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 * 1) Moses M. Haarbleicher JE (JE | ) German author; born in Hamburg Nov. 14, 1797; died there Sept. 25, 1869. Following the example of his father, the founder...
 * 2) Robert Haas (JE | ) German Lutheran minister; lived in the first half of the nineteenth century, in the duchy of Nassau; pastor in the villages...
 * 3) Simhah ben Joshua Haas (JE | ) Traveler and preacher; born in Dobrowitz, Bohemia, 1710; died in Brahilov 1768. He was father-in-law to Solomon Dubno, and...
 * 4) Solomon ben Jekuthiel Haas (JE | ) Moravian rabbi of the first half of the nineteenth century. Haas was successively dayyan at Holleschau and rabbi of Strassnitz...
 * 5) Ha-Asif (JE | ) Hebrew year-book, edited and published by Nahum Sokolow in Warsaw. Its first volume (5645) appeared in 1884; it continued...
 * 6) Habaiah (JE | ) Head of a family of priests who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel; not being able to prove their genealogy, they were...
 * 7) Habakkuk JE (JE | ) Prophet; author of the eighth in the collection of the twelve minor prophetical books. The etymology of the name of the prophet...
 * 8) Book of Habakkuk (JE | ) One of the twelve minor prophetical books. It readily falls into two parts: (1) ch. i. and ii.; (2) ch. iii. The first part...
 * 9) Habar UNR (JE | ) -- See Z147: Zoroastrianism
 * 10) Habaziniah (JE | ) the head of a family of Rechabites. His grandson Jaazaniah was a chief of the Rechabites in the time of Jeremiah (Jer. xxxv...
 * 11) Habazzelet (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 12) Habdalah (JE | ) the rabbinical term for the benedictions and prayers by means of which a division is made between times of varying degrees...
 * 13) Haber (JE | ) Term ordinarily used in rabbinical lore in its original Biblical sense, "companion," "friend" (Ps. cxix. 63; Ab. ii. 9, 10)...
 * 14) Solomon von Haber (JE | ) German banker; born at Breslau Nov. 3, 1760; died Feb. 20, 1839. The son of poor parents, he rose to a position of wealth...
 * 15) Kalman (Kalonymus) Haberkasten EL:JE (JE | ) Polish rabbi of the sixteenth century. He is the first known rabbi of the city of Ostrog, Volhynia, where he settled after...
 * 16) Jacob (ben Solomon) ibn Habib JE (JE | ) Spanish Talmudist; born at Zamora about 1460; died at Salonica 1516. In his youth &#7716;abib studied the Talmud under R....
 * 17) Joseph ibn Habib JE (JE | ) Spanish Talmudist; flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Like his predecessor, R. Nissim b. Reuben (RaN),...
 * 18) Levi ben Jacob ibn Habib JE (JE | ) Rabbi of Jerusalem; born at Zamora, Spain, about 1480; died at Jerusalem about 1545. Under King Manuel of Portugal, and when...
 * 19) Moses ibn Habib (JE | ) Palestinian rabbi of the seventeenth century. He was a disciple of Jacob &#7716;agiz, one of whose daughters he married. He...
 * 20) Moses b. Shem-Tob ibn Habib (JE | ) Hebrew grammarian, poet, translator, and philosopher of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Being a native of Lisbon, he...

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 * 1) Elijah ben Joseph Habillo (Xabillo); (Maestro Manoel) (JE | ) Spanish philosopher; lived at Monzon, Aragon, in the second half of the fifteenth century. He was an admirer of the Christian...
 * 2) Elisha ben Solomon Habillo (Chavillo) (JE | ) Venetian Talmudist of the eighteenth century; descendant of a prominent Palestinian family. Judah Chavillo is mentioned as...
 * 3) Simon ben Judah ben David Habillo (JE | ) Rabbi at Hebron in the middle of the seventeenth century; contemporary of Moses Zacuto, who approved his works. &#7716;abillo...
 * 4) Habinenu (JE | ) Initial word, also the name, of a prayer containing in abridged form the Eighteen Benedictions (see Shemoneh &#39;Esreh),...
 * 5) Ha-Boker Or (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 6) Habor (JE | ) River flowing through the land of Gozan; the classical "Chaboras." to the banks of this river Tiglath-pileser carried "the...
 * 7) Hill of Hachilah (JE | ) A hill in the wooded country of the wilderness of Ziph, where David hid himself from Saul (I Sam. xxiii. 19; xxvi. 1, 3).E...
 * 8) The Son of Hachmoni (JE | ) 1. Jashobeam, one of David&#39;s mighty men (I Chron. xi. 11). 2. Jehiel, tutor of David&#39;s children (ib. xxvii.32). The...
 * 9) Sol Hachuel (JE | ) Moorish martyr; beheaded at Fez 1834. On account of domestic troubles she fled from her home to some Mohammedan friends. Two...
 * 10) Had Gadya (JE | ) An Aramaic song, which is recited at the conclusion of the Seder service, held on the first two evenings of the Passover ("Pesa&#7717...
 * 11) Hadad (JE | ) Name of an Aramaic, and possibly of an Edomitish, deity. It occurs as an element in personal names, for instance, in "Hadadezer...
 * 12) Hadad (JE | ) Name of several Idumean kings, the meaning of which is "a loud noise." It was primitively the name of an Aramean divinity...
 * 13) Hadadezer (JE | ) Son of Rehob, and King of Aram-zobah, who, while he was on his way to establish his dominion on the Euphrates, was defeated...
 * 14) Hadadrimmon (JE | ) -- See T44: Tammuz
 * 15) Auguste Hadamard (JE | ) French painter; born at Metz 1823; died in Paris 1886. A pupil of Paul Delaroche, he established himself at Paris, where,...
 * 16) Zélie Hadamard (JE | ) French actress; born at Oran, Algeria, in 1849. The daughter of an army interpreter and professor of Arabic, she wentto Paris...
 * 17) Hadassah (JE | ) Earlier name of Esther, Mordecai&#39;s cousin (Esth. ii. 7). The name "Hadassah" occurs here only. It is not given by the...
 * 18) Judah ben Elijah Haabel Hadassi (JE | ) Karaite scholar, controversialist, and liturgist; flourished at Constantinople in the middle of the twelfth century. Regarding...
 * 19) Isaac Haddad (JE | ) Talmudic scholar of Gerba (an island near Tunis), where he died in 1755. He was a pupil of Zemach ha-Kohen, and...
 * 20) Hades (JE | ) -- See S614: Sheol

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 * 1) Hadid (JE | ) City mentioned with Lod and Ono (Ezra ii. 33; Neh. vii. 37; xi. 34, 35). From the last-given passage it would seem that Hadid...
 * 2) Abraham ben Judah Hadida (JE | ) Spanish Talmudist of the fifteenth century. He was the author of a commentary (unpublished) to Ecclesiastes, Esther, and the...
 * 3) Hadith (JE | ) An Arabic word signifying "narrative" or "communication"; the name given to sayings traced to the prophet Mohammed, or to...
 * 4) Hadlai (JE | ) An Ephraimite; father of Amasa, who was one of the chiefs of his tribe in the time of Pekah (II Chron. xxviii. 12).E. G. H...
 * 5) Hadoram (JE | ) 1. Son of Joktan; progenitor of one of the Arabian tribes (Gen. x. 27; I Chron. i. 21). 2. Son of Tou, King of Hamath; sent...
 * 6) Hadrach (JE | ) Name occurring in Zech. ix. 1. The connection seems to indicate that it was the country in which Damascus was situated, or...
 * 7) Hadrian (JE | ) Roman emperor (117-138). At the very beginning of his reign he was called upon to suppress the final outbreaks of Jewish rebellion...
 * 8) Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine (JE | ) Bacteriologist; born at Odessa, Russia, 1860; graduated from the University of Odessa in 1884 (D.Sc.). He resided for the...
 * 9) Haftarah (JE | ) That portion of the Prophets read immediately after the reading of the Torah in the morning services on Sabbaths, feast-days...
 * 10) Hafz (Ibn al-Birr) al-Kuti (JE | ) Author of the eleventh century, or earlier; according to Steinschneider, possibly identical with &#7716;afz (&#7716;efe&#7827...
 * 11) Hagab (JE | ) Family of Nethinim, which returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezra ii. 46). In I Esd. v. 30 the name is given as "Agaba...
 * 12) Hagaba, Hagabah (JE | ) Family of Nethinim, which came back from captivity with Zerubbabel (Ezra ii. 45; Neh. vii. 48). In I Esd. v. 29 the name is...
 * 13) Hagar REF:JE (JE | ) Egyptian Handmaid of Sarah, and mother of Ishmael. According to one narrative, Sarah, Having no children, requested Abraham...
 * 14) Hagar, Hagrim (JE | ) Names used by Jewish medieval writers to designate Hungary and the Hungarians. The expression "Erez Hagar" occurs in...
 * 15) Hagarenes, Hagarites (JE | ) A nomadic people dwelling in the east of Palestine, against whom the tribe of Reuben was victorious in the time of Saul, seizing...
 * 16) Abraham Hagege (JE | ) Chief rabbi at Tunis, where he died in 1880. After his death Israel Zeitoun of Tunis and Aaron ben Simon of Jerusalem published...
 * 17) Hagenau (JE | ) Fortified town of Alsace, situated on the Moder, sixteen miles north of Strasburg. Attracted by the numerous privileges granted...
 * 18) Hagenbach (JE | ) Village in Upper Franconia, Bavaria. That an old Jewish colony existed there is proved by "Das Martyrologium des N&#252;rnberger...
 * 19) Haggadah (JE | ) Derived from the verb (Kal ), "to report," "to explain," "to narrate." the verb  sometimes introduces Halakic explanations...
 * 20) Haggadah (Shel Pesah) (JE | ) Ritual for Passover eve. Ex. xiii. 8, R. V., reads: "And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying, It is because of that...

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 * 1) Haggadah& (JE | ) See Addir Hu; Cantillation; &#7716;ad Gadya; Hallel; &#7730;iddush; Ki lo Naeh.           					  						  							  							...
 * 2) Haggadists (JE | ) -- See M587: Midrash Aggadah
 * 3) Haggai (JE | ) Judean prophet of the early post-exilic period; contemporary with Zechariah (Ezra v. 1; III Ezra [I Esd.] vi. 1, vii. 3).(Hilprecht...
 * 4) Book of Haggai (JE | ) One of the so-called minor prophetical books of the Old Testament. It contains four addresses. The first (i. 2-11), dated...
 * 5) Haggeri (JE | ) Father of Mibhar, one of David&#39;s chosen warriors (I Chron. xi. 38 [R. V. "Hagri"]). In the parallel list, II Sam. xxiii...
 * 6) Haggi (JE | ) Second son of Gad and progenitor of the Haggites (Gen. xlvi. 16; Num. xxvi. 15). The name is the same for individual and for...
 * 7) Haggiah (JE | ) Levite of the family of Merari; son of Shimea and father of Asaiah (I Chron. vi. 15 [A. V. 30]). In the Septuagint the name...
 * 8) Haggites (JE | ) Tribal name of the descendants of Haggi, second son of Gad (Num. xxvi. 15); given "Agit&#230;" in the Vulgate, and &#39;A&#947...
 * 9) Haggith (JE | ) One of David&#39;s wives; known also as the mother of Adonijah (II Sam. iii. 4; I Kings i. 5, 11; ii. 13; I Chron. iii. 2)...
 * 10) Hagia (JE | ) Servant of Solomon (I Esd. v. 34), whose children returned from the Captivity with Zerubbabel. Ezra ii. 57 and Neh. vii. 59...
 * 11) Hagin Deulacres (JE | ) Last presbyter or chief rabbi of England; appointed May 15, 1281. He appears to Have been raised to this position by the favor...
 * 12) Hagin fil Mossy JE (JE | ) Presbyter or chief rabbi of the Jews of England. He appears to Have been the chirographer of the Jews of London, and obtained...
 * 13) Hagiographa (JE | ) the third part of the Old Testament canon, the other two being the Law and the Prophets . It includes the three books...
 * 14) Jacob Hagiz JE (JE | ) Palestinian Talmudist; born of a Spanish family at Fez in 1620; died at Constantinople 1674. &#7716;agiz&#39;s teacher was...
 * 15) Moses Hagiz JE (JE | ) Palestinian rabbi and author; born at Jerusalem in 1671; died at Safed after 1750. His father, Jacob &#7716;agiz, died while...
 * 16) Samuel ben Jacob ben Samuel Hagiz, of Fez (JE | ) Father of Jacob &#7716;agiz and grand-father of Moses &#7716;agiz; according to an epitaph, died in 1634. He edited Solomon...
 * 17) The Hague (JE | ) -- See N197: Netherlands
 * 18) Hahiroth (JE | ) -- See P310: Pi-Hahiroth
 * 19) August Hahn (JE | ) German theologian and Orientalist; born at Grossosterhausen, Saxony, March 27, 1792; died in Silesia May 13, 1863. He studied...
 * 20) Joseph Yuspa N& (Joseph ben Phinehas N&) (JE | ) German rabbi; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main in the latter half of the sixteenth century; died there April 3, 1637. He received...

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 * 1) Hai ben David (JE | ) Dayyan, and later gaon in Pumbedita from 890 to 897. He is mentioned in Isaac ibn Ghayyat&#39;s "Halakot," in connection with...
 * 2) Hai ben Nahshon (JE | ) Gaon of Sura (889-896) and president of the school of Nehardea. He was, according to a manuscript in the Vatican Library,...
 * 3) Hai ben Sherira (JE | ) Gaon of Pumbedita; born in 939; died March 28, 1038. He received his Talmudic education from his father, Sherira, and in early...
 * 4) Ha-& (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 5) Abraham ben Simeon Haida (JE | ) Printer in Prague between 1612 and 1628; son of Simeon Haida. In 1610, with Moses U&#7789;iz and Gershon Popers, he...
 * 6) Moses ben Joseph Haida (JE | ) German mathematician; lived at Hamburg in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was a grandson of Samuel Haida, author...
 * 7) Samuel Haida (JE | ) Bohemian cabalistic author; died June 1, 1685, in Prague, where he was dayyan and preacher, and which was probably his native...
 * 8) Haidamacks (JE | ) Russian brigand bands of the eighteenth century. The disorganized condition of Poland during the eighteenth century made it...
 * 9) Haifa (JE | ) Syrian seaport, at the foot of Mount Carmel, and ten kilometers from Acre. Near Haifa are two grottos, one associated with...
 * 10) Hail (JE | ) Frozen rain falling in pellets of various sizes and shapes. The Hebrew words for "hail" are:, the most usual term: (Ezek...
 * 11) Israel Behor Haim (JE | ) Servian author; born at Belgrade, Servia. He left his home in 1813 in consequence of the invasion of the Dahjas, and settled...
 * 12) Alexander Haindorf (JE | ) German physician, writer, and philanthropist; born at Lenhausen, a village in Westphalia, May 12, 1784; died at Hamm Oct....
 * 13) Hair (JE | ) the Hair of the ancient Hebrews was generally black (comp. Cant. iv. 1, v. 11). In Eccl. xi. 10 black Hair is designated as...
 * 14) Menahem Manus Hajes (JE | ) -- See H441: &#7716;ayyut, Menahem
 * 15) Zebi Hirsch b. Me& (JE | ) -- See C332: Chajes, &#7826;ebi Hirsch b. Me&#239;r
 * 16) Hakam (JE | ) A wise or skilful man. The word is generally used to designate a cultured and learned person: "He who says a wise thing is...
 * 17) Samuel Hakan (Samuel ha-Levi ibn Hakim) (JE | ) Egyptian rabbi of the sixteenth century, first at Cairo, subsequently at Jerusalem (Levi ibn &#7716;abib, Responsa, Nos. 10...
 * 18) Ha-Karmel (JE | ) Hebrew periodical, edited and published by Samuel Joseph Fuenn in Wilna. It was founded in 1860 as a weekly, and was continued...
 * 19) Ha-Kerem (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 20) Hakkafot (JE | ) Processional circuits of the congregation in the synagogue on the Feast of Tabernacles, usually around the Almemar, reminiscent...

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 * 1) Hakkoz (JE | ) 1. A priest, chief of the seventh course, appointed by David (I Chron. xxiv. 10). In this passage the &#1495; is considered...
 * 2) Hakman ibn Ishmael (JE | ) Egyptian rabbi of the sixteenth century. He wrote novell&#230; on the Talmud and on Maimonides&#39; "Yad," some of which were...
 * 3) Ha-Kol (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 4) Halafta (JE | ) Name of several tannaim and amoraim; frequently interchanged with &#7716;alfa, &#7716;alifa, &#7716;ilfa, &#7716;ilfai, Ilfa...
 * 5) Halafta (JE | ) Scholar of the first and second centuries (second tannaitic generation), always cited without patronymic or cognomen; his...
 * 6) Halafta of Huna (Huga, Hewah, Hefa) (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the third century; senior of R. Johanan. The latter communicates to &#7716;alafta&#39;s sons a Halakah...
 * 7) Abba Halafta (Hilfai) b. Karuya (JE | ) Tanna of the second century, contemporary of Gamaliel II. Gamaliel once visited him at &#7730;aruya (Kiryava; see Neubauer...
 * 8) R. Halafta of Kefar Hananiah (JE | ) Tanna of the second century; junior of R. Me&#239;r, in whose name he transmits the legal maxim: When the condition is expressed...
 * 9) Halakah (JE | ) Noun, derived from the verb, "to go," "to walk." the act of going or walking is expressed by , while the closely related...
 * 10) Halakot (JE | ) the body of religious law which constitutes one of the three main divisions of Jewish oral tradition. Later, the singular...
 * 11) Halalah (JE | ) the female issue of a priest&#39;s connection with a divorced woman or widow, a connection regarded as illegal. According...
 * 12) Ignaz Hal&#225;sz (Fischer) (JE | ) Hungarian philologist; born at T&#233;s in 1855; died at Budapest April 9, 1901. He studied at the gymnasia of Veszprim and...
 * 13) David ben Samuel Halayo (JE | ) Probably a son of the Samuel &#7716;alayo of Bersak who was in correspondence with Simon ben Zemach Duran. David...
 * 14) Heinrich, Ritter von Halban (JE | ) Austrian statesman; born at Cracow 1846; died at Gastein Aug. 13, 1902. Halban, whose name was originally Blumenstock, studied...
 * 15) Leo von Halban (JE | ) -- See B1196: Blumenstock von Halban, Leo
 * 16) Halberstadt (JE | ) Thirteenth to Sixteenth Century. Town in the Prussian province of Saxony. The earliest documentary evidence of the presence...
 * 17) Abraham Halberstadt, ben Menki (JE | ) German Hebraist and Talmudic scholar; died at Halberstadt about 1780. His "Pene Abraham" (unpublished), a treatise on the...
 * 18) Judah ben Benjamin Halberstadt (JE | ) Rabbinical author of the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Minchat Yehudah," giving explanations of all passages...
 * 19) Mordecai Halberstadt (JE | ) German rabbi; born at Halberstadt at the beginning of the eighteenth century; died at D&#252;sseldorf about 1770. After studying...
 * 20) Solomon Joachim Halberstam JE >> Isaac Halberstam JE (JE | ) Austrian scholar; born at Cracow Feb. 23, 1832; died at Bielitz March 24, 1900. His father, Isaac Halberstam, was a prominent...

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 * 1) Haleb (JE | ) -- See A1115: Aleppo
 * 2) Ha-Lebanon (JE | ) -- See B1478: Brill, Jehiel
 * 3) &#201;lie Hal&#233;vy (Halfan) JE (JE | ) French Hebrew poet and author; born at F&#252;rth in 1760; died at Paris Nov. 5, 1826; father of Fromenthal and L&#233;on...
 * 4) Jacques Fran& EL:JE (JE | ) French composer; born at Paris May 27, 1799; died at Nice March 17, 1862. His family name was "Levi"; his father, &#201;lie...
 * 5) Joseph Hal& JE (JE | ) French Orientalist; born at Adrianople Dec. 15, 1827. While a teacher in Jewish schools, first in his native town and later...
 * 6) L& JE (JE | ) French author and dramatic writer; brother of Jacques Fran&#231;ois Fromenthal Hal&#233;vy; born at Paris Jan. 14, 1802; died...
 * 7) Ludovic Hal& (JE | ) French dramatist; born in Paris Jan. 1, 1834; a son of L&#233;on Hal&#233;vy and a nephew of Jacques Fran&#231;ois Fromenthal...
 * 8) Half-blood (JE | ) -- See F33: Family and Family Life
 * 9) Uri Sheraga Phoebus ben Eliezer Manneles Halfan (JE | ) Rabbi of Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia, in the first half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work entitled "Dat Esh...
 * 10) Abba Mari Halfon (JE | ) Italian astronomer of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In 1492 he was at Naples, where he studied astronomy. &#7716...
 * 11) Abraham ben Raphael Halfon (JE | ) Rabbi of Tripoli, North Africa; died about 1803. He was the author of a work entitled "&#7716;ayye Abraham," a treatise on...
 * 12) Elijah Menahem Halfon (JE | ) Italian Talmudist and physician; son of the astronomer Abba Mari and son-in-law of Kalonymus ben David (Maestro Calo); flourished...
 * 13) George Edward Halford (JE | ) Private in the mounted infantry of the City of London Imperial Volunteers; born 1878; died at Karee, near Bloemfontein, May...
 * 14) Halhul (JE | ) City in the hill country of Judah, mentioned in the list of cities in the inheritance of that tribe (Josh. xv. 58). Halhul...
 * 15) Hali (JE | ) Town on the boundary of Asher, mentioned in Josh. xix. 25 between Helkath and Beten. The Septuagint gives the name as "Aleph...
 * 16) Halilah (JE | ) Biblical term denoting "far be it [from me, thee, etc.]." in Talmudic literature it Has two distinct meanings, derived from...
 * 17) Halizah JE (JE | ) the ceremony of the taking off of a brother-in-law&#39;s shoe by the widow of a brother who Has died childless, through which...
 * 18) Hallah (JE | ) the priest&#39;s share of the dough. The Biblical law in the case of Challah (Num. xv. 17-21; comp. Neh. x. 38), as in...
 * 19) Halle-on-the-Saale (JE | ) University town in the Prussian province of Saxony. Jews settled there soon after the city was founded, in the beginning of...
 * 20) Aaron ben Wolf Halle JE (JE | ) Translator and commentator of the Bible; born 1754 at Halle; died at F&#252;rth March 20, 1835; son of Dr. Wolf of F&#252...

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 * 1) Hallel (JE | ) the name given in the Talmud and in rabbinical writings to Ps. cxiii.-cxviii. considered as a single composition, which they...
 * 2) Halleluiah (JE | ) A doxological expression signifying "Praise ye the Lord," the sacred name being shortened to its first two letters. Except...
 * 3) Ely Halperine-Kaminsky (JE | ) Russian writer; born at Vassilkof April 9, 1858. After Having completed his studies at the University of Odessa he went (1880)...
 * 4) Fernand Halphen (JE | ) French composer; born at Paris Feb. 18, 1872; pupil of J. Massenet, G. Faur&#233;, and Andr&#233; Gedalge. In 1895 he won...
 * 5) Georges-Henri Halphen (JE | ) French army officer and mathematician; born at Rouen Oct. 30, 1844 died at Versailles May 21, 1889. He studied at the Ecole...
 * 6) Joseph Haltern (JE | ) One of the Meassefim; died in Berlin Sept. 5, 1818 (1817, according to Philippson in "Allg. Zeit. des Jud." ii. 216). He wrote...
 * 7) Halukkah JE (JE | ) An organized collection of funds for distribution among the indigent Jews in the Holy Land, and for the aid of those who,...
 * 8) Ham (JE | ) Second son of Noah (Gen. v. 32); mentioned second in the table of the nations (Gen. x. 6), where his descendants are given...
 * 9) Hama (JE | ) Babylonian scholar of the fourth amoraic generation; contemporary of Papa (Ket. 86a), and successor of Nachman b. Isaac...
 * 10) Hama b. Bisa (Bisai) (JE | ) Amora of the third century, who formed the middle link of a scholarly trio, and who exceeded his predecessor, as his successor...
 * 11) Hama b. Hanina (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the third century; contemporary of R. Johanan (Shab. 147b). Like his father, &#7716;anina b. &#7716;ama...
 * 12) Ha-Mabdil (JE | ) A hymn signed with the acrostic "Isaac ha-&#7730;a&#7789;on" (Isaac ben Judah ibn Ghayyat, 1030-89), obviously written for...
 * 13) Hamadan (JE | ) Persian city; 160 miles west-southwest of Teheran. Hamadan is generally identified with the ancient Ecbatana, the Achmetha...
 * 14) Ha-Maggid (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 15) Hamai (JE | ) Pseudonym of a cabalist belonging, according to Jellinek, to the school of Isaac the Blind. The works which bear this name...
 * 16) Haman the Agagite REF:JE >> Haman in rabbinic literature JE (JE | ) Son of Hammedatha; chief minister of King Ahasuerus (Esth.iii.1-2). As his name indicates, Haman was a descendant of Agag...
 * 17) Hamath (JE | ) A city and district on the northern frontier of Palestine (Num. xiii. 22, xxxiv. 8; I Kings viii. 65; and elsewhere), situated...
 * 18) Hamath-zobah (JE | ) A place mentioned in II Chron. viii. 3, as Having been taken by Solomon. Some conjecture that Hamath-zobah is the same as...
 * 19) Ha-Mazkir (JE | ) A bibliographical magazine published by M. Steinschneider, twenty-one volumes of which, covering the years 1858-82, were issued...
 * 20) C H Hamberger (JE | ) Physician in Leipsic; died March 2, 1847, at an advanced age. He translated G. B. de Rossi&#39;s "Dizionario Storico degli...

161 – 180

 * 1) Joseph Hambro (JE | ) Aulic councilor to the King of Denmark; born at Copenhagen Nov. 2, 1780; died in London Oct. 3, 1848. He began hiscareer with...
 * 2) Hambro& (JE | ) Founded in London by Mordecai Hamburger in 1702, as a protest against the tyranny of Abraham of Hamburg, the parnas of the...
 * 3) Hamburg >> Portuguese Jewish community in Hamburg JE (JE | ) German city on the right bank of the Elbe, between Sleswick-Holstein and Hanover. The first Jewish settlers were Portuguese...
 * 4) Jacob Hamburger (JE | ) German rabbi and author; born at Loslau, Silesia, Nov. 10, 1826. He received his early education in Ratibor, and then attended...
 * 5) Jacob ben Mordecai Wiener Hamburger (Hamburg) (JE | ) Chief rabbi of Prague; died Nov. 12, 1753. Hamburger was one of the rabbis who in 1725 signed the address to the Polish Jews...
 * 6) Mordecai Hamburger (JE | ) English communal leader; born in Hamburg about 1660; died in London about 1730; founder of the Hambro&#39; Synagogue. He was...
 * 7) Wolf Hamburger (JE | ) Talmudical scholar and head of the yeshibah in F&#252;rth; born Jan. 26, 1770; died May 15, 1850. He was a contemporary of...
 * 8) Ha-Meassef (JE | ) See Meassefim; Periodicals.
 * 9) Ha-Mebasser (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 10) Ha-Mehakker (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 11) Ha-Meliz JE (JE | ) the oldest Hebrew newspaper in Russia. It was foundedby Alexander Zederbaum, in Odessa, in 1860, as a weekly, and was transferred...
 * 12) Hameln (JE | ) Prussian town on the Hamel and Weser. Jews are recorded as present in Hameln as early as 1277. About the middle of the following...
 * 13) Gl& (Gl&) (JE | ) German diarist; born about 1646 in Hamburg; died 1724 at Metz. In 1649, when the German Jews were expelled from Hamburg, Gl&#252...
 * 14) Hamez (JE | ) -- See L128: Leaven
 * 15) Hammath (JE | ) One of the fortified cities of Naphtali (Josh. xix. 35). It is probably the same as Hammoth-dor, which was all&#559;tted to...
 * 16) Tower of Hammeah (JE | ) Tower near the sheep-gate of Jerusalem (Neh. iii. 1, xii. 39). The rendering of the Greek version, "the tower of the hundred...
 * 17) Hammedatha (JE | ) Father of Haman (Esth. iii. 1, 10; viii. 5; ix. 10, 24). He is generally designated as the "Agagite," being referred to only...
 * 18) Hammer (JE | ) the following designations for "hammer" are found in the Hebrew Bible:1. "MakKabah" ("makKebet"):...
 * 19) Joseph Hammerschlag (Nathan Nat&) (JE | ) Moravian cabalist; lived in the seventeenth century. He was the author of the following: "Or ha-Ganuz," commentary on part...
 * 20) Oscar Hammerstein (JE | ) American theatrical manager; born at Berlin May 8, 1848, where he was educated. In March, 1863, he emigrated to America and...

181 – 200

 * 1) Hammon (JE | ) A place in the territory of Asher, mentioned in Josh. xix. 28, between Rehob and Kanah. It is believed that the ruins now...
 * 2) Hammurabi (JE | ) King of Shinar; perhaps identical with Abraham&#39;s contemporary, Amraphel, who is mentioned in Gen. xiv. 9; the sixth king...
 * 3) Hamnuna I (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the third century; senior to Joseph b. &#7716;iyya (Ket. 50b; Tosef., Ket. s.v. ). He was a disciple of...
 * 4) Hamnuna II (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the third and fourth centuries; in the Babylonian Talmud sometimes referred to as Hamnuna Saba ("the elder")...
 * 5) Hamnuna of Babylonia (JE | ) Teacher of the Bible; junior of &#7716;anina b. &#7716;ama and senior of Jeremiah b. Abba, both of whom he consulted on an...
 * 6) Hamnuna Zuta (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the fourth century; junior and contemporary of Hamnuna II. (hence his cognomen "Zu&#7789;a" ). Hamnuna...
 * 7) Ha-Modia& (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 8) Hamon >> Moses Hamon JE (JE | ) Ancient family, originally from Spain, which settled in Turkey and produced several physicians. The following were among its...
 * 9) Hamon-gog (JE | ) A glen at one time known as "the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea," so named after the burial there of "Gog...
 * 10) Hamor (JE | ) A Hivite prince; father of Shechem, whose defilement of Dinah caused the destruction of a whole city, including his own family...
 * 11) Hamram (JE | ) -- See H580: Hemdan
 * 12) Hamuel (JE | ) the son of Mishma, a descendant of Simeon (I Chron. iv. 26).E. G. H. M. Sel.
 * 13) Hamul (JE | ) the younger son of Pharez, Judah&#39;s son by Tamar, and head of the family of the Hamulites (Gen. xlvi. 12; Num. xxvi. 21...
 * 14) Hamul Eliezer Mazliah b. Abraham de Viterbo (JE | ) Roman rabbi and physician in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was of a family of rabbis, physicians, and merchants...
 * 15) Hamutal (JE | ) Daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah and mother of Kings Jehoahaz and Zedekiah (II Kings xxiii. 31, xxiv. 18; Jer. lii. 1). In the...
 * 16) Hana (Huna) b. Bizna (JE | ) Babylonian scholar of the third and fourth centuries; judge at Pumbedita, (B. &#7730;. 12a). He especially cultivated the...
 * 17) Hana b. Hanilai (JE | ) Babylonian scholar and philanthropist of the third century; the junior of Huna I. and &#7716;isda (Bezah 21a, 40a)....
 * 18) Hanameel (JE | ) Son of Shallum and cousin of Jeremiah. The latter purchased a field from him for seventeen shekels of silver in token of his...
 * 19) Hanameel the Egyptian JE (JE | ) High priest; flourished in the first century B.C. After assuming the government of Palestine, Herod surrounded himself with...
 * 20) Hanan (JE | ) 1. A. Benjamite chief (I Chron. viii. 23). 2. The sixth son of Azel, also a Benjamite, of the family of Saul (ib. viii. 38)...

201 – 220

 * 1) Hanan (Hanin, Haninan) (JE | ) Scholar of the third amoraic generation (third century). He was probably a Babylonian by birth and a late pupil of Rab, in...
 * 2) Abba Hanan (Hanin) (JE | ) Tanna of the second century; younger contemporary of Simon of Shezur, Josiah, and Jonathan (Mek., Mishpa&#7789;im, 8, 12,...
 * 3) Hanan b. Abishalom (JE | ) -- See H204: Hanan the Egyptian
 * 4) Hanan the Egyptian (JE | ) 1. (Hanan b. Abishalom.) One of the police judges at Jerusalem in the last decades of its independence (see Admon b. Gaddai)...
 * 5) Isaac Hanan (JE | ) Turkish rabbi; lived at Salonica about the middle of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work called "Bene Yi&#7827...
 * 6) Hanan of Iskiya (Asikia) JE (JE | ) Rector of the Talmudical academy at Pumbedita. Hormizd IV. Having disgraced the latter years of his reign by cruel persecutions...
 * 7) Hananeel (JE | ) Babylonian scholar of the third century; disciple of Rab (Abba Arika) and colleague of Beruna and Isaac b. Machseiah...
 * 8) Hananeel ben Amittai (JE | ) Spiritual leader of the Jewish community of Oria, Italy, in the ninth century. He is said to Have been descended from a Jerusalem...
 * 9) Hananeel ibn Askara (JE | ) -- See S594: Shem-&#7788;ob ben Abraham Gaon
 * 10) Hananeel ben Hushiel (JE | ) Rabbi of Kairwan; Biblical and Talmudical commentator; born at Kairwan about 990; died, according to Abraham Zacuto ("Yu&#7717...
 * 11) Hananiah (JE | ) 1. A son of Heman the singer, and chief of the sixteenth of the twenty-four musical divisions into which the Levites were...
 * 12) Hananiah (Ahunai) (JE | ) Exilarch (761-771?). He was a younger brother of Anan ben David, the founder of Karaism; according to the Karaites, whose...
 * 13) Hananiah (Hanina) (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the third and fourth centuries; junior of &#7716;iyya b. Abba and Ze&#39;era I. (Yer. Ber. vii. 11b)...
 * 14) Hananiah (Hanina) (JE | ) Palestinian scholar of the fourth amoraic generation (fourth century); nephew of R. Hoshaiah, junior of Ze&#39;era I., and...
 * 15) Hananiah (Hanina) (JE | ) Tanna of the second century; contemporary of Judah b. Bathyra, Matteya b. &#7716;eresh, and Jonathan (Sifre, Deut. 80). Who...
 * 16) Hananiah (Hanina) b. &#39;Akabia (Akiba) (JE | ) Tanna of the second century; contemporary of Judah b. &#39;Ilai (M. &#7730;. 21a), and probably one of the younger pupils...
 * 17) Hananiah b. & (JE | ) Tanna whose name became very popular by reason of a single homiletic remark, as follows: "The Holy One&#8212;blessed be He!&#8212...
 * 18) Hananiah (Hanina) b. Hakinai JE (JE | ) Tanna of the second century; contemporary of ben &#39;Azzai and Simon the Temanite (Tosef., Ber. iv. 18; see &#7716;alafta)...
 * 19) Hananiah b. Judah (JE | ) Tanna of the second century; contemporary of Akiba. His name appears only twice in rabbinic lore: once in connection with...
 * 20) Hananiah (Hanina) of Ono (JE | ) Tanna of the second century. Hananiah is remembered for a feat he accomplished in the interest of traditional law. While Akiba...

221 – 240

 * 1) Hananiah (Hanina) ben Teradion (JE | ) Teacher and martyr in the third tannaitic generation (second century); contemporary of Eleazar ben Perata I. and of...
 * 2) Ahub ben Me& (JE | ) -- See I34: Ibn Muhajar Ahub
 * 3) Hanau (JE | ) Town in the province of Hesse-Nassau, Prussia. Jews settled in the territory of the counts of Hanau in the first half of the...
 * 4) Solomon ben Judah Hanau (JE | ) German grammarian; born at Hanau (whence his surname) in 1687; died at Hanover Sept. 4, 1746. When but twenty-one he published...
 * 5) Zebi Hirsh ha-Levi ben Haggai Enoch Hanau (JE | ) German rabbi; born at Vienna in 1662; died at Gemund, Bavaria, in 1740. He resided for many years at Frankfort-on-the-Main...
 * 6) Lily Hanbury (JE | ) English actress; educated in London, where she is still (1903) residing. Her d&#233;but was made in 1888 at a revival of W...
 * 7) Hand (JE | ) Traces of the custom of tattooing are found in the expression "to inscribe the Hands for some one (Isa. xliv. 5, xlix. 16...
 * 8) Handicrafts (JE | ) Since the article Artisans was written, the preliminary results of an inquiry made during the years 1898-99 by the Jewish...
 * 9) Handwriting (JE | ) -- See W290: Writing
 * 10) Hanes (JE | ) City in Egypt (Isa. xxx. 4); identified by Jonathan b. Uzziel and by the modern critics with Tahpanhes or Taphne (see Cheyne...
 * 11) Ha-Nesher (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 12) Hanging (JE | ) -- See C128: Capital Punishment
 * 13) Hanina I (JE | ) -- See H241: &#7716;anina b. &#7716;ama
 * 14) Hanina (Hananiah) II (JE | ) Amora of the fifth century; contemporary of the Palestinian Mani II., and of Rabina, one of the compilers of the Babylonian...
 * 15) Hanina (Hananiah) ben Abbahu (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the fourth generation, sometimes cited as &#7716;anina of C&#230;sarea (Cant. R. i. 2). The Talmud relates...
 * 16) Hanina (Hananiah; Hinena) ben Adda (Idda) (JE | ) Babylonian scholar of the third century. He was skilled in both Halakah and Haggadah; Adda B. Ahabah appears to Have beenhis...
 * 17) Hanina ben & (JE | ) Palestinian scholar of the third century; junior contemporary of &#7716;iyya b. Abba and Tanchum b. &#7716;anilai. &#7716...
 * 18) Hanina (Hananiah) ben Antigonus (JE | ) Tanna of priestly descent; contemporary of Akiba and Ishmael (Bek. vii. 5). It is supposed that in his youth he had witnessed...
 * 19) Hanina ben Dosa JE (JE | ) Scholar and miracle-worker of the first century; pupil of Johanan b. Zakkai (Ber. 34b). While he is reckoned among the Tannaim...
 * 20) Hanina (Hananiah) ben Gamaliel II (JE | ) Tanna of the first and second centuries; witness, and perhaps victim, of the Roman persecutions, when, of thousands of scholars...

241 – 260

 * 1) Hanina ben Hama JE (JE | ) Palestinian Halakist and Haggadist; died about 250; frequently quoted in the Babylonian and the Palestinian Gemara, and in...
 * 2) Hanina ben Iddi (JE | ) -- See H236: &#7716;anina b. Adda
 * 3) Hanina (Hinena) ben Ika (JE | ) Scholar of the fourth century; contemporary with Pappa and Zebia (Ber. 25b; Niddah 52a). That he was a Babylonian by birth...
 * 4) Hanina (Hinena) ben Isaac (JE | ) Palestinian Haggadist of the fourth century; contemporary of Samuel b. Ammi, with whom he engaged in an exegetical controversy...
 * 5) Hanina Katoba (JE | ) Palestinian scribe or notary, who acquired some familiarity with law. Only one Halakah, which he learned from Acha, is...
 * 6) Hanina ben Pappa JE (JE | ) Palestinian amora, Halakist, and Haggadist; flourished in the third and fourth centuries; a younger contemporary of Samuel...
 * 7) Hanina (Hanin) ben Pazzi (JE | ) Palestinian Haggadist of the third and fourth centuries. His teachings are confined to the midrashic literature. It is suggested...
 * 8) Hanina of Sepphoris (JE | ) -- See H234: &#7716;anina (Hananiah) II.
 * 9) Hanina (Hananiah) of Shalka (JE | ) Palestinian Haggadist of the fourth century; a contemporary of Joshua of Siknin. He Has left no original Haggadot. In the...
 * 10) Hanina of Sura (JE | ) Babylonian scholar of the fifth century; the junior of Mar Zu&#7789;ra, who reports to Ashi a Halakic objection raised by...
 * 11) Hanina ben Teradion JE (JE | ) -- See H221: Hananiah b. Teradion
 * 12) Hanina (Hinena) ben Torta (JE | ) Palestinian scholar of the third century; disciple of Johanan and contemporary of Ammi and Isaac Nappacha (Tem. 29a,...
 * 13) Haninai (Hanina) Kahana ben Abraham (JE | ) Principal (gaon) of the academy at Pumbedita (782-786). Nothing is known of his life and labors except that he displeased...
 * 14) Haninai (Hanina) Kahana ben Huna (JE | ) Gaon of Sura (765-775); contemporary of Malka b. Acha, principal of the academy at Pumbedita. &#7716;aninai was a pupil...
 * 15) Hannah (JE | ) One of the two wives of El-kanah and mother of the prophet Samuel. The first chapter of I Samuel and the first half of the...
 * 16) Hannathon (JE | ) City of Zebulun, apparently on the northern boundary, about midway between the Sea of Galilee and the valley of Jiphthah-el...
 * 17) Emmanuel Hannaux (JE | ) French sculptor; born at Metz in 1855. He began to study at the industrial school at Strasburg, but returned to Metz on the...
 * 18) Judah L& (Haneles) (JE | ) Rabbinical author of the sixteenth century. He wrote "Wayiggash Yehudah" (Lublin, 1599), a commentary on Jacob ben Asher&#39...
 * 19) Hanniel (JE | ) 1. Son of Ephod; prince of the tribe of Manasseh; appointed by God to assist Joshua in the division of the promised land (Num...
 * 20) Raphael Hanno (JE | ) German writer; born in Hanau 1791; died in Heidelberg 1871. He embraced Christianity and became professor (1824) of Oriental...

261 – 280

 * 1) Nathan (Nata) ben Moses Hannover JE (JE | ) Russian historian, Talmudist, and cabalist; died, according to Zunz ("Kalender," 5623, p. 18), at Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia...
 * 2) Raphael Levi Hannover JE (JE | ) Mathematician and astronomer; son of Jacob Joseph; born at Weikersheim, Franconia, 1685; died at Hanover May 17, 1779. He...
 * 3) Hanoch (JE | ) 1. Third son of Midian, the son of Abraham by Keturah (Gen. xxv. 4; I Chron. i. 33). 2. Eldest son of Reuben and founder of...
 * 4) Hanover (JE | ) Capital of the Prussian province of the same name. Jews lived there as early as the first half of the fourteenth century,...
 * 5) Hanukkah (JE | ) the Feast of Dedication, also called "Feast of the Maccabees," celebrated during eight days from the twenty-fifth day of Kislew...
 * 6) Hanukkah Trendel (JE | ) -- See G59: Games
 * 7) Hanun JE (JE | ) 1. Son of Nahash, King of Ammon. Having dishonored David&#39;s messengers, Hanun involved the Ammonites in a war with David...
 * 8) Hapax Legomena (JE | ) Words or forms of words that occur once only. There are about 1,500 of these in the Old Testament; but only 400 are, strictly...
 * 9) Haphraim (JE | ) City of Issachar, between Shunem and Shihon (Josh. xix. 18, 19). In the "Onomastica Sacra," s.v. "Aphraim," it is spoken of...
 * 10) Ha-Pisgah (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 11) Happiness (JE | ) Everywhere in the Old Testament the joyous and Harmonious notes of life are accentuated. Life is synonymous with good and...
 * 12) Hara (JE | ) District mentioned in I Chron. v. 26 as one of those to which Tiglath-pileser brought the Reubenites, Gadites, and the Half...
 * 13) Haradah (JE | ) One of the stations of the Israelites during their wanderings in the desert (Num. xxxiii. 24, 25).E. G. H. M. Sel.      ...
 * 14) Haran (JE | ) Third son of Terah and consequently the youngest brother of Abraham; he was born in Ur of the Chaldees, where he died while...
 * 15) Haran (JE | ) City to which Terah went from Ur of the Chaldees, and where Terah died (Gen. xi. 31, 32). It was situated in Aram-naharaim...
 * 16) Judah (Aryeh) Harari (JE | ) Liturgical poet; lived at Montpellier in the second half of the thirteenth century. He is highly praised by Abraham Bedersi...
 * 17) Hararite (JE | ) Epithet applied to some of David&#39;s heroes. Owing to the discrepancy which exists generally between the books of Samuel...
 * 18) Harbona, Harbonah (JE | ) One of the seven eunuchs who served Ahasuerus and to whom the order was given to bring Queen Vashti before the king (Esth...
 * 19) Harburg (JE | ) City on the Elbe, six miles south of Hamburg, in the Prussian province of Hanover. Jews were not admitted to Harburg until...
 * 20) Heinrich Harburger (JE | ) German jurist; born at Bayreuth, Bavaria, Oct. 2, 1851. He received his education at the gymnasium of his native town and...

281 – 300

 * 1) Harby (JE | ) American family, resident in the southern part of the United States. Solomon Harby:   First of the family in North America...
 * 2) Maximilian Harden (JE | ) German author; born at Berlin Oct. 20, 1861. Educated in the German capital, where he still resides, he became well known...
 * 3) Hermann von der Hardt (JE | ) German Protestant theologian and philologist; born at Melle, Westphalia, Nov. 15, 1660; died Feb. 28, 1746. He studied at...
 * 4) Hare (JE | ) Animal mentioned in Lev. xi. 6 and Deut. xiv. 7 among the unclean animals, "because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the...
 * 5) Harfidil (JE | ) Name of a Gothic Jew occurring in a Hebrew epitaph found near Parthenit. Chwolson places the inscription in the fifth century...
 * 6) Harif Moses Phinehas ben Israel (JE | ) Polish rabbi and author; died in Lemberg 1722. He was the grandson of Moses &#7716;arif the Elder and the father of Israel...
 * 7) Zebi Hirsch Harif (JE | ) -- See C831: Courland
 * 8) Hariph (JE | ) the children of Hariph, to the number of one hundred and twelve, returned from captivity with Zerubbabel (Neh. vii. 24). Hariph...
 * 9) Harith ibn & (JE | ) Yemenite king who embraced Judaism; born about 260; ascended the throne about 320; died about 330. Nothing is known of this...
 * 10) Judah b. Solomon Harizi (JE | ) -- See A1227: Al-&#7716;arizi, Judah b. Solomon
 * 11) Harkavy (JE | ) Russo-Jewish family. It originated, according to a tradition current in the family, with Mordecai Jaffe, author of the "Lebushim...
 * 12) Albert (Abraham Yakovlevich) Harkavy JE (JE | ) Russian Orientalist and historian; born at Novogrudok, government of Minsk, Oct. 27, 1839. His father, Jacob Harkavy, was...
 * 13) Henry Harland (JE | ) American author; born at St. Petersburg March, 1861; educated at the College of the City of New York and at Harvard. From...
 * 14) Harlot (JE | ) See Prostitution.
 * 15) Haro (JE | ) City in La Rioja, in the diocese of Calahorra, Spain. In the fifteenth century it contained a Jewish community, the members...
 * 16) Harod (JE | ) Name of a well beside which Gideon and his army encamped on the morning of the day which ended in the rout of the Midianites...
 * 17) Harosheth (Harosheth of the Gentiles) (JE | ) City supposed to Have stood near Hazor, in the northern part of Canaan, afterward known as Upper Galilee, or Galilee of the...
 * 18) Harp and Lyre (JE | ) the ancient Hebrews had two stringed instruments, the "kinnor" and the "nebel" . In the English versions of the Old Testament...
 * 19) Sir Augustus Glossop Harris (JE | ) English actor, playwright, and theatrical manager; born in Paris 1852; died at Folkestone, England, June 22, 1896. Harris...
 * 20) David Harris (JE | ) English soldier and mine-director; born in London 1852. He arrived at the Kimberley diamond fields about 1873, and in dealing...

301 – 320

 * 1) Mark Harris (JE | ) English surveyor and soldier; born March 15, 1869; killed in action in Bechuanaland April 6, 1897. He was a son of Ephraim...
 * 2) Maurice Henry Harris (JE | ) American rabbi; born Nov. 9, 1859, in London, England; educated in London and at Columbia College, New York city, graduating...
 * 3) Harrisburg (JE | ) -- See P172: Pennsylvania
 * 4) Harrow (JE | ) -- See A910: Agriculture
 * 5) Daniel Harrwitz (JE | ) German chess master; born 1823 in Breslau, Silesia; died Jan. 9, 1884, at Botzen, Tyrol; received most of his chess-training...
 * 6) Abraham al-Harselani (JE | ) Karaite scholar; flourished in Babylonia in the tenth century. He is cited in al-Hiti&#39;s chronicle as Having disputed with...
 * 7) Harsith (JE | ) One of the gates of Jerusalem, mentioned in Jer. xix. 2 (R. V.); it led into the Valley of Hinnom. The meaning of the name...
 * 8) Hart + (JE | ) One of the clean animals enumerated in Deut. xiv. 5 (comp. xii. 15, 22; xv. 22), and among those provided for the table of...
 * 9) Hart >> Ephraim Hart JE, Joel Hart (doctor) JE (JE | ) Several families of this name, of Anglo-Jewish origin, settled early in the English possessions in America, including Canada...
 * 10) Aaron Hart (JE | ) First chief rabbi of the Ashkenazic Jews in England; born at Breslau in 1670; died in the year 1756. After studying at a yeshibah...
 * 11) Emanuel B. Hart (JE | ) American congress-man; born in New York Oct. 29, 1809; died Aug. 29, 1897. When twenty years old he joined the volunteer fire...
 * 12) Ernest Abraham Hart (JE | ) English physician and editor; born in London 1836; died there Jan. 7, 1898. He was educated at the City of London School and...
 * 13) Henry John Hart (JE | ) Australian magistrate; born in New York May 7, 1820; died 1884. Educated at Columbia College, New York, he was destined for...
 * 14) Sir Israel Hart (JE | ) Ex-mayor of Leicester, England; born 1835. Chairman of the Hart and Levy Company, wholesale clothing manufacturers, he Has...
 * 15) Moses Hart (JE | ) Founder of Duke&#39;s Place Synagogue, London; born in Breslau; died in London 1756; brother of Rabbi Uri Phoebus (Aaron Hart)...
 * 16) Solomon Alexander Hart (JE | ) Artist, and librarian at the Royal Academy, London; born at Plymouth April, 1806; died in London June 11, 1881. In 1823 he...
 * 17) Hartford (JE | ) -- See C729: Connecticut
 * 18) Anton Theodor Hartmann (JE | ) German author; born at D&#252;sseldorf June 25, 1774; died at Rostock April 20, 1838. At G&#246;ttingen, Eichhorn led him...
 * 19) Moritz Hartmann (JE | ) Austrian poet; born at Przibram, Bohemia, Oct., 1821; died at Oberd&#246;bling, near Vienna, May 13, 1872. He was educated...
 * 20) C& (JE | ) English composer and pianist; born in London. She studied music under C. K. Salaman, and afterward at the Royal Academy of...

321 – 340

 * 1) Edouard de Hartog (JE | ) Dutch composer; born in Amsterdam Aug. 15, 1826; studied under Bartelmann, D&#246;hler, Mme. Dulcken, and Hoch; subsequently...
 * 2) Levi de Hartog (JE | ) Dutch jurist; born at Gorinchem (Gorkum), Holland, Nov. 6, 1835; studied law and (under Professor Dozy) Oriental languages...
 * 3) Marion Hartog (JE | ) English writer; born at Portsea on Oct. 22, 1821; fifth daughter of Joseph Moss. She was educated by her parents, and at an...
 * 4) Numa Edward Hartog (JE | ) First Jewish senior wrangler; born in London May 20, 1846; died June 19, 1871. At Pinches&#39; Commercial School and afterward...
 * 5) Philip Joseph Hartog (JE | ) English chemist and educationist; born in London March 2, 1864; educated at University College School, at Owens College, Manchester...
 * 6) Abraham Frans Karel Hartogh (JE | ) Dutch jurist and deputy; born at Amsterdam Dec. 29, 1844; died at the Hague Feb. 13, 1901; LL.D. Leyden 1869. Hartogh settled...
 * 7) Anton Hartvigson (JE | ) Danish pianist; born at Aarhus, Jutland, Oct. 16, 1845; brother of Frits Hartvigson. He studied under Neupert and Tausig....
 * 8) Frits Hartvigson (JE | ) Danish pianist; born at Grenaae, Jutland, May 31, 1841. His first instructors in piano were his mother and Anton R&#233;e...
 * 9) Harvest (JE | ) the Palestinian Harvest began in April with the cutting (hence "Kazir") of the barley. The lentil and pea ripened...
 * 10) Hasa (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the third century, contemporary of Nachman (b. Jacob) and of Ammi (B. M. 57a). Though he was a poor...
 * 11) Hasan ben Mashiah (JE | ) Karaite teacher of the ninth or tenth century. According to Sahl ben Mazliach (see Pinsker, "LikKu&#7789...
 * 12) Hasdai I (JE | ) Third exilarch of the Arabian period; died in 730. He was a descendant of Bostanai I. and a successor of &#7716;anina b. Adai...
 * 13) Abraham ben Samuel Halevi Hasdai (JE | ) Hebrew translator; lived in Barcelona about 1230. He is supposed to Have been the son of the poet Samuel ibn Abraham ibn &#7716...
 * 14) Abu al-Fadl ben Joseph ibn Hasdai (Hisdai) (JE | ) Jewish convert to Islam; lived at Saragossa in the second half of the eleventh century. Ibn Abi &#39;U&#7779;aibia ("&#39...
 * 15) Abu Omar Joseph ibn Hasdai (JE | ) Jud&#230;o-Spanish poet of the eleventh century; probably born at Cordova; died between 1045 and 1055. Ibn Janach, in...
 * 16) Hasdai abu Yusuf (ben Isaac ben Ezra) ibn Shaprut JE (JE | ) Spanish physician, diplomat, and patron of Jewish science; born about 915 at Jaen; died 970 or 990 at Cordova. His father...
 * 17) Hasdai ben Samuel ben Perahyah ha-Kohen (JE | ) Turkish rabbi; born at Salonica; died there Sept., 1677; claimed descent from Joseph ben Gorion. He was a son of the learned...
 * 18) Hasdai ben Solomon (JE | ) Spanish rabbi; born probably in Tudela. He was a pupil of R. Nissim Gerondi in Barcelona. His friend (and probably fellow...
 * 19) Haselbauer (JE | ) -- See E556: Eybesch&#252;tz, Jonathan
 * 20) Hashabiah (JE | ) Name of several Levites, chiefly in the time of the return from Babylon. The most important are: 1. The fourth son of Jeduthun...

341 – 360

 * 1) Ha-Shahar (JE | ) Hebrew monthly; published at Vienna from 1869 to 1884 by P. Smolenskin, who was also its editor. It resembled the German "Monatsschrift...
 * 2) Ha-Shiloah (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 3) Hashkabah (JE | ) -- See H453: Hazkarat Neshamot
 * 4) Hashmonah (JE | ) Thirtieth station of the Israelites during their wandering in the wilderness (Num. xxxiii. 29, 30). It was situated not far...
 * 5) Hashub (JE | ) 1. Son of Pahath-moab, who assisted Nehemiah in the repair of the walls of Jerusalem (Neh. iii. 11). 2. Another Hashub, engaged...
 * 6) Ha-Shulammit (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 7) Hashum (JE | ) 1. Chief of a family the members of which, two hundred and twenty-three in number, returned from captivity with Zerubbabel...
 * 8) Hasidaeans JE (JE | ) Religious party which commenced to play an important r&#244;le in political life only during the time of the Maccabean wars...
 * 9) Hasidim, Hasidism (JE | ) &#7716;asidism is a religious movement which arose among the Polish Jews in the eighteenth century, and which won over nearly...
 * 10) Haskalah JE (JE | ) Generally, "haskalah" indicates the beginning of the movement among the Jews about the end of the eighteenth century in Eastern...
 * 11) Hasmoneans (JE | ) the family name of the Hasmonean dynasty originates with the ancestor of the house, &#913;&#931;&#945;&#956;&#969;&#957;&#945...
 * 12) Joseph ibn Hason (JE | ) Talmudist; author of a work entitled "Sefer Bet ha-Melek," containing a commentary on Maimonides&#39; Mishneh Torah; responsa...
 * 13) Solomon ben Aaron Hason (JE | ) Turkish rabbi of the sixteenth century. Of his works the following are known: "Bet Shelomoh," responsa, at the end of which...
 * 14) Hassenaah (JE | ) the sons of Hassenaah rebuilt the fish-gate in the wall of Jerusalem (Neh. iii. 3). The name occurs twice (Ezra ii. 35 and...
 * 15) Simon Hassler (JE | ) American musician; born in Bavaria July 25, 1832; died in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 25, 1901; son of Henry Hassler, also a musician...
 * 16) Marcus Hast (JE | ) London cantor and composer; born at Warsaw in 1840. In 1864 he went to Germany to study music, and on his arrival at Breslau...
 * 17) Hat (JE | ) -- See H465: Head-Dress
 * 18) Hatan Bereshit (JE | ) -- See B1469: Bridegroom of the Law
 * 19) Hatan Torah (JE | ) -- See B1469: Bridegroom of the Law
 * 20) Hathach (JE | ) One of the eunuchs in the palace of Ahasuerus (Xerxes), in immediate attendance on Esther, who employed him in her communications...

361 – 380

 * 1) Ha-Tor (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 2) Hatra& (JE | ) Caution or warning given to those who are about to commit a crime. The Rabbis consider the fact that not all men are lawyers...
 * 3) Hatred (JE | ) Feeling of bitter hostility and antagonism toward others. It is intrinsically wrong when the good is Hated, but it is proper...
 * 4) Ignaz Hatsek (JE | ) Hungarian chartographer and engraver; born April 7, 1828, at Olm&#252;tz. He was educated in the public and the Jewish schools...
 * 5) Hattarat Hora& (JE | ) A rabbinical diploma; a written certificate given to one who, after a thorough examination, proves himself competent and worthy...
 * 6) Hattush (JE | ) 1. Son of Shemaiah, a descendant of the kings of Judah, in the fifth generation from Zerubbabel (I Chron. iii. 22). He returned...
 * 7) Hauran (JE | ) A region east of the Jordan and north of Gilead, reaching east to the desert. It is mentioned in Ezek. xlvii. 16, 18, in connection...
 * 8) Moses ben Asher Anshel Hausen (JE | ) Danish Talmudic scholar: born at Copenhagen 1752; died June 28, 1782. He wrote a work entitled "&#7730;aran Or Pene Mosheh...
 * 9) Carl Frankl Hauser (JE | ) American humorist and writer; born Dec. 27, 1847, at Janoshaza, Hungary; received a rudimentary secular and Talmudic education...
 * 10) Miska Hauser (JE | ) Hungarian violin virtuoso; born at Presburg, Hungary, 1822; died at Vienna Dec. 8, 1887; pupil of Joseph Matalay, and later...
 * 11) Philipp Hauser (JE | ) Hungarian physician, and writer on medical topics; born at N&#225;das, Hungary, April 2, 1832. For several years he attended...
 * 12) Der Hausfreund (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 13) David Haussmann (JE | ) German physician; born at Ratibor, Silesia, July 22, 1839; died at Berlin May 26, 1903. He received his education in the Jewish...
 * 14) Adolf Havas (JE | ) Hungarian dermatologist; born in Szt. G&#225;l, Hungary, Feb. 14, 1854; studied in Veszprim, Budapest, and Vienna, taking...
 * 15) Havilah (JE | ) Name of a district, or districts, in Arabia. According to I Sam. xv. 7, Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah to Shur (the...
 * 16) Simon ben Judah Havilio (JE | ) -- See H23: &#7716;abillo, Simon ben Judah ben David
 * 17) Havoth-jair JE (JE | ) Certain villages or towns on the east of the Jordan in Bashan and in Gilead, named after their conquerors. 1. The towns of...
 * 18) Havre + (JE | ) French seaport, on the estuary of the Seine. It Has a population of 118,478, of whom about 50 are Jews (1903). In 1850 a dozen...
 * 19) Hawaiian Islands (JE | ) Group of twelve islands in the North Pacific Ocean, eight of which are inhabited. They Have a population of 154,000 (1902)...
 * 20) Hawk (JE | ) the rendering of given by the English versions; it is enumerated among the unclean birds in Lev. xi. 16; Deut. xiv. 15. The...

381 – 400

 * 1) Hawkers and Pedlers (JE | ) in primitive countries trading was monopolized by traveling merchants. Palestine, an agricultural country, knew the traders...
 * 2) Ha-Yehudi (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 3) Armand-Lazare Hayem (JE | ) French author; born in Paris July 24, 1845; died there 1889; son of Simon Hayem. Hayem forsook commerce for literature and...
 * 4) Charles Hayem (JE | ) French collector and art patron; born in Paris in 1839; died there May 13, 1902; eldest son of Simon Hayem. His wife was the...
 * 5) Georges Hayem (JE | ) French physician; born in Paris Nov. 25, 1841; son of Simon Hayem. He became doctor of medicine in 1868, and later "agr&#233...
 * 6) Ha-Yo& (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 7) Ha-Yonah (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 8) Hays (JE | ) Family which emigrated from Holland in the first quarter of the eighteenth century and settled in and near New York city....
 * 9) Judah ben Jacob Hayyat (JE | ) Spanish cabalist; lived in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Himself one of the exiles from Spain, he describes in vivid...
 * 10) Hayyim (JE | ) A common pr&#230;nomen among the Jews, especially during the Middle Ages. In its Latin form it occurs on the Hebrew mosaic...
 * 11) Hayyim (JE | ) -- See B849: Berlin
 * 12) Aaron ibn Hayyim (JE | ) Rabbi at Hebron, later at Smyrna; grandson of Aaron ben Abraham ibn &#7716;ayyim, author of the "&#7730;orban Aharon." He...
 * 13) Abigdor Hayyim (JE | ) Talmudist; lived in the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Peri &#39;Ez &#7716;ayyim" (Amsterdam, 1742), containing...
 * 14) Abraham Hayyim (JE | ) -- See A441: Abraham ben &#7716;ayyim
 * 15) Hayyim Abraham ben Aryeh L& (JE | ) Russian preacher; lived at Moghilef in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He wrote: "Milchamah be-Shalom," the...
 * 16) Abraham Israel Hayyim (JE | ) -- See I301: Israel &#7716;ayyim Abraham
 * 17) Abraham ben Judah ibn Hayyim (JE | ) Spanish scholar and scribe of the thirteenth century. He wrote a Spanish treatise on the preparation of gold-foil and colors...
 * 18) Hayyim ben Bezaleel (JE | ) German Talmudist; died at Friedberg on the Shabu&#39;ot festival, 1588. He was the eldest of the four sons of Bezaleel ben...
 * 19) Hayyim Cohen (JE | ) -- See C598: Cohen, &#7716;ayyim
 * 20) Hayyim b. Elijah (JE | ) -- See N306: Nissim, &#7716;ayyim B. Elijah

401 – 420

 * 1) Elijah ibn Hayyim (JE | ) Rabbi of Constantinople, perhaps the immediate successor of Elijah. Mizrachi; born about 1532; died in the beginning...
 * 2) Hayyim of Falaise (Hayyim Paltiel?) JE (JE | ) French Biblical commentator of the thirteenth century; grandson of the tosafist Samuel of Falaise (Sir Morel). An anonymous...
 * 3) Hayyim Garmon (JE | ) -- See G75: Garmon, Nehorai
 * 4) Hayyim of Hameln (JE | ) -- See H173: Hameln, Gl&#252;ckel of
 * 5) Hayyim b. Hananeel ha-Kohen (JE | ) French tosafist of the second half of the twelfth century. He was a pupil of R. Jacob b. Me&#239;r (Tam), with whom he discussed...
 * 6) Hayyim ben Isaac Reizes (JE | ) Head of the yeshibah at Lemberg; born 1687; martyred May 13, 1728. &#7716;ayyim and his brother Joshua were thrown into prison...
 * 7) Hayyim ben Isaac of Volozhin (Hayyim Volozhiner) JE (JE | ) Russian rabbi and educator; born at Volozhin, government of Wilna, Jan. 21, 1749; died there June 14, 1821. Both he and his...
 * 8) Hayyim ben Israel (JE | ) Spanish philosopher and author; lived in Toledo about 1272-77; a descendant of the Israeli family and a relative of Isaac...
 * 9) Hayyim Jacob ben Jacob David (JE | ) Rabbi of Smyrna; lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. According to Michael, he was born at Smyrna and was a...
 * 10) Hayyim Jacob ben Judah L& (JE | ) Russian rabbinical scholar; lived in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was the author of "Ni&#7789;e&#39;e Na&#39...
 * 11) Hayyim ben Jehiel Hefez Zahab (JE | ) Talmudist of the fourteenth century; died 1314. He was a brother of Asher ben Jehiel (Rosh). He was educated by his father...
 * 12) Hayyim b. Joseph (JE | ) -- See I56: Ibn Vives &#7716;ayyim
 * 13) Hayyim ha-Kohen (JE | ) German rabbi; born at Prague at the end of the sixteenth century; died at Posen about the middle of the seventeenth century...
 * 14) Hayyim ha-Levi (JE | ) Physician, and chief rabbi of the united congregations in the archbishopric of Toledo. As the chief rabbi, Zulaimah Alfahan...
 * 15) Hayyim Lisker (JE | ) -- See H415: Lisker, &#7716;ayyim
 * 16) Hayyim Mal& (JE | ) Polish Shabbethaian agitator; lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. According to Jacob Emden ("Torat ha-&#7730...
 * 17) Hayyim Marini (JE | ) -- See H426: Marini, &#7716;ayyim Shabbethai
 * 18) Hayyim ben Menahem of Glogau (JE | ) German scholar; lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He wrote a work entitled "Mar&#39;eh ha-Ketab bi-Leshon...
 * 19) Hayyim b. Moses & (JE | ) Italian rabbi; born at Sale, near Brescia, Italy, 1696; died in Jerusalem 1743. He was educated under the care of his grandfather...
 * 20) Hayyim ibn Musa (JE | ) -- See M1014: Musa, &#7716;ayyim ibn

421 – 440

 * 1) Hayyim ben Nathan (JE | ) German scholar of the seventeenth century. He translated into Jud&#230;o-German the historical portions of the Bible. In the...
 * 2) Hayyim (Joshua), Pheibel ben Israel, of Tarnigrod (JE | ) Geographer of the eighteenth century. He wrote a geography of Palestine, in Hebrew, entitled "&#7730;azwe Are&#7827...
 * 3) Hayyim b. Samuel b. David of Toledo (JE | ) Spanish rabbi and author; lived at the end of the thirteenth century and at the beginning of the fourteenth. He was a pupil...
 * 4) Hayyim Samuel Falk (JE | ) -- See F18: Falk, &#7716;ayyim Samuel
 * 5) Hayyim b. Samuel ha-Kohen (JE | ) -- See F20: Falk, Joshua ben Alexander ha-Kohen
 * 6) Hayyim Shabbethai (JE | ) Rabbi of Salonica; born about 1556; died 1647. After studying in the yeshibah of Salonica under Aaron Sason, &#7716;ayyim...
 * 7) Hayyim b. Solomon (JE | ) Russo-Polish preacher; born at Wilna; died there Dec., 1804 (1794?), at an advanced age. His father, R. Solomon b. &#7716...
 * 8) Hayyim ben Solomon of Moghilef (JE | ) Rabbi and cabalist; died at Jerusalem in 1813. He was one of the &#7716;asidic followers of Israel Ba&#39;al Shem, and after...
 * 9) Hayyim ben Tobiah (JE | ) Russian rabbi; lived in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was among the pupils of Elijah of Wilna, and settled in...
 * 10) Hayyim Vital (JE | ) -- See H430: Vital, &#7716;ayyim
 * 11) Hayyim Zanger (JE | ) -- See H120: Halberstamm, Solomon Joachim
 * 12) Hayyim b. Zebi Hirsch (JE | ) -- See B861: Berlin, Noah &#7716;ayyim &#7826;ebi Hirsch
 * 13) Hayyim ben Zebulon Jacob Perlmutter (JE | ) Rabbi of Ostropol, Russia, in the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Elef Omer," a collection of sayings beginning...
 * 14) Gedaliah Hayyon (JE | ) Turkish rabbi: pupil of Alfandari the Younger (see Azulai, "Shem ha-Gedolim," and Gr&#228;tz, "Gesch." x. 360); born at Constantinople...
 * 15) Moses b. Aaron Hayyon (JE | ) Rabbi of Jerusalem, later of Safed; flourished at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century....
 * 16) Judah b. David Hayyuj (Abu Zakariyya Yachya ibn Daud Hayyuj) JE (JE | ) Spanish-Hebrew grammarian; born in Fez, Morocco, about 950. At an early age he went to Cordova, where he seems to Have remained...
 * 17) Aaron ben David Hayyun (JE | ) Cabalist; lived at Jerusalem in the seventeenth century. He, together with David YizChaki and Jacob Molko...
 * 18) Abraham ben Nissim Hayyun (JE | ) Portuguese scholar; father of Don Joseph &#7716;ayyun, rabbi of Lisbon; lived in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He...
 * 19) Nehemiah Hiyya ben Moses Hayyun JE (JE | ) Bosnian cabalist; born about 1650; died about 1730. His parents, of Sephardic descent, lived in Sarajevo, Bosnia, where probably...
 * 20) Isaac ben Jacob Hayyut (JE | ) Polish rabbi; died at Skala, near Lemberg, Sept., 1726. He was descended from an old Proven&#231;al family which first settled...

441 – 460

 * 1) Menahem (Manesh, Manus, Manish, Mannusch) b. Isaac Hayyut (JE | ) Polish rabbi; died at Wilna about May, 1636. He was the son of R. Isaac b. Abraham &#7716;ayyut, a descendant of a pious Proven&#231...
 * 2) Hazael (JE | ) the most powerful of the kings of Damascus, and a ruler of general historical as well as of Biblical importance. While Ahab...
 * 3) Jacob Raphael Hezekiah Hazak (JE | ) Italian rabbi of the eighteenth century; born 1689; died at Padua 1782 (Ab 16). He was a pupil of Mordecai Basan of Verona...
 * 4) Hazakah (JE | ) the term Has various meanings in the Talmud; the one most cognate to the original meaning of the Hebrew root is that of "taking...
 * 5) Hazar-enan (JE | ) Place on the boundary of Palestine, apparently to the northeast, between Zephron and Shepham, not far from the district of...
 * 6) Hazar-shual (JE | ) Town in the south of Judah (Josh. xv. 28; Neh. xi. 27), between Beth-palet and Beer-sheba, afterward included in the territory...
 * 7) Hazar-susah (JE | ) City in the extreme south of Judah, allotted to Simeon (Josh. xix. 5). In the parallel passage I Chron. iv. 31, the reading...
 * 8) Hazarmaveth (JE | ) Third son of Joktan, of the family of Shem (Gen. x. 26; I Chron. i. 20). The name is preserved in the modern Hadramaut, a...
 * 9) Hazazon-tamar (JE | ) Dwelling-place of the Amorites when the four kings made their invasion and fought with the five kings (Gen. xiv. 7 [A. V....
 * 10) Ha-Zebi (JE | ) Hebrew weekly, published at Jerusalem, beginning in 1876, by Eliezer Benjudah. At the end of 1899 he began to publish a supplement...
 * 11) Ha-Zefirah (JE | ) Hebrew newspaper; founded by &#7716;ayyim Selig Slonimski at Warsaw Jan. 25, 1862. In 1863 it was suspended on account of...
 * 12) Hazeroth (JE | ) A station of the Israelites in the desert (Num. xi. 35, xii. 16, xxxiii. 17; Deut. i. 1). It was at Hazeroth that Miriam,...
 * 13) Hazkarat Neshamot (JE | ) Memorial service, held, according to the German ritual, after the readings of the Law and the Prophets in the morning service...
 * 14) Abraham ben Hezekiah Hazkuni (JE | ) Galician Talmudist and cabalist; born at Cracow in 1627; died at Tripoli, Syria. He was a disciple of Yom-Tob Lipman...
 * 15) Hezekiah Hazkuni (JE | ) -- See H704: Hezekiah ben Manoah
 * 16) Hazor (JE | ) Fortified city between Ramah and Kadesh, on the high ground overlooking Lake Merom. It was the seat of Jabin, a powerful Canaanitish...
 * 17) Hazot (Chazot) (JE | ) See Midnight.
 * 18) Hazzan (JE | ) Communal official. The word is probably borrowed from the Assyrian "Chazanu," "Chazannu" (overseer, director; see...
 * 19) Hazzan, Hazan >> Israel Moses Hazan JE (JE | ) An Oriental rabbinical family, probably of Spanish origin, members of which are found in Spain, and in Smyrna, Alexandria...
 * 20) Abraham ben Judah Hazzan (JE | ) Cantor at Kremenetz, Volhynia, in the sixteenth century. In 1595, after recovering from a terrible malady which ended in a...

461 – 480

 * 1) Eleazar ha-Hazzan (JE | ) Precentor; lived in Speyer toward the end of the eleventh century. He was the teacher of Samuel the Pious, and perhaps identical...
 * 2) Hazzanut (JE | ) Originally, as in the Siddur of Saadia Gaon, the term was applied to the piyyu&#7789;im which it was the function of the official...
 * 3) He (JE | ) Fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet; on its form see Alphabet. It is a guttural, pronounced as the English "h," standing midway...
 * 4) Covering of Head (JE | ) -- See B286: Bareheadedness
 * 5) Head-dress (JE | ) Covering or ornament for the head. Very little information is obtainable as to the adornment and covering for the head in...
 * 6) Health Laws (JE | ) the preservation of physical well-being is looked upon in Judaism as a religious command. "And live through them, but not...
 * 7) Hearsay Evidence (JE | ) -- See E530: Evidence
 * 8) Heart (JE | ) the seat of the emotional and intellectual life. "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life"...
 * 9) Heathen (JE | ) -- See G142: Gentile
 * 10) Heathenism (JE | ) -- See P11: Paganism
 * 11) Heave-offering (JE | ) Present made to the Tabernacle or Temple for the use of the priests. (from, "to lift," that is, to set apart for a special...
 * 12) Heaven (JE | ) Chiefly, the upper part of the universe in contradistinction to the earth (Gen. i. 1); the region in which sun, moon, and...
 * 13) Heber (JE | ) 1. Grandson of Asher and founder of the family of the Heberites (Gen. xlvi. 17; Num. xxvi. 45). 2. Heber the Kenite, husband...
 * 14) Hebra Kaddisha, Chebra Kaddisha (JE | ) Name for a charitable society which cares for the sick, especially for the dying, and buries the dead. The name "Chebra...
 * 15) Hebrah Se&, Chebrah Se& (JE | ) -- See H474: &#7716;ebra &#7730;addisha
 * 16) Christian Hebraists JE (JE | ) the work of Christian scholars in the field of Hebrew literature demands special treatment, not only as part of the history...
 * 17) Hebrew (JE | ) the expression "Hebrews" is used as a name for Israelites in contrast with Egyptians, or by Egyptians for Israelites, in both...
 * 18) The Hebrew (JE | ) Jewish weekly; established in San Francisco, Cal., in 1863, by Philo Jacoby, a son of Isaac Jacoby, rabbi of Lauenburg, Pomerania...
 * 19) Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia (JE | ) Organized July 16, 1848, largely through the efforts of Isaac Leeser; one of the oldest societies of its kind in the United...
 * 20) The Hebrew Globe (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals

481 – 500

 * 1) Hebrew Grammar (JE | ) -- See G411: Grammar, Hebrew
 * 2) Hebrew Institute (JE | ) -- See N248: New York
 * 3) Hebrew Intelligencer (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 4) The Hebrew Journal (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 5) Hebrew Language (JE | ) the designation "Hebrew language" for the language in which are written the Old Testament (with the exception of Ezra iv....
 * 6) The Hebrew Leader (JE | ) Weekly newspaper; published in New York city by Jonas Bondy, who edited it. The first number was issued in May, 1850, and...
 * 7) Hebrew Literature (JE | ) -- See L466: Literature, Hebrew
 * 8) The Hebrew National (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 9) The Hebrew Observer (JE | ) Periodical; published in London by Abraham Benisch. The first and only number appeared Jan. 7, 1853.G. A. M. F.         ...
 * 10) The Hebrew Review (JE | ) Literary magazine; published at Cincinnati, Ohio, during the years 1881 and 1892 (2 vols.) by the Rabbinical Literary Association...
 * 11) The Hebrew Review and Magazine of Rabbinical Literature (JE | ) Journal; published in London by Morris Jacob Raphail from Oct. 3, 1834, to and including Sept., 1835 (2 vols.). The object...
 * 12) Hebrew Sabbath-school Union of America (JE | ) Organized at Cincinnati, Ohio, July, 1886. "to provide a uniform system for all Hebrew Sabbath-schools in the United States...
 * 13) The Hebrew Standard (JE | ) Weekly; founded in New York city by J. P. Solomon on Sept. 23, 1881. Solomon Has been its sole editor and proprietor. The...
 * 14) Hebrew Union College (JE | ) A rabbinical college founded by Dr. Isaac M. Wise at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1875. In 1854 Dr. Wise had made an attempt to establish...
 * 15) Hebrew Union College Journal (JE | ) Monthly magazine, edited and published by students of Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio, in the interests of that institution...
 * 16) Epistle to Hebrews (JE | ) -- See N245: New Testament
 * 17) Hebron (JE | ) A city of Asher, properly "Ebron"; called also Abdon.2. Town in Palestine, about 17 miles southwest of Jerusalem; it Has a...
 * 18) Hechim (JE | ) -- See H824: H&#246;chheimer
 * 19) Hechingen (JE | ) -- See H843: Hohenzollern
 * 20) Hecht (JE | ) Family, resident at Boston, Mass. Jacob H. Hecht:   Born at Heinstadt, Germany, March 15, 1834; died Feb. 24, 1903. He went...