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501 – 520

 * 1) Adolf Beer (JE | ) Austrian historian and educator; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Feb. 27, 1831. While still young he came under the influence...
 * 2) Adolph Beer (JE | ) Austrian colonel; born 1833 in Prossnitz, Moravia; died Oct. 2, 1888, at Leibach, Carniola. He entered a school for military...
 * 3) Alexander Beer UNR (JE | ) Religious teacher and author in Munich, who wrote in 1826, under the direction of Abraham Bing, rabbi of W&#252;rzburg, and...
 * 4) Amalie Beer (JE | ) German philanthropist and communal worker; died at Berlin June 22 (24), 1854. She was the wife of the banker Jacob Herz Beer...
 * 5) August Beer + (JE | ) German mathematician; born at Trier July 31, 1825; died at Bonn on the Rhine Nov. 18, 1863. Beer was educated at the technical...
 * 6) Benjamin ben Elijah ha-Rofe Beer (JE | ) An Italian, doubtless an artist, who lived in Italy, probably at Ferrara, during the fifteenth century. On a bronze medal...
 * 7) Bernhard Beer (JE | ) German author; born July, 1801, at Dresden; died there July 1, 1861. His father, Hirsch Beer, and his mother, Clara, belonged...
 * 8) Berthold Beer (JE | ) Austrian medical writer; born at Br&#252;nn, Moravia, April 24, 1859. Educated at the high schools of his native city, first...
 * 9) Jacob Leyser Beer (JE | ) -- See M546: Meyerbeer, Giacomo
 * 10) Jules Beer (JE | ) Composer; son of Michael Beer, and nephew of Giacomo Meyerbeer; born 1833 in Paris, where he still (1902) resides. His first...
 * 11) Max Josef Beer (JE | ) Austrian pianist and composer; born at Vienna Aug. 25, 1851. He studied with Dessoff, and was still very young when, on the...
 * 12) Michael Beer (JE | ) German poet; brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer, the composer, and of Wilhelm Beer, the astronomer; born Aug. 19, 1800, in Berlin...
 * 13) Moses Shabbethai Beer (JE | ) An Italian rabbi; born at Pesaro; died in Rome, May 6, 1835, where he officiated as rabbi from the year 1825. On Dec. 18,...
 * 14) Peter Beer (educator) UNR (JE | ) Austrian educationalist; born Feb. 19, 1758, at Neubyd&#382;ow, Bohemia; died Nov. 8, 1838, at Prague. After having received...
 * 15) Rachel Beer + (JE | ) English journalist; daughter of Sassoon D. Sassoon. She was educated privately and spent two years in hospital training. SinceOct...
 * 16) Wilhelm Beer + (JE | ) Astronomer; brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer, the composer, and of Michael Beer, the poet; born in Berlin Jan. 4, 1797; died there...
 * 17) Isaiah Beer-Bing (JE | ) French journalist; born at Metz in 1759; died in Paris July 21, 1805. He entered early upon a literary career, and at the...
 * 18) Beer Elim (JE | ) A Moabite town mentioned in the lament for Moab (Isa. xv. 8). It is probably to be identified with the Beer of the desert...
 * 19) Beer Lahai Ro& (JE | ) Name of a well in the desert south of Palestine on the road to Shur (Gen. xvi. 7 et seq.), known as the stopping-place of...
 * 20) Beer-sheba + (JE | ) A place situated on the southern boundary of Judea (compare Judges xx. 1; II Sam. xvii. 11; I Kings xix. 3) which was allotted...

521 – 540

 * 1) Beera (JE | ) An Asherite (I Chron. vii 37).J. Jr. G. B. L.
 * 2) Beerah (JE | ) A descendant of Reuben, and head of the tribe at the time it was taken into captivity by Tiglath-pileser (I Chron.v. 6).J...
 * 3) Beeroth (JE | ) One of the cities of the Gibeonites (Josh. ix. 17) which after the conquest fell to the lot of Benjamin (Josh. xviii. 25)...
 * 4) Beet (JE | ) This well-known biennial root-plant is not mentioned in the Bible; according to de Candolle, it was not cultivated before...
 * 5) Lola Beeth (JE | ) Austrian operatic singer; born Nov. 23, 1862, at Cracow, Galicia. The daughter of a well-to-do merchant, she spent her youth...
 * 6) Beetle (JE | ) English equivalent in A. V. for the Hebrew "Chargol" (Lev. xi. 22; R. V. "cricket"). It is here mentioned as a kind of...
 * 7) Begging and Beggars (JE | ) Although it has made ample provision for the relief of the poor, the Mosaic legislation does not contain any prescription...
 * 8) & (JE | ) French physician and historical writer; born at Metz April 24, 1802 (according to some sources, April 23, 1803); died in Paris...
 * 9) Louis Jacques B& (JE | ) French surgeon and author; born at Li&#232;ge, Belgium, Nov. 2, 1793; died in Gorriquen, near Lacrouan, Bretagne, April 13...
 * 10) Martin Behaim (JE | ) See Zacuto, Abraham.
 * 11) Judah Behak (JE | ) Russo-Hebrew writer; born at Wilna Aug. 5, 1820; died at Kherson Nov. 14, 1900. He was the last of the champions of progress...
 * 12) Behalah (JE | ) A name commonly bestowed on several periods of great excitement in Lithuania and Poland, when, for various reasons, Jewish...
 * 13) Jacob Joseph ha-Rofe Behar (JE | ) Chief rabbi of Bagdad about 1843, and author of two Hebrew works; viz., "Shir &#7716;adash," a commentary upon the Song of...
 * 14) Moses Shabbethai Behar (JE | ) Rabbi and author; lived in Salonica at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Author of a Hebrew book, "Torat Mosheh" (Salonica...
 * 15) Nissim Behar + (JE | ) Palestinian educator; born at Jerusalem, 1848. His father, Rabbi Eliezer Behar, having migrated from Rumania to Palestine...
 * 16) Beheading (JE | ) As a regular capital punishment, Beheading does not seem to have been known to the Israelites before the time of the Greek...
 * 17) Behemoth (JE | ) -- See L275: Leviathan
 * 18) Issachar Falkensohn Behr (JE | ) Lithuanian poet; born in 1746 at Zamosc, government of Lublin, Russian Poland, or, according to Recke and Napiersky, at Salaty...
 * 19) Friedrich Jacob Behrend (JE | ) German physician; born at Neu-Stettin, Pomerania, June 12, 1803; died at Berlin May 30, 1889. He was educated for a mercantile...
 * 20) Gustav Behrend (JE | ) German dermatologist, medical writer, and professor of medicine at the University of Berlin; born at Neu-Stettin, Prussia...

541 – 560

 * 1) Henry Behrend (JE | ) Physician and communal worker; born in Liverpool in 1828; died in London Nov. 28, 1893. After completing a brilliant academical...
 * 2) Israel b. Behrend (JE | ) German physician and writer on medical subjects; born at Wittenburg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 1804; died at Rostock,March 13...
 * 3) Jacob Friedrich Behrend JE (JE | ) German jurist; born at Berlin Sept. 13, 1833; finished his studies in his native city at the university. He became "Gerichtsassessor"...
 * 4) Leffmann Behrends JE (JE | ) (LIEPMANN COHEN): Financial agent of the dukes and princes of Hanover; born about 1630; died at Hanover Jan. 1, 1714. His...
 * 5) Sir Jacob Behrens (JE | ) Municipal worker at Bradford, England; born at Pyrmont, Germany, Nov., 1806; died at Torquay April 22, 1889. His father, removing...
 * 6) Lazar Jakovlevich Behrmann (JE | ) Russian teacher and editor; born in Friedrichstadt, Courland, Sept. 26, 1830; died at St. Petersburg April 27, 1893. He received...
 * 7) Vasili Lazarovich Behrmann (JE | ) Russian lawyer; son of Lazar Jakovlevich Behrmann; born in Mitau, Russia, Sept. 15, 1862; died at Cairo, Egypt, March 18,...
 * 8) Isaac Wulfovich Beilin (JE | ) Russian teacher and physician; born in the first quarter of the nineteenth century; died at Wilna March 9, 1897. He was graduated...
 * 9) Solomon ben Abraham Beim (JE | ) Karaite Chakam and Chazan at Odessa; born there about 1820. Having received a good education from his father, who...
 * 10) Beirut, Syria (JE | ) City in Phenicia, at the mouth of the river of the same name, on the Mediterranean between Byblus and Sidon. In the El-Amarna...
 * 11) Moses Beiser (JE | ) Austrian physician and philanthropist; born in Lemberg April 7, 1807; died in the same city Oct. 12, 1880. At twenty he entered...
 * 12) Alfred Beit (JE | ) South African financier; born of a well-known Hamburg Jewish family in 1853. Beit went to Kimberley during the early days...
 * 13) Beja (JE | ) City in Portugal that had, next to Santarem, the oldest Jewish community in Portugal. In a foro (charter) granted to the city...
 * 14) Abraham of Beja (JE | ) -- See A400: Abraham of Beja
 * 15) Bekiin (JE | ) A small town in Palestine, between Jabneh and Lydda. It is mentioned as the seat of a Talmudical school founded by R. Joshua...
 * 16) Me& (JE | ) -- See B1057: Bikayim
 * 17) Joseph ben Isaac Bekor Shor (JE | ) -- See J479: Joseph ben Isaac Bekor Shor
 * 18) Saadia Bekor Shor (JE | ) Alleged son of Joseph Bekor Shor, and reputed anthor of a frequently published poem on the number of letters in the Bible...
 * 19) Bekorot (JE | ) Name of the fourth treatise&#8212;according to the order of the Mishnah&#8212;of Seder &#7730;odashim ("Holy Things"). The...
 * 20) Bel (JE | ) -- See B1: Ba&#39;al

561 – 580

 * 1) Bel and the Dragon (JE | ) An Apocryphal tract, placed, in the Septuagint and Theodotion, among the additions to the Book of Daniel (see Apocrypha)....
 * 2) Bela ((dabs to Zoara, List of minor Biblical figures)) >> Bela ben Beor (JE | ) An early king of Edom, having his royal seat at Dinhabah; son of Beor (Gen. xxxvi. 32, 33; I Chron. i. 43, 44). The name "Dinhabah"...
 * 3) Abraham ben Shalom Belais (JE | ) Rabbi and poet; born in Tunis 18th of Ab, 1773; died in London 1853. An eccentric personality, he had a curious career. First...
 * 4) Abraham Belasco (JE | ) English pugilist; born in London, England, April 9, 1797; died there. Belasco entered the prize-ring in 1817, when he defeated...
 * 5) David Belasco + (JE | ) American dramatist; born in San Francisco in 1858 of English parents. He is of the same family as the English actor known...
 * 6) David Belasco + (JE | ) -- See D160: James, David
 * 7) Israel Belasco (JE | ) English pugilist; born in London in 1800; a brother of the better-known Abraham or "Aby" Belasco. His first appearance in...
 * 8) Belfast (JE | ) Chief town of the county of Antrim, province of Ulster, Ireland. The Jewish community&#8212;a comparatively prosperous one&#8212...
 * 9) Belgium (JE | ) One of the smaller states of western Europe. Under the Romans it formed one of the six provinces of ancient Gaul and bore...
 * 10) Belgrade (JE | ) Capital of the kingdom of Servia, situated at the confluence of the Save and the Danube. After Sultan Sulaiman the Magnificent...
 * 11) Belial EL:JE (JE | ) A term occurring often in the Old Testament and applied, as would seem from the context in I Sam. x. 27; II Sam. xvi. 7, xx...
 * 12) Samuel Belias (Beliash) (JE | ) Envoy from Morocco in 1608. He delivered to Maurice of Nassau, governor-general of the Netherlands, credentials from Muley...
 * 13) Belid (or Belitus), son of Al&#232;gre (JE | ) Prominent French Jew; lived in Toulouse at the beginning of the thirteenth century. His name figures in many deeds of conveyance...
 * 14) Belief (JE | ) -- See F8: Faith
 * 15) Daniel Belilhos (JE | ) Preacher and teacher at Amsterdam. He had a thorough knowledge of Biblical and rabbinical literature, was a facile Hebrew...
 * 16) Jacob Belilhos (JE | ) Relative of Daniel Belilhos; rabbi at Venice about 1680. He wrote "Binyan Ne&#39;arim" (Edification of Youth) in refutation...
 * 17) David Belilla (JE | ) One of the leading Jews in Cranganore, sixteen miles north of Cochin, southern India, about the middle of the sixteenth century...
 * 18) Elijah ben Moses Belin I (JE | ) German commentator and liturgical poet of the fifteenth century. He was rabbi, cantor, and teacher of Talmud and Rabbinic...
 * 19) Elijah ben Moses Belin II (JE | ) German Talmudist; died at Worms Feb. 26, 1587, having taken an active part in the affairs of the Jewish community in that...
 * 20) Belinfante Family (JE | ) A Sephardic Jewish family who trace their ancestry to Joseph Cohen Belinfante, a fugitive from Portugal to Turkey in 1526...

581 – 600

 * 1) Isaac Cohen Belinfante (JE | ) Poet and preacher at the great synagogue &#39;Ez Hayyim, Amsterdam; died in that city Sept. 7, 1781; son of Elijah Cohen...
 * 2) Moses ben Zaddik ha-Kohen Belinfante (JE | ) A Jud&#230;o-Dutch journalist, translator, and writer of school-books; born at the Hague Sept. 24, 1761; died there June 29...
 * 3) Moses Eliezer Belinson (JE | ) Russian publisher and scholar; born at Odessa about 1835. He devoted himself chiefly to the study of the genealogy of old...
 * 4) Miriam Mendes Belisario (JE | ) English authoress and teacher; born in London about 1820; died there 1885. She was a granddaughter of Isaac Mendes Belisario...
 * 5) Israel Belkind (JE | ) Russian Hebraist and teacher; born in 1861 at Logoisk, government of Minsk, Russia; educated at the high school of Mohilev...
 * 6) Belkis, Queen of Sheba + (JE | ) -- See S566: Sheba, Queen of
 * 7) Gr& (JE | ) Russian political economist; born at Odessa 1865. While a student he joined the Jewish nationalists of Odessa, and lectured...
 * 8) Bella, wife of Joshua Falk (JE | ) A woman of Talmudic learning; born at Lemberg about the middle of the sixteenth century; died at a very advanced age at Jerusalem...
 * 9) Bellcayre (JE | ) City in Catalonia, Spain; had Jewish inhabitants in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It was the birthplace of David...
 * 10) Belle-Assez (JE | ) A daughter of Solomon ben Isaac, called "Rashi" (1040-1105,) and wife of R. Eliezer. Belle-Assez (not "Bellejeune," "Belle...
 * 11) Lazarus (Menahem) Belleli (JE | ) Greek polyglot writer and philologist; born in Corfu, Greece, Oct. 31, 1862. In 1877 he edited "&#39;A&#7789;&#7789;eret Ba&#7717...
 * 12) Johann Joachim Bellermann JE (JE | ) Christian Hebraist and professor of theology at Berlin University; born at Erfurt Sept. 23, 1754; died at Berlin Oct. 25,...
 * 13) Bellette (JE | ) Daughter of Menahem, and sister of Isaac ben Menahem called "the Great"; lived at Orleans in the middle of the eleventh century...
 * 14) Bells (JE | ) the use of Bells for summoning seems to have arisen in the Far East, and was not customary in countries bordering the Mediterranean...
 * 15) Bells of the Law (JE | ) -- See C902: Crown of the Law
 * 16) Bellsom (JE | ) See Moses of Narbonne.
 * 17) Ascarelli Bellucia (JE | ) -- See A1882: Ascarelli
 * 18) Belmont DAB (JE | ) Jewish family in Alzey, Rhein-Hessen. It traces its origin to Isaac Simon, who at the end of the eighteenth century took the...
 * 19) August Belmont + (JE | ) American financier; born in Alzey, Germany, in 1816; died in New York city, Nov. 24, 1890. He was educated at Frankfort-on-the-Main...
 * 20) Belmonte DAB (JE | ) Portuguese Dutch Marano family, which traced its descent from Don Iago y Sampayo, to whom in 1519 King Manuel of Portugal...

601 – 620

 * 1) B E Cola& (JE | ) Lawyer and writer in Surinam, Dutch West Indies, about the middle of the eighteenth century. He published "Over de Hervorming...
 * 2) Benvenida Cohen Belmonte (JE | ) Poetess; lived in London at the beginning of the eighteenth century. She was a sister of the M&#230;cenas Mordecai Nu&#241...
 * 3) Francisco de Ximenes Belmonte (JE | ) Dutch diplomat; lived at Amsterdam during the first half of the eighteenth century. He was a nephew of Baron Manuel de Belmonte...
 * 4) Isaac Nu& (JE | ) One of the most prominent of Oriental casuists; son of Moses Nu&#241;ez Belmonte; lived in Smyrna at the end of the eighteenth...
 * 5) Isaac Nu&#241;ez (Don Manuel de) Belmonte (JE | ) Dutch statesman; born in Amsterdam; died there in 1704. He was not a son of Jacob Belmonte who came from Madeira in 1614,...
 * 6) Jacob Israel Belmonte (JE | ) One of the founders of the Portuguese-Jewish community of Amsterdam, his colleagues being Jacob Tirado and Solomon Palache...
 * 7) Moses Belmonte JE (JE | ) Poet and translator; eighth child of Jacob Belmonte; born 1619; died at Amsterdam May 29, 1647. He was a pupil of Saul Morteira...
 * 8) Moses ben Joseph Belmonte (JE | ) Writer in Amsterdam during the first half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a poem in Hebrew prefixed to the...
 * 9) Solomon Abendana Belmonte (JE | ) Jurist; born in Hamburg 1843; died there March 19, 1888. He was educated at the Johanneum and the gymnasium in that city;...
 * 10) Belorado (JE | ) A city in the Spanish province of Burgos, which had Jewish inhabitants as early as the end of the eleventh century. The fuero...
 * 11) Belovar (JE | ) Town in Croatia, Austria. The Jewish community of Belovar was founded about 1877, when some fifty Jewish families settled...
 * 12) Belshazzar (JE | ) King of Babylon mentioned in Dan. v. and viii. as the son of Nebuchadnezzar and as the last king before the advent of the...
 * 13) Belteshazzar (JE | ) the name given to Daniel by the chief of the eunuchs (Dan. i. 7). The writer of the Book of Daniel sees in the first syllable...
 * 14) Diego de Hidalgo Beltran JE (JE | ) Poet; Spanish Marano of the seventeenth century; son of a Jew from Murcia. He was noted as an editor and commentator of Spanish...
 * 15) Bemah (JE | ) -- See A1283: Almemar
 * 16) Bemidbar (JE | ) the Hebrew name for the Book of Numbers (see Numbers)J. Jr. G. B. L.           					  						  							  							  							This...
 * 17) Bemidbar Rabbah (JE | ) the Midrash commentary upon Numbers, called in the editio princeps of Constantinople (1512) "Bemidbar Sinai Rabbah," and so...
 * 18) Bemoza& (JE | ) the "pizmon" of the "selichot" on the first Sunday in the octave preceding the New-Year, and therefore honored with a...
 * 19) Ben-abinadab (JE | ) Commissariat officer of Solomon who married a daughter of his royal master. He was stationed in the district of Dor; that...
 * 20) Ben Adret Solomon b. Abr (JE | ) -- See A857: Adret

621 – 640

 * 1) Ben Ami (JE | ) See Rabinovich, I. M.
 * 2) Ben-ammi (JE | ) Son of Lot, and ancestor of the Ammonites (Gen. xix. 38).G. G. B. L.           					  						  							  							  							This...
 * 3) Ben Asher (JE | ) -- See A72: Aaron ben Moses ben Asher
 * 4) Ben-Avigdor (JE | ) Russian Hebrew novelist and publisher; born in Zheludok, government of Wilna, in 1867. He received the usual Biblical and...
 * 5) Ben & JE (JE | ) A distinguished tanna of the first third of the second century. His full name was Simon b. &#39;Azzai, to which sometimes...
 * 6) Ben Bag-Bag (JE | ) An early tanna. At the end of the Mishnah Abot (v. 22, 23) two sentences are given concerning the study of the Torah; one...
 * 7) Ben-batiah (JE | ) A man, at the time of the teachers of the Mishnah ("&#39;Aruk," s.v. ), whose fist, being about the size of an adult&#39;s...
 * 8) Ben Chananja (JE | ) A periodical published by Leopold L&#246;w at Leipsic in 1844 with the subtitle "Bl&#228;tter f&#252;r Israelitisch-Ungarische...
 * 9) Ben Dama (JE | ) Tanna of the beginning of the second century; a nephew of Ishmael b. Elisha. His inclination toward Hellenism and the Jud&#230...
 * 10) Ben David (JE | ) -- See M510: Messiah
 * 11) Abraham Ben-David (JE | ) Chief rabbi of Serres, European Turkey, for 16 years (1825-41); born 1788, died 1841; author of a volume of responsa, "Tiferet...
 * 12) Ben-dekar (JE | ) Commissariat officer of Solomon, whose district in northern Dan included Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elon-Beth-hanan...
 * 13) Ben Durand (JE | ) Diplomat and intermediary between Abd-el-Kader and the French government; died at Algiers in September, 1839. Clauzel and...
 * 14) Ben Elasah (JE | ) A rich and prominent Palestinian of about the middle of the second century. He was the son-in-law of R. Judah ha-Nasi I.,...
 * 15) Ben Eliezer (JE | ) -- See B547: Behrmann, V. L.
 * 16) Solomon Ben-Ezra (JE | ) Chief rabbi of the Jewish community of Smyrna, Asia Minor, in the second half of the eighteenth century, having succeeded...
 * 17) Ben-hadad (JE | ) A name that would seem to mean simply "the son of Hadad," a well-known appellation of an Aramean and perhaps also of an Edomite...
 * 18) Ben H& (JE | ) -- See B626: Ben Bag-Bag
 * 19) Ben-hesed (JE | ) Commissariat officer of Solomon with residence in Aruboth in Judah (I Kings iv. 10, R.V.). His district was Hepher and Sochoh...
 * 20) Ben Hinnom (JE | ) See Gehinnom.

641 – 660

 * 1) Ben-hur DAB (JE | ) Commissariat officer of Solomon "in the hill country of Ephraim" (I Kings iv. 8, R. V.).J. Jr. G. B. L.           					 ...
 * 2) Eliezer ben Judah (JE | ) Palestinian editor; born at Luzhky, government of Wilna, Jan. 7, 1858; son of Judah Perlman&#8212;hence his name "Ben Judah...
 * 3) Ben Kafron (JE | ) One of the three disciples of Menahem ben Saruk (last third of tenth century) who defended the honor of their teacher against...
 * 4) Kalba Sabbua (JE | ) A rich and prominent man of Jerusalem who flourished about the year 70. According to the Talmud (Gi&#7789;. 56a), he obtained...
 * 5) Ben Kosiba (JE | ) -- See B237: Bar Kokba
 * 6) Ben La&#39;anah (JE | ) Author of an apocryphal book. The name occurs only once in Yer. (Sanh. x. 28a), where it is said that among the apocryphal...
 * 7) Ben Leb b. Zadik (JE | ) -- See H349: &#7716;asidim
 * 8) Ben Me& (JE | ) JE Palestinian nasi in the first half of the tenth century. His name was brought to light some twenty years ago by several fragments...
 * 9) Ben Melak (JE | ) See Solomon ibn Melek.
 * 10) Ben Naphtali JE (JE | ) Masorite; flourished about 890-940 C.E., probably in Tiberias. Of his life little is known. His first name is in dispute....
 * 11) Ben Nazar (JE | ) -- See O22: Odenathus
 * 12) Ben-oni (JE | ) A play upon the name "Benjamin." According to Gen. xxxv. 18, it was the name given by the dying Rachel to her son Benjamin...
 * 13) Ben Porath (JE | ) -- See M128: Manasseh ben Joseph of Ilye
 * 14) Alphabet of Ben Sira (JE | ) A small book containing a double list of proverbs&#8212;twenty-two Aramaic and twenty-two Hebrew&#8212;alphabetically arranged...
 * 15) Ben Temalion (JE | ) A demon mentioned in the Talmud. When the Jewish sages, with Simon b. Yochai at their head, went to Rome to obtain the...
 * 16) Ben-Tigla (JE | ) See Ben-La&#39;anah.
 * 17) Ben Uzziel (JE | ) -- See H773: Hirsch, Samson Raphael
 * 18) Ben Yasus (JE | ) See Isaac ibn Jasos ibn Saktar.
 * 19) Ben Zakkai (JE | ) -- See J362: Johanan b. Zakkai
 * 20) Judah L& (JE | ) First Jewish grammarian and lexicographer of modern times; born near Cracow 1764; died at Vienna March 12, 1811. He received...

661 – 680

 * 1) Ben Zita (JE | ) See Eleazar ben Zi&#7789;a abu al-Sari.
 * 2) Ben Zoma JE (JE | ) Tanna of the first third of the second century. His full name is Simon b. Zoma without the title "Rabbi"; for, like ben &#39...
 * 3) Benaiah (JE | ) One of the Bene Parosh who took foreign wives (Ezra x. 25); in I Esd. ix. 26 he is called "Baanias."2. One of the Bene Pahath-moab...
 * 4) Elijah Benamozegh JE (JE | ) Italian rabbi; born at Leghorn in 1822; died there Feb. 6, 1900. His father (Abraham) and mother (Clara), natives of Fez,...
 * 5) Franz Ferdinand Benary (JE | ) German Orientalist; born at Cassel March 22, 1805; died at Berlin Feb. 7, 1880. The exact date of Benary&#39;s conversion...
 * 6) Karl Albert Agathon Benary (JE | ) German philologist; born at Cassel 1807; died 1860; brother of Franz Ferdinand Benary. He received his education at the gymnasia...
 * 7) Baron L Benas (JE | ) English communal worker; born in Liverpool, England, 1844. Has been throughout his life a leading figure in the Liverpool...
 * 8) Benjamin Benash (JE | ) Cabalist of the beginning of the eighteenth century; son of Judah L&#246;b Cohen of Krotoschin, Prussia. He wrote the "Shem-&#7788...
 * 9) Bencemero (JE | ) Mediator, in 1526, between the Moors and the governor of Saffee and Azamor, employed by the Portuguese. He lived at Azamor...
 * 10) Isaac Bencemero (JE | ) Relative of Abraham Bencemero of Azamor, the deliverer of Nuno Fernandes d&#39;Atayde, commander-in-chief of Saffee. When...
 * 11) Lazarus Bendavid (JE | ) German philosopher and reformer; born in Berlin Oct. 18, 1762; died there March 28, 1832. In his younger days he supported...
 * 12) Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann (JE | ) German painter; born Dec. 3, 1811, in Berlin; died Dec. 27, 1889, at D&#252;sseldorf. His father was a prominent banker of...
 * 13) Rudolf Bendemann (JE | ) German painter; born at Dresden Nov. 11, 1851; died May, 1884, at Pegli, near Genoa, Italy; educated at the D&#252;sseldorf...
 * 14) Alfred Philipp Bender (JE | ) Rabbi at Cape Town, South Africa; born at Dublin, Ireland, 1863; educated by his father, Rev. Philipp Bender, for many years...
 * 15) Johann Heinrich Bender (JE | ) German jurist; born at Frankfort May or Sept. 29, 1797; died there Sept. 6, 1859. He studied law at Giessen, where he was...
 * 16) Bendery (JE | ) District town in the government of Bessarabia. In 1898 it had a Jewish population of 12,000 out of a total of 33,000 inhabitants...
 * 17) Menahem Manus Bendetsohn (JE | ) Russian pedagogue and Hebrew writer; born in Grodno 1817; died there March 20, 1888. After a careful Talmudic education in...
 * 18) Me& (JE | ) Talmudist at Arles, in the Provence, probably in the second half of the fifteenth century. He wrote the following works: (1)...
 * 19) Bendin (JE | ) Same as Piotrkow (Vol. x. p. 572).
 * 20) Bendit (JE | ) -- See B688: Benedict

681 – 700

 * 1) Frits Emil Bendix (JE | ) Danish violoncellist and composer; born Jan. 12, 1847, at Copenhagen. He first studied with F. Rauch, and later with Friedrich...
 * 2) Otto Bendix (JE | ) Danish oboist and pianist; born July 26, 1845, at Copenhagen; a brother of Frits Bendix. He first devoted himself to the study...
 * 3) Victor Emanuel Bendix (JE | ) Danish violin virtuoso, pianist, and composer; born May 17, 1851, at Copenhagen; brother of Frits Bendix. He early manifested...
 * 4) Bene-berak (JE | ) A town assigned to Dan (Josh. xix. 45). It was situated on the seacoast plain southeast of Joppa, and is to be identified...
 * 5) Bene Berith (JE | ) -- See B1203: B&#39;nai B&#39;rith
 * 6) Bene Mikra (JE | ) -- See K108: Karaites
 * 7) Salvatore de Benedetti (JE | ) Italian scholar; born April 18, 1818, at Novara, a town in Piedmont; died Aug. 4, 1891, at Pisa. In his time the public schools...
 * 8) Benedict VIII (JE | ) Pope from 1012 to 1024. A great persecution of the Jews took place during his pontificate. A terrible earthquake and hurricane...
 * 9) Benedict XII (Jacques de Novell&) (JE | ) A monk of the Cistercian order; elected pope Dec. 30, 1334; died April 25, 1342. Although he displayed the greatest zeal for...
 * 10) Benedict XIII (Pedro de Luna) (JE | ) Antipope; born at Aragon about 1334; elected Sept. 28, 1394; died at Pe&#241;iscola June 1 (according to some, Nov. 29), 1424...
 * 11) Benedict XIV (Prospero Lambertini) (JE | ) Two hundred and fifty-fourth pope; born at Bologna in 1675; elected pope Aug. 17, 1740; died May 3, 1758. This pope, who graciously...
 * 12) Sir Julius Benedict (JE | ) Composer, conductor, and teacher of music; born at Stuttgart Nov. 27, 1804; died in London June 5, 1885. Showing considerable...
 * 13) Marcus Benedict (JE | ) -- See B703: Benet
 * 14) Moses Benedict (JE | ) German banker and artist; born in 1772 at Stuttgart, Germany; died there July 8, 1852. He was destined for the profession...
 * 15) Naphtali Benedict (JE | ) -- See B703: Benet
 * 16) Benedict of York (JE | ) Leading member of the Jewish community in York, England, at the end of the twelfth century; died in 1189. Together with Josce...
 * 17) Benedictions (JE | ) Blessings, or prayers of thanksgiving and praise, recited either during divine service or on special occasions. They were...
 * 18) Coenraad Benedictus (JE | ) "Mohel" and surgeon at Surinam, Dutch Guiana, about 1830. Nothing is known of his life nor of his literary activity other...
 * 19) Edmund Benedikt (JE | ) Austrian jurist; born at D&#246;bling, near Vienna, Oct. 6, 1851. He studied law at the University of Vienna, and after graduation...
 * 20) Moritz Benedikt (JE | ) German journalist, publisher, and editor of the Vienna "Neue Freie Presse"; born at Gnatschitz, Moravia, May 27, 1849. On...

701 – 720

 * 1) Moriz Benedikt (JE | ) Austrian neurologist; born at Eisenstadt, Hungary, July 6, 1835. Upon his graduation from the University of Vienna, where...
 * 2) Rudolph Benedikt (JE | ) Austrian chemist; born at D&#246;bling July 12, 1852; died in Vienna Feb. 6, 1896. He was educated at the Polytechnic (HighSchool)...
 * 3) Mordecai b. Abraham Benet (Marcus Benedict) JE (JE | ) Talmudist and chief rabbi of Moravia; born in 1753 at Csurg&#972;, a small vil lage in the county of Stuhlweissenburg, Hungary...
 * 4) Naphtali ben Mordecai Benet (Benedict) (JE | ) Author and rabbi; born at the end of the eighteenth century; died October, 1857, at Schafa, Moravia, where he was rabbi. He...
 * 5) Benevento (JE | ) City in southern Italy; capital of the province of the same name; about 32 miles northeast of the city of Naples. Benjamin...
 * 6) Benfelden (JE | ) Town in Alsace, 17 miles from Strasburg. It was here, in the year 1348, when Europe was devastated by the Black Death (the...
 * 7) Theodor Benfey (JE | ) German Sanskritist and comparative philologist; born at N&#246;rten, Hanover, Jan. 28, 1809; became a convert to Christianity...
 * 8) Bengazi (JE | ) City of Tripoli, Africa, on the east coast of the Gulf of Sidra. Little is known of the first settlement of the Jews there...
 * 9) Arthur Benham (JE | ) Dramatic author; born 1875; died at Brighton, Eng., Sept. 8, 1895. He was a playwright of considerable promise, and was the...
 * 10) Beni-Israel (JE | ) Native Jews of India, dwelling mainly in the presidency of Bombay and known formerly by the name of Shanvar Telis ("Saturday...
 * 11) Abraham Benisch (JE | ) Journalist and theologian; born at Drosau, a small town eight miles southwest of Klattau, Bohemia, in 1811; died at Hornsey...
 * 12) Isaac b. Jacob Benjacob JE (JE | ) Russian bibliographer, author, and publisher; born in Ramgola, near Wilna, Jan. 10, 1801; died in Wilna July 2, 1863. His...
 * 13) Benjamin (JE | ) Youngest son of Jacob by Rachel, who died on the road between Beth-el and Ephrath, while giving him birth. She named him "Ben-oni"...
 * 14) J J Benjamin (Benjamin II) JE (JE | ) Rumanian traveler; born at Folticheni, Moldavia, in 1818; died at London May 3, 1864. Married young, he engaged in the lumber...
 * 15) R Benjamin (JE | ) A tanna of the second century, contemporary of R. Eleazar ben Shammu&#39;a, with whom he carried on some halakic controversy...
 * 16) Benjamin ben Aaron (JE | ) &#7716;asidic writer; lived toward the end of the eighteenth century. He was a pupil of Israel Ba&#39;al Shem-Tob, and...
 * 17) Benjamin Aaron b. Abraham (JE | ) -- See S853: Slonik, Benjamin Aaron b. Abraham
 * 18) Benjamin b. Abraham Anav (JE | ) -- See A1485: Anaw, Benjamin b. Abraham
 * 19) Benjamin Alessandro Kohen Vital (JE | ) -- See V93: Coen, Benjamin Alessandro Vitale
 * 20) Benjamin b. & (JE | ) A Palestinian halakist of the third amoraic generation, contemporary of R. &#7716;iyya b. Abba and senior to R. Hezekiah (Yer...

721 – 740

 * 1) Benjamin Asya (JE | ) A Babylonian rabbinic scholar of the third and fourth amoraic generations (fourth century), contemporary of Rab Joseph and...
 * 2) Sir Benjamin Benjamin (JE | ) Mayor of Melbourne; born at London in 1836. At the age of nine he accompanied his parents to Victoria. Associating himself...
 * 3) Benjamin of Canterbury (JE | ) English rabbi; disciple of Rabbi Tam; died at the beginning of the thirteenth century. He is mentioned in the list of medieval...
 * 4) David Benjamin (JE | ) Communal worker; born in London in 1815; died there June 25, 1893. In 1835 he emigrated to Australia; and, while in Tasmania...
 * 5) Benjamin b. David Cases (JE | ) -- See B725: Cases, Benjamin b. David
 * 6) Benjamin b. Elijah Beer (JE | ) -- See B726: Beer, Benjamin b. Elijah
 * 7) R Benjamin b. Giddel (JE | ) A Palestinian amora of the fourth generation (fourth century), contemporary of R. Acha III. (Yer. Ma&#39;as. Sh. v. 56b...
 * 8) Benjamin Ginzakayah (JE | ) A Babylonian scholar of the third century, contemporary of Mar Samuel. All that is known of him is that death overtook him...
 * 9) Hillel Benjamin (JE | ) Polish architect of the second half of the eighteenth century; born at Lasko. He was the builder of the synagogue at Lutomierz...
 * 10) Benjamin b. Ihi (JE | ) A Babylonian scholar of the second and third amoraic generations (third century); brother of Abbahu b. Ihi, the disciple of...
 * 11) Benjamin b. Isaac of Carcassonne (JE | ) This scholar is known only by his translation from Latin into Hebrew, under the title of "&#39;Ezer Eloah" (Divine Help),...
 * 12) Benjamin b. Japhet (JE | ) A Palestinian scholar of the third amoraic generation (third century), disciple of R. Johanan and senior to R. Ze&#239;ra...
 * 13) Benjamin b. Jehiel ha-Levi (JE | ) Polish Talmudist; lived at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Gib&#39;at Benjamin" (Benjamin&#39...
 * 14) Benjamin ben Joab (JE | ) Payye&#7789;an; lived at Montalcino in the fourteenth century. His printed poems are: (1) A metrical introduction to the "Nishmat"...
 * 15) Benjamin b. Judah Loeb Cohen (JE | ) -- See B668: Benasch, Benjamin
 * 16) Judah Philip Benjamin (JE | ) American statesman and lawyer; born at St. Croix, West Indies, in 1811; died in Paris, May 6, 1884. His parents were English...
 * 17) Benjamin b. Judah of Rome (JE | ) -- See B1375: Bozecchi
 * 18) R Benjamin b. Levi (JE | ) A Palestinian amora of the fourth century (third or fourth generation), junior contemporary of R. Ammi and R. Isaac (Yer....
 * 19) Benjamin b. Mattithiah (JE | ) Author of a large collection of responsa; flourished in Turkey in the first half of the sixteenth century. His occupation...
 * 20) Benjamin ben Me& (JE | ) Polish Talmudist and preacher; lived at Brody, Galicia, in the first half of the nineteenth century. He wrote "Imre Binyamin"...

741 – 760

 * 1) Benjamin b. Me& (JE | ) Rabbi at Salonica at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Although German by birth, being a descendant of Jacob Molin,...
 * 2) Michael Henry Benjamin (JE | ) South African politician; born in London in 1822; died June 11, 1879.Early in life Benjamin went to Cape Colony (about the...
 * 3) Moses Benjamin (JE | ) Beni-Israel military officer; born in 1830; died at Bombay in December, 1897. The son of a subedar (captain), he joined the...
 * 4) Benjamin ben Moses UNR (JE | ) Italian scholar; lived at Rome at the beginning of the fifteenth century. He took an active part in the administration of...
 * 5) Benjamin ben Moses Nahawendi JE (JE | ) Karaite scholar and philosopher; flourished at Nahawend, Persia, at the end of the eighth century and the beginning of the...
 * 6) Jerusalem Benjamin Nabon (JE | ) -- See B746: Nabon, Benjamin
 * 7) Benjamin & (JE | ) Polish Talmudist; died at Zolkiev May 25, 1810. He was rabbi in Clementow, and afterward head of the yeshibah at Zolkiev....
 * 8) Benjamin Salonica (JE | ) -- See S853: Slonik, Benjamin B. Aaron Abraham
 * 9) Samuel Benjamin (JE | ) French soldier in the Carlist expedition against Madrid in 1837; distinguished for bravery and remarkable devotion to Boulan...
 * 10) Benjamin b. Samuel of Coutances (JE | ) Talmudist and French liturgical poet of the first half of the eleventh century. The name of the place of his residence, Coutances...
 * 11) Benjamin the Shepherd (JE | ) A shepherd who lived in Babylonia at the beginning of the third century. The Talmud has transmitted the formula of a blessing...
 * 12) Simeon Benjamin (JE | ) English Hebrew grammarian, who published in 1773 at London "Da&#39;at &#7730;edoshim" (Knowledge of the Holy), a short Hebrew...
 * 13) Benjamin of Tiberias (JE | ) A rich Jew who, when the emperor Heraclius in 628 went to Jerusalem during the Persian war, was accused of hostility toward...
 * 14) Benjamin of Tudela (JE | ) A celebrated traveler of the twelfth century. Beyond his journey, no facts of his life are known. In the preface to his itinerary...
 * 15) William Benjamin (JE | ) English pugilist; born at Northleach, Gloucestershire, England, in 1826. Benjamin&#39;s first match was with Tom Sayers, the...
 * 16) Benjamin Wolf b. Aaron (JE | ) -- See S1020: Spiro
 * 17) Wolf b. Daniel Benjamin (JE | ) Rabbi in Chomsk, government of Grodno, Russia. He published "Nachlat Binyamin" (Benjamin&#39;s Inheritance), festival...
 * 18) Benjamin Wolf Eleazar (JE | ) -- See L569: L&#246;w, Benjamin Wolf
 * 19) Benjamin Wolf ben Isaac Levi (JE | ) Cabalist; lived at Leitmeritz, Bohemia, in the middle of the seventeenth century. He is the author of a work, "Amarot Tehorot"...
 * 20) Benjamin Wolf Rapoport (JE | ) -- See B760: Rapoport, Benjamin Wolf

761 – 780

 * 1) Benjamin Wolf ben Zebi Hirsch (JE | ) Jud&#230;o-German writer; lived in the eighteenth century in Germany. He was the author of "Sefer ha-&#7716;eshek" (Book...
 * 2) Benjamin Yerushalmi (JE | ) Exile from Jerusalem who lived at Bordeaux; said to have been one of the authors of Wehu Rachum, recited in the morning...
 * 3) Benjamin ha-Zaddik (JE | ) A philanthropist of the tannaitic period. According to a Baraita, he was manager of certain charitable funds. Once there appeared...
 * 4) Benjamin Ze& (JE | ) -- See B764: Romaner, Benjamin Ze&#39;eb B. Samuel
 * 5) Benjamin Ze& (JE | ) Russian Talmudist; lived at the end of the eighteenth century; reputed pupil of Elijah b. Solomon of Wilna, and of the latter&#39...
 * 6) Benjamin Ze& (JE | ) Dayyan at Pinczow in the latter half of the seventeenth and at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He edited the Shul&#7717...
 * 7) Benjamin ben Zerah (JE | ) Payye&#7789;an; lived in southeastern Europe in the middle of the eleventh century. He is called by the later payye&#7789...
 * 8) Louis Benloew (JE | ) French philologist; born at Erfurt Nov. 15, 1818; died at Dijon February, 1900. He studied at the universities of Berlin,...
 * 9) Nathan Lazarus Benmohel (JE | ) the first conforming Jew obtaining a degree in a British university; born at Hamburg about 1800; died in 1869. He settled...
 * 10) Henry Bennett (JE | ) Sergeant in the British army; born in England 1863; killed in action during the war with the Afridis, November, 1897. He was...
 * 11) Solomon Bennett (JE | ) English theologian and engraver; born in Russia before 1780; died after 1841. He wrote a considerable number of works on Biblical...
 * 12) Joseph Benoliel (JE | ) Portuguese translator; lived at Lisbon. He wrote the small book, "Porat Yosef" (Joseph&#39;s Fruitful Bough; see Gen. xlix...
 * 13) Don Judah Benoliel (JE | ) Moroccan and Austrian consul at Gibraltar; president of the Jewish community there, and of the chamber of commerce; died in...
 * 14) Benschen (JE | ) A Jud&#230;o-German word meaning either to say a blessing or to bless a person. It is derived from the Latin "benedicere"...
 * 15) Simon Bensheim (JE | ) Member of the grandducal Oberrat (Upper House) of Baden; born at Mannheim Oct. 14, 1823; died there Oct. 26, 1898. Extremely...
 * 16) Herbert Bentwich (JE | ) English lawyer and communal worker; born in London 1856; educated at University College and the University of London (LL.B...
 * 17) Benveniste >> Joshua ben Israel Benveniste JE, Vidal Benveniste JE (JE | ) the name of an old, rich, and scholarly family of Narbonne, the numerous branches of which were found all over Spain and the...
 * 18) Benveniste ben Hiyyah ben Aldayyan (JE | ) Physician and religious poet of the thirteenth century. Zunz mentions three metrical "bakKashahs" (supplications)...
 * 19) Benveniste ben Jacob (JE | ) One of the officers of the society BikKur &#7716;olim of the Spanish synagogue in Venice toward the end of the...
 * 20) Benveniste b. Labi (JE | ) A Jewish M&#230;cenas; son of "Prince" Solomon ibn Labi de la Caballeria; lived at Saragossa, later at Alca&#241;iz, where...

781 – 800

 * 1) Benveniste de Porta JE (JE | ) Bailie ("bayle") of Barcelona, Spain, and brother of Nachmanides (whose secular name was Bon Astruc de Porta; see Gr&#228...
 * 2) Benedix Benzion (JE | ) Russian physician and missionary to the Jews; born in a small town in the government of Kiev, Russia, in 1839. He spent several...
 * 3) Benjamin Ze& (JE | ) Talmudist; lived probably in Galicia in the middle of the eighteenth century. He was the author of "&#39;Et Razon" (Time...
 * 4) Samuel Benzion (JE | ) -- See E363: Endler, Samuel
 * 5) Der Beobachter (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 6) Beor (JE | ) 1. Father of Bela, king of Edon (Gen. xxxvi. 32; I Chron. i. 43). 2. Father of Balaam (Num. xxii. 5; xxiv. 3, 15; xxxi. 8...
 * 7) Bequest (JE | ) A gift of personal property in a last will and testament. Modern English law and American law distinguish between a bequest...
 * 8) Bera (JE | ) King of Sodom; one of the five kings constituting the confederacy under Amraphel (Gen. xiv. 2). Ber. Rabbah 42 playfully interprets...
 * 9) Jacob [b Moses?] Berab JE (JE | ) Talmudist and rabbi; born at Moqueda near Toledo, Spain, in 1474; died at Safed April 3, 1546. He was a pupil of Isaac Aboab...
 * 10) Berachah (JE | ) 1. A Benjamite who came to David and joined his forces at Ziklag (I Chron. xii. 3). 2. A valley where Jehoshaphat and his...
 * 11) Berachah "the Hero" (JE | ) A Polish Jewish soldier who was killed in the battle near Moscow, in the Polish war against Russia in 1610. He was the son...
 * 12) Berah Dodi (JE | ) Three piyyu&#7789;im forming the Ge&#39;ullah in the morning service of the first two days of Passover, and of Saturday between...
 * 13) Berakah (JE | ) -- See B697: Benedictions
 * 14) Berakot (JE | ) the name of the first treatise of Seder Zeraim, the first Order of the Talmud. By the term "Berakot" a special form of prayer...
 * 15) Jonah Borisovich Berchin (JE | ) Writer on early Russian-Jewish history; born at Krichev, government of Mohilev, 1865; died at Moscow Aug., 1889. Up to the...
 * 16) Berdyansk (JE | ) District town and seaport in the government of Taurida Crimea, Russia, on the northwestern coast of the Sea of Azof, at the...
 * 17) Berdychev (JE | ) A city in the government of Kiev, Russia; in historical and ethnographical relations part of Volhynia. It has one of the largest...
 * 18) Berdyczew (JE | ) -- See B797: Berdychev
 * 19) Micah Joseph Berdyczewski (JE | ) Hebrew author; born in 1865. He represents, to some extent, the Nietzsche school of philosophy in the Hebrew literature of...
 * 20) Berea (JE | ) Place where Bacchides encamped (I Macc. ix. 4). From the context it would seem to be near Jerusalem, though some scholars...

801 – 820

 * 1) Berebi (JE | ) Title of learning in the period of the Tannaim, conferred especially upon scholars who were the sons of scholars, or upon...
 * 2) R Berechiah I (JE | ) A Palestinian scholar of the second amoraic generation (third century), always cited without the accompaniment of patronymic...
 * 3) R Berechiah II (JE | ) A Palestinian amora, of the fourth century. In the Talmud he is invariably cited by his pr&#230;nomen alone; but in the Midrashim...
 * 4) Berechiah Berak b. Eliakim Goetzel (JE | ) A grandson of Berechiah b. Isaac; rabbi and preacher of Klementow, Poland, and Jaworow, Galicia; lived toward the end of the...
 * 5) Berechiah Berak b. Isaac Eisik JE (JE | ) Galician preacher; died in 1664 at Constantinople. He was educated by Nathan Shapira, rabbi of Cracow, and was appointed preacher...
 * 6) Berechiah ben Isaac Gerundi (JE | ) Payye&#7789;an; lived in the twelfth century, probably at Lunel. Although he wrote nothing on the Halakah, his brother Zerahiah...
 * 7) Berechiah ben Natronaikrespia ha-Nakdan JE (JE | ) Fabulist, exegete, ethical writer, grammarian, and translator; probably identical with Benedictus le Puncteur, an English...
 * 8) Berechiah de Nicole (JE | ) English Tosafist; died after 1256. He was of the well-known Hagin family, and son of Rabbi Moses ben Yom-Tob of London...
 * 9) Bered (JE | ) A son of Ephraim (I Chron. vii. 20). In the genealogy of Num. xxvi. 35 his place is taken by Becher. It may be that Bered...
 * 10) Joselovich Berek (JE | ) Polish colonel under Kosciusko and Napoleon I.; born at Kretingen, government of Kovno, Russia, in the second half of the...
 * 11) Martin Berendson (JE | ) German publisher; born at Hamburg in 1824; died June 24, 1899. He was the head of the well-known bookselling and publishing...
 * 12) Gottlieb Michael Berendt (JE | ) German geologist; born in Berlin Jan. 4, 1836. He studied the science of mining; and in his work, "Die Diluvialablagerungen...
 * 13) Berenger of Narbonne (JE | ) Viscount of Narbonne in the eleventh century. In the midst of the important wars of that century waged for the assertion of...
 * 14) Berenice (JE | ) City of the Cyrenaic Pentapolis, at the eastern extremity of the great Syrtis, near the river Lathon. The settlement of the...
 * 15) Berenice (JE | ) Daughter of Costobar and Salome, sister of Herod I. Her marriage with her cousin Aristobulus was unhappy. The husband, being...
 * 16) Berenice (JE | ) Daughter of Herod Agrippa I. and of Cypros, the daughter of Phasael; born in 28. She was first married to Marcus, son of the...
 * 17) Bernhard Berenson (JE | ) Art critic and historian; born at Wilna, Russia, June 26, 1865. He was educated in America, and in 1887 was graduated at Harvard...
 * 18) Issachar Baer b. Samuel Berenstein (JE | ) Dutch rabbi; born in Leeuwarden, Holland, 1808; died in the Hague Dec. 13, 1893. He was the son of Rabbi Samuel b. Berish...
 * 19) Samuel ben Berish Berenstein (JE | ) Dutch rabbi; born in Hanover about 1767; died in Amsterdam Dec. 21, 1838. He was the descendant of a long line of distinguished...
 * 20) Bererah (JE | ) the concept "Bererah," known to the later Babylonian Amoraim, is a development of the law of joint property, and, just as...

821 – 840

 * 1) Bereshit (JE | ) -- See G137: Genesis
 * 2) Bereshit Rabbah JE (JE | ) Expository Midrash to the first book of the Pentateuch, assigned by tradition to the amora Hoshaiah, commonly Osha&#39;yah...
 * 3) Bereza (JE | ) Town in the district of Pruszhany, government of Grodno, Russia; situated on the river Jazelda, on the road between Brest-Litovsk...
 * 4) Berezino (JE | ) Village of Russia, in the government of Minsk, having a population (1898) of 1,900, almost exclusively Jews (1,824). About...
 * 5) Berg (JE | ) An independent duchy until 1815; at present part of the Prussian Rhine province. Jews settled here at an early period. In...
 * 6) Bergamo (JE | ) City in northern Italy. Here, as in other cities subject to the government of the Venetian republic, the right of residence...
 * 7) Joseph Bergel JE (JE | ) Neo-Hebraic writer of the first part of the nineteenth century. He was a private teacher at Prossnitz, Moravia. In 1826 and...
 * 8) Joseph Bergel JE (JE | ) Jud&#230;o-German writer, probably of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Ein Sch&#246;n G&#246;ttlich Lied," a...
 * 9) Joseph Bergel (Bergl) JE (JE | ) Hungarian physician and author; born Sept. 2, 1802, at Prossnitz, died 1885 at Kaposvar. He was well versed in rabbinical...
 * 10) Yom-Tob Bergel (JE | ) Merchant and communal worker of Gibraltar; born in 1812; died at Gibraltar Oct. 14, 1894. He was one of the wealthiest and...
 * 11) Emile de Berger (JE | ) Austrian oculist and medical author; born at Vienna Aug. 1, 1855. He received his education at the University of Vienna.From...
 * 12) Ernst Berger (JE | ) Austrian painter; brother of the oculist Baron Emile Berger; born at Vienna Jan. 3, 1857; educated at the gymnasium, the commercial...
 * 13) Oscar Berger (JE | ) German electrotherapist and medical author; born at M&#252;nsterberg, Silesia, Nov. 24, 1844; died at Ober-Salzbrunn, Silesia...
 * 14) Philippe Berg& (JE | ) Christian professor of Hebrew; member of the Acad&#233;mie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; born at Beaucourt, Haut-Rhin...
 * 15) Samuel Berg& (JE | ) French professor of Protestant theology; secretary and librarian of the Facult&#233; de Th&#233;ologie Protestante, Paris...
 * 16) Michael Bergson (JE | ) Musician; born in Warsaw 1818; died at London March 9, 1898. He was a member of an eminent Jewish family of Warsaw, with which...
 * 17) Jonas Bergtheil (JE | ) Pioneer of Natal, South Africa; born in England about 1815; died 1902; emigrated to South Africa about 1844, at a time when...
 * 18) Beriah (JE | ) A son of Asher, representing, however, not an individual, but a clan (Gen. xlvi. 17; Num. xxvi. 44, 46). A member of the clan...
 * 19) Beriah JE (JE | ) Cabalistic expression for the second of the four celestial worlds of the Cabala, intermediate between the World of Emanation...
 * 20) Berit Milah (JE | ) -- See C514: Circumcision

841 – 860

 * 1) Berkamani (JE | ) Physician and author; lived probably in the first half of the thirteenth century, and wrote for an emir (Man&#7779;ur?) a...
 * 2) Josselewicz Berko (JE | ) -- See B810: Berek, Joselovich
 * 3) Lajos Berkovits (JE | ) Hungarian violinist; born at Budapest in 1874. Here he passed through the schools and finished his musical education. He was...
 * 4) Josef Berkowicz (JE | ) Officer in the Polish army; son of Colonel Berek (Berko). He took part in the battle of Kock, in 1809, in which his father...
 * 5) Benzion Judah ben Eliahu Berkowitz (JE | ) Russian Hebrew scholar; born July 23, 1803; died at Wilna May 11, 1879. He is the author of the following works devoted to...
 * 6) Henry Berkowitz 1816 (JE | ) Russian-English educator; born at Warsaw in 1816; died in Gravesend April 5, 1891. He came to London in 1841, and attracting...
 * 7) Henry Berkowitz (JE | ) American rabbi; born at Pittsburg, Pa., March 18, 1857. He was educated at the Central High School of his native city, at...
 * 8) Anton (Aron Wolf) Berlijn (JE | ) Conductor and composer; born at Amsterdam May 21, 1817; died there Jan. 16, 1870. He wrote nine operas, seven ballets, an...
 * 9) Berlin (JE | ) Capital of Prussia and of the German empire. Though mentioned as early as the year 1225, it was an unimportant place during...
 * 10) Berlin Congress (JE | ) A meeting of the great European powers at Berlin between June 13 and July 13, 1878, to settle questions arising out of the...
 * 11) Abraham Berlin (JE | ) -- See A484: Abraham ben Judah Berlin
 * 12) Aryeh L& (JE | ) German rabbi; born 1738 at F&#252;rth, Bavaria; died at Cassel May 21, 1814. When quite young Berlin was dayyan in his native...
 * 13) David b. (Judah) Loeb Berlin (JE | ) Rabbi of the three united congregations, Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbeck; born probably at Eisenstadt, Hungary, in the second...
 * 14) Fanny Berlin (JE | ) -- See B849: Berlin
 * 15) Isaiah b. (Judah) Loeb Berlin JE (JE | ) the most eminent critic among the German Talmudists of the eighteenth century; born in Eisenstadt, Hungary, about October...
 * 16) Jacob Berlin (JE | ) German Talmudist; born 1707, probably at Berlin; died 1749 at F&#252;rth, Bavaria. He was a pupil of Jacob ha-Kohen, author...
 * 17) Leo Berlin (JE | ) Russian lawyer; son of Moses Berlin; born at Vitebsk Nov. 22, 1854; received his education (1862-72) at a private school in...
 * 18) Moses (Moisei Josifovich) Berlin (JE | ) Scholar, communal worker, and government official; born at Shklov, Russia, 1821; died in St. Petersburg March 25, 1888. He...
 * 19) Nahman ben Simhah Berlin (JE | ) A polemical writer against reform; lived at Lissa, Germany, at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth...
 * 20) Naphtali Zebi Judah Berlin (JE | ) Head of the yeshibah of Volozhin, Russia; born at Mir, in the government of Minsk, in 1817; died at Warsaw Aug. 10, 1893....

861 – 880

 * 1) Noah Hayyim Zebi Hirsch b. Abraham Me& (JE | ) German Talmudist and rabbi; born at F&#252;rth 1737; died at Altona March 5, 1802. He was the son of a well-to-do and learned...
 * 2) Rudolf Berlin (JE | ) German ophthalmologist; born May 2, 1833, at Friedland, Mecklenburg-Strelitz; died at Rostock Sept. 12, 1897. He received...
 * 3) Samuel Berlin (JE | ) German jurist; born at Bamberg Oct 11, 1807; died at F&#252;rth Dec. 21, 1896. He was a son of L&#246;b Berlin, of Bamberg...
 * 4) Saul Berlin JE (JE | ) German Talmudist, and one of the most learned Jews of the Mendelssohnian period; born (at Glogau?) 1740; died in London Nov...
 * 5) Abraham (Adolf) Berliner JE (JE | ) German theologian; historian; born in Obersitzko, province of Posen, Prussia, May 2, 1833; received his first education under...
 * 6) Emil Berliner (JE | ) American inventor; born in Hanover, Germany May 20, 1851. He was educated at the public schools of his native place and at...
 * 7) Jekuthiel Berman (JE | ) Russian-Hebrew novelist; born in 1825; died in Moscow about 1889. He held for over thirty years a responsible position in...
 * 8) Adolf Bermann (JE | ) Hungarian writer; born at Presburg in 1867. After completing the study of law he became an employee of the Hungarian Credit...
 * 9) Issachar ha-Levi Bermann (JE | ) Philanthropist; born at Halberstadt Nisan 24, 1661; died there Tammuz 24, 1730; son of Judah Lehmann. At an early age he displayed...
 * 10) Moriz Bermann (JE | ) Austrian author; born at Vienna March 16, 1823; died there June 12, 1895. Bermann, who came of a family of publishers, was...
 * 11) Bern (JE | ) Capital of the Swiss Confederation. Jews resided within its territory as early as the sixth century, but the first documentary...
 * 12) Maximilian Bern (JE | ) German author; born at Kherson, South Russia, Nov. 18, 1849, where his father practised medicine. On the latter&#39;s death...
 * 13) Olga Bern (JE | ) Austrian author; wife of Maximilian Bern; born at Vienna July 5, 1865. She went on the stage under her own name, Wohlbr&#252...
 * 14) Abraham Nu& (JE | ) Spanish martyr; burned at the stake by the Inquisition of Cordova May 3, 1655. His martyrdom is celebrated in a work published...
 * 15) Isaac (Marcus) de Almeyda Bernal (JE | ) Spanish martyr; born in Montilla 1633; burned at the stake in St. Iago de Compostella(Galicia, Spain), in the month of March...
 * 16) Maestro Bernal (JE | ) A Marano, ship-physician on the first voyage of Columbus to America. He had lived in Tortosa and had undergone public penance...
 * 17) Ralph Bernal (JE | ) Politician and art-collector; died in 1854. His ancestors were of Spanish-Jewish origin. His father was Jacob Israel Bernal...
 * 18) Abraham Bernard (JE | ) Russian physician; born in 1762. He studied at London in 1789; practised medicine in Hasenpoth, Courland, Russia; became district...
 * 19) Bernard of Clairvaux (JE | ) Church father; born 1091, near Dijon, France; died at Clairvaux Aug. 20, 1153. He was originally a monk of the Cistercian...
 * 20) Bernard (JE | ) German poetess and authoress; born at Breslau, Silesia, about 1770; died about 1814. On her mother&#39;s side Bernard was...

881 – 900

 * 1) Bernard of Gordon (JE | ) Christian physician; born probably at Gordon in Guienne, department of Lot, France; professor of medicine at Montpellier about...
 * 2) Hermann Bernard (JE | ) Teacher of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge, England; born of Austrian parents at Uman, or Human, a small town in southern...
 * 3) Bernardinus of Feltre (JE | ) Franciscan friar; born at Feltre, Italy, in 1439; died Sept. 28, 1494. He was one of the bitterest enemies the Jews ever had...
 * 4) Isaac Bernays JE (JE | ) Chief rabbi in Hamburg; born 1792 at Mayence; died May 1, 1849, in Hamburg. After having finished his studies at the University...
 * 5) Jacob Bernays (JE | ) German philologist; born at Hamburg Sept. 18, 1824; died at Bonn May 26, 1881. He was the eldest son of the Chakam Isaac...
 * 6) Michael Bernays (JE | ) German historian of literature; born at Hamburg Nov. 27, 1834; died at Carlsruhe Feb. 25, 1897; son of &#7716;akam and brother...
 * 7) Bernburg (JE | ) -- See A1532: Anhalt
 * 8) Julius D Bernd (JE | ) American merchant and philanthropist; born in 1830; died at Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 30, 1892. Bernd was a successful business...
 * 9) Simon Bernfeld (JE | ) German publicist and rabbi; born in Stanislau, Galicia, Jan. 6, 1860. His father, who was a good rabbinical scholar and also...
 * 10) Martin Bernhardt (JE | ) German neuropath and medical author; born at Potsdam April 10, 1844. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native place...
 * 11) Sarah Bernhardt (Rosine Bernard) (JE | ) French actress; born at Paris Oct. 22, 1844, of Dutch Jewish parentage. She was received into the Roman Catholic Church at...
 * 12) Gottfried Bernhardy (JE | ) German philologist and historian of literature; born at Landsberg in the Neumark, province of Brandenburg, March 20, 1800...
 * 13) Abram C Bernheim (JE | ) American lawyer; born at New York city Feb. 1, 1866; died there July 24, 1895. Bernheim was educated in public schools of...
 * 14) Ernst Bernheim (JE | ) German historian; born at Hamburg Feb. 19, 1850. On completing his elementary and preparatory studies, he attended the universities...
 * 15) Hippolyte Bernheim JE (JE | ) French physician and neurologist; born at M&#252;lhausen, Alsace. He received his education in his native town and at the...
 * 16) Solomon Bernich (JE | ) Scholar, poet, and adventurer of doubtful origin, who appeared in Holland about 1670 and attracted much attention. He spoke...
 * 17) Julie Bernot (JE | ) -- See J712: Judith, Mme
 * 18) Leopold Bernard Bernstamm EL:JE (JE | ) Russian sculptor; born at Riga April 20, 1859. At the age of thirteen he entered the studio of Prof. D. Jensen at Riga, and...
 * 19) Aaron (David) Bernstein (JE | ) German publicist, scientist, and reformer; born April 6, 1812, in Danzig; died Feb. 12, 1884, in Berlin. His was one of the...
 * 20) Béla Bernstein (JE | ) Hungarian rabbi and author; born in V&#225;rpalota, Hungary, 1868; was graduated as Ph.D. at Leipsic, 1890, and as rabbi at...

901 – 920

 * 1) Bernard Bernstein (JE | ) Actor; born at Warsaw in 1861. He sang in the chorus of the Polish opera of that city, and appeared there as a comedian (1882)...
 * 2) Eduard Bernstein (JE | ) Socialist leader, editor, and author; born in Berlin 1850. Beginning life as a clerk in a bank, Bernstein&#39;s mind became...
 * 3) Elsa Bernstein JE (JE | ) German dramatist; daughter of Heinrich Porges, the friend of Richard Wagner; born at Vienna; educated at Munich; and, for...
 * 4) Hermann Bernstein (JE | ) Russian-American writer; born Sept. 20, 1876, at Shirwindt, Russia. When he was seven years of age his parents moved to Mohilev...
 * 5) Hirsch Bernstein (JE | ) Russian-American editor and publisher; born in Vladislavov (Neustadt-Schirvint), government of Suvalki, near the Prussian...
 * 6) Hugo Karl Bernstein (JE | ) Hungarian dramatist; born in Budapest 1808; died at Milan 1877. He began the study of medicine, but lacking means sufficient...
 * 7) Ignacy Bernstein (JE | ) Polish bibliophile and writer on proverbs; born at Vinnitza, government of Podolia, Jan. 30, 1836, where his father Samson...
 * 8) Ignati Abramovich Bernstein (JE | ) Russian railroad engineer; born in Kremenetz, government of Volhynia, 1846; killed July 5, 1900, on the steamship "Odessa...
 * 9) Israel Bernstein (JE | ) Russian Hebrew publicist; born about the middle of the nineteenth century at Velizh, government of Vitebsk; studied pharmacy...
 * 10) Joseph ("Joe") Bernstein (JE | ) American pugilist; born in November, 1877, in New York city. He first appeared in the ring in 1894, during which year he gained...
 * 11) Joseph Bernstein (JE | ) Polish physician; born at Warsaw in 1797; died there in 1853. After graduating from the Warsaw Lyceum in 1815, hestudied medicine...
 * 12) Julius Bernstein (JE | ) German physiologist and medical writer; born at Berlin Dec. 8, 1839; son of Aaron Bernstein (1822-84). He studied at the University...
 * 13) Karl Ilyich Bernstein (JE | ) Russian jurist, professor of Roman law; born at Odessa Jan. 13, 1842; died at Berlin in 1894. He belongs, on the maternal...
 * 14) Max Bernstein (JE | ) German author; born May 13, 1854, at F&#252;rth, Bavaria; now (1902) practising law at Munich. His literary activity is directed...
 * 15) Naphtali Herz Bernstein (JE | ) Author; lived in Russia about the first half of the nineteenth century. Being engaged in business, he devoted his leisure...
 * 16) Nathan Osipovich Bernstein (JE | ) Russian physiologist; born at Brody, Galicia, in 1836; died in Odessa Feb. 9, 1891. He received his first education from his...
 * 17) Leopold Bernstein-Sinaieff (JE | ) Russo-French sculptor; born at Wilna Nov. 22, 1868. He studied drawing in his native town, and at the age of fourteen settled...
 * 18) Christian G& (JE | ) Danish and Prussian statesman; born April 3, 1769, in Copenhagen; died March 28, 1835. As early as 1787 he entered the diplomatic...
 * 19) Berodach Baladan (JE | ) -- See M481: Merodach Baladan
 * 20) Beroea (JE | ) Identified with the modern Haleb or Aleppo, the scene of the death of Menelaus, who was killed by being smothered in ashes...

921 – 940

 * 1) Berothah (Berothai) (JE | ) A city of Hadadezer, from which David obtained much brass subsequently used by Solomon in making the brazen sea, pillars,...
 * 2) Emile Berr (JE | ) French journalist; born at Lun&#233;ville, France, June 6, 1855. Having finished his classical studies at the Lyceum of Vanves...
 * 3) George Berr (JE | ) French actor and dramatist; born at Paris July 31, 1867; brother of Emile Berr. He was educated at the lyceums of Vanves and...
 * 4) Berr Isaac Berr of Turique (JE | ) French manufacturer; born at Nancy in 1744; died at Turique, near Nancy, Nov. 5, 1828. He came of a rich and estimable family...
 * 5) Michel Berr (JE | ) the first Jew to practise in France as a barrister; born at Nancy 1780; diedthere July 4, 1843. His father, Isaac Berr de...
 * 6) Joseph Isaac Berruyer (JE | ) French Jesuit; born at Rouen Nov. 7, 1681; died at Paris Feb. 1758. He was the author of a work entitled "Histoire du Peuple...
 * 7) Bershad (JE | ) Town in the district of Olgopol, province of Podolia, Russia, on the road between Olgopol and Balta, at the rivers Dakhna...
 * 8) Sergei Aleksandrovich Bershadski JE (JE | ) Russian historian and jurist; born at Berdyansk March 30, 1850; died in St. Petersburg 1896. He graduated from the Gymnasium...
 * 9) Isaiah Bershadsky (JE | ) Russian novelist; born in Saimoscha, near Slonim, government of Grodno, 1874; now a teacher in Yekaterinoslav. Bershadsky...
 * 10) Mathias Bersohn (JE | ) Polish bibliographer, archeologist, and writer on fine arts; born at Warsaw 1826. He is the owner of a choice library which...
 * 11) Bernard Bertensohn (JE | ) Russian teacher and translator; born at Odessa at the end of the eighteenth century; died there 1859. He received a careful...
 * 12) Joseph Vasilievich Bertensohn (JE | ) Russian court-physician; born at Nikolaiev, government of Kherson, in 1835. He received his early education at the gymnasium...
 * 13) Lev Bernardovich Bertensohn (JE | ) Russian physician; born at Odessa Aug. 10, 1850; son of Bernard and nephew of Joseph Bertensohn. He graduated in 1867 from...
 * 14) Vasili Alekseyevich Bertensohn (JE | ) Russian agriculturist; born in Odessa Sept. 12, 1860. He belongs to the hereditary nobility, his father, Dr. Aleksei Vasilievich...
 * 15) Ernest Bertheau (JE | ) Biblical and Oriental scholar; born Nov. 23, 1812, in Hamburg; died May 17, 1888, in G&#246;ttingen. In 1843 he was appointed...
 * 16) Berthold of Regensburg (JE | ) Monk and itinerant preacher; born about 1220; died in Regensburg (Ratisbon) Dec. 14, 1272. This most celebrated popular preacher...
 * 17) Obadiah (Yareh) b. Abraham Bertinoro JE (JE | ) Celebrated rabbi and commentator on the Mishnah; lived in the second half of the fifteenth century in Italy; died in Jerusalem...
 * 18) Abb& (JE | ) French cleric; member of the Commune of Paris in 1790. The National Assembly conferred citizenship upon the Jews of Bordeaux...
 * 19) Corneille Bonaventure Bertram (JE | ) Protestant clergyman and Hebraist; born at Thouars, France, in 1531; died at Lausanne, Switzerland, 1594. He studied at Poitiers...
 * 20) Beruriah (JE | ) Daughter of the martyr R. Hananiah ben Teradion, and wife of R. Me&#239;r; born in the first quarter of the second century...

941 – 960

 * 1) Berush (JE | ) -- See B103: Baer of Meseritz
 * 2) Beryl (JE | ) A stone, ranging in color from blue to pale yellow and found all over the world; three kinds are to be distinguished&#8212...
 * 3) Berytus (JE | ) -- See B550: Beirut
 * 4) Besalu (JE | ) City in Catalonia, Spain. Its small Jewish community had the same privileges as that of the neighboring Gerona, and was taxed...
 * 5) Besan& (JE | ) City and county of France, in the department of Doubs. Although no mention is made of this city in Jewish sources, it is known...
 * 6) Sir Walter Besant (JE | ) English writer; novelist; born at Por&#7789;smouth Aug. 14, 1836; educated at King&#39;s College, London, and at Christ&#39...
 * 7) Beschau (JE | ) See Marriage Customs.
 * 8) Beschreien (JE | ) A Jud&#230;o-German word for lauding a person or thing to such an extent as to cause him or it to be harmed by malevolent...
 * 9) Israel Besht of Miedzyboz (JE | ) -- See B18: Baal Shem-&#7788;ob, Israel
 * 10) Besor (JE | ) A wadi or river-bed where two hundred of the followers of David stopped while the rest of the force pursued the Amalekites...
 * 11) Bessarabia (JE | ) Government in southwest Russia; separated by the Pruth and Danube from Rumania on the west, by the Dniester from Podolia and...
 * 12) Emil Bessels (JE | ) German-American Arctic explorer and naturalist; born at Heidelberg June 2, 1847; died at Stuttgart March 30, 1888. At the...
 * 13) Bet (JE | ) the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Its numerical value is two, wherefore the bet in the word (Gen. xxi. 12) is interpreted...
 * 14) Bet Beltin (JE | ) A steep hill above the Euphrates, on which is built the modern town of Bir; lat. 37&#176; 3&#39; N., long. 38&#176; E. Travelers...
 * 15) Bet Din (JE | ) Rabbinical term for court-house or court. In view of the theocratic conception of the law, which pervades Biblical legislation...
 * 16) Bet Hillel and Bet Shammai (JE | ) the "School (literally, "house") of Hillel" and the "School of Shammai" are names by which are designated the most famous...
 * 17) Bet ha-Midrash (JE | ) High school; literally, "house of study," or place where the students of the Law gather to listen to the Midrash, the discourse...
 * 18) Bet-talmud (JE | ) Hebrew monthly review, devoted to Talmudical and rabbinical studies and literature; founded in 1881 by Isaac Hirsch Weiss...
 * 19) Bene Betera (JE | ) -- See B428: Bathyra
 * 20) Beth-anath (JE | ) A Canaanite city in the territory of Naphtali, the name of which contains, as one of its elements, the name of a god, Anath...

961 – 980

 * 1) Beth-anoth (JE | ) City in the hills of Judah (Josh. xv. 59). It has been identified by both Conder and Buhl ("Geographie," p. 158) with the...
 * 2) Beth-arabah (JE | ) A town situated, according to Josh. xv. 61, in the wilderness of Judah. It was a border-town between Judah and Benjamin, and...
 * 3) Beth-aram (JE | ) A city east of the Jordan. The Talmud speaks of it as "Bethramta" ; Eusebius as "Bethramphta"; and Josephus as "Betharamatha...
 * 4) Beth-arbel (JE | ) Mentioned only once (Hosea x. 14) as a city destroyed by Shalman. Opinions vary both as to the location of the place and as...
 * 5) Beth-aven (JE | ) A city on the border of Benjamin in the wilderness (Josh. xviii. 12), east of Bethel (Josh. vii. 2) and west of Michmash (I...
 * 6) Beth-azmaveth (JE | ) -- See A2218: Azmaveth
 * 7) Beth-dagon (JE | ) the name of several places apparently in ancient Palestine. The second element is the name of the Philistine god Dagon. In...
 * 8) Beth-diblathaim (JE | ) City of Moab (Jer. xlviii. 22) identical with Almon diblataim.J. Jr. G. B. L.           					  						  							  							 ...
 * 9) Beth-el (JE | ) A city famous for its shrine, on the boundary between Ephraim and Judea&#8212;the site of the present little village of B&#234...
 * 10) Beth-emek (JE | ) A town on the border between Asher and Zebulun, belonging to the latter (Josh. xix. 27). It lay to the east of Acco; but its...
 * 11) Beth Gubrin (JE | ) Name of a city mentioned in the Talmud and in the Midrash (Neubauer, "G. T." pp. 122 et seq.), called "Betogaboa" by Ptolemy...
 * 12) Beth-haccerem (JE | ) According to Neh. iii. 14, a Judean city; described in Jer. vi. 1 as a high place visible at a great distance. Jerome (on...
 * 13) David de Beth-Hillel (JE | ) Beni-Israel; author of a book of "Travels," Madras, 1832, the first work by a Jew published in India. He describes his travels...
 * 14) Beth-horon (JE | ) Name of two villages at the western end of the Ephraimitc mountains, called respectively "upper Beth-horon" (Josh. xvi. 5)...
 * 15) Beth-jaazek (JE | ) According to the Mishnah (R. H. ii. 4), a large court in which the Sanhedrin awaited the announcement of the new moon. The...
 * 16) Beth-jeshimoth (JE | ) Town in the district east of the Jordan, allotted to the tribe of Reuben according to Num. xxxiii. 49 and Josh. xii. 3, xiii...
 * 17) Bet ha-Keneset (JE | ) -- See B1002: Synagogue
 * 18) Beth-lehem-judah (JE | ) the modern Bait Lachm, situated about 5 miles south of Jerusalem, some 15 minutes&#39; walk east of the road to Hebron...
 * 19) Beth-peor (JE | ) A place in the valley of the Jordan which, in Josh. xiii. 20, is apportioned to the Reubenites. In Deuteronomy (iii. 29, iv...
 * 20) Beth-rehob (JE | ) An Aramaic city which sent reenforcements to the Ammonites during the war with David (II Sam. x. 6, 8; compareI Sam. 14, 47...

981 – 1000

 * 1) Beth-shan (JE | ) Fortified town of Canaan. The Bais&#226;n of to-day, in the lower part of the Jal&#251;d chasm, 120 meters below the level...
 * 2) Beth-she& (JE | ) According to rabbinic accounts, the Sanhedrin was destined to pass through ten exiles during the period 30-170, and to be...
 * 3) Beth-shemesh (JE | ) A city of the hill-country between Judea and the coast on the southern side of Wadi Sar&#226;ar, called to-day &#39;Ain Shems...
 * 4) Beth-shittah (JE | ) A place near Abel-meholah. To it the Midianites fled when pursued by Gideon (Judges vii. 22). The name occurs only here; the...
 * 5) Beth-zur (JE | ) A city in southern Judea (Josh. xv. 58, I Chron. ii. 45; Neh. iii. 16) which was fortified by Rehoboam, (II Chron. xi. 7)...
 * 6) Bethabara (JE | ) An unidentified place mentioned in John i. 28. According to Origen&#39;s reading, the name is brought into connection with...
 * 7) Bethany (JE | ) A place referred to in the Gospels, and probably also in the Talmud, under the forms, and , but not mentioned in the Old...
 * 8) Bethar (JE | ) City in Palestine, scene of the war of bar Kokba (132-135), and mentioned as such in Mishnah Ta&#39;anit iv. 6; Yer. Ta&#39...
 * 9) Bethel (JE | ) An Italian-Jewish family, several members of which are known as liturgical poets and copyists. According to a family tradition...
 * 10) Bethesda (JE | ) A pool in Jerusalem. According to John v. 2&#8212;the only passage wherein it is mentioned&#8212;it was "by the sheep market...
 * 11) Bethphage (JE | ) Town mentioned in several passages of the New Testament (Matt. xxi. 1; Mark xi. 1; Luke xix. 29), in all of which it is brought...
 * 12) Bethsaida (JE | ) A town in northern Palestine not mentioned in the Old Testament, but referred to in the Gospels, and by Josephus, Pliny, and...
 * 13) Bethuel (JE | ) 1. According to Gen. xxii. 22, a descendant of Arphaxad (compare Gen. xi. 13-22). He was the son of Nahor and Milcah, and...
 * 14) Bethulia (JE | ) Name of the city which, according to the Book of Judith, was besieged by Holofernes; the home of Judith. In the shorter version...
 * 15) Betrothal (JE | ) the term "betrothal" in Jewish law must not be understood in its modern sense; that is, the agreement of a man and a woman...
 * 16) Bettelheim >> Caroline von Gomperz-Bettelheim JE (JE | ) Name of a Hungarian family. The first bearer of it is said to have lived toward the second half of the eighteenth century...
 * 17) Betting (JE | ) the mutual agreement of two parties as to gain and loss upon a certain contingency. It seems to have been unknown in Biblical...
 * 18) Paulina Beturia JE (JE | ) Roman proselyte to Judaism (about the year 50), known under the name "Sarah," who, according to her Latin epitaph, was eighty-six...
 * 19) Auguste Arthur, Count Beugnot JE (JE | ) French statesman and scholar; born at Bar-sur-Aube March, 1797; died at Paris March 15, 1865. Originally he adopted the profession...
 * 20) Beuthen (JE | ) City of Prussian Silesia. No precise information is forthcoming as to when Jews first settled in the city. The mention of...