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501 – 520

 * 1) Luis Duarte (JE | ) Chilean Marano; born in Evora, Portugal, at the end of the sixteenth century. He served for six years in the Chilean army...
 * 2) Duarte de Pinel (JE | ) -- See U57: Usque
 * 3) Dublin (JE | ) Chief city of Ireland. The Jewish community in Dublin is one of the oldest of those which have been founded in Great Britain...
 * 4) Dubner Maggid JE (JE | ) -- See J103: Jacob ben Wolf Kranz of Dubno
 * 5) Dubnicza (JE | ) Bulgarian town; 22 miles south of Sofia, and on the left bank of the Jerma. In tracing the origin of its population by the...
 * 6) Dubno JE (JE | ) Town in the government of Volhynia, Russia. According to the census of 1897 it had a population of 13,785, including 5,608...
 * 7) Solomon ben Joel Dubno JE (JE | ) Russian poet, grammarian, and student of the Masorah; born at Dubno, Volhynia, Oct., 1738; died at Amsterdam June 26, 1813...
 * 8) Simon (Semion Markovich) Dubnow (JE | ) Russo Jewish historian; born at Mstis. lavl, government of Mohilev, 1860. He attended the Jewish government school of his...
 * 9) Dubosary (JE | ) Village in the government of Kherson, Russia. In 1897 it had a population of 13,276, of whom about 5,000 were Jews. A considerable...
 * 10) Dubrovna (JE | ) Village situated on both banks of the Dnieper river, in the government of Mohilev, in northwestern Russia. Its total population...
 * 11) Duderstadt (JE | ) A city in Eichsfelde, province of Hanover. Jews have lived there as early as the beginning of the fourteenth century, as appears...
 * 12) Isaac ben Me& (JE | ) German rabbi and codifier; lived in the second half of the thirteenth century at Dueren, from which place he took his name...
 * 13) Dukan (JE | ) the "platform" upon which (1) the Temple priests stood to pronounce the benediction (Mid. ii. 6), (2) the Levites stood during...
 * 14) Leopold Dukes (JE | ) Hungarian historian of Jewish literature; born at Presburg, Hungary, 1810; died at Vienna Aug. 3, 1891. He studied Talmudical...
 * 15) Dumah (JE | ) Son of Ishmael (Gen. xxv. 14; I Chron. i. 30). Suk ("marKet") Dumah has been found in Dumat al-Jandal in Arabia, called...
 * 16) Arnold Borisovich Dumashevski (JE | ) Russian lawyer; born at Mohilev-on-the-Dnieper, 1836, of poor Orthodox Jewish parents; died at St. Petersburg 1887. He received...
 * 17) Dumb (JE | ) -- See D177: Deaf-Mutism
 * 18) D& (JE | ) -- See D540: Dvinsk
 * 19) Dunash ben Labrat (JE | ) Philologist and poet of the tenth century. For the name "Dunash," which Joseph &#7730;imchi on one occasion ("Sefer ha-Galui...
 * 20) Dunash ibn Tamim (JE | ) Scholar of the tenth century and pioneer of scientific study among Arabic-speaking Jews. His Arabic name was "Abu Sahl"; his...

521 – 540

 * 1) Dunayevtzy (JE | ) Village in the government of Podolia, Russia. It had a population (1898) of 13,000, of whom 7,000 were Jews. The chief sources...
 * 2) Joseph Hirsch D& (JE | ) Rabbi; born at Cracow Jan., 1833; received his rabbinical education at his native place; studied philosophy and Oriental philology...
 * 3) John Duns Scotus (JE | ) Franciscan monk, theologian, and scholiast; born at Dunston, North umberland, England (according to some, at Dun, Ireland)...
 * 4) Adrien Duport (JE | ) French lawyer and friend of the Jews; born in 1758; died in exile 1798. He became a deputy to the States-General in 1789,...
 * 5) Dura (JE | ) A valley mentioned only in Daniel (iii. 1). Here Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image, to the dedication of which he summoned...
 * 6) Duran DAB >> Profiat Duran JE, Simeon ben Zemah Duran JE, Solomon ben Simon Duran JE (JE | ) A widely scattered family, originally from Provence, not from Oran ("d&#39;Oran"), as some scholars think. A "Mosse Duram"...
 * 7) Duress (JE | ) in law, the use of such unlawful force against a contracting party as will entitle him to rescind a contract. The rabbinical...
 * 8) Emile Durkheim (JE | ) French writer; born at Epinal, in the department of Vosges, France, April15, 1858. He was educated at the college of his native...
 * 9) Elcan Durlacher (JE | ) Hebraist and publisher; born at Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1817; died Dec. 21, 1889. He went to Paris in 1845 as a teacher of...
 * 10) John Dury (JE | ) English divine of the seventeenth century. During his travels abroad he met Manasseh ben Israel in 1644, and heard from him...
 * 11) Moritz Duschak (JE | ) Austrian rabbi and author; born in Triesch, Moravia, Nov. 14, 1815; died in Vienna July 21, 1890. He was a pupil in Talmud...
 * 12) Friedrich Duschenes (JE | ) Austrian jurist; born at Prague Jan. 18, 1843; died there Jan. 11, 1901. He received his education at the Unter-Realschule...
 * 13) Wilhelm Duschinsky (JE | ) Austrian writer; born in Strasnitz, Moravia, May 6, 1860. He attended the gymnasium in Vienna, and afterward studied Romanic...
 * 14) D& (JE | ) City in Rhenish Prussia, situated on the right bank of the Rhine. According to the census of 1900 it has about 2,600 Jews...
 * 15) Dutch West Indies (JE | ) A name by which the Dutch colonies of Cura&#231;ao and Surinam are sometimes designated. See under West Indies.         ...
 * 16) Duty (JE | ) That which is due to God as the Master of life, or to a fellow man, or to oneself. "Duty" is an ethical term; its recognition...
 * 17) Adolf Dux JE (JE | ) Hungarian writer; born at Presburg Oct. 25, 1822; died at Budapest Nov. 20, 1881; cousin of Leopold Dukes. He studied law...
 * 18) Ludwig Dux (JE | ) -- See D409: D&#243;czy, Ludwig
 * 19) Christian Salomon Duytsch (JE | ) Hungarian clergyman; born in Temesv&#225;r, Hungary, in 1734; died in 1797. He attended the Talmud Torah in Prague. Returning...
 * 20) Dvinsk (JE | ) City in the government of Vitebsk, Russia. It is situated on the River D&#252;na, at the intersection of two railroads. It...

541 – 560

 * 1) Dwarf (JE | ) the rendering in A. V. of (Lev. xxi. 20, literally "thin"), denoting one of the physical disqualifications of priests for...
 * 2) Dyatlovo (JE | ) -- See G439: Grodno
 * 3) Dybossari (JE | ) -- See D509: Dubosary
 * 4) Isadore Dyer (JE | ) American merchant and communal worker; born in Dessau, Germany, 1813; died at Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1888. He went to America...
 * 5) Leon Dyer (JE | ) American soldier; born at Alzey, Germany, Oct. 9, 1807; died in Louisville, Ky., 1883. At an early age he went with his parents...
 * 6) Dyes and Dyeing (JE | ) Though not mentioned as a special art in the Bible, dyeing was probably practised as in Egypt by the fuller andthe tanner...
 * 7) Dyhernfurth (JE | ) Town in Prussian Silesia, with 1,463 inhabitants; founded Jan. 20, 1663. In that year the Austrian emperor Leopold I., desiring...
 * 8) David Moses Dyte (David ben Meir Dyte) (JE | ) English Jew who distinguished himself by saving the life of George III. of England under the following circumstances: On May...
 * 9) Dyvin (JE | ) Village in the government of Grodno, Russia. It has a very old Jewish community, but it is impossible to determine when Jews...