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  1. Joseph Zabara JE
  2. Zabdao ben Levi JE Palestinian amora of the first generation (third century). He belonged to the scholarly group of which Hoshaiah Rabbah was the ......
  3. Zabim JE Ninth tractate in the Mishnah and Tosefta of the sixth Talmudic order Ṭohorot. It deals with the uncleanness caused by ......
  4. Israel (Isidor) Zabludowski JE Russian physician; born at Byelostok, in the government of Grodno, July 30, 1850. At the age of twelve he wrote ......
  5. Jehiel Michael ben Chayyim Zabludowski (Jehiel Michael ben Hayyim Zabludowski) Russian Hebrew scholar and author; born at Byelostok, government of Grodno, in 1803; died there Nov. 14, 1869. He devoted ......
  6. Zachariah of Kiev JE
  7. Zadok JE A priest, perhaps the high priest during the reign of David. He was the son of Ahitub (II Sam. viii. ......
  8. Zadok Gaon JE Gaon of Sura from 820 to 821. On the basis of a responsum quoted in the "Sha'are Ẓedeḳ" (iv. 311, ......
  9. Zadok 'Imani JE African liturgical poet, who wrote the following eight poems that are found in the Tripolitan Maḥzor: (1) "El hekal ḳodsho"; ......
  10. Tzahalon (Zahalon) JE A family of Spanish origin; represented by members who, after the exile from Spain, settled in Italy and the Orient, ......
  11. Zakkai JE Palestinian tanna of the second century; contemporary of Judah ha-Nasi I. and apparently a pupil of Simeon b. Yoḥai. He ......
  12. Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski JE American soldier and inventor; born at Kurnich, Prussian Poland, Dec. 13, 1849. In 1853 his parents emigrated to the United ......
  13. Moses G. Zalinski JE American soldier; born in New York city Jan. 23, 1863; educated in the public schools. He joined the regular army ......
  14. Abraham ben Isaac Ha-Kohen Zamosz JE Polish rabbi and anti-Shabbethaian of the eighteenth century; rabbi of Tarly. He was very prominent in persecuting the Shabbethaians who ......
  15. Israel ben Moses Ha-Levi Zamosz JE Polish Talmudist and mathematician; born at Buberki about 1700; died at Brody April 20, 1772. He was appointed one of ......
  16. Joseph ben Jacob Isaac Zamosz JE Polish rabbi of the eighteenth century; rabbi of Zamosz. He was the author of "Mishnat Ḥakamim" (Lemberg, 1792), an analytical ......
  17. Tzebi Hirsch ben Benjamin Zamosz (Zebi Hirsch ben Benjamin Zamosz) JE German rabbi; born in 1740; died at Altona in 1807. He was rabbi of several communities, including Brody and Glogau, ......
  18. Abraham Zante JE
  19. Joseph Zapateiro JE
  20. Zaphnath-Paaneah JE Name given by Pharaoh to Joseph (Gen. xli. 45). It seems to be an Egyptian name, but its etymology is ......
  21. Bruno Zappert JE Austrian dramatist and journalist; born in Vienna Jan. 28, 1845; died there Jan. 31, 1892. The Zappert family, many members ......
  22. Israel L. Zappert JE Austrian philanthropist; elder brother of George and grandfather of Bruno Zappert; born at Prague in 1795; died there in 1865. ......
  23. Tzarfati, Tzarefati (Zarfati, Zarefati) JE Epithet frequently applied in rabbinical literature to Jews of French birth or descent. Among those so called may be mentioned: ......
  24. Tzarfati (Zarfati) JE Oriental Jewish family, traced by the bibliographer Azulai to a line of French rabbis descended from Rashi through his grandson ......
  25. Tzarifa (Zarifa) JE Name of a goddess mentioned in a single passage of the Talmud ('Ab. Zarah 12a) as having been worshiped at ......
  26. Judah ben Abraham Zarqo (Judah ben Abraham Zarko) JE Hebrew poet distinguished for the elegance of his style; flourished at Rhodes in the sixteenth century. During a residence at ......
  27. Abraham bin Zarzal JE Spanish physician and astronomer; flourished in the first half of the fourteenth century at the court of the Nasserites in ......
  28. Moses ibn Zarzal JE Spanish physician and poet; physician in ordinary to Henry III. of Castile; flourished in the latter half of the fourteenth ......
  29. Jacob David ben Isaac Zausmer JE Polish Masorite of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; rabbi of Zausmer, near Cracow; died before 1644. He was the author ......
  30. Jacob ben Samuel Zausmer JE Polish rabbi and preacher; flourished at Zausmer in the seventeenth century. He was the author of the "Bet Ya'aḳob." (Dyhernfurth, ......
  31. Zbarazer JE
  32. Samuel Zbitkover JE
  33. Zebachim (Zebahim) JE Treatise in the Mishnah, the Tosefta, and the Babylonian Talmud, dealing mainly with the laws and regulations to be observed ......

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  1. Tzeba'ot Adonai (Zeba'ot Adonai) JE
  2. Tzebi ben Aaron (Zebi ben Aaron) JE
  3. Tzebi Ashkenazi (Zebi Ashkenazi) JE
  4. Tzebi Hirsch ben Chayyim (Zebi Hirsch ben Hayyim) JE Dayyan and ḥazzan at Posen toward the end of the seventeenth century. Under the title "Sefer Or Yashar" he edited ......
  5. Tzebi Hirsch ben Isaac Jacob (Zebi Hirsch ben Isaac Jacob) JE Shoḥeṭ at Cracow in the sixteenth century; a pupil of Moses Isserles. He was the author of "Haggahot le-Sefer Sheḥiṭah ......
  6. Tzebi Hirsch ben Joseph ben Tzebi Ha-Kohen (Zebi Hirsch ben Joseph Zebi Ha-Kohen) JE Polish Talmudist of the seventeenth century; studied for some time at Cracow under Yom-Ṭob Lipmann Heller. He was the author ......
  7. Tzebi Hirsch b. Simon (Zebi Hirsch b. Simon) JE Lithuanian Talmudist; lived in the middle of the eighteenth century. He was dayyan and preacher in the community of Vitebsk ......
  8. Zebid JE Babylonian amora of the fourth century; a contemporary of Abaye, whose halakot he transmitted, and of whom he was perhaps ......
  9. Zebu'im JE
  10. Zechariah ben Abqilus (Zechariah ben Abkilus, Amphikalos) JE Palestinian scholar and one of the leaders of the Zealots; lived in Jerusalem at the time of the destruction of ......
  11. Zechariah Ha-Kohen JE Greek or Turkish Biblical commentator and liturgical poet of the fifteenth century; maternal grandfather of Menahem ben Moses Tamar. According ......
  12. Zechariah Mendel ben Aryeh Löb JE Polish Talmudist of the eighteenth century; a native of Cracow, and in later life chief rabbi and head of the ......
  13. Zechariah Mendel ben Aryeh Löb JE Galician and German preacher and scholar; born at Podhaice in the early part of the eighteenth century; died at Frankfort-on-the-Oder ......
  14. Zechariah ibn Sa'id Al-Yamani JE Author of an Arabic version of the "Yosippon"; flourished in the tenth or eleventh century. His version exists in three ......
  15. Zechariah ben Solomon Zebsil JE German Talmudist of the sixteenth century; rabbi of the Ashkenazic community at Jerusalem, where he died. He was the father-in-law ......
  16. Tzedaqah Box (Tzedakah Box) JE A receptacle in which voluntary charitable contributions are deposited. Theearliest mention of such a device is in connection with Jehoiada ......
  17. Joseph Kohen-Tzedeq (Joseph Kohen-Tzedek, Joseph Kohen-Zedek) JE Austro-English rabbinical scholar and preacher; born in Lemberg 1827; died in London 1903. His family claimed to trace its ancestry ......
  18. Zedekiah ben Benjamin JE Italian Talmudist and liturgist; lived in Rome in the thirteenth century; died after 1280; elder cousin of Zedekiah b. Abraham ......
  19. Israel Zeebi JE Prominent Talmudist; son of Benjamin Zeebi, and on his mother's side a grandson of Abraham Azulai; born at Hebron in ......
  20. Ha-Zefirah JE
  21. Ze'iri JE Amora of the third century; born in Babylonia. He sojourned for a long time in Alexandria, and later went to ......
  22. Simon Zeisel JE Austrian chemist; born at Lomnitz, Moravia, April 11, 1854; educated at the German gymnasium of Brünn and at the University ......
  23. Hermann von Zeissl JE Austrian dermatologist; born at Vierzighuben near Zwittau, Moravia, Sept. 22, 1817; died at Vienna Sept. 23, 1884; educated at the ......
  24. Der Zeigeist JE
  25. Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland JE
  26. Zeitschrift für die Religiösen Interessen des Judenthums JE
  27. Zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums JE
  28. Zeitung JE
  29. Zekor Berit JE A poem by Gershom ben Judah (960-1040), the "Light of the Exile" (Zunz, "Literaturgesch." p. 239); it is chanted in ......
  30. Catherine Zelazowska JE Polish convert to Judaism; born in 1460; martyred at Cracow in 1540. She was the widow of an alderman of ......
  31. Samuele Vita Zelman JE Austro-Italian poet; born at Triest in 1808; died there in 1885. He was educated at the rabbinical college of Padua, ......
  32. Tzemach ben Chayyim (Zemah ben Hayyim) JE Gaon of Sura from 889 to 895. He was the stepbrother and successor of Nahshon ben Zadok, and has become ......
  33. Jacob ben Chayyim Tzemach (Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah) JE Portuguese cabalist and physician; died at Jerusalem in the second half of the seventeenth century. He received a medical training ......

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  1. Tzemach ben Kafnai (Zemah ben Kafnai) JE Gaon of Pumbedita from 936 to 938, at the time when Saadia had been reinstated in the gaonate of Sura ......
  2. Magister Zematus JE
  3. Zemirot JE A term applied by the Sephardim to the Psalms in the earlier sections of the morning service. The Ashkenazim, on ......
  4. Zephaniah ben Mordecai Troki JE Karaite scholar and author; flourished during the latter part of the sixteenth century; brother of Joseph b. Mordecai Troki. He ......
  5. Zerahiah Ha-Yewani (RaZaH) JE Byzantine ethical writer of the thirteenth or fourteenth century. Of his life no details are known, except that he was ......
  6. Brook Zered JE One of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness, indicated as the end of the thirty-eighth year of wandering ......
  7. Zerika JE Palestinian amora of the fourth century; a pupil of Eleazar, whose halakic maxims he transmitted (Soṭah 4b; Zeb. 93b; Men. ......
  8. Raphael Jedidiah Solomon ben Jeshua Tzeror (Raphael Jedidiah Solomon ben Jeshua Zeror) JE Algerian rabbi; born at Algiers Sept. 8, 1681; died there Dec. 21, 1737. He was a descendant of a family ......
  9. Zevast JE
  10. Zhidovstvuyushchaya Yeres JE
  11. Nathan Löb David Zimmer JE English pietist and scholar; born at Fürth, Bavaria, in March, 1831; died at London Jan. 10, 1895. He was noted ......
  12. Helen Zimmern JE German authoress; born at Hamburg March 25, 1846. She went to England at an early age, and resided there till ......
  13. Zimrat Ha-Aretz (Zimrat Ha-Arez) JE
  14. Zin JE Frontier post of Judah on the south, mentioned in the description (Num. xxxiv. 4; Josh. xv. 3) of the frontier ......
  15. Der Zionist JE
  16. Heinrich Zirndorf JE German poet and rabbinical scholar; born at Fürth, Bavaria, May 7, 1829; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 17, 1893; educated ......
  17. Znaim JE City in the Austrian province of Moravia. Jews probably settled there during the twelfth century; for in a document of ......
  18. Bernhard (Bär) Zomber JE Polish scholar; born at Lask in 1821; died at Berlin in 1884. Having acquired a fair knowledge of rabbinical literature ......
  19. Samuel Ha-Levi Tzoref (Samuel Ha-Levi Zoref) JE Rabbi at Posen; died between 1710 and 1716. He was the author of "Maẓref la-Kesef" (Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 1681), containing extracts from ......
  20. Ephraim Lamen Zox JE Communal worker of Melbourne, Australia; born in London 1837; died Oct. 23, 1899. He was thirteen years old when he ......
  21. Zsidó Hiradó JE
  22. Alfred Zucker JE Chemist and manufacturer of Dresden, Germany; born Aug. 17, 1871, in Uffenheim, Bavaria. He studied pharmacy and chemistry at the ......

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  1. Marcus Zucker JE German librarian and author; born May 1, 1841. He was for some time chief librarian at the University of Erlangen, ......
  2. Moses Samuel Zuckermandel JE German rabbi and Talmudist; born at Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia, April 24, 1836. He became a rabbi in Pleschen, Prussia, and was ......
  3. Aryeh Loeb Charif b. Moses (Aryeh Loeb Harif b. Moses) JE Polish rabbi; born at Pinczow about 1773; died at Warsaw 1833. He was a thorough Talmudic scholar, and was also ......
  4. Maier Zunder JE
  5. Leopold Zunz - need to incorporate the text into our article - JE Founder of the modern "science of Judaism" and pioneer in the history of Jewish literature, religious poetry, and the ritual ......
  6. Aaron Hirsch Zupnik JE Galician Hebrew and Judæo-German writer; born at Drohobycz c. 1850. In addition to editing the "Drohobyczer Zeitung," a Judæo-German weekly ......
  7. Moses ben Samuel Zuriel JE Mathematician of the seventeenth century; author of "Meḥaddesh Ḥodashim" (Venice, 1653), a calendar for 5414-34 (= 1654-74).Bibliography: Steinschneider, in Monatsschrift, ......
  8. Zurita JE Fortified city of Castile on the River Tajo, one and one-half miles from Pastrana. It had a Jewish community as ......
  9. Mar Zutra I JE Exilarch from 401 to 409. He was the successor of Mar Kahana and a contemporary of R. Ashi, whose enactments ......
  10. Mar Zutra II JE Exilarch; born about 496; died about 520; ruled from 512 to 520. He was the son of Huna, who was ......
  11. Mar Zutra bar Mar Zutra JE Palestinian scholar. On the day of his birth his father was crucified, and his mother fled with him to Palestine, ......
  12. Lazar Zweifel (Lazar Eliezer Tzebi b. David Ha-Koehn Zweifel, Lazar Eliezer Zebi b. David Ha-Kohen Zweifel) JE Russian apologist and critical compiler from rabbinical works; born at Moghilef April 15, 1815; died at Gluchof Feb. 18, 1888. ......