April 7, 1807; died at Brighton, England, April 14, 1864. The son...
Solomon Herschell (JE | WP GWP G) Chief rabbi of the Ashkenazim in England; born in London 1762, during the rabbinate of his father, R. Hirsch Levin; died there...
Henrik Hertz (JE | WP GWP G) Danish poet; born Aug. 25, 1798, at Copenhagen; died there Feb. 25, 1870. He studied law at the University of Copenhagen,...
Joseph Herman Hertz (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi; born at Rebrin, Zemplén Comitat, Hungary, Sept. 25, 1872; educated at the College of the City of New...
Joseph Hertzberg (JE | WP GWP G) Russian author; born in Moghilef, on the Dniester, at the beginning of the nineteenth century; died there 1870. He received...
Theodor Hertzka JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian economist and journalist; born July 13, 1845, at Budapest. He studied at the universities of Vienna and Budapest...
Estella Dorothea Salomea Hertzveld (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch poetess; born at the Hague July 14, 1837; died at Arnhem Nov. 4, 1881; granddaughter of Chief Rabbi H. J. Hertzveld...
Hartog Hertzveld (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch rabbi; born at Glockau Nov. 19, 1781; died at Zwolle Jan. 30, 1864. He was the son of the rabbi of Königsberg,...
Salomon Herxheimer [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born Feb. 6, 1801, at Dotzheim, near Wiesbaden; died Dec. 25, 1884, at Berenberg. At the age of thirteen he...
Cornelius Herz (JE | WP GWP G) French electrician; born in Besançon 1848; died in Bournemouth, England, July 6, 1898. Herz's parents were Germans...
Elise Herz (von Lämel) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian philanthropist; born at Prague Dec. 20, 1788; died at Vienna July 25, 1868. Her home in Prague was an intellectual...
Henri Herz (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian pianist; born at Vienna Jan. 6, 1806; died at Paris Jan. 5, 1888. He commenced his studies at Coblenz under the guidance...
Henriette Herz (JE | WP GWP G) German leader of society; born in Berlin Sept. 5, 1764; died there Oct. 22, 1847. From her father, de Lemos, a physician,...
Jacob Herz (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Bayreuth Feb. 2, 1816; died at Erlangen Sept. 27, 1871; educated at the gymnasium of Bayreuth and...
Jacques-Simon Herz (JE | WP GWP G) Pianist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Dec. 31, 1794; died at Nice Jan. 27, 1880. He went to Paris when a child, and in 1807...
Markus Herz JE (JE | WP GWP G) German physician and lecturer on philosophy; born June 17, 1747, at Berlin; died there Jan. 19, 1803. The son of very poor...

661 – 680

Herz-Medelsheim (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C305: Cerfbeer, Herz, of Medelsheim
Leo Herzberg-Fränkel [de] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian writer; born at Brody, Galicia, Sept. 19, 1827. At the age of seventeen he went for a year to Bessarabia, and on...
Sigmund Herzberg-Fränkel [de] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian historian; born at Brody, Galicia, March 7, 1857; son of Leo Herzberg-Fränkel. He studied law at the University...
Grigori Markovich Herzenstein (JE | WP GWP G) Russian physician; born in St. Petersburg 1851; died there 1899. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Medico-Surgical Academy...
Solomon Markovich Herzenstein (JE | WP GWP G) Russian zoologist; born 1854; died 1894; graduated in natural sciences and mathematics from the St. Petersburg University...
Adolf Herzfeld (JE | WP GWP G) German actor; born April 9, 1800, at Hamburg; died at Vienna March 24, 1874; son of Jacob Herzfeld. He made his début...
Albrecht Herzfeld (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian actor; born June 7, 1840, at Vienna; son of Adolf Herzfeld. He received his education at the gymnasium of his native...
Jacob Herzfeld (JE | WP GWP G) German actor and theatrical manager; born at Dessau Jan. 3, 1769; died at Hamburg Oct. 24, 1826. After studying medicine at...
Jacob Herzfeld (JE | WP GWP G) German chemist; born at Mülheim, near Cologne, June 17, 1859; educated at the gymnasium and technical high school of...
Levi Herzfeld JE (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and historian; born Dec. 27, 1810, at Ellrich; died at Brunswick March 11, 1884. Having chosen the rabbinical...
Siegmund Herzl (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian merchant and novelist; born at Vienna May 26, 1830; died there Feb. 9, 1889. He wrote: "Liederbuch eines Dorfpoeten...
Theodor Herzl (JE | WP GWP G) Leader of political Zionism; born in Budapest May 2, 1860. Herzl settled in Vienna in his boyhood, and was educated there...
Jakob Herzog (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian writer; born at Misslitz, Moravia, June 17, 1842. He was educated at Brönn, Vienna, and Graz. When only seventeen...
Heshbon (JE | WP GWP G) Town originally belonging to Moab; mentioned in Num. xxi. 25 et seq.; Deut. i. 4, iii. 6, iv. 26, xxix. 7; Josh. ix. 10; xii...
Heshwan, Cheshwan (Marheshwan) (JE | WP GWP G) the eighth month in the Hebrew calendar. The name is not found in the Bible, since it was introduced after theBabylonian exile...
Hesped (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F452: Funeral Oration
Ernst Friedrich Hess (JE | WP GWP G) German convert to Christianity and anti-Jewish writer; lived in the sixteenth century. He was the author of "Neue Judengeissel...
Isaac Hess (JE | WP GWP G) Advocate of Jewish emancipation in Württemberg; born in Lauchheim, near Ellwangen, in 1789; died Oct. 6, 1866. Destined...
Mendel Hess JE (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Lengsfeld, Saxe-Weimar, March 17, 1807; died at Eisenach Sept. 21, 1871. He was one of the first Jewish...
Michael Hess (JE | WP GWP G) German educator and author; born in Stadt-Lengsfeld, Weimar, April 9, 1782; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Feb. 26, 1860; brother...

681 – 700

Moses (Moritz) Hess (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish socialist and nationalist; born at Bonn June 21, 1812; died in Paris April 6, 1875; buried in the Jewish cemetery at...
Albert Hessberg (JE | WP GWP G) American lawyer; born at Albany, N. Y., Dec. 13, 1856. He commenced the study of law there in the office of Rufus W. Peckham...
Hesse (JE | WP GWP G) Former landgraviate of the German-Roman empire. The only Jews mentioned in documents relating to its early history are those...
Hesse-Nassau (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N83: Nassau
Het, Chet (JE | WP GWP G) Eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The name, perhaps, means "hedge," "fence"; on the form, which is Aramaic, see Alphabet...
Het Nederlandsche Israeliet (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Heth (JE | WP GWP G) Second son of Canaan (Gen. x. 15; I Chron. i. 13) and, apparently, the progenitor of the Hittites. Heth's descendants...
Hethlon (JE | WP GWP G) Place referred to in Ezekiel (xlvii. 15, xlviii. 1); situated on the northern boundary of Israel as ideally projected by that...
Joseph Hevesi (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian author and journalist; born March 15, 1857; studied at the high school in Keeskemét, and graduated from the...
Ludwig Hevesi (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian journalist and author; born Dec. 20, 1843, in Heves, Hungary. He began to study medicine and classical philology...
Hewers of Wood (JE | WP GWP G) Menial servants. The Gibeonites who attempted to deceive Joshua were condemned by the princes of Israel to be hewers of wood...
Hexapla (JE | WP GWP G) -- See O128: Origen.
Hexateuch (JE | WP GWP G) the first six books of the Bible; the Pentateuch taken together with the Book of Joshua as one originally connected work....
Heinrich Heydemann (JE | WP GWP G) German archeologist; born at Greifswald Aug. 28, 1842; died at Halle Oct. 10, 1889; studied classical philology and archeology...
Solomon Heydenfeldt (JE | WP GWP G) American jurist; born in Charleston, S. C., 1816; died at San Francisco Sept. 15, 1890. When twenty-one years old he left...
Elias Heyman (JE | WP GWP G) Swedish physician; born at Göteborg in 1829; died in 1889. He studied medicine at Lund and at the Karolinska Institut...
Isaac H Heymann (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch cantor and composer; born about 1834; son of Phinchas Heymann. After having made several tours through Hungary, Heymann...
Karl Heymann (JE | WP GWP G) German pianist; born at Filehne, Posen, Oct. 6, 1853; son of Isaac H. Heymann. He received his early musical education at...
Paul Heymann (JE | WP GWP G) German laryngoscopist; born at Pankow, near Berlin, 1849; studied medicine at Berlin and Heidelberg (M.D., Berlin, 1874)....
Hezekiah (JE | WP GWP G) 1. King of Judah (726-697 B.C.). —Biblical Data: Son of Ahaz and Abi or Abijah; ascended the throne at the age of twenty-five...

701 to 800

701 – 720

Hezekiah (Gaon) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Principal of the academy at Pumbedita (1038-40). A member of an exilarchal family, he was elected to the office of principal...
Hezekiah (the Zealot) (JE | WP GWP G) A martyr whom some scholars identify with Hezekiah ben Garon of the Talmud (Shab. 12a, 13b, 98b, 99a). He fought for Jewish...
Hezekiah ben Jacob (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and tosafist; martyred at Bacharach in 1283. He was an uncle and teacher of Meïr of Rothenburg and a pupil...
Hezekiah ben Manoah JE (JE | WP GWP G) French exegete of the thirteenth century. In memory of his father, who lost his right hand through his stead-fastness in the...
Hezekiah ben Parnak (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora; lived at the end of the third century. The only mention of him is in Berakot 63a, in connection with the...
Hezekiah Roman ben Isaac ibn Pakuda (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish scholar; flourished at Constantinople in 1600. He was the author of "Zikron ha-Sefarim," a catalogue of all the grammatical...
Hezekiah Sefardi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P401: Poland
Hezir (JE | WP GWP G) 1. A priest, chief of the seventeenth monthly course in the service; appointed by David (I Chron. xxiv. 15). 2. A layman,...
Hezro (JE | WP GWP G) A native of Carmel, one of David's heroes (II Sam. xxiii. 35, R. V.; I Chron. xi. 37). The "Keri," however, in the...
Hezron (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Son of Reuben and founder of the family of the Hezronites (Gen. xlvi. 9; Ex. vi. 14; Num. xxvi. 6). 2. Son of Pharez and...
Hibat Allah abu al-Barakat b. 'Ali b. Malka (Malkan) al-Baladi (JE | WP GWP G) Arabian physician of the twelfth century; born in Bassora. He went to Bagdad in order to study medicine under the physician...
Hibbut ha-Keber, Chibbut ha-Keber (JE | WP GWP G) One of the seven modes of judgment or of punishment man undergoes after death, as described in the treatise "Ḥibbu&#7789...
Hiddekel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T213: Tigris
Hiddushim, Chiddushim (JE | WP GWP G) Technical name of a certain class of commentaries, consisting of a number of single, "new" remarks, additions, and explanations...
Hidka, Chidka (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the middle of the second century. He is quoted only in the Baraita, and is best known for the halakah (Shab. 117b)...
Hiel (JE | WP GWP G) A Bethelite who rebuilt Jericho in the reign of Ahab (I Kings xvi. 34). The curse pronounced by Joshua (vi. 26) was fulfilled...
Hierapolis (JE | WP GWP G) City in Phrygia, Asia Minor; mentioned in Col. iv. 13 together with the neighboring Laodicea. It was a prosperous city during...
Hierei (JE | WP GWP G) Term used to denote the priests() in the constitution of the Jewish community in Rome. Even so late as the fourth century...
Hieronymus (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J239: Jerome
High Place (JE | WP GWP G) A raised space primitively on a natural, later also on an artificial, elevation devoted to and equipped for the sacrificial...

721 – 740

High Priest JE (JE | WP GWP G) Aaron, though he is but rarely called "the great priest," being generally simply designated "as ha- kohen" (the priest), was...
The Bishop Hilary (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1784: Arles
Isidor Hilberg JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian philologist; born May 28, 1852, at Byelaya Tzerkov, Ukraine, Russia. In 1856 he went with his parents to Vienna,...
Hildesheim (JE | WP GWP G) Town in the Prussian province of Hanover. At what time Jews were first admitted to this old episcopal city is uncertain. In...
Israel (Azriel) Hildesheimer JE (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi, and leader of Orthodox Judaism; born at Halberstadt May 20, 1820; died at Berlin July 12, 1899; son of R. L&#246...
Samuel ben Joseph Hildesheimer (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Frankfort-on-the-Main (1618-22). He reorganized the Jewish congregation, whose administration, in consequence of...
Hilfa, Chilfa (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H105: Ḥalafta
Hilkiah (JE | WP GWP G) High priest in the reign of Josiah (II Kings xxii. 4 et seq.). It is probable that he was the Hilkiah ben Shallum who figures...
Hillah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1593: Meïr
Hillel JE (JE | WP GWP G) Doctor of the Law at Jerusalem in the time of King Herod; founder of the school called after him, and ancestor of the patriarchs...
Hillel II (JE | WP GWP G) Patriarch (330-365); son and successor of Judah III. Only in two instances is his name quoted in connection with halakot:...
Hillel b. Berechiah (Jeberechiah) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian haggadist. He is cited only once under this name, and then as author of an interpretation which elsewhere is attributed...
Hillel ben Eliakim (JE | WP GWP G) Greek Talmudist of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. He was a pupil of Rashi, and is mentioned by Mordecai b. Hillel (Haggahot...
Hillel of Erfurt (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudic authority; lived at Erfurt in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; a contemporary of Shalom of Neustadt, and a...
Hillel ben Gamaliel III (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar of the second amoraic generation (3d cent.), son of Gamaliel III., brother of Judah II., and probably a pupil of his...
Hillel ben Naphtali Herz (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian rabbi; born at Brest-Litovsk in 1615; died at Zolkiev Jan. 3, 1690. After he had studied under Hirsh Darshan, Hillel...
Hillel ben Samuel JE (JE | WP GWP G) Italian physician, philosopher, and Talmudist; born about 1220; died about 1295. He was the grandson of the Talmudic scholar...
Hillel b. Samuel b. Nahman (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian haggadist of the fourth century. It may be assumed that his father was his teacher; but he had other instructors...
Hillel b. Zebi Hirsch Mileikovsky (Hillel Salauter) (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi; born in Zareche, a suburb of Wilna, 1819; died in Mstislavl, government of Moghilef, June 1, 1899. At the age...
Hilleli (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1031: Bible Manuscripts

741 – 760

Eduard Hiller (JE | WP GWP G) German philologist; nephew of Ferdinand Hiller; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main April 14, 1844; died at Halle March 7, 1891...
Ferdinand Hiller (JE | WP GWP G) German composer and musical writer; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Oct. 24, 1811; died at Cologne May 10, 1885. He studied...
Morris Hillquit (JE | WP GWP G) American lawyer and socialist; born at Riga, Russia, Aug. 1, 1870, educated at the gymnasium of that town. He emigrated to...
Hillukim, Chillukim (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P318: Pilpul
Himyarites (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S20: Sabeans
Hin (JE | WP GWP G) -- See W81: Weights and Measures
Hinnom (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G116: Ge-hinnom
Hippocrates (JE | WP GWP G) Greek physician; born in Cos 460 B.C.; died at Larissa in Thessaly about 360 B.C. He studied medicine under Herodicus of Selymbria...
Hippolytus (JE | WP GWP G) Christian theologian of the second and third centuries; schismatic Bishop of Rome in opposition to Calixtus I. (217); deported...
Hippos (JE | WP GWP G) One of the cities of the Decapolis in Palestine, the site of which is uncertain. For the identifications of the ancient geographers...
Hirah (JE | WP GWP G) An Adullamite, the friend of Judah, at whose house the latter stopped after the sale of Joseph (Gen. xxxviii. 1). Hirah accompanied...
Hiram, Huram (JE | WP GWP G) King of Tyre in the time of David and Solomon. After David had conquered Jerusalem, Hiram sent him cedar-wood and carpenters...
Hired men (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H754: Hiring and Letting
Hiring and Letting (JE | WP GWP G) Hiring is a transaction by which parties, for a compensation, contract for a definite period for (a) the use of property or...
Albert Hirsch [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian playwright; born in Vienna June 29, 1841. He was first a public-school-teacher; then went on the stage, playing,...
Alphonse Hirsch (JE | WP GWP G) French painter; born in Paris 1843; died there July 15, 1884. He was a pupil of Meissonier and Bonnat, and began by sketching...
August Hirsch (JE | WP GWP G) German physician and medico-historical writer; born at Danzig Oct. 4, 1817; died at Berlin Jan. 28, 1894. After having followed...
Clara de Hirsch (Baroness de Hirsch-Gereuth) (JE | WP GWP G) Wife of Baron Maurice de Hirsch; born at Antwerp June 13, 1833; died in Paris April 1, 1899. Her mother was a sister of Solomon...
David Hirsch (JE | WP GWP G) German instructor of deafmutes; born at Müntz, Rhenish Prussia, May 23, 1813; died at Rmotterdam Feb. 2, 1895. He studied...
Emil Gustav Hirsch (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi; professor of rabbinical literature and philosophy in the University of Chicago; born in the grand duchy of...

761 – 780

Fischl Hirsch [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew bookseller; died at Berlin June 5, 1899. About 1860 he settled at Halberstadt, and founded a Jewish printing and publishing...
Franz Arnold Hirsch (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian dramatist and miscellaneous writer; born in Horitz, Bohemia, June 15, 1815; died in Vienna Nov. 24, 1896. After leaving...
Baron de Hirsch Fund (JE | WP GWP G) A fund of $2,400,000 for ameliorating the condition of certain Jewish immigrants to the United States. This fund was incorporated...
Gaston Hirsch [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) French dramatic author; born at Metz 1830. His chief plays are: "Le Préjugé"; "Un Malheureux Caractère"; "La...
Jacob Von Hirsch (JE | WP GWP G) German banker; grandfather of Maurice de Hirsch; born in 1764 at Königshofen, near Würzburg; died March 23, 1841...
Hirsch Janow JE (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; born about 1750; died at Fürth, Bavaria, Nov. 13, 1785. On account of his great keenness in Talmudical...
Jenny Hirsch (JE | WP GWP G) German authoress and advocate of women's rights; born Nov. 25, 1829, at Zerbst, Anhalt; died March 9, 1902, at Berlin...
Joseph Von Hirsch (JE | WP GWP G) German banker; father of Maurice de Hirsch; born July 2, 1805, at Würzburg; died Dec. 9, 1885, at Munich. After completing...
Levin Joseph Hirsch (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Schottland, near Danzig, 1758; died at Königsberg May 29, 1823. Destined by his parents for...
Markus Hirsch [he; hu] (JE | WP GWP G) Chief rabbi of Hamburg; born at Tisza-Beö, Hungary, Feb. 17, 1833. In 1853 he went to Prague, where he became the pupil...
Baron Maurice de Hirsch (Moritz Hirsch, Freiherr auf Gereuth) (JE | WP GWP G) German philanthropist; born at Munich Dec. 9, 1831; died near Ersek-Ujvar, Hungary, April 21, 1896; eldest son of Baron Joseph...
Max Hirsch (JE | WP GWP G) German economist and deputy; born in Halberstadt Dec. 30, 1832. His parents removed at the end of the thirties to Magdeburg...
Samson Raphael Hirsch (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Hamburg June 20, 1808; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Dec. 31, 1888. His father, though a merchant, devoted...
Samuel Hirsch JE (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi; born at Thalfang, near Treves, Rhenish Prussia, June 8, 1815; died in Chicago, Ill., May 14, 1889; educated...
Hirsch School Journal (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Siegfried Hirsch (JE | WP GWP G) German historian; born at Berlin Nov. 5, 1816; died at Paris Sept. 11, 1860; cousin of Theodor Hirsch. From 1833 to 1836 he...
Solomon Hirsch (JE | WP GWP G) American merchant, diplomatist, and politician; son of Samson Hirsch and Ella Kuhn; born in Württemberg March 25, 1839...
Theodor Hirsch (JE | WP GWP G) German historian; born Dec. 17, 1806, at Altschottland, near Danzig; died Feb. 17, 1881. He studied theology, history, and...
Hirschberg (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S712: Silesia
Ernst Hirschberg [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German statistician; born March 8, 1859, at Königsberg, East Prussia. He was educated in his native town, graduating...

781 – 800

Julius Hirschberg (JE | WP GWP G) German ophthalmologist; born at Potsdam Sept. 18, 1843. He received his education at the gymnasium of his native town and...
Hirschel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See V107: Voltaire
Levi Elias Hirschel (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born Oct. 8, 1741, at Berlin; died there Dec. 17, 1772; educated at the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in his...
Hirschel Levin (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L277: Levin, Hirschel
Moses Hirschel (Christian Moritz Hirschel) (JE | WP GWP G) German writer; born at Breslau Sept. 13, 1754; continued to live in that city. On being baptized (1804) he took the name of...
Isaac M Hirschensohn (JE | WP GWP G) Jerusalem Talmudist; bibliophile; born at Pinsk, in the government of Minsk, Russia, in 1844. As a boy of three he accompanied...
Gustav Hirschfeld (JE | WP GWP G) German archeologist, geographer, and topographer; born Nov. 4, 1847, at Pyritz, Pomerania; died April 20, 1895, at Wiesbaden...
Hartwig Hirschfeld (JE | WP GWP G) English Orientalist; born at Thorn, Prussia. He studied at Posen, at the universities of Berlin and Strasburg, and at Paris...
Ludwik Maurycy Hirschfeld [pl; it; ru] (JE | WP GWP G) Polish anatomist; born at Nadarzyn, government of Warsaw, 1816; died at Warsaw 1876. Hirschfeld received a Talmudical education...
Otto Hirschfeld (JE | WP GWP G) German historian, epigrapher, and archeologist; born March 16, 1843, at Königsberg, Prussia. He studied philology and...
Robert Hirschfeld [de; ru] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian writer on music; born Sept. 17, 1857, in Moravia; educated at the universities of Breslau and Vienna. He also studied...
Joseph Oakland Hirschfelder (JE | WP GWP G) American physician; born at Oakland, Cal., Sept. 8, 1854. He received his education at San Francisco, Cal., and at the universities...
Solomon Hirschfelder (JE | WP GWP G) German genre painter; born May 16, 1832, at Dettensee, near Horb, on the Neckar; died at Munich May 10, 1903. He was a student...
Hermann Hirschfeldt (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Neustettin July 30, 1825; died at Colberg June 17, 1885; M.D. Greifswald, 1852. During the two following...
Adolf Hirschl (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian painter; born at Temesvar, Hungary, Jan. 31, 1860; studied (1874-1882) at the Vienna Academy, where for two years...
Ignaz Hirschler [he; hu] (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian oculist; born at Presburg 1823; died at Budapest Nov. 11, 1891. He studied medicine at Vienna. After practising...
Henri Louis Hirschmann (JE | WP GWP G) French composer; born at Saint-Mandé, department of the Seine, April 30, 1873. He studied under André Gedalge, and...
Heinrich Hirschsprung (JE | WP GWP G) Danish manufacturer and art-collector; born in Copenhagen Feb. 7, 1836; son of Abraham Marcus Hirschsprung (1793-1871), who...
Leonard Leopoldovich Hirshman (JE | WP GWP G) Russian oculist; born at Goldingen, Courland, in 1839. After graduating from the University of Kharkof he worked in the laboratories...
Samuel Hirszenberg (JE | WP GWP G) Polish painter; born at Lodz 1866. He studied at the Academy of Cracow from 1881 to 1885, and completed his studies at Munich...

801 to 900

801 – 820

Hisda, Chisda JE (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the third generation; died in 620 of the Seleucidan era (= 308-309; Sherira Gaon, in Neubauer, "M. J....
Historiography (JE | WP GWP G) Method of writing history. In Bible times the Jews showed a strong historical sense, as evidenced by the series of books from...
Historische Commission (JE | WP GWP G) Commission appointed by the Deutsch-Israelitische Gemein-debund in 1885 for the collection and publication of material relating...
Al-Hiti JE (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite chronicler; flourished (probably in Egypt) in the first half of the fifteenth century. He was a native of Hit (whence...
Hitközsègi Hivatalnok (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Hittites (JE | WP GWP G) A race of doubtful ethnic and linguistic affinities that occupied, from the sixteenth century until 717 B.C., a territory...
Ferdinand Hitzig (JE | WP GWP G) German Christian theologian; born at Hauingen, Baden, June 23, 1807; died at Heidelberg Jan. 22, 1875. After studying under...
Hivites (JE | WP GWP G) One of the Canaanitic nations dispossessed by the children of Israel (Gen. x. 17; Ex. xxiii. 23, 28; et al.). In the Hebrew...
Hiwi al-Balkhi JE (JE | WP GWP G) Exegete and Biblical critic of the last quarter of the ninth century; born at Balkh, Persia. He was the author of a work in...
Hiyya bar Abba JE (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of priestly descent; flourished at the end of the third century. In the Palestinian Talmud he is also called...
Hiyya bar Abba UNR (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian tanna; born about the middle of the second century, at Kafri, near Sura in Babylonia; pupil of Judah I., and uncle...
Hiyya bar Adda (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the first half of the third century; son of the sister of bar Ḳappara; pupil of Simeon ben La&#7731...
Hiyya al-Daudi JE (JE | WP GWP G) Liturgical poet; died in Castile in 1154; descendant of the Babylonian nasi Hezekiah. Many selichot bearing the signature...
Hiyya Gabriel (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish Talmudist; lived at Safed in the seventeenth century. Wolf ("Bibl. Hebr." iii., No. 595) and Fuuml;rst ("Bibl. Jud...
Hiyya b. Gammada (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth generation (3d and 4th cent.). His principal teacher was Jose b. Saul, in whose name &#7716...
Hiyya Kara (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian scholar of the third and fourth centuries. He was a pupil of Samuel b. Nachman, in whose name he asserted...
Meïr ben David Hiyya (JE | WP GWP G) Italian Talmudist of the sixteenth century. He was dayyan of Venice 1510-20, during the rabbinate of Benedet ben Eliezer Acsildor...
Hiyya b. Meria (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth generation (3d and 4th cent.). Ḥiyya is mentioned only in the Jerusalem Talmud; he was...
Hiyya Rofe (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Safed; died in 1620. Having studied Talmud under Solomon Sagis and Cabala under Ḥayyim Vital, Ḥiyya was...
Hiyya ben Solomon Habib (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish Talmudist of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; a native of Barcelona. He was a contemporary of Solomon Adret...

821 – 840

Abraham Hladik (JE | WP GWP G) Bohemian Talmudist; flourished about 1230. The name indicates a Czech origin, an assumption supported by the fact that in...
Hobab (JE | WP GWP G) Name occurring twice in the Bible, and borne either by Moses' father-in-law or by his brother-in-law. In the first passage...
Hobah (JE | WP GWP G) Place to the north of Damascus to which Abraham pursued the defeated army of Chedorlaomer (Gen. xiv. 15). Wetzstein identified...
Höchheimer (Höċhheim, Hochheimer, Hechim) (JE | WP GWP G) Bavarian family, named after its original home in Hochheim. The following are its more important members: Elias ben &#7716...
Hochmeister (JE | WP GWP G) Name used in German medieval documents for "rabbi" or "grand rabbi." It seems to have been first used in the Palatinate in...
Abraham Hochmuth (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian rabbi; born at Bán, Hungary, Dec. 14, 1816; died at Veszprim June 10, 1889. While attending the University...
Berlin Hochschule (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L156: Lehranstalt für Die Wissenschaft des Judenthums
Benjamin Hochstädter (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born 1810 at Hürben, Bavaria; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Dec. 8, 1888. As teacher and preacher at Heddernheim...
Lothar von Hochwart (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F344: Frankl, Ludwig August, Ritter von Hochwart
Simon Hock [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian writer; born at Prague Nov. 27, 1815; died at Vienna Oct. 22, 1887. For several decades he gave his spare time to...
Hodaviah (JE | WP GWP G) 1. The son of Elioenai, one of the last members of the royal line of Judah (I Chron. iii. 24, the "ketib" being ). 2. A Levite...
Hodu (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H141: Hallel
Joseph Hoffa [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German philologist and archeologist; born Aug. 18, 1803, at Cassel; died about 1843. His father was paymaster of the army...
Leopold Hoffer (JE | WP GWP G) Journalist and chess editor; born 1842, in Budapest. He removed to France about 1866, and began to play chess in Paris. In...
Charles Isaiah Hoffman (JE | WP GWP G) American editor and communal worker; born at Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 3, 1864; educated at the University of Pennsylvania,...
David Hoffmann JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rector of the Rabbinical Seminary at Berlin; born at Verbó, Hungary, Nov. 24, 1843. After attending various yeshibot...
Die Hoffnung (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian merchant; born June 10, 1759, at Prostiebor, near Kladrau, in the district of Pilsen, Bohemia; died at Vienna Dec...
Stanislaus Hoga (JE | WP GWP G) English convert to Christianity; lived in London in the nineteenth century. He published "Songs of Zion," a selection of English...
Hoham (JE | WP GWP G) King of Hebron in the time of Joshua. He was one of the five kings who made war on the inhabitants of Gibeon to punish them...

841 – 860

Der Hohe Rabbi Lö (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J647: Judah Löw b. Bezaleel
Hohenems (JE | WP GWP G) Town in Vorarlberg, Austria, between Tyrol and Lake Constance. In 1890 it had a total population of 3,988, of whom 118 were...
Hohenzollern (JE | WP GWP G) Two principalities, Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, named from the castle of Zollern, in Swabia; formerly...
Hol ha-Mo'ed, Chol ha-Mo'ed (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H860: Holy Days
Samuel Holdheim JE (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and author; leader of the extreme wing of the Reform movement; born at Kempen, Posen, in 1806; died at Berlin...
Holidays (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H860: Holy Days
Holiness (JE | WP GWP G) Unapproachableness; the state of separation from, and elevation above, things common, profane, or sensual, first in a physical...
Philip Holitscher (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian land holder and author; born in Budapest Aug. 19, 1822. His parents destined him for a mercantile career, and in...
Léon Löb ben David Hollaenderski (JE | WP GWP G) Polish scholar and author; born at Wistiniecz, government of Suwalki, Russian Poland, 1808; died in Paris Dec. 20, 1878. He...
Holland (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N197: Netherlands
Jacob H Hollander (JE | WP GWP G) Associate professor of political economy and head of the department of political economy in the Johns Hopkins University;...
Ludwig Heinrich Holländer [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German dental surgeon; born at Leobschütz Feb. 4, 1833; died at Halle March 14, 1897; educated at the universities at...
Holle Kreish (JE | WP GWP G) the ceremony of naming infants, especially girls, in the cradle ("shem ha'arisah"), adopted by the German Jews from their...
Holleschau (JE | WP GWP G) City in Moravia, with about 5,600 inhabitants. The old ghetto of Holleschau still forms a separate township, and contains...
Holocaust (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1612: Burnt Offering
Holofernes, Holophernes (JE | WP GWP G) General of Nebuchadnezzar, mentioned in the apocryphal Book of Judith; killed at Bethulia (Judith xiii. 6-8). The name is...
Holon (JE | WP GWP G) 1. City of Judah, in the Hebron hills, allotted, with its suburbs, to the priests (Josh. xv. 51, xxi. 15). In the parallel...
Carsten Holst (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B681: Bendix, Frits Emil
Holy City (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J242: Jerusalem
Holy Days (JE | WP GWP G) Upon the six holy days in the Jewish calendar—the first and seventh days of Passover, the first and eighth days of Sukkot...

861 – 880

Holy Ghost (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H865: Holy Spirit
Holy of Holies (JE | WP GWP G) That part of the Tabernacle and of the Temple which was regarded as possessing the utmost degree of holiness (or inaccessibility)...
Holy Land (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P31: Palestine
Holy Scriptures (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1025: Bible Canon
Holy Spirit (JE | WP GWP G) the most noticeable difference between sentient beings and dead things, between the living and the dead, is in the breath...
Michael Holzmann [de] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian historian of literature; born at Slavaten, Moravia, June 21, 1860; studied at Lemberg, Vienna, and Berlin (Ph.D....
Herz Homberg JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian educator and writer; born at Lieben, near Prague, Sept., 1749; died Aug. 24, 1841. He studied Talmud at Prague, Presburg...
Homburg (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H683: Hesse
Homel (JE | WP GWP G) District town in the government of Moghilef, Russia, situated on the right bank of the River Sozh, an affluent of the Dnieper...
Antonio Homem (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish martyr; born in 1564 of Neo-Christian parents at Coimbra, Portugal; suffered death at the stake in Lisbon May 5, 1624...
Homer (JE | WP GWP G) -- See W81: Weights and Measures
Homesh (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P176: Pentateuch
Homicide (JE | WP GWP G) That bloodshed should be punished with bloodshed was, according to Scripture, proclaimed to Noah and his family ...
Homiletics (JE | WP GWP G) That branch of rhetoric which treats of the composition and delivery of sermons or homilies. Although from the very nature...
Die Homiletische Monatsschrift (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Homunculus (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G334: Golem
Honduras (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S990: South and Central America
Honey (JE | WP GWP G) Often mentioned in the Old Testament as a choice article of food. It was eaten alone (Judges xiv. 9; I Sam. xiv. 27, et al...
Honi ha-Me'aggel, Choni ha-Me'aggel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See O74: Onias
Israel Hönig [de] (Edler von Hönigsberg) (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian tobacco-manufacturer; born at Kuttenplan, Bohemia, Oct., 1724; died at Vienna Jan. 19, 1808. He is noteworthy in...

881 – 900

Sidonie Hönig (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian actress; born at Vienna 1871; prize-winner at the Vienna Conservatorium. She made her début in 1889, at the...
Oswald Hönigsmann [pl] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian deputy; born in Rzeszow, Austrian Galicia, Dec. 2, 1824; died Oct. 24, 1880. He was educated at Lemberg, where he...
Honor (JE | WP GWP G) Either the distinction or excellence manifested by a man, or the mark of distinction accorded to him. "Kabod," when a manifestation...
Honorius (JE | WP GWP G) Emperor of the Western Roman Empire (395-423). The laws of Arcadius, the Eastern emperor, regarding the Jews were signed also...
Jacob van Hoogstraten (Hochstraten) (JE | WP GWP G) Belgian controversialist; born at Hoogstraeten, Belgium, about 1460; died at Cologne Jan. 21, 1527. He studied at Louvain...
John Hoornbeek (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch controversialist of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Libri VIII pro Convincendis et Convertendis Jud&#230...
Hope (JE | WP GWP G) the expectation of something desired. The Hebrew terms for "hope" are "tikwah" and "seber," while "mikweh" and...
Hophni JE (JE | WP GWP G) the older of Eli's two sons who officiated as priests in the tabernacle of Shiloh (I Sam. i. 3). Hophni and his younger...
Hophra (JE | WP GWP G) King of Egypt at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. The name occurs but once in the Bible (Jer. xliv...
Hor (JE | WP GWP G) Mountain on the border-land of Idumæa; the next stopping-place after Kadesh of the children of Israel during their wanderings...
Horam (JE | WP GWP G) King of Gezer at the time of the war between Joshua and the inhabitants of the land of Canaan. Horam went to the assistance...
Horayot (JE | WP GWP G) the name of a Talmudic treatise in Seder Nezikin ("damages"), the fourth in order of the six "sedarim" of the Mishnah...
Mount Horeb (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S816: Sinai
Horem (JE | WP GWP G) Fortified city of Naphtali, named with Iron and Migdalel (Josh. xix. 38). It is generally identified with the modern &#7716...
Horesh (JE | WP GWP G) the word , indicating the place in the wilderness of Ziph where David hid himself from Saul (I Sam. xxiii. 15, 18, 19), generally...
Hor-hagidgad (JE | WP GWP G) Place in the desert where the Israelites encamped; said to be situated between Bene-jaakan and Jotbathah (Num. xxxiii. 32...
Hori (JE | WP GWP G) Surname of Seir, who, with his descendants, the Horites, occupied the land subsequently called "Edom" (Gen. xxxvi. 20 et seq...
Hormah (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a city, usually found without the article, but in Num. xiv. 45 (Hebr.) written "ha-Ḥormah." It is not certain...
Eduard Horn (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E95: Einhorn, Ignatz
Hornet (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I151: Insects

901 to 1000

901 – 920

Horns of Moses (JE | WP GWP G) Owing to the representations of the old painters and sculptors, it has become a wide-spread belief that Moses, when he came...
Franz Ludwig von Hornthal [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German jurist and author; born in Hamburg March 5, 1763; died at Bamberg June 27, 1853. After studying at Bamberg he was appointed...
Horology (JE | WP GWP G) the science of the measurement of time. Portions of time are distinguished in the first chapter of Genesis. The term "from...
Horomite (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S218: Sanballat
Horonaim (JE | WP GWP G) City of Moab (Isa. xv. 5; Jer. xlviii. 3, 5), mentioned also in the Mesha inscription (lines 31, 32) under the name . Its...
Markus Horovitz (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and historian; born March 14, 1844, at Ladány, near Tokaj, Hungary. The descendant of an ancient family...
Aaron ben Jacob Halevi Horowitz (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Talmudist; lived in the second half of the seventeenth century; son-in-law of Joseph ben Löb, rabbi of Minsk...
Isaiah Horowitz EL:JE (JE | WP GWP G) German cabalist, rabbi, and author; born at Prague about 1555; died at Safed about 1630. At an early age he accompanied his...
Lazar (Eleazar) Horowitz (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi; born at Flosz, Bavaria, 1803; died at Vöslau, near Vienna, June 11, 1868. He was the son of David Joshua...
Leopold Horowitz [hu; de] (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian painter; born in 1837 at Rozgony, near Kaschau, where he attended the gymnasium. He received instruction in painting...
Moses ha-Levi Horowitz (JE | WP GWP G) Judæo-German playwright; born on the 7th of Adar, 1844, at Stanislau, Galicia. After the usual Jewish education he studied...
Phinehas Levi Horowitz (Horwitz) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and Talmudic author; born in Poland about 1731; died in Frankfort-on-the-Main July 1, 1805. The descendant of a long...
Schmelke Horowitz (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and cabalist; born in Poland 1726; died at Nikolsburg April 28, 1778; son of Hirsch Horowitz, rabbi of Czortkow, and...
Shabbethai Horowitz JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and Talmudist; born, probably in Ostrog, Volhynia, about 1590; died at Vienna April 12, 1660. He was the son of the...
Shabbethai Sheftel Horowitz JE (JE | WP GWP G) Cabalistic author: flourished in Prague in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His father, named Akiba according to Steinschneider...
Moritz Horschetzky (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian physician and writer; born at Bydzov, Bohemia, in 1788; died Nov. 7, 1859, at Nagy-Kanizsa, Hungary, where he had...
Horse (JE | WP GWP G) the Hebrew terms are: , the generic and most common term; (I Kings v. 8; Micah i. 13; Esth. viii. 10, 14), the swift horse...
Horticulture (JE | WP GWP G) That department of the science of agriculture which relates to the cultivation of gardens. The garden is called "gan" or "gannah"...
Hortus Judaeorum (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C291: Cemetery
Aaron b. Joseph Halevi Horwitz (JE | WP GWP G) Russo-German rabbi; born in Lithuania in the early part of the eighteenth century; died at Berlin 1779. Early in life he lived...

921 – 940

Aryeh Löb ben Zebi Halevi Horwitz (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian Talmudist of the seventeenth century. After having been "rosh yeshibah" in several German towns Horwitz was called...
Bella Horwitz (JE | WP GWP G) Daughter of the martyr Be'er ben Hezekiah ha-Levi Horwitz and wife of Joseph ben Ḥayyim Ḥazzan, who died at...
Bernard Horwitz (JE | WP GWP G) Chess player and writer on chess; born 1809 in the grand duchy of Mecklenburg; died in London 1885. A chess pupil of Mendheim...
Zebi Hirsch ben Phinehas Horwitz [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Frankfort-on-the-Main; died thereSept. 8, 1817. He succeeded his father in the rabbinate of Frankfort in 1805. He...
Hosanna (JE | WP GWP G) the cry which the people of Jerusalem were accustomed to raise while marching in procession and waving branches of palm, myrtle...
The Prophet Hosea (JE | WP GWP G) Hosea must have been a citizen of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, and must have remained there permanently during the period...
Book of Hosea (JE | WP GWP G) the contents of the book may be summarized as follows:Part i., ch. i.-iii.—Two symbolical actions: (a) At the command...
Hoshaiah JE (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third and fourth amoraic generations (died about 350 C.E.). It is supposed that his colleague &#7716...
Hoshaiah Rabbah, Roba, Berabbi JE (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the first amoraic generation (about 200 C.E.); compiler of baraitot explaining the Mishnah-Tosefta. He...
Hoshaiah of Turya (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A139: Abba Hoshaya
Hoshaiah Ze'era De-min Habraya (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third amoraic period (died about 350 C.E.). In the Tosafot it is claimed that "Ḥabraya" was...
Hosha'na Rabbah (JE | WP GWP G) the popular name for the seventh day of the Feast of Booths (Sukkot); the day on which the exclamation "Hosha'na!" (save...
Hosh'anot (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H100: Haḳḳafot
Hoshea (JE | WP GWP G) Last of the nineteen kings of Israel; son of Elah (II Kings xv. 30). Hoshea secured the throne through a conspiracy in which...
Reuben Hoshke (JE | WP GWP G) Cabalist; rabbi of Prague; (died April 3, 1673. "Hoshke," his father's name, is a Polish diminutive for "Joshua," mistaken...
Hospital (JE | WP GWP G) House set apart for the treatment of the sick. In early times such institutions were required only for strangers, the idea...
Hospitality (JE | WP GWP G) the "ger," the sojourner who lived with a Hebrew family or clan, was assured by the Biblical law not only of protection against...
Desecration of Host (JE | WP GWP G) Defiling the host or sacred wafer of the mass. In the Middle Ages theJews were frequently accused of desecrating the host...
Host of Heaven (JE | WP GWP G) Term occurring several times in the Bible, but not always with a definite meaning. The word "Zaba" usually designates...
Lord of Hosts (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N52: Names of God

941 – 960

Johann Heinrich Hottinger (JE | WP GWP G) Swiss Christian Hebraist; born at Zurich March 10, 1620; drowned in the Limmat, in Switzerland, June 5, 1667. Having studied...
Charles François Houbigant (JE | WP GWP G) French Christian Hebraist; born in Paris in 1686; died there Oct. 31, 1783. In 1704 Houbigant entered the order of the Congregation...
Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich (JE | WP GWP G) American statistician; born at Wilna, Russia, April 27, 1860; educated at the gymnasium of Minsk and the University of St...
Zalkind Hourwitz (JE | WP GWP G) Polish scholar; born at Lublin, Poland, about 1740; died at Paris in 1812. Endowed with great ability and thirsting for learning...
House (JE | WP GWP G) in the warm countries of the East the house is not so important a factor as it is in Western civilization, the climate permitting...
Housebreaking (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1604: Burglary
Julius Houseman (JE | WP GWP G) American financier; born at Zeckendorf, Bavaria, Dec. 8, 1832; died at Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 8, 1892. He attended school...
Houston (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of Harris county, Texas; situated on the banks of Buffalo Bayou. It had a population in 1897 of 45,000, of whom about...
Ungarisch Hradisch (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H949: Ungarisch Hradisch
Adolph Hübsch (JE | WP GWP G) American preacher; born at Liptó-Szent-Miklós, Hungary, Sept. 18, 1830; died in New York city Oct. 10, 1884. H&#252...
Huesca (JE | WP GWP G) City in Aragon. Toward the end of the thirteenth century it contained a specially privileged Jewish community of 160; it also...
Huete (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish city, in the bishopric of Cuenca. A considerable Jewish community lived there in the thirteenth century. The city...
Hugh of Lincoln (JE | WP GWP G) Alleged victim of ritual murder by the Jews of Lincoln in 1255. He appears to have been the illegitimate son of a woman named...
Hukkok (JE | WP GWP G) Place on the borders of Naphtali, near Aznot Tabor (Josh. xix. 34). As the frontier line coincided with the western limit...
Huldah (JE | WP GWP G) Prophetess; wife of Shallum, the keeper of the wardrobe in the time of King Josiah. She dwelt in the second quarter of Jerusalem...
Hull (JE | WP GWP G) Seaport of Yorkshire, England. It has a population (1901) of over 241,753, including about 2,500 Jews. The earliest trace...
Hullin, Chullin (JE | WP GWP G) Treatise of the Babylonian Talmud, including Mishnah, Tosefta, and Gemara; it is not found in the Jerusalem Talmud. While...
Hülsner (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P420: Polna Affair
Hultha, Chultha (JE | WP GWP G) One of the seven seas which, according to the Talmudists, surround Palestine (B. B. 74b; Yer. Ket. xii. 3; Kil. ix. 5; Midr...
Human Sacrifice (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S35: Sacrifice

961 – 980

Humanists (JE | WP GWP G) Scholars who revived the culture of antiquity and the study of classical literature. The Renaissance, which heightened enthusiasm...
Humility (JE | WP GWP G) the quality of being humble.—Biblical Data: Judaism, in its conception of humility as in its conception of many other...
Huna JE (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the second generation and head of the Academy of Sura; born about 216 (212 according to Grätz); died...
Abba ha-Kohen Huna (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H965: Huna bar Abbin
Huna bar Abbin ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the first half of the fourth century; pupil of R. Jeremiah, in whose name he reports some halakic and...
Huna b. Hanina (Hinena) (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the fifth generation (4th cent.). His principal teachers were Abaye (in whose school R. Safra and Abba...
Huna b. Joshua (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the fifth generation; died in 410 (Samson of Chinon, "Sefer Keritut," p. 26a, Cremona, 1558). He was the...
Mar Huna (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E548: Exilarch
Huna b. Nathan (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian scholar of the fourth and fifth centuries. He was the pupil of Amemar II. and a senior and companion of Ashi, to...
Hungary >> History of the Jews in Hungary JE (JE | WP GWP G) Kingdom in central Europe, forming part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. It is not definitely known when Jews first settled...
Hunting (JE | WP GWP G) Pursuit of wild game; the common means of obtaining food before the pastoral or agricultural stage of development. The Hebrews...
Hermann Hupfeld (JE | WP GWP G) German Christian Biblical scholar; born at Marburg March 31, 1796; died at Halle April 24, 1866. He was professor of Old Testament...
Huppah, Chuppah (JE | WP GWP G) A Hebrew word signifying a canopy (Isa. iv. 5; Lev. R. xxv.; Eccl. R. vii. 11), especially the bridal canopy. Subsequently...
Hur (JE | WP GWP G) Man of Judah, the grandfather of Bezaleel, the chief artificer of the Tabernacle (Ex. xxxi. 2, xxxv. 30, xxxviii. 22). According...
Israel (Z Libin) Hurewitz (JE | WP GWP G) Russian-American playwright; born Dec., 1872, at Gorki, government of Moghilef. Between 1885 and 1888 he received some secular...
Hurwitz (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H920: Horwitz
Adolf Hurwitz (JE | WP GWP G) German mathematician; born March 26, 1859, at Hildesheim; studied at Munich, Berlin, and Leipsic. In 1882 he became privat-docent...
Hayyim Dob Hurwitz (JE | WP GWP G) Russian economist and journalist; born about 1864 at Gorki, government of Moghilef. His father, a teacher of religion, destined...
Hayyim ben Joshua Moses Abraham ha-Levi Hurwitz (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was the author of: "Sefer Mayim Ḥayyim," explanations...
Hyman Hurwitz (JE | WP GWP G) Professor of Hebrew and author; born 1770; died 1844. He was a native of Poland, in which country he acquired great proficiency...

981 – 1000

Judah ben Mordecai ha-Levi Hurwitz (JE | WP GWP G) Russian physician and author; born at Wilna in the first half of the eighteenth century; died at Grodno Nov. 12, 1797. He...
Lazar Lipman Hurwitz (JE | WP GWP G) Russian scholar; born 1815; died at Wilna Oct. 21, 1852. He acted for many years as private instructor at Wilna, and then...
Moses b. Isaac ha-Levi Hurwitz (JE | WP GWP G) Russian preacher; native of Krozh, government of Kovno, Russia; died in Wilna Oct. 25, 1820. He was on intimate terms with...
Phinehas Elijah Hurwitz [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew writer; born in Wilna; died in Cracow in 1812. While a youth he went to Buchach, a hamlet in Galicia, where he began...
Immanuel ben Menahem Sefardi ibn Husain (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist of the sixteenth century; author of "Kelale ha-Gemara," rules of the Gemara, published in the collection of Abraham...
Husband and Wife (JE | WP GWP G) As a punishment for her initiative in the first sin, the wife is to be subjected to her husband, and he is to rule over her...
Husbandry (JE | WP GWP G) See Agrarian Laws; Land-Lord and Tenant; Sabbatical Year. This article...
Hushai (JE | WP GWP G) Companion of David, generally called the Archite. When David was pursued by Absalom he sent Hushai to frustrate Absalom&#39...
Hushiel ben Elhanan, Chushiel ben Elhanan JE (JE | WP GWP G) President of the bet ha-midrash at Kairwan toward the end of the tenth century. He was born probably in Italy. According to...
Georg Huth JE (JE | WP GWP G) German Orientalist and explorer; born Feb. 25, 1867, at Krotoschin, Prussia. In 1885 he entered the University of Berlin,...
Ulrich Von Hutten (JE | WP GWP G) Poet and satirist; born in the castle of Steckelberg, near Fulda, April 2l, 1488; died on the Isle of Ufnau, Lake Zurich,...
Huyayy ibn Akhtab, Chuyayy ibn Akhtab JE (JE | WP GWP G) Chief of the Banu al-Nadir; executed at Medina March, 627. Ḥuyayy was a courageous warrior and the most inveterate enemy...
Huzpa, Chuzpa (JE | WP GWP G) Aramaic word meaning "impudence," used frequently in the Talmud, in late rabbinical literature, and in common parlance. In...
Abraham Hyams (JE | WP GWP G) Beni-Israel physician; died March 20, 1897; son of Hacem Samuel, president of the Beni-Israel School, Bombay. After taking...
Henry Michael Hyams (JE | WP GWP G) American lawyer; born at Charleston, S. C., March 4, 1806, of English parents: died at New Orleans 1875; educated in Charleston...
Hyena (JE | WP GWP G) the translation by the Septuagint of "Zabua'" (Jer. xii. 9); the rendering of the Vulgate being "avis tincta," and...
Hyksos (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a line of Egyptian kings, occurring in a passage of Manetho quoted by Josephus ("Contra Ap." § 14). It is said...
Hymnology (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P388: Poetry, Religious
Hyneman (JE | WP GWP G) American family of remote Spanish and modern German origin, the record of whose early history is fragmentary. The first authentic...
Hypocrisy (JE | WP GWP G) A word derived from the Greek ὑποκρίσις="the playing a part on the stage." It...

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