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 * 1) Ba& (JE | ) Hebrew word for possessor or owner of an object. In connection with many nouns, it expresses some relation between the person...
 * 2) Ba& and Ba& (JE | ) the wide-spread and primitive Semitic root ("ba&#39;al") may be most nearly rendered in English by "possess." the term "Ba&#39...
 * 3) Ba& (JE | ) in more modern usage, the constituent members of a congregation as contrasted with the "toshabim" (transient members or strangers)...
 * 4) Baal-berith JE (JE | ) A form of Ba&#39;al-worship prevailing in Israel (Judges viii. 33), and particularly in Shechem (Judges ix. 4). The term "Ba&#39...
 * 5) Baal-gad (JE | ) A place situated at the northern limit of Palestine, in the valley of Lebanon, near Mount Hermon (Josh. xi. 17, xii. 7, xiii...
 * 6) Baal-hamon (JE | ) A place mentioned in Cant. viii. 11, in which passage Solomon is said to have had a vineyard there: its identity is unknown...
 * 7) Baal-hanan JE (JE | ) An Edomite king (Gen. xxxvi. 38). He is called the son of Achbor; but the name of his native city is not given. For this andother...
 * 8) Baal-hazor (JE | ) A place situated near Ephraim, where Absalom possessed an estate (II Sam. xiii. 23). It was there that during a sheep-shearing...
 * 9) Baal-hermon (JE | ) -- See B5: Baal-gad
 * 10) Baal Kor& << Torah reading (JE | ) Term applied to the person who reads the weekly portion from the Pentateuch&#8212;usually the Chazan, though not necessarily...
 * 11) Baal-meon (JE | ) A city in the eastern part of the Jordan district, which is designated in Numbers (xxxii. 3, 38), Joshua (xiii. 17), and Chronicles...
 * 12) Baal-peor (JE | ) Name of a Canaanitish god. Peor was a mountain in Moab (Num. xxiii. 28), whence the special locality Beth-peor (Deut. iii...
 * 13) Baal-perazim (JE | ) A place mentioned in the report of the battle between David and the Philistines in II Sam. v. 20 (compare I Chron. xiv. 11)...
 * 14) Baal-shalisha JE (JE | ) A place mentioned in II Kings iv. 42, and in the Talmud (Sanh. 12a). Eusebius identifies it with Baithsarisa, 15 Roman miles...
 * 15) Ba& (JE | ) Designation of certain people who were supposed to work miracles through the name of God. This belief in the miraculous power...
 * 16) Elijah Baal Shem (JE | ) -- See L484: Loans, Elijah.
 * 17) Joel Baal Shem (JE | ) -- See H529: Heilprin, Joel b. Isaac
 * 18) Israel b. Eliezer Ba& JE (JE | ) Founder of the sect of &#7716;asidim; born about 1700; died at Miedzyboz (Medzhibozh), May 22, 1760. The little biographical...
 * 19) Baal-tamar JE (JE | ) A place near Gibeah, mentioned in the account of the battle between the Benjamites and the other Israelites (Judges xx. 33)...
 * 20) Ba& (JE | ) Term applied to the person who blows the Shofar.A. F. L. C.           					  						  							  							  							This article...

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 * 1) Baal-zebub (JE | ) Name of a god of the Philistine city of Ekron, mentioned only in connection with the illness of Ahaziah, king of Israel, in...
 * 2) Baal-zebub in Rabbinical Literature (JE | ) -- See B4: Baal-berith in Rabbinical Literature
 * 3) Baal-zephon (JE | ) An Egyptian locality in the neighborhood of the Red Sea. In spite of all attempted combinations (Dillmann-Ryssell on Ex. xiv...
 * 4) Baalah (JE | ) A border town of Judah (Josh. xv. 9, 10; I Chron. xiii. 6) called elsewhere Kirjathjearim.2. A mount on the border of Judah...
 * 5) Baalath (JE | ) A Danite city (Josh. xix. 44).2. A city built by Solomon mentioned in connection with Tadmor (I Kings ix. 18; II Chron. viii...
 * 6) Baalath Beer (JE | ) A city in the possession of Simeon (Josh. xix. 8); but in the corresponding list of I Chron. iv. 33 called "Baal."J. Jr. G...
 * 7) Baalbek (JE | ) A city situated at the base of the western slope of the Anti-Lebanon, in a fertile region. It is the Heliopolis of the Greek...
 * 8) Judah Baale (JE | ) -- See K238: Kirjath-Jearim
 * 9) Baalim (JE | ) Plural of "Baal"; occurs in the Bible fifteen times, always used with the article; not found in the Pentateuch nor in the...
 * 10) Baalis (JE | ) King of the Ammonites, who was the leading spirit in the murder of Gedaliah (Jer. xl. 14). While the first element in the...
 * 11) Baaltis (JE | ) -- See A2048: Astarte
 * 12) Baana (JE | ) Son of Ahilud, one of the twelve commissariat officers of Solomon. He had charge of the districts Taanach and Megiddo (I Kings...
 * 13) Baanah (JE | ) Son of Rimmon the Beerothite, of Benjamin, who, with his brother Rechab, was an officer under Ishbosheth. He killed Ishbosheth...
 * 14) Herman Baar JE (JE | ) American educator; born in 1826 at Stadthagen, near Hanover, Germany. He received a preliminary education at the gymnasium...
 * 15) Ba& (JE | ) A place in the ravine Zerka Ma&#39;in above the city of Macherus on the northeastern shore of the Dead Sea, where are...
 * 16) Baasha (JE | ) Son of Ahijah and king of Israel. Owing to the weakness of Nadab, the successor of Jeroboam I., first king of Israel, Baasha...
 * 17) Bab al-Abwab (JE | ) -- See D258: Derbent
 * 18) Baba (The Great) (JE | ) Son of Nathaniel and grandson of Akbun, the high priests; a prominent leader and high priest of the Samaritans in the...
 * 19) Baba (JE | ) Originally, "gate," a Talmudic technical term for section, part, or clause. A single Mishnah may be divided into two or three...
 * 20) Baba Batra (JE | ) the third of the three Talmudic tractates of the order Nezikin, dealing with man&#39;s responsibilities and rights as...

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 * 1) Baba Buch (JE | ) Jud&#230;o-German translation or adadaptation by Elijah Levita of an Italian version of the Anglo-Roman romance, "Sir Bevis...
 * 2) Baba ben Buta JE (JE | ) Teacher of the Law at the time of Herod, and perhaps a member of the prominent family known as "The Sons of Baba" ("Bene Baba")...
 * 3) Baba Kamma JE (JE | ) the first of a series of three Talmudic treatises of the order Nezikin dealing with damages. Baba &#7730;amma is on...
 * 4) Baba Mezi& JE (JE | ) the second of the three Talmudic tractates of the order Nezikin. It treats of man&#39;s responsibility with regard to...
 * 5) Tower of Babel (JE | ) the story of the building of the city and the Tower of Babel as found in Gen. xi. 1-9 is briefly as follows: the whole human...
 * 6) Babenhausen (JE | ) A city of Hesse, district of Starkenburg, Germany. Jews are reported to have resided here as early as 1320. At the request...
 * 7) Babinovichi (JE | ) Town in the district of Orsha, government of Mohilev, Russia. In 1900, in a total population of 1,143 the Jews numbered about...
 * 8) Solomon b. Judah ha-Babli (JE | ) -- See S920: Solomon b. Judah ha-Babli
 * 9) Simha Babovich (JE | ) Head man of the Karaites of the Crimea in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, and president of the Karaite Council...
 * 10) Babski Refues (JE | ) the name applied in Yiddish to domestic and superstitious medicine. Common folk among the Jews in Russia and Poland believe...
 * 11) Babylon (JE | ) the chief city of Babylonia, long the capital of the kingdom and empire that controlled the whole or a large part of the valley...
 * 12) Babylonia >> History of the Jews in Iraq JE (JE | ) A country in western Asia of varying limits at different periods. The natural boundaries were the Persian gulf on the south...
 * 13) Babylonian Exile (JE | ) See Captivity, Babylonian.
 * 14) Babylonian Punctuation (JE | ) -- See P606: Punctuation
 * 15) Babylonish Garment (JE | ) An article of dress mentioned in connection with the theft of Achan (Josh. vii. 21) during the spoil of the captured city...
 * 16) The Valley of Baca (JE | ) A valley mentioned in Ps. lxxxiv. 7 [6 A. V.]. Since it is there said that pilgrims transform the valley into a land of wells...
 * 17) Bacau (JE | ) Capital of a district of the same name, situated in the southwest of Moldavia, a division of Rumania, with a population of...
 * 18) Bacchides JE (JE | ) Syrian general; friend of the Syrian king Demetrius; and "ruler in the country beyond the river"&#8212;Euphrates. Demetrius...
 * 19) Emilie Bach JE (JE | ) Artist and journalist; born at Neuschloss, Bohemia, July 2, 1840; died at Vienna April 29, 1890. She was directress of the...
 * 20) Joseph Bach JE (JE | ) Hungarian rabbi; born in 1784; died at Budapest Feb. 3, 1866. After I. N. Mannheimer, he was the first German preacher of...

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 * 1) Karl Daniel Friedrich Bach JE (JE | ) German painter; born at Potsdam May, 1756; died at Breslau April 8, 1829 (according to some sources in 1826). As his father...
 * 2) Bacharach + (JE | ) City in the Prussian government district of Coblenz. On April 19, 1283, twenty-six Jews were murdered there, among them the...
 * 3) Bacharach (JE | ) A name frequent among German Jews. From the twelfth, or at any rate from the fifteenth century, the name Bacharach, in various...
 * 4) Abraham Aaron b. Menahem Man (= Aaron Maneles) Bacharach JE (JE | ) Writer on religious subjects, and cantor of Posen, hence known also as Aaron &#7716;azzan; flourished during the seventeenth...
 * 5) Abraham Samuel Bacharach JE (JE | ) Rabbi; born about 1575; died in Gernsheim, grandduchy of Hesse, May 26, 1615. He seems to have come from the city of Worms...
 * 6) Eva Bacharach JE (JE | ) Hebraist and rabbinical scholar; born at Prague about 1580; died in Sofia, 1651. She was the daughter of Isaac ben Simson...
 * 7) Jair Hayyim Bacharach (JE | ) German rabbi; born at Leipnik, Moravia, 1639; died in Worms Jan. 1, 1702. At the age of twelve he came with his father, Samson...
 * 8) Michael Bacharach JE (JE | ) Dayyan in Prague in the second half of the eighteenth century.Bibliography: Eisenstadt, Da&#39;at &#7730;edoshim, p. 224;...
 * 9) Moses Samson Bacharach JE (JE | ) Son of Samuel and Eva Bacharach; born in 1607; died at Worms April 19, 1670. After the death of his father his mother took...
 * 10) Eduard Bacher JE (JE | ) Austrian jurisconsult and journalist; born at Pastelberg March 17, 1846. Graduating from the University of Vienna, he engaged...
 * 11) Julius Bacher JE (JE | ) German playwright and novelist; born in Ragnit, eastern Prussia, Aug. 8, 1810. He studied medicine in K&#246;nigsberg, and...
 * 12) Simon Bacher JE (JE | ) Neo-Hebraic poet; born Feb. 1, 1823, in Lipt&#243;-Szent-Mikl&#243;s, Hungary died at Budapest Nov. 9, 1891. Bacher, whose...
 * 13) Wilhelm Bacher JE (JE | ) Hungarian scholar and Orientalist; son of the Hebrew writer Simon; born in Lipt&#243;-Szent-Mikl&#243;s, Hungary, Jan. 12...
 * 14) Raphael Bachi (JE | ) Italian miniature-painter; lived at Paris in the middle of the eighteenth century. His name appears in the list of the Jews...
 * 15) Jacob ben Moses Bachrach JE (JE | ) A noted apologist of rabbinical Judaism; born at Seiny, inthe government of Suwalki, Russia, May 9, 1824; died in Bielostok...
 * 16) Judah b. Joshua Heskiel Bachrach (JE | ) Rabbi and Talmudist; born in Lithuania about 1775; died at Seiny, government of Suwalki, April 25, 1846. He was a lineal descendant...
 * 17) Sigismund Bachrich (JE | ) Hungarian violinist and operatic composer; born at Zsambokr&#233;t, Hungary, Jan. 23, 1841. He began the study of the violin...
 * 18) Jacob Backofen (JE | ) -- See R203: Reischer
 * 19) Roger Bacon (JE | ) English philosopher and scholar of the thirteenth century; born at Ilchester, England, about 1214; died about 1294. He studied...
 * 20) Badchen JE (JE | ) -- See B86: Bad&#7717;an

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 * 1) Baden (JE | ) City in Lower Austria. After the expulsion of the Jews from Lower Austria in 1670, none lived in Baden until 1805, when the...
 * 2) Grand Duchy of Baden (JE | ) A state of the German empire, bounded on the north by Bavaria and Hesse; on the east by Bavaria, W&#252;rttemberg, and Hohenzollern...
 * 3) Badge (JE | ) Mark placed on the dress of Jews to distinguish them from others. This was made a general order of Christendom at the fourth...
 * 4) Rock Badger (JE | ) -- See C714: Coney
 * 5) Badger Skins (JE | ) -- See T19: Ta&#7717;ash
 * 6) Badhan (JE | ) A merrymaker, professional jester, whose business it is to entertain the guests at a marriage-feast with drollery, riddles...
 * 7) Badis (Muzaffar Nasir) (JE | ) Oldest son of King Habus of Granada, whom he succeeded in 1038. In a struggle with the Berbers, who wished to make his younger...
 * 8) Samuel Baeck JE (JE | ) German rabbi; born at Kromau, Moravia, April 1, 1834. His father, Nathan, was rabbi in Kromau; his grandfather, Abraham, rabbi...
 * 9) Francisco de Baena (JE | ) Spanish poet of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, brother of Juan Alfonso de Baena, and secretary to the governor Diego...
 * 10) Juan Alfonso de Baena (JE | ) Spanish troubadour in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; born at Baena, Cordova. He was "escribano escribiente" (notarial...
 * 11) Baer, Beer, Behr (JE | ) Jewish pr&#230;nomen and family name, derived from the German "B&#228;r" (bear). The Jews of Germany, like those of other...
 * 12) Abraham Baer JE (JE | ) German cantor, musician, and composer; born in Russia Dec. 26, 1834; died at Gothenburg, Sweden, March 7, 1894. His father...
 * 13) Adolf Baer (Abraham) (JE | ) German physician and medico-forensic author; born in the province of Posen, Prussia, Dec. 26, 1834; educated at the universities...
 * 14) Asher Baer (JE | ) Russian mathematician and engraver; born at Seiny, government of Suwalk, in the first quarter of the nineteenth century; died...
 * 15) Dob b. Samuel Baer JE (JE | ) Polish &#7716;asidic writer of the end of the eighteenth century. He is the author of "Shibchei ha-Besht" (Praises of...
 * 16) Herman Baer JE (JE | ) American author; born of Jewish parents at Herxheim, Germany, Jan. 29, 1830; died at Charleston, S. C., Jan. 2, 1901. He emigrated...
 * 17) Israel Baer (JE | ) -- See A1956: Ashkenazi, Baermann
 * 18) Issachar b. Elhanan Baer (JE | ) Rabbi at Eibensch&#252;tz; born at Frankfort-on-the-Oder in the second half of the seventeenth century. He was the author...
 * 19) Issachar ben Pethahiah ben Moses Baer (JE | ) Cabalist; lived at Kremnitz, Hungary, at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He seems to have traveled in the East and...
 * 20) Issachar ben Solomon Baer (JE | ) Biblical and rabbinical commentator; died at Wilna in 1807. He was the brother of Elijah b. Solomon, the Wilna gaon, and like...

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 * 1) Issachar b. Leyser Baer (JE | ) -- See E92: Eilenburg
 * 2) Joseph Baer (JE | ) Founder of a firm of booksellers of Frankfort-on-the Main; born in the last half of the eighteenth century; died in 1851....
 * 3) Baer (Dob) of Meseritz REF:JE (JE | ) First apostle of &#7716;asidism and its most important propagator; born in Volhynia in 1710; died in Meseritz, Dec. 15, 1772...
 * 4) Baer b. Naphtali ha-Kohen (JE | ) -- See A1956: Ashkenazi, Baermann
 * 5) Baer (Dob) ben Nathan Nata of Pinsk (JE | ) Russian rabbi of the first half of the eighteenth century. He was a descendant of Rabbi Nathan Nata Shapira of Cracow (who...
 * 6) Seligman (Sekel) Baer (JE | ) Writer on the Masorah, and editor of the Hebrew Bible; born at Mosbach (Baden), Sept. 18, 1825; died at Biebrich-on-the-Rhine...
 * 7) Baer (Dob) ben Shraga (JE | ) Author; lived in Berlin at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He wrote "Nachale Debash" (Streams of Honey), Berlin...
 * 8) Baer (Dob) ben Uri Ph&#339;bus (JE | ) Author, of the eighteenth century. He resided at Altona, Germany, where in 1737 he wrote "Be&#39;er-Tob" (A Good Explanation)...
 * 9) Issachar I Baermann (JE | ) -- See A1956: Ashkenazi, Baermann
 * 10) Baermann of Limburg JE (JE | ) German writer; lived at Frankfort-on-the-Main at the end of the seventeenth century and at the beginning of the eighteenth...
 * 11) Hermann Baerwald (JE | ) German educator; born at Nakel, in the province of Posen, Nov. 7, 1828. His academic education began at the gymnasium of Konitz...
 * 12) Baeza (JE | ) City in the province of Jaen, Spain, which, as early as the Moorish rule, had a considerable Jewish community that suffered...
 * 13) Bag (JE | ) A comprehensive term in the A. V. for various Hebrew words. The most adequate Hebrew expression for a large bag is "&#7717...
 * 14) Bagdad (JE | ) Capital of the Turkish vilayet of the same name, which is situated in lower Mesopotamia on both sides of the Tigris. The vilayet...
 * 15) Bag& (JE | ) Village in the canton Bag&#233;le-Chalet, department of Ain, France. It was inhabited by Jews in the thirteenth and fourteenth...
 * 16) Bagi (JE | ) A prominent Karaite family; lived in Constantinople in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. The family name...
 * 17) Adolf Aron Baginsky JE (JE | ) German physician, and professor of diseases of children in the Berlin University; born May 22, 1843, at Ratibor (Prussian...
 * 18) Benno Baginsky (JE | ) German physician; born at Ratibor, Prussia, May 24, 1848; privat-docent of the diseases of the ear, nose, and larynx, at the...
 * 19) Bagnol (JE | ) See Levi b. Gershon.
 * 20) Bagoas (JE | ) 1. General of the Persian king Artaxerxes Ochus (359-338 B.C.); is called "Bagoses" by Josephus ("Ant." xi. 7, &#167; 1)....

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 * 1) Bagratuni (JE | ) the ancestors of the Armenian-Georgian family of Bagration, the first family entered in the list of the Russian nobility (published...
 * 2) Bagris (JE | ) -- See B58: Bacchides
 * 3) Benito Lopez Bahamonte (JE | ) Spanish Christian; author of a Hebrew grammar for school use, entitled, "Gramatica de la Lengua Hebraica, Escrita en Castellano...
 * 4) Bahia (JE | ) A city on the eastern coast of Brazil founded by the Portuguese in 1549. Its official name became Cidade do San Salvador da...
 * 5) Bahiel ben Moses of Saragossa JE >> Solomon Bahiel ben Moses JE (JE | ) A physician of the thirteenth century. He was court physician to King James I. of Aragon, and in that capacity was present...
 * 6) Bahir (JE | ) Pseudonymous work attributed to the tanna Nechunya ben ha-&#7730;anah, a contemporary of Johanan ben Zak&#7731...
 * 7) Bahram Gor (JE | ) -- See P210: Persia
 * 8) Bahram Tshubin (JE | ) Persian general; king of Persia from June 27, 590, to June 26, 591. Hormiz IV. (578-590), through his cruelty, brought the...
 * 9) Abu Ya& (JE | ) Karaite scholar; flourished in the ninth century. He was called "the teacher of the diaspora," and esteemed for his brilliant...
 * 10) Bahur (JE | ) "A youth," particularly a student of the Talmud among the Ashkenazic Jews; called also "yeshibah bachur" (academy youth)...
 * 11) Elijah Bahur (JE | ) -- See L298: Levita, Elijah
 * 12) Bahurim (JE | ) A locality in Benjamin to which Phaltiel accompanied his wife Michal from Gallim, when she was being conducted to David at...
 * 13) Bahya (Behai) ben Asher ben Halawa JE (JE | ) One of the most distinguished of the Biblical exegetes of Spain; born about the middle of the thirteenth century at Saragossa...
 * 14) Bahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda >> Chovot ha-Levavot JE (JE | ) Dayyan and philosopher; flourished at Saragossa, Spain, in the first half of the eleventh century. He was the author of the...
 * 15) Baiersdorf (JE | ) Small city in Bavaria, near Erlangen, once the summer abode of the margraves of Kulmbach-Bayreuth. Little is known concerning...
 * 16) Samson ben Manasse Baiersdorf (JE | ) Court Jew of the margrave Christian Ernst of Brandenburg-Bayreuth; died in 1712. He was highly esteemed at the court of the...
 * 17) Baigneux-les-Juifs (JE | ) Capital of a canton, arrondissement of Chatillon-sur-Seine, C&#244;te d&#39;Or, France. As the name indicates, there were...
 * 18) Bail (JE | ) in English and American law, the obligation of sureties in a sum named, that the person under arrest in a civil or criminal...
 * 19) Jean-Sylvain Bailly JE (JE | ) Astronomer and publicist; born in Paris Sept. 15, 1736; guillotined Nov. 12, 1793. He was elected a member of the Acad&#233...
 * 20) Bailments (JE | ) Delivery of personal property for the purpose of a trust. A bailment arises when one person (the bailee) is lawfully put in...

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 * 1) Bairamche (JE | ) -- See B951: Bessarabia
 * 2) Baja (JE | ) City on the Danube, in the county of B&#225;cs-Bodrog, Hungary. As early as the end of the eighteenth century, Baja, owing...
 * 3) Bajazet II JE (JE | ) Turkish sultan; born 1447; succeeded in 1481; died 1512. During his reign the Jews enjoyed a period of complete and uninterrupted...
 * 4) Bak (JE | ) A family of Hebrew printers in Italy and Prague, who exercised their craft for two centuries. The name is said to be an abbreviation...
 * 5) Sons of Bakbuk (JE | ) A family of Nethinim that returned with Zerubbabel (see Ezra ii. 51 and the corresponding list of Neh. vii. 53). The identification...
 * 6) Bakbukiah (JE | ) A Levite who returned with Zerubbabel (Neh. xii. 9); "second among his brethren" (Neh. xi. 17). He was one of those that lived...
 * 7) Baker (JE | ) Among the Hebrews the task of preparing the daily supply of fresh bread fell to the housewife. It was only in the larger cities...
 * 8) Bakewell Hall (JE | ) A large building in the neighborhood of the Guildhall, London, on the site now occupied by Gresham College. In a document...
 * 9) Bakhchi-sarai (JE | ) Former residence of the Tatar khans (fifteenth century to 1783); now a town in the government of Taurida (Crimea), Russia...
 * 10) Bakhmut (JE | ) City in the government of Yekaterinoslav, Russia. It has 4,000 Jews in a population of 19,000. The district of Bakhmut, including...
 * 11) Simson Baki (JE | ) 1. Born either in Germany or Italy, and very probably related to the Bachi family, members of which flourished successively...
 * 12) Baking (JE | ) the bread of the ancient Hebrews, like that of the Palestinians today, was not in the shape of thick loaves, but of thin cakes...
 * 13) Samuel Bakonyi (JE | ) Hungarian deputy and publicist; born in Debreczin July 22, 1862. After graduating in law at the University of Budapest, he...
 * 14) David ben Joseph Coen Bakri JE (JE | ) Chief of the Algerian Jews; financier; born about 1770; decapitated Feb. 4, 1811. His great financial abilities placed him...
 * 15) Jacob Cohen Bakri JE (JE | ) French consul at Algiers before its conquest by France; born in Algiers in 1763; died at Paris Nov. 23, 1836. Immensely rich...
 * 16) Joseph Coen Bakri (JE | ) Chief of the Algerian Jews; financier; born at Algiers in the middleof the eighteenth century; died at Leghorn in 1817. He...
 * 17) Isaac Moses Bakst (JE | ) Lecturer at the Jewish Rabbinical College of Jitomir; died there June 18, 1882; the father of Nicolai Bakst. He wrote "Sefer...
 * 18) Nicolai Ignatyevich Bakst (JE | ) Russian physiologist; born in 1843. He studied at St. Petersburg University, from which he graduated Bachelor of Natural Science...
 * 19) Ossip Isaakovich Bakst (JE | ) Son of Isaac and brother of Nicolai Bakst; died Oct. 8, 1895; was employed as interpreter (dragoman) in the Asiatic Department...
 * 20) Baku (JE | ) Seaport, in the government of the same name, Transcaucasia, Russia, situated on the peninsula of Apsheron, on the west coast...

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 * 1) Balaam JE (JE | ) A son of Beor and a prophet of Pethor in Mesopotamia. The narrative relating to Balaam is found in Num. xxii.-xxiv. According...
 * 2) Baladan (JE | ) See Berodach-baladan.
 * 3) Balak (JE | ) According to Num. xxii.-xxiv., Balak was king of Moab when the Israelites emerged from their wanderings in the wilderness...
 * 4) Balance (JE | ) the word is used for three Hebrew words: (1) "mo&#39;znaim" (Jer. xxxii. 10; Job vi. 2; Ps. lxii. 9; Isa. xl. 12, 15; Lev...
 * 5) Balandzhar (JE | ) -- See C402: Chazar
 * 6) Joseph Balassa (JE | ) Hungarian philologist; born 1864, in Baja, Hungary; studied in Budapest, where he graduated in philosophy, and where he holds...
 * 7) Baldachin (JE | ) -- See H973: &#7716;uppah
 * 8) Baldness (JE | ) the Hebrews gave much care to the cultivation of their hair, which they kept long (compare Ezek. xliv. 20) except on such...
 * 9) Balearic Isles >> History of the Jews in the Balearic Islands JE (JE | ) A group of islands in the Mediterranean, belonging to Spain, situated to the east of Valencia, the three principal of which...
 * 10) Abraham ben Jacob Bali (JE | ) Karaite physician and Chazan; lived at Foli (?) in the second half of the fifteenth century. He was the pupil of Shabbethai...
 * 11) Moses ben Abraham Bali (JE | ) Karaite physician and Chakam at Cairo at the end of the fifteenth century and at the beginning of the sixteenth. He was...
 * 12) Jewish Ballads (JE | ) -- See F244: Folk-Songs
 * 13) Ballads on Jewish subjects (JE | ) in the folk-poetry of Europe a certain number of ballads deal with Jewish subjects or with Jewish persons. Of these may be...
 * 14) M Ballaghi (JE | ) See Bloch, M.
 * 15) Ballarat (JE | ) City in Victoria, Australia. Three years after the discovery of gold, in 1851, a congregation was formed with Henry Harris...
 * 16) Ada Sara Ballin (JE | ) English author and journalist; born in London, England; educated at University College, London, where she obtained scholarships...
 * 17) Joel Ballin (JE | ) Danish engraver, born in Vejle, Jutland, March 22, 1822; died in Copenhagen, March 21, 1885. He was a son of a merchant, Joseph... - an article in this name has previously been deleted.
 * 18) Samuel Jacob Ballin (JE | ) Danish physician; born at Copenhagen, Oct. 21, 1802; died there March 24, 1866. He was the son of a merchant, Jacob Levin...
 * 19) Davicion Bally JE (JE | ) Rumanian patriot; born at Bucharest Jan. 29, 1809; died at Jerusalem May 2, 1844. His great-grandfather, Chelebi Mentesh Bally...
 * 20) Balm (JE | ) A term used six times in the A. V. as a translation of the Hebrew words, and . It is everywhere rendered resina in the Vulgate...

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 * 1) Balsam (JE | ) Word used as the translation (R. V., margin) of the Hebrew (Cant. v. 1) and of   (ib. v. 13, vi. 2), for which the A. V....
 * 2) Balta (JE | ) A town in Russia, situated near the Rumanian and Turkish frontiers. Its Jewish community dates from about the middle of the...
 * 3) Balthazar (JE | ) -- See B612: Belshazzar
 * 4) Balthazar Orobio de Castro (JE | ) -- See C255: Castro, de, family
 * 5) Baltic Provinces (JE | ) the three Russian governments bordering the Baltic sea&#8212;Courland, Livonia, and Esthonia; belonging formerly to Sweden...
 * 6) Baltimore >> History of the Jews in Baltimore JE (JE | ) Port of entry and principal city of the state of Maryland, situated on an estuary of the Patapsco river about 12 miles from...
 * 7) Bamah (JE | ) This word, which ordinarily designates a "high place" (see High Places), is introduced in Ezek. xx. 29 as a generic name for...
 * 8) Bamberg (JE | ) City in Upper Franconia, Bavaria. As early as the beginning of the eleventh century Jews had settled at Bamberg. In the second...
 * 9) Felix Bamberg (JE | ) German publicist; born at Unruhstadt, Germany, May 17, 1820; died in Saint-Gratien, near Paris, Feb. 12, 1893. He studied...
 * 10) Samuel Bamberg (JE | ) Halakist and liturgist; lived about 1220. He was born in Metz, where he attended the rabbinical school, and was one of the...
 * 11) B& (JE | ) Hungarian lawyer and writer on political economy; born at Szegedin, Hungary, in 1854; studied law at Vienna and Budapest....
 * 12) & (JE | ) French deputy and physician; born at Strasburg Sept. 25, 1825. After obtaining the degree of B. A. in 1843 he devoted himself...
 * 13) Isaac Bamberger (JE | ) German rabbi; born at Angenrod, in the grand duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, Nov. 5, 1834; died at K&#246;nigsberg Oct. 26, 1896...
 * 14) Ludwig Bamberger (JE | ) German deputy and political economist; born in Mayence July 22, 1823; died in Berlin March 14, 1899. He studied law in 1842-45...
 * 15) Seligman Baer Bamberger JE (JE | ) Talmudist of the old school and leader of the Orthodox party in Germany; born at Wiesenbronn, near Kitzingen, Bavaria, Nov...
 * 16) Solomon Bamberger (JE | ) German rabbi and Talmudic author; born in Wiesenbronn, Bavaria, May 1, 1835. He is the son of the eminent rabbi Seligman Baer...
 * 17) Bamoth-baal JE (JE | ) An elevated point in the land of Moab (Num. xxii. 41), which was allotted to the Reubenites (Josh. xiii. 17). It is probably...
 * 18) Issachar Dob Baer Bampi (JE | ) Scholar and philanthropist; born 1823 at Minsk, Russia; died there March 10, 1888. He received a thorough Biblical and Talmudical...
 * 19) Ban (JE | ) "herem": A proclamation devoting or consecrating to the Deity persons or things to be excluded from use, or, as was the rule...
 * 20) Tanna Banaah (JE | ) -- See B212: Bannaah

201 – 220

 * 1) Moritz Band (JE | ) Austrian writer and art critic; born Oct. 6, 1864. At an early age he began to write for the press, chiefly feuilletons, humorous...
 * 2) Daniel E Bandmann (JE | ) German-American actor; born at Cassel, Germany, in 1840. He made his d&#233;but at the Court Theater, Neu Strelitz, when eighteen...
 * 3) Benjamin Bandoff (JE | ) English pugilist; born in the first quarter of the nineteenth century; died after 1865. Bandoff entered the prize-ring to...
 * 4) Eduard (Ezekiel) Baneth (JE | ) German rabbi and scholar; born at Lipt&#243;-Szent-Mikl&#243;s, Hungary, Aug. 9, 1855; son of Bernhard Baneth. After receiving...
 * 5) Ezekiel Baneth (JE | ) Hungarian rabbi; born 1773 at Alt-Ofen; died Dec. 28, 1854. He was the son of the learned rabbi Jacob Ban&#234;t, an eminent...
 * 6) Jerahmeel Dob (Bernhard) Baneth (JE | ) Hungarian rabbi; born 1815 at Sz&#233;ch&#233;ny; died Oct. 21, 1871. The youngest son of Ezekiel Baneth, he was one of the...
 * 7) Banishment (JE | ) in ancient Israel an exclusion, permanent or temporary, from the native land, as a divine punishment. Adam&#39;s Banishment...
 * 8) Emanuel Bank (JE | ) Russian lawyer; born at Luknik, government of Kovno, 1840; died at St. Maurice. Switzerland, July 29, 1891. He was the son...
 * 9) Joshua ben Isaac Bank (JE | ) Rabbi at Tulchin, Russia; born at Satanov in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was the author of the following...
 * 10) Banking (JE | ) Speaking strictly, Banking means the taking of money on deposit (banks of deposit), and loaning it out on interest (banks...
 * 11) Bankruptcy (JE | ) in modern law, the proceeding taken by the courts of justice with regard to debtors unable to pay their debts in full, when...
 * 12) Bannaah, Bannay, Bannayah (JE | ) A Palestinian semi-tanna (see bar &#7730;appara) at the beginning of the third century. Not much of a halakic nature from...
 * 13) Bannaim (JE | ) A supposed sect of an Essene order, among Palestinian Jews of the second century. The only passage in which the name occurs...
 * 14) Joseph B& (JE | ) Hungarian scholar; born at Szt. G&#225;l, county of Veszpr&#233;m, Hungary, July 4, 1849. He was educated at the schools of...
 * 15) Banquets (JE | ) Festive meals on occasions of the celebration of domestic, communal, and religious joy, and on welcoming as well as on parting...
 * 16) Banu Aus (JE | ) An Arab tribe that came to Medina together with the Banu Khazraj (about 300), and settled there among the Jewish inhabitants...
 * 17) Banu Bahdal (JE | ) A Jewish tribe in Medina which dwelt with the Banu &#7730;uraiza. There is some uncertainty as to the correctness of...
 * 18) Banu Kainuka& (JE | ) A Jewish tribe in north Arabia, apparently the first Jews that settled at Medina, and the most powerful of all the Jewish...
 * 19) Banu Kuraiza (JE | ) One of the Jewish tribes in Medina that, like the Banu al-Na&#7693;ir, seem to have consisted chiefly of descendants of Aaron...
 * 20) Banu al-Nadir (JE | ) A Jewish tribe in Medina. It appears to have been chiefly composed of priestly families, as this, together with the Banu &#7730...

221 – 240

 * 1) Banus (JE | ) A teacher of Josephus ("Vita," &#167; 2, B&#940;&#957;&#959;&#962;; in ed. Niese, B&#940;&#957;&#957;&#959;&#962;). He "lived...
 * 2) Baptism (JE | ) A religious ablution signifying purification or consecration. The natural method of cleansing the body by washing and bathing...
 * 3) Giovanni Giona Galileo Baptista (JE | ) Baptized Jew, professor of Hebrew, and librarian of the Vatican; born in Safed Oct. 28, 1588; died May 26, 1668. His Jewish...
 * 4) Giovanni Salomo Romano Eliano Baptista (JE | ) Baptized Jew; ecclesiastical writer; born at Alexandria, Egypt; died in Rome March 3, 1589. He was a grandson of Elijah Levita...
 * 5) Baptists (JE | ) A Christian denomination or sect denying the validity of infant-baptism or of any baptism not preceded by a confession of...
 * 6) Haskel (Ezekiel) Bapugee (JE | ) One of the Beni Israelites of Bombay, subedar-major in the Indian native army; died Feb. 14, 1878, and was buried with military...
 * 7) Bar (JE | ) Aramaic equivalent of Hebrew Ben, "a son" or "son of."           					  						  							  							  							This article is...
 * 8) Bar (JE | ) Town in the district of Mohilev, province of Podolia, Russia, on the River Rov, affluent of the Bug; with a Jewish population...
 * 9) Bar Anina (JE | ) Palestinian scholar of the end of the fourth century; lived in Bethlehem, where he was the teacher of the church father Jerome...
 * 10) Bar Cochba, Bar Cochbah (JE | ) -- See B237: Bar Kokba
 * 11) Bar Dala, Bardala, bar Dalia, Bardalia (JE | ) A place near Lydda, which once harbored a rabbinic seat of learning (B. M. 10a et seq.; see Rabbinowicz, "Dikdu&#7731...
 * 12) Bar Elasha (JE | ) -- See B634: Ben Elasah
 * 13) Simon bar Giora (JE | ) Jewish leader in the revolt against Rome; born about the year 50, at Gerasa. To judge from his name he was the son of a proselyte...
 * 14) Bar Hebraeus (JE | ) -- See G434: Gregory bar Hebr&#230;us
 * 15) Bar Jesus (JE | ) A Jewish magician described in Acts xiii. 6-11 as a "sorcerer, a false prophet," who, when Paul and Barnabas came to Cyprus...
 * 16) Bar Kappara (JE | ) Palestinian scholar of the beginning of the third century, occupying an intermediate position between tanna and amora. His...
 * 17) Bar Kokba and bar Kokba War (JE | ) the insurrection of the Jews of Cyrene, Cyprus, and Egypt in the last years of the emperor Trajan had not been entirely suppressed...
 * 18) Bar Koziba (JE | ) -- See B237: Bar Kokba
 * 19) Bar Mitzvah JE (JE | ) Hebrew term applied to a boy on completing his thirteenth year, who has then reached the age of religious duty and responsibility...
 * 20) Bar Shalmon (JE | ) Legendary son-in-law of Ashmedai, king of the demons. Bar Shalmon, the scholarly and pious son of a rich merchant who had...

241 – 260

 * 1) Bar Yokni (JE | ) A gigantic bird mentioned several times in the Talmud. An authority at the beginning of the third century, in relating a number...
 * 2) Barabas UNR (JE | ) the principal character in Christopher Marlowe&#39;s "The Rich Jew of Malta," first produced at the Rose Theater, Bankside...
 * 3) Barabbas (JE | ) Prisoner of the Romans released by the procurator Pontius Pilate. The reason for his incarceration is given differently in...
 * 4) M Barach (JE | ) See Maerzroth.
 * 5) Rosa Barach (JE | ) Austrian authoress and educator; born at Neu-Rausnitz, Moravia, May 15, 1841. Educated at her native place and at Vienna,...
 * 6) Isaac Baraffael (Baruffall) (JE | ) Italian officer and communal worker; lived in Rome at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth...
 * 7) Baraita (JE | ) An Aramaic word designating a tannaite tradition not incorporated in the Mishnah; later it was applied also to collections...
 * 8) Baraita on the (Treatise) Abot (JE | ) A Baraita consisting of eleven paragraphs on the excellences of the Torah and on the right way to become acquainted with it...
 * 9) Baraita of Rabbi Ada (JE | ) A Baraita on the calendar. The only one who speaks of such a Baraita is Abraham b. &#7716;iyya ha-Nassi ("Sefer ha-&#39;Ibbur...
 * 10) Baraita on the Creation (JE | ) See Ma&#39;aseh Bereshit.2. Under the title, L. Goldschmidt published a work (Strasburg, 1894) which he gave out to be an...
 * 11) Baraita of Rabbi Eliezer (JE | ) the customary name for the Pir&#7730;e R. Eliezer among the older scholars, as Rashi and in the &#39;Aruk. Some recent scholars...
 * 12) Baraita of Rabbi Eliezer (JE | ) -- See B266: Baraita of the Thirty-two Rules
 * 13) Baraita on the Erection of the Tabernacle JE (JE | ) A Baraita cited several times by Hai Gaon, by Nathan ben Jehiel in the &#39;Aruk, as well as in Rashi, Yalkut, and Maimonides...
 * 14) Baraita of the Forty-nine Rules JE (JE | ) Rashi, the Tosafists, Abraham ibn Ezra, Yalkut, and Asher ben Jehiel mention a work, "Baraita of the Forty-nine Rules...
 * 15) Baraita on the Heavenly Throne (JE | ) See Ma&#39;ase Merkabah.
 * 16) Baraita of Rabbi Ishmael JE (JE | ) A Baraita which explains the thirteen rules of R. Ishmael, and their application, by means of illustrations from the Bible...
 * 17) Baraita of Rabbi Jose (JE | ) Name given by some of the old scholars to the Seder &#39;Olam Rabbah. Concerning another Baraita of the same name, see Br&#252...
 * 18) Baraita of Joseph ben Uzziel (JE | ) A cabalistic Baraita, several times mentioned by Recanati. It is in manuscript form at Oxford, and is a commentary to the...
 * 19) Baraita of Joshua ben Levi (JE | ) -- See "Revelation of Joshua b. Levi", in article A1643: Apocalyptic Literature, Neo-Hebraic
 * 20) Baraita on the Mystery of the Calculation of the Calendar (JE | ) A Baraita cited in the Talmud (R. H. 20b). Since special care was taken to keep it secret, it has not been preserved; but...

261 – 280

 * 1) Baraita de-Niddah (JE | ) This Baraita, expressly mentioned by Nachmanides, and probably known to the Geonim and the German-French Talmudists of...
 * 2) Baraita of Rabbi Phinehas ben Jair (JE | ) 1. See Midrash Tadshe.2. A Baraita printed by Gr&#252;nhut, in "Sefer ha-LikKu&#7789;im," ii. 20b-21a. It contains...
 * 3) Baraita on Salvation (JE | ) A haggadic Baraita, which Sch&#246;nblum (Lemberg, 1877) published for the first time in the collection "Sheloshah Sefarim...
 * 4) Baraita of Samuel JE (JE | ) A Baraita of Samuel was known to Jewish scholars from Shabbethai Donolo in the tenth century to Simon Duran in the fifteenth...
 * 5) Baraita de-Sifre (JE | ) See Sifre, Zu&#7789;&#7789;a.
 * 6) Baraita of the Thirty-two Rules JE (JE | ) A Baraita giving the thirty-two hermeneutic rules according to which the Bible is interpreted. Abul-Walid ibn Janach...
 * 7) Barak (JE | ) A warrior; the son of Abinoam mentioned in Judges iv. 6, v. 12, as the most important ally of Deborah in the struggle against...
 * 8) Julius Barasch (JE | ) Rumanian author and physician; born at Brody, Galicia, 1815; died at Bucharest, Rumania, March 31, 1863. His early education...
 * 9) Diego Barassa (JE | ) Spanish physician and Marano, who openly avowed himself a Jew at Amsterdam about 1640. He was conversant with astronomy, medicine...
 * 10) Jean Philippe Baratier (JE | ) Christian translator of Benjamin of Tudela&#39;s travels; born at Schwabach, Bavaria, in 1721; died in 1740. He was only thirteen...
 * 11) Herman (Hirsch) Baratz (JE | ) Russian lawyer and censor of Hebrew books; born at Dubno 1835; graduated from the Rabbinical School of Jitomir in 1859, and...
 * 12) Barbados (JE | ) Island of the British West Indies in the Windward Group; colonized in 1625. It is probable that Jews were among the earliest...
 * 13) Barbary States (JE | ) A region comprising the northwest of Africa from the Mediterranean to the Sahara, including Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli...
 * 14) Barbastro, Barbaste (JE | ) A city of Aragon, containing a Jewish community with special privileges that were confirmed by successive kings from time...
 * 15) Ida Barber (JE | ) German authoress; born at Berlin July 9, 1842. She began her literary career when quite young, and published the following...
 * 16) Barbers (JE | ) -- See B456: Beard
 * 17) Me& (JE | ) Talmudist and rabbi; born about 1725 at Barby, a small city near Halberstadt, Prussia; died July 28, 1789, at Presburg. His...
 * 18) Barcelona (JE | ) Capital of Catalonia, Spain; much praised by Jewish travelers and poets for its beauty and its picturesque situation; was...
 * 19) Isaac ben Reuben Barceloni (JE | ) See Isaac b. Reuben of Barcelona.
 * 20) Barches (JE | ) Jud&#943;o-German for an oblong loaf of twisted bread, called in some countries also "Taatscher" or "Datscher." Both names...

281 – 300

 * 1) Barda (JE | ) Formerly an important city (often mentioned by the Arabic geographers of the ninth and tenth centuries in connection with...
 * 2) Elijah Bardach (JE | ) Merchant and Hebrew scholar; born at Lemberg 1794; died at Vienna April 11, 1864. He devoted his leisure time to the study...
 * 3) Israel Isaac ben Hayyim Moses Bardach (JE | ) Grammarian; lived in Lithuania at the end of the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Ta&#39;ame Torah" (The Accents...
 * 4) Julius Bardach (JE | ) Russian writer and teacher; born at Turijsk, province of Volhynia, 1828; died in Odessa in 1897 (?). He is said to have descended...
 * 5) Barefoot (JE | ) in II Sam. xv. 30 it is mentioned that David, on his flight before Absalom, went Barefoot to show his grief. Micah i. 8, "to...
 * 6) Bareheadedness (JE | ) Jewish custom has for ages required women to cover the hair as an evidence of their modesty before men, and required men to...
 * 7) Barfat (JE | ) Name used by Jews in Provence and northern Spain; e.g., = "Barfat certifies as witness," found in an agreement between Pedro...
 * 8) Bargains and Sales (JE | ) -- See S71: Sale
 * 9) Abraham de Bargas (JE | ) Translator into Ladino of the prayers composed by Malachi ben Jacob on the occasion of the earthquake at Leghorn, in January...
 * 10) Jean Joseph Leandre Barg& (JE | ) Honorary canon of Notre Dame of Paris, abb&#233; and Orientalist; born in 1810 at Auriol (Bouches-du-Rh&#244;ne); died in...
 * 11) Bari (JE | ) Seaport town in Apulia, Italy, on the Adriatic; capital of the district of the same name. As the center of an extended trade...
 * 12) Baris (JE | ) -- See A1614: Antonia
 * 13) Jacob Barit (JE | ) Russian Talmudist and communal worker; born at Simno, government of Suwalki, Sept. 12, 1797; died at Wilna March 6, 1883....
 * 14) Marie Barkany (JE | ) Austrian actress; born at Kaschau, Hungary, March 2, 1862. She was one of the six daughters of a merchant at Kaschau, and...
 * 15) Isaac ben Elijah Barki (JE | ) Writer; flourished in the seventeenth century at Salonica. He was, according to Azulai, a pupil of &#7716;ayyim Shabbethai...
 * 16) Barlaam and Josaphat (JE | ) A romantic tale under this title, giving extracts from the life of Buddha and some of his parables in Christian form, which...
 * 17) Barley (JE | ) A cereal often mentioned in the Old Testament as one of the common food-products of Palestine. It was and still is used as...
 * 18) Thomas Barlow (JE | ) Bishop of Lincoln; born in Westmoreland in 1607; died Oct. 8, 1691. He was educated at Appleby, and removed thence to Queen&#39...
 * 19) Joses Barnabas EL:JE (JE | ) One of the Apostles, of the tribe of Levi and of the country of Cyprus. In Acts iv. 36 his name is given as "Bar Na&#7717...
 * 20) Barnacle-goose (JE | ) A curious notion prevailed in the Middle Ages, that this bird (Branta leucopsis) was generated from the barnacle, a shell-fish...

301 – 320

 * 1) Barnett Isaacs Barnato (JE | ) English "diamond king," promoter, and speculator; born in London July 5, 1852; committed suicide by jumping from the deck...
 * 2) Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave (JE | ) French politician; member of the Assemblie Nationale; born at Grenoble in Dauphiny Oct. 22, 1761; guillotined in Paris Nov...
 * 3) Ludwig Barnay (JE | ) German actor; born at Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 12, 1842. He was the son of the secretary of the Jewish congregation at that...
 * 4) Aryeh Loeb Barnett (JE | ) Dayyan in London; locally known as "Rabbi Aryeh Loeb"; born at Krotoschin, in the grand duchy of Posen, in 1797; died in London...
 * 5) Jacob Barnett (JE | ) Hebrew teacher at Oxford about 1613. He gave instruction to the students, under the direction of Richard Killye, regiusprofessor...
 * 6) John Barnett (JE | ) English composer; born at Bedford, England, July 1, 1802; died at Cheltenham April 17, 1890. He made his d&#233;but as a singer...
 * 7) John Francis Barnett (JE | ) English musician; born at London Oct. 16, 1837; nephew of John Barnett. He was a pianoforte pupil of Dr. Wylde, and in 1850...
 * 8) Lionel D Barnett (JE | ) English author; born at Liverpool 1871, educated at the High School, Liverpool, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he had...
 * 9) Morris Barnett (JE | ) Dramatist and actor; born in 1800; died at Montreal March 18, 1856. He was originally trained for the musical profession,...
 * 10) Henry Baron (JE | ) French painter; born at Besan&#231;on in 1816; died at Geneva in 1885. He was one of the foremost representatives of the historic...
 * 11) Baron de Hirsch Fund (JE | ) -- See H763: Hirsch Fund, Baron de
 * 12) Jonas Baron (JE | ) Hungarian physician, surgeon, and lecturer on surgery at the University of Budapest, Hungary; born at Gy&#246;ngy&#246;s Nov...
 * 13) Barren, Barrenness (JE | ) the Hebrew word for "barren"&#8212; (&#39;akar); feminine,  (&#39;akarah)&#8212;denotes probably "uprooted," in the...
 * 14) Isaac Barrientos (JE | ) Author; otherwise unknown, but certainly not the same as Daniel Levi de Barrios; is the author of "Theologia Natural Contra...
 * 15) Daniel Levi (Miguel) de Barrios JE (JE | ) Spanish poet and historian; born 1625 at Montilla, Spain; died Feb., 1701, at Amsterdam. He was the son of a Marano, Simon...
 * 16) Simon Levi de Barrios (JE | ) Son of Daniel Levi de Barrios; born March 17, 1665, at Amsterdam; died May 16, 1688, at Barbados. Member of Ez &#7716...
 * 17) Mordecai Barrocas (JE | ) A Marano, physician, and poet. In Holland, at an advanced age, he openly returned to Judaism about the year 1605; and in celebration...
 * 18) Valentinus Barruchius (Baruch?) (JE | ) Spanish poet; lived probably in the twelfth century. He is said to have been a native of Toledo. He wrote in clear and ornate...
 * 19) Jacob Barsimson (JE | ) One of the earliest Jewish settlers at New Amsterdam (New York). He arrived at that port on the ship "Pear Tree" July 8, 1654...
 * 20) Bartenora JE (JE | ) -- See B937: Bertinoro, Obadiah ben Abraham

321 – 340

 * 1) Barter (JE | ) the exchange of things of value, none of them being money. Barter is distinguished from a sale, where one of the things is...
 * 2) Jacob Barth (JE | ) German professor of exegesis, religious philosophy, and Semitic languages; born at Flehingen, Baden, 1851. He studied Orientalia...
 * 3) Jacob Salomon Bartholdy (JE | ) Prussian diplomat and art patron; uncle of the composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy; born May 13, 1779, in Berlin; died in...
 * 4) Bartholomaion (JE | ) -- See B655: Ben Temalion
 * 5) Bartholomew (JE | ) One of the apostles; mentioned only in Matt. x. 3; Mark iii. 18; Luke vi. 14; Acts i. 13. Some writers identify him with the...
 * 6) Bartholomew Raymundo (JE | ) -- See R300: Rimos, Moses.
 * 7) Giulio Bartolocci JE (JE | ) Italian student of Jewish literature;. born at Celleno April 1, 1613; died Oct. 19, 1687. He was a pupil of a baptized Jew...
 * 8) Baruch S 2009-10-29 >> Baruch ben Neriah JE (JE | ) 1. Son of Zabbai or Zaccai, who took part in strengthening the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah (Neh. iii. 20).2...
 * 9) Apocalypse of Baruch (Greek) + (JE | ) An apocryphal work, in which Baruch, the disciple of Jeremiah, gives an account of the revelation which he received in heaven...
 * 10) Apocalypse of Baruch (Syriac) JE (JE | ) A pseudepigraphic work in which Baruch narrates his experiences during the periods just before and after the destruction of...
 * 11) Book of Baruch EL:JE (JE | ) One of the Apocryphal or so-called deuterocanonic books of the Old Testament. It consists of two parts. The first (i. 1-iii...
 * 12) Baruch DAB (JE | ) Polish mechanic of the beginning of the eighteenth century; lived in Pogrebishche. He produced two magnificent brass candelabra...
 * 13) Baruch DAB (JE | ) A Jewish pioneer settler in Spain, whom the tradition of the ibn Albaliahs regarded as the ancestor of their family. See Ibn...
 * 14) Baruch b. Moses ibn Baruch (JE | ) Italian philosopher, Talmudist, and Bible commentator; lived at the end of the sixteenth century. He belonged to the old noble...
 * 15) Baruch of Benevento JE (JE | ) Cabalist in Naples during the first half of the sixteenth century. He was the teacher of Cardinal Aegidius of Viterbo...
 * 16) Baruch b. David (JE | ) A Talmudic author; lived at Gnesen (near Posen) in the beginning of the seventeenth century. He wrote: "Gedullat Mordecai"...
 * 17) Baruch de Digne (JE | ) Rabbi of central France toward the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century; surnamed "Ha-Gadol"...
 * 18) Baruch ben Gershon of Arezzo (JE | ) Italian writer; lived in the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Zikkaron li-Bene Yisrael" (Memorial for the Children...
 * 19) Isaac Baruch (JE | ) -- See A1070: Albalia
 * 20) Baruch b. Isaac (ha-Kohen ?) JE (JE | ) Tosafist and codifier; flourished about 1200. He was born at Worms, but lived at Regensburg; hence he is sometimes called...

341 – 360

 * 1) Baruch ben Isaac Yaish (JE | ) -- See I67: Ibn Yaish
 * 2) Jacob Baruch (JE | ) President ("Baumeister") of the Jewish congregation of Frankfort-on-the-Main at the beginning of the nineteenth century; father...
 * 3) Baruch b. Jacob (Shklover) (JE | ) Talmudist, physician, and scientist; born at Shklov, White Russia, about 1740; died about 1812. He was one of the old-style...
 * 4) Jacob [Kohen-Zedek] ben Moses Hayyim Baruch (JE | ) Editor at Leghorn during the latter part of the eighteenth century. He is known especially as the compiler and editor of a...
 * 5) Joshua Boaz ben Simon ben Abraham Baruch JE (JE | ) A prominent Talmudist; lived at Sabionetta, later at Savigliano; died in 1557. He was a descendant of an old Jud&#230;o-Spanish...
 * 6) Baruch Leibov (JE | ) A merchant who was burned at the stake in St. Petersburg July 15, 1738. He was one of the numerous Jud&#230;o-Polish merchants...
 * 7) Loeb Baruch (JE | ) See B&#246;rne, Ludwig.
 * 8) Baruch b. Moses of Prossnitz (JE | ) -- See C486: Christiani
 * 9) Baruch b. Samuel UNR (JE | ) Rabbi of the Ashkenazim at Constantinople or in its neighborhood, in the last half of the sixteenth century. He is mentioned...
 * 10) Baruch b. Samuel JE (JE | ) Talmudist and prolific "payye&#7789;an"; flourished at the beginning of the thirteenth century; died at Mayence April 25,...
 * 11) Baruch b. Samuel Zanwill ha-Levi (JE | ) An Austrian rabbi of the eighteenth century; born at Leipnik, Moravia; officiated at Semlin, Croatia. He was the author of...
 * 12) Simon Baruch (JE | ) American physician; born at Schwersenz, Prussia, July 29, 1840; educated at the Royal Gymnasium, Posen. Emigrating at an early...
 * 13) Baruch b. Solomon Kalai (JE | ) See Kalai.
 * 14) Baruch of Tulchin (JE | ) Russian rabbi and leader of the &#7716;asidim of the Ukraine; born at Medzhibozh, government of Podolia, about 1750; died...
 * 15) Baruch Uziel b. Baruch (JE | ) See Forti, Baruch Uziel.
 * 16) Baruch Yavan (JE | ) Polish financier; agent of the Polish prime minister Count Br&#252;hl; born at Starokonstantinov, government of Volhynia,...
 * 17) Baruch b. Zebi Hirsch (JE | ) A casuist; lived in Poland at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth. He wrote "Shema&#39;tatade-Rab"...
 * 18) Baruk She-amar (JE | ) the initial words of the introductory benediction recited before the reading of the Psalms ("Zemirot") or selections of the...
 * 19) Baruk She-amar Samson b. Eliezer (JE | ) -- See S125: Samson b. Eliezer
 * 20) Barun ibn Isaac (JE | ) -- See I7: Ibn Barun

361 – 380

 * 1) Adolph Solomonowich Barzhansky (JE | ) Russian composer and pianist; born at Odessa 1851; died there 1900. His father, a member of a prosperous firm well known both...
 * 2) Barzilai (JE | ) See Judah ben Barzilai.
 * 3) Giuseppe Barzilai (JE | ) Italian lawyer and Biblical commentator; born at Gradisca, near Triest, Austria, in 1828; studied at Casalmaggiore, province...
 * 4) Salvatore Barzilai (JE | ) Italian deputy; born in Triest, Austria, July 5, 1860. Son of the Orientalist and archeologist Giuseppe Barzilai; studied...
 * 5) Barzillai (JE | ) A wealthy Gileadite noble of Rogelim, who, together with two other prominent chieftains of the east-Jordanic territory, met...
 * 6) Abraham Hezekiah b. Jacob Basan (JE | ) Corrector of the press and author; lived in the second half of the eighteenth century at Amsterdam and Hamburg. He was at...
 * 7) Jacob ben Abraham Basan (JE | ) &#7716;akam of the Portuguese community of Hamburg. In 1755 he published a prayer for a fast-day by the Portuguese congregation...
 * 8) Abraham Basch (JE | ) German poet and teacher; born at Posen July 17, 1800; died at Berlin Sept. 24, 1841. Basch was a somewhat precocious child...
 * 9) & (JE | ) Hungarian painter; born at Budapest 1873. He purposed at first to follow an industrial career, and attended the department...
 * 10) Gyula Basch JE (JE | ) Hungarian painter; born at Budapest April 9, 1859. After completing his studies at the gymnasium, he attended the polytechnicinstitute...
 * 11) Raphael Basch JE (JE | ) Austrian writer and politician; born at Prague, Bohemia, in 1813. After acquiring at that city a thorough familiarity with...
 * 12) Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch JE (JE | ) Austrian physician; born at Prague Sept. 9, 1837; best known as the body-physician of the emperor Maximilian of Mexico. Basch...
 * 13) Victor Basch JE (JE | ) Professor of philosophy at the University of Rennes; born at Budapest, Hungary, in 1863; son of Raphael Basch. Removing in...
 * 14) Baschwitz (JE | ) A family of printers, of which the following were the most prominent members: 1. Me&#239;r Baschwitz:  Born at Dyhernfurth...
 * 15) Basel (JE | ) Capital of the canton of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, bordering on the grand duchy of Baden and on Alsace. Owing to its flourishing...
 * 16) Basel Congress (JE | ) An international Zionist convention held at Basel on Aug. 29, 30, and 31, 1897, in the Stadt Casino, and which was called...
 * 17) Basel-land (JE | ) A canton of Switzerland. It did not admit the French Jews, who had bought property in Liestal, the capital of the canton,...
 * 18) Basel Program (JE | ) By this term is understood the program of Political Zionism drawn up at the first Basel Congress, as the aim of the political-Zionist...
 * 19) Basemath (JE | ) -- See B386: Bashemath
 * 20) Abramo Basevi (JE | ) Italian composer and writer on music; born at Leghorn Dec. 29, 1818; died at Florence November, 1885. At first a physician...

381 – 400

 * 1) Emmanuele Basevi (JE | ) Italian physician and medical writer; born at Pisa in 1799; died in Florence Sept. 18, 1869. Basevi studied at the high school...
 * 2) George (Joshua) Basevi (JE | ) Architect; born in London in 1794; died at Ely in 1845. He was the son of George Basevi, whose sister, Maria, had married...
 * 3) Joachim Basevi (JE | ) Italian jurisconsult; born at Mantua 1780; died at Milan 1867. His intelligence and culture procured him so much celebrity...
 * 4) Bashan (JE | ) the tract of country north of Gilead, the Yarmuk being the dividing-line. It stretches eastward along this southern limit...
 * 5) Bashar ben Phineas (JE | ) -- See I49: Ibn Shuaib
 * 6) Bashemath, Basmath (JE | ) One of the wives of Esau. In Gen. xxvi. 34 she is described as "the daughter of Elon the Hittite." According to the same source...
 * 7) Heinrich Jacob Bashuysen JE (JE | ) Christian printer of Hebrew books and Orientalist; born at Hanau, Prussia, Oct. 26, 1679; died about 1750. He founded a printing-establishment...
 * 8) Elijah b. Moses b. Menahem Bashyazi of Adrianople JE (JE | ) Karaite Chakam; born at Adrianople about 1420; died there in 1490. After being instructed in the Karaite literature and...
 * 9) Hillel ben Moses Bashyazi (JE | ) Karaite scholar; lived at Constantinople in the first half of the sixteenth century. He was the author of a commentary upon...
 * 10) Moses ben Elijah Bashyazi (JE | ) Karaite scholar; great-grandson of Elijah Bashyazi; born at Constantinople in 1537; died in 1555. When but sixteen years of...
 * 11) Basilea, Basila, Bassola, Basola, Basla (JE | ) A family originally from Basel in Switzerland (whence the name), but resident in the north of Italy and in Palestine from...
 * 12) Basilisk (JE | ) the translation in the Revised Version of the Hebrew "Zefa&#39;" and "Zif&#39;oni" (Isa. xi. 8, xiv. 29, lix....
 * 13) Basin (JE | ) the following Hebrew words are rendered "bason" in English: "aggan," "kefor," "mizrak," and "saf." of these "aggan"...
 * 14) Basket-tax (JE | ) the most burdensome and annoying of the special taxes imposed upon the Jews of Russia by the government. The edict concerning...
 * 15) Baskets (JE | ) Four kinds of Baskets are mentioned in the Old Testament&#8212;"dud," "tene," "sal," and "kelub"&#8212;but unfortunately without...
 * 16) Basmath (JE | ) daughter of King Solomon. See Bashemath.
 * 17) Jacob Christian Basnage (JE | ) Protestant pastor; born at Rouen, France, Aug. 8, 1653; died in Holland Dec. 22, 1725. At the age of twenty-three he took...
 * 18) Bason (JE | ) -- See B393: Basin
 * 19) Basque Provinces (JE | ) A district of Spain, including Guipuzcoa, Biscay, and Alava, extending along both sides of the Pyrenees, where the Basques...
 * 20) Basra (JE | ) -- See B412: Bassora

401 – 420

 * 1) Shabbethai ben Joseph Bass JE (JE | ) Founder of Jewish bibliography; born at Kalisz 1641; died July 21, 1718, at Krotoschin. After the death of his parents, who...
 * 2) Bassai (JE | ) -- See B1004: Bezai
 * 3) Hezekiah Mordecai b. Samuel Bassani (JE | ) Rabbi of Verona, Italy; lived at the end of the sixteenth century and at the beginning of the seventeenth. He was the author...
 * 4) Hugo Bassani (JE | ) Italian poet and composer; born in Padua June 5, 1851. He studied in Milan and was one of the favorite scholars of Anthony...
 * 5) Isaiah Bassani (JE | ) Italian rabbi, of the first half of the eighteenth century; the son of Israel Hezekiah Bassani, who was a pupil of Moses Zacuto...
 * 6) Israel Benjamin Bassani (JE | ) Rabbi at Reggio, Italy; born in 1703; died at Reggio Jan. 20, 1790 (5 Sheba&#7789;, 5550); son of Isaiah Bassani. He was a...
 * 7) Jehiel b. Hayyim Bassani (JE | ) Casuist and rabbi of Constantinople in the seventeenth century. His responsa (Constantinople, 1737) are valued for their keen...
 * 8) Bassano (JE | ) City in the province of Venice, Italy. Here, as in all the surrounding places, Jews were living at a very early period, engaged...
 * 9) Hendel Bassevi (JE | ) Daughter of Ebert Geronim, and second wife of Jacob Bassevi, son of Abraham Bassevi and president of the congregation of Prague...
 * 10) Jacob Bassevi von Treuenberg JE (JE | ) Court Jew and financier; born in 1580; died at Jung-BuntzlauMay 2, 1634. He entered business early in life, ultimately became...
 * 11) Eliezer Bassin (JE | ) Missionary at Jassy, Rumania; born about 1840 in the government of Mohilev, Russia. In 1869 he went to Constantinople, where...
 * 12) Bassora (JE | ) City in a vilayet of the same name in Asiatic Turkey, about 54 miles from the Persian gulf and 1&#188; miles west of the Sha&#7789...
 * 13) Lucilius Bassus (JE | ) Governor of Judea after the conquest of Jerusalem by Titus (70). He had formerly been prefect of the fleet at Ravenna, and...
 * 14) Bastard (JE | ) in the English use of the word, a child neither born nor begotten in lawful wedlock; an illegitimate child. There is no Hebrew...
 * 15) Diego Enriquez Basurto (JE | ) Marano poet of the seventeenth century; born in Spain. Like his father&#8212;the poet Antonio Enriquez Gomez&#8212;he resided...
 * 16) Bat (JE | ) This well-known winged mammal (in Hebrew, Lev. xi. 19; Deut. xiv. 18; Isa. ii. 20) was considered by the Hebrews as belonging...
 * 17) Bat Kol JE (JE | ) A heavenly or divine voice which proclaims God&#39;s will or judgment, His deeds and His commandments to individuals or to...
 * 18) Bat-sheba (JE | ) A family of printers, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, whose name originates from the feminine name "Bath-sheba...
 * 19) Al-Hafiz abu Mohammed Abd Allah ibn Mohammed ibn al-Sid al-Batalyusi (JE | ) Arabian philologist; born at Badajos (whence his name al-Ba&#7789;alyusi = native of Badajos) in the second half of the eleventh...
 * 20) Batanaea (JE | ) -- See B384: Bashan

421 – 440

 * 1) Julius Bate (JE | ) English Biblical and Hebraic scholar; born about 1711; died at Arundel Jan. 20, 1771. He was educated at St. John&#39;s College...
 * 2) Bath (JE | ) City, borough, and capital of the county of Somersetshire, England. Though as old as Roman times&#8212;in which it was known...
 * 3) Bath << Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement (JE | ) -- See W81: Weights and Measures
 * 4) Bath-rabbim (JE | ) A term found only once in the Bible (Cant. vii. 4), apparently as the name of a gate at or near Heshbon. The passage is obscure...
 * 5) Bath-sheba JE (JE | ) the daughter of Eliam (II Sam. xi. 3; but of Ammiel according to I Chron. iii. 5), who became the wife of Uriah the Hittite...
 * 6) Stephen Bathori (JE | ) Prince of Transylvania 1571-76; king of Poland 1575-86, in succession to Henry of Anjou, who had left the kingdom in order...
 * 7) Baths, Bathing (JE | ) the clean body as an index and exponent of a clean soul, and thus of an approximation to holiness, is so natural a conception...
 * 8) Bathyra UNR (JE | ) Fortress and city founded by Zamaris, a distinguished Jew of Babylon, who about the year 20 crossed the Euphrates with 500...
 * 9) Bathyra >> Judah ben Bathyra JE (JE | ) A family whose name is probably identical with that of the city of Bathyra. The name is so rare that all persons called "Bathyra"...
 * 10) Batlanim (JE | ) Title of the ten men of leisure who, unoccupied by business of their own, devote their whole time to communal affairs and...
 * 11) Szidor B& (Breisach) (JE | ) Hungarian composer; born at Budapest Feb. 23, 1860. He passed through the realschule and polytechnic in his native city, and...
 * 12) Battery (JE | ) -- See A2029: Assault and Battery
 * 13) Battlements (JE | ) -- See H945: House
 * 14) Bruno Bauer (JE | ) Christian theologian, philosopher, and historian; born Sept. 6, 1809, at Eisenburg, duchy of Saxe-Altenburg; died April 13...
 * 15) George Lorenz Bauer (JE | ) Christian author of a theology of the Old Testament; born at Hippolstein, Bavaria, Aug. 14, 1755; died Jan. 13, 1806. In 1789...
 * 16) Julius Bauer (JE | ) Austrian humorist; born at Raab-Sziget, Hungary, Oct. 15, 1853. Bauer was educated at home until 1873, when he went to Vienna...
 * 17) Marie-Bernard Bauer (JE | ) Chaplain of the Tuileries, Paris; born 1829 at Budapest, Hungary; died 1898. Through the Carmelite priest Augustin (whose...
 * 18) Moritz Bauer (JE | ) Austrian physician; specialist in vaccination; born at Vienna Feb. 25, 1844. He received his education at his native town...
 * 19) B K& (JE | ) Hungarian jurist; born at Budapest Sept. 21, 1853, where he also finished his education; brother of Isidor Baumgarten. From...
 * 20) Emanuel Baumgarten (JE | ) Austrian author and communal worker; born in Kremsier Jan. 15, 1828. In his youth he frequented various yeshibot, acquiring...

441 – 460

 * 1) Isidor Baumgarten (JE | ) Hungarian jurist; born March 27, 1850, at Budapest, where he completed his education. Upon his graduation as doctor of law...
 * 2) Bausk (JE | ) District town, government of Courland, Russia. According to the census of 1897 the population was 6,543, including some three...
 * 3) Bavaria (JE | ) Kingdom in southern Germany. The settlement of Jewish merchants in Bavaria dates from the very earliest times. The legend...
 * 4) Rudolphus Baynus (Bayne) JE (JE | ) A Christian Hebraist of Cambridge; professor of the Hebrew language in Paris about the middle of the sixteenth century. He...
 * 5) Bayonne (JE | ) Fortified city in the department of Basses-Pyr&#233;n&#233;es, in the extreme southwest of France. It is divided into Great...
 * 6) Bayreuth (JE | ) Principality and capital city of the government district of Oberfranken, Bavaria. Mention is first made of the Jews of Bayreuth...
 * 7) Bazarjik (JE | ) A small town of eastern Rumelia, twenty-four miles from Philippopolis, containing a Jewish community of 1,700 in a total population...
 * 8) Abraham de Baze (JE | ) A prominent Jew in the principality of Orange, Burgundy, at the beginning of the sixteenth century. When the Jews were forced...
 * 9) Bdellium (JE | ) A precious stone mentioned in Gen. ii. 12 by the side of gold and the "shoham" stone as one of the chief products of Havilah...
 * 10) Be Abidan and Be Nazrefe (Be Nazrufe) (JE | ) Supposed names of two places where, according to the Talmud, disputations between Jews and non-Jews were held. The location...
 * 11) Be Rab (JE | ) A name which, in the Talmud, has various meanings and occurs in a variety of combinations. Its immediate signification, however...
 * 12) Earl of Beaconsfield (JE | ) -- See D387: Disraeli
 * 13) Baean, Bean (JE | ) A tribe destroyed by Judas Maccabeus (I Macc. v. 4; Josephus, "Ant." xii. 8, &#167; 1) on account of its persistent attacks...
 * 14) Beans (JE | ) ("pol"): the well-known vegetable, mentioned twice in the Old Testament. In II Sam. xvii. 28 it is referred to as a foodstuff...
 * 15) Bear (JE | ) ("dob"): An animal often mentioned in the Old Testament, and evidently not rare in Palestine and Syria. Next to the lion...
 * 16) Beard (JE | ) the modern Oriental cultivates his Beard as the sign and ornament of manhood: he swears by his Beard, touching it. The sentiment...
 * 17) Beaucaire (JE | ) City in the department of Gard, France. A somewhat important Jewish community was founded here as early as the beginning of...
 * 18) Beaucroissant (JE | ) Community of the canton of Rives, arrondissement of St. Marcellin ls&#232;re, France, a locality inhabited by Jews in 1337...
 * 19) Beaugency (JE | ) -- See F288: France
 * 20) Eliezer Beaugency (JE | ) -- See E211: Eliezer of Beaugency

461 – 480

 * 1) The Beautiful in Jewish Literature (JE | ) to the speculative theory of the beautiful the Jews can not be said to have contributed fruitful thoughts. In the economy...
 * 2) Bebai (JE | ) Name of a family, of whom, according to Ezra ii. 11 and I Esd. v. 13, 623 returned with Zerubbabel. According to Neh. vii...
 * 3) Bebai (JE | ) the Palestinian and the Babylonian Talmudim, as also the Palestinian Midrashim, frequently cite an amora named Bebai, sometimes...
 * 4) Bebai b. Abaye JE (JE | ) A Babylonian scholar of the fourth and fifth amoraic generations (fourth century), son of the celebrated Abaye Nachmani...
 * 5) R Bebai b. Abba (JE | ) A Palestinian haggadist, of uncertain date and rarely cited, whose name appears also as "Bebai Rabbah," "Beba Raba," and "Beba...
 * 6) Ben Bebai (JE | ) A priestly family or gild having charge of the preparation of wicks for the Temple lamps (Shek. v. 1; Yer. She&#7731...
 * 7) Moses ben Judah Bebri (JE | ) Ambassador from the sultan Mohammed IV. to King Charles XI. of Sweden; died May 29, 1673, at Amsterdam, where he was buried...
 * 8) Becher (JE | ) 1. Son of Benjamin, mentioned in Gen. xlvi. 21 and in the genealogical list of I Chron. vii. 6, 8, but does not occur in the...
 * 9) Alfred Julius Becher (JE | ) Austrian journalist, musician, and revolutionist; born at Manchester, England, in 1803 (or 1805); died at Vienna Nov. 23,...
 * 10) Siegfried Becher (JE | ) Austrian economist; born at Plany, Bohemia, Feb. 28, 1806; died at Vienna March 4, 1873. He studied at the universities of...
 * 11) Wolf Becher (JE | ) German physician and medical author; born at Filehne, province of Posen, Prussia, May 6, 1862. He received his education at...
 * 12) Joseph Bechor Schor (JE | ) See Joseph ben Nathan Bekor Shor.
 * 13) Bechorath (JE | ) An ancestor of Saul, and son of Aphiah (I Sam. ix. 1).J. Jr. G. B. L.           					  						  							  							  							This...
 * 14) Adolf Beck JE (JE | ) Austrian physician and professor of physiology at the University of Lemberg; born Jan. 1, 1863, in Cracow, Galicia, of poor...
 * 15) Jacob ben Enoch Beck (JE | ) Dayyan and shochet at Leipnik, Moravia, at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth He was...
 * 16) Karl Beck (JE | ) Austrian poet; born May 1, 1817, at Baja, Hungary; died April 10, 1879, at W&#228;hring, a suburb of Vienna. Although of Jewish...
 * 17) Klinos Beck (JE | ) Hungarian singer; born in 1868 at Budapest, where he attended commercial schools. He received the elements of a thorough musical...
 * 18) Matthew Frederick Beck (JE | ) German Orientalist and divine; born May 22, 1649; died Feb. 2, 1701. He studied Oriental languages under Vossius in Jena,...
 * 19) Miksa Beck de Madaras (JE | ) Hungarian financier; born at B&#225;cs-Madaras, 1838. His parents settled at Budapest when he was still a child; and it was...
 * 20) Moritz Beck (JE | ) Rumanian editor and schooldirector; born at Papa, Hungary. He is the editor of a bimonthly called "Revista Israelita," and...

481 – 500

 * 1) N& (JE | ) President of the Hungarian Hypotheken-Bank; born 1840 at B&#225;cs-Madaras; a younger brother of Miksa Beck. He was educated...
 * 2) Bed (JE | ) in early as in later times the Bed of the poor was the bare ground, and the bedclothes the simple gown worn during the day...
 * 3) Bedad (JE | ) Father of Hadad, one of the early kings of Edom (Gen. xxxvi. 35, and corresponding list I Chron. i. 46).J. Jr. G. B. L. ...
 * 4) Bedan (JE | ) 1. A judge mentioned by Samuel in his farewell address (I Sam. xii. 11) among the judges that delivered Israel from their...
 * 5) Jedaiah Bedaresi (JE | ) -- See A451: Bedersi
 * 6) Jassuda B& (JE | ) French jurisconsult; born at Aix, in Provence, in 1804; died there Feb. 4, 1882. He studied law at the Aix University; and...
 * 7) Gustave Emanuel B& (JE | ) French magistrate; born at Aix-les-Bains Feb. 20, 1817; died at Paris June 5, 1899. Graduating from the University of Paris...
 * 8) Alfred H Beddington (JE | ) English communal worker; born 1835; died in London Jan. 23, 1900. He was connected with the management of several Jewish institutions...
 * 9) Edward Henry Beddington (JE | ) Euglish communal worker; born 1819; died Oct. 31, 1872 He was a member of the council of the United Synagogue and of the committees...
 * 10) Maurice Beddington (JE | ) English communal worker; born in 1821; died at Carshalton Sept. 9, 1898. Throughout his life he was identified with most of...
 * 11) Abraham ben Isaac Bedersi JE (JE | ) Proven&#231;al poet; born at B&#233;ziers (whence his surname "Bedersi"&#8212;native of B&#233;ziers). The dates of his birth...
 * 12) Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi JE (JE | ) Poet, physician, and philosopher; born at B&#233;ziers (whence his surname Bedersi) about 1270; died about 1340. His Proven&#231...
 * 13) Bedford (JE | ) Borough and capital of the county of Bedfordshire, England; situated on the River Ouse. The earliest notice of Jews at Bedford...
 * 14) Bedikah (JE | ) Term employed in the Talmud and ritual codes denoting the rigid scrutiny by meansof which the fitness or unfitness of a person...
 * 15) Bee (JE | ) A honey-gathering insect frequently referred to in the Bible. Bee-keeping dates very far back, and it is quite probable that...
 * 16) Theodore Johann Beelen (JE | ) Professor of Oriental languages at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium; born at Amsterdam at the beginning of the...
 * 17) Beeliada (JE | ) A son of David (I Chron. xiv. 7), who in II Sam. v. 16 and I Chron. iii. 8 is called "Eliada." This is due to an intentional...
 * 18) Beelzebub (JE | ) Name of a demon mentioned in the New Testament as chief of the demons (Matt. xii. 24-27; Mark iii. 22; Luke xi. 15-18). When...
 * 19) Beer (JE | ) A halting-place of the Israelites near Arnon, in Moab, where they stopped during their wanderings in the desert (Num. xxi...
 * 20) Aaron Beer (JE | ) Chief cantor of the Jewish congregation of Berlin; born 1738; died Jan. 3, 1821, in the fiftieth year of his official capacity...