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 * 1) Eagle (JE | ) the rendering in the English Bible versions of the Hebrew "nesher." the nesher, however, was bald; nested on high rocks; and...
 * 2) Earnest-money (JE | ) Part payment of the price by the buyer of a commodity as a guaranty that he will stand by the bargain.Wherever the payment...
 * 3) Earnings (JE | ) -- See M252: Master and Servant
 * 4) Earring (JE | ) A ring or hook passed through the lobe of the ear. Earrings, so widely used by Eastern peoples, have no particular designation...
 * 5) Earth (JE | ) the Hebrew expression for "earth" means primarily earth or soil as an element, and also the surface of the earth and plowed...
 * 6) Earthquake (JE | ) the Hebrew word "ra&#39;ash," as well as its Assyrian and Arabic equivalents designating an earthquake, is indicative of a...
 * 7) Easement (JE | ) An incorporeal, right, existing distinct from the ownership of the soil, consisting of a liberty, privilege, or use of another&#39...
 * 8) East (JE | ) Worshipers of the sun turned toward the east, with their backs to the Holy of Holies (Ezek. viii. 16; comp. Suk. v. 4), whereas...
 * 9) East Indies (JE | ) -- See C558: Cochin
 * 10) Easter (JE | ) Name given by Anglo-Saxons to the Christian Passover as the Feast of Resurrection, and rather incorrectly used for the Jewish...
 * 11) Eating (JE | ) -- See B215: Banquets
 * 12) Ebal (JE | ) 1. A bare mountain 2,900 feet high, north of Sichem, opposite Mt. Gerizim. At the base toward the north are several tombs...
 * 13) Ebed-melech (JE | ) A Cushite officer at the court of King Zedekiah, who interceded in behalf of Jeremiah, and was sent by the king with thirty...
 * 14) Ebed Tob (JE | ) -- See A196: Abdi &#7716;eba
 * 15) Ebel Rabbati JE (JE | ) -- See S460: Sema&#7716;ot
 * 16) Eben-ezer JE (JE | ) Scene of two battles in which the Israelites were defeated by the Philistines. In the first engagement they lost 4,000 men...
 * 17) Eber (JE | ) the eponymous ancestor of the Hebrews; grandson of Arphaxad and great-grandson of Shem; father of Joktan, the ancestor of...
 * 18) Eber ben Pethahiah (JE | ) Moravian scholar; lived in Ungarisch-Brod at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Steinschneider indicates the possibility...
 * 19) Abraham ben Judah Eberlen (JE | ) German mathematician; lived at Frankfort-on-the-Main in the first half of the sixteenth century. He was the author of a work...
 * 20) George Friedrich Felix Eberty (JE | ) German jurist and author; born in Berlin Jan. 26,1812; died at Arnsdorf (Riesengebirge) July 7, 1884. He was educated at the...

21 – 40

 * 1) Ebiasaph (JE | ) A Levite, descendant of Kohath, and one of the ancestors of the prophet Samuel and of Heman, the singer. In Exodus vi. 24...
 * 2) Ebionites (JE | ) Sect of Jud&#230;o-Christians of the second to the fourth century. They believed in the Messianic character of Jesus, but...
 * 3) Ebony (JE | ) This word is mentioned only once in the Old Testament, namely, Ezek. xxvii. 15, where it is stated that the Arabian merchant...
 * 4) Ebron (JE | ) -- See A207: Abdon, of which it is a variant form
 * 5) Wilhelm Ebstein JE (JE | ) German physician; born in Jauer, Prussian Silesia, Nov. 27, 1836. He studied medicine at the universities of Breslau and Berlin...
 * 6) Book of Ecclesiastes (JE | ) the name "Ecclesiastes"&#8212;literally, "Member of an Assembly," often thought to mean (after Jerome) "Preacher"&#8212;is...
 * 7) Ecclesiasticus (JE | ) -- See S836: Sirach
 * 8) Echo Des Judenthums (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 9) Ecija (JE | ) Spanish city in the province of Seville. A charge of ritual murder occurred in the time of the "great king" Alfonso (Alfonso...
 * 10) Joseph de Ecija (JE | ) See Benveniste, Joseph ben Ephraim ha-Levi.
 * 11) Johann Maier von Eck (JE | ) Catholic theologian; born at Eck, Bavaria, Nov. 13, 1486; died in Ingolstadt Feb. 10, 1543. One of the most active antagonists...
 * 12) Ed JE (JE | ) Name supplied by the English versions for the altar erected by the tribes on the east of the Jordan (Joshua xxii. 34). The...
 * 13) & (JE | ) Two Hebrew appellations signifying respectively "holy congregation" and "sacred college"; the former being peculiar to the...
 * 14) Eddinus (JE | ) One of the three "holy singers . . ., the sons of Asaph" (I Esd. i. 15), at Josiah&#39;s Passover. He alone belonged to the...
 * 15) Judah L& (JE | ) Russian preacher; born at Zamoscz, government of Lublin, Poland; died at Slonim 1827. He was a pupil of Elijah Wilna, and...
 * 16) Hirsch Edelmann (Hen-Tob) JE (JE | ) Author and editor; born in Swislocz, Russia, 1805; died at Berlin, Nov. 20, 1858. He was the son of a rabbinical scholar,...
 * 17) Simhah Reuben Edelmann JE (JE | ) Russian grammarian and commentator; born in Wilna Jan., 1821; died in Warsaw Dec., 1892. He received a good Talmudical education...
 * 18) Samuel Eliezer ben Judah Edels (JE | ) Polish rabbi; born in Posen, 1555; died at Ostrog Nov. 30, 1631. He was a son-in-law of Rabbi Moses Ashkenazi, author of "Zikron...
 * 19) Garden of Eden (JE | ) Name given to the "earthly paradise" occupied by Adam and Eve before their fall through sin. The word "Eden," perhaps an Assyrian...
 * 20) Eder, Edar (JE | ) A place near Ephrath, i.e., Bethlehem. Jacob, while journeying from Bethlehem to Hebron, encamped "beyond the tower of Eder"...

41 – 60

 * 1) Alfred Edersheim (JE | ) Christian theologian and missionary to the Jews; born at Vienna, of Jewish parents, March 7, 1825; died at Menton March 16...
 * 2) Edessa (JE | ) the present Urfa, a city in the vilayet of Aleppo, Asiatic Turkey. No mention of the name is found in Jewish writings, except...
 * 3) Edinburgh (JE | ) Capital of Scotland. When the Jews began to settle in Scotland early in the nineteenth century, they appear to have been attracted...
 * 4) Markus Edinger (JE | ) German deputy; born at Worms Jan. 14, 1808; died at Mannheim Feb. 9, 1879. He was the first Jew summoned by the government...
 * 5) Edom, Idumea (JE | ) Edom is the name which was given to Esau, the first-born son of Isaac, on the day he sold his birthright to Jacob for a mess...
 * 6) Moses Edrehi (JE | ) Moroccan cabalist and teacher of modern and Oriental languages of the earlier part of the nineteenth century; born in Morocco...
 * 7) Edrei (JE | ) Ancient city in the Jordan valley, at present Der&#39;at, southeast of Muzerib. The city is apparently mentioned as "Otara"...
 * 8) Edris (JE | ) -- See E383: Enoch in Arabic Literature
 * 9) Education (JE | ) the moral and religious training of the people from childhood up was regarded by the Jews from the very beginning of their...
 * 10) Educational Alliance (JE | ) -- See N248: New York
 * 11) Educatore Israelita (JE | ) Monthly periodical founded by Giuseppe Levi, and published by him, in conjunction with Esdra Pontremoli, at Vercelli (1853-74)...
 * 12) & (JE | ) Following is a synopsis of the longer portions of the treatise:Chapter i.: in 1-3 a matter of dispute between Hillel and Shammai...
 * 13) Efa (Jewish scholar) (JE | ) Rabbinic scholar of the fourth century. He was a native of Babylonia, who, although but few halakot and fewer haggadot are...
 * 14) Efes JE (JE | ) Scholar of the third century; secretary to the patriarch Judah I. (Gen. R. lxxv. 5), and one of the last tannaim. After Judah&#39...
 * 15) Efodi (JE | ) -- See D526: Duran
 * 16) Amram ben Nathan Efrati (JE | ) Rabbi of Valencia in the second half of the fourteenth century. He was a contemporary of Nissim b. Reuben, rabbi of Barcelona...
 * 17) Eger (JE | ) Bohemian town, on the right bank of the River Eger. The population of Eger in 1890 was 17,148, including 508 Jews. The oldest...
 * 18) Eger >> Akiva ben Moses Eger (JE | ) A family established for a long time at Halberstadt, Germany. It appears to have been originally known by the name of "Gins"...
 * 19) Egesippus (JE | ) -- See J473: Joseph b. Gorion
 * 20) Eggs (JE | ) the Old Testament refers to eggs of birds (Deut. xxii. 6) and of vipers (Isa. lix. 5, A. V., "cockatrice"), and to the well-known...

61 – 80

 * 1) Eglah (JE | ) Mother of Ithream, David&#39;s sixth son (I Chron. iii. 3). The expression "wife of David" (II Sam. iii. 5) probably means...
 * 2) Eglath-shelishiyah (JE | ) A place mentioned in ancient oracles against Moab (Isa. xv. 5, R. V.; Jer. xlviii. 34, R. V.), together with Zoar, Luhith...
 * 3) Eglon (JE | ) A king of Moab, who overcame the Israelites and captured the "city of palm-trees," by which is probably meant Jericho (Judges...
 * 4) Menahem ben Moses Egozi (JE | ) Turkish Talmudist; lived at Constantinople during the sixteenth century. He was the author of "Gal shel Egozim," expositions...
 * 5) Egotism (JE | ) -- See A1334: Altruism
 * 6) Meshullam ben Samson Egra (JE | ) Austrian rabbi; born in Galicia 1733; died at Presburg Sept. 21, 1785. Egra&#39;s father was of Buczacz, Galicia, but Meshullam...
 * 7) Egypt >> History of the Jews in Egypt JE (JE | ) the valley of the Nile north of the first cataract, having an area of 9,000-12,000 square miles of arable ground. Almost rainless...
 * 8) Ehad Mi Yodea& (JE | ) Initial words of a Hebrew nursery-rime which, with Chad Gadya, is recited at the close of the Seder on Passover eve....
 * 9) Benjamin Wolf Ehrenkranz JE (JE | ) Galician Yiddish poet; born in Zbaraz, Galicia, about 1812; died about 1882. He spent many years in Rumania and southern Russia...
 * 10) Moses Levi Ehrenreich JE (JE | ) Italian rabbi; born at Brody, Galicia, 1818; died at Rome Dec. 27, 1899. Having graduated from the gymnasium of his native...
 * 11) Moritz Ehrentheil (JE | ) Hungarian educator and writer; born at Szil&#225;gy-Nagyfalu in 1825; died at Budapest Dec. 27, 1894. After teaching in various...
 * 12) Adolph Ehrlich (JE | ) Russian educator and rabbi; born in Mitau, Courland, Sept. 20, 1837. In 1858 he became teacher of the Hebrew language and...
 * 13) Arnold Ehrlich (JE | ) Bible critic; born in Volodovka, near Brest-Litovsk, Russia, Jan. 15, 1848. Educated at the universities of Leipsic and Berlin...
 * 14) Heinrich Ehrlich (JE | ) German composer, pianist, and musical critic; born at Vienna Oct. 5, 1822; died Dec. 20, 1899. He began his musical career...
 * 15) Meshullam Ehrlich (JE | ) Polish philologist; born at Lublin 1818; died at Paris 1861. He was one of the leading Talmudic scholars of his time, as well...
 * 16) Paul Ehrlich (JE | ) German physician; born at Strehlen, Prussian Silesia, March 14, 1854. He studied medicine at the universities of Breslau,...
 * 17) Daniel Ehrmann (JE | ) Austrian rabbi; born at Muttersdorf, Bohemia, in 1816; died at Br&#252;nn Nov. 15, 1882. After studying at Budapest and Prague...
 * 18) Ehud (JE | ) Second judge of Israel; a Benjamite, the son of Gera. Concealing under his garment a two-edged sword, he carried a present...
 * 19) Albert Eibensch&#252;tz (JE | ) German pianist; born in Berlin April 15, 1857; studied pianoforte under Reinecke and composition under Paul at the Leipsic...
 * 20) David Solomon Eibensch& JE (JE | ) Russian rabbi and author; died in Safed, Palestine, 1812. He was a pupil of Rabbi Moses Zebi Heller, author of "Geon...

81 – 100

 * 1) Ilona Eibensch& JE (JE | ) Hungarian pianist; born at Budapest May 8, 1872. She received her first instruction in music from her cousin Albert Eibensch&#252...
 * 2) Jonathan Eibensch& (JE | ) -- See E556: Eybesch&#252;tz, Jonathan
 * 3) Simon Aaron Eibesch&#252;tz (JE | ) Danish philanthropist; born Nov. 14, 1786 in Copenhagen; died there Nov. 25, 1856. He left a fortune amounting to about 1...
 * 4) Julia Eichberg (JE | ) -- See R419: Rosewald, Julia Eichberg
 * 5) Julius Eichberg (JE | ) Violinist, director of music, and composer; born in D&#252;sseldorf, Germany, June 13, 1824; died at Boston, Mass., Jan. 18...
 * 6) Pauline Eichberg (JE | ) -- See W98: Weiller, Pauline Eichberg
 * 7) Jacob Eichenbaum (JE | ) Russian educator, poet, and mathematician; one of the pioneers of modern education among the Russian Jews; born in Krasnopolie...
 * 8) Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (JE | ) Orientalist and Biblical scholar; born at D&#246;rrenzimmern, in the principality of Hohenlohe-Oehringen, Oct. 16, 1752; died...
 * 9) Gustave d& JE (JE | ) French publicist and Hellenist; born at Nancy March 22, 1804; died at Paris April 9, 1882. At the age of thirteen he became...
 * 10) Moses Zarah Eidlitz (JE | ) Austrian Talmudist; born before 1725; died May 17, 1786, at Prague. Following the custom of the time, he conducted a Talmud...
 * 11) Eighteen Benedictions (JE | ) -- See S612: Shemoneh &#39;Esreh
 * 12) Issachar Baer ben Israel Leyser Eilenburg (JE | ) Polish rabbi; born in Posen about 1570; died in Austerlitz, Moravia, in 1623. His father gave him a thorough training in the...
 * 13) Einbeck (JE | ) Town in the province of Hanover, Prussia. That Jews lived there at a very early date is shown by the fact that some Einbeck...
 * 14) David Einhorn (JE | ) German rabbi, preacher, and theological writer; leader of the Reform movement in America; born at Dispeck, Bavaria, Nov. 10...
 * 15) Ignatz Einhorn (Eduard Horn) (JE | ) Hungarian preacher and political economist; born at V&#225;gh-Ujhely Sept. 25, 1825; died at Budapest Nov. 2, 1875. He was...
 * 16) Max Einhorn (JE | ) Physician; born Jan. 10, 1862, at Grodno, Russia; studied medicine at the universities of Kiev and Berlin, graduating as M...
 * 17) Edwin Einstein (JE | ) Born at Cincinnati Nov. 18, 1842; educated in New York city; received the degree of master of arts at Union College, Schenectady...
 * 18) Eiragoly (JE | ) -- See K387: Kovno
 * 19) Johann Andreas Eisenmenger JE (JE | ) Anti-Jewish author; born in Mannheim 1654; died in Heidelberg Dec. 20, 1704. The son of an official in the service of the...
 * 20) Eisenstadt + (JE | ) City in the county of Oedenburg (Sopron), Hungary. The Jewish community of Eisenstadt is the only community of Hungary that...

101 – 120

 * 1) Eisenstadt UNR >> Abraham Hirsch ben Jacob Eisenstadt of Byelostok JE (JE | ) Polish family which, when the Jews were compelled to adopt family names, selected the name of Eisenstadt, a town in Hungary...
 * 2) Julius (Judah David) Eisenstein JE (JE | ) Russian-American writer; born in Meseritz, government of Siedlec, Russian Poland, Nov. 21, 1855. He emigrated in 1872 to the...
 * 3) Eishishki (JE | ) -- See W194: Wilna
 * 4) Leopold Eisler (JE | ) Austrian rabbi; born Feb. 11, 1825, at Boskowitz, Moravia; studied Talmud under Rabbi Abraham Placzek, and Oriental languages...
 * 5) Moritz Eisler (JE | ) Austrian educator and philosophical writer; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Jan. 20, 1823; died at Troppau, Silesia, Dec. 21,...
 * 6) Rudolph Eisler (JE | ) Austrian writer; born in Vienna Jan. 7, 1873. He was educated at the universities of Berlin, Vienna, and Leipsic, graduating...
 * 7) Alexander, Ritter von Eiss (JE | ) Austrian colonel; born at Piesling, Moravia, 1832. He entered the Austrian army at the age of fifteen, and took part in the...
 * 8) Ejectment (JE | ) An action to recover the immediate possession of real property, with damages for wrongful withholding.The general principle...
 * 9) Ekah (Lamentations) Rabbati JE (JE | ) the Midrash on Lamentations, like Bereshit Rabbah and the Pesikta ascribed to Rab Kahana, belongs to the oldest works...
 * 10) Ekaterinoslav (JE | ) -- See Y30: Yekaterinoslav
 * 11) Ekron (JE | ) One of the five cities belonging to the Philistines (Josh. xiii. 3), situated in the maritime plain. It is mentioned in connection...
 * 12) El & (JE | ) the most high God (Gen. xix. 18-20, 22, A. V.; R. V. "God most high"), as whose priest Melchizedek blesses Abraham (compare...
 * 13) El Male Rahamin (JE | ) -- See H453: Hazkarat Neshamot
 * 14) El Nora & EL:JE (JE | ) A hymn attributed to Moses ibn Ezra, and chanted, in the Sephardic liturgy, before the commencement of the "Ne&#39;ilah" or...
 * 15) El Shaddai (JE | ) -- See G282: God
 * 16) Ela (Hela, Ilaa, Ilai, Ili, La, Leia, Yela) (JE | ) Palestinian scholar of the third amoraic generation (third and fourth centuries). In one form or another, his name frequently...
 * 17) Eladah (JE | ) Son of Tahath and father of Tahath, found in the genealogical list of Ephraim in I Chron. vii. 20, but not mentioned in the...
 * 18) Elah (JE | ) King of Israel; son of Baasha, who seized the throne of northern Israel after the murder of Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, its...
 * 19) The Valley of Elah (JE | ) Scene of the combat between David and Goliath (I Sam. xvii. 2, xxi. 9). It is identified with the fertile Wadi al-San&#7789...
 * 20) Elam (JE | ) the great plain north of the Persian Gulf and east of the lower Tigris and the mountainous districts by which it is enclosed...

121 – 140

 * 1) El& (JE | ) Amora, whose epoch is uncertain; known chiefly on account of a controversy which he had with a certain Philippus (or a philosopher)...
 * 2) Elath (JE | ) Idumean port at the northern end of the Aelanitic Gulf, the later Aila. According to the Old Testament, the name of the...
 * 3) Ismar Elbogen JE (JE | ) German scholar; born at Schildberg Sept. 1, 1874. Educated by his uncle, Jacob Levy, author of the "Neuhebr&#228;isches W&#246...
 * 4) Elcesaites (JE | ) A Jud&#230;o-Christian sect of Gnostic tendencies, whose period of influence extended from about 100 to 400. The Church Fathers...
 * 5) Elche (JE | ) City in the former kingdom of Valencia. When Don Jaime I. of Aragon took the city from the Moors, he gave houses and land...
 * 6) Eldad ben Mahli ha-Dani JE (JE | ) Merchant and traveler of the ninth century. He professed to have been a citizen of an independent Jewish state in eastern...
 * 7) Eldad and Medad (JE | ) Two men who prophesied in the camp during the wanderings in the wilderness (Num. xi. 26-29). According to an old rabbinical...
 * 8) Elder (JE | ) in primitive times age was a necessary condition of authority. Not only among the ancient Jews, but also among other nations...
 * 9) Rebellious Elder (JE | ) An elder who defies the authoritative rabbinic interpretation of the Mosaic Law. In the period when the Sanhedrin flourished...
 * 10) Elead (JE | ) A descendant of Ephraim, found in the genealogical list in I Chron. vii. 21. He joined a party of raiders to take away the...
 * 11) Elealah (JE | ) Town of the Moabite plateau, conquered by Gad and Reuben and rebuilt by the latter (Num. xxx ii. 3, 37). It is mentioned,...
 * 12) Eleazar (JE | ) High priest; third son of Aaron. After his two elder brothers, Nadab and Abihu, had suffered death for offering strange fire...
 * 13) Eleazar I (Lazar) (Eleazar b. Shammua&) JE (JE | ) Mishnaic teacher of the fourth generation, frequently cited in rabbinic writings without his patronymic (Ab. iv. 12; Gi&#7789...
 * 14) Eleazar II (Lazar) JE (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the third century (second and third generations). In the Midrashim he is frequently cited with his patronymic...
 * 15) Eleazar b. Abina (JE | ) Palestinian haggadist of the fourth amoraic generation (fourth century C. E.); junior contemporary of Acha III., in whose...
 * 16) Abraham Eleazar (JE | ) Fictitious author of an ancient work on alchemy published in Leipsic in 1760, and bearing the title "R. Abrahami Eleazaris...
 * 17) Eleazar ben Ahwai (Ahbai) (JE | ) Probably identical, according to Bacher ("Ag. Tan." ii. 553), with Eleazar b. Mahbai or Machbai, a tanna of the second...
 * 18) Eleazar ben & JE (JE | ) Tanna of the second generation (first century C.E.). Being first among the disciples of R. Johanan ben Zakkai (Ab. ii. 8;...
 * 19) Eleazar b. Azariah JE (JE | ) Mishnaic scholar of the second generation (first century C.E.); junior contemporary of Gamaliel II., Eliezer b. Hyrcanus,...
 * 20) Eleazar of Bartota (JE | ) -- See E152: Eleazar B. Judah of Bartota

141 – 160

 * 1) Eleazar b. Dama (JE | ) -- See B629: Ben Dama
 * 2) Eleazar b. Dinai (JE | ) Leader of the Zealots (35-60, C.E.). When the Jews of Per&#230;ea had boundary disputes with the pagan population of Philadelphia...
 * 3) Eleazar b. Durdaia (JE | ) A famous penitent, quoted both as a warning against debauchery, which leads to death, and as an encouragement to repentance...
 * 4) Eleazar b. Eleazar ha-Kappar (JE | ) -- See B236: Bar &#7730;appara
 * 5) Eleazar (Eliezer) b. Enoch (JE | ) A scholarly contemporary of &#39;Akabia b. Mahalalel and Gamaliel II. According to the statement of Judahb. &#39;Illai...
 * 6) Eleazar of Hagronia (JE | ) Babylonian scholar of the fourth amoraic generation (fifth century); junior of Acha b. Jacob and Raba (b. Joseph). He...
 * 7) Eleazar (Eliezer) b. Hisma JE (JE | ) Tanna of the second and third generations (second century); disciple of Joshua b. Hananiah and Gamaliel II. (&#7716;ag. 3a...
 * 8) Eleazar b. Jacob JE (JE | ) -- See E224: Eliezer B. Jacob
 * 9) Eleazar b. Jair (JE | ) Leader of the Sicarii, the remnant of whom, driven from Jerusalem about 70 by Eleazar b. Ananias, retired to Masada. Eleazar...
 * 10) Eleazar (Lazar) ben Jose I (JE | ) Tanna of the fourth and fifth generations (second century). He was second among the five learned sons of Jose b. &#7716;alafta...
 * 11) Eleazar (Lazar) b. Jose II (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the fifth generation (fifth century); senior of Nachman II. and Acha III. (Pesik. v....
 * 12) Eleazar (Eliezer, Lazar) b. Judah of Bartota (Biria, Birta, Birtota) (JE | ) Scholar and philanthropist of the third tannaitic generation (first and second centuries); disciple of Joshua b. Hananiah...
 * 13) Eleazar ben Judah ben Kalonymus of Worms JE (JE | ) Talmudist and cabalist; born, probably at Mayence, about 1176; died at Worms in 1238. He was a descendant of the great Kalonymus...
 * 14) Eleazar (Eliezer) ha-Kappar (JE | ) Tanna of the fourth generation (second century); father of bar &#7730;appara, who is sometimes cited by the same name. Eleazar...
 * 15) Eleazar Lasi ben Joseph (JE | ) German Talmudist; born in Berlin Sept. 24, 1740; died at Hamburg Jan. 22, 1814. He studied under Tebele Scheuer, rabbi of...
 * 16) Eleazar b. Mahbai (JE | ) -- See E137: Eleazar B. A&#7716;wai
 * 17) Eleazar b. Malai (JE | ) Palestinian scholar of the fourth century, whose name is mentioned but once, in the Babylonian Talmud, and then only as the...
 * 18) Eleazar b. Mattai (Matthias) (JE | ) Tanna of the third and fourth generations (second century); contemporary of Hananiah b. &#7716;akinai, ben &#39;Azzai, and...
 * 19) Eleazar b. Menahem (JE | ) Palestinian scholar of the fourth amoraic generation (fourth century). No halakot and but few haggadot are connected with...
 * 20) Eleazar of Modi& (Modaim) JE (JE | ) Scholar of the second tannaitic generation (first and second centuries); disciple of Johanan ben Zakkai (B. B. 10b), and contemporary...

161 – 180

 * 1) Eleazar b. Nathan (JE | ) -- See E233: Eliezer B. Nathan
 * 2) Eleazar ben Pedat (JE | ) -- See E134: Eleazar II
 * 3) Eleazar ben Perata I JE (JE | ) Tanna of the third generation (second century); junior contemporary of Eleazar of Modi&#39;im (Tosef., Sanh. iv. 8; Yer. Meg...
 * 4) Eleazar ben Perata II (JE | ) Tanna of the second and third centuries; grandson of Eleazar ben Perata I.; sometimes designated as "Eleazar b. Perata, the...
 * 5) Eleazar ben Samuel (JE | ) Rabbi; born at Cracow about 1665; died at Safed, Palestine, 1742. On the completion of his studies he became dayyan of Cracow...
 * 6) Eleazar ben Samuel of Metz (JE | ) French tosafist; died 1198. He was a pupil of R. Tam, and is often quoted in tosafot&#8212;sometimes as "RAM," sometimes as...
 * 7) Eleazar b. Shammua& JE (JE | ) -- See E133: Eleazar
 * 8) Eleazar ben Simon (JE | ) Tanna of the second century. He was the son of Simon b. Yochai, and since he participated in many of his father&#39;s...
 * 9) Eleazar b. Zadok (JE | ) -- See E169: Eliezer B. Zadok
 * 10) Eleazar ben Zita abu al-Sari (JE | ) Karaite Bible exegete; lived probably in Egypt in the tenth century. He supported the rigid, ascetic, and Sadducean doctrines...
 * 11) Elegy (JE | ) -- See K219: &#7730;inah
 * 12) Elephant (JE | ) A pachydermatous mammal of the family of the Elephantid&#230;. It is now commonly agreed that the elephant (Elephas indicus)...
 * 13) Eleutheropolis (JE | ) Greek name of a city called "Bet Gubrin" in the Talmud and "Baitogabra" by Ptolemy. In the Old Testament the name can not...
 * 14) Uzziel Elha& (JE | ) Rabbi and preacher in Tunis, of which place he was a native; died there 1812. He left two works which were printed long after...
 * 15) Elhanan (JE | ) According to II Sam. xxi. 19, R. V., the son of Jaareoregim, the Bethlehemite, who in a battle with the Philistines at Gob...
 * 16) Elhanan ben Bezalel Uri Hefez (JE | ) Polish scholar; lived in Posen in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was the author of a work called "&#7730;iryat...
 * 17) Elhanan Hendel ben Benjamin Wolf Kirchhan (JE | ) Ethical writer; lived at Frankfort-on-the-Main at the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth....
 * 18) Elhanan ben Isaac of Dampierre (JE | ) Tosafist and liturgist; martyred in 1184 (Solomon Luria, Responsa, No. 29; see Azriel). He was on his grandmother&#39;s side...
 * 19) Elhanan ben Issachar Katz (JE | ) Religious writer in Hebrew and Jud&#230;o-German; lived in the second half of the seventeenth century and at the beginning...
 * 20) Elhanan ben Samuel Ashkenazi (JE | ) Rabbi of Schottland, near Danzig; born in 1713; died Sept. 27, 1780. At the age of eighteen he became rabbi of Fordon, Prussia...

181 – 200

 * 1) Elhanan ben Shemariah (JE | ) Egyptian Talmudist; flourished in the tenth and eleventh centuries. He was the son of Shemariah b. Elhanan of Kairwan, who...
 * 2) Elhanan b. Simon (JE | ) -- See A1501: Andreas
 * 3) Eli JE (JE | ) High priest at Shiloh and judge over Israel (I Sam. i. 3, iv. 18, xiv. 3; I Kings ii. 27). He was a descendant of Aaron&#39...
 * 4) Eli b. Judah (JE | ) -- See D229: Judah B. Eli
 * 5) Eli Ziyyon (JE | ) the alphabetical hymn closing the series of "Kinot" chanted in the northern rituals on the morning of the Fast of Ab...
 * 6) Eliab (JE | ) Son of Helon and leader of the tribe of Zebulun at the time when the census was taken in the wilderness (Num. i. 9; ii. 7...
 * 7) Eliada (JE | ) -- See B497: Beeliada
 * 8) Eliakim (JE | ) Name borne by three Biblical personages. 1. Son of Hilkiah; appointed successor of Shebna, the "treasurer" (R. V. "scribe...
 * 9) Eliakim (JE | ) A Palestinian scholar of the third century. His name is connected with no halakot, and with a single haggadah only. He construes...
 * 10) Eliakim ben Abraham (JE | ) Cabalist and grammarian; lived at London in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His works are: "&#39;Asarah Ma&#39;amarot...
 * 11) Eliakim ben Asher Selig (JE | ) Polish Talmudic scholar; lived at Yampol in the eighteenth century. He was sent by the Polish Jews (1757) to Rome to defend...
 * 12) Eliakim Gottschalk of Rothenburg (JE | ) German Talmudist; lived in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was a descendant of Me&#239;r of Rothenburg, and, according...
 * 13) Eliakim (G&#246;tz) ben Jacob (JE | ) Galician cantor, teacher, and translator; born at Komarno; died at Amsterdam before 1709. He was the author of: "Leshon Limmudim...
 * 14) Eliakim (G&#246;tz) ben Me&#239;r (JE | ) Polish Talmudist; flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In his youth, at Posen, he devoted himselfto the...
 * 15) Eliakim ben Meshullam (ha-Levi) JE (JE | ) German Talmudist and payye&#7789;an; born about 1030; died at the end of the eleventh century in Speyer, Rhenish Bavaria....
 * 16) Eliakim ben Naphtali (JE | ) Italian ethical writer; lived in the fifteenth century; author of "Tob Shem. Tob," selections from the Talmud...
 * 17) Eliam ((redirects to King David's Warriors JE)) (JE | ) One of David&#39;s heroes (II Sam. xxiii. 34); son of Ahithophel the Gilonite (comp. I Chron. xi. 36).2. Father of Bath-sheba...
 * 18) Vittorio Eliano (JE | ) Jewish convert to Christianity; grandson of Elijah Levita; lived in Italy in the sixteenth century; became priest and canon...
 * 19) Elias Cretensis (JE | ) -- See D227: Delmedigo, Elijah
 * 20) Julius Elias (JE | ) German author; born at Hoya, Hanover, June 21, 1861. He was educated at Dorotheenstadt industrial school, Friedrich Werder...

201 – 220

 * 1) Elias Levita JE (JE | ) -- See L298: Levita, Elijah
 * 2) Ney Elias (JE | ) British consul-general at Meshed, Persia, and explorer; died in London May 31, 1897. At an early age he found his way to China...
 * 3) Elias Pasha (JE | ) -- See C592: Cohen, Elias
 * 4) Samuel Elias (JE | ) English pugilist, popularly known as "Dutch Sam"; born April 4, 1775, in London; died July 3, 1816. After successful contests...
 * 5) Bezaleel Judah Eliasberg (JE | ) Russian Hebraist; born at Ivenitz 1800; died at Minsk 1847. Under the title "Marpe le-&#39;Am," with a supplement entitled...
 * 6) Jonathan Eliasberg (JE | ) Russian rabbi; born in Kovno 1850; died in Volkovisk, government of Grodno, Nov. 20, 1898. His first rabbinate was in Pumpian...
 * 7) Mordecai b. Joseph Eliasberg (JE | ) Russian rabbi; born in Chaikishok, government of Grodno, Feb., 1817; died in Bausk, Courland, Dec. 11, 1889. His father-in-law...
 * 8) Eliezer (JE | ) 1. Servant of Abraham; mentioned by name only in Gen. xv. 2, a passage which presents some difficulties. Eliezer is described...
 * 9) Eliezer (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the fifth century; contemporary of Abdimi (Yer. &#39;Er. x. 26a) and of Berechiah II. (Gen. R. lxxvii...
 * 10) Eliezer the Astronomer (JE | ) German scholar of the sixteenth century; author of "Ge &#7716;izzayon," an astrological compilation from Hebrew, Arabic, and...
 * 11) Eliezer of Beaugency (JE | ) French exegete of the twelfth century; born at Beaugency, capital of a canton in the department of Loiret; pupil of Samuel...
 * 12) Eliezer of Bourgogne (JE | ) French Talmudist of the thirteenth century. Gross identifies him with Eliezer ben Aaron of Bourgogne, one of the six rabbis...
 * 13) Eliezer ben Faruh (JE | ) Jewish mathematician, said by certain Mohammedan authors to have first established the Jewish calendar. He is mentioned by...
 * 14) Eliezer b. Hisma (JE | ) -- See E214: Eleazar b. &#7716;isma
 * 15) Eliezer (Liezer) ben Hyrcanus JE (JE | ) One of the most prominent tannaim of the first and second centuries; disciple of R. Johanan ben Zakkai (Ab. ii. 8; Ab. R....
 * 16) Eliezer (Eleazar) ben Immanuel of Tarascon (JE | ) Member of a family of scholars established in that city since the first half of the thirteenth century. Although he wrote...
 * 17) Eliezer b. Isaac (JE | ) -- See D212: Del Bene, David
 * 18) Eliezer ben Isaac of Bohemia (JE | ) See Tosafists.
 * 19) Eliezer Isaac Cohen ben Abraham Ashkenazi of Viterbo (JE | ) Italian physician and Talmudic authority; born at Rome at the beginning of the sixteenth century; died, probably at Sienna...
 * 20) Eliezer ben Isaac ha-Gadol JE (JE | ) German rabbi of the eleventh century. He was a pupil of his cousin R. Simon ha-Gadol of Mayence and of R. Gershom Me&#39;or...

221 – 240

 * 1) Eliezer D& (JE | ) Printer of Mantua at the beginning of the seventeenth century; established a printing-office in Mantua in 1612 after an interval...
 * 2) Eliezer (Liezer-eleazar) b. Jacob >> Eliezer ben Jacob I JE, Eliezer ben Jacob II JE (JE | ) Tanna of the first century; contemporary of Eleazar b. &#7716;isma and Eliezer b. Hyrcanus, and senior of &#39;Illai (Pes...
 * 3) Eliezer ben Jacob Bellin Ashkenazi (JE | ) German scholar of the seventeenth century. He prepared a calendar ("&#39;Ibronot," Lublin, 1615) based upon the work of Jacob...
 * 4) Eliezer b. Jacob Nahum (JE | ) -- See N37: Nahum
 * 5) Eliezer ben Joel ha-Levi (JE | ) German Talmudist; born probably at Bonn 1160-65; died about 1235. He belonged to a German family of scholars; his father,...
 * 6) Eliezer b. Jose ha-Gelili JE (JE | ) Tanna of the fourth generation (second century); one of Akiba&#39;s later disciples (Ber. 63b; Cant. R. ii. 5; Eccl. R. xi...
 * 7) Eliezer ben Joseph of Chinon (JE | ) French Talmudist; born about 1255; martyred on the Jewish New-Year, Sept. 25, 1321; a pupil of Perez ben Elijah of Corbeil...
 * 8) Eliezer ben Judah (JE | ) See Eleazar ben Judah of Bartota.
 * 9) Eliezer Liepmann ben Judah L& (JE | ) Cabalist of Galicia in the eighteenth century; author of two cabalistic commentaries: one on the Psalms, "Migdal Dawid," with...
 * 10) Eliezer ben Me& (JE | ) Rabbi of Pinsk, Russia; flourished in the second half of the eighteenth century. He wrote: "Siach ha-Sadeh," Pentateuchal...
 * 11) Eliezer ben Menahem Mannes Sternburg (JE | ) Talmudist of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Petach &#39;Enayim," an index to Biblical passages found...
 * 12) Eliezer b. Naphtali of Frankfort (JE | ) See Treves, Eliezer b. Naphtali.
 * 13) Eliezer ben Nathan of Mayence JE (JE | ) Halakist and liturgical poet; flourished in the first half of the twelfth century. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Eliakim...
 * 14) Eliezer ben Reuben (JE | ) -- See K18: Kahana, Eliezer ben Reuben
 * 15) Eliezer ben Samson (JE | ) Rabbi and liturgist of Cologne, of the twelfth century; a relative of the tosafist R. Eliezer b. Nathan; studied at Speyer...
 * 16) Eliezer b. Samuel (JE | ) See Treves, Eliezer b. Samuel.
 * 17) Eliezer ben Samuel of Verona JE (JE | ) Italian tosafist; lived about the beginning of the thirteenth century. He was a disciple of Rabbi Isaac the elder, of Dampierre...
 * 18) Eliezer b. Taddai (JE | ) Tanna of the second century; contemporary of Simon b. Eleazar (Tosef., &#39;Er. vii. [v.] 9); and quoted in some baraitot...
 * 19) Eliezer of Toledo (JE | ) Rabbi in Constantinople in the first half of the nineteenth century and a contemporary of &#7716;iyya Pontremoli. He was the...
 * 20) Eliezer of Toulouse (JE | ) French tosafist; died about 1234. In his youth Eliezer was a tutor in the house of the wealthy scholar Hezekiah ben Reuben...

241 – 260

 * 1) Eliezer of Touques JE (JE | ) French tosafist; lived at Touques in the second half of the thirteenth century. He abridged the tosafot of Samson of Sens...
 * 2) Eliezer (Eleazar) b. Zadok (JE | ) Tanna of the first century; disciple of Johanan the Horonite (Tosef., Suk. ii. 3; Yeb. 15b). He traced his descent from Shinhab...
 * 3) Eliezer ben Zeeb Wolf (JE | ) Russian rabbi; lived about the middle of the eighteenth century. He was the author of two works: (1) "Imre Shefer," containing...
 * 4) Elihu (JE | ) Name of several Biblical personages. It has two forms&#8212; and &#8212;and its meaning is "He is my God," i.e., "He remains...
 * 5) Elijah (JE | ) the name means "Yhwh is (my) God," and is a confession that its bearer defended Yhwh against the worshipers of Baal and of...
 * 6) Apocalypse of Elijah (JE | ) -- See A1643: Apocalyptic Literature
 * 7) Elijah& (JE | ) At every circumcision Elijah, "the angel of the covenant," as he is called in Malachi (iii. 1), is supposed to be seated at...
 * 8) Elijah ben Abraham (JE | ) Karaite scholar of the twelfth century. He was the author of a work entitled "&#7716;alukKot ha-&#7730;ara&#39...
 * 9) Elijah b. Abraham ha-Levi (JE | ) -- See O169: &#214;ttingen
 * 10) Elijah Ha-& (JE | ) Rabbi and payye&#7789;an cf Cochin, India; dates of birth and death unknown. He was a native of Aden, and was therefore called...
 * 11) Elijah Alamannus (JE | ) Spanish physician and diplomat of the fifteenth century, and court physician of the Duke of Bourbon (probably Louis II. of...
 * 12) Elijah b. Azriel of Wilna (JE | ) Grammarian and author, died after 1748. He wrote: "Ma&#39;aneh Eliyahu," rules for Hebrew reading, Frankfort-on-the-Main,...
 * 13) Elijah Ba& (JE | ) Polish rabbi; born in 1550; died at Chelm. About 1565 he entered the yeshibah of Rabbi Solomon Luria of Lublin, and, after...
 * 14) Elijah ha-Babli (JE | ) -- See T58: Tanna debe, Eliyahu
 * 15) Elijah Bahur (JE | ) -- See L298: Levita, Elijah
 * 16) Elijah Be&#39;er (Fonte) b. Shabbethai (JE | ) Italian physician; born in Germany at the end of the fourteenth century. He settled in Italy, where the Senate accorded him...
 * 17) Elijah ben Benjamin ha-Levi (JE | ) Turkish rabbi; flourished in Constantinople in the sixteenth century. He succeeded one of his teachers, Elijah Mizra&#7717...
 * 18) Elijah Cohen ben Moses ben Nissim (JE | ) Oriental scholar of the second half of the thirteenth century. He translated an Arabic makamah, similar to the "Assemblies"...
 * 19) Elijah b. Eliezer (JE | ) See Delmedigo, Elijah B. Eliezer.
 * 20) Elijah ben Ezekiel (JE | ) Rabbi of Byelgorai, Poland, in the eighteenth century. His father, Ezekiel, was rabbi of Ostrovtsi, Galicia, and he washimself...

261 – 280

 * 1) Elijah of Ferrara (JE | ) Italian Talmudist and traveler of the earlier part of the fifteenth century. He was engaged in 1437 as lecturer and teacher...
 * 2) Elijah Gaon (JE | ) -- See E284: Elijah b. Solomon
 * 3) Elijah Hayyim b. Benjamin (JE | ) -- See G133: Genazzano, Elijah &#7716;ayyim
 * 4) Elijah ben Isaac of Carcassonne (JE | ) French Talmudist; flourished in the first half of the thirteenth century; progenitor of the de Latas, or Lattes, family. He...
 * 5) Elijah ben Jacob (JE | ) Rabbi and cabalist of Ulianov, Galicia; lived in the eighteenth century. He was a contemporary of Jonathan Eybesch&#252;tz...
 * 6) Elijah b. Joseph (JE | ) -- See N326: Nola, Elijah b. Joseph
 * 7) Elijah ben Joseph (JE | ) Turkish Talmudist and commentator; lived at Salonica in the sixteenth century. He wrote: "&#7730;ol Teru&#39;ah," homilies...
 * 8) Elijah b. Joseph (Yoske) (JE | ) See Spira, Elijah b. Joseph.
 * 9) Elijah b. Judah L& (JE | ) Polish rabbi and author; died in 1715. At an early age he left Poland and went to Fulda, Germany, where he became rabbi. He...
 * 10) Elijah ben Judah of Paris (JE | ) French Talmudist of the twelfth century, often quoted by later Talmudists as an important authority. He became well known...
 * 11) Elijah ben Kalonymus (JE | ) Talmudical scholar; lived at Lublin in the seventeenth century. He was the author of a commentary on the Pentateuch, entitled...
 * 12) Elijah Magistratus (JE | ) -- See G133: Genazzano, Elijah &#7716;ayyim
 * 13) Elijah ben Menahem ha-Zaken (JE | ) French liturgical poet; flourished at Le Mans in the eleventh century. According to Solomon Luria, (Responsa, No. 29), he...
 * 14) Elijah Mizrahi (JE | ) -- See E274: Mizra&#7717;i, Elijah
 * 15) Elijah ben Mordecai (JE | ) Payye&#7789;an of the eleventh century, possibly a native of Italy. Of his poetic productions a "Kerobah" for the Min&#7717...
 * 16) Elijah ben Moses Gershon (JE | ) Eighteenth-century Polish physician, mathematician, and Talmudist; lived at Pinczow, government of Kielce, Russian Poland...
 * 17) Elijah ben Moses Israel (JE | ) Palestinian rabbi; born at Jerusalem; died at Alexandria Jan. 7, 1786. In 1763 he became rabbi of Rhodes, and was later offered...
 * 18) Elijah b. Moses de Vidas (JE | ) Cabalist at Safed in the sixteenth century; pupil of R. Moses Cordovero. He went to Poland, but returned to Palestine, and...
 * 19) Elijah of Pesaro (JE | ) Italian Talmudist and philosopher of the sixteenth century. After a long residence in Venice as Talmudic teacher, he started...
 * 20) Elijah Rabbenu (Ben Judah Tishbi) (JE | ) Karaite scholar; died about 1584. He wrote in 1579 at Constantinople a work called "Pe&#39;er" (="Perush Eliyahu Rabbenu")...

281 – 300

 * 1) Elijah b. Samuel of Lublin (JE | ) Polish rabbi; died at Hebron, Palestine, 1735. He became rabbi of Byala, and later, after residing for some time at Brest-Litovsk...
 * 2) Elijah ben Samuel ben Parnes of Stephanow (JE | ) Bulgarian exegete and poet; lived in the second half of the fifteenth century, probably first at Widdin, and later at Constantinople...
 * 3) Elijah ben Shemaiah (JE | ) Italian rabbi and liturgical poet; lived at Bari in the twelfth century. He was one of the teachers of Samuel b. Na&#7789...
 * 4) Elijah ben Solomon (JE | ) Lithuanian Talmudist, cabalist, grammarian, and mathematician; born at Wilna April 23, 1720; died there Oct. 9, 1797. He gave...
 * 5) Elijah ben Solomon Abraham ha-Kohen JE (JE | ) Dayyan of Smyrna; almoner and preacher; died 1729. Elijah produced over thirty works, of which the principal, according to...
 * 6) Elijah Wilna (JE | ) -- See E284: Elijah b. Solomon
 * 7) Elijah of York (JE | ) Tosafist; supposed to have been killed in the York massacre of 1190. In Tosef., Yoma, 27a, he is called Elijah of, and in...
 * 8) Elim (JE | ) the second camping-place of the Israelites on the march from Egypt. It had twelve springs and seventy palm-trees (Ex. xv....
 * 9) Elimelech (JE | ) A man of the tribe of Judah, living in Bethlehemjudah at the time of the Judges (Ruth i. 2). Scarcity of food compelled him...
 * 10) Eliphaz (JE | ) the first of the three visitors of Job (Job ii. 11), surnamed "the Temanite"; supposed to have come from Teman, an important...
 * 11) Eliphelet ((redirects to King David's Warriors JE)) (JE | ) the last of the eleven sons born to David in Jerusalem (II Sam. v. 16). In I Chron. iii. 6, 8; xiv. 5, 7, two sons of this...
 * 12) Eliseus (JE | ) Learned Jew at the court of Murad I. at Brusa and Adrianople during the second half of the fourteenth century. After a time...
 * 13) Elisha (JE | ) Successor to the prophet Elijah. The name (in the LXX. &#917;&#955;&#953;&#963;&#940;, &#917;&#955;&#953;&#963;&#945;&#953...
 * 14) Elisha ben Abraham (JE | ) Hebraist and Talmudist; flourished at the end of the fifteenth century. He was the author of "Magen Dawid," a vindication...
 * 15) Elisha ben Abraham ben Judah (JE | ) Russian rabbi; died at Grodno July 1, 1749. He was rabbi and chief of the yeshibah of Lucicz, Volhynia, Russia. Elisha was...
 * 16) Elisha ben Abuyah JE (JE | ) Born in Jerusalem before 70; flourished in Palestine at the end of the first century and the beginning of the second. At one...
 * 17) Elishah (JE | ) Name occurring in the so-called table of generations, Gen. x. 4 (comp. I Chron. i. 7) and in Ezek. xxvii. 7. In Gen. x. 4...
 * 18) Elizabethgrad (JE | ) A Russian city, the name of which is given variously Elisabetgrad, Elizabethgrad, and Yelisa vetgrad.           					  						...
 * 19) Elizaphan (JE | ) Son of Uzziel; prince of the Kohathites Who bore the sanc-tuary and its furniture during the wandering in the wilderness (Num...
 * 20) Me& (JE | ) See F&#252;rth, Me&#239;r b. Elhanan.

301 – 320

 * 1) Moses Elkan (JE | ) Russian physician and Hebrew scholar; born at Tulchin, government of Podolsk; died at St. Petersburg Jan. 31, 1822. He wrote:...
 * 2) Elkanah (JE | ) Father of Samuel, living at Ramah (I Sam. i. 19, ii. 11; comp. xxviii. 3), in the district of Zuph. Hence in I Sam. i. 1 his...
 * 3) Benjamin Elkin (JE | ) Prominent reformer in the London community; born at Portsea, England, Jan. 9, 1783; died in London Jan., 1848. At the age...
 * 4) Arkadi Danilowich Elkind (JE | ) Russian physician and anthropologist; born in Mohilev-on-the-Dnieper in 1869; graduated (M.D.) from Moscow University in 1893...
 * 5) Elkoshite (JE | ) Obscure ethnic or patronymic name of the prophet Nahum (Nahum i. 1). According to Jerome, Elkosh, the birthplace of the prophet...
 * 6) Isaac ben Moses Elles (Elis) (JE | ) Polish rabbi of the sixteenth century; author of "Yesod Emunah," a treatise on the dogmas of Judaism, Cracow, 1582. He also...
 * 7) Moritz Ellinger (JE | ) American journalist; born in F&#252;rth, Bavaria, Oct. 17, 1830. Emigrating to the United States in 1854, he became interested...
 * 8) Nathan bar Yospa Ellinger (Ellingen) (JE | ) German rabbi; born 1772; died July 4, 1839, at Bingen-on-the-Rhine. According to the archives of Mayence, he and his brother...
 * 9) Sir Barrow Helbert Ellis (JE | ) Indian statesman; born in London Jan. 24, 1823; died at Savoy June 20, 1887; son of S. H. Ellis, for some time treasurer of...
 * 10) Elloji Shahir (JE | ) Beni-Israel poet of the eighteenth century; born and lived at Bombay, British India; his natal name was "Elloji Nagawkar."...
 * 11) Moritz Ellst& (JE | ) Minister of finance of the grand duchy of Baden; born March 11, 1827, at Carlsruhe, where his father was a furniture-manufacturer...
 * 12) Joseph de Aaron Elmaleh (JE | ) Honorary chief rabbi of Mogador, Morocco; born at Rabat in 1809; died in London Jan. 9, 1886. He removed to Mogador at the...
 * 13) Elmira (JE | ) City in the state of New York. The first settlement of Jews dates from about 1851. In 1860 twelve families organized a congregation...
 * 14) Elnathan (JE | ) An inhabitant of Jerusalem, and the maternal grandfather of Jehoiachin (II Kings xxiv. 8), probably identical with the son...
 * 15) Elohim (JE | ) -- See G282: God
 * 16) Elohist (JE | ) Assumed author of those parts of the Hexateuch characterized by the use of the Hebrew word "Elohim" (= "God"). The term is...
 * 17) Elon (JE | ) 1.&#8212;Biblical Data: the tenth judge of Israel. He was a Zebulonite, and succeeded Ibzan as judge. He judged Israel for...
 * 18) El-paran (JE | ) -- See E122: Elath
 * 19) Jacob Elsenberg (JE | ) Polish teacher; born in 1817; died at Warsaw July 10, 1886. He was educated at the rabbinical seminary of Warsaw. Elsenberg...
 * 20) Eltekeh (JE | ) One of the towns allotted to Dan, mentioned twice in Joshua&#8212; (xix. 44) and (xxi. 23). Eltekeh with its suburbs was...

321 – 340

 * 1) Elvira (JE | ) the ancient Illiberis; capital of the province of the same name, situated on a hill northwest of Granada, Spain, and now in...
 * 2) Elyas of London JE (JE | ) Presbyter of the Jews of England 1237-1257; died in London 1284. He succeeded Aaron of York, represented London at the so-called...
 * 3) Elymais (JE | ) Generally denoting the Persian province of Elam . It occurs in two places (I Macc. vi. 1; Josephus, "Ant." xii. 9, &#167...
 * 4) & (JE | ) -- See G282: God
 * 5) Abraham Elzas (JE | ) Minister and author; born in Elbergen, Holland, in 1835; died at Hull, England, 1880. He was educated in Holland, and went...
 * 6) Barnett Abraham Elzas (JE | ) American rabbi; born at Eydtkuhnen, Germany, 1867; educated at Jews&#39; College (1880-90), University College, London ("Hollier...
 * 7) Emadabun (JE | ) A Levite, and one of the overseers at the restoration of the Temple (I Esd. v. 58). Probably a mere doublet of "Eliadun,"...
 * 8) Emanation (JE | ) the doctrine that all existing things have been produced not by any creative power, but as successive outflowings from the...
 * 9) Emancipation of slaves (JE | ) -- See S850: Slaves
 * 10) Emanu-el (JE | ) A weekly journal published in San Francisco, Cal. The first number was issued in May, 1895. Jacob Voorsanger is the editor...
 * 11) Lewis Emanuel (JE | ) Secretary and solicitor to the Board of Deputies of British Jews; born at Portsmouth May 14, 1832; died in London June 19...
 * 12) Embden (Emden) (JE | ) A family deriving its name, perhaps, from Emden, Germany. Carl Adam Emden, privy councilor and high bailiff of Prince Salm-Salm...
 * 13) Charlotte Embden (JE | ) -- See H538: Heine, Heinrich
 * 14) Eleazar Solomon von Embden (Eliezer Leser Levi) (JE | ) German physician and traveler; born at Emrich, near Cleves, between 1770 and 1780; graduated at Frankfort-on-the-Oder in 1800...
 * 15) Embezzlement (JE | ) the fraudulent conversion to one&#39;s own use of goods or money entrusted to one&#39;s care and control. The offense differs...
 * 16) Embroidery (JE | ) Ornamental needlework on cloth, more frequently on linen, often executed in variegated colors and designs. Among the Egyptians...
 * 17) The Embron family (JE | ) -- See A1375: Ambron
 * 18) Embryo (JE | ) the young of a mammal while still connected with the body of its mother. The child "en ventre sa mere" of English law was...
 * 19) Emden (JE | ) Prussian maritime town in the province of Hanover. It is not known when Jews first settled there. In the sixteenth century...
 * 20) Hermann Seligmann Emden (JE | ) German engraver and photographer; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Oct. 18, 1815; died there Sept. 6, 1875. Early evincing a...

341 – 360

 * 1) Jacob Israel ben Zebi Ashkenazi Emden (JE | ) German Talmudist and anti-Shabbethaian; born at Altona June 4, 1697; died there April 19, 1776. Until seventeen Emden studied...
 * 2) Emerald (JE | ) -- See G131: Gems
 * 3) Emet We-yazzib ((-> Emet v'yatziv)) (JE | ) the initial words of the morning benediction following the Shema&#39; and closing with the Ge&#39;ullah ("Redemption"). Recited...
 * 4) Emigration (JE | ) -- See M602: Migration
 * 5) Emim (JE | ) A name applied (Deut. ii. 10) to the original inhabitants of Moab, though the Septuagint reads for it &#927;&#956;&#956;&#943...
 * 6) Emin Pasha (Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer) (JE | ) German explorer; born at Oppeln, Prussian Silesia, March 28, 1840; killed at Kinena Station, Kongo Free State, Oct. 23 or...
 * 7) Emissary (JE | ) -- See A894: Agency, Law of
 * 8) Emmanuel (JE | ) -- See I112: Immanuel
 * 9) Emmaus (JE | ) Name of three places in Palestine. 1. A town, or place, memorable for the defeat of Gorgias by Judas Maccabeus (I Macc. iii...
 * 10) Emmerich family (JE | ) -- See G356: Gomperz
 * 11) Empedocles of Agrigentum (JE | ) Greek philosopher and disciple of Pythagoras; flourished in the fifth century B.C.Empedocles&#39; system, modified by the...
 * 12) Constantin L&, of Oppijck (JE | ) Professor of theology and Oriental languages; born at Bremen July, 1591; died at Leyden July 1, 1648. His father, Antonius...
 * 13) Employer and Employee (JE | ) -- See M252: Master and Servant
 * 14) Solomon ben Gumpel Emrich (JE | ) Dayyan of Prague in the second half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work called "Shishshah Zir&#39;one &#39...
 * 15) En Kelohenu (JE | ) Ancient hymn, familiar from its occurrence in immediate succession to the Additional Service (Musaf) at festivals, and in...
 * 16) En-mishpat (JE | ) Another name for Kadesh (Gen. xiv. 7, R. V.), probably Kadeshbarnea, the place where Chedorlaomer with his three companions...
 * 17) En Sof JE (JE | ) Cabalistic term for the Deity prior to His self-manifestation in the production of the world, probably derived from ibn Gabirol&#39...
 * 18) Rab & (JE | ) Babylonian scholar of the third amoraic generation (third century); contemporary of Rab Judah b. Ezekiel. The two were known...
 * 19) Enchantment (JE | ) -- See D395: Divination
 * 20) Encyclopedia (JE | ) A work containing information on all subjects, or exhaustive of one subject, arranged in systematic, usually alphabetical...

361 – 380

 * 1) Endingen (JE | ) Town of Baden, near Freiburg, famous in Jewish history through the blood accusation of 1470. In that year three Jews were burned...
 * 2) Endingen-Lengnau (JE | ) -- See A3: Aargau
 * 3) Samuel Benzion Endler (JE | ) Talmudist; lived at Prague (?) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was the author of "Emunat Yisrael," treating...
 * 4) Endogamy (JE | ) -- See M213: Marriage
 * 5) Endor (JE | ) Town in the territory of Issachar, allotted to Manasseh (Josh. xvii. 11). It is identified with the modern Endur, on the northern...
 * 6) The Witch of Endor (JE | ) A necromancer consulted by Saul in his extremity when forsaken by Yhwh, and whose ordinary oracles (dreams, urim, and prophets)...
 * 7) Treatment of an enemy (JE | ) Hatred of an enemy is a natural impulse of primitive peoples; willingness to forgive an enemy is a mark of advanced moral...
 * 8) Enfranchisement (JE | ) -- See S850: Slaves
 * 9) Engaddi (JE | ) -- See E371: Engedi
 * 10) Engagements (JE | ) -- See B995: Betrothal
 * 11) Engedi (JE | ) A town in the wilderness of Judah (Josh. xv. 62), on the western shore of the Dead Sea (Ezek. xlvii. 10). It was the hiding-place...
 * 12) G&#224;bor (Gabriel) Engel (JE | ) Hungarian physician and surgeon; born at Maros-V&#225;s&#225;rhely, Hungary, in 1852. After studying at Budapest and Leipsic...
 * 13) Joseph Engel (JE | ) Hungarian sculptor; born 1815; died in Budapest June 29, 1902. His father, a poor merchant, destined him for the rabbinate...
 * 14) Hermann Engelbert (JE | ) German rabbi; born in Gudensberg, Hessen, July 29, 1830; died at St. Gall, Switzerland, Feb. 5, 1900. He attended the Talmudic...
 * 15) England (JE | ) the southern portion of the island of Great Britain. Owing to the dominance of the capital city in England, most of the episodes...
 * 16) Gabriel Hirsch Engl& (JE | ) Austrian scholar; lived at Vienna in the first half of the nineteenth century. He wrote: "Emunah Lishene &#39;Afar," prayers...
 * 17) Sigmund Engl& (JE | ) Austrian writer; born at Vienna; died at Turin Nov. 30, 1902. After graduating from the University of Vienna he devoted himself...
 * 18) Berthold Englisch (JE | ) Austrian chess-player; born 1851 at Hotzenplotz, Austrian Silesia; died Oct. 19, 1897, in Vienna. In 1879 he gained the first...
 * 19) Engraving and Engravers (JE | ) Engraving is the act and art of cutting letters, figures, and the like, on stone, wood, or metal. The account of the equipment...
 * 20) Adolphe Philippe D& (JE | ) French dramatic author; born in Paris June 17, 1811; died there Jan. 26, 1899. By turn a lawyer&#39;s clerk, painter, and...

381 – 400

 * 1) Jonas Ennery JE (JE | ) French deputy; born at Nancy Jan. 2, 1801; died at Brussels May 19, 1863. He was for twenty-six years attached to the Jewish...
 * 2) Marchand Ennery JE (JE | ) French rabbi; brother of Jonas Ennery; born at Nancy 1792; died at Paris Aug. 21, 1852; studied Talmud under Baruch Guggenheim...
 * 3) Enoch (JE | ) Son of Cain (Gen. iv. 17). A city was named after him.2. Biblical Data: Name of the seventh progenitor of the race in the...
 * 4) Books of Enoch (Ethiopic and Slavonic) (JE | ) Apocryphal works attributed to Enoch. From Gen. v. 24 ("Enoch walked with God" and "God took him") a cycle of Jewish legends...
 * 5) Books of Enoch (Hebrew) (JE | ) -- See A1643: Apocalyptic Literature
 * 6) Enoch ben Abraham (JE | ) Talmudist and popular preacher; died .after 1662. Enoch belonged to a famous family of scholars of the community of Posen...
 * 7) Enoch ben Judah L& (JE | ) German Talmudist and rabbi of Schnaittach; flourished at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He studied with his father...
 * 8) Enoch ben Moses (JE | ) Prominent rabbi of Cordova, 950-1024. His father was one of the four scholars who, according to tradition, were taken prisoners...
 * 9) Samuel Enoch JE (JE | ) German rabbi; born in Hamburg Oct. 8, 1814; died in Fulda Dec. 31, 1876; attended the Johann&#230;um in Hamburg and the Talmudic...
 * 10) Enoch ben Solomon al-Kustantini (JE | ) Turkish philosopher and cabalist (according to Wolf, "Bibl. Hebr." i., No. 635, also a physician); lived at Constantinople...
 * 11) Enoch Zundel ben Joseph JE (JE | ) Russian Talmudist; died at Byelostok 1867. He wrote: a commentary on Midr. Rabbah of the five Megillot, in two parts (Wilna...
 * 12) Enos (JE | ) Son of Seth, Adam&#39;s third son. In his time men began to call upon Yhwh (Gen. iv. 26). At the age of ninety he begat Cainan...
 * 13) Enriquez (Henriquez) (JE | ) Frequently recurring Spanish surname, often found combined with other surnames, as "Bueno Enriquez," "Gomez Enriquez," "Gabay...
 * 14) Moses Ensheim (JE | ) French mathematician and liturgical poet; born at Metz 1750; died at Bayonne April 9, 1839. He was destined for the rabbinate...
 * 15) Enticing (JE | ) -- See A210: Abduction
 * 16) Entre-Rios (JE | ) -- See A905: Agricultural Colonies in the Argentine Republic
 * 17) Baron Joseph E& (JE | ) Hungarian statesman; emancipator of the Hungarian Jews; born at Ofen Sept. 13, 1813; died at Budapest Feb. 2, 1871. On the...
 * 18) Karl E& (JE | ) -- See T226: Tisza-Eszl&#225;r
 * 19) Ephah (JE | ) -- See W81: Weights and Measures
 * 20) Ephesus (JE | ) Capital of Ionia, Asia Minor, and later, under the Romans, capital of Asia Proconsularis. Many Jews lived in this large Greek...

401 – 420

 * 1) Ephod (JE | ) in the Old Testament this word has two meanings; in one group of passages it signifies a garment; in another, very probably...
 * 2) Ephor (JE | ) An official in Sparta and in other parts of Greece. Officials called "ephori" were employed among the Jews: (1) in the service...
 * 3) Ephraem Syrus (JE | ) Church father; born at Nisibis, Syria (whence his surname "Syrus"), or at Edessa, at the beginning of the fourth century....
 * 4) Ephraim (JE | ) 1. Son of Joseph. The name is connected with the root ("to be fruitful": Gen. xli. 52). He was the younger of the two sons...
 * 5) Mountain of Ephraim (JE | ) the northern part of the mountain range west of the Jordan, extending from Beer-sheba to the great plain of Esdraelon. Its...
 * 6) Ephraim b. Aaron Nabon (JE | ) -- See E406: Nabon, Ephraim b. Aaron
 * 7) Ephraim b. Gershon (JE | ) Turkish preacher and physician of the middle of the fifteenth century; lived in Negropont and Constantinople. He was a friend...
 * 8) Ephraim b. Isaac of Regensburg (JE | ) German tosafist and liturgical poet of the twelfth century; died in Regensburg about 1175, probably at an advanced age. He...
 * 9) Ephraim b. Jacob (JE | ) German Talmudist, liturgical poet, and chronographer; born in 1133; died after 1196. Ephraim belonged to a prominent family...
 * 10) Ephraim ben Jacob ha-Kohen (JE | ) Lithuanian Talmudist; born at Wilna 1616; died June 3, 1678, at Ofen, Hungary. Driven by the Chmielnicki persecutions from...
 * 11) Ephraim ben Joseph of Chelm (Jambrower) (JE | ) Polish liturgist; born at Chelm, Poland, at the end of the sixteenth century; died at Wreshna, Poland, about 1650. His father...
 * 12) Ephraim ben Judah (JE | ) Liturgical poet of the twelfth century. According to Zunz ("Literaturgesch." p. 348) he lived in the northern part of France...
 * 13) Ephraim Maksha& (JE | ) Scholar of the second century; disciple of R. Me&#239;r. He is known only for several homiletic remarks in the name of his...
 * 14) Ephraim Moisich (JE | ) -- See A1487: Anbal the Jassin
 * 15) Ephraim b. Nathan (JE | ) German Talmudist of the thirteenth century; died before 1293. He was a pupil of Simchah of Speyer and of Isaac b. Moses...
 * 16) Ephraim Safra (JE | ) Palestinian scholar of the third century; disciple of Simeon b. Lakish, in whose name he reports a civil law (B. M....
 * 17) Ephraim ben Samson (JE | ) Bible exegete; flourished in France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He was the author of "Perush &#39;Al ha-Torah...
 * 18) Ephraim Solomon ben Aaron of Lencziza (JE | ) Rabbi and popular preacher at Prague; born probably at Lencziza, Poland; died at Prague March 3, 1619. After having filled...
 * 19) Ephraim of Sudilkov (JE | ) Russian rabbi and preacher among the &#7716;asidim of the Ukraine; born at Medzhibozh, Podolia, about 1750; died at Sudilkov...
 * 20) Veitel-Heine Ephraim (JE | ) German financier; died at Berlin in 1775. The name means "Veitel, the son of Heine [German for "&#7716;ayyim"], the son of...

421 – 440

 * 1) Vidal Ephraim (JE | ) Pupil of R. Nissim of Gerona, rabbi in Palma, and teacher of Simeon Duran. He was greatly esteemed by Isaac b. Sheshet, and...
 * 2) Ephrath (JE | ) 1. Wife of Caleb (son of Hezron) and mother of Hur (I Chron. ii. 19, 50; iv. 4). 2. Another name for Bethlehem (Gen. xxxv...
 * 3) David (Tebele) Ephrati (JE | ) Russian Talmudist; born in Vitebsk 1850; died in Frankfort-on-the-Main Oct. 24, 1884. Among his ancestors were: R. Liva b...
 * 4) Ephron (JE | ) Son of Zohar the Hittite; possessor of a field called "Machpelah," which he sold to Abraham for 400 shekels (Gen. xxiii. 8...
 * 5) Epic Poetry >> Hebrew and Jewish epic poetry JE (JE | ) Though an abundance of historical reminiscence and a mass of soul-stirring legend lay in the storehouse of Jewish literature...
 * 6) Epicurus and Epicureanism (JE | ) -- See A1640: Api&#7731;oros
 * 7) Epigrams (JE | ) Short poems with an unexpected yet pointed ending; much in favor among Jewish writers because of the play of wit which they...
 * 8) Epigraphy (JE | ) -- See P29: Paleography
 * 9) Epilepsy (JE | ) Disease of the nervous system, manifesting itself by attacks of unconsciousness, with or without convulsions. It frequently...
 * 10) Epiphanius (JE | ) Bishop of Constantia, Cyprus; born at Bezanduke near Eleutheropolis, Palestine, between 310 and 320 (according to Bartolocci...
 * 11) Episcopus Judaeorum (JE | ) -- See B1100: Bishop of the Jews
 * 12) Epistolography (JE | ) -- See L224: Letter-Writing
 * 13) Epitaphs (JE | ) -- See P29: Paleography
 * 14) Epithalamia (JE | ) -- See W72: Wedding-Songs
 * 15) Epitomists (JE | ) -- See L148: Legalism
 * 16) Epstein >> Abraham Epstein JE, Aryeh Leib Epstein JE, Julius Epstein (pianist) JE, Kalonymus Kalman Epstein JE (JE | ) the surname "Eppstein" is one of the oldest Jewish family names in the Slavic countries. Nathan ha-Levi Eppstein and Solomon...
 * 17) Er (JE | ) First son of Judah by Shuah the Canaanite (Gen. xxxviii. 3; Num. xxvi. 19). He died soon after marrying Tamar, because he...
 * 18) Era (JE | ) A historical period or reckoning of years, dating from some important event or fixed point of time. A striking event of a...
 * 19) Erach (JE | ) A tax on property for communal purposes. The direct taxes which were levied by the Jewish congregations were mostly twofold:...
 * 20) Erech (JE | ) the second of the four Babylonian cities founded, according to Gen. x. 10, by Nimrod.The site of the city is now known as...

441 – 460

 * 1) Erfurt (JE | ) Chief town of the district of the same name in Prussian Saxony, situated on the Gera. If the dates on the tombstones found...
 * 2) Joseph ben Immanuel Ergas (JE | ) Italian rabbi and cabalist; born in Leghorn 1685; died May 19, 1730. He is frequently mentioned by Meldola in his responsa...
 * 3) Camille Erlanger (JE | ) French composer; born at Paris May 25, 1863; studied at the Conservatoire and (1888) obtained the first Prix de Rome in the...
 * 4) Jules Erlanger (JE | ) French composer; born at Weissenburg, Alsace, 1830; died at Brussels 1895; son of Israel S&#252;sskind Erlanger, rabbi at...
 * 5) Michel Erlanger (JE | ) French communal worker; born in Weissenburg, Alsace, 1828; died in Paris Sept. 27, 1892. Having received a thorough Jewish...
 * 6) Johann August Ernesti (JE | ) Protestant theologian; classical scholar; born Aug. 4, 1707, at Tennst&#228;dt, Thuringia; died 1781 at Leipsic, in the university...
 * 7) Abrao Errera (JE | ) Italian banker and deputy; born Dec. 8, 1791; died at Venice Dec. 25, 1860; father of Jacques Errera. His family traces its...
 * 8) Giorgio Errera (JE | ) Italian chemist; born Oct. 26, 1860, at Venice; educated at the universities of Padua and Turin, from which latter place he...
 * 9) Leo-Abram Errera (JE | ) Belgian botanist; born at Laeken, Belgium, Sept. 4, 1858; died at Brussels, Aug. 1, 1905. He was educated first at the Ath&#233...
 * 10) Paul Joseph Errera (JE | ) Belgian barrister; born at Laeken, Belgium, July 23, 1860; educated at the University of Brussels; professor in the law department...
 * 11) Isaac Erter JE (JE | ) Satirist; born 1792 at Janischok, Galicia; died 1851 at Brody. The first part of his life was full of struggles and hardships...
 * 12) & (JE | ) Mixture or amalgamation; ideal combination of things separate. There are several kinds of &#39;Erub. &#39;Erub (par excellence):...
 * 13) &#39;Erubin (JE | ) the second treatise of the Mishnah Seder Mo&#39;ed, forming an appendix to the treatise Shabbat. It contains regulations concerning...
 * 14) Erusin (JE | ) -- See B995: Betrothal
 * 15) Erwig (JE | ) -- See V87: Visigoths
 * 16) Esar-haddon (JE | ) King of Assyria from 680 to 668 B.C.; son and successor of Sennacherib and predecessor of Assurbanipal. He was one of the...
 * 17) Esau (JE | ) Jacob&#39;s elder brother (Gen. xxv. 25-34, and elsewhere; comp. Josh. xxiv. 4). The name alternates with "Edom," though only...
 * 18) Escalona (JE | ) City of Castile; said to have been named after Ascalon in Palestine. Jews were living there at a very early date. The fuero...
 * 19) Joseph ben Saul Escapa JE (JE | ) Rabbi of Smyrna; flourished in the first half of the seventeenth century; probably born at Uskup, European Turkey, after which...
 * 20) Eschatology (JE | ) Gen. xlix. 1; comp. Gen. R. xcviii., "the Messianic end" ; Isa. ii. 1; also  "the end," Dent. xxxii. 20; Ps. lxxiii. 17;...

461 – 480

 * 1) Loren& (JE | ) Spanish poet; born at Cordova of Marano parentage; died about 1683. After his conversion to Judaism he lived in great poverty...
 * 2) Esdraelon (Esrelon) (JE | ) the later Greek form of the more ancient Jezreel, and the name of the boundary-plain between the Ephraimitic and the Galilean...
 * 3) Books of Esdras (JE | ) Apocryphal writings ascribed to Ezra. I Esdras:   Name and Versions. (see image) Plain of Esdraelon, with Mount Tabor in...
 * 4) Eshcol (JE | ) Brother of Mamre and Aner. The three brothers were princes of the Amorites and allies of Abraham (Gen. xiv. 13), whom they...
 * 5) Eshtaol (JE | ) A town in the lowland of Judah (Josh. xv. 33), generally mentioned in company with Zoreah, both towns being allotted to Dan...
 * 6) Eshtemoa (JE | ) A town in Judah allotted with its suburbs to the priests (Josh. xv. 50, xxi. 14; I Chron. vi. 57). David frequented this place...
 * 7) Bernhard Freiherr von Eskeles JE (JE | ) Austrian financier; born at Vienna 1753; died at Hietzing, near Vienna, Aug. 7, 1839. He was the posthumous son of Rabbi Berush...
 * 8) Gabriel ben Judah L& (JE | ) Polish rabbi; died at Nikolsburg, Moravia, Feb. 2, 1718. At first dayyan at Cracow during the rabbinate of his teacher, Aaron...
 * 9) Issachar Berush Eskeles (JE | ) Austrian rabbi and financier; born 1692; died at Vienna March 2, 1753; son of Gabriel Eskeles and son-in-law of Samson Wertheimer...
 * 10) Gabriel Esperanssa (JE | ) Rabbi at Safed contemporaneously with Jonathan Galante (middle of seventeenth century). It is supposed that he was received...
 * 11) Esperanza Israelitica (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 12) Samuel Esperial (JE | ) Physician of Cordova, Spain. He was the author of a treatise on surgery written for David of Jaen in Spanish, but with Hebrew...
 * 13) Alfonso D& (JE | ) -- See A1204: Spina, Alfonso de
 * 14) Benjamin Espinosa (JE | ) Italian Hebraist of the eighteenth century; member of the rabbinical college at Leghorn. He published "Peri&#39;Ez,...
 * 15) Elia Esra (JE | ) Philanthropist; born at Calcutta Feb. 20, 1830; son of David Joseph Esra; died March, 1886. He was one of the wealthiest merchants...
 * 16) Essek (JE | ) Fortified town in Austria-Hungary, the second largest of Croatia; situated on the Drave. It has a population of about 18,000...
 * 17) Essen (JE | ) City in the Prussian district of D&#252;sseldorf with 96,000 inhabitants (1895), including about 2,000 Jews. It developed...
 * 18) Essenes (JE | ) A branch of the Pharisees who conformed to the most rigid rules of Levitical purity while aspiring to the highest degree of...
 * 19) Estella (JE | ) Capital of a district of the same name in Navarre. Its Jewish community dates as far back as those of Tudela and Pamplona...
 * 20) Estelle, France (JE | ) -- See E505: Etoile

481 – 500

 * 1) Esterhazy (JE | ) -- See D482: Dreyfus Case
 * 2) Esterka (JE | ) -- See C221: Casimir
 * 3) Esther >> Esther in rabbinic literature JE, Targum Sheni REF:JE (JE | ) Name of the chief character in the Book of Esther, derived, according to some authorities, from the Persian "stara" (star)...
 * 4) Apocryphal Book of Esther (JE | ) the canonical Book of Esther undoubtedly presents the oldest extant form of the Esther story. In times of oppression the Jews...
 * 5) Feast of Esther (JE | ) -- See P613: Purim
 * 6) Esther Rabbah JE (JE | ) Midrash to the Book of Esther in the current Midrash editions. From its plan and scope it is apparently an incomplete collection...
 * 7) Esthonia (JE | ) Government of Russia; one of the three Baltic Provinces. It has a total population (1897) of 404,709, of whom 1,468 are Jews...
 * 8) Estimate (JE | ) Estimate differs greatly from Appraisement. The latter is a valuation put upon land or upon some commodity by men acting in...
 * 9) Estrumba (JE | ) Oriental Jewish family which has produced several rabbinical authors; takes its name from "Strumnitza" in Macedonia. Daniel...
 * 10) & (JE | ) A long poem on the binding of Isaac upon the altar (&#39;A&#7730;edah), written by Judah ben Samuel ibn Abbas, a twelfth-century...
 * 11) Etam (JE | ) Village of the tribe of Simeon (I Chron. iv. 32), not found in the parallel list of localities in Joshua.2. Place in Judah...
 * 12) Etampes (JE | ) Capital of the arrondissement of the department of Seine-et-Oise, France. The origin of the Jewish community of Etampes seems...
 * 13) Eternal Life (JE | ) -- See E460: Eschatology
 * 14) Eternal Punishment (JE | ) -- See E460: Eschatology
 * 15) Ethan (JE | ) A man famous for his wisdom (I Kings iv. 31); it is said that Solomon was wiser than he, although it is not clear from this...
 * 16) Alexander ben Moses Ethausen (JE | ) German scholar; lived at Fulda in the seventeenth century. He was the author of a Jud&#230;o-German work in two parts: the...
 * 17) Ether (JE | ) One of the cities in the lowland of Judah allotted to Simeon (Josh. xv. 42, xix. 7).E. G. H. M. Sel.           					  						...
 * 18) Society for Ethical Culture JE (JE | ) A non-sectarian, ethicoreligious society founded at New York by Prof. Felix Adler in 1876. The society assumed the motto "Deed...
 * 19) Ethics (JE | ) the science of morals, or of human duty; the systematic presentation of the fundamental principles of human conduct and of...
 * 20) Ethics of the Fathers (JE | ) -- See A354: Abot