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501 – 520

 * 1) Abraham of Lerida (JE | ) Physician, surgeon, and astrologer. All that is known of him is that, on September 12, 1468, he couched a cataract in the...
 * 2) Abraham ha-Levi (JE | ) Tosafist, not yet fully identified. in "Pis&#7731;e Tosafot" an Abraham ha-Levi is quoted who is not known otherwise than...
 * 3) Abraham ha-Levi (JE | ) -- See I30: Abraham ben Isaac ha-Levi
 * 4) Abraham ha-Levi ben Eliezer ha-Zaken (JE | ) Spanish exile in Palestine, author and cabalist of the early part of the sixteenth century. He was brother-in-law of Abraham...
 * 5) Abraham ha-Levi Shimshuni of Prague (JE | ) -- See A505: Shimshuni, Abraham ha-Levi, of Prague
 * 6) Abraham Lichtstein (JE | ) -- See A506: Lichtstein, Abraham
 * 7) Abraham of Lunel (JE | ) A celebrated French philologist of the sixteenth century, who is said to have mastered twenty languages. He embraced Christianity...
 * 8) Abraham (Abulmeni) Maimuni I (JE | ) See Maimon, Abraham ben Moses.
 * 9) Abraham Maimuni II (JE | ) -- See A509: Maimuni II., Abraham
 * 10) Abraham Malak (JE | ) Russian rabbi; only son of Dov Baer of Mezhirich, who was the first leader of the South Russian &#7716;asidim; follower of...
 * 11) Abraham Malaki (JE | ) A poet who flourished at Carpentras, near Avignon, about the end of thethirteenth century. in his poem, "The Flaming Sword...
 * 12) Abraham Maneles (JE | ) See Bachrach, Abraham.
 * 13) Abraham (Alluf) Massaran (JE | ) -- See A513: Massaran, Abraham
 * 14) Abraham ben Mattathias (JE | ) Compiler of the ("Kuh-Buch"), a collection of animal fables in Jud&#230;o-German prose and verse, published at Verona in...
 * 15) Abraham Medina (JE | ) -- See A515: Medina, Abraham
 * 16) Abraham Meir (JE | ) See Meiri, Abraham.
 * 17) Abraham ben Meir Abi Zimra (JE | ) -- See A261: Abi Zimra (ibn Zimra), Abraham ben Meir
 * 18) Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra (JE | ) -- See A518: Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meir
 * 19) Abraham ben Meir ibn Kamnial (JE | ) -- See A519: Kamnial, Abraham ben Meir ibn
 * 20) Abraham ben Meir ha-Kohen (JE | ) Rabbi and hymn-writer of the end of the eleventh century; lived probably at Speyer. He was a colleague of Rashi, with whom...

521 – 540

 * 1) Abraham ben Meir ha-Levi Epstein (JE | ) -- See A521: Epstein, Abraham ben Meir ha-Levi
 * 2) Abraham ben Menahem Manasseh Bacharach (JE | ) -- See A522: Bacharach, Abraham ben Menahem Manasseh
 * 3) Abraham Meshullam ben Abigdor (JE | ) -- See A281: Abigdor, Abraham Bonet ben Meshullam
 * 4) Abraham ben Meshullam of Modena (JE | ) Hebrew scholar; one of the correctors of the first edition of the Zohar, published at Mantua in 1558-60, in praise of which...
 * 5) Abraham de Meyrargues (JE | ) A physician who lived in Marseilles, France, during the first quarter of the fifteenth century. He is mentioned in commercial...
 * 6) Abraham Minz JE (JE | ) -- See A526: Minz, Abraham
 * 7) Abraham the Monk JE (JE | ) A Palestinian friar who lived in a monastery on Mount Sinai. He was born about the close of the sixth century, and became...
 * 8) Abraham Monson (JE | ) -- See M754: Monzon, Abraham
 * 9) Abraham of Montpellier JE (JE | ) Commentator on the greater part of the Talmud. His commentaries on &#7716;ullin and Ketubot are quoted by Jacob ben Moses...
 * 10) Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol (JE | ) -- See A530: Farissol, Abraham ben Mordecai
 * 11) Abraham ben Mordecai Galante JE (JE | ) -- See A436: Galante, Abraham ben Mordecai
 * 12) Abraham ben Mordecai ha-Levi (JE | ) An Egyptian rabbi of the end of the seventeenth century. in 1691 he edited at Venice his father&#39;s responsa, "Darke No&#39...
 * 13) Abraham Morpurgo (JE | ) -- See A533: Morpurgo, Abraham
 * 14) Abraham ben Moses (Schedel) (JE | ) Printer and corrector for the press; flourished in Prague about 1600. Abraham met with some success in authorship. He translated...
 * 15) Abraham ben Moses Alashkar (JE | ) -- See A535: Alashkar, Abraham ben Moses
 * 16) Abraham b. Moses Cohen (JE | ) A learned rabbi, probably of Spanish origin; lived in Italy during the first half of the sixteenth century; died about 1550...
 * 17) Abraham ben Moses de Fano (JE | ) -- See A537: Fano, Abraham ben Moses de
 * 18) Abraham ben Moses Kolomiti (JE | ) -- See A538: Kolomiti, Abraham ben Moses
 * 19) Abraham ben Moses of Regensburg (JE | ) German tosafist, who flourished about 1200 at Ratisbon, Germany. His interpretations of the Talmud and halakic decisions are...
 * 20) Abraham Motal of Salonica (JE | ) -- See A540: Motal, Abraham, of Salonica

541 – 560

 * 1) Abraham ben Musa (Moses) (JE | ) Moroccan rabbi and cabalist of the first half of the seventeenth century, who studied the Cabala with Abraham Azulai. He wrote...
 * 2) Abraham Naftali Hirsch ha-Levi Spitz ben Moses (JE | ) -- See A542: Spitz, Abraham Naftali Hirsch ha-Levi, ben Moses
 * 3) Abraham Nahmias (JE | ) Translator of Thomas Aquinas&#39; "Commentary on Aristotle&#39;s Metaphysics." See Nahmias, Abraham, 1.           					 ...
 * 4) Abraham Nahmias of Venice (JE | ) -- See A543: Nahmias, Abraham
 * 5) Abraham Nahmias, in Joseph Caro& (JE | ) -- See A543: Nahmias, Abraham
 * 6) Abraham Nahmias (JE | ) -- See A543: Nahmias, Abraham
 * 7) Abraham ben Nathan JE (JE | ) French author; born in the second half of the twelfth century, probably at Lunel, Languedoc. He received his education in...
 * 8) Abraham of Niort (JE | ) Talmudic commentator; lived at Niort (now in the department of Deux S&#232;vres), France, in the second half of the fourteenth...
 * 9) Abraham ben Nissim Hayyun (JE | ) -- See H438: &#7716;ayyun, Abraham ben Nissim
 * 10) Philip Abraham (JE | ) English and Hebrew author; born 1803; died in London, Dec. 17, 1890. He published: (1) "The Autobiography of a Jewish Gentleman"...
 * 11) Phinehas Abraham (JE | ) West Indian merchant; born in the island of Jamaica about the beginning of the nineteenth century; and died Feb. 19, 1887...
 * 12) Abraham Prochownik JE (JE | ) A legendary personage said to have been nominated prince of Poland, in 842, under the following circumstances: After the death...
 * 13) Abraham Proven& (JE | ) -- See A421: Abraham ben David Proven&#231;al
 * 14) Abraham of Przemysl (JE | ) Polish rabbi who flourished about the close of the seventeenth century; son of Judah Loeb, rabbi of Ulanov, in Galicia. At...
 * 15) Abraham ben Raphael Halfon (JE | ) -- See H131: &#7716;alfon, Abraham ben Raphael
 * 16) Abraham ben Raphael Di Lonzano (JE | ) -- See A556: Lonzano, Abraham ben Raphael di
 * 17) Abraham ben Raphael Meldola (JE | ) -- See A557: Meldola, Abraham ben Raphael
 * 18) Abraham Reuben (JE | ) -- See H935: Hoshke, Reuben
 * 19) Abraham Saba JE (JE | ) A preacher in Castile, where he was born in the middle of the fifteenth century. He became a pupil of Isaac de Leon. At the...
 * 20) Abraham ibn Sahl (JE | ) -- See A668: Abu Is&#7717;a&#7731;, Ibrahim ibn Sahl

561 – 580

 * 1) Abraham Samuel (JE | ) Talmudist, preacher, and liturgical poet; flourished about the middle of the sixteenth century. He was a pupil of Abraham...
 * 2) Abraham ben Samuel (JE | ) Physician in Barcelona about 1030; contemporary of Abraham ben &#7716;iyyah. He was highly esteemed at the court of Count...
 * 3) Abraham ben Samuel ben Aldemagh (JE | ) Hebrew poet of the thirteenth century, some of whose verses are found in Hebrew translations of Maimonides&#39; Arabic commentary...
 * 4) Abraham ben Samuel Cohen of Lask JE (JE | ) A Jewish ascetic who flourished at the end of the eighteenth century. He went to live at Jerusalem in 1785, but afterward...
 * 5) Abraham ben Samuel Hasdai (JE | ) -- See A565: &#7716;asdai, Abraham ben Samuel
 * 6) Abraham ben Samuel Meyuhas (JE | ) -- See A566: Meyu&#7717;as, Abraham ben Samuel
 * 7) Abraham son of Samuel the Pious (JE | ) An eminent Talmudic scholar and elegist, the brother of Judah the Pious (of the &#7730;alonymus family); was born at Speyer...
 * 8) Samuel Abraham, of Sofia (JE | ) A Turkish Talmudist who flourished in the middle of the seventeenth century. in collaboration with Michael ben Moses ha-Kohen...
 * 9) Abraham Sanci (JE | ) -- See A569: Sanci (Sanchi) Abraham
 * 10) Abraham ben Saul Broda JE (JE | ) -- See B1491: Broda, Abraham ben Saul
 * 11) Abrahan Schrenzel (JE | ) -- See R112: Rapoport
 * 12) Abraham ha-Sephardi (JE | ) Hebrew poet and ritualist. He was rabbi at Arta in 1521. Though not a Karaite, he has been credited with the authorship of...
 * 13) Abraham ben Shabbethai Cohen of Zante (JE | ) Physician and poet; born in Crete in 1670; died in 1729. He must have removed at an early period to Zante. He studied under...
 * 14) Abraham Shalom (JE | ) -- See A574: Shalom Abraham
 * 15) Abraham Shalom ben Isaac ben Judah ben Samuel (JE | ) -- See A575: Shalom, Abraham, ben Isaac ben Judah ben Samuel
 * 16) Abraham Shamsuli (JE | ) -- See A576: Shamsuli, Abraham
 * 17) Abraham ben Shem-Tob (JE | ) Medical writer; born in the middle of the thirteenth century, probably at Marseilles, where his father, Shem-Tob ben...
 * 18) Abraham ben Shem-Tob Bibago (JE | ) -- See B1022: Bibago, Abraham ben Shem-&#7788;ob
 * 19) Abraham ben Sherira (JE | ) Gaon in Pumbedita; successor to Rabbi Joseph bar Abba, from 816 to 828. He was inclined to mysticism, and was reputed to have...
 * 20) Abraham Shmoilovich (JE | ) A Lithuanian merchant known also as "The Honorable Sir Abraham, the Jew of Turisk," who flourished at the end of the sixteenth...

581 – 600

 * 1) Abraham Shofet (ben Samuel) (JE | ) A Karaite leader; lived in Poland at the end of the seventeenth century. He was a favorite of King John Sobieski (1674-96)...
 * 2) Abraham ibn Shoshan of Cairo (JE | ) Rabbi in Cairo, Egypt, in the sixteenth century, who together with RaDBAZ (David ibn Abi Zimra), gave a decision on a point...
 * 3) Abraham ibn Shoshan (JE | ) Well-known philanthropist and financier; member of the famous Spanish family, to which the Sassoons trace their descent. He...
 * 4) Abraham ben Simeon Haide (Haida) (JE | ) -- See H85: Haida, Abraham ben Simeon
 * 5) Abraham ben Simeon ben Judah ben Simeon of Worms (JE | ) Cabalist; born 1410; died 1440. He was the author of "Segullat Melakim" (Royal Devices), a treatise containing information...
 * 6) Abraham Siralavo (JE | ) -- See A586: Siralavo, Abraham
 * 7) Abraham ben Solomon (JE | ) Talmudic scholar, who flourished in Italy at the beginning of the thirteenth century. Some of his interpretations and decisions...
 * 8) Abraham ben Solomon Akra (JE | ) An Italian scholar and editor of scientific works; lived at the end of the sixteenth century. He edited the work "Meharere...
 * 9) Abraham ben Solomon Conti (JE | ) -- See A589: Conti, Abraham ben Solomon
 * 10) Abraham Solomon of Saint Maximin (JE | ) Physician, who flourished in the fifteenth century, being in high favor with Ren&#233; of Anjou, count of Provence. C&#230...
 * 11) Abraham ben Solomon Selama (JE | ) -- See A591: Selama, Abraham ben Solomon
 * 12) Abraham ben Solomon of Torrutiel (JE | ) Historian; lived at the end of the fifteenth century and at the beginning of the sixteenth. When only nine or ten years old...
 * 13) Abraham ben Solomon Treves Zarfati (JE | ) -- See A593: Treves, Abraham ben Solomon
 * 14) Abraham ben Solomon Yarhi Zarfati (JE | ) -- See A594: Yar&#7717;i, Abraham ben Solomon
 * 15) Abraham ben Solomon of Zamora (JE | ) Eschatological writer of the thirteenth century. His work exists in the library of Munich (Codex 47, 7d), but has not yet...
 * 16) Abraham Sulmar (JE | ) -- See A596: Sulmar, Abraham
 * 17) Abraham Talmid (JE | ) -- See A597: Talmid, Abraham
 * 18) Abraham ibn Tavvah (JE | ) See Tuvvah, Abraham ibn.
 * 19) Abraham Tawil ben Isaac (JE | ) -- See A599: Tawil, Abraham, ben Isaac
 * 20) Abraham of Toledo (JE | ) Physician of King Alfonso the Wise of Castile, who esteemed him highly; flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century...

601 – 620

 * 1) Abraham Troki ben Josiah (JE | ) -- See A479: Abraham ben Josiah ha-Rofe
 * 2) Abraham of Troyes (JE | ) Head of the community of Troyes, France; lived about the middle of the twelfth century. He was a contemporary of Rabbenu Tam...
 * 3) Abraham of Valladolid (JE | ) -- See A341: Abner of Burgos
 * 4) Abraham del Vecchio of Ferrara (JE | ) -- See A604: Del Vecchio, Abraham, of Ferrara
 * 5) Abraham ha-Yakini JE (JE | ) One of the chief agitators in the Shabbethaian movement, the son of Pethahiah of Constantinople; born&#8212;according to a...
 * 6) Abraham ben Yefet (Japheth) (JE | ) Karaite poet; born about the beginning of the fifteenth century; died after 1460. He traced his descent to Moses Dar&#39;i...
 * 7) Abraham Yizhaki of Salonica (JE | ) See Hoeshel, Abraham Joshua.
 * 8) Abraham ben Yom-Tob Bondi (JE | ) -- See A608: Bondi, Abraham ben Yom-&#7789;ob
 * 9) Abraham ben Yom-Tob of Jerusalem (JE | ) Astronomer and rabbi of Constantinople; born about 1480. He was a pupil of Elijah Mizrachi, and is quoted by Joseph Caro...
 * 10) Abraham ben Yom-Tob of Tudela (JE | ) Commentator, who flourished in Spain about 1300. He was the author of a commentary on Baba Batra, which is still extant in...
 * 11) Abraham Zarfati (JE | ) -- See A611: &#7826;arfati, Abraham
 * 12) Abraham Zarfati (Ben Solomon Treves) (JE | ) -- See A593: Treves, Abraham ben Solomon
 * 13) Abraham ibn Zarzal (JE | ) -- See A613: &#7826;ar&#7827;al, Abraham ibn
 * 14) Abraham Zebi of Piotrkow (JE | ) Polish Talmudist; flourished at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was a rabbi in several Polish communities, including...
 * 15) Abraham Abrahams (JE | ) Writer on shechi&#7789;ah (laws of ritualistic killing of animals); born at Siedlce in Poland, December, 1801, and died...
 * 16) Barnett Abrahams JE (JE | ) Dayyan, or assistant rabbi, of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of London, England, and principal of Jews&#39; College...
 * 17) Israel Abrahams JE (JE | ) English author and teacher; born in London, November 26, 1858; son of Barnett Abrahams. He received his education at Jews&#39...
 * 18) Louis Barnett Abrahams JE (JE | ) Head master of the Jews&#39; Free School, London; born at Swansea, South Wales, 1842. He was educated in the Jews&#39; School...
 * 19) Nicolai Christian Levin Abrahams (JE | ) Danish scholar, professor of the French language and literature at the University of Copenhagen; born at Copenhagen Sept....
 * 20) Abraham Abrahamson (JE | ) German medalist and master of the Prussian mint; born at Potsdam, 1754 (1752?); died in Berlin, July 23, 1811. As an engraver...

621 – 640

 * 1) August Abrahamson (JE | ) Swedish philanthropist, and founder of the Sloid Seminary of N&#228;&#228;s, near G&#246;teborg; born Dec. 29, 1817, at Karlskrona...
 * 2) David Abrahamson (JE | ) German physician; born in Danzig, 1740; died there in 1800. He studied medicine at K&#246;nigsberg, and from 1775 practised...
 * 3) Meyer Abrahamson (Abramson) (JE | ) A German physician and writer on medicine; born at Hamburg, 1764; died there October 21, 1817. He graduated from the University...
 * 4) Mikhail Solomonovich Abramovich (JE | ) Russian poet, son of Solomon (Shalom) Abramovich; born at Berditchev in 1859, and educated at the Gymnasium of Jitomir. At...
 * 5) Solomon (Shalom) Jacob Abramowitsch (JE | ) A Hebrew and Jud&#230;o-German writer; born at Kopyl, Lithuania, in 1836. He studied Talmud at the Cheder and bet ha-midrash...
 * 6) Harriet Abrams (JE | ) English soprano vocalist and composer; born 1760; died in the first half of the nineteenth century. She was the eldest of...
 * 7) Arthur Von Abramson (JE | ) Russian civil engineer; born at Odessa, March 3, 1854. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native city, and studied mathematics...
 * 8) Bernard Abramson (JE | ) Russian physician of the nineteenth century. He was a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Science, and for...
 * 9) Joshua Abrass (JE | ) A famous Chazan, or cantor; born in Austria about 1820, and died at Odessa in 1883. He was cantor in Tarnopol, 1840-42...
 * 10) Abravalla (JE | ) the richest Jew in Valencia. He was forced during the persecution of 1391 to accept Christianity. The jurados of Valencia...
 * 11) Abravanel, Abarbanel (JE | ) One of the oldest and most distinguished Spanish families, which traces its origin from King David. Members of this family...
 * 12) David Abravanel Dormido (JE | ) -- See D443: Dormido, David Abravanel
 * 13) Abraxas (JE | ) A term of Gnostic magic, of uncertain etymology. According to Iren&#230;us ("Adversus H&#230;reses," i. 24, 3-7), the Gnostic...
 * 14) Abrech (JE | ) the proclamation of the criers on the approach of Joseph (Gen. xli. 43). It has been variously explained. Some favor an Egyptian...
 * 15) Paul d'Abrest (JE | ) Journalist; born at Prague, 1850; died at V&#246;slau, near Vienna, in July, 1893. He received his education at the Lyc&#233...
 * 16) Abrogation of Laws (JE | ) in Deut. xiii. 1 (xii. 32, A. V.) Moses is described as saying: "What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt...
 * 17) Absalom (JE | ) Third son of King David, born in Hebron in the early years of that king&#39;s reign. His mother, Maachah, was the daughter...
 * 18) Absalom& (JE | ) A tomb twenty feet high and twenty-four feet square, which late tradition points out as the resting-place of Absalom. It is...
 * 19) Absalom (JE | ) One of the five sons of John Hyrcanus, who was thrown into prison withhis mother and two of his brothers when Judas Aristobulus...
 * 20) Absalom the Elder (JE | ) A Tanna, the dates of whose birth and death are unknown. A homiletic interpretation of Ex. xiv. 15 is recorded in his name...

641 – 660

 * 1) Absalom ben Moses Mizrahi (JE | ) -- See A641: Mizra&#7717;i, Absalom ben Moses
 * 2) Solomon Absban (JE | ) Rabbi of Aleppo about 1580; was a grandson of Jacob Berab. He was highly esteemed for his learning, prudence, sagacity, and...
 * 3) The Absolute (JE | ) A philosophic term indicating a being or substance free from contingency and external determination. It is defined by the...
 * 4) Abstinence >> Abstinence in Judaism JE (JE | ) Refraining from enjoyments which are lawful in themselves. Abstinence can be considered a virtue only when it serves the purpose...
 * 5) Abtalion (Pollion) JE (JE | ) A leader of the Pharisees in the middle of the first century B.C. and by tradition vice-president of the great Sanhedrin of...
 * 6) Abtaion (Ottaviano), son of Mordecai (Marco) of Modena (JE | ) Italian Hebrew scholar; born in Modena in 1529; died in Ferrara in 1611. From the fact that Azariah dei Rossi in his "Meor...
 * 7) Abtalion ben Solomon (JE | ) Italian rabbi; born at Consiglio about 1540; died Oct. 26, 1616. He was a pupil of Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen, rabbi of...
 * 8) David Abterode (Aptrod) (JE | ) Rabbinical writer; great-grandfather of David Sinzheim; probably born at Abterode near Frankfort-on-the-Main, in which town...
 * 9) Abtolmus (JE | ) -- See E523: Eutolemus
 * 10) Abu (JE | ) Arabic word meaning "father." With its different cases aba (accusative) and abi (genitive), as well as its abbreviated form...
 * 11) Abu Aaron of Bagdad (JE | ) -- See A91: Aaron ben Samuel, ha-Nasi
 * 12) Abu Abdallah Mohammed Alnasir (JE | ) Almohade sultan; ruler of Morocco and southern Spain at the beginning of the thirteenth century. The rule of the Almohade...
 * 13) Abu Ali (JE | ) See Jephet.           					  						  							  							  								This article has not yet been rated.	  							  							  						...
 * 14) Abu Amram Joseph ibn Hasdai (JE | ) -- See A674: Joseph ibn &#7716;asdai
 * 15) Abu Amram (Imram) Musa (moses) al-Sa&#39;afram al-Tiflisi (JE | ) -- See M1015: Musa of Tiflsis
 * 16) Abu Amramites (JE | ) -- See M1015: Musa of Tiflis
 * 17) Abu Anan Yishak ben Ali ben Yishak (JE | ) -- See I274: Is&#7717;a&#7730; ibn Ali
 * 18) Abu Ayub (Sulaiman ibn al-Muallim) of Seville (JE | ) -- See A658: Sulaiman ibn al-Muallim
 * 19) Abu al-Barakah Hibat Allah (JE | ) -- See H711: Hibat Allah
 * 20) Abu Fadhl Hasdai (JE | ) -- See A660: &#7716;asdai, Abu Fadhl

661 – 680

 * 1) Abu al-Faraj Furkan ibn Asad (JE | ) See Joshua ben Judah.           					  						  							  							  								This article has not yet been rated.	  							 ...
 * 2) Abu al-Fihm Lawi ibn Ya& (JE | ) See al-Tabben, Levi ben Jacob ibn.           					  						  							  							  								This article has not yet been rated...
 * 3) Abu al-Hasan ibn Sahl (JE | ) -- See A663: Ibn Sahl, Abu al-&#7716;asan
 * 4) Abu Ibrahim Ishak ibn Barun (JE | ) -- See I186: Isaac ibn Barun, Abu Ibrahim
 * 5) Abu Ibrahim Ishak ibn Halfon (JE | ) -- See I196: Isaac ibn &#7716;alfon
 * 6) Abu Ibrahim Ishak ibn Jasos ibn Sartar (JE | ) -- See I205: Isaac ibn Jasos ibn Sartar
 * 7) Abu Isa al-Ispahani (JE | ) See Obadiah Abu.
 * 8) Abu Ishak al-Elviri (JE | ) Mohammedan poet; lived in Spain toward the middle of the eleventh century. in one of his poems he attacked Jews in general...
 * 9) Abu Ishak Ibrahim ibn Sahl al-Israili of Seville (JE | ) Spanish poet of the thirteenth century; died at sea in 1259 or 1260. Under the pressure of the Almohade rule he embraced the...
 * 10) Abu Ishak Ibrahim ibn Zahab (JE | ) -- See A670: Ibrahim ibn Zahab
 * 11) Abu Ishak ibn al-Muhajir (JE | ) Spanish-Arabic vizier of the middle of the twelfth century mentioned in the "Diwan" (collection of poems) of Moses ibn Ezra...
 * 12) Abu Jacob ben Noah (JE | ) See Yusuf ben Noah, abu Ya&#39;akub.           					  						  							  							  								This article has not yet been...
 * 13) Abu Karib Tubba (JE | ) -- See D319: Dhu Nuwas
 * 14) Abu-omar Joseph ibn Hasdai (JE | ) See Joseph ibn &#7716;assdai.
 * 15) Abu Sahl Adonim ben Tamim of Kairwan (JE | ) See Dunash ben Tamim.
 * 16) Ali abu Sahl (JE | ) -- See A1231: Ali ibn Sahl
 * 17) Isaac ben Solomon ibn abu Sahula (JE | ) See Isaac ben Solomon ibn abu Sahula.
 * 18) Abu Said (JE | ) -- See L252: Levi ben Japhet
 * 19) Abu Sari Sahl ben Mazliah (JE | ) -- See A679: Sahl ben Ma&#7827;lia&#7717;
 * 20) Abu Sulaiman Daud ibn Husain (JE | ) See Daud ibn Husain.

681 – 700

 * 1) Abu Sulaiman ibn al-Muhajir (JE | ) -- See A671: Abu Is&#7717;a&#7731; ibn al-Muhajir
 * 2) Abu Talib (JE | ) Imaginary name of the Mohammedan disputant in the controversial epistles of Samuel Maroccanus (see Abbas, Samuel abu Na&#7779...
 * 3) Abu Ya& (JE | ) -- See A683: Ibn Bahlul, Abu Ya&#39;a&#7731;ub
 * 4) Abu Ya& (JE | ) -- See I233: Isaac ben Noah
 * 5) Abu Yusuf (JE | ) -- See A1287: Almohades
 * 6) Abu Yusuf ben Isaac ibn Shaprut (JE | ) -- See H336: &#7716;asdai (Abu Yusuf) ibn Shaprut
 * 7) Abu Yusuf ha-Zaken (JE | ) See Joseph ha-Zaken.
 * 8) Abubus (JE | ) Father of Ptolemy, who murdered Simon at Jericho, where he was stationed as military officer. (I Macc. xvi. 11, 15.) G. B...
 * 9) Abudarham ((redirects to David Abudarham, below)) (JE | ) A family name borne by Spanish Jews, for the first time by David Abudarham, who was a tax-collector and elder of the congregation...
 * 10) David ben Joseph ben David Abudarham JE (JE | ) A commentator on the Synagogue liturgy, who lived at Seville, Spain, about 1340, and was a pupil of Jacob ben Asher. He belonged...
 * 11) Abudiente (JE | ) Name of a Marano family living at Lisbon. Gideon Abudiente, about the end of the sixteenth century, is the earliest bearer...
 * 12) Samson Abudiente (JE | ) -- See G222: Gideon, Samson
 * 13) Abu-l-fadhl Daud (JE | ) -- See A693: Daud, Abu Fadhl
 * 14) Abu-l-kheir (JE | ) A Spanish scholar and translator, who flourished in the fifteenth century. He was expelled from Spain in 1492, and settled...
 * 15) Abu-l-rabi (JE | ) See Solomon ben Abraham ben Baruch.
 * 16) Abu-l-sar ben Juta (JE | ) -- See A679: Sahl ben Ma&#7827;lia&#7717;
 * 17) Abu al-Walid Merwan ibn Janah (JE | ) -- See I24: Ibn Jana&#7717;
 * 18) Abulafia (JE | ) Name of a widely scattered Jewish family of Spanish origin, one of whose branches, for the sake of clearer designation, bore...
 * 19) Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia JE >> Hayyim ben Jacob Abulafia JE, Meir Abulafia JE (JE | ) One of the earliest cabalists; born 1240 at Saragossa, in Aragon; died some time after 1291. Very early in life he was taken...
 * 20) Abu al-Faraj bar Hebraeus (JE | ) -- See A700: Bar Hebr&#230;us, Abu al-Faraj

701 – 720

 * 1) Judah ben Samuel ha-Levi (Ibn Allevi) Abulhassan (JE | ) -- See J643: Judah ha-Levi
 * 2) Abumai (JE | ) Gaon in Sura from 811 to 819; brother of Rabbi Mordecai. He appears to have been the father of the gaon of Sura, Cohen-&#7826...
 * 3) Abumai ben Abraham (JE | ) Gaon in Pumbedita from 810 to 814. No responsa in his name are known. See Geonim. A. K.           					  						  							...
 * 4) Abun Astruc (JE | ) See Astruc, Desmaister ben.
 * 5) Abun ben Saul (JE | ) An elegist who was probably a pupil of Isaac Alfasi and, most likely, is the one whose death Moses ibn Ezra deplores in a...
 * 6) Abun ben Sharada (JE | ) A Spanish poet; flourished at the beginning of the eleventh century, first at Lucena, afterward at Seville. None of his poetical...
 * 7) Abyss (JE | ) Term for the (Gen. vii. 11) of the Old Testament, used in the apocalyptic, New Testament, and cabalistic literature for the...
 * 8) Abyssinia (JE | ) -- See F13: Falashas
 * 9) Acacia (JE | ) A hard and durable but light wood; at first yellowish, but gradually turning very dark, like ebony. of this the Ark and its...
 * 10) Academies in Babylonia JE (JE | ) the Jews of Babylonia, no doubt, shared in the changes and movements that Ezra and his successors, who came from Babylonia...
 * 11) Academies in Palestine JE >> Council of Jamnia EL:JE (JE | ) According to an oft-quoted tradition of Hoshayah (a collector of Tannaite traditions, who lived in C&#230;sarea in the first...
 * 12) Moses A& (JE | ) Identical perhaps with the Moses ben Joseph &#7716;azan, who lived in 1245 at Toledo, and maintained business connections...
 * 13) Moses de Zaragua A& (JE | ) Native of Catalonia, who flourished in the fourteenth century. He wrote a rimed treatise on chess in the Catalonian dialect...
 * 14) Jacob Acaz (JE | ) Keeper of the royal lions in Saragossa. in 1384 or 1385, by order of King Pedro of Aragon, Acaz took some lions to Navarre...
 * 15) Acbara (JE | ) -- See O44: Okbara
 * 16) Accad (JE | ) Word occurring once in the Old Testament (Gen. x. 10), as the name of a city; one of the four cities which formed the beginning...
 * 17) Accents in Hebrew (JE | ) Symbols denoting vocal stresses on particular syllables in pronouncing words or sentences. 1. in every word we utter, one...
 * 18) Musical Value of Accents (JE | ) -- See C109: Cantillation
 * 19) Acceptance (JE | ) in law, the assent by one party to an offer made by another, or to any act which becomes operative only by such assent; in...
 * 20) Accessories (JE | ) in English and American law an accessory is a person who, without committing a criminal act with his own hands, or without...

721 – 740

 * 1) Accho (JE | ) -- See A721: Acre
 * 2) Accident (JE | ) Term used in philosophy to express a characteristic of an object or notion which does not necessarily follow from its nature...
 * 3) Isaac Acco (JE | ) -- See I239: Isaac ben Samuel of Acre
 * 4) Accommodation of the Law (JE | ) An adaptation of laws to circumstances; the mitigation of the rigor of a law in order to reconcile it with the exigencies...
 * 5) Accusatory and Inquisitorial Procedure (JE | ) Two methods by which persons suspected of crime may be tried. in the Inquisitorial method the judges or other officials seek...
 * 6) Aceldama (JE | ) An ancient ossuary on the southern extremity of Jerusalem, near the ravine of Hinnom. The field once contained rich clay deposits...
 * 7) Achan JE (JE | ) the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, who committed sacrilege during the capture of the city...
 * 8) Achawa (JE | ) 1. German annual published at Leipsic (C. L. Fritzsche) under the title, "Achawa, Jahrbuch f&#252;r 1865=5625," from 1865...
 * 9) Achbor (JE | ) Father of Baal-hanan (comp. Hannibal), king of Edom (Gen. xxxvi. 38, 39, and in the corresponding list of I Chron. i. 49)...
 * 10) Acheron (JE | ) the fiery river of Hades in Greek mythology, mentioned in Plato&#39;s "Ph&#230;do," 113a, which figures also in Jewish eschatology...
 * 11) Achish (JE | ) King of Gath in the time of David and Solomon (I Sam. xxi.-xxix. 1; I Kings, ii.). David, when fleeing from Saul, twice sought...
 * 12) Achmetha (JE | ) Name given in the Old Testament (Ezra, vi. 2) to the Persian city called by the Greeks Ecbatana or Agbatana. in Old Persian...
 * 13) Achor JE (JE | ) A valley near Jericho. From Josh. xv. 7 it would appear that it was situated upon the northern boundary of Judah. Its exact...
 * 14) Achsa (JE | ) Daughter of Caleb (I Chron. ii. 49), who was promised by her father to the man who should capture Kirjath-sepher. Othniel...
 * 15) Benedict (Bendet ben Joseph ha-levi) Achselrad (JE | ) A darshan, or preacher, of Lemberg in the first half of the seventeenth century. He was the author of several homiletical...
 * 16) Achshaph (JE | ) Town mentioned in Josh. xi. 1 and xii. 20 as the seat of a north Canaanitish king. Robinson ("Biblical Researches," iii. 55...
 * 17) Achzib (JE | ) 1. A town of Judah, in the southern Shephelah or lowland (Josh. xv. 44), coupled with Mareshah in Micah, i. 14, where it appears...
 * 18) Acme DAB (JE | ) Jewish slave of Livia, wife of the Emperor Augustus. During the family troubles which clouded the last nine years of Herod&#39...
 * 19) Crist& (JE | ) Spanish physician and botanist of the sixteenth century. He was born in Africa, whither his parents fled when exiled from...
 * 20) Duarte Nu& (JE | ) Merchant at Hamburg during the first half of the seventeenth century; descendant of a prominent Marano family from Portugal...

741 – 760

 * 1) Ger& (JE | ) -- See A741: Curiel, Moses
 * 2) Joan d& (JE | ) Jester at the court of Peter the Great of Russia in the first half of the eighteenth century. Originally he was a broker at...
 * 3) Luis d& (JE | ) Marano of Villa-Flor, Portugal; born in 1587. At the age of forty-five, he was condemned to the galleys because he had been...
 * 4) Uriel Acosta (Gabriel da Costa) (JE | ) Noted writer and rationalist; born at Oporto, 1590; died at Amsterdam, April 1647. Born and reared...
 * 5) Acqui (JE | ) A city on the Bormida, in the province of Alessandria, Italy, famous for its hot springs and its ancient Roman ruins. According...
 * 6) Talmudical Acquisition (Law) (JE | ) -- See A1234: Alienation and Acquisition
 * 7) Acquittal in Talmudic Law (JE | ) the Jewish court for hearing capital offenses was composed of twenty-three judges, and according to the opinion of many sages...
 * 8) Acra (JE | ) Fortress built by Antiochus Epiphanes in the year 173 B.C. at Jerusalem, on an outlying spur of the Temple mount toward the...
 * 9) Acre (JE | ) City and seaport of Phenicia, situated on a promontory at the foot of Mount Carmel (compare Josephus, "Ant." ii. 10, &#167...
 * 10) Acrostics (JE | ) Compositions, usually rhythmical, in which certain letters (generally the first or last of each line), taken consecutively...
 * 11) Ignatz Acs&#225;dy (JE | ) Hungarian historian; born at Nagy-K&#225;roly, September, 9, 1845. He was educated at Debreczin and Budapest, and he began...
 * 12) Acts of Parliament Relating to the Jews of England (JE | ) the legislature of England expresses its will in formal documents known as Acts, and thus the record of the legislative enactments...
 * 13) Adafina (JE | ) -- See A1533: Ani
 * 14) Adah (JE | ) One of Lamech&#39;s two wives (Gen. iv. 19, 20). The name is mentioned in the poem in verses 23 and 24.The names of Lamech&#39...
 * 15) Adah (JE | ) Wife of Esau (Gen. xxxvi. 2-16), thought by modern writers to be added by the final redactor (R) of the Pentateuch. Adah is...
 * 16) Adaiah (JE | ) 1. A man of Boscath, father of Jedidah, the mother of King Josiah (II Kings, xxii. 1). 2. Two members of the Bani family who...
 * 17) Samuel Adalberg (JE | ) Polish author; born at Warsaw in 1868. He published "Liber Proverbiorum Polonicorum cum Adagiis ac Tritioribus Dictis ad instar...
 * 18) Adam REF:JE >> Adam in rabbinic literature JE (JE | ) the Hebrew and Biblical name for man, and also for the progenitor of the human race. in the account of the Creation given...
 * 19) Book of Adam (JE | ) the Talmud says nothing about the existence of a Book of Adam, and Zunz&#39;s widely accepted assertion to the contrary ("G...
 * 20) Adam (JE | ) City near the Jordan. in Josh. iii. 16, Adam is described as the city "that is besideZaretan," on the Jordan, near the spot...

761 – 780

 * 1) Adam Kadmon JE (JE | ) the various philosophical (Gnostic) views concerning the original man are, in spite of their differences, intimately related...
 * 2) Adamah (JE | ) Fortified city of Naphtali, northwest of the Sea of Galilee (Josh. xix. 36); identified by Conder with modern &#39;Admah,...
 * 3) Adamant (JE | ) This term occurs three times in the Old Testament (Ezek. iii. 9, Zech. vi. 12, Jer. xvii. 1), and is used as a translation...
 * 4) Adamantius (JE | ) Jewish physician, author, and naturalist (&#7984;&#945;&#964;&#961;&#953;&#954;&#4086;&#957; &#955;&#972;&#947;&#969;&#957...
 * 5) Antony Samuel Adam-Salomon (JE | ) French sculptor; born at La Fert&#233;-sous-Jouarre, in the department of Seine-et-Marne, France, 1818; died in Paris, April...
 * 6) Hannah Adams (JE | ) American author of a Jewish history; born at Medfield, near Boston, in 1755 or 1756; died at Brookline, Mass., November 15...
 * 7) John Adams (JE | ) Second president of the United States; born at Braintree, Mass., Oct. 19 (old style), 1735; died at Quincy, Mass., July 4...
 * 8) Adar (JE | ) 1. A Benjamite, son of Bela (I Chron. viii. 3). 2. A border town of Judah (Josh. xv. 3). G. B. L.           					  						...
 * 9) Adar (JE | ) the twelfth ecclesiastical and sixth civil month (Esth. iii. 7, ix. 1; Ezra, vi. 15). It has usually twenty-nine days, of...
 * 10) The Seventh of Adar (JE | ) According to tradition or calculation (compare Deut. xxxiv. 8 and Josh. i. 11, iii. 2. iv. 19), the anniversary of the death...
 * 11) Adar Sheni (Weadar) (JE | ) the Second, or intercalary, Adar, the thirteenth month of a Jewish embolismic year; it has twenty-nine days and the first...
 * 12) Isaac ben Samuel Adarbi JE (JE | ) A casuist and preacher of the Shalom Congregation of Salonica; lived in the sixteenth century. He was the pupil of Joseph...
 * 13) Adarsa (JE | ) A village in Judea, thirty furlongs from Beth-horon, and a three days&#39; march from Gazera. Eusebius ("Onomasticon," s.v...
 * 14) Moses ben Samuel Adavi (JE | ) A Talmudic scholar and author, who flourished in Tunis about the middle of the eighteenth century. He was a pupil of Isaac...
 * 15) Adbeel (JE | ) A name found in the genealogical list of the sons of Ishmael, in Gen. xxv. 13, and in the corresponding list of I Chron. i...
 * 16) Adda (JE | ) the name of two amoraim, neither of whom had a distinguishing patronymic or cognomen. The elder was a Palestinian, and lived...
 * 17) Adda b. Abimi (Bimi) (JE | ) A Palestinian amora of the fourth generation, disciple of R. &#7716;anina b. Pappi, and contemporary of R. Hezekiah. It is...
 * 18) Adda b. Ahabah (Ahwah) JE (JE | ) 1. A Babylonian amora of the second generation (third and fourth centuries), frequently quoted in both the Jerusalem and the...
 * 19) Adda of Caesarea (Kisrin) (JE | ) A disciple of R. Johanan, and a teacher in the third amoraic generation. Because of his cognomen he is erroneously supposed...
 * 20) Calendar of Adda (JE | ) -- See C43: Calendar

781 – 800

 * 1) Adda b. Hunya (JE | ) the homiletic observation on Eccl. i. 4 ("One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth...
 * 2) Adda b. Matna (JE | ) A Babylonian amora of the fourth century, disciple of Abaye and of Raba. He appears to have obtained some halakic information...
 * 3) Meshohaah Adda (JE | ) A disciple of R. Judah b. Ezekiel, who instructed Raba how to measure city limits for the regulation of Sabbath walks (&#39...
 * 4) Adda b. Minyomi (JE | ) A Babylonian amora of the third century, junior contemporary of Rabina I. and of Huna Mar b. Iddi. He is sometimes quoted...
 * 5) Adda b. Simon (JE | ) A Palestinian amora, who is known chiefly for ethical rules quoted in the name of his predecessors (Yer. Ber. ii. 4d; Yer...
 * 6) Addan (JE | ) A city of Babylonia, some of the inhabitants of which migrated with the Jews under Zerubbabel, but were unable to prove their...
 * 7) Adder (JE | ) Reptile mentioned only in Gen. xlix. 17. It is the modern Arabic shiphon, a horned sand-snake, or Cerastes haselquistii (Hart...
 * 8) Addir Hu (JE | ) A hymn in the Seder, the home service for Passover eve, and so called from its initial words, but also known by its refrain...
 * 9) Joseph Addison (JE | ) English essayist; born at Milston, in England, May 1, 1672; died June 17, 1719. He has been fittingly characterized as "the...
 * 10) Lancelot Addison (JE | ) English clergyman and author; father of Joseph Addison; born at Meaburn Town Head, in the parish of Crosby Ravensworth, Westmoreland...
 * 11) Addo (JE | ) -- See I74: Iddo
 * 12) Addon (JE | ) -- See A786: Addan
 * 13) Adelaide (JE | ) Capital city of South Australia. The history of the Jewish community of this city is closely connected with a pioneer settler...
 * 14) Adelkind (JE | ) A pr&#230;nomen; also a family name among the Jews. As the former it is found in a list of martyrs in Nuremberg in the year...
 * 15) Wolf Adelsohn (JE | ) Russian-Hebrew scholar and teacher; born in Lithuania about the beginning of the nineteenth century; died in Odessa, August...
 * 16) Aden (JE | ) Port in western Arabia on the shores of the Red Sea, near the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb; a British possession since 1839. In...
 * 17) Solomon ben Joshua Adeni JE (JE | ) Arabian author and Talmudist, who lived during the first half of the seventeenth century at Sanaa and Aden in southern Arabia...
 * 18) G A Adersbach (JE | ) German poet; died in 1823. He belonged to the generation that, in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, took anactive...
 * 19) Adhan (JE | ) A family of northern Africa, several members of which figure in Jewish literature. The family name was originally Aldahhan...
 * 20) Solomon ben Masud Adhan (JE | ) Translator and author, who lived in the first half of the eighteenth century. He went from Tafilet, Morocco, to Amsterdam...

801 – 820

 * 1) Adiabene (JE | ) A district in Mesopotamia between the Upper Zab (Lycus) and the Lower Zab (Caprus), though Ammianus ("Hist." xviii., vii....
 * 2) Jacob Adibe (JE | ) A Jew, exiled from Portugal in 1496, who dwelt at Azamor in the province of Duccala, Morocco. in 1512 the ruler of Azamor...
 * 3) Adido (JE | ) See Hadido.
 * 4) Adiel (JE | ) 1. A prince of the family of Simeon, who captured Gedor in the days of Hezekiah (I Chron. iv. 36). 2. A priest, son of Jahzerah...
 * 5) Adino the Eznite (JE | ) in II Sam. xxiii. 8 et seq., in which the names of David&#39;s heroes are recorded, occur two mysterious words, (according...
 * 6) Adiya (JE | ) -- See S140: Samuel ibn Adiya
 * 7) Adjiman (JE | ) Jewish family in Turkey, several members of which were treasurers and intendants-general of the janizaries. Meir Adjiman,...
 * 8) Talmudical Mode of Adjuration (JE | ) -- See O2: Oath
 * 9) Adler (JE | ) A family that came originally from Frankfort, but which has been connected for more than a century with the chief rabbinate...
 * 10) Abraham Jacob ("Koppel") Adler (JE | ) German rabbi, educator; born in 1813; died at Worms in 1856. He was the son of Isaac Adler, associate rabbi in Worms, and...
 * 11) Cyrus Adler JE (JE | ) Librarian of the Smithsonian Institution; founder of the American Jewish Historical Society. He was born at Van Buren, Arkansas...
 * 12) Dankmar Adler (JE | ) German-American architect and engineer; born in Stadt-Lengsfeld, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, July 3, 1844; died in Chicago, April...
 * 13) David Baruch Adler (JE | ) Danish banker and politician; born May 16, 1826, at Copenhagen; died there December 4, 1878. in 1846 he became a partner in...
 * 14) Elkan Nathan Adler (JE | ) Lawyer, and collector of Hebrew manuscripts; born at London, 1861; son of Chief Rabbi Nathan Adler. His early training was...
 * 15) Felix Adler (JE | ) Founder of the Society for Ethical Culture, educator, and author; second son of Rabbi Samuel Adler; was born at Alzey, Germany...
 * 16) George Adler (JE | ) German economist and author; born at Posen, May 28, 1863. His thesis for the doctor&#39;s degree (1883) was on Rodbertus-Jagetzow...
 * 17) Gottlieb Adler (JE | ) Austrian physicist and mathematician; born March 7, 1860; died Dec. 15, 1893, at Stecken, Bohemia. After receiving his early...
 * 18) Guido Adler JE (JE | ) Austrian writer on music; born at Eibensch&#252;tz, Moravia, Nov. 1, 1855. His father, Joachim, a physician, died in 1857...
 * 19) Helene Adler (JE | ) German teacher and writer; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1849, in the same house in which Ludwig B&#246;rne was born, and...
 * 20) Hermann Adler (JE | ) Chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British empire; born in the city of Hanover, May, 1839; second son of...

821 – 840

 * 1) Isaac Adler (JE | ) Son of Rabbi Samuel Adler, American physician and professor of clinical medicine in the New York Polyclinic Medical School...
 * 2) Jacob Adler (JE | ) Jud&#230;o-German actor; born at Odessa, Russia, January 1, 1855. Influenced by a Jewish troupe which came from Rumania to...
 * 3) Karl Friedrich Adler (JE | ) Austrian jurist; born at Prague, Bohemia, March 31, 1865. He is the son of Moritz Adler, author of "Der Krieg, die Congressideen...
 * 4) Lazarus (Levi) Adler (JE | ) German rabbi, of the period of transition; born at Unsleben, Bavaria, Nov. 10, 1810; died at Wiesbaden, Jan. 5, 1886. He studied...
 * 5) Liebmann Adler (JE | ) American rabbi; born at Lengsfeld, near Eisenach, Saxe-Weimar, Germany, January 9, 1812; died in Chicago, Ill., January 29...
 * 6) Marcus Nathan Adler (JE | ) Born at Hanover, June 17, 1837; the eldest son of Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler; conspicuous for his labors in connection...
 * 7) Michael Adler (JE | ) English rabbi; born July 27, 1868. He was educated at Jews&#39; Free School, Jews&#39; College, and University College, London...
 * 8) Nathan Adler JE (JE | ) German cabalist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Dec. 16, 1741; died there Sept. 17, 1800. As a precocious child he won the...
 * 9) Nathan Marcus Adler (JE | ) Chief rabbi of the British empire; born in the city of Hanover, Germany, January 15, 1803; died at Brighton, England, on January...
 * 10) Samuel Adler JE (JE | ) German-American rabbi, Talmudist, and author; born at Worms, Germany, Dec. 3, 1809; died in New York, June 9, 1891. From his...
 * 11) Victor Adler (JE | ) Austrian physician, journalist, and leader of the Austrian labor movement; born at Prague, June 24, 1852. Having been graduated...
 * 12) Admah (JE | ) A town named in the genealogical list of Canaan (Gen x. 19), whose king was Shinab (Gen. xiv. 2, 8). It was destroyed together...
 * 13) Admissions in Evidence (JE | ) the best evidence in Jewish law must be attested by at least two witnesses, and be of a disinterested and impartialcharacter...
 * 14) Admon b. Gaddai (JE | ) One of three police-court judges in Jerusalem mentioned in the Talmud&#8212;the others being &#7716;anan b. Abishalom (&#7716...
 * 15) Admoni (JE | ) -- See R466: Rufus
 * 16) Adne Sadeh, mythological man created before Adam in Jewish Lore
 * 17) Adoi (JE | ) Name of the father of Hananiah, a resh galuta (prince of the captivity), who flourished about 700. It is interesting as exhibiting...
 * 18) Degli Adolescentoli (JE | ) One of the four or five noble families which, according to legend, were transported by Titus (70-81) from Jerusalem to Rome...
 * 19) Sir John Adolphus (JE | ) English lawyer, historical and political writer; born at London in 1768; died there July 16, 1845. His grandfather, a Jew...
 * 20) Adomim ben Tamim (JE | ) See Dunash ben Tamim.
 * 21) Adonai (JE | ) This word occurs in the Masoretic text 315 times by the side of the Tetragram YHWH (310 times preceding and five times succeeding...

841 – 860

 * 1) Adonai Adonai (JE | ) the pizmon (hymn) on the thirteen Attributes of God in the selichot (propitiatory prayers) for the fifth intermediate...
 * 2) Adonai Bekol Shofar (JE | ) A short pizmon of four stanzas, each ending and commencing with the respective halves of Ps. xlvii. 6. It is chanted in the...
 * 3) Adonai Melek (JE | ) A refrain of frequent occurrence, particularly during the services of the days of penitence, built up of the following Scriptural...
 * 4) Adoni-bezek (JE | ) Canaanitish king (Judges, i. 5-7), in the town of Bezek. He was routed by Judah and fled, but was caught. His thumbs and great...
 * 5) Adonijah (JE | ) 1. Fourth son of David, by Haggith. After Absalom&#39;s death he claimed to be the rightful heir to the throne, by summoning...
 * 6) Adonim ha-Levi (JE | ) See Dunash ben Labrat.
 * 7) Adoniram (JE | ) Superintendent of the collection of taxes in the reigns of David, Solomon, and Rehoboam ("Adoram," II Sam. xx. 24; "Hadoram...
 * 8) Adonis (Baal of the Phenicians) (JE | ) -- See T44: Tammuz
 * 9) Adonis Plant (JE | ) -- See N2: Naaman
 * 10) Adoni-zedek JE (JE | ) King of Jerusalem at the time of the Hebrew invasion of Palestine (Josh. x. 1, 3). He led a coalition of five of the neighboring...
 * 11) Adon & JE (JE | ) One of the few strictly metrical hymns in the Jewish liturgy, the nobility of the diction of which and the smoothness of whose...
 * 12) Adoption (JE | ) the adrogatio of the older Roman law&#8212;a legal process by which a man can create betweenhimself and a person not his child...
 * 13) Adoraim (JE | ) Fortified city built by Rehoboam in Judah; now called Dura (II Chron. xi. 9 et seq.).G. B. L.           					  						  							...
 * 14) Adoram (JE | ) -- See A847: Adoniram
 * 15) Forms of Adoration (JE | ) the various gestures and postures expressive of homage. in religious adorations these gestures and postures were originally...
 * 16) Adrammelech (JE | ) 1. Mentioned in II Kings, xvii. 31, as a god of Sepharvaim, which until recently was supposed to be the Hebrew name for the...
 * 17) Adret (JE | ) A prominent Spanish-Jewish family, members of which are known from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. in Spanish documents...
 * 18) Moses Adret (JE | ) Cabalist of the eighteenth century; lived and died in Smyrna. He possessed an extraordinary memory and was thoroughly acquainted...
 * 19) Solomon ben Abraham Adret (JE | ) Spanish rabbi; born in 1235 at Barcelona; died in 1310. As a rabbinical authority hisfame was such that he was designated...
 * 20) Adrianople (JE | ) A city of Turkey in Europe with a population of 70,000, of whom about 8,000 are Jews. The first trace of a Jewish settlement...

861 – 880

 * 1) Matthaeus Adrianus (JE | ) Hebraist of the sixteenth century. He was a Jew of Spanish descent, but at an early age migrated to Germany, where he embraced...
 * 2) Adriel (JE | ) the Meholathite to whom Merab (Saul&#39;s daughter) was given in marriage instead of to David (I Sam. xviii. 19); son of Barzillai...
 * 3) Adula of Tunis (JE | ) A Jew who, to avoid being baptized, committed suicide in the house of the catechumen in Rome, on May 2, 1666, at the moment...
 * 4) Adullam (JE | ) An old Canaanitish capital in western Judah (Gen. xxxviii. 1; Josh. xii. 15, xv. 35). It was fortified by Rehoboam (II Chron...
 * 5) Adultery (JE | ) Sexual intercourse of a married woman with any man other than her husband. The crime can be committed only by and with a married...
 * 6) Adummim (JE | ) Steep road leading from the plain of Jericho to the hilly country around Jerusalem. It was a part of the boundary between...
 * 7) Adummim (JE | ) -- See C665: Coins
 * 8) Advent of Messiah (JE | ) -- See M510: Messiah
 * 9) Adventists (JE | ) A Christian sect. Among the chief tenets of the Adventist faith are: (1) the restoration of the Jews to the Holy Land (see...
 * 10) Aegidius of Viterbo JE (JE | ) Cardinal and Christian cabalist; born in 1470 at the Villa Canapina, in the diocese of Viterbo, of rich and noble parents...
 * 11) Aelia Capitolina (JE | ) -- See J242: Jerusalem
 * 12) Paulus Aemilius JE (JE | ) Hebrew bibliographer, publisher, and teacher; born at R&#246;dlsee, Germany, probably in the first quarter of the sixteenth...
 * 13) Aeshma (Asmodeus, Ashmedai) (JE | ) In the Mazdian religion the chief of the d&#230;vas, or demons. Though the oldest sections of the Avesta&#8212;the Gathas&#8212...
 * 14) Aesop& ((redirects to Aesop&)) REF:JE; Heinrich Steinhöwel FR:JE (JE | ) Recent research has shown an intimate relation between the fables associated with the name of Aesop and the jatakas, or...
 * 15) Alexander Stepanovich Afanasyev-Chuzhbinski (JE | ) Christian Russian author and ethnographer (1817-75); he was an enlightened writer who did justice to the Jews. in his "Poyezdka...
 * 16) Caleb b. Elijah b. Judah Afendopolo JE (JE | ) Polyhistor, brother of Samuel ha-Ramati, Chakam of the Karaite congregations in Constantinople and of Judah Bali, brother-in-law...
 * 17) Affinity (JE | ) -- See M216: Marriage Laws
 * 18) Affras Rachmaelovich (JE | ) A Jewish merchant of Mohilev and Riga, who lived about the end of the sixteenth century. Affras figured prominently in Lithuania...
 * 19) Afghanistan (JE | ) Country of Asia, lying to the northwest of India. The Afghans themselves have a tradition that they are descendants of the...
 * 20) Aaron Afia (JE | ) A physician, philosopher, and mathematician of Salonica, who lived about 1540. He was the teacher of Daniel ben Pera&#7717...

881 – 900

 * 1) Afikomen (JE | ) A piece broken off the cake of unleavened bread, ma&#7827;&#7827;ah (usually from the middle one of the three cakes called...
 * 2) Africa (JE | ) the Bible has no general name for Africa, any more than it has for Europe or Asia. The word "Ham," from the Hebrew root (to...
 * 3) Sextus Julius Africanus (JE | ) -- See A883: Julius, Sextus, Africanus
 * 4) Benjamin Aga JE (JE | ) Leader of the Karaites of the Crimea, who died in 1824. He was the royal treasurer of Selim Ghyrey Khan, the last Tatar ruler...
 * 5) Agabus (JE | ) A Jew of Jerusalem; one of the prophets who, after the dispersion of the early followers of Jesus, came to the city of Antioch...
 * 6) Agag JE (JE | ) King of the Amalekites, taken by King Saul after a successful expedition against him (I Sam. xv.). His life was spared by...
 * 7) Adolf Agai (JE | ) Physician and journalist; born March 31, 1836, at Jankovacz, Hungary. His father, Joseph Rosenzweig, at the age of thirteen...
 * 8) Agape (JE | ) the name given to the communion meals of the early Christians, at which the rich and the poor, the master and the slave, sat...
 * 9) Agate (JE | ) A precious stone, mentioned four times in the Authorized Version of the Bible&#8212;twice as the translation of kadkod (Isa...
 * 10) Agde (JE | ) A town in the department of H&#233;rault, France, two miles from the Mediterranean Sea and thirty miles from Montpellier....
 * 11) Old Age (JE | ) Various terms are used in the Bible to designate the declining years of life. The most frequent is zaken (old, and old...
 * 12) Alleged Conference of Ageda (JE | ) in an English pamphlet, entitled "A Narrative of the Proceedings of a Great Council of Jews Assembled on the Plain of Ageda...
 * 13) Agen (JE | ) A town in the department of Lot-et-Garonne, France, on the banks of the Garonne, southeast of Bordeaux. Some Jews settled...
 * 14) Law of Agency (JE | ) the Law of Agency deals with the status of a person (known as the agent) acting by direction of another (the principal), and...
 * 15) The Seven Ages of Man in Jewish Literature (JE | ) the Biblical allusions to the various stages of human life (Jer. vi. 11, li. 22; Ps. cxlviii. 12) and the metaphors in Holy...
 * 16) The Aggada (JE | ) -- See H59: Haggadah, The
 * 17) Aggadists (JE | ) -- See H62: Haggadists
 * 18) The Proud King Aggei (JE | ) the original idea of the legend concerning the Proud King Aggei, which appears in various forms in folk-lore, is found also...
 * 19) Agla (JE | ) A cabalistic sign used as a talisman. It is a combination of the initial letters of "Attah Gibbor Le&#39;olam Adonai," the...
 * 20) Agnates (JE | ) in Roman law, kindred on the paternal side only: the word is used in contradistinction to cognati, kindred on the mother&#39...

901 – 920

 * 1) Agnosticism (JE | ) A term invented by Prof. Thomas H. Huxley in 1869, expressive of opposition to the claims of the Christian gnostic as "the...
 * 2) Agobard (JE | ) Archbishop of Lyons; born 779. died June 6, 840; one of the principal opponents of Judaism in the ninth century. in his time...
 * 3) Agram (Zagreb) (JE | ) Austro-Hungarian city, capital of Croatia and Slavonia, situated near the Save river, about 160 miles from Vienna. The first...
 * 4) Agrarian Laws (JE | ) With the settlement of the Israelites in Canaan, and the consequent transition from their former nomadic mode of life to agricultural...
 * 5) Agricultural Colonies in the Argentine Republic (Argentina) >> Moisés Ville EL:JE (JE | ) Excepting certain settlements of Jewish farmers in Brazil referred to elsewhere (pp. 265, 266), agriculture among the Jews...
 * 6) Agricultural Colonies in Canada (JE | ) Agricultural activity among Jews in Canada is a sequel to Russo-Jewish immigration occasioned by persecution. The Mansion...
 * 7) Agricultural Colonies in Palestine (JE | ) Since the dispersion of the Jews from their native land, many efforts have been made to induce them to return to Palestine...
 * 8) Agricultural Colonies in Russia (JE | ) the idea of colonizing the Jews as agriculturists in Russia originated with the Polish historian Czacki and Nathan Nata (Notkin)...
 * 9) Agricultural Colonies in the United States (JE | ) With the exception of the partly successful experiment by thirteen Jewish families in the state of New York in 1837 (see below)...
 * 10) Agriculture (JE | ) Agriculture was the basis of the national life of the Israelites; state and Temple in Palestine were alike founded on it....
 * 11) Agrigentum (JE | ) A town on the south coast of Sicily; was the seat of a large Jewish congregation as early as the time of Pope Gregory the...
 * 12) Agrippa I (JE | ) King of Judea; born about the year 10 B.C. ("Ant." xiv. 9, &#167; 2); died suddenly in 44. His career, with its abundant and...
 * 13) Agrippa II (JE | ) Son of Agrippa I. He was born in the year 28, and according to a statement that is not uncontradicted (Photius, "Bibliotheca...
 * 14) Caius Julius Agrippa (JE | ) Mentioned as propretor of the Roman province of Asia in an inscription at Ephesus; was probably a descendant of the royal...
 * 15) Simonides Agrippa (JE | ) Youngest son of Flavius Josephus, the historian, by his second wife, a Jewess of distinguished family from the island of Crete...
 * 16) Agrippina (JE | ) the depraved daughter of Germanicus and wife of the emperor Claudiu&#347;, who at times interested herself in the internal...
 * 17) Agudat Ahim (JE | ) A name adopted by many Jewish societies throughout the world, the members of which pledge themselves to brotherly love, and...
 * 18) Aguilar (JE | ) A district in the Spanish province of Valencia, which sheltered a considerable Jewish congregation in the Middle Ages. In...
 * 19) Antonio D& (JE | ) See Cohen, Faya.
 * 20) David Uzziel D& (Avelar) (JE | ) Friend and contemporary of de Barrios, and praised by the latter in the "Relacion de los Poetas." He is known for his translation...

921 – 940

 * 1) Diego d& JE (JE | ) A Marano who flourished in the eighteenth century; born probably in Spain; died at London in 1759. in 1722 he went from Lisbon...
 * 2) Ephraim Lopez Pereira, Baron d& (JE | ) Second Baron d&#39;Aguilar; born in Vienna in 1739; died at London, 1802. in 1757 he was naturalized in England, where he...
 * 3) Grace Aguilar JE (JE | ) English novelist and writer on Jewish history and religion; born at Hackney, London, June 2, 1816; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main...
 * 4) Jacob de Aguilar (JE | ) Pupil of Abraham de Fonseca at Hamburg, and Chakam in one of the Brazilian communities, about 1640. M. K.          ...
 * 5) Moses Raphael de Aguilar (Aguylar) (JE | ) Born probably in Portugal; died in Amsterdam, Dec. 15, 1679. He was Chakam and principal of the Talmud Torah at Amsterdam...
 * 6) & (JE | ) A woman whose husband has either abandoned her or, being absent, has not been heard from for some time. Having no proof of...
 * 7) Agur ben Jakeh JE (JE | ) the compiler of a collection of proverbs found in Prov. xxx. The text (ver. 1) seems to say that he was a "Massaite," the...
 * 8) Aha (JE | ) the name of nearly fourscore rabbis quoted in the Talmud and in midrashic literature. Some of these are misnamed through the...
 * 9) Aha (Ahai) I (JE | ) A tanna of the second century, junior contemporary of Simon ben Yochai, with whom, as well as with others of the fourth...
 * 10) Aha (Ahai) II (JE | ) A Palestinian amora of the first amoraic generation (third century), surnamed Berabbi, ha-Gadol or Roba ("the Great"). He...
 * 11) Aha (Ahai) III (JE | ) A Palestinian amora of the fourth century and associate of the most prominent teachers of the fourth amoraic generation, R...
 * 12) Aha (JE | ) Brother of Abba, the father of Jeremiah b. Abba; a contemporary of Abba Arika (third century). The latter said that in the...
 * 13) Aha b. Adda (JE | ) An amora of the fourth century; born and educated in Palestine. He emigrated to Babylonia, where he became a disciple of Rab...
 * 14) Aha Areka (JE | ) -- See A946: A&#7717;a (A&#7717;ai) B. Papa
 * 15) Aha b. Awya (JE | ) A Babylonian halakist of the third generation of Amoraim. He once visited Palestine, where he attended the lectures of Rab...
 * 16) Aha Bardala (JE | ) A Babylonian amora of the first generation, a contemporary of Abba Areka (Suk. 26a; Be&#7827;ah, 14a; Gi&#7789;. 14a). S....
 * 17) Aha of Difti (JE | ) A Babylonian amora of the sixth generation (fifth century), frequently found in halakic discussion with Rabina II. For a time...
 * 18) Aha (Ahai) b. Hanina (JE | ) A Palestinian amora of the third and fourth centuries. He collected rare Baraitot among the leading scholars of Daroma in...
 * 19) Aha bar Huna (JE | ) A Babylonian amora of the fourth generation, disciple of Rabbah b. Nachmani and of Sheshet. &#7716;isda, another teacher...
 * 20) Aha b. Ika (JE | ) A Babylonian amora of the fourth century, junior contemporary of Raba, and nephew of Acha b. Jacob. He is frequently...

941 – 960

 * 1) Aha of Irak (JE | ) A Babylonian, who is alleged to have invented the Assyrian or Babylonian (superlinear) system of vowel-points and accents...
 * 2) Aha b. Isaac (JE | ) A Palestinian amora of the third generation (fourth century), junior contemporary of Zeira I., Ami I., and Abba (Ba) b. Mamel...
 * 3) Aha b. Jacob (JE | ) A Babylonian amora, senior contemporary of Abaye and Raba (B. K. 40a), and a disciple of Huna, head of the academy at...
 * 4) Aha b. Joseph (JE | ) A Babylonian amora who flourished in the fourth and fifth centuries. His life was an unusually long one; for in his youth...
 * 5) Aha (Ahai) b. Minyomi (JE | ) A Babylonian amora of the fourth generation (fourth century), disciple of Nachman b. Jacob, and contemporary of Abaye...
 * 6) Aha (Ahai) b. Papa (JE | ) A Palestinian amora of the third generation (fourth century). He was the contemporary of Abbahu ("Die Ag. der Pal. Amor."...
 * 7) Aha b. Rab (JE | ) A Babylonian amora of the third and fourth generations (fourth century). He was a contemporary of Rabina I. and the senior...
 * 8) Aha (Ahai) b. Raba (JE | ) A Babylonian amora, son of Raba b. Joseph, and a contemporary of Amemar II. and of Ashi; died in 419. During the last five...
 * 9) Aha Sar ha-Birah (JE | ) A Palestinian amora of the third generation (fourth century), contemporary of Tanchum b. &#7716;iyya of Ke-far Acco....
 * 10) Aha (Ahai) of Shabha JE (JE | ) A prominent Babylonian Talmudist of the eighth century. He enjoys the distinction of being the first rabbinical author known...
 * 11) Aha b. Shila of Kefar Tamrata (JE | ) A haggadist of the second amoraic generation (third century). Commenting on Esth. ii. 23, "And it was written in the book...
 * 12) Aha b. Tahlifa (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the fourth and fifth centuries; disciple of Raba, friend of Acha b. Ika, and senior colleague of...
 * 13) Aha b. & (JE | ) Babylonian amora, who flourished in the fourth century; disciple of &#7716;isda (Shab. 54b, 66a). He emigrated to Palestine...
 * 14) Aha b. Zeira (JE | ) -- See A958: Ahabah (Ahawah) b. Zeira
 * 15) Ahab (JE | ) King of northern Israel, 875-853 B.C. He was the son and successor of Omri, the founder of Samaria, and the first king of...
 * 16) Ahab, son of Kolaiah (JE | ) One of the first captives deported by Nebuchadnezzar to Babylonia. As a false prophet he incurred the displeasure of Jeremiah...
 * 17) Ahabah Rabbah (JE | ) the initial words, and hence the names, of the two benedictions that precede the Shema&#39;; the former used in the morning...
 * 18) Ahabah (Ahawah, Aha, Ahwa) b. Zeira (Zera) (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the fourth century, who taught at C&#230;sarea (Yer. &#7716;al. i. 57a; Yer. Pes. ii. 29b), son of R...
 * 19) Ahadboi (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the sixth and seventh generations. He was president of the academy of Sura in its declining days, but...
 * 20) Ahadboi b. Ammi (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the fourth generation (fourth and fifth centuries), a disciple of Rab &#7716;isda and Rab Sheshet (Pes...

961 – 980

 * 1) Ahadboi b. Matnah (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the fourth generation, and contemporary of Raba b. Joseph (Shab. 24a, 60b). His sister, being ill, willed...
 * 2) Ahai JE (JE | ) An appellation given to several rabbis who ordinarily bear the pr&#230;nomen Acha, under which name they are grouped...
 * 3) Ahai b. Josiah (JE | ) Tanna of the fourth and fifth generations (second century). His father, Josiah, was probably the well-known tanna R. Josiah...
 * 4) Ahali-taurat (JE | ) the name adopted by the Persian Jews of Hamadan, Demavend, Teheran, and other districts, in contra-distinction to Persian...
 * 5) Aharah (JE | ) -- See A991: Ahiram
 * 6) Aharonim (JE | ) A technical term used in later rabbinical literature generally to indicate authorities who are contemporaries of the person...
 * 7) Ahasuerus (JE | ) 1. Persian king, identical with Xerxes (486-465 B.C.). The Book of Esther deals only with one period of his reign. It tells...
 * 8) The Legend of Ahasuerus (JE | ) -- See W33: Wandering Jew
 * 9) Ahava (JE | ) A river&#8212;possibly a canal or branch of the Euphrates&#8212;upon the banks of which Ezra halted his expedition on its...
 * 10) Ahawa (JE | ) -- See A728: Achawa
 * 11) Ahaz (JE | ) Son of King Jotham. His reign is memorable as that in which Judah first became vassal to Assyria, and Assyrian (Babylonian)...
 * 12) Ahaziah, King of Judah (JE | ) Son and successor of Jehoram, and grandson of Jehoshaphat. His reign, like that of his namesake of Samaria, was very brief...
 * 13) Ahaziah, King of Israel (JE | ) Son and successor of Ahab, king of northern Israel. in his brief reign of less than two years (853-852 B.C.) he continued...
 * 14) Aher (JE | ) -- See E296: Elisha ben Abuyah
 * 15) Ahiab (JE | ) -- See A912: Herod
 * 16) Ahiah (JE | ) -- See A980: Ahijah
 * 17) Ahiam (JE | ) Son of Sharar the Hararite. He was one of the thirty mighty men of David (II Sam. xxiii. 33). in I Chron. xi. 35, he is called...
 * 18) Ahiasaf JE (JE | ) A Hebrew annual, published in Warsaw by the "Achiasaf" Publication Society. It was founded in 1893, and had immediate...
 * 19) Ahiezer (JE | ) 1. Son of Ammishaddai, chief of the tribe of Dan in the second year after the Exodus (Num. i. 12), who brought his offering...
 * 20) Ahijah (The Prophet) (JE | ) A prophet from Shiloh, who foretold to Jeroboam that he would become king (I Kings, xi. 29). Later he prophesied the downfall...

981 – 1000

 * 1) Ahijah, Ahiah, Ahijahu (JE | ) Etymology of the name uncertain. 1. Youngest son of Jerahmeel; or it is possible to take the name as that of his first wife...
 * 2) Ahijah (JE | ) A leader among the Babylonian Jews of the second century, perhaps a resh galuta (exilarch). He was the chief ally of Hananiah...
 * 3) Ahikam (JE | ) Son of Shaphan, the scribe, and father of Gedaliah. He was sent by King Josiah to consult Huldah, the prophetess, about the...
 * 4) Ahikar (JE | ) Hero of a wide-spread legend, and supposed author of a number of proverbs. His name has been variously distorted, but probably...
 * 5) Ahimaaz (JE | ) 1. Father of Ahinoam, wife of Saul (I Sam. xiv. 50). 2. Commissary-general of Solomon in Naphtali, who married Basmath, the...
 * 6) Ahimaaz ben Paltiel (JE | ) Liturgical poet, and author of a family chronicle; born in Capua, Italy, 1017; died about 1060 in Oria. Very little is known...
 * 7) Ahimelech (JE | ) 1. Son of Ahitub, grandson of Phinehas, and great-grandson of Eli. He was priest at Nob during David&#39;s halt in his flight...
 * 8) Ahin (JE | ) -- See H71: &#7716;ayyim
 * 9) Bendich Ahin (JE | ) Mathematician and physician at Arles during the second half of the fourteenth century. Nostradamus says that Ahin was an excellent...
 * 10) Ahinoam (JE | ) 1. Daughter of Ahimaaz and wife of Saul, first king of Israel (I Sam. xiv. 50). 2. The Jezreelitess captured by David while...
 * 11) Ahiram (JE | ) Son of Benjamin (Num. xxvi. 38; called Ehi in Gen. xlvi. 21). in the corresponding list of I Chron. viii. 1 he appears as...
 * 12) Ahishar (JE | ) the overseer of Solomon&#39;s household (I Kings, iv. 6), whose position was one of responsibility similar to that of Joseph...
 * 13) Ahithophel (JE | ) A native of Giloh in the highlands of Judah, and privy councilor to David. He was a man of extraordinary sagacity and insight...
 * 14) Ahithophel Loosbuch (JE | ) A book of fate used in popular divination and named after Ahithophel. in Jewish legends of the Middle Ages Ahithophel plays...
 * 15) Ahitub (JE | ) Father of Ahimelech, priest of Nob (I Sam. xxii. 9-19). The name Ahitub means, properly, "good friend," "good brother"; and...
 * 16) Ahlab (JE | ) A city which Asher failed to conquer (Judges, i. 31). Perhaps this is identical with the later Gush Halab, which is the same...
 * 17) Hermann Ahlwardt (JE | ) One of the most notorious of anti-Semitic agitators; born December 21, 1846, at Krien, near Anklam, in the province of Pomerania...
 * 18) Ahmed Hamdi Pasha (JE | ) -- See A998: Hamdi, A&#7717;med
 * 19) Ahmed Pasha (JE | ) Turkish vizier and viceroy of Egypt under Solyman II., the Magnificent (1520-1566). He received these honors as rewards for...
 * 20) Aholiab (JE | ) -- See O40: Oholiab