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1. Dabbasheth JE A town on the border-line of Zebulun (Josh. xix. 11). It has been identified by Conder with Dabsheh, the ruins of which are...
2. Daberath JE A town on the eastern boundary of Zebulun (Josh. xix. 12), but belonging to the domain of Issachar, and assigned to the Levites...
3. Isaac-francis Dacosta JE Musician and composer; born at Bordeaux Jan. 17, 1778; died there Nov. 29, 1864. He was a pupil of the Musical Conservatory...
4. Dagesh JE The diacritical point placed in the center of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet to indicate either their intensified (doubled)...
5. Daggatun JE Nomad tribe of Jewish origin living in the neighborhood of Tementit, in the oasis of Tuat in the Moroccan Sahara. An account...
6. Dagger JE A short, edged, and pointed weapon for stabbing. It is given in the Ehud episode (Judges iii. 16, 21, 22) as the English equivalent...
7. Daghestan JE Russian province, situated on the eastern slopes of the Caucasus, and bounded by Circassia, Georgia, and the Caspian Sea....
8. Dagobert JE King of France (602-638). In order to emulate the religious zeal of Heraclius and Sisebut, the rulers of the Byzantine and...
9. Dagon JE Philistine god, referred to in Judges xvi. 23; I Sam. v. 2-5; and I Macc. x. 83, xi 4; but not in Isa. xlvi. 1, where &#916...
10. Ẓebi Hirsch B ZeËb Wolf Dainow JE Russian preacher; born at Slutzk, government of Minsk, in 1832; died in London March 6, 1877. He possessed oratorical ability...
11. Dalberg, Karl Theodor, Baron Von JE Archbishop of Mayence and subsequently Grand Duke of Frankfort-on-the-Main; born Feb. 8, 1744; died Feb. 10, 1817. He was...
12. Alan Dale JE ...
13. Dalet (ר) JE Fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The name is evidently connected with "delet," meaning "door," and was borrowed from...
14. Dallas JE County seat of Dallas county, Texas, on the east bank of the Trinity River. It was settled in 1844. It has a population of...
15. Simon Mayer Dalmbert JE Officer in the French army, and communal worker; born at Mutzig, Bas-Rhin, in 1776; died May 11, 1840. He took part in the...
16. Dalphon JE The second of the ten sons of Haman. All were killed by the Jews and hanged upon gallows (Esth. ix. 10-14). The Septuagint...
17. Dalpuget JE Family of merchants; settled at Bordeaux, France. They originally came from Avignon, and refused to obey the decree of expulsion...
18. Charles P Daly JE Historian and jurist; born in New York city 1816; died in 1899. Daly was of Roman Catholic parentage. He was admitted to the...
19. Son Of Netina Dama JE The name of a non-Israelite held up by Rabbi Eliezer and other rabbis to his brethren as an example of true love and piety...
20. Damage JE Money recoverable as amends for a wrong or injury sustained. The simple and clear rule as to the obligation of a person who...
21. Damascus JE An ancient city of Asia Minor, situated at the foot of the Anti-Lebanon, 180 miles south by west of Aleppo; now the capital...
22. Damascus Affair JE Accusation of ritual murder brought against the Jews of Damascus in 1840. At that time Damascus, together with Syria, belonged...
23. Peter Damiani JE Italian prelate; born at Ravenna 1007; died at Faenza 1072. About 1035 he entered the convent of Fonte Avellana near Gubbio...
24. Dampierre JE Village of Champagne, in the department of the Aube, France; not to be confounded with "Dompaire," Vosges, as is sometimes...
25. Leopold Damrosch JE German-American violinist and conductor; born at Posen, Prussia, Oct. 22, 1832; died in New York Feb. 15, 1885. He commenced...
26. Dan JE The name of Jacob's fifth son (Gen. xxx. 6), whose mother was Bilhah, Rachel's handmaiden (ib. xxx. 3, xxxv. 25)....
27. Dan Ashkenazi JE German Talmudist and exegete; flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century. Dan, who was one of the most prominent...
28. Dan-jaan JE If the reading is correct, the name of a city mentioned only once in the Bible (II Sam. xxiv. 6). It was one of the places...
29. Dancing JE Rhythmical and measured stepping to the accompaniment of music, singing, or the beating of drums. This exercise, generally...
30. Adolphe - LÉopold Danhauser JE French musician; born in Paris Feb. 26, 1835; died there June 9, 1896. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Bazin, Hal&#233...
31. Daniel JE In Hebrew (1) ; (2) . (1) The form without the (see Masorah Magna to Ezek. xiv. 14) occurs in Ezek. xiv. 14, 20; xxviii. 3...
32. Tomb Of Daniel JE Tradition has named two places as the site of Daniel's tomb. In the "Martyrologium Romanum," for instance, which consecrates...
33. Apocalypse Of Daniel JE ...
34. Book Of Daniel JE One of the books of the Old Testament. It may be divided into two parts: chapters i.-vi., recounting the events of Daniel&#39...
35. Daniel Ibn Al-anishata JE ...
36. HayyaṬa Daniel JE A Palestinian, two of whose Scriptural interpretations are preserved in the Midrash: one to Gen. xxvi. 14 (Gen. R. lxiv. 7...
37. Daniel Ben Hasdai JE ...
38. Daniel B Isaac JE See Pisa, Daniel da. This article is Rated: 2.82 ...
39. Daniel Ben Jacob Of Grodno JE Russian halakist; died in Grodno April 30, 1807. He was dayyan there for forty years. He is ordinarily called "saint," "pious...
40. Daniel Ben Judah JE Liturgical poet, who lived at Rome in the middle of the fourteenth century. He was the grandfather of Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe...
41. Daniel B KeṬina JE Babylonian amora; flourished in the second half of the third century. He was a contemporary of Ze'era (Yer. Suk. iv. 54b...
42. Daniel Ben Moses Al-kumisi JE One of the most prominent Karaite scholars of the earlier period; flourished atthe end of the ninth or at the beginning of...
43. Daniel Ben Saadia Ha-babli JE Talmudic scholar; lived at Damascus in the thirteenth century. He was a pupil of Samuel b. Ali Halevi, the anti-Maimonist...
44. Daniel Ben Solomon (ben Hasdai) JE Exilarch at Bagdad in the second half of the twelfth century. According to Pethahiah, Daniel's father, Solomon, was highly...
45. Danielillo Of Leghorn JE Anonymous author of a small apologetic work of the seventeenth century, written in Spanish, which Grätz erroneously considers...
46. D Polak Daniels JE Dutch communal worker at The Hague; died 1899. He was active in Jewish communal affairs, was president of the Jewish community...
47. Danilevsky JE ...
48. Abraham Danon JE Turkish writer; born at Adrianople, European Turkey, in 1857; attended the Talmud Torah in that city, pursuing his Talmudic...
49. Berakah Ben Yom-Ṭob Danon JE Talmudical scholar; lived at Jerusalem in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was the author of a work entitled "Bad...
50. Joseph Ben Jacob Ben Moses Ibn Danon JE Hebraist and Talmudist; born at Belgrade about 1620; died at London toward the end of the seventeenth century. He was descended...
51. MeÏr Benjamin Menahem Danon JE Rabbinical writer, and chief rabbi of Sarajevo in Bosnia; lived in the first half of the nineteenth century. He wrote "Be&#39...
52. Yom-Ṭob Danon JE Author and rabbi of Smyrna in the first half of the nineteenth century. He went to Jerusalem in 1821, where he succeeded Joseph...
53. Alighieri Dante JE Florentine poet; born 1265; died at Ravenna Sept. 14, 1321. Dante took an active part in the political feuds then distracting...
54. Johann Andreas Danz JE German theologian and Hebraist; born at Sundhausen, near Gotha, 1654; died at Jena Dec. 22, 1727. Danz studied at Wittenberg...
55. Danzig JE Capital of West Prussia. The Jewish population of Danzig in 1895 was 2,474, in a total population of 125,605. The Five Congregations...
56. Abraham Ben Jehiel Danzig JE Lithuanian codifier; born in Danzig in 1747 or 1748; died at Wilna Sept. 12, 1820. He was descended from a family of scholars...
57. Astruc Dapiera (de Piera) JE Martyr; lived in Barcelona. He was probably a relative of Isaac de Piera, who also lived in Barcelona, and who, in the year...
58. Solomon Ben Meshullam Dapiera JE Neo-Hebraic poet of North Spain; died after 1417. He was a relative of Meshullam ben Solomon Dapiera, who flourished, probably...
59. Darda JE One of the wise men surpassed in wisdom by King Solomon (I Kings iv. 31). He is mentioned, with Ethan, Heman, and Chalcol...
60. Dardanelles JE Name of the two cities situated opposite each other on the shores of the strait at the entrance to the Sea of Marmora. The...
61. Moses Dar'i JE Karaite; flourished in Dar'ah toward the end of the ninth century. He was a grammarian of prominence, as is shown by the...
62. Darius I JE King of Persia from 521 to 485 B.C.; son of Hystaspes. The sources for the history of Darius are his own trilingual inscription...
63. Darius Iii JE Last King of Persia; reigned from 336 to 330 B.C.; conquered by Alexander the Great. He is probably the "Darius the Persian...
64. Darkness JE The rendering in the English versions of the Hebrew and its synonyms , . At one time darkness was regarded as something substantial...
65. ArsÈne Darmesteter JE French philologist and brother of James Darmesteter; born at Château-Salins Jan. 5, 1846; died at Paris Nov. 16, 1888...
66. James Darmesteter JE French Orientalist; born March 28, 1849, at Château-Salins, Lorraine; died Oct. 19, 1894, at Paris. His parents were...
67. Darmstadt JE ...
68. Joseph Ben MeÏrẒebi Darmstadt JE German Talmudist; flourished in the second half of the eighteenth century. He was a pupil of Mordecai Halberstadt, author...
69. Daroca JE Town in the Spanish province of Saragossa, and formerly a part of the ancient kingdom of Aragon. It contains an old Jewish...
70. Simeon Darshan JE See Kara, Simon. This article is Rated: 2.67 ...
71. Darshanim JE ...
72. Dart JE A pointed weapon to be thrown by the hand; a javelin or light spear. The English version uses "dart" as an equivalent for...
73. Astruc Dascola JE ...
74. Dashev JE Village in the government of Kiev, Russia. It has a population of 6,200, including 3,200 Jews, whose sources of income are...
75. Date-palm JE ...
76. Dathan JE Son of Eliab, of the tribe of Reuben. He conspired with his brother Abiram against Moses and Aaron. See Abiram.E. C. M. Sel...
77. Dathema JE The name of a fortress in Gilead to which the Jews fled when hard pressed by Timotheus. There they shut themselves in, prepared...
78. Mordecai Ben Judah Dato JE Italian rabbi and preacher; born 1527; lived in various places in the territory of the house of Este; died after 1585. Steinschneider...
79. Da'ud Effendi Molko JE Chief of translation in the Turkish Foreign Office; born at Salonica in 1845. Da'ud is of humble parentage. His family...
80. Daughter In Jewish Law JE The legal status of a daughter in Jewish law changed very materially from patriarchal times to the Talmudic era. In the former...
81. DauphinÉ JE Former province of France, now absorbed in the departments Isère, Hautes-Alpes, and La Drôme. It is supposed that...
82. David JE Second King of Israel; according to I Chron. ii. 15, the youngest of the seven sons of Jesse the Bethlehemite; or, according...
83. City Of David JE ...
84. David JE Oriental rabbi; lived at Mosul toward the end of the twelfth century. He was a nephew of the exilarch Daniel b. Solomon (S...
85. David JE A family which played an important part in the earlier annals of the Canadian Jews. Aaron Hart David: Second son of Samuel...
86. David Ben Aaron Ibn Husain JE Moroccan poet; lived in the second half of the eighteenth century. At the end of a collection of dirges of Moroccan poets...
87. David Ben Abraham JE Karaite lexicographer of the tenth century. His surname "al-Fasi" shows that he came from Fez. From a reference by Abu al-Faraj...
88. David Ben Abraham Ha-laban JE French religious philosopher and cabalist; lived after 1200. His grandfather, Judah, was rabbi of Coucy-le-Château. David...
89. David B Abraham Modena JE ...
90. David B Abraham ProvenÇal (provenzale) JE Italian scholar; born before 1538; eulogized by the greatest of his contemporaries as the most eminent preacher of his century...
91. David Ben Abraham Shemariah JE Cabalistic writer; lived at Salonica toward the end of the sixteenth century. He wrote "Torat Emet" (The True Law), which...
92. Maestro David Of Arles JE Rabbi of Avignon in the sixteenth century. He figured prominently in a casuistic question which agitated the rabbis of Provence...
93. David ben Aryeh Loeb Of Lida JE Lithuanian rabbi of the seventeeth century. On hismother's side he was a nephew of R. Moses Rivkes, author of "Be&#39...
94. David (tevele) B Benjamin JE German Talmudic scholar; born at Posen; died at Ottensee, near Hamburg, 1699. He wrote the following works: "Masoret ha-Berit"...
95. Benjamin Ferdinand David JE French deputy; born at Niort, department of Deux-Sèvres, March 30, 1796; died there Jan. 24, 1879. He studied medicine...
96. David Ben Boaz JE Karaite scholar; flourished in the tenth century. He is reported to have been the fifth in the line of descent from Anan,...
97. David Bonet Bonjorn JE Convert to Christianity; lived in Catalonia in the second half of the fourteenth century. He is believed to have been the...
98. Christian Georg Nathan David JE Danish political economist and politician; born at Copenhagen Jan. 16, 1793; died there June 18, 1874. Christian received...
99. David Ben Elijah JE Hebrew scholar of the eighteenth century. He translated into Hebrew, under the title "Leshon Zahab" (A Tongue of Gold), the...
100. Ernest David JE French musician; born at Nancy July 4, 1844; died at Paris June 3, 1886. He completed his musical education under Fétis...
101. Ferdinand David JE Violinist and violin-teacher; born at Hamburg Jan. 19, 1810; died suddenly July 19, 1873, near Kloster, Switzerland, while...
102. David Of Fez JE ...
103. David Gerson JE Rabbi at Reshid, Egypt; flourished in the middle of the seventeenth century. He was a contemporary of Mordecai ben Judah ha-Levi...
104. David Ben Hayyim Ha-kohen JE Rabbi at Corfu, and later at Patros, Greece, at the beginning of the sixteenth century. He was a pupil of Judah Minz, and...
105. David Ibn Hin JE Cabalist; lived at Salonica at the end of the sixteenth and at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Although blind, he...
106. David Ben Hodaya Of Mosul JE Prince of the Davidic house; lived at Mosul (New Nineveh) about 1150-1220. His genealogy, contained in an excommunication...
107. David Ben Isaac Ha-kohen JE Prominent rabbinical scholar; lived at Avignon in the thirteenth century. Aaron b. Jacob ha-Kohen of Narbonne, his grandson...
108. David Ben Jacob JE Rabbi of Szerezow, government of Grodno, Russia; one of the most influential rabbis of Lithuania at the end of the eighteenth...
109. Jacob Julius David JE Austrian journalist and author; born at Weisskirchen, Moravia, Feb. 6, 1859. Immediately after his birth his parents removed...
110. David Ben Jacob Ha-kohen JE Turkish Talmudist; flourished about 1550 in Salonica. He wrote essays ("shiṭṭot") to the Talmudical orders Mo&#39...
111. David Ben Jacob MeÏr JE Italian astrologer of the fifteenth century, and a member of the Kalonymus family. He wrote in 1464 two astrological treatises...
112. David B Jacob Of Szczebrszyn JE Polish scholar; known only as the author of a commentary on the so-called "Targum Jonathan" and "Targum Yerushalmi" of the...
113. David Ben Joseph Ha-kohen JE Dayyan and preacher at Krotoschin, Prussia, in the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Pa'amone Zahab" (Bells of...
114. David Ben Judah JE Exilarch of Babylonia 820-834; successor to Iskawi II. at a time when this dignity was on the decline. His appointment was...
115. David Ben Judah JE German cabalist; flourished in the thirteenth century. He was not the son of Judah ha-Ḥasid (see A. Epstein in "Monatsschrift...
116. David Ben Judah JE ...
117. David Ben Kalonymus Of MÜnzenberg JE German Tosafist and liturgical poet; flourished at the end of the twelfth century and the beginning of the thirteenth. He...
118. David Kalonymus Of Naples JE Italian scholar; lived in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In "Kerem Ḥemed" (iii. 173) there is published a letter...
119. David (abu Sulaiman) Al-kumisi JE Karaite teacher of the tenth century, of whom little is known. As his name indicates, he was a native of the Persian province...
120. David Lahni Ben Eliezer JE Rabbi at Karasu-Bazar, in the Crimea, at the end of the seventeenth century. He was a native of Poland, whence his Tatar surname...
121. David Ben Levi JE Rabbi of Narbonne, France; flourished at the end of the thirteenth century. From the fact that he speaks of R. Samuel Shekili...
122. David Ha-levi JE German Talmudist; lived in the eleventh century. He is mentioned in "Mordecai" (Baba Meẓi'a, 332), where his decision...
123. David Ben Menahem Cohen JE Dutch scholar; lived at Amsterdam in the first half of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Mizmor le-Todah" (Song...
124. David (abu Sulaiman) Ibn Merwan Al-mukammaṢ Al-rakki JE Philosopher and controversialist; native of Rakka, Mesopotamia, whence his surname; flourished in the ninth and tenth centuries...
125. Meyer Michel David JE Hanoverian court banker and agent of the board of finance; born in Hanover in the middle of the eighteenth century. He was...
126. David Of Milhau JE French liturgical poet; lived at L'Isle, France, about 1764. In Hebrew he was called (Zunz reads ). MS. No. 148 Montefiore...
127. David (tevele) Ben Moses JE Russian rabbi and author; born in Turetz, in the government of Minsk, 1792; died at Minsk April 27, 1861. At the age of fifteen...
128. David Ben Moses Ha-koheŃ JE ...
129. David Ben Moses Of Novogrudok JE Russian rabbi; born 1769; died in Novogrudok, government of Minsk, 1836. He became rabbi of that town in 1794, and held the...
130. David Nieto Redivivus JE ...
131. David The Pious JE French scholar; lived at Château-Thierry in the second half of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century...
132. David Raphael Ben Abraham Polido JE Satirist; flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His name, and the factthat his work was printed in Leghorn...
133. David Reuben JE ...
134. David De Rocco JE ...
135. David B Saadia JE ...
136. Samuel David JE French musician; born in Paris Nov. 12, 1836; died there Oct. 3, 1895. He received his musical education at the Conservatoire...
137. David Ben Samuel Of Estella (kokabi) JE Provençal scholar; flourished in the first half of the thirteenth century. He was a native of Estella, whence his name...
138. Samuel Ben Judah LÖb David JE Polish rabbi; died in Dzialshitz, Poland, in 1751. He succeeded his father as rabbi of Shidlow, Poland, when the latter became...
139. David B Samuel Ha-levi JE Polish rabbi; born in Lodmir or Vladimir, Volhynia, about 1586 (see Grätz, "Gesch." x. 57, and "Ḳin'at Soferim...
140. David Ben Saul JE French rabbi; lived in the first half of the thirteenth century. He was the pupil of R. Solomon of Montpellier, and was one...
141. David Ben Solomon Ibn Abi Zimra JE Spanish Talmudist and cabalist; born in Spain about 1479; died at Safed, Palestine, 1589. He was thirteen years of age when...
142. David Ibn Yahya JE ...
143. David Ben Zakkai JE Exilarch; known in Jewish history especially for his controversy with Saadia; died in 940. He was a relative of the prince...
144. David-gorodok JE Town in the government of Minsk, Russia. In 1895 it had a population of 10,086, including 4,902 Jews. The latter are mostly...
145. Julius Davidov JE Russian physician; born at Goldingen, Courland, 1803; died at Moscow 1870. He graduated from the University of Dorpat in 1833...
146. Judah LÖb Davidovich JE Russian Hebraist; born at Wilna 1855; died at Odessa Jan. 1, 1898. He spent several years of his youth workingand studying...
147. Arthur Lumley Davids JE English Orientalist; born in London 1811; died from a sudden attack of cholera July 19, 1832. At an early age he applied himself...
148. Bogumil Davidsohn JE ...
149. Georg Davidsohn JE German journalist; born at Danzig, Prussia, Dec. 19, 1835; died in Berlin Feb. 6, 1897. He was originally destined for a merchant&#39...
150. Leon Davidsohn JE Russian publicist and translator; born at Kopil, government of Minsk, 1855. He was educated at an early age in the Talmud...
151. Robert Davidsohn JE German journalist; younger brother of Georg Davidsohn; born at Danzig April 26, 1853. He joined his brother on the editorial...
152. Andrew B Davidson JE Professor of Hebrew and Oriental languages in New College, Edinburgh; born at Kirkhill, in the parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire...
153. Benjamin Davidson JE English Orientalist of Jewish birth; died 1871. He was a worker for the British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel...
154. Ellis A Davidson JE English author and technologist; born at Hull 1828; died at London March 9, 1878. Going early to London, he attended the School...
155. Thomas Davidson JE Philosopher and lecturer; born of Presbyterian parents at Deer, near Aberdeen, Scotland, Oct. 25, 1840; died at Montreal,...
156. Diego Arias Davila JE Minister and confidant of King Henry IV. of Castile; born of Jewish. parents in Segovia; died in 1466. He, together with his...
157. Davin, Solomon Ben David, Of Rodez JE Astronomer; lived in the second half of the fourteenth century. He was a disciple of Immanuel of Tarascon (France). He translated...
158. Alfred Davis JE Philanthropist; born in London 1811; died Jan. 6, 1870. Starting life as a general dealer, he soon commenced business on his...
159. Frederick Davis JE Archeologist; born at Cheltenham 1843; died in London July 14, 1900. He was the eldest son of John Davis of Derby, and was...
160. James (owen Hall) Davis JE English playwright and journalist; born about 1848. He was educated at University College, London, and took the degree of...
161. Maurice Davis JE English physician and philanthropist; born Oct. 8, 1821; died in London Sept. 29, 1898. Davis was one of the earliest English...
162. Miriam Isabel Davis JE English painter; born in London, where, after making a tour of the galleries of Venice, Florence, and Rome, she began a systematic...
163. Myer David Davis JE English educationist and writer; born in London 1830. He was educated at Jews' Free School, in which he ultimately became...
164. Nathan Davis JE Traveler and archeologist; born 1812; died at Florence Jan. 6, 1882. He spent many years of his life in northern Africa, and...
165. Bogumil Dawison (davidsohn) JE Actor; born at Warsaw May 15, 1818; died at Dresden Feb. 1, 1872. In his boyhood he earned a precarious living as itinerant...
166. Dax JE Town in the department of Landes, France, with a population of 11,000. The number of Jews residing there is not sufficient...
167. Day JE In the Bible, the season of light (Gen. i. 5), lasting "from dawn [lit. "the rising of the morning"] to the coming forth of...
168. Day Of Judgment JE Name given to the first of Tishri, as being the New-Year's Day. In the Bible the Day of the Blowing of the Trumpet is...
169. Day Of The Lord JE An essential factor in the prophetic doctrine of divine judgment at the end of time (see Eschatology), generally, though not...
170. Lucky And Unlucky Days JE ...
171. Dayyan, Abraham Ben, Isaiah JE Turkish rabbi; lived at Aleppo, Asiatic Turkey, in the first half of the nineteenth century. He wrote "Shir Ḥadash"...
172. Dayyena JE ...
173. Dead Body JE ...
174. Duty To The Dead JE The dead, free from all obligation (Shab. 30a), have many claims upon the living. "Their wish must be respected and fulfilled"...
175. Dead Sea JE Lake in southeast Palestine, and one of the curious natural phenomena of the earth. It occupies the lowest part of the great...
176. Deaf And Dumb In Jewish Law JE In Jewish legislation deaf and dumb persons are frequently classed with minors and idiots, and are considered unable to enter...
177. Deaf-mutism JE Disease of the ear, generally beginning in infancy, causing deafness and consequent dumbness. As with blindness, Jews, at...
178. Angel Of Death JE In the Bible death is viewed under form of an angel sent from God, a being deprived of all voluntary power. The "angel of...
179. Views And Customs Concerning Death JE The ancient Hebrews expected to "be gathered to [or sleep with] their fathers" when death befell them (Gen. xxv. 8, xlvii...
180. Death (statistics) JE ...
181. Debarim JE ...
182. Debarim Rabbah JE A Midrash or homiletic commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy. Unlike Bereshit Rabbah, the Midrash to Deuteronomy which has...
183. Isaiah Ben Samuel Debash JE Provençal poet of the second half of the thirteenth century. Renan supposes that the surname "Debash" (honey) is the...
184. Debe Rabbi Ishmael JE ...
185. Debir JE A king of Eglon referred to in Josh. x. 3 et seq. The Septuagint reads Δαβὶν. Debir was one of the...
186. The Debir JE ...
187. Deborah JE 1. Rebekah's nurse, who accompanied Jacob, and died on the road to Beth-el. She was buried under a terebinth ("oak" in...
188. The Song Of Deborah JE Name of the triumphal ode found in Judges v. 2-31 and ascribed in the title (Judges v. 1) to Deborah; it celebrates the victory...
189. Deborah JE A Jewish weekly in the German language, founded in 1855 by Isaac M. Wise and Max Lilienthal in Cincinnati, Ohio, for German...
190. Debtor And Creditor JE The law-books treat under this head the incidents of payment: the kind of money that the creditor must accept; the place at...
191. Debts Of Decedents JE Under the old law as it is recognized in many passages of the Talmud (e.g., Ket. 81b) and implied in the Mishnah (Ket. ix...
192. Decalogue JE A word, derived from the Greek, corresponding to the Biblical ; LXX. οἷ δέκα λό&#947...
193. Decalogue, The, In Jewish Theology JE The Ten Words are designated by Philo as κεφαλαῖα νόμων...
194. Decapitation JE ...
195. The Decapolis JE Name of a district of Palestine that included a number of autonomous cities. According to Pliny ("Historia Naturalis," v....
196. Francis Deckert JE Clerical anti-Semitic agitator; born at Vienna 1846; died there March 21, 1901. From its beginning in the eighth decade of...
197. Judah Ben Benjamin Deckingen JE German lexicographer of the sixteenth century. He was the pupil of Isaac of Ahrweiler, and lived as tutor at Wendersheim (1555)...
198. Sigmund Decsey JE Departmental president of the Supreme Court of Budapest; born in 1839 at Aszod. He studied law at Budapest; founding with...
199. Dedanim JE The descendants of the Arabian Dedan, spoken of (Isa. xxi. 13) as engaged in commerce. Dedan is first mentioned (Gen. x. 7...
200. Dede Agatch JE Turkish port on the Ægean Sea, at the mouth of the Maritza, near Enos, European Turkey. It has about two hundred Jews...
201. Dedication JE ...
202. Dedication Feast JE See HanukḲah. This article is Rated: 2.56 ...
203. Deed JE In English law a contract under seal. To it corresponds very closely in Jewish law the "sheṭar" (lit. "writing"); the...
204. Deep JE In contradistinction to "rock," which is used figuratively for "a refuge" (Isa. xxxiii. 16; Ps. xxvii. 5, xl. 2, lxi. 3),...
205. Defense JE Means of protection from assault. In Biblical times outlying farms were protected from bands of marauders by watch-towers...
206. Song Of Degrees JE ...
207. Dehavites JE The Dehavites are mentioned among the peoples settled in Samaria who opposed the reconstruction of the Temple at Jerusalem...
208. Deiches JE Polish family; mentioned as early as the seventeenth century, and members of which are living in Russia and Austria. The relationships...
209. Deism JE A system of belief which posits God's existence as the cause of all things, and admits His perfection, but rejects Divine...
210. Deity JE ...
211. Miriam Del Banco JE American authoress; born June 27, 1867, at New Orleans; daughter of Rabbi Max Del Banco, who died shortly after her birth...
212. David Del Bene JE Italian rabbi; born at Mantua in the latter half of the sixteenth century; died at Ferrara in the beginning of the seventeenth...
213. Judah Ashael Ben Eliezer David Del Bene (v04p503001jpg) JE Italian rabbi; born about 1618; died at Ferrara April 2, 1678. Together with Menahem Recanati he signed a halakic decision...
214. Ben Solomon Delacrut JE Polish scholar; lived in the middle of the sixteenth century. He settled early in Italy, and at one time seems to have attended...
215. Delaiah JE A son of Elioenai in the Davidic genealogy (I Chron. iii. 24; A. V. "Dalaiah"). The sons of Delaiah are mentioned in the long...
216. Delaware JE A state on the Atlantic seaboard of the United States. The first Jew of whom anything definite is known as a resident of the...
217. GonÇalo Delgado JE Portuguese Marano of the sixteenth century, and son of Juan Pinto Delgado; born at Tavira, where he occupied the position...
218. Joseph Delgado JE Farmer of the revenue of Lumbrales, Castile. On July 26, 1723, he, his wife Antonia de Cardenas, and his brother Gabriel Delgado...
219. Juan (moses) Pinto Delgado JE Marano poet; born at Tavira, Portugal, about 1530; died in 1591. Going to Spain in his youth, he studied the humanities at...
220. Elijah Ben Abraham Deliatitz JE Russian Talmudist and rabbi of Deliatitz; flourished at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He wrote: (1) "Shene Eliyahu"...
221. Nissan Deliatitz JE Russian rabbi and mathematician. He wrote "Keneh Ḥokmah," the meaning of which in Prov iv. 5 is "buy wisdom," but which...
222. Delilah JE A woman of Sorek, loved by Samson (Judges xvi. 4-20). The chief of the Philistines bribed her to discover the source of Samson&#39...
223. Franz Delitzsch JE Christian Hebraist; born at Leipsic Feb. 23, 1813; died there March 4, 1890. He was not of Jewish descent; although, owing...
224. Delmansi JE ...
225. Delmedigo JE A family of German descent. About the end of the fourteenth century its founder, Judah Delmedigo, emigrated to the island...
226. Elijah Cretensis Ben Moses Abba Delmedigo JE Cretan philosopher and physician; born in Candia in 1460; died there March, 1497 (Grätz, "Geschichte," 3d ed., viii....
227. Elijah Ben Eliezer Delmedigo JE Cretan rabbi and Talmudist; flourished in the second half of the sixteenth and in the first of the seventeenth century in...
228. Joseph Solomon Delmedigo JE Philosopher and physician; born at Candia June 16, 1591; died at Prague Oct. 16, 1655; son of Elijah, rabbi of Candia. Joseph...
229. Judah B Elijah Delmedigo JE Italian Talmudist; born in Candia; son of the philosopher Elijah Cretensis Delmedigo; studied at Padua under Judah Minz; he...
230. Samuel Ben Moses Delugtas JE ...
231. Albert Delvaille JE French dramatic author; born at Neuilly-sur-Seine May 30, 1870. He studied at the Ecole Monge (afterward the Ecole Carnot)...
232. Demai JE Agricultural produce, the owner of which was not trusted with regard to the correct separation of the tithes. The tribe of...
233. Demands JE In law the rights which a person has to recover money or things of value from others, whether by contract or for wrongs sustained...
234. Lewis Naphtali Dembitz JE American lawyer, scholar, and author; born Feb. 3, 1833, at Zirke, in the province of Posen. Prussia; educated at the gymnasia...
235. Hayyim Nathan Dembitzer JE Galician rabbi and historian; born in Cracow June 29, 1820; died there Nov. 20, 1892. His father, Jekuthiel Solomon, a scholarly...
236. Isaac Dembo JE Russian physician; born at Poneviezh, government of Kovno, in 1846. Dembo studied Hebrew and rabbinical literature under the...
237. Nicolas Dembowski JE ...
238. Demetrius JE Son-in-law of King Agrippa I. When Mariamne II., daughter of Agrippa I. and sister of Agrippa II., had put away Archelaus...
239. Demetrius JE Chronicler; supposed to have lived at Alexandria in the third century B.C. In a work entitled Πεί'&#921...
240. Demetrius I Soter JE King of Syria 162-150 B.C.; son of Seleucus IV. Philopator. He was sent by his father as a hostage to Rome in place of Antiochus...
241. Demetrius Ii Nicator JE King of Syria; son of Demetrius Soter. He was sent to Rome by his father as hostage for his fidelity. It was intended that...
242. Demetrius Iii Eucerus JE King of Syria; son of Antiochus Grypus. He was pretender to the throne of Antiochus X., whom he supplanted in 95 B.C. after...
243. Pavel Pavlovich Demidov JE Prince of San-Donato, Russian jurist, and philanthropist; born in 1839; died in 1885. He was a member of a well-known Russian...
244. Demoniacs In Bible And Talmud JE ...
245. Demonology JE Systematic knowledge concerning demons or evil spirits. Demons (Greek, δαίμονες or...
246. Demophon JE Apparently an officer under Lysias' command; he was Syrian general in Palestine about 164 B.C., and as such harried the...
247. Den JE Russian Jewish weekly; published at Odessa (1869-71) by A. Zederbaum and I. Goldenblum, and edited by S. Ornstein. Among its...
248. Denarius JE Roman silver coin, which derived its name from its being at first equal to ten asses; later this number was increased to sixteen...
249. Albertus Denis (dionis) JE One of the first members of the Portuguese community in Hamburg. On May 31, 1611, he with two others signed the agreement...
250. Denmark JE A kingdom of northwestern Europe. The first mention of the Danes in Jewish literature occurs in the "Yosippon" (ed. Breithaupt...
251. Denver JE ...
252. Deodatus Episcopus JE ...
253. Deposit JE ...
254. Georges Bernard Depping JE German-French historian; born in Münster, Germany, May 11, 1784; died in Paris Sept. 5, 1853. He went to Paris in 1803...
255. Derasha JE ...
256. Derazhnya JE Village in the government of Podolia, Russia. In 1898 it had a population of 6,118, of which 5,230 were Jews. Handicrafts...
257. Derazhnya JE ...
258. Derbent JE Seaport in the Russian province of Daghestan (Caucasus), on the western shore of the Caspian Sea. The city of Derbent was...
259. Derceto JE A goddess of the Syrians.1. Derceto is mentioned indirectly in II Macc. xii. 26, where it is related that Judas in his expeditions...
260. Derechin JE Town in the government of Grodno, Russia. According to the census of 1897 it has a population of 2,289, of whom 1,573 are...
261. Derek EreẒ JE ...
262. Derek EreẒ Rabbah JE One of the small treatises () of the Talmud. In the editions of the latter the treatise Derek Ereẓ consists of three...
263. Derek EreẒ ZuṬa JE An uncanonical treatise of the Babylonian Talmud. The name is misleading in more than one respect; the word "zuṭa" (small)...
264. Derelicts JE Things that have been abandoned ("res nullius" in the Roman law). The Talmud treats of four kinds of things that have no owner:...
265. Derenburg (derenbourg) JE A Franco-German family of Orientalists. Their original home was Derenburg, a town near Halberstadt, Saxony, whence they moved...
266. Heinrich Dernburg JE German jurist; born at Mayence March 3, 1829; brother of Friedrich Dernburg. The Dernburgs are related to the French family...
267. Derush JE See Homiletics and Midrash. This article is Rated: 2.72 ...
268. Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin JE Russian poet and senator; born at Kazan July 15, 1743; died at Zvanka, government of Novgorod, July 20, 1816. In 1799 Derzhavin...
269. Law Of Descent JE ...
270. Desecration JE The act of diverting from a sacred to a common use. It was forbidden, as being an act of desecration, to use the anointing-oil...
271. Desert JE ...
272. Desertion JE Leaving husband or wife with the intention of not returning. It must be premised that, if the husband deserted his wife and...
273. Dessau JE Chief town of the duchy of Anhalt, North Germany, on the left bank of the Mulde. The settlement of Jews here dates from 1621...
274. Moses Dessau JE ...
275. Moses B Michael Dessau JE Talmudist of the eighteenth century; called "Dessau" after the town in which he lived. He is the author of (1) novell&#230...
276. Wolf Dessau JE ...
277. Dessauer, Ferdinand (dessoir, Ferdinand August) JE German actor; son of Leopold Dessauer; born at Breslau Jan. 29, 1836; died in Dresden April 15, 1892. He was trained for the...
278. Gabriel L Dessauer JE Hungarian rabbi and author; born at Neutra, Hungary, in 1805; died June 1, 1878. He became a pupil of R. Moses Sopher (Schreiber)...
279. Josef Dessauer JE German composer; born at Prague May 28, 1798; died at Mödling, near Vienna, July 8, 1876; a pupil of Tomaczek (piano)...
280. Julius Dessauer JE Hungarian writer; son of Gabriel L. Dessauer; born at Neutra 1832. He was for some years rabbi at Ujpest. He has published...
281. Dessauer, Leopold (dessoir, Ludwig) JE German actor; born at Posen Dec. 15, 1810; died Dec. 30, 1874, in Berlin. Dessauer, who was known during his stage career...
282. Moritz Dessauer JE German rabbi and author; son of Gabriel L. Dessauer; born at Balaton-Kojár, Hungary, May 24, 1842; died April 17, 1895...
283. Felix Otto Dessoff JE German conductor and composer; born Jan. 14, 1835, in Leipsic; died Oct. 28, 1891, at Frankfort-on-the-Main; studied with...
284. Ferdinand Dessoir JE ...
285. Ludwig Dessoir JE ...
286. Determinism JE See Fatalism and Freewill. This article is Rated: 2.82 ...
287. Detmold JE ...
288. Johann Hermann Detmold JE German diplomat; born at Hanover July 24,1807; died there March 17, 1856. He was the son of Detmold, the court physician at...
289. Samuel Detmold JE Austrian educator and translator; lived at the end of the eighteenth and in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was...
290. Detroit JE Largest city in the state of Michigan. No authentic records of the settlement of Jews in the vicinity of Detroit, or in the...
291. Deuteronomist JE The name given by critics to the author of the discourses in Deuteronomy. See Deuteronomy. ...
292. Deuteronomy JE The fifth book of the Pentateuch, called in Hebrew "Debarim" (Words), from the opening phrase "Eleh ha-debarim."; in Rabbinical...
293. Deuteronomy Rabbah JE ...
294. Alexander Deutsch JE French financier; died April 18, 1889. He was head of the firm of A. Deutsch & Sons, of Paris, and was one of the most...
295. Anton Deutsch JE Hungarian journalist and politico-economic writer; born at Budapest Oct. 21, 1848. He studied in Budapest and Paris. Since...
296. Caroline Deutsch JE German novelist; born at Namesto, a small Hungarian village, Feb. 23, 1846. Her father, a rabbi, was German in culture, and...
297. David Deutsch JE German rabbi; born at Zülz, Silesia, 1810; died at Sohrau, Silesia, July 31, 1873. He was brought up by his relative...
298. David Deutsch (aaron) JE Hungarian rabbi and Talmudic author; born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, about 1812; died at Balassa-Gyarmath, Hungary, April 26, 1878...
299. David B Menahem Mandel Deutsch JE Hungarian rabbi and Talmudist; born about 1760; died in 1830 at Novo Mesto (Waag-Neustadtl), Hungary. He officiated first...
300. Emanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch JE Orientalist; born at Neisse, in Silesia, Oct. 28, 1829; died at Alexandria, Egypt, May 12, 1873. His early training was conducted...
301. Gotthard Deutsch JE Theologian; born at Kanitz, Austria, Jan. 31, 1859. The descendant of a rabbinical family (see Braunschweig, Jacob Eliezer)...
302. Alexander Deutsch De Hatvan JE Hungarian merchant and financier; born at Arad Nov. 17, 1852. He was educated in Budapest and Berlin. As the head of the firm...
303. Heinrich Deutsch JE Hungarian educator; born at Trencsen-Bán June 12, 1819; died at Budapest Dec. 18, 1889. After teaching in the elementary...
304. Israel Deutsch JE German rabbi; born in Zülz, Prussian Silesia, April 2, 1800; died in Beuthen June 7, 1853. From 1829 until his death...
305. Joel Deutsch JE Hebraist and teacher of deaf-mutes; born in Nikolsburg, Moravia, March 20, 1813; died in Vienna May 1, 1899. Deutsch is remembered...
306. Mordecai Ben Enoch Judah Deutsch JE Rabbi of Kolin, Bohemia, and its subordinate communities; he flourished at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He was...
307. Nieto Redivivus Deutsch JE ...
308. Simon Deutsch JE Austrian Hebraist and revolutionist; died at Constantinople March 24, 1877. As a young man he devoted himself to Hebrew studies...
309. Deutsch-israelitischer Gemeindebund JE ...
310. Elijah Ben Isaac Deutz JE Rabbinical author; lived at Hamburg in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was the author of "Pi Eliyahu" (Mouth...
311. Emmanuel (menahem) Deutz JE Chief rabbi of the Central Consistory of the Jews of France; born at Coblenz, in Rhenish Prussia, 1763; died Jan. 31, 1842...
312. Devenishki JE Village in the government of Wilna, Russia. The census of 1898 shows a population of 1,877, of whom 1,283 are Jews. Of the...
313. Devil JE See Demonology and Satan. This article is Rated: 2.79 ...
314. Devotion JE The state of religious consecration. It is the most essential element in worship; so that a divine service without it is "like...
315. Devotional Literature JE Aside from the regular prayers, which are treated under Liturgy, there exists a literature of private devotions, prayers offered...
316. Dew JE Moisture condensed from the atmosphere and gathered in small drops, specially upon the upper surface of plants. In Palestine...
317. The Prayer For Dew JE ...
318. Diego De Deza JE Second inquisitor-general; Bishop of Salamanca, and professor of theology at the university of that city; subsequently Archbishop...
319. Zur'ah Yusuf Ibn Tuban As'ad Abi Karib Dhu Nuwas JE Jewish King of Yemen, 515-525. According to the Arabian historians the name "Dhu Nuwas" was given him on account of his curly...
320. El Dia JE Title of a Jewish periodical written in Judæo-Spanish and printed in rabbinical characters. It was published at Philippopolis...
321. Diabetes Mellitus JE A constitutional disorder of nutrition, characterized by the persistent elimination of grape-sugar in the urine. It is considered...
322. Diadem JE ...
323. Dial JE Device for displaying the time by means of the shadow of a gnomon or style thrown by the rays of the sun on a graduated disk...
324. The Dialectic JE ...
325. Rabbinical Dialectics JE ...
326. Dialects JE Under this heading are considered the various forms of those languages, other than Hebrew, which have been spoken or written...
327. FÉlix Dias JE French painter; born at Bordeaux 1794; died May 29, 1817. From his earliest youth he betrayed marked talent for painting....
328. Moses B Isaac Dias (diaz) JE Author, publisher, and bookseller of Amsterdam. In 1695 he published Joseph Franco Serrano's Spanish translation of the...
329. Diaspora JE The Jews in their dispersion through the Greco-Roman world. In the present article the Jewish race is considered in its relations...
330. Diathesis JE A predisposition to certain forms of disease. It has been observed by physicians at all times that some races are more prone...
331. Diaz (dias) De Soria JE A family of Bordeaux which derived its name from the Spanish town Soria. There is nothing to definitely warrant the belief...
332. Dibbukim JE Transmigrated souls. "Dibbuḳ" (lit. "something that cleaves unto something else") is a colloquial equivalent, common...
333. Diblah JE According to the Masorah and Septuagint, which the R. V. follows, "Diblah" is the name of a place mentioned in Ezek. vi. 14...
334. Dibon JE A very ancient town, situated from three to five miles (Baedeker, "Palestine," p. 193) north of the River Arnon (Tristram...
335. Dice JE See Gambling. This article is Rated: 2.80 ...
336. Isaac Mayer Dick JE Russian Hebraist and novelist; born in Wilna 1808 (of the various dates the one given by "Aḥiasaf" is probably most...
337. Leopold Dick JE German artist and professor of engraving; born 1817; died June 23, 1854. He studied art at the Royal Academy of Munich, and...
338. Charles Dickens JE English novelist; born Feb. 7, 1812, at 387 Mile End Terrace, Commercial Road, Landport, Portsea; died June 9, 1870, at Gadshill...
339. Bible Dictionaries JE Collections of articles in alphabetical order treating of the various biographical, archeological, geographical, and other...
340. Hebrew Dictionaries JE The earliest known work giving a lexical survey of part of the Hebrew language, with comments, is the dictionary of Biblical...
341. Didache JE A manual of instruction for proselytes, adopted from the Synagogue by early Christianity, and transformed by alteration and...
342. Didascali JE ...
343. Didascalia JE A Greek work, in eight books, containing regulations of Church life, better known under the name of "Apostolic Constitutions...
344. Denis Diderot JE French philosopher and encyclopedist; born at Langres Oct. 5, 1713; died at Paris July 30, 1784. Although, like all the French...
345. Didrachma JE See Numismatics and Weights and Measures. This article is Rated: 2...
346. Diego De Valencia JE Spanish troubadour of the fifteenth century; born of Jewish parentage at Valencia de Don Juan, in the kingdom of Leon. After...
347. Azriel Ben Solomon Diena (dayyena) JE Rabbi at Sabbionetta; died 1536. He was a disciple of Nathaniel Trabotto, and is mentioned with respect by R. Meïr Katzenellenbogen...
348. David Diena (dayyena) JE Italian rabbi; he lived at Rovigo at the end of the seventeenth century. He was consulted on Talmudic matters by R. Nathaniel...
349. Jacob Dienesohn JE Yiddish novelist; born in Zagory (Zagaren), Russia, in 1859. He is one of the most popular Yiddish novelists of the latter...
350. Diessenhofen JE City in the Swiss canton of Thurgau, connected by a bridge with the village of Gailingen in Baden. It attracted the Jews in...
351. Dietary Laws JE Biblical and rabbinical regulations concerning forbidden food. Vegetable Food.A. The ancient Israelites lived chiefly on...
352. Dietary Laws In Islam JE The Mohammedan dietary laws are neither as rigorous nor as numerous as in Judaism. They were not introduced into the religious...
353. Digne JE Capital of the department of Basses-Alpes, France. There was a Jewish community here as early as the thirteenth century. Salve...
354. Dijon JE Chief town of the department of Côte-d'Or, France. Jews have been settled here from time immemorial. They occupied...
355. Dikduk JE ...
356. Diklah JE A son of Joktan (Gen. x. 27, and the corresponding genealogical list, I Chron. i. 21). The names of the other sons of Joktan...
357. August Dillmann JE German theologian and Orientalist; born at Illingen, Württemberg, April 25, 1823; died at Berlin July 4, 1894. When Hengstenberg...
358. Eliezer Dillon JE Russian army contractor; born at Nesvizh, government of Minsk, in the second half of the eighteenth century; died at Wilna...
359. Maria Lvovna Dillon JE Russian sculptress; born at St. Petersburg in 1859. She entered the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts at St. Petersburg in 1875...
360. Mark Lvovich Dillon JE Russian jurist; born at Ponevyezh Feb., 1843; educated at the yeshibah of Wilna, the gymnasium of his native town, and the...
361. Dimi JE Amora of the fourth century who often carried Palestinian doctrinal and exegetical remarks to the Babylonian schools, and...
362. Din JE Signifies (1) argument; (2) judgment; (3) laws and rules which form the basis of arguments and judgments; (4) justice, the...
363. Giacomo Dina JE Italian deputy and journalist; born at Turin in 1824; died there July 16, 1879. The son of poor parents, he became a teacher...
364. Dinah JE "Dinah" is the name of Jacob's daughter by Leah (Gen. xxx. 21). Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, seduces her while...
365. Dinaites JE A tribe mentioned in Ezra iv. 9 as having settled in Samaria, and as opposing and denouncing the efforts of the Jews to rebuild...
366. Dinhabah JE City mentioned in the Old Testament as the capital of Idumea, and probably the birthplace of Bela, son of Beor, King of Edom...
367. Diniz JE King of Portugal (1279-1325), and styled "the father of his country"; one of the most tolerant rulers of his time, and well...
368. DiocÆsarea JE ...
369. Diocletian JE Roman emperor (285-305). Although he was the son of Dalmatian slaves (Eutropius, ix. 19), he rose to the highest honors by...
370. Diodatus JE Ruler of Syria 141-138 B.C.; born at Kasiana near Apamea. Originally an officer in the army of Alexander Balas, he opposed...
371. Justiniano Alvares Da AnnunciaÇÃo Diogo JE Archbishop of Cranganor; born at Lisbon in 1654; died at Evora Oct. 28, 1713. Doctor of theology and canon in ordinary, he...
372. Dion Cassius JE Historian; born about 155 at Nicæa in Bithynia; held the highest offices of state in the Roman empire; became consul...
373. Festival Of Dionysus JE Historic notices regarding a supposed festival of Dionysus in Judea do not antedate the time of the Maccabees. The general...
374. Pedacius Dioscorides JE Greek physician of the first century. His "Materia Medica" is mentioned in a Hebrew medical work called "Midrash ha-Refu&#39...
375. Diospolis JE ...
376. Dirge JE ...
377. Legal Disabilities JE ...
378. Disabilities JE J. E. Scherer in his "Die Rechtsverhältnisse der Juden in den Deutsch-Oesterreichischen Ländern" (Leipsic, 1901)...
379. Discount JE ...
380. Diseases In The Bible And Talmud JE ...
381. Dishon JE 1. A son of Seir, and head of the aboriginal Idumean tribes (Gen. xxxvi. 21, 30; I Chron. i. 38; compare 41). 2. A son of...
382. Disinterment JE The act of exhumation, or taking out of the earth or the grave. The removal of dead bodies from one place of burial to another...
383. Joshua LÖb Ben Benjamin Diskin JE Russian rabbi; born at Grodno, Russia, Dec. 10, 1818; died at Jerusalem Jan. 22, 1898. At thirteen he married Sarah, the daughter...
384. Disna JE Town in the government of Wilna, Russia. According to the census of 1897, it has a population of 6,739, about 5,600 being...
385. David Ben Joel Dispeck JE Talmudic scholar and homilist; born about the year 1744. He studied in the yeshibah under Joshua Cohen, among his companions...
386. Disputations JE Public debates on religious subjects between Jews and non-Jews. Religious differences have at all times induced serious-minded...
387. Benjamin D'israeli JE English merchant and financier; born in Venice Sept. 22, 1730; died at Stoke Newington, London, in 1816. He went to England...
388. Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl Of Beaconsfield JE English statesman; born at London, England, Dec. 21, 1804; died there April 19, 1881. The son of Isaac D'Israeli, he was...
389. Isaac D'israeli JE English author; born at Enfield, Middlesex, May, 1766; died at Bradenham Jan. 19, 1848. He was the only son of Benjamin D&#39...
390. Disraeli Pedigree JE The following is a genealogical tree of the Disraeli family: (see image) Lord Beaconsfield could trace his ancestry only back...
391. Distaff JE A stick on which flax or wool was wound ready for hand-spinning before the spinning-wheel came into use. It was held under...
392. Leopold Ritter Von Dittel JE Austrian surgeon; born at Fulneck, Moravia, May 15, 1815; died at Vienna July 28, 1898. He was educated at the gymnasia of...
393. Abraham Samuel Divekar JE Beni-Israel soldier; born near Bombay about 1830. He enlisted in the Nineteenth Regiment native infantry March 1, 1851; was...
394. Samuel Ezekiel (samajee Hasajee) Divekar JE Soldier in the service of the East India Company and second founder of the Beni-Israel congregation of Bombay; born at Cochin...
395. Divination JE The forecasting of the future by certain signs or movements of external things, or by visions in certain ecstatic states of...
396. Divine Judgment JE ...
397. Divine Service JE ...
398. Divorce JE Dissolution of marriage. The origin of the Jewish law of divorce is found in the constitution of the patriarchal family. The...
399. Dizahab JE Name occurring but once in the Bible—in the topographical description in Deut. i. 1. Its identity has not been successfully...
400. Jean Dlugosz JE ...
401. Dlugosz ( JE Biblical commentator and poet of the seventeenth century; born in Grodno, Lithuania. He edited the Prophets and the Hagiographa...
402. Dob Baer B Judah Loeb JE ...
403. Dob Baer B Loeb JE Polish rabbi; died in Lemberg 1779. In 1745 he was rabbi at Koznitz in the government of Lublin; in 1754, rabbi of Kroshnik...
404. Dobritz JE Town in Bulgaria, twenty-six miles north of Varna. It contains about 200 Jews in a total population of 14,000. This little...
405. Dobroje JE ...
406. Dobrovelichkovka JE ...
407. Moses Dobruska JE Austrian writer and poet; born July 12, 1753, in Brünn, Moravia; guillotined April 5, 1793, at Paris. The son of a wealthy...
408. Abraham Baer B Joseph Ezra Dobsewitch (dobsevage) JE Russian Hebraist and exegete; born in Pinsk Oct. 17, 1843; died in New York Jan. 14, 1900. At the age of thirteen he had written...
409. Ludwig DÓczy (dux) JE Hungarian poet; born at Sopron [Oedenburg], Hungary, Nov. 30, 1845. After finishing his preliminary education he studied law...
410. Dodai (dudai) Ben Nahman JE Babylonian scholar of the eighth century and gaon of the academy at Pumbedita (761-764). Little is known of his life. He was...
411. Dodanim JE Name of sons of Javan, brothers to Elishah, Tarshish, and the Kittim, in the ethnographic table in Genesis (x. 4). The ancestor...
412. Dodavah JE The father of Eliezer of Mareshah (II Chron. xx. 37). The latter preached against the alliance between Jehoshaphat and Ahaziah...
413. Dodo JE 1. The father of Eleazar, "one of the three mighty men with David, when they defiedthe Philistines that were there gathered...
414. Doeg JE An Edomite; chief of the herdsmen of Saul. When David, warned by Jonathan, fled from Saul to the priest Abimelech at Nob,...
415. Dog JE The dog referred to in the Bible is the semisavage species seen throughout the East, held in contempt for its fierce, unsympathetic...
416. Christian Wilhelm Von Dohm JE German historian and political writer; advocate of the Jews, and friend of Moses Mendelssohn; born in Lemgo Dec. 11, 1751...
417. Dokshitzy JE Town in the government of Minsk, Russia. The census of 1897 shows a population of 3,647 (other authorities place it at 5,720)...
418. Dolan Bellan JE French physician; lived at Carcassonne in the fourteenth century. He was a contemporary of the physician Jacob de Lunel, who...
419. Selina Dolaro JE Anglo-American actress and singer; born at London in 1852; died in New York city Jan. 23, 1889. She studied music at the Paris...
420. Menahem Mendel Dolitzki JE Russian Hebrew poet; born in Byelostok April 3, 1856. He began to compose poetry and prose very early, often supplementing...
421. Public Domain JE As distinguished from private domain (), public domain is prominent in many branches of rabbinic lore, especially in the law...
422. Dombrova JE ...
423. Dombrovitza JE Town in the government of Volhynia, Russia. It has a total population of about 25,000, including 6,000 Jews, about 1,000 of...
424. Esther Domeier JE ...
425. Domicil JE Place of abode; dwelling; the place where a man has his true, fixed, permanent home and principal establishment, and to which...
426. Dominicans JE ...
427. Dominico Irosolimitano JE Talmudist, physician, author, and expurgator of Hebrew books; born in Safed, Palestine, about 1550; died in Italy about 1620...
428. Domitian JE Roman emperor 81-96; born in 51; assassinated in 96. In 69, when his father Vespasian was proclaimed emperor, Domitian was...
429. Flavia Domitilla JE ...
430. Domninus JE Jewish philosopher; lived between 400 and 480. He was a native of Laodicea, or Larissa, in Syria; the pupil of Syrian, whom...
431. Domus Conversorum JE House in London founded by order of Henry III. in the year 1232 to provide a home and free maintenance for Jews converted...
432. Eduard Donath JE Austrian chemist; born in Wsetin, Moravia, Dec. 8, 1848. He became assistant in Zinřck's chemical institute in Berlin...
433. Leopold Donath JE Rabbi; born 1845 at Waag-Neustadtl, Hungary; died 1876 at Güstrow, Mecklenburg; pupil of Israel Hildesheimer. After studying...
434. Cesare Donati JE Italian novelist; born at Lugo, Romagna, Sept. 21, 1826. Persecuted by the Austrian government for having taken part in the...
435. Marco Donati JE Italian lawyer; born in Padua Sept. 4, 1842; died at Terni June 11, 1901. Before he had completed his academic career he left...
436. Donato D'orvieto JE ...
437. Donin, Nicholas, Of La Rochelle JE Jewish convert to Christianity; lived at Paris in the first half of the thirteenth century. Having expressed his doubts as...
438. DÖnmeh JE A sect of crypto-Jews, descendants of the followers of Shabbethai Ẓebi, living to-day mostly in Salonica, European Turkey:...
439. Donnolo JE Italian physician, and writer on medicine and astrology; born at Oria, in 913; died after 982. When twelve years of age he...
440. Door And Door-post JE Doors were suspended and moved by means of pivots of wood ("potot") which projected from the ends of the two folds above and...
441. Dorbolo JE Rabbi about 1150; he traveled much, and knew Poland, Russia, Bohemia, France, and Germany from his own observations. Some...
442. Doris JE First wife of Herod, whom he married about 45 B.C. The names of her parents are not mentioned, probably because they belonged...
443. David Abravanel Dormido JE Warden of the Jewish communities at Amsterdam and London in the seventeenth century; born in one of the principal cities of...
444. MeÏr Ha-levi Dormitzer JE Austrian scholar; died at Prague Jan. 25, 1743. He was the author of a work entitled "Ha'ataḳah" (Translation),...
445. Doros JE ...
446. Dorotheus JE Son of Nathanael; one of the embassy sent by the Jews to Rome in 45 C.E., and which induced the emperor Claudius to consent...
447. Dortmund JE Capital of the circle of the same name, in the district of Arnsberg and the Prussian province of Westphalia, situated on the...
448. Dosa JE Father of the tannaite Ḥanina b. Dosa, famous for his piety.S. S. W. B. ...
449. Dosa JE Palestinian amora, probably of the fourth century. The Jerusalem Talmud has preserved two of his halakic decisions, and Midrashic...
450. Dosa Ben Saadia JE Son of Saadia Alfayyumi. Dosa was a Talmudic scholar and philosopher, but he did not succeed his father as gaon. A responsum...
451. Dosa B Ṭebet JE Palestinian amora of the fourth century, in whose name the following curious sentences on the two most dangerous instincts...
452. Dosetai JE A name, corresponding to the Hebrew "Mattaniah" or "Nethaneel," which seems to have been a favorite one both in Palestine...
453. Dositheus JE Founder of a Samaritan sect; lived probably in the first century of the common era. According to Pseudo-Tertullian ("Adversus...
454. Dostoyevski JE ...
455. Dough JE ...
456. Dove JE One of the most familiar species of pigeon. The most common term for dove in the O. T. is "yonah," comprising the whole family...
457. Dowry JE The portion or property which a wife brings to her husband in marriage. In patriarchal times the dowry was not known. As among...
458. Doxology JE ...
459. Abraham Drabkin JE Chief rabbi of St. Petersburg, Russia; born of an old-established family at Mohilev on the Dnieper in 1844. When only a boy...
460. David Paul Drach JE Librarian of the Propaganda in Rome; born at Strasburg March 6, 1791; died in Rome Jan., 1865. Drach received his early education...
461. Drachma JE See Numismatics and Weights. This article is Rated: 2.77 ...
462. Bernard Drachman JE American educator and rabbi; born in New York city June 27, 1861. He is a descendant of a rabbinical family, and was educated...
463. El Dragoman JE Title of a Jewish periodical written in Judæo-Spanish and printed in square Hebrew characters, published in Vienna in...
464. Dragon JE The usual translation of the Septuagint for , dangerous monster whose bite is poisonous ("dragons' poison") (Deut. xxxii...
465. Draguignan JE Capital of the department of Var, France. There was a Jewish community here in the thirteenth century. The poet Isaac Gorni...
466. Drama JE City of European Turkey in the vilayet of Salonica, 25 miles from Serrès. It is the ancient Drabescus. Its small Jewish...
467. Hebrew Drama JE The origin of the Hebrew drama may be traced back to a very early period. The ancient Hebrews, like other nations of antiquity...
468. The Jew In Modern Drama JE General Characteristics. The modern drama, which may be said to date from Christopher Marlowe and Shakespeare, has made liberal...
469. Yiddish Drama JE The dramatic part of Yiddish literature has had a less independent development than any other of its parts, and is consequently...
470. Drawer Of Water JE A proverbial expression always found in connection with "hewer of wood" (Deut. xxix. 11; Josh. ix. 21, 23, 27). When the fraud...
471. Dreams JE Dreams have at all times and among all peoples received much attention. In the youth of a nation, as in the youth of an individual...
472. Markus G Dreifus JE Swiss teacher and editor; born at Endingen, canton Aargau, Switzerland, 1812; died at Zurich May 30, 1877. After attending...
473. Menahem Ben Abraham Dreifus JE German rabbi and writer; he belonged to the widely related Treves family and signed himself . For many decades he was rabbi...
474. Leopold Dreschfeld JE Physician and communal worker; born in Bamberg, Bavaria, 1824; died at Manchester, England, Oct. 21, 1897. He studied medicine...
475. Dresden JE Capital of the kingdom of Saxony; situated on both banks of the Elbe. The presence of Jews in the city or in its vicinity...
476. Dreux JE Chief town of the arrondissement of the department of Eure-et-Loire, France. From the twelfth century, Jews were living in...
477. Abraham Dreyfus JE French journalist and dramatist; born at Paris June 21, 1847. His first literary efforts took the form of two poetic fantasies...
478. Captain Alfred Dreyfus JE ...
479. Ferdinand Dreyfus JE French politician and deputy; born at Paris May 5, 1849. He became editor of the "Siècle," and was elected by the Republican...
480. Ferdinand-camille Dreyfus JE French politician; born in Paris Aug. 19, 1851. After a classical and commercial education he prepared himself for the Ecole...
481. Samuel Dreyfus JE Rabbi of Mülhausen, Alsace; died June, 1870. He was one of the earliest pupils of the rabbinical school of Metz, having...
482. Dreyfus Case ("l'affaire Dreyfus") JE Memorable trials of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, officer in the French army, in 1894 and 1899, involving political complications...
483. Louis Lucien Dreyfus-brisac JE French physician; born at Strasburg Feb. 3, 1849; died May 5, 1903; studied in his native city, and afterward at the Paris...
484. Dribin JE See Mohilev Government. This article is Rated: 2.74 ...
485. Drink-offering JE ...
486. Drinking-vessels JE Less is known of the form and material of the drinking-vessels of the Hebrews than of those of the Greeks and the Romans....
487. Drissa JE Russian city in the government of Vitebsk. The population in 1897 was 4,237, of whom 2,856 were Jews. There were 657 artisans...
488. Samuel Rolles Driver JE English Christian Hebraist; born at Southampton Oct. 2, 1846; regius professor of Hebrew (in succession to Pusey), and canon...
489. Israel Nahman Ben Joseph Drohobiczer JE Talmudic scholar and preacher of Stanislaw (according to Ghirondi he came from Ostrog, Russia); died at Safed early in the...
490. Dromedary JE A variety or choice breed of the camel proper, or one-humped camel; much tallerand longer in the leg than the ordinary camel...
491. Moses Aaron Dropsie JE American lawyer, and president of Gratz College; born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 9, 1821; died there July 8, 1905. He began...
492. Droshchin JE ...
493. Hayyim B Jacob Drucker JE Printer of Amsterdam at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. His activity as a typesetter...
494. Michael Drucker JE Musician; born in Russian Poland Dec. 31, 1861. At the age of five he began the study of the violin under his father, and...
495. Druisk JE ...
496. Edouard Adolphe Drumont JE French anti-Semitic author and former deputy from Algeria; born at Paris on May 3, 1844. Drumont's ancestry is not Jewish...
497. Drunkenness In Law JE The Talmud speaks only once of drunkenness in its relation to responsibility for contracts or for crimes; namely, in the following...
498. Drusilla JE Daughter of Agrippa I. and Cypros (Josephus, "Ant." xviii. 5, § 4; idem, "B. J." ii. 11, § 6); born in 38. She was...
499. Dual JE Form of a noun or verb indicating its application to two persons or things. Arabic is the only Semitic language that has the...
500. Dualism JE The system in theology which explains the existence of evil by assuming two coeternal principles—one good, the other...
501. Luis Duarte JE Chilean Marano; born in Evora, Portugal, at the end of the sixteenth century. He served for six years in the Chilean army...
502. Duarte De Pinel JE ...
503. Dublin JE Chief city of Ireland. The Jewish community in Dublin is one of the oldest of those which have been founded in Great Britain...
504. Dubner Maggid JE ...
505. Dubnicza JE Bulgarian town; 22 miles south of Sofia, and on the left bank of the Jerma. In tracing the origin of its population by the...
506. Dubno JE Town in the government of Volhynia, Russia. According to the census of 1897 it had a population of 13,785, including 5,608...
507. Solomon Ben Joel Dubno JE Russian poet, grammarian, and student of the Masorah; born at Dubno, Volhynia, Oct., 1738; died at Amsterdam June 26, 1813...
508. Simon (semion Markovich) Dubnow JE Russo Jewish historian; born at Mstis. lavl, government of Mohilev, 1860. He attended the Jewish government school of his...
509. Dubosary JE Village in the government of Kherson, Russia. In 1897 it had a population of 13,276, of whom about 5,000 were Jews. A considerable...
510. Dubrovna JE Village situated on both banks of the Dnieper river, in the government of Mohilev, in northwestern Russia. Its total population...
511. Duderstadt JE A city in Eichsfelde, province of Hanover. Jews have lived there as early as the beginning of the fourteenth century, as appears...
512. Isaac Ben MeÏr Dueren JE German rabbi and codifier; lived in the second half of the thirteenth century at Dueren, from which place he took his name...
513. Dukan JE The "platform" upon which (1) the Temple priests stood to pronounce the benediction (Mid. ii. 6), (2) the Levites stood during...
514. Leopold Dukes JE Hungarian historian of Jewish literature; born at Presburg, Hungary, 1810; died at Vienna Aug. 3, 1891. He studied Talmudical...
515. Dumah JE Son of Ishmael (Gen. xxv. 14; I Chron. i. 30). Suḳ ("marKet") Dumah has been found in Dumat al-Jandal in Arabia, called...
516. Arnold Borisovich Dumashevski JE Russian lawyer; born at Mohilev-on-the-Dnieper, 1836, of poor Orthodox Jewish parents; died at St. Petersburg 1887. He received...
517. Dumb JE ...
518. DÜnaburg JE ...
519. Dunash Ben LabraṬ JE Philologist and poet of the tenth century. For the name "Dunash," which Joseph Ḳimḥi on one occasion ("Sefer ha-Galui...
520. Dunash Ibn Tamim JE Scholar of the tenth century and pioneer of scientific study among Arabic-speaking Jews. His Arabic name was "Abu Sahl"; his...
521. Dunayevtzy JE Village in the government of Podolia, Russia. It had a population (1898) of 13,000, of whom 7,000 were Jews. The chief sources...
522. Joseph Hirsch DÜnner JE Rabbi; born at Cracow Jan., 1833; received his rabbinical education at his native place; studied philosophy and Oriental philology...
523. John Duns Scotus JE Franciscan monk, theologian, and scholiast; born at Dunston, North umberland, England (according to some, at Dun, Ireland)...
524. Adrien Duport JE French lawyer and friend of the Jews; born in 1758; died in exile 1798. He became a deputy to the States-General in 1789,...
525. Dura JE A valley mentioned only in Daniel (iii. 1). Here Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image, to the dedication of which he summoned...
526. Duran JE A widely scattered family, originally from Provence, not from Oran ("d'Oran"), as some scholars think. A "Mosse Duram"...
527. Duress JE In law, the use of such unlawful force against a contracting party as will entitle him to rescind a contract. The rabbinical...
528. Emile Durkheim JE French writer; born at Epinal, in the department of Vosges, France, April15, 1858. He was educated at the college of his native...
529. Elcan Durlacher JE Hebraist and publisher; born at Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1817; died Dec. 21, 1889. He went to Paris in 1845 as a teacher of...
530. John Dury JE English divine of the seventeenth century. During his travels abroad he met Manasseh ben Israel in 1644, and heard from him...
531. Moritz Duschak JE Austrian rabbi and author; born in Triesch, Moravia, Nov. 14, 1815; died in Vienna July 21, 1890. He was a pupil in Talmud...
532. Friedrich Duschenes JE Austrian jurist; born at Prague Jan. 18, 1843; died there Jan. 11, 1901. He received his education at the Unter-Realschule...
533. Wilhelm Duschinsky JE Austrian writer; born in Strasnitz, Moravia, May 6, 1860. He attended the gymnasium in Vienna, and afterward studied Romanic...
534. DÜsseldorf JE City in Rhenish Prussia, situated on the right bank of the Rhine. According to the census of 1900 it has about 2,600 Jews...
535. Dutch West Indies JE A name by which the Dutch colonies of Curaçao and Surinam are sometimes designated. See under West Indies. ...
536. Duty JE That which is due to God as the Master of life, or to a fellow man, or to oneself. "Duty" is an ethical term; its recognition...
537. Adolf Dux JE Hungarian writer; born at Presburg Oct. 25, 1822; died at Budapest Nov. 20, 1881; cousin of Leopold Dukes. He studied law...
538. Ludwig Dux JE ...
539. Christian Salomon Duytsch JE Hungarian clergyman; born in Temesvár, Hungary, in 1734; died in 1797. He attended the Talmud Torah in Prague. Returning...
540. Dvinsk JE City in the government of Vitebsk, Russia. It is situated on the River Düna, at the intersection of two railroads. It...
541. Dwarf JE The rendering in A. V. of (Lev. xxi. 20, literally "thin"), denoting one of the physical disqualifications of priests for...
542. Dyatlovo JE ...
543. Dybossari JE ...
544. Isadore Dyer JE American merchant and communal worker; born in Dessau, Germany, 1813; died at Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1888. He went to America...
545. Leon Dyer JE American soldier; born at Alzey, Germany, Oct. 9, 1807; died in Louisville, Ky., 1883. At an early age he went with his parents...
546. Dyes And Dyeing JE Though not mentioned as a special art in the Bible, dyeing was probably practised as in Egypt by the fuller andthe tanner...
547. Dyhernfurth JE Town in Prussian Silesia, with 1,463 inhabitants; founded Jan. 20, 1663. In that year the Austrian emperor Leopold I., desiring...
548. D M Dyte JE English Jew who distinguished himself by saving the life of George III. of England under the following circumstances: On May...
549. Dyvin JE Village in the government of Grodno, Russia. It has a very old Jewish community, but it is impossible to determine when Jews...