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 * 1) Jaarbooken vor de Israeliten (JE | ) -- See Y27: Year-Books
 * 2) Jaazer JE (JE | ) A city east of the Jordan, in or near Gilead (Num. xxxii. 1, 3; I Chron. l.c.), and inhabited by the Amorites. It was taken...
 * 3) Jabal ibn Jawwal JE (JE | ) Jewish Arabic poet of the seventh century; contemporary of Mohammed. According to ibn Hisham ("Kitab Sirat Rasul Allah," ed...
 * 4) Abu al-Tayyib al-Jabali (JE | ) Karaite scholar of the tenth century. His full name is said to have been Samuel ben Asher ben Man&#7779;ur. The surname "al-Jabali"...
 * 5) Jabbok (JE | ) One of the principal tributaries of the Jordan; first mentioned in connection with the meeting of Jacob and Esau and with...
 * 6) Jabesh (JE | ) Principal city of Gilead, east of the Jordan. It is first mentioned in connection with the war between the Benjamites and...
 * 7) Jabez (JE | ) Eponym of a clan of the Kenite family of the Rechabites, which clan was merged into the tribe of Judah. I Chron. ii. 55 refers...
 * 8) Barzillai ben Baruch Jabez (JE | ) Turkish Talmudist of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; son-in-law of Elijah &#7716;ako, author of "Ruach Eliyahu...
 * 9) Isaac ben Solomon ben Isaac ben Joseph ha-Doresh Jabez (JE | ) Turkish Biblical exegete and preacher in the second half of the sixteenth century; a descendant of Joseph Jabez. He wrote:...
 * 10) Joseph ben Hayyim Jabez JE (JE | ) Spanish theologian of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He lived for a time in Portugal, where he associated with Joseph...
 * 11) Jabin (JE | ) King of Hazor; head of one of the great confederations which faced Joshua in his conquest of Canaan (Josh. xi.). He summoned...
 * 12) Daniel E Jablonski (JE | ) German Christian theologian and Orientalist; born Nov. 26, 1660, in Danzig; died May 25, 1741, in Berlin. After spending some...
 * 13) Jabneh (JE | ) Philistine city; taken by Uzziah, who demolished its wall (II Chron. xxvi. 6). Jabneh is mentioned with Gath and Ashdod, two...
 * 14) Jaca (JE | ) City of Aragon, Spain. Jews were settled here as early as the eleventh century, during which the city became the seat of a...
 * 15) Jachin (JE | ) 1. The righthand pillar of the two brazen ones set up in the porch of the Temple of Solomon, that on the left or north being...
 * 16) Jackal (JE | ) -- See F285: Fox
 * 17) J& (Jacob) (JE | ) Jewish financier of Ulm in the fourteenth century; married the daughter of the "Grossjuden" Moses of Ehingen. J&#228;cklin...
 * 18) Harry Jackson (JE | ) English actor; born in London 1836; died there Aug. 13, 1885. At an early age he left England for Australia, where he adopted...
 * 19) Jacob (JE | ) Third patriarch; son of Isaac and Rebekah, and ancestor of the Israelites. Hewas born when his father was sixty years old...
 * 20) Blessing of Jacob (JE | ) Name given to the chapter containing the prophetic utterances of Jacob concerning the destiny of his twelve sons as the fathers...

21 – 40

 * 1) Jacob (JE | ) Tanna of the second century; probably identical with Jacob b. Korshai (= "the Korshaite," or "of Korsha")...
 * 2) Jacob b. Aaron of Karlin JE (JE | ) Russian rabbi and author; died at Karlin, government of Minsk, 1855. He was a grandson of Baruch of Shklov, the mathematician...
 * 3) Jacob b. Abba (JE | ) Babylonian scholar of the third century; junior to Rab (B. M. 41a). He was an expert dialectician, and prevailed in argument...
 * 4) Jacob b. Abba Mari (JE | ) -- See A1480: Anatolio (Anatoli), Jacob ben Abba Mari
 * 5) Jacob bar Abina (Abin; Bun) (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the fourth century. He is known as having transmitted the haggadot of Samuel b. Nachman, Abbahu...
 * 6) Jacob ben Abraham Faitusi JE (JE | ) Tunisian scholar; died at Algiers July, 1812. He settled in the later part of his life at Jerusalem, whence he was sent as...
 * 7) Jacob bar Aha (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the third generation (latter part of the third century); contemporary of R. Ze&#39;era. He rarely gives...
 * 8) Jacob ben Amram (JE | ) Polemical writer of the seventeenth century. He wrote in 1634, in Latin, a book against the religion of the Christians, with...
 * 9) Jacob ben Asher (JE | ) German codifier and Biblical commentator; died at Toledo, Spain, before 1340. Very little is known of Jacob&#39;s life; and...
 * 10) Jacob (Aberle, Abril) Benedict (Benet) (JE | ) Rabbi at Alt-Ofen at the beginning of the nineteenth century; son of Mordecai b. Abraham Benet (Marcus Benedict). Jacob was...
 * 11) Jacob ben Benjamin Zeeb Sak (JE | ) About 1665 Jacob was appointed rabbi of Trebitsch, later of Ungarisch-Brod, and after the death of Ephraim he officiated in...
 * 12) Benno Jacob (JE | ) German rabbi and Biblical scholar; born at Breslau Sept. 8, 1862; educated at the gymnasium, the university, and the theological...
 * 13) Jacob Berah de-Bat Samuel (JE | ) Mari b. Rachel b. Samuel. See under Gaon; Mar.
 * 14) Jacob bar Berateh de-Elisha Aher (JE | ) -- See B410: Jacob
 * 15) Jacob & (Zaddik) (JE | ) Spanish physician and writer; born at Ucles in the second third of the fourteenth century. He devoted himself to the study...
 * 16) Jacob of Chinon (JE | ) French tosafist; lived about 1190-1260. He was a pupil of Isaac ben Abraham of Dampierre and a teacher of Perez of Corbeil...
 * 17) Jacob of Corbeil (JE | ) French tosafist of the twelfth century. He was the brother of Judah of Corbeil, author of tosafot to various treatises of...
 * 18) Jacob of Coucy (JE | ) French tosafist of the thirteenth century; mentioned in tosafot to Kiddushin (43b, 67a), by Mordecai, and in Joseph...
 * 19) Jacob ben David Proven& (JE | ) French Talmudist of the fifteenth century; not to be confounded with the astronomer Jacob ben David ben Yom-Tob Po&#39...
 * 20) Jacob b. Eleazar (JE | ) Spanish grammarian of the first third of the thirteenth century. The assumption that he lived in the first third of the twelfth...

41 – 60

 * 1) Jacob b. Eliezer (JE | ) -- See T120: Temerls, Jacob
 * 2) Jacob ben Ephraim UNR (JE | ) Syrian Talmudist of the tenth century. From Salmon b. Jeroham&#39;s commentary to Psalms (cxl. 6) it appears that Jacob b...
 * 3) Jacob ben Ephraim of Lublin JE (JE | ) Polish rabbi; died in Lublin 1648. At first he occupied the post of rabbi and instructor at the yeshibah of that city, whence...
 * 4) Jacob of Fulda (JE | ) -- See J75: Jacob ben Mordecai
 * 5) Jacob the Galilean (JE | ) Son of the Judah who caused an uprising against the Romans at the time of the taxation under Quirinius. Jacob followed his...
 * 6) Jacob Gebulaah (Gebulaya) (JE | ) Palestinian scholar of the third century; disciple of Johanan (Yer. Yeb. viii. 9b). He seems also to have sat at the feet...
 * 7) Jacob b. Gershom ha-Gozer (JE | ) German Talmudist of the twelfth century. He was a nephew of Ephraim b. Jacob of Bonn, with whom he carried on a scientific...
 * 8) Jacob the Gnostic (JE | ) See James (the Just).
 * 9) Jacob ben Hananeel Sekili (JE | ) Bible commentator and cabalist; lived in the fourteenth century. He was the author of "Minchat ha-Bikkurim," the first...
 * 10) Jacob ben Hayyim ben Isaac ibn Adonijah JE (JE | ) Masorite and printer; born about 1470 at Tunis (hence sometimes called Tunisi); died before 1538. He left his native country...
 * 11) Jacob b. Immanuel Proven& (JE | ) -- See B1291: Bonet de Lates
 * 12) Israel Jacob (JE | ) German banker and philanthropist; born April 14, 1729, at Halberstadt; died Nov. 25, 1803. He was widely respected for his...
 * 13) Jacob ben Israel ha-Levi (JE | ) Rabbi of Zante; died on that island in 1634. He was a native of Morea, Greece, and passed the earlier part of his life at...
 * 14) Jacob b. Jacob ha-Kohen (JE | ) Spanish cabalist of the end of the thirteenth century; born at Soria; buried at Segovia; also called Gikatilla, according...
 * 15) Jacob ben Jacob Moses of Lissa JE (JE | ) German Talmudist; died in Stryj, Galicia, May 25, 1832. He was a great-grandson of Zebi Ashkenazi and a pupil of Meshullam...
 * 16) Jacob ben Jekuthiel (JE | ) French Talmudic scholar; born at Rouen; died at Arras in 1023. Jacob became known by the fact that he was the bearer of a...
 * 17) Jacob ben Jeremiah Mattithiah ha-Levi (JE | ) German translator of the seventeenth century. He translated into Jud&#230;o-German Abraham Jagel&#39;s "Lekach...
 * 18) Jacob ben Joel (JE | ) Russian rabbi in Brest-Litovsk in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He wrote: "She&#39;erit Ya&#39;akob," containing...
 * 19) Jacob ben Joseph Israel (JE | ) French scholar; lived at Pont-Audemer in the twelfth century; pupil of Jacob Tam, with whom he carried on a correspondence...
 * 20) Jacob Joshua ben Zebi Hirsch JE (JE | ) Polish rabbi; born at Cracow in 1680; died at Offenbach Jan. 16, 1756. On his mother&#39;s side he was a grandson of Joshua...

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 * 1) Jacob Judah Aryeh Leon (JE | ) -- See L190: Leon
 * 2) Jacob ben Judah Hazzan of London (JE | ) English codifier of the thirteenth century. His grandfather was one Jacob he-Aruk (possibly Jacob le Long). In 1287 Jacob...
 * 3) Jacob ben Judah L& (JE | ) Polish rabbi; lived in the second half of the eighteenth century. Educated as a Talmudist, he became rabbi of Krasnopolie...
 * 4) Julius Jacob (JE | ) German landscape- and portrait-painter; born in Berlin April 25, 1811; died there Oct. 20, 1882. He studied under Wach at...
 * 5) Jacob of Kefar Hanan (Hanin) (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the third generation (3d and 4th cent.). Jacob is especially known as a haggadist (Pesik. iv. 30b...
 * 6) Jacob of Kefar HitTaya (JE | ) Palestinian scholar of the second century; contemporary of Judah I. Jacob is said to have been in the habit of visiting his...
 * 7) Jacob of Kefar Neburaya (JE | ) Jud&#230;o-Christian of the fourth century. Neburaya is probably identical with Nabratain, a place to the north of Safed,...
 * 8) Jacob of Kefar Sekanya (Sima&) (JE | ) Jud&#230;o-Christian of the first century; mentioned on two occasions, in both Talmuds and in the Midrash. Meeting R. Eliezer...
 * 9) Jacob b. Korshai (JE | ) -- See B410: Jacob
 * 10) Jacob ha-Levi He-hasid (JE | ) French rabbi and cabalist; lived in the thirteenth century, at Marv&#232;ge. It was said that by prayers and invocations he...
 * 11) Jacob Loanz b. Jehiel (JE | ) -- See J71: Loanz b. Jehiel, Jacob
 * 12) Jacob of London JE (JE | ) First known presbyter of the Jews of England; appointed to that position by King John in 1199, who also gave him a safe conduct...
 * 13) Jacob of Lunel (JE | ) -- See J85: Jacob Nazir
 * 14) Jacob ben Me& (JE | ) Most prominent of French tosafists; born at Ramerupt, on the Seine, in 1100; died at Troyes June 9, 1171. His mother, Jochebed...
 * 15) Jacob ben Mordecai (JE | ) German scholar; flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A native of Fulda, he was generally called "Jacob...
 * 16) Jacob ben Mordecai ha-Kohen (JE | ) Gaon of Sura from 801 to 815; succeeded Hilai ben Mari. He officiated fourteen years, according to a text of Sherira ("M....
 * 17) Jacob ben Moses ben Abun (JE | ) Head of the yeshibah of Narbonne, France. As Abraham b. David in his "Sefer ha-Kabbalah" (MS. quoted by Abraham Zacuto...
 * 18) Jacob ben Moses of Bagnols (JE | ) Proven&#231;al theologian of the second half of the fourteenth century; lived successively at Salon, Avignon, and Argon. He...
 * 19) Jacob b. Moses M& (JE | ) -- See J79: M&#246;lln, Jacob ben Moses
 * 20) Jacob ibn Na& (JE | ) Rabbi of Smyrna toward the end of the seventeenth century. He corresponded with &#7716;ayyim Benveniste, author of "Keneset...

81 – 100

 * 1) Jacob ben Naphtali (JE | ) Talmudist of Gnesen; flourished about 1650. His father was clerk of the Jewry in Great Poland, and died in 1646. Jacob...
 * 2) Jacob ben Naphtali ha-Kohen (JE | ) Italian printer; born in Gazolo; lived in the sixteenth century. For some time prior to 1556 he was the manager of Tobiah...
 * 3) Jacob ben Nathanael ibn al-Fayyumi JE (JE | ) Rosh yeshibah of the Yemen Jews in the second half of the twelfth century. All that is known of him is that at the suggestion...
 * 4) Jacob bar Natronai (JE | ) Gaon of Sura (911-924). After the death of his predecessor, Shalom bar Mishael, the Academy of Sura became impoverished and...
 * 5) Jacob Nazir (JE | ) French exegete; flourished in the second half of the twelfth century; one of the five sons of Meshullam ben Jacob of Lunel...
 * 6) Jacob ben Nissim ibn Shahin JE (JE | ) Philosopher; lived at Kairwan in the tenth century; younger contemporary of Saadia. At Jacob&#39;s request Sherira Gaon wrote...
 * 7) Jacob ben Obadiah Sforno (JE | ) Italian scholar; lived at Venice in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was the author of a work entitled "Iggeret...
 * 8) Jacob of Orleans (JE | ) French tosafist; died as a martyr in London Sept. 3, 1189. He was one of the most distinguished pupils of Rabbenu Tam, being...
 * 9) Jacob of Pont Saint-Maxence (JE | ) French tax-farmer of the fourteenth century. With Manecier of Vesoul and his brother Vivant he was appointed (1360) by Charles...
 * 10) Jacob ben Reuben JE (JE | ) Karaite Bible exegete of the eleventh century. He wrote a brief Hebrew commentary on the entire Bible, which he entitled "Sefer...
 * 11) Jacob ben Reuben ibn Zur JE (JE | ) Talmudist and rabbi of Fez; born in the latter part of the seventeenth century; died after 1750. That his reputation as a...
 * 12) Jacob Roman ibn Pakuda (JE | ) -- See R345: Roman, Jacob
 * 13) Jacob ben Samson (JE | ) French tosafist and liturgist; flourished at Paris or at Falaise in the first third of the twelfth century. He is mentioned...
 * 14) Jacob b. Samuel Sirkes (JE | ) -- See S839: Sirkes, Joel b. Samuel
 * 15) Jacob ben Sheshet Gerondi (JE | ) Spanish cabalist of Gerona (whence his surname "Gerondi") in the thirteenth century. He was the author of "Sha&#39;ar ha-Shamayim...
 * 16) Jacob ben Solomon (JE | ) French tosafist; born at Courson, department of the Yonne; flourished between 1180 and 1250. He was a pupil of Samson of Sens...
 * 17) Jacob ben Sosa (JE | ) Idumean leader. In the great war against Rome, 67-70, when Simon bar Giora went on a raid through Idum&#230;a to take provisions...
 * 18) Jacob Temerls (JE | ) -- See T120: Temerls, Jacob
 * 19) Jacob Tub (Tawus) (JE | ) -- See T90: Tawus
 * 20) Jacob Uziel (JE | ) -- See U63: Uziel, Jacob

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 * 1) Jacob of Vienna (JE | ) Austrian rabbi and Biblical commentator of the fourteenth century. The Munich MSS. (Hebrew) contain a commentary on the Pentateuch...
 * 2) Jacob (b. Judah) Weil (JE | ) -- See W85: Weil, Jacob
 * 3) Jacob ben Wolf Kranz of Dubno (Dubner Maggid) JE (JE | ) Russian preacher; born at Zietil, government of Wilna, about 1740; died at Zamosc Dec. 18, 1804. At the age of eighteen he...
 * 4) Jacob b. Yakar JE (JE | ) German Talmudist; flourished in the first half of the eleventh century. He was a pupil of Gershom b. Judah in Mayence, and...
 * 5) Jacob ben Zabda (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the fourth generation (4th cent.); junior contemporary, and probably pupil, of Abbahu, in whose name...
 * 6) Abraham Jacobi (JE | ) American physician; born at Hartum, near Minden, Westphalia, May 6, 1830; educated at the universities of Greifswald, G&#246...
 * 7) Heinrich Otto Jacobi (JE | ) German philologist; born at T&#252;tz, West Prussia, 1815; died in Berlin 1864. He studied at Berlin University, and received...
 * 8) Karl Gustav Jakob Jacobi (JE | ) German mathematician; born Dec. 10, 1804, at Potsdam; died at Berlin Feb. 18, 1851; brother of Moritz Hermaun Jacobi. He studied...
 * 9) Moritz Hermann Jacobi (JE | ) German physicist; born Sept. 21, 1801, at Potsdam; died March 10, 1874, at St. Petersburg. He was established as architect...
 * 10) Samuel Jacobi (JE | ) Danish physician; born in Yaroslav, Galicia, 1764; died in Copenhagen 1811. He studied the Talmud for some years, but later...
 * 11) George Jacobs (JE | ) American rabbi of English Sephardic descent; born in Kingston, Jamaica, Sept. 24, 1834; died in Philadelphia July 14, 1884...
 * 12) Henry S Jacobs (JE | ) American rabbi; born in Kingston, Jamaica, March 22, 1827; died in New York Sept. 12, 1893. He studied for the Jewish ministry...
 * 13) Joseph Jacobs (JE | ) Critic, folklorist, historian, statistician, communal worker; born Aug. 29, 1854, at Sydney, N. S. W.; educated at Sydney...
 * 14) Joseph Jacobs (JE | ) English conjurer; born at Canterbury 1813; died Oct. 13, 1870. He first appeared in London at Horn&#39;s Tavern, Kennington...
 * 15) Simeon Jacobs JE (JE | ) Judge in the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope; born in 1830; died in London June 15, 1883. He became a barrister of...
 * 16) Paul Jacobsohn (JE | ) German physician and hygienist; born in Berlin Sept. 30, 1868; educated at the gymnasium in Berlin and the universities of...
 * 17) Jacobson (JE | ) Danish family of engravers, of whom the first important member was Aaron Jacobson (1717-75), who, in the middle of the eighteenth...
 * 18) Eduard Jacobson (JE | ) German dramatist; born at Gross Strelitz, Silesia, Nov. 10, 1833 (M.D. Berlin, 1859); died in Berlin Jan. 29, 1897. He established...
 * 19) Heinrich Jacobson (JE | ) German physician; born Oct. 27, 1826, at K&#246;nigsberg, East Prussia; died Dec. 10, 1890, at Berlin; educated at the gymnasium...
 * 20) Heinrich Friedrich Jacobson (JE | ) German jurist and writer on ecclesiastical law; born at Marienwerder June 8, 1804; died at K&#246;nigsberg March 19, 1868...

121 – 140

 * 1) Israel Jacobson JE (JE | ) German philanthropist and reformer; born in Halberstadt Oct. 17, 1768; died in Hanover Sept. 14, 1828. Originally his father&#39...
 * 2) Ludwig Lewin Jacobson JE (JE | ) Danish surgeon; born in Copenhagen Jan. 10, 1783; died there Aug. 29, 1843. He received his early education at the German...
 * 3) Nathan Jacobson (JE | ) American surgeon; born in Syracuse, N. Y., June 25, 1857. He was graduated from Syracuse University, and took a postgraduate...
 * 4) Johann Eduard Jacobsthal (JE | ) German architect; born at Stargard, Pomerania, Sept. 17, 1839. He studied at the architectural academy in Berlin, and, after...
 * 5) Johann Jacoby (JE | ) German physician and statesman; born at K&#246;nigsberg, Prussia, May 1, 1805; died there March 6, 1877. The son of a well-to-do...
 * 6) Louis Jacoby JE (JE | ) German engraver; born June 7, 1828, at Havelberg, Brandenburg, Germany; pupil of the engraver Mandel of Berlin, in which city...
 * 7) Jacopo (Jacomo) Sansecondo (JE | ) Italian musician of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; born about 1468. Jacopo was an eminent violinist; his reputation...
 * 8) Heinrich Jacques (JE | ) Austrian deputy; born in Vienna Feb. 24, 1831; shot himself Jan. 25, 1894. He studied philosophy and history at Heidelberg...
 * 9) Jacques Pasha (Jacques Nissim Pasha) (JE | ) Turkish army surgeon; born in 1850 at Salonica; died there Aug. 25, 1903. The son of a physician, he was sent at an early...
 * 10) Josef Jadassohn (JE | ) German physician; born at Liegnitz Sept. 10, 1863. He was educated at the universities of G&#246;ttingen, Breslau, Heidelberg...
 * 11) Solomon Jadassohn (JE | ) German composer and music teacher; born at Breslau, Prussia, Aug. 13, 1831; pupil at the Breslau gymnasium and of Hesse (pianoforte)...
 * 12) Jaddua (JE | ) High priest at the time of the Second Temple. According to Neh. xii. 11, his father&#39;s name was Jonathan, but according...
 * 13) Jael, the Kenite woman (JE | ) Wife of Heber, the Kenite (Judges iv. 17). Jabin, the king of Canaan, "that reigned in Hazor," had tyrannized over Israel...
 * 14) Jaen (JE | ) Capital of the province of Jaen in Andalusia, Spain. It possessed a flourishing Jewish community as early as the thirteenth...
 * 15) Jaffa (JE | ) City of Palestine and Mediterranean port, 35 miles northwest of Jerusalem. In ancient times it was Palestine&#39;s only point...
 * 16) Jaffe (Joffe) >> Philipp Jaffé JE (JE | ) Family of rabbis, scholars, and communal workers, with members in Germany, Austria, Russia, Great Britain, Italy, and the...
 * 17) Abraham ben Hananiah dei Galicchi Jagel JE (JE | ) Italian catechist, philosopher, and cabalist; born at Monselice; lived successively at Luzzara, Venice, Ferrara, and Sassuolo...
 * 18) Gamaliel ben Hananiah Jagel, of Monselice (JE | ) Italian scholar; lived at Ferrara, later at Parma, in the seventeenth century. He filled the position of chief rabbi or head...
 * 19) Jahrzeit (JE | ) Jud&#230;o-German term denoting the anniversary of a death, commemorated by mourning and by reciting the Kaddish. The...
 * 20) Jahvist (JE | ) the name given in modern Bible criticism to the supposed author of those portions of the Pentateuch (or of the Hexateuch)...

141 – 160

 * 1) Jail (JE | ) -- See I121: Imprisonment
 * 2) Jair (JE | ) A contemporary of Moses, called in the Pentateuch "son of Manasseh," who in the beginning of the conquest took from the Amorites...
 * 3) Mordecai b. David Jalomstein (JE | ) American journalist; born in Suwalki, Russian Poland, 1835; died in New York city Aug. 18, 1897. He was well versed in Talmudic...
 * 4) Jamaica (JE | ) Largest island in the British West Indies. It has a total population of 644,841 (1901), of whom about 2,400 are Jews. When...
 * 5) James (JE | ) Name of three persons prominent in New Testament history. (see image) Synagogue at Spanish Town, Jamaica.(From a photograph...
 * 6) General Epistle of James (JE | ) Letter of exhortation and instruction, written by "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ," and addressed "to...
 * 7) David James (David Belasco) (JE | ) English comedian; born at Birmingham 1839; died in London Oct. 3, 1893. Under the auspices of Charles Kean, James made his...
 * 8) Jamnia (JE | ) -- See J13: Jabneh
 * 9) Janina (JE | ) City in Albania, European Turkey, on the lake of Janina.The community, which was flourishing in the middle of the nineteenth...
 * 10) Jannai (JE | ) -- See Y14: Yannai
 * 11) Jannes and Jambres (JE | ) Names of two legendary wizards of Pharaoh "who withstood Moses" (II Tim. iii. 8) by imitating "with their enchantments" the...
 * 12) David Janowski (JE | ) Russian chess-player; born May 25, 1868, in Russian Poland. He learned to play chess as a child, but did not make a serious...
 * 13) Januarius (JE | ) Talmudic name of a legendary hero; it is taken from the name of the first of the twelve Roman months. R. Johanan, in Yer....
 * 14) Japheth (JE | ) One of the sons of Noah, and the ancestor of a branch of the human race called "Japhetites." Japheth and his two brothers...
 * 15) Japheth ha-Levi JE (JE | ) Karaite Bible translator and commentator; flourished at Jerusalem between 950 and 980. He was one of the most able Bible commentators...
 * 16) Japhia (JE | ) 1. King of Lachish, and one of the five kings who, entering into a confederacy against Joshua (Josh. x. 3), were killed by...
 * 17) Japho (JE | ) -- See J135: Jaffa
 * 18) Jare (JE | ) Name of an ancient Italian family of scholars dating back to the fifteenth century. Giuseppe Jar&#233;:   Italian rabbi;...
 * 19) Jargon (JE | ) -- See J586: Jud&#230;o-German
 * 20) Nehorai Jarmon (JE | ) -- See G75: Garmon, Nehorai

161 – 180

 * 1) Josef Jarno (Josef Cohen) (JE | ) Austrian actor; born at Budapest Aug. 24, 1866. He was educated for a mercantile career, but went on the stage when nineteen...
 * 2) Jaroslaw (JE | ) -- See Y22: Yaroslav
 * 3) Aaron Jaroslaw JE (JE | ) One of the Biurists; a tutor in the house of Mendelssohn; afterward teacher at Lemberg. His commentary on the Book of Numbers...
 * 4) Book of Jasher (JE | ) A book, apparently containing heroic songs, mentioned twice in the Old Testament: in the account of the battle of Gibeon a...
 * 5) Jason (JE | ) High priest from 174 to 171 B.C.; brother of the high priest Onias III. During the absence of Onias, who had been summoned...
 * 6) Jason of Cyrene (JE | ) Jud&#230;o-Hellenistic historian. He wrote a history of the Maccabean revolt in five books, from which the author of II Maccabees...
 * 7) Jassy (Jaschi) (JE | ) City of Rumania. Jassy contains the oldest and most important Jewish community of Moldavia, of which principality it was formerly...
 * 8) Ignaz Jastrow (JE | ) German economist and statistician; born Sept. 13, 1856, at Nakel. Having studied at Breslau, Berlin, and G&#246;ttingen (Ph...
 * 9) Joseph Jastrow (JE | ) American psychologist; born Jan. 30, 1863, at Warsaw, Poland. He accompanied his father, Dr. Marcus Jastrow, to the United...
 * 10) Marcus (Mordecai) Jastrow JE (JE | ) American rabbi and scholar; born June 5, 1829, at Rogasen, Prussian Poland; died Oct. 13, 1903, at Germantown, Pa.; fifth...
 * 11) Morris Jastrow, Jr (JE | ) American Orientalist and librarian; son of Marcus Jastrow; born Aug. 13, 1861, at Warsaw, Poland. His family removed to the...
 * 12) Jativa (JE | ) City in the kingdom of Valencia. The Jews of this locality were granted special privileges by Don Jaime, the conqueror of...
 * 13) Emile Javal (JE | ) French physician and deputy; born May 5, 1839, at Paris; son of Leopold Javal. Emile studied both medicine and mineralogy...
 * 14) Ernest Leopold Javal (JE | ) French administrative officer; born Sept. 25, 1843, at Paris; died there Sept. 1, 1897; son of Leopold Javal. He was a lieutenant...
 * 15) Leopold Javal (JE | ) French politician; born at M&#252;lhausen Dec. 1, 1804; died at Paris March 28, 1872. The son of a wealthy merchant, he entered...
 * 16) Javan (JE | ) Name of one of the seven sons of Japheth, given in the list of nations (Gen. x. 2, 4; comp. I Chron. i. 5, 7), and as such...
 * 17) Samuel Isaac Jawlikar (JE | ) Beni-Israel; born about 1820 in Bombay. He enlisted in the Third Bombay Native Light Infantry April 4, 1840; was promoted...
 * 18) Mount Jearim (JE | ) -- See C435: Chesalon
 * 19) Jebus JE (JE | ) -- See J242: Jerusalem
 * 20) Jebusites JE (JE | ) One of the nations that occupied Palestine at the time of the invasion of the Israelites. In the list of the sons of Canaan...

181 – 200

 * 1) Jeconiah (JE | ) -- See J198: Jehoiachin
 * 2) Jedaiah Penini (JE | ) -- See B492: Bedersi, Jedaiah ben Abraham
 * 3) Jedidah (JE | ) Mother of Josiah, King of Judah; daughter of Adaiah. of Boscath, and wife of Amon (II Kings xxi. 26, xxii. 1). The name means...
 * 4) Jedidiah (Gottlieb) ben Abraham Israel (JE | ) Galician preacher and Masorite; lived at Lemberg in the seventeenth century. He wrote: "Ahabat ha-Shem," fifty haggadic expositions...
 * 5) Jedidiah ben Moses of Recanati (JE | ) Italian scholar; flourished in the second half of the sixteenth century. At the request of Immanuel di Fano, Jedidiah translated...
 * 6) Jedidja (JE | ) -- See H544: Heinemann, Jeremiah
 * 7) Jeduthun (JE | ) the name of one of the three great orders or gilds of Temple singers, in charge of the music of the Temple from David&#39...
 * 8) Jehiel Anaw (JE | ) -- See A1483: Anaw
 * 9) Jehiel ben Asher JE (JE | ) Liturgical poet; flourished in Andalusia in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. He was the author of four liturgical poems...
 * 10) Jehiel b. Jekuthiel Anaw (JE | ) -- See A1483: Anaw
 * 11) Jehiel ben Joseph of Paris (JE | ) Tosafist and controversialist; born at Meaux at the end of the twelfth century; died in Palestine in 1286. His French name...
 * 12) Jehiel Michael ben Eliezer (JE | ) Rabbi at Nemirov, Russia; murdered May, 1648. When the hordes of Chmielnicki, taking Nemirov, began the work of pillage and...
 * 13) Jehiel Michael ben Judah L& (JE | ) Rabbi of Berlin; died March, 1728. After filling the office of rabbi in several Polish communities he removed about 1701 to...
 * 14) Jehiel Michael ben Uzziel of Glogau (JE | ) Rabbinical author; died in Vienna 1730. He was well versed in the Midrashim, and was the author of "Nezer ha-Kodesh...
 * 15) Jehiel of Pisa JE (JE | ) Philanthropist and scholar of Pisa; died there Feb. 10, 1492. The wealth he had acquired in the banking business he spent...
 * 16) Jehoahaz (JE | ) Son of Jehu; second king in the fifth dynasty of northern Israel; reigned 814-797 B.C. During the period of his rule Syria...
 * 17) Jehoash (JE | ) -- See J329: Joash
 * 18) Jehoiachin (JE | ) King of Judah; son and successor of Jehoiakim (II Kings xxiv. 6); reigned a little over three months. He was scarcely on the...
 * 19) Jehoiada (JE | ) High priest under Ahaziah, Athaliah, and Jehoash (Joash). By his marriage with the princess Jehosheba or Jehoshabeath, daughter...
 * 20) Jehoiakim (JE | ) King of Judah (608-597 B.C.); eldest son of Josiah, and brother and successor of Jehoahaz (Shallum), whom Pharaohnecho had...

201 – 220

 * 1) Jehonadab (Jonadab) (JE | ) Son of Rechab, a Kenite (I Chron. ii. 55), the founder of the so-called Rechabites (I Chron. ii. 55; Jer. xxxv. 6-7). The...
 * 2) Jehoram (Joram) (JE | ) King of Israel (852-842 B.C.); son of Ahab and Jezebel; brother and successor of Ahaziah. Like his predecessors, Jehoram worshiped...
 * 3) Jehoshabeath (JE | ) Daughter of Jehoram, King of Judah, and wife of the high priest Jehoiada, together with whom she saved her brother&#39;s son...
 * 4) Jehoshaphat (JE | ) Son of Asa; fourth king of Judah (873-c. 849 B.C.); contemporary of Ahab, Ahaziah, and Jehoram, kings of Israel. He inaugurated...
 * 5) Valley of Jehoshaphat (JE | ) A valley mentioned by the prophet Joel (Joel iv. [A. V. iii.] 2, 12), where, after the return of Judah and Jerusalem from...
 * 6) Jehovah JE (JE | ) A mispronunciation (introduced by Christian theologians, but almost entirely disregarded by the Jews) of the Hebrew "Yhwh...
 * 7) Jehovah-jireh (JE | ) Name given by Abraham to the place where he sacrificed a ram instead of his son Isaac (Gen. xxii. 14). The name may be an...
 * 8) Jehu (JE | ) Son of Jehoshaphat and grandson of Nimshi, founder of the fifth Israelitish dynasty (842-743 B.C.); died 815 B.C., in the...
 * 9) Jehuda (JE | ) -- See A146: Judah
 * 10) Jehudi b. Sheshet (JE | ) Hebrew philologist of the tenth century; pupil of Dunash b. Labra&#7789;. He is known exclusively through the polemic in which...
 * 11) Jeiteles (Jeitteles) (JE | ) Austrian family of some importance, which can be traced back to the first half of the eighteenth century. Aaron (Andreas)...
 * 12) Alois Jeiteles (JE | ) Austrian physician and poet; born June 20, 1794 (or 1795), at Br&#252;nn, Moravia; died there April 16, 1858. He studied philosophy...
 * 13) Rabbi Jekel (JE | ) -- See J101: Jacob of Vienna
 * 14) Jekuthiel ibn Hasan (JE | ) Statesman and scientist of the eleventh century; lived in Saragossa. According to Geiger, he is identical with the astronomer...
 * 15) Jekuthiel ben Judah ha-Kohen (JE | ) Grammarian of Prague; lived in the second half of the thirteenth century. Baer claimed to have seen a manuscript which gave...
 * 16) Jekuthiel ben L& (JE | ) Russian physician and cabalist; born at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Even as a young man he enjoyed a reputation...
 * 17) Jekuthiel ben Solomon (JE | ) French physician; lived at Narbonne in the second half of the fourteenth century. In 1387 he translated into Hebrew, under...
 * 18) Jekuthiel of Wilna (JE | ) -- See J216: Jekuthiel, b. L&#246;b Gordon
 * 19) Aryeh L& JE (JE | ) Rabbi of Byelsk, government of Grodno, Russia; born 1820; died April 2, 1886. He was one of the most prominent Russian rabbis...
 * 20) Jellinek (JE | ) Austrian family whose name has been rendered illustrious by the great preacher Adolf Jellinek. Adolf Jellinek:   Austrian...

221 – 240

 * 1) Abraham Naphtali Hirz ben Mordecai Jener (JE | ) Polish rabbi; born at Yanov 1806; died at Cracow July 14, 1876. He was a pupil of his father and of his brother Johanan, and...
 * 2) Jephthah (JE | ) Judge of Israel during six years (Judges xii. 7); conqueror of the Ammonites. According to Judges xi. 1, he was a Gileadite...
 * 3) Jerahmeel JE (JE | ) David, while he was a refugee at the court of Achish, King of Gath, is said to have made a raid against the "south of the...
 * 4) Jeremiah (JE | ) Son of Hilkiah; prophet in the days of Josiah and his sons. &#167; I. Life:   in the case of no other Israelitish prophet...
 * 5) Book of Jeremiah JE (JE | ) Contents: At the beginning of the book is a superscription (i. 1-3) which, after giving the parentage of Jeremiah, fixes the...
 * 6) Epistle of Jeremiah (JE | ) A Greek apocryphon, being a fictitious letter which Jeremiah is supposed to have written to the Jews who were about to be...
 * 7) The Lamentations of Jeremiah (JE | ) -- See L30: Lamentations
 * 8) Jeremiah (JE | ) Polish rabbi in the second half of the eighteenth century; head of the yeshibah at Mattersdorf, Hungary, in which he devoted...
 * 9) Jeremiah (JE | ) Palestinian scholar of the fourth century; always quoted by the single name "Jeremiah," though sometimes that name is used...
 * 10) Jeremiah b. Abba (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the third century; disciple and fellow of Rab (Ber. 27b). In Yerushalmi his patronymic is often omitted...
 * 11) Jeremiah of Difta (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the fourth century; contemporary of Papi (B. B. 52a; &#39;Ab. Zarah 40a). Rabbina, who eventually assisted...
 * 12) Jeremiah ben Eleazar (JE | ) Palestinian scholar of the second century; contemporary of Simeon b. Gamaliel, the father of Judah I. He is known through...
 * 13) Jeremiah ben Jacob ben Israel Naphtali (JE | ) German Talmudist and philanthropist; died in Halberstadt before 1664. Like his father, Jacob (Jockel Halberstadt), Jeremiah...
 * 14) Jerez de la Frontera (JE | ) -- See X3: Xeres de la Frontera
 * 15) Jericho (JE | ) A city in the Jordan valley, opposite Nebo (Deut. xxxii. 49), to the west of Gilgal (Josh. iv. 19). Owing to its importance...
 * 16) Jeridie-Terjume (JE | ) Title of a Jewish periodical, written in Jud&#230;o-Spanish, and printed in rabbinic characters, which was published at Constantinople...
 * 17) Jeroboam (JE | ) Name of two kings of Israel. The meaning generally attached to the name is "[he] strives with [oppresses] the people," or...
 * 18) Jeroham ben Meshullam (JE | ) French Talmudist; flourished in the first half of the fourteenth century. According to Gross, he lived in Languedoc, but on...
 * 19) Jerome (Eusebius Hieronymus Sophronius) (JE | ) Church father; next to Origen, who wrote in Greek, the most learned student of the Bible among the Latin ecclesiastical writers...
 * 20) Jersey City (JE | ) -- See N238: New Jersey

241 – 260

 * 1) Jerubbaal (JE | ) A name given to Gideon by his father, Joash (Judges vi. 32), because the men of the city of Ophrah demanded that he turn over...
 * 2) Jerusalem (JE | ) Capital at first of all Israel, later of the kingdom of Judah; chief city of Palestine; situated in 31&#176; 46&#8242; 45&#8243...
 * 3) Jerusalem (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 4) Jeschurun (JE | ) Periodical published in Frankfort-on-the-Main and subsequently in Hanover. Founded in Oct., 1854, it was issued as a monthly...
 * 5) Jeschurun (Zeitschrift f&) (JE | ) Periodical edited and published by Joseph Isaac Kobak. Among its contributors were S. L. Rapoport, S. D. Luzzatto, A. H. Weiss...
 * 6) Jesharelah (JE | ) -- See A1879: Asarelah
 * 7) Jeshibah (JE | ) -- See Y35: Yeshibah
 * 8) Jeshua ben Judah JE (JE | ) Karaite exegete and philosopher; flourished, probably at Jerusalem, in the second half of the eleventh century; pupil of Joseph...
 * 9) Jeshurun (JE | ) Poetical name for Israel, occurring four times in the Bible (Deut. xxxii. 15, xxxiii. 5, 26; Isa. xliv. 2; in the last-cited...
 * 10) Samuel Jesi JE (JE | ) Italian engraver; born at Milan 1789; died at Florence Jan. 17, 1853. He was a pupil of G. Longhi at the Academy of Milan...
 * 11) Jesse (JE | ) Father of David, son of Obed, and grandson of Boaz and Ruth. He is called "the Bethlehemite" (I Sam. xvi. 1, 18; xvii. 58)...
 * 12) Sir George Jessel (JE | ) English master of the rolls; born in London 1824; died there March 21, 1883; youngest son of Zadok Aaron Jessel. Educatedat...
 * 13) Jesurun (JE | ) A family whose members were descendants of the Spanish exiles, and are found mainly in Amsterdam and Hamburg. The earliest...
 * 14) Jesus of Nazareth (JE | ) Founder of Christianity; born at Nazareth about 2 B.C. (according to Luke iii. 23); executed at Jerusalem 14th of Nisan, 3789...
 * 15) Jesus b. Phabi (JE | ) High priest (c. 30 B.C.). He was deposed by Herod the Great, his office being given to Simon, the son of Boethus, the king&#39...
 * 16) Jesus Sirach (JE | ) -- See S836: Sirach
 * 17) Jesus ben Zappha (JE | ) General (&#963;&#964;&#961;&#945;&#964;&#951;&#947;&#972;&#962;) of Idum&#230;a in the first century, appointed by the revolutionary...
 * 18) Jethro >> Jethro in rabbinic literature JE (JE | ) Priest of Midian and father-in-law of Moses (Ex. iii. 1 et al.). In the account of the marriage of his daughter Zipporah to...
 * 19) Jew (The Word) (JE | ) Up to the seventeenth century this word was spelled in Middle English in various ways: "Gyu," "Giu," "Gyw," "Iu," "luu," "Iuw...
 * 20) The Jew (JE | ) Jewish monthly whose avowed object finds expression in its subtitle as "being a defense of Judaism against all adversaries...

261 – 280

 * 1) Jew Bill (JE | ) -- See E375: England
 * 2) Jew of Malta (JE | ) -- See B242: Barabas
 * 3) Jacob Jewell (JE | ) Owner of the largest traveling circus in England; died Sept., 1884; tenant, under W. Holland, of North Woolwich Gardens for...
 * 4) Jewesses (JE | ) Anthropologically considered, Jewesses present certain distinctive physiognomic and epidermic characteristics marking them...
 * 5) Jewish Abend-Post (JE | ) Yiddish newspaper, issued daily except Saturday and Jewish holidays, established in New York Feb. 3, 1899, by Jacob Saphirstein...
 * 6) Jewish Advance (JE | ) -- See L142: Leeser, Isaac
 * 7) Jewish Advocate (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 8) The Jewish Chronicle (JE | ) Oldest and most influential Anglo-Jewish newspaper; published in London, England; next to the "Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums...
 * 9) Jewish Chronicle (Baltimore; Boston; Mobile) (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 10) The Jewish Colonial Trust (J&) (JE | ) the financial instrument of the Zionist movement. Its establishment was suggested at the First Zionist Congress, held at Basel...
 * 11) Jewish Colonization Association (JE | ) Society founded by Baron de Hirsch Sept., 1891, and incorporated at London under the Companies&#39; Acts of 1862-90, with...
 * 12) Jewish Comment (JE | ) A weekly published at Baltimore, Md., since May 29, 1895. Its first editor was Max Myers; he was succeeded by Louis H. Levin...
 * 13) The Jewish Criterion (JE | ) American weekly newspaper; established at Pittsburg, Pa., Feb; 8, 1895, by S. Steinfirst and Joseph Mayer. Rabbi Samuel Greenfield...
 * 14) The Jewish Exponent (JE | ) A weekly published in Philadelphia and Baltimore since 1887, when it was founded by the Jewish Exponent Publishing Company...
 * 15) Jewish Expositor (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 16) Jewish Free Press (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 17) Jewish Gazette (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 18) Jewish Herald (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 19) Jewish Historical Society of England (JE | ) After the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition in 1887, it was proposed by Lucien Wolf to form a historical society to continue...
 * 20) Jewish Lads& (JE | ) Military association of English Jewish boys, formed, organized, and directed by Col. Albert E. W. Goldsmid "to instil into...

281 – 300

 * 1) The Jewish Ledger (JE | ) Weekly journal; founded in New Orleans, La., Jan. 4, 1895, by A. Steeg, who is still (1904) its publisher. Its first editor...
 * 2) The Jewish Messenger (JE | ) Weekly; published in New York city; founded and edited by R. Samuel M. Isaacs (Jan., 1857). Upon his death his son Abram S...
 * 3) Jewish Morning Journal (Morgen Journal) (JE | ) the first Yiddish daily morning newspaper; established in New York July 2, 1901, by Jacob Saphirstein, who is still (1904)...
 * 4) Jewish News (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 5) Jewish Progress (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 6) Jewish Publication Society of America (JE | ) Society for "the publication and dissemination of literary, scientific, and religious works giving instruction in the principles...
 * 7) Jewish Quarterly Review JE (JE | ) Journal of Jewish science; founded in London Oct., 1888; edited by Israel Abrahams and C. G. Montefiore. While containing...
 * 8) Jewish Record (London) (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 9) The Jewish Record (JE | ) Weekly; published in Philadelphia, Pa., from 1874 until the spring of 1887. Alfred T. Jones was the editor, and later Henry...
 * 10) Jewish Reformer (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 11) The Jewish Review (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 12) The Jewish Review and Observer (JE | ) American weekly newspaper; founded under the name "The Jewish Review" in Nov., 1893, by M. Machol and his son Jacob Machol...
 * 13) Jewish Sabbath Journal (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 14) Jewish Schoolfellow (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 15) Jewish South (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 16) The Jewish Spectator (JE | ) the first Jewish weekly journal in the southern United States; founded in Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 19, 1885, by M. Samfield and...
 * 17) Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JE | ) Rabbinic seminary established in New York city under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary Association; founded...
 * 18) Jewish Tidings (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 19) London Jewish Times (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 20) The Jewish Times; A Journal of Reform and Progress (JE | ) A weekly published in New York city. The first number appeared on March 5, 1869, Moritz Ellinger being the publisher, and...

301 – 320

 * 1) Jewish Times and Observer (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 2) Jewish Tribune (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 3) Jewish Voice (JE | ) American weekly newspaper; published in St. Louis, Mo., since Jan. 1, 1888. The present editor, M. Spitz, founded on Aug....
 * 4) Jewish Weekly Review (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 5) Jewish Women (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 6) The Jewish World (Die Yiddische Welt) (JE | ) Yiddish daily paper; founded in New York city June 27, 1902, by the Lebanon Printing and Publishing Company (president, H...
 * 7) The Jewish World (JE | ) the fourth Jewish newspaper published in London, immediately on the passing of the "Jewish Record." Its first number was issued...
 * 8) Abraham Jonah b. Isaiah Jewnin (JE | ) Russian Talmudist; a native of Paritz, government of Minsk; died at Grodno June 12, 1848, while still young. He was the author...
 * 9) Jewry JE (JE | ) Originally a designation for Judea and sometimes for the entire Holy Land. The term was afterward applied to any special district...
 * 10) Jews& (JE | ) Rabbinical seminary in London, England; it owes its existence to the chief rabbi Dr. N. M. Adler; the first stone was laid...
 * 11) Jews& (JE | ) Name given to the southeast corner of the colonnade in the Royal Exchange, London, owing to the fact that the Jewish brokers...
 * 12) Jezdegerd (JE | ) -- See P210: Persia
 * 13) Jezebel (JE | ) Daughter of Ethbaal, King of Sidon, and wife of Ahab, second king of the fourth dynasty of Israel, founded by Omri (I Kings...
 * 14) Jezelus (JE | ) 1. Father of Sechenias, the chief of a family that returned with Ezra from captivity (I Esd. viii. 32). In Ezra viii. 5 he...
 * 15) Jezreel (JE | ) See Esdraelon.2. A city of Issachar, mentioned with Chesulloth and Shunem (Josh. xix. 18). Owing to its importance, Jezreel...
 * 16) Solomon Ballajce Jhiratkar (JE | ) Beni-Israel soldier; enlisted in the 14th Regiment Bombay N. L. I. in 1818; promoted jemidar Jan. 10, 1839; subahdar Jan....
 * 17) Jid (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 18) Jidische Illustrirte Zeitung (JE | ) See Peridicals.
 * 19) Jidische Volksbibliothek (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 20) Jidischer Puck (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals

321 – 340

 * 1) Jitomir JE (JE | ) -- See A54: Zhitomir
 * 2) Joab >> Joab in rabbinic literature JE (JE | ) Son of Zeruiah, David&#39;s sister (II Chron. ii. 16), and commander-in-chief of David&#39;s army. Joab first appears after...
 * 3) Joab (JE | ) Jewish family to which belonged Aaron b. Samuel ha-Nasi, who lived for some time at Oria in Apulia in the second half of the...
 * 4) Joab ben Jehiel (JE | ) Liturgical poet; lived at Rome in the fourteenth century. He belonged to the Beth-El family, and was the author of five piyyu&#7789...
 * 5) Joseph Joachim (JE | ) Hungarian violinist; born at Kittsee, near Presburg, Hungary, June 28, 1831. He began to study the violin when he was five...
 * 6) Philip J Joachimsen (JE | ) American jurist and communal worker; born in Breslau Nov., 1817; died in New York city Jan. 6, 1890. He emigrated to New York...
 * 7) Ferdinand J Joachimsthal JE (JE | ) German mathematician; born May 9, 1818, at Goldberg, Silesia; died April 5, 1861, at Breslau. In the year of his graduation...
 * 8) Georg Joachimsthal (JE | ) German physician; born at Stargard, Pomerania, May 8, 1863. He graduated as doctor of medicine from the University of Berlin...
 * 9) Joash JE (JE | ) Son of Ahaziah and Zibiah of Beer-sheba; eighth king of Judah (II Kings xii. 1, 2). Joash was the only descendant of the house...
 * 10) Job >> Job in rabbinic literature JE (JE | ) Titular hero of the Book of Job. He was a native of Uz, rich, very pious, and upright, and he had seven sons and three daughters...
 * 11) The Book of Job (JE | ) A dramatic poem in forty-two chapters, the characters in which are Job, his wife (mentioned only once, ii. 9), his three friends&#8212...
 * 12) Testament of Job (JE | ) Greek apocryphal book, containing a haggadic story of Job. It was first published by Angelo Mai in the seventh volume of the...
 * 13) Well of Job (JE | ) A deep well, situated just below the junction of the valley of Hinnom with that of Jehoshaphat, the channel of the Kidron...
 * 14) Jobab (JE | ) Son of Joktan the Shemite (Gen. x. 29; I Chron. i. 23).2. Son of Zerah of Bozrah; second king of Edom (Gen. xxxvi. 33, 34...
 * 15) Joceus (Joce) of York JE (JE | ) English Jew of the preexpulsion period; leader of the York community at the time of the massacre in 1190. He is mentioned...
 * 16) Jochanan (JE | ) -- See J349: Johanan
 * 17) Jochebed (JE | ) Wife and aunt of Amram, and mother of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam (Ex. vi. 20). She was the daughter of Levi, and was born in...
 * 18) Waldemar Jochelson JE (JE | ) Russian explorer and ethnologist; born in Wilna Jan. 1, 1856. He graduated from the gymnasium of Wilna, and became identified...
 * 19) Jod (JE | ) -- See A1308: Alphabet, Hebrew
 * 20) Joel (JE | ) the superscription of the second book of the so-called Minor Prophets names as the author of the book "Joel, the son of Pethuel...

341 – 360

 * 1) Book of Joel (JE | ) the prophecies of the Book of Joel are divided into two parts, comprising respectively (1) ch. i. 2-ii. 17 and (2) ch. ii...
 * 2) David Jo& (JE | ) German rabbi and author; born Jan. 12, 1815, at Inowrazlaw, Posen; died Sept. 7, 1882, at Breslau; brother of Manuel Jo&#235...
 * 3) Joel b. Isaac ha-Levi (JE | ) German tosafist of the twelfth century; born probably at Bonn; died at Cologne about 1200. Joel studied in his youth at Ratisbon...
 * 4) Joel b. Judah Selki ha-Levi (L&) (JE | ) Author of "Dibre ha-Iggeret," a description of the sufferings of the Jews of Glogau when that town was besieged by the Prussians...
 * 5) Karl Jo& (JE | ) German philosophical writer; born March 27, 1864, at Hirschberg, Silesia; son of Rabbi H. Jo&#235;l of that city and nephew...
 * 6) Lewis Joel (JE | ) British consul-general to Chile; born in Dublin 1824; died in London Feb. 28, 1899. He was educated at Bristol; in May, 1861...
 * 7) Manuel Jo& (JE | ) German rabbi; born Oct. 19, 1826, at Birnbaum, province of Posen; died at Breslau Nov. 3, 1890; son of Rabbi Heimann Jo&#235...
 * 8) Joel ibn Shu& (JE | ) -- See I50: Ibn Shu&#39;aib, Joel
 * 9) Johanan b. Baroka (JE | ) Teacher of the second century (second and third tannaitic periods); disciple of Joshua b. Hananiah and colleague of Eleazar...
 * 10) Johanan Gadi (JE | ) Eldest of the five sons of Mattathias the Maccabee (I Macc. ii. 2; Josephus, "Ant." xii. 6, &#167; 1), though the least important...
 * 11) Johanan b. Gudgada (JE | ) Scholar and chief gatekeeper at the Temple in the last years of its existence (Tosef., Shek. ii. 14); senior of Joshua...
 * 12) Johanan ben ha-Horanit (JE | ) Palestinian tanna of the first generation; disciple of Hillel (according to Frankel, "Darke ha-Mishnah," p. 53, note 8, a...
 * 13) Johanan ben Isaac of Holleschau (JE | ) Rabbi of the German community of London at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He edited "Teshubot ha-Geonim," responsa...
 * 14) Johanan ben Jehoiada (JE | ) High priest under Artaxerxes Ochus (359-338 B.C.); perhaps identical with the one mentioned in Neh. xii. 11 ("Johanan" being...
 * 15) Johanan ben Kareah (JE | ) General of the Israelites at the time of Nebuchadnezzar (c. 586 B.C.). After the kingdom of Judea had been destroyed by the...
 * 16) Johanan ben Meriya (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the fifth or sixth generation (4th and 5th cent.). Johanan is frequently mentioned in the Talmud of Jerusalem...
 * 17) Johanan b. Nappaha (ha-Nappah) (JE | ) Palestinian scholar; born at Sepphoris in the last quarter of the second century; died at Tiberias 279. He is generally cited...
 * 18) Johanan b. ha-Nazuf (JE | ) Friend of Gamaliel II. (first and second centuries). It is related that &#7716;alafta once went to Tiberias and found Gamaliel...
 * 19) Johanan b. Nuri JE (JE | ) Tanna of the first and second centuries; junior of Gamaliel II. and senior of Akiba (Sifra, Kedoshim, iv. 9; &#39;Ar...
 * 20) Johanan ha-Sandalar (JE | ) Tanna of the second century; one of Akiba&#39;s disciples that survived the Hadrianic persecutions and transmitted the traditional...

361 – 380

 * 1) Johanan b. Torta (JE | ) Scholar of the first and second centuries; contemporary of Akiba. When Akiba hailed bar Kokba as the Messiah, the latter exclaimed...
 * 2) Johanan b. Zakkai (JE | ) the most important tanna in the last decade of the Second Temple, and, after the destruction of Jerusalem, the founder and...
 * 3) Johannes de Capua (JE | ) -- See J372: John of Capua
 * 4) Johannes Hispalensis (JE | ) Baptized Jew who flourished between 1135 and 1153; his Jewish name is unknown and has been corrupted into "Avendeut," "Avendehut"...
 * 5) Johannes Pauli (JE | ) German humorist and convert to Christianity; born about 1455; died at Thann 1530. He became a distinguished preacher of the...
 * 6) Johannes (David) Toletanus (JE | ) -- See J364: Johannes Hispalensis
 * 7) Johannesburg (JE | ) Largest city in the Transvaal and principal center of Jewish life in South Africa. The Jewish community there is estimated...
 * 8) Joseph Johlson (Asher ben Joseph Fulda) (JE | ) German Bible translator and writer on educational topics; born in 1777 at Fulda; died atFrankfort-on-the-Main June 13, 1851...
 * 9) John (JE | ) -- See N245: New Testament
 * 10) John Albert (JE | ) King of Poland (1492-1501). He ascended the throne of Poland in the same year in which his brother Alexander Jagellon became...
 * 11) John the Baptist (JE | ) Essene saint and preacher; flourished between 20 and 30 C.E.; fore-runner of Jesus of Nazareth and originator of the Christian...
 * 12) John of Capua JE (JE | ) Italian convert to Christianity, and translator; flourished between 1262 and 1269. He translated Rabbi Joel&#39;s Hebrew version...
 * 13) John Casimir (JE | ) King of Poland (1648-68). He was elected to the throne with the aid of Chmielnicki, who after the election returned to the...
 * 14) John of Giscala (Johanan ben Levi) (JE | ) Native of the small Galilean city of Giscala, who took an important part in the great war against Rome (66-70). He was...
 * 15) The Gospel of John (JE | ) -- See N245: New Testament
 * 16) John Hyrcanus (JE | ) -- See H1003: Hyrcanus
 * 17) John Sobieski (JE | ) King of Poland (1674-96). During his reign Poland had already lost its prominent position among European peoples, and, except...
 * 18) John of Valladolid JE (JE | ) Jewish convert to Christianity; born 1335. An able speaker, and possessed of some knowledge of rabbinical literature, he persuaded...
 * 19) Johnson (JE | ) American family, members of which have attained distinction in Ohio, Texas, and New York. The family is from England, the...
 * 20) Joiada (JE | ) Son of Eliashib, high priest about 450 B.C. (Neh. xii. 10-11, 22). One of his children became a son-in-law of Sanballat the...

381 – 400

 * 1) Joigny (JE | ) Chief town in the department of the Yonne (the ancient Champagne), France, situated on the River Yonne. It had an important...
 * 2) Joint Owners (JE | ) in the Mishnah joint owners are known as "shuttafin." When the joint owners are coheirs the Mishnah speaks of them as "the...
 * 3) Joinville (JE | ) French town in the department of Haute-Marne; in the Tosafot occur, and other variants (Yoma 81; &#39;Er. 24; Ber. 8; Bek...
 * 4) Joktan (JE | ) Younger son of Eber and progenitor of thirteen Arabic tribes (Gen. x. 25-29; I Chron. i. 19-23), many of which&#8212;as Hazarmaveth...
 * 5) Zechariah Isaiah b. Mordecai Jolles (JE | ) Rabbinical scholar and author; born at Lemberg about 1814; died at Minsk, Russia, May 14, 1852. In 1834, after having married...
 * 6) Heymann (Hayyim ben Abraham) Jolowicz (JE | ) German preacher and author; born Aug. 23, 1816, at Santomischl, province of Posen; died at K&#246;nigsberg, Prussia, Jan....
 * 7) Jonadab (JE | ) -- See J201: Jehonadab
 * 8) Jonah JE >> Jonah in rabbinic literature JE (JE | ) Prophet in the days of Jeroboam II.; son of Amittai of Gath-hepher. He is a historical personage; for, according to II Kings...
 * 9) Book of Jonah (JE | ) the Book of Jonah stands unique in the prophetical canon, in that it does not contain any predictions, but simply relates...
 * 10) Jonah JE (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the fourth century; leading rabbinical authority in the fourth amoraic generation. With Jose II., his...
 * 11) Jonah (Abu al-Walid Merwan ibn Janah) JE (JE | ) -- See I24: Ibn Jana&#7717;
 * 12) Jonah ben Judah Gershon (JE | ) Rabbi and author; died in Wilna 1808. He was dayyan of that city, and devoted his time to the study of the Tosefta, which...
 * 13) Jonah Landsopher (JE | ) -- See J393: Landsopher, Jonah
 * 14) Benjamin Franklin Jonas (JE | ) American lawyer, soldier, and statesman; born in Williamstown, Grant county, Kentucky, July 19, 1834. In early youth he removed...
 * 15) Emil Jonas (JE | ) German writer and publicist; born July 14, 1824, at Schwerin, Mecklenburg; educated at the gymnasium of his native city and...
 * 16) & (JE | ) French musician; born at Paris March 5, 1827. He entered the Conservatoire in 1841, where he took the first prize in harmony...
 * 17) Moses Jonas (JE | ) -- See B1306: Bonn, Jonas ben Moses
 * 18) Jonathan, Jehonathan (JE | ) 1. Son or descendant of Gershom, son of Moses. He officiated as a priest to the idol of Micah&#8212;a service continued in...
 * 19) Jonathan (Nathan) JE (JE | ) Tanna of the second century; schoolfellow of Josiah, apart from whom he is rarely quoted. Jonathan is generally so cited without...
 * 20) Jonathan ben Absalom (JE | ) General of Simon Maccabeus. At the command of the latter he took possession of Joppa, and drove out the inhabitants in order...

401 – 420

 * 1) Jonathan b. & (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the third generation. According to Yer. Ter. xi. he was one of the teachers of Abbahu. It is probable...
 * 2) Jonathan (Nathan) b. Amram (JE | ) Semi-tanna of the second and third centuries; disciple of Judah I. and senior of Jannai, who consulted him concerning ritual...
 * 3) Jonathan b. Anan (JE | ) Son of the high priest Anan; was appointed by Vitellius high priest in the place of Joseph Caiaphas, at the time of the Passover...
 * 4) Jonathan (Nathan) of Bet Gubrin (JE | ) Palestinian scholar of the third century; junior of Joshua b. Levi and senior of Simon b. Pazzi (Cant. R. i. 1). He confined...
 * 5) Jonathan ben David ha-Kohen of Lunel JE (JE | ) French philosopher; flourished in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He defended Maimonides against the severe attacks...
 * 6) Jonathan ben Eleazar (JE | ) Palestinian scholar of the third century; contemporary of &#7716;anina b. &#7716;ama (Shab. 49a et seq.); disciple of Simon...
 * 7) Jonathan ben Horkinas (Archinas) (JE | ) Palestinian scholar of the first century; contemporary of Eleazar b. Azariah and a disciple of the school of Shammai. He was...
 * 8) Jonathan ben Jacob (JE | ) Hungarian Talmudist and author; flourished at Buda (Ofen) toward the end of the seventeenth century. In 1688, when Buda was...
 * 9) Jonathan ben Joseph JE (JE | ) Lithuanian rabbi and astronomer; lived at Risenoi, government of Grodno, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In addition...
 * 10) Jonathan Levi Zion (JE | ) Representative of the Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main in its defense against the attacks of John Pfefferkorn. When...
 * 11) Jonathan Maccabeus (JE | ) Son of Mattathias; leader of the Jews in the Maccabean wars from 161 to 143 B.C. He is called also Apphus (&#7944;&#960;&#966...
 * 12) Jonathan the Sadducee (JE | ) Friend of the Hasmonean prince John Hyrcanus (135-104 B.C.). As the Pharisees belittled the prince&#39;s fitness for the office...
 * 13) Jonathan Sar ha-Birah (JE | ) -- See J406: Jonathan ben Eleazar
 * 14) Jonathan ben Uzziel (JE | ) Hillel&#39;s most distinguished pupil (Suk. 28a; B. B. 134a). No halakot of his have been preserved, though a tradition makes...
 * 15) Aaron b. Zebi Jonathanson (JE | ) Russian Hebraist and poet; born about 1815; died in Kovno July 27, 1868. His father, a great-grandson of Jonathan Eybesch&#252...
 * 16) Alfred T Jones (JE | ) American editor and communal worker; born in Boston July 4, 1822; died at Philadelphia Oct. 3, 1888. In 1842 he became a resident...
 * 17) Thomas Jones JE (JE | ) English publisher; convert to Judaism; born in 1791; died in London May 25, 1882. By birth a Roman Catholic, his change of...
 * 18) Joppa (JE | ) -- See J135: Jaffa
 * 19) Joram (JE | ) -- See J202: Jehoram
 * 20) The Jordan (JE | ) Principal river of Palestine, formed by the confluence of three streams rising respectively at (1) Baniyas (Paneas), (2) Tell...

421 – 440

 * 1) Abba Jose (Joseph) ben Dositai (Dosai; Derosai; Dosa) (JE | ) Palestinian tanna of the second century; mentioned as both halakist and haggadist. He transmitted a halakah of R. Jose the...
 * 2) Abba Jose ben Hanin JE (JE | ) Palestinian tanna of the last decades before the destruction of the Temple; contemporary of Eliezer B. Jacob and of &#7716...
 * 3) Abba Jose of Mahuza (JE | ) Scholar of the third (?) century; mentioned once only (Mek., Beshallach, Wayechi, 3), a haggadah of his being transmitted...
 * 4) Jose b. Abin JE (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the fifth generation (4th cent.); son of R. Abin I. (Bacher, "Ag. Pal. Amor." iii. 724) and the teacher...
 * 5) Jose (Isi, Issi) ben Akabya (Akiba) (JE | ) Tanna of the beginning of the third century. The name "Issi" or "Assa" is derived from "Jose," and was borne by many tannaim...
 * 6) Jose the Galilean JE (JE | ) Tanna; lived in the first and second centuries of the common era. Jose was a contemporary and colleague of R. Akiba, R. &#7788...
 * 7) Jose ben Halafta JE (JE | ) Palestinian tanna of the fourth generation (2d cent.). of his life only the following few details are known: He was born at...
 * 8) Jose b. Jacob b. Idi (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the fourth generation (4th cent.). He was the colleague of R. Judan of Magdala (Yer. Ta&#39;an. i. 3)...
 * 9) Jose ben Joezer of Zeredah JE (JE | ) Rabbi of the early Maccabean period; possibly a disciple of Antigonus of Soko, though this is not certain. He belonged to...
 * 10) Jose (Joseph) ben Johanan (JE | ) President of the Sanhedrin in the second century B.C.; a native of Jerusalem. He and Jose b. Joezer were the successors and...
 * 11) Jose ben Jose (JE | ) the earliest payye&#7789;an known by name; flourished, at the latest, about the end of the sixth century in Palestine. He...
 * 12) Jose b. Judah (JE | ) Tanna of the end of the second century. He is principally known through his controversies with R. Judah I. As specimens of...
 * 13) Jose b. Kazrata (Kuzira; Kazra) (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the first amoraic generation; son-in-law of R. Jose. Kohut is of the opinion that the surname is derived...
 * 14) Jose ha-Kohen ("the Pious") (JE | ) Tanna of the second generation; flourished in the first and second centuries; pupil of Johanan ben Zakkai. It is said of him...
 * 15) Jose of Mallahaya (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the fourth generation. According to his explanation of Ps. lvii. 5 the disasters that overtook the Jews...
 * 16) Jose of Maon (JE | ) Popular preacher of the beginning of the third century; delivered his addresses in a synagogue at Tiberias which bore the...
 * 17) Jose b. Nehorai (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the first generation; halakot are transmitted in his name by Johanan (Rashi, B. M. 41a). of his haggadic...
 * 18) Jose b. Saul JE (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the first generation (3d cent.). He is known chiefly as a transmitter of the sayings and traditions of...
 * 19) Rafael Joseffy (JE | ) American piano virtuoso; born in 1852 in Hunfalu, Hungary. In the following year the family moved to Miskolcz, where he spent...
 * 20) Josel (Joselmann, Joselin) of Rosheim (Joseph ben Gershon Loanz) JE (JE | ) the great advocate ("shtadlan") of the German Jews during the reigns of the emperors Maximilian I. and Charles V.; born about...

441 – 460

 * 1) Joseph (JE | ) Eleventh son of Jacob and the elder of the two sons of Rachel; born at Haran (Gen. xxx. 24). The meaning given to the name...
 * 2) Joseph (High Priest) (JE | ) 1. Son of Ellem of Sepphoris; installed by Herod for one day (Yom Kippur) as a substitute for the high priest, who had...
 * 3) Joseph II (JE | ) German emperor; born March 13, 1741; died Feb. 20, 1790, at Vienna. As German emperor his sovereignty was one in name only...
 * 4) Joseph (JE | ) Prominent Jewish family which settled in Canada toward the close of the eighteenth century. It was descended from Naphtali...
 * 5) Joseph ben Abba (JE | ) Gaon of Pumbedita for a period of two years; died in 816 (Sherira Gaon; Neubauer, "M. J. C." i. 37). Abraham ibn Daud ("Sefer...
 * 6) Joseph ibn Abitur (JE | ) -- See A334: Abitur, Joseph
 * 7) Joseph ben Abraham JE (JE | ) Liturgical poet. Seven prayers bearing the name "Joseph ben Abraham" are found in the Siddur of Avignon. Zunz identifies this...
 * 8) Joseph ben Abraham Issachar B& (JE | ) Dutch scholar of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He translated into Jud&#230;o-German the Targum to Canticles (Amsterdam...
 * 9) Joseph ben Abraham ha-Kohen ha-Ro& (JE | ) Karaite philosopher and theologian; flourished in Babylonia or Persia in the first half of the eleventh century; teacher of...
 * 10) Joseph ben Ahmad ibn Hasdai (JE | ) Egyptian physician and medical writer; lived in Cairo at the beginning of the twelfth century. Although his biographer, Ibn...
 * 11) Joseph the Apostate (JE | ) Jewish convert to Christianity in the first half of the fourth century. He was one of the assessors of the rabbinical school...
 * 12) Joseph ben Ardut (JE | ) -- See N80: Nasi, Joseph
 * 13) Joseph of Arimathaea (JE | ) Wealthy Jew (probably a member of the Essene fraternity) who, out of sympathy with Jesus, gave him burial in one of the tombs...
 * 14) Joseph of Arles (JE | ) French Talmudist and cabalist of the sixteenth century. A letter signed "Joseph " (= "of Arles") is found among the halakic...
 * 15) Joseph the Astronomer (JE | ) -- See V31: Vecinho, Joseph
 * 16) Joseph de Avila (JE | ) -- See Z142: Zohar
 * 17) Joseph ben Baruch JE (JE | ) Tosafist of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Gross identifies him with Joseph of Clisson. Joseph resided for some time...
 * 18) Joseph al-Bashir (JE | ) -- See J449: Joseph ben Abraham ha-Kohen
 * 19) Joseph Bekor Shor JE (JE | ) -- See J479: Joseph ben Isaac Bekor Shor
 * 20) Joseph ben Berechiah (JE | ) Rabbi of Kairwan and a pupil of Jacob bar Nissim; flourished in the tenth century. He carried on a scientific correspondence...

461 – 480

 * 1) Joseph Caspi JE (JE | ) -- See C231: Caspi, Joseph
 * 2) Joseph of Chartres (JE | ) French elegiac poet; born in the second half of the twelfth century (Zunz ["Literaturgesch." p. 470] says that he flourished...
 * 3) Joseph of Chinon (JE | ) French Talmudist; lived about the middle of the thirteenth century. According to Zunz, Joseph was a son of Nathanael the Holy...
 * 4) Joseph of Clisson (JE | ) -- See J457: Joseph ben Baruch
 * 5) David Joseph (JE | ) German architect; born July 4, 1863, at K&#246;nigsberg, eastern Prussia; educated at the gymnasium of his native town and...
 * 6) Joseph David (JE | ) Rabbi of Salonica; flourished in the first half of the eighteenth century; contemporary of Solomon Amarillo and Joseph Covo...
 * 7) Joseph ben David Heilbronn of Eschau (JE | ) German Masorite; lived at the Hague in the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Sefer Mebin &#7716;idot" (Amsterdam,...
 * 8) Joseph ben David ha-Yewani (JE | ) Greek grammarian and lexicographer; flourished at the end of the thirteenth or about the middle of the fourteenth century...
 * 9) Joseph David ben Zebi (JE | ) Russian rabbi and author; born in Zetil, government of Grodno, 1767; died in Mir, government of Minsk, 1846. He was the grandson...
 * 10) Joseph of Dreux (JE | ) French Talmudist of the first half of the thirteenth century. His name occurs in a manuscript in the British Museum collection...
 * 11) Joseph ben Elimelech of Torbin (JE | ) Polish scholar of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Ben Ziyyon" (Amsterdam, 1690), containing mnemonic...
 * 12) Joseph of Gamala (JE | ) Son of a midwife (Josephus, "Vita," &#167; 37). With Chares he incited the inhabitants of Gamala to revolt against Agrippa...
 * 13) Joseph ben Gorion JE (JE | ) Author of the "Sefer Yosippon," a history of the Jews from the time of the destruction of Babylon (539 B.C.) to the downfall...
 * 14) Joseph ibn Hasan (JE | ) Arabic author of the fifteenth century or earlier. In 1467 he wrote "Muchsin al-Adab," on culture, in fifty Ka&#7779...
 * 15) Joseph Hazzan ben Judah of Troyes (JE | ) French Talmudist and ḥazzan; flourished at Troyes about the middle of the thirteenth century. From quotations in "Minḥat Yehudah" (pp. 1b, 19b, 24a, 28a, 38a) it is known that he wrote a commentary on Ecclesiastes...
 * 16) Henry Samuel Joseph (JE | ) English convert to Christianity; born in 1801; died at Strasburg, Alsace, Jan. 28, 1864. At first a preacher in the synagogue...
 * 17) Joseph bar Hiyya (JE | ) Gaon of Pumbedita from 828 to 833. In the controversy between Daniel and the exilarch David ben Judah, the gaon Abraham ben...
 * 18) Joseph ben Ibrahim ibn Wakar (JE | ) -- See I62: Ibn Wa&#7731;ar, Joseph ben Abraham
 * 19) Joseph ben Isaac Bekor Shor of Orleans (JE | ) French tosafist, exegete, and poet; flourished in the second half of the twelfth century; pupil of Jacob Tam, Joseph Caro...
 * 20) Joseph b. Isaac of Chinon (JE | ) French tosatist; lived in the second half of the twelfth and at the beginning of the thirteenth century. He is mentioned as...

481 – 500

 * 1) Joseph ben Isaac ha-Levi (JE | ) Lithuanian philosopher of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was well versed in philosophical works, and when in Prague was asked by Yom-Ṭob Lipman Heller...
 * 2) Joseph Israel (JE | ) -- See J59: Jacob ben Joseph Israel
 * 3) Jacob Joseph JE (JE | ) Russian-American rabbi; born at Krozhe, government of Kovno, Russia, 1848; died at New York July 28, 1902. He studied in the...
 * 4) Joseph ben Jacob (JE | ) Gaon of Sura about 930-936 and 942-948. He was chosen by the exilarch David ben Zakkai to fill the place of Saadia (c. 930)...
 * 5) Joseph b. Jacob Isaac (JE | ) Rabbi at Yampol, Russia, later at Zamoscz; died in 1807. He was the author of "Mishnat &#7716;akamim," on various subjects...
 * 6) Joseph ben Jacob of Pinczow (JE | ) Lithuanian Talmudist of the seventeenth century. He was a pupil of Zebi Hirsch, rabbi in Lublin. In 1687 he was rabbi...
 * 7) Joseph ben Jacob ibn Zaddik JE (JE | ) Spanish rabbi, poet, and philosopher; died at Cordova 1149. A Talmudist of high repute, he was appointed in 1138 dayyan at...
 * 8) Joseph ben Johanan (JE | ) French rabbi of the fourteenth century. He was a native of Treves (, read by Carmoly "Troyes"), and seems to have been the...
 * 9) Joseph b. Joshua b. Levi (JE | ) Amora of the third century; educated by his father (Shab. 68a; Ber. 8b; Yeb. 9a). He was the son-in-law of Judah ha-Nasi;...
 * 10) Joseph ben Joshua ben Me& (JE | ) Historian and physician of the sixteenth century; born at Avignon Dec. 20, 1496; died at Genoa in 1575 or shortly after. His...
 * 11) Joseph ben Judah ibn & >> Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta JE (JE conflates the two) (JE | ) Disciple of Moses Maimonides; born about 1160; died 1226. For the first twenty-five years of his life he lived with his father...
 * 12) Joseph ben Kalonymus ha-Nakdan (JE | ) German Masorite and liturgical poet; flourished in the first half of the thirteenth century. He was the author of a long acrostic...
 * 13) Joseph Kara JE (JE | ) -- See K105: Kara, Joseph ben Simeon
 * 14) Joseph, King of the Chazars (JE | ) -- See C402: Chazars
 * 15) Joseph (Jose) b. Kisma (JE | ) Tanna of the first and second centuries; contemporary and senior of Hananiah b. Teradion. He is never cited in connection...
 * 16) Joseph ha-Kohen JE (JE | ) -- See J490: Joseph ben Joshua ben Me&#239;r ha-Kohen
 * 17) Joseph de Lamego (JE | ) See Capateiro, Joseph.
 * 18) Joseph (b. Jacob) of Mandeville (Morell) (JE | ) French exegete; pupil of Abraham ibn Ezra. He wrote a supercommentary on that scholar&#39;s commentary on Exodus (Neubauer...
 * 19) Joseph ben Me& (JE | ) Liturgical poet of the thirteenth century; perhaps uncle of Me&#239;r of Rothenburg. He was the author of a dirge beginning...
 * 20) Joseph ben Me& JE (JE | ) -- See T143: Te&#39;omim, Joseph ben Me&#239;r