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 * 1) Gabbai + (JE | ) Tax-collector; in modern usage, treasurer of a synagogue. In Talmudic times the alms of the congregation appear to have been...
 * 2) Gabbai UNR >> Meir ben Ezekiel ibn Gabbai JE' (JE | ) A family the members of which were found in Spain in the fifteenth century, and in Italy and the Levant from the seventeenth...
 * 3) Gabbatha (JE | ) Town corresponding to the Biblical "Gibeah," mentioned in the Septuagint (I Chron. xii. 3), in Josephus ("Ant." v. 1, &#167...
 * 4) Gabes, Tunisia (JE | ) -- See T361: Tunis
 * 5) Solomon ibn Gabirol (JE | ) -- See I17: Ibn Gabirol, Solomon
 * 6) Abraham ben Jacob Gabishon (JE | ) Algerian physician and scholar; descended from a Granada family; died at Tlem&#231;en in 1605. He established himself as a...
 * 7) Gabriel (JE | ) With Michael, Gabriel is mentioned by name in the Book of Daniel, where he explains to Daniel his visions (Dan. viii. 16-26...
 * 8) Gabriel ben Judah L& (JE | ) -- See E468: Eskeles Gabriel ben Judah L&#246;w
 * 9) Gabriel ben Judah of Vitry (JE | ) Italian physician; flourished in the sixteenth century. His name seems to indicate that he was a native of Vitry, France,...
 * 10) Gabriel of Milhaud (JE | ) French physician and translator; flourished in the second half of the sixteenth century. He translated, in 1583, under the...
 * 11) Gabriel ben Reuben Israel ha-Kohen (JE | ) -- See K321: Kohn, Gabriel
 * 12) Ossip Gabrilovitch (JE | ) Russian pianist; born in St. Petersburg Feb. 7, 1878. When only four years old he evinced a remarkable talent for music, and...
 * 13) Gad >> Gad (son of Jacob), Tribe of Gad REF:JE, Gad (Bible prophet), Gad (deity) JE (JE | ) the seventh of Jacob&#39;s sons, the first-born of Zilpah, himself the father of seven sons (Gen. xxx. 10, 11; xlvi. 16; Num...
 * 14) Gadara (JE | ) A Hellenistic city, situated southeast of the Sea of Gennesaret. It was rebuilt by Pompey, and afterward given to Herod the...
 * 15) Gadarenes (JE | ) Inhabitants of Gadara, known from an alleged miracle of Jesus (Matt. viii.; Mark v.; Luke viii.) in which he transferred the...
 * 16) Stephan (Daniel) von Gaden (JE | ) Russian physician at the court of Moscow under the czars Alexis Mikhailovich and Feodor Alekseyevich; born in Poland, of Jewish...
 * 17) Gadfly (JE | ) Marginal rendering in the Revised Version of the Hebrew "Kerez" (Jer. xlvi. 20), where "destruction" is given...
 * 18) Jacob Gaffarel (Gaffarellus) (JE | ) French Christian rabbinical scholar; born at Mannes, Provence, 1601; died at Sigonce 1681. He devoted himself to the study...
 * 19) Gagin (JE | ) Rabbinical family of Castilian origin which emigrated to Morocco in 1492, and in the eight eenth century to Palestine. The...
 * 20) John Gagnier (JE | ) French Christian Orientalist; born at Paris about 1670; died at Oxford March 2, 1740. Gagnier devoted himself early to the...

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 * 1) Solomon Gai (JE | ) Italian scholar and Hebraist; born at Mantua 1600; died there Aug., 1638. Gai is chiefly known as the correspondent and friendof...
 * 2) Gaillac (JE | ) Small town in the department of Tarn, France; mentioned as in the Responsa (No. 47) of Nissim ben Reuben Gerundi. Jews were...
 * 3) Maestro Gajo (Isaac ben Mordecai) JE (JE | ) Physician to Pope Nicholas IV. or Boniface VIII. at the end of the thirteenth century. For him Nathan of Cento translated...
 * 4) Galante >> Abraham ben Mordecai Galante JE, Mordecai Galante JE, Moses Galante (the Elder) JE, Moses Galante (the Younger) JE, Moses Galante JE (JE | ) Jewish family which flourished at the beginning of the sixteenth century in Rome, and the head of which, Mordecai, was a Spanish...
 * 5) Galatia (JE | ) An inland district of Asia Minor, and, after 25 B.C., a province of the Roman empire. There was a Jewish settlement there...
 * 6) Galatz (JE | ) -- See R475: Rumania
 * 7) Galbanum (JE | ) -- See I125: Incense
 * 8) Gal& (JE | ) -- See G231: Gilead
 * 9) Galen (Galenus Claudius) (JE | ) Greek physician and philosopher; born at Pergamus, Mysia, about 131; died about 200. Eclipsed by those of Aristotle, Galen&#39...
 * 10) Galicia, Austria (JE | ) Province of Austria; acquired at the partition of Poland, 1772, and which, except for some small territorial changes, has...
 * 11) Galicia, Spain (JE | ) An ancient province in the northwestern part of Spain; a barren, mountainous region where Jews settled sparsely in the eleventh...
 * 12) Galilee (JE | ) in the Greek period the customary name for the northern division of western Palestine. The name is formed from "ha-Galil,"...
 * 13) Moses ben Elijah Galina (JE | ) Greek scholar and translator; lived at Candia in the fifteenth century. His best known work is "Toledot Adam" (Constantinople...
 * 14) Elijah Galipapa (JE | ) Rabbi of Rhodes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; probably born in Bulgaria. He emigrated to Palestine, but later...
 * 15) Hayyim Galipapa (JE | ) Spanish rabbi; son of Abraham Galipapa; born at Monzon about 1310; died about 1380. He was rabbi at Huesca, and later at Pamplona...
 * 16) Hayyim Meborak Galipapa (JE | ) Bulgarian rabbi; lived and taught at Sofia about 1650 (Conforte, "&#7730;ore ha-Dorot," p. 52a).G. M. K.           					...
 * 17) Gallah (JE | ) Epithet originally applied to Catholic priests on account of their tonsure. Later the same epithet was extended to Greek Orthodox...
 * 18) Joseph Shalom de Shalom Gallego (JE | ) Neo-Hebraic poet; died in Palestine Nov. 25, 1624. He was the first Chazzan of the first synagogue erected in Amsterdam...
 * 19) Gallery (JE | ) An elevated floor, or a balcony, in the interior of a church, synagogue, or other large building, resting on columns, and...
 * 20) Elisha ben Gabriel Gallico (JE | ) Palestinian Talmudist; died at Safed about 1583. He was a pupil of Joseph Caro. After the death of his master, Gallico was...

41 – 60

 * 1) Samuel Gallico (JE | ) Italian Talmudist and cabalist; lived in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was a pupil of Moses Cordovero and the...
 * 2) Gallipoli (JE | ) Seaport town in European Turkey, at the northeast end of the Dardanelles and about 135 miles from Constantinople. It has a...
 * 3) Gallows (JE | ) A framework consisting of one or more upright posts supporting a cross-beam, and used for executing those sentenced to death...
 * 4) Caius Cestius Gallus (JE | ) Consul "suffectus" in 42 C.E. Pliny ("Historia Naturalis," xxxiv. 48) calls him "consularis," i.e.," retired consul." According...
 * 5) Galut (JE | ) -- See D329: Diaspora
 * 6) Galveston (JE | ) Chief commercial city of the state of Texas; on Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. It was founded in 1836, and has a population...
 * 7) Gaspard da Gama (JE | ) German-Jewish mariner of the fifteenth century. According to his own story, Gaspard da Gama was born in Posen, and while still...
 * 8) Vasco da Gama (JE | ) Portuguese discoverer of the highway to India by sea. Like Columbus, he was materially aided in his voyage by Abraham Zacuto...
 * 9) Gamala (JE | ) City in Palestine, opposite Tariche&#230;, beyond Lake Tiberias. It had an unusually strong position on the side of a mountain...
 * 10) Gamaliel (JE | ) Name which occurs in the Bible only as a designation of the prince of the tribe of Manasseh (Num. i. 10; ii. 20; vii. 54,...
 * 11) Gamaliel I (JE | ) Son of Simon and grandson of Hillel: according to a tannaitic tradition (Shab.15a), he was their successor as nasi and first...
 * 12) Gamaliel II (JE | ) the recognized head of the Jews in Palestine during the last two decades of the first and at the beginning of the second century...
 * 13) Gamaliel III (JE | ) Son of Judah I., who before his death appointed him his successor as nasi (Ket. 103a). Scarcely anything has been handed down...
 * 14) Gamaliel IV (JE | ) Son and successor of the patriarch Judah II., and father of the patriarch Judah III. The period of activity of these patriarchs...
 * 15) Gamaliel V (JE | ) Son and successor of the patriarch Hillel II.; celebrated in connection with the perfecting of the Jewish calendar in 359...
 * 16) Gamaliel VI (JE | ) the last patriarch. The decree of the emperors Honorius and Theodosius II. (Oct. 17, 415) contains interesting data concerning...
 * 17) Gamaliel ben Pedahzur (JE | ) the pseudonym of the unknown author of a work on the Jewish ritual, the title-page of which reads. "The Book of Religion,...
 * 18) Gambling (JE | ) Playing at games, especially games of chance, for money. Among the ancient Israelites no mention is made of games of chance...
 * 19) Games and Sports (JE | ) Playful methods of enjoying leisure moments. The ancient Hebrews practised target-shooting with arrows (I Sam. xx. 20; Job...
 * 20) Gan & (JE | ) -- See E39: Eden, Garden of

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 * 1) Gan Sha&#39;ashu&#39;im (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 2) Lorenzo Ganganelli (JE | ) -- See C534: Clement
 * 3) David ben Solomon ben Seligman Gans (JE | ) German historian; astronomer; born at Lippstadt, Westphalia, 1541; died at Prague Aug. 25, 1613. After having acquired a fair...
 * 4) Eduard Gans (JE | ) German jurist; born at Berlin March 22, 1798; died there May 5, 1839. He was the son of the banker Abraham Gans, and received...
 * 5) Solomon Philip Gans (JE | ) German jurist; born 1788; lived at Celle, Hanover. He was the author of: "Das Erbrecht des Napoleonischen, Gesetzbuches f&#252...
 * 6) Solomon Ganzfried (JE | ) Hungarian rabbi and author; born at Ungvar about 1800; died there July 30, 1886. He frequented the yeshibah of Hirsch Heller...
 * 7) Gaon (JE | ) An influential Jewish family in Vitoria, Spain. Don Gaon:   Chief farmer of taxes under Henry IV. of Castile, whose suite...
 * 8) Gaon (JE | ) the title of "gaon," probably an abbreviation of  (Ps. xlvii. 5), was given to the heads of the two Babylonian academies...
 * 9) Gap (JE | ) -- See D81: Dauphin&#233;
 * 10) Bernardo (Benjamin?) Nu&#241;ez Garcia (JE | ) Spanish poet; lived in Amsterdam about the middle of the eighteenth century. His little burlesques and occasional poems are...
 * 11) Garden (JE | ) -- See H918: Horticulture
 * 12) Garlic (JE | ) -- See B1363: Botany
 * 13) Garments (JE | ) -- See C822: Costume
 * 14) Samuel Garmison JE (JE | ) Palestinian rabbi of the seventeenth century. He was a native of Salonica, and settled in Jerusalem, where he became rabbi...
 * 15) Nehorai Garmon (JE | ) Rabbi of Tunis; poet; born at Tripoli about 1682; died at Tunis 1760. Garmon went to Tunis at twenty, and studied Talmud under...
 * 16) Bet Garmu (JE | ) A family of skilled bakers employed in the Temple at Jerusalem as bakers of the showbread (Ex. xxv. 30). They kept secret...
 * 17) Garnishment (JE | ) in law, the process by which A collects his demand from his debtor, B, by attaching money owing to b. from a third person;...
 * 18) Joseph Gart (JE | ) Proven&#231;al liturgical poet and commentator; probably lived at Aix in the fifteenth century. The surname is, according...
 * 19) Gustav G& (JE | ) Austrian physician; born at Pardubitz, Bohemia, Sept. 28, 1855. He received his education at the gymnasium at K&#246;niggr&#228...
 * 20) Abraham Gascon (JE | ) Scholar of the sixteenth century. Gascon had in his possession Samuel of Sarsah&#39;s "Miklal Yofi," to which he added marginal...

81 – 100

 * 1) Moses Gaster JE (JE | ) Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, London; born in Bucharest Sept. 16, 1856. Having taken a degree in his native...
 * 2) Isaac Gastfreund JE (JE | ) Galician rabbinical scholar; born about 1845; died in Vienna after 1880. He was the author of "Toledot Rabbi &#39;A&#7731...
 * 3) Gate (JE | ) This denotes not so much a contrivance like a door for barring ingress and egress, as the passageway and the group of buildings...
 * 4) Gath (JE | ) One of the five principal cities of the Philistines (Josh. xiii. 3; I Sam. vi. 17). The name occurs in the El-Amarna tablets...
 * 5) Gatigno (JE | ) Name (Spanish) of a family known in the fourteenth century, and still flourishing in Turkey; it is probably derived from the. gatigno de la gatine..
 * 6) Jacob ibn Gau (JE | ) -- See I25: Ibn Jau, Jacob
 * 7) Gaulonitis (JE | ) Section of country east of the Jordan and of the Sea of Galilee; so called particularly in the first century C.E. It is frequently...
 * 8) Joachim (Jeochim, Jochim) Gaunse (Gaunz, Ganse, Gans) JE (JE | ) German mining expert who figures in the English state papers of the reign of Elizabeth. He was born at Prague, and was therefore...
 * 9) Me& (JE | ) Egyptian scholar; flourished in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was one of the rabbis at Cairo at the time of...
 * 10) Gaya (JE | ) Town in the Austrian province of Moravia. In official records Jews at Gaya are first mentioned toward the end of the seventeenth...
 * 11) Gaza (JE | ) Palestinian city on the Mediterranean, about 85 kilometers southeast of Jerusalem. In early times it was one of the terminals...
 * 12) Gazara (JE | ) Fortified city in Palestine; situated on the borders of Azotus, not far from Emmaus-Nicopolis on the west. Gazara has been...
 * 13) Gazelle (JE | ) -- See R338: Roebuck
 * 14) Geba (JE | ) A city of Benjamin, among the group of towns lying along the northern boundary (Josh. xviii. 24). Geba and its suburbs were...
 * 15) Gebal (JE | ) A later designation for the northern part of the Edomite mountain, called "Gebalene" by the Greeks; it occurs in Ps. lxxxiii...
 * 16) Gebalena (JE | ) -- See P31: Palestine
 * 17) Geber (JE | ) Son of Geber; mentioned (I Kings iv. 13) as one of Solomon&#39;s district commissariat officers who resided in the fortress...
 * 18) Gebiha of Argizah (JE | ) Babylonian scholar of the fifth century; contemporary of Ashi, the projector of the Babylonian Gemara compilation. Huna b...
 * 19) Gebiha of Be-katil (JE | ) Babylonian halakist of the fifth century; junior of Acha b. Jacob, Abaye, and Raba; from all of these he learned halakot...
 * 20) Gebiha b. Pesisa (JE | ) -- See A1120: Alexander the Great

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 * 1) Gebini (JE | ) Officer of the Second Temple, whose duty was at certain times of each day to announce the rite to be performed, and to remind...
 * 2) Gebini b. Harson (JE | ) A Jewish Cr&#339;sus, cited as a realistic illustration of Eccl. iv. 8. The Midrash thus dissects the verse: "There is one...
 * 3) Gebweiler (JE | ) Town of Alsace, in the consistorial district of Colmar and rabbinate of Sulz. The first document referring to its Jewish community...
 * 4) Gecko (JE | ) -- See F121: Ferret
 * 5) Gedallah (JE | ) Son of Ahikam, through whose influence Jeremiah was saved from the fury of the mob, and grandson of Shaphan the scribe (Jer...
 * 6) Gedaliah Cordovero (JE | ) -- See G106: Cordovero, Gedaliah
 * 7) Don Judah Gedaliah (JE | ) Portuguese printer; born in Lisbon, where he was engaged as foreman in the printing-house of Eliezer Toledano. Driven out...
 * 8) Judah ben Moses Gedaliah (Gadilia) (JE | ) Turkish rabbi; lived at Salonica in the sixteenth century. He was the author of (1) "Masoret Talmud Yerushalmi," an index...
 * 9) Gedaliah ibn Yahya (JE | ) -- See Y7: Yachya.
 * 10) Gediliah (JE | ) Rabbi and Talmudist of the seventeenth century; came originally from Jerusalem, traveled in Italy, and lived in Leghorn; he...
 * 11) Gedor (JE | ) Son of Jehiel, father of Gibeon and ancestor of Saul (I Chron. viii. 31, ix. 37).2. Son of Penuel (I Chron. iv. 4).3. Son...
 * 12) Die Gegenwart (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 13) Ge-harashim (JE | ) Town&#8212;the name of which means "the valley of craftsmen"&#8212;founded by Joab, one of the tribe of Judah (I Chron. iv...
 * 14) Gehazi (JE | ) Elisha&#39;s servant (II Kings iv. 12 et seq.; v. 20, 21, 25; viii. 4-5).&#8212;Biblical Data: Gehazi is mentioned first in...
 * 15) Gehenna (JE | ) the place where children were sacrificed to the god Moloch was originally in the "valley of the son of Hinnom," to the south...
 * 16) Ge-hinnom (JE | ) Name of the valley to the south and south-west of Jerusalem (Josh. xv. 8, xviii. 16; Neh. xi. 30; II Kings xxiii. 10; II Chron...
 * 17) Abraham Geiger (JE | ) German rabbi and scholar; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main May 24, 1810; died at Berlin Oct. 23, 1874; son of Rabbi Michael Lazarus...
 * 18) Lazarus Geiger (JE | ) German philologist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main May 21, 1829; died there Aug. 29, 1870. His father was Solomon Michael Geiger...
 * 19) Ludwig Geiger (JE | ) German literary historian; son of Abraham Geiger; born at Breslau June 5, 1848. After having been educated for the rabbinate...
 * 20) Der Geist Der Pharis& (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals

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 * 1) Simon von Geldern JE (JE | ) Traveler and author; born 1720; died 1774. He was the great-uncle of Heine, who describes him in his "Memoirs" as an adventurer...
 * 2) Gelil ha-Goyim (JE | ) -- See G32: Galilee
 * 3) Gelilah (JE | ) the wrapping of the scroll of the Law in its vestments after the lesson has been read from it. In the German ritual it follows...
 * 4) Peter Isaacovich Geller (JE | ) Russian painter; born at Shklov Dec. 10, 1862. He studied at the Odessa School of Design, and entered (1878) the St. Petersburg...
 * 5) Gemara (JE | ) -- See T32: Talmud
 * 6) Gemara Niggun (JE | ) the chant used by students in reading the Talmud. See Cantillation.
 * 7) Gemariah (JE | ) Son of Shaphan the scribe. It was in Gemariah&#39;s chamber that Baruch read to the people the prophecy of Jeremiah (Jer....
 * 8) Gematria (JE | ) A cryptograph which gives, instead of the intended word, its numerical value, or a cipher produced by the permutation of letters...
 * 9) Deutsch-Israelitischer Gemeindebund (JE | ) An association of Jewish corporations in Germany, founded July 3, 1869, on the occasion of the Jewish synod at Leipsic, and...
 * 10) Uriel von Gemmingen (JE | ) -- See R244: Reuchlin, John
 * 11) Gems (JE | ) Precious stones, usually cut or polished for ornamental or other uses. Gems were not indigenous to Palestine; they were imported...
 * 12) Genappe (JE | ) -- See H850: Holland
 * 13) Elijah Hayyim ben Benjamin of Genazzano (JE | ) Italian physician, theologian, and cabalist; flourished in the first half of the sixteenth century. He had a religious controversy...
 * 14) Genealogy >> Jewish genealogy REF:JE (JE | ) A list, in the order of succession, of ancestors and their descendants. The Pentateuchal equivalent for "genealogies" is "toledot"...
 * 15) Generation (JE | ) This many-sided word, like its equivalents in the modern versions of the Bible, is used to translate the Hebrew "dor" and...
 * 16) Length of Generation (JE | ) the number of years that elapse before the children of one set of human beings arrive at a marriageable age. This number has...
 * 17) The Book of Genesis (JE | ) the first book of the Torah, and therefore of the whole Bible, is called by the Jews "Bereshit," after the initial word; by...
 * 18) Geneva (JE | ) Capital of the Swiss canton of the same name; situated at the southwest end of Lake Geneva; population (1900) about 80,000...
 * 19) Genizah JE (JE | ) the storeroom or depository in a synagogue; a cemetery in which worn-out and heretical or disgraced Hebrew books or papers...
 * 20) Lake of Gennesaret (JE | ) A lake which takes its name ("Gennesaret" or "Gennesar"; I Macc. xi. 67; Luke v. 1; and in Josephus) from the small fruitful...

141 – 160

 * 1) Genoa (JE | ) An important Italian seaport on the Gulf of Genoa; also a former republic of the same name. It is very probable that even...
 * 2) Gentile (JE | ) A word of Latin origin (from "gens"; "gentilis"), designating a people not Jewish, commonly applied to non-Jews. The term...
 * 3) Gentili (JE | ) Italian family of Gorizia, several members of which were eminent rabbis and Talmudic authorities. Of these the most important...
 * 4) Genubath (JE | ) Son of Hadad the Edomite by an Egyptian princess, the sister-in-law of the Pharaoh who governed Egypt at the time of David...
 * 5) Genuflexion (JE | ) -- See A855: Adoration
 * 6) Geographers (JE | ) Persons proficient in describing the surface of the earth. Jews have contributed in different ways to the advancement of geographical...
 * 7) Geomancy (JE | ) Divination by means of points made in sand, or by means of pebbles or grains of sand placed on a piece of paper. Some Moslem...
 * 8) Geometry in the Talmud (JE | ) -- See M259: Mathematics
 * 9) Georgia (JE | ) One of the thirteen original states of the United States, situated on the Atlantic coast; settled by a chartered company of...
 * 10) Ger (JE | ) -- See P556: Proselyte and Proselytism
 * 11) Gera (JE | ) Fourth son of Benjamin (Gen. xlvi. 21). He is not mentioned in the list of Benjamin&#39;s sons given in Num. xxvi. 38-40....
 * 12) Gerah (JE | ) -- See W81: Weights and Measures
 * 13) Gerar (JE | ) Seat of a Philistine prince (Gen. x. 19, xx. 1 et seq., xxvi. 20; I Chron. iv. 39 [LXX.]; II Chron. xiv. 12 et seq.). Following...
 * 14) Daniel ben Elijah Gerasi (JE | ) Turkish Talmudist and preacher of the seventeenth century; lived at Salonica, where he died about 1705. He was the author...
 * 15) Geresh (JE | ) -- See A717: Accents in Hebrew
 * 16) Gergesites (JE | ) -- See G245: Girgashites
 * 17) Friedrich Gerhard (JE | ) German Christian writer against the Jews; born in Frankfort-on-the-Main Jan. 2, 1779; died there Oct. 30, 1862. He was a Lutheran...
 * 18) Mount Gerizim (JE | ) Mountain south of the valley in which Shechem was situated; the present Jabal al-Tur (Deut. xi. 29, xxvii. 12; Josh...
 * 19) Moses Germanus (JE | ) See Speeth, Moses.
 * 20) Germany >> History of the Jews in Germany JE (JE | ) Country of central Europe. The date of the first settlement of Jews in the regions called by the Romans "Germania Superior...

161 – 180

 * 1) Friedrich Gernsheim (JE | ) German pianist and composer; born at Worms July 17, 1839. He was a pupil of L. Liebe, Pauer, Rosenhain (piano), I. C. Hauff...
 * 2) Karl Ger& (JE | ) Hungarian dramatist; born at H&#233;vizgy&#246;rk Oct. 18, 1856; studied law at Kaschau and Budapest. While still a student...
 * 3) Geron (JE | ) -- See G212: Ghiron
 * 4) Girona (JE | ) Fortified city in northern Spain. As early as 1002 Pope Sylvester acknowledged to Bishop Odo of Gerona the receipt of the...
 * 5) Isaac b. Zerahiah Halevi Gerondi (JE | ) Talmudist; lived in Gerona in the twelfth century. He was the father of Zerahiah ha-Levi, author of "Sefer ha-Ma&#39;or,"...
 * 6) Jonah b. Abraham (Hehasid) Gerondi, the Elder JE (JE | ) Spanish rabbi and moralist of the thirteenth century; died in Toledo, Spain, Nov., 1263; a cousin of Nachmanides. He...
 * 7) Moses b. Solomon d& (JE | ) Hebrew poet; relative of Moses Nachmanides; lived at Gerona, Catalonia, in the second half of the thirteenth century...
 * 8) Nissim Gerondi (JE | ) -- See N309: Nissim b. Reuben
 * 9) Zerahiah ha-Levi Gerondi (JE | ) -- See Z108: Zerahiah ha-Levi.
 * 10) Geronimo de Sante F& (JE | ) -- See I60: Ibn Vives Allorqui, Joshua ben Joseph.
 * 11) Gershom (JE | ) First-born son of Moses and Zipporah (Ex. ii. 22, xviii. 3). The circumcision of a child of Moses described in Ex. iv. 25...
 * 12) Gershom ben Judah JE (JE | ) French rabbi; born at Metz in 960; died at Mayence in 1040. He was the founder of Talmudic studies in France and Germany....
 * 13) Gershon Ashkenazi (JE | ) -- See A1966: Ashkenazi, Gershon
 * 14) Gershon ben Eliezer ha-Levi (Yiddels) of Prague (JE | ) Traveler of the first half of the seventeenth century. He was the author of the curious and extremely rare book "Gelilot Ere&#7827...
 * 15) Gershon Hefez (JE | ) See Gentili, Gershon ben Moses.
 * 16) Gershon ben Hezekiah (JE | ) Proven&#231;al physician, astronomer, and grammarian; lived at Beaumes toward the end of the fourteenth century and at the...
 * 17) Isaac Gershon (JE | ) Rabbi and corrector of the press at Venice at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was...
 * 18) Gershon b. Jacob ha-Gozer (JE | ) German Talmudist; flourished in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He was a grand-nephew, and probably pupil, of Ephraim...
 * 19) Gershon (Christian) ben Me&#239;r of Biberbach (JE | ) Jewish convert; born at Reckling-hausen, Prussia, Aug. 1, 1569; drowned at Dr&#246;helm Sept. 25, 1627. After teaching Hebrew...
 * 20) Gershon ben Solomon of Arles JE (JE | ) Proven&#231;al philosopher; flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century; said to be the father of Gersonides....

181 – 200

 * 1) Gershon ben Solomon ben Asher (JE | ) French Talmudist; flourished at B&#233;ziers in the twelfth century. He was the author of a casuistic work entitled "Sefer...
 * 2) Felix Napoleon Gerson (JE | ) American lyrist, writer, and journalist; manager of "The Jewish Exponent" (Philadelphia); born in Philadelphia Oct. 18, 1862...
 * 3) George Hartog Gerson (JE | ) German physician; born in Hamburg 1788; died there 1843. After taking his degree he traveled in Norway and Sweden, and finally...
 * 4) Karl Gerson (JE | ) German physician; born at Hamm, Westphalia, July 19, 1866; educated at the universities of Munich, Rostock, Leipsic, and Bonn...
 * 5) Henry Gersoni (JE | ) American rabbi and journalist; born in Wilna, Russia, 1844; died in New York June 17, 1897. He attended the rabbinical seminary...
 * 6) Gersonides (JE | ) -- See L247: Levi b. Gershon
 * 7) Jonah Gerstein (JE | ) Lithuanian educationalist and Hebraist; born at Wilna Dec. 4, 1827; died there Dec. 6, 1891. Gerstein was one of the first...
 * 8) Lewis Gerstle (JE | ) Californian pioneer; born in Ichenhausen, Bavaria, Dec. 17, 1824; died at San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 19, 1902. In 1845 he emigrated...
 * 9) Adolf Joseph Gerstmann (JE | ) German author; born July 31, 1855, at Ostrowo, Prussia. In infancy he was taken by his parents to Berlin; there he attended...
 * 10) Gerusia (JE | ) A council of elders. Moses was assisted by a council of seventy elders (Num. xi. 16), and the elders as representatives of...
 * 11) Gesellschaft Der Hebr& (JE | ) Society for promoting study of the Hebrew language, called in Hebrew "&#7716;ebrat Doreshe Leshon &#39;Eber." It was founded...
 * 12) Gesem (JE | ) -- See G376: Goshen
 * 13) Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (JE | ) Christian Hebraist and Orientalist; born at Nordhausen Feb. 3, 1786; died Oct. 23, 1842. At first devoting his attention to...
 * 14) Geshan (JE | ) One of the sons of Jahdai, of the family of Caleb (I Chron. ii. 47).E. G. H. M. Sel.
 * 15) Geshem JE (JE | ) One of the Hebrew words for "rain," applied mostly to the heavy rains which occur in Palestine in the fall and winter. This...
 * 16) Geshem the Arabian (JE | ) Ally of Sanballat and Tobiah and adversary of Nehemiah (Neh. ii. 19, vi. 1). In Neh. vi. 6 he is called "Gashmu," which is...
 * 17) Geshur JE, Geshurites (JE | ) Geshur was a territory in the northern part of Bashan, adjoining the province of Argob (Deut. iii. 14) and the kingdom of...
 * 18) Gesius Florus (JE | ) -- See C314: Florus Cestius
 * 19) Jacob ben Isaac Gesundheit JE (JE | ) Polish rabbi; born in Warsaw 1815; died there Sept. 11, 1878. He conducted a yeshibah for forty-two years, some of his many...
 * 20) Get (JE | ) the earliest use of the ge&#7789;, an institution peculiar to the Jews, can not be established with certainty. Although the...

201 – 220

 * 1) Ge& (JE | ) the name of the benediction which follows the reading of the Shema&#39;. It refers to God&#39;s redemption of Israel from...
 * 2) Gezer (JE | ) Ancient Canaanitish city mentioned in Egyptian inscriptions and the Amarna letters as being the seat of a local prince (comp...
 * 3) Gezerah (JE | ) A rabbinical enactment issued as a guard or preventive measure; also a prohibition or restriction generally; from the root...
 * 4) Gezerah Shawah (JE | ) -- See H627: Hermeneutics
 * 5) Isaac ibn Ghayyat JE (JE | ) -- See I18: Ibn Ghayyat, Isaac Ben Judah
 * 6) Solomon b. Judah Ghayyat (JE | ) Hebrew poet of the twelfth century; possibly a grandson of Isaac Gchayyat, the famous teacher of Lucena. Solomon was...
 * 7) Abu Hamid Mohammed ibn Mohammed al-Ghazali (JE | ) Arabian theologian and moralist; born at Tuz, Khorasan, 1058; died there 1111. His works exerted a great influence upon Jewish...
 * 8) Nathan Benjamin ben Elisha ha-Levi Ghazzati JE (JE | ) Shabbethaian prophet; born at Jerusalem 1644; died at Sofia 1680. After studying Talmud and Cabala in his native town under...
 * 9) Ghent (JE | ) Chief city of eastern Flanders, Belgium. That at the time of the Crusades there were Jews in Ghent is known, as they were...
 * 10) Ghetto (JE | ) Originally the street or quarter of a city in which the Jews were compelled to live, and which was closed every evening by...
 * 11) Ghez (JE | ) A Tunisian family including several authors. David Ghez:   Talmudist; lived at Tunis in the second half of the eighteenth...
 * 12) Ghiron (JE | ) An old family originally from Gerona, Spain, and known in Hebrew as "the Geronim." It has produced many rabbis, among whom...
 * 13) Ghirondi ((redirects to Mordecai Ghirondi JE)) (JE | ) Italian family of Padua, the founder of which settled there toward the end of the sixteenth century. The name indicates that...
 * 14) Solomon Daniel Ghosalker (JE | ) Beni-Israel soldier; born 1804; died at Dhulia, India, Oct. 14, 1869. He enlisted in the 25th regiment of the Bombay native...
 * 15) Giants (JE | ) Word derived from the Greek &#947;&#943;&#947;&#945;&#962; (in LXX.), denoting a man of extraordinary stature; in the English...
 * 16) Giat (JE | ) -- See I18: Ibn Ghayyat
 * 17) Judah ben Elijah ben Joseph Gibbor (JE | ) Karaite scholar; flourished at Constantinople between 1500 and 1540. His main work, which was highly esteemed by the Karaite...
 * 18) Gibeah (JE | ) the name of several cities situated on hills. The difficulty of keeping these distinct is increased by the fact that sometimes...
 * 19) Gibeon and Gibeonites (JE | ) Gibeon was one of the four cities of the Hivites, reckoned in Josh. xviii. 25 among the cities of Benjamin. That it was not...
 * 20) Gibraltar (JE | ) British possession, south of Spain. Jews appear to have settled there shortly after the British took possession of the fortress...

221 – 240

 * 1) Gideon (JE | ) Son of Joash the Abiezrite; also called "Jerubbaal" (Judges vi. 32; "Jerubbesheth" in II Sam. xi. 21); one of the prominent...
 * 2) Samson Gideon (JE | ) English financier; born in London 1699; died 1762. He was a son of RowlandGideon (died 1720), a West-Indian merchant, who...
 * 3) Gier-eagle (JE | ) -- See V117: Vulture
 * 4) Gifts (JE | ) the interchange of gifts was a custom common among the early Israelites in the ordinary transactions of life as well as at...
 * 5) Gihon (JE | ) the second river of Eden, surrounding the whole land of Cush or Ethiopia (Gen. ii. 13). Its identification has been a matter...
 * 6) Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla JE (JE | ) Spanish cabalist; born at Medinaceli, Old Castile, 1248; died at Pe&#241;afiel after 1305. Gikatilla was for some time a pupil...
 * 7) Moses ibn Gikatilla (JE | ) Grammarian and Bible exegete of the latter part of the eleventh century. His full name was "Moses b. Samuel haKohen," but...
 * 8) Gil Vicente (JE | ) Portuguese dramatist; born at Lisbon about 1470; called by the Portuguese their Plautus, their Shakespeare, and the father...
 * 9) Gilboa (JE | ) the ancient name given to the bow-shaped mountain chain situated north of the Ras Ibzik, separating the plain of Jezreel...
 * 10) Gilds (JE | ) Associations for the restriction of competition in the production and distribution of commodities. From the twelfth century...
 * 11) Gilead (JE | ) District, mountain, and city east of the Jordan. The name "Gilead" in Gen. xxxi. 48 is explained by popular etymology to mean...
 * 12) Gilgal (JE | ) the first camping-place of the Israelites in the land west of the Jordan (Josh. iv. 19); the place to which they could retreat...
 * 13) Gilgul-neshamoth (JE | ) -- See T298: Transmigration of Souls
 * 14) Gilyonim JE (JE | ) Term used by the scribes flourishing between 100 and 135 to denote the Gospels. The designation as used by them did not imply...
 * 15) Gimel (JE | ) Third letter of the Hebrew alphabet, so called, perhaps, because the shape of the letter in the ancient West-Semitic script...
 * 16) Gimzo (JE | ) A city in the Judean plain; conquered by the Philistines according to II Chron. xxviii. 18; present village of Jimzu, southeast...
 * 17) Christian David Ginsburg (JE | ) English Masoretic scholar and Christian missionary; born at Warsaw Dec. 25, 1831. He was converted in 1846, and was for a...
 * 18) Saul Moiseyevich Ginsburg (JE | ) Russian lawyer and author; born at Minsk 1866; graduated from the law department of the University of St. Petersburg 1890...
 * 19) Asher (Ahad Ha-&#39;am) Ginzberg (JE | ) Russian scholar; born at Skvira, government of Kiev, on Aug. 5, 1856. His father, Isaiah, belonged to a family of &#7716;asidim...
 * 20) Louis Ginzberg (JE | ) Hebrew scholar; born at Kovno, Russia, Nov. 28, 1873. He received his early training in the Talmudical school at Telsh, Russia...

241 – 260

 * 1) Ginzburg (JE | ) -- See G501: G&#252;nzburg
 * 2) Ginze Nistorot (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 3) Daniel ben Elijah Giradi (JE | ) See Gerasi, Daniel b. Elijah.
 * 4) Enrique Claudio Girbal (JE | ) Spanish scholar; born at Gerona Nov. 16, 1839. He was chronicler of his native city and member of several learned bodies....
 * 5) Girgashites (JE | ) One of the nations which possessed the land of Canaan before the Israelitish conquest. In Hebrew the name occurs only in the...
 * 6) Girth of the Chest (JE | ) While among most other races the average chest-girth measures over one-half the average stature, that of the Jews, it has...
 * 7) Girzites (JE | ) A tribe rich in cattle and apparel; with the Geshurites and the Amalekites it occupied the land between the south of Palestine...
 * 8) Giscala (JE | ) City of Galilee, not far from Tyre; known as the native city of the patriot John of Giscala. John tried to keep his fellow...
 * 9) Gittin (JE | ) Name of a treatise of the Mishnah and of the Tosefta, elaborated in the Palestinian and in the Babylonian Gemaras. It belongs...
 * 10) Gittith (JE | ) A musical instrument mentioned in Ps. viii. 1, lxxxi. 1, lxxxiv. 1. The word is explained by Gesenius ("Thesaurus," s. v....
 * 11) Giza UNR (Gizai) (JE | ) A sabora; head of the Babylonian school in the first half of the sixth century. In a very old source, the "Seder Tanna&#39...
 * 12) Gladiator (JE | ) A fighter in the gymnasium or arena. Gladiatorial contests were an aspect of Roman life which was intensely hated by the Jews...
 * 13) Otto Glagau (JE | ) Anti-Semitic writer; born in K&#246;nigsberg, Prussia, Jan. 16, 1834; died in Berlin March 2, 1892. As a journalist and political...
 * 14) Glaphyra (JE | ) Daughter of the Cappadocian king Archelaus. Her first husband was Alexander, son of Herod I. and Mariamne. After his execution...
 * 15) Adolf Glaser (JE | ) German author; born at Wiesbaden Dec. 15, 1829. He traded in art wares while preparing himself for the university. From 1853...
 * 16) Eduard Glaser (JE | ) Austrian traveler and Arabist; born March 15, 1855, at Deutsch-Rust, Bohemia. After completing his elementary and college...
 * 17) Julius Anton (Joshua Glaser) Glaser JE (JE | ) Austrian jurist and statesman; born at P&#246;stelberg, Bohemia, March 19, 1831; died at Vienna Dec. 26, 1886. After taking...
 * 18) Glasgow (JE | ) Seaport and largest city in Scotland, with a population in 1901 of 760,329, of whom about 6,500 were Jews. The Jewish community...
 * 19) Glass (JE | ) A fused mixture of metallic silicates, generally transparent or translucent. Its manufacture dates from the earliest times...
 * 20) The Gleaner (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals

261 – 280

 * 1) Gleaning of the Fields (JE | ) the remains of a crop after harvesting, which must be left for the poor. The Mosaic law enjoins: "And when ye reap the harvest...
 * 2) Glede (JE | ) -- See P518: Prey, Birds of
 * 3) Gl& (Gl&) (JE | ) -- See S377: Schulklopfer
 * 4) Glogau (JE | ) Town in Prussian Silesia, Germany, with a population of 20,529, including 863 Jews. Jews were living there as early as the...
 * 5) Jehiel Michael ben Uzziel Glogau (JE | ) German rabbi; lived at Halberstadt in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was the author of "Nezer ha-&#7730;odesh...
 * 6) Abigdor ben Simhah ha-Levi Glogauer (JE | ) German Hebrew scholar of the eighteenth century. He published "Dabar Tob," an elementary Hebrew grammar with paradigms...
 * 7) Judah ben Hanina Selig Glogauer (JE | ) German Talmudist of the beginning of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work entitled "&#7730;ol Yehudah," a collection...
 * 8) Me& (JE | ) Bohemian Talmudist; died at Prague in 1829. He wrote: "Dibre Meir," novell&#230;, on the Talmudic treatises Gi&#7789;&#7789...
 * 9) Moses ben Zebi Hirsch Glogauer (JE | ) German scholar; lived at Hamburg in the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work entitled "&#7716;ebel le-Ha&#7717...
 * 10) Glory of God (JE | ) -- See S588: Shekinah
 * 11) Gloss (JE | ) A foreign word or sentence, in Hebrew characters, inserted in Hebrew writings. In order to convey to the reader the exact...
 * 12) Gloucester (JE | ) Large town in the west of England, dating back to Roman times. The earliest date mentioned in connection with the Jews of...
 * 13) Elizabeth Gl& (JE | ) -- See P52: Paoli Betti
 * 14) Heinrich Gl& JE (JE | ) Austrian author; born at Rackschitz, M&#228;hren, July 7, 1864. He began his literary career at sixteen, one of his first...
 * 15) Gottlieb (Th&#233;ophile) Gluge (JE | ) Physician; born at Brakel in Westphalia June 18, 1812; died Dec. 22, 1898, at Nizza. He studied medicine at the Berlin University...
 * 16) Glusker Maggid (JE | ) the evidence that Abba Glusk Leczeka really existed and was not,as Kayserling holds ("Moses Mendelssohn," p. 431, Leipsic...
 * 17) Gnat (JE | ) -- See F231: Fly
 * 18) Gnesen (JE | ) -- See P467: Posen
 * 19) Gnosis (JE | ) -- See G280: Gnosticism
 * 20) Gnosticism (JE | ) An esoteric system of theology and philosophy. It presents one of the most obscure and complicated problems in the general...

281 – 300

 * 1) Goat (JE | ) "&#39;Ez" is the generic name for both sexes. Special terms for the he-goat: "&#39;attud," Gen. xxxi. 10; Ps. l. 9, etc....
 * 2) God (JE | ) the Supreme Being, regarded as the Creator, Author, and First Cause of the universe, the Ruler of the world and of the affairs...
 * 3) Children of God (JE | ) the "sons of God" are mentioned in Genesis, in a chapter (vi. 2) which reflects preprophetic, mythological, and polytheistic...
 * 4) Names of God (JE | ) -- See N52: Names of God
 * 5) Son of God (JE | ) -- See S964: Son of God
 * 6) Michael H. Godefroi (JE | ) Dutch jurist and minister of justice; born at Amsterdam Jan. 13, 1814; died at W&#252;rzburg June 27, 1882. He devoted himself...
 * 7) Godfather (JE | ) Primarily, one who assists in the performance of the rite of circumcision by holding the child upon his knees; secondarily...
 * 8) G& (JE | ) Town of Moravia, Austria; it has a population of about 10,000 (1900), of whom over 1,000 are Jews. The Jewish community there...
 * 9) Godliness (JE | ) the quality of being godly, i.e., godlike, manifested in character and conduct expressive of the conscious recognition and...
 * 10) Leopold Godowsky (JE | ) Russian pianist and composer; born at Wilna Feb. 13, 1870. At a very early age he showed remarkable talent for music, and...
 * 11) Goel (JE | ) Next of kin, and, hence, redeemer. Owing to the solidarity of the family and the clan in ancient Israel, any duty which a...
 * 12) Gog and Magog (JE | ) Magog is mentioned (Gen. x. 2; I Chron. i. 5) as the second son of Japheth, between Gomer and Madai. Gomer representing the...
 * 13) Baruch Goitein (JE | ) Hungarian rabbi; died at H&#246;gy&#233;sz, Hungary, Nov. 16, 1842. He occupied the rabbinate of H&#246;gy&#233;sz for many...
 * 14) Gold (JE | ) One of the precious metals. There are six Hebrew words which denote "gold," four of which occur in Job (xxviii. 15-17): (1)...
 * 15) Wilhelm Goldbaum (JE | ) German writer and journalist; born at Kempen, Posen, Jan. 6, 1843. After studying law for some time at the University of Breslau...
 * 16) Albert Goldberg (JE | ) German opera-singer; born at Brunswick June 8, 1847. Educated at the Conservatorium of Leipsic (1865-69), he made his d&#233...
 * 17) Baer ben Alexander Goldberg (JE | ) Russian scholar; born at Soludna near Warsaw in 1799; died at Paris May 4, 1884. When he was scarcely fifteen years of age...
 * 18) Sigismund Goldberger (JE | ) Austrian jurist; born in J&#228;gerndorf, Austrian Silesia, June 15, 1854. He was educated at the gymnasium of Troppau and...
 * 19) Jacob Semenovich Goldblatt (JE | ) Russian painter; born at Suwalki 1860; studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts from 1878 to 1888, gaining many...
 * 20) Golden Calf (JE | ) -- See C45: Calf, Golden

301 – 320

 * 1) The Golden Rule (JE | ) By this name is designated the saying of Jesus (Matt. vii. 12): "All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should...
 * 2) John Goldenberg (JE | ) Russian merchant; born on the confines of Russia and Rumania; died 1895. He followed the army in the Crimea (1856-57) as a...
 * 3) Samuel L& (JE | ) Austrian Hebraist; born at Bolechow, Galicia, 1807; died at Tarnopol Jan. 11, 1846. He was the founder and editor of the Hebrew...
 * 4) Jacob Goldenthal (JE | ) Austrian Orientalist; born at Brody, Galicia, April 16, 1815; died at Vienna Dec. 28, 1868; educated at the University of...
 * 5) Abraham b. Hayyim Lippe Goldfaden (JE | ) Hebrew and Yiddish poet and founder of the Yiddish drama; born at Starokonstantinov, Russia, July 12, 1840. He graduated from...
 * 6) Henry Mayer Goldfogle (JE | ) American lawyer and politician; born in New York city May 23, 1856; educated in the public schools and at Townsend College...
 * 7) Bernard Goldman (deputy) (JE | ) Austrian deputy; born at Warsaw Feb. 20, 1842; died at Lemberg March 23, 1901. His father, Isaac Goldman, was the owner of...
 * 8) Edwin Ellen Goldmann (JE | ) German physician; born at Burghersdorp, Cape Colony, Nov. 12, 1862; studied medicine at the universities of Breslau, Freiburg...
 * 9) Karl Goldmark (JE | ) Hungarian violinist, pianist, and operatic composer; born at Keszthely, Hungary, May 18, 1830, where his father, Ruben Goldmark...
 * 10) Adolph Goldschmidt JE (JE | ) German art critic; born at Hamburg Jan. 15, 1863. After a short business career he devoted himself (1885) to the study of...
 * 11) Henriette Goldschmidt (JE | ) Wife of Rabbi A. M. Goldschmidt (m. 1855); born at Krotoschin, Prussia, Nov. 23, 1825; and now (1903) resident at Leipsic...
 * 12) Hermann Goldschmidt (JE | ) German painter and astronomer; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main June 17, 1802; died at Fontainebleau Sept. 10, 1866. Destined...
 * 13) Hermann Goldschmidt (novelist) (JE | ) German novelist and playwright; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main July 18, 1860. He attendedthe local gymnasium, and studied law...
 * 14) Julius Goldschmidt (JE | ) German physician; born at Mayence Feb. 12, 1843. He studied at the universities of W&#252;rzburg and Giessen, receiving from...
 * 15) Lazarus Goldschmidt (JE | ) German writer; born at Plungiany, Lithuania, Russia, Dec. 17, 1871. He received his rabbinical education at the Talmudic school...
 * 16) Levin Goldschmidt JE (JE | ) German jurist; born at Danzig May 30, 1829; died at Wilhelmsh&#246;he July 16, 1897. From 1847 to 1851 he pursued his studies...
 * 17) Lothar Goldschmidt (JE | ) See Schmidt, Lothar.
 * 18) Me& (JE | ) Danish political writer; born Oct. 26, 1819, at Vordingborg, Denmark; died at Copenhagen Aug. 15, 1887. The dream of his youth...
 * 19) Otto Goldschmidt (JE | ) German pianist and composer; born at Hamburg Aug. 21, 1829. He studied under Jacob Schmidt and F. W. Grund; with Hans von...
 * 20) Siegfried Goldschmidt (JE | ) German Orientalist; born at Cassel Oct. 29, 1844; died at Strasburg Jan. 31, 1884. He was educated at the universities of...

321 – 340

 * 1) Guido Goldschmiedt (JE | ) Austrian chemist; born in Triest Oct. 5, 1850; studied at Vienna and Heidelberg. First as assistant, later as associate professor...
 * 2) Goldsmid (JE | ) A family of English financiers, who trace descent from a certain Uri ha-Levi of Emden, as shown in the pedigree on opposite...
 * 3) Lewis Goldsmith (JE | ) English political writer and agitator; born 1763; died Jan. 6, 1846. Educated in London, he was trained for the legal profession...
 * 4) Milton Goldsmith (JE | ) American merchant and author; born at Philadelphia May 22, 1861. In 1877 he went to Europe and studied three years at Zurich...
 * 5) Goldsmiths and Silversmiths (JE | ) the earliest descriptions of productions of the goldsmith&#39;s art refer to the work of Jewish goldsmiths. The Bible, which...
 * 6) Eduard Goldstein (JE | ) Russian musician; born at Odessa 1851; died at Leipsic Aug. 8, 1887. He was an accomplished pianist at the age of thirteen...
 * 7) Joseph Goldstein (JE | ) Austrian cantor and composer; born at Kecskem&#233;t, Hungary, March 27, 1836; died in Vienna June 17, 1899. He occupied the...
 * 8) Joseph Goldstein (JE | ) Political economist and statistician; born in Odessa, Russia, Jan. 9, 1869. After completing his studies at the gymnasium...
 * 9) Michael Yulyevich Goldstein (JE | ) Russian chemist; born at Odessa 1853; educated in the Richelieu Gymnasium of Odessa, and graduated from the Medico-Surgical...
 * 10) Theodor Goldst& (JE | ) German Sanskritist; born at K&#246;nigsberg, Prussia, Jan. 18, 1821; died in London March 6, 1872. In 1840 he gained his degree...
 * 11) Joseph Goldszmidt (JE | ) Polish lawyer; born at Hrubieszow, government of Lublin, 1846; (died 1896; graduate of the University of Warsaw. He wrote:...
 * 12) Wilhelm Goldzieher (JE | ) Hungarian oculist and ophthalmological writer, born at K&#246;pcs&#233;ny (= Kitsee), near Presburg, Jan. 1, 1849. He studied...
 * 13) Ignaz Goldziher (JE | ) Hungarian Orientalist; born in Stuhlweissenburg, Hungary, June 22, 1850; attended the gymnasium in his native town, and continued...
 * 14) Golem (JE | ) This word occurs only once in the Bible, in Ps. cxxxix. 16, where it means "embryo." in tradition everything that is in a...
 * 15) Golgotha (JE | ) Locality mentioned in the New Testament as the scene of Jesus&#39; execution (Matt. xxvii. 33 and parallels). The name is...
 * 16) Goliath (JE | ) A Philistine giant of Gath (I Sam. xvii. 4). The name "Goliath" is probably connected with the Assyro-Babylonian "Guzali"...
 * 17) Count Nicholas Golitzyn (JE | ) Russian writer; born in the second half of the nineteenth century. He became notorious through his history of Russian legislation...
 * 18) Hermann Gollancz (JE | ) English rabbi; born at Bremen Nov. 30, 1852; educated at Jews&#39; and University colleges, London. He officiated at several...
 * 19) Israel Gollancz (JE | ) Secretary of the British Academy; born in London 1864. He was educated at the City of London School and Cambridge University...
 * 20) Hirsch Nissan Golomb (JE | ) Russian Hebraist and writer on music; born at Podzelve, government of Wilna, Dec. 15, 1853. He studied in the yeshibah of...

341 – 360

 * 1) Joanniki Golyatovski (JE | ) Little-Russian cleric and anti-Jewish writer; died 1688. After having studied in the Kiev-Mogilian College, Golyatovski took...
 * 2) Gomel (JE | ) -- See H869: Homel
 * 3) Birkat ha-Gomel (JE | ) the pronouncing of the benediction for escape from danger&#39; after passing through the desert; after confinement in prison...
 * 4) Gomer (JE | ) Eldest son of Japheth, and father of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah (Gen. x. 2, 3; I Chron. i. 5, 6). In Yoma 10a and Yer...
 * 5) Gomez (JE | ) The Gomez family, or rather that branch of it which has established itself in America, traces its descent from Isaac Gomez, a Marano who left Madrid...
 * 6) Antonio Enriquez Gomez (JE | ) Spanish poet; born in Segovia toward the end of the sixteenth century; died in 1662. He was a son of the Marano Diego Enriquez...
 * 7) Duarte Gomez (JE | ) -- See U57: Usque
 * 8) Manuel Gomez (JE | ) Physician; born about 1580 of Portuguese parentage at Antwerp. After studying medicine at Evora he settled as a physician...
 * 9) Abraham Gomez de Sosa (Sossa) (JE | ) Spanish physician; died at an advanced age Elul 21 (=Sept. 10), 1667. He was physician in ordinary to the infante Ferdinand...
 * 10) Isaac Gomez de Sosa (Sossa) (JE | ) Latin poet ("famoso poeta Latino," according to de Barrios); son of Abraham Gomez do Sosa. He was arbiter at the academy of...
 * 11) Gomorrah (JE | ) One of the destroyed cities of the Pentapolis. Comp. Sodom and Zoar.
 * 12) Samuel Gompers (JE | ) American labor-leader; born in London Jan. 27, 1850. At ten years of age he became a wage-earner, working in a shoe-factory...
 * 13) Benjamin Gompertz (JE | ) British actuary; born in London March 5, 1779; died there July 14, 1865. He was descended from the family of Gomperz of Emmerich...
 * 14) Isaac Gompertz (JE | ) English poet; brother of Benjamin and Lewis Gompertz: born 1774; died 1856. He wrote: "June, or Light and Shade," a poem in...
 * 15) Lewis Gompertz (JE | ) English inventor of London; died Dec. 2, 1861; brother of Benjamin Gompertz, the mathematician. He devoted his life to the...
 * 16) Benjamin Gomperz (JE | ) Austrian physician; born at Vienna Oct. 6, 1861. He was educated at the Leopoldst&#228;dter communal gymnasium and the University...
 * 17) Gomperz-Bettelheim (JE | ) -- See B996: Bettelheim
 * 18) Julius, Ritter von Gomperz, (JE | ) Austrian merchant and statesman; brother of Theodor Gomperz; born at Br&#252;nn 1824; studied at the gymnasium and Philosophische...
 * 19) Theodor Gomperz (JE | ) Austrian philologist; born at Br&#252;nn March 29, 1832. His great-grandfather, Benedictus Levi Gomperz, was the financial...
 * 20) Gonzalo Garcia de Santa Maria (JE | ) Spanish bishop and enemy of the Jews; born at Burgos in 1379; baptized as a boy of eleven, together with his father, Paul...

361 – 380

 * 1) Martinez Gonzalo (JE | ) A poor Spanish knight who was promoted to high offices through the instrumentality of Joseph de Ecija, in whose service he...
 * 2) Good and Evil (JE | ) -- See E499: Ethics
 * 3) Tobias Goodman (JE | ) English preacher and author; died after 1824; one of the earliest preachers in English of the London Jewish community Tobias...
 * 4) Goose (JE | ) According to the Talmudists the domestic and the wild goose are two different species which should not be crossed (B. &#7730...
 * 5) Gopher-wood (JE | ) the material of which the ark of Noah was made. The word "gofer" occurs but once in the Bible, viz., in the expression (Gen...
 * 6) Jacob Gordin (Jakov Mikhailovich) (JE | ) Yiddish playwright and reformer; born May 1, 1853, in Mirgorod, government of Poltava. He received a good education and acquired...
 * 7) David ben Dov Baer Gordon (JE | ) Russian journalist; born in Podmerecz, near Wilna, in 1826; died in Lyck, Prussia, May 21, 1886. At the age of ten he went...
 * 8) Lord George Gordon (JE | ) English agitator and convert to Judaism; born in London on Dec. 26, 1751; died in 1793; son of the third Duke of Gordon. After...
 * 9) Leon Gordon (Judah L&#246;b ben Asher) (JE | ) Russian Hebrew writer and poet; born at Wilna Dec. 7, 1831; died at St. Petersburg Sept. 16, 1892. He graduated in 1853 from...
 * 10) Michel Gordon (JE | ) Jud&#230;o-German poet and Hebrew writer; born at Wilna Nov. 4, 1823; died at Kiev Dec. 26, 1890. While at the bet ha-midrash...
 * 11) Samuel Gordon (JE | ) English novelist; born at Buk, Germany, Sept. 10, 1871. He went to England with his parents in 1883, and was educated at the...
 * 12) Gorgias JE (JE | ) Syrian general of the second century B.C. After Judas Maccabeus had defeated the Syrians, they determined to send a stronger...
 * 13) Bernard Gorin (JE | ) Yiddish journalist; born in Lida, government of Wilna, April, 1868. He is the author of two short stories in Hebrew, "Ha-Naggar...
 * 14) Goring ox (JE | ) Two passages in Exodus treat of an ox doing harm: the first of harm to a person (xxi. 28-32); the second to the ox of another...
 * 15) Isaac ben Abraham Gorni (JE | ) -- See G375: Isaac ben Abraham Gorni
 * 16) Goshen (JE | ) Region of Egypt which the Israelites inhabited during their sojourn in that country. It is described as situated on the eastern...
 * 17) Goslar (JE | ) Town in the province of Hanover, Germany; on an affluent of the Ocker at the north-east foot of the Harz. According to the...
 * 18) The Four Gospels (JE | ) -- See N245: New Testament
 * 19) James Gotendorf (James Nathan) (JE | ) German-American merchant and litterateur; born Feb. 9, 1811, at Eutin, Holstein, Germany; died at Hamburg Oct. 5, 1888. He...
 * 20) Gotha (JE | ) Capital of the duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Germany. A Jew named Jacob who lived at Cologne in the middle of the thirteenth...

381 – 400

 * 1) Gustav Gottheil JE (JE | ) American rabbi; born at Pinne in Prussian Posen May 28, 1827; died in New York city April 15, 1903. He was educated in Posen...
 * 2) Paul Eduard Gottheil (JE | ) German Protestant missionary; born at Fraustadt, April 5, 1818; died at Stuttgart in 1893. A convert to Christianity, in 1848...
 * 3) Richard James Horatio Gottheil (JE | ) American Orientalist; professor of Semitic languages, Columbia University, New York; born in Manchester, England, Oct. 13...
 * 4) William S. Gottheil (JE | ) American physician; born in Berlin Feb. 5, 1859; eldest son of Rabbi Gustav Gottheil. He was educated at Chorlton High School...
 * 5) G& (JE | ) City in the province of Hanover, Germany; formerly capital of the principality of Grubenhagen under the dominion of the Guelfic...
 * 6) Abraham Gottlieb (JE | ) Civil engineer and contractor; born at Tauss, Bohemia, June 17, 1837; died in Chicago, Ill., Feb. 9, 1894. Gottlieb graduated...
 * 7) Abraham Baer Gottlober (JE | ) Russian-Hebrew poet and author; born at Starokonstantinov, Volhynia,Jan. 14, 1811; died at Byelostok April 12, 1899. His father...
 * 8) Louis Moreau Gottschalk (JE | ) American pianist; born at New Orleans May 8, 1829; died at Rio de Janeiro Dec. 18, 1869. He completed his musical education...
 * 9) Adolf Gottstein (JE | ) German physician; born at Breslau Nov. 2, 1857. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native town, and at the universities...
 * 10) Jacob Gottstein (JE | ) German physician; born at Lissa, Austria, Nov. 7, 1832; died at Breslau, Prussian Silesia, Jan. 10, 1895; graduated (M.D.)...
 * 11) Joseph Issachar Baer ben Elhanan G& (JE | ) German rabbi; born at Frankfort-on-the-Oder about 1640; died at Jerusalem after 1701. In 1675 he was rabbi of his native town...
 * 12) Abraham Goudchaux (JE | ) -- See M524: Metz
 * 13) Michel Goudchaux (JE | ) French statesman: born at Nancy March 18, 1797; died at Paris Dec. 27, 1862. After having been established for some time as...
 * 14) Joel Emanuel Goudsmit (JE | ) Dutch jurist; born in Leyden June 13, 1813; died there March 17, 1882. He graduated in law May 12, 1842. After practising...
 * 15) Gourd (JE | ) -- See B1363: Botany
 * 16) Government (JE | ) the only kind of political institution extant among the Israelites before the time of the Kings was the division into tribes...
 * 17) Roman Governors of Judea (JE | ) -- See P541: Procurators
 * 18) Goy (JE | ) -- See G142: Gentile
 * 19) Divine Grace (JE | ) One of the attributes of God, signifying His loving-kindness and mercy, and particularly His compassion for the weak, the...
 * 20) Grace At Meals (JE | ) Benedictions before and after meals. In the prayer-book of the Spanish Jews grace after meals is called "bendicion de la mesa"...

401 – 420

 * 1) Gracia Mendesia Nasi (JE | ) -- See G401: Nasi, Gracia Mendesia
 * 2) Gracian DAB (JE | ) A prominent Spanish Jewish family descended from Judah ben Barzilai, the members of which, are known to have lived chiefly...
 * 3) Shealtiel Gracian (Shealtiel Hen) (JE | ) Rabbi of Barcelona; flourished in the beginning of the thirteenth century. During the lifetime of R. Nissim Gerondi, Shealtiel...
 * 4) Solomon ben Moses Gracian (Solomon ben Moses Hen) (JE | ) Talmudist of Barcelona; lived at the end of the thirteenth and beginning of the fourteenth centuries; died in 1307. He was...
 * 5) Zerahiah ben Isaac ben Shealtiel Gracian (Zerahiah ben Isaac ben Shealtiel Hen) JE (JE | ) Physician, philosopher, translator, Hebraist; flourished about the end of the thirteenth century; born either at Barcelona...
 * 6) Gradis (JE | ) Name of a family of prominent merchants in southern France, originally from Spain; flourished in Bordeaux in the eighteenth...
 * 7) Ortuin de Graes (JE | ) Anti-Jewish writer of the sixteenth century; born at Holtwick in Westphalia in 1491; died at Cologne May 21, 1542. He was...
 * 8) Heinrich (Hirsch) Graetz JE (JE | ) German historian and exegete; born Oct. 31, 1817, at Xions, province of Posen; died at Munich Sept. 7, 1891. He received his...
 * 9) Leo Graetz (JE | ) German physicist; son of Heinrich Graetz; born at Breslau Sept. 26, 1856. Graduating from the Elizabeth gymnasium at Breslau...
 * 10) Graisivaudan (JE | ) -- See D81: Dauphin&#233;
 * 11) Hebrew Grammar (JE | ) Although Hebrew grammar, together with Hebrew lexicography&#8212;the two constituting Hebrew philology, and aiming at the...
 * 12) Granada (JE | ) Capital of the Spanish province of the same name. It is said to have been inhabited by Jews from the earliest times; hence...
 * 13) Grantor and Grantee (JE | ) -- See G224: Gifts
 * 14) Grape (JE | ) the fruit of the grape-vine. The general Hebrew term for ripe grapes when not in clusters is (Gen. xl. 10-11), and of grapes...
 * 15) Grasshopper (JE | ) -- See L512: Locust
 * 16) Gr&#228;tz (JE | ) Town in the province of Posen, Prussia, with a population of 3,784, of whom 319 are Jews (1903). The Jewish community there...
 * 17) Gratz (JE | ) American family prominent in the affairs of the city of Philadelphia and of the state of Pennsylvania. According to some authorities...
 * 18) Gratz College (Philadelphia) (JE | ) Jewish institution of higher learning, founded under a deed of trust executed by Hyman Gratz, dated December, 1856, which...
 * 19) Jonas Gr&#228;tzer (JE | ) German physician; born at Tost, Upper Silesia, Oct. 19, 1806; died at Breslau Nov. 25, 1889. He graduated (M.D.) from the...
 * 20) Gravestones (JE | ) -- See T261: Tombstones

421 – 440

 * 1) Augusto Graziani (1865-1944) (JE | ) Italian economist; born at Modena Jan. 6, 1865. He obtained his education at the university of his native town, devoting himself...
 * 2) Abraham Joseph Solomon ben Mordecai Graziano (JE | ) Italian rabbi; died at Modena in 1685; cousin of Nathanael b. Benjamin Trabot. He probably belonged to the Gallico family...
 * 3) Great Synagogue (JE | ) -- See S1214: Synagogue, Great
 * 4) Greece (JE | ) Country of southeastern Europe. The number of its Jews is not more than 9,000, distributed as follows: Corfu, 3,500; Zante...
 * 5) Greek Language and the Jews (JE | ) This article will be confined to the Greek material found in rabbinical works, since the language of the Septuagint and the...
 * 6) Influence of the Greek Law (JE | ) -- See G426: Roman and Greek Law, Influence of the
 * 7) Aaron Levy Green (JE | ) English rabbi; born in London Aug., 1821; died March 11, 1883. A precocious student, at the age of fourteen he was successful...
 * 8) Samuel Greenbaum (JE | ) American lawyer and jurist; born Jan. 23, 1854, in London; went to the United States with his parents in his infancy; educated...
 * 9) Joseph B. Greenhut (JE | ) American soldier; born in Germany. He enlisted as a private in the 12th Illinois Infantry at Chicago April, 1861. He served...
 * 10) Forms of Greeting (JE | ) Fixed modes of address on meeting acquaintances. With the ancient Hebrews the form of greeting depended upon the relationship...
 * 11) Henri Gr& (JE | ) Jesuit priest, politician, and advocate of the Jews; born at V&#233;ho, near Lun&#233;ville, Dec. 4, 1750; died at Paris May...
 * 12) Gregory I (Gregory the Great) (JE | ) Pope from 590 to 604; born about 540; died 604. Descended from an old Roman senatorial family, he had held various high official...
 * 13) Gregory XIII (Ugo Buoncompagni) (JE | ) Pope from 1572 to 1585; born at Bologna Feb. 7, 1502; died at Rome April 10, 1585. His attitude toward the Jews was that of...
 * 14) Gregory bar Hebraeus (JE | ) Jacobite Syrian historian, physician, philosopher, and theologian; born at Malatia, Asiatic Turkey, 1226; died at Maragha...
 * 15) Grenoble (JE | ) Capital of the department of Is&#232;re, France. It possessed a Jewish community from the end of the thirteenth century. Jacob...
 * 16) Isaac Grieshaber (Kriegshaber) (JE | ) Polish-Hungarian rabbi at Paks, Hungary; born at Cracow. He was the author of "MakKel No&#39;am" (Vienna, 1799)...
 * 17) Abraham Avenirovich Griliches (JE | ) Russian engraver; born at Wilna 1852; educated at the Wilna rabbinical school; graduated from the Wilna School of Designs...
 * 18) Avenir Girschevich Griliches (JE | ) Russian engraver; father of Abraham Avenirovich Griliches; born at Wilna April, 1822. Until the age of sixteen he studied...
 * 19) Grodno (JE | ) Russian city; capital of the government of the same name; formerly one of the chief cities of Lithuania and, later, of Poland...
 * 20) Selig Gronemann (JE | ) German rabbi; born at Fl&#246;tenstein, West Prussia, Dec. 7, 1843; attended the gymnasium at Konitz and the seminary and...

441 – 460

 * 1) Charles Gross (JE | ) American author; born at Troy, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1857; educated at the Troy High School; at Williams College, from which he...
 * 2) Ferdinand Gross (JE | ) Austrian writer; born in Vienna April 8, 1849; died at Kaltenleutgeben, near Vienna, Dec. 21, 1900. His ancestors lived in...
 * 3) Heinrich Gross JE (JE | ) German rabbi; born at Szenicz, Hungary, Nov. 6, 1835; pupil in rabbinical literature of Judah Aszod. After graduating from...
 * 4) Jenny Gross (actress) (JE | ) Austrian actress; born at Szanto, Hungary. Educated for the stage by Cesarina Kupfer, she made her d&#233;but in 1878 at the...
 * 5) Gross-Kanizsa (JE | ) -- See N21: Nagy-Kanizsa
 * 6) Julius Grosser (JE | ) German physician; born at Freistadt, Prussian Silesia, Oct. 25, 1835; died at Prenzlau, Prussia, Oct. 25, 1901. He studied...
 * 7) Rudolph Grossman (JE | ) American rabbi; born at Vienna, Austria, July 24, 1867; B.L., University of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Rabbi and D.D., Hebrew Union...
 * 8) Ignacz Grossmann (JE | ) Hungarian physicist; born in G&#246;nez-Ruszka, Abauj county, Feb. 16, 1823; died in Budapest May 21, 1866. He attended the...
 * 9) Ignaz Grossmann (JE | ) American rabbi; born at Trencsen, Hungary, July 30, 1825; died March 18, 1897, in New York city. He received his education...
 * 10) Louis Grossmann (JE | ) American rabbi and author; born at Vienna, Austria, Feb. 24, 1863; educated at the University of Cincinnati (B.A.) and at...
 * 11) Ludwig Grossmann (JE | ) Austrian mathematician and political economist; born at Leitomischl, Bohemia, March 14, 1854. As a boy he showed unusual aptitude...
 * 12) Grosswardein (Nagy-Varad), now Oradea JE >> History of Oradea JE (JE | ) Hungarian city, with a population of 51,000, about one-fourth of whom are Jews. The Chebra Kaddisha was founded...
 * 13) Hugo Grotius (Huig van Groot) (JE | ) Dutch Christian diplomat, theologian, and scholar; born at Delft, Holland, April 10, 1583; died at Rostock, Germany, Aug....
 * 14) Groves and Sacred Trees (JE | ) By many Oriental as well as Occidental peoples, whether of Semitic or non-Semitic stock, groves and single trees (oaks, terebinths...
 * 15) Growth of the Body (JE | ) from the studies of Majer for Galicia, Weissenberg for South Russia, Sack for Moscow, and Yashchinsky for Poland, which give...
 * 16) Judah L& (JE | ) Russian Hebraist; born at Pogosti, government of Minsk, in 1861. After having attended the yeshibah of Volozhin, Grozovski...
 * 17) Joseph Gruber (JE | ) Austrian physician; born at Kosolup, Bohemia, Aug. 4, 1827; died at Vienna March 31, 1900. He graduated (M.D.) from the University...
 * 18) David Gruby (JE | ) French physician; born at Neusatz (Ujvid&#233;k), Hungary, Oct. 10, 1810; died in Paris Nov. 16, 1898. He studied medicine...
 * 19) Maurice Gr&#252;n (JE | ) Russian painter; born at Reval, Russia, in 1870. He studied art at Munich and Geneva, and in 1890 went to Paris. There he...
 * 20) Max (Maier) Gr&#252;nbaum (JE | ) German Orientalist; born in Seligenstadt, Hesse, July 15, 1817; died in Munich Dec. 11, 1898. Gr&#252;nbaum studied philology...

461 – 480

 * 1) Elias Grünebaum (JE | ) German rabbi; born in the Palatinate Sept. 10, 1807; died in Landau Sept. 25, 1893. In 1823 he went to Mayence, where he became...
 * 2) Alfred Gr& JE (JE | ) Austrian pianist; born at Prague July 4, 1852; studied under H&#246;ger, under Krejci at the Prague Conservatorium, and under...
 * 3) Heinrich Gr& JE (JE | ) Austrian violoncellist; born at Prague April 21, 1855; a brother of Alfred Gr&#252;nfeld. Educated at the Prague Conservatorium...
 * 4) Josef Grünfeld (physician) (JE | ) Austrian physician and writer; born at Gy&#246;nk, Hungary, Nov. 19, 1840. After graduating from the gymnasium at Kaschau...
 * 5) David Gr& (JE | ) German rabbi of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main, where his father was secretary of...
 * 6) Karl Samuel Gr& (JE | ) Austrian jurist; born at Bur-St. Georgen, Hungary, Aug. 3, 1844. He became associate professor in the juridical faculty of...
 * 7) Lazar Gr& (JE | ) Hungarian rabbi and writer; born at Gerenda, Hungary, in 1850. Receiving his diploma as rabbi while a mere youth, he went...
 * 8) Max Grunwald (rabbi) (JE | ) German rabbi and folklorist; born at Zabrze, Prussian Silesia, Oct. 10, 1871; educated at the gymnasium of Gleiwitz and (1889)...
 * 9) Moritz Gr&#252;nwald (JE | ) Austrian rabbi; born March 29, 1853, at Ungarisch Hradisch, Moravia; died in London June 10, 1895. After a short stay in Prague...
 * 10) Sidonie Gr& (JE | ) Austrian authoress; born in Tobitschau, Moravia, Feb. 17, 1852. Her early education she received from her father, a physician...
 * 11) Guadalajara (JE | ) City in Castile, Spain. When Tarik ibn Zaid conquered the city in 711, he found Jews there, as in Toledo and other places...
 * 12) Guaranty (JE | ) -- See A2018: Asmakta
 * 13) The Holy Child of La Guardia (JE | ) Subject of a story invented by the Spanish Inquisition shortly after its institution. A Christian boy, whose name, age, and...
 * 14) Guardian and Ward (JE | ) the rule regarding persons of unsound mind and deaf-mutes is the same as that regarding minors; and an apotropos, who in Anglo-American...
 * 15) Enrico Guastalla (JE | ) Italian soldier; born at Guastalla 1828; died at Milan Sept. 28, 1903. Though brought up to a commercial life, he joined the...
 * 16) Guatemala (JE | ) -- See S990: South and Central America
 * 17) Moritz G& JE (JE | ) Austrian rabbi; born at Hildesheim, Germany, Feb. 19, 1835. He was educated at Breslau (Ph.D. 1858), and took his rabbinical...
 * 18) Antoine Guen& JE (JE | ) French priest and Christian apologist; born at Etampes 1717; died 1803. He wrote, besides various apologetic works, "Lettres...
 * 19) Yakir (Preciado) Gueron JE (JE | ) Turkish rabbi; born in 1813; died at Jerusalem Feb. 4, 1874. He was the sixth rabbi of Adrianople descended from the Gueron...
 * 20) Guerta de J& (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals

481 – 500

 * 1) Guests (JE | ) -- See H937: Hospitality
 * 2) Karl Güterbock (JE | ) German jurist; born at K&#246;nigsberg, East Prussia, April 18, 1830. He studied history, later law, at the universities of...
 * 3) Isaac Guetta (JE | ) Talmudic scholar and promoter of Jewish learning, whose ancestors went to the Orient from Huete, Spain; born June 5, 1777...
 * 4) Meyer Guggenheim (JE | ) American merchant and mining magnate; born in Langenau, Switzerland, 1828. In 1847 he went to America with his father, who...
 * 5) Randolph Guggenheimer (JE | ) American lawyer; born at Lynchburg, Va., July 20, 1846. His family originally settled in Virginia, where his father was engaged...
 * 6) Benjamin Guglielmo JE (JE | ) Italian dancing-master; flourished in the fifteenth century at Pesaro. His master was Domenico di Ferrara, in whose "Liber...
 * 7) Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer (JE | ) German philologist and writer; born at Bojanowo, Prussian Poland, 1809; died at Breslau Jan. 5, 1854. He studied philology...
 * 8) Agathius Guidacerius (JE | ) Italian Christian Hebraist; born at Rocca-Coragio, Calabria, in the second half of the fifteenth century. Having studied Hebrew...
 * 9) The Guide (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 10) Guillaume of Auvergne (JE | ) French scholastic; bishop of Paris from 1228 to 1249. He was one of the originators of Christian scholasticism in the thirteenth...
 * 11) Guilt-offering (JE | ) -- See A2092: Atonement
 * 12) Guimar& (JE | ) City of Portugal. In the fourteenth century it had a wealthy Jewish community, whose quarter was located on the site of the...
 * 13) Zacharias de Guizolfi (Giexulfis) JE (JE | ) Prince and ruler, in the fifteenth century, of the Taman peninsula on the east coast of the Black Sea; descendant of Simeone...
 * 14) Aaron Solomon Gumperz JE (JE | ) German scholar and physician; born Dec. 10, 1723; died 1769. In March, 1751, Gumperz graduated as M.D. from the University...
 * 15) Gumplin (JE | ) German satirical poet of unknown date. The only poem of his that has been preserved is a satire of seven strophes, ending...
 * 16) Ludwig Gumplowicz (JE | ) Christian historian and jurist; born at Cracow March 9, 1838; studied at the universities of Cracow and Vienna, and practised...
 * 17) Gumurjina (JE | ) Town in European Turkey, west of Adrianople. It has a population of 26,000, including 1,200 Jews. The Jewish community possesses...
 * 18) Guni (JE | ) 1. A son of Naphtali (Gen. xlvi. 24; I Chron. vii. 13), and founder of the family of the Gunites (Num. xxvi. 48). In Hebrew...
 * 19) Isidor Gunsberg (JE | ) English merchant and chess-master; born in Budapest Nov. 2, 1854. When nine years old he went to England, in which country...
 * 20) Karl Siegfried G& (JE | ) German author and preacher; born Dec. 9, 1784, at Lissa; died at Breslau Jan. 23, 1860. He studied philology and philosophy...