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 * 1) Aach (JE | ) A small town in the circle of Constance, Baden, Germany, at one time belonging to the landgraviate of Nellenburg. The first...
 * 2) Aachen (JE | ) -- See A1019: Aix-la-Chapelle
 * 3) Aargau (JE | ) A canton in northern Switzerland, formerly the only one in which Jews were permitted to live. The two townships Endingen and...
 * 4) Aaron JE (JE | ) One of two brothers who play a unique part in the history of the Hebrew people. He was the elder son of Amram and Jochebed...
 * 5) Aaron& JE (JE | ) A rod which, in the hands of Aaron, the high priest, was endowed with miraculous power during the several plagues that preceded...
 * 6) Aaron& (JE | ) the burial-place of Aaron, which, according to Num. xx. 23-28, was Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom. A later tradition...
 * 7) Aaron (JE | ) An amora mentioned twice in the Babylonian Talmud (B. &#7730;. 109b, Men. 74b). in both places he is represented as furnishing...
 * 8) Aaron Abayob (JE | ) -- See A324: Abiob, Aaron
 * 9) Aaron Abba ha-Levi ben Johanan JE (JE | ) A prominent rabbi; born about the close of the sixteenth century; died in Lemberg, June 18, 1643. He was president of a rabbinical...
 * 10) Aaron Abraham ben Baruch Simeon ha-Levi JE (JE | ) A cabalist, born in the first quarter of the sixteenth century. He published a small cabalistic work, "Iggeret ha-Te&#39...
 * 11) Aaron ben Abraham ibn Hayyim (JE | ) -- See A38: Aaron (ben Abraham) ibn &#7716;ayyim,
 * 12) Aaron ben Abraham ben Samuel Schlettstadt (JE | ) -- See A12: Schlettstadt, Aaron, ben Abraham ben Samuel
 * 13) Aaron ben Abraham ben Vidal Zarfati (JE | ) -- See A13: &#7826;arfati, Aaron ben Abraham ben Vidal
 * 14) Aaron Alfandari (JE | ) -- See A1183: Alfandari
 * 15) Aaron ben Asher of Karlin (Rabbi Aaron II of Karlin) JE (JE | ) One of the most famous rabbis of the &#7716;asidim in northwestern Russia; born in 1802; died June 23, 1872. He had an immense...
 * 16) Aaron the Babylonian (JE | ) -- See A91: Aaron ben Samuel ha-Nasi
 * 17) Barney Aaron (JE | ) English pugilist, nicknamed "The Star of the East"; born in London, November 21, 1800, at Duke&#39;s Place, Aldgate; died...
 * 18) Aaron ben Benjamin Porges (JE | ) -- See P449: Porges, Aaron ben Benjamin
 * 19) Aaron ben Benjamin Wolf JE (JE | ) Rabbi at Berlin and also at Frankfort-on-the-Oder; born about 1670; died in Frankfort-on-the-Oder, July 25, 1721. His father...
 * 20) Aaron Berechiah ben Moses ben Nehemiah of Modena JE (JE | ) Italian cabalist, who died in 1639. He was a pupil of Rabbi Hillel of Modena (surnamed &#7716;asid we-&#7730;addosh, that...

21 – 40

 * 1) Aaron the Bookseller JE (JE | ) Italian dealer in Hebrew and other ancient manuscripts; flourished at the beginning of the fourteenth century. He spent seven...
 * 2) Aaron of Canterbury JE (JE | ) English exegete, mentioned in "Minchat Yehudah" (The Offering of Judah) by Judah ben Eliezer on Deut. xxvi. 2, in association...
 * 3) Aaron of Cardena JE (JE | ) A cabalist, about whose life little is known. He wrote a book containing "profound secrets" under the title of "&#7730;arnayim"...
 * 4) Aaron Chorin (JE | ) -- See C474: Chorin, Aaron
 * 5) Aaron Cupino JE (JE | ) Talmudist and head of a yeshibah at Constantinople; flourished about the close of the seventeenth century. He was a pupil...
 * 6) Aaron ben David Cohen of Ragusa JE (JE | ) Rabbi in Ragusa; born about 1580. His maternal grandfather was Solomon Oheb, also rabbi in the same city. Aaron studied in...
 * 7) Aaron ben David Hayyun (JE | ) -- See H437: &#7716;ayyun, Aaron ben David
 * 8) Aaron, Son of the Devil JE (JE | ) the name given to a portrait or caricature of an English Jew of the year 1277, drawn on a forest-roll of the county of Essex...
 * 9) Aaron ibn El-bargardi (JE | ) -- See A29: Bargardi, Aaron ibn el
 * 10) Aaron ben Eliezer JE (JE | ) German Talmudist, who flourished in the thirteenth century. That he was considered a great man at that time is proved by the...
 * 11) Aaron ben Eliezer JE (JE | ) A liturgical poet, who lived in Safed from the year 1545. He was the author of a collection of poems and prayers printed at...
 * 12) Aaron ben Eliezer Lipman JE (JE | ) Rabbi of the town of Zempelburg, West Prussia, formerly included in the kingdom of Poland; flourished toward the middle of...
 * 13) Aaron ben Elijah, the Younger, of Nicomedia JE (JE | ) Karaite theologian, born in Cairo about 1300; died in Constantinople in 1369. to distinguish him from Aaron ben Joseph, the...
 * 14) Aaron Ezekiel Harif JE (JE | ) Hungarian scholar; died at Nikolsburg, April 10, 1670. As successor to Gerson Ashkenazi he held the post of rabbi in Nikolsburg...
 * 15) Aaron Franco Pinhero (JE | ) -- See F300: Franco, Aaron Pinhero
 * 16) Aaron ben Gershon abu al-Rabi of Catania JE (JE | ) Sicilian scholar, cabalist, and astrologer; flourished between 1400 and 1450. He was a son-in-law of Don Moses Gabbai, an...
 * 17) Aaron Hamon (JE | ) -- See H188: Hamon, Aaron
 * 18) Aaron (ben Abraham ben Samuel) ibn Hayyim (JE | ) Moroccan Biblical and Talmudic commentator; flourished at the beginning of the seventeenth century at Fez; died at Jerusalem...
 * 19) Aaron ben Hayyim JE (JE | ) An exegete who lived in the first half of the nineteenth century at Grodno, Russia. He wrote "Moreh Derek" (He Who Shows the...
 * 20) Aaron ibn Hayyim (JE | ) -- See H392: &#7716;ayyim, Aaron ibn

41 – 60

 * 1) Aaron ben Hayyim Abraham Hakohen Perahyah (JE | ) -- See A41: Pera&#7717;yah, Aaron ben &#7716;ayyim Abraham ha-Kohen
 * 2) Aaron ben Hayyim ha-Kohen (JE | ) Nephew of Simeon of Coucy-leCh&#226;teau and of Jacob of Corbeil; flourished about 1200. in 1227, after having compared all...
 * 3) Aaron ben Isaac de La Papa (JE | ) -- See A43: La Papa, Aaron ben Isaac de
 * 4) Aaron ben Isaac of Rechnitz (JE | ) Author of a midrashic commentary on the Bible, the first portion of which (Genesis) was published in 1786 at Sulzbach under...
 * 5) Aaron ben Isaac Sason (JE | ) Author and Talmudist; born in Constantinople in 1629. He was a grandson of Aaron ben Joseph Sason, an eminent Talmudist, and...
 * 6) Israel Aaron (JE | ) American rabbi; born at Lancaster, Pa., Nov. 20, 1859. His father was a native of Hesse-Darmstadt, where he served many years...
 * 7) Aaron ben Israel Broda (JE | ) -- See A47: Broda, Aaron ben Israel
 * 8) Aaron ben Jacob ben David Hakohen JE (JE | ) French ritualist; one of a family of scholars living at Narbonne, France (not Lunel, as Conforte and others say), who was...
 * 9) Aaron ben Jacob ha-Levi Horowitz (JE | ) -- See A49: Horowitz, Aaron ben Jacob ha-Levi
 * 10) Aaron ben Jacob of Karlin (JE | ) Known among the &#7716;asidim as Rabbi Aaron the Great, orsimply as the "Preacher" or "Censor"; born in 1738; died 1771. He...
 * 11) Aaron Jaroslaw JE (JE | ) -- See J163: Jaroslaw, Aaron
 * 12) Aaron Jeiteles (JE | ) -- See A52: Jeiteles, Aaron
 * 13) Aaron of Jerusalem JE (JE | ) Karaite of the eleventh century. He was acknowledged by the Rabbinites as one of the principal representatives of Karaitic...
 * 14) Aaron of Jitomir JE (JE | ) A disciple of Baer of Mezhirich and a representative of the sect of the &#7716;asidim: born about 1750; died about 1820. He...
 * 15) Jonas Aaron ((redirects to History of the Jews in Philadelphia JE)) (JE | ) First known Jewish resident of Philadelphia; mentioned in an article entitled "A Philadelphia Business Directory of 1703,"...
 * 16) Aaron ben Joseph of Beaugency (JE | ) French Bible commentator and rabbinical scholar, who flourished in the twelfth century at Beaugency, near Orleans. He was...
 * 17) Aaron ben Joseph of Buda (Ofen) (JE | ) A Jud&#230;o-German poet of the seventeenth century, who was captured in the city of Ofen, the capital of Hungary, on September...
 * 18) Aaron ben Joseph ha-Levi (JE | ) Talmudist and critic; a direct descendant of Zerahiah ha-Levi, and probably, like him, a native of Gerona, Spain; flourished...
 * 19) Aaron ben Joseph, the Karaite JE (JE | ) Eminent teacher, philosopher, physician, and liturgical poet in Constantinople; born in Sulchat, Crimea, about 1260; died...
 * 20) Aaron ben Joseph Sason (JE | ) Talmudic author; born toward the middle of the sixteenth century, probably at Salonica, where he received his rabbinical education...

61 – 80

 * 1) Aaron Kupino (JE | ) -- See A25: Aaron Cupino
 * 2) Aaron Levi (JE | ) -- See M743: Montezino, Antonio
 * 3) Aaron ha-Levi of Barcelona (JE | ) Spanish Talmudist of the end of the thirteenth century; author of the first book of religious instruction among the Jews of...
 * 4) Aaron ha-Levi ben Moses of Staroselye (JE | ) A Talmudic scholar and cabalist of note, who flourished in Poland during the latter part of the eighteenth century and the...
 * 5) Aaron ha-Levi Oettingen (JE | ) Galician rabbi; born about the beginning of the eighteenth century; died in Lemberg about 1769. He was one of a prominent...
 * 6) Aaron of Lincoln JE (JE | ) English financier; born at Lincoln, England, about 1125; died 1186. He is first mentioned in the English pipe-roll of 1166...
 * 7) Aaron Markovich of Wilna (JE | ) Agent (court Jew) of King Ladislaus IV. of Poland in the seventeenth century. The only known document in which his name occurs...
 * 8) Aaron ben Meir of Brest (JE | ) Lithuanian rabbi; born about the beginning of the eighteenth century at Brest-Litovsk, Russia; died there Nov. 3, 1777...
 * 9) Aaron ben Menahem Mendel (JE | ) Russian rabbi, who flourished at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He wrote "Seyag la-Torah" (Fence to the Law), which...
 * 10) Aaron ben Meshullam ben Jacob of Lunel (JE | ) Ritualist; flourished about the end of the twelfth century and the beginning of the thirteenth; died about 1210 (according...
 * 11) Aaron ben Mordecai of R& (JE | ) Translator, who flourished early in the eighteenth century. He translated the two Targums on Esther into Jud&#230;o-German...
 * 12) Aaron ben Moses ben Asher (JE | ) A distinguished Masorite who flourished in Tiberias in the first half of the tenth century. He was descended from a family...
 * 13) Aaron Moses ben Jacob Taubes (JE | ) -- See A73: Taubes, Aaron Moses ben Jacob
 * 14) Aaron ben Moses Meir Perls (JE | ) -- See A74: Perls, Aaron ben Moses Meir
 * 15) Aaron Moses ben Mordecai (JE | ) One of the few cabalistic writers of recent times in East Prussia: author of a work, "Nishmat Shelomoh Mordecai" (The Soul...
 * 16) Aaron ben Moses Mosessohn (JE | ) -- See M949: Mosessohn, Aaron ben Moses
 * 17) Aaron Moses Padua (JE | ) -- See A77: Padua, Aaron Moses
 * 18) Aaron ben Moses Teomim (JE | ) Rabbinical scholar; born about 1630, probably in Prague, where the Teomim-Fr&#228;nkel family, from Vienna, had settled; died...
 * 19) Aaron ben Moses ben Zebi Hirsch Teomim (JE | ) See Teomim, Aaron.
 * 20) Aaron ben Nathan Nata& JE (JE | ) Author; flourished about the middle of the eighteenth century. He published at Zolkiev, in 1755, "Shem Aharon" (Aaron&#39...

81 – 100

 * 1) Aaron of Neustadt (JE | ) Talmudist who with Shallum and Jaekel of Vienna formed a triumvirate of Talmudic scholars in Austria at the end of the fourteenth...
 * 2) Aaron ben Perez of Avignon (JE | ) French rabbi and scholar; born about the middle of the thirteenth century; died in the first quarter of the fourteenth century...
 * 3) Aaron of Pesaro (JE | ) Flourished in the sixteenth century at Pesaro, Italy, and wrote "Toledot Aharon" (The Generations of Aaron), an index to Scriptural...
 * 4) Aaron ben Phinehas (JE | ) Member of the rabbinical college of Lemberg, and appears in that capacity among the rabbis who had to decide a case in matrimonial...
 * 5) Aaron of Pinsk (JE | ) Rabbi in Kretingen, in the government of Kovno, and afterward in Pinsk, where he died in 1841. He wrote "Tosafot Aharon,"...
 * 6) Aaron Sabaoni (JE | ) Editor of Moses Albaz&#39;s cabalistic ritual, "Hekal ha-&#7730;odesh," to which he added notes, and which was printed in...
 * 7) Aaron ben Samuel (JE | ) Hebrew author; born about 1620; flourished in Germany during the latter half of the seventeenth century. He published his...
 * 8) Aaron ben Samuel of Hergershausen (JE | ) A simple farmer of Hergershausen (Hessen), who was the first person in Germany to attempt, at the beginning of the eighteenth...
 * 9) Aaron Samuel (JE | ) -- See K28: Kaydanower, Aaron Samuel
 * 10) Aaron Samuel ben Moses Shalom of Kremnitz (JE | ) Author of "Nishmat Adam," Hanau, 1611, which contains dissertations on the nature of the soul, purpose of man&#39;s existence...
 * 11) Aaron ben Samuel ha-Nasi (JE | ) A personage who was considered until recently a fictitious creation of the Traditionists (Zunz) &#8212;those who, in their...
 * 12) Aaron ibn Sargado JE (JE | ) Gaon in Pumbedita and a son of Joseph ha-Kohen. According to the chronicle of Sherira, Sargado officiated from 943 to 960...
 * 13) Aaron Selig ben Moses of Zolkiev (JE | ) Author; flourished in the seventeenth century. He wrote "&#39;Amude Sheba&#39;" (Seven Pillars) containing: (1) Commentaries...
 * 14) Aaron Solomon (JE | ) Merchant of Philadelphia, Pa., who, about 1777, signed an agreement to take the colonial paper currency sanctioned by King...
 * 15) Aaron ben Solomon Amarillo (JE | ) -- See A1358: Amarillo, Aaron ben Solomon
 * 16) Aaron ben Solomon ben Hasun (JE | ) Talmudist who flourished in Turkey at the beginning of the sixteenth century. He ranked high among the prominent Oriental...
 * 17) Aaron ben Solomon ben Simon ben Zemah Duran (JE | ) -- See A97: Duran, Aaron ben Solomon ben Simon ben &#7826;ema&#7717;
 * 18) Aaron of Trani (JE | ) -- See A98: Trani, Aaron of
 * 19) Massa Di Carrara Aaron (Hayyim) Volterra (JE | ) -- See A99: Volterra, Aaron (&#7716;ayyim), Massa di Carrara
 * 20) Aaron ben Wolf (JE | ) -- See W259: Wolfssohn, Aaron

101 – 120

 * 1) Aaron Worms (JE | ) Chief rabbi of Metz and Talmudist; son of Abraham Aberle; born July 7, 1754, at Geislautern, a small village near Saarbr&#252...
 * 2) Aaron of York (Fil Josce) JE (JE | ) Jewish financier and chief rabbi of England; born in York before 1190; died after 1253. He was probably the son of Josce of...
 * 3) Aaron Zalaha (JE | ) -- See A103: Zalaha, Aaron
 * 4) Aaron ben Zerah (JE | ) French Jew, who suffered martyrdom at Estella in Navarre, March 5, 1328. Banished from his original home in 1306 by order...
 * 5) Aaron Ben-zion ibn Alamani (JE | ) Dayyan, or judge, and prominent Jew of Alexandria in the twelfth century. His family name probably means al-Umani, or "the...
 * 6) Aaron Zorogon (JE | ) Turco-Jewish scholar, who flourished about the middle of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Bet Aharon" (House...
 * 7) Aaronites (Aaronides) (JE | ) -- See A1980: Cohen,
 * 8) Aaronsburg (JE | ) A post village situated in Haines township, Center county, Pennsylvania, founded by Aaron Levy in 1786, and named for him...
 * 9) Av (JE | ) the Babylonian name adopted by the Jews for the fifth month of the year, corresponding to part of the modern July and part...
 * 10) Ninth Day of Av (JE | ) Day set aside by tradition for fasting and mourning, to commemorate the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple by the Chaldeans...
 * 11) Fifteenth Day of Av (JE | ) Popular festival in Judea during the time of the Second Temple, corresponding approximately to the fifteenth day of August...
 * 12) Abaddon (JE | ) in rabbinic and New Testament literature, the second department of Gehenna, the nether world; almost synonymous with Sheol...
 * 13) Juan de la Abadia (JE | ) A Marano of the fifteenth century. He engaged in a project to subvert the Inquisition in Aragon; failing in this, he joined...
 * 14) Abadias UNR(JE | ) Son of Jezelus, one of the sons of Joab, found in the list of those who returned with Ezra (I Esd. viii. 35). in the corresponding...
 * 15) Abagtha (JE | ) A chamberlain of Ahasuerus (Esth. i. 10). The name is probably of Persian origin.G. B. L.           					  						  							...
 * 16) Abana River JE (JE | ) A river rising in the Anti-Libanus, flowing through Damascus, and disappearing in the Meadow lakes. Reference to it is found...
 * 17) Abarbanel JE (JE | ) -- See A631: Abravanel
 * 18) Abarbanel Library in Jerusalem (JE | ) A collection of books intended for a national Jewish library; founded by Dr. Joseph Chazanowicz, one of the Zionist leaders...
 * 19) Abarim (JE | ) A term applied to the edge of the Moabite plateau. From its most prominent headland, Mount Nebo, the western part of Judea...
 * 20) Abaye JE (JE | ) Babylonian amora; born about the close of the third century; died 339 (see Academies in Babylonia). His father, Kaylil, was...

121 – 140

 * 1) Abba (JE | ) the Aramaic word for "Father," "my Father," which, together with the Greek equivalent, occurs three times in the New Testament...
 * 2) Abba (JE | ) A word signifying "father," used as a masculine name as early as the time of the Tannaites (see Peah, ii. 6; Yeb. 15a; see...
 * 3) Abba (JE | ) A brother of Rabban Gamaliel, probably Gamaliel II.; perhaps identical with Abba, a contemporary of Johanan ben Zakkai, mentioned...
 * 4) Abba bar Abba (JE | ) A Babylonian amora of the second and third centuries, distinguished for piety, benevolence, and learning. He is known chiefly...
 * 5) Abba b. Abina (JE | ) An amora who flourished in the third century. He was a native of Babylonia and a pupil of Rab. He emigrated to Palestine,...
 * 6) Abba of Acre (Acco) JE (JE | ) A Palestinian amora who flourished at the end of the third century. He was greatly respected by Abbahu and praised as an example...
 * 7) Abba Arika JE (JE | ) Celebrated Babylonian amora and founder of the Academy of Sura; flourished in third century; died at Sura in 247. His surname...
 * 8) Abba bar Benjamin bar Hiyya (JE | ) A Palestinian scholar of the third and fourth centuries, contemporary of R. Abbahu. While the country of his birth can not...
 * 9) Abba b. Bizna (JE | ) A Palestinian amora of the fourth century, who is occasionally mentioned as a haggadist, and as having handed down certain...
 * 10) Abba Bumsla (Ben Solomon) (JE | ) -- See A130: Bumsla, Abba
 * 11) Abba of Carthage (JE | ) A Palestinian amora, who flourished at the end of the third century. His birthplace was Carthage, and it is incorrect to refer...
 * 12) Abba Cohen of Bardela JE (JE | ) A scholar of the last tannaitic generation (about the beginning of the third century). The few Halakot emanating from him...
 * 13) Abba Doresh (JE | ) A tanna, whose period can not be determined. Two of his interpretations have been preserved in Sifre, Deut. 308 and 352, and...
 * 14) Abba (Rabba) bar Dudai (JE | ) Head of the Academy of Pumbedita from 772 till about 780. Sherira Gaon adds to Abba&#39;s name the words "our grandfather...
 * 15) Abba Glusk Leczeka (JE | ) A poem by Adalbert von Chamisso, published in 1832. It relates the story of one Abba, who, at the age of sixty, attracted...
 * 16) Abba Gorion of Sidon (JE | ) A tanna, who flourished in the second century. He handed down to posterity a saying of Abba Saul (Mishnah, &#7730;id. iv....
 * 17) Abba Hanin (JE | ) and his son, ABBA JOSE. See &#7716;anin, Abba, and Jose, Abba.           					  						  							  							  							This article...
 * 18) Abba bar Hiyya b. Abba (JE | ) A Palestinian amora, who flourished at the beginning of the fourth century. He was the son of &#7716;iyya bar Abba, the well-known...
 * 19) Abba Hoshaya of Turya (JE | ) A Palestinian wool-washer of the third century, of whose scholarly attainments, if he had any, nothing is recorded, but whose...
 * 20) Abba Huna ha-Kohen (JE | ) -- See H964: Huna, Abba, ha-Kohen

141 – 160

 * 1) Abba (JE | ) A Babylonian amora of the third century, the son of Jeremiah b. Abba and a pupil of Rab. He lived at Sura and transmitted...
 * 2) Abba Jose ben Dositai (JE | ) -- See A142: Jose, Abba, ben Dositai
 * 3) Abba Jose ben Hanin JE (JE | ) -- See J422: Jose, Abba, ben &#7716;anin
 * 4) Abba Jose of Mahuza (JE | ) -- See A144: Jose, Abba, of Ma&#7717;uza
 * 5) Abba Judah (JE | ) -- See A146: Abba Judan
 * 6) Abba Judan (JE | ) A philanthropist who lived in Antioch in the early part of the second century. As an example of his generosity, it is recorded...
 * 7) Abba Kolon (JE | ) A mythical Roman mentioned in a Talmudic legend concerning the foundation of Rome, which, according to the Haggadah, was a...
 * 8) Abba ben Mari (JE | ) -- See R18: Rabba ben Mari
 * 9) Abba Mari ben Eligdor (JE | ) A distinguished Talmudist, an eminent philosopher, and an able physicist and astronomer; flourished in the fourteenth century...
 * 10) Abba Mari ben Isaac of St Gilles (JE | ) Flourished about the middle of the twelfth century, and lived at St. Gilles, near Lunel, in Languedoc. According to Benjamin...
 * 11) Abba Mari ben Joseph ibn Caspi (JE | ) -- See A151: Caspi, Abba Mari ben Joseph ibn
 * 12) Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph Don Astruc (En Astruc) of Lunel JE (JE | ) (Graetz and others have, incorrectly, En Duran): Leader of the opposition to the rationalism of the Maimonists in the Montpellier...
 * 13) Abba b. Martha (JE | ) A Babylonian scholar of the end of the third century and beginning of the fourth. He seems to have been in poor circumstances...
 * 14) Abba bar Memel (JE | ) A Palestinian amora, who lived toward the end of the third century. He belonged to the circle of Ammi at Tiberias, and enjoyed...
 * 15) Joseph Abba Nasia (JE | ) Chief justice in Majorca, 1405; died, 1439.Bibliography: Zunz, Zur Gesch. und Literatur, p. 517.G.           					  						...
 * 16) Abba bar Pappai (JE | ) A Palestinian amora, of the fourth century who died 375. As the second link in the transmission by tradition ofLevi&#39;s...
 * 17) Abba Sakkara (JE | ) Insurrectionary leader; lived in the first century in Palestine. According to Talmudic accounts (Gi&#7789;. 56a), he took...
 * 18) Abba Saul ben Botnit (JE | ) -- See A158: Saul, Abba b. Botnit
 * 19) Abba Saul (JE | ) -- See S277: Saul, Abba
 * 20) Abba of Sidon (JE | ) A Palestinian amora of the latter part of the third century or the early part of the fourth. He is mentioned only once, as...

161 – 180

 * 1) Abba the Surgeon (Umana) JE (JE | ) Mentioned in the Talmud as an example of genuine Jewish piety and benevolence (Ta&#39;anit, 21b et seq.). Although dependent...
 * 2) Abba (Ba) bar Zabdai JE (JE | ) A Palestinian amora, who flourished in the third century. He studied in Babylonia, attending the lectures of Rab and Huna...
 * 3) Abba bar Zebina (JE | ) A Palestinian amora of the fourth century. He was a pupil of R. Zeira, in whose name he transmitted many sayings. He was employed...
 * 4) Abbahu JE (JE | ) A celebrated Palestinian amora of the third amoraic generation (about 279-320), sometimes cited as R. Abbahu of C&#230;sarea...
 * 5) Abbas (JE | ) This name does not appear in the long lists of Jewish names in pre-Islamic Arabia, nor does it occur among the Jews in general...
 * 6) Aaron Abbas (Abas) (JE | ) Editor and printer at Amsterdam, at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He was the publisher of two works: (1) Aaron...
 * 7) Joseph Abbas (JE | ) Copyist of "MS. Kauffmann," No. 45; lived at the end of the seventeenth century.
 * 8) Judah ibn Abbas of Fez (JE | ) A poet, and author of the piyyu&#7789; "Et Sha&#39;are Ra&#7827;on." He was the first Jew known by the name of Abbas; died...
 * 9) Judah b. Samuel ben Abbas (JE | ) A Spaniard of the thirteenth century. This form of his name is authenticated in the headings of his two works in "MS. Loewe...
 * 10) Moses Abbas (JE | ) A name borne by several persons of whom the following three are mentioned in Zunz ("Literaturgesch." p. 342): 1. Moses Abbas...
 * 11) Moses Judah Abbas (JE | ) A Hebrew poet; lived about the middle of the seventeenth century at Rosetta, in Egypt. He was a descendant of the Abbas family...
 * 12) Raphael ben Joshua Abbas (Abas) (JE | ) Printer and editor at Amsterdam; contemporary, and undoubtedly a relative, of Aaron Abbas. He supplemented the work of Aaron...
 * 13) Samuel b. Isaac Abbas (Abas, Abatz)]] (JE | ) Rabbi in the latter half of the seventeenth century at Amsterdam, where his death occurred about 1693. He translated into...
 * 14) Samuel abu Nasr ibn Abbas (JE | ) A son of Judah ibn Abbas of Fez; lived in the twelfth century. Joseph Sambari and the "Yuchasin" call him Samuel ben...
 * 15) Yom-Tob ben Jonah Abbas (JE | ) Mentioned in the responsa of Judah ben Asher (fols. 30 and 35).
 * 16) Jacob ben Moses ibn Abbasi (JE | ) Translator and scholar, who flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century at Huesca, Spain. His father, Moses ibn...
 * 17) Joseph Abbasi (JE | ) A wealthy Jew of Oporto, where, in 1376, he was farmer of taxes for the city and its territory.Bibliography: Mendes do Remedios...
 * 18) Moses Abbasi (Abbas) (JE | ) Disciple of Rabbi &#7716;asdai ben Solomon of Valencia and Tudela (1378). He corresponded with Isaac ben Sheshet and the poet...
 * 19) Abbassid Califs (JE | ) the position of the Jews during the five centuries of the domination of the Abbassid Califs (750-1258) differed from that...
 * 20) Abbaye (JE | ) An amora. See Abaye.

181 – 200

 * 1) Abbaye of Constantinople (JE | ) Talmudic scholar of the sixteenth century. He carried on a learned correspondence with Samuel di Medina, rabbi of Salonica...
 * 2) Av Beit Din (JE | ) 1. Title, according to some scholars, of the judge next in authority to the nasi (prince or president), and who would, accordingly...
 * 3) Abbreviations (JE | ) the oldest term for abbreviation, = &#957;&#959;&#964;&#945;&#961;&#953;&#954;&#972;&#957;, is found in tannaitic literature...
 * 4) Abd (JE | ) An Arabic word that forms the first part of many compound proper names of Jews of Arabic-speaking countries. The name following...
 * 5) Abda (JE | ) 1. The father of Adoniram, the superintendent of the tax levied by Solomon (I Kings, iv. 6). 2. A Levite residing in Jerusalem...
 * 6) Abd-al-daim (JE | ) Son of Abd-al-Aziz, son of Muhasan ha-Israeli, physician and descendant of a line of Jewish physicians. Abd-al-Daim flourished...
 * 7) Abd-al-malik (JE | ) Ommiad calif who ruled at Damascus 685 to 705, and who, unlike his predecessors, was not very religious, but showed a certain...
 * 8) Abdallah (JE | ) As a Jewish name the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew Obadiah and similar names. Its first appearance among the Jews was not...
 * 9) Abdallah ibn Saba (JE | ) A Jew of Yemen, Arabia, of the seventh century, who settled in Medina and embraced Islam. Having adversely criticized Calif...
 * 10) Abdallah ibn Salam (JE | ) Jewish convert to Islam in the time of Mohammed; died 663. According to the Moslems, he was one of the most important Jewish...
 * 11) Abdallah ibn Saura (JE | ) One of those whom Moslem traditionists number among Mohammed&#39;s opponents in Medina. He was the rabbi of the Banu Tha&#39...
 * 12) Abdallah ibn Ubaiy (JE | ) A chief of the Arab tribe Banu al-Khazraj at Medina and a powerful opponent of Mohammed, who had undermined Abdallah&#39;s...
 * 13) Abdan (JE | ) A Palestinian scholar of the first amoraic generation, who lived about the beginning of the third century. As a disciple and...
 * 14) Abdeel (JE | ) Father of Shelemiah, who was one of the men ordered by King Jehoiakim to capture Jeremiah and his scribe Baruch (Jer. xxxvi...
 * 15) Abdi (JE | ) 1. Son of Malluch, a Levite descended from Merari (I Chron. vi. 44). 2. Father of Kish, a Levite, also of the family of Merari...
 * 16) Abdi Heba (JE | ) A king of Jerusalem about 1400 B.C., whose name (read by some, Ebed Tob) is recorded in the El-Amarna Tablets. From...
 * 17) Abdias (JE | ) Obadiah, the prophet (IV Esd. i. 39).G. B. L.
 * 18) Abdiel (JE | ) Son of Guni, of the tribe of Gad (I Chron. v. 15). G. B. L.           					  						  							  							  							This article...
 * 19) Abdima (JE | ) Name of several Palestinian amoraim, known also in Babylonia. One of them is mentioned in thePalestinian Talmud simply as...
 * 20) Abdima (Dimi) of Haifa (JE | ) A Palestinian amora of the third generation (third and fourth centuries). He was a recognized authority in halakic matters...

201 – 220

 * 1) Abdima (Dimi) bar Hamar (JE | ) A Palestinian who immigrated into Babylonia; senior contemporary of Raba and Joseph, of the fourth century. His name is connected...
 * 2) Abdima b Hamdure (JE | ) An amora of the third century. He is probably identical with (Mar) bar Hamdure, the disciple of Samuel (Shab. 107b; compare...
 * 3) Abdima Nachota (JE | ) A Palestinian amora of the fourth century; contemporary of the Babylonian amoraim Rab &#7716;isda and Rab Joseph. He was senior...
 * 4) Abdima (Abdimi) of Sepphoris (JE | ) A Palestinian amora of the fifth century; disciple of R. Mana III. and of R. Huna II. He was a distinguished scholar in his...
 * 5) Abdimi Mallacha (JE | ) A contemporary of R. &#7716;iyya b. Abba and Jacob b. Acha, who was one of the numerous class of scholars engaged in...
 * 6) Abdimus ben R Jose (JE | ) One of the variants of the popular name of R. Menahem ben R. Jose. The other forms are Abirodimus, Avradimus, Vradimas, and...
 * 7) Abdon (JE | ) 1. One of the last of the Ephraimite judges; a son of Hillel of Pirathon. He aided in restoring order in central Israel after...
 * 8) Abdon (JE | ) A city in the domain of Asher, given to the Levites, Bene Gershon (Josh. xxi. 30, and in the corresponding list of I Chron...
 * 9) Moses ben Reuben Abdon (JE | ) Rabbi at Rome in 1543, and a member of the communal board of administrators (stewards of the ghetto) up to the year 1564....
 * 10) Abduction (JE | ) Talmudic jurisprudence bases the decree prohibiting this offense upon the eighth of the Ten Commandments, which it interprets...
 * 11) Abd-ul-hamid II (JE | ) Thirty-fourth Ottoman sultan; born Sept. 22, 1842; succeeded his brother, Murad V., Aug. 31, 1876. The Turkish Jews rightly...
 * 12) Abd-ul-malik (JE | ) -- See A187: Abd al-Malik
 * 13) Abd-ul-mejid (JE | ) Sultan of Turkey, 1839-61. If the Jews of Turkey owe their deliverance from the unremitting outrages and excesses of the janizaries...
 * 14) Abd-ul-mesih (JE | ) -- See A1936: Asher ben Levi
 * 15) Abednego (JE | ) the name given to Azariah, one of Daniel&#39;s three companions at the court of Nebuchadnezzar. The name is evidently a corruption...
 * 16) Abel (JE | ) the younger brother of Cain and the second son of Adam and Eve. He was the first shepherd, while Cain was a tiller of the...
 * 17) Abel (JE | ) Prefixed to six names of places, cognate with the Assyrian abalu (to be full, fruitful), and its probable derivatives ablutum...
 * 18) Abel-beth-maachah (JE | ) A place-name occurring six times in the Old Testament. The question whether Abel was one place and Beth-maachah another, or...
 * 19) Abel-cheramim (JE | ) Mentioned only in Judges, xi. 33 (a Deuteronomistic document) as the place where Jephthah paused in his pursuit and slaughter...
 * 20) Abel-maim (JE | ) A tract in Upper Galilee, now known as Abil-el-&#7730;amch, taken by the Syrians under Ben-hadad (II Chron. xvi. 4)....

221 – 240

 * 1) Abel-meholah (JE | ) the name occurs three times in the Old Testament: (1) in Judges, vii. 22 it is stated that Gideon followed the Midianites...
 * 2) Abel-mizraim (JE | ) Occurs only in Genesis (l. 11). It is interpreted by Septuagint, Vulgate, and the Peshito (followed by A. V.) as "Mourning...
 * 3) Abel-shittim JE (JE | ) Found only in Num. xxxiii. 49; but ha-Shittim ("The Acacias"), evidently the same place, is mentioned in Num. xxv. 1, Josh...
 * 4) Solomon ben Kalman Halevi Abel (JE | ) Russian educator and ethical writer; born March 11, 1857, at Novomyesto-Sugint (Neustadt), district of Rossieny, government...
 * 5) Peter Abelard (JE | ) French scholastic, philosopher, and theologian&#8212;the boldest thinker of the twelfth century; born 1079 in a small village...
 * 6) Abele, Abraham Cohen, of Kalisz (JE | ) -- See A370: Abraham Abele Gombiner
 * 7) Abele Zion (JE | ) According to Jost and others, those Karaites who, after the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, left the Holy City, and...
 * 8) Marcus Abeles (JE | ) Physician and instructor (privat-docent) at the University of Vienna; born at Nedraschitz, Bohemia, in 1837; died at Vienna...
 * 9) Simon Abeles (JE | ) A supposed martyr of the Roman Catholic Church in Prague. According tothe report of the Jesuit John Eder, he was killed by...
 * 10) Abelites (JE | ) A North-African Christian sect, probably of gnostic antecedents, limited to a few small communities in the neighborhood of...
 * 11) Ilia Solomonovich Abelman (JE | ) A Russian astronomer; born at D&#252;naburg, now Dvinsk, in 1866; died at Wilna, December 29, 1898. His early education was...
 * 12) Judah ben Isaac Abelson (JE | ) A merchant, who devoted the greater part of his time to study; lived toward the end of the eighteenth century at Sherwenty...
 * 13) Aben in Jewish Names (JE | ) -- See A176: Ibn
 * 14) Abenabaz (JE | ) -- See A170: Abbas, Moses ibn
 * 15) Moyses Abenabez (JE | ) See Moses ben Moses of Calatayud.
 * 16) David Abenatar Melo (JE | ) -- See M387: Melo, David Abenatar
 * 17) Abendana (JE | ) the name of a number of Spanish- and Portuguese-Jewish (Sephardic) families in Amsterdam and London. The first person to assume...
 * 18) Isaac Abendana (JE | ) Teacher of Hebrew at Oxford University. Born about the middle of the seventeenth century; died about 1710. He was a brother...
 * 19) Jacob Abendana (JE | ) &#7716;akam of London; born 1630; died Sept. 12, 1695. He was the oldest son of Joseph Abendana, and attended the rabbinical...
 * 20) Joseph Abendana (JE | ) A refugee from the rage of the Spanish Inquisition who settled in Hamburg; he was related to the Chakam of that name...

241 – 260

 * 1) Aben-ezra (JE | ) -- See I14: Ibn Ezra, Judah
 * 2) Kanah Abengdor (Abigdor, Abengedor) (JE | ) -- See A242: &#7730;anah, Abigdor
 * 3) Joseph Abenheim (JE | ) Violinist and orchestra leader; born at Worms in 1804; died Jan. 18, 1891, at Stuttgart. He received his first musical instruction...
 * 4) Abenhuacar (JE | ) See Wakkar, Samuel ibn.
 * 5) Daniel Abensur (JE | ) A Portuguese Jew, who died in Hamburg in 1711. At one time he advanced a considerable sum of money to the Polish Crown, and...
 * 6) Jacob Abensur (JE | ) Probably a son of Daniel Abensur; was also Polish minister resident at Hamburg, after 1695. By instituting private religious...
 * 7) Joseph Abentrevi (JE | ) Physician in ordinary to King James I. of Aragon, by whom, in January, 1271 or 1272, Abentrevi was allotted an annual allowance...
 * 8) Eliau Abenyuly of Gibraltar (JE | ) See Eliau ibn Yulee
 * 9) Aberdeen (Scotland) (JE | ) the chief city of northern Scotland, capital of Aberdeenshire. Jews have but recently settled in this city, the only synagogue...
 * 10) Abraham Aberle (Rabel) (JE | ) Moravian Hebraist; lived at Austerlitz in the third decade of the nineteenth century. All his literary productions&#8212;poems...
 * 11) Abraham ben Abraham Solomon Aberle (JE | ) called also Abele Posveller. See Abraham Abele ben Abraham Solomon.           					  						  							  							  							This...
 * 12) Jacob Benedict (Bennet) Aberle (JE | ) -- See A252: Benedict (Bennet), Jacob (Aberle)
 * 13) Solomon b. Abraham Aberle (Abril) (JE | ) Author of "Binyan Shelomoh" (The Structure of Solomon), homilies on the Pentateuch, published at Shklov in Posen, 1789 (see...
 * 14) Rab Aberle (JE | ) -- See A439: Abraham of Hamburg
 * 15) Isaac b. Abraham Cohen Zedek of Cracow Aberles (JE | ) Author of "Sefer Toledot Yi&#7827;Cha&#7731;" (The Generation of Isaac), homilies on the Pentateuch, only the first part...
 * 16) Abetment (JE | ) the legal term for encouraging, aiding, or instigating an illegal act. The abettor may take no part in the actual commission...
 * 17) Abi and Ab in Proper Names (JE | ) Abi and Ab are used both as the first element, as in Abijah, Abishur, Abinoam, Abner, and as the second element, as in Eliab...
 * 18) Abi Ayub (JE | ) -- See A658: Sulaiman ibn Almuallim
 * 19) Abi Sahula (JE | ) -- See A677: Isaac ben Solomon ibn Abu Sahula
 * 20) Abi Zimra (JE | ) A family which can be traced from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century, of which the following were the more important:...

261 – 280

 * 1) Abraham ben Meir Abi Zimra (JE | ) Flourished in Malaga, and seems to have left his home in 1492, going to Oran, and dwelling later in Tlem&#231;en. He enjoyed...
 * 2) David ben Solomon Abi Zimra (JE | ) -- See A262: David ben Solomon Abi Zimra
 * 3) Abiah (JE | ) -- See A300: Abijah
 * 4) Abiasaph (JE | ) -- See E21: Ebiasaph
 * 5) Abiathar (JE | ) A son of Ahimelech or Ahijah (melech and yah apparently interchanging; compare I Sam. xiv. 3, xxii. 9); the chief priest of...
 * 6) Abiathar (JE | ) A Palestinian amora, the contemporary of R. Judah (217-299) and of his successor, R. &#7716;isda, the head of the Sura Academy...
 * 7) Abiathar ibn Crescas ha-Kohen (JE | ) -- See A267: Crescas, Abiathar ibn
 * 8) Joseph ben Isaac Abiathar (JE | ) -- See A334: Abitur, Joseph ben Isaac
 * 9) Abiathar ha-Kohen of Cairo (JE | ) Nagid (chief) of the Egyptian Jews, which office he inherited from his ancestors. He flourished at the end of the eleventh...
 * 10) Abiathar ha-Kohen of Saragossa (JE | ) Founder of a widespread noble Spanish family that flourished in the fifteenth century. He had two daughters, Esther and Leah...
 * 11) Abib (JE | ) Name of the first month of the Hebrew year (Ex. xii. 2; compare xiii. 4), corresponding to the Babylonian and postexilian...
 * 12) Abibas (JE | ) A mythical son of R. Gamaliel, the teacher of Paul, concerning whom a Christian legend existed that he and his father were...
 * 13) Johann Georg Abicht (JE | ) Christian Hebraist; born 1672 at K&#246;nigsee, in the principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt; died 1740. He studied first...
 * 14) Abida (JE | ) A son of Midian, and grandson of Abraham and Keturah (Gen. xxv. 4, and in the genealogical list in I Chron. i. 33). G. B....
 * 15) Abidan (JE | ) A son of Gideoni, chief of the tribe of Benjamin after the Exodus (Num. i. 11, ii. 22, vii. 60, 65, x. 24). G. B. L.    ...
 * 16) Abiel (JE | ) 1. Father of Kish and Ner, and grandfather of Saul (I Sam. ix. 1, xiv. 51). Another account makes him the great-grandfather...
 * 17) Abiezer (JE | ) 1. A clan of Manasseh, the most important member of which was Gideon, in whose time the seat of the clan was at Ophrah on...
 * 18) Judah ben Isaac Abiezer of Tiktin (JE | ) A Jewish author of the nineteenth century. He resided in Jerusalem and wrote "Mishmeret haBerit" (The Charge of the Covenant)...
 * 19) Abigail (JE | ) A daughter of Jesse and sister of David, who married Jether the Ishmaelite, and became the mother of Amasa (I Chron. ii. 16...
 * 20) Abigdor (JE | ) A pr&#230;nomen, as well as a family name, which first appeared in the Middle Ages and which is still in use. in Russia it...

281 – 300

 * 1) Abraham Abigdor JE (JE | ) A physician, philosopher, and translator; born in Provence, probably at Arles, in 1350. He should not be confounded with Maestro...
 * 2) Avigdor Cohen JE (JE | ) Italian rabbi, distinguished for learning and wealth, who lived in Ferrara about the middle of the fifteenth century. Joseph...
 * 3) Avigdor ben Elijah ha-Kohen (JE | ) the earliest of the great Talmudists of Austria; flourished about the middle of the thirteenth century. He was the pupil of...
 * 4) Avigdor de Fano (JE | ) -- See A284: Fano, Abigdor de
 * 5) Avigdor Hayyim (JE | ) -- See H393: &#7716;ayyim, Abigdor
 * 6) Avigdor ben Isaac (JE | ) A French rabbinic scholar; lived during the second half of the thirteenth century. He is probably identical with the "Abigdor...
 * 7) Avigdor ben ha-Kanah (JE | ) -- See K85: &#7730;anah
 * 8) Avigdor Kara (JE | ) -- See A242: &#7730;anah, Abigdor
 * 9) Avigdor ben Menahem (JE | ) German Talmudist; lived at the beginning of the fifteenth century. The Bodleian collection of manuscripts contains responsa...
 * 10) Avigdor ben Moses (JE | ) Lived in the sixteenth century in Cracow. He translated certain portions of the prayer-book into German.Bibliography: Steinschneider...
 * 11) Avigdor ben Nathan of Avignon (JE | ) French Talmudist; flourished in the thirteenth and at the beginning of the fourteenth centuries. He was the teacher of Abraham...
 * 12) Avigdor ben Samuel (JE | ) A rabbi in Pruzhany, Rushony, Wilkowyszky, and Selva (Lithuania and Poland), from 1719 to 1768. Toward the close of his life...
 * 13) Avigdor ben Simha (JE | ) A German author, who was born in Glogau in the second quarter of the eighteenth century. After having been a tutor for some...
 * 14) Avigdor b. Simon Costellez (JE | ) -- See K383: Kosteliz (Costellez), Abigdor b. Simon
 * 15) Solomon ben Abraham Abigdor JE (JE | ) A Hebrew translator; born in Provence in 1384. Assisted by his father, Abraham Bonet ben Meshullam, he, at the early age of...
 * 16) Avigdor Zuvidal (JE | ) Italian rabbi of German descent, who flourished in the sixteenth century; died Nov. 13, 1601. David de Pomis, in the preface...
 * 17) Abihail (JE | ) 1. The father of Zuriel, a Levite of the family of Merari (Num. iii. 35). 2. Wife of Abishur (I Chron. ii. 29). 3. Son of...
 * 18) Abihu (JE | ) He is mentioned in Ex. xxiv. 1, 9, where he and his brother are classed with Moses and Aaron as the leaders or chiefs of the...
 * 19) Abihud (JE | ) A grandson of Benjamin, mentioned in the genealogical list of I Chron. viii. 3. G. B. L.           					  						  							...
 * 20) Abijah (JE | ) Name of several Old Testament personages, of whom the following are the most notable:1.&#8212;Biblical Data: Son of Samuel...

301 – 320

 * 1) Abila (JE | ) -- See A302: Abilene
 * 2) Abilene (JE | ) A small district of Syria on the eastern slope of Anti-Libanus. It was so called from the town of Abila, on the northern declivity...
 * 3) Abilene (JE | ) A village situated northwest of Sepphoris (Neubauer, "G&#233;ographie du Talmud," p. 259). According to Gr&#228;tz ("Gesch...
 * 4) Abimael (JE | ) Son of Joktan (Gen. x. 28); found also in the corresponding genealogical list of Shem&#39;s descendants in I Chron. i. 22...
 * 5) Abimelech >> Abimelech, Abimelech (Judges) JE (JE | ) 1. Son of Gideon (surnamed Jerubbaal), the great "judge" of Israel. By virtue of his father&#39;s dictatorship or semiroyalty...
 * 6) Abimi (JE | ) the name of several Amoraim, distinguished for proficiency in the Halakah. The most prominent of these are the following:1...
 * 7) Abimi b. Abbahu (JE | ) A scholar of the third century. Abimi&#39;s native country and parentage are doubtful. He is always cited as Abimi, the son...
 * 8) Abimi of Hagronia (JE | ) A Babylonian amora of the fourth century, disciple of Raba b. Joseph and teacher of Rab Mordecai, the colleague of Rab Ashi...
 * 9) Abin R (JE | ) Rabin is a contraction of R. Abin, and appears more frequently in the Babylonian than in the Palestinian Talmud. R. Abin and...
 * 10) Abin (JE | ) An eminent cabalist of Le Mans (about 1040), a descendant of R. Simon of Le Mans, and grandfather of R. Simon the Great, the...
 * 11) Abin ben Adda (JE | ) A Babylonian amora of the fourth century, disciple of Rab Judah ben Ezekiel and senior contemporary of Raba ben Joseph. Although...
 * 12) Benedict Abin (JE | ) -- See A989: Ahin, Bendich
 * 13) Abin b. Rab Hisda (JE | ) A Palestinian amora, a disciple of R. Johanan (Gi&#7789;. 5b). in addition to some halakic opinions, a few exegetical remarks...
 * 14) Abin b. Hiyya (JE | ) A Palestinian amora of the fourth generation, and a colleague of R. Jeremiah. His teachers, R. Zeira I. and R. Hila, were...
 * 15) Abin b. Kahana (JE | ) A Palestinian amora, one of the teachers of R. Abun ben &#7716;iyya (Tem. 20b), and junior colleague of R. Hoshaya II. (Yer...
 * 16) Abin ha-Levi (JE | ) A Palestinian amora of the second half of the fourth century, distinguished as an original haggadist. in the midrashic literature...
 * 17) Abin Naggara (JE | ) A Babylonian amora of the second and third generations. A carpenter by trade, he devoted his nights to study; and Rab Huna...
 * 18) Abin b. Nahman (JE | ) A beloved disciple of R. Judah ben Ezekiel (B. M. 107a). He is mentioned as a transmitter of Baraitot (Yeb. 84b; B. B. 94b)...
 * 19) Abin ben Tanhum bar Terifon (JE | ) A Palestinian scholar who, by a curious calculation, tries to prove that the Biblical saying, "That soul shall be cut off...
 * 20) Abina (JE | ) An amora of the third and fourth centuries, always cited without any cognomen. He was a Babylonian by birth, a disciple of...

321 – 340

 * 1) Abinadab (JE | ) 1. A resident of Kirjath-jearim, who kept the Ark of the Covenant in his house during the twenty years immediately following...
 * 2) Abinoam (JE | ) Father of Barak; is mentioned in Judges, iv. 6, 12, v. 1, 12. in all the Greek versions the name is transliterated Abineem...
 * 3) Abinu Malkenu (JE | ) the initial words and name of a portion of the liturgy recited with special solemnity on the Penitential Days from New Year...
 * 4) Aaron Abiob JE (JE | ) Author of "Shemen ha-Mor" (Oil of Myrrh), a commentary on the Book of Esther. He flourished in Salonica about 1540, and his...
 * 5) Simon b. David Abiob (JE | ) Cabalist of the seventeenth century. He removed to Hebron, one of the chief gathering-places of the Jewish mystics of his...
 * 6) Abiram (JE | ) Son of Eliab, one of the conspiratorsagainst Moses (Num. xvi. 1; Ps. cvi. 17). Deut. xi. 6 places him in the tribe of Reuben...
 * 7) Abishag (JE | ) A beautiful Shunammite, brought by the servants of David to his harem to minister to the aged king in the hope of reviving...
 * 8) Abishai (JE | ) A son of David&#39;s sister Zeruiah. Abishai ranked as a general in command second only to his brother Joab (II Sam. x. 10...
 * 9) Abishalom (JE | ) -- See A637: Absalom
 * 10) Abishua (JE | ) 1. Son of Phinehas and great-grandson of Aaron, the high priest, ancestor of Ezra (Ezra vii. 5). Found also in the genealogy...
 * 11) Abishur (JE | ) A Jerahmeelite, son of Shammai (I Chron. ii. 28, 29).
 * 12) Abital (JE | ) A wife of David, who bore to him, during his residence at Hebron, his fifth son, Shephatiah (II Sam. iii. 4, I Chron. iii...
 * 13) Abitub (JE | ) A Benjamite (I Chron. viii. 11).
 * 14) Joseph ben Isaac ben Stans ibn Abitur (JE | ) Talmudist and liturgical poet, who, according to statements made by Moses ben Ezra, and according to one of Abitur&#39;s own...
 * 15) Abiud (JE | ) Son of Zerubbabel, from whom was descended Joseph, the husband of Mary, the mother of Jesus (Matt. i. 13). He is omitted from...
 * 16) Ablat (JE | ) A Gentile sage and astrologer in Babylonia. The close friendship which existed between him and Mar Samuel (died 254) shows...
 * 17) Ezmel (Samuel) de Ablitas JE (JE | ) Son of Don Juceph; born in the village of Ablitas, near Tudela, from which place he derived his name; died in 1342. He was...
 * 18) Ablution (JE | ) For the purpose of actual or ritual purification, ablutions or washings form an important feature of the Jewish religious...
 * 19) Abner (JE | ) Cabalist and teacher of Isaac of Acco (Acre) about 1150, mentioned by Isaac as a great authority in mystic philosophy.Bibliography:...
 * 20) Abner (JE | ) According to I Chron. viii. 29-33, and Josephus ("Ant." vi. 6, &#167; 3), an uncle of Saul; while I Sam. xiv. 51 and Josephus...

341 – 360

 * 1) Abner of Burgos (JE | ) A Jewish convert to Christianity and polemical writer against his former religion; born 1270; died 1348, or a little later...
 * 2) Abnimus Hagardi (JE | ) -- See O26: &#338;nomaos of Gadara
 * 3) Abo (JE | ) Capital of the government of Abo-Bj&#246;rneborg in Finland, Russia, situated near the entrance of the Auraioki river into...
 * 4) Aboab ((redirects to Isaac Aboab I JE)); also >> Immanuel Aboab JE, Isaac Aboab of Castile JE, Samuel Aboab JE (JE | ) the name of an ancient and widely distributed Spanish family, among whose members were many most able scholars. The family...
 * 5) & (JE | ) Originally the benediction recited during the morning sacrifice while the Temple still existed, and afterward the benediction...
 * 6) &#39;Abodah of the Day of Atonement (JE | ) An essential part of the Musaf service of that day, based upon the detailed account given in the Mishnah Yoma of the sacrificial...
 * 7) Music of &#39;Abodah (JE | ) By its liturgical position, the "&#39;Abodah" stands out as the central point of the services on the Day of Atonement. The...
 * 8) & (JE | ) the name of one of the treatises of the Mishnah, of the Tosefta, and of the Babylonian and the Palestinian Talmud, belonging...
 * 9) Juan Fernandez Abolafio (JE | ) A Marano of Seville, who lived in the fifteenth century. He was among those who endeavored most zealously to prevent the introduction...
 * 10) Abolition of Slavery (JE | ) -- See A1605: Anti-slavery Movement
 * 11) Abolitionists, Jewish, in America (JE | ) -- See A1605: Antislavery Movement
 * 12) Abomination (JE | ) Rendering in the English versions of different Biblical terms denoting that which is loathed or detested on religious grounds...
 * 13) Abomination of Desolation (JE | ) An expression occurring in Matt. xxiv. 15 and Mark, xiii. 14 (A. V.), where the Greek text has &#964;&#8056; &#946;&#948;&#941...
 * 14) Abot (JE | ) the name of a small but highly valuable treatise of the Mishnah containing the oldest collection of ethical maxims and aphorisms...
 * 15) Abot de-Rabbi Nathan JE (JE | ) A work which in the form now extant contains a mixture of Mishnah and Midrash, and may be designated as a homiletical exposition...
 * 16) Abrabalia (JE | ) Spanish statesmen who flourished in Aragon in the latterhalf of the thirteenth century. Joseph was minister of finance to...
 * 17) Abrabanel JE (JE | ) -- See A631: Abravanel
 * 18) David (Manuel Martinez) Abrabanel Dormido (JE | ) -- See D443: Dormido, David Abravanel
 * 19) Abracadabra (JE | ) Magic word or formula used in incantations, especially against intermittent fever or inflammation, the patient wearing an...
 * 20) Abraham (JE | ) According to the Bible, Abraham (or Abram) was the father of the Hebrews. The Biblical account of the life of Abram is found...

361 – 380

 * 1) Apocalypse of Abraham JE (JE | ) An apocryphon that has been preserved in Old Slavonic literature. Its title does not fully explain its contents, for about...
 * 2) Abraham& JE (JE | ) in the New Testament and in Jewish writings a term signifying the abodeof bliss in the other world. According to IV Macc....
 * 3) Abraham& (JE | ) A famous and venerable oak (Quercus pseudo-coccifera) which still stands at Mamre, half an hour&#39;s journey west of Hebron...
 * 4) Testament of Abraham (JE | ) An apocryphal book, published for the first time by Montague Rhodes James, in two different recensions, in Robinson&#39;s...
 * 5) Tower of Abraham (JE | ) Often mentioned in the Book of Jubilees as a mansion of great importance, said to have been built on the height of Hebron...
 * 6) Abraham ben Aaron de Boton (JE | ) -- See A366: Boton, Abraham ben Aaron de
 * 7) Abraham Aaron ben Shalom Brody (JE | ) -- See A367: Brody, Abraham Aaron ben Shalom
 * 8) Abraham ben Aaron Troki (JE | ) -- See A368: Troki, Abraham ben Aaron
 * 9) Abraham Abele ben Abraham Solomon (JE | ) Known as Abele Posveller (from Poswol in the government of Kovno); acting rabbi of Wilna; died July 29, 1836. He was considered...
 * 10) Abraham Abele Gombiner (JE | ) Polish Talmudist; born about 1635 at Gombin, in Russian Poland; died at Kalisz about 1683. He was a son of &#7716;ayyim ha-Levi...
 * 11) Abraham Abele ben Jeremiah (JE | ) Interpreter of the Masora; flourished in the middle of the eighteenth century at Kalwaria, in the government of Suwalki, Russian...
 * 12) Abraham Abele ben Naphtali (JE | ) Rabbi in Kherson in the first half of the nineteenth century; author of "Bet Abraham" (House of Abraham), Szydlkow, 1837,...
 * 13) Abraham ben Abigdor (JE | ) Bohemian rabbi; born in the latter part of the fifteenth century; died at Prague, Oct. 7, 1542. For the last twenty years...
 * 14) Abraham ben Abigdor Kara (JE | ) -- See A242: &#7730;anah, Abraham ben Abigdor
 * 15) Abraham Aboab (JE | ) -- See A344: Aboab
 * 16) Abraham Abraham (JE | ) English author and communal worker; died March 31, 1863, at Liverpool. He resided at Liverpool for forty years, during thirty...
 * 17) Jacob Abraham (Abram) (JE | ) German medalist and lapidary; born at Strelitz in 1723; died at Berlin, June 17, 1800. He learned the art of engraving from...
 * 18) Abraham Abush ben Levi Hirsch Katzenellenbogen (JE | ) -- See A378: Katzenellenbogen, Abraham Abush ben Levi Hirsch
 * 19) Adolphe Abraham (JE | ) French colonel; born at Thionville, France, March 21, 1814. When eighteen he enlisted as a volunteer, and was assigned to...
 * 20) Abraham ibn Akra ben Solomon (JE | ) -- See A588: Abraham ben Solomon Akra

381 – 400

 * 1) Abraham ibn Alfakar (JE | ) -- See A381: Alfakar, Abraham ibn
 * 2) Abraham Alashkar (JE | ) -- See A382: Alashkar, Abraham
 * 3) Abraham Alfaquin (JE | ) -- See A383: Alfaquin, Abraham
 * 4) Abraham Algazi (JE | ) -- See A384: Algazi, Abraham
 * 5) Abraham al-Tabib (JE | ) -- See A1319: Al-Tabib, Abraham
 * 6) Abraham Amigo JE (JE | ) -- See A1399: Amigo, Abraham
 * 7) Abraham of Aragon JE (JE | ) A skilful oculist, who flourished in the middle of the thirteenth century. Shortly after the Council of B&#233;ziers, in 1246...
 * 8) Abraham Aryeh Loeb b. Judah ha-Levi (JE | ) A Talmudic author and rabbi, who lived at Stryzhow (Galicia, Austria) at the close of the eighteenth century and the beginning...
 * 9) Abraham (Asher Jacob) ben Aryeh Loeb Kalmankes (JE | ) -- See A1928: Asher, Jacob Abraham ben Aryeh Loeb &#7730;alman&#7731;es
 * 10) Abraham (Ben Gedaliah) ben Asher (JE | ) A commentator; native of Safed, Syria; held rabbinical office at Aleppo in the second half of the sixteenth century. He was...
 * 11) Abraham ben Asus de Bourgueil (JE | ) -- See B1598: Burgil Family
 * 12) Abraham Auerbach JE (JE | ) -- See A392: Auerbach, Abraham
 * 13) Abraham of Augsburg JE (JE | ) Proselyte to Judaism; died a martyr&#39;s death Nov. 21, 1265. He seems to have adopted his new faith with such enthusiasm...
 * 14) Abraham of Avila (JE | ) A pseudo-Messiah and wonder-worker, who lived at the end of the thirteenth century. There seems to be some doubt concerning...
 * 15) Abraham ben Azriel of Bohemia (JE | ) A Bohemian Talmudist and grammarian, who flourished in the first half of the thirteenth century and probably lived at Prague...
 * 16) Abraham Bali ben Jacob (JE | ) -- See B170: Bali, Abraham
 * 17) Abraham de Balmes ben Meir JE (JE | ) Italian physician and translator of the early sixteenth century; born at Lecce, in the old kingdom of Naples; died at Venice...
 * 18) Abraham ben Baruch (JE | ) Writer on ritual; brother of Meir of Rothenburg; lived in southern Germany about the end of the thirteenth century. He wrote...
 * 19) Abraham ben Baruch Mizrahi (JE | ) -- See A399: Mizra&#7716;i, Abraham ben Baruch
 * 20) Abraham of Beja (JE | ) A learned Jew who lived in Alemtejo, Portugal, during the latter half of the fifteenth century. Being an extensive traveler...

401 – 420

 * 1) Abraham Bendig (JE | ) -- See A401: Bendig, Abraham
 * 2) Abraham ben Benjamin Aaron (JE | ) A Polish Talmudist of the first half of the seventeenth century; died at Brest, Lithuania, in 1642. He was rabbi at Tarnopol...
 * 3) Abraham ben Benjamin Ze& (JE | ) Polish author of the seventeenth century; went to Vienna, and, on the expulsion of the Jews from that city in 1670, went to...
 * 4) Abraham Benveniste (JE | ) -- See A404: Benveniste, Abraham
 * 5) Bernard Abraham (JE | ) French brigadier-general of artillery, retired; born at Nancy, Jan. 12, 1824. His father, who was a member of the Jewish Consistory...
 * 6) Abraham Bibago ben Shem-Tob (JE | ) -- See A406: Bibago ben Shem-&#7788;ob, Abraham
 * 7) Abraham of Bohemia (JE | ) Prefect of the Jews of Great and Little Poland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. in 1512 King Sigismund I. of Poland...
 * 8) Abraham ibn Bolat (JE | ) -- See A408: Bolat, Abraham ibn
 * 9) Abraham Broda ben Saul (JE | ) -- See A409: Broda, Abraham, ben Saul
 * 10) Abraham Brunschwig (JE | ) -- See B1418: Braunschweig, Abraham
 * 11) Abraham Cabrit (JE | ) -- See A411: Cabrit, Abraham
 * 12) Abraham de Caslar ben David (JE | ) -- See C225: Caslari, Abraham ben David
 * 13) Abraham (Vita) de Cologna (JE | ) An Italian rabbi, orator, and political leader; born at Mantua, 1755; died at Triest, 1832. While holding the post of rabbi...
 * 14) Abraham of Cologne (Ben Alexander) (JE | ) German rabbi; flourished about 1240. He was considered the most eminent pupil of Eleazar of Worms. Solomon ben Adret relates...
 * 15) Abraham Conque of Hebron (JE | ) -- See A415: Conque (Cuenqui),Abraham, of Hebron
 * 16) Abraham ben Daniel (JE | ) Poet and rabbi; born at Modena in 1511. For several years he was a tutor at Viadana, Modena, Rivarolo, Arezzo, and Forli,...
 * 17) Abraham ibn Daud Halevi JE (JE | ) Spanish astronomer, historian, and philosopher; born at Toledo about 1110; died, according to common report, a martyr about...
 * 18) Abraham ben David UNR (JE | ) -- See Y67: Yi&#7827;&#7717;a&#7731;i, Abraham
 * 19) Abraham ben David of Ostrog (Volhynia) (JE | ) Commentator; flourished about 1500. He wrote ("Furnace for Gold"), a commentary on the Targumim to the Pentateuch. Some also...
 * 20) Abraham ben David of Posqui& JE (JE | ) French Talmudic commentator; born in Provence, France, about 1125; died at Posqui&#232;res, Nov. 27, 1198. Son-in-law of Abraham...

421 – 440

 * 1) Abraham ben David Proven& (JE | ) Italian Talmudist of the sixteenth century. He was a member of an illustrious family of Italian rabbis who came originally...
 * 2) Abraham Dob Baer ben David of Ovruch (JE | ) Rabbi of Jitomir, Russia, about 1840. His Talmudic studies were pursued under Mordecai, rabbi of Chernobyl and a disciple...
 * 3) Abraham Dob Baer ben Solomon (JE | ) Rabbi in Orsha in the latter half of the eighteenth century. He wrote ("Abraham&#39;s Well"), containing Glosses on the First...
 * 4) Abraham ben Eliezer (JE | ) Commentator (probably a contemporary of Elijah Mizrachi); lived in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, probably at...
 * 5) Abraham ben Eliezer ha-Kohen (JE | ) Polish darshan, or preacher: flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was the great-grandson of Issachar...
 * 6) Abraham ben Eliezer ha-Levi (JE | ) German Talmudist; flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century. Probably he was a pupil of R. Meir of Rothenburg...
 * 7) Abraham ben Eliezer ha-Levi Berukim (JE | ) A cabalistic writer; born before 1540; lived for a long time in Jerusalem, and died at an advanced age in 1600. A pupil of...
 * 8) Abraham ben Elijah (JE | ) -- See P311: Pikes, Abraham
 * 9) Abraham ben Elijah Broda (JE | ) -- See A429: Broda, Abraham ben Elijah
 * 10) Abraham ben Elijah ha-Kohen (JE | ) German ritualist; flourished in the fifteenth century. His epitome of the precepts governing prohibited articles of food was...
 * 11) Abraham ben Elijah of Wilna JE (JE | ) Russian Talmudist and author; born in Wilna about 1750; died there Dec. 14, 1808. The son of Elijah, the gaon of Wilna, a...
 * 12) Émile Abraham (playwright) (JE | ) French playwright; born at Paris, 1833. He devoted himself entirely to the drama, as playwright, as theatrical critic, and...
 * 13) Abraham ben Ephraim Niederl& (JE | ) -- See N279: Niederl&#228;nder,Abraham ben Ephraim, Sopher of Prague
 * 14) Abraham ben Ephraim ben Sancho (JE | ) -- See A434: Sancho, Abraham ben Ephraim ben
 * 15) Abraham ibn Ezra JE (JE | ) -- See I11: Ibn Ezra
 * 16) Abraham Galante (JE | ) -- See A531: Galante, Abraham ben Mordecai
 * 17) Abraham Gascon (JE | ) -- See G80: Gascon, Abraham
 * 18) Abraham Guer Di Cordova (JE | ) -- See A527: Abraham the Monk
 * 19) Abraham of Hamburg (JE | ) Warden and leading spirit of the Ashkenazic community of London; born at Hamburg after 1650; died at London after 1721. By...
 * 20) Abraham ibn Hassan ha-Levi (JE | ) Author of a work on the six hundred and thirteen Biblical precepts, published as an appendix to the "first" rabbinic Bible...

441 – 460

 * 1) Abraham ben Hayyim (JE | ) Rabbi of Narbonne, where he lived in the first half of the thirteenth century. He was a brother of Reuben ben &#7716;ayyim...
 * 2) Abraham Hayyim ben Gedaliah (JE | ) Galician Talmudist. He flourished early in the nineteenth century, was a disciple of the brothers Phinehas and Samuel Horowitz...
 * 3) Abraham ben Hayyim Lisker (JE | ) -- See L458: Lisker, Abraham ben &#7716;ayyim
 * 4) Abraham ben Hayyim ben Remok (JE | ) Spanish scholar; born in Barcelona about the middle of the fourteenth century. He wrote a commentary on the Psalms which is...
 * 5) Abraham Hayyim Rodriguez (JE | ) -- See A445: Rodriguez, Abraham &#7716;ayyim
 * 6) Abraham Heilbut (JE | ) -- See A446: Heilbut, Abraham
 * 7) Abraham de Herrera (JE | ) -- See A447: Herrera, Abraham de
 * 8) Abraham bar Hillel (JE | ) One of the few Hebrew poets in Egypt; lived in the second half of the twelfth century, and wrote the "Megillah Zu&#7789;&#7789...
 * 9) Abraham bar Hiyya ha-Nasi JE (JE | ) A celebrated Jewish mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher of the twelfth century. He lived in Barcelona in 1136. According...
 * 10) Abraham ben Isaac Auerbach (JE | ) Liturgical poet of the seventeenth century; born at Kosfeld and became rabbi at M&#252;nster. During a visit to Amsterdam...
 * 11) Abraham ben Isaac Bedaresi (JE | ) -- See B491: Bedersi, Abraham ben Isaac
 * 12) Abraham ben Isaac of Granada JE (JE | ) Cabalist of the thirteenth century. He wrote: (1) A work on the Cabala, under the title of "Sefer ha-Berit." This is quoted...
 * 13) Abraham ben Isaac Hayyot (JE | ) Commentator; lived in the seventeenth century. He is the author of "Holek Tamim" (He Who Walks Perfect), explaining the laws...
 * 14) Abraham ben Isaac ben Jehiel of Pisa (JE | ) Grandson of the famous philanthropist, Jehiel of Pisa, whose charity did much to alleviate the sufferings of the Spanish exiles...
 * 15) Abraham ben Isaac ha-Kohen (JE | ) A hymn-writer who flourished in Germany about 1096; probably the son of Isaac ben Eleazar ha-Kohen, who lived in Mentz in...
 * 16) Abraham ben Isaac ha-Lev& (JE | ) A Spanish Talmudist and author; born at Barcelona in the early part of the fourteenth century; died at Narbonne in October...
 * 17) Abraham ben Isaac ibn Migas (JE | ) -- See A457: Migash, Abraham ben Isaac ibn
 * 18) Abraham b. Isaac of Narbonne JE (JE | ) born probably at Montpellier about 1110; died at Narbonne, 1179. His teacher was Moses b. Joseph b. Merwan ha-Levi, and during...
 * 19) Abraham ben Isaac Shalom (JE | ) -- See A459: Shalom, Abraham ben Isaac
 * 20) Abraham ben Israel Cohen Rapoport (JE | ) -- See R112: Rapoport

461 – 480

 * 1) Abraham Israel Pereyra (JE | ) -- See P190: Pereyra, Abraham Israel
 * 2) Jacob Abraham (JE | ) -- See A377: Abraham (Abram), Jacob
 * 3) Abraham ben Jacob Berab (JE | ) -- See A463: Berab, Abraham ben Jacob
 * 4) Abraham ben Jacob de Boton (JE | ) -- See A464: Boton, Abraham ben Jacob de
 * 5) Abraham ben Jacob Moses Helin (JE | ) -- See H560: Helin, Abraham ben Jacob Moses
 * 6) Abraham ben Jacob Zemah (JE | ) Palestinian rabbi and author; born about 1670. He was a rabbi at Jerusalem, and a member of the bet din, or rabbinical tribunal...
 * 7) Abraham Jafe Kalmankes (JE | ) -- See A467: &#7730;alman&#7731;es, Abraham Jafe
 * 8) Abraham Jaghel ben Hananiah Dei Galicchi (JE | ) -- See A468: Jaghel, Abraham
 * 9) Abraham Jedidiah ben Menahem Simson (JE | ) See Basilah, Abraham Jedidiah.
 * 10) Abraham ben Jehiel Cohen Porto (JE | ) -- See A470: Porto, Abraham ben Jehiel
 * 11) Abraham Jekuthiel Salman Lichtenstein (JE | ) -- See A471: Lichtenstein, Abraham
 * 12) Abraham Jesofovich (JE | ) Secretary of the treasury of Lithuania under King Sigismund I. of Poland; born in the middle of the fifteenth century; died...
 * 13) Abraham (Jacob Joseph) ben Joel Ashkenazi Katzenellenbogen (JE | ) -- See K135: Katzenellenbogen, Abraham
 * 14) Abraham ben Joseph ha-Levi of Cracow JE (JE | ) Polish commentator, born at Cracow about 1620; died, probably in Hamburg, about 1670, or at least some time after 1659. In...
 * 15) Abraham ben Joseph of Orleans (JE | ) French Talmudist; lived at Orleans, and perhaps at London, in the twelfth century. He belongs to the older tosafists, and...
 * 16) Abraham ben Joseph Solomon Hahazan (JE | ) Karaite rabbi at Koslov, now Eupatoria, Crimea, in the first half of the nineteenth century. His father, Joseph Solomon, whom...
 * 17) Abraham Joshua Hoeshl (JE | ) Rabbi at Kolbushowa, and later at Miedzyboz, Poland; lived inthe beginning of the nineteenth century. He wrote two commentaries...
 * 18) Abraham ben Josiah of Jerusalem (JE | ) A Karaite author, who flourished in the first half of the eighteenth century. He went from Palestine to the Crimea, where...
 * 19) Abraham ben Josiah ha-Rofe (JE | ) A Karaitic scholar and physician, born in Troki, a town near Wilna, in Lithuania, about 1636; died there in 1688. He was one...
 * 20) Abraham Judaeus (JE | ) -- See A435: Abraham ibn Ezra

481 – 500

 * 1) Abraham Judaeus Medicus (JE | ) -- See A577: Abraham ben Shem-&#7788;ob
 * 2) Abraham ben Judah (JE | ) Flourished in the thirteenth century at Barcelona, Spain. According to de Rossi ("Dizionario," p. 237) there is, among the...
 * 3) Abraham ben Judah (JE | ) A physician who wrote in Hebrew a medical work, "Mareot ha-Shetanim" (Aspects of the Urine); date of birth and death unknown...
 * 4) Abraham ben Judah Berlin (JE | ) German rabbi; died at Amsterdam March 13, 1730; son of the famous court Jew, Jost Liebman, and disciple of Isaiah Horowitz...
 * 5) Abraham ben Judah de Boton (JE | ) -- See A485: Boton, Abraham ben Judah de
 * 6) Abraham ben Judah Eberlen (JE | ) -- See E19: Eberlen, Abraham ben Judah
 * 7) Abraham ben Judah Elimelech (Almalik) (JE | ) A cabalistic writer who lived at Pesaro (Italy) about the end of the fifteenth century and was probably a Spanish exile. He...
 * 8) Abraham ben Judah Hadida (JE | ) -- See H42: &#7716;adida, Abraham ben Judah
 * 9) Abraham ben Judah ibn Hayyim (JE | ) -- See H397: &#7716;ayyim, Abraham ben Judah ibn
 * 10) Abraham ben Judah Loeb (JE | ) -- See M243: Maskillejson, Abraham
 * 11) Abraham ben Judah Loeb Saraval (JE | ) -- See A491: Saraval, Abraham ben Judah Loeb
 * 12) Abraham ben Judah Segre (JE | ) -- See A492: Segre, Abraham ben Judah
 * 13) Abraham Kabassi (JE | ) -- See A493: Kabassi, Abraham
 * 14) Abraham Kimhi (JE | ) -- See A494: &#7730;im&#7717;i, Abraham
 * 15) Abraham Kirimi JE (JE | ) -- See K236: Kirimi, Abraham
 * 16) Abraham Klausner (JE | ) -- See K264: Klausner, Abraham
 * 17) Abraham Kolisker (JE | ) -- See A497: Kolisker, Abraham
 * 18) Abraham Konat ben Solomon (JE | ) -- See C705: Conat, Abraham, ben Solomon
 * 19) Abraham Laniado ben Isaac (JE | ) -- See A499: Laniado, Abraham, ben Isaac
 * 20) Abraham Laniado ben Samuel (JE | ) -- See A500: Laniado, Abraham, ben Samuel