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- Naamah JE Daughter of Lamech and Zillah and sister of Tubal-cain (Gen. iv. 22). According to Abba b. Kahana, Naamah was Noah's wife...
- Naaman JE Syrian general whose miraculous recovery from leprosy is told in II Kings v. The name, meaning "pleasantness," is held by...
- Isaac Naar JE Ḥakam, and, according to De Barrios, physician of the seventeenth century; born at Amsterdam; studied with Moses Zacuto...
- Naasites JE ...
- Nabal JE Calebite noble who appears in one of the incidents which marked David's wanderings (I Sam. xxv.). Nabal was a man of great...
- NabatÆans JE Semitic tribe or group of tribes which overran the ancient Edomite country and established a kingdom which extended from Damascus...
- Nablus JE ...
- Nabon JE Turkish family which, from the seventeenth century onward, produced several rabbinical writers. It had several branches, of...
- Nabopolassar JE ...
- Naboth JE Jezreelite of the time of Ahab, King of Israel; owner of a small plot of ground near Jezreel (II Kings ix. 21, 25-26) and...
- Nadab JE Eldest son of Aaron and Elisheba; one of the leaders of the children of Israel who went with Moses to Sinai and "saw the God...
- Simon Yakovlevich Nadson JE Russian poet; born at St. Petersburg Dec. 26, 1862; died at Yalta Dec. 31, 1886. His father was a Jew who had entered the...
- Nagar JE ...
- Moses Ben Judah Nagari JE Philosophical writer. According to Steinschneider, he lived at Rome about 1300, and his name should be read "Na'ar" ()...
- Nagasaki JE Commercial seaport in the ken of the same name, Japan. Of its Jewish community most of the members emigrated from Russia....
- Benjamin Shalom Nagawkar JE Beni-Israel soldier; born at Bombay before 1830. He enlisted in the 25th Regiment Bombay Native Light Infantry July 1, 1848...
- Samuel Moses Nagawkar JE Beni-Israel soldier; born at Bombay about 1810. He enlisted in the 10th Regiment Native Infantry Oct. 1, 1832. He was on foreign...
- Abu Husain Joseph Ibn Nagdela (nagrela) JE Spanish statesman; born about 1031; died Dec. 30, 1066; son of Samuel ibn Nagdela. A highly educated and clever man, he succeeded...
- Samuel Ibn Nagdela JE ...
- Nagid JE ...
- Nagy-kanizsa JE Hungarian town, in the county of Szalad. The antiquity of its disused cemetery, which dates back to the end of the seventeenth...
- Naharaim JE ...
- Nahash JE King of the Ammonites. At the beginning of Saul's reign Nahash attacked Jabesh-gilead, and when the people of that place...
- Benjamin Nahawendi JE ...
- Nahman Ben Hayyim Ha-kohen JE French tosafist; flourished toward the end of the twelfth century. As Gross concludes from "Kol Bo" (ed. Venice, 1562), No...
- Nahman Bar Isaac JE Babylonian amora of the fifth generation; died in 356; like Raba, a pupil of R. Naḥman b. Jacob. While he was still...
- Nahman Bar Jacob JE Babylonian amora of the third generation; died 320; pupil of Mar Samuel. He was chief justice of the Jews who were subject...
- Nahman B Samuel Ha-levi JE Frankist; rabbi of Busk, Galicia; lived in the first part of the eighteenth century. When Mikulski, the administrator of the...
- Nahman B Simhah Of Bratzlav JE Founder of the Ḥasidic sect known as "Bratzlaver Ḥasidim"; born at Miedzyboz (Medzhibozh), Podolia, Oct. 9, 1770...
- Samson Hayyim Ben Nahman Raphael Nahmani JE Italian Talmudist; flourished about the latter half of the eighteenth century. He was the pupil of Ephraim Cohen of Ostrog...
- Moses Nahmanides JE ...
- Nehmias) Nahmias (naamias JE One of the most ancient and prominent Jewish families of Toledo. The oldest member known is Joseph Naḥmias, son-in-law...
- Joseph Nahmoli JE Talmudist and rabbi of Larissa in the eighteenth century; father-in-law of Isaac ibn Shangi (author of "Be'er Yiẓ...
- Nahor JE Son of Serug; father of Terah and, consequently, grandfather of Abraham. He is said to have lived one hundred and forty-eight...
- Nahshon JE Son of Amminadab; descendant in the fifth generation from Judah and brother-in-law of Aaron (Ex. vi. 23; I Chron. ii. 4-10)...
- Nahshon Ben Zadok JE Gaon; head of the Academy of Sura from 874 to 882, in succession to Mar Amram ben Sheshna. He wrote explanations to difficult...
- Nahum JE One of the so-called Minor Prophets. He is called, in the title of his book, "Nahum the Elkoshite." Where Elkosh was is not...
- Book Of Nahum JE One of the Minor Prophetical works which centers about the overflow of Nineveh. The dispirited people of Judah are aroused...
- Nahum JE Liturgical poet; lived about 1300, probably in southern Spain. He possessed unusual talent. Some of his poems have been translated...
- Nahum Eliezer Ben Jacob JE Rabbi of the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century; born about 1660; diedabout 1746...
- Nahum Of Gimzo JE Tanna of the second generation (first century). In the Talmud (Ta'an. 21a; Yer. Sheḳ. v. 15) he is called "ish gam...
- Nahum The Mede JE Tanna of the first generation (first century); lived in Jerusalem. According to R. Nathan, he was one of the three most renowned...
- Nahum, Menahem, Of Chernobyl JE Ḥasidic leader in the last part of the eighteenth century. He was a pupil of Baer of Meseritz, by whom he was sent to...
- Nahum Ben Simai JE Palestinian amora of the third century; a son of the tanna Simai. He is cited as "Menahem" in Pes. 104a and in M. Ḳ...
- Nahum B Uzziel Kaplan (reb Nahum Grodner) JE Preacher and philanthropist; born 1811; died at Grodno Oct. 25, 1879. Though he was a great Talmudist, he preferred to hold...
- Nail JE The finger nail. In Hebrew the corresponding word occurs only in the plural, (Deut. xxi. 12), the singular of which denotes...
- Naioth JE Place in which David and Samuel took refuge when the former was pursued by Saul (I Sam. xix. 18 et seq., xx. 1). The meaning...
- Najara (najar, Nijar, Nagar, Nagara) JE Oriental Jewish family, originally from Najera, a Spanish city of Navarre, on the River Najerilla. In the history of rabbinical...
- Nagera Najera JE City in Spain, situated between Logroño and Burgos. In the tenth century it had a prosperous Jewish community. In the...
- NaḲdanim JE Punctuators or Masoretic annotators; the successors of the Masorites proper. Their activity consisted in collecting and conserving...
- Names (personal) JE The conferring of a name upon a person was in early Biblical times generally connected with some circumstance of birth; several...
- Names Of God JE Like other Hebrew proper names, the name of God is more than a mere distinguishing title. It represents the Hebrew conception...
- Nancy JE Chief town of the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, and the ancient capital of Lorraine; seat of a consistory whose...
- Nantes JE Chief town of the department of the Loire-Inférieure, France. According to Camille Mellinet ("La Commune et la Milice...
- Naomi JE Wife of Elimelech and mother-in-law of Ruth. Naomi accompanied her husband and two sons into the land of Moab; but after the...
- Naphtali JE Second son of Jacob and Bilhah, and younger full brother of Dan. According to Gen. xxx. 8, the name means "my wrestling,"...
- Tribe Of Naphtali JE According to the two enumerations of the Israelites given in the Book of Numbers (i.-iii., xxvi.), the adult males of Naphtali...
- Naphtali Ben David JE Hebrew author; born at Witzenhausen, Germany; lived in Amsterdam at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He belonged to...
- Naphtali Hirz Ben Issachar JE ...
- Naphtali Herz Ben Jacob Elhanan JE German cabalist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main in the second half of the sixteenth century. He lived in Palestine and was...
- Naphtali Herz Ben Ẓebi Hirsch Halberstadt JE Rabbi at Dubno, Russia, in the eighteenth century. Responsa of his in regard to the Cleve divorce case are found in Israel...
- Naphtali Hirsch Ben Menahem JE President of the community of Lemberg in the sixteenth century. He was the author of "Perush ha-Millot," explanations of difficult...
- Naphtali Hirz Ben Jacob Goslar JE German rabbi and philosopher of the eighteenth century. After acting as dayyan at Halberstadt for some time, he settled at...
- Naphtali Hirz Treves JE ...
- Naphtali B Isaac Ha-kohen JE Polish-German rabbi; born in Ostrov, Poland, 1649; died at Constantinople 1719. His father was rabbi of Ostrov. In 1663 Naphtali...
- Naphtali Ha-kohen JE ...
- Napoleon Bonaparte JE Emperor of the French; born in Ajaccio, Corsica, Aug. 15, 1769; died at St. Helena in 1821. Only those incidents in his career...
- [[]] JE French chemist and politician; born at Carpentras, Vaucluse, Oct. 6, 1834. After studying in Paris he graduated as M.D. in...
- David Ben Joseph Narboni JE Rabbi; lived at Narbonne, France, in the first half of the twelfth century. He was probably the son of Joseph Gaon of Narbonne...
- Narbonne JE Chief town in the department of Aude, France. Jews were settled here as early as the fifth century. They lived on the whole...
- Nard JE A species of Valeriana spica Vahl = Nardostachys Jatamansi De Candolle, growing in eastern Asia. It was well known to the...
- Naresh JE City in Babylonia, situated near Sura (Letter of Sherira Gaon, in Neubauer, "M. J. C." i. 32) on a canal (B. M. 93b). It may...
- Moses Narol JE Rabbi of Metz; father of the physician Tobias Cohn; died at Metz in 1659. Narol was rabbi and physician at Narol, Galicia...
- Sinai Simon Nascher JE Hungarian writer; born at Szent Miklos, Liptau, March 16, 1841; died at Baja July 25, 1901. He studied at Baja and Berlin...
- Nashim JE Third order of the Talmud, treating of betrothal, marriage, divorce, and in general of all the relations of woman to man....
- Nashville JE ...
- Nasi JE The president of the Sanhedrin. According to the rabbinical tradition (Ḥag. ii. 2; Peah ii. 6), the Sanhedrin was presided...
- David Nasi JE ...
- Nasi Gracia Mendesia JE ...
- Nasi, Joseph, Duke Of Naxos JE Turkish statesman and financier; born in Portugal at the beginning of the sixteenth century; died at Constantinople Aug. 2...
- Reyna Nasi JE Duchess of Naxos; born in Portugal; only daughter of the Marano Francisco Mendes-Nasi and Gracia Mendesia (Beatrice de Luna)...
- Moses Ibn Nasia JE ...
- Nassau JE Formerly a German dukedom; since 1866 it has formed a part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau. In 1865, immediately...
- Nassau, Adolf, Ritter Von JE Austrian journalist; born at Pohrlitz, Moravia, Dec. 25, 1834; educated at Vienna. He became stenographer to the Austrian...
- Nassy JE ...
- Isaac B Solomon Nataf JE Rabbi at Tunis, Africa, at the end of the eighteenth and in the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was the author of...
- Natality JE Proportionate number of births in a population, generally measured by the number per thousand of population. Since the writing...
- Ludwik Natanson JE Polish physician; brother of Henryk Natanson; born 1821; died at Warsaw June 6, 1896. He studied medicine at the universities...
- ZaÏre Martel Nathalie JE French actress; born at Tournon, Seine-et-Marne, Sept. 3, 1816; died Nov. 17, 1885. She made her début at the Folies...
- Nathan JE Prophet; lived in the reign of David. On three occasions he appears as the king's successful adviser. In connection with...
- Nathan JE Palestinian tanna of the third generation (2d cent.); son of a Babylonian exilarch. For some unknown reason he left Babylonia...
- Nathan JE American family that has been identified with both the general and the Jewish community of New York city since the latter...
- Nathan Of Avignon JE Talmudist; lived in the second half of the fourteenth century. He was the author of "Hilkot Sheḥiṭah u-Bediḳ...
- Barnett Nathan JE English dramatic and musical entrepreneur; born in 1793; died in London Dec. 6, 1856. Nathan was also a teacher of dancing...
- Nathan Benjamin Ashkenazi JE ...
- Nathan Of Cento JE ...
- Elias Salomon Nathan JE German physician and author; born at Eutin about 1806; died at Hamburg July 5, 1862; educated at Kiel (M.D. 1830). He took...
- Nathan The Exilarch JE ...
- Nathan Feitel JE Rabbi at Hotzenplotz and Austerlitz in the seventeenth century. He wrote "Ḥoḳ Natan," or "Derushim le-Kol Ḥ...
- Nathan B Hayyim Amram JE ...
- Isaac Nathan JE English musician and composer; born at Canterbury, England, in 1792; died at Sydney, N. S. W., Jan. 15, 1864. He was intended...
- Nathan B Isaac Jacob Bonn JE Rabbi at Mayence, and later at Hamburg, in the middle of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Shikḥat Leḳ...
- Nathan Isaac Ben Kalonymus Ben Judah JE ...
- Nathan Ben Isaac Ha-kohen Hababli JE Babylonian historian of the tenth century. He was the author of a history of the exilarchate that gives many interesting details...
- Nathan Jedidiah Ben Eliezer JE Italian poet; born at Orvieto in 1607. In 1625, being then at Sienna, he paraphrased in Hebrew terza-rima three "widduyim":...
- Nathan Ben Jehiel JE Italian lexicographer; born in Rome not later than 1035; died in 1106. He belonged to one of the most notable Roman families...
- Nathan Ben Joel Falaquera (palaquera) JE Spanish physician of the latter half of the thirteenth century; perhaps identical with Nathan of Montpellier, the teacher...
- Nathan Ben Joseph 'official JE French rabbi and controversialist; lived at Sens in the second half of the thirteenth century. He was one of the most famous...
- Nathan Judah Ben Solomon JE Provençal physician of the fourteenth century. His Provençal names were En Bongodas and Bonjues and he was probably...
- Nathan B Labi (b Judah) JE German liturgist; lived at the beginning of the fourteenth century. He was the author of a liturgical work entitled "Sefer...
- Nathan Ben Machir JE French Talumdist of the eleventh century. He was the brother of the liturgical poet Menahem b. Machir, to whom he gave responsa...
- Sir Matthew Nathan JE English soldier and administrator; born in London Jan. 3, 1862; son of Jonah Nathan. He joined the Royal Engineers on May...
- Nathan Ben MeÏr Of Trinquetaille JE French Talmudist and Biblical commentator; flourished in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He was the paternal grandfather...
- Nathan Mordecai JE French physician; lived at Avignon in the middle of the fifteenth century. He was in correspondence with Joseph Colon, who...
- Nathan (nata) Ben Moses JE ...
- Moses B Solomon B Nathanael Nathan JE Provençal liturgist; his period and birthplace are unknown. He was the author of a didactic poem entitled "Toẓe'...
- Nathan Nata Of Shklov JE ...
- Nathan Ben Samuel JE Spanish physician; flourished, as far as is known, at the beginning of the fourteenth century. He is designated in some manuscripts...
- Wolf Ben Abraham Nathan JE German Biblical exegete and theologian; born at Dessau July 8, 1751; died there Sept. 6, 1784. He wrote a commentary on the...
- The Exilarch Nathan De-ẒuẒita JE According to Joseph b. Ḥama (Shab. 56b), Nathan de-Ẓuẓita is to be identified with the exilarch 'Uḳ...
- Nathanael Of Chinon JE French tosafist; flourished about 1220. He was a disciple of Isaac ben Samuel of Dampierre. After 1224 Nathanael was director...
- Nathanael B Nehemiah Caspi JE ...
- Bernhard Nathanson JE Russian-Hebrew journalist and author; born at Satanow, Podolia, April 15, 1832. He received his early Hebrew education under...
- Jacob Nathanson JE Polish professor of chemistry; born at Warsaw 1832; died there Sept. 14, 1884; educated at the University of Dorpat. In 1862...
- Joseph Saul Nathanson JE Polish rabbi and author; born at Berzan 1808; died at Lemberg March 4, 1875; son of Aryeh Lebush Nathanson, rabbi at Berzan...
- Marcus Nathanson JE Russian scholar; born at Wilna 1793; died at Telsh, government of Kovno, June 10, 1868. He was the son-in-law of Joshua Zeitels...
- Mendel Levin Nathanson JE Danish merchant, editor, and economist; born in Altona Nov. 20, 1780; died in Copenhagen Oct. 6, 1868. When only eighteen...
- National Farm School JE American institution having for its object the training of Jewish lads in practical and scientific agriculture; situated at...
- The Seventy Nations And Languages JE The haggadic assumption that there are seventy nations and languages in the world is based upon the ethnological table given...
- B Hilai NaṬronai Ii JE Gaon of the academy at Sura early in the second half of the ninth century; he succeeded Sar Shalom. His father had occupied...
- NaṬronai B Nehemiah (mar YanḲa) JE Gaon of Pumbedita from 719 to 730; son-in-law of the exilarch Ḥasdai I. Vain of his family connections and secure in...
- Natural History In The Bible JE ...
- Samuel Naumbourg JE French composer; born at Dennenlohe, Bavaria, March 15, 1817; died at Saint-Mandé, near Paris, May 1, 1880. After having...
- Jacob Naumburg JE Rabbi of Mayence and Offenbach at the end of the eighteenth century. He was the grandson of Jonah Te'omim, the author...
- Louis Naumburg JE Cantor; born in Treuchtlingen, Bavaria, 1813; died in New York city March 4, 1902. He was descended from a family of cantors...
- Abram Navarra JE Rabbi at Casale (Casale-Monferrato) in 1650. Responsa by him are found, in manuscript, in the collections of David Kaufmann...
- Navarre JE Former kingdom in Spain, surrounded by Aragon, Castile, and the Basque Provinces; now comprised in the provinces of Navarre...
- Navarro JE Portuguese family, the following members of which became well known: Judah ben Moses Navarro: Son of Moses Navarro, body-physician...
- Navigation JE That the Israelites, practically, did not engage in navigation is due to the fact that they never held the sea-coast for any...
- Nazarenes JE Sect of primitive Christianity; it appears to have embraced all those Christians who had been born Jews and who neither would...
- Nazareth JE Town in Galilee, situated in a valley to the north of the plain of Esdraelon. It is about 1,200 feet above the level of the...
- Nazarite JE One who lives apart; one who has made a vow of abstinence; in the former sense used as early as Sifra, Emor, iv. 3; Sifre...
- Nazir JE A treatise of the Mishnah and the Tosefta and in both Talmuds, devoted chiefly to a discussion of the laws laid down in Num...
- Isaac Nazir JE One of the earliest cabalists. According to an account which is not altogether trustworthy, he was the real founder of cabalistic...
- Jacob B Meshullam B Jacob Of Lunel Nazir JE ...
- Moses Ha-levi Nazir JE ...
- Johann August Wilhelm Neander JE German Church historian; born at Göttingen Jan. 17, 1789; died at Berlin July 14, 1850. Prior to his baptism his name...
- Neapolis JE ...
- Ne'arim JE ...
- Nebelah JE Biblical expression for the carcass of an animal, and sometimes for a dead human body(I Kings xiii. 24; Isa. xxvi. 19; Ps...
- Nebich (nebbich) JE Judæo-German term carrying the sense of "regret" and "pity." It is used as a noun, an adverb, and most often as an interjection...
- Mount Nebo JE According to Deut. xxxii. 49 and xxxiv. 1-3, it was from this mountain that Moses, just before his death, surveyed the promised...
- Nebraska JE One of the central units of the United States of America; admitted into the Union in 1854. Jews traversed the state on their...
- Nebuchadnezzar JE The son of Nabopolassar; became king of Babylon in 604 B.C. as Assyria was on the decline; died 561.His name, either in this...
- Nebushasban JE The first-named of the four chief officers sent by Nebuzar-adan to take Jeremiah out of the court of the guard (Jer. xxxix...
- Nebuzar-adan JE Captain of Nebuchadnezzar's body-guard. Nebuzar-adan entered Jerusalem in 586 B.C., burned the Temple, the king's...
- Necho JE King of Egypt from 610 to 594 B.C.; son of Psam(m)ethik I., of the twenty-sixth Egyptian dynasty. According to Herodotus (ii...
- Necromancy JE Divination by aid of the dead is said to have been common among the Persians (Strabo, xvi. 2, 39, νεκυ...
- Nedarim JE A treatise in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and both Talmuds, devoted chiefly to a discussion of the regulations contained in Num...
- Het Nederlandsche Israeliet JE ...
- Nega'im JE A treatise of the order Ṭohorot in the Mishnah and the Tosefta, which treats of the rules concerning leprosy and the...
- Negeb JE Tract of land in southern Judah, which, though fertile in comparison with the rest of Palestine, is nevertheless regarded...
- Neginah JE ...
- Negligence JE ...
- Negotiable Instruments JE ...
- Negropont JE ...
- Judah Nehama JE Turkish rabbi; born in Salonica 1825; died there 1899. He was rabbi in his native place; for many years vice-president of...
- Nehardea (nearda) JE City of Babylonia, situated at or near the junction of the Euphrates with the Nahr Malka; one of the earliest centers of Babylonian...
- Nehemiah JE Son of Hachaliah; rebuilder of the walls of Jerusalem. The sole source of information about Nehemiah is the canonical book...
- Book Of Nehemiah JE A work ascribed to Nehemiah, but bearing in some canons the title Esdras II. or Esdras III., having been attributed to Ezra...
- Nehemiah Of Beth-horon JE Amora of the first generation; lived in the third century at Beth-horon, a small town northwest of Jerusalem. In the different...
- Nehemiah B Hashiel (ammid) JE ...
- Nehemiah Ha-kohen JE Polish cabalist and Shabbethaian preacher; died at Amsterdam shortly after 1690, or, according to another account, in Poland...
- Nehemiah Ben Kohen ẒedeḲ JE Gaon of Pumbedita from 960 to 968. While his predecessor, Aaron b. Sargado, was still in office, Nehemiah tried to have him...
- Nehunya Of Beth-horon JE ...
- Nehunya Ben Ha-Ḳanah JE Tanna of the first and second centuries. It appears from B. B. 10b that Neḥunya was a contemporary, but not a pupil...
- Nehushtan JE Bronze figure of a serpent which was broken in pieces by Hezekiah at the beginningof his reign (II Kings xviii. 4). It was...
- Neighboring Landowners JE The legal maxim "Sic utere tuo ut alienum non lædas" (So use your own that you may not injure another's [property])...
- Ne'ilah JE The last of the five services held on the Day of Atonement. The earliest mention of it is in the Mishnah (Ta'an. 26a)...
- Julia (mrs Fred Terry) Neilson JE English actress; born in London 1868; educated at Wiesbaden, Germany. Returning to London in 1883, she became a student at...
- Albert Neisser JE German dermatologist; born at Schweidnitz Jan. 22, 1855. His father, Moritz Neisser, was physician and "Geheimer Sanitä...
- Nejran JE ...
- Ambrosius NemÉnyi (neumann) JE Hungarian deputy; born at Peczel 1852; died in Budapest Dec. 13, 1904; studied law at Vienna and Paris (LL.D., Budapest)....
- Nemirov JE Town in the government of Podolia, Russian Poland. Of the period before 1648 it is only known that Nemirov was one of the...
- Neo-christian JE ...
- Neo-hebraic Literature JE ...
- Neologie; Neologen JE ...
- Neoplatonism JE ...
- Nephilim JE ...
- Graziadio (hananeel) Nepi (neppi) JE Italian rabbi and physician; born in 1759 at Ferrara; died Jan. 18, 1836, at Cento. He studied at Ferrara for twelve years...
- Nergal JE God of the Babylonian city of Cuthah or Cuth or Kutu. In II Kings xvii. 30 it is said that the men of Cuth, whom Sargon settled...
- Nero JE Roman emperor; born at Antium Dec. 15, 37 C.E.; died near Rome in 68. His original name was Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, but...
- Nervous Diseases JE The Jews are more subject to diseases of the nervous system than the other races and peoples among which they dwell. Hysteria...
- Nesek JE Wine consecrated to use in idolatrous worship and therefore absolutely forbidden to a Jew. In a broader sense "nesek," or...
- Nesvizh JE Small town in the government of Minsk, Russia; it was in existence in the thirteenth century. The census of 1897 gives it...
- Nethaneel Ben Isaiah JE Yemenite commentator and poet of the fourteenth century; author of a homiletic commentary on the Pentateuch entitled "Nur...
- Netherlands JE Country of western Europe, bounded by the North Sea, by Belgium, and by the Prussian provinces of Hanover and Westphalia,...
- Nethinim JE Temple officials. They are first heard of as returning from Babylon to Palestine, after the Exile, in two batches, one numbering...
- Charles Netter JE French philanthropist; born at Strasburg in 1828; died at Jaffa, Palestine, Oct. 2, 1882. He studied at Strasburg and Belfort...
- Eugene Netter JE Roman Catholic archbishop at Manila; born 1840 at Bergheim, near Colmar, in Alsace. At the age of fourteen he and his brother...
- Justin Arnold Netter JE French physician; born at Strasburg Sept. 20, 1855. He studied in the hospitals of Paris between 1876 and 1884 ("externe,"...
- Neu-orthodoxie (neo-orthodoxy) JE ...
- Adolf Neubauer JE Sublibrarian at the Bodleian Library and reader in Rabbinic Hebrew at Oxford University; born at Bittse, Hungary, March 11...
- Joseph Neuberg JE English litterateur; secretary to Thomas Carlyle; born at Würzburg, Bavaria, May 21, 1806; died in London March 23, 1867...
- Ferdinand Neuburger JE German dramatist; born at Düsseldorf Aug. 28, 1839; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Oct. 27, 1895. He began life as a tutor...
- Max Neuburger JE Austrian physician; born Dec. 8, 1868, at Vienna, at whose university he studied medicine (M.D. 1893). After three years of...
- Abraham Neuda JE Austrian rabbi; born at Loschitz, Moravia, in 1812; died there Feb. 22, 1854. He was the son of R. Aaron Neuda of Loschitz...
- Neue Israelitische Zeitung JE ...
- Das Neue Zion JE ...
- Daniel Neufeld JE Polish writer; born at Praszka, government of Kalisz, 1814; died at Warsaw in 1874. His activity was confined to his birth-place...
- Ladislaus Neugebauer JE Hungarian writer; born at Budapest Feb. 22, 1845. After studying at Budapest and Vienna he entered the service of the Austro-Hungarian...
- Neuilly-sur-seine JE Town of France, and suburb of Paris. It has a population of 32,730. Its Jewish community, which now (1904) comprises about...
- Abraham Neumann JE Russian rabbi; born at Gerolzhofen, near Würzburg, 1809; died at St. Petersburg Aug. 22, 1875. In 1822 he studied Talmud...
- Angelo Neumann JE Austrian theatrical director; born at Vienna Aug. 18, 1838. Neumann went upon the stage in 1859, as a barytone, appearing...
- Armin Neumann JE Hungarian deputy; born at Grosswardein Feb. 14, 1845. After having prepared for the rabbinical career at the Jewish theological...
- Carl Friedrich Neumann JE German Orientalist and historian; born at Reichmansdorf, near Bamberg, Dec. 22, 1798; died in Berlin March 17, 1870. His parents...
- Eleonora Neumann JE German violinist; born at Lissa in 1819; died at Triest in Jan., 1841. She received her musical education at Warsaw, where...
- Isidor Neumann JE Austrian dermatologist; born at Misslitz, Moravia, March 2, 1832; educated at Vienna University (M.D. 1858). He became privat-docent...
- Moses Samuel Neumann JE Hungarian poet; born at Ban, Hungary, in 1769; died at Budapest Nov. 29, 1831; son of a poor cantor who died prematurely....
- Salomon Neumann JE German physician and statistician; born at Pyritz, Pomerania, Oct.22, 1819; studied medicine at Berlin and Halle (M.D. 1842)...
- Wilhelm Heinrich Neumann JE ...
- Naphtali Herz Neumanovitz JE Russian author; born at Jozefow, government of Lublin, Feb. 12, 1843; died at Warsaw, March 11, 1898. He was descended from...
- Mirels (meshullam Zalman ben Jacob David) Neumark JE German Talmudist; father of Ẓebi Ashkenazi; died at Hamburg Nov. 28, 1706. Meshullam Zalman was one of the most respected...
- Leopold Neumegen JE English school-master; born in Posen in 1787; died at Kew, near London, April, 1875. He first taught in Göttingen, and...
- Wilhelm Neurath JE Austrian economist; born at St. Georgen May 31, 1840. After winning his doctor's degree he became privat-docent at the...
- Neuss JE City of Rhenish Prussia. Its Jewish community, which dates back to the eleventh century, is known for the series of persecutions...
- Phinehas Neustadt JE German rabbi and author; born at Borek, province of Posen, Prussia, Sept. 23, 1823; died at Breslau Feb. 24, 1902. Neustadt...
- Neustadt-schirwindt (wladyslavow) JE District town in the government of Suwalki, Russian Poland; built in 1643 under Ladislaus (Wladyslaw) IV., King of Poland...
- Louis NeustÄtter JE German portrait- and genre-painter; born in Munich Sept. 5, 1829; died in Tutzing, on the Starnbergersee, May 24, 1899. Neustä...
- Neutitschein JE City in the province of Moravia, Austria. It had a Jewish congregation in the Middle Ages, which was expelled Aug. 30, 1563...
- Elias Neuwiedel JE Russian grammarian; born at Neustadt-Sugind (Alexandrowo) 1821; died at Warsaw Sept. 16, 1886. He studied Talmud at the yeshibah...
- Die Neuzeit JE ...
- LÖb Nevakhovich JE Russian writer; born in Letichev, Volhynia, in the second half of the eighteenth century; died in St. Petersburg Aug. 1 (13)...
- Nevers JE Chief city of the department of the Nièvre, France, with a population of 27,108 (1904). In the twelfth century Jews were...
- New Era Illustrated Magazine JE A monthly publication founded in Boston, Mass., as the New Era Jewish Magazine, by Raphael Lasker, in June, 1902. Its title...
- New Hampshire JE One of the New England states of the United States of America, and one of the thirteen original states. Record is found as...
- New Haven JE ...
- New Jersey JE One of the North Atlantic states and one of the thirteen original states of the United States of America. It contains the...
- New Mexico JE A territory in the western division of the United States; acquired after the war with Mexico by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo...
- New Moon JE The period of New Moon was, in pre-exilic times, celebrated by cessation of labor; it was superior even to the Sabbath-day...
- Blessing Of The New Moon JE The periodical reappearance of the moon, like the reappearance of everything that is a benefit to mankind, such as fruits...
- New Nineveh JE ...
- New Orleans JE Largest city in the state of Louisiana, which passed into the possession of the United States in 1803. Among its earliest...
- New South Wales JE ...
- New Testament JE The name of "New Testament" was given by the Christian Church, at the close of the second century, to the gospels and to other...
- New-year JE In the earliest times the Hebrew year began in autumn with the opening of the economic year. There followed in regular succession...
- New-year For Trees JE The anniversary of the festival of trees, which occurs on the 15th of Shebaṭ (roughly corresponding to Feb. 1), is known...
- New York JE Chief commercial city of the state of New York and the largest city of the United States; contains a larger Jewish population...
- New York JE Most populous state of the American Union, with an estimated Jewish population of 750,000. The history of the Jews of the...
- New Zealand JE A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, consisting of two large islands (North Island and South Island), a small island...
- Newark JE Largest city of the state of New Jersey, U. S. A. Its first Jewish congregation was founded Aug. 20, 1848, under the name...
- Joseph E Newburger JE American jurist; born in New York city 1853; educated in the public schools and at Columbia College (School of Law), New York...
- Newcastle-upon-tyne JE English seaport; center of the English coal-trade. It has a population of 214,803, including about 500 Jewish families. Jews...
- Alfred Alvarez Newman JE English metal-worker and art-collector; born in London 1851; died there 1887. He revived the blacksmith's art in its medieval...
- Leopold Newman JE American soldier. He entered in the Civil war as captain of Company B, 31st New York Infantry, and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel...
- Selig Newman JE German Hebraist; born at Posen, Prussian Poland, in 1788; died at Williamsburg, N. Y., Feb. 20, 1871. He was educated at Posen...
- Newport JE One of the capitals of the state of Rhode Island, U. S. A. Before the American Revolution, Newport excelled New York as a...
- Jewish Newspapers JE ...
- Next Of Kin JE ...
- Sefer Ha- Neyar JE Anonymous compendium of laws; compiled during the first third of the fourteenth century, after 1319, probably by a Provenç...
- Alfred Neymarck JE French economist and statistician; born at Châlons-sur-Marne Jan. 3, 1848. He was editor of the "Revue Contemporaine"...
- Nezhin (nyezhin) JE Russian town, in the government of Chernigov; one of the centers of the tobacco-trade. In 1648 Nezhin was taken by the Cossacks...
- NeziḲin JE Order of the Mishnah and the Tosefta, in both the Babylonian and the Jerusalem Talmud. The name "Neziḳin," which occurs...
- Nibhaz JE One of the deities worshiped by the Avites(II Kings xvii. 31), who had been imported into the country about Samaria after...
- Nicanor JE Son of Patroclus, and general and friend of Antiochus Epiphanes, who in 165 B.C. sent him and Gorgias with an army against...
- Nicanor's Gate JE ...
- Nicaragua JE ...
- Nice JE City of southern France. Jews settled there in the fourth century, and, as in the other Gallic cities along the coast of the...
- Ii Nicholas I JE ...
- Nicholas Iii, Iv, V JE ...
- Nicholas Of Damascus (nicolaus Damascenus) JE Greek historian and philosopher; friend of King Herod the Great; born at Damascus, where his father, Antipater, filled high...
- Nicodemus JE Prominent member of the Sanhedrin, and a man of wealth; lived in Jerusalem in the first century C.E. He is mentioned in John...
- Nicodemus (naḲdimon) Ben Gorion JE Lived at Jerusalem in the first century C.E.; the wealthiest and most respected member of the peace party during the revolution...
- Nicolaus De Cusa JE ...
- Nicopolis JE City of Bulgaria, situated on the right bank of the Danube, 160 kilometers southeast of Widdin. The settlement of Jews in...
- Niddah JE A treatise in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and both Talmuds. In the Mishnah it stands seventh in the order Ṭohorot, but in...
- Niddin JE ...
- Niebla JE One of the oldest towns of Spain, situated 12 miles west of Seville and to the east of Huelva. It was one of the earliest...
- Abraham Ben Ephraim NiederlÄnder JE Austrian mathematician of the sixteenth century; scribe of R. Judah Löw ben Bezaleel (MaHaRaL) of Prague. He was the...
- Ahasverus Samuel Van Nierop JE Dutch jurist; born at Hoorn Jan. 24, 1813; died at Amsterdam May 15, 1878. He studied law at the Amsterdam Athenæum,...
- Frederik Salomon Van Nierop JE Dutch economist; born at Amsterdam March 6, 1844. He took his degree as doctor of law at Leyden in 1866, established himself...
- David Nieto JE Haham of the Sephardic community in London; born at Venice 1654; died in London Jan. 10, 1728. He first practised as a physician...
- Isaac Nieto JE Haham of the Portuguese congregation Sha'are Shamaim, Bevis Marks, London; born 1702; died at London 1774; son of David...
- Nieuwe Israelietisches Weekblad JE ...
- Niggun JE A Neo-Hebraic noun formed from the "pi'el" of the verb = "to play strings," "make music"; hence meaning generally "tune...
- Night JE The period between sunset and sunrise (see Calendar; Day). The older Biblical term for the whole day was "yom wa-lailah" or...
- Moses Nigrin (negrin) JE Cabalist; lived in Safed early in the sixteenth century; a contemporary of Moses di Trani. He is chiefly known as a commentator...
- Simon (solomon) Nigrin (negrin) JE Author; lived in Jerusalem in the early part of the seventeenth century; a grandnephew of Moses Nigrin. He is the supposed...
- Nijni-novgorod (nizhni-novgorod) JE Russian city; capital of the government of the same name; famed for its fairs, which are held annually. It is without the...
- NiḲḲur JE ...
- Nikolaief (nikolayev) JE Russian Black Sea port and naval station, in the government of Kherson; founded in 1784; now an important commercial center...
- Nikolsburg JE Town in southern Moravia. The settlement of the Jews in Nikolsburg dates probably from 1420, when, after the expulsion from...
- Nile JE The great river of Egypt; frequently referred to in the Bible. The Authorized Version everywhere renders the word employed...
- NÎmes JE Chief town of the department of Gard, France. Jews were settled here in very remote times. Hilderic, Count of Nîmes,...
- Nimrod JE Son of Cush and grandson of Ham; his name has become proverbial as that of a mighty hunter. His "kingdom" comprised Babel...
- Nineveh JE City of Assyria. The form of its name is derived from the Masoretic text. It answers as nearly as possible to the native Assyrian...
- Ning-po JE ...
- Nippur JE Ancient name of a great city in central Babylonia whose ruined site is now known as Nuffar (Niffer), which is the same word...
- Nisan JE First ecclesiastical and seventh civil month (Neh. ii. 1; Esth. iii. 7). In the earlier Biblical books it is designated "Ḥ...
- Nish (nissa) JE City of Servia on the Nissava. Its Jewish community dates from the beginning of the eighteenth century, as is shown by a question...
- Nishmat JE Literally, "the soul of." A part of the liturgy which on Sabbaths and festivals leads up to the short benediction ("yishtabbaḥ...
- Nisibis JE City in northeastern Mesopotamia, in the ancient province of Migdonia. The Biblical Accad (Gen. x. 10) is rendered "Neẓ...
- Henriette Nissen (nissen-saloman) JE Swedish singer; born in Göteborg March 12, 1819; died in Harzburg Aug. 27, 1879. She studied pianoforte under Chopin...
- Nissi Ben Noah JE Karaite scholar; lived at Bassora, later at Jerusalem, in the eighth century. He is believed to have been the son of Abu Nissi...
- Don Nissim Benveniste JE Spanish scholar of the fifteenth century. His halakic consultations with Isaac Aboab were published, under the title "She'...
- Hayyim B Elijah Nissim JE Turkish rabbi; probably lived in the second half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Maẓa Ḥayyim...
- Nissim Ben Jacob Ben Nissim Ibn Shahin JE African Talmud exegete and moralist; lived during the first half of the eleventh century in Kairwan. He received his early...
- Nissim Ben Moses Of Marseilles JE Philosopher of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. He was the author of a philosophical commentary on the Pentateuch...
- Nissim B Reuben Gerondi JE Physician, astronomer, and halakist; flourished at Barcelona about 1340 to 1380. He had much to suffer at the hands of certain...
- Nissim (the Elder) Ibn Shahin JE ...
- Niter JE The niter of the ancients was a mineral alkaline salt, carbonate of soda, found in great quantities in Egypt. Natron Lake...
- Nittai Of Arbela JE Vice-president of the Sanhedrin under the nasi Joshua b. Peraḥyah at the time of John Hyrcanus. In Yer. Ḥag. ii...
- Nittel JE Judæo-German word for "Christmas"; derived from the medieval Latin "Natale Domini" (see Wetzer and Welte, "Kirchenlexikon...
- Solomon Ben Isaiah Ben Eliezer Hayyim Nizza JE Rabbi of Venice in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; equally prominent as sage, Talmudist, and liturgical poet. His...
- NiẒẒahon JE ...
- No-amon JE Name designating the city of Thebes, in Egypt, and equivalent to "No, the city of the god Amon"; found in Nah. iii. 8 (comp...
- Noachian Laws JE ...
- Noah JE Son of Lamech and the ninth in descent from Adam. In the midst ofabounding corruption he alone was "righteous and blameless...
- Hayyim Hirsch Noah JE ...
- Mordecai Manuel Noah JE American politician, journalist, playwright, and philanthropist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 19, 1785; died in New York...
- Noah B Pesah JE Acting rabbi in Pinsk; died there in 1638. He wrote a commentary on Bereshit Rabbah under the title of "Toledot Noaḥ...
- Nob JE City or village of priests where David received holy bread when in pressing need of food at the beginning of his persecution...
- Nobah JE Apparently, a Manassite warrior who, during the conquest of the territory east of the Jordan, made himself master of Kenath...
- Luis Noble JE ...
- Nogah Ha-yareah JE ...
- Elijah Ben Joseph Di Nola JE Italian physician and rabbi of the sixteenth century. In 1563 he was living in Rome, where he occupied the position of rabbi...
- Menahem (john Paul Eusthatius) Nola JE Italian convert to Christianity; born about 1540; died at Rome about 1602. Nothing is known of Nola's life before his...
- Theodor NÖldeke JE German Orientalist; born March 2, 1836, at Harburg. He studied Oriental languages at Göttingen, Vienna, Leyden, and Berlin...
- Nomism JE That religious tendency which aims at the control of both social and individual life by legalism, making the law the supreme...
- Nones JE American family, tracing its descent from Benjamin Nones of Philadelphia, who lived at the end of the eighteenth century....
- Noph JE City of ancient Egypt, mentioned in Isa. xix. 13, Jer. ii. 16, xliv. 1, xlvi. 14, and Ezek. xxx. 13, 16. All the ancient versions...
- Max (simon) Nordau JE Austrian litterateur and philosopher; born in Budapest July 29, 1849.His parents were very poor. His father, Gabriel Sü...
- Joshua D Norden JE English soldier and adventurer; died at Graham's Town, Cape Colony, April 26, 1846. He was field commandant in the Kaffir...
- Nordhausen JE Prussian manufacturing town, in the province of Saxony. The earliest mention of Jews at Nordhausen occurs in a document signed...
- Isaac Nordheimer JE American Orientalist; born 1809 at Memelsdorf, near Erlangen, in Bavaria; died 1842. A very promising Talmudic student, he...
- NÖrdlingen JE City in the district of Swabia, Bavaria; till 1803 a free city of the German empire. Like Augsburg, Nuremberg, Würzburg...
- Friedrich N Nork JE ...
- Normandy JE ...
- North Carolina JE One of the South Atlantic states of the American Union, and one of the thirteen original states. In 1826 Isaac Harby estimated...
- Northampton JE Capital of Northamptonshire, England. Jews were living there as early as 1180, when it is recorded that Samuel of Northampton...
- Northeim JE Town in the province of Hanover, Prussia. It has a population of 6,695, of whom over 100 are Jews. Jews lived there as early...
- Norway JE Northwestern division of the Scandinavian peninsula. It has a total population of 2,240,032. The census of 1897 counted over...
- Norwich JE Capital town of the county of Norfolk, England. After London, Oxford, and Cambridge, it is the earliest English town mentioned...
- Norzi JE Italian family, many members of which were distinguished as scholars and rabbis. Probably the family name is derived from...
- Nose JE Anthropologists who consider the nose an important racial index (Topinard, Bertillon, Deniker, and others) in their classifications...
- Nose-ring JE The Hebrew word (plural, ) is used for both earrings and nose-rings, but where the latter is referred to the word is added...
- Alfred Nossig JE Austrian author and sculptor; born at Lemberg, Galicia, April 18, 1864. He studied law, philosophy, and natural science at...
- Notaries And Scribes JE ...
- NoṬariḲon JE A system of shorthand consisting in either simply abbreviating the words or in writing only one letter of each word. This...
- Nothhandel JE Technical term used in the laws referring to the petty trading of the Jews, which laws aimed to exclude the Jews from such...
- Nathan Notkin (note) JE Russian army-contractor and financier; born at Shklov about the middle of the eighteenth century; died at St. Petersburg 1804...
- Osip Konstantinovich Notovich JE Russian journalist; born in 1849 at Kertch, where his father was rabbi. Notovich studied law at the University of St. Petersburg...
- Menahem Noveira JE Italian rabbi of Verona and poet of the eighteenth century. He was a grandson of Hezekiah Mordecai Basan. His three responsa...
- Novgorod JE One of the oldest of Russian cities, on the River Volkhoff; it has been in existence since the ninth century. In the first...
- Novgorod-syeversk JE Russian town in the government of Chernigov. The town dates its origin as far back as the eleventh century. Jews lived there...
- Novgorod-volhynsk JE Russian town in the government of Volhynia. It has a total population of 16,873, of whom about 9,000 are Jews (1897). The...
- Novoaleksandrovsk JE Russian city in the government of Kovno. It has (1897) a total population of 6,370, of whom 4,277 are Jews. Among the latter...
- Novogrudok JE Russian town in the government of Minsk. The first mention of Jews in connection with Novogrudok dates back to 1484, when...
- Novokonstantinov JE Russian town in the government of Podolia; it has a population of2,855, including 1,825 Jews. There are 245 Jewish artisans...
- Novomoskovsk JE Russian city in the government of Yekaterinoslav; it has a total population of 12,862, including 1,147 Jews. Among the latter...
- Novy-dvor JE Village in the district of Grodno. In the sixteenth century Novy-Dvor had a well-organized Jewish community, some of whose...
- Novy Israel JE Name of a Jewish reformed religious party or sect, with tendencies toward Christianity, which arose in Odessa at the end of...
- Nuisance JE ...
- Book Of Numbers JE Fourth book of the Pentateuch. In the Septuagint version it bears the title 'ΑριΘμο in the...
- Numbers Rabbah JE ...
- Numbers And Numerals JE The letters of the alphabet were used as numerical symbols as early as the Maccabean period (comp. Numismatics). Whether such...
- Numenius JE Son of Antiochus. Together with Antipater, son of Jason, he was sent to Sparta and Rome, first by Jonathan Maccabeus (I Macc...
- Numismatics JE The study of Jewish coinage, strictly speaking, begins with the Maccabean period. Some information, however, concerning the...
- Nun JE Fourteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The name signifies "fish," and perhaps indicates the original shape of the letter...
- Henrique (enrique) Nunes JE Judæo-Portuguese convert to Christianity; born in Borba, Portugal; died July, 1524. After being baptized in Castile,...
- Robert Nunes JE Jamaican magistrate; born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Dec. 12, 1820; died at Falmouth, Jamaica, Jan. 31, 1889. Originally destined...
- Manuela Nunes Da Almeyda JE Spanish poetess; born in London; mother of Mordecai Nunes Almeyda, the patron of the Spanish poet Daniel Israel Lopez Laguna...
- David NuÑes-torres JE Ḥakam and editor; born probably at Amsterdam; died in 1728 at The Hague. He was preacher of the societies Abi Yetomim...
- NuÑez JE Marano family, of which the following members are known: Beatriz Nuñez: Burned, at the age of sixty, at the auto da...
- Maria NuÑez JE Daughter of the Portuguese Marano Gaspar Lopez Homem and Mayor Rodriguez; lived in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries...
- Samuel NuÑez (ribiero) JE Marano physician of the eighteenth century; born in Lisbon. He belonged to a distinguished family in that city, and was a...
- Isaac Joseph NuÑez-vaes JE Rabbi at Leghorn, Italy; died before 1788. A follower of the Cabala, he was highly respected by his contemporaries for his...
- Jacob NuÑez-vaes JE Editor and rabbi of Leghorn, Italy; died there about 1815; son of Isaac Joseph Nuñez-Vaes, and pupil of Isaac Nuñ...
- Nuremberg JE Most important commercial city of Bavaria. According to Wagenseil ("De Civitate Norimburgiæ," p. 71), Jews were living...
- Hilarius Nusbaum JE Polish historian and communal worker; born in Warsaw 1820; died there 1895. He was educated in the Warsaw rabbinical seminary...
- Myer Nussbaum JE American lawyer; born in Albany, N. Y.; son of Simon and Clara Nussbaum, who went to America from Neustadt-on-the-Saale, Bavaria...
- Nut JE The rendering in the English versions of the two Hebrew words "egoz" and "boṭnim."1. "Egoz." This is mentioned once...
- Alexander NyÁri JE Hungarian art critic; born Aug. 28, 1861, at Zala-Egersczeg; educated at Vienna under Hansen, receiving his diploma as architect...
- Nyons JE Town in the ancient province of Dauphiné, France. A Jewish community must have existed there before the fourteenth century...

