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501 to 600 edit
501 – 520 edit
- 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...
- 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...
- Joseph b. Mordecai Troki (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J503: Troki, Joseph b. Mordecai
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,"...
- 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,...
- Joseph ben Moses of Trani (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J508: Trani, Joseph b. Moses di.
- 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...
- Joseph ha-Nagid (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N18: Nagdela (Nagrela), Abu Ḥusain Joseph ibn
- Joseph Nasi of Naxos (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N80: Nasi, Joseph
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Joseph b. Phinehas (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F332: Frankfort-on-the-Main
- 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...
- 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...
- Joseph ben Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) See Bonfils, Joseph ben Samuel.
521 – 540 edit
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D228: Delmedigo, Joseph Solomon
- Joseph Taitazak (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T22: Taitazak, Joseph
- Joseph Tob Elem (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1296: Bonfils, Joseph b. Samuel
- 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...
- 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 Ḥ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 edit
- 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...
- Josephstadt (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P494: Prague
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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)...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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)...
- 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...
- 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...
- Joshua Höschel ben Meïr (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinical author; lived in the eighteenth century; died at Jerusalem; a contemporary of Elijah Wilna. Hewrote "Mazmiaḥ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 edit
- 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...
- Joshua Phabi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J255: Jesus ben Phabi
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Josiah Hazzan (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E548: Exilarch
- Josippon JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J473: Joseph ben Gorion
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jotapata (JE | WP GWP G) City in Galilee to the north of Sepphoris, strongly fortified by Josephus (Josephus, "Vita," § 37). In the Mishnah ('...
- 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...
- Journal Scientifique de la Theologie Juive (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
- Jewish Journals (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
- Joy (JE | WP GWP G) the feeling of gladness and rejoicing.—Biblical Data: Cant. R. i. 4 enumerates ten different terms for joy, and Wü...
- Juan de Abadia (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A113: Abadia, Juan de la
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 edit
- Jubilee (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S18: Sabbatical Year
- 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...
- Judacaria (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G210: Ghetto
- 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...
- Judaeo-Christians (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E22: Ebionites
- 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...
- 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'...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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)...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Judah (JE | WP GWP G) Family members of which settled in Newport, R. I., New York, Charleston, Richmond, Philadelphia, Montreal, Jamaica, and Surinam...
- 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 edit
601 – 620 edit
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Judah Aryeh of Modena (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L200: Leon (Judah Aryeh) of Modena
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Judah b. Bathyra (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B428: Bathyra
- Judah Benveniste (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B777: Benveniste
- 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...
- Judah the Blind (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Y29: Yehudai ben Naḥman
- 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...
- 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...
- Judah b. David Cagliari (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C12: Cagliari
621 – 640 edit
- 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)...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Judah ibn Ezra (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I14: Ibn Ezra, Judah
- Judah ibn Ghayyat (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I19: Ibn Ghayyat, Judah ben Isaac
- Judah Hadassi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H38: Hadassi, Judah
- Judah Hayyuj (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H436: Ḥayyuj, Judah
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Judah b. Isaac ibn Shabbethai ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J659: Judah Ibn Shabbethai
- Judah b. Isaac ibn Wakar (JE | WP GWP G) See ibn Wakar, Judah ben Isaac.
- 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...
- Judah Judghan (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Y87: Yudghanites
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 edit
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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," "Lé...
- 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...
- Judah Minz JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J651: Minz, Judah
- 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...
- Judah ben Moses b. Daniel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R350: Romano, Leone
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Judah b. Samuel ibn 'Abbas (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A169: 'Abbas, Judah ben Samuel ben
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 edit
- 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...
- 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...
- Judah ibn Tibbon JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J663: Ibn Tibbon, Judah
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Judaizers (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I148: Inquisition
- 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...
- 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, §...
- 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...
- 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;...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Der Jude (New York) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
- Epistle of Jude (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N245: New Testament
- Judea (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P31: Palestine
- Judenbühl (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N379: Nuremberg
- 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...
- Judendeutsch (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J586: Judæo-German
681 – 700 edit
- Judeneid (JE | WP GWP G) -- See O3: Oath, More Judaico
- Judengeleit (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L160: Leibzoll
- Judenherbergen (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I144: Inns
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Judge (JE | WP GWP G) the common Hebrew equivalent for "judge" is "shofeṭ," a term found also in the Phenician as "sufeṭ" (= "regulator")...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Day of Judgment (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D168: Day of Judgment
- 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...
- Judicial Procedure (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P538: Procedure
- Judicial Records (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D203: Deed
- Judicial Sales (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E545: Execution
- 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...
- Jüdische Chronik (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
- Das Jüdische Literaturblatt (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
- Jüdische Monatsschrift (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
701 to 800 edit
701 – 720 edit
- 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...
- Der Jüdische Schulbote (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
- 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...
- Das Jüdische Volksblatt (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
- Jüdische Volksschule (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
- Jüdische Volkszeitung (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
- Das Jüdische Weltblatt (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
- 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...
- Jüdisches Centralblatt (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
- 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...
- 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"...
- 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...
- 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...
- Judith of Worms (JE | WP GWP G) -- See W273: Worms
- Juiverie (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G210: Ghetto
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Julianus b. Tiberianus (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L617: Luliani ben Tabrin
- 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...
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- 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...
- 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...
- Henriette Julius (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J724: Julius, NiKolaus Heinrich
- 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...
- 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...
- Julius Sextus Africanus (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A883: Sextus Julius Africanus
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Justin Martyr (JE | WP GWP G) Church Father, who in his works, written in Greek (the Διάλογος πρὸ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Juvenal (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C525: Classical Writers
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- 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'...
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