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Raab (JE | WP GWP G) Chief town of the county of the same name, possessing one of the oldest Jewish communities in Hungary. As early as 1490 a...
Raamses (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R89: Ramesses
Rab Ashi JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1945: Ashi
Raba (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the third generation. The exact time at which he lived is uncertain, although he was a friend of &#39...
Raba (Raba b. Joseph b. Hama) (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the fourth generation; born about 280 C.E. at Machoza (where his father was a wealthy and distinguished...
Raba b. Ada (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the third generation; pupil of R. Judah b. Ezekiel at Pumbedita (Bezah 33b). He quoted sayings by...
Rabad (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A420: Abraham ben David of Posquières
Rabai of Rob (JE | WP GWP G) Youngest sabora of the first generation; succeeded R. Simona as head of the Academy of Pumbedita; died in 550. Sherira says...
Rabbah (Rabbath) (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the Ammonites, where, according to Deut. iii. 11, the bed of the giant Og was shown. David besieged and took the...
Rabbah b. Abuha (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the second generation; teacher and father-in-law of R. Nachman b. Jacob. He was related to the house...
Rabbah Gaon (Mar Raba) (JE | WP GWP G) Gaon at Pumbedita from 640 to 650 (Halevy, "Dorot ha-Rishonim," iii. 177; comp. "Sefer ha-'Iṭṭur," i. 59b)...
Rabbah bar Hana (R Abba bar Hana of Kafri) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the first generation; nephew of R. Ḥiyya and cousin of Abba Arika (Rab; Sanh. 5a). Like Rab, he...
Rabbah bar bar Hana JE (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the second generation; grandson of Ḥana, the brother of Ḥiyya. He went to Palestine and became...
Rabbah b. Hanan [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the fourth generation; pupil of Rabbah bar Nachmani and a colleague of Abaye, who was of the same...
Rabbah b. Hiyya of Ctesiphon (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the second generation. He is said to have performed the ceremony of Chalizah in a manner which...
Rabbah b. Huna (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the third generation; died in 322; son of R. Huna, the head of the Academy of Sura (Heilprin, "Seder ha-Dorot...
Rabbah b. Liwai (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the fourth generation; contemporary of Raba b. Joseph b. Ḥama, two of whose decisions he proved...
Rabbah b. Mari (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the fourth generation, who resided for a time in Palestine and then returned to his home (Yoma 78a), where...
Rabbah b. Matna (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the fourth generation; contemporary and colleague of R. Zera II. Rabbah was slow and careful in his methods...
Rabbah b. Nahman b. Jacob (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the third generation; contemporary of Rabbah b. Huna, with whom he was closely associated. The latter...

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Rabbah b. Nahmani (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the third generation; born about 270; died about 330; a descendant of a priestly family of Judea which...
Rabbah of Parziki (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the sixth generation; contemporary of R. Ashi, with whom he often had discussions (Soṭah 26b; Pes...
Rabbah b. Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the second half of the third century; son of Mar Samuel of Nehardea. He was an associate of R. &#7716...
Rabbah b. Shela (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the fourth generation; contemporary of Raba, and a judge (Ket. 104b), probably at Pumbedita. His strict...
Rabbah Tusfa'ah (Tosefa'ah) (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the seventh generation. He was a pupil of Rabina I. (Suk. 32a; comp. Halevy, "Dorot ha-Rishonim," iii...
Rabbah b. Ufran (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the third century. He transmitted a haggadic aphorism of R. Eleazar b. Pedat (Meg. 15b); and an independent...
Rabban (JE | WP GWP G) Title given only to patriarchs, the presidents of the Sanhedrin. The first person to be called by this title was the patriarch...
Joseph Rabban (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C558: Cochin
Rabbenu ha-Kadosh (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J601: Judah
Rabbi (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew term used as a title for those who are distinguished for learning, who are the authoritative teachers of the Law, and...
Rabbi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G59: Games and Sports
Rabbi Mor (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L50: Landesrabbiner
Mordecai ben Abraham Rabbiner [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi; born at Sloboda, a suburb of Bauske, Courland, 1758; died at Bauske 1830; a descendant on his mother's...
Rabbiner Seminar Für Das Orthodoxe Judenthum (JE | WP GWP G) This institution was founded at Berlin by Dr. Israel Hildesheimer for the training of Orthodox rabbis. In accepting the call...
Israël Michel Rabbinowicz [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Russo-French author and translator; born at Horodetz, near Kobrin, government of Grodno, June 6, 1818; died in London May...
Raphael Nathan Rabbinovicz [de; he] (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudical scholar and antiquarian; born at Novo-Zhagory, government of Kovno, Russia, in 1835; died at Kiev Nov. 28, 1888...
Saul Phinehas Rabbinowitz (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Neo-Hebrew publicist and historian; born in Taurogen, government of Kovno, April 8, 1845. At the age of five he was...
Johann Jacob Rabe [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German translator of the Mishnah and the Talmud; born 1710 in Lindflur, Unterfranken; died Feb. 12, 1798. He was city chaplain...
Mattithiah Simhah b. Judah Löb Rabener [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian Hebraist and educator; born in Lemberg Jan. 23, 1826. After receiving the usual rabbinical education, he took up...
Rabin b. Adda [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the third generation; brother of Rabbah b. Adda and pupil of Judah b. Ezekiel of Pumbedita(Bezah...

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Rabina I [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the fifth generation; died about 420. He was a pupil of Raba b. Joseph b. Ḥama, and his extreme...
Rabina II [he] (Rabina b. Huna) (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the seventh generation. He did not remember his father, R. Huna, who died while Rabina was still a child...
Rabina III of Umza [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Sabora of the first generation; died Adar, 508. Nothing further about him is known (Sherira Gaon, in Neubauer, "M. J. C."...
Leon Rabinovich (JE | WP GWP G) Russian physicist and journalist; born at Brestovitz, government of Grodno, Jan. 2, 1862. He is descended on his father&#39...
Osip Aaronovich Rabinovich (Rabbinowitz) () (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Jewish author and journalist; born Jan. 14, 1817, at Kobelyaki, government of Poltava; died at Meran, Tyrol, Oct....
Joshua ben Elijah Rabinovitz (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi; born at Shat, near Kaidan, in 1818; died at Nesvizh, government of Minsk, March 18, 1887. Rabinovitz was instructed...
Samuel Jacob Rabinovitz (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi and author; born in Chelm, government of Kovno, 1857. He became rabbi at Jevije in 1887, and was called in the...
Shalom Rabinovitz (JE | WP GWP G) Russian journalist and novelist; born in Pereyaslav, government of Poltava, 1859. At the age of twenty-one he became government...
Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner JE (JE | WP GWP G) Physician; born at Kovno, Russia, Aug. 22, 1871; educated at the girls' gymnasium of her native city, and privately in...
Elijah David ben Benjamin Rabinowitz JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi; born at Pikeln, government of Kovno, June 11, 1845. He studied Talmud and rabbinics under his father (who was...
Hirsch (Zebi Hakohen) Rabinowitz [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian scientist and publicist: born at Linkovo, near Poneviezh, government of Kovno, Feb. 23, 1832; died in St. Petersburg...
Isaac (Ish Kovno) Rabinowitz (JE | WP GWP G) Russian poet; born in Kovno Oct. 13, 1846; died in New York (U. S. A.) March 9, 1900. He began to compose Hebrew songs at...
Joseph Rabinowitz (JE | WP GWP G) Russian missionary to the Jews; born in Orgeyev, Bessarabia, Sept. 23, 1837; died in Kishinef May 12, 1899. He wasbrought...
Raca (Reka) (JE | WP GWP G) Noun formed from the adjective "rek" (="empty"), and applied to a person without education and devoid of morals (comp...
The Jewish Race (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1573: Anthropology
Races of the Old Testament (JE | WP GWP G) the ancient Hebrews from time to time came in contact with peoples who were obviously of different speech, customs, or physique...
Rachel (JE | WP GWP G) Laban's younger daughter, who became one of Jacob's wives (Gen. xxix. 26-28). Her first meeting with Jacob occurred...
Rachel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1033: Akiba b. Joseph
Elizabeth Rachel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F94: Felix, Elisa-Rachel
Adolph M Radin (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi; born at Neustadt-Schirwindt, Poland, Aug. 5, 1848. He received his Talmudical education at Volozhin and Eiseshok. Adolph M Radin was the father of Paul Radin.

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David Radner (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew writer; born Feb. 22, 1848, at Wilna, Russia; died there Nov. 11, 1901. He translated into Hebrew Schiller's "William...
Anton Radó [hu; he] (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian poet and author; born at Moor June 29, 1862; son of the grammarian Adolf Roder. He studied classical and modern...
Arthur Raffalovich (JE | WP GWP G) Russian economist; born at Odessa in 1853; a member of the well-known banking family of that name. He studied economics and...
Raframi (Ben Papa) (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the fourth century. In his youth he was a pupil of R. Ḥisda (Shab. 82a), in whose name he transmits...
Rafram II (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the seventh generation; he was a pupil of R. Ashi, to whom he frequently addressed questions (Ket. 95b...
Abraham ben Solomon Ragoler [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian Talmudist of the eighteenth century; born at Wilna; brother of Elijah b. Solomon (Elijah Wilna). Ragoler was preacher...
Elijah ben Jacob Ragoler [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi and cabalist; born at Neustadt Sugind, government of Kovno, in 1794; died at Kalisz Nov. 5, 1849; a descendant...
Friedrich Von Weila Ragstatt (JE | WP GWP G) Convert to Christianity; born in Germany 1648. His Jewish name was probably Weil, whence his surname von Weila. He embraced...
Aaron ben David Hakohen Ragusano (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A26: Aaron ben David Cohen of Ragusa
Rahab (JE | WP GWP G) Originally a mythical name designating the abyss or the sea; subsequently applied to Egypt. Job ix. 13 and xxvi. 12 indicate...
Rahab (JE | WP GWP G) A woman of Jericho who sheltered the spies sent by Joshua to search out the land. Having arrived at Jericho, the two spies...
David Rahabi (JE | WP GWP G) Indian calendar-maker; born in the state of Cochin about the middle of the eighteenth century. His father, Ezekiel Rahabi...
Nissim Rahamim (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish rabbinical writer; lived at Smyrna; died there 1828. He was the author of a Hebrew work entitled "Har ha-Mor" (Salonica...
Rahem na 'Alaw (JE | WP GWP G) A dirge of the Sephardim, chanted by those taking part in the sevenfold processional circuit around the bier before interment...
Moritz Rahmer [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born Dec. 12, 1837, at Rybnik, Prussian Silesia; died at Magdeburg March 2, 1904. After studying at the seminary...
Astruc Raimuch (Remoch) (JE | WP GWP G) Physician of Fraga in the fourteenth century. As an Orthodox Jew he visited Benveniste ibn Labi of Saragossa and other prominent...
Rain (JE | WP GWP G) Palestine did not require such laborious artificial irrigation as Egypt; Yhwh supplied it with, "water of the rain of heaven"...
Rainbow (JE | WP GWP G) This phenomenon of nature is mentioned but rarely in the Old Testament. The beauty of the rainbow is dwelt upon (Ecclus. [Sirach]...
Ra'is (JE | WP GWP G) Until the time of Machmud II., the title of the presiding officer or head of a community in Egypt. Each Judæo-Egyptian...
Joseph b. David Tebele Rakower (Bloch) (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi and Hebraist; died in Eibenschütz, Moravia, Nov., 1707. He was rabbi of Eibenschütz, whither he had...

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Abraham Abel Rakowski (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian author; born at Maryampol, Austrian Galicia, Dec., 1855. He studied Talmud under his father (who was a rabbi) and...
Ram (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M363: Meïr ben Samuel
Ram (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S577: Sheep
Ramah (JE | WP GWP G) Word (meaning "height") of frequent occurrence as an element in the place-names of the mountain districts of Palestine; as...
Ramath-lehi (JE | WP GWP G) Place on the frontier between Judah and Philistia; mentioned only in the story of Samson (Judges xv. 9, 14, 17). The name...
Ramathaim-zophim (JE | WP GWP G) Birthplace of Samuel according to the present text of I Sam. i. 1, which, however, is corrupt. The usual interpretation, "Ramathaim...
Rambam JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M905: Moses b. Maimon
Ramban (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M910: Moses b. Naḥman
Ramesses (JE | WP GWP G) Egyptian city; one of the "treasure cities" built by the Israelites in their servitude (Ex. i. 11: "Raamses"); the point from...
Rami bar Ezekiel (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the third generation; younger brother of Judah b. Ezekiel, the founder of the Academy of Pumbedita. He...
Rami bar Hama JE (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the third generation; a pupil of R. Ḥisda, and a fellow student of Raba, who was somewhat his junior...
Rami bar Tamre (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the third generation; a native of Pumbedita, and probably a pupil of R. Judah. He once went to Sura on...
Ramoth-gilead (JE | WP GWP G) One of the cities of refuge, in the east-Jordan district, in the tribe of Gad; apportioned to the Levites (Josh. xx. 8, xxi...
Ram's horn (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S653: Shofar
Ramsgate (JE | WP GWP G) Seaside resort on the Kentish coast of England. This small town owes its importance in modern Anglo-Jewish history to its...
Ran (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N309: Nissim b. Reuben Gerondi
Randar (JE | WP GWP G) Name originally applied to the tenants of a fee-farm, or even of an entire village, in Poland, Lithuania, and Little Russia...
Maier Randegger JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian educationist; born at Randegg Feb. 9, 1780; died at Triest March 12, 1853. He was educated at home, at Lengau (Switzerland)...
Morris Ranger (JE | WP GWP G) English financier; born in Hesse-Cassel about 1830; died at Liverpool April,1887. He joined the Liverpool Exchange, and at...
Paul Ranschburg [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian psychiatrist; born at Raab Jan. 3, 1870. On taking his degree of M. D. at the University of Budapest in 1894, he...

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Joseph Ransohoff (JE | WP GWP G) American physician; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 26, 1853. After graduating from the Medical College of Ohio (M.D. 1874)...
Ransom (JE | WP GWP G) Captivity being considered a punishment worse than starvation or death (B. B. 8b, based on Jer. xv. 2), to ransom a Jewish...
Elijah b. Menahem Rapa (Elijah Rapoport) (JE | WP GWP G) Italian Talmudist of the sixteenth century. He was the author of "Be'er Mayim Ḥayyim" (Corfu, 1599), on Talmudic...
Menahem Abraham b. Jacob ha-Kohen Rapa (Porto); (Menahem Rapoport) (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi and author; lived at Porto, in the district of Verona, and at Cremona; died Dec. 30, 1596. He was a descendant...
Simhah ben Gershom ha-Kohen Rapa (Portrapa) (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudic scholar and author of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; born at Porto, Italy; died at Vienna. He was a younger...
Raphael (JE | WP GWP G) One of the archangels. The word occurs as a personal name in I Chron. xxvi. 7 (A. V. and R. V. "Rephael"), but it is not found...
Frederick Melchior Raphael (JE | WP GWP G) English soldier; born in London 1870; died at Spion Kop, Natal, Jan. 24, 1900; son of George C. Raphael; educated at Wellington...
Henry Lewis Raphael (JE | WP GWP G) English financier and economist; born at London 1832; died at Newmarket May 11, 1899; son of Louis Raphael. He was senior...
Raphael ben Jekuthiel Süsskind ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist and author; born in Livonia Nov. 4, 1722; died at Altona Nov. 26, 1803. He was educated at Minsk under Aryeh L&#246...
Mark Raphael (JE | WP GWP G) Italian convert to Christianity; flourished at Venice at the beginning of the sixteenth century. He was a halakist of some...
Morris Jacob Raphall JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and author; born at Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 3, 1798; died at New York June 23, 1868. At the age of nine he was taken...
Rapoport >> Rappaport JE, Abraham Rapoport JE, Isaac ha-Kohen Rapoport JE, Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport JE (JE | WP GWP G) Family, the various branches of which claim a common Kohenitic origin. The names of Rapa or Rappe ha-Kohen () are met with...
Philip Rappaport (JE | WP GWP G) American lawyer and journalist; born in 1845, at Fürth, Bavaria, where he was educated. Removing to the United States...
Edouard Rappoldi (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian violinist: born at Vienna Feb. 21, 1839. He studied at the Vienna Conservatorium under Jansa, Hellmesberger, B&#246...
Rappoltsweiler (JE | WP GWP G) Town of Upper Alsace. The earliest known official document concerning its Jews dates from 1321. In that year Louis IV., Emperor...
Lazar (Eleazar) Raschkow (JE | WP GWP G) German physician and writer; born at Raschkow, province of Posen, 1798; died Aug. 2, 1870. He received his early instruction...
Süsskind Raschkow JE (JE | WP GWP G) German poet; died at Breslau April 12, 1836. He was the author of the following works: "Yosef we-Asenat," a drama (1817);...
Hayyim Raschpitz (Raschwitz) (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar of the seventeenth century; martyred, probably at Prague. He wrote the prayer "'Iyyun Tefillah," on the persecutions...
Rashba JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A859: Adret, Solomon ben Abraham
Rashbam (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H503: Samuel ben Meïr

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Rashi (Solomon bar Isaac) (JE | WP GWP G) French commentator on Bible and Talmud; born at Troyes in 1040; died there July 13, 1105. His fame has made him the subject...
Rashi Chapel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R121: Rashi
Abraham b. Menahem Manish Rathaus (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L419: Colophon of the First Edition of Rashi on the Pentateuch, the First Dated Hebrew Book.
Walther Rathenau (JE | WP GWP G) German naturalist, banker, and writer; born in Berlin Sept. 29, 1867; educated at the universities of Berlin (M. D. 1889)...
Ratibor (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S712: Silesia
Ratisbon >> Jewish history of Regensburg JE, Regensburg Synagogue JE (JE | WP GWP G) Bavarian city; capital of the Upper Palatinate; formerly a free city of the German empire. The great age of the Jewish community...
Alphonse-Marie Ratisbonne (JE | WP GWP G) French convert to Catholicism; brother of Marie-Théodore Ratisbonne; born at Strasburg May 1, 1812; died at Jerusalem...
Marie-Théodore Ratisbonne (JE | WP GWP G) French convert to Catholicism; born at Strasburg Dec. 18, 1802; died at Paris Jan. 10, 1884; son of the president of the Jewish...
Dob Baer ben Abraham Bezaleel Ratner [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Talmudist; born at Wilna about 1845. He is the author of: "Mebo la-Seder 'Olam Rabbah," on Josef ben Ḥalafta&#39...
Isaac Ratner (JE | WP GWP G) Russian mathematician; born at Shklov in 1857. He has written mathematical and astronomical articles for various journals...
Raudnitz (JE | WP GWP G) Town of Bohemia. According to tradition it is one of the oldest three communities of Bohemia, the other two being Bunzlau...
Saly Raunheim (Samuel Hirsch ben Menahem Raunheim) (JE | WP GWP G) American mining-engineer; born in Frankfort-on-the-Main June 7, 1838; died in New York city Sept. 9, 1904. He was educated...
Samson Rausuk (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew poet; born at Wilkowiski, Lithuania, in 1793; died in London Sept. 11, 1877. He pursued at his native place the career...
Raven (JE | WP GWP G) the first bird specifically mentioned in the Old Testament (Gen. viii. 7), where it is referred to in connection with Noah...
Ravenna (JE | WP GWP G) Italian city, capital of the province of Ravenna. A Jewish community existed in Ravenna from very early times; during an attack...
Victor Meyer Rawicz [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Breslau Aug. 19, 1846. He attended the Jewish theological seminary and the university of his native...
Joshua Hayyim Rawnitzki (JE | WP GWP G) Russian author; born Aug. 14, 1845, at Odessa. His first literary efforts appeared in "Ha-Kol," and he soon became a...
David Raynal (JE | WP GWP G) French statesman; born at Paris Feb. 26, 1841; died Jan. 28, 1903. The son of a merchant, he was brought up for a commercial...
Isidor Rayner (JE | WP GWP G) American senator; born at Baltimore, Md., April 11, 1850. He was educated at the University of Virginia (1866-70), pursuing...
William Solomon Rayner (JE | WP GWP G) Merchant and financier; born in Oberelzbach, Bavaria, Sept. 23, 1822; died in Baltimore, Md., March 1, 1899. In 1840 he removed...

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Raziel (JE | WP GWP G) Angel, first named in the Slavonic Book of Enoch (written before the common era; see Jew. Encyc. i. 591, s.v. Angelology)...
Book of Raziel (JE | WP GWP G) Collection of secret writings, probably compiled and edited by the same hand, but originally not the work of one author. This...
Razsvyet [ru] (JE | WP GWP G) the purpose of the journal was to diffuse light among the ignorant Jewish masses of Russia; and accordingly its motto was...
Reading (JE | WP GWP G) City of Berks county, Pa. A few Jewish immigrants settled here before 1847, when Reading became a city. In 1864 a cemetery...
Real Estate (JE | WP GWP G) Landed property. The differences between landed or immovable and chattel or movable property have been indicated in the articles...
Rebekah (JE | WP GWP G) Daughter of Bethuel, sister of Laban, and wife of Isaac (Gen. xxii. 23, xxiv. 29, 67). Abraham sent his servant Eliezer to...
Aaron Rebenstein (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B899: Bernstein, Aaron
Abraham Josephovich Rebichkovich (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A472: Abraham Jesofovich
Rebuke and Reproof (JE | WP GWP G) "Faithful are the wounds of a friend," says the Old Testament proverb (Prov. xxvii. 6), doubtless referring to reproof. A...
Recanati (JE | WP GWP G) Town in Italy, on the Musone, and in the province of Macerata; formerly included in the Pontifical States. Jews are known...
Recanati >> Menahem Recanati JE (JE | WP GWP G) Italian family deriving its name from the city of Recanati in the former Papal States. Subjoined is the family tree: (see...
Rechabites (JE | WP GWP G) Members of a family descended from Hammath, the progenitor of the house of Rechab; otherwise known as the Kenites (I Chron...
Recife (Pernambuco) (JE | WP GWP G) Brazilian city and seaport; capital of the state of Pernambuco. It was merely a collection of fishermen's huts when occupied...
Hermann Reckendorf (Hayyim Zebi ben Solomon Reckendorf) (JE | WP GWP G) German scholar and author; born in Trebitsch in 1825; died about 1875. Having acquired a thorough acquaintance with the Hebrew...
Record (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D203: Deed
Recording angel EL:JE (JE | WP GWP G) the angel that, in popular belief, records the deeds of all individuals for future reward or punishment. The keeping of a...
Red Heifer (JE | WP GWP G) According to Yhwh's instructions to Moses and Aaron the Israelites prepared for sacrifice a red heifer which was free...
Red Sea (JE | WP GWP G) References to the Red Sea under that name are not found earlier than the Apocrypha (Judith v. 12; Wisdom x. 18, xix. 7; I...
Robert de Reddinge (JE | WP GWP G) English preaching friar, of the Dominican order; converted to Judaism about 1275. He appears to have studied Hebrew and by...
Redemption (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S102: Salvation

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Henry Redlich (JE | WP GWP G) Polish engraver in copper; born at Lask, government of Piotrkow, 1840; died at Berlin Nov. 7, 1884. He went at an early age...
Anton Ree [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German educationist; born at Hamburg Nov. 16, 1815; died Jan. 13, 1891. He was educated at Kiel, during which time he wrote...
Anton Ree [da; ru] (JE | WP GWP G) Danish pianist and author; born in Aarhuus, Jutland, Oct. 5, 1820; died in Copenhagen Dec. 20, 1886. He studied in Hamburg...
Bernhard Philip Ree (JE | WP GWP G) Danish editor and politician; born in Aarhuus; Jutland, July 18, 1813; died there Nov. 13, 1868; son of Hartvig Philip Ree...
Hartvig Philip Ree (JE | WP GWP G) Danish merchant and author; born in Fredericia, Jutland, Oct. 12, 1778; died in Copenhagen Oct. 1, 1859. On the death of his...
Julius Ree [da] (JE | WP GWP G) Danish merchant and political author; born in Aarhuus, Jutland, June 1, 1817; died in Copenhagen Sept. 3, 1874; son of Hartvig...
Reed (JE | WP GWP G) Rendering given in the English versions for several words used to designate rush-like water-plants of various kinds. These...
Re'em
Ada Reeve (JE | WP GWP G) English actress: born in London about 1870. Her parents were themselves connected with the dramatic profession, her father...
Reform Advocate (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish weekly; first issued Feb. 20, 1891, at Chicago. Founded by Charles E. Bloch, of the Bloch Publishing Company, and published...
Reform Judaism from the Point of View of the Reform Jew (JE | WP GWP G) By Reform Judaism is denoted that phase of Jewish religious thought which, in the wake of the Mendelssohnian period and in...
Reform-Zeitung (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Reformation (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L631: Luther
Cities and Places of Refuge (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A2067: Asylum
Barthel Regenbogen (JE | WP GWP G) German meistersinger of the latter part of the thirteenth century; lived as a smith at Mayence. He was remarkable for his...
La Régénération (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Regensburg (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R126: Ratisbon
Reggio (JE | WP GWP G) Italian city on the Strait of Messina; capital of the province of Reggio di Calabria. The presence of Jews in Calabria as...
Abraham (Vita) ben Azriel Reggio (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi and cabalist; born at Ferrara in 1755; died at Göritz Jan. 8, 1842. Reggio studied under Samuel Lampronti...
Isaac Samuel (Yashar) Reggio JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austro-Italian scholar and rabbi; born at Göritz, Illyria, Aug. 15, 1784; died there Aug. 29, 1855. Reggio studied Hebrew...
Issachar Ezekiel Reggio (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi and grammarian; born at Ferrara in 1774; died in 1837, on the 1st of Elul. He was a pupil of Graziadio Neppi...

181 – 200

Leone Reggio (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi; born at Ferrara in 1808; died there Sept. 23, 1870; son of Zaccaria Reggio, chief rabbi of Ferrara. At the...
Carl Rehfuss (JE | WP GWP G) German educationist; born in 1792 at Altdorf-im-Breisgau; died in 1842 at Heidelberg. From 1809 to 1816 he occupied the position...
Rehoboam (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Solomon by Naamah the Ammonitess (I Kings xiv. 21), and his successor on the throne in Jerusalem. Solomon's administrative...
Rab Rehumai (I) (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the fifth generation; pupil of Raba b. Joseph b. Ḥama. He addressed some questions to Abaye (Pes...
Rehumai II (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the seventh generation; pupil of Rabina I., for whom he expounded a saying of Huna b. Tachlifa (Zeb...
Rehumai III (JE | WP GWP G) One of the early saboraim; died in 505, in the month of Nisan. In 'Er. 11a he is mentioned with his contemporary R. Jose...
Aladár Reich (Rajk) (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian lawyer and deputy; born at Baja June 25, 1871; educated at the gymnasium of his native city and at the universities...
Ignaz (Eizig) Reich (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian teacher and author; born at Zsámbék 1821; died at Budapest April 18, 1887. He received his early instruction...
Moritz Reich [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German writer; born at Rokitnitz, Bohemia, April 20, 1831; died there March 26, 1857. The son of an indigent shoche&#7789...
Reichenberg (JE | WP GWP G) City of Bohemia. No Jews were allowed to live there until after the law of Oct. 26, 1860, which repealed the restrictions...
Leonhard Reichenheim (JE | WP GWP G) German manufacturer and politician; born at Bernburg May 3, 1814; died at Berlin Jan. 26, 1868. At the age of fourteen he...
Emanuel Reicher (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian actor; born July 18, 1849, at Bochnia, Austria. Reicher's theatrical life is divided into two periods: the first...
Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann (JE | WP GWP G) German prima donna; born at Munich July 15, 1853; died at Triest June 2, 1883; daughter of the baritone August Kindermann...
Moses ha-Kohen Reicherson (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew grammarian; born in Wilna, Oct. 5, 1827; died in New York April 3, 1903. After studying Talmud, Hebrew, and European...
Reichshochmeister (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H825: Hochmeister
Reichskammerknecht (JE | WP GWP G) -- See K82: Kammerknechtschaft
Abraham Reif (JE | WP GWP G) Galician poet; born at Mosciska, Galicia, 1802; died in 1859. He came early under the influence of the school of the Me&#39...
Jacob Reifmann [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian author and philosopher; born April 7, 1818, at Lagow, near Opatow, Russian Poland; died at Szczebrszyn Oct. 13, 1895...
Reinach (JE | WP GWP G) German family which emigrated to France in the first half of the nineteenth century. As its most eminent members may be mentioned:...
Isaac Jacob b. Solomon Naphtali Reines (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi, and founder of the "Mizrachi," or Orthodox, branch of the Zionist organization; a descendant of Saul Wahl...

201 to 300

201 – 220

Moses Reines [de] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian scholar and author; born at Lida (where his father, R. Isaac Jacob Reines, was rabbi) in 1870; died there March 7...
Jacob Reinowitz (Reb Yankele) (JE | WP GWP G) Member of the London bet din; born at Wilkowisk, Poland, in 1818; died in London May 17, 1893. At twenty-eight years of age...
Jacob b. Joseph Reischer JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi; born at Prague; died at Metz Feb. 1733. He was the son of R. Joseph, author of "Gib'ot 'Olam," and...
Frederick Reitlinger (JE | WP GWP G) French jurist; born at Ichenhausen, Bavaria, June 18, 1836. He attended the Saint Anna College at Augsburg. After having pursued...
Adrian Reland (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch Christian Hebraist and Orientalist; born at Ryp, near Alkmaar, Holland, July 17, 1676; died at Utrecht Feb. 5, 1718...
Religiöse Wochenschrift für Gottgläubige Gemüther (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Remainders and Reversions (JE | WP GWP G) in Anglo-American law the owner of property (especially of land) may and often does grant or devise it to one person for years...
Remak (Moses ben Jacob Cordovero) (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Safed and cabalist; born in 1522; died June 25, 1570. He belonged to a Spanish family, probably of Cordova, whence...
Ernst Julius Remak JE (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Berlin May 26, 1849; son of Robert Remak. He received his education at the universities of Breslau...
Robert Remak (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Posen July 26, 1815; died at Kissingen Aug. 29, 1865. He studied medicine at the University of Berlin...
Rembrandt (Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Ryn) (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch painter; born at Leyden July 15, 1606 or 1607; died at Amsterdam Oct. 8, 1669. He was a contemporary of Manasseh ben...
Eduard Remenyi JE (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian violinist; born in Eged, Hungary, 1830; died at New York, May 15, 1898. He studied under Böhm at the Vienna...
Remnant of Israel (JE | WP GWP G) Concept of frequent occurrence in the utterances of the Prophets, and closely interwoven in their peculiar construction of...
Joseph Ernest Renan (JE | WP GWP G) French Semitic scholar and thinker; born at Tréguier Feb. 23, 1823; died at Paris Oct. 2, 1892. Destined for the priesthood...
Rent and Repairs (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L52: Landlord and Tenant
Repentance (JE | WP GWP G) the noun occurs only in post-Biblical literature, but it is derived from the vocabulary of the Bible. Maimonides' dictum...
Vale of Rephaim (JE | WP GWP G) Fertile plain in Judah; the scene of David's battles with the Philistines (Isa. xvii. 5; II Sam. v. 18 et seq., xxiii...
Rephidim (JE | WP GWP G) Place on the edge of the desert of Sin, where the children of Israel encamped after crossing that desert. The people suffered...
Replevin (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1234: Alienation and Acquisition.
Representative Themes (JE | WP GWP G) Anticipating in some measure the modern use of the leitmotif, the cantors of the synagogues, as soon as the traditional material...

221 – 240

Reptiles (JE | WP GWP G) in the Biblical account of creation the "creeping things" are divided into the "moving" creatures of the sea (Gen. i. 20)...
Rescission (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J691: Judgement
Resh (JE | WP GWP G) Twentieth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, perhaps so called because the shape of the letter in the Phenician alphabet (see...
Resh Galuta (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E548: Exilarch
Resh Kallah (JE | WP GWP G) the highest officer, except the president, in the academies of Sura and Pumbedita. In each of the two schools there were seven...
Resh Lakish (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S757: Simeon ben Laḳish
Residence (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D425: Domicil
Responsa (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S576: She'elot u-Teshubot
Responses (JE | WP GWP G) the congregational answers to the utterances of the officiant. These were originally what the responses to the benedictions...
Responses to Benedictions (JE | WP GWP G) Any portion of the liturgy which begins with the words "Blessed be Thou, O Lord" ("Baruk attah Adonai"), or which ends with...
Restraint of Persons (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D527: Duress
Restraints on Alienation (JE | WP GWP G) Restraints on the power to sell or encumber land are known to many systems of jurisprudence. The institution of the year of...
Resurrection (JE | WP GWP G) Like all ancient peoples, the early Hebrews believed that the dead go down into the underworld and live there a colorless...
Retaliation (JE | WP GWP G) in the early period of all systems of law the redress of wrongs takes precedence over the enforcement of contract rights,...
Moriz Rethy (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian mathematician; born at Nagy-Körös Nov. 3, 1846; educated at Budapest and Vienna, and at the universities...
Reuben (JE | WP GWP G) Eldest son of Jacob (Gen. xlvi. 8, xlix. 9) by Leah (ib. xxix. 32), to whom he once carried mandrakes which he had found in...
Tribe of Reuben (JE | WP GWP G) Tribe of Israel, descended from Reuben, Jacob's first-born son, through Reuben's four sons, Hanoch, Phallu or Pallu...
Reuben David Tebele ben Ezekiel (JE | WP GWP G) Polish Talmudist and printer of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His name is generally followed by the word ("Troppau"?)...
Reuben ben Hayyim (JE | WP GWP G) Provençal Talmudist; flourished about the middle of the thirteenth century; brother of the liturgical poet Abraham ben&#7716...
Reuben ben Hoshke JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H935: Hoshke

241 – 260

Reuben ha-Sefardi (JE | WP GWP G) Reputed author of "Kelimmat ha-Goyim," a work which attacks Christianity, probably written by Profiat Duran (Efodi) in 1349...
Reuben ben Strobilus (JE | WP GWP G) Jew of the second century C.E.; eminent both as a scholar and for the part he took in the affairs of his time. From references...
David Reubeni JE (JE | WP GWP G) Arab adventurer; born about 1490 in central Arabia, in Khaibar, as he himself stated; died in Llerena, Spain, after 1535....
Johann von Reuchlin JE (JE | WP GWP G) German humanist; born Feb. 22, 1455, at Pforzheim; died June 30, 1522, at Liebenzell, near Hirschau, Württemberg. He...
Reuel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J258: Jethro
Eduard Wilhelm Reuss (JE | WP GWP G) Protestant theologian; born in Strasburg July 18, 1804; died there April 15, 1891. He studied Oriental languages with Gesenius...
Mór Révai [hu] (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian deputy; born at Eperies in 1860; educated at the universities of Budapest and Leipsic. In 1880 he entered the publishing-house...
Book of Revelation (JE | WP GWP G) the last book in the New Testament canon, yet in fact one of the oldest; probably the only Judæo-Christian work which...
Revelation (JE | WP GWP G) Term used in two senses in Jewish theology; it either denotes (1) what in rabbinical language is called "Gilluy Shekinah,"...
Revenge (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A2162: Avenger of Blood
Giuseppe Revere [it; de] (JE | WP GWP G) Italian dramatist and humorist; born at Triest in 1812; died Nov. 22, 1889. He was destined by his parents for a commercial...
Admission of Reverts (JE | WP GWP G) the rabbinical law takes notice of apostates ("mumarim"; the popular name "meshummadim" is of somewhat modern origin); and...
Revised Version (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1035: Bible Translation
Revista Israelita (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Revue des Etudes Juives JE (JE | WP GWP G) French quarterly, founded July, 1880, at Paris by the Société des Etudes Juives, and published under the editorship...
Revue Israélite (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Revue Orientale (JE | WP GWP G) A periodical issued in Brussels at irregular intervals. It was published in the French language and was devoted to Jewish...
Jean François Rewbell (JE | WP GWP G) Alsatian deputy of the French National Assembly from 1789 to 1791, and its president in the latter year; born at Colmar Oct...
Rezin (JE | WP GWP G) Last king of the Damascene dynasty; slain in 732 B.C. With Pekah, King of Israel, he planned a campaign against Ahaz, King...
Hugo Rheinhold (JE | WP GWP G) German sculptor; born March 26, 1853, at Oberlahnstein, Prussia; died at Berlin Oct. 2, 1900. At the age of sixteen, after...

261 – 280

Rhinoceros (JE | WP GWP G) -- See U27: Unicorn
Rhode Island (JE | WP GWP G) One of the original thirteen states of the American Union. The settlement of Jews in the state dates back to 1658 (see Newport)...
Rhodes (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish island in the Aegean Sea, and the largest in the Sporades group. This island has successively borne different...
Ri (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L37: Isaac b. Samuel
Riba (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I184: Isaac ben Asher ha-Levi
Ribash (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I244: Isaac ben Sheshet Barfat
Ribeauvillé (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R115: Rappoltsweiler
João Pinto Ribeiro [pt; es; fr] (JE | WP GWP G) Portuguese scholar; curator of the royal archives in Torre do Tombe, at Lisbon; died in that city Aug. 11, 1649. He was the...
Moses ben Zebi Naphtali Hirsch Sofer Ribkas (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Talmudist; died at Wilna in 1671 or 1672. He was a member of a Prague family, but settled early in life at Wilna....
Riblah (JE | WP GWP G) Town in the country of Hamath. It is now an insignificant hamlet, known as Riblah, in the Baka'ah, the broad valley...
David Ricardo (JE | WP GWP G) English political economist and publicist; born in London April 19, 1772; died Sept. 11, 1823. The Ricardo family removed...
Immanuel Hay ben Abraham Ricchi (Raphael) (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi, cabalist, and poet; born at Ferrara 1688 (1693, according to Jellinek in "Orient, Lit." vii. 232); killed near...
Paulo Riccio JE (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish convert to Christianity in the first half of the sixteenth century. He was a native of Germany, and after his conversion...
Abraham Rice (JE | WP GWP G) American Talmudist and rabbi; born 1800 at Gagsheim, near Würzburg, Bavaria; died in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 29, 1862. As...
Isaac Leopold Rice (JE | WP GWP G) American lawyer, author, and chess-player; born Feb. 22, 1850, at Wachenheim in the Rhenish Palatinate. When six years of...
Joseph Mayer Rice (JE | WP GWP G) American physician and editor; born May 27, 1857, at Philadelphia, Pa. He was educated at the public schools of Philadelphia...
Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson (JE | WP GWP G) English physician and friend of the Jews; born at Somersby 1828; died in London Nov. 21, 1896. He received his degree of M...
Joseph Shalit ben Eliezer Richetti (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of the second half of the seventeenth century; born in Safed, whence he removed to Italy. He was the author of "Sefer...
Julia Richman (JE | WP GWP G) American educator; born in New York city Oct. 12, 1855. She was educated in the public schools of New York and at the Normal...
Richmond (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of Virgina, and, during the Civil war, of the Confederate States of America. By 1785 it had a Jewish community of...

281 – 300

Augustinus Ricius (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish convert to Christianity and astronomer of the fifteenth century. He was a disciple of Abraham Zacuto, and wrote a work...
Jacob David b. Zeeb Ridbaz (Willowski) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi and commentator; born Feb. 7, 1845, in Kobrin, government of Grodno, Russia. He was successively rabbi at Izballin...
Riddle (JE | WP GWP G) Among the ancients, as witness the story of Œdipus and the Sphinx, a riddle was a more serious matter than in modern...
Paul Rieger [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and historian; born at Dresden July 4, 1870. He was educated at Dresden and at the universities of Breslau (Ph...
Solomon Riemann (JE | WP GWP G) Traveler of the nineteenth century; died at Vienna about 1873. He was for a time a rich merchant, having made large investments...
Elias Elkan Ries (JE | WP GWP G) American electrical engineer; born at Randegg, Baden, Germany, Jan. 16, 1862. When only three years of age he was taken by...
Gabriel Riesser (JE | WP GWP G) German advocate of the emancipation of the Jews; born at Hamburg April 2, 1806; died there April 22, 1863; youngest son of...
Lazarus Jacob Riesser (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi, born 1763 in the valley of Riess (hence the name "Riesser"); died March 7, 1828, at Hamburg; father of Gabriel...
Rieti (JE | WP GWP G) Italian family, deriving its name from the city of Rieti in the Pontifical States. Members of it are found at Rieti as early...
Rif (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1191: Alfasi, Isaac ben Jacob
Riga (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the government of Livonia, Russia; situated on the River Düna, about 6 miles from its mouth.Jews are first...
Right of Eminent Domain (JE | WP GWP G) the inherent power of the sovereign or state to take private property, generally land, for public use, especially for a highway...
Right and Left (JE | WP GWP G) the right side of things is recognized in many ways as better than the left. The south and north sides of the earth are distinguished...
Right and Righteousness (JE | WP GWP G) Renderings given in the English versions of the Hebrew root "Zadak" and its derivatives "Zaddik,"...
Right of Way (JE | WP GWP G) the law in general distinguishes between the right of private way (that is, A's right to pass over a certain strip of...
Moses Rigotz (JE | WP GWP G) See Concordance, Talmudical.
Rime (JE | WP GWP G) the early Hebrews have been credited with the knowledge and use of rime. Judah Provencal, according to Azariah dei Rossi ("Me&#39...
Rimini (JE | WP GWP G) Italian town situated on the Adriatic, about 28 miles east-southeast of Forli. It is noted as the place where Gershon Soncino...
Rimmon (JE | WP GWP G) Town of the tribe of Zebulun, on the northeast frontier (Josh. xix. 13, R. V.); the Septuagint renders it, more correctly...
Moses Rimos (Remos) (JE | WP GWP G) Physician, poet, and martyr; born at Palma, Majorca, about 1406; died at Palermo 1430. He was a relative of the Moses Rimos...

301 to 400

301 – 320

Rindfleisch (JE | WP GWP G) German nobleman of Röttingen, Franconia; persecutor of the Jews in the thirteenth century. During the civil war waged...
Max Ring (JE | WP GWP G) German novelist, lyric poet, and dramatist; born Aug. 4, 1817, at Zauditz, Silesia; died March 28, 1901, at Berlin. He first...
Rings (JE | WP GWP G) Finger-rings, like rings for the ears and the nose, were used as ornaments by the Jews as early as the Biblical period (Ex...
Moses Rintel (JE | WP GWP G) Australian rabbi; born in Edinburgh 1823; died at Melbourne, Victoria, 1880; son of Myer Rintel, Hebraist and Talmudical scholar...
Riparian Owners (JE | WP GWP G) There being but little river navigation in the Holy Land, the Mishnah says nothing as to the rights and duties of landowners...
Joseph Shallit ben Eliezer Riquetti JE (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar of the seventeenth century. He spent his youth at Safed, and subsequently settled at Verona. There in 1646 he published...
Rishonim (JE | WP GWP G) Name applied to the authorities who lived before the one who quotes them. The designation is found in the Talmud, where it...
Rites (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C939: Custom
Johann Stephanus Rittangel (JE | WP GWP G) German controversial writer; born at Forscheim, near Bamberg; died at Königsberg 1652. It is stated that he was born...
Immanuel Heinrich Ritter (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born March 13, 1825, in Ratibor, Prussian Silesia; died July 9, 1890, in Johannisbad, Bohemia. While studying...
Julius Ritter (JE | WP GWP G) German physician and author; born in Berlin Oct. 4, 1862; son of Immanuel H. Ritter. He received his degree of M. D. from...
Ritual (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C303: Ceremonies and the Ceremonial Law
Ritual Murder (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1173: Blood Accusation
Riva di Trento (JE | WP GWP G) Small town on the Lake of Guarda, under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Trent. Christoforo Madruz, Cardinal of Trent and...
Rivera (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish Jewish family that appears in American history at an early date. The family seems to have come from Seville, Spain...
Rivista Israelitica (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Miron Davidovich Rivkin (JE | WP GWP G) Russian writer; born in Vitebsk in 1869. His father, who was employed as clerk in the police department, was a Talmudist of...
Rizpah (JE | WP GWP G) Daughter of Aiah and concubine of Saul. After Saul's death Rizpah, with the other women of his harem (comp. II Sam. iii...
Roads (JE | WP GWP G) in primitive times the chief use of roads in Palestine was to afford communication with markets. Later on roads were used...
Robbery (JE | WP GWP G) the Mishnah and the Gemara deal with the robber even less severely than Scripture, the reason probably being that, when speaking...

321 – 340

Mordecai Robbio (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist of the seventeenth century; lived probably in northern Italy. Under the title "Shemen ha-Mor" he wrote responsato...
Robert of Bury St Edmunds (JE | WP GWP G) Alleged martyr of a blood accusation at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, in 1181. No details are known of the circumstances...
Rahel Robert (JE | WP GWP G) See Levin, Rahel.
Antonio Rodriques da Robles (JE | WP GWP G) English Marano merchant and shipper; born at Fundăo, Portugal, about 1620. It is probable that he was one of the Neo-Christians...
Isaac (Vicente) de Rocamora (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish monk, physician, and poet; born about 1600 of Marano parents at Valencia; died April 8, 1684, at Amsterdam. Educated...
Rochester (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of Monroe county, and the third city in size in the state of New York. According to the latest census (1900) it has...
Rödelheim (JE | WP GWP G) Prussian town near Frankfort-on-the-Main. A Jewish community existed there probably as early as the middle of the thirteenth...
Julius Rodenberg JE (JE | WP GWP G) German poet and author; born at Rodenberg, Hesse, June 26, 1831. He studied law at the universities of Heidelberg, G&#246...
Anton Roder (JE | WP GWP G) See Rado, Anton.
Martin Röder [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) German composer and conductor; born in Berlin April 7, 1851; died at Boston, Mass., June 7, 1895; studied at the Königliche...
Michael Levi Rodkinson JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F435: Frumkin, Israel Dob
Rodosto (JE | WP GWP G) Port of Turkey in Europe on the Sea of Marmora, 78 miles west of Constantinople. The city had a Jewish community as early...
Juan Rodrigo de Castel-Branco JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J577: Juan Rodrigo de Castel-Branca
Hippolyte Rodrigues [fr] (JE | WP GWP G) French banker and writer; born at Bordeaux in 1812; died at Paris 1898. He was a son of Isaac Rodrigues-Henriques, head of...
Olinde Rodrigues (JE | WP GWP G) French economist and reformer; born at Bordeaux Oct. 16, 1794; died at Paris Dec. 26, 1850. He was a pupil of the Ecole Normale...
Rodriguez (JE | WP GWP G) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many persons bearing the surname Rodriguezwere condemned by the Inquisition to...
Roe (JE | WP GWP G) Rendering in the Authorized Version of the Hebrew which is sometimes translated also "roebuck" and "wild roe," and occasionally...
Roebuck (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H308: Hart
Eleazar Sussmann b. Isaac Roedelsheim (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch scholar, probably of German descent; lived in the first half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of the following...
Meyer (Marcus) Roest JE (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch bibliographer; born at Amsterdam 1821; died there 1890. Becoming connected with a firm of booksellers, he acquired a...

341 – 360

Daniel b. Samuel b. Daniel ha-Dayyan Rofe (JE | WP GWP G) Italian physician of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; lived at Pisa and Perugia. He devoted much time to the study...
Daniel b. Solomon Rofe (JE | WP GWP G) Italian physician and scholar of the fifteenth century; born at Fano. References to him occur under date of 1430, 1448, and...
August Rohling JE (JE | WP GWP G) Catholic theologian and anti-Semitic author; born in 1839 at Neuenkirchen, province of Hanover, Prussia. He studied at M&#252...
Ro'im (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P101: Pastoureaux
Jacob ben Isaac ibn Bakoda Roman (JE | WP GWP G) Bibliographer and writer, of Spanish descent; born at Constantinople about 1570; died at Jerusalem in 1650. He was possessed...
Samuel Aaron Romanelli (JE | WP GWP G) Neo-Hebrew poet; born at Mantua Sept. 19, 1757; died at Casale Monferrato Oct. 17, 1814. A man of great gifts but unsteady...
Benjamin Zeeb Wolf ben Samuel Romaner (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and preacher in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He officiated as darshan in Semigrod, and later in Dessau...
Samuel Romanin (JE | WP GWP G) Italian historian; born at Triest in 1808; died at Venice Sept. 9, 1861. Having at an early age lost his parents, who died...
Salomo Romano Eliano (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B224: Baptista, Giovanni Salomo Romano Eliano
Leone Romano (JE | WP GWP G) Italian scholar; born at Rome 1292; died there after 1350. Romano was a friend of the naturalist Benjamin b. Judah, together...
Moritz Heinrich Romberg (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Meiningen, Saxony, Nov. 11, 1795; died in Berlin June 16, 1873. He graduated as doctor of medicine...
Rome (JE | WP GWP G) Capital in ancient times of the Roman republic and empire; in modern times, of the papal dominions and of the kingdom of Italy...
Daniel b. Jehiel Romi (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar and poet of the tenth and eleventh centuries; probably a brother of R. Nathan, author of the "'Aruk." He wrote...
Joseph Romi (JE | WP GWP G) Name by which Joseph b. Judah Ḥamiz, a pupil of Leon of Modena, is erroneously known. He was the author of "Belil...
Romm DAB (JE | WP GWP G) Family of printers and publishers of Hebrew books in Wilna. The family formerly lived in Grodno, where the book-dealer Baruch...
Joseph Róna (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian sculptor; born at Lovas Berény Feb. 1, 1861. He was destined by his parents for a mercantile career, and studied...
Samuel Róna (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian dermatologist; born at Halas April 1, 1857; educated at Budapest. He was appointed assistant to Prof. Kaposi at...
Bezalel b. Joel Ronsburg JE (JE | WP GWP G) Bohemian Talmudist and rabbi; born 1760; died Sept. 25, 1820, in Prague, where he was dayyan and head of the yeshibah. Zacharias...
Root (JE | WP GWP G) the fundamental or elementary part of a word. So far as is known no Hebrew equivalent of the term "root" was used with a philological...
David Roquemartine (JE | WP GWP G) French scholar; a native of Roquemartine; flourished in the fourteenth century. He was the author of "Zekut Adam," giving...

361 – 380

Jacob Hebraeus Rosales [de; pt] (Immanuel Bocarro Frances y Rosales) (JE | WP GWP G) Physician, mathematician, astrologer, and poet; born in 1588 or, according to some, in 1593, at Lisbon; died either at Florence...
Rosanes >> Judah Rosanes JE (JE | WP GWP G) Family, originally from Rosas, a Spanish seaport. Members of it emigrated to Portugal at the end of the fifteenth century...
Jacob Rosanes (JE | WP GWP G) German mathematician; born Aug. 16, 1842, at Brody, Galicia. He received a common-school education in his native town and...
Rose (JE | WP GWP G) This flower is not mentioned in the Bible, and the earliest reference to it occurs in Ecclus. (Sirach) xxiv. 14. It is mentioned...
Arnold Josef Rosé JE (JE | WP GWP G) Romanian violinist; born at Jassy Oct. 24, 1863. He began his musical studies at the age of seven, and at ten entered the...
Hannah, Countess of Rosebery (JE | WP GWP G) English social leader and philanthropist; born in London July 27, 1851; died at Dalmeny Park, Scotland, Nov. 19, 1890; only...
Mordecai Raphael ben Jacob Rosello (Ruscelli) (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar and liturgical poet of the first half of the sixteenth century; born in Barcelona, where his family occupied a prominent...
Joseph b. Isaac Rosen [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Ab bet din and, subsequently, rabbi in Russia; born in the first half of the nineteenth century at Horodok, near Pinsk; died...
Mathias Rosen [pl] (JE | WP GWP G) Polish banker and member of the council of state; born at Warsaw 1804; died there 1865. In 1846 he succeeded to his father&#39...
Milton Joseph Rosenau (JE | WP GWP G) American physician; born at Philadelphia Jan. 1, 1869; educated at the University of Pennsylvania (M.D. 1889). For more than...
William Rosenau (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi; born at Wollstein, Germany, May 30, 1865. He attended successively the gymnasium of Hirschberg (Silesia),...
Hyman Pollock Rosenbach [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) American journalist; born at Philadelphia Sept. 16, 1858; died there March 4, 1892. He was connected with the "Public Ledger"...
Ottomar Ernst Felix Rosenbach JE (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born Jan. 4, 1851, at Krappitz, Silesia, where his father, Samuel Rosenbach, practised medicine. He received...
Arnold Rosenbacher (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian lawyer and communal worker; born in Prague April 4, 1840; educated at the gymnasium and the university of his native...
Daniel Bezalel Rosenbaum (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R358: Ronsburg, Bezalel b. Joel
Abraham Hayyim Rosenberg [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian-American writer; born at Pinsk, Russia, Oct. 17, 1838; a descendant of the Jaffe family. Educated at home and at the...
Albert Rosenberg [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) German physician: born Sept. 17, 1856, at Schloppe, West Prussia; educated at the University of Berlin (M.D. 1880). Of his...
Julius Rosenberg UNR (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian deputy; born at Kis-Czell Sept. 12, 1856; educated at Steinamanger and Raab, later studying law at Budapest (LL...
Moritz Rosenberg [de] (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R448: Rott, Moritz
Josef Michel Rosenblatt (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian barrister; born March 20, 1853, at Cracow, Galicia, in which city he received his education, graduating from the...

381 – 400

Mordecai ben Menahem Rosenblatt [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi; born at Autopoli, government of Grodno, on the 3d of Iyyar, 1837. After having studied under Isaac Hirsch,...
Simon W Rosendale (JE | WP GWP G) American lawyer; born at Albany, N. Y., June 23, 1842; graduated from Barre Academy, Vermont. He was admittedto the bar in...
Jacob Rosenfeld (JE | WP GWP G) Russian journalist and publisher; born in Austria 1839; died in Minsk, Russia, 1885. His parents emigrated to Russia, where...
Leopold Rosenfeld (JE | WP GWP G) Danish composer; born in Copenhagen July 21, 1849. He was originally destined for a mercantile career, and spent six years...
Mordecai Jonah Rosenfeld (JE | WP GWP G) Galician author of Hebrew books; born at Dynow, near Przemysl, Galicia, Oct. 21, 1797; died at Sosnica June 5, 1885. When...
Morris Rosenfeld (JE | WP GWP G) Yiddish poet; born at Boksha, government of Suwalki, Russian Poland, Dec. 28, 1862, educated at Boksha, Suwalki, and Warsaw...
Samson Wolf Rosenfeld [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Markt Uhlfeld, Bavaria, Jan. 4, 1780; died at Bamberg May 12, 1862. At the age of thirteen he entered...
Sydney Rosenfeld (JE | WP GWP G) American dramatist; born in Richmond, Va., Oct. 26, 1855; educated in the public schools of Richmond and New York.When the...
George Rosenhain (JE | WP GWP G) German mathematician; born June 10, 1816, at Königsberg, Prussia; died there May 14, 1887. He was privat-docent at the...
Jakob (Jacques) Rosenhain (JE | WP GWP G) German pianist; born at Mannheim. Dec. 27, 1813; died at Baden-Baden March 21, 1894. A one-act piece of his entitled "Der...
Moritz Rosenhaupt (JE | WP GWP G) German cantor; born at Offenbach on the Glan, Rhenish Prussia, March 14, 1841, where his father was rabbi and teacher; died...
Ernst Friedrich Karl Rosenmüller (JE | WP GWP G) Christian Orientalist and theologian; born Dec. 10, 1768, at. Hesselberg; died at Leipsic Sept. 17, 1835. He studied at Erlangen...
Christian Knorr, Baron von Rosenroth JE (JE | WP GWP G) Christian Hebraist; born at Alt-Randen, in Silesia, July 15, 1631. After having completed his studies in the universities...
Moses Rosensohn [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Hebraist; born in the first quarter of the nineteenth century at Wilna, where he lived all his life in affluent circumstances...
Samuel Siegmund Rosenstein (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Berlin Feb. 20, 1832; son of Rabbi Elhanan Rosenstein, and grandson of Rabbi Rosenstein of Bonn...
Rosenthal (JE | WP GWP G) One of several families of that name flourishing in Russia. The ancestor of this particular family was Solomon of Wirballen...
David Rosenthal (JE | WP GWP G) Polish physician; born 1808 at Tarnogrod, Lublin; died 1889. His father was district physician of Zamoisk and on the staff...
David Augustus Rosenthal (JE | WP GWP G) German physician and author; born at Neisse, in Silesia, in the year 1812; died at Breslau March 29, 1875. He was educated...
Eduard Rosenthal (JE | WP GWP G) German jurist; born Sept. 6, 1853, at Würzburg. He studied at Würzburg, Heidelberg, and Berlin (LL.D., Würzburg...
Eliezer (Lazar) Rosenthal (JE | WP GWP G) German bibliographer and owner of a famous collection of books at Hanover; born April 13, 1794, at Nasielsk, in the government...

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401 – 420

Ferdinand Rosenthal [de; he] (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Kenese, Hungary, Nov. 10, 1839; educated at several Talmud Torahs, the gymnasium at Vienna, and the...
Harry Louis Rosenthal (JE | WP GWP G) English exegete; born about 1860 at Vladislavov (Neustadt-Schirwindt), Poland. In 1869 he accompanied his mother and sisters...
Herman Rosenthal JE (JE | WP GWP G) American author, editor, and librarian; born at Friedrichstadt, province of Courland, Russia, Oct. 6, 1843; educated at Bauske...
Isidor Rosenthal (JE | WP GWP G) German physiologist; born at Labischin, near Bromberg, Posen, July 16, 1836; died in 1904. Graduating as M.D. from the University...
Jacob Rosenthal (JE | WP GWP G) Polish physician; born at Warsaw; son of David Rosenthal; studied medicine at Berlin and Warsaw. In 1870 he became physician...
Joseph Rosenthal (JE | WP GWP G) Russo-Jewish scholar; born at Suwalki, in the government of the same name in Russian Poland, Feb. 14, 1844. He began the study...
Julius Rosenthal (JE | WP GWP G) American lawyer; born in Liedolsheim, grand duchy of Baden, Germany, Sept. 17, 1828. He was educated at the lyceum at Rastadt...
Leon (Judah Löb b. Moses ha-Levi) Rosenthal (JE | WP GWP G) Russian financier, philanthropist, and communal worker; born in Wilna Nov. 16, 1817; died in Locarno, Switzerland, June 19...
Markus Rosenthal (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R453: Rózsavölgyi (Rosenthal), Markus
Max Rosenthal (JE | WP GWP G) American painter and engraver; born at Turek, near Kalisz, Russian Poland, Nov. 23, 1833. He studied at Berlin under Karl...
Moritz Rosenthal [de] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian physician; born at Grosswardein, Hungary, 1833; died in Vienna Dec. 30, 1889. Educated at the University of Vienna...
Moritz Rosenthal (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian pianist; born at Lemberg 1862; studied successively under Galath, Mikuli, and Raphael Joseffy. In 1875 the family...
Samuel Rosenthal (JE | WP GWP G) Chess - master; born 1838 in Suwalki, Russian Poland; died in Paris Sept. 25, 1902. After the last Polish revolution he fled...
Solomon Rosenthal (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian scholar; born in Moór, Hungary, June 13, 1764; died at Pesth April 8, 1845. His father, Naphtali Rosenthal...
Toby Edward Rosenthal (JE | WP GWP G) American artist; born at New Haven, Conn., March 15, 1848. He received a public-school education at San Francisco, whither...
Hugo Rosenthal-Bonin [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) German author; born at Berlin Oct. 14, 1840; died at Stuttgart April 7, 1897. After having studied natural science at the...
Adolf Rosenzweig (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born Oct. 20, 1850, at Turdossin, Hungary. He studied at the gymnasium at Budapest and at the rabbinical seminary...
Gerson Rosenzweig (JE | WP GWP G) Russian-American editor, author, and poet; born at Byelostok, Russia, April, 1861. He received his education in the Jewish...
Julie Eichberg Rosewald (JE | WP GWP G) American prima donna; fourth daughter of Moritz Eichberg, cantor in Stuttgart; born in that city March 7, 1847. After finishing...
Andrew Rosewater (JE | WP GWP G) American engineer; born in Bohemia Oct. 31, 1848. When very young he removed with his family to the United States, settling...

421 – 440

Edward Rosewater (JE | WP GWP G) American editor and newspaper proprietor; born at Bukovan, in Bohemia, in 1841. He was educated at the high school of Prague...
Victor Rosewater (JE | WP GWP G) American editor and economist; born in Omaha, Neb., 1871; son of Edward Rosewater; educated in Columbia University, New York...
Rosh (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1930: Asher ben Jehiel
Rosh ha-Shanah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N246: New-Year
Rosh ha-Shanah (JE | WP GWP G) Eighth treatise of the order Mo'ed; it contains (1) the most important rules concerning the calendar year together with...
Rosh Yeshibah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Y35: Yeshibah
David Rosin JE (JE | WP GWP G) German theologian; born at Ròsenberg, Silesia, May 27, 1823; died at Breslau Dec. 31, 1894. Having received his early...
Heinrich Rosin [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German jurist; born at Breslau Sept. 14, 1855. In 1880 he established himself as privat-docent in the law department of the...
Heinrich Rosin [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Berlin Aug. 28, 1863; son of David Rosin. He studied at Breslau and Freiburg (M.D. 1887), and in...
Isaac Rosnosky (JE | WP GWP G) American merchant and communal worker; born at Wollstein, Prussia, Nov. 6, 1846; son of Henry and Zelda Rosnosky. He went...
Azariah ben Moses dei Rossi JE (JE | WP GWP G) Italian physician and scholar; born at Mantua in 1513 or 1514; died in 1578. He was descended from an old Jewish family which...
Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi JE (JE | WP GWP G) Italian Christian Hebraist; born Oct. 25, 1742, in Castelnuovo; died in Parma March, 1831. He studied in Ivrea and Turin....
Moses ben Jekuthiel de Rossi (JE | WP GWP G) Roman rabbi of the fourteenth century. Between 1373 and 1390 he wrote a compendium of Jewish rites, entitled "Sefer ha-Tadir...
Solomon Rossi (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and composer; lived in Mantua during the latter part of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century....
Rossiena (Rossieny) (JE | WP GWP G) District city in the government of Kovno, Russia. It had a prosperous Jewish community in the first half of the nineteenth...
Rostock (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M319: Mecklenburg
Rostof (JE | WP GWP G) Russian fortified commercial and manufacturing town on the Don; formerly in the government of Yekaterinoslaf; since 1888 included...
Rota (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B83: Badge
Moritz Roth (JE | WP GWP G) Swiss physician; born at Basel Dec. 25, 1839; educated at the universities of Würzburg, Göttingen, Berlin, and Basel...
Philipp Roth (JE | WP GWP G) German violoncellist; born at Tarnowitz, Upper Silesia, Oct. 25, 1853; died at Berlin June 9, 1898. He studied under Wilhelm...

441 – 460

Wilhelm Roth (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rhinologist; born at Kluckno, Hungary, Oct. 10, 1848. He received his education at the gymnasium at Eperies, Hungary...
Rothenburg (JE | WP GWP G) Town of Middle Franconia, Bavaria, situated on the Tauber, 41 miles west of Nuremberg. Jews must have been settled there as...
Eliakim Gottschalk Rothenburg (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E192: Eliakim Gottschalk of Rothenburg
Moses ben Mordecai Süsskind Rothenburg (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born about 1665; died at Altona Jan. 12, 1712. He was successively rabbi of Tykoczin, Brest-Litovsk, and Altona...
Rothschild (JE | WP GWP G) Celebrated family of financiers, the Fuggers of the nineteenth century, deriving its name from the sign of a red shield borne...
David Rothschild [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and author; born at Hamm, Westphalia, Nov. 16, 1816; died at Aachen Jan. 28, 1892. After completing his studies...
Menahem Mendel Rothschild (Bacharach, Ashkenazi) (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born in Frankfort-on-the-Main about 1650; died in Worms Oct., 1731. He was the grandson of Isaac, head of the...
Moritz Rott [de] (Rosenberg) (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian actor, nephew of the composer Ignaz Moseheles; born at Prague Sept. 17, 1797; died in Berlin 1860. He was the leading...
Rouelle (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B83: Badge
Rouen (JE | WP GWP G) Ancient capital of Normandy, and now the administrative center of the department of Seine-Inférieure; situated on the...
Roussillon (JE | WP GWP G) Province of ancient France, now forming the department of Pyrénées-Orientales. Jews settled there in the early part...
Leo S Rowe (JE | WP GWP G) American economist; born in McGregor, Iowa, Sept. 17, 1871. He entered the Arts Department of the University of Pennsylvania...
Markus Rózsavölgyi (Rosenthal) (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian composer; born at Balassa-Gyarmath 1787; died at Pesth Jan. 23, 1848. Having a native love for music, he went at...
Joseph Rózsay [hu; he] (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian physician; born at Lackenbach March 15, 1815; died at Budapest May 19, 1885. Educated at Nagy-Kanizsa, Szombathely...
Marcus Rubin [da] (JE | WP GWP G) Danish statistician and author; born in Copenhagen March 5, 1854. He studied at the university of his native city (B.A. 1871)...
Solomon Rubin JE (JE | WP GWP G) Galician Neo-Hebrew author; born in Dolina, Galicia, April 3, 1823. He was educated for the rabbinate, but, being attracted...
Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (JE | WP GWP G) Russian pianist and composer; born Nov. 16 (28), 1829, in the village of Wechwotynetz (Vikhvatinetz), near Jassy, Bessarabia...
Isaac Rubinstein (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian deputy; born at Czernowitz in 1805; died at Ischl Sept. 1, 1878. He was a member of the town council and vice-president...
Josef Rubinstein [ru; de] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian pianist and composer; born at Staro-Constantinov Feb. 8, 1847; died by his own hand at Lucerne Sept. 15, 1884. He...
Nikolai (Nicholas) Rubinstein (JE | WP GWP G) Russian pianist; born in Moscow June 2, 1835; died in Paris March 23, 1881; brother of Anton Rubinstein. He received his early...

461 – 480

Susanna Rubinstein (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian psychologist; born at Czernowitz, Bukowina, Sept. 20, 1847. She was the daughter of an Austrian deputy. In 1870 she...
Ernst Traugott Rubo [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) German jurist; born at Berlin July 8, 1834; died there March, 1895. Educated at the University of Heidelberg (LL.D. 1857)...
Julius Rubo (JE | WP GWP G) German jurist; born at Halberstadt June 9, 1794; died at Berlin March 13, 1866. He attended the gymnasium in Halberstadt,...
Jules Rueff (JE | WP GWP G) French merchant and ship-owner; born at Paris Feb. 16, 1854. At an early age he turned his attention to colonial affairs and...
Rufina DAB (JE | WP GWP G) Smyrna Jewess; lived about the third century of the common era. Her name has been perpetuated in a Smyrniot Greek inscription...
Rufus (JE | WP GWP G) Roman general in the first century of the common era. In the battles after Herod's death the Romans were assisted against...
Rufus Annius (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1555: Annius Rufus
Tineius Rufus (JE | WP GWP G) Governor of Judea in the first century of the common era. Jerome, on Zech. viii. 16, has "T. Annius Rufus," and the editor...
Christian Friedrich Rühs (JE | WP GWP G) German historian and anti-Jewish writer; born at Greifswald March 1, 1781; died at Florence Feb. 1, 1820. As professor of...
Golden Rule (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G301: Golden Rule
The thirty-two rules of Eliezer b. Jose ha-Gelili (JE | WP GWP G) Rules laid down by R. Eliezer b. Jose ha-Gelili for haggadic exegesis, many of them being applied also to halakic interpretation...
The seven rules of Hillel (JE | WP GWP G) Rules given to the sons of Bathyra by Hillel I. as the chief guides for the interpretation of the Scriptures and for the deduction...
The thirteen rules of Rabbi Ishmael JE (JE | WP GWP G) Thirteen rules compiled by Rabbi Ishmael b. Elisha for the elucidation of the Torah and for making halakic deductions from...
Isaac Rülf (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and author; born Feb. 10, 1834, in Holzhausen, near Marburg in Hessen; died at Bonn Sept. 19, 1902. He was educated...
Romania (JE | WP GWP G) Kingdom of southern Europe. If the assertions of Romanian historians are to be accepted, Jews lived in Romania for a considerable...
Isaac Moses Rumsch (JE | WP GWP G) Russian teacher and Hebrew author; born in the village of Zezemer, government of Wilna, April 6, 1822; died in 1894. At the...
Solomon Zalman Runkel (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Mayence and afterward of Worms; died before 1426. Runkel was a cabalist, as is shown by his work "Ḥatan Damim"...
Henry Russell (JE | WP GWP G) English composer and singer; born at Sheerness Dec. 24, 1812; died in London Dec. 7; 1900. He appeared in infancy in Christmas...
Russia >> articles listed under P401 Poland (JE | WP GWP G) [Much of the history of the Jews of Russia having already appeared under the headings Alexander, Armenia, Caucasus, Cossacks...
Russki Yevrei (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals

481 – 500

Rustchuk (JE | WP GWP G) City of Bulgaria, on the southern bank of the Danube. It was founded by the Russians in 968, was occupied in turn by the Greeks...
Rusticanus (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B936: Berthold of Regensburg
Book of Ruth (JE | WP GWP G) the Book of Ruth, which is poetically idyllic in character, although the narrative is in the form of prose, contains an episode...
Ruth Rabbah JE (JE | WP GWP G) A haggadic and homiletic interpretation of the Book of Ruth, which, like that of the four other scrolls ("megillot"), is included...
Carl Victor Ryssel (JE | WP GWP G) German Protestant theologian; born at Reinsberg, Saxony, Dec. 18, 1849; died at Zurich. March 2, 1905. Having completed his...

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