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 * 1) Cabala S >> Kabbalah JE, Masseket Azilut JE 2007-03-04 (JE | ) The specific term for the esoteric or mystic doctrine concerning God and the universe, asserted to have come down as
 * 2) De la Caballeria JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Marano family of Aragon, Spain, widely ramified, and influential through its wealth and scholarship, especially in Saragossa. The family descended ......
 * 3) Bonafos Caballeria JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Anti-Jewish writer of the fifteenth century; son of Solomon ibn Labi de la Caballeria of Saragossa; assumed the name of ......
 * 4) Cabret JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Spanish translator; lived in Spain toward the end of the fourteenth century. The surname "Cabret" or "Cabrit," borne by several ......
 * 5) Cabul (Kabul) JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A city on the boundary-line of Asher (Josh. xix. 27), identical with the modern Kabul (Buhl, "Geographie," p. 221). Josephus ......
 * 6) Caceres - our article is unrelated dab (JE | ) A family, members of which have lived in Portugal, Holland, England, Mexico, Surinam, the West Indies, and the United States. ......
 * 7) Cadenet JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Small village in the department of Vaucluse, France. Like all places situated along the river Durance, Cadenet had a Jewish ......
 * 8) Caecilius of Calacte (JE | ) Rhetorician, critic, and historian; flourished in the first century B.C. at Calacte, a town on the northern coast of Sicily. ......
 * 9) Caius Julius Caesar (JE | ) Roman dictator, consul, and conqueror; born July 12, 100 B.C. (according to Mommsen, 102 B.C.); assassinated March 15, 44 B.C.
 * 10) Caesarea S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Ancient city of Palestine; called in early times "Strato's Tower" (????????? ??????, Josephus, "Ant." xiii. 11, � 2; xiv. 4, ......
 * 11) Cage - our page is long dab, but it doesn't include JE's meaning (JE | ) A rendering for V03p489006.jpg in Jer. v. 27; but it is doubtful whether this translation is accurate. The Hebrew word ......
 * 12) Cagliari S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Capital of the island of Sardinia. It had a Jewish community in early times. When a Christianized Jew named ......
 * 13) Abraham da Cagliari JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Rabbi at Cagliari, Sardinia, in the eighth century. He is mentioned by Antonio di Tharos, the historian of that epoch, ......
 * 14) Abraham Cahan S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Russian-American novelist and labor leader; born in Podberezhye, government of Wilna, July 7, 1860. His grandfather was a rabbi
 * 15) David Cahana S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See K17: Kahana
 * 16) Eliezer Cahana S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See K18: Kahana, Eliezer b. Reuben
 * 17) Jacob Abraham Cahana (JE | ) see Jacob ben Abraham Kahana
 * 18) Cahana (Rab) (JE | ) -- See K20: Rab Kahana
 * 19) Cahana ben Tachlifa (Cahana ben Tahlifa) (JE | ) see Kahana b. Tahlifa
 * 20) Albert Cahen JE (JE | ) French composer; born at Paris Jan. 8, 1846; a pupil of Cæsar Franck (composition) and Mme. Szarvady (pianoforte). He made

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 * 1) Coralie Cahen (JE | ) French philanthropist; born at Nancy, 1832; died at Paris March 12, 1899; wife of Mayer Cahen, chief physician of the ......
 * 2) Isidore Cahen (JE | ) French scholar and journalist; born at Paris in 1826; died there March 6, 1902. After having brilliantly completed his education ......
 * 3) Samuel Cahen JE (JE | ) French Hebraist and journalist; born at Metz Aug. 4, 1796; died at Paris Jan. 8, 1862. He was brought up ......
 * 4) Arnold Cahn (JE | ) German physician; born at Worms April 11, 1858. After completing his course at the gymnasium, he studied medicine at the ......
 * 5) David Léon Cahun JE (JE | ) French Orientalist and writer; born June 23, 1841, at Haguenau, Alsace; died at Paris March 30, 1900. Cahun's family, which ......
 * 6) Caiaphas (JE | ) (καïάφας, a Greek word; in the Hebrew original, probably not V03p493001.jpg, but V03p493002.jpg; compare Mishnah Parah iii. 5; Derenbourg, "Essai ......
 * 7) Cain (JE | ) First-born of Adam and Eve, named "Cain" ("Ḳayin") because "gotten" (root, "ḳanah") "with the help of Yhwh." He became a ......
 * 8) Cainan JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See K32: Kainan
 * 9) Cairo (JE | ) -- See E67: Egypt
 * 10) Hayyim ben Joseph Calabrese (JE | ) -- See H430: Vital, &#7716;ayyim
 * 11) Calabria S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See I369: Italy
 * 12) Calah S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Name of a city mentioned in Gen. x. 11 et seq., and forming with Nineveh, Re?oboth 'Ir, and Resen ......
 * 13) Calahora (Calahorra) (JE | ) A family of Spanish descent, resident in Cracow from the sixteenth century up to the present time, of which the ......
 * 14) Joseph Abraham ben Simchah Calamani (Joseph Abraham ben Simhah Calamani) (JE | ) Italian Talmudist; born at Venice in 1704. The surname "Calamani" is, according to Steinschneider, derived from the German "Kalman" or ......
 * 15) Calamus our article is disambig which doesn't mention JE's meaning (JE | ) One of the ingredients (Ex. xxx. 23) of the oil made specially for anointing the tabernacle (Ex. xxx. 26), its ......
 * 16) Calatayud (Calatal-Yehud) >> History of the Jews in Calatayud JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) City of Aragon, which had a large Jewish community as early as the reign of 'Abd al-Ra?man III. In 1882, ......
 * 17) Calatrava + (JE | ) Fortified city in the former province of La Mancha, in Castile. In 1146, when it was captured from the Moors ......
 * 18) Judah Calaz (JE | ) -- See K41: Kala&#7827;, Judah
 * 19) Calcol (JE | ) A man famous for his wisdom, since the Biblical writer attests the wisdom of Solomon by saying that he surpassed
 * 20) Calcutta (JE | ) Capital of Bengal, and seat of government of British India. The Jews of Calcutta now number about 2,150, of whom ......

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 * 1) Caleb (JE | ) According to the Biblical text, Caleb was of the tribe of Judah. He represented that tribe among the twelve spies ......
 * 2) Calebites (JE | ) A branch of the Edomite clan of Kenaz (compare Judges i. 12 with Gen. xxxvi. 11, 15, 42) that, before ......
 * 3) History of the Jewish Calendar (JE | ) The history of the Jewish calendar may be divided into three periods—the Biblical, the Talmudic, and the post-Talmudic. The first ......
 * 4) Jewish Calendar JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A systematic arrangement of the days of the year. The Jewish calendar reckons the days from evening to evening, in ......
 * 5) Golden Calf S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A portable image overlaid with gold, made by Aaron at Mount Sinai (Ex. xxxii.). As the text stands, it narrates ......
 * 6) Calf-Worship (JE | ) Among the Hebrews, as among the other agricultural Semites, the bull was associated with deity in a sacred character (see ......
 * 7) California >> History of the Jews in California (JE | ) One of the United States of America on the Pacific coast. There exists no authenticated record of the activities of ......
 * 8) Califs (Caliph) (JE | ) The attitude of the first Mohammedan rulers toward their Jewish subjects was as much regulated by circumstances as had been ......
 * 9) Caligula (JE | ) Third emperor of Rome; born Aug. 31, 12 C.E. ; assassinated at Rome Jan. 24, 41. He soon displayed the ......
 * 10) Baruch Calimani (JE | ) Italian publisher; lived in the second half of the sixteenth and at the beginning of the seventeenth century at Venice. ......
 * 11) Simchah Simon ben Abraham Calimani (Simhah Simon ben Abraham Calimani) JE (JE | ) Venetian rabbi and author; died at Venice Aug. 2, 1784. He was a versatile writer, and equally prominent as linguist, ......
 * 12) Calitas (JE | ) Levite who had married a foreign wife, but, at the solicitation of Ezra, repudiated her (I Esd. ix. 23). ......
 * 13) Calixtus II (Guido of Burgandy) S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) One hundred and sixty-seventh pope (1119-24); born at Quigney, near Besan�on, France; died at Rome Dec. 12, 1124. His attitude ......
 * 14) Johann Heinrich Callenberg JE (JE | ) Professor of theology and philology, and promoter of conversionist enterprise among the Jews; born of peasant parents at Molschleben Jan. ......
 * 15) Calling Up (Aliyah) (JE | ) -- See A1239: Aliyah
 * 16) Callirrhoe - our article is a dab which doesn't mention JE's meaning (JE | ) Hot springs on the western side of the Dead Sea, near the Zerka Maim (Buhl, "Geographie des Alten Palästina," p. ......
 * 17) Callisthenes JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A Syrian who was believed to have been concerned in the burning of the gates of the Temple during the ......
 * 18) Marie Calm JE (JE | ) German authoress and advocate of women's suffrage; born at Arolsen, Germany, April 3, 1832; died at Cassel, Germany, Feb. 22, ......
 * 19) Jacob Jacques Calmanson (Jacob Calmanson) (JE | ) -- See P401: Poland
 * 20) Liefmann Calmer JE (JE | ) Baron of Picquigny, an important personage in French Jewry of the eighteenth century; born in Aurich, Hanover, in 1711; died ......

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 * 1) Augustin Calmet S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) French Catholic theologian, historian, and Biblical scholar; born 1672 at Mesnil-la-Horgne in Lorraine; died 1757 in Paris. In 1688 he
 * 2) Calneh REF:JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) City, mentioned together with Babylon, Erech, and Accad as forming part of the Babylonian kingdom of Nimrod (Gen. x. ......
 * 3) Samuel ben Moses Calñi (JE | ) Turkish rabbi of the fifteenth century; born at Arta in the Morea. Calñi is the author of responsa entitled "Mishpeṭe ......
 * 4) Calno (JE | ) A city mentioned with Hamath and Samaria, and compared to Carchemish (Isa. x. 9). Its identity is doubtful. It is ......
 * 5) Calumny (Lashon hara) (JE | ) Evil-speaking; a sin regarded with intense aversion both in the Bible and in rabbinical literature. The technical term for it ......
 * 6) Thomas Calvert (JE | ) English Hebrew scholar; born 1606; died at York March, 1679. He wrote "The Blessed Jew of Morocco" (York, 1648), an ......
 * 7) Emanuel Calvo JE (JE | ) Italian physician and Neo-Hebraic poet; born at Salonica toward the end of the seventeenth century; died before 1772. In early ......
 * 8) Casper Calvör (JE | ) Lutheran theologian; born Nov. 8, 1650, at Hildesheim, Prussia; died at Clausthal May 11, 1725. He became master of arts ......
 * 9) Meïr Calw (JE | ) -- See M346: Me&#239;r Calw
 * 10) Cambridge S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) University town of England, and one of the earliest English towns inhabited by Jews. Fuller ("History of Cambridge," p. 8) ......
 * 11) Camel (JE | ) The well-known ruminant, native in Asia and Africa. The word "camel" (Hebrew, V03p520001.jpg, gamal) is the same in the Assyrian, ......
 * 12) Camondo S 2007-03-04 >> Abraham Salomon Camondo JE (JE | ) Well-known family of Jewish financiers and philanthropists of Spanish-Portuguese origin. Several centuries ago it established itself at Venice, where some ......
 * 13) Camp S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A collection of tents (Judges vii. 13), or booths and huts (Neh. viii. 14), pitched or erected to give shelter ......
 * 14) Campanator (JE | ) -- See S377: Schulklopfer
 * 15) Isaac ben Jacob Campanton JE (JE | ) Spanish rabbi; born 1360; died at Penafeel in 1463. He lived in the period darkened by the outrages of Ferran ......
 * 16) John van Campen JE (JE | ) Christian professor of Hebrew at Louvain and Cracow; died at Freiburg in Breisgau Sept. 6, 1538. He compiled a Hebrew ......
 * 17) Camphire (JE | ) A shrub growing to a height of between eight and ten feet, and bearing cream-colored and very fragrant flowers. The ......
 * 18) Canaan (JE | ) Name of the son of Ham, and a brother of Cush (Ethiopia), Mizriam (Egypt), and Put (Phut), occurring in the
 * 19) Canaanites (JE | ) The expressions "Canaan" and "Canaanite" (V03p524004.jpg) are applied in the Old Testament sometimes to the collective non-Israelitish population west of ......
 * 20) Canada >> History of the Jews in Canada JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A federation of provinces in British North America. The earliest authentic records of the Jews in Canada go back to

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 * 1) Canaim of Cagliari (JE | ) Italian archeologist of the eighth century, of whom nothing is known except that, like his contemporary towns-man Abraham di Cagliari, ......
 * 2) Cancellation of documents (JE | ) An instrument in writing may be canceled by cross-lines or by other marks obliterating it, or by burning or tearing ......
 * 3) Cancer S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A malignant growth of new tissue; usually in the form of a tumor. Whether removed or not, it tends to ......
 * 4) Candia S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See C886: Crete.
 * 5) Isaac ben Saul Chmelniker Candia JE (JE | ) Hebrew poet; lived at Warsaw, Poland, in the first half of the nineteenth century. He is the author of an ......
 * 6) Candle tax (JE | ) -- See T93: Taxation.
 * 7) Candlestick (JE | ) Mentioned as a secular object only in II Kings iv. 10. The candlestick in the Temple, however, is frequently referred ......
 * 8) Abraham Levi Caniso (JE | ) -- See B315: Barrios, Daniel Levi (Miguel) de.
 * 9) Jacob Canizal (JE | ) Flourished probably in the fifteenth century. He was the author of notes on Rashi's commentary to the Pentateuch, which were ......
 * 10) Cankerworm S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See L512: Locust
 * 11) Canneh (JE | ) A city mentioned in the long list of the contributors to Tyrian greatness and commercial power (Ezek. xxvii. 23).
 * 12) Canon S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A rule for the inclusion of certain books within a certain degree of sanctity; hence also the word "canonical." See ......
 * 13) Bridal canopy (Chuppah) (JE | ) -- See H973: &#7716;uppah.
 * 14) Cansino JE (JE | ) Spanish-Jewish family, famous in history for its wealth and influence, its scholars and poets.Jacob Cansino I. served as an interpreter ......
 * 15) Abraham ben Jacob Cansino JE (JE | ) Poet; lived in the seventeenth century. He is the author of "Aguddat Ezob" (A Bunch of Hyssop), a collection of ......
 * 16) Isaac ben Chayyim Cansino (Isaac Cansino) JE (JE | ) Poet and prominent member of the Jewish community of Oran; died in 1672; probably a brother of Jacob Cansino II. ......
 * 17) Jacob Cansino JE (JE | ) "Vassal of his Catholic majesty and interpreter of languages in the places of Oran" (so styled by himself); died Sept. ......
 * 18) Karl Friedrich Canstatt JE (JE | ) German physician and medical author; born at Regensburg July 11, 1807; died at Erlangen March 10, 1850. He was one ......
 * 19) Cantarini (JE | ) A distinguished family of Italian Jews tracing their descent from Gherescion (Grassin) Cantarini, who, when one year old, was driven ......
 * 20) Azriel ben Samuel ha-Kohen Cantarini (Azriel Angelo ben Samuel Simon ha-Kohen Cantarini) (JE | ) Italian rabbi; born 1577 at Padua; died there 1653. He was rabbi and preacher in his native city, and directed ......

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 * 1) Chayyim Moses Angelo ben Isaiah Azriel Cantarini (Hayyim Moses Angelo ben Isaiah Azriel) JE (JE | ) Italian physician, rabbi, poet, and writer; lived in the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the ......
 * 2) Isaac Chayyim Cantarini (Isaac Hayyim Cantarini) JE (JE | ) Italian poet, writer, physician, and rabbi; born Feb. 2, 1644, at Padua; died there June 8, 1723. He studied Hebrew ......
 * 3) Judah ben Samuel ha-Kohen Cantarini JE (JE | ) Italian physician and rabbi; born about 1650 at Padua; died there April 28, 1694. He had a large practise among ......
 * 4) Kalonymus Aaron ben Samuel ha-Kohen Cantarini (JE | ) Italian physician; born in 1593 at Padua; died there July 30, 1631, of the plague. He was famous as a ......
 * 5) Samuel ben Gerson ha-Kohen Cantarini (JE | ) Official procurator of the Jewish community of Padua; born about 1561; died 1631 during the plague, to which also two ......
 * 6) Canterbury S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Large town in Kent, England, containing the metropolitan cathedral. Jews were settled here in the twelfth century. They seem to ......
 * 7) Cantheras (JE | ) Surname of Simon, the son of Boethus, the high priest, according to Josephus "Ant." xix. 6, §§ 2, 4; compare ......
 * 8) Book of Canticles S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) - dont delete yet, redirected to Song of Soloman, but needs to be checked if it's the same
 * 9) Cantillation S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Mode of intonation used in public recital of prayers and Holy Scripture. The infinite gradations of tone in ordinary speech ......
 * 10) Isaac Berechiah Canton (JE | ) Italian Talmudist; flourished about the middle of the eighteenth century in Turin, in which city he established a yeshibah. He ......
 * 11) Lelio Cantoni JE (JE | ) Italian rabbi; born in 1802 at Gazzuolo (dukedom of Mantua); died in 1857 at Turin. In 1829 he went ......
 * 12) Cantonists S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Sons of Russian private soldiers who from 1805 to 1827 were educated in special "canton schools" for future military service; ......
 * 13) Cantor (Hazzan) S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See H458: &#7716;azzan
 * 14) Georg Cantor S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) German mathematician; born at St. Petersburg, Russia, March 3, 1845. He is distantly related to Moritz Cantor. He was only ......
 * 15) Jacob A. Cantor (Jacob Cantor) (JE | ) American lawyer and politician; born in New York city Dec. 6, 1854; grandson of Agil Hanau, cantor of Dukes Place ......
 * 16) Moritz Cantor S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) German historian of mathematics; born at Mannheim, Germany, on Aug. 23, 1829. He comes of a family that emigrated to ......
 * 17) Joshua dei Cantori JE (JE | ) Assailant of the Talmud at Cremona in 1559. According to Steinschneider, he belonged to the family Cantarini (V03p552001.jpg). In consequence ......
 * 18) Abraham Capadoce JE (JE | ) Convert to Christianity; born at Amsterdam 1795; died there Dec. 16, 1874. His parents, who were Portuguese Jews, gave him ......
 * 19) Joseph Çapateiro JE (JE | ) Portuguese traveler of the fifteenth century. After a so-journ in Bagdad, he returned to Lisbon to present a report to ......
 * 20) Cape Town S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See S988: South Africa

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 * 1) Jean-Baptiste Honoré-Raymond Capefigue (JE | ) French Christian publicist and historian; born at Marseilles 1802; died at Paris Dec. 23, 1872. Among many historical works, Capefigue ......
 * 2) Caper-berry REF:JE (JE | ) The feminine "abiyyonah" does not express "desire," but "the desiring thing," sc. "soul" [so Ḳimḥi]. The Septuagint, Vulgate, Peshiṭta, and ......
 * 3) Capernaum S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Small town by the Lake of Gennesaret, mentioned in the Gospels as the home of Jesus, where he resided after ......
 * 4) Capestang (JE | ) Village in the department of Hérault, near Béziers, France. Several official documents testify to the presence of many Jews there ......
 * 5) Caphar-Salama (JE | ) -- See K160: Kefar-Salama
 * 6) Caphtor S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Original country of the Philistines before their emigration into Palestine, whence their name, "Caphtorim" (Deut. ii. 23; Amos ix. 7; ......
 * 7) John of Capistrano S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Franciscan monk; born at Capistrano, Italy, 1386; died 1456. Owing to his remarkable power as a popular preacher, he was ......
 * 8) Capital Punishment (JE | ) Warrants for the infliction of capital punishment, as opposed to private retribution or vengeance, are found in the Pentateuchal codes ......
 * 9) Wolfgang Fabricius Capito S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) German Hebrew scholar; born at Hagenau, Alsace, in 1478; died Nov., 1541. In 1515 he was appointed professor of theology ......
 * 10) Cappadocia S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Ancient province of Asia Minor. It was known to the Jews in its Greek form also, and is often mentioned ......
 * 11) Louis Cappel (Ludovicus Cappellus) S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Christian theologian and Hebrew scholar; descended from an old aristocratic French Hugue-not family; born Oct. 15, 1585; died June 18, ......
 * 12) Capsali >> Moses Capsali JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Family of scholars in European Turkey during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, which came originally from Greece, where a certain ......
 * 13) Captain S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) One at the head of, and in command over, others; a chief or officer; the head man of a clan; ......
 * 14) Captives (JE | ) The Bible makes no provision for the treatment of captives taken in war. Captives were considered as slaves, and as ......
 * 15) Captivity S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) By "exile" is meant any form of forced emigration in which the selection of his new habitation is left to ......
 * 16) Princes of Captivity S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See E548: Exilarch
 * 17) John of Capua JE (JE | ) -- See J372: John of Capua
 * 18) Carabajal >> Francisca Nuñez de Carabajal JE, Luis de Carabajal y Cueva JE, Luis de Carabajal the younger JE (JE | ) The name of a family of Maranos in Mexico at the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning ......
 * 19) Caracalla S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Roman emperor (211-217); son of Septimius Severus. It is said that as a boy of seven he had a Jewish ......
 * 20) Caracas S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See S990: South America

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 * 1) David Samuel Carasso JE (JE | ) Jewish traveler; born at Salonica, Turkey. On the occasion of a business trip to Yemen, Arabia, in 1874, he studied ......
 * 2) Caravan S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A convoy of travelers or merchandise. As the commerce of the Israelites was chiefly inland trade, products from regions that ......
 * 3) Victor of Carben JE (JE | ) Jewish convert; lived at Cologne (1442-1515). Like most converts, Victor endeavored to show his zeal for his new religion by ......
 * 4) Carcas (JE | ) One of the seven chamberlains serving Ahasuerus and ordered by him to bring Queen Vashti into the royal presence (Esth. ......
 * 5) Carcass (JE | ) The carcass of a clean animal that had not been properly slaughtered, or that of an unclean animal of the ......
 * 6) Carcassonne S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Town in the department of Aude, France; the Carcaso or Carcassio of the Romans. It is variously transcribed in Hebrew ......
 * 7) Adolphe Joseph Carcassonne JE (JE | ) French poet; born at Marseilles, 1826; died Sept. 22, 1891. His principal works are: (1) "Premières Lueurs," a selection of ......
 * 8) David Carcassonne JE (JE | ) French physician; born Dec. 20, 1789, at Remoulins, a small town in the Gard department, France; died Nov. 15, 1861, ......
 * 9) Léon Carcassonne JE (JE | ) French physician, municipal councilor, and member of the Academy of Nîmes. Son of David Carcassonne; died at Marseilles May 7,
 * 10) Carchemish S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) City of northern Syria, on the Euphrates. Its importance seems to have been based on its situation at the end ......
 * 11) Card-Playing (JE | ) -- See G59: See Games
 * 12) Judah ben Isaac Cardinal (Cardineal) JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Translator; lived at the end of the twelfth century and the beginning of the thirteenth, probably in southern France. At ......
 * 13) Cardinal Virtues need to incorporate JE's content (JE | ) Virtues regarded as fundamental, and under which, as heads, all others may be arranged. The term "cardinal virtues" is first ......
 * 14) Elijah Aboab Cardoso JE (JE | ) Philanthropist and founder of the Hamburg synagogue; lived in that city in the first half of the seventeenth century. He ......
 * 15) Isaac Cardoso JE (JE | ) Physician, philosopher, and polemic writer; born of Marano parents at Celorico in the province Beira, Portugal, before 1615; died at ......
 * 16) Miguel Cardoso JE (JE | ) Shabbethaian prophet and physician; born in Spain about 1630; died at Cairo 1706. He was a descendant of the Maranos ......
 * 17) Don Aaron Cardoza JE (JE | ) Consul for Tunis and Algiers at Gibraltar about 1805. He was a descendant of a Portuguese-Jewish family. Cardoza promoted the ......
 * 18) Cardozo S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) American Sephardic family, doubtless connected with the Cardozos of Amsterdam and London, though the connection has not been made out. ......
 * 19) David de Jahacob Lopez Cardozo JE (JE | ) Dutch Talmudist and prominent communal worker; born in Amsterdam, Holland, May 21, 1808; died there April 11, 1890. He was ......
 * 20) Carians not clear if our article is about same people (JE | ) -- See C426: Cherethites

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 * 1) Isaac Carillo (JE | ) Lived in Amsterdam in the latter part of the seventeenth century; member of the Academia de los Floridos, founded by ......
 * 2) Carinthia need to incorporate JE's content (possibly in separate article) (JE | ) A crownland of Austria. It has but a small number of Jews, whose ancestors, with the Jews of the neighboring ......
 * 3) Carites (JE | ) People mentioned in II Kings xi. 4, 19. The Kari (R. V., "Carites"; margin, "executioners", A. V., "captains") are mentioned ......
 * 4) David Cohen Carlos (JE | ) Spanish writer; lived at Hamburg in the first half of the seventeenth century. He translated into Spanish the Song of ......
 * 5) Carlsruhe (Germany) S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See K118: Karlsruhe
 * 6) Carlstadt (Croatia) S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See K119: Karlstadt
 * 7) Carmanians (JE | ) A people mentioned in II Esd. xv. 30. The Carmanians are represented as joining battle with the "nations of the ......
 * 8) Carmel S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) The title of a German and a Hungarian Jewish weekly. See Periodicals. ......
 * 9) Mount Carmel S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A well-known mountain ridge in Palestine; V03p578001.jpg ("the garden" or "garden land," with the definite article) is usually given in ......
 * 10) Carmi S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) 1. A son of Reuben who came to Egypt with Jacob (Gen. xlvi. 9; Ex. vi. 14; I Chron. v. ......
 * 11) Carmi S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Title of a small Hebrew review, published for some months in 1882 at Adrianople, under the editorship of Baruch Mitrani.Bibliography: ......
 * 12) Carmi S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See K122: Karmi
 * 13) Mordecai ben Abraham Carmi Crémieux (Mordecai ben Abraham Carmi) (JE | ) -- See C173: Cr&#233;mieux, Mordecai b. Abraham
 * 14) Eliakim Carmoly JE (JE | ) French scholar; born at Sulz (then in the French department of the Upper Rhine) August 5, 1802; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main ......
 * 15) Isaachar Bär ben Judah Carmoly JE (JE | ) Alsatian rabbi; born at Ribeauville, Alsace, Sept. 15, 1735; died at Sulz May, 1781. At the age of ten he ......
 * 16) Carmona (JE | ) City in the archbishopric of Seville, Spain, where Jews resided in very early times. In an old "Fuero de Carmona" ......
 * 17) Carmona (JE | ) A family of Jewish financiers prominent in Turkey at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It is of Spanish ......
 * 18) Carnabat (JE | ) Town of eastern Rumelia or southern Bulgaria. According to tradition, Jews first established themselves at Carnabat about 1580; but the ......
 * 19) Carniola (JE | ) -- See L19: Laibach
 * 20) Carnival (JE | ) Among the Romans, a period of gaiety during the weeks before Lent, in which the Jews were made to play ......

181 – 200

 * 1) Abraham ben Raphael Caro JE (JE | ) Turkish rabbi; flourished at Adrianople in the first half of the eighteenth century. He was a descendant of R. Joseph ......
 * 2) Aryeh Löb ben Chayyim Caro (Aryeh Löb ben Hayyim Caro) (JE | ) Preacher at Posen in the second half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work, "El ha-Millu'im" ......
 * 3) David Caro JE (JE | ) Prussian pedagogue; born about 1782 at Fordon, grand duchy of Posen; died Dec. 25, 1839, at Posen. He belonged to ......
 * 4) Ezekiel Caro (JE | ) German rabbi and historian; born Nov. 26, 1844, at Pinne, near Posen; son of the exegete and homiletic writer Joseph ......
 * 5) Georg Martin Caro (JE | ) Lecturer on history at the University of Zurich, Switzerland; born Nov. 28, 1867, at Glogau, Prussia. Caro received his education ......
 * 6) Isaac ben Joseph Caro JE (JE | ) Spanish Talmudist and Bible commentator; flourished in the second half of the fifteenth century and the first half of the ......
 * 7) Jacob Caro JE (JE | ) German historian; born at Gnesen, province of Posen, Prussia, Feb. 2, 1836; son of Joseph Ḥayyim Caro. After several years ......
 * 8) Joseph Caro (Joseph ben Ephraim Caro) S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) The last great codifier of rabbinical Judaism, born in Spain or Portugal in 1488; died at Safed, Palestine, March 24, ......
 * 9) Joseph Chayyim ben Isaac Selig Caro (Joseph Hayyim ben Isaac Selig Caro) JE (JE | ) German-Russian rabbi; born 1800; died in Wloclawek, government of Warsaw, April 21, 1895. He was educated as an Orthodox Talmudist, ......
 * 10) Carpentras (JE | ) Chief town of the arrondissement of that name in the department of Vaucluse, France. Jews settled at Carpentras at a ......
 * 11) Judah ben Tzebi Carpentrasi (Judah ben Zebi Carpentrasi) (JE | ) -- See C191: Judah b. &#7826;ebi Hirsch of Carpentras
 * 12) Leone Carpi JE (JE | ) Italian political economist; born 1820 at Bologna, Italy. He was the first deputy elected to the Italian Parliament by the ......
 * 13) Solomon Joseph ben Nathan Carpi (JE | ) Italian writer; born Dec. 27, 1715; lived at Leghorn. He engaged in the controversy with regard to Ḥayyon's book on ......
 * 14) Zachariah Carpi JE (JE | ) Italian revolutionist; born at Revere in the second half of the eighteenth century. After the French Revolution he appears to ......
 * 15) Johann Benedict Carpzov II JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) German Christian theologian and Hebraist; born 1639; died 1699. He was a member of a family which, like the Buxtorfs, ......
 * 16) Johann Gottlob Carpzov JE (JE | ) German Christian Old Testament scholar; born Sept. 26, 1679, in Dresden; died April 27, 1767, at Lübeck; nephew of Johann ......
 * 17) Carrasco JE (JE | ) Apologist; born at Madrid about 1670, of Marano parentage. At first an Augustin friar at Burgos and an excellent preacher, ......
 * 18) Chayyim Moses ben Abraham Carregal (JE | ) Rabbi and editor; flourished in Palestine at the beginning of the eighteenth century, but lived in Holland for a time, ......
 * 19) Raphael Chayyim Isaac Carregal (Caregal, Carigal, Carrigal, Karigal, Karigel, Karigol, Kargol, Kragol) JE (JE | ) Itinerant rabbi and preacher; born in Hebron, Palestine, Oct. 15, 1733; died at Barbados, West Indies, May 5, 1777. He ......
 * 20) Ludovicus Carretus JE (JE | ) Convert to Christianity; lived at Florence in the middle of the sixteenth century. He was a native of France and ......

201 – 220

 * 1) Carriage S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See C370: Chariot
 * 2) Carriera (JE | ) -- See G210: Ghetto
 * 3) Carrion de los Condes JE (JE | ) Ancient city of Castile inhabited by Jews at an early date. Although superior to the Christians both in numbers and ......
 * 4) Santob de Carrion (JE | ) -- See C204: Santob de Carrion
 * 5) Carsono, Corsono JE (JE | ) Spanish astronomer of the fourteenth century. He was commissioned by King Pedro IV. of Aragon to translate from Catalonian ......
 * 6) Cart S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A translation of V03p593001.jpg ('agalah). The cart was generally drawn by two oxen, or sometimes by cows, harnessed with cords ......
 * 7) Cartagena S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Ancient city on the eastern coast of the Spanish province of Murcia, referred to in the Talmud. The Cartagena mentioned ......
 * 8) Carthage S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Ancient city and republic in northern Africa; of special interest to Jews on account of the Phenico-Semitic origin of its ......
 * 9) Carthagena S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See S990: South America.
 * 10) Don Alfonso de Carthagena JE (JE | ) Convert to Christianity; son of Paul of Burgos; diedat Burgos in 1456. He was baptized when quite young by his ......
 * 11) Cartography S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See C378: Chartography
 * 12) Antonio Fernandez Carvajal JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Portuguese merchant, and first endenizened English Jew; born about 1590, probably at Fund�o, Portugal; died in London Nov. 10, 1659. ......
 * 13) Mordecai Baruch Carvalho (Mordecai Baruch Carvallo) JE (JE | ) A wealthy Tunisian merchant; died Jan., 1785, at an advanced age. He devoted part of his time to rabbinical studies, ......
 * 14) Jules Carvallo JE (JE | ) French engineer; born at Talence, Gironde, France, in 1820. After having graduated with the highest honors at the Ecole Polytechnique ......
 * 15) Casablanca S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Port of Morocco, Africa, on the Atlantic ocean. The Jewish community, numbering 6,000, in a total population of 20,000 inhabitants, ......
 * 16) Casal Maggiore (JE | ) Town in Italy, about twenty-two miles east-southeast of Cremona. In Sept., 1485, Joshua Solomon and Moses, sons of Israel Nathan ......
 * 17) Case JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) One of the foremost Polish rabbis and Talmudists of the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the ......
 * 18) Cases DAB (JE | ) Jewish Italian family that included among its members rabbis, physicians, and scholars. The more numerous branch of the family lived ......
 * 19) Michael Cashmore UNR (JE | ) Australian communal worker; born in 1814; died at South Melbourne Oct. 17, 1886. He was one of the oldest colonists ......
 * 20) Casimir II the Just S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) King of Poland; born 1138; ascended the throne on the deposition of his brother Mieczyslaw III., 1177; died 1194. He ......

221 – 240

 * 1) Casimir III the Great S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) King of Poland; born 1309; succeeded 1333; died in Cracow Nov. 5, 1370. He was a peaceful ruler, and, ......
 * 2) Casimir IV Jagellon S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Grand duke of Lithuania and king of Poland; born 1427; died at Grodno 1492. He succeeded to the grand duchy ......
 * 3) Casiphia (JE | ) The residence of the Nethinim, who were under the leadership of Iddo (Ezra viii. 17). Ezra sent them a message ......
 * 4) Caslari JE (JE | ) Name of a family originally from Caylar (Latin, "Castalarium"), a village in the department of Hérault, France. A rather important ......
 * 5) Abraham ben David Caslari JE (JE | ) Physician; lived at Besalu, Catalonia, in the first half of the fourteenth century. Caslari was considered one of the most ......
 * 6) Crescas Caslari (JE | ) -- See C227: Crescas Vidal De Caslari.
 * 7) Israel ben Joseph Halevi Caslari JE (JE | ) Physician and poet, lived at Avignon in 1327. He was the author of a liturgic poem for Purim, beginning with ......
 * 8) Joshua Caslari JE (JE | ) Liturgical poet; lived at Avignon about 1540. He wrote four elegies which are inserted in the manuscript Maḥzor of Avignon; ......
 * 9) Casluhim JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) According to Gen. x. 14 (= I Chron. i. 12), the Casluhim are sons of Mizraim; i.e., a part or ......
 * 10) Charles Paul Caspari (JE | ) German Semite and Biblical scholar; born at Dessau 1814; died 1892. His parents were Jews, and he was reared in ......
 * 11) Joseph ben Abba Mari ben Joseph ben Jacob Caspi (JE | ) Provençal exegete, grammarian, and philosopher; born in 1297 at Largentière, whence his surname "Caspi" (= made of silver); died at ......
 * 12) Nathanael ben Nehemiah Caspi JE (JE | ) Provençal scholar; lived at the end of the fourteenth century and at the beginning of the fifteenth. He was a ......
 * 13) Cassel (JE | ) City in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau. There was a persecution of the Jews at Wolfshagen, near Cassel, during the ......
 * 14) David Cassel JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) German historian and theologian; born March 7, 1818, at Gross-Glogau, Silesia, Prussia, where he graduated from the gymnasium; died Jan.
 * 15) Hartwig Cassel JE (JE | ) Journalist and chess editor; born Nov. 2, 1850, at Konitz, West Prussia, where his father, Dr. Aaron Cassel, was rabbi. ......
 * 16) Jacob Cassel (JE | ) German physician; born at Schwerin-on-the-Warta, province of Posen, Prussia, May 25, 1859. He was educated at the universities of Berlin ......
 * 17) Paulus Stephanus Cassel JE (JE | ) Convert to Christianity and missionary to the Jews; born Feb. 27, 1821, in Gross-Glogau, Silesia; died Dec. 23, 1892, in ......
 * 18) Cassia our article is about a plant (JE | ) The term given as the translation for "ḳiddah" (Ex. xxx. 24; Ezek. xxvii. 19) and "ḳeẓi'ot" (Ps. xlv. 9). Ancient ......
 * 19) Cassius Longinus (JE | ) Questor of Crassus in Syria in 53 B.C. After the unfortunate battle of Carrhæ, Syria, he became independent governor of ......
 * 20) Judah Cassuto JE (JE | ) Ḥazan of the Portuguese-Jewish community of Hamburg; born in Amsterdam 1808; died at Hamburg March 10, 1893. In 1827 he ......

241 – 260

 * 1) Abraham Castanho JE (JE | ) Spanish poet; lived at Amsterdam in the middle of the seventeenth century. He was the author of an elegy on ......
 * 2) Samuel di Castel d’Ajano (JE | ) Italian physician and philosopher; lived at Mantua in the sixteenth century. A philosophical work of his on the articles of ......
 * 3) Joel Rodrigo Castel-Branco JE (JE | ) -- See J577: Juan Rodrigo
 * 4) Castel-Sarassin (JE | ) Chief town of the department of Tarn-et-Garonne, France. A somewhat important Jewish community existed here in the Middle Ages. When ......
 * 5) Castellaccio da Asola (JE | ) Locality near Mantua, Italy, where there was a great slaughter of Jews in 1547. Gershon Cantarini, the ancestor of the ......
 * 6) Castellazzo JE (JE | ) Italian-Jewish family which settled at the beginning of the sixteenth century in Cairo, where several members occupied the rabbinate with ......
 * 7) David Castelli JE (JE | ) Italian scholar; born at Leghorn, Tuscany, Dec. 30, 1836; died 1901. He was educated at the rabbinical college of Leghorn, ......
 * 8) Abraham Isaac Castello (Abraham Isaac Castilho) JE (JE | ) Rabbi, preacher, and poet; born at Ancona 1726; died at Leghorn Aug. 1, 1789. At the age of thirteen he ......
 * 9) Jacob Castello (Jacob Castelo) JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Poet at Amsterdam; died after 1684. He was a member of several academies of poetry in his native city, and ......
 * 10) Joseph Castello (Jospeh Castilho) JE (JE | ) Physician; born at Leghorn about 1746; son of Abraham Isaac. After studying medicine at Pisa, he returned to his native ......
 * 11) Castellon de la Plana S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) City of Valencia. In 1320 the Jews of Castellon obtained permission to lay out a cemetery; and in 1432 to ......
 * 12) Samuel di Castelnuovo JE (JE | ) Secretary of the Jewish community of Rome; lived at the end of the sixteenth century and at the beginning of ......
 * 13) Castles S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See D205: 205
 * 14) Adolf de Castro JE (JE | ) Spanish historian; member of the Academia de la Historia of Madrid; lived in Cadiz; died there Oct., 1898. He wrote ......
 * 15) De Castro family JE >> Isaac Orobio de Castro JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) The various branches of this family are all of Spanish and Portuguese origin. Soon after the establishment of the Inquisition, ......
 * 16) Jacob de Castro Sarmento JE (JE | ) Physician, naturalist, and poet; born about 1691 in Bragança, Portugal; died at London in 1761. At the age of seventeen ......
 * 17) David ben Abraham Castro Tartas (JE | ) Printer in Amsterdam from 1663 to 1695, and publisher of a number of rabbinical writings, including prayer-books and ritualistic works, ......
 * 18) Isaac de Castro Tartas JE (JE | ) Marano and martyr; born at Tartas, Gascony, about 1623; died at Lisbon Dec. 15 (22), 1647. He was a brother ......
 * 19) Castrojeriz (JE | ) Town in southern Castile, 18 miles west of Burgos. Jews lived there as early as the period of the Moorish ......
 * 20) Casuistry (Pilpul) (JE | ) -- See L148: Legalism

261 – 280

 * 1) Cat (JE | ) There is no reference to the cat in the Old Testament, the domestication of that animal being later than the ......
 * 2) Catacombs (JE | ) Underground galleries with excavations in their sides for tombs or in which human bones are stacked. The term is derived ......
 * 3) Abraham Catalan (JE | ) Well-known Talmudist of the seventeenth century. He and his son, Abraham Catalan, and his brother, Elijah Catalan, were contemporaneous with ......
 * 4) Abraham Catalan (Abraham Catalano) (JE | ) Physician in Padua; died 1642. He is the author of "'Olam Hafuk," an unpublished manuscript treatise on the plague of ......
 * 5) Abraham Solomon ben Isaac ben Samuel Catalan JE (JE | ) born in Catalonia; died 1492; author of a work treating of the eternity of the world, Providence, prophecy, immortality, and ......
 * 6) Gerson ben Solomon Catalan JE (JE | ) Author; lived at Arles in the middle of the thirteenth century; died (possibly) at Perpignan toward the end of the ......
 * 7) Moses Chayyim Catalan (Moses Hayyim Catalan) JE (JE | ) Italian poet; born in Padua; son of the physician Abraham Catalan. He was rabbi in his native town, and died ......
 * 8) Solomon Catalan (JE | ) Probably a grandson of Gerson b. Solomon Catalan. He was rabbi in the city of Coimbra in 1360.Bibliography: Kayserling, Gesch. ......
 * 9) Catalogues of Hebrew Books (JE | ) These were of frequent use among the Jews in the Middle Ages. Judah ibn Tibbon (about 1200) speaks in loving ......
 * 10) Catalonia >> History of the Jews in Catalonia (JE | ) Duchy of Aragon in the north-west of Spain. Jews settled in Catalonia (which included originally the county of Barcelona; the ......
 * 11) Shemariah Catarivas JE (JE | ) Talmudic writer of the eighteenth century. He was originally from Tiberias, and went to Tunis in 1750 as alms-collector, settling ......
 * 12) Catechisms (JE | ) Manuals for religious instruction. The name as well as the form of Jewish catechisms has been adopted from the Christian ......
 * 13) House of Catechumens (JE | ) A Roman institution for converting Jews to Catholicism, which the Jews, by means of taxes, were compelled to support. The ......
 * 14) Category S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A term introduced by Aristotle into the philosophical vocabulary, signifying "attribute," "predicate." According to him every word containedin a proposition ......
 * 15) Catherine II S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Empress of Russia; born in Stettin May 2, 1729; died in St. Petersburg Nov. 17, 1796. She was the wife ......
 * 16) Cathua (JE | ) Name of a family of Nethinim returning from Babylon with Zerubbabel (I Esd. v. 30). In the order of enumeration ......
 * 17) Carlo Cattaneo S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Italian Christian jurisconsult; born in Milan June 15, 1801; died at Castagnole, near Lugano, Feb. 5, 1869. Although Cattaneo was ......
 * 18) Cattle (JE | ) Term used to denote all domestic animals, the principal possession of nomadic and pastoral peoples.Cattle were very important in the ......
 * 19) Caucasus >> History of the Jews in the Caucasus (JE | ) A division of Russia, bounded on the north by European Russia; on the east by the Caspian sea; on the ......
 * 20) Caul (JE | ) Nowadays applied to the membrane surrounding the human fetus; used also in other senses. In the Bible:1. A rendering of ......

281 – 300

 * 1) Caution S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Warning given to witnesses before testimony. Neither Biblical nor rabbinical law requires a witness to confirm his testimony by an ......
 * 2) Cavaillon S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Small town in the department of Vaucluse, France. In his book, "R�ponses de Rabbins Fran�ais et Lorrains" (Vienna, 1881), Jo�l ......
 * 3) Cavallero, Cavagliero (JE | ) Name of a family, with branches in Provence, Africa, Turkey, and Italy.1. Abraham ben Judah Cavallero: Lived at Fez between ......
 * 4) Caves in Palestine (JE | ) By "me'arah" (V03p633003.jpg) the Hebrew designates natural caves. The mountains of Palestine, which for the greater part are formations of ......
 * 5) Cayenne (JE | ) An island of South America, and a town of the same name situated on this island that lies at the ......
 * 6) David Cazès JE (JE | ) Moroccan educator and writer; born at Tetuan in 1851. Sent to Paris in his early youth, he was educated by ......
 * 7) Cedar (JE | ) A tree of the pine family frequently mentioned in the Old Testament, where the "cedar of Lebanon" is generally meant. ......
 * 8) Cedron S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Name of the brook Kidron as given in John xviii. 1. Near the stream was the garden in which Jesus ......
 * 9) Celibacy S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Deliberate renunciation of marriage. In the Old Testament there is no direct reference to the subject. The prophet Jeremiah was ......
 * 10) Celsus S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Greek polemical writer against Christianity; flourished in the second century. He was the first pagan who denounced Christianity, and in ......
 * 11) Cemetery S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A place for the burial of the dead. The word "cemetery" is derived from the Greek ???????????, "the place where ......
 * 12) Censer S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) An implement shaped like a bowl or a pan, intended for the burning of incense. In the English Bible the ......
 * 13) Censorship of Hebrew Books (JE | ) Censorship is the regulation, first decreed by the Church and then carried out either by that institution or by the ......
 * 14) Census S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A numbering of the people. Several cases are given in the Bible. The first mentioned is that in Num. i. ......
 * 15) Cento S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) City of 8,000 inhabitants in the province of Ferrara, central Italy. If the statement is correct that the Ha-Me'ati ......
 * 16) Nathan da Cento JE (JE | ) See Me'ati, Nathan ha-. ......
 * 17) Samuel da Cento (JE | ) See Me'ati, Samuel ha-. ......
 * 18) Solomon da Cento (JE | ) See Me'ati, Solomon ha-. ......
 * 19) Central America >> History of the Jews in Central America (JE | ) -- See S990: South and Central America
 * 20) Central Conference of American Rabbis S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See C300: Conferences of American Rabbis

301 – 320

 * 1) Centralanzeiger für Jüdische Litteratur (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 2) Cephas S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See C925: Peter
 * 3) Ceremonies and the Ceremonial Law (JE | ) Symbolic rites and observances, expressive of certain thoughts or sentiments. As social life demands forms of etiquette (see Greetings), so ......
 * 4) Karl Friedrich Cerf JE (JE | ) German theatrical manager; born at Unterreissheim-on-the-Main in 1782; died at Berlin Nov. 6, 1845. He embraced Christianity when very young, ......
 * 5) Herz Cerfbeer of Medelsheim JE (JE | ) French philanthropist; born at Bischheim, Alsace, in 1730; died at Strasburg in 1793. He was a contractor to the army, ......
 * 6) Max-Théodore Cerfbeer JE (JE | ) French officer and deputy; born at Nancy, Meurthe, Dec. 9, 1792; died Jan. 15, 1876. He entered the army at ......
 * 7) Anatole Cerfberr JE (JE | ) French journalist and author; born at Paris 1835; died at Neuilly 1896. Under various pseudonyms, among which were "Arthur Clary," ......
 * 8) Auguste Édouard Cerfberr JE (JE | ) French author; born at Epinal in 1811; died in 1858. Having completed his studies in law, Cerfberr entered the service ......
 * 9) Frédéric Cerfberr JE (JE | ) French consul; born at Strasburg Oct. 27, 1786; died at sea Sept. 18, 1842, on a voyage from New York ......
 * 10) Maximilien Charles Alphonse Cerfberr of Medelsheim JE (JE | ) French journalist; born at Epinal July 20, 1817; died at Paris Dec. 16, 1883. After traveling extensively in Algeria and ......
 * 11) Samson Cerfberr of Medelsheim JE (JE | ) French soldier and author; born at Strasburg about 1780; committed suicide at Paris, 1826. He led an erratic and adventurous ......
 * 12) Cervera (JE | ) Hill-town in Catalonia, Spain, which in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries had a Jewish community. In 1328 a quarter ......
 * 13) Cesena S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) City of the Pontifical States. In early times a Jewish community existed here, of which the tosafist Eliezer is ......
 * 14) Cestius Florus (JE | ) -- See C314: Florus Cestius
 * 15) Chabad S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See H349: &#7716;asidim
 * 16) Chabar (JE | ) -- See H9: &#7716;abar
 * 17) Chabazeleth (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 18) Chaber (JE | ) -- See H13: &#7716;aber
 * 19) Chabib (JE | ) -- See H16: &#7716;abib
 * 20) Chabris (JE | ) Son of Gothoniel, and one of the three governors of Bethulia, a city besieged by Holofernes. Toward the end of ......

321 – 340

 * 1) Chacham (Chacham the Wise) JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See B884: &#7716;akam
 * 2) Chacham Bashi S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) See Ḥakam Bashi.
 * 3) Chacham Tzebi (Chacham Zebi) S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) See Ashkenazi,Ẓebi Hirsch b. Jacob.
 * 4) Chad-Gadya (JE | ) -- See H30: &#7716;ad Gadya
 * 5) Chadad (JE | ) See Ḥadad.
 * 6) Chaeremon S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Stoic philosopher and anti-Jewish writer (Origen, "Contra Celsum," i. 59; Eusebius, "Hist. Eccl." vi. 19), Egyptian priest (Porphyry, "De
 * 7) Chaff (JE | ) Separated husks of grain. The Bible frequently compares things evanescent to chaff blown away by the wind (Zeph. ii.
 * 8) Jacob Chagis (Moses Chagis) (JE | ) See Hagiz, Jacob; Hagiz, Moses, etc.
 * 9) Chaibar, Arabia (JE | ) -- See K193: Khaibar
 * 10) Moses Avigdor Chaikin (JE | ) Rabbi and author; born at Sklow, government of Mohilev, in 1852, and removed at an early age with his father
 * 11) Chains S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A word employed in English versions of the Bible as an equivalent for the various Hebrew terms applied to devices
 * 12) Zebi Hirsch b. Meir Chajes (JE | ) Talmudist, literary historian, and rabbi; born at Brody Nov. 20, 1805; died at Lemberg Oct. 12, 1855. His father, a
 * 13) Chajun (JE | ) -- See H437: &#7716;ayyun
 * 14) Chalafta (JE | ) -- See H105: &#7716;alafta
 * 15) Chalcis S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Capital of the island of Eubœa in the Ægean sea; under Greek dominion since 1832. Benjamin of Tudela found 200
 * 16) Chaldea JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) The Hebrew "Kasdim" (generally without the article) usually designates the Chaldeans as a people sometimes also their country (Jer. l.
 * 17) Phoebus Chalfan (JE | ) -- See H130: &#7716;alfon
 * 18) Chalilah (JE | ) -- See H136: &#7716;alilah
 * 19) Châlons-sur-Marne S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Capital of the department of Marne, France. Little is known of the Jews of this city. In 1292 Davy and
 * 20) Châlons-sur-Saône S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Capital of the department of Saône-et-Loire, France. Jews were established in the city at an early period; the council that

341 – 360

 * 1) Chalphi (JE | ) Father of Judas. The latter was one of the two captains who remained when all the others under Jonathan had
 * 2) Chaluqqah (Chalukkah) JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See H147: &#7716;alu&#7731;&#7731;ah
 * 3) Chalyzians (JE | ) A people who, according to the Byzantine historian, John Cinnamus (twelfth century), accepted the Mosaic law. They fought, together with
 * 4) Rab Chama (JE | ) -- See H149: &#7716;ama
 * 5) Chamai (Chamai Gaon) (JE | ) -- See H155: &#7716;amai
 * 6) Chamberlain (JE | ) The English rendering of V03p663006.jpg. This Hebrew word is also translated "officer" (Gen. xxxvii. 36; II Kings viii. 6). If
 * 7) Houston Stewart Chamberlain S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Anglo-German musical critic and anti-Semitic writer; born Sept. 9, 1855, at Portsmouth, England; son of Admiral W. C. Chamberlain. He
 * 8) Chambéry (JE | ) Capital of the department of Savoy, France. When the Jews were driven from France by Philippe Auguste in 1182, many
 * 9) Chameleon S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) An animal of the genus Chamœleon, the only genus of the tribe Dendrosaura (also Chamœleonida, Rhiptoglossa, Vermilinguia), of the Chamœleontidœ
 * 10) Chamois (JE | ) The rendering of the Hebrew V03p665002.jpg (zemer), both in the A. V. and in the R. V., probably on the
 * 11) Champagne S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A former province of France, now known as the departments of Marne, Haute-Marne, Aube, and Ardennes, with part of Seine-et-Marne,
 * 12) Rab Chana ben Chanilai (JE | ) -- See H197: &#7716;ana b. &#7716;anilai
 * 13) Chanan, Chananeel, Chananya (JE | ) -- See H200: Hanan
 * 14) Löb Chaneles (JE | ) -- See H258: &#7716;aneles, Judah L&#246;b
 * 15) Chanilai (JE | ) -- See A1534: Anilai
 * 16) Chanina JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See B229: &#7716;anina
 * 17) Chanoch S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See E383: Enoch
 * 18) Chanting (JE | ) -- See C109: Cantillation
 * 19) Chanukkah S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See H265: &#7716;anukkah
 * 20) Chao Yng-Cheng (Zhao Yingcheng, Chao Ying-ch'eng) JE (JE | ) Chinese mandarin; flourished about 1653. After the sack of K'ai Fung-Foo, which followed the fall of the Ming dynasty in

361 – 380

 * 1) Chaplet (JE | ) See Crown, Diadem, and Miter.
 * 2) John Chapman DAB (JE | ) English educationist and communal worker; born 1845. Educated at Jews' College, London, he became an assistant master in that institution,
 * 3) Charaathalan (JE | ) Name occurring in I Esd. v. 36. It is a corruption of "Cherub," "Addan," and "Immer" (Ezra ii. 59 =
 * 4) Characa (JE | ) A city about 750 stadia distant from Caspis. It was the seat of the Jews called "Tubieni." Judas Maccabeus went
 * 5) Charan S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See H274: Haran
 * 6) Charashim (JE | ) -- See G113: Ge-&#7716;arashim
 * 7) Charchemish (JE | ) -- See C150: Carchemish
 * 8) Chares DAB (JE | ) Leader of the Zealots in the Judæo-Roman war, and one of the most eminent men of Gamala (Josephus, "B.
 * 9) Charger (JE | ) A rendering of two Hebrew words and a Greek one: (1) V03p666001.jpg (ḳa'arah), occurring in the list of the donations
 * 10) Chariot S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Vehicles are designated in Hebrew chiefly by two expressions, "'agalah" and "rakab," with "merkab" and "merkabah" derived from the latter.
 * 11) Charity and Charitable institutions (Tzedakah) S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Charity is kindness shown to the needy; Hebrew, "ẓedaḳah"="righteousness" (Deut. xxiv. 13; Isa. xxxii. 17; Prov. xiv. 34; Ps. cvi.
 * 12) Charkow (Kharkov) S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See: Kharkov ((no article))
 * 13) Charlemagne S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) King of the Franks and emperor of the West; born April, 742; died Jan. 28, 814. His attitude toward the
 * 14) Elizabeth Jane Caulfield, Countess of Charlemont JE (JE | ) Convert to Judaism; born June 21, 1834; died at Roxborough Castle, Moy, County Tyrone, Ireland, May 31, 1882. She was
 * 15) Charleston, South Carolina >> History of the Jews in Charleston, South Carolina JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Capital of the county of the same name, and chief city of the state of South Carolina in the United
 * 16) Charms S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See A1445: Amulets
 * 17) Charoseth (Haroseth, Charoset) (JE | ) -- See S427: Seder
 * 18) Chartography (Cartography) (JE | ) The art of making maps. In the development of this art, during the Middle Ages, an epoch is made by
 * 19) Chartres S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Chief town of the department of Eure-et-Loire, France. From time immemorial Jews were established at Chartres, occupying a special quarter
 * 20) Chasdai (JE | ) -- See H332: &#7716;asdai

381 – 400

 * 1) Moses Chaseisch (JE | ) German Talmudist; died at Halberstadt in 1793. Chaseisch enjoyed an established reputation among his contemporaries as a Talmudist, and was
 * 2) Moses ben Jacob Chaskes (JE | ) Neo-Hebrew poet and Russian translator; born in Wilna Sept. 27, 1848; removed later to Odessa. His first collection of Hebrew
 * 3) Chashniki S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Town in the government of Vitebsk, Russia, having (in 1897) a population of 4,590, of whom about 4,000 are Jews.
 * 4) Chasid (Hasidic Judaism) S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See M561: &#7716;asid
 * 5) Chastisement S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See P607: Punishment
 * 6) Chastity S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Purity in regard to the relations of sex, implied in the commandment, "Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord
 * 7) Proof of Chastity (JE | ) See Crime and Divorce.
 * 8) Château-Thierry (JE | ) Chief town of the arrondissement of the same name in the department of Aisne, France. At Château-Thierry, as in general
 * 9) Chattanooga >> History of the Jews in Chattanooga (JE | ) -- See T138: Tennessee
 * 10) Chattels S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) In English and American law property is divided into two kinds: real or landed, and personal or chattels; in Continental
 * 11) Isaac Andreyevich Chatzkin JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Russian physician; born 1832; died at Odessa June, 1902. He settled in that city in 1869, and practised there for
 * 12) Chaussy JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) District town in the government of Mohilev, Russia. The Jewish community of Chaussy dates from the seventeenth century, as appears
 * 13) Jewish Chautauqua Society (JE | ) A society formed in the United States for "the dissemination of knowledge of the Jewish religion by fostering the study
 * 14) Chaves (JE | ) City in Portugal, which in the fourteenth century had a fairly large Jewish community, and an "aula," or school, "in
 * 15) Chaves (JE | ) Jewish-Portuguese family that derived its name from its native place of Chaves in Portugal; members of it are found in
 * 16) Chavillo (JE | ) -- See H21: &#7716;abillo
 * 17) Chayyim, Chayyug S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) See Ḥayyug.
 * 18) Chazak (JE | ) See Forti, John.
 * 19) Chazan S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See H458: &#7716;azzan
 * 20) Joseph Chazanowicz (JE | ) Russian physician, and founder of the Jewish National Library at Jerusalem; born at Goniondz, government of Grodno, Russia, Oct. 22,

401 – 420

 * 1) Chazanuth (JE | ) -- See H462: &#7716;azzanut
 * 2) Chazars (Khazars) S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A people of Turkish origin whose life and history are interwoven with the very beginnings of the history of the
 * 3) Chebar (JE | ) Name of a Babylonian river or canal, by the side of which Ezekiel "saw visions" (Ezek. i. 1, 3; iii.
 * 4) Chechelnik (JE | ) Town in the government of Podolia, Russia, having (1898) a population of about 7,000, including 1,967 Jews. Their principal occupation
 * 5) Chechersk S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Town in the government of Mohilev, Russia, with a population (in 1898) of 2,819, including 1,692 Jews. The latter are
 * 6) Chedorlaomer S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Name of a king of Elam (Gen. xiv. 1), who made conquests as far west as Canaan and exercised supremacy
 * 7) Cheese (JE | ) The curd of milk run into molds and allowed to coagulate. This article of food was known to the ancient
 * 8) Raphael Joseph Chelebi (JE | ) See Raphael Joseph of Aleppo.
 * 9) Chellus (JE | ) Place mentioned in Judith i. 9 as lying before Kadesh and the River of Egypt. Reland ("Palæstina ex Monumentis Veteribus
 * 10) Chelm S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Town in the government of Kovno, Russia. It has a population of about 4,200, all of whom, with the exception
 * 11) Ephraim ben Joseph Chelm (JE | ) -- See C411: Ephraim b. Joseph Chelm
 * 12) Solomon ben Moses Chelm (JE | ) -- See C412: Solomon b. Moses Chelm
 * 13) Chelod (JE | ) A name occurring in Judith i. 6b, and designating apparently the Chaldeans. In place of the rendering of the A.
 * 14) Chelub (JE | ) A Hebrew word meaning a cage, as in Jer. v. 27. It is also the name of two men: (1)
 * 15) Chelubai S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) This is probably another form of the name Caleb. It occurs in I Chron. ii. 9.E. G. H.G. B. L.
 * 16) Chemarim (JE | ) Plural of V04p009001.jpg; occurs as transliteration of the Hebrew in the English translation of Zeph. i. 4, and also as
 * 17) Chemerovtzy (JE | ) Small town in the government of Podolia, Russia, with (in 1898) an almost exclusively Jewish population of 1,282. About 160
 * 18) Chemnitz S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Town in Saxony, with a Jewish population of 1,150. Jews first settled there in the latter half of the nineteenth
 * 19) Chemosh JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) The national god of the Moabites. He became angry with his people and permitted them to become the vassals of
 * 20) Chenaanah (JE | ) Feminine form of "Canaan"; the name of two men: (1) The fourth-named of the seven sons of Bilham, son of

421 – 440

 * 1) Chenaniah (JE | ) A Levite of the family of Izharites (I Chron. xxvi. 29) and chief of the Temple singers who conducted the
 * 2) Chenstochov S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) City in the government of Petrokow, Russian Poland, the Jewish inhabitants of which in 1897 numbered 12,500 in a total
 * 3) Chephirah (JE | ) City belonging originally to the Gibeonites (Josh. ix. 17), but which, in the apportionment of the land, fell to the
 * 4) Cheran S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A name occurring in the genealogy of Seir the Horite (Gen. xxxvi. 26), and in the corresponding list in I
 * 5) Cherei (JE | ) A small town in the government of Mohilev, Russia, with (1898) about 3,000 inhabitants, of whom 1,300 are Jews. The
 * 6) Cherethites JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Probably the name of a part of the Philistines; usually, however, designating the whole nation, as in Zeph. ii. 5,
 * 7) Cherikov (JE | ) Town in the government of Mohilev, Russia. According to the last census (1897) it has 5,250 inhabitants, including 2,700 Jews.
 * 8) Cherith S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) The name of a brook or wadi near the Jordan, where Elijah, in the time of drought and famine, was
 * 9) Cherkassy S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) District town in the government of Kiev, Russia, situated on the right bank of the Dnieper, about 126 miles from
 * 10) Chernevtzy (JE | ) Town in the government of Podolia, Russia; it has (1898) a population of about 15,000, including about 2,000 Jews. Of
 * 11) Chernigov (JE | ) A city in Russia; capital of the government of the same name. The Jewish settlement at Chernigov is one of
 * 12) Chernigov (JE | ) A government of Little Russia (Ukraine), with a Jewish population (1897) of 114,630 in a total population of 2,298,834, or
 * 13) Chernobyl S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Town in the government of Kiev, Russia; it has (1898) a population of 10,759, including 7,189 Jews. Of the latter,
 * 14) Cherub S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) The name of a winged being mentioned frequently in the Bible. The prophet Ezekiel describes the cherubim as a tetrad
 * 15) Chesalon (JE | ) A border town of Judah (Josh. xv. 10), also known as "Mount Jearim." It lies in a directly west of
 * 16) Chesed S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A son of Nahor and Milcah (Gen. xxii.22). From the name the term "Casdim" (Chaldeans) is clearly derived.E. G. H.
 * 17) Chess (JE | ) A game of skill, usually played by two persons, with sixteen pieces each, on a board divided into sixty-four squares
 * 18) Chest S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See A1777: Ark
 * 19) Chestnut tree S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) The rendering of V04p021001.jpg given in the A. V. (Gen. xxx. 37; Ezek. xxxi. 8); the R.V., however, preferring "plane-tree."
 * 20) Chevra S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) See Hebra.

441 – 460

 * 1) Thomas Kelly Cheyne (JE | ) English Christian Biblical critic, and Oriel professor of Biblical exegesis at the University of Oxford, England; born at London Sept.
 * 2) Luigi Chiarini (JE | ) Italian abbé; born near Montepulciano, Italy, April 26, 1789; died at Warsaw Feb. 28, 1832. He was appointed professor of
 * 3) Chicago >> History of the Jews in Chicago (JE | ) Capital of Cook county, Illinois; the second largest city of the United States. It was incorporated as a city in
 * 4) The Chicago Israelite (JE | ) An American weekly newspaper devoted to Jewish interests; founded January, 1885, and first issued under the editorship of Leo Wise,
 * 5) Chidon (JE | ) The owner of the threshing-floor at which Uzza or Uzzah, attempting to steady the Ark of the Covenant, was killed
 * 6) Chief S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Term used by the English Bible versions as an approximate rendering of a number of Hebrew words. The leaders of
 * 7) Esther Chiera (JE | ) -- See K210: Kiera, Esther
 * 8) Chigrin (JE | ) Town in the government of Kiev, Russia, with a population (in 1897) of 9,870, including about 3,000 Jews. The latter
 * 9) Child S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Since the days of Abraham (Gen. xv. 2), to possess a child was always considered as the greatest blessing God
 * 10) Child Marriage (JE | ) -- See M213: Marriage
 * 11) Childbirth S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) The following are some of the Biblical and Talmudical details touching the birth of children:In the Bible.The child might be
 * 12) Song of the Three Children (JE | ) -- See D34: Daniel, Book of
 * 13) Children of God S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See G283: God, Children of
 * 14) Chile >> History of the Jews in Chile (JE | ) A republic of South America, bounded by Peru on the north, Bolivia and the Argentine Republic on the east, and
 * 15) Chileab S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A son of David, born to him at Hebron. His mother was Abigail, whom David married after the death of
 * 16) Chiliasm S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See M621: Millennium
 * 17) Chilion S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A son of Elimelech and Naomi, the Bethlehemites who emigrated to Moab because of the severe famine in Judea (Ruth
 * 18) Chilmad (JE | ) Name occurring in the long list of those nations supplying merchandise for Tyre (Ezek. xxvii. 23). The Septuagint reads
 * 19) Chimham (JE | ) A son of Barzillai, who supported David while the latter was in exile at Mahanaim. After the death of Absalom,
 * 20) Rachel Mironowna Chin (JE | ) -- See C460: Khin, Rachel Mironowna

461 – 480

 * 1) China >> History of the Jews in China JE (JE | ) The southeastern and main division of the Chinese empire. The subject of the Jews in China is here treated in
 * 2) Chinnereth S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) The sea marking the eastern boundary of the Israelitish possessions, whence the boundary proceeded by the River Jordan to the
 * 3) Simson of Chinon (JE | ) -- See C463: Simson of Chinon
 * 4) Chios S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Island in the Ægean Sea; Turkish possession, 344 miles west of Smyrna. It is not known with any certainty when
 * 5) Chiquitilla (JE | ) -- See G226: Gikatilla
 * 6) Chisdai (JE | ) -- See H332: &#7716;asdai
 * 7) Chittim (Kittim) S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See C948: Cyprus
 * 8) Chiun (JE | ) A word occurring in connection with "Siccuth" in Amos v. 26. Scholars have long been puzzled to know whether in
 * 9) Bogdan Zinovi Chmielnicki (JE | ) Hetman of the Zaporogian Cossacks, born about 1595; died at Chigirin Aug. 16, 1675. Unlike many other Little-Russian pupils of
 * 10) Choba (JE | ) A town included among those which the Jews fortified against the attacks of Holofernes. It is mentioned in two places
 * 11) Choir (JE | ) A collection of singers with trained voices who take part in divine service and who are separated from the congregation.
 * 12) Cholera Asiatica (JE | ) A specific and communicable disease, characterized by violent vomiting and purging. It prevails endemically in some parts of India,
 * 13) Chor-Ashan (JE | ) This is, perhaps, better given, with the earlier manuscripts (Baer), as "Bor-ashan." The Septuagint also confirms the latter spelling,
 * 14) Aaron Chorin (Aaron Choriner) JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Hungarian rabbi; born at Weisskirchen, Moravia, Aug. 3, 1766; died at Arad, Hungary, Aug 24, 1844. At the age of
 * 15) Franz Chorin (JE | ) Hungarian deputy; grandson of Aaron Chorin; born at Arad May 11, 1842. He studied law at Arad, Budapest, and Vienna,
 * 16) Joseph Judah Chorny JE (JE | ) Russian traveler; born at Minsk April 20, 1835; died at Odessa April 28, 1880. His parents destined him for the
 * 17) Chosaemus (JE | ) One of "the sons of Annas" that had "strange wives" (I Esd. ix. 32). The name can not be identified
 * 18) Chosen People (JE | ) Name for the Jewish people expressive of the idea of their having been chosen by God to fulfil the mission
 * 19) Chosroes II (Khosru II) S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) King of Persia from 591 to 628. Chosroes, on the plea of avenging the death of his father-in-law, the
 * 20) Joseph Chotzner (JE | ) English rabbi and author; born at Cracow, Austria, May 11, 1844; educated at the Breslau rabbinical seminary and the University

481 – 500

 * 1) Chovevei Zion S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Associations, in Europe and the United States, of persons interested in agricultural settlement of Jews in Palestine and in
 * 2) Joseph Choynski (JE | ) American heavyweight pugilist; born at San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 8, 1868. His first appearance in the prize-ring was in 1884,
 * 3) Christ S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Septuagint translation of Hebrew "Mashiaḥ" ("Messiah"=The Anointed),applied by Christians exclusively to Jesus as the Messiah (see Jesus of Nazareth
 * 4) Christian S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) A word denoting a follower of Jesus as the Messiah or Christ. It originated, according to Acts xi. 26, in
 * 5) Gustav Christopher Christian (JE | ) German author and Christian missionary; born of Jewish parents; baptized in 1719; died at Nuremberg about 1735. He was the
 * 6) Friedrich Albrecht Christiani (JE | ) Jewish convert to Christianity; born in the middle of the seventeenth century; died at Prossnitz at the beginning of the
 * 7) Moritz Wilhelm Christiani (JE | ) Author and Jewish convert to Christianity; born at Altorf at the end of the seventeenth century; died at Prague about
 * 8) Pablo Christiani JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Jewish convert of Montpellier, France; contemporary of NaḤmanides. After having been baptized, Christiani joined the Order of the Dominicans and
 * 9) Christianity in its relation to Judaism (see Judaism for a series of equivalent Wikipedia articles) (JE | ) Christianity is the system of religious truth based upon the belief that Jesus of Nazareth was the expected Messiah, or
 * 10) Queen Christina S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Queen of Sweden; born at Stockholm Dec. 7, 1626; died at Rome April 19, 1689. She was a daughter of
 * 11) Christology S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See M510: Messiah
 * 12) Ludwig Chronegk (JE | ) German actor; born at Brandenburg-on-the-Havel Nov. 3, 1837; died at Meiningen July 8, 1890. He was the stage-manager and "Intendanzrath"
 * 13) Chronicles S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) -- See H802: Historiography
 * 14) Book of Chronicles S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) The two books of Chronicles form a history of the Temple and its priesthood, and of the house of David
 * 15) Chronogram JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Sentence or verse certain letters of which express a date, while the sentence itself alludes to or is descriptive
 * 16) Chronology S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) The science that treats of the computation and adjustment of time or periods of time, and of the record and
 * 17) Joannes Chrysostomus (St. John Chrysostom) (JE | ) Patriarch of Constantinople, one of the most celebrated of the Church Fathers, and the most eminent orator of the early
 * 18) Chudnov (JE | ) Town in the government of Volhynia, Russia. A Jewish community existed here before the uprising of the Cossacks in 1648.
 * 19) Chuetas S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Names given to the descendants of the secret Jews in Majorca, who at heart were still faithful to Judaism, but
 * 20) Chufut-Kale JE S 2007-03-04 (JE | ) Suburb of Bakhchiserai, a town in the government of Taurida, Russia. It is called by the Tatars "Kirk-er" (Place of