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501 to 600

501 – 520

1. Adolf Beer (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian historian and educator; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Feb. 27, 1831. While still young he came under the influence...
2. Adolph Beer (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian colonel; born 1833 in Prossnitz, Moravia; died Oct. 2, 1888, at Leibach, Carniola. He entered a school for military...
3. Alexander Beer UNR (JE | WP GWP G) Religious teacher and author in Munich, who wrote in 1826, under the direction of Abraham Bing, rabbi of Würzburg, and...
4. Amalie Beer (JE | WP GWP G) German philanthropist and communal worker; died at Berlin June 22 (24), 1854. She was the wife of the banker Jacob Herz Beer...
5. August Beer + (JE | WP GWP G) German mathematician; born at Trier July 31, 1825; died at Bonn on the Rhine Nov. 18, 1863. Beer was educated at the technical...
6. Benjamin ben Elijah ha-Rofe Beer (JE | WP GWP G) An Italian, doubtless an artist, who lived in Italy, probably at Ferrara, during the fifteenth century. On a bronze medal...
7. Bernhard Beer (JE | WP GWP G) German author; born July, 1801, at Dresden; died there July 1, 1861. His father, Hirsch Beer, and his mother, Clara, belonged...
8. Berthold Beer (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian medical writer; born at Brünn, Moravia, April 24, 1859. Educated at the high schools of his native city, first...
9. Jacob Leyser Beer (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M546: Meyerbeer, Giacomo
10. Jules Beer (JE | WP GWP G) Composer; son of Michael Beer, and nephew of Giacomo Meyerbeer; born 1833 in Paris, where he still (1902) resides. His first...
11. Max Josef Beer (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian pianist and composer; born at Vienna Aug. 25, 1851. He studied with Dessoff, and was still very young when, on the...
12. Michael Beer (JE | WP GWP G) German poet; brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer, the composer, and of Wilhelm Beer, the astronomer; born Aug. 19, 1800, in Berlin...
13. Moses Shabbethai Beer (JE | WP GWP G) An Italian rabbi; born at Pesaro; died in Rome, May 6, 1835, where he officiated as rabbi from the year 1825. On Dec. 18,...
14. Peter (Perez) Beer UNR (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian educationalist; born Feb. 19, 1758, at Neubydžow, Bohemia; died Nov. 8, 1838, at Prague. After having received...
15. Rachel Beer + (JE | WP GWP G) English journalist; daughter of Sassoon D. Sassoon. She was educated privately and spent two years in hospital training. SinceOct...
16. Wilhelm Beer + (JE | WP GWP G) Astronomer; brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer, the composer, and of Michael Beer, the poet; born in Berlin Jan. 4, 1797; died there...
17. Isaiah Beer-Bing (JE | WP GWP G) French journalist; born at Metz in 1759; died in Paris July 21, 1805. He entered early upon a literary career, and at the...
18. Beer Elim (JE | WP GWP G) A Moabite town mentioned in the lament for Moab (Isa. xv. 8). It is probably to be identified with the Beer of the desert...
19. Beer Lahai Ro'i (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a well in the desert south of Palestine on the road to Shur (Gen. xvi. 7 et seq.), known as the stopping-place of...
20. Beer-sheba + (JE | WP GWP G) A place situated on the southern boundary of Judea (compare Judges xx. 1; II Sam. xvii. 11; I Kings xix. 3) which was allotted...

521 – 540

1. Beera (JE | WP GWP G) An Asherite (I Chron. vii 37).J. Jr. G. B. L.
2. Beerah (JE | WP GWP G) A descendant of Reuben, and head of the tribe at the time it was taken into captivity by Tiglath-pileser (I Chron.v. 6).J...
3. Beeroth (JE | WP GWP G) One of the cities of the Gibeonites (Josh. ix. 17) which after the conquest fell to the lot of Benjamin (Josh. xviii. 25)...
4. Beet (JE | WP GWP G) This well-known biennial root-plant is not mentioned in the Bible; according to de Candolle, it was not cultivated before...
5. Lola Beeth (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian operatic singer; born Nov. 23, 1862, at Cracow, Galicia. The daughter of a well-to-do merchant, she spent her youth...
6. Beetle (JE | WP GWP G) English equivalent in A. V. for the Hebrew "Chargol" (Lev. xi. 22; R. V. "cricket"). It is here mentioned as a kind of...
7. Begging and Beggars (JE | WP GWP G) Although it has made ample provision for the relief of the poor, the Mosaic legislation does not contain any prescription...
8. Émile Auguste Bégin (JE | WP GWP G) French physician and historical writer; born at Metz April 24, 1802 (according to some sources, April 23, 1803); died in Paris...
9. Louis Jacques Bégin (JE | WP GWP G) French surgeon and author; born at Liège, Belgium, Nov. 2, 1793; died in Gorriquen, near Lacrouan, Bretagne, April 13...
10. Martin Behaim (JE | WP GWP G) See Zacuto, Abraham.
11. Judah Behak (JE | WP GWP G) Russo-Hebrew writer; born at Wilna Aug. 5, 1820; died at Kherson Nov. 14, 1900. He was the last of the champions of progress...
12. Behalah (JE | WP GWP G) A name commonly bestowed on several periods of great excitement in Lithuania and Poland, when, for various reasons, Jewish...
13. Jacob Joseph ha-Rofe Behar (JE | WP GWP G) Chief rabbi of Bagdad about 1843, and author of two Hebrew works; viz., "Shir Ḥadash," a commentary upon the Song of...
14. Moses Shabbethai Behar (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and author; lived in Salonica at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Author of a Hebrew book, "Torat Mosheh" (Salonica...
15. Nissim Behar + (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian educator; born at Jerusalem, 1848. His father, Rabbi Eliezer Behar, having migrated from Rumania to Palestine...
16. Beheading (JE | WP GWP G) As a regular capital punishment, Beheading does not seem to have been known to the Israelites before the time of the Greek...
17. Behemoth (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L275: Leviathan
18. Issachar Falkensohn Behr (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian poet; born in 1746 at Zamosc, government of Lublin, Russian Poland, or, according to Recke and Napiersky, at Salaty...
19. Friedrich Jacob Behrend (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Neu-Stettin, Pomerania, June 12, 1803; died at Berlin May 30, 1889. He was educated for a mercantile...
20. Gustav Behrend (JE | WP GWP G) German dermatologist, medical writer, and professor of medicine at the University of Berlin; born at Neu-Stettin, Prussia...

541 – 560

1. Henry Behrend (JE | WP GWP G) Physician and communal worker; born in Liverpool in 1828; died in London Nov. 28, 1893. After completing a brilliant academical...
2. Israel b. Behrend (JE | WP GWP G) German physician and writer on medical subjects; born at Wittenburg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 1804; died at Rostock,March 13...
3. Jacob Friedrich Behrend JE (JE | WP GWP G) German jurist; born at Berlin Sept. 13, 1833; finished his studies in his native city at the university. He became "Gerichtsassessor"...
4. Leffmann Behrends JE (JE | WP GWP G) (LIEPMANN COHEN): Financial agent of the dukes and princes of Hanover; born about 1630; died at Hanover Jan. 1, 1714. His...
5. Sir Jacob Behrens (JE | WP GWP G) Municipal worker at Bradford, England; born at Pyrmont, Germany, Nov., 1806; died at Torquay April 22, 1889. His father, removing...
6. Lazar Jakovlevich Behrmann (JE | WP GWP G) Russian teacher and editor; born in Friedrichstadt, Courland, Sept. 26, 1830; died at St. Petersburg April 27, 1893. He received...
7. Vasili Lazarovich Behrmann (JE | WP GWP G) Russian lawyer; son of Lazar Jakovlevich Behrmann; born in Mitau, Russia, Sept. 15, 1862; died at Cairo, Egypt, March 18,...
8. Isaac Wulfovich Beilin (JE | WP GWP G) Russian teacher and physician; born in the first quarter of the nineteenth century; died at Wilna March 9, 1897. He was graduated...
9. Solomon ben Abraham Beim (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite Chakam and Chazan at Odessa; born there about 1820. Having received a good education from his father, who...
10. Beirut, Syria (JE | WP GWP G) City in Phenicia, at the mouth of the river of the same name, on the Mediterranean between Byblus and Sidon. In the El-Amarna...
11. Moses Beiser (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian physician and philanthropist; born in Lemberg April 7, 1807; died in the same city Oct. 12, 1880. At twenty he entered...
12. Alfred Beit (JE | WP GWP G) South African financier; born of a well-known Hamburg Jewish family in 1853. Beit went to Kimberley during the early days...
13. Beja (JE | WP GWP G) City in Portugal that had, next to Santarem, the oldest Jewish community in Portugal. In a foro (charter) granted to the city...
14. Abraham of Beja (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A400: Abraham of Beja
15. Bekiin (JE | WP GWP G) A small town in Palestine, between Jabneh and Lydda. It is mentioned as the seat of a Talmudical school founded by R. Joshua...
16. Meïr Bekkayam (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1057: Bikayim
17. Joseph ben Isaac Bekor Shor (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J479: Joseph ben Isaac Bekor Shor
18. Saadia Bekor Shor (JE | WP GWP G) Alleged son of Joseph Bekor Shor, and reputed anthor of a frequently published poem on the number of letters in the Bible...
19. Bekorot (JE | WP GWP G) Name of the fourth treatise—according to the order of the Mishnah—of Seder Ḳodashim ("Holy Things"). The...
20. Bel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1: Ba'al

561 – 580

1. Bel and the Dragon (JE | WP GWP G) An Apocryphal tract, placed, in the Septuagint and Theodotion, among the additions to the Book of Daniel (see Apocrypha)....
2. Bela ((dabs to Zoara, List of minor Biblical figures#Bela)) >> Bela ben Beor (JE | WP GWP G) An early king of Edom, having his royal seat at Dinhabah; son of Beor (Gen. xxxvi. 32, 33; I Chron. i. 43, 44). The name "Dinhabah"...
3. Abraham ben Shalom Belais (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and poet; born in Tunis 18th of Ab, 1773; died in London 1853. An eccentric personality, he had a curious career. First...
4. Abraham Belasco (JE | WP GWP G) English pugilist; born in London, England, April 9, 1797; died there. Belasco entered the prize-ring in 1817, when he defeated...
5. David Belasco + (JE | WP GWP G) American dramatist; born in San Francisco in 1858 of English parents. He is of the same family as the English actor known...
6. David Belasco + (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D160: James, David
7. Israel Belasco (JE | WP GWP G) English pugilist; born in London in 1800; a brother of the better-known Abraham or "Aby" Belasco. His first appearance in...
8. Belfast (JE | WP GWP G) Chief town of the county of Antrim, province of Ulster, Ireland. The Jewish community—a comparatively prosperous one&#8212...
9. Belgium (JE | WP GWP G) One of the smaller states of western Europe. Under the Romans it formed one of the six provinces of ancient Gaul and bore...
10. Belgrade (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the kingdom of Servia, situated at the confluence of the Save and the Danube. After Sultan Sulaiman the Magnificent...
11. Belial EL:JE (JE | WP GWP G) A term occurring often in the Old Testament and applied, as would seem from the context in I Sam. x. 27; II Sam. xvi. 7, xx...
12. Samuel Belias (Beliash) (JE | WP GWP G) Envoy from Morocco in 1608. He delivered to Maurice of Nassau, governor-general of the Netherlands, credentials from Muley...
13. Belid (or Belitus), son of Alègre (JE | WP GWP G) Prominent French Jew; lived in Toulouse at the beginning of the thirteenth century. His name figures in many deeds of conveyance...
14. Belief (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F8: Faith
15. Daniel Belilhos (JE | WP GWP G) Preacher and teacher at Amsterdam. He had a thorough knowledge of Biblical and rabbinical literature, was a facile Hebrew...
16. Jacob Belilhos (JE | WP GWP G) Relative of Daniel Belilhos; rabbi at Venice about 1680. He wrote "Binyan Ne'arim" (Edification of Youth) in refutation...
17. David Belilla (JE | WP GWP G) One of the leading Jews in Cranganore, sixteen miles north of Cochin, southern India, about the middle of the sixteenth century...
18. Elijah ben Moses Belin I (JE | WP GWP G) German commentator and liturgical poet of the fifteenth century. He was rabbi, cantor, and teacher of Talmud and Rabbinic...
19. Elijah ben Moses Belin II (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist; died at Worms Feb. 26, 1587, having taken an active part in the affairs of the Jewish community in that...
20. Belinfante Family (JE | WP GWP G) A Sephardic Jewish family who trace their ancestry to Joseph Cohen Belinfante, a fugitive from Portugal to Turkey in 1526...

581 – 600

1. Isaac Cohen Belinfante (JE | WP GWP G) Poet and preacher at the great synagogue 'Ez Hayyim, Amsterdam; died in that city Sept. 7, 1781; son of Elijah Cohen...
2. Moses ben Zaddik ha-Kohen Belinfante (JE | WP GWP G) A Judæo-Dutch journalist, translator, and writer of school-books; born at the Hague Sept. 24, 1761; died there June 29...
3. Moses Eliezer Belinson (JE | WP GWP G) Russian publisher and scholar; born at Odessa about 1835. He devoted himself chiefly to the study of the genealogy of old...
4. Miriam Mendes Belisario (JE | WP GWP G) English authoress and teacher; born in London about 1820; died there 1885. She was a granddaughter of Isaac Mendes Belisario...
5. Israel Belkind (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Hebraist and teacher; born in 1861 at Logoisk, government of Minsk, Russia; educated at the high school of Mohilev...
6. Belkis, Queen of Sheba + (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S566: Sheba, Queen of
7. Grégoire Belkovsky (JE | WP GWP G) Russian political economist; born at Odessa 1865. While a student he joined the Jewish nationalists of Odessa, and lectured...
8. Bella, wife of Joshua Falk (JE | WP GWP G) A woman of Talmudic learning; born at Lemberg about the middle of the sixteenth century; died at a very advanced age at Jerusalem...
9. Bellcayre (JE | WP GWP G) City in Catalonia, Spain; had Jewish inhabitants in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It was the birthplace of David...
10. Belle-Assez (JE | WP GWP G) A daughter of Solomon ben Isaac, called "Rashi" (1040-1105,) and wife of R. Eliezer. Belle-Assez (not "Bellejeune," "Belle...
11. Lazarus (Menahem) Belleli (JE | WP GWP G) Greek polyglot writer and philologist; born in Corfu, Greece, Oct. 31, 1862. In 1877 he edited "'Aṭṭeret Ba&#7717...
12. Johann Joachim Bellermann JE (JE | WP GWP G) Christian Hebraist and professor of theology at Berlin University; born at Erfurt Sept. 23, 1754; died at Berlin Oct. 25,...
13. Bellette (JE | WP GWP G) Daughter of Menahem, and sister of Isaac ben Menahem called "the Great"; lived at Orleans in the middle of the eleventh century...
14. Bells (JE | WP GWP G) the use of Bells for summoning seems to have arisen in the Far East, and was not customary in countries bordering the Mediterranean...
15. Bells of the Law (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C902: Crown of the Law
16. Bellsom (JE | WP GWP G) See Moses of Narbonne.
17. Ascarelli Bellucia (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1882: Ascarelli
18. Belmont DAB (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish family in Alzey, Rhein-Hessen. It traces its origin to Isaac Simon, who at the end of the eighteenth century took the...
19. August Belmont + (JE | WP GWP G) American financier; born in Alzey, Germany, in 1816; died in New York city, Nov. 24, 1890. He was educated at Frankfort-on-the-Main...
20. Belmonte DAB (JE | WP GWP G) Portuguese Dutch Marano family, which traced its descent from Don Iago y Sampayo, to whom in 1519 King Manuel of Portugal...

601 to 700

601 – 620

1. B E Colaço Belmonte (JE | WP GWP G) Lawyer and writer in Surinam, Dutch West Indies, about the middle of the eighteenth century. He published "Over de Hervorming...
2. Benvenida Cohen Belmonte (JE | WP GWP G) Poetess; lived in London at the beginning of the eighteenth century. She was a sister of the Mæcenas Mordecai Nu&#241...
3. Francisco de Ximenes Belmonte (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch diplomat; lived at Amsterdam during the first half of the eighteenth century. He was a nephew of Baron Manuel de Belmonte...
4. Isaac Nuñez Belmonte (JE | WP GWP G) One of the most prominent of Oriental casuists; son of Moses Nuñez Belmonte; lived in Smyrna at the end of the eighteenth...
5. Isaac Nuñez (Don Manuel de) Belmonte (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch statesman; born in Amsterdam; died there in 1704. He was not a son of Jacob Belmonte who came from Madeira in 1614,...
6. Jacob Israel Belmonte (JE | WP GWP G) One of the founders of the Portuguese-Jewish community of Amsterdam, his colleagues being Jacob Tirado and Solomon Palache...
7. Moses Belmonte JE (JE | WP GWP G) Poet and translator; eighth child of Jacob Belmonte; born 1619; died at Amsterdam May 29, 1647. He was a pupil of Saul Morteira...
8. Moses ben Joseph Belmonte (JE | WP GWP G) Writer in Amsterdam during the first half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a poem in Hebrew prefixed to the...
9. Solomon Abendana Belmonte (JE | WP GWP G) Jurist; born in Hamburg 1843; died there March 19, 1888. He was educated at the Johanneum and the gymnasium in that city;...
10. Belorado (JE | WP GWP G) A city in the Spanish province of Burgos, which had Jewish inhabitants as early as the end of the eleventh century. The fuero...
11. Belovar (JE | WP GWP G) Town in Croatia, Austria. The Jewish community of Belovar was founded about 1877, when some fifty Jewish families settled...
12. Belshazzar (JE | WP GWP G) King of Babylon mentioned in Dan. v. and viii. as the son of Nebuchadnezzar and as the last king before the advent of the...
13. Belteshazzar (JE | WP GWP G) the name given to Daniel by the chief of the eunuchs (Dan. i. 7). The writer of the Book of Daniel sees in the first syllable...
14. Diego de Hidalgo Beltran JE (JE | WP GWP G) Poet; Spanish Marano of the seventeenth century; son of a Jew from Murcia. He was noted as an editor and commentator of Spanish...
15. Bemah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1283: Almemar
16. Bemidbar (JE | WP GWP G) the Hebrew name for the Book of Numbers (see Numbers)J. Jr. G. B. L. This...
17. Bemidbar Rabbah (JE | WP GWP G) the Midrash commentary upon Numbers, called in the editio princeps of Constantinople (1512) "Bemidbar Sinai Rabbah," and so...
18. Bemoza'e Menuhah (JE | WP GWP G) the "pizmon" of the "selichot" on the first Sunday in the octave preceding the New-Year, and therefore honored with a...
19. Ben-abinadab (JE | WP GWP G) Commissariat officer of Solomon who married a daughter of his royal master. He was stationed in the district of Dor; that...
20. Ben Adret Solomon b. Abr (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A857: Adret

621 – 640

1. Ben Ami (JE | WP GWP G) See Rabinovich, I. M.
2. Ben-ammi (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Lot, and ancestor of the Ammonites (Gen. xix. 38).G. G. B. L. This...
3. Ben Asher (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A72: Aaron ben Moses ben Asher
4. Ben-Avigdor (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Hebrew novelist and publisher; born in Zheludok, government of Wilna, in 1867. He received the usual Biblical and...
5. Ben 'Azzai JE (JE | WP GWP G) A distinguished tanna of the first third of the second century. His full name was Simon b. 'Azzai, to which sometimes...
6. Ben Bag-Bag (JE | WP GWP G) An early tanna. At the end of the Mishnah Abot (v. 22, 23) two sentences are given concerning the study of the Torah; one...
7. Ben-batiah (JE | WP GWP G) A man, at the time of the teachers of the Mishnah ("'Aruk," s.v. ), whose fist, being about the size of an adult's...
8. Ben Chananja (JE | WP GWP G) A periodical published by Leopold Löw at Leipsic in 1844 with the subtitle "Blätter für Israelitisch-Ungarische...
9. Ben Dama (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the beginning of the second century; a nephew of Ishmael b. Elisha. His inclination toward Hellenism and the Jud&#230...
10. Ben David (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M510: Messiah
11. Abraham Ben-David (JE | WP GWP G) Chief rabbi of Serres, European Turkey, for 16 years (1825-41); born 1788, died 1841; author of a volume of responsa, "Tiferet...
12. Ben-dekar (JE | WP GWP G) Commissariat officer of Solomon, whose district in northern Dan included Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elon-Beth-hanan...
13. Ben Durand (JE | WP GWP G) Diplomat and intermediary between Abd-el-Kader and the French government; died at Algiers in September, 1839. Clauzel and...
14. Ben Elasah (JE | WP GWP G) A rich and prominent Palestinian of about the middle of the second century. He was the son-in-law of R. Judah ha-Nasi I.,...
15. Ben Eliezer (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B547: Behrmann, V. L.
16. Solomon Ben-Ezra (JE | WP GWP G) Chief rabbi of the Jewish community of Smyrna, Asia Minor, in the second half of the eighteenth century, having succeeded...
17. Ben-hadad (JE | WP GWP G) A name that would seem to mean simply "the son of Hadad," a well-known appellation of an Aramean and perhaps also of an Edomite...
18. Ben Hê Hê (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B626: Ben Bag-Bag
19. Ben-hesed (JE | WP GWP G) Commissariat officer of Solomon with residence in Aruboth in Judah (I Kings iv. 10, R.V.). His district was Hepher and Sochoh...
20. Ben Hinnom (JE | WP GWP G) See Gehinnom.

641 – 660

1. Ben-hur DAB (JE | WP GWP G) Commissariat officer of Solomon "in the hill country of Ephraim" (I Kings iv. 8, R. V.).J. Jr. G. B. L. ...
2. Eliezer ben Judah (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian editor; born at Luzhky, government of Wilna, Jan. 7, 1858; son of Judah Perlman—hence his name "Ben Judah...
3. Ben Kafron (JE | WP GWP G) One of the three disciples of Menahem ben Saruk (last third of tenth century) who defended the honor of their teacher against...
4. Ben Kalba Sabbua' (JE | WP GWP G) A rich and prominent man of Jerusalem who flourished about the year 70. According to the Talmud (Giṭ. 56a), he obtained...
5. Ben Kosiba (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B237: Bar Kokba
6. Ben La'anah (JE | WP GWP G) Author of an apocryphal book. The name occurs only once in Yer. (Sanh. x. 28a), where it is said that among the apocryphal...
7. Ben Leb b. Zadik (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H349: Ḥasidim
8. Ben Meïr (JE | WP GWP G) JE Palestinian nasi in the first half of the tenth century. His name was brought to light some twenty years ago by several fragments...
9. Ben Melak (JE | WP GWP G) See Solomon ibn Melek.
10. Ben Naphtali JE (JE | WP GWP G) Masorite; flourished about 890-940 C.E., probably in Tiberias. Of his life little is known. His first name is in dispute....
11. Ben Nazar (JE | WP GWP G) -- See O22: Odenathus
12. Ben-oni (JE | WP GWP G) A play upon the name "Benjamin." According to Gen. xxxv. 18, it was the name given by the dying Rachel to her son Benjamin...
13. Ben Porath (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M128: Manasseh ben Joseph of Ilye
14. Alphabet of Ben Sira (JE | WP GWP G) A small book containing a double list of proverbs—twenty-two Aramaic and twenty-two Hebrew—alphabetically arranged...
15. Ben Temalion (JE | WP GWP G) A demon mentioned in the Talmud. When the Jewish sages, with Simon b. Yochai at their head, went to Rome to obtain the...
16. Ben-Tigla (JE | WP GWP G) See Ben-La'anah.
17. Ben Uzziel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H773: Hirsch, Samson Raphael
18. Ben Yasus (JE | WP GWP G) See Isaac ibn Jasos ibn Saktar.
19. Ben Zakkai (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J362: Johanan b. Zakkai
20. Judah Löb Ben-Ze'eb (JE | WP GWP G) First Jewish grammarian and lexicographer of modern times; born near Cracow 1764; died at Vienna March 12, 1811. He received...

661 – 680

1. Ben Zita (JE | WP GWP G) See Eleazar ben Ziṭa abu al-Sari.
2. Ben Zoma JE (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the first third of the second century. His full name is Simon b. Zoma without the title "Rabbi"; for, like ben &#39...
3. Benaiah (JE | WP GWP G) One of the Bene Parosh who took foreign wives (Ezra x. 25); in I Esd. ix. 26 he is called "Baanias."2. One of the Bene Pahath-moab...
4. Elijah Benamozegh JE (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi; born at Leghorn in 1822; died there Feb. 6, 1900. His father (Abraham) and mother (Clara), natives of Fez,...
5. Franz Ferdinand Benary (JE | WP GWP G) German Orientalist; born at Cassel March 22, 1805; died at Berlin Feb. 7, 1880. The exact date of Benary's conversion...
6. Karl Albert Agathon Benary (JE | WP GWP G) German philologist; born at Cassel 1807; died 1860; brother of Franz Ferdinand Benary. He received his education at the gymnasia...
7. Baron L Benas (JE | WP GWP G) English communal worker; born in Liverpool, England, 1844. Has been throughout his life a leading figure in the Liverpool...
8. Benjamin Benash (JE | WP GWP G) Cabalist of the beginning of the eighteenth century; son of Judah Löb Cohen of Krotoschin, Prussia. He wrote the "Shem-&#7788...
9. Bencemero (JE | WP GWP G) Mediator, in 1526, between the Moors and the governor of Saffee and Azamor, employed by the Portuguese. He lived at Azamor...
10. Isaac Bencemero (JE | WP GWP G) Relative of Abraham Bencemero of Azamor, the deliverer of Nuno Fernandes d'Atayde, commander-in-chief of Saffee. When...
11. Lazarus Bendavid (JE | WP GWP G) German philosopher and reformer; born in Berlin Oct. 18, 1762; died there March 28, 1832. In his younger days he supported...
12. Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann (JE | WP GWP G) German painter; born Dec. 3, 1811, in Berlin; died Dec. 27, 1889, at Düsseldorf. His father was a prominent banker of...
13. Rudolf Christian Eugen Bendemann (JE | WP GWP G) German painter; born at Dresden Nov. 11, 1851; died May, 1884, at Pegli, near Genoa, Italy; educated at the Düsseldorf...
14. Alfred Philipp Bender (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Cape Town, South Africa; born at Dublin, Ireland, 1863; educated by his father, Rev. Philipp Bender, for many years...
15. Johann Heinrich Bender (JE | WP GWP G) German jurist; born at Frankfort May or Sept. 29, 1797; died there Sept. 6, 1859. He studied law at Giessen, where he was...
16. Bendery (JE | WP GWP G) District town in the government of Bessarabia. In 1898 it had a Jewish population of 12,000 out of a total of 33,000 inhabitants...
17. Menahem Manus Bendetsohn (JE | WP GWP G) Russian pedagogue and Hebrew writer; born in Grodno 1817; died there March 20, 1888. After a careful Talmudic education in...
18. Meïr Bendig of Arles (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist at Arles, in the Provence, probably in the second half of the fifteenth century. He wrote the following works: (1)...
19. Bendin (JE | WP GWP G) Same as Piotrkow (Vol. x. p. 572).
20. Bendit (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B688: Benedict

681 – 700

1. Frits Emil Bendix (JE | WP GWP G) Danish violoncellist and composer; born Jan. 12, 1847, at Copenhagen. He first studied with F. Rauch, and later with Friedrich...
2. Otto Julius Emanuel Bendix (JE | WP GWP G) Danish oboist and pianist; born July 26, 1845, at Copenhagen; a brother of Frits Bendix. He first devoted himself to the study...
3. Victor Emanuel Bendix (JE | WP GWP G) Danish violin virtuoso, pianist, and composer; born May 17, 1851, at Copenhagen; brother of Frits Bendix. He early manifested...
4. Bene-berak (JE | WP GWP G) A town assigned to Dan (Josh. xix. 45). It was situated on the seacoast plain southeast of Joppa, and is to be identified...
5. Bene Berith (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1203: B'nai B'rith
6. Bene Mikra (JE | WP GWP G) -- See K108: Karaites
7. Salvatore de Benedetti (JE | WP GWP G) Italian scholar; born April 18, 1818, at Novara, a town in Piedmont; died Aug. 4, 1891, at Pisa. In his time the public schools...
8. Benedict VIII (JE | WP GWP G) Pope from 1012 to 1024. A great persecution of the Jews took place during his pontificate. A terrible earthquake and hurricane...
9. Benedict XII (Jacques de Novellès) (JE | WP GWP G) A monk of the Cistercian order; elected pope Dec. 30, 1334; died April 25, 1342. Although he displayed the greatest zeal for...
10. Benedict XIII (Pedro de Luna) (JE | WP GWP G) Antipope; born at Aragon about 1334; elected Sept. 28, 1394; died at Peñiscola June 1 (according to some, Nov. 29), 1424...
11. Benedict XIV (Prospero Lambertini) (JE | WP GWP G) Two hundred and fifty-fourth pope; born at Bologna in 1675; elected pope Aug. 17, 1740; died May 3, 1758. This pope, who graciously...
12. Sir Julius Benedict (JE | WP GWP G) Composer, conductor, and teacher of music; born at Stuttgart Nov. 27, 1804; died in London June 5, 1885. Showing considerable...
13. Marcus Benedict (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B703: Benet
14. Moses Benedict (JE | WP GWP G) German banker and artist; born in 1772 at Stuttgart, Germany; died there July 8, 1852. He was destined for the profession...
15. Naphtali Benedict (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B703: Benet
16. Benedict of York (JE | WP GWP G) Leading member of the Jewish community in York, England, at the end of the twelfth century; died in 1189. Together with Josce...
17. Benedictions (JE | WP GWP G) Blessings, or prayers of thanksgiving and praise, recited either during divine service or on special occasions. They were...
18. Coenraad Benedictus (JE | WP GWP G) "Mohel" and surgeon at Surinam, Dutch Guiana, about 1830. Nothing is known of his life nor of his literary activity other...
19. Edmund Benedikt (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian jurist; born at Döbling, near Vienna, Oct. 6, 1851. He studied law at the University of Vienna, and after graduation...
20. Moritz Benedikt (JE | WP GWP G) German journalist, publisher, and editor of the Vienna "Neue Freie Presse"; born at Gnatschitz, Moravia, May 27, 1849. On...

701 to 800

701 – 720

1. Moriz Benedikt (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian neurologist; born at Eisenstadt, Hungary, July 6, 1835. Upon his graduation from the University of Vienna, where...
2. Rudolph Benedikt (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian chemist; born at Döbling July 12, 1852; died in Vienna Feb. 6, 1896. He was educated at the Polytechnic (HighSchool)...
3. Mordecai b. Abraham Benet (Marcus Benedict) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist and chief rabbi of Moravia; born in 1753 at Csurgό, a small vil lage in the county of Stuhlweissenburg, Hungary...
4. Naphtali ben Mordecai Benet (Benedict) (JE | WP GWP G) Author and rabbi; born at the end of the eighteenth century; died October, 1857, at Schafa, Moravia, where he was rabbi. He...
5. Benevento (JE | WP GWP G) City in southern Italy; capital of the province of the same name; about 32 miles northeast of the city of Naples. Benjamin...
6. Benfelden (JE | WP GWP G) Town in Alsace, 17 miles from Strasburg. It was here, in the year 1348, when Europe was devastated by the Black Death (the...
7. Theodor Benfey (JE | WP GWP G) German Sanskritist and comparative philologist; born at Nörten, Hanover, Jan. 28, 1809; became a convert to Christianity...
8. Bengazi (JE | WP GWP G) City of Tripoli, Africa, on the east coast of the Gulf of Sidra. Little is known of the first settlement of the Jews there...
9. Arthur Benham (JE | WP GWP G) Dramatic author; born 1875; died at Brighton, Eng., Sept. 8, 1895. He was a playwright of considerable promise, and was the...
10. Beni-Israel (JE | WP GWP G) Native Jews of India, dwelling mainly in the presidency of Bombay and known formerly by the name of Shanvar Telis ("Saturday...
11. Abraham Benisch (JE | WP GWP G) Journalist and theologian; born at Drosau, a small town eight miles southwest of Klattau, Bohemia, in 1811; died at Hornsey...
12. Isaac b. Jacob Benjacob JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian bibliographer, author, and publisher; born in Ramgola, near Wilna, Jan. 10, 1801; died in Wilna July 2, 1863. His...
13. Benjamin (JE | WP GWP G) Youngest son of Jacob by Rachel, who died on the road between Beth-el and Ephrath, while giving him birth. She named him "Ben-oni"...
14. J J Benjamin (Benjamin II) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rumanian traveler; born at Folticheni, Moldavia, in 1818; died at London May 3, 1864. Married young, he engaged in the lumber...
15. R Benjamin (JE | WP GWP G) A tanna of the second century, contemporary of R. Eleazar ben Shammu'a, with whom he carried on some halakic controversy...
16. Benjamin ben Aaron (JE | WP GWP G) Ḥasidic writer; lived toward the end of the eighteenth century. He was a pupil of Israel Ba'al Shem-Tob, and...
17. Benjamin Aaron b. Abraham (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S853: Slonik, Benjamin Aaron b. Abraham
18. Benjamin b. Abraham Anav (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1485: Anaw, Benjamin b. Abraham
19. Benjamin Alessandro Kohen Vital (JE | WP GWP G) -- See V93: Coen, Benjamin Alessandro Vitale
20. Benjamin b. 'Ashtor (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian halakist of the third amoraic generation, contemporary of R. Ḥiyya b. Abba and senior to R. Hezekiah (Yer...

721 – 740

1. Benjamin Asya (JE | WP GWP G) A Babylonian rabbinic scholar of the third and fourth amoraic generations (fourth century), contemporary of Rab Joseph and...
2. Sir Benjamin Benjamin (JE | WP GWP G) Mayor of Melbourne; born at London in 1836. At the age of nine he accompanied his parents to Victoria. Associating himself...
3. Benjamin of Canterbury (JE | WP GWP G) English rabbi; disciple of Rabbi Tam; died at the beginning of the thirteenth century. He is mentioned in the list of medieval...
4. David Benjamin (JE | WP GWP G) Communal worker; born in London in 1815; died there June 25, 1893. In 1835 he emigrated to Australia; and, while in Tasmania...
5. Benjamin b. David Cases (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B725: Cases, Benjamin b. David
6. Benjamin b. Elijah Beer (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B726: Beer, Benjamin b. Elijah
7. R Benjamin b. Giddel (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian amora of the fourth generation (fourth century), contemporary of R. Acha III. (Yer. Ma'as. Sh. v. 56b...
8. Benjamin Ginzakayah (JE | WP GWP G) A Babylonian scholar of the third century, contemporary of Mar Samuel. All that is known of him is that death overtook him...
9. Hillel Benjamin (JE | WP GWP G) Polish architect of the second half of the eighteenth century; born at Lasko. He was the builder of the synagogue at Lutomierz...
10. Benjamin b. Ihi (JE | WP GWP G) A Babylonian scholar of the second and third amoraic generations (third century); brother of Abbahu b. Ihi, the disciple of...
11. Benjamin b. Isaac of Carcassonne (JE | WP GWP G) This scholar is known only by his translation from Latin into Hebrew, under the title of "'Ezer Eloah" (Divine Help),...
12. Benjamin b. Japhet (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian scholar of the third amoraic generation (third century), disciple of R. Johanan and senior to R. Zeïra...
13. Benjamin b. Jehiel ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Polish Talmudist; lived at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Gib'at Benjamin" (Benjamin&#39...
14. Benjamin ben Joab (JE | WP GWP G) Payyeṭan; lived at Montalcino in the fourteenth century. His printed poems are: (1) A metrical introduction to the "Nishmat"...
15. Benjamin b. Judah Loeb Cohen (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B668: Benasch, Benjamin
16. Judah Philip Benjamin (JE | WP GWP G) American statesman and lawyer; born at St. Croix, West Indies, in 1811; died in Paris, May 6, 1884. His parents were English...
17. Benjamin b. Judah of Rome (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1375: Bozecchi
18. R Benjamin b. Levi (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian amora of the fourth century (third or fourth generation), junior contemporary of R. Ammi and R. Isaac (Yer....
19. Benjamin b. Mattithiah (JE | WP GWP G) Author of a large collection of responsa; flourished in Turkey in the first half of the sixteenth century. His occupation...
20. Benjamin ben Meïr (JE | WP GWP G) Polish Talmudist and preacher; lived at Brody, Galicia, in the first half of the nineteenth century. He wrote "Imre Binyamin"...

741 – 760

1. Benjamin b. Meïr ha-Levi of Nuremberg (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Salonica at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Although German by birth, being a descendant of Jacob Molin,...
2. Michael Henry Benjamin (JE | WP GWP G) South African politician; born in London in 1822; died June 11, 1879.Early in life Benjamin went to Cape Colony (about the...
3. Moses Benjamin (JE | WP GWP G) Beni-Israel military officer; born in 1830; died at Bombay in December, 1897. The son of a subedar (captain), he joined the...
4. Benjamin ben Moses UNR (JE | WP GWP G) Italian scholar; lived at Rome at the beginning of the fifteenth century. He took an active part in the administration of...
5. Benjamin ben Moses Nahawendi JE (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite scholar and philosopher; flourished at Nahawend, Persia, at the end of the eighth century and the beginning of the...
6. Jerusalem Benjamin Nabon (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B746: Nabon, Benjamin
7. Benjamin 'Ozer b. Meïr (JE | WP GWP G) Polish Talmudist; died at Zolkiev May 25, 1810. He was rabbi in Clementow, and afterward head of the yeshibah at Zolkiev....
8. Benjamin Salonica (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S853: Slonik, Benjamin B. Aaron Abraham
9. Samuel Benjamin (JE | WP GWP G) French soldier in the Carlist expedition against Madrid in 1837; distinguished for bravery and remarkable devotion to Boulan...
10. Benjamin b. Samuel of Coutances (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist and French liturgical poet of the first half of the eleventh century. The name of the place of his residence, Coutances...
11. Benjamin the Shepherd (JE | WP GWP G) A shepherd who lived in Babylonia at the beginning of the third century. The Talmud has transmitted the formula of a blessing...
12. Simeon Benjamin (JE | WP GWP G) English Hebrew grammarian, who published in 1773 at London "Da'at Ḳedoshim" (Knowledge of the Holy), a short Hebrew...
13. Benjamin of Tiberias (JE | WP GWP G) A rich Jew who, when the emperor Heraclius in 628 went to Jerusalem during the Persian war, was accused of hostility toward...
14. Benjamin of Tudela (JE | WP GWP G) A celebrated traveler of the twelfth century. Beyond his journey, no facts of his life are known. In the preface to his itinerary...
15. William Benjamin (JE | WP GWP G) English pugilist; born at Northleach, Gloucestershire, England, in 1826. Benjamin's first match was with Tom Sayers, the...
16. Benjamin Wolf b. Aaron (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S1020: Spiro
17. Wolf b. Daniel Benjamin (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi in Chomsk, government of Grodno, Russia. He published "Nachlat Binyamin" (Benjamin's Inheritance), festival...
18. Benjamin Wolf Eleazar (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L569: Löw, Benjamin Wolf
19. Benjamin Wolf ben Isaac Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Cabalist; lived at Leitmeritz, Bohemia, in the middle of the seventeenth century. He is the author of a work, "Amarot Tehorot"...
20. Benjamin Wolf Rapoport (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B760: Rapoport, Benjamin Wolf

761 – 780

1. Benjamin Wolf ben Zebi Hirsch (JE | WP GWP G) Judæo-German writer; lived in the eighteenth century in Germany. He was the author of "Sefer ha-Ḥeshek" (Book...
2. Benjamin Yerushalmi (JE | WP GWP G) Exile from Jerusalem who lived at Bordeaux; said to have been one of the authors of Wehu Rachum, recited in the morning...
3. Benjamin ha-Zaddik (JE | WP GWP G) A philanthropist of the tannaitic period. According to a Baraita, he was manager of certain charitable funds. Once there appeared...
4. Benjamin Ze'eb b. Samuel Romaner (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B764: Romaner, Benjamin Ze'eb B. Samuel
5. Benjamin Ze'eb of Slonim (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Talmudist; lived at the end of the eighteenth century; reputed pupil of Elijah b. Solomon of Wilna, and of the latter&#39...
6. Benjamin Ze'eb Wolf ben Shabbethai (JE | WP GWP G) Dayyan at Pinczow in the latter half of the seventeenth and at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He edited the Shul&#7717...
7. Benjamin ben Zerah (JE | WP GWP G) Payyeṭan; lived in southeastern Europe in the middle of the eleventh century. He is called by the later payye&#7789...
8. Louis Benloew (JE | WP GWP G) French philologist; born at Erfurt Nov. 15, 1818; died at Dijon February, 1900. He studied at the universities of Berlin,...
9. Nathan Lazarus Benmohel (JE | WP GWP G) the first conforming Jew obtaining a degree in a British university; born at Hamburg about 1800; died in 1869. He settled...
10. Henry Bennett (JE | WP GWP G) Sergeant in the British army; born in England 1863; killed in action during the war with the Afridis, November, 1897. He was...
11. Solomon Bennett (JE | WP GWP G) English theologian and engraver; born in Russia before 1780; died after 1841. He wrote a considerable number of works on Biblical...
12. Joseph Benoliel (JE | WP GWP G) Portuguese translator; lived at Lisbon. He wrote the small book, "Porat Yosef" (Joseph's Fruitful Bough; see Gen. xlix...
13. Don Judah Benoliel (JE | WP GWP G) Moroccan and Austrian consul at Gibraltar; president of the Jewish community there, and of the chamber of commerce; died in...
14. Benschen (JE | WP GWP G) A Judæo-German word meaning either to say a blessing or to bless a person. It is derived from the Latin "benedicere"...
15. Simon Bensheim (JE | WP GWP G) Member of the grandducal Oberrat (Upper House) of Baden; born at Mannheim Oct. 14, 1823; died there Oct. 26, 1898. Extremely...
16. Herbert Bentwich (JE | WP GWP G) English lawyer and communal worker; born in London 1856; educated at University College and the University of London (LL.B...
17. Benveniste >> Joshua ben Israel Benveniste JE, Vidal Benveniste JE (JE | WP GWP G) the name of an old, rich, and scholarly family of Narbonne, the numerous branches of which were found all over Spain and the...
18. Benveniste ben Hiyyah ben Aldayyan (JE | WP GWP G) Physician and religious poet of the thirteenth century. Zunz mentions three metrical "bakKashahs" (supplications)...
19. Benveniste ben Jacob (JE | WP GWP G) One of the officers of the society BikKur Ḥolim of the Spanish synagogue in Venice toward the end of the...
20. Benveniste b. Labi (JE | WP GWP G) A Jewish Mæcenas; son of "Prince" Solomon ibn Labi de la Caballeria; lived at Saragossa, later at Alcañiz, where...

781 – 800

1. Benveniste de Porta JE (JE | WP GWP G) Bailie ("bayle") of Barcelona, Spain, and brother of Nachmanides (whose secular name was Bon Astruc de Porta; see Gr&#228...
2. Benedix Benzion (JE | WP GWP G) Russian physician and missionary to the Jews; born in a small town in the government of Kiev, Russia, in 1839. He spent several...
3. Benjamin Ze'eb Wolf ben Jacob ha-Levi Benzion (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist; lived probably in Galicia in the middle of the eighteenth century. He was the author of "'Et Razon" (Time...
4. Samuel Benzion (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E363: Endler, Samuel
5. Der Beobachter (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
6. Beor (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Father of Bela, king of Edon (Gen. xxxvi. 32; I Chron. i. 43). 2. Father of Balaam (Num. xxii. 5; xxiv. 3, 15; xxxi. 8...
7. Bequest (JE | WP GWP G) A gift of personal property in a last will and testament. Modern English law and American law distinguish between a bequest...
8. Bera (JE | WP GWP G) King of Sodom; one of the five kings constituting the confederacy under Amraphel (Gen. xiv. 2). Ber. Rabbah 42 playfully interprets...
9. Jacob [b Moses?] Berab JE (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist and rabbi; born at Moqueda near Toledo, Spain, in 1474; died at Safed April 3, 1546. He was a pupil of Isaac Aboab...
10. Berachah (JE | WP GWP G) 1. A Benjamite who came to David and joined his forces at Ziklag (I Chron. xii. 3). 2. A valley where Jehoshaphat and his...
11. Berachah "the Hero" (JE | WP GWP G) A Polish Jewish soldier who was killed in the battle near Moscow, in the Polish war against Russia in 1610. He was the son...
12. Berah Dodi (JE | WP GWP G) Three piyyuṭim forming the Ge'ullah in the morning service of the first two days of Passover, and of Saturday between...
13. Berakah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B697: Benedictions
14. Berakot (JE | WP GWP G) the name of the first treatise of Seder Zeraim, the first Order of the Talmud. By the term "Berakot" a special form of prayer...
15. Jonah Borisovich Berchin (JE | WP GWP G) Writer on early Russian-Jewish history; born at Krichev, government of Mohilev, 1865; died at Moscow Aug., 1889. Up to the...
16. Berdyansk (JE | WP GWP G) District town and seaport in the government of Taurida Crimea, Russia, on the northwestern coast of the Sea of Azof, at the...
17. Berdychev (JE | WP GWP G) A city in the government of Kiev, Russia; in historical and ethnographical relations part of Volhynia. It has one of the largest...
18. Berdyczew (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B797: Berdychev
19. Micah Joseph Berdyczewski (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew author; born in 1865. He represents, to some extent, the Nietzsche school of philosophy in the Hebrew literature of...
20. Berea (JE | WP GWP G) Place where Bacchides encamped (I Macc. ix. 4). From the context it would seem to be near Jerusalem, though some scholars...

801 to 900

801 – 820

1. Berebi (JE | WP GWP G) Title of learning in the period of the Tannaim, conferred especially upon scholars who were the sons of scholars, or upon...
2. R Berechiah I (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian scholar of the second amoraic generation (third century), always cited without the accompaniment of patronymic...
3. R Berechiah II (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian amora, of the fourth century. In the Talmud he is invariably cited by his prænomen alone; but in the Midrashim...
4. Berechiah Berak b. Eliakim Goetzel (JE | WP GWP G) A grandson of Berechiah b. Isaac; rabbi and preacher of Klementow, Poland, and Jaworow, Galicia; lived toward the end of the...
5. Berechiah Berak b. Isaac Eisik JE (JE | WP GWP G) Galician preacher; died in 1664 at Constantinople. He was educated by Nathan Shapira, rabbi of Cracow, and was appointed preacher...
6. Berechiah ben Isaac Gerundi (JE | WP GWP G) Payyeṭan; lived in the twelfth century, probably at Lunel. Although he wrote nothing on the Halakah, his brother Zerahiah...
7. Berechiah ben Natronaikrespia ha-Nakdan JE (JE | WP GWP G) Fabulist, exegete, ethical writer, grammarian, and translator; probably identical with Benedictus le Puncteur, an English...
8. Berechiah de Nicole (JE | WP GWP G) English Tosafist; died after 1256. He was of the well-known Hagin family, and son of Rabbi Moses ben Yom-Tob of London...
9. Bered (JE | WP GWP G) A son of Ephraim (I Chron. vii. 20). In the genealogy of Num. xxvi. 35 his place is taken by Becher. It may be that Bered...
10. Joselovich Berek (JE | WP GWP G) Polish colonel under Kosciusko and Napoleon I.; born at Kretingen, government of Kovno, Russia, in the second half of the...
11. Martin Berendson (JE | WP GWP G) German publisher; born at Hamburg in 1824; died June 24, 1899. He was the head of the well-known bookselling and publishing...
12. Gottlieb Michael Berendt (JE | WP GWP G) German geologist; born in Berlin Jan. 4, 1836. He studied the science of mining; and in his work, "Die Diluvialablagerungen...
13. Berenger of Narbonne (JE | WP GWP G) Viscount of Narbonne in the eleventh century. In the midst of the important wars of that century waged for the assertion of...
14. Berenice (JE | WP GWP G) City of the Cyrenaic Pentapolis, at the eastern extremity of the great Syrtis, near the river Lathon. The settlement of the...
15. Berenice (JE | WP GWP G) Daughter of Costobar and Salome, sister of Herod I. Her marriage with her cousin Aristobulus was unhappy. The husband, being...
16. Berenice (JE | WP GWP G) Daughter of Herod Agrippa I. and of Cypros, the daughter of Phasael; born in 28. She was first married to Marcus, son of the...
17. Bernhard Berenson (JE | WP GWP G) Art critic and historian; born at Wilna, Russia, June 26, 1865. He was educated in America, and in 1887 was graduated at Harvard...
18. Issachar Baer b. Samuel Berenstein (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch rabbi; born in Leeuwarden, Holland, 1808; died in the Hague Dec. 13, 1893. He was the son of Rabbi Samuel b. Berish...
19. Samuel ben Berish Berenstein (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch rabbi; born in Hanover about 1767; died in Amsterdam Dec. 21, 1838. He was the descendant of a long line of distinguished...
20. Bererah (JE | WP GWP G) the concept "Bererah," known to the later Babylonian Amoraim, is a development of the law of joint property, and, just as...

821 – 840

1. Bereshit (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G137: Genesis
2. Bereshit Rabbah JE (JE | WP GWP G) Expository Midrash to the first book of the Pentateuch, assigned by tradition to the amora Hoshaiah, commonly Osha'yah...
3. Bereza (JE | WP GWP G) Town in the district of Pruszhany, government of Grodno, Russia; situated on the river Jazelda, on the road between Brest-Litovsk...
4. Berezino (JE | WP GWP G) Village of Russia, in the government of Minsk, having a population (1898) of 1,900, almost exclusively Jews (1,824). About...
5. Berg (JE | WP GWP G) An independent duchy until 1815; at present part of the Prussian Rhine province. Jews settled here at an early period. In...
6. Bergamo (JE | WP GWP G) City in northern Italy. Here, as in other cities subject to the government of the Venetian republic, the right of residence...
7. Joseph Bergel JE (JE | WP GWP G) Neo-Hebraic writer of the first part of the nineteenth century. He was a private teacher at Prossnitz, Moravia. In 1826 and...
8. Joseph Bergel JE (JE | WP GWP G) Judæo-German writer, probably of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Ein Schön Göttlich Lied," a...
9. Joseph Bergel (Bergl) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian physician and author; born Sept. 2, 1802, at Prossnitz, died 1885 at Kaposvar. He was well versed in rabbinical...
10. Yom-Tob Bergel (JE | WP GWP G) Merchant and communal worker of Gibraltar; born in 1812; died at Gibraltar Oct. 14, 1894. He was one of the wealthiest and...
11. Emile de Berger (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian oculist and medical author; born at Vienna Aug. 1, 1855. He received his education at the University of Vienna.From...
12. Ernst Berger (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian painter; brother of the oculist Baron Emile Berger; born at Vienna Jan. 3, 1857; educated at the gymnasium, the commercial...
13. Oscar Berger (JE | WP GWP G) German electrotherapist and medical author; born at Münsterberg, Silesia, Nov. 24, 1844; died at Ober-Salzbrunn, Silesia...
14. Philippe Bergèr (JE | WP GWP G) Christian professor of Hebrew; member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; born at Beaucourt, Haut-Rhin...
15. Samuel Bergèr (JE | WP GWP G) French professor of Protestant theology; secretary and librarian of the Faculté de Théologie Protestante, Paris...
16. Michael Bergson (JE | WP GWP G) Musician; born in Warsaw 1818; died at London March 9, 1898. He was a member of an eminent Jewish family of Warsaw, with which...
17. Jonas Bergtheil (JE | WP GWP G) Pioneer of Natal, South Africa; born in England about 1815; died 1902; emigrated to South Africa about 1844, at a time when...
18. Beriah (JE | WP GWP G) A son of Asher, representing, however, not an individual, but a clan (Gen. xlvi. 17; Num. xxvi. 44, 46). A member of the clan...
19. Beriah JE (JE | WP GWP G) Cabalistic expression for the second of the four celestial worlds of the Cabala, intermediate between the World of Emanation...
20. Berit Milah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C514: Circumcision

841 – 860

1. Berkamani (JE | WP GWP G) Physician and author; lived probably in the first half of the thirteenth century, and wrote for an emir (Manṣur?) a...
2. Josselewicz Berko (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B810: Berek, Joselovich
3. Lajos Berkovits (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian violinist; born at Budapest in 1874. Here he passed through the schools and finished his musical education. He was...
4. Josef Berkowicz (JE | WP GWP G) Officer in the Polish army; son of Colonel Berek (Berko). He took part in the battle of Kock, in 1809, in which his father...
5. Benzion Judah ben Eliahu Berkowitz (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Hebrew scholar; born July 23, 1803; died at Wilna May 11, 1879. He is the author of the following works devoted to...
6. Henry Berkowitz 1816 (JE | WP GWP G) Russian-English educator; born at Warsaw in 1816; died in Gravesend April 5, 1891. He came to London in 1841, and attracting...
7. Henry Berkowitz (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi; born at Pittsburg, Pa., March 18, 1857. He was educated at the Central High School of his native city, at...
8. Anton (Aron Wolf) Berlijn (JE | WP GWP G) Conductor and composer; born at Amsterdam May 21, 1817; died there Jan. 16, 1870. He wrote nine operas, seven ballets, an...
9. Berlin (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of Prussia and of the German empire. Though mentioned as early as the year 1225, it was an unimportant place during...
10. Berlin Congress (JE | WP GWP G) A meeting of the great European powers at Berlin between June 13 and July 13, 1878, to settle questions arising out of the...
11. Abraham Berlin (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A484: Abraham ben Judah Berlin
12. Aryeh Löb ben Abraham Meïr Berlin (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born 1738 at Fürth, Bavaria; died at Cassel May 21, 1814. When quite young Berlin was dayyan in his native...
13. David b. (Judah) Loeb Berlin (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of the three united congregations, Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbeck; born probably at Eisenstadt, Hungary, in the second...
14. Fanny Berlin (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B849: Berlin
15. Isaiah b. (Judah) Loeb Berlin JE (JE | WP GWP G) the most eminent critic among the German Talmudists of the eighteenth century; born in Eisenstadt, Hungary, about October...
16. Jacob Berlin (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist; born 1707, probably at Berlin; died 1749 at Fürth, Bavaria. He was a pupil of Jacob ha-Kohen, author...
17. Leo Berlin (JE | WP GWP G) Russian lawyer; son of Moses Berlin; born at Vitebsk Nov. 22, 1854; received his education (1862-72) at a private school in...
18. Moses (Moisei Josifovich) Berlin (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar, communal worker, and government official; born at Shklov, Russia, 1821; died in St. Petersburg March 25, 1888. He...
19. Nahman ben Simhah Berlin (JE | WP GWP G) A polemical writer against reform; lived at Lissa, Germany, at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth...
20. Naphtali Zebi Judah Berlin (JE | WP GWP G) Head of the yeshibah of Volozhin, Russia; born at Mir, in the government of Minsk, in 1817; died at Warsaw Aug. 10, 1893....

861 – 880

1. Noah Hayyim Zebi Hirsch b. Abraham Meïr Berlin (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist and rabbi; born at Fürth 1737; died at Altona March 5, 1802. He was the son of a well-to-do and learned...
2. Rudolf Berlin (JE | WP GWP G) German ophthalmologist; born May 2, 1833, at Friedland, Mecklenburg-Strelitz; died at Rostock Sept. 12, 1897. He received...
3. Samuel Berlin (JE | WP GWP G) German jurist; born at Bamberg Oct 11, 1807; died at Fürth Dec. 21, 1896. He was a son of Löb Berlin, of Bamberg...
4. Saul Berlin JE (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist, and one of the most learned Jews of the Mendelssohnian period; born (at Glogau?) 1740; died in London Nov...
5. Abraham (Adolf) Berliner JE (JE | WP GWP G) German theologian; historian; born in Obersitzko, province of Posen, Prussia, May 2, 1833; received his first education under...
6. Emil Berliner (JE | WP GWP G) American inventor; born in Hanover, Germany May 20, 1851. He was educated at the public schools of his native place and at...
7. Jekuthiel Berman (JE | WP GWP G) Russian-Hebrew novelist; born in 1825; died in Moscow about 1889. He held for over thirty years a responsible position in...
8. Adolf Bermann (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian writer; born at Presburg in 1867. After completing the study of law he became an employee of the Hungarian Credit...
9. Issachar ha-Levi Bermann (JE | WP GWP G) Philanthropist; born at Halberstadt Nisan 24, 1661; died there Tammuz 24, 1730; son of Judah Lehmann. At an early age he displayed...
10. Moriz Bermann (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian author; born at Vienna March 16, 1823; died there June 12, 1895. Bermann, who came of a family of publishers, was...
11. Bern (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the Swiss Confederation. Jews resided within its territory as early as the sixth century, but the first documentary...
12. Maximilian Bern (JE | WP GWP G) German author; born at Kherson, South Russia, Nov. 18, 1849, where his father practised medicine. On the latter's death...
13. Olga Bern (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian author; wife of Maximilian Bern; born at Vienna July 5, 1865. She went on the stage under her own name, Wohlbr&#252...
14. Abraham Nuñez Bernal (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish martyr; burned at the stake by the Inquisition of Cordova May 3, 1655. His martyrdom is celebrated in a work published...
15. Isaac (Marcus) de Almeyda Bernal (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish martyr; born in Montilla 1633; burned at the stake in St. Iago de Compostella(Galicia, Spain), in the month of March...
16. Maestro Bernal (JE | WP GWP G) A Marano, ship-physician on the first voyage of Columbus to America. He had lived in Tortosa and had undergone public penance...
17. Ralph Bernal (JE | WP GWP G) Politician and art-collector; died in 1854. His ancestors were of Spanish-Jewish origin. His father was Jacob Israel Bernal...
18. Abraham Bernard (JE | WP GWP G) Russian physician; born in 1762. He studied at London in 1789; practised medicine in Hasenpoth, Courland, Russia; became district...
19. Bernard of Clairvaux (JE | WP GWP G) Church father; born 1091, near Dijon, France; died at Clairvaux Aug. 20, 1153. He was originally a monk of the Cistercian...
20. Bernard (JE | WP GWP G) German poetess and authoress; born at Breslau, Silesia, about 1770; died about 1814. On her mother's side Bernard was...

881 – 900

1. Bernard of Gordon (JE | WP GWP G) Christian physician; born probably at Gordon in Guienne, department of Lot, France; professor of medicine at Montpellier about...
2. Hermann Bernard (JE | WP GWP G) Teacher of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge, England; born of Austrian parents at Uman, or Human, a small town in southern...
3. Bernardinus of Feltre (JE | WP GWP G) Franciscan friar; born at Feltre, Italy, in 1439; died Sept. 28, 1494. He was one of the bitterest enemies the Jews ever had...
4. Isaac Bernays JE (JE | WP GWP G) Chief rabbi in Hamburg; born 1792 at Mayence; died May 1, 1849, in Hamburg. After having finished his studies at the University...
5. Jacob Bernays (JE | WP GWP G) German philologist; born at Hamburg Sept. 18, 1824; died at Bonn May 26, 1881. He was the eldest son of the Chakam Isaac...
6. Michael Bernays (JE | WP GWP G) German historian of literature; born at Hamburg Nov. 27, 1834; died at Carlsruhe Feb. 25, 1897; son of Ḥakam and brother...
7. Bernburg (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1532: Anhalt
8. Julius D Bernd (JE | WP GWP G) American merchant and philanthropist; born in 1830; died at Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 30, 1892. Bernd was a successful business...
9. Simon Bernfeld (JE | WP GWP G) German publicist and rabbi; born in Stanislau, Galicia, Jan. 6, 1860. His father, who was a good rabbinical scholar and also...
10. Martin Bernhardt (JE | WP GWP G) German neuropath and medical author; born at Potsdam April 10, 1844. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native place...
11. Sarah Bernhardt (Rosine Bernard) (JE | WP GWP G) French actress; born at Paris Oct. 22, 1844, of Dutch Jewish parentage. She was received into the Roman Catholic Church at...
12. Gottfried Bernhardy (JE | WP GWP G) German philologist and historian of literature; born at Landsberg in the Neumark, province of Brandenburg, March 20, 1800...
13. Abram C Bernheim (JE | WP GWP G) American lawyer; born at New York city Feb. 1, 1866; died there July 24, 1895. Bernheim was educated in public schools of...
14. Ernst Bernheim (JE | WP GWP G) German historian; born at Hamburg Feb. 19, 1850. On completing his elementary and preparatory studies, he attended the universities...
15. Hippolyte Bernheim JE (JE | WP GWP G) French physician and neurologist; born at Mülhausen, Alsace. He received his education in his native town and at the...
16. Solomon Bernich (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar, poet, and adventurer of doubtful origin, who appeared in Holland about 1670 and attracted much attention. He spoke...
17. Julie Bernot (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J712: Judith, Mme
18. Leopold Bernard Bernstamm EL:JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian sculptor; born at Riga April 20, 1859. At the age of thirteen he entered the studio of Prof. D. Jensen at Riga, and...
19. Aaron (David) Bernstein (JE | WP GWP G) German publicist, scientist, and reformer; born April 6, 1812, in Danzig; died Feb. 12, 1884, in Berlin. His was one of the...
20. Béla Bernstein (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian rabbi and author; born in Várpalota, Hungary, 1868; was graduated as Ph.D. at Leipsic, 1890, and as rabbi at...

901 to 1000

901 – 920

1. Bernard Bernstein (JE | WP GWP G) Actor; born at Warsaw in 1861. He sang in the chorus of the Polish opera of that city, and appeared there as a comedian (1882)...
2. Eduard Bernstein (JE | WP GWP G) Socialist leader, editor, and author; born in Berlin 1850. Beginning life as a clerk in a bank, Bernstein's mind became...
3. Elsa Bernstein JE (JE | WP GWP G) German dramatist; daughter of Heinrich Porges, the friend of Richard Wagner; born at Vienna; educated at Munich; and, for...
4. Hermann Bernstein (JE | WP GWP G) Russian-American writer; born Sept. 20, 1876, at Shirwindt, Russia. When he was seven years of age his parents moved to Mohilev...
5. Hirsch Bernstein (JE | WP GWP G) Russian-American editor and publisher; born in Vladislavov (Neustadt-Schirvint), government of Suvalki, near the Prussian...
6. Hugo Karl Bernstein (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian dramatist; born in Budapest 1808; died at Milan 1877. He began the study of medicine, but lacking means sufficient...
7. Ignacy Bernstein (JE | WP GWP G) Polish bibliophile and writer on proverbs; born at Vinnitza, government of Podolia, Jan. 30, 1836, where his father Samson...
8. Ignati Abramovich Bernstein (JE | WP GWP G) Russian railroad engineer; born in Kremenetz, government of Volhynia, 1846; killed July 5, 1900, on the steamship "Odessa...
9. Israel Bernstein (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Hebrew publicist; born about the middle of the nineteenth century at Velizh, government of Vitebsk; studied pharmacy...
10. Joseph ("Joe") Bernstein (JE | WP GWP G) American pugilist; born in November, 1877, in New York city. He first appeared in the ring in 1894, during which year he gained...
11. Joseph Bernstein (JE | WP GWP G) Polish physician; born at Warsaw in 1797; died there in 1853. After graduating from the Warsaw Lyceum in 1815, hestudied medicine...
12. Julius Bernstein (JE | WP GWP G) German physiologist and medical writer; born at Berlin Dec. 8, 1839; son of Aaron Bernstein (1822-84). He studied at the University...
13. Karl Ilyich Bernstein (JE | WP GWP G) Russian jurist, professor of Roman law; born at Odessa Jan. 13, 1842; died at Berlin in 1894. He belongs, on the maternal...
14. Max Bernstein (JE | WP GWP G) German author; born May 13, 1854, at Fürth, Bavaria; now (1902) practising law at Munich. His literary activity is directed...
15. Naphtali Herz Bernstein (JE | WP GWP G) Author; lived in Russia about the first half of the nineteenth century. Being engaged in business, he devoted his leisure...
16. Nathan Osipovich Bernstein (JE | WP GWP G) Russian physiologist; born at Brody, Galicia, in 1836; died in Odessa Feb. 9, 1891. He received his first education from his...
17. Leopold Bernstein-Sinaieff (JE | WP GWP G) Russo-French sculptor; born at Wilna Nov. 22, 1868. He studied drawing in his native town, and at the age of fourteen settled...
18. Christian Günther, Count of Bernstorff (JE | WP GWP G) Danish and Prussian statesman; born April 3, 1769, in Copenhagen; died March 28, 1835. As early as 1787 he entered the diplomatic...
19. Berodach Baladan (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M481: Merodach Baladan
20. Beroea (JE | WP GWP G) Identified with the modern Haleb or Aleppo, the scene of the death of Menelaus, who was killed by being smothered in ashes...

921 – 940

1. Berothah (Berothai) (JE | WP GWP G) A city of Hadadezer, from which David obtained much brass subsequently used by Solomon in making the brazen sea, pillars,...
2. Emile Berr (JE | WP GWP G) French journalist; born at Lunéville, France, June 6, 1855. Having finished his classical studies at the Lyceum of Vanves...
3. George Berr (JE | WP GWP G) French actor and dramatist; born at Paris July 31, 1867; brother of Emile Berr. He was educated at the lyceums of Vanves and...
4. Berr Isaac Berr of Turique (JE | WP GWP G) French manufacturer; born at Nancy in 1744; died at Turique, near Nancy, Nov. 5, 1828. He came of a rich and estimable family...
5. Michel Berr (JE | WP GWP G) the first Jew to practise in France as a barrister; born at Nancy 1780; diedthere July 4, 1843. His father, Isaac Berr de...
6. Joseph Isaac Berruyer (JE | WP GWP G) French Jesuit; born at Rouen Nov. 7, 1681; died at Paris Feb. 1758. He was the author of a work entitled "Histoire du Peuple...
7. Bershad (JE | WP GWP G) Town in the district of Olgopol, province of Podolia, Russia, on the road between Olgopol and Balta, at the rivers Dakhna...
8. Sergei Aleksandrovich Bershadski JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian historian and jurist; born at Berdyansk March 30, 1850; died in St. Petersburg 1896. He graduated from the Gymnasium...
9. Isaiah Bershadsky (JE | WP GWP G) Russian novelist; born in Saimoscha, near Slonim, government of Grodno, 1874; now a teacher in Yekaterinoslav. Bershadsky...
10. Mathias Bersohn (JE | WP GWP G) Polish bibliographer, archeologist, and writer on fine arts; born at Warsaw 1826. He is the owner of a choice library which...
11. Bernard Bertensohn (JE | WP GWP G) Russian teacher and translator; born at Odessa at the end of the eighteenth century; died there 1859. He received a careful...
12. Joseph Vasilievich Bertensohn (JE | WP GWP G) Russian court-physician; born at Nikolaiev, government of Kherson, in 1835. He received his early education at the gymnasium...
13. Lev Bernardovich Bertensohn (JE | WP GWP G) Russian physician; born at Odessa Aug. 10, 1850; son of Bernard and nephew of Joseph Bertensohn. He graduated in 1867 from...
14. Vasili Alekseyevich Bertensohn (JE | WP GWP G) Russian agriculturist; born in Odessa Sept. 12, 1860. He belongs to the hereditary nobility, his father, Dr. Aleksei Vasilievich...
15. Ernest Bertheau (JE | WP GWP G) Biblical and Oriental scholar; born Nov. 23, 1812, in Hamburg; died May 17, 1888, in Göttingen. In 1843 he was appointed...
16. Berthold of Regensburg (JE | WP GWP G) Monk and itinerant preacher; born about 1220; died in Regensburg (Ratisbon) Dec. 14, 1272. This most celebrated popular preacher...
17. Obadiah (Yareh) b. Abraham Bertinoro JE (JE | WP GWP G) Celebrated rabbi and commentator on the Mishnah; lived in the second half of the fifteenth century in Italy; died in Jerusalem...
18. Abbé Bertolio (JE | WP GWP G) French cleric; member of the Commune of Paris in 1790. The National Assembly conferred citizenship upon the Jews of Bordeaux...
19. Corneille Bonaventure Bertram (JE | WP GWP G) Protestant clergyman and Hebraist; born at Thouars, France, in 1531; died at Lausanne, Switzerland, 1594. He studied at Poitiers...
20. Beruriah (JE | WP GWP G) Daughter of the martyr R. Hananiah ben Teradion, and wife of R. Meïr; born in the first quarter of the second century...

941 – 960

1. Berush (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B103: Baer of Meseritz
2. Beryl (JE | WP GWP G) A stone, ranging in color from blue to pale yellow and found all over the world; three kinds are to be distinguished&#8212...
3. Berytus (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B550: Beirut
4. Besalu (JE | WP GWP G) City in Catalonia, Spain. Its small Jewish community had the same privileges as that of the neighboring Gerona, and was taxed...
5. Besançon (JE | WP GWP G) City and county of France, in the department of Doubs. Although no mention is made of this city in Jewish sources, it is known...
6. Sir Walter Besant (JE | WP GWP G) English writer; novelist; born at Porṭsmouth Aug. 14, 1836; educated at King's College, London, and at Christ&#39...
7. Beschau (JE | WP GWP G) See Marriage Customs.
8. Beschreien (JE | WP GWP G) A Judæo-German word for lauding a person or thing to such an extent as to cause him or it to be harmed by malevolent...
9. Israel Besht of Miedzyboz (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B18: Baal Shem-Ṭob, Israel
10. Besor (JE | WP GWP G) A wadi or river-bed where two hundred of the followers of David stopped while the rest of the force pursued the Amalekites...
11. Bessarabia (JE | WP GWP G) Government in southwest Russia; separated by the Pruth and Danube from Rumania on the west, by the Dniester from Podolia and...
12. Emil Bessels (JE | WP GWP G) German-American Arctic explorer and naturalist; born at Heidelberg June 2, 1847; died at Stuttgart March 30, 1888. At the...
13. Bet (JE | WP GWP G) the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Its numerical value is two, wherefore the bet in the word (Gen. xxi. 12) is interpreted...
14. Bet Beltin (JE | WP GWP G) A steep hill above the Euphrates, on which is built the modern town of Bir; lat. 37° 3' N., long. 38° E. Travelers...
15. Bet Din (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinical term for court-house or court. In view of the theocratic conception of the law, which pervades Biblical legislation...
16. Bet Hillel and Bet Shammai (JE | WP GWP G) the "School (literally, "house") of Hillel" and the "School of Shammai" are names by which are designated the most famous...
17. Bet ha-Midrash (JE | WP GWP G) High school; literally, "house of study," or place where the students of the Law gather to listen to the Midrash, the discourse...
18. Bet-talmud (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew monthly review, devoted to Talmudical and rabbinical studies and literature; founded in 1881 by Isaac Hirsch Weiss...
19. Bene Betera (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B428: Bathyra
20. Beth-anath (JE | WP GWP G) A Canaanite city in the territory of Naphtali, the name of which contains, as one of its elements, the name of a god, Anath...

961 – 980

1. Beth-anoth (JE | WP GWP G) City in the hills of Judah (Josh. xv. 59). It has been identified by both Conder and Buhl ("Geographie," p. 158) with the...
2. Beth-arabah (JE | WP GWP G) A town situated, according to Josh. xv. 61, in the wilderness of Judah. It was a border-town between Judah and Benjamin, and...
3. Beth-aram (JE | WP GWP G) A city east of the Jordan. The Talmud speaks of it as "Bethramta" (); Eusebius as "Bethramphta"; and Josephus as "Betharamatha...
4. Beth-arbel (JE | WP GWP G) Mentioned only once (Hosea x. 14) as a city destroyed by Shalman. Opinions vary both as to the location of the place and as...
5. Beth-aven (JE | WP GWP G) A city on the border of Benjamin in the wilderness (Josh. xviii. 12), east of Bethel (Josh. vii. 2) and west of Michmash (I...
6. Beth-azmaveth (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A2218: Azmaveth
7. Beth-dagon (JE | WP GWP G) the name of several places apparently in ancient Palestine. The second element is the name of the Philistine god Dagon. In...
8. Beth-diblathaim (JE | WP GWP G) City of Moab (Jer. xlviii. 22) identical with Almon diblataim.J. Jr. G. B. L. ...
9. Beth-el (JE | WP GWP G) A city famous for its shrine, on the boundary between Ephraim and Judea—the site of the present little village of B&#234...
10. Beth-emek (JE | WP GWP G) A town on the border between Asher and Zebulun, belonging to the latter (Josh. xix. 27). It lay to the east of Acco; but its...
11. Beth Gubrin (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a city mentioned in the Talmud and in the Midrash (Neubauer, "G. T." pp. 122 et seq.), called "Betogaboa" by Ptolemy...
12. Beth-haccerem (JE | WP GWP G) According to Neh. iii. 14, a Judean city; described in Jer. vi. 1 as a high place visible at a great distance. Jerome (on...
13. David de Beth-Hillel (JE | WP GWP G) Beni-Israel; author of a book of "Travels," Madras, 1832, the first work by a Jew published in India. He describes his travels...
14. Beth-horon (JE | WP GWP G) Name of two villages at the western end of the Ephraimitc mountains, called respectively "upper Beth-horon" (Josh. xvi. 5)...
15. Beth-jaazek (JE | WP GWP G) According to the Mishnah (R. H. ii. 4), a large court in which the Sanhedrin awaited the announcement of the new moon. The...
16. Beth-jeshimoth (JE | WP GWP G) Town in the district east of the Jordan, allotted to the tribe of Reuben according to Num. xxxiii. 49 and Josh. xii. 3, xiii...
17. Bet ha-Keneset (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1002: Synagogue
18. Beth-lehem-judah (JE | WP GWP G) the modern Bait Lachm, situated about 5 miles south of Jerusalem, some 15 minutes' walk east of the road to Hebron...
19. Beth-peor (JE | WP GWP G) A place in the valley of the Jordan which, in Josh. xiii. 20, is apportioned to the Reubenites. In Deuteronomy (iii. 29, iv...
20. Beth-rehob (JE | WP GWP G) An Aramaic city which sent reenforcements to the Ammonites during the war with David (II Sam. x. 6, 8; compareI Sam. 14, 47...

981 – 1000

1. Beth-shan (JE | WP GWP G) Fortified town of Canaan. The Baisân of to-day, in the lower part of the Jalûd chasm, 120 meters below the level...
2. Beth-she'arim (JE | WP GWP G) According to rabbinic accounts, the Sanhedrin was destined to pass through ten exiles during the period 30-170, and to be...
3. Beth-shemesh (JE | WP GWP G) A city of the hill-country between Judea and the coast on the southern side of Wadi Sarâar, called to-day 'Ain Shems...
4. Beth-shittah (JE | WP GWP G) A place near Abel-meholah. To it the Midianites fled when pursued by Gideon (Judges vii. 22). The name occurs only here; the...
5. Beth-zur (JE | WP GWP G) A city in southern Judea (Josh. xv. 58, I Chron. ii. 45; Neh. iii. 16) which was fortified by Rehoboam, (II Chron. xi. 7)...
6. Bethabara (JE | WP GWP G) An unidentified place mentioned in John i. 28. According to Origen's reading, the name is brought into connection with...
7. Bethany (JE | WP GWP G) A place referred to in the Gospels, and probably also in the Talmud, under the forms , and , but not mentioned in the Old...
8. Bethar (JE | WP GWP G) City in Palestine, scene of the war of bar Kokba (132-135), and mentioned as such in Mishnah Ta'anit iv. 6; Yer. Ta&#39...
9. Bethel (JE | WP GWP G) An Italian-Jewish family, several members of which are known as liturgical poets and copyists. According to a family tradition...
10. Bethesda (JE | WP GWP G) A pool in Jerusalem. According to John v. 2—the only passage wherein it is mentioned—it was "by the sheep market...
11. Bethphage (JE | WP GWP G) Town mentioned in several passages of the New Testament (Matt. xxi. 1; Mark xi. 1; Luke xix. 29), in all of which it is brought...
12. Bethsaida (JE | WP GWP G) A town in northern Palestine not mentioned in the Old Testament, but referred to in the Gospels, and by Josephus, Pliny, and...
13. Bethuel (JE | WP GWP G) 1. According to Gen. xxii. 22, a descendant of Arphaxad (compare Gen. xi. 13-22). He was the son of Nahor and Milcah, and...
14. Bethulia (JE | WP GWP G) Name of the city which, according to the Book of Judith, was besieged by Holofernes; the home of Judith. In the shorter version...
15. Betrothal (JE | WP GWP G) the term "betrothal" in Jewish law must not be understood in its modern sense; that is, the agreement of a man and a woman...
16. Bettelheim >> Caroline von Gomperz-Bettelheim JE (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a Hungarian family. The first bearer of it is said to have lived toward the second half of the eighteenth century...
17. Betting (JE | WP GWP G) the mutual agreement of two parties as to gain and loss upon a certain contingency. It seems to have been unknown in Biblical...
18. Paulina Beturia JE (JE | WP GWP G) Roman proselyte to Judaism (about the year 50), known under the name "Sarah," who, according to her Latin epitaph, was eighty-six...
19. Auguste Arthur, Count Beugnot JE (JE | WP GWP G) French statesman and scholar; born at Bar-sur-Aube March, 1797; died at Paris March 15, 1865. Originally he adopted the profession...
20. Beuthen (JE | WP GWP G) City of Prussian Silesia. No precise information is forthcoming as to when Jews first settled in the city. The mention of...

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