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  1. Kab JE ...
  2. Ka'b Al-ahbar JE One of the most prominent fathers of Moslem tradition, and one of those who introduced into this branch of Arab literature...
  3. Ka'b Al-ashraf JE Jewish poet of Medina and an implacable enemy of Mohammed. His father was an Arab of the family of Nabhan (a branch of the...
  4. Kabbalah JE ...
  5. Abraham Al- KabiṢi JE Printer in Constantinople in the sixteenth century. Together with Judah Sason and Moses ben Joseph Hamon he published "Toledot...
  6. Eduard Kabos JE Hungarian journalist and writer; born Dec. 2, 1864, at Nagy-Karoly. He entered the University of Budapest for the purpose...
  7. Kaddish JE Name of the doxology recited, with congregational responses, at the close of the prayers in the synagogue; originally, and...
  8. Gustav Kadelburg JE German actor and dramatist; born Jan. 26, 1851. He made his first appearance at Leipsic in 1869, and two years later played...
  9. Kadesh JE A place on the western frontier of Edom, in the "wilderness of Paran," "eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of...
  10. Kadisch, Zerah B MeÏr, Of Prague JE Teacher in Rechnitz, Hungary, in the first half of the nineteenth century. In the preface of his "Oẓar ha-Ḥayyim"...
  11. Saul Isaac Kaempf JE Austrian rabbi and Orientalist; born at Lissa, Posen, May 6, 1818; died at Prague Oct. 16, 1892. He received his first lessons...
  12. Kaf JE Eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The name is generally taken to mean "hollow of the hand," to which the shape of the...
  13. Kaffa JE Town in the Crimea, Russia. It existed as a Greek colony at the beginning of the common era, and, like the rest of such colonies...
  14. Kahal JE A Hebrew word meaning "assembly" or "community," and applied formerly to the local governments of the Jewish communities in...
  15. Abraham Kahan JE Russian Hebrew author; born Dec. 19, 1874, at Skomorochy, near Jitomir. He has written or edited the following works: an anthology...
  16. Abraham Aryeh LÖb Kahana JE Russian rabbi of the eighteenth century; author of "Or ha-Ne'erab," Talmudic commentary, with supplementary notes by his...
  17. David Kahana JE ...
  18. Eliezer Ben Reuben Kahana JE Preacher and homiletic exegete in Karlin at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He wrote: "Siaḥ Sefunim" (Zolkiev...
  19. Jacob Ben Abraham Kahana JE Rabbinical author; died in Wilna 1826. His father was rabbi at Brestowitz, government of Grodno. Jacob was the son-in-law...
  20. Rab Kahana JE Grand rabbi of Constantinople (1854-1860); born 1785; died 1860 (Franco, "Hist. des Isr. de l'Empire Ottoman," 1897).S...
  21. Kahana B Tahlifa JE Babylonian amora of the third century. He is mentioned only twice in the Babylonian Talmud; viz., in Men. 66b, where he refutes...
  22. Kahinah Dahiyah Bint Thabitah Ibn Tifan JE Jewish princess of a Berber tribe likewise called Kahinah; lived in the second half of the seventh century. According to the...
  23. Kahiya JE Title of a political representative in Turkey. The word, pronounced "kehya" or "kyahya," is Turkish and is a corruption of...
  24. Joseph Kahn JE German rabbi and preacher; born at Wawern, a small village near Treves, Sept. 2, 1809; died at Amsterdam July 10, 1875. He...
  25. Lehman Kahn JE Belgian educationist and writer; born Sept. 9, 1827, at Breisach, Baden, Germany; educated at the Progymnasium of Breisach...
  26. Robert Kahn JE German composer and pianist; born at Mannheim July 21, 1865; a pupil of Ernst Frank and Vincenz Lachner (Mannheim), Friedrich...
  27. Zadoc Kahn JE Chief rabbi of France; born Feb. 18, 1839, at Mommenheim, Alsace. In 1856 he entered the rabbinical school of Metz, finishing...
  28. Aaron Samuel Ben Israel Kaidanover JE Polish rabbi; born at Wilna 1614; died at Cracow Dec. 1, 1676 (Michael; but Azulai and Horovitz give 1679; see bibliography)...
  29. Ẓebi Hirsch Kaidanover JE Native of Wilna; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main March 23, 1712; son of Rabbi Aaron Samuel Kaidanover; pupil of Joseph ben Judah...
  30. Kaidansky JE ...
  31. K'ai-fung-foo JE ...
  32. Kainan JE Son of Arphaxad and father of Salah; mentioned only in Gen. xi. 13 (LXX.), Book of Jubilees, viii. 1-4, and Luke iii. 36;...
  33. Kairwan JE City in the regency of Tunis, thirty miles inland from Susa, and about eighty miles south of the capital. Next to Tunis, it...
  34. Alois Kaiser JE Ḥazzan and composer; born Nov. 10, 1840, at Szobotist, Hungary. He received his early education in the religious school...
  35. Baruch Ben Solomon Kala'i JE Rabbi of Sardokupis (Serai Keui?), Asia Minor; flourished at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was the author of...
  36. Mordecai B Solomon Kala'i JE Turkish rabbi and author; lived in the first half of the seventeenth century. He was the pupil of R. Aaron Ḥason, R...
  37. Samuel Ben Joseph Kala'i JE Karaite scholar of Chufut-Kale, Crimea; died Feb. 17, 1754. He was the author of a work entitled "Me'il Shemuel," a commentary...
  38. Samuel Ben Moses Kala'i JE Italian Talmudist; flourished in the first half of the sixteenth century at Venice. He was a pupil of David Cohen of Corfu...
  39. Kalam JE ...
  40. Kalamazoo JE ...
  41. Judah KalaẒ (khallaṢ) JE Cabalist and moralist; lived in Algeria, probably at Tlemçen, at the beginning of the sixteenth century. The surname...
  42. Kalba Sabua' JE ...
  43. Moses Ben Malka Kalifa JE Poet and controversialist; born at Safi, Morocco, toward the end of the seventeenth century. He belonged on his mother&#39...
  44. Kalilah Wa-dimnah JE Book of Indian fables which has been translated into most of the languages of the Old World. It appears to have been composed...
  45. Eleazar Kalir JE One of the earliest and the most prolific of the payyeṭanim or liturgical poets. In the acrostics of his hymns he usually...
  46. Bertha Kalisch JE Austrian actress; born at Lemberg; made her début in 1893 at the Scarbeck Theater, Lemberg, in a minor rôle in "Mignon"...
  47. David Kalisch JE German playwright and humorist; born at Breslau Feb. 23, 1820; died at Berlin Aug. 21, 1872. His infancy and early childhood...
  48. Isidor Kalisch JE American rabbi and author; born Nov. 15, 1816, at Krotoschin; died May 11, 1886, at Newark, N. J.; studied theology, philosophy...
  49. Ludwig Kalisch JE German novelist; born Sept. 7, 1814, at Lissa; died March 3, 1882, at Paris. When only twelve years of age he left his home...
  50. Marcus M Kalisch JE Hebraist and Bible commentator; born at Treptow, Pomerania, May 16, 1828; died in Derbyshire, England, Aug. 24, 1885. He was...
  51. Moses Ben Benjamin Wolf Meseritz Kalisch JE Polish physician of the seventeenth century. He was the author of: "Yerushat Mosheh" (2 vols., Frankfort-on-the-Main and Wilmersdorf...
  52. Paul Kalisch JE German singer; born at Berlin Nov. 6, 1855; son of David Kalisch, founder of the "Kladderadatsch." Kalisch was destined for...
  53. Jehiel Michael Ben Aryeh Kalischer JE Polish rabbi of the seventeenth century; died in 1713 at an advanced age. The name "Kalischer" indicates either that he was...
  54. Judah LÖb Ben Moses Kalischer JE German Talmudist; died April 18, 1822, at Lissa, where he was dayyan. Kalischer was the head of the yeshibah of Lissa for...
  55. Solomon Kalischer JE German composer, pianist, and physicist; born Oct. 8, 1845, at Thorn, West Prussia. He studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary...
  56. Ẓebi Hirsch Kalischer JE German rabbi and colonizer; born March 24, 1795, at Lissa, Posen; died Oct. 16, 1874, at Thorn, on the Vistula. Destined for...
  57. Abraham Ben Alexander Ha-kohen Kalisker JE Rabbi of Kaliska, Prussia, in the eighteenth century. Kalisker studied successively under Elijah Wilna and Bär of Meseritz...
  58. Kalisz JE City in the government of the same name in Russian Poland; situated on the River Prosna, near the Prussian frontier. Its Jewish...
  59. Christian Andreas Herman Kalkar JE Danish convert to Protestantism; born Nov. 27, 1802, at Stockholm; died at Gladsaxe, near Copenhagen, Feb. 3, 1886. He received...
  60. Kallah JE Name of a teachers' convention which was held in Babylonian academies, after the beginning of the amoraic period, in the...
  61. Eleazar B Eleazar Kallir JE Hungarian rabbi and author; died at Kolin, Bohemia, in 1805; grandson of Meïr Eisenstadt, author of "Panim Me'irot...
  62. Kalman Vermeisa (of Worms) JE Polish rabbi; died in Lemberg on April 28, 1560; the first known rabbi of that community and one of the earliest great rabbis...
  63. Kalmankes JE ...
  64. Abraham Ben Moses Kalomiti JE Turkish scholar of the fifteenth century. To him is attributed the rationalistic commentary on Job found in manuscript in...
  65. Kalonymus JE A prominent family (originally from Lucca, Italy), which, after the settlement at Mayence and Speyer of several of its members...
  66. Kalonymus JE ...
  67. Kalonymus Ben David Ben Todros JE French translator; lived in the first half of the fourteenth century. He translated (after 1328) from the Arabic into Hebrew...
  68. Kalonymus Ben Gershon JE German Talmudist of the thirteenth century. He was a contemporary of Eleazar of Worms and Menahem ben Jacob, with whom he...
  69. Kalonymus Ben Judah JE Italian physician; born in Naples; lived at Venice in the first half of the sixteenth century. He attained a high reputation...
  70. Kalonymus Ben Kalonymus Ben MeÏr JE Provençal philosopher and translator; born at Arles 1286; died after 1328. He was a descendant of a prominent Proven&#231...
  71. Kalonymus Ben Meshullam JE Head of the community of Mayence at the time of the first Crusade. He is said to have sent a messenger to King Henry IV. in...
  72. Kalonymus Nasi JE Provençal liturgical poet; flourished at Beaucaire in the middle of the thirteenth century. He was the author of a liturgical...
  73. Kalonymus Ben Shabbethai JE Halakist, exegete, and liturgical poet; born at Rome about 1030. His father was president of the Jewish community, and his...
  74. Kalonymus Ben Todros JE French scholar; flourished at Narbonne in the second half of the twelfth century. He bore the title "Nasi," and was the leader...
  75. Joseph Kalti JE ...
  76. Kalvariya JE District town in the government of Suwalki, Russian Poland. In 1897 it had a total population of 8,420, including about 7...
  77. Moses MeÏr Kamanker JE Polish Shabbethaian; lived at Zolkiev in the first half of the eighteenth century. An excellent Talmudist, and possessing...
  78. Kamenetz-podolsk JE Russian city; capital of the government of Podolia. In 1900 it contained a population of 34,483, about half being Jews. Among...
  79. Kamhi JE ...
  80. Isaac Ben Abraham Kaminer JE Russian physician and Hebrew poet and satirist; born at Levkiev, near Jitomir, in 1834; died at Bern, Switzerland, March 30...
  81. Armand Kaminka JE Russian scholar; born at Berdychev May 5, 1866; educated at the rabbinical seminary of Israel Hildesheimer, Berlin (1880)...
  82. Kammerknechtschaft JE Expression for the political condition of the Jews in the German empire, signifying that the revenue derived from them was...
  83. Abraham B MeÏr Ibn Kamnial (kambil) JE Spanish physician and patron of poetry and literature; protector of the Jewish communities in Spain, Babylonia, and Egypt...
  84. KamẒa JE Two persons who, according to a Talmudic legend (Giṭ. 55b-56a), were the cause of the destruction of Jerusalem. A certain...
  85. Kanah Abigdor JE A cabalistic writer of the fifteenth century, who lived either in Spain (Graetz) or in Italy or in Greece (Jellinek). In the...
  86. August Kanitz JE Hungarian botanist; born April 25, 1843, at Lugos; died July 12, 1896, at Klausenburg. While a student at the University of...
  87. Felix Philipp Kanitz JE Hungarian archeologist and ethnographer; born at Budapest Aug. 2, 1829; died at Vienna Jan. 8, 1904. When only seventeen years...
  88. Edouard Kann JE French musician; born at Paris Feb. 28, 1857; pupil of Massenet and Duvernoy. In 1895, at Lyons, he produced "Ruth," an oratorio...
  89. Moses Kann JE German rabbi; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main; died there Dec. 1, 1762; son of Löb Kann. He was chief rabbi of Hesse-Darmstadt...
  90. Kanna'im JE ...
  91. Kansas JE One of the northern central states of the United States; admitted to the Union in 1861. In 1830 immigrants settled in a spot...
  92. Kansas City JE ...
  93. Samuel Kansi JE French astronomer of the fourteenth century. The surname "Kansi" () is an incorrectly formed adjective of the Hebrew noun...
  94. Judah LÖb B Joseph Kantor JE Russian journalist; born in Wilna 1849; government rabbi of Libau, Courland. For a short time he studied at the rabbinical...
  95. Kantor, Der JÜdische, Wochenblatt für die Gesammt-interessen Aller Kantoren und Cultusbeamten JE Weekly; published at Bromberg, Prussia, beginning in 1879. Its editor is A. Blaustein, the founder of the German Israelitish...
  96. Abraham Kaplan JE Russian Hebrew writer; born at Wilke July 25, 1839; died at Vienna Feb. 2, 1897. Having acquired a reputation as a good Hebrew...
  97. Jacques Kaplan JE Russian painter and designer; born at Sebastopol July 19, 1872. He went to Paris, and in 1885 entered the Paris Ecole des...
  98. Wolf Ha-kohen Kaplan JE Russian teacher and Hebrew poet; born at Trishki, government of Kovno, in 1826; died at Riga June 14, 1888; pupil of M. A...
  99. hayyim Kaposi(v07p435002jpg) JE Dayyan in Egypt about 1600. He became known later as the "Ba'al ha-Nes," through a miracle which is said to have happened...
  100. Moriz KapÓsi (kohn) JE Austrian dermatologist; born at Kaposvár, Hungary, Oct. 23, 1837; died March 6, 1902. After graduating (M.D., 1861) from...
  101. Kapparah JE An animal used as a sort of vicarious sacrifice on the day previous to the Day of Atonement. As a rule, a cock is taken by...
  102. Siegfried Kapper JE Austrian poet and physician; born at Smichow near Prague, March 21, 1821; died at Pisa June 7, 1879; educated at the gymnasium...
  103. Abigdor Ben Isaac Kara JE Bohemian cabalist and liturgical poet; died at Prague April 10, 1439. He lived for a time at Ratisbon, but settled permanently...
  104. Abraham Ben Abigdor Kara JE Bohemian chief rabbi, rosh yeshibah, and liturgist; died at Prague Oct. 7, 1542. He wrote a super-commentary on Rashi to the...
  105. Joseph Ben Simeon Kara JE French Bible exegete; lived in Troyes, where, probably, he was born about 1060-70; died between 1130 and 1140. His uncle and...
  106. Menahem Ben Jacob Kara JE Bohemian scholar; flourished at Prague in the first half of the fifteenth century. He was a near relative, perhaps a half-brother...
  107. Simeon Kara JE French rabbi; lived in Mans in the eleventh century; brother of Menahem ben Ḥelbo and father of Joseph Ḳara. For...
  108. Karaites And Karaism JE The Karaites () = "Followers of the Bible") were a Jewish sect, professing, in its religious observances and opinions, to...
  109. W M Karamzin JE ...
  110. Josef Kareis JE Austrian electrician and deputy; born at Semic, Bohemia, Feb. 14, 1837; studied at the technical institute in Prague. From...
  111. Karet JE ...
  112. Aaron Ben Judah LÖb Ha-kohen Karfunkel JE Bohemian rabbi. After having successively filled the rabbinates of Gawartschew, Lask, Dasparschi, and Widowa, he was called...
  113. Siegfried Karfunkelstein JE German soldier; born at Beuthen, Silesia, Feb. 21,1848; died on the field of battle at Le Bourget Oct. 30, 1870. He volunteered...
  114. Mendel Kargau JE German Talmudist; born 1772 at Prostibor, Bohemia; died 1842 at Fürth. He was a disciple of Ezekiel Landau in Prague...
  115. Karigel JE ...
  116. Karlin JE ...
  117. Karlsbad JE Town in Bohemia; famous for its mineral springs; first made popular by the emperor Charles IV. in 1350. When King Ladislaus...
  118. Karlsruhe (carlsruhe) JE German city; capital of the grand duchy of Baden. Jews began to settle there soon after its foundation (1715) by Margrave...
  119. Karlstadt JE ...
  120. Moritz KÁrmÁn JE Hungarian educator; born Dec. 25, 1843, at Szegedin. He was brought up under the influence of Leopold Löw. While preparing...
  121. Ha- Karmel JE ...
  122. Karmi JE Family name, the Biblical "Carmi" (Num. xxvi. 6); it was used, according to Gross, as a gentilic adjective to the French "Cr&#233...
  123. Karmion (kirmion) JE One of the four principal rivers of Palestine (Yer. Kil. ix. 5; Yer. Ket. xii. 3; B. B. 74b). Owing to its small tributaries...
  124. Sofia Karp JE Rumanian Jewish actress; born at Galatz, Rumania, 1861; died in New York March 31, 1904; the first actress to appear on the...
  125. Eliezer Karpeles JE Austrian rabbi; born at Prague about 1754; died April 27, 1832, at Lieben, near Prague. For nearly forty years he was district...
  126. Gustav Karpeles JE Historian of literature; editor; son of Elijah Karpeles; born Nov. 11, 1848, at Eiwanowitz, Moravia; studied at the University...
  127. Joseph Ben Nissim KaṢabi (v07p451001jpg) JE Turkish Talmudist of the seventeenth century; died between 1696 and 1698. In 1650 he is mentioned as a distinguished dayyan...
  128. Kasher JE Original meaning, "fit," "proper" (as in Esth. viii. 5; Eccl. x. 10, xi. 6); later, in rabbinical literature, it took the...
  129. Kasmunah JE Jewish poetess, Andalusian by birth; lived in the twelfth or thirteenth century and wrote in Arabic. Al-Maḳḳari...
  130. Max Kassowitz JE Austrian physician; born at Presburg, Hungary, Aug. 14, 1842; M.D., Vienna, 1863. For many years assistant to L. Politzer...
  131. Bertha Katscher JE Hungarian writer; born at Treutschin, Hungary, June 12, 1860. She was educated by her aunt, by whom she was taken to Herzegovina...
  132. KaṬṬina JE Babylonian amora of the second generation (3d cent.); known both as halakist and as haggadist. He was a pupil of Rab (Abba...
  133. Albert Katz JE Rabbi and author; born July 17, 1858, at Lodz (Russian Poland). He studied at the yeshibot of Lublin and Wilna and then (1881)...
  134. Ludwig Katz JE German otologist and laryngologist; born at Loslau Jan. 1, 1848; graduated (M.D.) from Berlin University in 1872. He began...
  135. Katzenellenbogen JE An old, widely ramified family counting many rabbis among its members, who were and are still found in Italy, Poland, Germany...
  136. Judah LÖb B Israel Katzenelson JE Russian physician; born in Bobruisk 1848. He studied in the rabbinical school of Jitomir and in the Imperial Medico-Surgical...
  137. Samuel Judah LÖb Ben David Kauders JE Bohemian rabbi; born at Prague about 1762; died there May 6, 1838. After having finished his studies in that city, he devoted...
  138. Alexander Arkadyevich Kaufman JE Russian political economist; born 1864. After graduating in law from the University of St. Petersburg, he was commissioned...
  139. Arkadya (aaron) Kaufman JE Russian communal worker; born at Grodno early in the nineteenth century; died at St. Petersburg April 19, 1893. While receiving...
  140. Illarion Ignatyevich Kaufman JE Russian political economist; born at Odessa 1847. He graduated from the University of Kharkof, and entered the government...
  141. David Kaufmann JE Austrian scholar; born at Kojetein, Moravia, June 7, 1852; died at Karlsbad, Bohemia, July 6, 1899. He was educated at Kojetein...
  142. Isidor Kaufmann JE Hungarian painter; born March 22, 1853, at Arad. He was originally destined for a commercial career, and could fulfil his...
  143. Moses Jekuthiel Kaufmann JE Polish Talmudist; born at Krotoschin about the middle of the seventeenth century. He was a son-in-law of Abraham Abele Gombiner...
  144. Kaula Al-yahudi JE Jewish general of the eighth century; appointed by Tariḳ; fought valiantly at Xerez against the Visigoths at the head...
  145. Kaulla JE Württemberg family, distinguished for patriotism and benevolence. The leading members have been: Jacob Raphael Kaulla:...
  146. Kavala JE Settlement in Macedonia, on the Ægean Sea opposite the island of Thasos. It is nine miles southwest of Old Kavala, the...
  147. Kawwanah JE Aside from the general idea of devotion conveyed by this Hebrew word (see Devotion), the term is used in the plural form by...
  148. Paul Kayser JE German jurist and diplomat; born at Oels, Silesia, Aug. 9, 1845; died atLeipsic Feb. 13, 1898. He was admitted to the bar...
  149. Meyer Kayserling JE German rabbi and historian; born in Hanover June 17, 1829; died at Budapest, April 21, 1905; educated at Halberstadt, Nikolsburg...
  150. Simon Kayserling JE German educator and writer; born at Hanover Aug. 31, 1834; died there April 22, 1898; brother of Meyer Kayserling. He attended...
  151. Simeon Kayyara JE Babylonian halakist of the first half of the ninth century. The early identification of his surname with "Ḳahirah,"...
  152. KaẒ JE A frequent Jewish family name, spelled also "Katz," and found in similar forms, such as "Katzer." It is an abbreviation formed...
  153. Kazimierz JE ...
  154. Edmund Kean JE English actor; born in London Nov. 4 (?), 1787; died at Richmond, near London, May 15, 1833. He was the natural son of Aaron...
  155. KecskemÉt JE ...
  156. Kedar JE One of the sons of Ishmael (Gen. xxv. 13; I Chron. i. 29). The name is also applied in Scripture to the tribe that sprang...
  157. Kedeshah JE The ḳedeshot were sacred prostitutes attached to the Temple as priestesses of Ashtoreth or Astarte. The worship of Ashtoreth...
  158. Kedushshah JE The third benediction of the 'Amidah is called "Holiness of the Name" (R. H. iv. 4), to distinguish it from "Holiness...
  159. Keefar-nahun JE ...
  160. Kefar-salama (caphar-salama) JE Scene of Nicanor's unsuccessful attack upon Judas Maccabeus (I Macc. vii. 31; comp. Josephus, "Ant." xii. 10, § 4)...
  161. Kehillah JE ...
  162. Keilah JE A city of Judah in the Shephelah, commonly identified with the modern Khurbat Kila, seven miles east of Eleutheropolis. The...
  163. Kelim JE Treatise in the Mishnah and in the Tosefta, dealing chiefly with a more precise definition of the rules in Lev. xi. 32 et...
  164. Naphtali Keller JE Austrian scholar; born at Tarnow, Galicia, Jan. 25, 1834; died at Rožnau, Moravia, Aug. 5, 1865; son of Israel Mendel...
  165. Leon Kellner JE Austrian scholar; born at Tarnow 1859. He studied Bible and Talmud up to the age of eighteen, then academic subjects at the...
  166. Kelmer Maggid JE See Moses Isaac of Chelm. This article is Rated: 2.72 ...
  167. Arthur Kelter JE American athlete; born in New York city March 3, 1869; went to San Francisco, Cal., when nine years old. Kelter became a gymnast...
  168. Friederike Kempner JE German poet; born at Opatow, Posen, June 25, 1836; died at Friederikenhof Feb. 23, 1904. She early developed aninterest in...
  169. Gabriel Kempner JE Polish jurist and author; born at Kalisz, Poland, July 4, 1855. After having finished his curriculum at Kalisz he studied...
  170. Max Kempner JE German author; born at Breslau March 5, 1863. He began his literary career when twenty-five, with a volume of poems, "Buch...
  171. Stanislaw Alexander Kempner JE Polish economist and publicist; born in 1857 at Kalisz, Poland; studied law in the University of Warsaw, and was graduated...
  172. Kenaz JE 1. Son of Eliphaz, and grandson of Esau; one of the dukes of Edom (Gen. xxxvi. 11, 16, 42). His clan, called "the Kenizzite"...
  173. Kenedeus JE ...
  174. Keneset Ha-gedolah JE ...
  175. Kenezites JE ...
  176. Kenites JE A tribe of Palestine, mentioned in the time of Abraham as possessing a part of the promised land (Gen. xv. 19). At the Exodus...
  177. Benjamin Kennicott JE English Christian Hebraist; born at Totness, England, April 4, 1718; died at Oxford Aug. 18, 1783. He was, at first, master...
  178. Kentucky JE One of the south central states of the United States; admitted in 1792. Its most important Jewish community is at Louisville...
  179. Kephas JE ...
  180. Kere And Ketib JE ...
  181. Kerem JE ...
  182. Kerem Hemed JE Hebrew periodical, edited and published in Vienna in 1833 and 1836 (vols. i. and ii.) and in Prague from 1838 to 1843 (vols...
  183. Kermanshah JE Capital of the Persian province of Ardilan, on the road between Bagdad and Hamadan. Benjamin II. found there forty Jewish...
  184. Kerobot JE A term applied to the scheme of Piyyuṭim in the earlier part of the repetition of the morning 'Amidah on special...
  185. Kertch JE Russian seaport at the eastern extremity of the Crimean peninsula; the ancient Panticapæon. A Greek inscription on a...
  186. Kesitah JE ...
  187. Ketubah JE A marriage contract, containing among other things the settlement on the wife of a certain amount payable at her husband&#39...
  188. Ketubim JE ...
  189. Ketubot JE Treatise in the Mishnah, the Tosefta, and in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. In the Mishnaic order of the Seder Nashim...
  190. Keturah JE Abraham's second wife, whom he married after the death of Sarah (Gen. xxv. 1; I Chron. i. 32). She was the ancestress...
  191. Key JE In Biblical times the key, as its Hebrew name indicates ("mafteaḥ" = "the opener"), was used chiefly to open the door...
  192. Ephraim Keyser JE American sculptor; born at Baltimore, Md., Oct. 6, 1850; educated at the City College of Baltimore and at the art academies...
  193. Khaibar JE Fortified town of Arabia in the district of Hejaz, and four days' journey northwest of the city of Medina. In the time...
  194. Kherson JE Russian city; capital of the government of the same name; situated on the right bank of the Dnieper, near its mouth. It was...
  195. Rachel Mironovna Khin JE Russian authoress; born in White Russia in 1863; educated at the Women's gymnasium, Moscow; studied medicine at St. Petersburg...
  196. Kholm (chelm) JE Russian district town in the government of Lublin. Its Jews are mentioned in various documents of 1550 to 1569. In the latter...
  197. Khorasan JE One of the five great divisions of Persia, bounded on the east by Afghanistan; on the north by Zakaspie, the transcaspian...
  198. Khudaidad JE ...
  199. Joseph Daniel Khurilkar JE BeniIsrael soldier; bahadur subahdar in the Anglo-Indian army. He enlisted in the Sixteenth Regiment Bengal Native Infantry...
  200. Samuel Ezekiel Khurilkar JE Beni-Israel soldier; subahdar in the Anglo-Indian army. He enlisted in the Sixteenth Native Infantry of Bengal in 1790, and...
  201. Kiamil Pasha JE Turkish official; born at Nicosia, Cyprus, in 1832. Educated on that island and in Egypt, he at the age of seventeen entered...
  202. Kibroth-hattaavah JE A station of the Israelites in the wilderness on the journey from Sinai to Kadesh (Num. xi. 34, xxxiii. 16). The name, which...
  203. Kid JE ...
  204. Kiddush JE Ceremony and prayer by which the holiness of the Sabbath or of a festival is proclaimed. For the Sabbath the Scripture imposes...
  205. Kiddush Lebanah JE ...
  206. Kiddush Ha-shem JE Terms denoting the highest positive and negative standards of Jewish ethics, the one indicating that everything within man&#39...
  207. Kiddushin JE Name of a treatise in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds; it is devoted chiefly to discussion...
  208. Kidnaping JE ...
  209. Kidron JE A ravine on the east of Jerusalem, separating the city from the Mount of Olives (comp. II Sam. xv. 23, 30). Except in II Kings...
  210. Kiera (esther) JE Jewish favorite of the sultana Baffa, who was the wife of Murad III. and the mother of Mohammed III. (not, as Graetz designates...
  211. Kiev JE "The mother of Russian cities"; situated on the right bank of the Dnieper, in the government of the same name. In 1902 it...
  212. Kihaya JE Title of the political representatives of the rayas, i.e., the non-Mohammedan Turkish subjects, at the Porte. The Jewish representative...
  213. Kikkar JE The central and more extensive part of the Jordan valley, referred to in Gen. xiii. 10, 12; xix. 17, 25, 28, 29; Deut. xxxiv...
  214. Kil'ayim JE Name of a treatise of the Mishnah, Tosefta, and the Palestinian Talmud. It belongs to the order Zera'im, and deals with...
  215. Ki Lo Na'eh JE A hymn, beginning thus, in the home-ritual for Passover eve, and one of the latest constituents of the Seder Haggadah, dating...
  216. Kimberley JE ...
  217. Kimhi JE Name of a family of scholars, the earliest known members of which lived at the end of the eleventh and in the twelfth century...
  218. Solomon Kimhi JE Turkish rabbinical author; lived at Constantinople in the middle of the nineteenth century. In 1862 he published "Meleket...
  219. Kinah JE Lamentation chanted in honor of the dead; it has a halting movement peculiar to itself, and ranges from a dirge or wail to...
  220. Kinanah JE Opponent of Mohammed; son of the poet Al-Rabi' ibn Abu al-Ḥuḳaiḳ, who flourished at Medina in the seventh...
  221. Kindbettbrief JE ...
  222. Aryeh LÖb Kinderfreund JE Polish scholar; born at Zamosc, government of Lublin, 1798; died at Lemberg 1873. In the earlier part of his life he was in...
  223. Kindling Of Lights JE ...
  224. King JE Chief ruler of a nation.—Biblical Data: In Jewish history the first ruler called "king" was Saul, son of Kish, but in...
  225. Kingdom Of God JE Targum to Zech. xiv. 9 and Ob. 21; "Malkut Shaddai ": 'Alenu; and "Malkut Shamayim": Ber. ii. 2, and elsewhere in Mishnah...
  226. Books Of Kings JE Fourth book of the second canonical division of the Hebrew Bible, the Prophets (). It contains a history of the kings of Judah...
  227. Kingston JE ...
  228. Kinnim JE Name of a treatise of the Mishnah in the series Ḳodashim. The Pentateuchal law ordains the sacrifice of two turtle-doves...
  229. Kinship JE ...
  230. Kinsman JE ...
  231. Kinyan JE ...
  232. Yom Ha- Kippurim JE ...
  233. Kir JE A people and country subject to the Assyrian empire. In II Kings xvi. 9 and Amos i. 5, ix. 7, Kir is mentioned as the place...
  234. Imre Kiralfy JE Musical composer; born in Budapest, Hungary, Jan. 1, 1845. He received his musical education at Budapest, Vienna, and Paris...
  235. Raphael Kirchheim JE German scholar; born in Frankfort-on-the-Main 1804; died there Sept. 6, 1889. For some time he was shoḥeṭ in the...
  236. Abraham Kirimi JE Crimean rabbi of the fourteenth century. According to Firkovitch ("C. I. H." No. 50), Kirimi was a proselyte and a pupil of...
  237. Kirjath-arba JE ...
  238. Kirjath-jearim JE 1. A descendant of Caleb, the son of Hur (I Chron. ii. 50, 52, 53). 2. One of the towns of the Gibeonites (Josh. ix. 17),...
  239. Kirjath-sepher JE City in the hill-country of Judah (Josh. xv. 49), situated to the south of Hebron (x. 38), on a prominence not very far from...
  240. Kirjathaim JE City on the Moabite plateau, assigned by Moses to Reuben; mentioned with Heshbon and Elealeh (Num. xxxii. 37) as well as with...
  241. Abu Yusuf Ya'kub Al- Kirkisani JE Karaite dogmatist and exegete; flourished in the first half of the tenth century; a native of Circassia (whence the name of...
  242. Kirk-kilisseh JE City in Thrace, European Turkey, 102 miles north of Constantinople. The name signifies in Turkish "forty churches."Kirk-Kilisseh...
  243. Eliezer Simon Kirschbaum JE Austrian physician and writer; born at Sieniawa, Galicia, 1797; died at Cracow 1860. After studying philosophy and medicine...
  244. Moritz Kirstein JE German physician; born at Filehne 1830; died in Berlin July 12, 1896. He studied at the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster, in Berlin...
  245. Kisch JE Family of some distinction; migrated in the 16th century from Chiesch in Bohemia; the founder of the family lived in Prague...
  246. Kish JE The father of Saul, the first king of Israel (I Sam. ix. 3, xii. 21, xiv. 51; I Chron. ix. 39, xii. 1, xxvi. 28). He was a...
  247. Kishinef (kishinev) JE Russian city; capital of the government of Bessarabia; it has a population of 147,962 (1904), including about 50,000 Jews...
  248. Kishon JE River in central Palestine; it rises to the south of Mount Gilboa, flows through the middle of the plain of Esdraelon, traverses...
  249. Kislew JE The ninth month of the Jewish calendar, corresponding to December. It has either twenty-nine or thirty days. In the Septuagint...
  250. Joseph Kiss JE Hungarian poet; born Nov. 8, 1843, at Mezöcsat. Being obliged by the death of his mother and financial ruin of his father...
  251. Kiss And Kissing JE The custom of kissing is not found among savage races, among whom other forms of greeting, such as rubbing of noses, take...
  252. Kissingen JE Bavarian health-resort; it has a total population of 4,024, including 333 Jews. Jews lived in Kissingen as early as the thirteenth...
  253. Kite JE ...
  254. Michael Kittseer JE Talmudic author; born in Kittsee (Köpcsèny), Hungary, about 1775; died at Presburg Sept. 28, 1845. He was a disciple...
  255. Jacob Ben Joseph Kitzinger JE Author and poet; lived in the second half of the sixteenth and at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He wrote "&#7716...
  256. KiẒweh JE In popular parlance, the weekly portion allotted to the local poor; also charity in general. The word "ḳiẓbah...
  257. Alfred Klaar JE Austrian writer; born at Prague Nov. 7, 1848; studied law and, later, German philology at the universities of Vienna and Prague...
  258. Julian (judah) Klaczko JE French publicist; born in Wilna, Russia, Nov. 6, 1825. His father belonged to one of the best Jewish families of Wilna, and...
  259. Levi Jerahmeel Klaczko JE Russian educator; born in Wilna June 28, 1840. Formerly a school-teacher in Berdyansk, Crimea, he now follows the same calling...
  260. Michael Klapp JE Austrian journalist and author; born in Prague 1834; died Feb. 25, 1888. He removed in 1855 to Vienna, where he devoted himself...
  261. Mordecai Ben Asher Klatzko JE Russian rabbi and author; born in Wilna 1797; died in Lida July 2, 1883. He was a descendant of Rabbi Mayer Katzenellenbogen...
  262. Klaus JE An institution where Talmudic scholars are given free lodging, and often a stipend in addition, in order that they may devote...
  263. Klausenburg (kolozsvÁr) JE Royal free city of Kolozs county, Hungary; formerly capital of the grand duchy of Transylvania (1691-1848). Until 1848 no...
  264. Abraham Klausner JE Austrian rabbi and ritualist; flourished at Vienna in the second half of the fourteenth century. He shared the rabbinical...
  265. Joseph Klausner JE Russian Hebrew writer; born at Olkeniki, government of Wilna, Aug. 14, 1874. In 1885 he went to Odessa and became a pupil...
  266. Clotilde Kleeberg JE Pianist; born at Paris June 27, 1866, of German parents. She studied with Mmes. Retz and Massart at the Conservatoire, where...
  267. Minna Cohen Kleeberg JE German-American poetess; born in Elmshorn, Holstein, Germany, July 21, 1841; died in New Haven, Conn., Dec. 31, 1878. Her...
  268. Adolph Klein JE German medical author; born at Merseburg-on-the-Saale May 18, 1829. He was educated at Leipsic (M.D. 1851), and practised...
  269. Charles Klein JE English dramatist; born at London Jan. 7, 1867; educated at the North London Collegiate School. Klein is the author of "A...
  270. Felix Klein JE German mathematician; born at Düsseldorf April 24, 1849; educated at the University of Bonn, where he became assistant...
  271. Hermann Klein JE English musical critic; born at Norwich July 23, 1856. He studied singing under Manuel Garcia from 1874 to 1877, and in 1888...
  272. Hugo Klein JE Hungarian writer; born at Szegedin July 21, 1853; educated at the University of Budapest. He was for several years editor...
  273. Joseph Klein JE ...
  274. Julius Klein JE Hungarian rabbi; born Aug. 2, 1850, at Zichyfalva; died July 24, 1895, at Alt-Ofen; educated at the gymnasia at Kecskemet...
  275. Julius Leopold Klein JE Hungarian poet and writer; convert to Christianity; born at Miskolcz, Hungary, 1810; died at Berlin Aug. 2, 1876; educated...
  276. Max Klein JE Hungarian sculptor; born Jan. 7, 1847, at Göncz; son of a poor country school-teacher. He was apprenticed first to a...
  277. Moritz Klein JE Hungarian rabbi; born July 7, 1842, at Miskolcz; studied philosophy at the University of Prague, attending at the same time...
  278. Philip Klein JE American rabbi; born May 22, 1848, at Baracska, Hungary. He was educated in the Talmudical schools of his native country and...
  279. Solomon Klein JE Austrian oculist; born at Miskolcz, Hungary, Aug. 12, 1845; M.D., Vienna, 1870. Since his graduation he has practised in the...
  280. Solomon Klein JE French rabbi; born at Bischheim, Alsace, Oct. 14, 1814; died at Colmar, Alsace, Nov. 10, 1867. He was successively district...
  281. ThÉodore Klein JE French physician; born in Durmenach, Upper Rhine, May 30, 1845; died in Paris May 4, 1902; son of the chief rabbi of Colmar...
  282. Wilhelm Klein JE Austrian archeologist; born Nov. 28, 1850, at Karánsebes, Hungary. He first studied Jewish theology and then philosophy...
  283. Georg Klemperer JE German physician; born at Landsberg-on-the-Warthe May 10, 1865; son of Wilhelm Klemperer; studied at the universities of Breslau...
  284. Guttmann Klemperer JE Austrian rabbi; born 1815 at Prague; died at Tabor, Bohemia, Jan. 20, 1882. On his mother's side he was a descendant of...
  285. Wilhelm Klemperer JE German rabbi; born March 30, 1839, at Prague; son of Guttmann Klemperer. After attending the gymnasium of his native city...
  286. Kletzk JE Russian town, in the government of Minsk. It is believed to have been founded in the eleventh century, but the earliest known...
  287. Israel Kley JE German preacher, educator, and writer; born at Bernstadt, Silesia, June 10, 1789; died at Hamburg Oct. 4, 1867. He attended...
  288. Wilhelm Kley JE German economist and educator; born at Steinbach, district of Meiningen, Germany, June 25, 1869. He taught for several years...
  289. Gustav Klinger JE ...
  290. Louis Lucien Klotz JE French journalist and deputy; born in Paris Jan. 11, 1868; of Alsatian descent. After his education was finished, he was enrolled...
  291. Solomon Ben Judah Aaron Kluger JE Chief dayyan and preacher of Brody, Galicia; born at Komarow, Russian Poland, in 1783; died at Brody June 9, 1869. He was...
  292. Peter Kmita JE ...
  293. Knasmahl JE ...
  294. Frederick Knefler JE American soldier; born in Hungary in 1833. He went to America, and when the Civil war broke out he enlisted as a private in...
  295. Knot JE Some form of quipu or knot-alphabet appears to have been adopted in Biblical, or, at least, in Talmudical times, to judge...
  296. Knoxville JE ...
  297. Gustav Kober JE Austrian actor; born at Vienna April 21, 1849. He was trained for the stage by Emilie Dorr in that city and made his d&#233...
  298. Heinrich KÖbner JE German physician; born at Breslau Dec. 2, 1838. He studied medicine at Berlin and Breslau (M.D. 1859), taking post-graduate...
  299. Kobo JE ...
  300. TamÁs KÓbor JE ...
  301. Kobryn JE District town in the government of Grodno, Russia; situated on the Muchavetz and Kobrynka rivers. In 1902 it contained more...
  302. Bezalel B Solomon Kobryn JE ...
  303. Koburg JE ...
  304. Hermann Friedrich KÖcher JE German Christian Hebraist; born at Osnabrück in 1747; died April 2, 1792. He was the author of "Specimen Observationum...
  305. Kodashim JE Name of the fifth of the six orders ("sedarim") of the Mishnah, so called because all the treatises belonging to it contain...
  306. Kodesh Ha-kodashim JE ...
  307. Hendrik Jacob Koenen JE Dutch historian of the Jews; born at Amsterdam Jan. 11, 1809; died at Buitenrust, near Haarlem, Oct. 13, 1874. He was educated...
  308. Kof JE Nineteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet; for its form see Alphabet. The meaning ofthe name is uncertain. It corresponds in...
  309. Kohath (v07p529001jpg); Kohathites JE Kohath was the second son of Levi (Gen. xlvi. 11; Ex. vi. 16; Num. iii. 17; I Chron. vi. 1) and progenitor of the Levitical...
  310. Kohelet Musar JE Hebrew weekly; founded at Berlin in 1750 by Moses Mendelssohn (at that time he was not more than twenty-one) and T. Bock....
  311. Kohelet (ecclesiastes) Rabbah JE Haggadic commentary on Ecclesiastes, included in the collection of the Rabbot. It follows the Biblical book verse by verse...
  312. Kohen (kohanim) JE ...
  313. Abraham Kohen Ẓedek JE ...
  314. Joseph Kohen Ẓedek JE ...
  315. Kohen Ẓedek Ii Kahana Ben Joseph JE Gaon of Pumbedita from 917 to 935. Immediately after his appointment he took measures to change the existing system in the...
  316. Kaufmann Kohler JE Rabbi and theologian; born in Fürth, Bavaria, May 10, 1843; a descendant of a family of rabbis. He received his rabbinical...
  317. Max J Kohler JE American lawyer; born at Detroit, Mich., May 22, 1871; son of Kaufmann Kohler; educated at the College of the City of New...
  318. Abraham Kohn JE Austrian rabbi; born Jan. 1, 1807, at Zaluzan, Bohemia; died at Lemberg, Galicia, Sept. 7, 1848. In 1828 he entered theUniversity...
  319. David Kohn (kahana) JE Russian archeologist and Hebrew writer; born at Odessa in 1838. He received a rabbinic education; but at the age of fourteen...
  320. David Kohn (pap) JE Hungarian political economist; born Dec. 2, 1868, at Csecse, Hungary; studied law in Budapest. In 1890 he attracted general...
  321. Gabriel Ben Reuben Israel Kohn JE Hungarian Talmudist; born at Vagujhely about 1765; died at Rechnitz Dec. 29, 1850, where he became rabbi in 1822. The family...
  322. Jakob Kohn JE Austrian jurist; born Dec. 24, 1847, in Papa, Hungary; died at Vienna Jan. 20, 1902. He studied jurisprudence at the University...
  323. Joel Beer Kohn JE Russian writer; born at Volozhin 1816; died in Wilna Nov. 17, 1871. He translated Fénelon's "Les Aventures de T&#233...
  324. Maier Kohn JE Ḥazzan in Munich, Bavaria; born toward the close of the eighteenth century. He was the predecessor of Solomon Naumbourg...
  325. Meshullam Solomon Kohn JE ...
  326. Samuel Kohn JE Hungarian rabbi and author; born at Baja, Hungary, Sept. 21, 1841; grandson of the rabbi of that place, Götz Schwerin...
  327. Samuel Kohn JE Russian physician; born at Zhagory, government of Kovno, Feb. 11, 1865. After he had studied Talmud under private tutors,...
  328. Solomon Kohn JE Austrian ghetto poet; born March 8, 1825, at Prague. He studied philosophy and mathematics at the university in that city...
  329. Tobias Kohn JE American merchant and silk-manufacturer; born at Prague, Bohemia; died at Hartford, Conn., 1898. He emigrated to America as...
  330. Karl KÖhne JE German jurist and economist; born at Danzig March 21, 1863. Since 1902 he has been privat-docent in commercial and technical...
  331. Moritz Kohner JE Founder of the Deutsch-Israelitische Gemeindebund; born at Neuern, Bohemia, April 4, 1818; died March 21, 1877. Destined for...
  332. Adolph Kohut JE German writer; born Nov. 10, 1848, at Mindszent, Hungary; brother of Alexander Kohut. For three years he attended the Jewish...
  333. Alexander Kohut JE Rabbi and Orientalist; born April 22, 1842, at Felegyhaza, Hungary; died May 25, 1894, in New York. He belonged to a family...
  334. Baruch Kojetein JE ...
  335. David B Samuel Kokabi JE ...
  336. Joseph Ben Abraham Kokabi JE German physician, a native of Ulm; lived at Ferrara in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. "Kokabi" is the Hebrew equivalent...
  337. Kokebe YiẒhak JE Hebrew annual; published at Vienna from 1845 to 1872 by M. Stern, and from 1872 to 1873 by M. Weissmann (Chajes). The annual...
  338. Kol Bo JE Collection of ritual and civil laws, the meaning of the title being "all is in it"; who its author was has not yet been ascertained...
  339. Kol Mebasser JE ...
  340. Kol Nidre JE Prayer recited in the synagogue at the beginning of the evening service on the Day of Atonement; the name is taken from the...
  341. Moses Koletkar JE Sirdar bahadur in the Anglo-Indian army. He enlisted in the Eighth Regiment Native Infantry April 1, 1842, and was later transferred...
  342. Kolin JE Town in Bohemia. Its Jewish community is one of the oldest in the country. A number of Jews were living here in the fourteenth...
  343. Baron Ignaz Von Kolisch JE Hungarian merchant, journalist, and chess-master; born at Presburg April 6, 1837; died at Vienna April 30, 1889. Both in business...
  344. Rudolf Kolisch JE Austrian physician; born at Koritschan, Moravia, Dec. 10, 1867; studied medicine at Vienna and Heidelberg (M.D. 1891). In...
  345. Sigmund Kolisch JE Austrian poet and historical writer; born at Koritschan, Moravia, Sept.15, 1817. He was educated at the University of Vienna...
  346. Leopold Kompert JE Austrian author; born at Münchengrätz, Bohemia, May 15, 1822; died at Vienna Nov. 23, 1886. He studied at the universities...
  347. Kompse Bar Kompse JE ...
  348. Friedrich Eduard KÖnig JE German Protestant theologian; born at Reicheribach, Saxony, Nov. 15, 1846; Ph.D., 1874, Leipsic; D.D., 1888, Erlangen. He...
  349. Julius KÖnig JE Hungarian mathematician; born Dec. 16, 1849, at Raab. He entered the University of Vienna to study medicine, but being more...
  350. KÖnigliche Weinberge JE A southeastern suburb of Prague. The city of Königliche Weinberge was built within a few years after the Austro-Prussian...
  351. KÖnigsberg JE Capital of the province of East Prussia. It was founded by the knights of the Teutonic Order, the laws of which excluded the...
  352. Leo KÖnigsberger JE German mathematician; born in Posen Oct. 15, 1837. He studied in Berlin (Ph.D. 1860), and was appointed instructor in mathematics...
  353. Leopold KÖnigstein JE Austrian oculist; born at Bisenz, Moravia, April 26, 1850; M.D., Vienna, 1873. On graduating he engaged in practise as an...
  354. KÖnigswarter JE A family that resided in Königswarte, near Tachau, Bohemia, about the middle of the eighteenth century, when Jonas Hirsch...
  355. Konitz Affair JE An accusation of ritual murder, based on the unexplained assassination of the student Ernst Winter in Konitz, West Prussia...
  356. Konki JE ...
  357. KonṬres JE Usual designation, among the Tosafists, of Rashi's commentary on the Talmud. Rashi himself uses the expression once to...
  358. Henry Koplik JE American physician; born at New York Oct. 28, 1858; educated at the College of the City of New York and at the College of...
  359. Koppelmann JE Rabbi at Nuremberg toward the end of the fourteenth century. In 1406 Rabbi Israel went to Nuremberg and taught there, at first...
  360. Jacob Ben Samuel Koppelmann JE German author and translator; born in the district of Breisgau 1555; died 1598. In 1583 he went to Frankfort-on-the-Main,...
  361. Kor JE ...
  362. Korah JE 1. Son of Esau by Aholibamah; mentioned as a "duke" () of the land of Edom (Gen. xxxvi. 5, 14, 18; I Chron. i. 35). 2. Son...
  363. Koran JE The sacred scriptures of Islam. According to Mohammedan belief, based upon the testimony of the book itself, the Koran consists...
  364. Friedrich KorÁnyi JE Hungarian physician and medical writer; born Dec. 20, 1828, at Nagy-Kallo. In 1851 he took his doctor's degree at Budapest...
  365. Korban JE 1. A sacrifice of any kind, whether bloody or bloodless; term used by Josephus in the sense also of a vow-offering, or of...
  366. Solomon Koreff JE German Talmudist; born about 1700; died in Prague May 24, 1774. For more than forty years he presided over a large yeshibah...
  367. Koriyyat JE ...
  368. Selig (friedrich N Nork) Korn JE German writer and mythologist; born April 26, 1803, at Prague; died at Teplitz Oct. 16, 1850. Expelled from the gymnasium...
  369. Moses B Eliezer KÖrner JE Russian Hebrew author of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; grandson of Yom-Ṭob Lipman Heller. He was for some...
  370. Aaron Kornfeld JE Austrian Talmudist; born Aug. 2, 1795, at Goltsch-Jenikau, Bohemia; died there Oct. 26, 1881. His only teacher was his father...
  371. Hermann Kornfeld JE German physician; born at Posen 1840; son of the Talmudist Samuel ben Naḥman Kornfeld and grandson of R. Akiba Eger...
  372. MeÏr Ben Moses Kornik (kurnik) JE German rabbi and calendar-maker; born at Glogau, where he was afterward rabbi; died at Hamburg Aug. 9, 1826. Kornik was the...
  373. Korobka JE That part of the Basket-Tax which is levied in Russia on kasher meat and poultry. The tax on salt, preserved provisions, flour...
  374. Joseph KÖrÖsi JE Hungarian statistician; born April 20, 1844, at Pesth. He was educated privately, and then accepted a position with an insurance...
  375. Kos JE An island belonging to the Sporades group in the Ægean Sea near the Carian coast; known also as Meropis and Nymph&#230...
  376. Raphael Kosch JE German physician and deputy; born at Lissa, Posen, Oct. 5, 1803; died at Berlin March 27, 1872. Educated at the University...
  377. Levi Kosini JE ...
  378. Koslov JE ...
  379. Marks Kosminsky JE Founder of the town of Nhill in the colony of Victoria, Australia; died there May 6, 1895. He founded most of the local institutions...
  380. Julius Kossarski JE German poet; born 1812 at Bromberg; died there July 1, 1879. He went to Berlin to take up the study of literature, afterward...
  381. Ludwig Kossarski JE German poet and writer; brother of Julius Kossarski; born 1810 at Bromberg; died Nov. 3, 1873, at Berlin. He studied medicine...
  382. Kostel (podivin) JE Town in Moravia. Its Jewish community is said to be the oldest in Moravia. According to Cosmas of Prague (d. 1125), a Jew...
  383. Abigdor Ben Simon Kosteliz (costellez) JE Egyptian rabbi and cabalist; born before 1572; died 1659. He studied under Moses ha-Kohen, head of the yeshibah in Egypt,...
  384. Kovel JE District town in the government of Volhynia, Russia. In the beginning of the fourteenth century it was given by Gedemin to...
  385. Joseph KÖves JE Hungarian painter; born at Nagy Karoly 1853. When only fourteen he left home, and, earning his living as he went, arrived...
  386. Saveli Grigoryevich Kovner JE Russian physician; born at Wilna 1837; died at Kiev Sept. 22, 1896; graduated from the University of St. Vladimir, Kiev, in...
  387. Kovno JE Russian fortified city in the government of the same name; situated at the junction of the Viliya and the Niemen.There is...
  388. Abraham Uri Kowner JE Russian Hebrew critic; born at Wilna about 1837. He became renowned on account of a campaign which he conducted against many...
  389. Moses Kozzi JE ...
  390. Jos Ignatz Kraczwski JE ...
  391. Moses Ben David KrÄmer JE Lithuanian Talmudist of the seventeenth century; died at Wilna Oct. 19, 1683. After officiating as rabbi in a number of Lithuanian...
  392. Isaac Kramsztyk JE Polish writer and preacher; born at Warsaw 1814; died there 1889. He graduated from the rabbinical school of Warsaw, in which...
  393. Stanislaus Kramsztyr JE Polish naturalist; born at Warsaw 1841; son of Isaac Kramsztyk; educated at the Warsaw gymnasium, and studied medicine in...
  394. Jacob Kranz JE ...
  395. Horace Krasnopolski JE Austrian jurist; born Nov. 5, 1842, at Pistyn, Galicia, where he received his earliest education in the ḥeder. From...
  396. Adolf Kraus JE American lawyer; born at Blowitz, Bobemia, Feb. 26, 1850; emigrated to the United States at the age of fifteen, and worked...
  397. Kraus, Alfred, Baron Von JE Austrian general; born 1822 at Pardubitz, Bohemia; the son of a Jewish tenant-farmer. He received his early education, which...
  398. Friedrich Kraus JE Austrian physician; born at Bodenbach, Bohemia, May 31, 1851. He studied at the gymnasium at Prague and at the universities...
  399. Leopold Gottlieb Kraus JE Austrian physician; born at Kolin, Bohemia, Dec. 22, 1824; died in 1901. He studied at the University of Prague, making a...
  400. Alexander Kraushar JE Polish jurist and author; born 1843 at Warsaw; educated at the Royal Gymnasium in that city and at the preparatory college...
  401. Joseph Krauskopf JE American rabbi and author; born in Ostrowo, Prussia, Jan. 21, 1858. He emigrated to America (New York) in July, 1872, and...
  402. Friedrich Salomon Krauss JE Austrian folklorist; born at Pozega, Slavonia, Oct. 7, 1859. He studied classical philology at the University of Vienna (Ph...
  403. Samuel Krauss JE Hungarian philologist and historian; born in Ukk, a village in the county of Szala, Hungary, Feb. 18, 1866. At the age of...
  404. Krefeld JE Prussian manufacturing town near Düsseldorf, in the province of the Rhine. Small neighboring villages, embraced in the...
  405. Kremenetz JE District town in the government of Volhynia, Russia. The Jews of Kremenetz are first mentioned in a charter of privileges...
  406. Moses B David Kremer JE ...
  407. Johanan B MeÏr Kremnitzer JE Polish rabbinical author; lived in the seventeenth century at Kalisz.He wrote "Oraḥ Mishor" (Sulzbach, 1692), a commentary...
  408. Simon Kremser JE German army commissary; born Sept. 15, 1775, at Breslau, Germany; died 1851. He became commissary agent to Blücher in...
  409. Mordecai Ben Naphtali Hirsch Kremsier JE German Talmudist and poet; lived at Cracow in the seventeenth century. He wrote: "Ḳinah" (Lublin [?], c. 1650), a dirge...
  410. Kremsir JE Town in Moravia, Austria, twelve miles southwest of Prerau. The oldest authentic records of its Jewish community date from...
  411. Krespia Nakdan JE Scribe of the thirteenth century. He is recorded as having copied in March, 1243, a manuscript of Maimonides' "Yad ha-&#7716...
  412. Mordecai Krespin JE Turkish rabbi and writer; lived on the island of Rhodes in the first half of the eighteenth century; son-in-law of R. Moses...
  413. Kreti And Pleti JE ...
  414. Kreuznach JE Prussian town and watering-place in the government of Coblenz. The first mention of Jews in Kreuznach occurs in an account...
  415. Isaac Kriegshaber JE ...
  416. Krimchaks JE The so-called "Turkish Jews," inhabitants of the Crimea, whose center of population is Kara-Su-Bazar, one of the most densely...
  417. Samuel Kristeller JE German physician; born at Xions, Posen, May 26, 1820; died at Berlin June 15, 1900. He received his diploma as doctor of medicine...
  418. Abraham Krochmal JE Galician philosopher and writer; born at Brody about 1823; died in 1895; son of Nachman Krochmal. Very littleis known of his...
  419. Hayyim Krochmal JE Polish Talmudist; born 1626; died 1666 at Cracow; son-in-law of Abraham Chemiesch. He was for many years preacher ("darshan")...
  420. Menahem Mendel Ben Abraham Krochmal JE Moravian rabbi; born at Cracow about 1600; died at Nikolsburg Jan. 2, 1661. His teacher in the Talmud was Joel Sirkes, author...
  421. Nachman Kohen Krochmal JE Austrian philosopher and historian; born at Brody, Galicia, Feb. 17, 1785; died at Tarnopol July 31, 1840. He began the study...
  422. Judah Ben Eleazar Kron JE Russian teacher and author; born at Tuckum, Courland, Feb. 1, 1793; died at Mitau 1831. He was educated by Rabbis J. W. Blumenfeld...
  423. Hugo Kronecker JE German physiologist; born at Liegnitz, Prussian Silesia, Jan. 27, 1839; educated at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin...
  424. Leopold Kronecker JE German mathematician; born Dec. 7, 1823, at Liegnitz; died Dec. 29, 1891, at Berlin. Educated at the universities of Bonn...
  425. Kronenberg, Leopold Julian, Baron JE Polish-Russian banker; brother of Stanislaw Kronenberg; born in Warsaw 1849. After graduating from the gymnasium he studied...
  426. Stanislaw Leopold Kronenberg JE Polish-Russian financier; brother of Leopold Kronenberg; born at Warsaw 1846; died there 1894. After graduating from gymnasium...
  427. Theodor Kroner JE German rabbi; born at Dyhernfurth, Prussian Silesia, May 12, 1845. He was educated at the gymnasium at Glatz, the yeshibah...
  428. Moses Ben Akiba Of Glogau Kronik (kroniker) JE Rabbi of Flatow (Zlotowo); lived in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was the author of "Tefillah we-Todah," hymns...
  429. Krotoschin JE ...
  430. Krozhe JE Town in the district of Rossieny, government of Kovno, Russia. The Jewish community dates from the fifteenth century. With...
  431. Wilhelm Traugott Krug JE Christian advocate of the emancipation of the Jews; born June 22, 1770, in the village of Radis, near Wittenberg, Prussia...
  432. S Krumenau JE See Oppenheim, Simon b. Jacob. This article is Rated: 2.64 ...
  433. Judah LÖb Ben Nathan Krysa JE Frankist leader; lived in Galicia in the eighteenth century. He filled the office of rabbi at Nadworna, Galicia, but joined...
  434. Kuba JE Chief town of the district of Kuba, government of Baku, Transcaucasia, having (1897) a total population of 15,346, in which...
  435. Abraham Kuenen JE Dutch Christian Old Testament scholar; born in Haarlem, North Holland, Sept. 16, 1828; died in Leyden Dec. 10, 1891. He was...
  436. Al- Kufah JE Ruined city of Asiatic Turkey, 88 miles south of Bagdad, situated on an affluent of the Euphrates; founded by Omar on the...
  437. David Kuh JE Austrian journalist and deputy; born in Prague 1818; died Jan. 26, 1879. He gave up the study of medicine and law, which he...
  438. Emil Kuh JE Austrian poet and novelist; born Dec. 13, 1828, at Vienna; died Dec. 30, 1876, at Meran; studied philosophy and history at...
  439. Ephraim Moses Kuh JE German poet; born 1731 in Breslau; died there April 3, 1790. His parents had chosen for him the career of a student of the...
  440. Abraham Kuhn JE German physician; born at Bissersheim, Alsace, Jan. 28, 1838; died at Strasburg Sept. 15, 1900. Kuhn was educated at the universities...
  441. Moriz Kuhn JE Austrian physicist; born in Brünn, Moravia, Jan. 11, 1843; educated at the Polytechnic high school there, and later at...
  442. Mikhail Ignatyevich Kulisher JE Russian lawyer and author; born July 7, 1847, in a Jewish agricultural colony near the village of Sophiefka, district of Lutsk...
  443. Reuben Moiseiyevich Kulisher JE Russian physician and educator; born at Dubno 1828; died at Kiev Aug. 9, 1896; educated at the local district school, at the...
  444. Adolf Kulka JE Austrian journalist; born Oct. 5, 1823, in Leipnik, Moravia; died in Vienna Dec. 5, 1898. He studied philosophy and jurisprudence...
  445. Eduard Kulke JE Austrian author; born at Kostel, near Nikolsburg, Moravia, May 28, 1831; died in Vienna March 20, 1897; educated at the polytechnic...
  446. Daniel Al- Kumisi JE ...
  447. Kuna JE Polish name for the pillory, the well-known implement of torture and punishment, used by the Polish and Lithuanian Jews of...
  448. Moses Ben Menahem Kunitzer JE Rabbi in Ofen and dayyan in Budapest; born at Alt-Ofen; died Feb. 2, 1837. A descendant of Rabbi Löwe ben Bezaleel, he...
  449. Ignatz Kunos JE Hungarian authority on Turkish; born Sept. 20, 1861, at Sámson, Hungary. He attended the gymnasium at Debreczin and the...
  450. Abraham (avraam Aronovich) Kupernik JE Russian communal worker; born at Wilna 1821; died at Dembitza 1893, on his homeward journey from abroad; buried in Kiev. He...
  451. Kuppah JE ...
  452. Ignaz Kuranda JE Austrian deputy and political writer; born in Prague May 1, 1812; died in Vienna April 3, 1884. His grandfather and father...
  453. Prince Kurbski JE ...
  454. Kurdistan JE A country of western Asia, partly under Turkish and partly under Persian rule, although the Kurds pay but little attention...
  455. Kurland JE ...
  456. Adolf Kurrein JE Austrian rabbi; born Jan. 28, 1846, at Trebitsch, Moravia. He received his doctor's degree from the University of Vienna...
  457. Rudolph Kusel JE German jurist and politician; born May 9, 1809, in Carlsruhe; died there Jan. 26, 1890. He studied law in Heidelberg and Munich...
  458. Kussiel JE ...
  459. Kustendil JE Bulgarian city in the north of Macedonia, near the Servian city of Nish. Jews must have settled at Kustendil before the beginning...
  460. Kutais JE Russian city in the government of the same name; the scene of a trial for blood accusation in 1877. On April 16 of that year...
  461. Joshua HÖschel Kutner JE Preacher at Lissa in the middle of the nineteenth century. He was the author of "Ha-Emunah weha-Ḥaḳirah" (Breslau...
  462. Robert Kutner JE German surgeon; born at Ueckermünde, Pomerania, April 11, 1867. Educated at Berlin, Kiel, Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Vienna...
  463. Abraham Gershon Ben Ephraim Kuttower JE Polish rabbi and cabalist; born at Kuty, Galicia; died at Jerusalem about 1760. He was a follower of Isaac Luria's system...