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501 – 520

 * 1) Joseph ben Mordecai Gershon ha-Kohen JE (JE | ) Polish Talmudist; born at Cracow 1510; died 1591. He began his studies in the Talmud at an early age, and became the head...
 * 2) Joseph ben Mordecai ha-Kohen (JE | ) Turkish rabbi and liturgist of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; born in Jerusalem. He was a pupil of Moses Galante...
 * 3) Joseph b. Mordecai Troki (JE | ) -- See J503: Troki, Joseph b. Mordecai
 * 4) Morris Joseph (JE | ) English rabbi; born in London May 28, 1848; educated at Jews&#39; College in that city. He was appointed rabbi of the North...
 * 5) Joseph (Joslein) ben Moses (JE | ) Bavarian Talmudist; born at H&#246;chst&#228;dt about 1420; died after 1488. A few details of Joseph&#39;s life are known...
 * 6) Joseph (Josel) ben Moses Frankfurt (JE | ) Dayyan at F&#252;rth in the first half of the eighteenth century; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main; author of "Torat Yosef,"...
 * 7) Joseph b. Moses Phinehas (JE | ) Polish rabbi; born 1726; died at Posen 1801. He was a man of wealth and influence, and of great piety. His father-in-law,...
 * 8) Joseph ben Moses of Trani (JE | ) -- See J508: Trani, Joseph b. Moses di.
 * 9) Joseph ben Moses of Troyes (JE | ) French Talmudist of the first half of the twelfth century. Isaac ben Samuel the Elder quotes in his responsa Talmudic explanations...
 * 10) Joseph ha-Nagid (JE | ) -- See N18: Nagdela (Nagrela), Abu &#7716;usain Joseph ibn
 * 11) Joseph Nasi of Naxos (JE | ) -- See N80: Nasi, Joseph
 * 12) Joseph ben Nathan Official JE (JE | ) French controversialist; lived, probably at Sens, in the thirteenth century. He was a descendant of Todros Nasi of Narbonne...
 * 13) Joseph Nazir ben Hayyim Moses ha-Levi (JE | ) Palestinian rabbi; born at Hebron about 1650; died probably at Cairo 1719. He studied under Moses Galante and became rabbi...
 * 14) Joseph ben Noah ha-Bashri (Abu Ya&) (JE | ) Karaite scholar of the eighth and ninth centuries; brother of Nissim ben Noah. He translated the Pentateuch into Arabic, with...
 * 15) Joseph (Maestro) de Noves (JE | ) French physician of Avignon who lived in the middle of the fifteenth century, and was highly esteemed throughout the south...
 * 16) Joseph b. Petros (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the first generation (3d cent.). He was the father of Joshua b. Levi&#39;s first wife (Yer. M. K. iii...
 * 17) Joseph b. Phinehas (JE | ) -- See F332: Frankfort-on-the-Main
 * 18) Joseph ibn Plat JE (JE | ) Rabbinical authority of the twelfth century; born presumably in southern Spain, whence he went to Provence and settled in...
 * 19) Joseph Porat ben Moses (JE | ) Tosafist of the thirteenth century. The surname "Porat" is an allusion to Gen. xlix. 22. According to Gross, Joseph Porat...
 * 20) Joseph ben Samuel (JE | ) See Bonfils, Joseph ben Samuel.

521 – 540

 * 1) Samuel A Joseph (JE | ) Australian pioneer and politician; born in London 1824; died in Sydney, New South Wales, Sept. 25, 1898. At the age of eighteen...
 * 2) Joseph Samuel ben Abraham ben Joseph ben Abraham Baruch ben Neriah (JE | ) French rabbi; born at Aix, Provence; flourished at Avignon toward the end of the thirteenth century. Like his father, Abraham...
 * 3) Joseph ben Samuel ha-Hazzan (JE | ) Karaite Chakam of Halicz, Galicia; died in 1700; pupil of R. Nissim. He was the author of the following works, none of...
 * 4) Joseph ben Samuel ibn Rey (JE | ) Italian rabbi; died prematurely in Venice April 2, 1608. His epitaph (Wolf, "Bibl. Hebr." iv. 1213) leaves it to be supposed...
 * 5) Joseph Shallit ben Eliezer Richetti (Riqueti) (JE | ) Italian scholar; born at Safed, Palestine; lived in the second half of the seventeenth century at Verona, where he directed...
 * 6) Joseph ben Sheshet Latimi (JE | ) Spanish liturgical poet; lived at Lerida in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In 1308 he wrote a prayer entitled "Elef...
 * 7) Joseph ben Solomon (Joseph Darshan of Posen) (JE | ) German preacher; born at Posen in 1601; died there in 1696. When a youth Joseph studied at Byelaya Tzerkov, Russia, where...
 * 8) Joseph ben Solomon of Carcassonne (JE | ) French liturgical poet of the eleventh century. He wrote a &#7716;anukkah "yozer" beginning "Odeka ki anafta," which...
 * 9) Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (JE | ) -- See D228: Delmedigo, Joseph Solomon
 * 10) Joseph Taitazak (JE | ) -- See T22: Taitazak, Joseph
 * 11) Joseph Tob Elem (JE | ) -- See B1296: Bonfils, Joseph b. Samuel
 * 12) Joseph ben Tobiah (JE | ) Farmer of the Egyptian royal revenues from about 220 to 198 B.C.; nephew, on his mother&#39;s side, of the high priest Onias...
 * 13) Joseph ben Uri Sheraga (JE | ) Russian liturgist of the seventeenth century; born in Kobrin, government of Grodno. He was the author of "Ma&#39;arakah &#7716...
 * 14) Joseph ben Uzziel (JE | ) Supposed author of a cabalistic work which is often quoted by Recanati, in his commentary on the Pentateuch, under the title...
 * 15) Joseph Zabara (Joseph ben Me&) (JE | ) Spanish physician, satirist, and poet of the beginning of the thirteenth century; born and died in Barcelona. He studied in...
 * 16) Joseph b. Zachariah (JE | ) Jewish general of the Maccabean period. He, together with Azariah, was left in charge of the forces when the Maccabean brothers...
 * 17) Joseph ben Zaddik JE (JE | ) Rabbi in Arevalo, Spain, during the fifteenth century; author of a treatise entitled "Zeker Zaddik," on ritual...
 * 18) Joseph Zarfati (JE | ) Convert to Christianity and missionary to the Jews at Rome; died before 1597. He accepted Christianity in 1552, taking the...
 * 19) Joseph (Josel) ben Zeeb Wolf Levi (JE | ) Rabbi in Lesla during the first half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a supercommentary on Rashi to the Pentateuch...
 * 20) Michael Josephs (JE | ) English Hebraist and communal worker; born in K&#246;nigsberg Oct. 8, 1763; died in London Feb. 9, 1849. He left his native...

541 – 560

 * 1) Walter Josephs (JE | ) English educationist and communal worker; born in London Nov. 22, 1804; died Jan. 24, 1893. He was closely connected with...
 * 2) Josephstadt (JE | ) -- See P494: Prague
 * 3) Flavius Josephus (JE | ) General and historian; born in 37 or 38; died after 100. He boasts of belonging to the Hasmonean race on his mother&#39;s...
 * 4) Joshua (Jehoshua) (JE | ) Name of several Biblical personages.In Hebrew (Deut. iii. 21; Judges ii. 7) and commonly  (Judges ii. 7a; Ex. xvii. 9; Josh...
 * 5) Book of Joshua JE (JE | ) the first book of the second greater division in the Hebrew canon, the "Nebi&#39;im," and therefore also the first of the...
 * 6) The Samaritan Book of Joshua JE (JE | ) Samaritan chronicle, written in Arabic; so termed because the greater part of it is devoted to the history of Joshua. It was...
 * 7) Joshua (Bruno) (JE | ) Physician and scholar of Treves; lived in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. He treated Bruno, Archbishop of Treves (1102-4)...
 * 8) Joshua b. Abin (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the fourth century whose name is associated chiefly with haggadot. He transmitted a haggadah of Levi...
 * 9) Joshua (Jesus) ben Damnai (JE | ) High priest about 62-63 C.E. He was appointed by King Agrippa II., after Anan, son of Anan, had been deposed (Josephus, "Ant...
 * 10) Joshua (Jesus) ben Gamla JE (JE | ) A high priest who officiated about 64 C.E. He married therich widow Martha of the high-priestly family Boethos (Yeb. vi. 4)...
 * 11) Joshua b. Hananiah JE (JE | ) A leading tanna of the first half-century following the destruction of the Temple. He was of Levitical descent (Ma&#39;as...
 * 12) Joshua H& JE (JE | ) Polish rabbi; born in Wilna about 1578; died at Cracow Aug. 16, 1648. In his boyhood he journeyed to Przemysl, Galicia, to...
 * 13) Joshua H& (JE | ) Rabbinical author; lived in the eighteenth century; died at Jerusalem; a contemporary of Elijah Wilna. Hewrote "Mazmia&#7717...
 * 14) Joshua H& (JE | ) Polish rabbi; died in Wilna at an advanced age Sept. 9, 1749. He was named after his grandfather, R. H&#246;schel of Lublin...
 * 15) Joshua Joseph ben David Halevi (JE | ) Rabbi of Venice and Hebrew poet; lived in the seventeenth century. He composed elegies ("Kinot") on the deaths of Samuel...
 * 16) Joshua b. Karha (JE | ) Tanna of the second century; contemporary of the patriarch Simeon b. Gamaliel II. Some regard him as the son of Akiba who...
 * 17) Joshua b. Levi JE (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the first half of the third century. He was the head of the school of Lydda in southern Palestine, and...
 * 18) Joshua (Falk) Lisser ben Judah L&#246;b (JE | ) German Talmudist; born in Lissa, Posen. He was schoolmaster at Hamburg toward the end of the seventeenth century, and was...
 * 19) Joshua ben Mordecai Falk Hakohen (JE | ) American Talmudist; born at Brest-Kuyavsk, government of Warsaw, in 1799; died at Keokuk, Iowa, in 1864. While still a young...
 * 20) Joshua (ha-Kohen) ben Nehemiah (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the fourth century. He seems to have devoted himself almost entirely to the Haggadah, for no halakic...

561 – 580

 * 1) Joshua b. Perahyah JE (JE | ) President ("nasi") of the Sanhedrin in the latter half of the second century B.C. He and his colleague Nittai of Arbela were...
 * 2) Joshua Phabi (JE | ) -- See J255: Jesus ben Phabi
 * 3) Joshua of Shiknin (JE | ) Amora of the third century; known especially as a transmitter of Levi&#39;s Haggadah. He also quotes a haggadic sentence by...
 * 4) Josiah (JE | ) King of Judah from 639 to 608 B.C.; son and successor of Amon and grandson of Manasseh. His mother was Jedidah, the daughter...
 * 5) Josiah JE (JE | ) Tanna of the second century; the most distinguished pupil of R. Ishmael. He is not mentioned in the Mishnah, perhaps because...
 * 6) Josiah Hazzan (JE | ) -- See E548: Exilarch
 * 7) Josippon JE (JE | ) -- See J473: Joseph ben Gorion
 * 8) Grigori Andreiyevich Jossa (JE | ) Russian mining engineer; born about 1800; died in St. Petersburg 1874. Jossa graduated from the St. Petersburg school of mines...
 * 9) Isaac Marcus Jost JE (JE | ) German historian; born at Bernburg Feb. 22, 1793; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Nov. 22, 1860. Jost was one of a poor family...
 * 10) Jost Liebmann (JE | ) Court Jew and court jeweler of Elector Frederick III. of Brandenburg (King Frederick I. of Prussia), and one of the elders...
 * 11) Jotapata (JE | ) City in Galilee to the north of Sepphoris, strongly fortified by Josephus (Josephus, "Vita," &#167; 37). In the Mishnah (&#39...
 * 12) Jotham (JE | ) Youngest son of Gideon or Jerubbaal. On the death of Gideon (Judges viii. 33) the children of Israel fell back into the slough...
 * 13) Journal Scientifique de la Theologie Juive (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 14) Jewish Journals (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 15) Joy (JE | ) the feeling of gladness and rejoicing.&#8212;Biblical Data: Cant. R. i. 4 enumerates ten different terms for joy, and W&#252...
 * 16) Juan de Abadia (JE | ) -- See A113: Abadia, Juan de la
 * 17) Juan Rodrigo de Castel-Branco JE (JE | ) Portuguese physician; born at Castel-Branco, Portugal, in 1511;died at Salonica in 1568. He was a descendant of a Marano family...
 * 18) Juan de Sevilla (JE | ) Representative of the Maranos in 1482, and a wealthy tax-farmer; lived in Jerez de la Frontera. In 1481, when ordered to answer...
 * 19) Juan de Valladolid (JE | ) Spanish poet and Marano of lowly station; born about 1420 in Valladolid. He lived at the courts of Naples, Mantua, and Milan...
 * 20) Jubal (JE | ) Son of Lamech; "the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe" (Gen. iv. 19-21, R. V.); that is, he was the "father"...

581 – 600

 * 1) Jubilee (JE | ) -- See S18: Sabbatical Year
 * 2) Book of Jubilees (JE | ) Midrashic commentary on the Book of Genesis and on part of the Book of Exodus, in the form of an apocalypse, containing the...
 * 3) Judacaria (JE | ) -- See G210: Ghetto
 * 4) The Judaeans (JE | ) A society organized in New York Jan. 28, 1897, upon lines similar to those of the Maccab&#230;ans in London, England. It was...
 * 5) Judaeo-Christians (JE | ) -- See E22: Ebionites
 * 6) Judaeo-German (JE | ) the language spoken by the German Jews in Russia, former Poland, Austria, Rumania, and lately in America and South Africa...
 * 7) Judaeo-German literature (JE | ) the earliest known Jud&#230;o-German translation of the Machzor belongs to the fourteenth century, and Isaac ben Eliezer&#39...
 * 8) Judaeo-Greek and Judaeo-Italian (JE | ) Although the Greek which is spoken and written by Jews in various parts of the Balkan Peninsula differs scarcely at all from...
 * 9) Judaeo-Persian (JE | ) Language spoken by the Jews living in Persia. The earliest evidence of the entrance of Persian words into the language of...
 * 10) Judaeo-Persian literature (JE | ) At the present stage of research it is not possible to arrange the literature of the Jews written in Persian but in Hebrew...
 * 11) Judaeo-Spanish language and literature (Ladino) (JE | ) Jud&#230;o-Spanish is a dialect composed of a mixture of Spanish and Hebrew elements, which is still used as the vernacular...
 * 12) Judah (JE | ) the fourth son of Jacob and Leah; born in Padan-aram (Gen. xxix. 35). It is he who suggests the sale of Joseph to the Ishmaelite...
 * 13) Kingdom of Judah (JE | ) the legitimate successor of the kingdom established by David was the smaller kingdom to the south, which remained true to...
 * 14) Tribe of Judah (JE | ) the tribe of Judah is said to have been descended from the patriarch Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah (Gen. xxix. 35)...
 * 15) Judah (Coadjutor of Josephus) (JE | ) the Sanhedrin of Jerusalem commissioned Judah and Joezar to assist Josephus (66 C.E.) in pacifying the people and inducing...
 * 16) Judah (Jewish Prince) (JE | ) Son of Simeon Tharsi. When Antiochus VII., Sidetes, sent his general Cendeb&#230;us against Simeon, the latter, too old for...
 * 17) Judah ("Rabbi Mor") (JE | ) Chief rabbi of the Jews in Portugal and treasurer of King Don Diniz, with whom he enjoyed great favor; died before 1304. He...
 * 18) Judah (JE | ) Treasurer to Ferdinand, King of Portugal; appointed in 1378. After the king&#39;s death he became the favorite of his queen...
 * 19) Judah (JE | ) Family members of which settled in Newport, R. I., New York, Charleston, Richmond, Philadelphia, Montreal, Jamaica, and Surinam...
 * 20) Judah (Russian Family) (JE | ) Family prominent in the communal life of Grodno and Lithuania during the greater part of the sixteenth century. Judah Bogdanovich...

601 – 620

 * 1) Judah I (JE | ) Patriarch; redactor of the Mishnah; born about 135; died about 220. He was the first of Hillel&#39;s successors to whose name...
 * 2) Judah II (JE | ) Patriarch; son of Gamaliel III. and grandson of Judah I.; lived at Tiberias in the middle of the third century. In the sources...
 * 3) Judah III (JE | ) Patriarch; son of Gamaliel IV. and grandson of Judah II. The sources do not distinguish between Judah II. and Judah III.,...
 * 4) Judah IV (JE | ) Patriarch; son of Gamaliel V. and grandson of Hillel II. Beyond his name and the fact that he officiated during the last two...
 * 5) Judah ben Abraham (JE | ) Pupil of Rashi; flourished at the beginning of the twelfth century. He studied under Rashi with Shemaiah (father-in-law of...
 * 6) Judah b. Abun (JE | ) Spanish poet; lived in Seville. He was probably the son of that Abun to whom Moses ibn Ezra dedicated several poems and whose...
 * 7) Judah b. Ammi (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the third generation (4th cent.); the son, perhaps, of the celebrated R. Ammi (Bacher, "Ag. Pal. Amor...
 * 8) Judah Aryeh L& (JE | ) Rabbi at Slutsk, government of Minsk, Russia, in the middle of the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Torah Or" (Berlin...
 * 9) Judah Aryeh of Modena (JE | ) -- See L200: Leon (Judah Aryeh) of Modena
 * 10) Judah Aryeh ben Zebi Hirsch (JE | ) French Hebraist; flourished in the beginning of the eighteenth century; born in Krotoschin, Germany. He lived at Avignon and...
 * 11) Judah ben Asher JE (JE | ) German Talmudist; later, rabbi of Toledo, Spain; born in western Germany June 30, 1270; died at Toledo July 4, 1349; brother...
 * 12) Judah b. Baba JE (JE | ) Tanna of the second century; martyred (at the age of seventy) during the persecutions under Hadrian. At that time the government...
 * 13) Judah ben Barzillai JE (JE | ) Spanish Talmudist of the end of the eleventh and the beginning of the twelfth century. Almost nothing is known of his life...
 * 14) Judah b. Bathyra (JE | ) -- See B428: Bathyra
 * 15) Judah Benveniste (JE | ) -- See B777: Benveniste
 * 16) Judah de Blanis (JE | ) Italian physician; lived at Perugia in the middle of the sixteenth century. David de Pomis, in his "De Medico Hebr&#230;o...
 * 17) Judah the Blind (JE | ) -- See Y29: Yehudai ben Na&#7717;man
 * 18) Judah of Corbeil (JE | ) Tosafist of the thirteenth century. He wrote tosafot to a great number of Talmudical treatises, and is quoted in the "Kol...
 * 19) Judah ha-Darshan ben Moses (JE | ) French Bible commentator; lived at Toulouse in the first half of the eleventh century. He is often quoted by Rashi in his...
 * 20) Judah b. David Cagliari (JE | ) -- See C12: Cagliari

621 – 640

 * 1) Judah ben David of Melun JE (JE | ) French tosafist of the first half of the thirteenth century; son of the tosafist David of Melun (department of Seine-et-Marne)...
 * 2) Judah ben Eli (JE | ) Karaite grammarian and liturgical poet; died at Jerusalem, where he was rosh yeshibah,in 932. He was the author of a grammatical...
 * 3) Judah ben Eliezer (JE | ) Lithuanian Talmudist and philanthropist; born at Wilna; died there March 18, 1762, having officiated as dayyan, communal secretary...
 * 4) Judah ben Elijah Tishbi (JE | ) Karaite scholar and liturgical poet; flourished at Belgrade in the first half of the sixteenth century; grandson of Abraham...
 * 5) Judah ben Enoch (JE | ) Chief rabbi and preacher of Pfersee, Bavaria; lived at the end of the seventeenth century. His sermons for the festivals of...
 * 6) Judah b. Ezekiel JE (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the second generation; born in 220; died at Pumbedita in 299. He was the most prominent disciple of Rab...
 * 7) Judah ibn Ezra (JE | ) -- See I14: Ibn Ezra, Judah
 * 8) Judah ibn Ghayyat (JE | ) -- See I19: Ibn Ghayyat, Judah ben Isaac
 * 9) Judah Hadassi (JE | ) -- See H38: Hadassi, Judah
 * 10) Judah Hayyuj (JE | ) -- See H436: &#7716;ayyuj, Judah
 * 11) Judah b. Hiyya (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the first generation (3d cent.); son of the famous R. &#7716;iyya. In Midr. Shemuel xi., and in Yer....
 * 12) Judah ben Ilai JE (JE | ) One of the most important tannaim of the second century; born at Usha, a city of Galilee (Cant. R. ii.). His teachers were...
 * 13) Judah ben Isaac (JE | ) French tosafist; born in Paris 1166; died there 1224 (Solomon Luria, Responsa, No. 29). According to Gross he was probably...
 * 14) Judah b. Isaac ibn Shabbethai ha-Levi (JE | ) -- See J659: Judah Ibn Shabbethai
 * 15) Judah b. Isaac ibn Wakar (JE | ) See ibn Wakar, Judah ben Isaac.
 * 16) Judah ben Joseph Perez (JE | ) Rabbi at Venice and Amsterdam in the first half of the eighteenth century. He wrote: "Seder Keri&#39;e Mo&#39;ed," cabalistic...
 * 17) Judah Judghan (JE | ) -- See Y87: Yudghanites
 * 18) Judah b. Kalonymus b. Me& (JE | ) German historian and Talmudic lexicographer; flourished in the second half of the twelfth century. Judah came from one of...
 * 19) Judah ibn Kuraish JE (JE | ) Hebrew grammarian and lexicographer; born at Tahort, northern Africa; flourished in the eighth and ninth centuries. In his...
 * 20) Judah ben Lakish (JE | ) Tanna of the second century. His name occurs only in the Tosefta and the Mekilta. He is the author of the halakah to the effect...

641 – 660

 * 1) Judah Leon Di Leone (JE | ) Italian rabbi from 1796 to 1835. Sent as a messenger from Hebron to Rome, he became rabbi in the latter city during the troublous...
 * 2) Judah Leone b. Isaac Sommo (JE | ) Italian writer and dramatic critic and manager; died after 1591. A scion of the Portaleone family of Mantua, he lived first...
 * 3) Judah ha-Levi (JE | ) Spanish philosopher and Hebrew poet; born at Toledo, southern Castile, in the last quarter of the eleventh century; died in...
 * 4) Judah ha-Levi ben Shalom (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the fourth generation; flourished in the second half of the fourth century. Few halakot of his are recorded...
 * 5) Judah L& (H&) (JE | ) Rabbi at Busk, Poland (now Austrian Galicia), in the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Leb Aryeh," containing homilies...
 * 6) Judah L& (JE | ) Rabbi and physician; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main about the middle of the seventeenth century; died at Mayence in 1714. He...
 * 7) Judah L&#246;w (L&#246;b, Liwa) ben Bezaleel (JE | ) Austrian Talmudist and mathematician; born aboutthe second decade of the sixteenth century in Posen, whither his family had...
 * 8) Judah L& (JE | ) Russian rabbi of the sixteenth century; succeeded Naphtali Herz as rabbi of Brest-Litovsk about 1570. His signature appears...
 * 9) Judah ben Me& EL:JE (JE | ) French Talmudist; lived about the year 1000. According to the sources, he was surnamed "L&#233;on," "L&#233;on&#7789;e," "L&#233...
 * 10) Judah ben Menahem (JE | ) Italian liturgical poet; lived, probably at Rome, in the middle of the twelfth century; father of the Roman dayyan Menahem...
 * 11) Judah Minz JE (JE | ) -- See J651: Minz, Judah
 * 12) Judah ben Moses of Arles (JE | ) A scholar of the second half of the eleventh century who enjoyed a great reputation and authority not only in France, but...
 * 13) Judah ben Moses b. Daniel (JE | ) -- See R350: Romano, Leone
 * 14) Judah ben Nathanael (JE | ) French liturgical poet; lived at Beaucaire in the first quarter of the thirteenth century. Al-&#7716;arizi, who became acquainted...
 * 15) Judah b. Pedaya (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the first generation (3d cent.); nephew of bar Kappara. Among his numerous pupils the most important...
 * 16) Judah Poki (Puki) ben Eliezer Tshelebi (JE | ) Karaite scholar; lived at Constantinople; died before 1501; nephew of Elijah Bashyazi. According to Steinschneider, the surname...
 * 17) Judah b. Samuel ibn & (JE | ) -- See A169: &#39;Abbas, Judah ben Samuel ben
 * 18) Judah ben Samuel he-Hasid of Regensburg JE (JE | ) Ethical writer and mystic; died Feb. 22, 1217 ("Ozar Tob," 1878, p. 045; Berliner, "Magazin," 1876, p. 220; "Kerem...
 * 19) Judah ibn Shabbethai JE (JE | ) Spanish poet of the end of the twelfth century. He has been identified with the physician Judah b. Isaac of Barcelona, who...
 * 20) Judah b. Sheneor of Evreux (JE | ) French liturgical poet of the thirteenth century. He maintained a correspondence with Jacob b. Solomon of Courson (c. 1260)...

661 – 680

 * 1) Judah Siciliano (JE | ) Italian poet of the fourteenth century. He earned a livelihood by giving lessons in poetry and by writing occasional poems...
 * 2) Judah ben Simeon ben Pazzi (JE | ) Palestinian amora and haggadist of the beginning of the fourth century. He frequently transmits halakic and haggadic aphorisms...
 * 3) Judah ibn Tibbon JE (JE | ) -- See J663: Ibn Tibbon, Judah
 * 4) Judah Zeeb ben Ephraim (JE | ) Hungarian Talmudist of the seventeenth century; son of Ephraim ben Jacob ha-Kohen, whose home in Ofen he left for Jerusalem...
 * 5) Judah b. Zippori (JE | ) Instigator of an uprising against Herod the Great. Shortly before the latter&#39;s death two prominent scribes of Jerusalem...
 * 6) Judaism (JE | ) the religion of the Jewish people (II Macc. ii. 21, viii. 1, xiv. 38; Gal. i. 13 =, Esth. R. iii. 7; comp. , Esth. viii....
 * 7) Judaizers (JE | ) -- See I148: Inquisition
 * 8) Judaizing Heresy (Zhidovstvu-Yushchaya Yeres) (JE | ) A Christian heresy which first made its appearance in Novgorod during the reign of Grand Duke Ivan Vassilyevich III. (second...
 * 9) Judas the Essene (JE | ) Saint renowned for his prophetic powers in the time of King Aristobulus (105-104 B.C.). Josephus ("Ant." xiii. 11, &#167;...
 * 10) Judas the Galilean (JE | ) Leader of a popular revolt against the Romans at the time when the first census was taken in Judea, in which revolt he perished...
 * 11) Judas Iscariot (JE | ) One of the twelve Apostles of Jesus; he betrayed his master and delivered him up to the priests for judgment (Matt. x. 4;...
 * 12) Judas Maccabeus (JE | ) Son of the priest Mattathias, and, after his father&#39;s death, leader against the Syrians. When he entered on the war he...
 * 13) Max Judd (JE | ) American manufacturer, consul-general, and chess-player; born Dec. 27, 1851, at Cracow, Austria; emigrated to the United States...
 * 14) Der Jude (JE | ) Weekly magazine published in Altona, Germany, from April 10, 1832, to Dec. 31, 1833, by Gabriel Riesser. Its chief aim was...
 * 15) Der Jude (New York) (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 16) Epistle of Jude (JE | ) -- See N245: New Testament
 * 17) Judea (JE | ) -- See P31: Palestine
 * 18) Judenb& (JE | ) -- See N379: Nuremberg
 * 19) Judenburg (JE | ) One of the oldest cities of Styria, Austria; the ancient Idunum. The name of Judenburg occurs in a document of 1075. Then...
 * 20) Judendeutsch (JE | ) -- See J586: Jud&#230;o-German

681 – 700

 * 1) Judeneid (JE | ) -- See O3: Oath, More Judaico
 * 2) Judengeleit (JE | ) -- See L160: Leibzoll
 * 3) Judenherbergen (JE | ) -- See I144: Inns
 * 4) Judenhut (JE | ) Tall, conical hat, generally yellow, serving, in conformity with the decrees of the fourth Lateran Council (1215), as a distinguishing...
 * 5) Judenschreinsbuch (JE | ) Collection of deeds belonging to Jews in the St. Lawrence parish of the city of Cologne (Germany); since the thirteenth century...
 * 6) Judenschule (Schola Jud&) (JE | ) the usual German expression for "synagogue" in medieval times. It seems to have been first used in the charter of Frederick...
 * 7) Judenst& (JE | ) Archaic technical term for the legal status of a Jewish community, and as such identical with the more frequent term "Judenschutz...
 * 8) Judge (JE | ) the common Hebrew equivalent for "judge" is "shofe&#7789;," a term found also in the Phenician as "sufe&#7789;" (= "regulator")...
 * 9) Book of Judges (JE | ) in the Hebrew canon, the second book of the Earlier Prophets, placed between Joshua and Samuel. &#167; I. Name:   the book...
 * 10) Period of Judges (JE | ) the present form of the Book of Judges has given rise to the phrase "time of the Judges," which covers the period from the...
 * 11) Judgment (JE | ) the sentence or final order of a court in a civil or criminal proceeding, enforceable by the appropriate modes of execution...
 * 12) Day of Judgment (JE | ) -- See D168: Day of Judgment
 * 13) Divine Judgment (JE | ) the final decision by God, as Judge of the world, concerning the destiny of men and nations according to their merits and...
 * 14) Judicial Procedure (JE | ) -- See P538: Procedure
 * 15) Judicial Records (JE | ) -- See D203: Deed
 * 16) Judicial Sales (JE | ) -- See E545: Execution
 * 17) J& (Fr&) JE (JE | ) Institution in Breslau for the training of rabbis, founded under the will of Jonas Fr&#228;nckel, and opened in 1854. Commercial...
 * 18) J& (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 19) Das J& (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 20) J& (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals

701 – 720

 * 1) Die J& (JE | ) Weekly periodical published in Berlin since 1869. Its editors have been S. Enoch and Israel Hildesheimer and his son Hirsch...
 * 2) Der J& (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 3) J& (JE | ) A Jewish monthly; published in Berlin by Herman Jalowicz as the official organ of the J&#252;discher Turnverein bar Kochba...
 * 4) Das J& (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 5) J& (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 6) J& (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 7) Das J& (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 8) J& (JE | ) Quarterly publication issued in Breslau from 1862 to 1873 (11 vols.) by Abraham Geiger. It was originally Geiger&#39;s intention...
 * 9) J& (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 10) J& (JE | ) Medieval German expression for the Jewish community of a certain locality or of a whole country. Thus the gilds of Speyer...
 * 11) Book of Judith (JE | ) An Apocryphal book in sixteen chapters. The book receives its title from the name of its principal character, Judith ( = "Jewess"...
 * 12) Madame Judith (JE | ) French actress; born in Paris Jan. 30, 1827. She began her theatrical career at the Th&#233;&#226;tre des Folies-Dramatiques...
 * 13) Judith Montefiore College (JE | ) Theological seminary founded in 1869 by Sir Moses Montefiore in honor of his wife, Lady Judith Montefiore, at Ramsgate. Kent...
 * 14) Judith of Worms (JE | ) -- See W273: Worms
 * 15) Juiverie (JE | ) -- See G210: Ghetto
 * 16) Julian the Apostate (Flavius Claudius Julianus) (JE | ) Roman emperor; born Nov. 17, 331; reigned from Nov., 361, till June, 363.The recognition of Christianity as the religion of...
 * 17) Julian of Toledo (JE | ) Primate of Spain; born in Toledo (where he was also baptized); died in 690. He was the first of the long list of ecclesiastical...
 * 18) Julianus (JE | ) Leader of a Samaritan rebellion at Nablus in 530 against the Romans; son of Samaron or Sabarona or, according to another reading...
 * 19) Julianus b. Tiberianus (JE | ) -- See L617: Luliani ben Tabrin
 * 20) J& (JE | ) City of Rhenish Prussia, near Aix-la-Chapelle, situated on the Ruhr. In 1227 Emperor Frederick II. conferred upon Count Wilhelm...

721 – 740

 * 1) Julius III (Giovanni Maria Del Monte) (JE | ) Two hundred and twenty-eighth pope; born at Rome 1487; elected pope Feb. 8, 1550;died March 22, 1555. Personally he was favorably...
 * 2) Julius Archelaus (JE | ) Son of Chelcias ("Ant." xix. 9, &#167; 1; xx. 7, &#167; 1 [without "Julius"]), and, to judge from his name, a Hellenized Jew...
 * 3) Henriette Julius (JE | ) -- See J724: Julius, NiKolaus Heinrich
 * 4) Nikolaus Heinrich Julius (JE | ) German physician and prison-reformer; born at Altona, Germany, Oct. 3, 1783; died at Hamburg Aug. 20, 1862. He received his...
 * 5) Julius of Pavia (JE | ) One of the first European Jews of the Middle Ages known by name. About 760 he disputed at Pavia with Magister Peter of Pisa...
 * 6) Julius Sextus Africanus (JE | ) -- See A883: Sextus Julius Africanus
 * 7) Juma-i-bala (JE | ) Turkish city on the Bulgarian frontier, four hours from Dubnitza. The community here dates from the middle of the eighteenth...
 * 8) Jung-Bunzlau (JE | ) Town in northeastern Bohemia. Its Jewish community, one of the oldest in the province, was formerly one of the largest in...
 * 9) Junior right (JE | ) System of tenure in which a father&#39;s property descends to the youngest son; ultimogeniture as opposed to primogeniture...
 * 10) Juniper (JE | ) the traditional rendering of "rotem" in I Kings xix. 4, 5; Ps. cxx. 4; and Job xxx. 4, adopted by Aquila and the Vulgate,...
 * 11) Jurisdiction (JE | ) the authority of a court of law to decide cases of certain kinds. This depends on the kind of matter in dispute; on the locality...
 * 12) Jus Gazaka (JE | ) the usual Italian term for the right of &#7716;azakah, especially with regard to the rent of houses in the ghetto of...
 * 13) Jus primae noctis (JE | ) Alleged seigniorial right to marital privileges. The feudal lords had the right of giving heiresses in marriage, and there...
 * 14) Justin Martyr (JE | ) Church Father, who in his works, written in Greek (the &#916;&#953;&#940;&#955;&#959;&#947;&#959;&#962; &#960;&#961;&#8056...
 * 15) Justinian (JE | ) Emperor of the Eastern, or Byzantine, Empire from 527 to 565. During his long reign he issued many decrees relating to the...
 * 16) Jacob ben Abraham Justo (Zaddik) (JE | ) Portuguese chartographer; flourished in Palestine (Wolf, "Bibl. Hebr." i., No. 1097) in the first half of the seventeenth...
 * 17) Dr Justus (JE | ) Convert to Christianity and writer against the Jews; born at Costinasti, Rumania, about 1860. Until the age of twenty he lived...
 * 18) Justus of Tiberias (JE | ) Historical writer and one of the leaders of the Jews against the Romans in Galilee in the year 66. What is known of him comes...
 * 19) Jutrzenka (JE | ) Jewish weekly published at Warsaw in the Polish language. Its first number appeared July 5, 1861; and the paper continued...
 * 20) Juvenal (JE | ) -- See C525: Classical Writers

741 – 760

 * 1) Moses Mordecai Juwel (JE | ) Galician scholar; lived at Brody in the first half of the nineteenth century. He translated from the German into Hebrew Hufeland&#39...