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  1. Caceres - our article is unrelated dab JE A family, members of which have lived in Portugal, Holland, England, Mexico, Surinam, the West Indies, and the United States. ......
  2. Caecilius of Calacte JE Rhetorician, critic, and historian; flourished in the first century B.C. at Calacte, a town on the northern coast of Sicily. ......
  3. Caius Julius Caesar JE Roman dictator, consul, and conqueror; born July 12, 100 B.C. (according to Mommsen, 102 B.C.); assassinated March 15, 44 B.C.
  4. Cage - our page is long dab, but it doesn't include JE's meaning JE A rendering for V03p489006.jpg in Jer. v. 27; but it is doubtful whether this translation is accurate. The Hebrew word ......
  5. Jacob Abraham Cahana JE see Jacob ben Abraham Kahana
  6. Cahana (Rab) JE; [this is very brief; should we create an article (admittedly he was grand rabbi of Constantinople); if so, perhaps more info needed?]
  7. Cahana ben Tachlifa (Cahana ben Tahlifa) JE see Kahana b. Tahlifa
  8. Albert Cahen JE French composer; born at Paris Jan. 8, 1846; a pupil of Cæsar Franck (composition) and Mme. Szarvady (pianoforte). He made
  9. Coralie Cahen JE French philanthropist; born at Nancy, 1832; died at Paris March 12, 1899; wife of Mayer Cahen, chief physician of the ......
  10. Isidore Cahen JE French scholar and journalist; born at Paris in 1826; died there March 6, 1902. After having brilliantly completed his education ......
  11. Samuel Cahen JE French Hebraist and journalist; born at Metz Aug. 4, 1796; died at Paris Jan. 8, 1862. He was brought up ......
  12. Arnold Cahn JE German physician; born at Worms April 11, 1858. After completing his course at the gymnasium, he studied medicine at the ......
  13. David Léon Cahun JE French Orientalist and writer; born June 23, 1841, at Haguenau, Alsace; died at Paris March 30, 1900. Cahun's family, which ......
  14. Caiaphas JE (καïάφας, a Greek word; in the Hebrew original, probably not V03p493001.jpg, but V03p493002.jpg; compare Mishnah Parah iii. 5; Derenbourg, "Essai ......
  15. Cain JE First-born of Adam and Eve, named "Cain" ("Ḳayin") because "gotten" (root, "ḳanah") "with the help of Yhwh." He became a ......
  16. Cairo JE
  17. Hayyim ben Joseph Calabrese JE
  18. Calahora (Calahorra) JE A family of Spanish descent, resident in Cracow from the sixteenth century up to the present time, of which the ......
  19. Joseph Abraham ben Simchah Calamani (Joseph Abraham ben Simhah Calamani) JE Italian Talmudist; born at Venice in 1704. The surname "Calamani" is, according to Steinschneider, derived from the German "Kalman" or ......
  20. Calamus our article is disambig which doesn't mention JE's meaning JE One of the ingredients (Ex. xxx. 23) of the oil made specially for anointing the tabernacle (Ex. xxx. 26), its ......
  21. Calatrava - our page is dab which doesn't mention JE's meaning JE Fortified city in the former province of La Mancha, in Castile. In 1146, when it was captured from the Moors ......
  22. Judah Calaz JE
  23. Calcol JE A man famous for his wisdom, since the Biblical writer attests the wisdom of Solomon by saying that he surpassed
  24. Calcutta JE Capital of Bengal, and seat of government of British India. The Jews of Calcutta now number about 2,150, of whom ......
  25. Caleb JE According to the Biblical text, Caleb was of the tribe of Judah. He represented that tribe among the twelve spies ......
  26. Calebites JE A branch of the Edomite clan of Kenaz (compare Judges i. 12 with Gen. xxxvi. 11, 15, 42) that, before ......
  27. History of the Jewish Calendar JE The history of the Jewish calendar may be divided into three periods—the Biblical, the Talmudic, and the post-Talmudic. The first ......
  28. Calf-Worship JE Among the Hebrews, as among the other agricultural Semites, the bull was associated with deity in a sacred character (see ......
  29. History of the Jews in California JE One of the United States of America on the Pacific coast. There exists no authenticated record of the activities of ......
  30. Califs (Caliph) JE The attitude of the first Mohammedan rulers toward their Jewish subjects was as much regulated by circumstances as had been ......
  31. Caligula JE Third emperor of Rome; born Aug. 31, 12 C.E. ; assassinated at Rome Jan. 24, 41. He soon displayed the ......
  32. Baruch Calimani JE Italian publisher; lived in the second half of the sixteenth and at the beginning of the seventeenth century at Venice. ......

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  1. Simchah Simon ben Abraham Calimani (Simhah Simon ben Abraham Calimani) JE Venetian rabbi and author; died at Venice Aug. 2, 1784. He was a versatile writer, and equally prominent as linguist, ......
  2. Calitas JE Levite who had married a foreign wife, but, at the solicitation of Ezra, repudiated her (I Esd. ix. 23). ......
  3. Johann Heinrich Callenberg JE Professor of theology and philology, and promoter of conversionist enterprise among the Jews; born of peasant parents at Molschleben Jan. ......
  4. Calling Up (Aliyah) JE
  5. Callirrhoe - our article is a dab which doesn't mention JE's meaning JE Hot springs on the western side of the Dead Sea, near the Zerka Maim (Buhl, "Geographie des Alten Palästina," p. ......
  6. Marie Calm JE German authoress and advocate of women's suffrage; born at Arolsen, Germany, April 3, 1832; died at Cassel, Germany, Feb. 22, ......
  7. Jacob Jacques Calmanson (Jacob Calmanson) JE
  8. Liefmann Calmer JE Baron of Picquigny, an important personage in French Jewry of the eighteenth century; born in Aurich, Hanover, in 1711; died ......
  9. Samuel ben Moses Calñi JE Turkish rabbi of the fifteenth century; born at Arta in the Morea. Calñi is the author of responsa entitled "Mishpeṭe ......
  10. Calno JE A city mentioned with Hamath and Samaria, and compared to Carchemish (Isa. x. 9). Its identity is doubtful. It is ......
  11. Calumny (Lashon hara) JE Evil-speaking; a sin regarded with intense aversion both in the Bible and in rabbinical literature. The technical term for it ......
  12. Thomas Calvert JE English Hebrew scholar; born 1606; died at York March, 1679. He wrote "The Blessed Jew of Morocco" (York, 1648), an ......
  13. Emanuel Calvo JE Italian physician and Neo-Hebraic poet; born at Salonica toward the end of the seventeenth century; died before 1772. In early ......
  14. Casper Calvör JE Lutheran theologian; born Nov. 8, 1650, at Hildesheim, Prussia; died at Clausthal May 11, 1725. He became master of arts ......
  15. Meïr Calw JE
  16. Camel JE The well-known ruminant, native in Asia and Africa. The word "camel" (Hebrew, V03p520001.jpg, gamal) is the same in the Assyrian, ......
  17. Campanator JE
  18. Isaac ben Jacob Campanton JE Spanish rabbi; born 1360; died at Penafeel in 1463. He lived in the period darkened by the outrages of Ferran ......
  19. John van Campen JE Christian professor of Hebrew at Louvain and Cracow; died at Freiburg in Breisgau Sept. 6, 1538. He compiled a Hebrew ......
  20. Camphire JE A shrub growing to a height of between eight and ten feet, and bearing cream-colored and very fragrant flowers. The ......
  21. Canaan JE Name of the son of Ham, and a brother of Cush (Ethiopia), Mizriam (Egypt), and Put (Phut), occurring in the
  22. Canaanites JE The expressions "Canaan" and "Canaanite" (V03p524004.jpg) are applied in the Old Testament sometimes to the collective non-Israelitish population west of ......
  23. Canaim of Cagliari JE Italian archeologist of the eighth century, of whom nothing is known except that, like his contemporary towns-man Abraham di Cagliari, ......
  24. Cancellation of documents JE An instrument in writing may be canceled by cross-lines or by other marks obliterating it, or by burning or tearing ......
  25. Isaac ben Saul Chmelniker Candia JE Hebrew poet; lived at Warsaw, Poland, in the first half of the nineteenth century. He is the author of an ......
  26. Candle tax JE
  27. Candlestick JE Mentioned as a secular object only in II Kings iv. 10. The candlestick in the Temple, however, is frequently referred ......
  28. Abraham Levi Caniso JE
  29. Jacob Canizal JE Flourished probably in the fifteenth century. He was the author of notes on Rashi's commentary to the Pentateuch, which were ......
  30. Canneh JE A city mentioned in the long list of the contributors to Tyrian greatness and commercial power (Ezek. xxvii. 23).
  31. Bridal canopy (Chuppah) JE
  32. Cansino JE Spanish-Jewish family, famous in history for its wealth and influence, its scholars and poets.Jacob Cansino I. served as an interpreter ......
  33. Abraham ben Jacob Cansino JE Poet; lived in the seventeenth century. He is the author of "Aguddat Ezob" (A Bunch of Hyssop), a collection of ......
  34. Isaac ben Chayyim Cansino (Isaac Cansino) JE Poet and prominent member of the Jewish community of Oran; died in 1672; probably a brother of Jacob Cansino II. ......
  35. Jacob Cansino JE "Vassal of his Catholic majesty and interpreter of languages in the places of Oran" (so styled by himself); died Sept. ......
  36. Karl Friedrich Canstatt JE German physician and medical author; born at Regensburg July 11, 1807; died at Erlangen March 10, 1850. He was one ......
  37. Cantarini JE A distinguished family of Italian Jews tracing their descent from Gherescion (Grassin) Cantarini, who, when one year old, was driven ......
  38. Azriel ben Samuel ha-Kohen Cantarini (Azriel Angelo ben Samuel Simon ha-Kohen Cantarini) JE Italian rabbi; born 1577 at Padua; died there 1653. He was rabbi and preacher in his native city, and directed ......

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  1. Chayyim Moses Angelo ben Isaiah Azriel Cantarini (Hayyim Moses Angelo ben Isaiah Azriel) JE Italian physician, rabbi, poet, and writer; lived in the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the ......
  2. Isaac Chayyim Cantarini (Isaac Hayyim Cantarini) JE Italian poet, writer, physician, and rabbi; born Feb. 2, 1644, at Padua; died there June 8, 1723. He studied Hebrew ......
  3. Judah ben Samuel ha-Kohen Cantarini JE Italian physician and rabbi; born about 1650 at Padua; died there April 28, 1694. He had a large practise among ......
  4. Kalonymus Aaron ben Samuel ha-Kohen Cantarini JE Italian physician; born in 1593 at Padua; died there July 30, 1631, of the plague. He was famous as a ......
  5. Samuel ben Gerson ha-Kohen Cantarini JE Official procurator of the Jewish community of Padua; born about 1561; died 1631 during the plague, to which also two ......
  6. Cantheras JE Surname of Simon, the son of Boethus, the high priest, according to Josephus "Ant." xix. 6, §§ 2, 4; compare ......
  7. Isaac Berechiah Canton JE Italian Talmudist; flourished about the middle of the eighteenth century in Turin, in which city he established a yeshibah. He ......
  8. Lelio Cantoni JE Italian rabbi; born in 1802 at Gazzuolo (dukedom of Mantua); died in 1857 at Turin. In 1829 he went ......
  9. Jacob A. Cantor (Jacob Cantor) JE American lawyer and politician; born in New York city Dec. 6, 1854; grandson of Agil Hanau, cantor of Dukes Place ......
  10. Joshua dei Cantori JE Assailant of the Talmud at Cremona in 1559. According to Steinschneider, he belonged to the family Cantarini (V03p552001.jpg). In consequence ......
  11. Abraham Capadoce JE Convert to Christianity; born at Amsterdam 1795; died there Dec. 16, 1874. His parents, who were Portuguese Jews, gave him ......
  12. Joseph Çapateiro JE Portuguese traveler of the fifteenth century. After a so-journ in Bagdad, he returned to Lisbon to present a report to ......
  13. Jean-Baptiste Honoré-Raymond Capefigue JE French Christian publicist and historian; born at Marseilles 1802; died at Paris Dec. 23, 1872. Among many historical works, Capefigue ......
  14. Caper-Berry JE The feminine "abiyyonah" does not express "desire," but "the desiring thing," sc. "soul" [so Ḳimḥi]. The Septuagint, Vulgate, Peshiṭta, and ......
  15. Capestang JE Village in the department of Hérault, near Béziers, France. Several official documents testify to the presence of many Jews there ......
  16. Caphar-Salama JE
  17. Capital Punishment JE Warrants for the infliction of capital punishment, as opposed to private retribution or vengeance, are found in the Pentateuchal codes ......
  18. Captives JE The Bible makes no provision for the treatment of captives taken in war. Captives were considered as slaves, and as ......
  19. John of Capua JE
  20. Carabajal JE The name of a family of Maranos in Mexico at the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning ......
  21. David Samuel Carasso JE Jewish traveler; born at Salonica, Turkey. On the occasion of a business trip to Yemen, Arabia, in 1874, he studied ......
  22. Victor of Carben JE Jewish convert; lived at Cologne (1442-1515). Like most converts, Victor endeavored to show his zeal for his new religion by ......
  23. Carcas JE One of the seven chamberlains serving Ahasuerus and ordered by him to bring Queen Vashti into the royal presence (Esth. ......
  24. Carcass JE The carcass of a clean animal that had not been properly slaughtered, or that of an unclean animal of the ......
  25. Adolphe Joseph Carcassonne JE French poet; born at Marseilles, 1826; died Sept. 22, 1891. His principal works are: (1) "Premières Lueurs," a selection of ......
  26. David Carcassonne JE French physician; born Dec. 20, 1789, at Remoulins, a small town in the Gard department, France; died Nov. 15, 1861, ......
  27. Léon Carcassonne JE French physician, municipal councilor, and member of the Academy of Nîmes. Son of David Carcassonne; died at Marseilles May 7,

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  1. Card-Playing JE
  2. Cardinal Virtues need to incorporate JE's content JE Virtues regarded as fundamental, and under which, as heads, all others may be arranged. The term "cardinal virtues" is first ......
  3. Elijah Aboab Cardoso JE Philanthropist and founder of the Hamburg synagogue; lived in that city in the first half of the seventeenth century. He ......
  4. Isaac Cardoso JE Physician, philosopher, and polemic writer; born of Marano parents at Celorico in the province Beira, Portugal, before 1615; died at ......
  5. Miguel Cardoso JE Shabbethaian prophet and physician; born in Spain about 1630; died at Cairo 1706. He was a descendant of the Maranos ......
  6. Don Aaron Cardoza JE Consul for Tunis and Algiers at Gibraltar about 1805. He was a descendant of a Portuguese-Jewish family. Cardoza promoted the ......
  7. David de Jahacob Lopez Cardozo JE Dutch Talmudist and prominent communal worker; born in Amsterdam, Holland, May 21, 1808; died there April 11, 1890. He was ......
  8. Carians not clear if our article is about same people JE
  9. Isaac Carillo JE Lived in Amsterdam in the latter part of the seventeenth century; member of the Academia de los Floridos, founded by ......
  10. Carinthia need to incorporate JE's content (possibly in separate article) JE A crownland of Austria. It has but a small number of Jews, whose ancestors, with the Jews of the neighboring ......
  11. Carites JE People mentioned in II Kings xi. 4, 19. The Kari (R. V., "Carites"; margin, "executioners", A. V., "captains") are mentioned ......
  12. David Cohen Carlos JE Spanish writer; lived at Hamburg in the first half of the seventeenth century. He translated into Spanish the Song of ......
  13. Carmanians JE A people mentioned in II Esd. xv. 30. The Carmanians are represented as joining battle with the "nations of the ......
  14. Mordecai ben Abraham Carmi Crémieux (Mordecai ben Abraham Carmi) JE
  15. Eliakim Carmoly JE French scholar; born at Sulz (then in the French department of the Upper Rhine) August 5, 1802; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main ......
  16. Isaachar bär ben Judah Carmoly JE Alsatian rabbi; born at Ribeauville, Alsace, Sept. 15, 1735; died at Sulz May, 1781. At the age of ten he ......
  17. Carmona JE City in the archbishopric of Seville, Spain, where Jews resided in very early times. In an old "Fuero de Carmona" ......
  18. Carmona JE A family of Jewish financiers prominent in Turkey at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It is of Spanish ......
  19. Carnabat JE Town of eastern Rumelia or southern Bulgaria. According to tradition, Jews first established themselves at Carnabat about 1580; but the ......
  20. Carniola JE
  21. Carnival JE Among the Romans, a period of gaiety during the weeks before Lent, in which the Jews were made to play ......
  22. Abraham ben Raphael Caro JE Turkish rabbi; flourished at Adrianople in the first half of the eighteenth century. He was a descendant of R. Joseph ......
  23. Aryeh Löb ben Chayyim Caro (Aryeh Löb ben Hayyim Caro) JE Preacher at Posen in the second half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work, "El ha-Millu'im" ......
  24. David Caro JE Prussian pedagogue; born about 1782 at Fordon, grand duchy of Posen; died Dec. 25, 1839, at Posen. He belonged to ......
  25. Ezekiel Caro JE German rabbi and historian; born Nov. 26, 1844, at Pinne, near Posen; son of the exegete and homiletic writer Joseph ......
  26. Georg Martin Caro JE Lecturer on history at the University of Zurich, Switzerland; born Nov. 28, 1867, at Glogau, Prussia. Caro received his education ......
  27. Isaac ben Joseph Caro JE Spanish Talmudist and Bible commentator; flourished in the second half of the fifteenth century and the first half of the ......
  28. Jacob Caro JE German historian; born at Gnesen, province of Posen, Prussia, Feb. 2, 1836; son of Joseph Ḥayyim Caro. After several years ......
  29. Joseph Chayyim ben Isaac Selig Caro (Joseph Hayyim ben Isaac Selig Caro) JE German-Russian rabbi; born 1800; died in Wloclawek, government of Warsaw, April 21, 1895. He was educated as an Orthodox Talmudist, ......
  30. Carpentras JE Chief town of the arrondissement of that name in the department of Vaucluse, France. Jews settled at Carpentras at a ......
  31. Judah ben Tzebi Carpentrasi (Judah ben Zebi Carpentrasi) JE
  32. Leone Carpi JE Italian political economist; born 1820 at Bologna, Italy. He was the first deputy elected to the Italian Parliament by the ......
  33. Solomon Joseph ben Nathan Carpi JE Italian writer; born Dec. 27, 1715; lived at Leghorn. He engaged in the controversy with regard to Ḥayyon's book on ......
  34. Zachariah Carpi JE Italian revolutionist; born at Revere in the second half of the eighteenth century. After the French Revolution he appears to ......
  35. Johann Gottlob Carpzov JE German Christian Old Testament scholar; born Sept. 26, 1679, in Dresden; died April 27, 1767, at Lübeck; nephew of Johann ......
  36. Carrasco our article is about neighborhood JE Apologist; born at Madrid about 1670, of Marano parentage. At first an Augustin friar at Burgos and an excellent preacher, ......
  37. Chayyim Moses ben Abraham Carregal JE Rabbi and editor; flourished in Palestine at the beginning of the eighteenth century, but lived in Holland for a time, ......
  38. Raphael Chayyim Isaac Carregal (Caregal, Carigal, Carrigal, Karigal, Karigel, Karigol, Kargol, Kragol) JE Itinerant rabbi and preacher; born in Hebron, Palestine, Oct. 15, 1733; died at Barbados, West Indies, May 5, 1777. He ......
  39. Ludovicus Carretus JE Convert to Christianity; lived at Florence in the middle of the sixteenth century. He was a native of France and ......

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  1. Carriera JE
  2. Carrion de los Condes JE Ancient city of Castile inhabited by Jews at an early date. Although superior to the Christians both in numbers and ......
  3. Santob de Carrion JE
  4. Corsono Carsono JE Spanish astronomer of the fourteenth century. He was commissioned by King Pedro IV. of Aragon to translate from Catalonian ......
  5. Don Alfonso de Carthagena JE Convert to Christianity; son of Paul of Burgos; diedat Burgos in 1456. He was baptized when quite young by his ......
  6. Mordecai Baruch Carvalho (Mordecai Baruch Carvallo) JE A wealthy Tunisian merchant; died Jan., 1785, at an advanced age. He devoted part of his time to rabbinical studies, ......
  7. Jules Carvallo JE French engineer; born at Talence, Gironde, France, in 1820. After having graduated with the highest honors at the Ecole Polytechnique ......
  8. Casal Maggiore JE Town in Italy, about twenty-two miles east-southeast of Cremona. In Sept., 1485, Joshua Solomon and Moses, sons of Israel Nathan ......
  9. Cases our article is a dab, but we miss JE's content JE Jewish Italian family that included among its members rabbis, physicians, and scholars. The more numerous branch of the family lived ......
  10. Michael Cashmore our article is about different guy JE Australian communal worker; born in 1814; died at South Melbourne Oct. 17, 1886. He was one of the oldest colonists ......
  11. Casiphia JE The residence of the Nethinim, who were under the leadership of Iddo (Ezra viii. 17). Ezra sent them a message ......
  12. Caslari JE Name of a family originally from Caylar (Latin, "Castalarium"), a village in the department of Hérault, France. A rather important ......
  13. Abraham ben David Caslari JE Physician; lived at Besalu, Catalonia, in the first half of the fourteenth century. Caslari was considered one of the most ......
  14. Crescas Caslari JE
  15. Israel ben Joseph Halevi Caslari JE Physician and poet, lived at Avignon in 1327. He was the author of a liturgic poem for Purim, beginning with ......
  16. Joshua Caslari JE Liturgical poet; lived at Avignon about 1540. He wrote four elegies which are inserted in the manuscript Maḥzor of Avignon; ......
  17. Charles Paul Caspari JE German Semite and Biblical scholar; born at Dessau 1814; died 1892. His parents were Jews, and he was reared in ......
  18. Joseph ben Abba Mari ben Joseph ben Jacob Caspi JE Provençal exegete, grammarian, and philosopher; born in 1297 at Largentière, whence his surname "Caspi" (= made of silver); died at ......
  19. Nathanael ben Nehemiah Caspi JE Provençal scholar; lived at the end of the fourteenth century and at the beginning of the fifteenth. He was a ......
  20. Cassel JE City in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau. There was a persecution of the Jews at Wolfshagen, near Cassel, during the ......
  21. Hartwig Cassel JE Journalist and chess editor; born Nov. 2, 1850, at Konitz, West Prussia, where his father, Dr. Aaron Cassel, was rabbi. ......
  22. Jacob Cassel JE German physician; born at Schwerin-on-the-Warta, province of Posen, Prussia, May 25, 1859. He was educated at the universities of Berlin ......
  23. Paulus Stephanus Cassel JE Convert to Christianity and missionary to the Jews; born Feb. 27, 1821, in Gross-Glogau, Silesia; died Dec. 23, 1892, in ......
  24. Cassia our article is about a plant JE The term given as the translation for "ḳiddah" (Ex. xxx. 24; Ezek. xxvii. 19) and "ḳeẓi'ot" (Ps. xlv. 9). Ancient ......
  25. Cassius Longinus JE Questor of Crassus in Syria in 53 B.C. After the unfortunate battle of Carrhæ, Syria, he became independent governor of ......
  26. Judah Cassuto JE Ḥazan of the Portuguese-Jewish community of Hamburg; born in Amsterdam 1808; died at Hamburg March 10, 1893. In 1827 he ......
  27. Abraham Castanho JE Spanish poet; lived at Amsterdam in the middle of the seventeenth century. He was the author of an elegy on ......
  28. Samuel di Castel d’Ajano JE Italian physician and philosopher; lived at Mantua in the sixteenth century. A philosophical work of his on the articles of ......
  29. Joel Rodrigo Castel-Branco JE
  30. Castel-Sarassin JE Chief town of the department of Tarn-et-Garonne, France. A somewhat important Jewish community existed here in the Middle Ages. When ......
  31. Castellaccio da Asola JE Locality near Mantua, Italy, where there was a great slaughter of Jews in 1547. Gershon Cantarini, the ancestor of the ......
  32. Castellazzo JE Italian-Jewish family which settled at the beginning of the sixteenth century in Cairo, where several members occupied the rabbinate with ......
  33. David Castelli JE Italian scholar; born at Leghorn, Tuscany, Dec. 30, 1836; died 1901. He was educated at the rabbinical college of Leghorn, ......
  34. Abraham Isaac Castello (Abraham Isaac Castilho) JE Rabbi, preacher, and poet; born at Ancona 1726; died at Leghorn Aug. 1, 1789. At the age of thirteen he ......
  35. Joseph Castello (Jospeh Castilho) JE Physician; born at Leghorn about 1746; son of Abraham Isaac. After studying medicine at Pisa, he returned to his native ......

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  1. Samuel di Castelnuovo JE Secretary of the Jewish community of Rome; lived at the end of the sixteenth century and at the beginning of ......
  2. Adolf de Castro JE Spanish historian; member of the Academia de la Historia of Madrid; lived in Cadiz; died there Oct., 1898. He wrote ......
  3. Jacob de Castro Sarmento JE Physician, naturalist, and poet; born about 1691 in Bragança, Portugal; died at London in 1761. At the age of seventeen ......
  4. David ben Abraham Castro Tartas JE Printer in Amsterdam from 1663 to 1695, and publisher of a number of rabbinical writings, including prayer-books and ritualistic works, ......
  5. Isaac de Castro Tartas JE Marano and martyr; born at Tartas, Gascony, about 1623; died at Lisbon Dec. 15 (22), 1647. He was a brother ......
  6. Castrojeriz JE Town in southern Castile, 18 miles west of Burgos. Jews lived there as early as the period of the Moorish ......
  7. Casuistry (Pilpul) JE
  8. Cat JE There is no reference to the cat in the Old Testament, the domestication of that animal being later than the ......
  9. Catacombs JE Underground galleries with excavations in their sides for tombs or in which human bones are stacked. The term is derived ......
  10. Abraham Catalan JE Well-known Talmudist of the seventeenth century. He and his son, Abraham Catalan, and his brother, Elijah Catalan, were contemporaneous with ......
  11. Abraham Catalan (Abraham Catalano) JE Physician in Padua; died 1642. He is the author of "'Olam Hafuk," an unpublished manuscript treatise on the plague of ......
  12. Abraham Solomon ben Isaac ben Samuel Catalan JE born in Catalonia; died 1492; author of a work treating of the eternity of the world, Providence, prophecy, immortality, and ......
  13. Gerson ben Solomon Catalan JE Author; lived at Arles in the middle of the thirteenth century; died (possibly) at Perpignan toward the end of the ......
  14. Moses Chayyim Catalan (Moses Hayyim Catalan) JE Italian poet; born in Padua; son of the physician Abraham Catalan. He was rabbi in his native town, and died ......
  15. Solomon Catalan JE Probably a grandson of Gerson b. Solomon Catalan. He was rabbi in the city of Coimbra in 1360.Bibliography: Kayserling, Gesch. ......
  16. Catalogues of Hebrew Books JE These were of frequent use among the Jews in the Middle Ages. Judah ibn Tibbon (about 1200) speaks in loving ......
  17. History of the Jews in Catalonia JE Duchy of Aragon in the north-west of Spain. Jews settled in Catalonia (which included originally the county of Barcelona; the ......
  18. Shemariah Catarivas JE Talmudic writer of the eighteenth century. He was originally from Tiberias, and went to Tunis in 1750 as alms-collector, settling ......
  19. Catechisms JE Manuals for religious instruction. The name as well as the form of Jewish catechisms has been adopted from the Christian ......
  20. House of Catechumens JE A Roman institution for converting Jews to Catholicism, which the Jews, by means of taxes, were compelled to support. The ......
  21. Cathua JE Name of a family of Nethinim returning from Babylon with Zerubbabel (I Esd. v. 30). In the order of enumeration ......
  22. Cattle JE Term used to denote all domestic animals, the principal possession of nomadic and pastoral peoples.Cattle were very important in the ......
  23. History of the Jews in the Caucasus JE A division of Russia, bounded on the north by European Russia; on the east by the Caspian sea; on the ......
  24. Caul JE Nowadays applied to the membrane surrounding the human fetus; used also in other senses. In the Bible:1. A rendering of ......
  25. Cavagliero Cavallero JE Name of a family, with branches in Provence, Africa, Turkey, and Italy.1. Abraham ben Judah Cavallero: Lived at Fez between ......
  26. Caves in Palestine JE By "me'arah" (V03p633003.jpg) the Hebrew designates natural caves. The mountains of Palestine, which for the greater part are formations of ......
  27. Cayenne JE An island of South America, and a town of the same name situated on this island that lies at the ......
  28. David Cazès JE Moroccan educator and writer; born at Tetuan in 1851. Sent to Paris in his early youth, he was educated by ......
  29. Cedar JE A tree of the pine family frequently mentioned in the Old Testament, where the "cedar of Lebanon" is generally meant. ......
  30. Censorship of Hebrew Books JE Censorship is the regulation, first decreed by the Church and then carried out either by that institution or by the ......
  31. Nathan da Cento JE See Me'ati, Nathan ha-. ......
  32. Samuel da Cento JE See Me'ati, Samuel ha-. ......
  33. Solomon da Cento JE See Me'ati, Solomon ha-. ......
  34. History of the Jews in Central America JE

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  1. Centralanzeiger für Jüdische Litteratur JE
  2. Ceremonies and the Ceremonial Law JE Symbolic rites and observances, expressive of certain thoughts or sentiments. As social life demands forms of etiquette (see Greetings), so ......
  3. Karl Friedrich Cerf JE German theatrical manager; born at Unterreissheim-on-the-Main in 1782; died at Berlin Nov. 6, 1845. He embraced Christianity when very young, ......
  4. Herz Cerfbeer of Medelsheim JE French philanthropist; born at Bischheim, Alsace, in 1730; died at Strasburg in 1793. He was a contractor to the army, ......
  5. Max-Théodore Cerfbeer JE French officer and deputy; born at Nancy, Meurthe, Dec. 9, 1792; died Jan. 15, 1876. He entered the army at ......
  6. Anatole Cerfberr JE French journalist and author; born at Paris 1835; died at Neuilly 1896. Under various pseudonyms, among which were "Arthur Clary," ......
  7. Auguste Édouard Cerfberr JE French author; born at Epinal in 1811; died in 1858. Having completed his studies in law, Cerfberr entered the service ......
  8. Frédéric Cerfberr JE French consul; born at Strasburg Oct. 27, 1786; died at sea Sept. 18, 1842, on a voyage from New York ......
  9. Maximilien Charles Alphonse Cerfberr of Medelsheim JE French journalist; born at Epinal July 20, 1817; died at Paris Dec. 16, 1883. After traveling extensively in Algeria and ......
  10. Samson Cerfberr of Medelsheim JE French soldier and author; born at Strasburg about 1780; committed suicide at Paris, 1826. He led an erratic and adventurous ......
  11. Cervera JE Hill-town in Catalonia, Spain, which in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries had a Jewish community. In 1328 a quarter ......
  12. Cestius Florus JE
  13. Chabar JE
  14. Chabazeleth JE
  15. Chaber JE
  16. Chabib JE
  17. Chabris JE Son of Gothoniel, and one of the three governors of Bethulia, a city besieged by Holofernes. Toward the end of ......