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Moses M Haarbleicher JE German author; born in Hamburg Nov. 14, 1797; died there Sept. 25, 1869. Following the example of his father, the founder...
Robert Haas JE German Lutheran minister; lived in the first half of the nineteenth century, in the duchy of Nassau; pastor in the villages...
Simhah Ben Joshua Haas JE Traveler and preacher; born in Dobrowitz, Bohemia, 1710; died in Brahilov 1768. He was father-in-law to Solomon Dubno, and...
Solomon Ben Jekuthiel Haas JE Moravian rabbi of the first half of the nineteenth century. Haas was successively dayyan at Holleschau and rabbi of Strassnitz...
Ha-asif JE Hebrew year-book, edited and published by Nahum Sokolow in Warsaw. Its first volume (5645) appeared in 1884; it continued...
Habaiah JE Head of a family of priests who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel; not being able to prove their genealogy, they were...
Habakkuk JE Prophet; author of the eighth in the collection of the twelve minor prophetical books. The etymology of the name of the prophet...
Book Of Habakkuk JE One of the twelve minor prophetical books. It readily falls into two parts: (1) ch. i. and ii.; (2) ch. iii. The first part...
habar JE ...
Habaziniah JE The head of a family of Rechabites. His grandson Jaazaniah was a chief of the Rechabites in the time of Jeremiah (Jer. xxxv...
habaẒẒelet JE ...
Habdalah JE The rabbinical term for the benedictions and prayers by means of which a division is made between times of varying degrees...
haber JE Term ordinarily used in rabbinical lore in its original Biblical sense, "companion," "friend" (Ps. cxix. 63; Ab. ii. 9, 10)...
Solomon Von Haber JE German banker; born at Breslau Nov. 3, 1760; died Feb. 20, 1839. The son of poor parents, he rose to a position of wealth...
Kalman (kalonymus) Haberkasten JE Polish rabbi of the sixteenth century. He is the first known rabbi of the city of Ostrog, Volhynia, where he settled after...
Jacob (ben Solomon) Ibn habib JE Spanish Talmudist; born at Zamora about 1460; died at Salonica 1516. In his youth Ḥabib studied the Talmud under R....
Joseph Ibn habib JE Spanish Talmudist; flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Like his predecessor, R. Nissim b. Reuben (RaN),...
Levi Ben Jacob Ibn habib JE Rabbi of Jerusalem; born at Zamora, Spain, about 1480; died at Jerusalem about 1545. Under King Manuel of Portugal, and when...
Moses Ibn habib JE Palestinian rabbi of the seventeenth century. He was a disciple of Jacob Ḥagiz, one of whose daughters he married. He...
Moses B Shem-Ṭob Ibn habib JE Hebrew grammarian, poet, translator, and philosopher of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Being a native of Lisbon, he...
Elijah Ben Joseph (maestro Manoel) habillo (xabillo) JE Spanish philosopher; lived at Monzon, Aragon, in the second half of the fifteenth century. He was an admirer of the Christian...
Elisha Ben Solomon habillo (chavillo) JE Venetian Talmudist of the eighteenth century; descendant of a prominent Palestinian family. Judah Chavillo is mentioned as...
Simon Ben Judah Ben David habillo JE Rabbi at Hebron in the middle of the seventeenth century; contemporary of Moses Zacuto, who approved his works. Ḥabillo...
Habinenu JE Initial word, also the name, of a prayer containing in abridged form the Eighteen Benedictions (see Shemoneh 'Esreh),...
Ha-boker Or JE ...
Habor JE River flowing through the land of Gozan; the classical "Chaboras." To the banks of this river Tiglath-pileser carried "the...
Hill Of Hachilah JE A hill in the wooded country of the wilderness of Ziph, where David hid himself from Saul (I Sam. xxiii. 19; xxvi. 1, 3).E...
The Son Of Hachmoni JE 1. Jashobeam, one of David's mighty men (I Chron. xi. 11). 2. Jehiel, tutor of David's children (ib. xxvii.32). The...
Sol Hachuel JE Moorish martyr; beheaded at Fez 1834. On account of domestic troubles she fled from her home to some Mohammedan friends. Two...
had Gadya JE An Aramaic song, which is recited at the conclusion of the Seder service, held on the first two evenings of the Passover ("Pesa&#7717...
Hadad JE Name of an Aramaic, and possibly of an Edomitish, deity. It occurs as an element in personal names, for instance, in "Hadadezer...
Hadad JE Name of several Idumean kings, the meaning of which is "a loud noise." It was primitively the name of an Aramean divinity...
Hadadezer JE Son of Rehob, and King of Aram-zobah, who, while he was on his way to establish his dominion on the Euphrates, was defeated...
Hadadrimmon JE ...
Auguste Hadamard JE French painter; born at Metz 1823; died in Paris 1886. A pupil of Paul Delaroche, he established himself at Paris, where,...
ZĖlie Hadamard JE French actress; born at Oran, Algeria, in 1849. The daughter of an army interpreter and professor of Arabic, she wentto Paris...
Hadassah JE Earlier name of Esther, Mordecai's cousin (Esth. ii. 7). The name "Hadassah" occurs here only. It is not given by the...
Judah Ben Elijah Haabel Hadassi JE Karaite scholar, controversialist, and liturgist; flourished at Constantinople in the middle of the twelfth century. Regarding...
Isaac haddad JE Talmudic scholar of Gerba (an island near Tunis), where he died in 1755. He was a pupil of Ẓemaḥ ha-Kohen, and...
Hades JE ...
Hadid JE City mentioned with Lod and Ono (Ezra ii. 33; Neh. vii. 37; xi. 34, 35). From the last-given passage it would seem that Hadid...
Abraham Ben Judah hadida JE Spanish Talmudist of the fifteenth century. He was the author of a commentary (unpublished) to Ecclesiastes, Esther, and the...
hadith JE An Arabic word signifying "narrative" or "communication"; the name given to sayings traced to the prophet Mohammed, or to...
Hadlai JE An Ephraimite; father of Amasa, who was one of the chiefs of his tribe in the time of Pekah (II Chron. xxviii. 12).E. G. H...
Hadoram JE 1. Son of Joktan; progenitor of one of the Arabian tribes (Gen. x. 27; I Chron. i. 21). 2. Son of Tou, King of Hamath; sent...
Hadrach JE Name occurring in Zech. ix. 1. The connection seems to indicate that it was the country in which Damascus was situated, or...
Hadrian JE Roman emperor (117-138). At the very beginning of his reign he was called upon to suppress the final outbreaks of Jewish rebellion...
Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine JE Bacteriologist; born at Odessa, Russia, 1860; graduated from the University of Odessa in 1884 (D.Sc.). He resided for the...
HafṬarah JE That portion of the Prophets read immediately after the reading of the Torah in the morning services on Sabbaths, feast-days...
hafz (ibn Al-birr) Al-kuṬi JE Author of the eleventh century, or earlier; according to Steinschneider, possibly identical with Ḥafz (Ḥefe&#7827...
Hagab JE Family of Nethinim, which returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezra ii. 46). In I Esd. v. 30 the name is given as "Agaba...
Hagabah Hagaba JE Family of Nethinim, which came back from captivity with Zerubbabel (Ezra ii. 45; Neh. vii. 48). In I Esd. v. 29 the name is...
Hagar JE Egyptian handmaid of Sarah, and mother of Ishmael. According to one narrative, Sarah, having no children, requested Abraham...
Hagrim Hagar JE Names used by Jewish medieval writers to designate Hungary and the Hungarians. The expression "Ereẓ Hagar" occurs in...
Hagarites Hagarenes JE A nomadic people dwelling in the east of Palestine, against whom the tribe of Reuben was victorious in the time of Saul, seizing...
Abraham Hagege JE Chief rabbi at Tunis, where he died in 1880. After his death Israel Zeitoun of Tunis and Aaron ben Simon of Jerusalem published...
Hagenau JE Fortified town of Alsace, situated on the Moder, sixteen miles north of Strasburg. Attracted by the numerous privileges granted...
Hagenbach JE Village in Upper Franconia, Bavaria. That an old Jewish colony existed there is proved by "Das Martyrologium des Nürnberger...
Haggadah JE Derived from the verb (ḳal ), "to report," "to explain," "to narrate." The verb sometimes introduces halakic explanations...
Haggadah (shel Pesah) JE Ritual for Passover eve. Ex. xiii. 8, R. V., reads: "And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying, It is because of that...
Haggadah—traditional Music JE See Addir Hu; Cantillation; Ḥad Gadya; Hallel; Ḳiddush; Ki lo Naeh. ...
Haggadists JE ...
Haggai JE Judean prophet of the early post-exilic period; contemporary with Zechariah (Ezra v. 1; III Ezra [I Esd.] vi. 1, vii. 3).(Hilprecht...
Book Of Haggai JE One of the so-called minor prophetical books of the Old Testament. It contains four addresses. The first (i. 2-11), dated...
Haggeri JE Father of Mibhar, one of David's chosen warriors (I Chron. xi. 38 [R. V. "Hagri"]). In the parallel list, II Sam. xxiii...
Haggi JE Second son of Gad and progenitor of the Haggites (Gen. xlvi. 16; Num. xxvi. 15). The name is the same for individual and for...
Haggiah JE Levite of the family of Merari; son of Shimea and father of Asaiah (I Chron. vi. 15 [A. V. 30]). In the Septuagint the name...
Haggites JE Tribal name of the descendants of Haggi, second son of Gad (Num. xxvi. 15); given "Agitæ" in the Vulgate, and 'A&#947...
Haggith JE One of David's wives; known also as the mother of Adonijah (II Sam. iii. 4; I Kings i. 5, 11; ii. 13; I Chron. iii. 2)...
Hagia JE Servant of Solomon (I Esd. v. 34), whose children returned from the Captivity with Zerubbabel. Ezra ii. 57 and Neh. vii. 59...
Hagin Deulacres JE Last presbyter or chief rabbi of England; appointed May 15, 1281. He appears to have been raised to this position by the favor...
Hagin Fil Mossy JE Presbyter or chief rabbi of the Jews of England. He appears to have been the chirographer of the Jews of London, and obtained...
Hagiographa JE The third part of the Old Testament canon, the other two being the Law () and the Prophets (). It includes the three books...
Jacob hagiz JE Palestinian Talmudist; born of a Spanish family at Fez in 1620; died at Constantinople 1674. Ḥagiz's teacher was...
Moses hagiz JE Palestinian rabbi and author; born at Jerusalem in 1671; died at Safed after 1750. His father, Jacob Ḥagiz, died while...
hagiz, Samuel Ben Jacob Ben Samuel, Of Fez JE Father of Jacob Ḥagiz and grand-father of Moses Ḥagiz; according to an epitaph, died in 1634. He edited Solomon...
The Hague JE ...
Hahiroth JE ...
August Hahn JE German theologian and Orientalist; born at Grossosterhausen, Saxony, March 27, 1792; died in Silesia May 13, 1863. He studied...
Joseph Yuspa NÖrdlinger (joseph Ben Phinehas NÖrdlingen) Hahn JE German rabbi; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main in the latter half of the sixteenth century; died there April 3, 1637. He received...
Hai Ben David JE Dayyan, and later gaon in Pumbedita from 890 to 897. He is mentioned in Isaac ibn Ghayyat's "Halakot," in connection with...
Hai Ben Nahshon JE Gaon of Sura (889-896) and president of the school of Nehardea. He was, according to a manuscript in the Vatican Library,...
Hai Ben Sherira JE Gaon of Pumbedita; born in 939; died March 28, 1038. He received his Talmudic education from his father, Sherira, and in early...
Ha-'ibri JE ...
Abraham Ben Simeon Haida JE Printer in Prague between 1612 and 1628; son of Simeon Haida. In 1610, with Moses Uṭiẓ and Gershon Popers, he...
Moses Ben Joseph Haida JE German mathematician; lived at Hamburg in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was a grandson of Samuel Haida, author...
Samuel Haida JE Bohemian cabalistic author; died June 1, 1685, in Prague, where he was dayyan and preacher, and which was probably his native...
Haidamacks JE Russian brigand bands of the eighteenth century. The disorganized condition of Poland during the eighteenth century made it...
Haifa JE Syrian seaport, at the foot of Mount Carmel, and ten kilometers from Acre. Near Haifa are two grottos, one associated with...
Hail JE Frozen rain falling in pellets of various sizes and shapes. The Hebrew words for "hail" are: , the most usual term: (Ezek...
Israel Behor Haim JE Servian author; born at Belgrade, Servia. He left his home in 1813 in consequence of the invasion of the Dahjas, and settled...
Alexander Haindorf JE German physician, writer, and philanthropist; born at Lenhausen, a village in Westphalia, May 12, 1784; died at Hamm Oct....
Hair JE The hair of the ancient Hebrews was generally black (comp. Cant. iv. 1, v. 11). In Eccl. xi. 10 black hair is designated as...
Menahem Manus hajes JE ...
Ẓebi Hirsch B MeÏr hajes JE ...
hakam JE A wise or skilful man. The word is generally used to designate a cultured and learned person: "He who says a wise thing is...
Samuel (samuel Ha-levi Ibn Hakim) hakan JE Egyptian rabbi of the sixteenth century, first at Cairo, subsequently at Jerusalem (Levi ibn Ḥabib, Responsa, Nos. 10...
Ha-karmel JE Hebrew periodical, edited and published by Samuel Joseph Fuenn in Wilna. It was founded in 1860 as a weekly, and was continued...
Ha-kerem JE ...
Hakkafot JE Processional circuits of the congregation in the synagogue on the Feast of Tabernacles, usually around the Almemar, reminiscent...
Hakkoz JE 1. A priest, chief of the seventh course, appointed by David (I Chron. xxiv. 10). In this passage the ח is considered...
hakman Ibn Ishmael JE Egyptian rabbi of the sixteenth century. He wrote novellæ on the Talmud and on Maimonides' "Yad," some of which were...
Ha-kol JE ...
halafta JE Name of several tannaim and amoraim; frequently interchanged with Ḥalfa, Ḥalifa, Ḥilfa, Ḥilfai, Ilfa...
halafta JE Scholar of the first and second centuries (second tannaitic generation), always cited without patronymic or cognomen; his...
halafta Of Huna (huga, Hewah, Hefa) JE Palestinian amora of the third century; senior of R. Johanan. The latter communicates to Ḥalafta's sons a halakah...
Abba halafta (hilfai) B Karuya JE Tanna of the second century, contemporary of Gamaliel II. Gamaliel once visited him at Ḳaruya (Kiryava; see Neubauer...
R halafta Of Kefar Hananiah JE Tanna of the second century; junior of R. Meïr, in whose name he transmits the legal maxim: When the condition is expressed...
halakah JE Noun, derived from the verb , "to go," "to walk." The act of going or walking is expressed by , while the closely related...
Halakot JE The body of religious law which constitutes one of the three main divisions of Jewish oral tradition. Later, the singular...
halalah JE The female issue of a priest's connection with a divorced woman or widow, a connection regarded as illegal. According...
Ignaz HalÁsz (fischer) JE Hungarian philologist; born at Tés in 1855; died at Budapest April 9, 1901. He studied at the gymnasia of Veszprim and...
David Ben Samuel halayo JE Probably a son of the Samuel Ḥalayo of Bersak () who was in correspondence with Simon ben Ẓemaḥ Duran. David...
Halban, Heinrich, Ritter Von JE Austrian statesman; born at Cracow 1846; died at Gastein Aug. 13, 1902. Halban, whose name was originally Blumenstock, studied...
Leo Von Halban JE ...
Halberstadt JE Thirteenth to Sixteenth Century. Town in the Prussian province of Saxony. The earliest documentary evidence of the presence...
Halberstadt, Abraham, Ben Menki JE German Hebraist and Talmudic scholar; died at Halberstadt about 1780. His "Pene Abraham" (unpublished), a treatise on the...
Judah Ben Benjamin Halberstadt JE Rabbinical author of the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Minḥat Yehudah," giving explanations of all passages...
Mordecai Halberstadt JE German rabbi; born at Halberstadt at the beginning of the eighteenth century; died at Düsseldorf about 1770. After studying...
Solomon Joachim Halberstam JE Austrian scholar; born at Cracow Feb. 23, 1832; died at Bielitz March 24, 1900. His father, Isaac Halberstam, was a prominent...
haleb JE ...
Ha-lebanon JE ...
Élie HalÉvy (halfan) JE French Hebrew poet and author; born at Fürth in 1760; died at Paris Nov. 5, 1826; father of Fromenthal and Léon...
Jacques FranÇois Fromenthal Élie HalÉvy JE French composer; born at Paris May 27, 1799; died at Nice March 17, 1862. His family name was "Levi"; his father, Élie...
Joseph HalÉvy JE French Orientalist; born at Adrianople Dec. 15, 1827. While a teacher in Jewish schools, first in his native town and later...
LÉon HalÉvy JE French author and dramatic writer; brother of Jacques François Fromenthal Halévy; born at Paris Jan. 14, 1802; died...
Ludovic HalÉvy JE French dramatist; born in Paris Jan. 1, 1834; a son of Léon Halévy and a nephew of Jacques François Fromenthal...
Half-blood JE ...
Uri Sheraga Phoebus Ben Eliezer Manneles halfan JE Rabbi of Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia, in the first half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work entitled "Dat Esh...
Abba Mari halfon JE Italian astronomer of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In 1492 he was at Naples, where he studied astronomy. &#7716...
Abraham Ben Raphael halfon JE Rabbi of Tripoli, North Africa; died about 1803. He was the author of a work entitled "Ḥayye Abraham," a treatise on...
Elijah Menahem halfon JE Italian Talmudist and physician; son of the astronomer Abba Mari and son-in-law of Kalonymus ben David (Maestro Calo); flourished...
George Edward Halford JE Private in the mounted infantry of the City of London Imperial Volunteers; born 1878; died at Karee, near Bloemfontein, May...
Halhul JE City in the hill country of Judah, mentioned in the list of cities in the inheritance of that tribe (Josh. xv. 58). Halhul...
Hali JE Town on the boundary of Asher, mentioned in Josh. xix. 25 between Helkath and Beten. The Septuagint gives the name as "Aleph...
halilah JE Biblical term denoting "far be it [from me, thee, etc.]." In Talmudic literature it has two distinct meanings, derived from...
haliẒah JE The ceremony of the taking off of a brother-in-law's shoe by the widow of a brother who has died childless, through which...
hallah JE The priest's share of the dough. The Biblical law in the case of ḥallah (Num. xv. 17-21; comp. Neh. x. 38), as in...
Halle-on-the-saale JE University town in the Prussian province of Saxony. Jews settled there soon after the city was founded, in the beginning of...
Aaron Ben Wolf Halle JE Translator and commentator of the Bible; born 1754 at Halle; died at Fürth March 20, 1835; son of Dr. Wolf of F&#252...
Hallel JE The name given in the Talmud and in rabbinical writings to Ps. cxiii.-cxviii. considered as a single composition, which they...
Halleluiah JE A doxological expression signifying "Praise ye the Lord," the sacred name being shortened to its first two letters. Except...
Ely Halperine-kaminsky JE Russian writer; born at Vassilkof April 9, 1858. After having completed his studies at the University of Odessa he went (1880)...
Fernand Halphen JE French composer; born at Paris Feb. 18, 1872; pupil of J. Massenet, G. Fauré, and André Gedalge. In 1895 he won...
Georges-henri Halphen JE French army officer and mathematician; born at Rouen Oct. 30, 1844 died at Versailles May 21, 1889. He studied at the Ecole...
Joseph Haltern JE One of the Meassefim; died in Berlin Sept. 5, 1818 (1817, according to Philippson in "Allg. Zeit. des Jud." ii. 216). He wrote...
halukkah JE An organized collection of funds for distribution among the indigent Jews in the Holy Land, and for the aid of those who,...
Ham JE Second son of Noah (Gen. v. 32); mentioned second in the table of the nations (Gen. x. 6), where his descendants are given...
hama JE Babylonian scholar of the fourth amoraic generation; contemporary of Papa (Ket. 86a), and successor of Naḥman b. Isaac...
hama B Bisa (bisai) JE Amora of the third century, who formed the middle link of a scholarly trio, and who exceeded his predecessor, as his successor...
hama B Hanina JE Palestinian amora of the third century; contemporary of R. Johanan (Shab. 147b). Like his father, Ḥanina b. Ḥama...
Ha-mabdil JE A hymn signed with the acrostic "Isaac ha-Ḳaṭon" (Isaac ben Judah ibn Ghayyat, 1030-89), obviously written for...
Hamadan JE Persian city; 160 miles west-southwest of Teheran. Hamadan is generally identified with the ancient Ecbatana, the Achmetha...
Ha-maggid JE ...
hamai JE Pseudonym of a cabalist belonging, according to Jellinek, to the school of Isaac the Blind. The works which bear this name...
Haman The Agagite JE Son of Hammedatha; chief minister of King Ahasuerus (Esth.iii.1-2). As his name indicates, Haman was a descendant of Agag...
Hamath JE A city and district on the northern frontier of Palestine (Num. xiii. 22, xxxiv. 8; I Kings viii. 65; and elsewhere), situated...
Hamath-zobah JE A place mentioned in II Chron. viii. 3, as having been taken by Solomon. Some conjecture that Hamath-zobah is the same as...
Ha-mazkir JE A bibliographical magazine published by M. Steinschneider, twenty-one volumes of which, covering the years 1858-82, were issued...
C H Hamberger JE Physician in Leipsic; died March 2, 1847, at an advanced age. He translated G. B. de Rossi's "Dizionario Storico degli...
Joseph Hambro JE Aulic councilor to the King of Denmark; born at Copenhagen Nov. 2, 1780; died in London Oct. 3, 1848. He began hiscareer with...
Hambro' Synagogue JE Founded in London by Mordecai Hamburger in 1702, as a protest against the tyranny of Abraham of Hamburg, the parnas of the...
Hamburg JE German city on the right bank of the Elbe, between Sleswick-Holstein and Hanover. The first Jewish settlers were Portuguese...
Jacob Hamburger JE German rabbi and author; born at Loslau, Silesia, Nov. 10, 1826. He received his early education in Ratibor, and then attended...
Jacob Ben Mordecai Wiener Hamburger (hamburg) JE Chief rabbi of Prague; died Nov. 12, 1753. Hamburger was one of the rabbis who in 1725 signed the address to the Polish Jews...
Mordecai Hamburger JE English communal leader; born in Hamburg about 1660; died in London about 1730; founder of the Hambro' Synagogue. He was...
Wolf (abraham Benjamin) Hamburger JE Talmudical scholar and head of the yeshibah in Fürth; born Jan. 26, 1770; died May 15, 1850. He was a contemporary of...
Ha-meassef JE See Meassefim; Periodicals.
Ha-mebasser JE ...
Ha-mehakker JE ...
Ha-meliẒ JE The oldest Hebrew newspaper in Russia. It was foundedby Alexander Zederbaum, in Odessa, in 1860, as a weekly, and was transferred...
Hameln JE Prussian town on the Hamel and Weser. Jews are recorded as present in Hameln as early as 1277. About the middle of the following...
GlÜckel Of (glückel von Hameln) Hameln JE German diarist; born about 1646 in Hamburg; died 1724 at Metz. In 1649, when the German Jews were expelled from Hamburg, Gl&#252...
hameẒ JE ...
Hammath JE One of the fortified cities of Naphtali (Josh. xix. 35). It is probably the same as Hammoth-dor, which was allȯtted to...
Tower Of Hammeah JE Tower near the sheep-gate of Jerusalem (Neh. iii. 1, xii. 39). The rendering of the Greek version, "the tower of the hundred...
Hammedatha JE Father of Haman (Esth. iii. 1, 10; viii. 5; ix. 10, 24). He is generally designated as the "Agagite," being referred to only...
Hammer JE The following designations for "hammer" are found in the Hebrew Bible:1. "Maḳḳabah" ("maḳḳebet"):...
Joseph (nathan Nat'a Hazzan Ben Moses Naphtali Hirsch) Hammerschlag JE Moravian cabalist; lived in the seventeenth century. He was the author of the following: "Or ha-Ganuz," commentary on part...
Oscar Hammerstein JE American theatrical manager; born at Berlin May 8, 1848, where he was educated. In March, 1863, he emigrated to America and...
Hammon JE A place in the territory of Asher, mentioned in Josh. xix. 28, between Rehob and Kanah. It is believed that the ruins now...
Hammurabi JE King of Shinar; perhaps identical with Abraham's contemporary, Amraphel, who is mentioned in Gen. xiv. 9; the sixth king...
Hamnuna I JE Babylonian amora of the third century; senior to Joseph b. Ḥiyya (Ket. 50b; Tosef., Ket. s.v. ). He was a disciple of...
Hamnuna Ii JE Babylonian amora of the third and fourth centuries; in the Babylonian Talmud sometimes referred to as Hamnuna Saba ("the elder")...
Hamnuna Of Babylonia JE Teacher of the Bible; junior of Ḥanina b. Ḥama and senior of Jeremiah b. Abba, both of whom he consulted on an...
Hamnuna ZuṬa JE Babylonian amora of the fourth century; junior and contemporary of Hamnuna II. (hence his cognomen "Zuṭa" ). Hamnuna...
Ha-modia' La-hadashim JE ...
Hamon JE Ancient family, originally from Spain, which settled in Turkey and produced several physicians. The following were among its...
Hamon-gog JE A glen at one time known as "the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea," so named after the burial there of "Gog...
Hamor JE A Hivite prince; father of Shechem, whose defilement of Dinah caused the destruction of a whole city, including his own family...
Hamram JE ...
Hamuel JE The son of Mishma, a descendant of Simeon (I Chron. iv. 26).E. G. H. M. Sel.
Hamul JE The younger son of Pharez, Judah's son by Tamar, and head of the family of the Hamulites (Gen. xlvi. 12; Num. xxvi. 21...
hamul Eliezer MaẒliah B Abraham De Viterbo JE Roman rabbi and physician in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was of a family of rabbis, physicians, and merchants...
Hamutal JE Daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah and mother of Kings Jehoahaz and Zedekiah (II Kings xxiii. 31, xxiv. 18; Jer. lii. 1). In the...
hana (huna) B Bizna JE Babylonian scholar of the third and fourth centuries; judge at Pumbedita, (B. Ḳ. 12a). He especially cultivated the...
hana B Hanilai JE Babylonian scholar and philanthropist of the third century; the junior of Huna I. and Ḥisda (Beẓah 21a, 40a)....
Hanameel JE Son of Shallum and cousin of Jeremiah. The latter purchased a field from him for seventeen shekels of silver in token of his...
Hanameel The Egyptian JE High priest; flourished in the first century B.C. After assuming the government of Palestine, Herod surrounded himself with...
Hanan JE 1. A. Benjamite chief (I Chron. viii. 23). 2. The sixth son of Azel, also a Benjamite, of the family of Saul (ib. viii. 38)...
Haninan) Hanan (hanin JE Scholar of the third amoraic generation (third century). He was probably a Babylonian by birth and a late pupil of Rab, in...
Abba Hanan (hanin) JE Tanna of the second century; younger contemporary of Simon of Shezur, Josiah, and Jonathan (Mek., Mishpaṭim, 8, 12,...
Hanan B Abishalom JE ...
Hanan The Egyptian JE 1. (Hanan b. Abishalom.) One of the police judges at Jerusalem in the last decades of its independence (see Admon b. Gaddai)...
Isaac Hanan JE Turkish rabbi; lived at Salonica about the middle of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work called "Bene Yi&#7827...
Hanan Of Iskiya (asikia) JE Rector of the Talmudical academy at Pumbedita. Hormizd IV. having disgraced the latter years of his reign by cruel persecutions...
Hananeel JE Babylonian scholar of the third century; disciple of Rab (Abba Arika) and colleague of Beruna and Isaac b. Maḥseiah...
Hananeel Ben Amittai JE Spiritual leader of the Jewish community of Oria, Italy, in the ninth century. He is said to have been descended from a Jerusalem...
Hananeel Ibn Askara JE ...
Hananeel Ben Hushiel JE Rabbi of Kairwan; Biblical and Talmudical commentator; born at Kairwan about 990; died, according to Abraham Zacuto ("Yu&#7717...
Hananiah JE 1. A son of Heman the singer, and chief of the sixteenth of the twenty-four musical divisions into which the Levites were...
Hananiah (ahunai) JE Exilarch (761-771?). He was a younger brother of Anan ben David, the founder of Karaism; according to the Karaites, whose...
Hananiah (hanina) JE Palestinian amora of the third and fourth centuries; junior of Ḥiyya b. Abba and Ze'era I. (Yer. Ber. vii. 11b)...
Hananiah (hanina) JE Palestinian scholar of the fourth amoraic generation (fourth century); nephew of R. Hoshaiah, junior of Ze'era I., and...
Hananiah (hanina) JE Tanna of the second century; contemporary of Judah b. Bathyra, Matteya b. Ḥeresh, and Jonathan (Sifre, Deut. 80). Who...
Hananiah (hanina) B 'akabia (akiba) JE Tanna of the second century; contemporary of Judah b. 'Ilai (M. Ḳ. 21a), and probably one of the younger pupils...
Hananiah B 'akashiah JE Tanna whose name became very popular by reason of a single homiletic remark, as follows: "The Holy One—blessed be He!&#8212...
Hananiah (hanina) B Hakinai JE Tanna of the second century; contemporary of Ben 'Azzai and Simon the Temanite (Tosef., Ber. iv. 18; see Ḥalafta)...
Hananiah B Judah JE Tanna of the second century; contemporary of Akiba. His name appears only twice in rabbinic lore: once in connection with...
Hananiah (hanina) Of Ono JE Tanna of the second century. Hananiah is remembered for a feat he accomplished in the interest of traditional law. While Akiba...
Hananiah (hanina) B Teradion JE Teacher and martyr in the third tannaitic generation (second century); contemporary of Eleazar ben PeraṬa I. and of...
Ahub B MeÏr Hanasia JE ...
Hanau JE Town in the province of Hesse-Nassau, Prussia. Jews settled in the territory of the counts of Hanau in the first half of the...
Solomon Ben Judah Hanau JE German grammarian; born at Hanau (whence his surname) in 1687; died at Hanover Sept. 4, 1746. When but twenty-one he published...
Ẓebi Hirsh Ha-levi Ben Haggai Enoch Hanau JE German rabbi; born at Vienna in 1662; died at Gemund, Bavaria, in 1740. He resided for many years at Frankfort-on-the-Main...
Lily Hanbury JE English actress; educated in London, where she is still (1903) residing. Her début was made in 1888 at a revival of W...
Hand JE Traces of the custom of tattooing are found in the expression "to inscribe the hands for some one (Isa. xliv. 5, xlix. 16...
Handicrafts JE Since the article Artisans was written, the preliminary results of an inquiry made during the years 1898-99 by the Jewish...
Handwriting JE ...
Hanes JE City in Egypt (Isa. xxx. 4); identified by Jonathan b. Uzziel and by the modern critics with Tahpanhes or Taphne (see Cheyne...
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hanina I JE ...
hanina (hananiah) Ii JE Amora of the fifth century; contemporary of the Palestinian Mani II., and of Rabina, one of the compilers of the Babylonian...
hanina (hananiah) B Abbahu JE Palestinian amora of the fourth generation, sometimes cited as Ḥanina of Cæsarea (Cant. R. i. 2). The Talmud relates...
hanina (hananiah; Hinena) B Adda (idda) JE Babylonian scholar of the third century. He was skilled in both Halakah and Haggadah; Adda B. Ahabah appears to have beenhis...
hanina B 'agul JE Palestinian scholar of the third century; junior contemporary of Ḥiyya b. Abba and Tanḥum b. Ḥanilai. &#7716...
hanina (hananiah) B Antigonus JE Tanna of priestly descent; contemporary of Akiba and Ishmael (Bek. vii. 5). It is supposed that in his youth he had witnessed...
hanina B Dosa JE Scholar and miracle-worker of the first century; pupil of Johanan b. Zakkai (Ber. 34b). While he is reckoned among the Tannaim...
hanina (hananiah) B Gamaliel Ii JE Tanna of the first and second centuries; witness, and perhaps victim, of the Roman persecutions, when, of thousands of scholars...
hanina B Hama JE Palestinian halakist and haggadist; died about 250; frequently quoted in the Babylonian and the Palestinian Gemara, and in...
hanina B Iddi JE ...
hanina (hinena) B Ika JE Scholar of the fourth century; contemporary with Pappa and Zebia (Ber. 25b; Niddah 52a). That he was a Babylonian by birth...
hanina (hinena) B Isaac JE Palestinian haggadist of the fourth century; contemporary of Samuel b. Ammi, with whom he engaged in an exegetical controversy...
hanina Katoba JE Palestinian scribe or notary, who acquired some familiarity with law. Only one halakah, which he learned from Aḥa, is...
hanina B Pappa JE Palestinian amora, halakist, and haggadist; flourished in the third and fourth centuries; a younger contemporary of Samuel...
hanina (hanin) B Pazzi JE Palestinian haggadist of the third and fourth centuries. His teachings are confined to the midrashic literature. It is suggested...
hanina Of Sepphoris JE ...
hanina (hananiah) Of Shalka JE Palestinian haggadist of the fourth century; a contemporary of Joshua of Siknin. He has left no original haggadot. In the...
hanina Of Sura JE Babylonian scholar of the fifth century; the junior of Mar Zuṭra, who reports to Ashi a halakic objection raised by...
hanina B Teradion JE ...
hanina (hinena) B Torta JE Palestinian scholar of the third century; disciple of Johanan and contemporary of Ammi and Isaac Nappaḥa (Tem. 29a,...
haninai (hanina) Kahana B Abraham JE Principal (gaon) of the academy at Pumbedita (782-786). Nothing is known of his life and labors except that he displeased...
haninai (hanina) Kahana B Huna JE Gaon of Sura (765-775); contemporary of Malka b. Aḥa, principal of the academy at Pumbedita. Ḥaninai was a pupil...
Hannah JE One of the two wives of El-kanah and mother of the prophet Samuel. The first chapter of I Samuel and the first half of the...
Hannathon JE City of Zebulun, apparently on the northern boundary, about midway between the Sea of Galilee and the valley of Jiphthah-el...
Emmanuel Hannaux JE French sculptor; born at Metz in 1855. He began to study at the industrial school at Strasburg, but returned to Metz on the...
Judah LÖb Ben MeÏr hanneles (haneles) JE Rabbinical author of the sixteenth century. He wrote "Wayiggash Yehudah" (Lublin, 1599), a commentary on Jacob ben Asher&#39...
Hanniel JE 1. Son of Ephod; prince of the tribe of Manasseh; appointed by God to assist Joshua in the division of the promised land (Num...
Raphael Hanno JE German writer; born in Hanau 1791; died in Heidelberg 1871. He embraced Christianity and became professor (1824) of Oriental...
Nathan (nata) Ben Moses Hannover JE Russian historian, Talmudist, and cabalist; died, according to Zunz ("Kalender," 5623, p. 18), at Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia...
Raphael Levi Hannover JE Mathematician and astronomer; son of Jacob Joseph; born at Weikersheim, Franconia, 1685; died at Hanover May 17, 1779. He...
Hanoch JE 1. Third son of Midian, the son of Abraham by Keturah (Gen. xxv. 4; I Chron. i. 33). 2. Eldest son of Reuben and founder of...
Hanover JE Capital of the Prussian province of the same name. Jews lived there as early as the first half of the fourteenth century,...
hanukkah JE The Feast of Dedication, also called "Feast of the Maccabees," celebrated during eight days from the twenty-fifth day of Kislew...
hanukkah Trendel JE ...
Hanun JE 1. Son of Nahash, King of Ammon. Having dishonored David's messengers, Hanun involved the Ammonites in a war with David...
Hapax Legomena JE Words or forms of words that occur once only. There are about 1,500 of these in the Old Testament; but only 400 are, strictly...
Haphraim JE City of Issachar, between Shunem and Shihon (Josh. xix. 18, 19). In the "Onomastica Sacra," s.v. "Aphraim," it is spoken of...
Ha-pisgah JE ...
Happiness JE Everywhere in the Old Testament the joyous and harmonious notes of life are accentuated. Life is synonymous with good and...
Hara JE District mentioned in I Chron. v. 26 as one of those to which Tiglath-pileser brought the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half...
Haradah JE One of the stations of the Israelites during their wanderings in the desert (Num. xxxiii. 24, 25).E. G. H. M. Sel. ...
Haran JE Third son of Terah and consequently the youngest brother of Abraham; he was born in Ur of the Chaldees, where he died while...
Haran JE City to which Terah went from Ur of the Chaldees, and where Terah died (Gen. xi. 31, 32). It was situated in Aram-naharaim...
Judah (aryeh) Harari JE Liturgical poet; lived at Montpellier in the second half of the thirteenth century. He is highly praised by Abraham Bedersi...
Hararite JE Epithet applied to some of David's heroes. Owing to the discrepancy which exists generally between the books of Samuel...
Harbonah Harbona JE One of the seven eunuchs who served Ahasuerus and to whom the order was given to bring Queen Vashti before the king (Esth...
Harburg JE City on the Elbe, six miles south of Hamburg, in the Prussian province of Hanover. Jews were not admitted to Harburg until...
Heinrich Harburger JE German jurist; born at Bayreuth, Bavaria, Oct. 2, 1851. He received his education at the gymnasium of his native town and...
Harby JE American family, resident in the southern part of the United States. Solomon Harby: First of the family in North America...
Maximilian Harden JE German author; born at Berlin Oct. 20, 1861. Educated in the German capital, where he still resides, he became well known...
Hermann Von Der Hardt JE German Protestant theologian and philologist; born at Melle, Westphalia, Nov. 15, 1660; died Feb. 28, 1746. He studied at...
Hare JE Animal mentioned in Lev. xi. 6 and Deut. xiv. 7 among the unclean animals, "because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the...
Harfidil JE Name of a Gothic Jew occurring in a Hebrew epitaph found near Parthenit. Chwolson places the inscription in the fifth century...
harif Moses Phinehas Ben Israel JE Polish rabbi and author; died in Lemberg 1722. He was the grandson of Moses Ḥarif the Elder and the father of Israel...
Ẓebi Hirsch harif JE ...
Hariph JE The children of Hariph, to the number of one hundred and twelve, returned from captivity with Zerubbabel (Neh. vii. 24). Hariph...
harith Ibn 'amr JE Yemenite king who embraced Judaism; born about 260; ascended the throne about 320; died about 330. Nothing is known of this...
Judah B Solomon harizi JE ...
Harkavy JE Russo-Jewish family. It originated, according to a tradition current in the family, with Mordecai Jaffe, author of the "Lebushim...
Albert (abraham Yakovlevich) Harkavy JE Russian Orientalist and historian; born at Novogrudok, government of Minsk, Oct. 27, 1839. His father, Jacob Harkavy, was...
Henry Harland JE American author; born at St. Petersburg March, 1861; educated at the College of the City of New York and at Harvard. From...
Harlot JE See Prostitution.
Haro JE City in La Rioja, in the diocese of Calahorra, Spain. In the fifteenth century it contained a Jewish community, the members...
Harod JE Name of a well beside which Gideon and his army encamped on the morning of the day which ended in the rout of the Midianites...
Harosheth (harosheth Of The Gentiles) JE City supposed to have stood near Hazor, in the northern part of Canaan, afterward known as Upper Galilee, or Galilee of the...
Harp And Lyre JE The ancient Hebrews had two stringed instruments, the "kinnor" () and the "nebel" (). In the English versions of the Old Testament...
Sir Augustus Glossop Harris JE English actor, playwright, and theatrical manager; born in Paris 1852; died at Folkestone, England, June 22, 1896. Harris...
David Harris JE English soldier and mine-director; born in London 1852. He arrived at the Kimberley diamond fields about 1873, and in dealing...
Mark Harris JE English surveyor and soldier; born March 15, 1869; killed in action in Bechuanaland April 6, 1897. He was a son of Ephraim...
Maurice Henry Harris JE American rabbi; born Nov. 9, 1859, in London, England; educated in London and at Columbia College, New York city, graduating...
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Daniel Harrwitz JE German chess master; born 1823 in Breslau, Silesia; died Jan. 9, 1884, at Botzen, Tyrol; received most of his chess-training...
Abraham Al- Harselani JE Karaite scholar; flourished in Babylonia in the tenth century. He is cited in Al-Hiti's chronicle as having disputed with...
Harsith JE One of the gates of Jerusalem, mentioned in Jer. xix. 2 (R. V.); it led into the Valley of Hinnom. The meaning of the name...
Hart JE One of the clean animals enumerated in Deut. xiv. 5 (comp. xii. 15, 22; xv. 22), and among those provided for the table of...
Hart JE Several families of this name, of Anglo-Jewish origin, settled early in the English possessions in America, including Canada...
Aaron Hart JE First chief rabbi of the Ashkenazic Jews in England; born at Breslau in 1670; died in the year 1756. After studying at a yeshibah...
Emanuel B Hart JE American congress-man; born in New York Oct. 29, 1809; died Aug. 29, 1897. When twenty years old he joined the volunteer fire...
Ernest Abraham Hart JE English physician and editor; born in London 1836; died there Jan. 7, 1898. He was educated at the City of London School and...
Henry John Hart JE Australian magistrate; born in New York May 7, 1820; died 1884. Educated at Columbia College, New York, he was destined for...
Sir Israel Hart JE Ex-mayor of Leicester, England; born 1835. Chairman of the Hart and Levy Company, wholesale clothing manufacturers, he has...
Moses Hart JE Founder of Duke's Place Synagogue, London; born in Breslau; died in London 1756; brother of Rabbi Uri Phoebus (Aaron Hart)...
Solomon Alexander Hart JE Artist, and librarian at the Royal Academy, London; born at Plymouth April, 1806; died in London June 11, 1881. In 1823 he...
Hartford JE ...
Anton Theodor Hartmann JE German author; born at Düsseldorf June 25, 1774; died at Rostock April 20, 1838. At Göttingen, Eichhorn led him...
Moritz Hartmann JE Austrian poet; born at Przibram, Bohemia, Oct., 1821; died at Oberdöbling, near Vienna, May 13, 1872. He was educated...
CÉcile Hartog JE English composer and pianist; born in London. She studied music under C. K. Salaman, and afterward at the Royal Academy of...
Edouard De Hartog JE Dutch composer; born in Amsterdam Aug. 15, 1826; studied under Bartelmann, Döhler, Mme. Dulcken, and Hoch; subsequently...
Levi De Hartog JE Dutch jurist; born at Gorinchem (Gorkum), Holland, Nov. 6, 1835; studied law and (under Professor Dozy) Oriental languages...
Marion Hartog JE English writer; born at Portsea on Oct. 22, 1821; fifth daughter of Joseph Moss. She was educated by her parents, and at an...
Numa Edward Hartog JE First Jewish senior wrangler; born in London May 20, 1846; died June 19, 1871. At Pinches' Commercial School and afterward...
Philip Joseph Hartog JE English chemist and educationist; born in London March 2, 1864; educated at University College School, at Owens College, Manchester...
Abraham Frans Karel Hartogh JE Dutch jurist and deputy; born at Amsterdam Dec. 29, 1844; died at The Hague Feb. 13, 1901; LL.D. Leyden 1869. Hartogh settled...
Anton Hartvigson JE Danish pianist; born at Aarhus, Jutland, Oct. 16, 1845; brother of Frits Hartvigson. He studied under Neupert and Tausig....
Frits Hartvigson JE Danish pianist; born at Grenaae, Jutland, May 31, 1841. His first instructors in piano were his mother and Anton Rée...
Harvest JE The Palestinian harvest began in April with the cutting (hence "ḳaẓir") of the barley. The lentil and pea ripened...
hasa JE Babylonian amora of the third century, contemporary of Naḥman (b. Jacob) and of Ammi (B. M. 57a). Though he was a poor...
hasan Ben Mashiah JE Karaite teacher of the ninth or tenth century. According to Sahl ben Maẓliaḥ (see Pinsker, "Liḳḳu&#7789...
hasdai I JE Third exilarch of the Arabian period; died in 730. He was a descendant of Bostanai I. and a successor of Ḥanina b. Adai...
Abraham Ben Samuel Halevi hasdai JE Hebrew translator; lived in Barcelona about 1230. He is supposed to have been the son of the poet Samuel ibn Abraham ibn &#7716...
Abu Al-faḌl Ben Joseph Ibn hasdai (hisdai) JE Jewish convert to Islam; lived at Saragossa in the second half of the eleventh century. Ibn Abi 'Uṣaibia ("&#39...
Abu Omar Joseph Ibn hasdai JE Judæo-Spanish poet of the eleventh century; probably born at Cordova; died between 1045 and 1055. Ibn Janaḥ, in...
Abu Yusuf (ben Isaac Ben Ezra) Ibn Shaprut hasdai JE Spanish physician, diplomat, and patron of Jewish science; born about 915 at Jaen; died 970 or 990 at Cordova. His father...
hasdai Ben Samuel Ben Perahyah Ha-kohen JE Turkish rabbi; born at Salonica; died there Sept., 1677; claimed descent from Joseph ben Gorion. He was a son of the learned...
hasdai Ben Solomon JE Spanish rabbi; born probably in Tudela. He was a pupil of R. Nissim Gerondi in Barcelona. His friend (and probably fellow...
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Hashabiah JE Name of several Levites, chiefly in the time of the return from Babylon. The most important are: 1. The fourth son of Jeduthun...
Ha-shahar JE Hebrew monthly; published at Vienna from 1869 to 1884 by P. Smolenskin, who was also its editor. It resembled the German "Monatsschrift...
Ha-shiloah JE ...
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Hashmonah JE Thirtieth station of the Israelites during their wandering in the wilderness (Num. xxxiii. 29, 30). It was situated not far...
Hashub JE 1. Son of Pahath-moab, who assisted Nehemiah in the repair of the walls of Jerusalem (Neh. iii. 11). 2. Another Hashub, engaged...
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Hashum JE 1. Chief of a family the members of which, two hundred and twenty-three in number, returned from captivity with Zerubbabel...
HasidÆans JE Religious party which commenced to play an important rôle in political life only during the time of the Maccabean wars...
Hasidism hasidim JE Ḥasidism is a religious movement which arose among the Polish Jews in the eighteenth century, and which won over nearly...
Haskalah JE Generally, "haskalah" indicates the beginning of the movement among the Jews about the end of the eighteenth century in Eastern...
Hasmoneans JE The family name of the Hasmonean dynasty originates with the ancestor of the house, ΑΣαμων&#945...
Joseph Ibn hason JE Talmudist; author of a work entitled "Sefer Bet ha-Melek," containing a commentary on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah; responsa...
Solomon Ben Aaron hason JE Turkish rabbi of the sixteenth century. Of his works the following are known: "Bet Shelomoh," responsa, at the end of which...
Hassenaah JE The sons of Hassenaah rebuilt the fish-gate in the wall of Jerusalem (Neh. iii. 3). The name occurs twice (Ezra ii. 35 and...
Simon Hassler JE American musician; born in Bavaria July 25, 1832; died in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 25, 1901; son of Henry Hassler, also a musician...
Marcus Hast JE London cantor and composer; born at Warsaw in 1840. In 1864 he went to Germany to study music, and on his arrival at Breslau...
Hat JE ...
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hatan Torah JE ...
Hathach JE One of the eunuchs in the palace of Ahasuerus (Xerxes), in immediate attendance on Esther, who employed him in her communications...
Ha-tor JE ...
Hatra'ah JE Caution or warning given to those who are about to commit a crime. The Rabbis consider the fact that not all men are lawyers...
Hatred JE Feeling of bitter hostility and antagonism toward others. It is intrinsically wrong when the good is hated, but it is proper...
Ignaz Hatsek JE Hungarian chartographer and engraver; born April 7, 1828, at Olmütz. He was educated in the public and the Jewish schools...
Hattarat Hora'ah JE A rabbinical diploma; a written certificate given to one who, after a thorough examination, proves himself competent and worthy...
Hattush JE 1. Son of Shemaiah, a descendant of the kings of Judah, in the fifth generation from Zerubbabel (I Chron. iii. 22). He returned...
Hauran JE A region east of the Jordan and north of Gilead, reaching east to the desert. It is mentioned in Ezek. xlvii. 16, 18, in connection...
Moses Ben Asher Anshel Hausen JE Danish Talmudic scholar: born at Copenhagen 1752; died June 28, 1782. He wrote a work entitled "Ḳaran Or Pene Mosheh...
Carl Frankl Hauser JE American humorist and writer; born Dec. 27, 1847, at Janoshaza, Hungary; received a rudimentary secular and Talmudic education...
Miska (michael) Hauser JE Hungarian violin virtuoso; born at Presburg, Hungary, 1822; died at Vienna Dec. 8, 1887; pupil of Joseph Matalay, and later...
Philipp Hauser JE Hungarian physician, and writer on medical topics; born at Nádas, Hungary, April 2, 1832. For several years he attended...
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David Haussmann JE German physician; born at Ratibor, Silesia, July 22, 1839; died at Berlin May 26, 1903. He received his education in the Jewish...
Adolf Havas JE Hungarian dermatologist; born in Szt. Gál, Hungary, Feb. 14, 1854; studied in Veszprim, Budapest, and Vienna, taking...
Havilah JE Name of a district, or districts, in Arabia. According to I Sam. xv. 7, Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah to Shur (the...
Simon Ben Judah havilio JE ...
Havoth-jair JE Certain villages or towns on the east of the Jordan in Bashan and in Gilead, named after their conquerors. 1. The towns of...
Havre JE French seaport, on the estuary of the Seine. It has a population of 118,478, of whom about 50 are Jews (1903). In 1850 a dozen...
Hawaiian Islands JE Group of twelve islands in the North Pacific Ocean, eight of which are inhabited. They have a population of 154,000 (1902)...
Hawk JE The rendering of given by the English versions; it is enumerated among the unclean birds in Lev. xi. 16; Deut. xiv. 15. The...
Hawkers And Pedlers JE In primitive countries trading was monopolized by traveling merchants. Palestine, an agricultural country, knew the traders...
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Armand-lazare Hayem JE French author; born in Paris July 24, 1845; died there 1889; son of Simon Hayem. Hayem forsook commerce for literature and...
Charles Hayem JE French collector and art patron; born in Paris in 1839; died there May 13, 1902; eldest son of Simon Hayem. His wife was the...
Georges Hayem JE French physician; born in Paris Nov. 25, 1841; son of Simon Hayem. He became doctor of medicine in 1868, and later "agr&#233...
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Hays JE Family which emigrated from Holland in the first quarter of the eighteenth century and settled in and near New York city....
Judah Ben Jacob hayyaṬ JE Spanish cabalist; lived in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Himself one of the exiles from Spain, he describes in vivid...
hayyim JE A common prænomen among the Jews, especially during the Middle Ages. In its Latin form it occurs on the Hebrew mosaic...
hayyim JE ...
Aaron Ibn hayyim JE Rabbi at Hebron, later at Smyrna; grandson of Aaron ben Abraham ibn Ḥayyim, author of the "Ḳorban Aharon." He...
Abigdor hayyim JE Talmudist; lived in the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Peri 'Eẓ Ḥayyim" (Amsterdam, 1742), containing...
Abraham hayyim JE ...
hayyim Abraham Ben Aryeh LÖb JE Russian preacher; lived at Moghilef in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He wrote: "Milḥamah be-Shalom," the...
Abraham Israel hayyim JE ...
Abraham Ben Judah Ibn hayyim JE Spanish scholar and scribe of the thirteenth century. He wrote a Spanish treatise on the preparation of gold-foil and colors...
hayyim Ben Bezaleel JE German Talmudist; died at Friedberg on the Shabu'ot festival, 1588. He was the eldest of the four sons of Bezaleel ben...
hayyim Cohen JE ...
hayyim B Elijah JE ...
Elijah Ibn hayyim JE Rabbi of Constantinople, perhaps the immediate successor of Elijah. Mizraḥi; born about 1532; died in the beginning...
hayyim Of Falaise (hayyim Paltiel?) JE French Biblical commentator of the thirteenth century; grandson of the tosafist Samuel of Falaise (Sir Morel). An anonymous...
hayyim Garmon JE ...
hayyim Of Hameln JE ...
hayyim B Hananeel Ha-kohen JE French tosafist of the second half of the twelfth century. He was a pupil of R. Jacob b. Meïr (Tam), with whom he discussed...
hayyim Ben Isaac Reizes JE Head of the yeshibah at Lemberg; born 1687; martyred May 13, 1728. Ḥayyim and his brother Joshua were thrown into prison...
hayyim Ben Isaac Of Volozhin (hayyim Volozhiner) JE Russian rabbi and educator; born at Volozhin, government of Wilna, Jan. 21, 1749; died there June 14, 1821. Both he and his...
hayyim Ben Israel JE Spanish philosopher and author; lived in Toledo about 1272-77; a descendant of the Israeli family and a relative of Isaac...
hayyim Jacob Ben Jacob David JE Rabbi of Smyrna; lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. According to Michael, he was born at Smyrna and was a...
hayyim Jacob Ben Judah LÖb Slutzki JE Russian rabbinical scholar; lived in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was the author of "Niṭe'e Na&#39...
hayyim Ben Jehiel HefeẒ Zahab JE Talmudist of the fourteenth century; died 1314. He was a brother of Asher ben Jehiel (Rosh). He was educated by his father...
hayyim B Joseph JE ...
hayyim Ha-kohen JE German rabbi; born at Prague at the end of the sixteenth century; died at Posen about the middle of the seventeenth century...
hayyim Ha-levi JE Physician, and chief rabbi of the united congregations in the archbishopric of Toledo. As the chief rabbi, Zulaimah Alfahan...
hayyim Lisker JE ...
hayyim Mal'ak JE Polish Shabbethaian agitator; lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. According to Jacob Emden ("Torat ha-&#7730...
hayyim Marini JE ...
hayyim Ben Menahem Of Glogau JE German scholar; lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He wrote a work entitled "Mar'eh ha-Ketab bi-Leshon...
hayyim B Moses 'aṬṬar JE Italian rabbi; born at Sale, near Brescia, Italy, 1696; died in Jerusalem 1743. He was educated under the care of his grandfather...
hayyim Ibn Musa JE ...
hayyim Ben Nathan JE German scholar of the seventeenth century. He translated into Judæo-German the historical portions of the Bible. In the...
hayyim (joshua), Pheibel Ben Israel, Of Tarnigrod JE Geographer of the eighteenth century. He wrote a geography of Palestine, in Hebrew, entitled "Ḳaẓwe Are&#7827...
hayyim B Samuel B David Of Toledo JE Spanish rabbi and author; lived at the end of the thirteenth century and at the beginning of the fourteenth. He was a pupil...
hayyim Samuel Falk JE ...
hayyim B Samuel Ha-kohen JE ...
hayyim Shabbethai JE Rabbi of Salonica; born about 1556; died 1647. After studying in the yeshibah of Salonica under Aaron Sason, Ḥayyim...
hayyim B Solomon JE Russo-Polish preacher; born at Wilna; died there Dec., 1804 (1794?), at an advanced age. His father, R. Solomon b. &#7716...
hayyim Ben Solomon Of Moghilef JE Rabbi and cabalist; died at Jerusalem in 1813. He was one of the Ḥasidic followers of Israel Ba'al Shem, and after...
hayyim Ben Tobiah JE Russian rabbi; lived in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was among the pupils of Elijah of Wilna, and settled in...
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hayyim Zanger JE ...
hayyim B Ẓebi Hirsch JE ...
hayyim Ben Zebulon Jacob Perlmutter JE Rabbi of Ostropol, Russia, in the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Elef Omer," a collection of sayings beginning...
Gedaliah hayyon JE Turkish rabbi: pupil of Alfandari the Younger (see Azulai, "Shem ha-Gedolim," and Grätz, "Gesch." x. 360); born at Constantinople...
Moses B Aaron hayyon JE Rabbi of Jerusalem, later of Safed; flourished at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century....
Judah B David (abu Zakariyya Yaḥya ibn Daud) hayyuj JE Spanish-Hebrew grammarian; born in Fez, Morocco, about 950. At an early age he went to Cordova, where he seems to have remained...
Aaron Ben David hayyun JE Cabalist; lived at Jerusalem in the seventeenth century. He, together with David Yiẓḥaḳi and Jacob Molko...
Abraham Ben Nissim hayyun JE Portuguese scholar; father of Don Joseph Ḥayyun, rabbi of Lisbon; lived in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He...
Nehemiah Hiyya Ben Moses hayyun JE Bosnian cabalist; born about 1650; died about 1730. His parents, of Sephardic descent, lived in Sarajevo, Bosnia, where probably...
Isaac Ben Jacob hayyut JE Polish rabbi; died at Skala, near Lemberg, Sept., 1726. He was descended from an old Provençal family which first settled...
hayyut, Menahem (manesh, Manus, Manish, Mannusch) B Isaac JE Polish rabbi; died at Wilna about May, 1636. He was the son of R. Isaac b. Abraham Ḥayyut, a descendant of a pious Proven&#231...
Hazael JE The most powerful of the kings of Damascus, and a ruler of general historical as well as of Biblical importance. While Ahab...
Jacob Raphael Hezekiah hazak JE Italian rabbi of the eighteenth century; born 1689; died at Padua 1782 (Ab 16). He was a pupil of Mordecai Basan of Verona...
hazakah JE The term has various meanings in the Talmud; the one most cognate to the original meaning of the Hebrew root is that of "taking...
Hazar-enan JE Place on the boundary of Palestine, apparently to the northeast, between Zephron and Shepham, not far from the district of...
Hazar-shual JE Town in the south of Judah (Josh. xv. 28; Neh. xi. 27), between Beth-palet and Beer-sheba, afterward included in the territory...
Hazar-susah JE City in the extreme south of Judah, allotted to Simeon (Josh. xix. 5). In the parallel passage I Chron. iv. 31, the reading...
Hazarmaveth JE Third son of Joktan, of the family of Shem (Gen. x. 26; I Chron. i. 20). The name is preserved in the modern Hadramaut, a...
Hazazon-tamar JE Dwelling-place of the Amorites when the four kings made their invasion and fought with the five kings (Gen. xiv. 7 [A. V....
Ha-Ẓebi JE Hebrew weekly, published at Jerusalem, beginning in 1876, by Eliezer Benjudah. At the end of 1899 he began to publish a supplement...
Ha-Ẓefirah JE Hebrew newspaper; founded by Ḥayyim Selig Slonimski at Warsaw Jan. 25, 1862. In 1863 it was suspended on account of...
Hazeroth JE A station of the Israelites in the desert (Num. xi. 35, xii. 16, xxxiii. 17; Deut. i. 1). It was at Hazeroth that Miriam,...
Hazkarat Neshamot JE Memorial service, held, according to the German ritual, after the readings of the Law and the Prophets in the morning service...
Abraham Ben Hezekiah hazkuni JE Galician Talmudist and cabalist; born at Cracow in 1627; died at Tripoli, Syria. He was a disciple of Yom-Ṭob Lipman...
Hezekiah hazkuni JE ...
Hazor JE Fortified city between Ramah and Kadesh, on the high ground overlooking Lake Merom. It was the seat of Jabin, a powerful Canaanitish...
haẒot JE See Midnight.
hazzan JE Communal official. The word is probably borrowed from the Assyrian "ḥazanu," "ḥazannu" (overseer, director; see...
Hazan hazzan JE An Oriental rabbinical family, probably of Spanish origin, members of which are found in Spain, and in Smyrna, Alexandria...
Abraham Ben Judah hazzan JE Cantor at Kremenetz, Volhynia, in the sixteenth century. In 1595, after recovering from a terrible malady which ended in a...
Eleazar Ha- hazzan JE Precentor; lived in Speyer toward the end of the eleventh century. He was the teacher of Samuel the Pious, and perhaps identical...
hazzanut JE Originally, as in the Siddur of Saadia Gaon, the term was applied to the piyyuṭim which it was the function of the official...
He JE Fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet; on its form see Alphabet. It is a guttural, pronounced as the English "h," standing midway...
Covering Of Head JE ...
Head-dress JE Covering or ornament for the head. Very little information is obtainable as to the adornment and covering for the head in...
Health Laws JE The preservation of physical well-being is looked upon in Judaism as a religious command. "And live through them, but not...
Hearsay Evidence JE ...
Heart JE The seat of the emotional and intellectual life. "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life"...
Heathen JE ...
Heathenism JE ...
Heave-offering JE Present made to the Tabernacle or Temple for the use of the priests. (from , "to lift," that is, to set apart for a special...
Heaven JE Chiefly, the upper part of the universe in contradistinction to the earth (Gen. i. 1); the region in which sun, moon, and...
Heber JE 1. Grandson of Asher and founder of the family of the Heberites (Gen. xlvi. 17; Num. xxvi. 45). 2. Heber the Kenite, husband...
hebra Kaddisha JE Name for a charitable society which cares for the sick, especially for the dying, and buries the dead. The name "ḥebra...
hebrah Se'udah JE ...
Christian Hebraists JE The work of Christian scholars in the field of Hebrew literature demands special treatment, not only as part of the history...
Hebrew JE The expression "Hebrews" is used as a name for Israelites in contrast with Egyptians, or by Egyptians for Israelites, in both...
The Hebrew JE Jewish weekly; established in San Francisco, Cal., in 1863, by Philo Jacoby, a son of Isaac Jacoby, rabbi of Lauenburg, Pomerania...
Hebrew Education Society Of Philadelphia JE Organized July 16, 1848, largely through the efforts of Isaac Leeser; one of the oldest societies of its kind in the United...
The Hebrew Globe JE ...
Hebrew Grammar JE ...
Hebrew Institute JE ...
Hebrew Intelligencer JE ...
The Hebrew Journal JE ...
Hebrew Language JE The designation "Hebrew language" for the language in which are written the Old Testament (with the exception of Ezra iv....
The Hebrew Leader JE Weekly newspaper; published in New York city by Jonas Bondy, who edited it. The first number was issued in May, 1850, and...
Hebrew Literature JE ...
The Hebrew National JE ...
The Hebrew Observer JE Periodical; published in London by Abraham Benisch. The first and only number appeared Jan. 7, 1853.G. A. M. F. ...
The Hebrew Review JE Literary magazine; published at Cincinnati, Ohio, during the years 1881 and 1892 (2 vols.) by the Rabbinical Literary Association...
The Hebrew Review And Magazine Of Rabbinical Literature JE Journal; published in London by Morris Jacob Raphail from Oct. 3, 1834, to and including Sept., 1835 (2 vols.). The object...
Hebrew Sabbath-school Union Of America JE Organized at Cincinnati, Ohio, July, 1886. "to provide a uniform system for all Hebrew Sabbath-schools in the United States...
The Hebrew Standard JE Weekly; founded in New York city by J. P. Solomon on Sept. 23, 1881. Solomon has been its sole editor and proprietor. The...
Hebrew Union College JE A rabbinical college founded by Dr. Isaac M. Wise at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1875. In 1854 Dr. Wise had made an attempt to establish...
Hebrew Union College Journal JE Monthly magazine, edited and published by students of Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio, in the interests of that institution...
Epistle To Hebrews JE ...
Hebron JE A city of Asher, properly "Ebron"; called also Abdon.2. Town in Palestine, about 17 miles southwest of Jerusalem; it has a...
Hechim JE ...
Hechingen JE ...
Hecht JE Family, resident at Boston, Mass. Jacob H. Hecht: Born at Heinstadt, Germany, March 15, 1834; died Feb. 24, 1903. He went...
Emanuel Hecht JE German educationist; born 1821 in Nordheim, Bavaria; died Feb. 25, 1862, in Hoppstädten, Birkenfeld-Oldenburg. On graduating...
Ferdinand Heckscher JE German act-or; born at Berlin 1806; died at Sondershausen Feb. 28, 1891. Heckscher, who had a fine bass voice, began his theatrical...
Samuel Ben MeÏr Heckscher JE German scholar; lived at Altona in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; author of a work entitled "Ḳinah 'al...
heder JE Colloquial name for a Jewish old-fashioned elementary school. The Talmudical expression "tinnoḳot shel bet rabban" (children...
HedyoṬ JE Term used in Mishnah, Talmud, and Midrash to designate a private person, a commoner, not belonging to the class of kings,...
hefeẒ JE ...
hefeẒ B YaẒliah JE Halakist; lived toward the end of the tenth century. Rapoport assumes him to have beena Palestinian, but it is more probable...
Hefker JE Ownerless property, rendered so either by the formal renunciation of the owner, or by an act of the court (Giṭ. 36b)...
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel JE German philosopher; born at Stuttgart 1770; died at Berlin 1831. After studying at theUniversity of Tübingen he became...
Hegesippus JE One of the earliest writers of the Christian Church; lived at Rome, whither he had gone about 150 from Palestine or Syria...
He-haluẒ JE Hebrew magazine or year-book which appeared irregularly between 1852 and 1889. Its German title, "Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen...
Heidelberg JE University town in the grand duchy of Baden, Germany; it has a population of 40,240, including 882 Jews. The community there...
Philip Heidenheim JE German rabbi and teacher; born at Bleicherode June 14, 1814. In 1834 he was called as teacher to Sondershausen, where he worked...
Wolf (benjamin) Ben Samson Heidenheim JE German exegete and grammarian; born at Heidenheim in 1757; died at Rödelheim Feb. 23, 1832. At an early age Heidenheim...
Heidingsfeld JE Bavarian city, on the Main, near Würzburg. It has a population of 4,154, including 100 Jews (1903). That it contained...
Red Heifer JE ...
David Heilbron JE Dutch physician; born at The Hague July 4, 1762; died at Amsterdam 1847. He was educated at the University of Leyden, graduating...
Heilbronn JE Town of Württemberg in the district of the Neckar. There was an important community there in 1298, when Rindfleisch and...
Abraham Ben Moses Ashkenazi Heilbronn (heilprin) JE Chief rabbi of Lemberg; born in 1578; died Jan. 2, 1649. His father was related to R. Solomon Edels. Abraham Heilbronn wrote:...
Jacob Ben Elhanan Heilbronn JE German rabbi and mathematician; flourished in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. After occupying various rabbinates...
Joseph Ben Elhanan Heilbronn JE German Hebrew scholar; lived at Posen in the sixteenth century. Nepi-Ghirondi's "Toledot Gedole Yisrael" (p. 203) mentions...
Abraham Ben Judah Heilbut JE German Talmudist; lived at Altona in the middle of the eighteenth century. In July, 1751, he wrote there "Binah Rabbah," a...
Ferdinand Heilbuth JE French painter; born at Hamburg in 1826; died Nov. 19, 1889, at Paris, where he had been naturalized ten years previously...
Heilprin JE Besides the numerous Heilbrons, Heilbronners, Heilpruns, and Heilbruns who are known to have lived between the middle of the...
Abraham Ben Moses Heilprin JE ...
Angelo Heilprin JE American naturalist, geologist, and traveler; son of Michael Heilprin; born March 31, 1853, at Sátoralja-Ujhely, Hungary...
Eliezer B Mordecai Heilprin JE Polish rabbi; born probably in Yaroslav, Galicia, in 1648; died at Fürth in 1700. He was rabbi successively in Gross...
Jehiel Ben Solomon Heilprin JE Lithuanian rabbi, cabalist, and chronicler; born about 1660; died at Minsk about 1746. He was a descendant of Solomon Luria...
Joel Ben Isaac Heilprin JE Polish Ḥasidic rabbi; lived at Ostrog in the middle of the seventeenth century. He was known as "Ba'al Shem I.,"...
Joel Ben Uri Heilprin JE Galician thaumaturge; lived at Satanow in the first half of the eighteenth century. Possessed of a fair knowledge of medicine...
Louis Heilprin JE American encyclopedist; son of Michael Heilprin; born in Miskolcz, Hungary, July 2, 1851. He emigrated with his parents to...
Michael Heilprin JE Polish-American scholar, author, and philanthropist; born in Piotrkow, Russian Poland, Feb. 23, 1823; died in Summit, N. J...
Phinehas Mendel Heilprin JE Polish Hebraist; born in Lublin Nov., 1801; died in Washington, D.C., Jan. 30, 1863. Trained in the study of the Talmud and...
Michael Heim JE Austrian jurist; born Aug. 18, 1852, at Jakosič, Slavonia. He studied law at the University of Vienna (1871-75), and...
Heine JE The family made illustrious by the poet can be traced back on the father's side to one Isaac Heine (Hehne), who lived...
Ephraim Veitel Heine JE ...
Heine, Gustav, Freiherr Von Geldern JE Austrian publicist; born June 18, 1812, at Düsseldorf; died Nov. 15, 1886, at Vienna; brother of Heinrich Heine. On completing...
Heinrich Heine JE German lyric poet and essayist; born at Düsseldorf Dec. 13, 1797; died in Paris Feb. 17, 1856; son of Samson Heine and...
Maximilian Heine JE German physician; youngest brother of Heinrich Heine; born at Düsseldorf (1805 according to Embden; Strodtmann gives...
Solomon Heine JE German merchant and philanthropist; born in Hanover 1767; died in Hamburg Dec. 26, 1844. Going to Hamburg when he was sixteen...
Klara (madame Stöckl) Heinefetter JE German singer; born at Mayence Feb. 17, 1816; died at Vienna Feb. 24, 1857. In 1829 she accompanied her eldest sister, Sabine...
Sabine Heinefetter JE German soprano opera-singer; born Aug. 19, 1809, at Mayence; died insane Feb. 18, 1872, at Illenau, Baden. Beginning life...
Heinrich Heinemann JE German actor; born at Bischofsburg, East Prussia, Sept. 15, 1842. After graduating from the Friedrich-Wilhelm gymnasium, Berlin...
Jeremiah Heinemann JE German author; born at Sandersleben July 20, 1778; died in Berlin Oct. 16, 1855; son of Rabbi Joachim Heinemann. In 1808 he...
Heir JE ...
Moritz Heitler JE Austrian physician; born at Korompa, Hungary, March 21, 1847. He was educated at the gymnasia at Hódmezö-V&#225...
Hekal JE ...
Hekal Ha-'ibriyyah JE ...
Hekalot Rabbati; Hekalot ZuṬarti JE Two mystic writings attributed to Ishmael ben Elisha; indiscriminately referred to by the various names of "Sefer Hekalot...
Hekdesh JE Hebrew name for an asylum or a hospital; found in many medieval Jewish documents (see Charity; Jew. Encyc. v. 71, s.v. Egypt...
Ephraim Ben Samuel Sanvel Hekscher JE President of the Jewish congregation at Altona at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He was the author of: "Dibre &#7716...
Hela JE ...
Helam JE A place east of the Jordan where the Syrians under Hadarezer were defeated by David (II Sam. x. 16, 17). The Vulgate, following...
helbo JE Amora who flourished about the end of the third century, and who is frequently mentioned in both Talmuds. It seems that &#7716...
Anna Held JE French comedienne; born Sept. 19, 1880, in Paris; educated at Fontainebleau. Her début was made in "Miss Helyett" at...
Heldai JE 1. Captain of the service of the Temple for the twelfth month in the time of David; a native of Netophah and a descendant...
Helena JE Queen of Adiabene, wife of Monobaz I., and mother of Monobaz II.; died about 56 C.E. Her name and the fact that she was her...
Helez JE 1. One of David's thirty guards, and captain for the seventh month of the service of the Temple; an Ephraimite (II Sam...
Helicon JE Court fool, and a favorite of the Roman emperor Caligula (37-41); an Egyptian by birth. He appears to have been especially...
Abraham Ben Jacob Moses Helin JE German rabbi; lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Helin was on his father's side a great-grandson of Solomon...
Jacob Moses Ben Abraham Ashkenazi Helin JE Polish Talmudist; born about 1625; died about 1700. He studied at Lublin under R. Naphtali ha-Kohen and R. Heshel, and was...
Heliodorus JE Treasurer or, according to II Macc. iii.7, R. V., chancellor of Seleucus IV., Philopator. At the instigation of Apollonius...
Heliopolis (on) JE Egyptian city, whence came Poti-pherah, Joseph's father-in-law (Gen. xli. 45, 50; xlvi. 20). It is mentioned also in Ezek...
Helkath Hazzurim JE Name of the place where the combat between Joab's and Abner's men took place, in which all on both sides were slain...
Helkias JE ...
Hell JE ...
Hellenism JE Word used to express the assimilation, especially by the Jews, of Greek speech, manners, and culture, from the fourth century...
Isidor Heller JE Austrian author; born May 5, 1816, at Jung-Bunzlau, Bohemia; died at Arco, Tyrol, Dec. 19, 1879. He was studying to become...
Jehiel B Aaron Heller JE Russian rabbi; born in Koidanov, government of Minsk. 1814; died at Plungian, government of Kovno, Nov. 14, 1861. He was a...
Joshua Ben Aaron Heller JE Russian rabbi and preacher; born 1814; died at Telshi, government of Kovno, June 2, 1880. After having been for several years...
Menahem Heller JE ...
Seligmann Heller JE Austrian poet and journalist; born at Raudnitz, Bohemia, July 8, 1831; died in Vienna Jan. 8, 1890. After completing his course...
Stephen Heller JE Hungarian pianist and composer; born at Budapest May 15, 1815; died in Paris Jan. 14, 1888. He was originally destined for...
Yom-Ṭob Lipmann Ben Nathan Ben Moses Levi Heller JE Rabbi and liturgical poet; born at Wallerstein, Bavaria, 1579; died at Cracow Sept. 7, 1654. Erroneously the editor of the...
Ẓebi Hirsch Heller JE Hungarian rabbi; died at Alt-Ofen Oct. 28, 1834. Heller was rabbi at Bonyhád. In 1834 he was called to Alt-Ofen as successor...
Helmet JE In olden times the helmet seems to have been worn only by kings, military officers, and other important officials. At least...
Helpful Thoughts JE ...
Franz Heltay JE Hungarian deputy; born in Szentes March 15, 1861; studied law and political economy in Budapest. After having become a member...
Heman JE 1. Son of Joel and grandson of the prophet Samuel; surnamed "the Singer"; a Kohathite (I Chron. vi. 19). He was one of the...
Hemdan JE The eldest son of Dishon the Horite (Gen. xxxvi. 26). In the parallel list in I Chron. i. 41 this name is changed to "Hamran"...
FĖlix HĖment JE French educator; born at Avignon Jan. 22, 1827; died at Nanterre (Seine) Oct. 5, 1891. Hément was a schoolmaster all...
Michel Hemerdinger JE French jurist; born at Colmar, Alsace, May 1, 1809; died in Paris June 22, 1880. After taking the degree of bachelor of letters...
Hemerobaptists JE Division of Essenes who bathed every morning before the hour of prayer in order to pronounce the name of God with a clean...
Hen JE There is no mention of the hen in the Old Testament, though "barburim abusim" (I Kings v. 3) is taken in B. M. 86b for "fattened...
hen JE ...
Hena JE Rabshakeh's enumeration of the monarchies reduced by the King of Assyria terminates with the words "Hena' we-&#39...
Ernest HendlÉ JE French statesman; born at Paris Feb. 15, 1844; died Feb. 7, 1900. Hendlé was educated for the bar and had a brilliant...
Hendricks JE American family whose genealogy may be found on page 346.
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg JE German Bible exegete; born Oct. 20, 1802, at Fröndenberg, Westphalia; died at Berlin May 28, 1869; studied theology and...
Henikstein, Alfred, Freiherr Von JE Austrian general; born Aug. 11, 1810, at Ober-Döbling; died Jan. 29, 1882, in Vienna. He was the son of the banker Joseph...
Elise Henle JE German novelist and dramatist; born in Munich 1830; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Aug. 18, 1892; she was a niece of the poetess...
Elkan Henle JE One of the earliest champions of the emancipation of the Jews in Bavaria; born Dec. 7, 1761, in Fürth; died there Oct...
Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle JE After spending two years in Paris, where he took a postgraduate course, he returned to Germany and became assistant to Johannes...
Sigmund Von Henle JE Bavarian deputy; born June 30, 1821; died at Munich Oct. 9, 1901. He was a descendant of Löb Berlin, the district rabbi...
Eduard Heinrich Henoch JE German physician; born at Berlin June 16, 1820. After taking the degree of M.D. there (1843), he began to practise as a specialist...
Moses Henochs JE Talmudist; lived at Jerusalem about 1570. He was the author of "Mar'ah ha-Sorefet," a devotional work, translated into...
Henriques JE This American family, connected with that of the same name in Amsterdam and London, traces its pedigree back to Jacob Henriques...
Amos Henriques JE English physician; born in Jamaica 1812; died June 5, 1880. He went to England in 1830 to study medicine, entered St. Thomas&#39...
David Quixano Henriques JE Anglo-Jewish reformer; born May 13, 1804; died in London March 6, 1870; son of Abraham Q. Henriques. He was a director of...
Jacob Quixano Henriques JE West-Indian merchant; born at Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1811; died in London Oct. 17, 1898. A son of Abraham Q. Henriques, he...
Robert Martin Henriques JE Danish musician, composer, and author; born in Copenhagen Dec. 14, 1858. He received instruction in violoncello from Bendix...
Isabella Henriquez (enriquez) JE Spanish poetess; lived at Madrid; died after 1680. She distinguished herself in the different academies at Madrid. Isaac (Fernando)...
Henry Ii JE King of Castile; born at Seville in 1333; died in 1379; illegitimate brother of Pedro I. He was as hostile to the Jews as...
Emma Henry JE English poetess; born Sept. 17, 1788; died Dec. 30, 1870; daughter of the Rev. Solomon Lyon, professor of Hebrew at Cambridge...
Henry A Henry JE Anglo-American rabbi and Hebraist; born in London 1800; died at San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 4, 1879. He was educated at the...
Michael Henry JE English journalist and mechanician; born at Kennington, London, Feb. 19, 1830; died in London June 15, 1875. He was educatedat...
August Wilhelm Eduard Theodor Henschel JE German physician and botanist; born in Breslau Dec. 20, 1790; died there July 24, 1856; educated at the medical and surgical...
Elias H Henschel JE German physician; born at Breslau April 4, 1755; died in 1839; father of A. W. Henschel. He commenced life as an errand-boy...
Georg (isidor) Henschel JE German composer and barytone singer; born Feb. 18, 1850, at Breslau, where he studied with Wandelt and Schäffer. He made...
Hep! Hep! JE A cry stated to have been used by the Crusaders during their attacks upon the Jews. It appears, however, to have been first...
Hepher JE 1. A son of Gilead (Num. xxvi. 32, xxvii. 1; Josh. xvii. 2-3). The clan was known as the Hepherites (Num. xxvi. 32). 2. One...
Hephzi-bah JE 1. Name to be borne by the restored Jerusalem (Isa. lxii. 4), in token that God will not abandon it. 2. Name of the queen...
Adolf Hepner JE German-American journalist; born at Schmiegel, Posen, Nov. 24, 1846; educated at the gymnasium at Lissa, the rabbinical seminary...
Heraldry JE ...
Herbs JE ...
Moriz Herczeghy JE Hungarian physician and author; born in Budapest Aug. 19, 1815; died in Vienna Dec. 23, 1884. He studied medicine in Budapest...
ManÓ De SzentpÉteri Herczel JE Hungarian physician; born in Szegedin July 1, 1861; studied successively in his native city, in Ujvidék, in Budapest...
Johann Gottfried Von Herder JE German Protestant theologian, poet, and writer; born at Mohrungen, East Prussia, Aug. 25, 1744; died at Weimar Dec. 21, 1803...
Paulus (pablo) De Heredia JE Spanish anti-Jewish writer; born about 1405 in Aragon; died at an advanced age after 1486. Baptized late in life, he attacked...
Hereford JE County town of Herefordshire, England, situated on the River Wye, of some commercial importance in early times. When Richard...
herem JE ...
Heres JE City in Egypt, mentioned in Isa. xix. 18: "In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language...
Heresy And Heretics JE The Greek term άίρεσις originally denoted "division," "sect," "religious" or "philosophical...
Heritage JE ...
Hermanmiestetz JE City in Bohemia. Jews were living there as early as 1509, engaged in commerce and money-lending; but the Jewish community...
Ludimar Hermann JE German physiologist; born in Berlin Oct. 21, 1838; M.D. Berlin, 1859. He engaged in practise in his native city, and in 1865...
Hermeneutics JE ...
Books Of Hermes JE Hermes (the Greek Mercury), in popular belief the leader of souls to Hades, was in later times identified in Egypt with the...
Hermon JE Mountain on the northeastern border of Palestine; the culminating point of the Anti-Lebanon range, at the springs of the Jordanand...
Herod I JE King of Judea 40-4 B.C.; founder of the Herodian dynasty; born about 73 B.C.; son of Antipater, and, consequently, of Idumean...
Herod Ii JE King of Chalcis; son of Aristobulus and Berenice; grandson of Herod I. and the first Mariamne; brother of Agrippa I. and Herodias...
Herod Agrippa I JE ...
Herod Agrippa Ii JE ...
Herod Antipas JE ...
Herod Philip JE ...
Pedigree Of Herodian Dynasty JE On page 361 is a genealogical tree of the family of Herod, which succeeded the Hasmoneans. The family was of Idumean origin...
Herodians JE Priestly party under the reign of King Herod and his successors; called by the Rabbis "Boethusians," as adherents of the family...
Herodias JE The Gospels attribute to Herodias the execution of John the Baptist, whom she hated for having denounced her unlawful marriage...
Herodium JE Fortified city three leagues south of Jerusalem; founded by Herod I. It was built on a rocky and rugged hill. Its citadel...
Heron JE Enumerated among the unclean birds (Lev. xi. 19 [R. V. margin, "ibis"]; Deut. xiv. 18; comp. Targ. , where the context points...
Alonzo De Herrera JE Cabalist; born in Spain; died in Amsterdam, Holland, 1631. According to D. L. de Barrios, Herrera was descended from the famous...
Leo Herrmann JE French painter; born in Paris July 12, 1853. He was a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at Paris, and exhibited his first...
Sir William Herschel JE English astronomer; born at Hanover Nov. 15, 1738; died at Slough, near Windsor, England, Aug. 22, 1822. His Jewish descent...
Lord Farrer Herschell JE Lord Chancellor of England; born 1837; died March 1, 1899. His father was the Rev. Ridley H. Herschell. He was educated at...
Ridley Haim Herschell JE Missionary to the Jews; born at Strzelno, Prussian Poland, April 7, 1807; died at Brighton, England, April 14, 1864. The son...
Solomon Herschell JE Chief rabbi of the Ashkenazim in England; born in London 1762, during the rabbinate of his father, R. Hirsch Levin; died there...
Henrik Hertz JE Danish poet; born Aug. 25, 1798, at Copenhagen; died there Feb. 25, 1870. He studied law at the University of Copenhagen,...
Joseph Herman Hertz JE American rabbi; born at Rebrin, Zemplén Comitat, Hungary, Sept. 25, 1872; educated at the College of the City of New...
Joseph Hertzberg JE Russian author; born in Moghilef, on the Dniester, at the beginning of the nineteenth century; died there 1870. He received...
Theodor Hertzka JE Austrian economist and journalist; born July 13, 1845, at Budapest. He studied at the universities of Vienna and Budapest...
Estella Dorothea Salomea Hertzveld JE Dutch poetess; born at The Hague July 14, 1837; died at Arnhem Nov. 4, 1881; granddaughter of Chief Rabbi H. J. Hertzveld...
Hartog Hertzveld JE Dutch rabbi; born at Glockau Nov. 19, 1781; died at Zwolle Jan. 30, 1864. He was the son of the rabbi of Königsberg,...
Salomon Herxheimer JE German rabbi; born Feb. 6, 1801, at Dotzheim, near Wiesbaden; died Dec. 25, 1884, at Berenberg. At the age of thirteen he...
Cornelius Herz JE French electrician; born in Besançon 1848; died in Bournemouth, England, July 6, 1898. Herz's parents were Germans...
Herz, Elise, Von LÄmel JE Austrian philanthropist; born at Prague Dec. 20, 1788; died at Vienna July 25, 1868. Her home in Prague was an intellectual...
Henri Herz JE Austrian pianist; born at Vienna Jan. 6, 1806; died at Paris Jan. 5, 1888. He commenced his studies at Coblenz under the guidance...
Henriette Herz JE German leader of society; born in Berlin Sept. 5, 1764; died there Oct. 22, 1847. From her father, De Lemos, a physician,...
Jacob Herz JE German physician; born at Bayreuth Feb. 2, 1816; died at Erlangen Sept. 27, 1871; educated at the gymnasium of Bayreuth and...
Jacques-simon Herz JE Pianist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Dec. 31, 1794; died at Nice Jan. 27, 1880. He went to Paris when a child, and in 1807...
Markus Herz JE German physician and lecturer on philosophy; born June 17, 1747, at Berlin; died there Jan. 19, 1803. The son of very poor...
Herz-medelsheim JE ...
Leo Herzberg-frÄnkel JE Austrian writer; born at Brody, Galicia, Sept. 19, 1827. At the age of seventeen he went for a year to Bessarabia, and on...
Sigmund Herzberg-frÄnkel JE Austrian historian; born at Brody, Galicia, March 7, 1857; son of Leo Herzberg-Fränkel. He studied law at the University...
Grigori Markovich Herzenstein JE Russian physician; born in St. Petersburg 1851; died there 1899. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Medico-Surgical Academy...
Solomon Markovich Herzenstein JE Russian zoologist; born 1854; died 1894; graduated in natural sciences and mathematics from the St. Petersburg University...
Adolf Herzfeld JE German actor; born April 9, 1800, at Hamburg; died at Vienna March 24, 1874; son of Jacob Herzfeld. He made his début...
Albrecht Herzfeld JE Austrian actor; born June 7, 1840, at Vienna; son of Adolf Herzfeld. He received his education at the gymnasium of his native...
Jacob Herzfeld JE German actor and theatrical manager; born at Dessau Jan. 3, 1769; died at Hamburg Oct. 24, 1826. After studying medicine at...
Jacob Herzfeld JE German chemist; born at Mülheim, near Cologne, June 17, 1859; educated at the gymnasium and technical high school of...
Levi Herzfeld JE German rabbi and historian; born Dec. 27, 1810, at Ellrich; died at Brunswick March 11, 1884. Having chosen the rabbinical...
Siegmund Herzl JE Austrian merchant and novelist; born at Vienna May 26, 1830; died there Feb. 9, 1889. He wrote: "Liederbuch eines Dorfpoeten...
Theodor Herzl JE Leader of political Zionism; born in Budapest May 2, 1860. Herzl settled in Vienna in his boyhood, and was educated there...
Jakob Herzog JE Austrian writer; born at Misslitz, Moravia, June 17, 1842. He was educated at Brönn, Vienna, and Graz. When only seventeen...
Heshbon JE Town originally belonging to Moab; mentioned in Num. xxi. 25 et seq.; Deut. i. 4, iii. 6, iv. 26, xxix. 7; Josh. ix. 10; xii...
heshwan (marheshwan) JE The eighth month in the Hebrew calendar. The name is not found in the Bible, since it was introduced after theBabylonian exile...
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Ernst Friedrich Hess JE German convert to Christianity and anti-Jewish writer; lived in the sixteenth century. He was the author of "Neue Judengeissel...
Isaac Hess JE Advocate of Jewish emancipation in Württemberg; born in Lauchheim, near Ellwangen, in 1789; died Oct. 6, 1866. Destined...
Mendel Hess JE German rabbi; born at Lengsfeld, Saxe-Weimar, March 17, 1807; died at Eisenach Sept. 21, 1871. He was one of the first Jewish...
Michael Hess JE German educator and author; born in Stadt-Lengsfeld, Weimar, April 9, 1782; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Feb. 26, 1860; brother...
Moses (moritz) Hess JE Jewish socialist and nationalist; born at Bonn June 21, 1812; died in Paris April 6, 1875; buried in the Jewish cemetery at...
Albert Hessberg JE American lawyer; born at Albany, N. Y., Dec. 13, 1856. He commenced the study of law there in the office of Rufus W. Peckham...
Hesse JE Former landgraviate of the German-Roman empire. The only Jews mentioned in documents relating to its early history are those...
Hesse-nassau JE ...
het JE Eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The name, perhaps, means "hedge," "fence"; on the form, which is Aramaic, see Alphabet...
Het Nederlandsche Israeliet JE ...
[[]] JE Second son of Canaan (Gen. x. 15; I Chron. i. 13) and, apparently, the progenitor of the Hittites. Heth's descendants...
Hethlon JE Place referred to in Ezekiel (xlvii. 15, xlviii. 1); situated on the northern boundary of Israel as ideally projected by that...
Joseph Hevesi JE Hungarian author and journalist; born March 15, 1857; studied at the high school in Keeskemét, and graduated from the...
Ludwig Hevesi JE Hungarian journalist and author; born Dec. 20, 1843, in Heves, Hungary. He began to study medicine and classical philology...
Hewers Of Wood JE Menial servants. The Gibeonites who attempted to deceive Joshua were condemned by the princes of Israel to be hewers of wood...
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Hexateuch JE The first six books of the Bible; the Pentateuch taken together with the Book of Joshua as one originally connected work....
Heinrich Heydemann JE German archeologist; born at Greifswald Aug. 28, 1842; died at Halle Oct. 10, 1889; studied classical philology and archeology...
Solomon Heydenfeldt JE American jurist; born in Charleston, S. C., 1816; died at San Francisco Sept. 15, 1890. When twenty-one years old he left...
Elias Heyman JE Swedish physician; born at Göteborg in 1829; died in 1889. He studied medicine at Lund and at the Karolinska Institut...
Isaac H Heymann JE Dutch cantor and composer; born about 1834; son of Phinchas Heymann. After having made several tours through Hungary, Heymann...
Karl Heymann JE German pianist; born at Filehne, Posen, Oct. 6, 1853; son of Isaac H. Heymann. He received his early musical education at...
Paul Heymann JE German laryngoscopist; born at Pankow, near Berlin, 1849; studied medicine at Berlin and Heidelberg (M.D., Berlin, 1874)....
Hezekiah JE 1. King of Judah (726-697 B.C.). —Biblical Data: Son of Ahaz and Abi or Abijah; ascended the throne at the age of twenty-five...
Hezekiah (gaon) JE Principal of the academy at Pumbedita (1038-40). A member of an exilarchal family, he was elected to the office of principal...
Hezekiah (the Zealot) JE A martyr whom some scholars identify with Hezekiah ben Garon of the Talmud (Shab. 12a, 13b, 98b, 99a). He fought for Jewish...
Hezekiah Ben Jacob JE German rabbi and tosafist; martyred at Bacharach in 1283. He was an uncle and teacher of Meïr of Rothenburg and a pupil...
Hezekiah Ben Manoah JE French exegete of the thirteenth century. In memory of his father, who lost his right hand through his stead-fastness in the...
Hezekiah Ben Parnak JE Palestinian amora; lived at the end of the third century. The only mention of him is in Berakot 63a, in connection with the...
Hezekiah Roman Ben Isaac Ibn Pakuda JE Turkish scholar; flourished at Constantinople in 1600. He was the author of "Zikron ha-Sefarim," a catalogue of all the grammatical...
Hezekiah Sefardi JE ...
Hezir JE 1. A priest, chief of the seventeenth monthly course in the service; appointed by David (I Chron. xxiv. 15). 2. A layman,...
Hezro JE A native of Carmel, one of David's heroes (II Sam. xxiii. 35, R. V.; I Chron. xi. 37). The "ḳeri," however, in the...
Hezron JE 1. Son of Reuben and founder of the family of the Hezronites (Gen. xlvi. 9; Ex. vi. 14; Num. xxvi. 6). 2. Son of Pharez and...
Hibat Allah Abu Al-barakat B 'ali B Malka (malkan) Al-baladi JE Arabian physician of the twelfth century; born in Bassora. He went to Bagdad in order to study medicine under the physician...
hibbuṬ Ha-keber JE One of the seven modes of judgment or of punishment man undergoes after death, as described in the treatise "Ḥibbu&#7789...
Hiddekel JE ...
hiddushim JE Technical name of a certain class of commentaries, consisting of a number of single, "new" remarks, additions, and explanations...
hidka JE Tanna of the middle of the second century. He is quoted only in the Baraita, and is best known for the halakah (Shab. 117b)...
Hiel JE A Bethelite who rebuilt Jericho in the reign of Ahab (I Kings xvi. 34). The curse pronounced by Joshua (vi. 26) was fulfilled...
Hierapolis JE City in Phrygia, Asia Minor; mentioned in Col. iv. 13 together with the neighboring Laodicea. It was a prosperous city during...
Hierei JE Term used to denote the priests() in the constitution of the Jewish community in Rome. Even so late as the fourth century...
Hieronymus JE ...
High Place JE A raised space primitively on a natural, later also on an artificial, elevation devoted to and equipped for the sacrificial...
High Priest JE Aaron, though he is but rarely called "the great priest," being generally simply designated "as ha- kohen" (the priest), was...
The Bishop Hilary JE ...
Isidor Hilberg JE Austrian philologist; born May 28, 1852, at Byelaya Tzerkov, Ukraine, Russia. In 1856 he went with his parents to Vienna,...
Hildesheim JE Town in the Prussian province of Hanover. At what time Jews were first admitted to this old episcopal city is uncertain. In...
Israel (azriel) Hildesheimer JE German rabbi, and leader of Orthodox Judaism; born at Halberstadt May 20, 1820; died at Berlin July 12, 1899; son of R. L&#246...
Samuel Ben Joseph Hildesheimer JE Rabbi at Frankfort-on-the-Main (1618-22). He reorganized the Jewish congregation, whose administration, in consequence of...
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Hilkiah JE High priest in the reign of Josiah (II Kings xxii. 4 et seq.). It is probable that he was the Hilkiah ben Shallum who figures...
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Hillel JE Doctor of the Law at Jerusalem in the time of King Herod; founder of the school called after him, and ancestor of the patriarchs...
Hillel Ii JE Patriarch (330-365); son and successor of Judah III. Only in two instances is his name quoted in connection with halakot:...
Hillel B Berechiah (jeberechiah) JE Palestinian haggadist. He is cited only once under this name, and then as author of an interpretation which elsewhere is attributed...
Hillel Ben Eliakim JE Greek Talmudist of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. He was a pupil of Rashi, and is mentioned by Mordecai b. Hillel (Haggahot...
Hillel Of Erfurt JE Talmudic authority; lived at Erfurt in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; a contemporary of Shalom of Neustadt, and a...
Hillel Ben Gamaliel Iii JE Scholar of the second amoraic generation (3d cent.), son of Gamaliel III., brother of Judah II., and probably a pupil of his...
Hillel Ben Naphtali Herz JE Lithuanian rabbi; born at Brest-Litovsk in 1615; died at Zolkiev Jan. 3, 1690. After he had studied under Hirsh Darshan, Hillel...
Hillel Ben Samuel JE Italian physician, philosopher, and Talmudist; born about 1220; died about 1295. He was the grandson of the Talmudic scholar...
Hillel B Samuel B Nahman JE Palestinian haggadist of the fourth century. It may be assumed that his father was his teacher; but he had other instructors...
Hillel B Ẓebi Hirsch Mileikovsky (hillel Salauter) JE Russian rabbi; born in Zareche, a suburb of Wilna, 1819; died in Mstislavl, government of Moghilef, June 1, 1899. At the age...
Hilleli JE ...
Eduard Hiller JE German philologist; nephew of Ferdinand Hiller; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main April 14, 1844; died at Halle March 7, 1891...
Ferdinand Hiller JE German composer and musical writer; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Oct. 24, 1811; died at Cologne May 10, 1885. He studied...
Morris Hillquit JE American lawyer and socialist; born at Riga, Russia, Aug. 1, 1870, educated at the gymnasium of that town. He emigrated to...
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Hippocrates JE Greek physician; born in Cos 460 B.C.; died at Larissa in Thessaly about 360 B.C. He studied medicine under Herodicus of Selymbria...
Hippolytus JE Christian theologian of the second and third centuries; schismatic Bishop of Rome in opposition to Calixtus I. (217); deported...
Hippos JE One of the cities of the Decapolis in Palestine, the site of which is uncertain. For the identifications of the ancient geographers...
Hirah JE An Adullamite, the friend of Judah, at whose house the latter stopped after the sale of Joseph (Gen. xxxviii. 1). Hirah accompanied...
Huram Hiram JE King of Tyre in the time of David and Solomon. After David had conquered Jerusalem, Hiram sent him cedar-wood and carpenters...
Hired Men JE ...
Hiring And Letting JE Hiring is a transaction by which parties, for a compensation, contract for a definite period for (a) the use of property or...
Albert Hirsch JE Austrian playwright; born in Vienna June 29, 1841. He was first a public-school-teacher; then went on the stage, playing,...
Alphonse Hirsch JE French painter; born in Paris 1843; died there July 15, 1884. He was a pupil of Meissonier and Bonnat, and began by sketching...
August Hirsch JE German physician and medico-historical writer; born at Danzig Oct. 4, 1817; died at Berlin Jan. 28, 1894. After having followed...
Clara De (baroness de Hirsch-gereuth) Hirsch JE Wife of Baron Maurice de Hirsch; born at Antwerp June 13, 1833; died in Paris April 1, 1899. Her mother was a sister of Solomon...
David Hirsch JE German instructor of deafmutes; born at Müntz, Rhenish Prussia, May 23, 1813; died at Rotterdam Feb. 2, 1895. He studied...
Emil Gustav Hirsch JE American rabbi; professor of rabbinical literature and philosophy in the University of Chicago; born in the grand duchy of...
Fischl Hirsch JE Hebrew bookseller; died at Berlin June 5, 1899. About 1860 he settled at Halberstadt, and founded a Jewish printing and publishing...
Franz Arnold Hirsch JE Austrian dramatist and miscellaneous writer; born in Horitz, Bohemia, June 15, 1815; died in Vienna Nov. 24, 1896. After leaving...
Baron De Hirsch Fund JE A fund of $2,400,000 for ameliorating the condition of certain Jewish immigrants to the United States. This fund was incorporated...
Gaston Hirsch JE French dramatic author; born at Metz 1830. His chief plays are: "Le Préjugé"; "Un Malheureux Caractère"; "La...
Jacob Von Hirsch JE German banker; grandfather of Maurice de Hirsch; born in 1764 at Königshofen, near Würzburg; died March 23, 1841...
Hirsch Janow JE Polish rabbi; born about 1750; died at Fürth, Bavaria, Nov. 13, 1785. On account of his great keenness in Talmudical...
Jenny Hirsch JE German authoress and advocate of women's rights; born Nov. 25, 1829, at Zerbst, Anhalt; died March 9, 1902, at Berlin...
Joseph Von Hirsch JE German banker; father of Maurice de Hirsch; born July 2, 1805, at Würzburg; died Dec. 9, 1885, at Munich. After completing...
Levin Joseph Hirsch JE German physician; born at Schottland, near Danzig, 1758; died at Königsberg May 29, 1823. Destined by his parents for...
Markus Hirsch JE Chief rabbi of Hamburg; born at Tisza-Beö, Hungary, Feb. 17, 1833. In 1853 he went to Prague, where he became the pupil...
Hirsch, Baron Maurice De (moritz Hirsch, Freiherr Auf Gereuth) JE German philanthropist; born at Munich Dec. 9, 1831; died near Ersek-Ujvar, Hungary, April 21, 1896; eldest son of Baron Joseph...
Max Hirsch JE German economist and deputy; born in Halberstadt Dec. 30, 1832. His parents removed at the end of the thirties to Magdeburg...
Samson Raphael Hirsch JE German rabbi; born at Hamburg June 20, 1808; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Dec. 31, 1888. His father, though a merchant, devoted...
Samuel Hirsch JE American rabbi; born at Thalfang, near Treves, Rhenish Prussia, June 8, 1815; died in Chicago, Ill., May 14, 1889; educated...
Hirsch School Journal JE ...
Siegfried Hirsch JE German historian; born at Berlin Nov. 5, 1816; died at Paris Sept. 11, 1860; cousin of Theodor Hirsch. From 1833 to 1836 he...
Solomon Hirsch JE American merchant, diplomatist, and politician; son of Samson Hirsch and Ella Kuhn; born in Württemberg March 25, 1839...
Theodor Hirsch JE German historian; born Dec. 17, 1806, at Altschottland, near Danzig; died Feb. 17, 1881. He studied theology, history, and...
Hirschberg JE ...
Ernst Hirschberg JE German statistician; born March 8, 1859, at Königsberg, East Prussia. He was educated in his native town, graduating...
Julius Hirschberg JE German ophthalmologist; born at Potsdam Sept. 18, 1843. He received his education at the gymnasium of his native town and...
Hirschel JE ...
Levi Elias Hirschel JE German physician; born Oct. 8, 1741, at Berlin; died there Dec. 17, 1772; educated at the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in his...
Hirschel Levin JE ...
Moses (christian Moritz) Hirschel JE German writer; born at Breslau Sept. 13, 1754; continued to live in that city. On being baptized (1804) he took the name of...
Isaac M Hirschensohn JE Jerusalem Talmudist; bibliophile; born at Pinsk, in the government of Minsk, Russia, in 1844. As a boy of three he accompanied...
Gustav Hirschfeld JE German archeologist, geographer, and topographer; born Nov. 4, 1847, at Pyritz, Pomerania; died April 20, 1895, at Wiesbaden...
Hartwig Hirschfeld JE English Orientalist; born at Thorn, Prussia. He studied at Posen, at the universities of Berlin and Strasburg, and at Paris...
Ludwik Maurycy Hirschfeld JE Polish anatomist; born at Nadarzyn, government of Warsaw, 1816; died at Warsaw 1876. Hirschfeld received a Talmudical education...
Otto Hirschfeld JE German historian, epigrapher, and archeologist; born March 16, 1843, at Königsberg, Prussia. He studied philology and...
Robert Hirschfeld JE Austrian writer on music; born Sept. 17, 1857, in Moravia; educated at the universities of Breslau and Vienna. He also studied...
Joseph Oakland Hirschfelder JE American physician; born at Oakland, Cal., Sept. 8, 1854. He received his education at San Francisco, Cal., and at the universities...
Solomon Hirschfelder JE German genre painter; born May 16, 1832, at Dettensee, near Horb, on the Neckar; died at Munich May 10, 1903. He was a student...
Hermann Hirschfeldt JE German physician; born at Neustettin July 30, 1825; died at Colberg June 17, 1885; M.D. Greifswald, 1852. During the two following...
Adolf Hirschl JE Hungarian painter; born at Temesvar, Hungary, Jan. 31, 1860; studied (1874-1882) at the Vienna Academy, where for two years...
Ignaz Hirschler JE Hungarian oculist; born at Presburg 1823; died at Budapest Nov. 11, 1891. He studied medicine at Vienna. After practising...
Henri Louis Hirschmann JE French composer; born at Saint-Mandé, department of the Seine, April 30, 1873. He studied under André Gedalge, and...
Heinrich Hirschsprung JE Danish manufacturer and art-collector; born in Copenhagen Feb. 7, 1836; son of Abraham Marcus Hirschsprung (1793-1871), who...
Leonard Leopoldovich Hirshman JE Russian oculist; born at Goldingen, Courland, in 1839. After graduating from the University of Kharkof he worked in the laboratories...
Samuel Hirszenberg JE Polish painter; born at Lodz 1866. He studied at the Academy of Cracow from 1881 to 1885, and completed his studies at Munich...
hisda JE Babylonian amora of the third generation; died in 620 of the Seleucidan era (= 308-309; Sherira Gaon, in Neubauer, "M. J....
Historiography JE Method of writing history. In Bible times the Jews showed a strong historical sense, as evidenced by the series of books from...
Historische Commission JE Commission appointed by the Deutsch-Israelitische Gemein-debund in 1885 for the collection and publication of material relating...
Al- Hiti JE Karaite chronicler; flourished (probably in Egypt) in the first half of the fifteenth century. He was a native of Hit (whence...
HitkÖzsÈgi Hivatalnok JE ...
Hittites JE A race of doubtful ethnic and linguistic affinities that occupied, from the sixteenth century until 717 B.C., a territory...
Ferdinand Hitzig JE German Christian theologian; born at Hauingen, Baden, June 23, 1807; died at Heidelberg Jan. 22, 1875. After studying under...
Hivites JE One of the Canaanitic nations dispossessed by the children of Israel (Gen. x. 17; Ex. xxiii. 23, 28; et al.). In the Hebrew...
hiwi Al-balkhi JE Exegete and Biblical critic of the last quarter of the ninth century; born at Balkh, Persia. He was the author of a work in...
hiyya Bar Abba JE Palestinian amora of priestly descent; flourished at the end of the third century. In the Palestinian Talmud he is also called...
hiyya Bar Abba JE Palestinian tanna; born about the middle of the second century, at Kafri, near Sura in Babylonia; pupil of Judah I., and uncle...
hiyya Bar Adda JE Palestinian amora of the first half of the third century; son of the sister of Bar Ḳappara; pupil of Simeon ben La&#7731...
hiyya Al-daudi JE Liturgical poet; died in Castile in 1154; descendant of the Babylonian nasi Hezekiah. Many seliḥot bearing the signature...
hiyya Gabriel JE Turkish Talmudist; lived at Safed in the seventeenth century. Wolf ("Bibl. Hebr." iii., No. 595) and Fuuml;rst ("Bibl. Jud...
hiyya B Gammada JE Palestinian amora of the fourth generation (3d and 4th cent.). His principal teacher was Jose b. Saul, in whose name &#7716...
hiyya Kara JE Palestinian scholar of the third and fourth centuries. He was a pupil of Samuel b. Naḥman, in whose name he asserted...
MeÏr Ben David hiyya JE Italian Talmudist of the sixteenth century. He was dayyan of Venice 1510-20, during the rabbinate of Benedet ben Eliezer Acsildor...
hiyya B Meria JE Palestinian amora of the fourth generation (3d and 4th cent.). Ḥiyya is mentioned only in the Jerusalem Talmud; he was...
hiyya Rofe JE Rabbi of Safed; died in 1620. Having studied Talmud under Solomon Sagis and Cabala under Ḥayyim Vital, Ḥiyya was...
hiyya Ben Solomon Habib JE Spanish Talmudist of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; a native of Barcelona. He was a contemporary of Solomon Adret...
Abraham Hladik JE Bohemian Talmudist; flourished about 1230. The name indicates a Czech origin, an assumption supported by the fact that in...
Hobab JE Name occurring twice in the Bible, and borne either by Moses' father-in-law or by his brother-in-law. In the first passage...
Hobah JE Place to the north of Damascus to which Abraham pursued the defeated army of Chedorlaomer (Gen. xiv. 15). Wetzstein identified...
HÖchheimer (hÖċhheim, Hochheimer, Hechim) JE Bavarian family, named after its original home in Hochheim. The following are its more important members: Elias ben &#7716...
Hochmeister JE Name used in German medieval documents for "rabbi" or "grand rabbi." It seems to have been first used in the Palatinate in...
Abraham Hochmuth JE Hungarian rabbi; born at Bán, Hungary, Dec. 14, 1816; died at Veszprim June 10, 1889. While attending the University...
Berlin Hochschule JE ...
Benjamin HochstÄdter JE German rabbi; born 1810 at Hürben, Bavaria; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Dec. 8, 1888. As teacher and preacher at Heddernheim...
Lothar Von Hochwart JE ...
Simon Hock JE Austrian writer; born at Prague Nov. 27, 1815; died at Vienna Oct. 22, 1887. For several decades he gave his spare time to...
Hodaviah JE 1. The son of Elioenai, one of the last members of the royal line of Judah (I Chron. iii. 24, the "ketib" being ). 2. A Levite...
Hodu JE ...
Joseph Hoffa JE German philologist and archeologist; born Aug. 18, 1803, at Cassel; died about 1843. His father was paymaster of the army...
Leopold Hoffer JE Journalist and chess editor; born 1842, in Budapest. He removed to France about 1866, and began to play chess in Paris. In...
Charles Isaiah Hoffman JE American editor and communal worker; born at Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 3, 1864; educated at the University of Pennsylvania,...
David Hoffmann JE Rector of the Rabbinical Seminary at Berlin; born at Verbó, Hungary, Nov. 24, 1843. After attending various yeshibot...
Die Hoffnung JE ...
Hofmann, Isaak LÖw, Edler Von Hofmannsthal JE Austrian merchant; born June 10, 1759, at Prostiebor, near Kladrau, in the district of Pilsen, Bohemia; died at Vienna Dec...
Stanislaus Hoga JE English convert to Christianity; lived in London in the nineteenth century. He published "Songs of Zion," a selection of English...
Hoham JE King of Hebron in the time of Joshua. He was one of the five kings who made war on the inhabitants of Gibeon to punish them...
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Hohenems JE Town in Vorarlberg, Austria, between Tyrol and Lake Constance. In 1890 it had a total population of 3,988, of whom 118 were...
Hohenzollern JE Two principalities, Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, named from the castle of Zollern, in Swabia; formerly...
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Samuel Holdheim JE German rabbi and author; leader of the extreme wing of the Reform movement; born at Kempen, Posen, in 1806; died at Berlin...
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Holiness JE Unapproachableness; the state of separation from, and elevation above, things common, profane, or sensual, first in a physical...
Philip Holitscher JE Hungarian land holder and author; born in Budapest Aug. 19, 1822. His parents destined him for a mercantile career, and in...
LÉon LÖb Ben David Hollaenderski JE Polish scholar and author; born at Wistiniecz, government of Suwalki, Russian Poland, 1808; died in Paris Dec. 20, 1878. He...
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Jacob H Hollander JE Associate professor of political economy and head of the department of political economy in the Johns Hopkins University;...
Ludwig Heinrich HollÄnder JE German dental surgeon; born at Leobschütz Feb. 4, 1833; died at Halle March 14, 1897; educated at the universities at...
Holle Kreish JE The ceremony of naming infants, especially girls, in the cradle ("shem ha'arisah"), adopted by the German Jews from their...
Holleschau JE City in Moravia, with about 5,600 inhabitants. The old ghetto of Holleschau still forms a separate township, and contains...
Holocaust JE ...
Holophernes Holofernes JE General of Nebuchadnezzar, mentioned in the apocryphal Book of Judith; killed at Bethulia (Judith xiii. 6-8). The name is...
Holon JE 1. City of Judah, in the Hebron hills, allotted, with its suburbs, to the priests (Josh. xv. 51, xxi. 15). In the parallel...
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Holy Days JE Upon the six holy days in the Jewish calendar—the first and seventh days of Passover, the first and eighth days of Sukkot...
Holy Ghost JE ...
Holy Of Holies JE That part of the Tabernacle and of the Temple which was regarded as possessing the utmost degree of holiness (or inaccessibility)...
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Holy Spirit JE The most noticeable difference between sentient beings and dead things, between the living and the dead, is in the breath...
Michael Holzmann JE Austrian historian of literature; born at Slavaten, Moravia, June 21, 1860; studied at Lemberg, Vienna, and Berlin (Ph.D....
Herz Homberg JE Austrian educator and writer; born at Lieben, near Prague, Sept., 1749; died Aug. 24, 1841. He studied Talmud at Prague, Presburg...
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Homel JE District town in the government of Moghilef, Russia, situated on the right bank of the River Sozh, an affluent of the Dnieper...
Antonio Homem JE Jewish martyr; born in 1564 of Neo-Christian parents at Coimbra, Portugal; suffered death at the stake in Lisbon May 5, 1624...
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Homiletics JE That branch of rhetoric which treats of the composition and delivery of sermons or homilies. Although from the very nature...
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Honey JE Often mentioned in the Old Testament as a choice article of food. It was eaten alone (Judges xiv. 9; I Sam. xiv. 27, et al...
honi Ha-me'aggel JE ...
Israel (edler Von HÖnigsberg) HÖnig JE Austrian tobacco-manufacturer; born at Kuttenplan, Bohemia, Oct., 1724; died at Vienna Jan. 19, 1808. He is noteworthy in...
Sidonie HÖnig JE Austrian actress; born at Vienna 1871; prize-winner at the Vienna Conservatorium. She made her début in 1889, at the...
Oswald HÖnigsmann JE Austrian deputy; born in Rzeszow, Austrian Galicia, Dec. 2, 1824; died Oct. 24, 1880. He was educated at Lemberg, where he...
Honor JE Either the distinction or excellence manifested by a man, or the mark of distinction accorded to him. "Kabod," when a manifestation...
Honorius JE Emperor of the Western Roman Empire (395-423). The laws of Arcadius, the Eastern emperor, regarding the Jews were signed also...
Jacob Van Hoogstraten (hochstraten) JE Belgian controversialist; born at Hoogstraeten, Belgium, about 1460; died at Cologne Jan. 21, 1527. He studied at Louvain...
John Hoornbeek JE Dutch controversialist of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Libri VIII pro Convincendis et Convertendis Jud&#230...
Hope JE The expectation of something desired. The Hebrew terms for "hope" are "tiḳwah" and "seber," while "miḳweh" and...
Hophni JE The older of Eli's two sons who officiated as priests in the tabernacle of Shiloh (I Sam. i. 3). Hophni and his younger...
Hophra JE King of Egypt at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. The name occurs but once in the Bible (Jer. xliv...
Hor JE Mountain on the border-land of Idumæa; the next stopping-place after Kadesh of the children of Israel during their wanderings...
Horam JE King of Gezer at the time of the war between Joshua and the inhabitants of the land of Canaan. Horam went to the assistance...
Horayot JE The name of a Talmudic treatise in Seder Neziḳin ("damages"), the fourth in order of the six "sedarim" of the Mishnah...
Mount Horeb JE ...
Horem JE Fortified city of Naphtali, named with Iron and Migdalel (Josh. xix. 38). It is generally identified with the modern &#7716...
Horesh JE The word , indicating the place in the wilderness of Ziph where David hid himself from Saul (I Sam. xxiii. 15, 18, 19), generally...
Hor-hagidgad JE Place in the desert where the Israelites encamped; said to be situated between Bene-jaakan and Jotbathah (Num. xxxiii. 32...
Hori JE Surname of Seir, who, with his descendants, the Horites, occupied the land subsequently called "Edom" (Gen. xxxvi. 20 et seq...
Hormah JE Name of a city, usually found without the article, but in Num. xiv. 45 (Hebr.) written "ha-Ḥormah." It is not certain...
Eduard Horn JE ...
Hornet JE ...
Horns Of Moses JE Owing to the representations of the old painters and sculptors, it has become a wide-spread belief that Moses, when he came...
Franz Ludwig Von Hornthal JE German jurist and author; born in Hamburg March 5, 1763; died at Bamberg June 27, 1853. After studying at Bamberg he was appointed...
Horology JE The science of the measurement of time. Portions of time are distinguished in the first chapter of Genesis. The term "from...
Horomite JE ...
Horonaim JE City of Moab (Isa. xv. 5; Jer. xlviii. 3, 5), mentioned also in the Mesha inscription (lines 31, 32) under the name . Its...
Markus Horovitz JE German rabbi and historian; born March 14, 1844, at Ladány, near Tokaj, Hungary. The descendant of an ancient family...
Aaron Ben Jacob Halevi Horowitz JE Russian Talmudist; lived in the second half of the seventeenth century; son-in-law of Joseph ben Löb, rabbi of Minsk...
Isaiah Horowitz JE German cabalist, rabbi, and author; born at Prague about 1555; died at Safed about 1630. At an early age he accompanied his...
Lazar (eleazar) Horowitz JE Austrian rabbi; born at Flosz, Bavaria, 1803; died at Vöslau, near Vienna, June 11, 1868. He was the son of David Joshua...
Leopold Horowitz JE Hungarian painter; born in 1837 at Rozgony, near Kaschau, where he attended the gymnasium. He received instruction in painting...
Moses Ha-levi Horowitz JE Judæo-German playwright; born on the 7th of Adar, 1844, at Stanislau, Galicia. After the usual Jewish education he studied...
Phinehas Levi Horowitz (horwitz) JE Rabbi and Talmudic author; born in Poland about 1731; died in Frankfort-on-the-Main July 1, 1805. The descendant of a long...
Schmelke Horowitz JE Rabbi and cabalist; born in Poland 1726; died at Nikolsburg April 28, 1778; son of Hirsch Horowitz, rabbi of Czortkow, and...
Shabbethai Horowitz JE Rabbi and Talmudist; born, probably in Ostrog, Volhynia, about 1590; died at Vienna April 12, 1660. He was the son of the...
Shabbethai Sheftel Horowitz JE Cabalistic author: flourished in Prague in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His father, named Akiba according to Steinschneider...
Moritz Horschetzky JE Austrian physician and writer; born at Bydzov, Bohemia, in 1788; died Nov. 7, 1859, at Nagy-Kanizsa, Hungary, where he had...
Horse JE The Hebrew terms are: , the generic and most common term; (I Kings v. 8; Micah i. 13; Esth. viii. 10, 14), the swift horse...
Horticulture JE That department of the science of agriculture which relates to the cultivation of gardens. The garden is called "gan" or "gannah"...
Hortus JudÆorum JE ...
Aaron B Joseph Halevi Horwitz JE Russo-German rabbi; born in Lithuania in the early part of the eighteenth century; died at Berlin 1779. Early in life he lived...
Aryeh LÖb Ben Ẓebi Halevi Horwitz JE Lithuanian Talmudist of the seventeenth century. After having been "rosh yeshibah" in several German towns Horwitz was called...
Bella Horwitz JE Daughter of the martyr Be'er ben Hezekiah ha-Levi Horwitz and wife of Joseph ben Ḥayyim Ḥazzan, who died at...
Bernard Horwitz JE Chess player and writer on chess; born 1809 in the grand duchy of Mecklenburg; died in London 1885. A chess pupil of Mendheim...
Ẓebi Hirsch Ben Phinehas Horwitz JE Rabbi at Frankfort-on-the-Main; died thereSept. 8, 1817. He succeeded his father in the rabbinate of Frankfort in 1805. He...
Hosanna JE The cry which the people of Jerusalem were accustomed to raise while marching in procession and waving branches of palm, myrtle...
The Prophet Hosea JE Hosea must have been a citizen of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, and must have remained there permanently during the period...
Book Of Hosea JE The contents of the book may be summarized as follows:Part i., ch. i.-iii.—Two symbolical actions: (a) At the command...
Hoshaiah JE Palestinian amora of the third and fourth amoraic generations (died about 350 C.E.). It is supposed that his colleague &#7716...
Hoshaiah Rabbah, Roba, Berabbi JE Palestinian amora of the first amoraic generation (about 200 C.E.); compiler of baraitot explaining the Mishnah-Tosefta. He...
Hoshaiah Of Turya JE ...
Hoshaiah Ze'era De-min Habraya JE Palestinian amora of the third amoraic period (died about 350 C.E.). In the Tosafot it is claimed that "Ḥabraya" was...
Hosha'na Rabbah JE The popular name for the seventh day of the Feast of Booths (Sukkot); the day on which the exclamation "Hosha'na!" (save...
Hosh'anot JE ...
Hoshea JE Last of the nineteen kings of Israel; son of Elah (II Kings xv. 30). Hoshea secured the throne through a conspiracy in which...
Reuben Hoshke JE Cabalist; rabbi of Prague; (died April 3, 1673. "Hoshke," his father's name, is a Polish diminutive for "Joshua," mistaken...
Hospital JE House set apart for the treatment of the sick. In early times such institutions were required only for strangers, the idea...
Hospitality JE The "ger," the sojourner who lived with a Hebrew family or clan, was assured by the Biblical law not only of protection against...
Desecration Of Host JE Defiling the host or sacred wafer of the mass. In the Middle Ages theJews were frequently accused of desecrating the host...
Host Of Heaven JE Term occurring several times in the Bible, but not always with a definite meaning. The word "ẓaba" usually designates...
Lord Of Hosts JE ...
Johann Heinrich Hottinger JE Swiss Christian Hebraist; born at Zurich March 10, 1620; drowned in the Limmat, in Switzerland, June 5, 1667. Having studied...
Charles FranÇois Houbigant JE French Christian Hebraist; born in Paris in 1686; died there Oct. 31, 1783. In 1704 Houbigant entered the order of the Congregation...
Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich JE American statistician; born at Wilna, Russia, April 27, 1860; educated at the gymnasium of Minsk and the University of St...
Zalkind Hourwitz JE Polish scholar; born at Lublin, Poland, about 1740; died at Paris in 1812. Endowed with great ability and thirsting for learning...
House JE In the warm countries of the East the house is not so important a factor as it is in Western civilization, the climate permitting...
Housebreaking JE ...
Julius Houseman JE American financier; born at Zeckendorf, Bavaria, Dec. 8, 1832; died at Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 8, 1892. He attended school...
Houston JE Capital of Harris county, Texas; situated on the banks of Buffalo Bayou. It had a population in 1897 of 45,000, of whom about...
Ungarisch Hradisch JE ...
Adolph HÜbsch JE American preacher; born at Liptó-Szent-Miklós, Hungary, Sept. 18, 1830; died in New York city Oct. 10, 1884. H&#252...
Huesca JE City in Aragon. Toward the end of the thirteenth century it contained a specially privileged Jewish community of 160; it also...
Huete JE Spanish city, in the bishopric of Cuenca. A considerable Jewish community lived there in the thirteenth century. The city...
Hugh Of Lincoln JE Alleged victim of ritual murder by the Jews of Lincoln in 1255. He appears to have been the illegitimate son of a woman named...
Hukkok JE Place on the borders of Naphtali, near Aznot Tabor (Josh. xix. 34). As the frontier line coincided with the western limit...
Huldah JE Prophetess; wife of Shallum, the keeper of the wardrobe in the time of King Josiah. She dwelt in the second quarter of Jerusalem...
Hull JE Seaport of Yorkshire, England. It has a population (1901) of over 241,753, including about 2,500 Jews. The earliest trace...
hullin JE Treatise of the Babylonian Talmud, including Mishnah, Tosefta, and Gemara; it is not found in the Jerusalem Talmud. While...
HÜlsner JE ...
hultha JE One of the seven seas which, according to the Talmudists, surround Palestine (B. B. 74b; Yer. Ket. xii. 3; Kil. ix. 5; Midr...
Human Sacrifice JE ...
Humanists JE Scholars who revived the culture of antiquity and the study of classical literature. The Renaissance, which heightened enthusiasm...
Humility JE The quality of being humble.—Biblical Data: Judaism, in its conception of humility as in its conception of many other...
Huna JE Babylonian amora of the second generation and head of the Academy of Sura; born about 216 (212 according to Grätz); died...
Abba Ha-kohen Huna JE ...
Huna Bar Abbin Ha-kohen JE Palestinian amora of the first half of the fourth century; pupil of R. Jeremiah, in whose name he reports some halakic and...
Huna B Hanina (hinena) JE Babylonian amora of the fifth generation (4th cent.). His principal teachers were Abaye (in whose school R. Safra and Abba...
Huna B Joshua JE Babylonian amora of the fifth generation; died in 410 (Samson of Chinon, "Sefer Keritut," p. 26a, Cremona, 1558). He was the...
Mar Huna JE ...
Huna B Nathan JE Babylonian scholar of the fourth and fifth centuries. He was the pupil of Amemar II. and a senior and companion of Ashi, to...
Hungary JE Kingdom in central Europe, forming part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. It is not definitely known when Jews first settled...
Hunting JE Pursuit of wild game; the common means of obtaining food before the pastoral or agricultural stage of development. The Hebrews...
Hermann Hupfeld JE German Christian Biblical scholar; born at Marburg March 31, 1796; died at Halle April 24, 1866. He was professor of Old Testament...
huppah JE A Hebrew word signifying a canopy (Isa. iv. 5; Lev. R. xxv.; Eccl. R. vii. 11), especially the bridal canopy. Subsequently...
Hur JE Man of Judah, the grandfather of Bezaleel, the chief artificer of the Tabernacle (Ex. xxxi. 2, xxxv. 30, xxxviii. 22). According...
Israel (z Libin) Hurewitz JE Russian-American playwright; born Dec., 1872, at Gorki, government of Moghilef. Between 1885 and 1888 he received some secular...
Hurwitz JE ...
Adolf Hurwitz JE German mathematician; born March 26, 1859, at Hildesheim; studied at Munich, Berlin, and Leipsic. In 1882 he became privat-docent...
Hayyim Dob Hurwitz JE Russian economist and journalist; born about 1864 at Gorki, government of Moghilef. His father, a teacher of religion, destined...
Hayyim Ben Joshua Moses Abraham Ha-levi Hurwitz JE Russian rabbi in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was the author of: "Sefer Mayim Ḥayyim," explanations...
Hyman Hurwitz JE Professor of Hebrew and author; born 1770; died 1844. He was a native of Poland, in which country he acquired great proficiency...
Judah Ben Mordecai Ha-levi Hurwitz JE Russian physician and author; born at Wilna in the first half of the eighteenth century; died at Grodno Nov. 12, 1797. He...
Lazar Lipman Hurwitz JE Russian scholar; born 1815; died at Wilna Oct. 21, 1852. He acted for many years as private instructor at Wilna, and then...
Moses B Isaac Ha-levi Hurwitz JE Russian preacher; native of Krozh, government of Kovno, Russia; died in Wilna Oct. 25, 1820. He was on intimate terms with...
Phinehas Elijah Hurwitz JE Hebrew writer; born in Wilna; died in Cracow in 1812. While a youth he went to Buchach, a hamlet in Galicia, where he began...
Immanuel Ben Menahem Sefardi Ibn husain JE Talmudist of the sixteenth century; author of "Kelale ha-Gemara," rules of the Gemara, published in the collection of Abraham...
Husband And Wife JE As a punishment for her initiative in the first sin, the wife is to be subjected to her husband, and he is to rule over her...
Husbandry JE See Agrarian Laws; Land-Lord and Tenant; Sabbatical Year. This article...
Hushai JE Companion of David, generally called the Archite. When David was pursued by Absalom he sent Hushai to frustrate Absalom&#39...
hushiel Ben Elhanan JE President of the bet ha-midrash at Kairwan toward the end of the tenth century. He was born probably in Italy. According to...
Georg Huth JE German Orientalist and explorer; born Feb. 25, 1867, at Krotoschin, Prussia. In 1885 he entered the University of Berlin,...
Ulrich Von Hutten JE Poet and satirist; born in the castle of Steckelberg, near Fulda, April 2l, 1488; died on the Isle of Ufnau, Lake Zurich,...
huyayy Ibn AkhṬab JE Chief of the Banu al-Nadir; executed at Medina March, 627. Ḥuyayy was a courageous warrior and the most inveterate enemy...
huẒpa JE Aramaic word meaning "impudence," used frequently in the Talmud, in late rabbinical literature, and in common parlance. In...
Abraham Hyams JE Beni-Israel physician; died March 20, 1897; son of Hacem Samuel, president of the Beni-Israel School, Bombay. After taking...
Henry Michael Hyams JE American lawyer; born at Charleston, S. C., March 4, 1806, of English parents: died at New Orleans 1875; educated in Charleston...
Hyena JE The translation by the Septuagint of "ẓabua'" (Jer. xii. 9); the rendering of the Vulgate being "avis tincta," and...
Hyksos JE Name of a line of Egyptian kings, occurring in a passage of Manetho quoted by Josephus ("Contra Ap." § 14). It is said...
Hymnology JE ...
Hyneman JE American family of remote Spanish and modern German origin, the record of whose early history is fragmentary. The first authentic...
Hypocrisy JE A word derived from the Greek ὑποκρίσις="the playing a part on the stage." It...
Hypothecation JE ...
Hypsistarians JE Semi-Jewish sect found on the Bosporus in the first Christian century and in Asia Minor down to the fourth century. They worshiped...
Hyrcanus JE Collector of the royal revenues in Egypt; born in Jerusalem about 220 B.C.; died in 175; youngest son of the tax-farmer Joseph...
John (johanan) I Hyrcanus JE High priest; prince of the Hasmonean family; born about 175; died 104 (Schürer). He was a wise and just ruler and a skilful...
Hyrcanus Ii JE High priest from about 79 to 40 B.C.; eldest son of Alexander Jannæus and Alexandra. His mother, who had installed him...
Hyssop JE There is great uncertainty as to what specific plant is intended either by the Hebrew "ezob" or by the Greek ύσ&#963...

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