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1. Jaarbooken vor de Israeliten (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Y27: Year-Books
2. Jaazer JE (JE | WP GWP G) A city east of the Jordan, in or near Gilead (Num. xxxii. 1, 3; I Chron. l.c.), and inhabited by the Amorites. It was taken...
3. Jabal ibn Jawwal JE (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish Arabic poet of the seventh century; contemporary of Mohammed. According to ibn Hisham ("Kitab Sirat Rasul Allah," ed...
4. Abu al-Tayyib al-Jabali (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite scholar of the tenth century. His full name is said to have been Samuel ben Asher ben Manṣur. The surname "al-Jabali"...
5. Jabbok (JE | WP GWP G) One of the principal tributaries of the Jordan; first mentioned in connection with the meeting of Jacob and Esau and with...
6. Jabesh (JE | WP GWP G) Principal city of Gilead, east of the Jordan. It is first mentioned in connection with the war between the Benjamites and...
7. Jabez (JE | WP GWP G) Eponym of a clan of the Kenite family of the Rechabites, which clan was merged into the tribe of Judah. I Chron. ii. 55 refers...
8. Barzillai ben Baruch Jabez (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish Talmudist of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; son-in-law of Elijah Ḥako, author of "Ruach Eliyahu...
9. Isaac ben Solomon ben Isaac ben Joseph ha-Doresh Jabez (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish Biblical exegete and preacher in the second half of the sixteenth century; a descendant of Joseph Jabez. He wrote:...
10. Joseph ben Hayyim Jabez JE (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish theologian of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He lived for a time in Portugal, where he associated with Joseph...
11. Jabin (JE | WP GWP G) King of Hazor; head of one of the great confederations which faced Joshua in his conquest of Canaan (Josh. xi.). He summoned...
12. Daniel E Jablonski (JE | WP GWP G) German Christian theologian and Orientalist; born Nov. 26, 1660, in Danzig; died May 25, 1741, in Berlin. After spending some...
13. Jabneh (JE | WP GWP G) Philistine city; taken by Uzziah, who demolished its wall (II Chron. xxvi. 6). Jabneh is mentioned with Gath and Ashdod, two...
14. Jaca (JE | WP GWP G) City of Aragon, Spain. Jews were settled here as early as the eleventh century, during which the city became the seat of a...
15. Jachin (JE | WP GWP G) 1. The righthand pillar of the two brazen ones set up in the porch of the Temple of Solomon, that on the left or north being...
16. Jackal (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F285: Fox
17. Jäcklin (Jacob) (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish financier of Ulm in the fourteenth century; married the daughter of the "Grossjuden" Moses of Ehingen. Jäcklin...
18. Harry Jackson (JE | WP GWP G) English actor; born in London 1836; died there Aug. 13, 1885. At an early age he left England for Australia, where he adopted...
19. Jacob (JE | WP GWP G) Third patriarch; son of Isaac and Rebekah, and ancestor of the Israelites. Hewas born when his father was sixty years old...
20. Blessing of Jacob (JE | WP GWP G) Name given to the chapter containing the prophetic utterances of Jacob concerning the destiny of his twelve sons as the fathers...

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1. Jacob (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second century; probably identical with Jacob b. Korshai (= "the Korshaite," or "of Korsha")...
2. Jacob b. Aaron of Karlin JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi and author; died at Karlin, government of Minsk, 1855. He was a grandson of Baruch of Shklov, the mathematician...
3. Jacob b. Abba (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian scholar of the third century; junior to Rab (B. M. 41a). He was an expert dialectician, and prevailed in argument...
4. Jacob b. Abba Mari (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1480: Anatolio (Anatoli), Jacob ben Abba Mari
5. Jacob bar Abina (Abin; Bun) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth century. He is known as having transmitted the haggadot of Samuel b. Nachman, Abbahu...
6. Jacob ben Abraham Faitusi JE (JE | WP GWP G) Tunisian scholar; died at Algiers July, 1812. He settled in the later part of his life at Jerusalem, whence he was sent as...
7. Jacob bar Aha (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third generation (latter part of the third century); contemporary of R. Ze'era. He rarely gives...
8. Jacob ben Amram (JE | WP GWP G) Polemical writer of the seventeenth century. He wrote in 1634, in Latin, a book against the religion of the Christians, with...
9. Jacob ben Asher (JE | WP GWP G) German codifier and Biblical commentator; died at Toledo, Spain, before 1340. Very little is known of Jacob's life; and...
10. Jacob (Aberle, Abril) Benedict (Benet) (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Alt-Ofen at the beginning of the nineteenth century; son of Mordecai b. Abraham Benet (Marcus Benedict). Jacob was...
11. Jacob ben Benjamin Zeeb Sak (JE | WP GWP G) About 1665 Jacob was appointed rabbi of Trebitsch, later of Ungarisch-Brod, and after the death of Ephraim he officiated in...
12. Benno Jacob (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and Biblical scholar; born at Breslau Sept. 8, 1862; educated at the gymnasium, the university, and the theological...
13. Jacob Berah de-Bat Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) Mari b. Rachel b. Samuel. See under Gaon; Mar.
14. Jacob bar Berateh de-Elisha Aher (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B410: Jacob
15. Jacob Çadique (Zaddik) (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish physician and writer; born at Ucles in the second third of the fourteenth century. He devoted himself to the study...
16. Jacob of Chinon (JE | WP GWP G) French tosafist; lived about 1190-1260. He was a pupil of Isaac ben Abraham of Dampierre and a teacher of Perez of Corbeil...
17. Jacob of Corbeil (JE | WP GWP G) French tosafist of the twelfth century. He was the brother of Judah of Corbeil, author of tosafot to various treatises of...
18. Jacob of Coucy (JE | WP GWP G) French tosafist of the thirteenth century; mentioned in tosafot to Kiddushin (43b, 67a), by Mordecai, and in Joseph...
19. Jacob ben David Provençal (JE | WP GWP G) French Talmudist of the fifteenth century; not to be confounded with the astronomer Jacob ben David ben Yom-Tob Po&#39...
20. Jacob b. Eleazar (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish grammarian of the first third of the thirteenth century. The assumption that he lived in the first third of the twelfth...

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1. Jacob b. Eliezer (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T120: Temerls, Jacob
2. Jacob ben Ephraim UNR (JE | WP GWP G) Syrian Talmudist of the tenth century. From Salmon b. Jeroham's commentary to Psalms (cxl. 6) it appears that Jacob b...
3. Jacob ben Ephraim of Lublin JE (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; died in Lublin 1648. At first he occupied the post of rabbi and instructor at the yeshibah of that city, whence...
4. Jacob of Fulda (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J75: Jacob ben Mordecai
5. Jacob the Galilean (JE | WP GWP G) Son of the Judah who caused an uprising against the Romans at the time of the taxation under Quirinius. Jacob followed his...
6. Jacob Gebulaah (Gebulaya) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian scholar of the third century; disciple of Johanan (Yer. Yeb. viii. 9b). He seems also to have sat at the feet...
7. Jacob b. Gershom ha-Gozer (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist of the twelfth century. He was a nephew of Ephraim b. Jacob of Bonn, with whom he carried on a scientific...
8. Jacob the Gnostic (JE | WP GWP G) See James (the Just).
9. Jacob ben Hananeel Sekili (JE | WP GWP G) Bible commentator and cabalist; lived in the fourteenth century. He was the author of "Minchat ha-Bikkurim," the first...
10. Jacob ben Hayyim ben Isaac ibn Adonijah JE (JE | WP GWP G) Masorite and printer; born about 1470 at Tunis (hence sometimes called Tunisi); died before 1538. He left his native country...
11. Jacob b. Immanuel Provençal (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1291: Bonet de Lates
12. Israel Jacob (JE | WP GWP G) German banker and philanthropist; born April 14, 1729, at Halberstadt; died Nov. 25, 1803. He was widely respected for his...
13. Jacob ben Israel ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Zante; died on that island in 1634. He was a native of Morea, Greece, and passed the earlier part of his life at...
14. Jacob b. Jacob ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish cabalist of the end of the thirteenth century; born at Soria; buried at Segovia; also called Gikatilla, according...
15. Jacob ben Jacob Moses of Lissa JE (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist; died in Stryj, Galicia, May 25, 1832. He was a great-grandson of Zebi Ashkenazi and a pupil of Meshullam...
16. Jacob ben Jekuthiel (JE | WP GWP G) French Talmudic scholar; born at Rouen; died at Arras in 1023. Jacob became known by the fact that he was the bearer of a...
17. Jacob ben Jeremiah Mattithiah ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) German translator of the seventeenth century. He translated into Judæo-German Abraham Jagel's "Lekach...
18. Jacob ben Joel (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi in Brest-Litovsk in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He wrote: "She'erit Ya'akob," containing...
19. Jacob ben Joseph Israel (JE | WP GWP G) French scholar; lived at Pont-Audemer in the twelfth century; pupil of Jacob Tam, with whom he carried on a correspondence...
20. Jacob Joshua ben Zebi Hirsch JE (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; born at Cracow in 1680; died at Offenbach Jan. 16, 1756. On his mother's side he was a grandson of Joshua...

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1. Jacob Judah Aryeh Leon (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L190: Leon
2. Jacob ben Judah Hazzan of London (JE | WP GWP G) English codifier of the thirteenth century. His grandfather was one Jacob he-Aruk (possibly Jacob le Long). In 1287 Jacob...
3. Jacob ben Judah Löb (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; lived in the second half of the eighteenth century. Educated as a Talmudist, he became rabbi of Krasnopolie...
4. Julius Jacob (JE | WP GWP G) German landscape- and portrait-painter; born in Berlin April 25, 1811; died there Oct. 20, 1882. He studied under Wach at...
5. Jacob of Kefar Hanan (Hanin) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third generation (3d and 4th cent.). Jacob is especially known as a haggadist (Pesik. iv. 30b...
6. Jacob of Kefar HitTaya (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian scholar of the second century; contemporary of Judah I. Jacob is said to have been in the habit of visiting his...
7. Jacob of Kefar Neburaya (JE | WP GWP G) Judæo-Christian of the fourth century. Neburaya is probably identical with Nabratain, a place to the north of Safed,...
8. Jacob of Kefar Sekanya (Simaï) (JE | WP GWP G) Judæo-Christian of the first century; mentioned on two occasions, in both Talmuds and in the Midrash. Meeting R. Eliezer...
9. Jacob b. Korshai (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B410: Jacob
10. Jacob ha-Levi He-hasid (JE | WP GWP G) French rabbi and cabalist; lived in the thirteenth century, at Marvège. It was said that by prayers and invocations he...
11. Jacob Loanz b. Jehiel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J71: Loanz b. Jehiel, Jacob
12. Jacob of London JE (JE | WP GWP G) First known presbyter of the Jews of England; appointed to that position by King John in 1199, who also gave him a safe conduct...
13. Jacob of Lunel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J85: Jacob Nazir
14. Jacob ben Meïr Tam (JE | WP GWP G) Most prominent of French tosafists; born at Ramerupt, on the Seine, in 1100; died at Troyes June 9, 1171. His mother, Jochebed...
15. Jacob ben Mordecai (JE | WP GWP G) German scholar; flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A native of Fulda, he was generally called "Jacob...
16. Jacob ben Mordecai ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) Gaon of Sura from 801 to 815; succeeded Hilai ben Mari. He officiated fourteen years, according to a text of Sherira ("M....
17. Jacob ben Moses ben Abun (JE | WP GWP G) Head of the yeshibah of Narbonne, France. As Abraham b. David in his "Sefer ha-Kabbalah" (MS. quoted by Abraham Zacuto...
18. Jacob ben Moses of Bagnols (JE | WP GWP G) Provençal theologian of the second half of the fourteenth century; lived successively at Salon, Avignon, and Argon. He...
19. Jacob b. Moses Mölln (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J79: Mölln, Jacob ben Moses
20. Jacob ibn Na'im (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Smyrna toward the end of the seventeenth century. He corresponded with Ḥayyim Benveniste, author of "Keneset...

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1. Jacob ben Naphtali (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist of Gnesen; flourished about 1650. His father was clerk of the Jewry in Great Poland (), and died in 1646. Jacob...
2. Jacob ben Naphtali ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) Italian printer; born in Gazolo; lived in the sixteenth century. For some time prior to 1556 he was the manager of Tobiah...
3. Jacob ben Nathanael ibn al-Fayyumi JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rosh yeshibah of the Yemen Jews in the second half of the twelfth century. All that is known of him is that at the suggestion...
4. Jacob bar Natronai (JE | WP GWP G) Gaon of Sura (911-924). After the death of his predecessor, Shalom bar Mishael, the Academy of Sura became impoverished and...
5. Jacob Nazir (JE | WP GWP G) French exegete; flourished in the second half of the twelfth century; one of the five sons of Meshullam ben Jacob of Lunel...
6. Jacob ben Nissim ibn Shahin JE (JE | WP GWP G) Philosopher; lived at Kairwan in the tenth century; younger contemporary of Saadia. At Jacob's request Sherira Gaon wrote...
7. Jacob ben Obadiah Sforno (JE | WP GWP G) Italian scholar; lived at Venice in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was the author of a work entitled "Iggeret...
8. Jacob of Orleans (JE | WP GWP G) French tosafist; died as a martyr in London Sept. 3, 1189. He was one of the most distinguished pupils of Rabbenu Tam, being...
9. Jacob of Pont Saint-Maxence (JE | WP GWP G) French tax-farmer of the fourteenth century. With Manecier of Vesoul and his brother Vivant he was appointed (1360) by Charles...
10. Jacob ben Reuben JE (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite Bible exegete of the eleventh century. He wrote a brief Hebrew commentary on the entire Bible, which he entitled "Sefer...
11. Jacob ben Reuben ibn Zur JE (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist and rabbi of Fez; born in the latter part of the seventeenth century; died after 1750. That his reputation as a...
12. Jacob Roman ibn Pakuda (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R345: Roman, Jacob
13. Jacob ben Samson (JE | WP GWP G) French tosafist and liturgist; flourished at Paris or at Falaise in the first third of the twelfth century. He is mentioned...
14. Jacob b. Samuel Sirkes (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S839: Sirkes, Joel b. Samuel
15. Jacob ben Sheshet Gerondi (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish cabalist of Gerona (whence his surname "Gerondi") in the thirteenth century. He was the author of "Sha'ar ha-Shamayim...
16. Jacob ben Solomon (JE | WP GWP G) French tosafist; born at Courson, department of the Yonne; flourished between 1180 and 1250. He was a pupil of Samson of Sens...
17. Jacob ben Sosa (JE | WP GWP G) Idumean leader. In the great war against Rome, 67-70, when Simon bar Giora went on a raid through Idumæa to take provisions...
18. Jacob Temerls (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T120: Temerls, Jacob
19. Jacob Tub (Tawus) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T90: Tawus
20. Jacob Uziel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See U63: Uziel, Jacob

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1. Jacob of Vienna (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi and Biblical commentator of the fourteenth century. The Munich MSS. (Hebrew) contain a commentary on the Pentateuch...
2. Jacob (b. Judah) Weil (JE | WP GWP G) -- See W85: Weil, Jacob
3. Jacob ben Wolf Kranz of Dubno (Dubner Maggid) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian preacher; born at Zietil, government of Wilna, about 1740; died at Zamosc Dec. 18, 1804. At the age of eighteen he...
4. Jacob b. Yakar JE (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist; flourished in the first half of the eleventh century. He was a pupil of Gershom b. Judah in Mayence, and...
5. Jacob ben Zabda (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth generation (4th cent.); junior contemporary, and probably pupil, of Abbahu, in whose name...
6. Abraham Jacobi (JE | WP GWP G) American physician; born at Hartum, near Minden, Westphalia, May 6, 1830; educated at the universities of Greifswald, G&#246...
7. Heinrich Otto Jacobi (JE | WP GWP G) German philologist; born at Tütz, West Prussia, 1815; died in Berlin 1864. He studied at Berlin University, and received...
8. Karl Gustav Jakob Jacobi (JE | WP GWP G) German mathematician; born Dec. 10, 1804, at Potsdam; died at Berlin Feb. 18, 1851; brother of Moritz Hermaun Jacobi. He studied...
9. Moritz Hermann Jacobi (JE | WP GWP G) German physicist; born Sept. 21, 1801, at Potsdam; died March 10, 1874, at St. Petersburg. He was established as architect...
10. Samuel Jacobi (JE | WP GWP G) Danish physician; born in Yaroslav, Galicia, 1764; died in Copenhagen 1811. He studied the Talmud for some years, but later...
11. George Jacobs (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi of English Sephardic descent; born in Kingston, Jamaica, Sept. 24, 1834; died in Philadelphia July 14, 1884...
12. Henry S Jacobs (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi; born in Kingston, Jamaica, March 22, 1827; died in New York Sept. 12, 1893. He studied for the Jewish ministry...
13. Joseph Jacobs (JE | WP GWP G) Critic, folklorist, historian, statistician, communal worker; born Aug. 29, 1854, at Sydney, N. S. W.; educated at Sydney...
14. Joseph Jacobs (JE | WP GWP G) English conjurer; born at Canterbury 1813; died Oct. 13, 1870. He first appeared in London at Horn's Tavern, Kennington...
15. Simeon Jacobs JE (JE | WP GWP G) Judge in the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope; born in 1830; died in London June 15, 1883. He became a barrister of...
16. Paul Jacobsohn (JE | WP GWP G) German physician and hygienist; born in Berlin Sept. 30, 1868; educated at the gymnasium in Berlin and the universities of...
17. Jacobson (JE | WP GWP G) Danish family of engravers, of whom the first important member was Aaron Jacobson (1717-75), who, in the middle of the eighteenth...
18. Eduard Jacobson (JE | WP GWP G) German dramatist; born at Gross Strelitz, Silesia, Nov. 10, 1833 (M.D. Berlin, 1859); died in Berlin Jan. 29, 1897. He established...
19. Heinrich Jacobson (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born Oct. 27, 1826, at Königsberg, East Prussia; died Dec. 10, 1890, at Berlin; educated at the gymnasium...
20. Heinrich Friedrich Jacobson (JE | WP GWP G) German jurist and writer on ecclesiastical law; born at Marienwerder June 8, 1804; died at Königsberg March 19, 1868...

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1. Israel Jacobson JE (JE | WP GWP G) German philanthropist and reformer; born in Halberstadt Oct. 17, 1768; died in Hanover Sept. 14, 1828. Originally his father&#39...
2. Ludwig Lewin Jacobson JE (JE | WP GWP G) Danish surgeon; born in Copenhagen Jan. 10, 1783; died there Aug. 29, 1843. He received his early education at the German...
3. Nathan Jacobson (JE | WP GWP G) American surgeon; born in Syracuse, N. Y., June 25, 1857. He was graduated from Syracuse University, and took a postgraduate...
4. Johann Eduard Jacobsthal (JE | WP GWP G) German architect; born at Stargard, Pomerania, Sept. 17, 1839. He studied at the architectural academy in Berlin, and, after...
5. Johann Jacoby (JE | WP GWP G) German physician and statesman; born at Königsberg, Prussia, May 1, 1805; died there March 6, 1877. The son of a well-to-do...
6. Louis Jacoby JE (JE | WP GWP G) German engraver; born June 7, 1828, at Havelberg, Brandenburg, Germany; pupil of the engraver Mandel of Berlin, in which city...
7. Jacopo (Jacomo) Sansecondo (JE | WP GWP G) Italian musician of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; born about 1468. Jacopo was an eminent violinist; his reputation...
8. Heinrich Jacques (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian deputy; born in Vienna Feb. 24, 1831; shot himself Jan. 25, 1894. He studied philosophy and history at Heidelberg...
9. Jacques Pasha (Jacques Nissim Pasha) (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish army surgeon; born in 1850 at Salonica; died there Aug. 25, 1903. The son of a physician, he was sent at an early...
10. Josef Jadassohn (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Liegnitz Sept. 10, 1863. He was educated at the universities of Göttingen, Breslau, Heidelberg...
11. Solomon Jadassohn (JE | WP GWP G) German composer and music teacher; born at Breslau, Prussia, Aug. 13, 1831; pupil at the Breslau gymnasium and of Hesse (pianoforte)...
12. Jaddua (JE | WP GWP G) High priest at the time of the Second Temple. According to Neh. xii. 11, his father's name was Jonathan, but according...
13. Jael, the Kenite woman (JE | WP GWP G) Wife of Heber, the Kenite (Judges iv. 17). Jabin, the king of Canaan, "that reigned in Hazor," had tyrannized over Israel...
14. Jaen (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the province of Jaen in Andalusia, Spain. It possessed a flourishing Jewish community as early as the thirteenth...
15. Jaffa (JE | WP GWP G) City of Palestine and Mediterranean port, 35 miles northwest of Jerusalem. In ancient times it was Palestine's only point...
16. Jaffe (Joffe) >> Philipp Jaffé JE (JE | WP GWP G) Family of rabbis, scholars, and communal workers, with members in Germany, Austria, Russia, Great Britain, Italy, and the...
17. Abraham ben Hananiah dei Galicchi Jagel JE (JE | WP GWP G) Italian catechist, philosopher, and cabalist; born at Monselice; lived successively at Luzzara, Venice, Ferrara, and Sassuolo...
18. Gamaliel ben Hananiah Jagel, of Monselice (JE | WP GWP G) Italian scholar; lived at Ferrara, later at Parma, in the seventeenth century. He filled the position of chief rabbi or head...
19. Jahrzeit (JE | WP GWP G) Judæo-German term denoting the anniversary of a death, commemorated by mourning and by reciting the Kaddish. The...
20. Jahvist (JE | WP GWP G) the name given in modern Bible criticism to the supposed author of those portions of the Pentateuch (or of the Hexateuch)...

141 – 160

1. Jail (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I121: Imprisonment
2. Jair (JE | WP GWP G) A contemporary of Moses, called in the Pentateuch "son of Manasseh," who in the beginning of the conquest took from the Amorites...
3. Mordecai b. David Jalomstein (JE | WP GWP G) American journalist; born in Suwalki, Russian Poland, 1835; died in New York city Aug. 18, 1897. He was well versed in Talmudic...
4. Jamaica (JE | WP GWP G) Largest island in the British West Indies. It has a total population of 644,841 (1901), of whom about 2,400 are Jews. When...
5. James (JE | WP GWP G) Name of three persons prominent in New Testament history. (see image) Synagogue at Spanish Town, Jamaica.(From a photograph...
6. General Epistle of James (JE | WP GWP G) Letter of exhortation and instruction, written by "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ," and addressed "to...
7. David James (David Belasco) (JE | WP GWP G) English comedian; born at Birmingham 1839; died in London Oct. 3, 1893. Under the auspices of Charles Kean, James made his...
8. Jamnia (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J13: Jabneh
9. Janina (JE | WP GWP G) City in Albania, European Turkey, on the lake of Janina.The community, which was flourishing in the middle of the nineteenth...
10. Jannai (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Y14: Yannai
11. Jannes and Jambres (JE | WP GWP G) Names of two legendary wizards of Pharaoh "who withstood Moses" (II Tim. iii. 8) by imitating "with their enchantments" the...
12. David Janowski (JE | WP GWP G) Russian chess-player; born May 25, 1868, in Russian Poland. He learned to play chess as a child, but did not make a serious...
13. Januarius (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudic name of a legendary hero; it is taken from the name of the first of the twelve Roman months. R. Johanan, in Yer....
14. Japheth (JE | WP GWP G) One of the sons of Noah, and the ancestor of a branch of the human race called "Japhetites." Japheth and his two brothers...
15. Japheth ha-Levi JE (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite Bible translator and commentator; flourished at Jerusalem between 950 and 980. He was one of the most able Bible commentators...
16. Japhia (JE | WP GWP G) 1. King of Lachish, and one of the five kings who, entering into a confederacy against Joshua (Josh. x. 3), were killed by...
17. Japho (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J135: Jaffa
18. Jare (JE | WP GWP G) Name of an ancient Italian family of scholars dating back to the fifteenth century. Giuseppe Jaré: Italian rabbi;...
19. Jargon (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J586: Judæo-German
20. Nehorai Jarmon (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G75: Garmon, Nehorai

161 – 180

1. Josef Jarno (Josef Cohen) (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian actor; born at Budapest Aug. 24, 1866. He was educated for a mercantile career, but went on the stage when nineteen...
2. Jaroslaw (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Y22: Yaroslav
3. Aaron Jaroslaw JE (JE | WP GWP G) One of the Biurists; a tutor in the house of Mendelssohn; afterward teacher at Lemberg. His commentary on the Book of Numbers...
4. Book of Jasher (JE | WP GWP G) A book, apparently containing heroic songs, mentioned twice in the Old Testament: in the account of the battle of Gibeon a...
5. Jason (JE | WP GWP G) High priest from 174 to 171 B.C.; brother of the high priest Onias III. During the absence of Onias, who had been summoned...
6. Jason of Cyrene (JE | WP GWP G) Judæo-Hellenistic historian. He wrote a history of the Maccabean revolt in five books, from which the author of II Maccabees...
7. Jassy (Jaschi) (JE | WP GWP G) City of Rumania. Jassy contains the oldest and most important Jewish community of Moldavia, of which principality it was formerly...
8. Ignaz Jastrow (JE | WP GWP G) German economist and statistician; born Sept. 13, 1856, at Nakel. Having studied at Breslau, Berlin, and Göttingen (Ph...
9. Joseph Jastrow (JE | WP GWP G) American psychologist; born Jan. 30, 1863, at Warsaw, Poland. He accompanied his father, Dr. Marcus Jastrow, to the United...
10. Marcus (Mordecai) Jastrow JE (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi and scholar; born June 5, 1829, at Rogasen, Prussian Poland; died Oct. 13, 1903, at Germantown, Pa.; fifth...
11. Morris Jastrow, Jr (JE | WP GWP G) American Orientalist and librarian; son of Marcus Jastrow; born Aug. 13, 1861, at Warsaw, Poland. His family removed to the...
12. Jativa (JE | WP GWP G) City in the kingdom of Valencia. The Jews of this locality were granted special privileges by Don Jaime, the conqueror of...
13. Emile Javal (JE | WP GWP G) French physician and deputy; born May 5, 1839, at Paris; son of Leopold Javal. Emile studied both medicine and mineralogy...
14. Ernest Leopold Javal (JE | WP GWP G) French administrative officer; born Sept. 25, 1843, at Paris; died there Sept. 1, 1897; son of Leopold Javal. He was a lieutenant...
15. Leopold Javal (JE | WP GWP G) French politician; born at Mülhausen Dec. 1, 1804; died at Paris March 28, 1872. The son of a wealthy merchant, he entered...
16. Javan (JE | WP GWP G) Name of one of the seven sons of Japheth, given in the list of nations (Gen. x. 2, 4; comp. I Chron. i. 5, 7), and as such...
17. Samuel Isaac Jawlikar (JE | WP GWP G) Beni-Israel; born about 1820 in Bombay. He enlisted in the Third Bombay Native Light Infantry April 4, 1840; was promoted...
18. Mount Jearim (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C435: Chesalon
19. Jebus JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J242: Jerusalem
20. Jebusites JE (JE | WP GWP G) One of the nations that occupied Palestine at the time of the invasion of the Israelites. In the list of the sons of Canaan...

181 – 200

1. Jeconiah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J198: Jehoiachin
2. Jedaiah Penini (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B492: Bedersi, Jedaiah ben Abraham
3. Jedidah (JE | WP GWP G) Mother of Josiah, King of Judah; daughter of Adaiah. of Boscath, and wife of Amon (II Kings xxi. 26, xxii. 1). The name means...
4. Jedidiah (Gottlieb) ben Abraham Israel (JE | WP GWP G) Galician preacher and Masorite; lived at Lemberg in the seventeenth century. He wrote: "Ahabat ha-Shem," fifty haggadic expositions...
5. Jedidiah ben Moses of Recanati (JE | WP GWP G) Italian scholar; flourished in the second half of the sixteenth century. At the request of Immanuel di Fano, Jedidiah translated...
6. Jedidja (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H544: Heinemann, Jeremiah
7. Jeduthun (JE | WP GWP G) the name of one of the three great orders or gilds of Temple singers, in charge of the music of the Temple from David&#39...
8. Jehiel Anaw (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1483: Anaw
9. Jehiel ben Asher JE (JE | WP GWP G) Liturgical poet; flourished in Andalusia in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. He was the author of four liturgical poems...
10. Jehiel b. Jekuthiel Anaw (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1483: Anaw
11. Jehiel ben Joseph of Paris (JE | WP GWP G) Tosafist and controversialist; born at Meaux at the end of the twelfth century; died in Palestine in 1286. His French name...
12. Jehiel Michael ben Eliezer (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Nemirov, Russia; murdered May, 1648. When the hordes of Chmielnicki, taking Nemirov, began the work of pillage and...
13. Jehiel Michael ben Judah Löb (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Berlin; died March, 1728. After filling the office of rabbi in several Polish communities he removed about 1701 to...
14. Jehiel Michael ben Uzziel of Glogau (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinical author; died in Vienna 1730. He was well versed in the Midrashim, and was the author of "Nezer ha-Kodesh...
15. Jehiel of Pisa JE (JE | WP GWP G) Philanthropist and scholar of Pisa; died there Feb. 10, 1492. The wealth he had acquired in the banking business he spent...
16. Jehoahaz (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Jehu; second king in the fifth dynasty of northern Israel; reigned 814-797 B.C. During the period of his rule Syria...
17. Jehoash (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J329: Joash
18. Jehoiachin (JE | WP GWP G) King of Judah; son and successor of Jehoiakim (II Kings xxiv. 6); reigned a little over three months. He was scarcely on the...
19. Jehoiada (JE | WP GWP G) High priest under Ahaziah, Athaliah, and Jehoash (Joash). By his marriage with the princess Jehosheba or Jehoshabeath, daughter...
20. Jehoiakim (JE | WP GWP G) King of Judah (608-597 B.C.); eldest son of Josiah, and brother and successor of Jehoahaz (Shallum), whom Pharaohnecho had...

201 to 300

201 – 220

1. Jehonadab (Jonadab) (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Rechab, a Kenite (I Chron. ii. 55), the founder of the so-called Rechabites (I Chron. ii. 55; Jer. xxxv. 6-7). The...
2. Jehoram (Joram) (JE | WP GWP G) King of Israel (852-842 B.C.); son of Ahab and Jezebel; brother and successor of Ahaziah. Like his predecessors, Jehoram worshiped...
3. Jehoshabeath (JE | WP GWP G) Daughter of Jehoram, King of Judah, and wife of the high priest Jehoiada, together with whom she saved her brother's son...
4. Jehoshaphat (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Asa; fourth king of Judah (873-c. 849 B.C.); contemporary of Ahab, Ahaziah, and Jehoram, kings of Israel. He inaugurated...
5. Valley of Jehoshaphat (JE | WP GWP G) A valley mentioned by the prophet Joel (Joel iv. [A. V. iii.] 2, 12), where, after the return of Judah and Jerusalem from...
6. Jehovah JE (JE | WP GWP G) A mispronunciation (introduced by Christian theologians, but almost entirely disregarded by the Jews) of the Hebrew "Yhwh...
7. Jehovah-jireh (JE | WP GWP G) Name given by Abraham to the place where he sacrificed a ram instead of his son Isaac (Gen. xxii. 14). The name may be an...
8. Jehu (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Jehoshaphat and grandson of Nimshi, founder of the fifth Israelitish dynasty (842-743 B.C.); died 815 B.C., in the...
9. Jehuda (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A146: Judah
10. Jehudi b. Sheshet (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew philologist of the tenth century; pupil of Dunash b. Labraṭ. He is known exclusively through the polemic in which...
11. Jeiteles (Jeitteles) (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian family of some importance, which can be traced back to the first half of the eighteenth century. Aaron (Andreas)...
12. Alois Jeiteles (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian physician and poet; born June 20, 1794 (or 1795), at Brünn, Moravia; died there April 16, 1858. He studied philosophy...
13. Rabbi Jekel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J101: Jacob of Vienna
14. Jekuthiel ibn Hasan (JE | WP GWP G) Statesman and scientist of the eleventh century; lived in Saragossa. According to Geiger, he is identical with the astronomer...
15. Jekuthiel ben Judah ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) Grammarian of Prague; lived in the second half of the thirteenth century. Baer claimed to have seen a manuscript which gave...
16. Jekuthiel ben Löb Gordon (JE | WP GWP G) Russian physician and cabalist; born at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Even as a young man he enjoyed a reputation...
17. Jekuthiel ben Solomon (JE | WP GWP G) French physician; lived at Narbonne in the second half of the fourteenth century. In 1387 he translated into Hebrew, under...
18. Jekuthiel of Wilna (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J216: Jekuthiel, b. Löb Gordon
19. Aryeh Löb Jelin JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Byelsk, government of Grodno, Russia; born 1820; died April 2, 1886. He was one of the most prominent Russian rabbis...
20. Jellinek (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian family whose name has been rendered illustrious by the great preacher Adolf Jellinek. Adolf Jellinek: Austrian...

221 – 240

1. Abraham Naphtali Hirz ben Mordecai Jener (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; born at Yanov 1806; died at Cracow July 14, 1876. He was a pupil of his father and of his brother Johanan, and...
2. Jephthah (JE | WP GWP G) Judge of Israel during six years (Judges xii. 7); conqueror of the Ammonites. According to Judges xi. 1, he was a Gileadite...
3. Jerahmeel JE (JE | WP GWP G) David, while he was a refugee at the court of Achish, King of Gath, is said to have made a raid against the "south of the...
4. Jeremiah (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Hilkiah; prophet in the days of Josiah and his sons. § I. Life: in the case of no other Israelitish prophet...
5. Book of Jeremiah JE (JE | WP GWP G) Contents: At the beginning of the book is a superscription (i. 1-3) which, after giving the parentage of Jeremiah, fixes the...
6. Epistle of Jeremiah (JE | WP GWP G) A Greek apocryphon, being a fictitious letter which Jeremiah is supposed to have written to the Jews who were about to be...
7. The Lamentations of Jeremiah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L30: Lamentations
8. Jeremiah (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi in the second half of the eighteenth century; head of the yeshibah at Mattersdorf, Hungary, in which he devoted...
9. Jeremiah (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian scholar of the fourth century; always quoted by the single name "Jeremiah," though sometimes that name is used...
10. Jeremiah b. Abba (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the third century; disciple and fellow of Rab (Ber. 27b). In Yerushalmi his patronymic is often omitted...
11. Jeremiah of Difta (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the fourth century; contemporary of Papi (B. B. 52a; 'Ab. Zarah 40a). Rabbina, who eventually assisted...
12. Jeremiah ben Eleazar (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian scholar of the second century; contemporary of Simeon b. Gamaliel, the father of Judah I. He is known through...
13. Jeremiah ben Jacob ben Israel Naphtali (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist and philanthropist; died in Halberstadt before 1664. Like his father, Jacob (Jockel Halberstadt), Jeremiah...
14. Jerez de la Frontera (JE | WP GWP G) -- See X3: Xeres de la Frontera
15. Jericho (JE | WP GWP G) A city in the Jordan valley, opposite Nebo (Deut. xxxii. 49), to the west of Gilgal (Josh. iv. 19). Owing to its importance...
16. Jeridie-Terjume (JE | WP GWP G) Title of a Jewish periodical, written in Judæo-Spanish, and printed in rabbinic characters, which was published at Constantinople...
17. Jeroboam (JE | WP GWP G) Name of two kings of Israel. The meaning generally attached to the name is "[he] strives with [oppresses] the people," or...
18. Jeroham ben Meshullam (JE | WP GWP G) French Talmudist; flourished in the first half of the fourteenth century. According to Gross, he lived in Languedoc, but on...
19. Jerome (Eusebius Hieronymus Sophronius) (JE | WP GWP G) Church father; next to Origen, who wrote in Greek, the most learned student of the Bible among the Latin ecclesiastical writers...
20. Jersey City (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N238: New Jersey

241 – 260

1. Jerubbaal (JE | WP GWP G) A name given to Gideon by his father, Joash (Judges vi. 32), because the men of the city of Ophrah demanded that he turn over...
2. Jerusalem (JE | WP GWP G) Capital at first of all Israel, later of the kingdom of Judah; chief city of Palestine; situated in 31° 46′ 45&#8243...
3. Jerusalem (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
4. Jeschurun (JE | WP GWP G) Periodical published in Frankfort-on-the-Main and subsequently in Hanover. Founded in Oct., 1854, it was issued as a monthly...
5. Jeschurun (Zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums) (JE | WP GWP G) Periodical edited and published by Joseph Isaac Kobak. Among its contributors were S. L. Rapoport, S. D. Luzzatto, A. H. Weiss...
6. Jesharelah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1879: Asarelah
7. Jeshibah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Y35: Yeshibah
8. Jeshua ben Judah JE (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite exegete and philosopher; flourished, probably at Jerusalem, in the second half of the eleventh century; pupil of Joseph...
9. Jeshurun (JE | WP GWP G) Poetical name for Israel, occurring four times in the Bible (Deut. xxxii. 15, xxxiii. 5, 26; Isa. xliv. 2; in the last-cited...
10. Samuel Jesi JE (JE | WP GWP G) Italian engraver; born at Milan 1789; died at Florence Jan. 17, 1853. He was a pupil of G. Longhi at the Academy of Milan...
11. Jesse (JE | WP GWP G) Father of David, son of Obed, and grandson of Boaz and Ruth. He is called "the Bethlehemite" (I Sam. xvi. 1, 18; xvii. 58)...
12. Sir George Jessel (JE | WP GWP G) English master of the rolls; born in London 1824; died there March 21, 1883; youngest son of Zadok Aaron Jessel. Educatedat...
13. Jesurun (JE | WP GWP G) A family whose members were descendants of the Spanish exiles, and are found mainly in Amsterdam and Hamburg. The earliest...
14. Jesus of Nazareth (JE | WP GWP G) Founder of Christianity; born at Nazareth about 2 B.C. (according to Luke iii. 23); executed at Jerusalem 14th of Nisan, 3789...
15. Jesus b. Phabi (JE | WP GWP G) High priest (c. 30 B.C.). He was deposed by Herod the Great, his office being given to Simon, the son of Boethus, the king&#39...
16. Jesus Sirach (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S836: Sirach
17. Jesus ben Zappha (JE | WP GWP G) General (στρατηγός) of Idumæa in the first century, appointed by the revolutionary...
18. Jethro >> Jethro in rabbinic literature JE (JE | WP GWP G) Priest of Midian and father-in-law of Moses (Ex. iii. 1 et al.). In the account of the marriage of his daughter Zipporah to...
19. Jew (The Word) (JE | WP GWP G) Up to the seventeenth century this word was spelled in Middle English in various ways: "Gyu," "Giu," "Gyw," "Iu," "luu," "Iuw...
20. The Jew (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish monthly whose avowed object finds expression in its subtitle as "being a defense of Judaism against all adversaries...

261 – 280

1. Jew Bill (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E375: England
2. Jew of Malta (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B242: Barabas
3. Jacob Jewell (JE | WP GWP G) Owner of the largest traveling circus in England; died Sept., 1884; tenant, under W. Holland, of North Woolwich Gardens for...
4. Jewesses (JE | WP GWP G) Anthropologically considered, Jewesses present certain distinctive physiognomic and epidermic characteristics marking them...
5. Jewish Abend-Post (JE | WP GWP G) Yiddish newspaper, issued daily except Saturday and Jewish holidays, established in New York Feb. 3, 1899, by Jacob Saphirstein...
6. Jewish Advance (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L142: Leeser, Isaac
7. Jewish Advocate (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
8. The Jewish Chronicle (JE | WP GWP G) Oldest and most influential Anglo-Jewish newspaper; published in London, England; next to the "Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums...
9. Jewish Chronicle (Baltimore; Boston; Mobile) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
10. The Jewish Colonial Trust (Jüdische Colonialbank) (JE | WP GWP G) the financial instrument of the Zionist movement. Its establishment was suggested at the First Zionist Congress, held at Basel...
11. Jewish Colonization Association (JE | WP GWP G) Society founded by Baron de Hirsch Sept., 1891, and incorporated at London under the Companies' Acts of 1862-90, with...
12. Jewish Comment (JE | WP GWP G) A weekly published at Baltimore, Md., since May 29, 1895. Its first editor was Max Myers; he was succeeded by Louis H. Levin...
13. The Jewish Criterion (JE | WP GWP G) American weekly newspaper; established at Pittsburg, Pa., Feb; 8, 1895, by S. Steinfirst and Joseph Mayer. Rabbi Samuel Greenfield...
14. The Jewish Exponent (JE | WP GWP G) A weekly published in Philadelphia and Baltimore since 1887, when it was founded by the Jewish Exponent Publishing Company...
15. Jewish Expositor (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
16. Jewish Free Press (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
17. Jewish Gazette (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
18. Jewish Herald (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
19. Jewish Historical Society of England (JE | WP GWP G) After the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition in 1887, it was proposed by Lucien Wolf to form a historical society to continue...
20. Jewish Lads' Brigade (JE | WP GWP G) Military association of English Jewish boys, formed, organized, and directed by Col. Albert E. W. Goldsmid "to instil into...

281 – 300

1. The Jewish Ledger (JE | WP GWP G) Weekly journal; founded in New Orleans, La., Jan. 4, 1895, by A. Steeg, who is still (1904) its publisher. Its first editor...
2. The Jewish Messenger (JE | WP GWP G) Weekly; published in New York city; founded and edited by R. Samuel M. Isaacs (Jan., 1857). Upon his death his son Abram S...
3. Jewish Morning Journal (Morgen Journal) (JE | WP GWP G) the first Yiddish daily morning newspaper; established in New York July 2, 1901, by Jacob Saphirstein, who is still (1904)...
4. Jewish News (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
5. Jewish Progress (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
6. Jewish Publication Society of America (JE | WP GWP G) Society for "the publication and dissemination of literary, scientific, and religious works giving instruction in the principles...
7. Jewish Quarterly Review JE (JE | WP GWP G) Journal of Jewish science; founded in London Oct., 1888; edited by Israel Abrahams and C. G. Montefiore. While containing...
8. Jewish Record (London) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
9. The Jewish Record (JE | WP GWP G) Weekly; published in Philadelphia, Pa., from 1874 until the spring of 1887. Alfred T. Jones was the editor, and later Henry...
10. Jewish Reformer (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
11. The Jewish Review (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
12. The Jewish Review and Observer (JE | WP GWP G) American weekly newspaper; founded under the name "The Jewish Review" in Nov., 1893, by M. Machol and his son Jacob Machol...
13. Jewish Sabbath Journal (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
14. Jewish Schoolfellow (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
15. Jewish South (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
16. The Jewish Spectator (JE | WP GWP G) the first Jewish weekly journal in the southern United States; founded in Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 19, 1885, by M. Samfield and...
17. Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinic seminary established in New York city under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary Association; founded...
18. Jewish Tidings (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
19. London Jewish Times (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
20. The Jewish Times; A Journal of Reform and Progress (JE | WP GWP G) A weekly published in New York city. The first number appeared on March 5, 1869, Moritz Ellinger being the publisher, and...

301 to 400

301 – 320

1. Jewish Times and Observer (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
2. Jewish Tribune (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
3. Jewish Voice (JE | WP GWP G) American weekly newspaper; published in St. Louis, Mo., since Jan. 1, 1888. The present editor, M. Spitz, founded on Aug....
4. Jewish Weekly Review (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
5. Jewish Women (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
6. The Jewish World (Die Yiddische Welt) (JE | WP GWP G) Yiddish daily paper; founded in New York city June 27, 1902, by the Lebanon Printing and Publishing Company (president, H...
7. The Jewish World (JE | WP GWP G) the fourth Jewish newspaper published in London, immediately on the passing of the "Jewish Record." Its first number was issued...
8. Abraham Jonah b. Isaiah Jewnin (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Talmudist; a native of Paritz, government of Minsk; died at Grodno June 12, 1848, while still young. He was the author...
9. Jewry JE (JE | WP GWP G) Originally a designation for Judea and sometimes for the entire Holy Land. The term was afterward applied to any special district...
10. Jews' College (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinical seminary in London, England; it owes its existence to the chief rabbi Dr. N. M. Adler; the first stone was laid...
11. Jews' Walk (JE | WP GWP G) Name given to the southeast corner of the colonnade in the Royal Exchange, London, owing to the fact that the Jewish brokers...
12. Jezdegerd (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P210: Persia
13. Jezebel (JE | WP GWP G) Daughter of Ethbaal, King of Sidon, and wife of Ahab, second king of the fourth dynasty of Israel, founded by Omri (I Kings...
14. Jezelus (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Father of Sechenias, the chief of a family that returned with Ezra from captivity (I Esd. viii. 32). In Ezra viii. 5 he...
15. Jezreel (JE | WP GWP G) See Esdraelon.2. A city of Issachar, mentioned with Chesulloth and Shunem (Josh. xix. 18). Owing to its importance, Jezreel...
16. Solomon Ballajce Jhiratkar (JE | WP GWP G) Beni-Israel soldier; enlisted in the 14th Regiment Bombay N. L. I. in 1818; promoted jemidar Jan. 10, 1839; subahdar Jan....
17. Jid (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
18. Jidische Illustrirte Zeitung (JE | WP GWP G) See Peridicals.
19. Jidische Volksbibliothek (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
20. Jidischer Puck (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals

321 – 340

1. Jitomir JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A54: Zhitomir
2. Joab >> Joab in rabbinic literature JE (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Zeruiah, David's sister (II Chron. ii. 16), and commander-in-chief of David's army. Joab first appears after...
3. Joab (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish family to which belonged Aaron b. Samuel ha-Nasi, who lived for some time at Oria in Apulia in the second half of the...
4. Joab ben Jehiel (JE | WP GWP G) Liturgical poet; lived at Rome in the fourteenth century. He belonged to the Beth-El family, and was the author of five piyyu&#7789...
5. Joseph Joachim (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian violinist; born at Kittsee, near Presburg, Hungary, June 28, 1831. He began to study the violin when he was five...
6. Philip J Joachimsen (JE | WP GWP G) American jurist and communal worker; born in Breslau Nov., 1817; died in New York city Jan. 6, 1890. He emigrated to New York...
7. Ferdinand J Joachimsthal JE (JE | WP GWP G) German mathematician; born May 9, 1818, at Goldberg, Silesia; died April 5, 1861, at Breslau. In the year of his graduation...
8. Georg Joachimsthal (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Stargard, Pomerania, May 8, 1863. He graduated as doctor of medicine from the University of Berlin...
9. Joash JE (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Ahaziah and Zibiah of Beer-sheba; eighth king of Judah (II Kings xii. 1, 2). Joash was the only descendant of the house...
10. Job >> Job in rabbinic literature JE (JE | WP GWP G) Titular hero of the Book of Job. He was a native of Uz, rich, very pious, and upright, and he had seven sons and three daughters...
11. The Book of Job (JE | WP GWP G) A dramatic poem in forty-two chapters, the characters in which are Job, his wife (mentioned only once, ii. 9), his three friends&#8212...
12. Testament of Job (JE | WP GWP G) Greek apocryphal book, containing a haggadic story of Job. It was first published by Angelo Mai in the seventh volume of the...
13. Well of Job (JE | WP GWP G) A deep well, situated just below the junction of the valley of Hinnom with that of Jehoshaphat, the channel of the Kidron...
14. Jobab (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Joktan the Shemite (Gen. x. 29; I Chron. i. 23).2. Son of Zerah of Bozrah; second king of Edom (Gen. xxxvi. 33, 34...
15. Joceus (Joce) of York JE (JE | WP GWP G) English Jew of the preexpulsion period; leader of the York community at the time of the massacre in 1190. He is mentioned...
16. Jochanan (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J349: Johanan
17. Jochebed (JE | WP GWP G) Wife and aunt of Amram, and mother of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam (Ex. vi. 20). She was the daughter of Levi, and was born in...
18. Waldemar Jochelson JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian explorer and ethnologist; born in Wilna Jan. 1, 1856. He graduated from the gymnasium of Wilna, and became identified...
19. Jod (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1308: Alphabet, Hebrew
20. Joel (JE | WP GWP G) the superscription of the second book of the so-called Minor Prophets names as the author of the book "Joel, the son of Pethuel...

341 – 360

1. Book of Joel (JE | WP GWP G) the prophecies of the Book of Joel are divided into two parts, comprising respectively (1) ch. i. 2-ii. 17 and (2) ch. ii...
2. David Joël (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and author; born Jan. 12, 1815, at Inowrazlaw, Posen; died Sept. 7, 1882, at Breslau; brother of Manuel Jo&#235...
3. Joel b. Isaac ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) German tosafist of the twelfth century; born probably at Bonn; died at Cologne about 1200. Joel studied in his youth at Ratisbon...
4. Joel b. Judah Selki ha-Levi (Lämmel?) (JE | WP GWP G) Author of "Dibre ha-Iggeret," a description of the sufferings of the Jews of Glogau when that town was besieged by the Prussians...
5. Karl Joël (JE | WP GWP G) German philosophical writer; born March 27, 1864, at Hirschberg, Silesia; son of Rabbi H. Joël of that city and nephew...
6. Lewis Joel (JE | WP GWP G) British consul-general to Chile; born in Dublin 1824; died in London Feb. 28, 1899. He was educated at Bristol; in May, 1861...
7. Manuel Joël (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born Oct. 19, 1826, at Birnbaum, province of Posen; died at Breslau Nov. 3, 1890; son of Rabbi Heimann Jo&#235...
8. Joel ibn Shu'aib (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I50: Ibn Shu'aib, Joel
9. Johanan b. Baroka (JE | WP GWP G) Teacher of the second century (second and third tannaitic periods); disciple of Joshua b. Hananiah and colleague of Eleazar...
10. Johanan Gadi (JE | WP GWP G) Eldest of the five sons of Mattathias the Maccabee (I Macc. ii. 2; Josephus, "Ant." xii. 6, § 1), though the least important...
11. Johanan b. Gudgada (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar and chief gatekeeper at the Temple in the last years of its existence (Tosef., Shek. ii. 14); senior of Joshua...
12. Johanan ben ha-Horanit (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian tanna of the first generation; disciple of Hillel (according to Frankel, "Darke ha-Mishnah," p. 53, note 8, a...
13. Johanan ben Isaac of Holleschau (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of the German community of London at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He edited "Teshubot ha-Geonim," responsa...
14. Johanan ben Jehoiada (JE | WP GWP G) High priest under Artaxerxes Ochus (359-338 B.C.); perhaps identical with the one mentioned in Neh. xii. 11 ("Johanan" being...
15. Johanan ben Kareah (JE | WP GWP G) General of the Israelites at the time of Nebuchadnezzar (c. 586 B.C.). After the kingdom of Judea had been destroyed by the...
16. Johanan ben Meriya (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fifth or sixth generation (4th and 5th cent.). Johanan is frequently mentioned in the Talmud of Jerusalem...
17. Johanan b. Nappaha (ha-Nappah) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian scholar; born at Sepphoris in the last quarter of the second century; died at Tiberias 279. He is generally cited...
18. Johanan b. ha-Nazuf (JE | WP GWP G) Friend of Gamaliel II. (first and second centuries). It is related that Ḥalafta once went to Tiberias and found Gamaliel...
19. Johanan b. Nuri JE (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the first and second centuries; junior of Gamaliel II. and senior of Akiba (Sifra, Kedoshim, iv. 9; 'Ar...
20. Johanan ha-Sandalar (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second century; one of Akiba's disciples that survived the Hadrianic persecutions and transmitted the traditional...

361 – 380

1. Johanan b. Torta (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar of the first and second centuries; contemporary of Akiba. When Akiba hailed bar Kokba as the Messiah, the latter exclaimed...
2. Johanan b. Zakkai (JE | WP GWP G) the most important tanna in the last decade of the Second Temple, and, after the destruction of Jerusalem, the founder and...
3. Johannes de Capua (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J372: John of Capua
4. Johannes Hispalensis (JE | WP GWP G) Baptized Jew who flourished between 1135 and 1153; his Jewish name is unknown and has been corrupted into "Avendeut," "Avendehut"...
5. Johannes Pauli (JE | WP GWP G) German humorist and convert to Christianity; born about 1455; died at Thann 1530. He became a distinguished preacher of the...
6. Johannes (David) Toletanus (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J364: Johannes Hispalensis
7. Johannesburg (JE | WP GWP G) Largest city in the Transvaal and principal center of Jewish life in South Africa. The Jewish community there is estimated...
8. Joseph Johlson (Asher ben Joseph Fulda) (JE | WP GWP G) German Bible translator and writer on educational topics; born in 1777 at Fulda; died atFrankfort-on-the-Main June 13, 1851...
9. John (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N245: New Testament
10. John Albert (JE | WP GWP G) King of Poland (1492-1501). He ascended the throne of Poland in the same year in which his brother Alexander Jagellon became...
11. John the Baptist (JE | WP GWP G) Essene saint and preacher; flourished between 20 and 30 C.E.; fore-runner of Jesus of Nazareth and originator of the Christian...
12. John of Capua JE (JE | WP GWP G) Italian convert to Christianity, and translator; flourished between 1262 and 1269. He translated Rabbi Joel's Hebrew version...
13. John Casimir (JE | WP GWP G) King of Poland (1648-68). He was elected to the throne with the aid of Chmielnicki, who after the election returned to the...
14. John of Giscala (Johanan ben Levi) (JE | WP GWP G) Native of the small Galilean city of Giscala ( ), who took an important part in the great war against Rome (66-70). He was...
15. The Gospel of John (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N245: New Testament
16. John Hyrcanus (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H1003: Hyrcanus
17. John Sobieski (JE | WP GWP G) King of Poland (1674-96). During his reign Poland had already lost its prominent position among European peoples, and, except...
18. John of Valladolid JE (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish convert to Christianity; born 1335. An able speaker, and possessed of some knowledge of rabbinical literature, he persuaded...
19. Johnson (JE | WP GWP G) American family, members of which have attained distinction in Ohio, Texas, and New York. The family is from England, the...
20. Joiada (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Eliashib, high priest about 450 B.C. (Neh. xii. 10-11, 22). One of his children became a son-in-law of Sanballat the...

381 – 400

1. Joigny (JE | WP GWP G) Chief town in the department of the Yonne (the ancient Champagne), France, situated on the River Yonne. It had an important...
2. Joint Owners (JE | WP GWP G) in the Mishnah joint owners are known as "shuttafin." When the joint owners are coheirs the Mishnah speaks of them as "the...
3. Joinville (JE | WP GWP G) French town in the department of Haute-Marne; in the Tosafot occur , and other variants (Yoma 81; 'Er. 24; Ber. 8; Bek...
4. Joktan (JE | WP GWP G) Younger son of Eber and progenitor of thirteen Arabic tribes (Gen. x. 25-29; I Chron. i. 19-23), many of which—as Hazarmaveth...
5. Zechariah Isaiah b. Mordecai Jolles (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinical scholar and author; born at Lemberg about 1814; died at Minsk, Russia, May 14, 1852. In 1834, after having married...
6. Heymann (Hayyim ben Abraham) Jolowicz (JE | WP GWP G) German preacher and author; born Aug. 23, 1816, at Santomischl, province of Posen; died at Königsberg, Prussia, Jan....
7. Jonadab (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J201: Jehonadab
8. Jonah JE >> Jonah in rabbinic literature JE (JE | WP GWP G) Prophet in the days of Jeroboam II.; son of Amittai of Gath-hepher. He is a historical personage; for, according to II Kings...
9. Book of Jonah (JE | WP GWP G) the Book of Jonah stands unique in the prophetical canon, in that it does not contain any predictions, but simply relates...
10. Jonah JE (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth century; leading rabbinical authority in the fourth amoraic generation. With Jose II., his...
11. Jonah (Abu al-Walid Merwan ibn Janah) JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I24: Ibn Janaḥ
12. Jonah ben Judah Gershon (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and author; died in Wilna 1808. He was dayyan of that city, and devoted his time to the study of the Tosefta, which...
13. Jonah Landsopher (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J393: Landsopher, Jonah
14. Benjamin Franklin Jonas (JE | WP GWP G) American lawyer, soldier, and statesman; born in Williamstown, Grant county, Kentucky, July 19, 1834. In early youth he removed...
15. Emil Jonas (JE | WP GWP G) German writer and publicist; born July 14, 1824, at Schwerin, Mecklenburg; educated at the gymnasium of his native city and...
16. Émile Jonas (JE | WP GWP G) French musician; born at Paris March 5, 1827. He entered the Conservatoire in 1841, where he took the first prize in harmony...
17. Moses Jonas (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1306: Bonn, Jonas ben Moses
18. Jonathan, Jehonathan (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Son or descendant of Gershom, son of Moses. He officiated as a priest to the idol of Micah—a service continued in...
19. Jonathan (Nathan) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second century; schoolfellow of Josiah, apart from whom he is rarely quoted. Jonathan is generally so cited without...
20. Jonathan ben Absalom (JE | WP GWP G) General of Simon Maccabeus. At the command of the latter he took possession of Joppa, and drove out the inhabitants in order...

401 to 500

401 – 420

1. Jonathan b. 'Akmai (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third generation. According to Yer. Ter. xi. he was one of the teachers of Abbahu. It is probable...
2. Jonathan (Nathan) b. Amram (JE | WP GWP G) Semi-tanna of the second and third centuries; disciple of Judah I. and senior of Jannai, who consulted him concerning ritual...
3. Jonathan b. Anan (JE | WP GWP G) Son of the high priest Anan; was appointed by Vitellius high priest in the place of Joseph Caiaphas, at the time of the Passover...
4. Jonathan (Nathan) of Bet Gubrin (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian scholar of the third century; junior of Joshua b. Levi and senior of Simon b. Pazzi (Cant. R. i. 1). He confined...
5. Jonathan ben David ha-Kohen of Lunel JE (JE | WP GWP G) French philosopher; flourished in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He defended Maimonides against the severe attacks...
6. Jonathan ben Eleazar (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian scholar of the third century; contemporary of Ḥanina b. Ḥama (Shab. 49a et seq.); disciple of Simon...
7. Jonathan ben Horkinas (Archinas) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian scholar of the first century; contemporary of Eleazar b. Azariah and a disciple of the school of Shammai. He was...
8. Jonathan ben Jacob (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian Talmudist and author; flourished at Buda (Ofen) toward the end of the seventeenth century. In 1688, when Buda was...
9. Jonathan ben Joseph JE (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian rabbi and astronomer; lived at Risenoi, government of Grodno, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In addition...
10. Jonathan Levi Zion (JE | WP GWP G) Representative of the Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main in its defense against the attacks of John Pfefferkorn. When...
11. Jonathan Maccabeus (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Mattathias; leader of the Jews in the Maccabean wars from 161 to 143 B.C. He is called also Apphus (Ἀπ&#966...
12. Jonathan the Sadducee (JE | WP GWP G) Friend of the Hasmonean prince John Hyrcanus (135-104 B.C.). As the Pharisees belittled the prince's fitness for the office...
13. Jonathan Sar ha-Birah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J406: Jonathan ben Eleazar
14. Jonathan ben Uzziel (JE | WP GWP G) Hillel's most distinguished pupil (Suk. 28a; B. B. 134a). No halakot of his have been preserved, though a tradition makes...
15. Aaron b. Zebi Jonathanson (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Hebraist and poet; born about 1815; died in Kovno July 27, 1868. His father, a great-grandson of Jonathan Eybesch&#252...
16. Alfred T Jones (JE | WP GWP G) American editor and communal worker; born in Boston July 4, 1822; died at Philadelphia Oct. 3, 1888. In 1842 he became a resident...
17. Thomas Jones JE (JE | WP GWP G) English publisher; convert to Judaism; born in 1791; died in London May 25, 1882. By birth a Roman Catholic, his change of...
18. Joppa (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J135: Jaffa
19. Joram (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J202: Jehoram
20. The Jordan (JE | WP GWP G) Principal river of Palestine, formed by the confluence of three streams rising respectively at (1) Baniyas (Paneas), (2) Tell...

421 – 440

1. Abba Jose (Joseph) ben Dositai (Dosai; Derosai; Dosa) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian tanna of the second century; mentioned as both halakist and haggadist. He transmitted a halakah of R. Jose the...
2. Abba Jose ben Hanin JE (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian tanna of the last decades before the destruction of the Temple; contemporary of Eliezer B. Jacob and of &#7716...
3. Abba Jose of Mahuza (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar of the third (?) century; mentioned once only (Mek., Beshallach, Wayechi, 3), a haggadah of his being transmitted...
4. Jose b. Abin JE (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fifth generation (4th cent.); son of R. Abin I. (Bacher, "Ag. Pal. Amor." iii. 724) and the teacher...
5. Jose (Isi, Issi) ben Akabya (Akiba) (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the beginning of the third century. The name "Issi" or "Assa" is derived from "Jose," and was borne by many tannaim...
6. Jose the Galilean JE (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna; lived in the first and second centuries of the common era. Jose was a contemporary and colleague of R. Akiba, R. &#7788...
7. Jose ben Halafta JE (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian tanna of the fourth generation (2d cent.). of his life only the following few details are known: He was born at...
8. Jose b. Jacob b. Idi (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth generation (4th cent.). He was the colleague of R. Judan of Magdala (Yer. Ta'an. i. 3)...
9. Jose ben Joezer of Zeredah JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of the early Maccabean period; possibly a disciple of Antigonus of Soko, though this is not certain. He belonged to...
10. Jose (Joseph) ben Johanan (JE | WP GWP G) President of the Sanhedrin in the second century B.C.; a native of Jerusalem. He and Jose b. Joezer were the successors and...
11. Jose ben Jose (JE | WP GWP G) the earliest payyeṭan known by name; flourished, at the latest, about the end of the sixth century in Palestine. He...
12. Jose b. Judah (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the end of the second century. He is principally known through his controversies with R. Judah I. As specimens of...
13. Jose b. Kazrata (Kuzira; Kazra) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the first amoraic generation; son-in-law of R. Jose. Kohut is of the opinion that the surname is derived...
14. Jose ha-Kohen ("the Pious") (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second generation; flourished in the first and second centuries; pupil of Johanan ben Zakkai. It is said of him...
15. Jose of Mallahaya (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth generation. According to his explanation of Ps. lvii. 5 the disasters that overtook the Jews...
16. Jose of Maon (JE | WP GWP G) Popular preacher of the beginning of the third century; delivered his addresses in a synagogue at Tiberias which bore the...
17. Jose b. Nehorai (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the first generation; halakot are transmitted in his name by Johanan (Rashi, B. M. 41a). of his haggadic...
18. Jose b. Saul JE (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the first generation (3d cent.). He is known chiefly as a transmitter of the sayings and traditions of...
19. Rafael Joseffy (JE | WP GWP G) American piano virtuoso; born in 1852 in Hunfalu, Hungary. In the following year the family moved to Miskolcz, where he spent...
20. Josel (Joselmann, Joselin) of Rosheim (Joseph ben Gershon Loanz) JE (JE | WP GWP G) the great advocate ("shtadlan") of the German Jews during the reigns of the emperors Maximilian I. and Charles V.; born about...

441 – 460

1. Joseph (JE | WP GWP G) Eleventh son of Jacob and the elder of the two sons of Rachel; born at Haran (Gen. xxx. 24). The meaning given to the name...
2. Joseph (High Priest) (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Son of Ellem () of Sepphoris; installed by Herod for one day (Yom Kippur) as a substitute for the high priest, who had...
3. Joseph II (JE | WP GWP G) German emperor; born March 13, 1741; died Feb. 20, 1790, at Vienna. As German emperor his sovereignty was one in name only...
4. Joseph (JE | WP GWP G) Prominent Jewish family which settled in Canada toward the close of the eighteenth century. It was descended from Naphtali...
5. Joseph ben Abba (JE | WP GWP G) Gaon of Pumbedita for a period of two years; died in 816 (Sherira Gaon; Neubauer, "M. J. C." i. 37). Abraham ibn Daud ("Sefer...
6. Joseph ibn Abitur (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A334: Abitur, Joseph
7. Joseph ben Abraham JE (JE | WP GWP G) Liturgical poet. Seven prayers bearing the name "Joseph ben Abraham" are found in the Siddur of Avignon. Zunz identifies this...
8. Joseph ben Abraham Issachar Bärman Minkdam (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch scholar of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He translated into Judæo-German the Targum to Canticles (Amsterdam...
9. Joseph ben Abraham ha-Kohen ha-Ro'eh (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite philosopher and theologian; flourished in Babylonia or Persia in the first half of the eleventh century; teacher of...
10. Joseph ben Ahmad ibn Hasdai (JE | WP GWP G) Egyptian physician and medical writer; lived in Cairo at the beginning of the twelfth century. Although his biographer, Ibn...
11. Joseph the Apostate (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish convert to Christianity in the first half of the fourth century. He was one of the assessors of the rabbinical school...
12. Joseph ben Ardut (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N80: Nasi, Joseph
13. Joseph of Arimathaea (JE | WP GWP G) Wealthy Jew (probably a member of the Essene fraternity) who, out of sympathy with Jesus, gave him burial in one of the tombs...
14. Joseph of Arles (JE | WP GWP G) French Talmudist and cabalist of the sixteenth century. A letter signed "Joseph " (= "of Arles") is found among the halakic...
15. Joseph the Astronomer (JE | WP GWP G) -- See V31: Vecinho, Joseph
16. Joseph de Avila (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Z142: Zohar
17. Joseph ben Baruch JE (JE | WP GWP G) Tosafist of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Gross identifies him with Joseph of Clisson. Joseph resided for some time...
18. Joseph al-Bashir (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J449: Joseph ben Abraham ha-Kohen
19. Joseph Bekor Shor JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J479: Joseph ben Isaac Bekor Shor
20. Joseph ben Berechiah (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Kairwan and a pupil of Jacob bar Nissim; flourished in the tenth century. He carried on a scientific correspondence...

461 – 480

1. Joseph Caspi JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C231: Caspi, Joseph
2. Joseph of Chartres (JE | WP GWP G) French elegiac poet; born in the second half of the twelfth century (Zunz ["Literaturgesch." p. 470] says that he flourished...
3. Joseph of Chinon (JE | WP GWP G) French Talmudist; lived about the middle of the thirteenth century. According to Zunz, Joseph was a son of Nathanael the Holy...
4. Joseph of Clisson (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J457: Joseph ben Baruch
5. David Joseph (JE | WP GWP G) German architect; born July 4, 1863, at Königsberg, eastern Prussia; educated at the gymnasium of his native town and...
6. Joseph David (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Salonica; flourished in the first half of the eighteenth century; contemporary of Solomon Amarillo and Joseph Covo...
7. Joseph ben David Heilbronn of Eschau (JE | WP GWP G) German Masorite; lived at the Hague in the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Sefer Mebin Ḥidot" (Amsterdam,...
8. Joseph ben David ha-Yewani (JE | WP GWP G) Greek grammarian and lexicographer; flourished at the end of the thirteenth or about the middle of the fourteenth century...
9. Joseph David ben Zebi (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi and author; born in Zetil, government of Grodno, 1767; died in Mir, government of Minsk, 1846. He was the grandson...
10. Joseph of Dreux (JE | WP GWP G) French Talmudist of the first half of the thirteenth century. His name occurs in a manuscript in the British Museum collection...
11. Joseph ben Elimelech of Torbin (JE | WP GWP G) Polish scholar of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Ben Ziyyon" (Amsterdam, 1690), containing mnemonic...
12. Joseph of Gamala (JE | WP GWP G) Son of a midwife (Josephus, "Vita," § 37). With Chares he incited the inhabitants of Gamala to revolt against Agrippa...
13. Joseph ben Gorion JE (JE | WP GWP G) Author of the "Sefer Yosippon," a history of the Jews from the time of the destruction of Babylon (539 B.C.) to the downfall...
14. Joseph ibn Hasan (JE | WP GWP G) Arabic author of the fifteenth century or earlier. In 1467 he wrote "Muchsin al-Adab," on culture, in fifty Ka&#7779...
15. Joseph Hazzan ben Judah of Troyes (JE | WP GWP G) French Talmudist and ḥazzan; flourished at Troyes about the middle of the thirteenth century. From quotations in "Minḥat Yehudah" (pp. 1b, 19b, 24a, 28a, 38a) it is known that he wrote a commentary on Ecclesiastes...
16. Henry Samuel Joseph (JE | WP GWP G) English convert to Christianity; born in 1801; died at Strasburg, Alsace, Jan. 28, 1864. At first a preacher in the synagogue...
17. Joseph bar Hiyya (JE | WP GWP G) Gaon of Pumbedita from 828 to 833. In the controversy between Daniel and the exilarch David ben Judah, the gaon Abraham ben...
18. Joseph ben Ibrahim ibn Wakar (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I62: Ibn Waḳar, Joseph ben Abraham
19. Joseph ben Isaac Bekor Shor of Orleans (JE | WP GWP G) French tosafist, exegete, and poet; flourished in the second half of the twelfth century; pupil of Jacob Tam, Joseph Caro...
20. Joseph b. Isaac of Chinon (JE | WP GWP G) French tosatist; lived in the second half of the twelfth and at the beginning of the thirteenth century. He is mentioned as...

481 – 500

1. Joseph ben Isaac ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian philosopher of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was well versed in philosophical works, and when in Prague was asked by Yom-Ṭob Lipman Heller...
2. Joseph Israel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J59: Jacob ben Joseph Israel
3. Jacob Joseph JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian-American rabbi; born at Krozhe, government of Kovno, Russia, 1848; died at New York July 28, 1902. He studied in the...
4. Joseph ben Jacob (JE | WP GWP G) Gaon of Sura about 930-936 and 942-948. He was chosen by the exilarch David ben Zakkai to fill the place of Saadia (c. 930)...
5. Joseph b. Jacob Isaac (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Yampol, Russia, later at Zamoscz; died in 1807. He was the author of "Mishnat Ḥakamim," on various subjects...
6. Joseph ben Jacob of Pinczow (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian Talmudist of the seventeenth century. He was a pupil of Zebi Hirsch, rabbi in Lublin. In 1687 he was rabbi...
7. Joseph ben Jacob ibn Zaddik JE (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish rabbi, poet, and philosopher; died at Cordova 1149. A Talmudist of high repute, he was appointed in 1138 dayyan at...
8. Joseph ben Johanan (JE | WP GWP G) French rabbi of the fourteenth century. He was a native of Treves (, read by Carmoly "Troyes"), and seems to have been the...
9. Joseph b. Joshua b. Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Amora of the third century; educated by his father (Shab. 68a; Ber. 8b; Yeb. 9a). He was the son-in-law of Judah ha-Nasi;...
10. Joseph ben Joshua ben Meïr ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) Historian and physician of the sixteenth century; born at Avignon Dec. 20, 1496; died at Genoa in 1575 or shortly after. His...
11. Joseph ben Judah ibn 'Aknin >> Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta JE (JE conflates the two) (JE | WP GWP G) Disciple of Moses Maimonides; born about 1160; died 1226. For the first twenty-five years of his life he lived with his father...
12. Joseph ben Kalonymus ha-Nakdan (JE | WP GWP G) German Masorite and liturgical poet; flourished in the first half of the thirteenth century. He was the author of a long acrostic...
13. Joseph Kara JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See K105: Kara, Joseph ben Simeon
14. Joseph, King of the Chazars (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C402: Chazars
15. Joseph (Jose) b. Kisma (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the first and second centuries; contemporary and senior of Hananiah b. Teradion. He is never cited in connection...
16. Joseph ha-Kohen JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J490: Joseph ben Joshua ben Meïr ha-Kohen
17. Joseph de Lamego (JE | WP GWP G) See Capateiro, Joseph.
18. Joseph (b. Jacob) of Mandeville (Morell) (JE | WP GWP G) French exegete; pupil of Abraham ibn Ezra. He wrote a supercommentary on that scholar's commentary on Exodus (Neubauer...
19. Joseph ben Meïr (JE | WP GWP G) Liturgical poet of the thirteenth century; perhaps uncle of Meïr of Rothenburg. He was the author of a dirge beginning...
20. Joseph ben Meïr Te'omim JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T143: Te'omim, Joseph ben Meïr

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