Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/H2

501 – 520

 * 1) Emanuel Hecht (JE | ) German educationist; born 1821 in Nordheim, Bavaria; died Feb. 25, 1862, in Hoppst&#228;dten, Birkenfeld-Oldenburg. On graduating...
 * 2) Ferdinand Heckscher (JE | ) German actor; born at Berlin 1806; died at Sondershausen Feb. 28, 1891. Heckscher, who had a fine bass voice, began his theatrical...
 * 3) Samuel ben Me& (JE | ) German scholar; lived at Altona in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; author of a work entitled "&#7730;inah &#39;Al...
 * 4) Heder, Cheder (JE | ) Colloquial name for a Jewish old-fashioned elementary school. The Talmudical expression "tinnokot shel bet rabban" (children...
 * 5) Hedyot (JE | ) Term used in Mishnah, Talmud, and Midrash to designate a private person, a commoner, not belonging to the class of kings,...
 * 6) Hefez, Chefez (JE | ) -- See G143: Gentili
 * 7) Hefez ben Yazliah, Chefez b. Yazliah (JE | ) Halakist; lived toward the end of the tenth century. Rapoport assumes him to have beena Palestinian, but it is more probable...
 * 8) Hefker (JE | ) Ownerless property, rendered so either by the formal renunciation of the owner, or by an act of the court (Gi&#7789;. 36b)...
 * 9) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (JE | ) German philosopher; born at Stuttgart 1770; died at Berlin 1831. After studying at theUniversity of T&#252;bingen he became...
 * 10) Hegesippus (JE | ) One of the earliest writers of the Christian Church; lived at Rome, whither he had gone about 150 from Palestine or Syria...
 * 11) He-Haluz, He-Chaluz (JE | ) Hebrew magazine or year-book which appeared irregularly between 1852 and 1889. Its German title, "Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen...
 * 12) Heidelberg (JE | ) University town in the grand duchy of Baden, Germany; it has a population of 40,240, including 882 Jews. The community there...
 * 13) Philip Heidenheim (JE | ) German rabbi and teacher; born at Bleicherode June 14, 1814. In 1834 he was called as teacher to Sondershausen, where he worked...
 * 14) Wolf (Benjamin) ben Samson Heidenheim JE (JE | ) German exegete and grammarian; born at Heidenheim in 1757; died at R&#246;delheim Feb. 23, 1832. At an early age Heidenheim...
 * 15) Heidingsfeld (JE | ) Bavarian city, on the Main, near W&#252;rzburg. It has a population of 4,154, including 100 Jews (1903). That it contained...
 * 16) Red Heifer (JE | ) -- See R157: Red Heifer
 * 17) David Heilbron (JE | ) Dutch physician; born at the Hague July 4, 1762; died at Amsterdam 1847. He was educated at the University of Leyden, graduating...
 * 18) Heilbronn (JE | ) Town of W&#252;rttemberg in the district of the Neckar. There was an important community there in 1298, when Rindfleisch and...
 * 19) Abraham ben Moses Ashkenazi Heilbronn (Heilprin) (JE | ) Chief rabbi of Lemberg; born in 1578; died Jan. 2, 1649. His father was related to R. Solomon Edels. Abraham Heilbronn wrote:...
 * 20) Jacob ben Elhanan Heilbronn (JE | ) German rabbi and mathematician; flourished in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. After occupying various rabbinates...

521 – 540

 * 1) Joseph ben Elhanan Heilbronn (JE | ) German Hebrew scholar; lived at Posen in the sixteenth century. Nepi-Ghirondi&#39;s "Toledot Gedole Yisrael" (p. 203) mentions...
 * 2) Abraham ben Judah Heilbut (JE | ) German Talmudist; lived at Altona in the middle of the eighteenth century. In July, 1751, he wrote there "Binah Rabbah," a...
 * 3) Ferdinand Heilbuth (JE | ) French painter; born at Hamburg in 1826; died Nov. 19, 1889, at Paris, where he had been naturalized ten years previously...
 * 4) Heilprin JE (JE | ) Besides the numerous Heilbrons, Heilbronners, Heilpruns, and Heilbruns who are known to have lived between the middle of the...
 * 5) Abraham ben Moses Heilprin (JE | ) -- See H519: Heilbronn, Abraham ben Moses Ashkenazi
 * 6) Angelo Heilprin JE (JE | ) American naturalist, geologist, and traveler; son of Michael Heilprin; born March 31, 1853, at S&#225;toralja-Ujhely, Hungary...
 * 7) Eliezer b. Mordecai Heilprin (JE | ) Polish rabbi; born probably in Yaroslav, Galicia, in 1648; died at F&#252;rth in 1700. He was rabbi successively in Gross...
 * 8) Jehiel ben Solomon Heilprin JE (JE | ) Lithuanian rabbi, cabalist, and chronicler; born about 1660; died at Minsk about 1746. He was a descendant of Solomon Luria...
 * 9) Joel ben Isaac Heilprin (JE | ) Polish &#7716;asidic rabbi; lived at Ostrog in the middle of the seventeenth century. He was known as "Ba&#39;al Shem I.,"...
 * 10) Joel ben Uri Heilprin (JE | ) Galician thaumaturge; lived at Satanow in the first half of the eighteenth century. Possessed of a fair knowledge of medicine...
 * 11) Louis Heilprin (JE | ) American encyclopedist; son of Michael Heilprin; born in Miskolcz, Hungary, July 2, 1851. He emigrated with his parents to...
 * 12) Michael Heilprin (JE | ) Polish-American scholar, author, and philanthropist; born in Piotrkow, Russian Poland, Feb. 23, 1823; died in Summit, N. J...
 * 13) Phinehas Mendel Heilprin (JE | ) Polish Hebraist; born in Lublin Nov., 1801; died in Washington, D.C., Jan. 30, 1863. Trained in the study of the Talmud and...
 * 14) Michael Heim (JE | ) Austrian jurist; born Aug. 18, 1852, at Jakosi&#269;, Slavonia. He studied law at the University of Vienna (1871-75), and...
 * 15) Heine (JE | ) the family made illustrious by the poet can be traced back on the father&#39;s side to one Isaac Heine (Hehne), who lived...
 * 16) Ephraim Veitel Heine (JE | ) -- See E420: Ephraim, Veitel-Heine
 * 17) Gustav Heine, Freiherr von Geldern JE (JE | ) Austrian publicist; born June 18, 1812, at D&#252;sseldorf; died Nov. 15, 1886, at Vienna; brother of Heinrich Heine. On completing...
 * 18) Heinrich Heine (JE | ) German lyric poet and essayist; born at D&#252;sseldorf Dec. 13, 1797; died in Paris Feb. 17, 1856; son of Samson Heine and...
 * 19) Maximilian Heine (JE | ) German physician; youngest brother of Heinrich Heine; born at D&#252;sseldorf (1805 according to Embden; Strodtmann gives...
 * 20) Solomon Heine (JE | ) German merchant and philanthropist; born in Hanover 1767; died in Hamburg Dec. 26, 1844. Going to Hamburg when he was sixteen...

541 – 560

 * 1) Klara Heinefetter (Madame St&) (JE | ) German singer; born at Mayence Feb. 17, 1816; died at Vienna Feb. 24, 1857. In 1829 she accompanied her eldest sister, Sabine...
 * 2) Sabine Heinefetter (JE | ) German soprano opera-singer; born Aug. 19, 1809, at Mayence; died insane Feb. 18, 1872, at Illenau, Baden. Beginning life...
 * 3) Heinrich Heinemann (JE | ) German actor; born at Bischofsburg, East Prussia, Sept. 15, 1842. After graduating from the Friedrich-Wilhelm gymnasium, Berlin...
 * 4) Jeremiah Heinemann (JE | ) German author; born at Sandersleben July 20, 1778; died in Berlin Oct. 16, 1855; son of Rabbi Joachim Heinemann. In 1808 he...
 * 5) Heir (JE | ) -- See I140: Inheritance
 * 6) Moritz Heitler (JE | ) Austrian physician; born at Korompa, Hungary, March 21, 1847. He was educated at the gymnasia at H&#243;dmez&#246;-V&#225...
 * 7) Hekal (JE | ) -- See A1778: Ark of the Law
 * 8) Hekal ha-& (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 9) Hekalot Rabbati; Hekalot Zutarti (JE | ) Two mystic writings attributed to Ishmael ben Elisha; indiscriminately referred to by the various names of "Sefer Hekalot...
 * 10) Hekdesh (JE | ) Hebrew name for an asylum or a hospital; found in many medieval Jewish documents (see Charity; Jew. Encyc. v. 71, s.v. Egypt...
 * 11) Ephraim ben Samuel Sanvel Hekscher (JE | ) President of the Jewish congregation at Altona at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He was the author of: "Dibre &#7716...
 * 12) Hela (JE | ) -- See E116: Ela.
 * 13) Helam (JE | ) A place east of the Jordan where the Syrians under Hadarezer were defeated by David (II Sam. x. 16, 17). The Vulgate, following...
 * 14) Helbo, Chelbo JE (JE | ) Amora who flourished about the end of the third century, and who is frequently mentioned in both Talmuds. It seems that &#7716...
 * 15) Anna Held (JE | ) French comedienne; born Sept. 19, 1880, in Paris; educated at Fontainebleau. Her d&#233;but was made in "Miss Helyett" at...
 * 16) Heldai (JE | ) 1. Captain of the service of the Temple for the twelfth month in the time of David; a native of Netophah and a descendant...
 * 17) Helena JE (JE | ) Queen of Adiabene, wife of Monobaz I., and mother of Monobaz II.; died about 56 C.E. Her name and the fact that she was her...
 * 18) Helez (JE | ) 1. One of David&#39;s thirty guards, and captain for the seventh month of the service of the Temple; an Ephraimite (II Sam...
 * 19) Helicon DAB (JE | ) Court fool, and a favorite of the Roman emperor Caligula (37-41); an Egyptian by birth. He appears to have been especially...
 * 20) Abraham ben Jacob Moses Helin (JE | ) German rabbi; lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Helin was on his father&#39;s side a great-grandson of Solomon...

561 – 580

 * 1) Jacob Moses ben Abraham Ashkenazi Helin (JE | ) Polish Talmudist; born about 1625; died about 1700. He studied at Lublin under R. Naphtali ha-Kohen and R. Heshel, and was...
 * 2) Heliodorus (JE | ) Treasurer or, according to II Macc. iii.7, R. V., chancellor of Seleucus IV., Philopator. At the instigation of Apollonius...
 * 3) Heliopolis (On) (JE | ) Egyptian city, whence came Poti-pherah, Joseph&#39;s father-in-law (Gen. xli. 45, 50; xlvi. 20). It is mentioned also in Ezek...
 * 4) Helkath Hazzurim (JE | ) Name of the place where the combat between Joab&#39;s and Abner&#39;s men took place, in which all on both sides were slain...
 * 5) Helkias (JE | ) -- See A1470: Ananias, Son of Onias
 * 6) Hell (JE | ) -- See G115: Gehenna
 * 7) Hellenism (JE | ) Word used to express the assimilation, especially by the Jews, of Greek speech, manners, and culture, from the fourth century...
 * 8) Isidor Heller (JE | ) Austrian author; born May 5, 1816, at Jung-Bunzlau, Bohemia; died at Arco, Tyrol, Dec. 19, 1879. He was studying to become...
 * 9) Jehiel b. Aaron Heller (JE | ) Russian rabbi; born in Koidanov, government of Minsk. 1814; died at Plungian, government of Kovno, Nov. 14, 1861. He was a...
 * 10) Joshua Heller (JE | ) Russian rabbi and preacher; born 1814; died at Telshi, government of Kovno, June 2, 1880. After having been for several years...
 * 11) Menahem Heller (JE | ) -- See H575: Heller, &#7826;ebi Hirsch
 * 12) Seligmann Heller JE (JE | ) Austrian poet and journalist; born at Raudnitz, Bohemia, July 8, 1831; died in Vienna Jan. 8, 1890. After completing his course...
 * 13) Stephen Heller (JE | ) Hungarian pianist and composer; born at Budapest May 15, 1815; died in Paris Jan. 14, 1888. He was originally destined for...
 * 14) Yom-Tob Lipmann ben Nathan ben Moses Levi Heller JE (JE | ) Rabbi and liturgical poet; born at Wallerstein, Bavaria, 1579; died at Cracow Sept. 7, 1654. Erroneously the editor of the...
 * 15) Zebi Hirsch Heller (JE | ) Hungarian rabbi; died at Alt-Ofen Oct. 28, 1834. Heller was rabbi at Bonyh&#225;d. In 1834 he was called to Alt-Ofen as successor...
 * 16) Helmet (JE | ) in olden times the helmet seems to have been worn only by kings, military officers, and other important officials. At least...
 * 17) Helpful Thoughts (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 18) Franz Heltay (JE | ) Hungarian deputy; born in Szentes March 15, 1861; studied law and political economy in Budapest. After having become a member...
 * 19) Heman (JE | ) 1. Son of Joel and grandson of the prophet Samuel; surnamed "the Singer"; a Kohathite (I Chron. vi. 19). He was one of the...
 * 20) Hemdan (JE | ) the eldest son of Dishon the Horite (Gen. xxxvi. 26). In the parallel list in I Chron. i. 41 this name is changed to "Hamran"...

581 – 600

 * 1) Félix Hément (JE | ) French educator; born at Avignon Jan. 22, 1827; died at Nanterre (Seine) Oct. 5, 1891. H&#233;ment was a schoolmaster all...
 * 2) Michel Hemerdinger (JE | ) French jurist; born at Colmar, Alsace, May 1, 1809; died in Paris June 22, 1880. After taking the degree of bachelor of letters...
 * 3) Hemerobaptists (JE | ) Division of Essenes who bathed every morning before the hour of prayer in order to pronounce the name of God with a clean...
 * 4) Hen (JE | ) There is no mention of the hen in the Old Testament, though "barburim abusim" (I Kings v. 3) is taken in B. M. 86b for "fattened...
 * 5) Hen, Chen (JE | ) -- See G402: Gracian
 * 6) Hena (JE | ) Rabshakeh&#39;s enumeration of the monarchies reduced by the King of Assyria terminates with the words "Hena&#39; we-&#39...
 * 7) Ernest Hendlé (JE | ) French statesman; born at Paris Feb. 15, 1844; died Feb. 7, 1900. Hendl&#233; was educated for the bar and had a brilliant...
 * 8) Hendricks (JE | ) American family whose genealogy may be found on page 346.
 * 9) Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg (JE | ) German Bible exegete; born Oct. 20, 1802, at Fr&#246;ndenberg, Westphalia; died at Berlin May 28, 1869; studied theology and...
 * 10) Alfred, Freiherr von Henikstein (JE | ) Austrian general; born Aug. 11, 1810, at Ober-D&#246;bling; died Jan. 29, 1882, in Vienna. He was the son of the banker Joseph...
 * 11) Elise Henle (JE | ) German novelist and dramatist; born in Munich 1830; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Aug. 18, 1892; she was a niece of the poetess...
 * 12) Elkan Henle (JE | ) One of the earliest champions of the emancipation of the Jews in Bavaria; born Dec. 7, 1761, in F&#252;rth; died there Oct...
 * 13) Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle (JE | ) After spending two years in Paris, where he took a postgraduate course, he returned to Germany and became assistant to Johannes...
 * 14) Sigmund von Henle (JE | ) Bavarian deputy; born June 30, 1821; died at Munich Oct. 9, 1901. He was a descendant of L&#246;b Berlin, the district rabbi...
 * 15) Eduard Heinrich Henoch JE (JE | ) German physician; born at Berlin June 16, 1820. After taking the degree of M.D. there (1843), he began to practise as a specialist...
 * 16) Moses Henochs (JE | ) Talmudist; lived at Jerusalem about 1570. He was the author of "Mar&#39;ah ha-Sorefet," a devotional work, translated into...
 * 17) Henriques (JE | ) This American family, connected with that of the same name in Amsterdam and London, traces its pedigree back to Jacob Henriques...
 * 18) Amos Henriques (JE | ) English physician; born in Jamaica 1812; died June 5, 1880. He went to England in 1830 to study medicine, entered St. Thomas&#39...
 * 19) David Quixano Henriques (JE | ) Anglo-Jewish reformer; born May 13, 1804; died in London March 6, 1870; son of Abraham Q. Henriques. He was a director of...
 * 20) Jacob Quixano Henriques (JE | ) West-Indian merchant; born at Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1811; died in London Oct. 17, 1898. A son of Abraham Q. Henriques, he...

601 – 620

 * 1) Robert Martin Henriques (JE | ) Danish musician, composer, and author; born in Copenhagen Dec. 14, 1858. He received instruction in violoncello from Bendix...
 * 2) Isabella Henriquez (Enriquez) (JE | ) Spanish poetess; lived at Madrid; died after 1680. She distinguished herself in the different academies at Madrid. Isaac (Fernando)...
 * 3) Henry II (JE | ) King of Castile; born at Seville in 1333; died in 1379; illegitimate brother of Pedro I. He was as hostile to the Jews as...
 * 4) Emma Henry (JE | ) English poetess; born Sept. 17, 1788; died Dec. 30, 1870; daughter of the Rev. Solomon Lyon, professor of Hebrew at Cambridge...
 * 5) Henry A Henry (JE | ) Anglo-American rabbi and Hebraist; born in London 1800; died at San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 4, 1879. He was educated at the...
 * 6) Michael Henry (JE | ) English journalist and mechanician; born at Kennington, London, Feb. 19, 1830; died in London June 15, 1875. He was educatedat...
 * 7) August Wilhelm Eduard Theodor Henschel (JE | ) German physician and botanist; born in Breslau Dec. 20, 1790; died there July 24, 1856; educated at the medical and surgical...
 * 8) Elias H Henschel (JE | ) German physician; born at Breslau April 4, 1755; died in 1839; father of A. W. Henschel. He commenced life as an errand-boy...
 * 9) Georg (Isidor) Henschel (JE | ) German composer and baritone singer; born Feb. 18, 1850, at Breslau, where he studied with Wandelt and Sch&#228;ffer. He made...
 * 10) Hep! Hep! (JE | ) A cry stated to have been used by the Crusaders during their attacks upon the Jews. It appears, however, to have been first...
 * 11) Hepher (JE | ) 1. A son of Gilead (Num. xxvi. 32, xxvii. 1; Josh. xvii. 2-3). The clan was known as the Hepherites (Num. xxvi. 32). 2. One...
 * 12) Hephzi-bah UNR (JE | ) 1. Name to be borne by the restored Jerusalem (Isa. lxii. 4), in token that God will not abandon it. 2. Name of the queen...
 * 13) Adolf Hepner (JE | ) German-American journalist; born at Schmiegel, Posen, Nov. 24, 1846; educated at the gymnasium at Lissa, the rabbinical seminary...
 * 14) Heraldry (JE | ) -- See C551: Coat of Arms
 * 15) Herbs (JE | ) -- See B1363: Botany
 * 16) Moriz Herczeghy (JE | ) Hungarian physician and author; born in Budapest Aug. 19, 1815; died in Vienna Dec. 23, 1884. He studied medicine in Budapest...
 * 17) Manó Herczel (JE | ) Hungarian physician; born in Szegedin July 1, 1861; studied successively in his native city, in Ujvid&#233;k, in Budapest...
 * 18) Johann Gottfried Von Herder (JE | ) German Protestant theologian, poet, and writer; born at Mohrungen, East Prussia, Aug. 25, 1744; died at Weimar Dec. 21, 1803...
 * 19) Paulus (Pablo) de Heredia (JE | ) Spanish anti-Jewish writer; born about 1405 in Aragon; died at an advanced age after 1486. Baptized late in life, he attacked...
 * 20) Hereford (JE | ) County town of Herefordshire, England, situated on the River Wye, of some commercial importance in early times. When Richard...

621 – 640

 * 1) Herem, Cherem (JE | ) -- See E544: Excommunication
 * 2) Heres UNR (JE | ) City in Egypt, mentioned in Isa. xix. 18: "In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language...
 * 3) Heresy and Heretics >> Heresy in Judaism JE (JE | ) the Greek term &#940;&#943;&#961;&#949;&#963;&#953;&#962; originally denoted "division," "sect," "religious" or "philosophical...
 * 4) Heritage (JE | ) -- See I140: Inheritance
 * 5) Hermanmiestetz JE (JE | ) City in Bohemia. Jews were living there as early as 1509, engaged in commerce and money-lending; but the Jewish community...
 * 6) Ludimar Hermann (JE | ) German physiologist; born in Berlin Oct. 21, 1838; M.D. Berlin, 1859. He engaged in practise in his native city, and in 1865...
 * 7) Hermeneutics (JE | ) -- See B1029: Bible Exegesis
 * 8) Books of Hermes (JE | ) Hermes (the Greek Mercury), in popular belief the leader of souls to Hades, was in later times identified in Egypt with the...
 * 9) Hermon (JE | ) Mountain on the northeastern border of Palestine; the culminating point of the Anti-Lebanon range, at the springs of the Jordanand...
 * 10) Herod I (JE | ) King of Judea 40-4 B.C.; founder of the Herodian dynasty; born about 73 B.C.; son of Antipater, and, consequently, of Idumean...
 * 11) Herod II (JE | ) King of Chalcis; son of Aristobulus and Berenice; grandson of Herod I. and the first Mariamne; brother of Agrippa I. and Herodias...
 * 12) Herod Agrippa I (JE | ) -- See A912: Agrippa
 * 13) Herod Agrippa II (JE | ) -- See A913: Agrippa
 * 14) Herod Antipas (JE | ) -- See A1597: Antipas (Herod Antipas)
 * 15) Herod Philip (JE | ) -- See H635: Philip Herod
 * 16) Pedigree of Herodian Dynasty (JE | ) On page 361 is a genealogical tree of the family of Herod, which succeeded the Hasmoneans. The family was of Idumean origin...
 * 17) Herodians (JE | ) Priestly party under the reign of King Herod and his successors; called by the Rabbis "Boethusians," as adherents of the family...
 * 18) Herodias (JE | ) Daughter of Aristobulus and Berenice and granddaughter of Herod I...
 * 19) Herodium (JE | ) Fortified city three leagues south of Jerusalem; founded by Herod I. It was built on a rocky and rugged hill. Its citadel...
 * 20) Heron (JE | ) Enumerated among the unclean birds (Lev. xi. 19 [R. V. margin, "ibis"]; Deut. xiv. 18; comp. Targ., where the context points...

641 – 660

 * 1) Alonzo de Herrera (JE | ) Cabalist; born in Spain; died in Amsterdam, Holland, 1631. According to D. L. de Barrios, Herrera was descended from the famous...
 * 2) Leo Herrmann (JE | ) French painter; born in Paris July 12, 1853. He was a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at Paris, and exhibited his first...
 * 3) Sir William Herschel (JE | ) English astronomer; born at Hanover Nov. 15, 1738; died at Slough, near Windsor, England, Aug. 22, 1822. His Jewish descent...
 * 4) Lord Farrer Herschell (JE | ) Lord Chancellor of England; born 1837; died March 1, 1899. His father was the Rev. Ridley H. Herschell. He was educated at...
 * 5) Ridley Haim Herschell (JE | ) Missionary to the Jews; born at Strzelno, Prussian Poland, April 7, 1807; died at Brighton, England, April 14, 1864. The son...
 * 6) Solomon Herschell (JE | ) Chief rabbi of the Ashkenazim in England; born in London 1762, during the rabbinate of his father, R. Hirsch Levin; died there...
 * 7) Henrik Hertz (JE | ) Danish poet; born Aug. 25, 1798, at Copenhagen; died there Feb. 25, 1870. He studied law at the University of Copenhagen,...
 * 8) Joseph Herman Hertz (JE | ) American rabbi; born at Rebrin, Zempl&#233;n Comitat, Hungary, Sept. 25, 1872; educated at the College of the City of New...
 * 9) Joseph Hertzberg (JE | ) Russian author; born in Moghilef, on the Dniester, at the beginning of the nineteenth century; died there 1870. He received...
 * 10) Theodor Hertzka JE (JE | ) Austrian economist and journalist; born July 13, 1845, at Budapest. He studied at the universities of Vienna and Budapest...
 * 11) Estella Dorothea Salomea Hertzveld (JE | ) Dutch poetess; born at the Hague July 14, 1837; died at Arnhem Nov. 4, 1881; granddaughter of Chief Rabbi H. J. Hertzveld...
 * 12) Hartog Hertzveld (JE | ) Dutch rabbi; born at Glockau Nov. 19, 1781; died at Zwolle Jan. 30, 1864. He was the son of the rabbi of K&#246;nigsberg,...
 * 13) Salomon Herxheimer (JE | ) German rabbi; born Feb. 6, 1801, at Dotzheim, near Wiesbaden; died Dec. 25, 1884, at Berenberg. At the age of thirteen he...
 * 14) Cornelius Herz (JE | ) French electrician; born in Besan&#231;on 1848; died in Bournemouth, England, July 6, 1898. Herz&#39;s parents were Germans...
 * 15) Elise Herz (von L& JE (JE | ) Austrian philanthropist; born at Prague Dec. 20, 1788; died at Vienna July 25, 1868. Her home in Prague was an intellectual...
 * 16) Henri Herz (JE | ) Austrian pianist; born at Vienna Jan. 6, 1806; died at Paris Jan. 5, 1888. He commenced his studies at Coblenz under the guidance...
 * 17) Henriette Herz (JE | ) German leader of society; born in Berlin Sept. 5, 1764; died there Oct. 22, 1847. From her father, de Lemos, a physician,...
 * 18) Jacob Herz (JE | ) German physician; born at Bayreuth Feb. 2, 1816; died at Erlangen Sept. 27, 1871; educated at the gymnasium of Bayreuth and...
 * 19) Jacques-Simon Herz (JE | ) Pianist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Dec. 31, 1794; died at Nice Jan. 27, 1880. He went to Paris when a child, and in 1807...
 * 20) Markus Herz JE (JE | ) German physician and lecturer on philosophy; born June 17, 1747, at Berlin; died there Jan. 19, 1803. The son of very poor...

661 – 680

 * 1) Herz-Medelsheim (JE | ) -- See C305: Cerfbeer, Herz, of Medelsheim
 * 2) Leo Herzberg-Fränkel (JE | ) Austrian writer; born at Brody, Galicia, Sept. 19, 1827. At the age of seventeen he went for a year to Bessarabia, and on...
 * 3) Sigmund Herzberg-Fränkel (JE | ) Austrian historian; born at Brody, Galicia, March 7, 1857; son of Leo Herzberg-Fr&#228;nkel. He studied law at the University...
 * 4) Grigori Markovich Herzenstein (JE | ) Russian physician; born in St. Petersburg 1851; died there 1899. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Medico-Surgical Academy...
 * 5) Solomon Markovich Herzenstein (JE | ) Russian zoologist; born 1854; died 1894; graduated in natural sciences and mathematics from the St. Petersburg University...
 * 6) Adolf Herzfeld (JE | ) German actor; born April 9, 1800, at Hamburg; died at Vienna March 24, 1874; son of Jacob Herzfeld. He made his d&#233;but...
 * 7) Albrecht Herzfeld (JE | ) Austrian actor; born June 7, 1840, at Vienna; son of Adolf Herzfeld. He received his education at the gymnasium of his native...
 * 8) Jacob Herzfeld (JE | ) German actor and theatrical manager; born at Dessau Jan. 3, 1769; died at Hamburg Oct. 24, 1826. After studying medicine at...
 * 9) Jacob Herzfeld (JE | ) German chemist; born at M&#252;lheim, near Cologne, June 17, 1859; educated at the gymnasium and technical high school of...
 * 10) Levi Herzfeld JE (JE | ) German rabbi and historian; born Dec. 27, 1810, at Ellrich; died at Brunswick March 11, 1884. Having chosen the rabbinical...
 * 11) Siegmund Herzl (JE | ) Austrian merchant and novelist; born at Vienna May 26, 1830; died there Feb. 9, 1889. He wrote: "Liederbuch eines Dorfpoeten...
 * 12) Theodor Herzl (JE | ) Leader of political Zionism; born in Budapest May 2, 1860. Herzl settled in Vienna in his boyhood, and was educated there...
 * 13) Jakob Herzog (JE | ) Austrian writer; born at Misslitz, Moravia, June 17, 1842. He was educated at Br&#246;nn, Vienna, and Graz. When only seventeen...
 * 14) Heshbon (JE | ) Town originally belonging to Moab; mentioned in Num. xxi. 25 et seq.; Deut. i. 4, iii. 6, iv. 26, xxix. 7; Josh. ix. 10; xii...
 * 15) Heshwan, Cheshwan (Marheshwan) (JE | ) the eighth month in the Hebrew calendar. The name is not found in the Bible, since it was introduced after theBabylonian exile...
 * 16) Hesped (JE | ) -- See F452: Funeral Oration
 * 17) Ernst Friedrich Hess (JE | ) German convert to Christianity and anti-Jewish writer; lived in the sixteenth century. He was the author of "Neue Judengeissel...
 * 18) Isaac Hess (JE | ) Advocate of Jewish emancipation in W&#252;rttemberg; born in Lauchheim, near Ellwangen, in 1789; died Oct. 6, 1866. Destined...
 * 19) Mendel Hess JE (JE | ) German rabbi; born at Lengsfeld, Saxe-Weimar, March 17, 1807; died at Eisenach Sept. 21, 1871. He was one of the first Jewish...
 * 20) Michael Hess (JE | ) German educator and author; born in Stadt-Lengsfeld, Weimar, April 9, 1782; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Feb. 26, 1860; brother...

681 – 700

 * 1) Moses (Moritz) Hess (JE | ) Jewish socialist and nationalist; born at Bonn June 21, 1812; died in Paris April 6, 1875; buried in the Jewish cemetery at...
 * 2) Albert Hessberg (JE | ) American lawyer; born at Albany, N. Y., Dec. 13, 1856. He commenced the study of law there in the office of Rufus W. Peckham...
 * 3) Hesse (JE | ) Former landgraviate of the German-Roman empire. The only Jews mentioned in documents relating to its early history are those...
 * 4) Hesse-Nassau (JE | ) -- See N83: Nassau
 * 5) Het, Chet (JE | ) Eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The name, perhaps, means "hedge," "fence"; on the form, which is Aramaic, see Alphabet...
 * 6) Het Nederlandsche Israeliet (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 7) Heth (JE | ) Second son of Canaan (Gen. x. 15; I Chron. i. 13) and, apparently, the progenitor of the Hittites. Heth&#39;s descendants...
 * 8) Hethlon (JE | ) Place referred to in Ezekiel (xlvii. 15, xlviii. 1); situated on the northern boundary of Israel as ideally projected by that...
 * 9) Joseph Hevesi (JE | ) Hungarian author and journalist; born March 15, 1857; studied at the high school in Keeskem&#233;t, and graduated from the...
 * 10) Ludwig Hevesi (JE | ) Hungarian journalist and author; born Dec. 20, 1843, in Heves, Hungary. He began to study medicine and classical philology...
 * 11) Hewers of Wood (JE | ) Menial servants. The Gibeonites who attempted to deceive Joshua were condemned by the princes of Israel to be hewers of wood...
 * 12) Hexapla (JE | ) -- See O128: Origen.
 * 13) Hexateuch (JE | ) the first six books of the Bible; the Pentateuch taken together with the Book of Joshua as one originally connected work....
 * 14) Heinrich Heydemann (JE | ) German archeologist; born at Greifswald Aug. 28, 1842; died at Halle Oct. 10, 1889; studied classical philology and archeology...
 * 15) Solomon Heydenfeldt (JE | ) American jurist; born in Charleston, S. C., 1816; died at San Francisco Sept. 15, 1890. When twenty-one years old he left...
 * 16) Elias Heyman (JE | ) Swedish physician; born at G&#246;teborg in 1829; died in 1889. He studied medicine at Lund and at the Karolinska Institut...
 * 17) Isaac H Heymann (JE | ) Dutch cantor and composer; born about 1834; son of Phinchas Heymann. After having made several tours through Hungary, Heymann...
 * 18) Karl Heymann (JE | ) German pianist; born at Filehne, Posen, Oct. 6, 1853; son of Isaac H. Heymann. He received his early musical education at...
 * 19) Paul Heymann (JE | ) German laryngoscopist; born at Pankow, near Berlin, 1849; studied medicine at Berlin and Heidelberg (M.D., Berlin, 1874)....
 * 20) Hezekiah (JE | ) 1. King of Judah (726-697 B.C.). &#8212;Biblical Data: Son of Ahaz and Abi or Abijah; ascended the throne at the age of twenty-five...

701 – 720

 * 1) Hezekiah (Gaon) JE (JE | ) Principal of the academy at Pumbedita (1038-40). A member of an exilarchal family, he was elected to the office of principal...
 * 2) Hezekiah (the Zealot) (JE | ) A martyr whom some scholars identify with Hezekiah ben Garon of the Talmud (Shab. 12a, 13b, 98b, 99a). He fought for Jewish...
 * 3) Hezekiah ben Jacob (JE | ) German rabbi and tosafist; martyred at Bacharach in 1283. He was an uncle and teacher of Me&#239;r of Rothenburg and a pupil...
 * 4) Hezekiah ben Manoah JE (JE | ) French exegete of the thirteenth century. In memory of his father, who lost his right hand through his stead-fastness in the...
 * 5) Hezekiah ben Parnak (JE | ) Palestinian amora; lived at the end of the third century. The only mention of him is in Berakot 63a, in connection with the...
 * 6) Hezekiah Roman ben Isaac ibn Pakuda (JE | ) Turkish scholar; flourished at Constantinople in 1600. He was the author of "Zikron ha-Sefarim," a catalogue of all the grammatical...
 * 7) Hezekiah Sefardi (JE | ) -- See P401: Poland
 * 8) Hezir (JE | ) 1. A priest, chief of the seventeenth monthly course in the service; appointed by David (I Chron. xxiv. 15). 2. A layman,...
 * 9) Hezro (JE | ) A native of Carmel, one of David&#39;s heroes (II Sam. xxiii. 35, R. V.; I Chron. xi. 37). The "Keri," however, in the...
 * 10) Hezron (JE | ) 1. Son of Reuben and founder of the family of the Hezronites (Gen. xlvi. 9; Ex. vi. 14; Num. xxvi. 6). 2. Son of Pharez and...
 * 11) Hibat Allah abu al-Barakat b. &#39;Ali b. Malka (Malkan) al-Baladi (JE | ) Arabian physician of the twelfth century; born in Bassora. He went to Bagdad in order to study medicine under the physician...
 * 12) Hibbut ha-Keber, Chibbut ha-Keber (JE | ) One of the seven modes of judgment or of punishment man undergoes after death, as described in the treatise "&#7716;ibbu&#7789...
 * 13) Hiddekel (JE | ) -- See T213: Tigris
 * 14) Hiddushim, Chiddushim (JE | ) Technical name of a certain class of commentaries, consisting of a number of single, "new" remarks, additions, and explanations...
 * 15) Hidka, Chidka (JE | ) Tanna of the middle of the second century. He is quoted only in the Baraita, and is best known for the halakah (Shab. 117b)...
 * 16) Hiel (JE | ) A Bethelite who rebuilt Jericho in the reign of Ahab (I Kings xvi. 34). The curse pronounced by Joshua (vi. 26) was fulfilled...
 * 17) Hierapolis (JE | ) City in Phrygia, Asia Minor; mentioned in Col. iv. 13 together with the neighboring Laodicea. It was a prosperous city during...
 * 18) Hierei (JE | ) Term used to denote the priests in the constitution of the Jewish community in Rome. Even so late as the fourth century...
 * 19) Hieronymus (JE | ) -- See J239: Jerome
 * 20) High Place (JE | ) A raised space primitively on a natural, later also on an artificial, elevation devoted to and equipped for the sacrificial...

721 – 740

 * 1) High Priest JE (JE | ) Aaron, though he is but rarely called "the great priest," being generally simply designated "as ha- kohen" (the priest), was...
 * 2) The Bishop Hilary (JE | ) -- See A1784: Arles
 * 3) Isidor Hilberg JE (JE | ) Austrian philologist; born May 28, 1852, at Byelaya Tzerkov, Ukraine, Russia. In 1856 he went with his parents to Vienna,...
 * 4) Hildesheim (JE | ) Town in the Prussian province of Hanover. At what time Jews were first admitted to this old episcopal city is uncertain. In...
 * 5) Israel (Azriel) Hildesheimer JE (JE | ) German rabbi, and leader of Orthodox Judaism; born at Halberstadt May 20, 1820; died at Berlin July 12, 1899; son of R. L&#246...
 * 6) Samuel ben Joseph Hildesheimer (JE | ) Rabbi at Frankfort-on-the-Main (1618-22). He reorganized the Jewish congregation, whose administration, in consequence of...
 * 7) Hilfa, Chilfa (JE | ) -- See H105: &#7716;alafta
 * 8) Hilkiah (JE | ) High priest in the reign of Josiah (II Kings xxii. 4 et seq.). It is probable that he was the Hilkiah ben Shallum who figures...
 * 9) Hillah (JE | ) -- See B1593: Me&#239;r
 * 10) Hillel JE (JE | ) Doctor of the Law at Jerusalem in the time of King Herod; founder of the school called after him, and ancestor of the patriarchs...
 * 11) Hillel II (JE | ) Patriarch (330-365); son and successor of Judah III. Only in two instances is his name quoted in connection with halakot:...
 * 12) Hillel b. Berechiah (Jeberechiah) (JE | ) Palestinian haggadist. He is cited only once under this name, and then as author of an interpretation which elsewhere is attributed...
 * 13) Hillel ben Eliakim (JE | ) Greek Talmudist of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. He was a pupil of Rashi, and is mentioned by Mordecai b. Hillel (Haggahot...
 * 14) Hillel of Erfurt (JE | ) Talmudic authority; lived at Erfurt in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; a contemporary of Shalom of Neustadt, and a...
 * 15) Hillel ben Gamaliel III (JE | ) Scholar of the second amoraic generation (3d cent.), son of Gamaliel III., brother of Judah II., and probably a pupil of his...
 * 16) Hillel ben Naphtali Herz (JE | ) Lithuanian rabbi; born at Brest-Litovsk in 1615; died at Zolkiev Jan. 3, 1690. After he had studied under Hirsh Darshan, Hillel...
 * 17) Hillel ben Samuel JE (JE | ) Italian physician, philosopher, and Talmudist; born about 1220; died about 1295. He was the grandson of the Talmudic scholar...
 * 18) Hillel b. Samuel b. Nahman (JE | ) Palestinian haggadist of the fourth century. It may be assumed that his father was his teacher; but he had other instructors...
 * 19) Hillel b. Zebi Hirsch Mileikovsky (Hillel Salauter) (JE | ) Russian rabbi; born in Zareche, a suburb of Wilna, 1819; died in Mstislavl, government of Moghilef, June 1, 1899. At the age...
 * 20) Hilleli (JE | ) -- See B1031: Bible Manuscripts

741 – 760

 * 1) Eduard Hiller (JE | ) German philologist; nephew of Ferdinand Hiller; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main April 14, 1844; died at Halle March 7, 1891...
 * 2) Ferdinand Hiller (JE | ) German composer and musical writer; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Oct. 24, 1811; died at Cologne May 10, 1885. He studied...
 * 3) Morris Hillquit (JE | ) American lawyer and socialist; born at Riga, Russia, Aug. 1, 1870, educated at the gymnasium of that town. He emigrated to...
 * 4) Hillukim, Chillukim (JE | ) -- See P318: Pilpul
 * 5) Himyarites (JE | ) -- See S20: Sabeans
 * 6) Hin (JE | ) -- See W81: Weights and Measures
 * 7) Hinnom (JE | ) -- See G116: Ge-hinnom
 * 8) Hippocrates (JE | ) Greek physician; born in Cos 460 B.C.; died at Larissa in Thessaly about 360 B.C. He studied medicine under Herodicus of Selymbria...
 * 9) Hippolytus (JE | ) Christian theologian of the second and third centuries; schismatic Bishop of Rome in opposition to Calixtus I. (217); deported...
 * 10) Hippos (JE | ) One of the cities of the Decapolis in Palestine, the site of which is uncertain. For the identifications of the ancient geographers...
 * 11) Hirah (JE | ) An Adullamite, the friend of Judah, at whose house the latter stopped after the sale of Joseph (Gen. xxxviii. 1). Hirah accompanied...
 * 12) Hiram, Huram (JE | ) King of Tyre in the time of David and Solomon. After David had conquered Jerusalem, Hiram sent him cedar-wood and carpenters...
 * 13) Hired men (JE | ) -- See H754: Hiring and Letting
 * 14) Hiring and Letting (JE | ) Hiring is a transaction by which parties, for a compensation, contract for a definite period for (a) the use of property or...
 * 15) Albert Hirsch (JE | ) Austrian playwright; born in Vienna June 29, 1841. He was first a public-school-teacher; then went on the stage, playing,...
 * 16) Alphonse Hirsch (JE | ) French painter; born in Paris 1843; died there July 15, 1884. He was a pupil of Meissonier and Bonnat, and began by sketching...
 * 17) August Hirsch (JE | ) German physician and medico-historical writer; born at Danzig Oct. 4, 1817; died at Berlin Jan. 28, 1894. After having followed...
 * 18) Clara de Hirsch (Baroness de Hirsch-Gereuth) (JE | ) Wife of Baron Maurice de Hirsch; born at Antwerp June 13, 1833; died in Paris April 1, 1899. Her mother was a sister of Solomon...
 * 19) David Hirsch (JE | ) German instructor of deafmutes; born at M&#252;ntz, Rhenish Prussia, May 23, 1813; died at Rmotterdam Feb. 2, 1895. He studied...
 * 20) Emil Gustav Hirsch (JE | ) American rabbi; professor of rabbinical literature and philosophy in the University of Chicago; born in the grand duchy of...

761 – 780

 * 1) Fischl Hirsch (JE | ) Hebrew bookseller; died at Berlin June 5, 1899. About 1860 he settled at Halberstadt, and founded a Jewish printing and publishing...
 * 2) Franz Arnold Hirsch (JE | ) Austrian dramatist and miscellaneous writer; born in Horitz, Bohemia, June 15, 1815; died in Vienna Nov. 24, 1896. After leaving...
 * 3) Baron de Hirsch Fund (JE | ) A fund of $2,400,000 for ameliorating the condition of certain Jewish immigrants to the United States. This fund was incorporated...
 * 4) Gaston Hirsch (JE | ) French dramatic author; born at Metz 1830. His chief plays are: "Le Pr&#233;jug&#233;"; "Un Malheureux Caract&#232;re"; "La...
 * 5) Jacob Von Hirsch (JE | ) German banker; grandfather of Maurice de Hirsch; born in 1764 at K&#246;nigshofen, near W&#252;rzburg; died March 23, 1841...
 * 6) Hirsch Janow JE (JE | ) Polish rabbi; born about 1750; died at F&#252;rth, Bavaria, Nov. 13, 1785. On account of his great keenness in Talmudical...
 * 7) Jenny Hirsch (JE | ) German authoress and advocate of women&#39;s rights; born Nov. 25, 1829, at Zerbst, Anhalt; died March 9, 1902, at Berlin...
 * 8) Joseph Von Hirsch (JE | ) German banker; father of Maurice de Hirsch; born July 2, 1805, at W&#252;rzburg; died Dec. 9, 1885, at Munich. After completing...
 * 9) Levin Joseph Hirsch (JE | ) German physician; born at Schottland, near Danzig, 1758; died at K&#246;nigsberg May 29, 1823. Destined by his parents for...
 * 10) Markus Hirsch (JE | ) Chief rabbi of Hamburg; born at Tisza-Be&#246;, Hungary, Feb. 17, 1833. In 1853 he went to Prague, where he became the pupil...
 * 11) Baron Maurice de Hirsch (Moritz Hirsch, Freiherr auf Gereuth) (JE | ) German philanthropist; born at Munich Dec. 9, 1831; died near Ersek-Ujvar, Hungary, April 21, 1896; eldest son of Baron Joseph...
 * 12) Max Hirsch (JE | ) German economist and deputy; born in Halberstadt Dec. 30, 1832. His parents removed at the end of the thirties to Magdeburg...
 * 13) Samson Raphael Hirsch (JE | ) German rabbi; born at Hamburg June 20, 1808; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Dec. 31, 1888. His father, though a merchant, devoted...
 * 14) Samuel Hirsch JE (JE | ) American rabbi; born at Thalfang, near Treves, Rhenish Prussia, June 8, 1815; died in Chicago, Ill., May 14, 1889; educated...
 * 15) Hirsch School Journal (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 16) Siegfried Hirsch (JE | ) German historian; born at Berlin Nov. 5, 1816; died at Paris Sept. 11, 1860; cousin of Theodor Hirsch. From 1833 to 1836 he...
 * 17) Solomon Hirsch (JE | ) American merchant, diplomatist, and politician; son of Samson Hirsch and Ella Kuhn; born in W&#252;rttemberg March 25, 1839...
 * 18) Theodor Hirsch (JE | ) German historian; born Dec. 17, 1806, at Altschottland, near Danzig; died Feb. 17, 1881. He studied theology, history, and...
 * 19) Hirschberg (JE | ) -- See S712: Silesia
 * 20) Ernst Hirschberg (JE | ) German statistician; born March 8, 1859, at K&#246;nigsberg, East Prussia. He was educated in his native town, graduating...

781 – 800

 * 1) Julius Hirschberg (JE | ) German ophthalmologist; born at Potsdam Sept. 18, 1843. He received his education at the gymnasium of his native town and...
 * 2) Hirschel (JE | ) -- See V107: Voltaire
 * 3) Levi Elias Hirschel (JE | ) German physician; born Oct. 8, 1741, at Berlin; died there Dec. 17, 1772; educated at the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in his...
 * 4) Hirschel Levin (JE | ) -- See L277: Levin, Hirschel
 * 5) Moses Hirschel (Christian Moritz Hirschel) (JE | ) German writer; born at Breslau Sept. 13, 1754; continued to live in that city. On being baptized (1804) he took the name of...
 * 6) Isaac M Hirschensohn (JE | ) Jerusalem Talmudist; bibliophile; born at Pinsk, in the government of Minsk, Russia, in 1844. As a boy of three he accompanied...
 * 7) Gustav Hirschfeld (JE | ) German archeologist, geographer, and topographer; born Nov. 4, 1847, at Pyritz, Pomerania; died April 20, 1895, at Wiesbaden...
 * 8) Hartwig Hirschfeld (JE | ) English Orientalist; born at Thorn, Prussia. He studied at Posen, at the universities of Berlin and Strasburg, and at Paris...
 * 9) Ludwik Maurycy Hirschfeld (JE | ) Polish anatomist; born at Nadarzyn, government of Warsaw, 1816; died at Warsaw 1876. Hirschfeld received a Talmudical education...
 * 10) Otto Hirschfeld (JE | ) German historian, epigrapher, and archeologist; born March 16, 1843, at K&#246;nigsberg, Prussia. He studied philology and...
 * 11) Robert Hirschfeld (musical critic) (JE | ) Austrian writer on music; born Sept. 17, 1857, in Moravia; educated at the universities of Breslau and Vienna. He also studied...
 * 12) Joseph Oakland Hirschfelder (JE | ) American physician; born at Oakland, Cal., Sept. 8, 1854. He received his education at San Francisco, Cal., and at the universities...
 * 13) Solomon Hirschfelder (JE | ) German genre painter; born May 16, 1832, at Dettensee, near Horb, on the Neckar; died at Munich May 10, 1903. He was a student...
 * 14) Hermann Hirschfeldt (JE | ) German physician; born at Neustettin July 30, 1825; died at Colberg June 17, 1885; M.D. Greifswald, 1852. During the two following...
 * 15) Adolf Hirschl (JE | ) Hungarian painter; born at Temesvar, Hungary, Jan. 31, 1860; studied (1874-1882) at the Vienna Academy, where for two years...
 * 16) Ignaz Hirschler (JE | ) Hungarian oculist; born at Presburg 1823; died at Budapest Nov. 11, 1891. He studied medicine at Vienna. After practising...
 * 17) Henri Louis Hirschmann (JE | ) French composer; born at Saint-Mand&#233;, department of the Seine, April 30, 1873. He studied under Andr&#233; Gedalge, and...
 * 18) Heinrich Hirschsprung (JE | ) Danish manufacturer and art-collector; born in Copenhagen Feb. 7, 1836; son of Abraham Marcus Hirschsprung (1793-1871), who...
 * 19) Leonard Leopoldovich Hirshman (JE | ) Russian oculist; born at Goldingen, Courland, in 1839. After graduating from the University of Kharkof he worked in the laboratories...
 * 20) Samuel Hirszenberg (JE | ) Polish painter; born at Lodz 1866. He studied at the Academy of Cracow from 1881 to 1885, and completed his studies at Munich...

801 – 820

 * 1) Hisda, Chisda JE (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the third generation; died in 620 of the Seleucidan era (= 308-309; Sherira Gaon, in Neubauer, "M. J....
 * 2) Historiography (JE | ) Method of writing history. In Bible times the Jews showed a strong historical sense, as evidenced by the series of books from...
 * 3) Historische Commission (JE | ) Commission appointed by the Deutsch-Israelitische Gemein-debund in 1885 for the collection and publication of material relating...
 * 4) Al-Hiti JE  (JE | ) Karaite chronicler; flourished (probably in Egypt) in the first half of the fifteenth century. He was a native of Hit (whence...
 * 5) Hitk& (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 6) Hittites (JE | ) A race of doubtful ethnic and linguistic affinities that occupied, from the sixteenth century until 717 B.C., a territory...
 * 7) Ferdinand Hitzig (JE | ) German Christian theologian; born at Hauingen, Baden, June 23, 1807; died at Heidelberg Jan. 22, 1875. After studying under...
 * 8) Hivites (JE | ) One of the Canaanitic nations dispossessed by the children of Israel (Gen. x. 17; Ex. xxiii. 23, 28; et al.). In the Hebrew...
 * 9) Hiwi al-Balkhi JE (JE | ) Exegete and Biblical critic of the last quarter of the ninth century; born at Balkh, Persia. He was the author of a work in...
 * 10) Hiyya bar Abba JE (JE | ) Palestinian amora of priestly descent; flourished at the end of the third century. In the Palestinian Talmud he is also called...
 * 11) Hiyya bar Abba UNR (JE | ) Palestinian tanna; born about the middle of the second century, at Kafri, near Sura in Babylonia; pupil of Judah I., and uncle...
 * 12) Hiyya bar Adda (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the first half of the third century; son of the sister of bar &#7730;appara; pupil of Simeon ben La&#7731...
 * 13) Hiyya al-Daudi JE (JE | ) Liturgical poet; died in Castile in 1154; descendant of the Babylonian nasi Hezekiah. Many selichot bearing the signature...
 * 14) Hiyya Gabriel (JE | ) Turkish Talmudist; lived at Safed in the seventeenth century. Wolf ("Bibl. Hebr." iii., No. 595) and Fuuml;rst ("Bibl. Jud...
 * 15) Hiyya b. Gammada (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the fourth generation (3d and 4th cent.). His principal teacher was Jose b. Saul, in whose name &#7716...
 * 16) Hiyya Kara (JE | ) Palestinian scholar of the third and fourth centuries. He was a pupil of Samuel b. Nachman, in whose name he asserted...
 * 17) Me& (JE | ) Italian Talmudist of the sixteenth century. He was dayyan of Venice 1510-20, during the rabbinate of Benedet ben Eliezer Acsildor...
 * 18) Hiyya b. Meria (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the fourth generation (3d and 4th cent.). &#7716;iyya is mentioned only in the Jerusalem Talmud; he was...
 * 19) Hiyya Rofe (JE | ) Rabbi of Safed; died in 1620. Having studied Talmud under Solomon Sagis and Cabala under &#7716;ayyim Vital, &#7716;iyya was...
 * 20) Hiyya ben Solomon Habib (JE | ) Spanish Talmudist of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; a native of Barcelona. He was a contemporary of Solomon Adret...

821 – 840

 * 1) Abraham Hladik (JE | ) Bohemian Talmudist; flourished about 1230. The name indicates a Czech origin, an assumption supported by the fact that in...
 * 2) Hobab (JE | ) Name occurring twice in the Bible, and borne either by Moses&#39; father-in-law or by his brother-in-law. In the first passage...
 * 3) Hobah (JE | ) Place to the north of Damascus to which Abraham pursued the defeated army of Chedorlaomer (Gen. xiv. 15). Wetzstein identified...
 * 4) H& (H&, Hochheimer, Hechim) (JE | ) Bavarian family, named after its original home in Hochheim. The following are its more important members: Elias ben &#7716...
 * 5) Hochmeister (JE | ) Name used in German medieval documents for "rabbi" or "grand rabbi." It seems to have been first used in the Palatinate in...
 * 6) Abraham Hochmuth (JE | ) Hungarian rabbi; born at B&#225;n, Hungary, Dec. 14, 1816; died at Veszprim June 10, 1889. While attending the University...
 * 7) Berlin Hochschule (JE | ) -- See L156: Lehranstalt f&#252;r Die Wissenschaft des Judenthums
 * 8) Benjamin Hochst& (JE | ) German rabbi; born 1810 at H&#252;rben, Bavaria; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Dec. 8, 1888. As teacher and preacher at Heddernheim...
 * 9) Lothar von Hochwart (JE | ) -- See F344: Frankl, Ludwig August, Ritter von Hochwart
 * 10) Simon Hock (JE | ) Austrian writer; born at Prague Nov. 27, 1815; died at Vienna Oct. 22, 1887. For several decades he gave his spare time to...
 * 11) Hodaviah (JE | ) 1. The son of Elioenai, one of the last members of the royal line of Judah (I Chron. iii. 24, the "ketib" being ). 2. A Levite...
 * 12) Hodu (JE | ) -- See H141: Hallel
 * 13) Joseph Hoffa (JE | ) German philologist and archeologist; born Aug. 18, 1803, at Cassel; died about 1843. His father was paymaster of the army...
 * 14) Leopold Hoffer (JE | ) Journalist and chess editor; born 1842, in Budapest. He removed to France about 1866, and began to play chess in Paris. In...
 * 15) Charles Isaiah Hoffman (JE | ) American editor and communal worker; born at Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 3, 1864; educated at the University of Pennsylvania,...
 * 16) David Hoffmann JE (JE | ) Rector of the Rabbinical Seminary at Berlin; born at Verb&#243;, Hungary, Nov. 24, 1843. After attending various yeshibot...
 * 17) Die Hoffnung (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 18) Isaak L&, Edler von Hofmannsthal JE (JE | ) Austrian merchant; born June 10, 1759, at Prostiebor, near Kladrau, in the district of Pilsen, Bohemia; died at Vienna Dec...
 * 19) Stanislaus Hoga (JE | ) English convert to Christianity; lived in London in the nineteenth century. He published "Songs of Zion," a selection of English...
 * 20) Hoham (JE | ) King of Hebron in the time of Joshua. He was one of the five kings who made war on the inhabitants of Gibeon to punish them...

841 – 860

 * 1) Der Hohe Rabbi L& (JE | ) -- See J647: Judah L&#246;w b. Bezaleel
 * 2) Hohenems (JE | ) Town in Vorarlberg, Austria, between Tyrol and Lake Constance. In 1890 it had a total population of 3,988, of whom 118 were...
 * 3) Hohenzollern (JE | ) Two principalities, Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, named from the castle of Zollern, in Swabia; formerly...
 * 4) Hol ha-Mo&, Chol ha-Mo& (JE | ) -- See H860: Holy Days
 * 5) Samuel Holdheim JE (JE | ) German rabbi and author; leader of the extreme wing of the Reform movement; born at Kempen, Posen, in 1806; died at Berlin...
 * 6) Holidays (JE | ) -- See H860: Holy Days
 * 7) Holiness (JE | ) Unapproachableness; the state of separation from, and elevation above, things common, profane, or sensual, first in a physical...
 * 8) Philip Holitscher (JE | ) Hungarian land holder and author; born in Budapest Aug. 19, 1822. His parents destined him for a mercantile career, and in...
 * 9) L& (JE | ) Polish scholar and author; born at Wistiniecz, government of Suwalki, Russian Poland, 1808; died in Paris Dec. 20, 1878. He...
 * 10) Holland (JE | ) -- See N197: Netherlands
 * 11) Jacob H Hollander (JE | ) Associate professor of political economy and head of the department of political economy in the Johns Hopkins University;...
 * 12) Ludwig Heinrich Holländer (JE | ) German dental surgeon; born at Leobsch&#252;tz Feb. 4, 1833; died at Halle March 14, 1897; educated at the universities at...
 * 13) Holle Kreish (JE | ) the ceremony of naming infants, especially girls, in the cradle ("shem ha&#39;arisah"), adopted by the German Jews from their...
 * 14) Holleschau (JE | ) City in Moravia, with about 5,600 inhabitants. The old ghetto of Holleschau still forms a separate township, and contains...
 * 15) Holocaust (JE | ) -- See B1612: Burnt Offering
 * 16) Holofernes, Holophernes (JE | ) General of Nebuchadnezzar, mentioned in the apocryphal Book of Judith; killed at Bethulia (Judith xiii. 6-8). The name is...
 * 17) Holon (JE | ) 1. City of Judah, in the Hebron hills, allotted, with its suburbs, to the priests (Josh. xv. 51, xxi. 15). In the parallel...
 * 18) Carsten Holst (JE | ) -- See B681: Bendix, Frits Emil
 * 19) Holy City (JE | ) -- See J242: Jerusalem
 * 20) Holy Days (JE | ) Upon the six holy days in the Jewish calendar&#8212;the first and seventh days of Passover, the first and eighth days of Sukkot...

861 – 880

 * 1) Holy Ghost (JE | ) -- See H865: Holy Spirit
 * 2) Holy of Holies (JE | ) That part of the Tabernacle and of the Temple which was regarded as possessing the utmost degree of holiness (or inaccessibility)...
 * 3) Holy Land (JE | ) -- See P31: Palestine
 * 4) Holy Scriptures (JE | ) -- See B1025: Bible Canon
 * 5) Holy Spirit (JE | ) the most noticeable difference between sentient beings and dead things, between the living and the dead, is in the breath...
 * 6) Michael Holzmann (JE | ) Austrian historian of literature; born at Slavaten, Moravia, June 21, 1860; studied at Lemberg, Vienna, and Berlin (Ph.D....
 * 7) Herz Homberg JE (JE | ) Austrian educator and writer; born at Lieben, near Prague, Sept., 1749; died Aug. 24, 1841. He studied Talmud at Prague, Presburg...
 * 8) Homburg (JE | ) -- See H683: Hesse
 * 9) Homel (JE | ) District town in the government of Moghilef, Russia, situated on the right bank of the River Sozh, an affluent of the Dnieper...
 * 10) Antonio Homem (JE | ) Jewish martyr; born in 1564 of Neo-Christian parents at Coimbra, Portugal; suffered death at the stake in Lisbon May 5, 1624...
 * 11) Homer (JE | ) -- See W81: Weights and Measures
 * 12) Homesh (JE | ) -- See P176: Pentateuch
 * 13) Homicide (JE | ) That bloodshed should be punished with bloodshed was, according to Scripture, proclaimed to Noah and his family ...
 * 14) Homiletics (JE | ) That branch of rhetoric which treats of the composition and delivery of sermons or homilies. Although from the very nature...
 * 15) Die Homiletische Monatsschrift (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 16) Homunculus (JE | ) -- See G334: Golem
 * 17) Honduras (JE | ) -- See S990: South and Central America
 * 18) Honey (JE | ) Often mentioned in the Old Testament as a choice article of food. It was eaten alone (Judges xiv. 9; I Sam. xiv. 27, et al...
 * 19) Honi ha-Me&, Choni ha-Me& (JE | ) -- See O74: Onias
 * 20) Israel Hönig (Edler von H&) (JE | ) Austrian tobacco-manufacturer; born at Kuttenplan, Bohemia, Oct., 1724; died at Vienna Jan. 19, 1808. He is noteworthy in...

881 – 900

 * 1) Sidonie H& (JE | ) Austrian actress; born at Vienna 1871; prize-winner at the Vienna Conservatorium. She made her d&#233;but in 1889, at the...
 * 2) Oswald Hönigsmann (JE | ) Austrian deputy; born in Rzeszow, Austrian Galicia, Dec. 2, 1824; died Oct. 24, 1880. He was educated at Lemberg, where he...
 * 3) Honor (JE | ) Either the distinction or excellence manifested by a man, or the mark of distinction accorded to him. "Kabod," when a manifestation...
 * 4) Honorius (JE | ) Emperor of the Western Roman Empire (395-423). The laws of Arcadius, the Eastern emperor, regarding the Jews were signed also...
 * 5) Jacob van Hoogstraten (Hochstraten) (JE | ) Belgian controversialist; born at Hoogstraeten, Belgium, about 1460; died at Cologne Jan. 21, 1527. He studied at Louvain...
 * 6) John Hoornbeek (JE | ) Dutch controversialist of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Libri VIII pro Convincendis et Convertendis Jud&#230...
 * 7) Hope (JE | ) the expectation of something desired. The Hebrew terms for "hope" are "tikwah" and "seber," while "mikweh" and...
 * 8) Hophni JE (JE | ) the older of Eli&#39;s two sons who officiated as priests in the tabernacle of Shiloh (I Sam. i. 3). Hophni and his younger...
 * 9) Hophra (JE | ) King of Egypt at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. The name occurs but once in the Bible (Jer. xliv...
 * 10) Hor (JE | ) Mountain on the border-land of Idum&#230;a; the next stopping-place after Kadesh of the children of Israel during their wanderings...
 * 11) Horam (JE | ) King of Gezer at the time of the war between Joshua and the inhabitants of the land of Canaan. Horam went to the assistance...
 * 12) Horayot (JE | ) the name of a Talmudic treatise in Seder Nezikin ("damages"), the fourth in order of the six "sedarim" of the Mishnah...
 * 13) Mount Horeb (JE | ) -- See S816: Sinai
 * 14) Horem (JE | ) Fortified city of Naphtali, named with Iron and Migdalel (Josh. xix. 38). It is generally identified with the modern &#7716...
 * 15) Horesh (JE | ) the word, indicating the place in the wilderness of Ziph where David hid himself from Saul (I Sam. xxiii. 15, 18, 19), generally...
 * 16) Hor-hagidgad (JE | ) Place in the desert where the Israelites encamped; said to be situated between Bene-jaakan and Jotbathah (Num. xxxiii. 32...
 * 17) Hori (JE | ) Surname of Seir, who, with his descendants, the Horites, occupied the land subsequently called "Edom" (Gen. xxxvi. 20 et seq...
 * 18) Hormah (JE | ) Name of a city, usually found without the article, but in Num. xiv. 45 (Hebr.) written "ha-&#7716;ormah." It is not certain...
 * 19) Eduard Horn (JE | ) -- See E95: Einhorn, Ignatz
 * 20) Hornet (JE | ) -- See I151: Insects

901 – 920

 * 1) Horns of Moses (JE | ) Owing to the representations of the old painters and sculptors, it has become a wide-spread belief that Moses, when he came...
 * 2) Franz Ludwig von Hornthal (JE | ) German jurist and author; born in Hamburg March 5, 1763; died at Bamberg June 27, 1853. After studying at Bamberg he was appointed...
 * 3) Horology (JE | ) the science of the measurement of time. Portions of time are distinguished in the first chapter of Genesis. The term "from...
 * 4) Horomite (JE | ) -- See S218: Sanballat
 * 5) Horonaim (JE | ) City of Moab (Isa. xv. 5; Jer. xlviii. 3, 5), mentioned also in the Mesha inscription (lines 31, 32) under the name . Its...
 * 6) Markus Horovitz (JE | ) German rabbi and historian; born March 14, 1844, at Lad&#225;ny, near Tokaj, Hungary. The descendant of an ancient family...
 * 7) Aaron ben Jacob Halevi Horowitz (JE | ) Russian Talmudist; lived in the second half of the seventeenth century; son-in-law of Joseph ben L&#246;b, rabbi of Minsk...
 * 8) Isaiah Horowitz EL:JE (JE | ) German cabalist, rabbi, and author; born at Prague about 1555; died at Safed about 1630. At an early age he accompanied his...
 * 9) Lazar (Eleazar) Horowitz (JE | ) Austrian rabbi; born at Flosz, Bavaria, 1803; died at V&#246;slau, near Vienna, June 11, 1868. He was the son of David Joshua...
 * 10) Leopold Horowitz (JE | ) Hungarian painter; born in 1837 at Rozgony, near Kaschau, where he attended the gymnasium. He received instruction in painting...
 * 11) Moses ha-Levi Horowitz (JE | ) Jud&#230;o-German playwright; born on the 7th of Adar, 1844, at Stanislau, Galicia. After the usual Jewish education he studied...
 * 12) Phinehas Levi Horowitz (Horwitz) JE (JE | ) Rabbi and Talmudic author; born in Poland about 1731; died in Frankfort-on-the-Main July 1, 1805. The descendant of a long...
 * 13) Schmelke Horowitz (JE | ) Rabbi and cabalist; born in Poland 1726; died at Nikolsburg April 28, 1778; son of Hirsch Horowitz, rabbi of Czortkow, and...
 * 14) Shabbethai Horowitz JE (JE | ) Rabbi and Talmudist; born, probably in Ostrog, Volhynia, about 1590; died at Vienna April 12, 1660. He was the son of the...
 * 15) Shabbethai Sheftel Horowitz JE (JE | ) Cabalistic author: flourished in Prague in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His father, named Akiba according to Steinschneider...
 * 16) Moritz Horschetzky (JE | ) Austrian physician and writer; born at Bydzov, Bohemia, in 1788; died Nov. 7, 1859, at Nagy-Kanizsa, Hungary, where he had...
 * 17) Horse (JE | ) the Hebrew terms are:, the generic and most common term; (I Kings v. 8; Micah i. 13; Esth. viii. 10, 14), the swift horse...
 * 18) Horticulture (JE | ) That department of the science of agriculture which relates to the cultivation of gardens. The garden is called "gan" or "gannah"...
 * 19) Hortus Judaeorum (JE | ) -- See C291: Cemetery
 * 20) Aaron b. Joseph Halevi Horwitz (JE | ) Russo-German rabbi; born in Lithuania in the early part of the eighteenth century; died at Berlin 1779. Early in life he lived...

921 – 940

 * 1) Aryeh L& (JE | ) Lithuanian Talmudist of the seventeenth century. After having been "rosh yeshibah" in several German towns Horwitz was called...
 * 2) Bella Horwitz (JE | ) Daughter of the martyr Be&#39;er ben Hezekiah ha-Levi Horwitz and wife of Joseph ben &#7716;ayyim &#7716;azzan, who died at...
 * 3) Bernard Horwitz (JE | ) Chess player and writer on chess; born 1809 in the grand duchy of Mecklenburg; died in London 1885. A chess pupil of Mendheim...
 * 4) Zebi Hirsch ben Phinehas Horwitz (JE | ) Rabbi at Frankfort-on-the-Main; died thereSept. 8, 1817. He succeeded his father in the rabbinate of Frankfort in 1805. He...
 * 5) Hosanna (JE | ) the cry which the people of Jerusalem were accustomed to raise while marching in procession and waving branches of palm, myrtle...
 * 6) The Prophet Hosea (JE | ) Hosea must have been a citizen of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, and must have remained there permanently during the period...
 * 7) Book of Hosea (JE | ) the contents of the book may be summarized as follows:Part i., ch. i.-iii.&#8212;Two symbolical actions: (a) At the command...
 * 8) Hoshaiah JE (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the third and fourth amoraic generations (died about 350 C.E.). It is supposed that his colleague &#7716...
 * 9) Hoshaiah Rabbah, Roba, Berabbi JE (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the first amoraic generation (about 200 C.E.); compiler of baraitot explaining the Mishnah-Tosefta. He...
 * 10) Hoshaiah of Turya (JE | ) -- See A139: Abba Hoshaya
 * 11) Hoshaiah Ze& (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the third amoraic period (died about 350 C.E.). In the Tosafot it is claimed that "&#7716;abraya" was...
 * 12) Hosha& (JE | ) the popular name for the seventh day of the Feast of Booths (Sukkot); the day on which the exclamation "Hosha&#39;na!" (save...
 * 13) Hosh& (JE | ) -- See H100: Ha&#7731;&#7731;afot
 * 14) Hoshea (JE | ) Last of the nineteen kings of Israel; son of Elah (II Kings xv. 30). Hoshea secured the throne through a conspiracy in which...
 * 15) Reuben Hoshke (JE | ) Cabalist; rabbi of Prague; (died April 3, 1673. "Hoshke," his father&#39;s name, is a Polish diminutive for "Joshua," mistaken...
 * 16) Hospital (JE | ) House set apart for the treatment of the sick. In early times such institutions were required only for strangers, the idea...
 * 17) Hospitality (JE | ) the "ger," the sojourner who lived with a Hebrew family or clan, was assured by the Biblical law not only of protection against...
 * 18) Desecration of Host (JE | ) Defiling the host or sacred wafer of the mass. In the Middle Ages theJews were frequently accused of desecrating the host...
 * 19) Host of Heaven (JE | ) Term occurring several times in the Bible, but not always with a definite meaning. The word "Zaba" usually designates...
 * 20) Lord of Hosts (JE | ) -- See N52: Names of God

941 – 960

 * 1) Johann Heinrich Hottinger (JE | ) Swiss Christian Hebraist; born at Zurich March 10, 1620; drowned in the Limmat, in Switzerland, June 5, 1667. Having studied...
 * 2) Charles Fran& (JE | ) French Christian Hebraist; born in Paris in 1686; died there Oct. 31, 1783. In 1704 Houbigant entered the order of the Congregation...
 * 3) Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich (JE | ) American statistician; born at Wilna, Russia, April 27, 1860; educated at the gymnasium of Minsk and the University of St...
 * 4) Zalkind Hourwitz (JE | ) Polish scholar; born at Lublin, Poland, about 1740; died at Paris in 1812. Endowed with great ability and thirsting for learning...
 * 5) House (JE | ) in the warm countries of the East the house is not so important a factor as it is in Western civilization, the climate permitting...
 * 6) Housebreaking (JE | ) -- See B1604: Burglary
 * 7) Julius Houseman (JE | ) American financier; born at Zeckendorf, Bavaria, Dec. 8, 1832; died at Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 8, 1892. He attended school...
 * 8) Houston (JE | ) Capital of Harris county, Texas; situated on the banks of Buffalo Bayou. It had a population in 1897 of 45,000, of whom about...
 * 9) Ungarisch Hradisch (JE | ) -- See H949: Ungarisch Hradisch
 * 10) Adolph H& (JE | ) American preacher; born at Lipt&#243;-Szent-Mikl&#243;s, Hungary, Sept. 18, 1830; died in New York city Oct. 10, 1884. H&#252...
 * 11) Huesca (JE | ) City in Aragon. Toward the end of the thirteenth century it contained a specially privileged Jewish community of 160; it also...
 * 12) Huete (JE | ) Spanish city, in the bishopric of Cuenca. A considerable Jewish community lived there in the thirteenth century. The city...
 * 13) Hugh of Lincoln (JE | ) Alleged victim of ritual murder by the Jews of Lincoln in 1255. He appears to have been the illegitimate son of a woman named...
 * 14) Hukkok (JE | ) Place on the borders of Naphtali, near Aznot Tabor (Josh. xix. 34). As the frontier line coincided with the western limit...
 * 15) Huldah (JE | ) Prophetess; wife of Shallum, the keeper of the wardrobe in the time of King Josiah. She dwelt in the second quarter of Jerusalem...
 * 16) Hull (JE | ) Seaport of Yorkshire, England. It has a population (1901) of over 241,753, including about 2,500 Jews. The earliest trace...
 * 17) Hullin, Chullin (JE | ) Treatise of the Babylonian Talmud, including Mishnah, Tosefta, and Gemara; it is not found in the Jerusalem Talmud. While...
 * 18) H& (JE | ) -- See P420: Polna Affair
 * 19) Hultha, Chultha (JE | ) One of the seven seas which, according to the Talmudists, surround Palestine (B. B. 74b; Yer. Ket. xii. 3; Kil. ix. 5; Midr...
 * 20) Human Sacrifice (JE | ) -- See S35: Sacrifice

961 – 980

 * 1) Humanists (JE | ) Scholars who revived the culture of antiquity and the study of classical literature. The Renaissance, which heightened enthusiasm...
 * 2) Humility (JE | ) the quality of being humble.&#8212;Biblical Data: Judaism, in its conception of humility as in its conception of many other...
 * 3) Huna JE (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the second generation and head of the Academy of Sura; born about 216 (212 according to Gr&#228;tz); died...
 * 4) Abba ha-Kohen Huna (JE | ) -- See H965: Huna bar Abbin
 * 5) Huna bar Abbin ha-Kohen (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the first half of the fourth century; pupil of R. Jeremiah, in whose name he reports some halakic and...
 * 6) Huna b. Hanina (Hinena) (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the fifth generation (4th cent.). His principal teachers were Abaye (in whose school R. Safra and Abba...
 * 7) Huna b. Joshua (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the fifth generation; died in 410 (Samson of Chinon, "Sefer Keritut," p. 26a, Cremona, 1558). He was the...
 * 8) Mar Huna (JE | ) -- See E548: Exilarch
 * 9) Huna b. Nathan (JE | ) Babylonian scholar of the fourth and fifth centuries. He was the pupil of Amemar II. and a senior and companion of Ashi, to...
 * 10) Hungary >> History of the Jews in Hungary JE (JE | ) Kingdom in central Europe, forming part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. It is not definitely known when Jews first settled...
 * 11) Hunting (JE | ) Pursuit of wild game; the common means of obtaining food before the pastoral or agricultural stage of development. The Hebrews...
 * 12) Hermann Hupfeld (JE | ) German Christian Biblical scholar; born at Marburg March 31, 1796; died at Halle April 24, 1866. He was professor of Old Testament...
 * 13) Huppah, Chuppah (JE | ) A Hebrew word signifying a canopy (Isa. iv. 5; Lev. R. xxv.; Eccl. R. vii. 11), especially the bridal canopy. Subsequently...
 * 14) Hur (JE | ) Man of Judah, the grandfather of Bezaleel, the chief artificer of the Tabernacle (Ex. xxxi. 2, xxxv. 30, xxxviii. 22). According...
 * 15) Israel (Z Libin) Hurewitz (JE | ) Russian-American playwright; born Dec., 1872, at Gorki, government of Moghilef. Between 1885 and 1888 he received some secular...
 * 16) Hurwitz (JE | ) -- See H920: Horwitz
 * 17) Adolf Hurwitz (JE | ) German mathematician; born March 26, 1859, at Hildesheim; studied at Munich, Berlin, and Leipsic. In 1882 he became privat-docent...
 * 18) Hayyim Dob Hurwitz (JE | ) Russian economist and journalist; born about 1864 at Gorki, government of Moghilef. His father, a teacher of religion, destined...
 * 19) Hayyim ben Joshua Moses Abraham ha-Levi Hurwitz (JE | ) Russian rabbi in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was the author of: "Sefer Mayim &#7716;ayyim," explanations...
 * 20) Hyman Hurwitz (JE | ) Professor of Hebrew and author; born 1770; died 1844. He was a native of Poland, in which country he acquired great proficiency...

981 – 1000

 * 1) Judah ben Mordecai ha-Levi Hurwitz (JE | ) Russian physician and author; born at Wilna in the first half of the eighteenth century; died at Grodno Nov. 12, 1797. He...
 * 2) Lazar Lipman Hurwitz (JE | ) Russian scholar; born 1815; died at Wilna Oct. 21, 1852. He acted for many years as private instructor at Wilna, and then...
 * 3) Moses b. Isaac ha-Levi Hurwitz (JE | ) Russian preacher; native of Krozh, government of Kovno, Russia; died in Wilna Oct. 25, 1820. He was on intimate terms with...
 * 4) Phinehas Elijah Hurwitz (JE | ) Hebrew writer; born in Wilna; died in Cracow in 1812. While a youth he went to Buchach, a hamlet in Galicia, where he began...
 * 5) Immanuel ben Menahem Sefardi ibn Husain (JE | ) Talmudist of the sixteenth century; author of "Kelale ha-Gemara," rules of the Gemara, published in the collection of Abraham...
 * 6) Husband and Wife (JE | ) As a punishment for her initiative in the first sin, the wife is to be subjected to her husband, and he is to rule over her...
 * 7) Husbandry (JE | ) See Agrarian Laws; Land-Lord and Tenant; Sabbatical Year.           					  						  							  							  							This article...
 * 8) Hushai (JE | ) Companion of David, generally called the Archite. When David was pursued by Absalom he sent Hushai to frustrate Absalom&#39...
 * 9) Hushiel ben Elhanan, Chushiel ben Elhanan JE (JE | ) President of the bet ha-midrash at Kairwan toward the end of the tenth century. He was born probably in Italy. According to...
 * 10) Georg Huth JE (JE | ) German Orientalist and explorer; born Feb. 25, 1867, at Krotoschin, Prussia. In 1885 he entered the University of Berlin,...
 * 11) Ulrich Von Hutten (JE | ) Poet and satirist; born in the castle of Steckelberg, near Fulda, April 2l, 1488; died on the Isle of Ufnau, Lake Zurich,...
 * 12) Huyayy ibn Akhtab, Chuyayy ibn Akhtab JE (JE | ) Chief of the Banu al-Nadir; executed at Medina March, 627. &#7716;uyayy was a courageous warrior and the most inveterate enemy...
 * 13) Huzpa, Chuzpa (JE | ) Aramaic word meaning "impudence," used frequently in the Talmud, in late rabbinical literature, and in common parlance. In...
 * 14) Abraham Hyams (JE | ) Beni-Israel physician; died March 20, 1897; son of Hacem Samuel, president of the Beni-Israel School, Bombay. After taking...
 * 15) Henry Michael Hyams (JE | ) American lawyer; born at Charleston, S. C., March 4, 1806, of English parents: died at New Orleans 1875; educated in Charleston...
 * 16) Hyena (JE | ) the translation by the Septuagint of "Zabua&#39;" (Jer. xii. 9); the rendering of the Vulgate being "avis tincta," and...
 * 17) Hyksos (JE | ) Name of a line of Egyptian kings, occurring in a passage of Manetho quoted by Josephus ("Contra Ap." &#167; 14). It is said...
 * 18) Hymnology (JE | ) -- See P388: Poetry, Religious
 * 19) Hyneman (JE | ) American family of remote Spanish and modern German origin, the record of whose early history is fragmentary. The first authentic...
 * 20) Hypocrisy (JE | ) A word derived from the Greek &#8017;&#960;&#959;&#954;&#961;&#943;&#963;&#953;&#962;="the playing a part on the stage." It...