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501 to 600

501 – 520

1. Joseph ben Mordecai Gershon ha-Kohen JE (JE | WP GWP G) Polish Talmudist; born at Cracow 1510; died 1591. He began his studies in the Talmud at an early age, and became the head...
2. Joseph ben Mordecai ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish rabbi and liturgist of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; born in Jerusalem. He was a pupil of Moses Galante...
3. Joseph b. Mordecai Troki (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J503: Troki, Joseph b. Mordecai
4. Morris Joseph (JE | WP GWP G) English rabbi; born in London May 28, 1848; educated at Jews' College in that city. He was appointed rabbi of the North...
5. Joseph (Joslein) ben Moses (JE | WP GWP G) Bavarian Talmudist; born at Höchstädt about 1420; died after 1488. A few details of Joseph's life are known...
6. Joseph (Josel) ben Moses Frankfurt (JE | WP GWP G) Dayyan at Fürth in the first half of the eighteenth century; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main; author of "Torat Yosef,"...
7. Joseph b. Moses Phinehas (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; born 1726; died at Posen 1801. He was a man of wealth and influence, and of great piety. His father-in-law,...
8. Joseph ben Moses of Trani (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J508: Trani, Joseph b. Moses di.
9. Joseph ben Moses of Troyes (JE | WP GWP G) French Talmudist of the first half of the twelfth century. Isaac ben Samuel the Elder quotes in his responsa Talmudic explanations...
10. Joseph ha-Nagid (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N18: Nagdela (Nagrela), Abu Ḥusain Joseph ibn
11. Joseph Nasi of Naxos (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N80: Nasi, Joseph
12. Joseph ben Nathan Official JE (JE | WP GWP G) French controversialist; lived, probably at Sens, in the thirteenth century. He was a descendant of Todros Nasi of Narbonne...
13. Joseph Nazir ben Hayyim Moses ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian rabbi; born at Hebron about 1650; died probably at Cairo 1719. He studied under Moses Galante and became rabbi...
14. Joseph ben Noah ha-Bashri (Abu Ya'kub Yusuf ibn Nuch) (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite scholar of the eighth and ninth centuries; brother of Nissim ben Noah. He translated the Pentateuch into Arabic, with...
15. Joseph (Maestro) de Noves (JE | WP GWP G) French physician of Avignon who lived in the middle of the fifteenth century, and was highly esteemed throughout the south...
16. Joseph b. Petros (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the first generation (3d cent.). He was the father of Joshua b. Levi's first wife (Yer. M. K. iii...
17. Joseph b. Phinehas (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F332: Frankfort-on-the-Main
18. Joseph ibn Plat JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinical authority of the twelfth century; born presumably in southern Spain, whence he went to Provence and settled in...
19. Joseph Porat ben Moses (JE | WP GWP G) Tosafist of the thirteenth century. The surname "Porat" is an allusion to Gen. xlix. 22. According to Gross, Joseph Porat...
20. Joseph ben Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) See Bonfils, Joseph ben Samuel.

521 – 540

1. Samuel A Joseph (JE | WP GWP G) Australian pioneer and politician; born in London 1824; died in Sydney, New South Wales, Sept. 25, 1898. At the age of eighteen...
2. Joseph Samuel ben Abraham ben Joseph ben Abraham Baruch ben Neriah (JE | WP GWP G) French rabbi; born at Aix, Provence; flourished at Avignon toward the end of the thirteenth century. Like his father, Abraham...
3. Joseph ben Samuel ha-Hazzan (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite Chakam of Halicz, Galicia; died in 1700; pupil of R. Nissim. He was the author of the following works, none of...
4. Joseph ben Samuel ibn Rey (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi; died prematurely in Venice April 2, 1608. His epitaph (Wolf, "Bibl. Hebr." iv. 1213) leaves it to be supposed...
5. Joseph Shallit ben Eliezer Richetti (Riqueti) (JE | WP GWP G) Italian scholar; born at Safed, Palestine; lived in the second half of the seventeenth century at Verona, where he directed...
6. Joseph ben Sheshet Latimi (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish liturgical poet; lived at Lerida in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In 1308 he wrote a prayer entitled "Elef...
7. Joseph ben Solomon (Joseph Darshan of Posen) (JE | WP GWP G) German preacher; born at Posen in 1601; died there in 1696. When a youth Joseph studied at Byelaya Tzerkov, Russia, where...
8. Joseph ben Solomon of Carcassonne (JE | WP GWP G) French liturgical poet of the eleventh century. He wrote a Ḥanukkah "yozer" beginning "Odeka ki anafta," which...
9. Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D228: Delmedigo, Joseph Solomon
10. Joseph Taitazak (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T22: Taitazak, Joseph
11. Joseph Tob Elem (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1296: Bonfils, Joseph b. Samuel
12. Joseph ben Tobiah (JE | WP GWP G) Farmer of the Egyptian royal revenues from about 220 to 198 B.C.; nephew, on his mother's side, of the high priest Onias...
13. Joseph ben Uri Sheraga (JE | WP GWP G) Russian liturgist of the seventeenth century; born in Kobrin, government of Grodno. He was the author of "Ma'arakah &#7716...
14. Joseph ben Uzziel (JE | WP GWP G) Supposed author of a cabalistic work which is often quoted by Recanati, in his commentary on the Pentateuch, under the title...
15. Joseph Zabara (Joseph ben Meïr Zabara) (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish physician, satirist, and poet of the beginning of the thirteenth century; born and died in Barcelona. He studied in...
16. Joseph b. Zachariah (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish general of the Maccabean period. He, together with Azariah, was left in charge of the forces when the Maccabean brothers...
17. Joseph ben Zaddik JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi in Arevalo, Spain, during the fifteenth century; author of a treatise entitled "Zeker Zaddik," on ritual...
18. Joseph Zarfati (JE | WP GWP G) Convert to Christianity and missionary to the Jews at Rome; died before 1597. He accepted Christianity in 1552, taking the...
19. Joseph (Josel) ben Zeeb Wolf Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi in Lesla during the first half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a supercommentary on Rashi to the Pentateuch...
20. Michael Josephs (JE | WP GWP G) English Hebraist and communal worker; born in Königsberg Oct. 8, 1763; died in London Feb. 9, 1849. He left his native...

541 – 560

1. Walter Josephs (JE | WP GWP G) English educationist and communal worker; born in London Nov. 22, 1804; died Jan. 24, 1893. He was closely connected with...
2. Josephstadt (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P494: Prague
3. Flavius Josephus (JE | WP GWP G) General and historian; born in 37 or 38; died after 100. He boasts of belonging to the Hasmonean race on his mother's...
4. Joshua (Jehoshua) (JE | WP GWP G) Name of several Biblical personages.In Hebrew (Deut. iii. 21; Judges ii. 7) and commonly (Judges ii. 7a; Ex. xvii. 9; Josh...
5. Book of Joshua JE (JE | WP GWP G) the first book of the second greater division in the Hebrew canon, the "Nebi'im," and therefore also the first of the...
6. The Samaritan Book of Joshua JE (JE | WP GWP G) Samaritan chronicle, written in Arabic; so termed because the greater part of it is devoted to the history of Joshua. It was...
7. Joshua (Bruno) (JE | WP GWP G) Physician and scholar of Treves; lived in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. He treated Bruno, Archbishop of Treves (1102-4)...
8. Joshua b. Abin (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth century whose name is associated chiefly with haggadot. He transmitted a haggadah of Levi...
9. Joshua (Jesus) ben Damnai (JE | WP GWP G) High priest about 62-63 C.E. He was appointed by King Agrippa II., after Anan, son of Anan, had been deposed (Josephus, "Ant...
10. Joshua (Jesus) ben Gamla JE (JE | WP GWP G) A high priest who officiated about 64 C.E. He married therich widow Martha of the high-priestly family Boethos (Yeb. vi. 4)...
11. Joshua b. Hananiah JE (JE | WP GWP G) A leading tanna of the first half-century following the destruction of the Temple. He was of Levitical descent (Ma'as...
12. Joshua Höschel ben Joseph JE (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; born in Wilna about 1578; died at Cracow Aug. 16, 1648. In his boyhood he journeyed to Przemysl, Galicia, to...
13. Joshua Höschel ben Meïr (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinical author; lived in the eighteenth century; died at Jerusalem; a contemporary of Elijah Wilna. Hewrote "Mazmia&#7717...
14. Joshua Höschel ben Saul (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; died in Wilna at an advanced age Sept. 9, 1749. He was named after his grandfather, R. Höschel of Lublin...
15. Joshua Joseph ben David Halevi (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Venice and Hebrew poet; lived in the seventeenth century. He composed elegies ("Kinot") on the deaths of Samuel...
16. Joshua b. Karha (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second century; contemporary of the patriarch Simeon b. Gamaliel II. Some regard him as the son of Akiba who...
17. Joshua b. Levi JE (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the first half of the third century. He was the head of the school of Lydda in southern Palestine, and...
18. Joshua (Falk) Lisser ben Judah Löb (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist; born in Lissa, Posen. He was schoolmaster at Hamburg toward the end of the seventeenth century, and was...
19. Joshua ben Mordecai Falk Hakohen (JE | WP GWP G) American Talmudist; born at Brest-Kuyavsk, government of Warsaw, in 1799; died at Keokuk, Iowa, in 1864. While still a young...
20. Joshua (ha-Kohen) ben Nehemiah (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth century. He seems to have devoted himself almost entirely to the Haggadah, for no halakic...

561 – 580

1. Joshua b. Perahyah JE (JE | WP GWP G) President ("nasi") of the Sanhedrin in the latter half of the second century B.C. He and his colleague Nittai of Arbela were...
2. Joshua Phabi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J255: Jesus ben Phabi
3. Joshua of Shiknin (JE | WP GWP G) Amora of the third century; known especially as a transmitter of Levi's Haggadah. He also quotes a haggadic sentence by...
4. Josiah (JE | WP GWP G) King of Judah from 639 to 608 B.C.; son and successor of Amon and grandson of Manasseh. His mother was Jedidah, the daughter...
5. Josiah JE (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second century; the most distinguished pupil of R. Ishmael. He is not mentioned in the Mishnah, perhaps because...
6. Josiah Hazzan (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E548: Exilarch
7. Josippon JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J473: Joseph ben Gorion
8. Grigori Andreiyevich Jossa (JE | WP GWP G) Russian mining engineer; born about 1800; died in St. Petersburg 1874. Jossa graduated from the St. Petersburg school of mines...
9. Isaac Marcus Jost JE (JE | WP GWP G) German historian; born at Bernburg Feb. 22, 1793; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Nov. 22, 1860. Jost was one of a poor family...
10. Jost Liebmann (JE | WP GWP G) Court Jew and court jeweler of Elector Frederick III. of Brandenburg (King Frederick I. of Prussia), and one of the elders...
11. Jotapata (JE | WP GWP G) City in Galilee to the north of Sepphoris, strongly fortified by Josephus (Josephus, "Vita," § 37). In the Mishnah (&#39...
12. Jotham (JE | WP GWP G) Youngest son of Gideon or Jerubbaal. On the death of Gideon (Judges viii. 33) the children of Israel fell back into the slough...
13. Journal Scientifique de la Theologie Juive (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
14. Jewish Journals (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
15. Joy (JE | WP GWP G) the feeling of gladness and rejoicing.—Biblical Data: Cant. R. i. 4 enumerates ten different terms for joy, and W&#252...
16. Juan de Abadia (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A113: Abadia, Juan de la
17. Juan Rodrigo de Castel-Branco JE (JE | WP GWP G) Portuguese physician; born at Castel-Branco, Portugal, in 1511;died at Salonica in 1568. He was a descendant of a Marano family...
18. Juan de Sevilla (JE | WP GWP G) Representative of the Maranos in 1482, and a wealthy tax-farmer; lived in Jerez de la Frontera. In 1481, when ordered to answer...
19. Juan de Valladolid (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish poet and Marano of lowly station; born about 1420 in Valladolid. He lived at the courts of Naples, Mantua, and Milan...
20. Jubal (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Lamech; "the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe" (Gen. iv. 19-21, R. V.); that is, he was the "father"...

581 – 600

1. Jubilee (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S18: Sabbatical Year
2. Book of Jubilees (JE | WP GWP G) Midrashic commentary on the Book of Genesis and on part of the Book of Exodus, in the form of an apocalypse, containing the...
3. Judacaria (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G210: Ghetto
4. The Judaeans (JE | WP GWP G) A society organized in New York Jan. 28, 1897, upon lines similar to those of the Maccabæans in London, England. It was...
5. Judaeo-Christians (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E22: Ebionites
6. Judaeo-German (JE | WP GWP G) the language spoken by the German Jews in Russia, former Poland, Austria, Rumania, and lately in America and South Africa...
7. Judaeo-German literature (JE | WP GWP G) the earliest known Judæo-German translation of the Machzor belongs to the fourteenth century, and Isaac ben Eliezer&#39...
8. Judaeo-Greek and Judaeo-Italian (JE | WP GWP G) Although the Greek which is spoken and written by Jews in various parts of the Balkan Peninsula differs scarcely at all from...
9. Judaeo-Persian (JE | WP GWP G) Language spoken by the Jews living in Persia. The earliest evidence of the entrance of Persian words into the language of...
10. Judaeo-Persian literature (JE | WP GWP G) At the present stage of research it is not possible to arrange the literature of the Jews written in Persian but in Hebrew...
11. Judaeo-Spanish language and literature (Ladino) (JE | WP GWP G) Judæo-Spanish is a dialect composed of a mixture of Spanish and Hebrew elements, which is still used as the vernacular...
12. Judah (JE | WP GWP G) the fourth son of Jacob and Leah; born in Padan-aram (Gen. xxix. 35). It is he who suggests the sale of Joseph to the Ishmaelite...
13. Kingdom of Judah (JE | WP GWP G) the legitimate successor of the kingdom established by David was the smaller kingdom to the south, which remained true to...
14. Tribe of Judah (JE | WP GWP G) the tribe of Judah is said to have been descended from the patriarch Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah (Gen. xxix. 35)...
15. Judah (Coadjutor of Josephus) (JE | WP GWP G) the Sanhedrin of Jerusalem commissioned Judah and Joezar to assist Josephus (66 C.E.) in pacifying the people and inducing...
16. Judah (Jewish Prince) (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Simeon Tharsi. When Antiochus VII., Sidetes, sent his general Cendebæus against Simeon, the latter, too old for...
17. Judah ("Rabbi Mor") (JE | WP GWP G) Chief rabbi of the Jews in Portugal and treasurer of King Don Diniz, with whom he enjoyed great favor; died before 1304. He...
18. Judah (JE | WP GWP G) Treasurer to Ferdinand, King of Portugal; appointed in 1378. After the king's death he became the favorite of his queen...
19. Judah (JE | WP GWP G) Family members of which settled in Newport, R. I., New York, Charleston, Richmond, Philadelphia, Montreal, Jamaica, and Surinam...
20. Judah (Russian Family) (JE | WP GWP G) Family prominent in the communal life of Grodno and Lithuania during the greater part of the sixteenth century. Judah Bogdanovich...

601 to 700

601 – 620

1. Judah I (JE | WP GWP G) Patriarch; redactor of the Mishnah; born about 135; died about 220. He was the first of Hillel's successors to whose name...
2. Judah II (JE | WP GWP G) Patriarch; son of Gamaliel III. and grandson of Judah I.; lived at Tiberias in the middle of the third century. In the sources...
3. Judah III (JE | WP GWP G) Patriarch; son of Gamaliel IV. and grandson of Judah II. The sources do not distinguish between Judah II. and Judah III.,...
4. Judah IV (JE | WP GWP G) Patriarch; son of Gamaliel V. and grandson of Hillel II. Beyond his name and the fact that he officiated during the last two...
5. Judah ben Abraham (JE | WP GWP G) Pupil of Rashi; flourished at the beginning of the twelfth century. He studied under Rashi with Shemaiah (father-in-law of...
6. Judah b. Abun (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish poet; lived in Seville. He was probably the son of that Abun to whom Moses ibn Ezra dedicated several poems and whose...
7. Judah b. Ammi (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third generation (4th cent.); the son, perhaps, of the celebrated R. Ammi (Bacher, "Ag. Pal. Amor...
8. Judah Aryeh Löb ben Joshua Höschel (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Slutsk, government of Minsk, Russia, in the middle of the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Torah Or" (Berlin...
9. Judah Aryeh of Modena (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L200: Leon (Judah Aryeh) of Modena
10. Judah Aryeh ben Zebi Hirsch (JE | WP GWP G) French Hebraist; flourished in the beginning of the eighteenth century; born in Krotoschin, Germany. He lived at Avignon and...
11. Judah ben Asher JE (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist; later, rabbi of Toledo, Spain; born in western Germany June 30, 1270; died at Toledo July 4, 1349; brother...
12. Judah b. Baba JE (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second century; martyred (at the age of seventy) during the persecutions under Hadrian. At that time the government...
13. Judah ben Barzillai JE (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish Talmudist of the end of the eleventh and the beginning of the twelfth century. Almost nothing is known of his life...
14. Judah b. Bathyra (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B428: Bathyra
15. Judah Benveniste (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B777: Benveniste
16. Judah de Blanis (JE | WP GWP G) Italian physician; lived at Perugia in the middle of the sixteenth century. David de Pomis, in his "De Medico Hebræo...
17. Judah the Blind (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Y29: Yehudai ben Naḥman
18. Judah of Corbeil (JE | WP GWP G) Tosafist of the thirteenth century. He wrote tosafot to a great number of Talmudical treatises, and is quoted in the "Kol...
19. Judah ha-Darshan ben Moses (JE | WP GWP G) French Bible commentator; lived at Toulouse in the first half of the eleventh century. He is often quoted by Rashi in his...
20. Judah b. David Cagliari (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C12: Cagliari

621 – 640

1. Judah ben David of Melun JE (JE | WP GWP G) French tosafist of the first half of the thirteenth century; son of the tosafist David of Melun (department of Seine-et-Marne)...
2. Judah ben Eli (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite grammarian and liturgical poet; died at Jerusalem, where he was rosh yeshibah,in 932. He was the author of a grammatical...
3. Judah ben Eliezer (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian Talmudist and philanthropist; born at Wilna; died there March 18, 1762, having officiated as dayyan, communal secretary...
4. Judah ben Elijah Tishbi (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite scholar and liturgical poet; flourished at Belgrade in the first half of the sixteenth century; grandson of Abraham...
5. Judah ben Enoch (JE | WP GWP G) Chief rabbi and preacher of Pfersee, Bavaria; lived at the end of the seventeenth century. His sermons for the festivals of...
6. Judah b. Ezekiel JE (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the second generation; born in 220; died at Pumbedita in 299. He was the most prominent disciple of Rab...
7. Judah ibn Ezra (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I14: Ibn Ezra, Judah
8. Judah ibn Ghayyat (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I19: Ibn Ghayyat, Judah ben Isaac
9. Judah Hadassi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H38: Hadassi, Judah
10. Judah Hayyuj (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H436: Ḥayyuj, Judah
11. Judah b. Hiyya (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the first generation (3d cent.); son of the famous R. Ḥiyya. In Midr. Shemuel xi., and in Yer....
12. Judah ben Ilai JE (JE | WP GWP G) One of the most important tannaim of the second century; born at Usha, a city of Galilee (Cant. R. ii.). His teachers were...
13. Judah ben Isaac (JE | WP GWP G) French tosafist; born in Paris 1166; died there 1224 (Solomon Luria, Responsa, No. 29). According to Gross he was probably...
14. Judah b. Isaac ibn Shabbethai ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J659: Judah Ibn Shabbethai
15. Judah b. Isaac ibn Wakar (JE | WP GWP G) See ibn Wakar, Judah ben Isaac.
16. Judah ben Joseph Perez (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Venice and Amsterdam in the first half of the eighteenth century. He wrote: "Seder Keri'e Mo'ed," cabalistic...
17. Judah Judghan (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Y87: Yudghanites
18. Judah b. Kalonymus b. Meïr (JE | WP GWP G) German historian and Talmudic lexicographer; flourished in the second half of the twelfth century. Judah came from one of...
19. Judah ibn Kuraish JE (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew grammarian and lexicographer; born at Tahort, northern Africa; flourished in the eighth and ninth centuries. In his...
20. Judah ben Lakish (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second century. His name occurs only in the Tosefta and the Mekilta. He is the author of the halakah to the effect...

641 – 660

1. Judah Leon Di Leone (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi from 1796 to 1835. Sent as a messenger from Hebron to Rome, he became rabbi in the latter city during the troublous...
2. Judah Leone b. Isaac Sommo (JE | WP GWP G) Italian writer and dramatic critic and manager; died after 1591. A scion of the Portaleone family of Mantua, he lived first...
3. Judah ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish philosopher and Hebrew poet; born at Toledo, southern Castile, in the last quarter of the eleventh century; died in...
4. Judah ha-Levi ben Shalom (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth generation; flourished in the second half of the fourth century. Few halakot of his are recorded...
5. Judah Löb ben Joshua (Höschke) (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Busk, Poland (now Austrian Galicia), in the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Leb Aryeh," containing homilies...
6. Judah Löb ben Simeon (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and physician; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main about the middle of the seventeenth century; died at Mayence in 1714. He...
7. Judah Löw (Löb, Liwa) ben Bezaleel (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian Talmudist and mathematician; born aboutthe second decade of the sixteenth century in Posen, whither his family had...
8. Judah Löw ben Obadiah Eilenburg (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi of the sixteenth century; succeeded Naphtali Herz as rabbi of Brest-Litovsk about 1570. His signature appears...
9. Judah ben Meïr ha-Kohen Hazaken EL:JE (JE | WP GWP G) French Talmudist; lived about the year 1000. According to the sources, he was surnamed "Léon," "Léonṭe," "L&#233...
10. Judah ben Menahem (JE | WP GWP G) Italian liturgical poet; lived, probably at Rome, in the middle of the twelfth century; father of the Roman dayyan Menahem...
11. Judah Minz JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J651: Minz, Judah
12. Judah ben Moses of Arles (JE | WP GWP G) A scholar of the second half of the eleventh century who enjoyed a great reputation and authority not only in France, but...
13. Judah ben Moses b. Daniel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R350: Romano, Leone
14. Judah ben Nathanael (JE | WP GWP G) French liturgical poet; lived at Beaucaire in the first quarter of the thirteenth century. Al-Ḥarizi, who became acquainted...
15. Judah b. Pedaya (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the first generation (3d cent.); nephew of bar Kappara. Among his numerous pupils the most important...
16. Judah Poki (Puki) ben Eliezer Tshelebi (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite scholar; lived at Constantinople; died before 1501; nephew of Elijah Bashyazi. According to Steinschneider, the surname...
17. Judah b. Samuel ibn 'Abbas (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A169: 'Abbas, Judah ben Samuel ben
18. Judah ben Samuel he-Hasid of Regensburg JE (JE | WP GWP G) Ethical writer and mystic; died Feb. 22, 1217 ("Ozar Tob," 1878, p. 045; Berliner, "Magazin," 1876, p. 220; "Kerem...
19. Judah ibn Shabbethai JE (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish poet of the end of the twelfth century. He has been identified with the physician Judah b. Isaac of Barcelona, who...
20. Judah b. Sheneor of Evreux (JE | WP GWP G) French liturgical poet of the thirteenth century. He maintained a correspondence with Jacob b. Solomon of Courson (c. 1260)...

661 – 680

1. Judah Siciliano (JE | WP GWP G) Italian poet of the fourteenth century. He earned a livelihood by giving lessons in poetry and by writing occasional poems...
2. Judah ben Simeon ben Pazzi (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora and haggadist of the beginning of the fourth century. He frequently transmits halakic and haggadic aphorisms...
3. Judah ibn Tibbon JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J663: Ibn Tibbon, Judah
4. Judah Zeeb ben Ephraim (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian Talmudist of the seventeenth century; son of Ephraim ben Jacob ha-Kohen, whose home in Ofen he left for Jerusalem...
5. Judah b. Zippori (JE | WP GWP G) Instigator of an uprising against Herod the Great. Shortly before the latter's death two prominent scribes of Jerusalem...
6. Judaism (JE | WP GWP G) the religion of the Jewish people (II Macc. ii. 21, viii. 1, xiv. 38; Gal. i. 13 = , Esth. R. iii. 7; comp. , Esth. viii....
7. Judaizers (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I148: Inquisition
8. Judaizing Heresy (Zhidovstvu-Yushchaya Yeres) (JE | WP GWP G) A Christian heresy which first made its appearance in Novgorod during the reign of Grand Duke Ivan Vassilyevich III. (second...
9. Judas the Essene (JE | WP GWP G) Saint renowned for his prophetic powers in the time of King Aristobulus (105-104 B.C.). Josephus ("Ant." xiii. 11, §...
10. Judas the Galilean (JE | WP GWP G) Leader of a popular revolt against the Romans at the time when the first census was taken in Judea, in which revolt he perished...
11. Judas Iscariot (JE | WP GWP G) One of the twelve Apostles of Jesus; he betrayed his master and delivered him up to the priests for judgment (Matt. x. 4;...
12. Judas Maccabeus (JE | WP GWP G) Son of the priest Mattathias, and, after his father's death, leader against the Syrians. When he entered on the war he...
13. Max Judd (JE | WP GWP G) American manufacturer, consul-general, and chess-player; born Dec. 27, 1851, at Cracow, Austria; emigrated to the United States...
14. Der Jude (JE | WP GWP G) Weekly magazine published in Altona, Germany, from April 10, 1832, to Dec. 31, 1833, by Gabriel Riesser. Its chief aim was...
15. Der Jude (New York) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
16. Epistle of Jude (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N245: New Testament
17. Judea (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P31: Palestine
18. Judenbühl (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N379: Nuremberg
19. Judenburg (JE | WP GWP G) One of the oldest cities of Styria, Austria; the ancient Idunum. The name of Judenburg occurs in a document of 1075. Then...
20. Judendeutsch (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J586: Judæo-German

681 – 700

1. Judeneid (JE | WP GWP G) -- See O3: Oath, More Judaico
2. Judengeleit (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L160: Leibzoll
3. Judenherbergen (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I144: Inns
4. Judenhut (JE | WP GWP G) Tall, conical hat, generally yellow, serving, in conformity with the decrees of the fourth Lateran Council (1215), as a distinguishing...
5. Judenschreinsbuch (JE | WP GWP G) Collection of deeds belonging to Jews in the St. Lawrence parish of the city of Cologne (Germany); since the thirteenth century...
6. Judenschule (Schola Judæorum) (JE | WP GWP G) the usual German expression for "synagogue" in medieval times. It seems to have been first used in the charter of Frederick...
7. Judenstättigkeit (JE | WP GWP G) Archaic technical term for the legal status of a Jewish community, and as such identical with the more frequent term "Judenschutz...
8. Judge (JE | WP GWP G) the common Hebrew equivalent for "judge" is "shofeṭ," a term found also in the Phenician as "sufeṭ" (= "regulator")...
9. Book of Judges (JE | WP GWP G) in the Hebrew canon, the second book of the Earlier Prophets, placed between Joshua and Samuel. § I. Name: the book...
10. Period of Judges (JE | WP GWP G) the present form of the Book of Judges has given rise to the phrase "time of the Judges," which covers the period from the...
11. Judgment (JE | WP GWP G) the sentence or final order of a court in a civil or criminal proceeding, enforceable by the appropriate modes of execution...
12. Day of Judgment (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D168: Day of Judgment
13. Divine Judgment (JE | WP GWP G) the final decision by God, as Judge of the world, concerning the destiny of men and nations according to their merits and...
14. Judicial Procedure (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P538: Procedure
15. Judicial Records (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D203: Deed
16. Judicial Sales (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E545: Execution
17. Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar (Fränckelscher Stiftung) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Institution in Breslau for the training of rabbis, founded under the will of Jonas Fränckel, and opened in 1854. Commercial...
18. Jüdische Chronik (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
19. Das Jüdische Literaturblatt (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
20. Jüdische Monatsschrift (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals

701 to 800

701 – 720

1. Die Jüdische Presse (JE | WP GWP G) Weekly periodical published in Berlin since 1869. Its editors have been S. Enoch and Israel Hildesheimer and his son Hirsch...
2. Der Jüdische Schulbote (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
3. Jüdische Turnzeitung (JE | WP GWP G) A Jewish monthly; published in Berlin by Herman Jalowicz as the official organ of the Jüdischer Turnverein bar Kochba...
4. Das Jüdische Volksblatt (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
5. Jüdische Volksschule (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
6. Jüdische Volkszeitung (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
7. Das Jüdische Weltblatt (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
8. Jüdische Zeitschrift für Wissenschaft und Leben (JE | WP GWP G) Quarterly publication issued in Breslau from 1862 to 1873 (11 vols.) by Abraham Geiger. It was originally Geiger's intention...
9. Jüdisches Centralblatt (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
10. Jüdischheit (JE | WP GWP G) Medieval German expression for the Jewish community of a certain locality or of a whole country. Thus the gilds of Speyer...
11. Book of Judith (JE | WP GWP G) An Apocryphal book in sixteen chapters. The book receives its title from the name of its principal character, Judith ( = "Jewess"...
12. Madame Judith (JE | WP GWP G) French actress; born in Paris Jan. 30, 1827. She began her theatrical career at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques...
13. Judith Montefiore College (JE | WP GWP G) Theological seminary founded in 1869 by Sir Moses Montefiore in honor of his wife, Lady Judith Montefiore, at Ramsgate. Kent...
14. Judith of Worms (JE | WP GWP G) -- See W273: Worms
15. Juiverie (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G210: Ghetto
16. Julian the Apostate (Flavius Claudius Julianus) (JE | WP GWP G) Roman emperor; born Nov. 17, 331; reigned from Nov., 361, till June, 363.The recognition of Christianity as the religion of...
17. Julian of Toledo (JE | WP GWP G) Primate of Spain; born in Toledo (where he was also baptized); died in 690. He was the first of the long list of ecclesiastical...
18. Julianus (JE | WP GWP G) Leader of a Samaritan rebellion at Nablus in 530 against the Romans; son of Samaron or Sabarona or, according to another reading...
19. Julianus b. Tiberianus (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L617: Luliani ben Tabrin
20. Jülich (JE | WP GWP G) City of Rhenish Prussia, near Aix-la-Chapelle, situated on the Ruhr. In 1227 Emperor Frederick II. conferred upon Count Wilhelm...

721 – 740

1. Julius III (Giovanni Maria Del Monte) (JE | WP GWP G) Two hundred and twenty-eighth pope; born at Rome 1487; elected pope Feb. 8, 1550;died March 22, 1555. Personally he was favorably...
2. Julius Archelaus (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Chelcias ("Ant." xix. 9, § 1; xx. 7, § 1 [without "Julius"]), and, to judge from his name, a Hellenized Jew...
3. Henriette Julius (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J724: Julius, NiKolaus Heinrich
4. Nikolaus Heinrich Julius (JE | WP GWP G) German physician and prison-reformer; born at Altona, Germany, Oct. 3, 1783; died at Hamburg Aug. 20, 1862. He received his...
5. Julius of Pavia (JE | WP GWP G) One of the first European Jews of the Middle Ages known by name. About 760 he disputed at Pavia with Magister Peter of Pisa...
6. Julius Sextus Africanus (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A883: Sextus Julius Africanus
7. Juma-i-bala (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish city on the Bulgarian frontier, four hours from Dubnitza. The community here dates from the middle of the eighteenth...
8. Jung-Bunzlau (JE | WP GWP G) Town in northeastern Bohemia. Its Jewish community, one of the oldest in the province, was formerly one of the largest in...
9. Junior right (JE | WP GWP G) System of tenure in which a father's property descends to the youngest son; ultimogeniture as opposed to primogeniture...
10. Juniper (JE | WP GWP G) the traditional rendering of "rotem" in I Kings xix. 4, 5; Ps. cxx. 4; and Job xxx. 4, adopted by Aquila and the Vulgate,...
11. Jurisdiction (JE | WP GWP G) the authority of a court of law to decide cases of certain kinds. This depends on the kind of matter in dispute; on the locality...
12. Jus Gazaka (JE | WP GWP G) the usual Italian term for the right of Ḥazakah, especially with regard to the rent of houses in the ghetto of...
13. Jus primae noctis (JE | WP GWP G) Alleged seigniorial right to marital privileges. The feudal lords had the right of giving heiresses in marriage, and there...
14. Justin Martyr (JE | WP GWP G) Church Father, who in his works, written in Greek (the Διάλογος πρ&#8056...
15. Justinian (JE | WP GWP G) Emperor of the Eastern, or Byzantine, Empire from 527 to 565. During his long reign he issued many decrees relating to the...
16. Jacob ben Abraham Justo (Zaddik) (JE | WP GWP G) Portuguese chartographer; flourished in Palestine (Wolf, "Bibl. Hebr." i., No. 1097) in the first half of the seventeenth...
17. Dr Justus (JE | WP GWP G) Convert to Christianity and writer against the Jews; born at Costinasti, Rumania, about 1860. Until the age of twenty he lived...
18. Justus of Tiberias (JE | WP GWP G) Historical writer and one of the leaders of the Jews against the Romans in Galilee in the year 66. What is known of him comes...
19. Jutrzenka (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish weekly published at Warsaw in the Polish language. Its first number appeared July 5, 1861; and the paper continued...
20. Juvenal (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C525: Classical Writers

741 – 760

1. Moses Mordecai Juwel (JE | WP GWP G) Galician scholar; lived at Brody in the first half of the nineteenth century. He translated from the German into Hebrew Hufeland&#39...

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