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 * 1) Kab (JE | ) -- See W81: Weights and Measures
 * 2) Ka& (JE | ) One of the most prominent fathers of Moslem tradition, and one of those who introduced into this branch of Arab literature...
 * 3) Ka& (JE | ) Jewish poet of Medina and an implacable enemy of Mohammed. His father was an Arab of the family of Nabhan (a branch of the...
 * 4) Kabbalah JE (JE | ) -- See C1: Cabala
 * 5) Abraham al-Kabishi (JE | ) Printer in Constantinople in the sixteenth century. Together with Judah Sason and Moses ben Joseph Hamon he published "Toledot...
 * 6) Eduard Kabos JE (JE | ) Hungarian journalist and writer; born Dec. 2, 1864, at Nagy-Karoly. He entered the University of Budapest for the purpose...
 * 7) Kaddish (JE | ) Name of the doxology recited, with congregational responses, at the close of the prayers in the synagogue; originally, and...
 * 8) Gustav Kadelburg JE (JE | ) German actor and dramatist; born Jan. 26, 1851. He made his first appearance at Leipsic in 1869, and two years later played...
 * 9) Kadesh (JE | ) A place on the western frontier of Edom, in the "wilderness of Paran," "eleven days&#39; journey from Horeb by the way of...
 * 10) Zerah b. Me&#239;r Kadisch, of Prague (JE | ) Teacher in Rechnitz, Hungary, in the first half of the nineteenth century. In the preface of his "Ozar ha-&#7716;ayyim"...
 * 11) Saul Isaac Kaempf JE (JE | ) Austrian rabbi and Orientalist; born at Lissa, Posen, May 6, 1818; died at Prague Oct. 16, 1892. He received his first lessons...
 * 12) Kaf (JE | ) Eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The name is generally taken to mean "hollow of the hand," to which the shape of the...
 * 13) Kaffa (JE | ) Town in the Crimea, Russia. It existed as a Greek colony at the beginning of the common era, and, like the rest of such colonies...
 * 14) Kahal (JE | ) A Hebrew word meaning "assembly" or "community," and applied formerly to the local governments of the Jewish communities in...
 * 15) Abraham Kahan (JE | ) Russian Hebrew author; born Dec. 19, 1874, at Skomorochy, near Jitomir. He has written or edited the following works: an anthology...
 * 16) Abraham Aryeh L& (JE | ) Russian rabbi of the eighteenth century; author of "Or ha-Ne&#39;erab," Talmudic commentary, with supplementary notes by his...
 * 17) David Kahana (JE | ) -- See K319: Kohn (Kahana), David
 * 18) Eliezer ben Reuben Kahana JE (JE | ) Preacher and homiletic exegete in Karlin at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He wrote: "Siach Sefunim" (Zolkiev...
 * 19) Jacob ben Abraham Kahana JE (JE | ) Rabbinical author; died in Wilna 1826. His father was rabbi at Brestowitz, government of Grodno. Jacob was the son-in-law...
 * 20) Rab Kahana (JE | ) Grand rabbi of Constantinople (1854-1860); born 1785; died 1860 (Franco, "Hist. des Isr. de l&#39;Empire Ottoman," 1897).S...

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 * 1) Kahana b. Tahlifa JE (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the third century. He is mentioned only twice in the Babylonian Talmud; viz., in Men. 66b, where he refutes...
 * 2) Kahinah Dahiyah bint Thabitah ibn Tifan (JE | ) Jewish princess of a Berber tribe likewise called Kahinah; lived in the second half of the seventh century. According to the...
 * 3) Kahiya (JE | ) Title of a political representative in Turkey. The word, pronounced "kehya" or "kyahya," is Turkish and is a corruption of...
 * 4) Joseph Kahn (rabbi) (JE | ) German rabbi and preacher; born at Wawern, a small village near Treves, Sept. 2, 1809; died at Amsterdam July 10, 1875. He...
 * 5) Lehman Kahn (JE | ) Belgian educationist and writer; born Sept. 9, 1827, at Breisach, Baden, Germany; educated at the Progymnasium of Breisach...
 * 6) Robert Kahn (JE | ) German composer and pianist; born at Mannheim July 21, 1865; a pupil of Ernst Frank and Vincenz Lachner (Mannheim), Friedrich...
 * 7) Zadoc Kahn JE (JE | ) Chief rabbi of France; born Feb. 18, 1839, at Mommenheim, Alsace. In 1856 he entered the rabbinical school of Metz, finishing...
 * 8) Aaron Samuel ben Israel Kaidanover JE (JE | ) Polish rabbi; born at Wilna 1614; died at Cracow Dec. 1, 1676 (Michael; but Azulai and Horovitz give 1679; see bibliography)...
 * 9) Zebi Hirsch Kaidanover (JE | ) Native of Wilna; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main March 23, 1712; son of Rabbi Aaron Samuel Kaidanover; pupil of Joseph ben Judah...
 * 10) Kaidansky (JE | ) -- See S26: Sachs
 * 11) K& (JE | ) -- See C461: China
 * 12) Kainan (JE | ) Son of Arphaxad and father of Salah; mentioned only in Gen. xi. 13 (LXX.), Book of Jubilees, viii. 1-4, and Luke iii. 36;...
 * 13) Kairwan (JE | ) City in the regency of Tunis, thirty miles inland from Susa, and about eighty miles south of the capital. Next to Tunis, it...
 * 14) Alois Kaiser JE (JE | ) &#7716;azzan and composer; born Nov. 10, 1840, at Szobotist, Hungary. He received his early education in the religious school...
 * 15) Baruch ben Solomon Kala& (JE | ) Rabbi of Sardokupis (Serai Keui?), Asia Minor; flourished at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was the author of...
 * 16) Mordecai b. Solomon Kala& (JE | ) Turkish rabbi and author; lived in the first half of the seventeenth century. He was the pupil of R. Aaron &#7716;ason, R...
 * 17) Samuel ben Joseph Kala& (JE | ) Karaite scholar of Chufut-Kale, Crimea; died Feb. 17, 1754. He was the author of a work entitled "Me&#39;il Shemuel," a commentary...
 * 18) Samuel ben Moses Kala& (JE | ) Italian Talmudist; flourished in the first half of the sixteenth century at Venice. He was a pupil of David Cohen of Corfu...
 * 19) Kalam (JE | ) -- See A1688: Arabic Philosophy
 * 20) Kalamazoo (JE | ) -- See M576: Michigan

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 * 1) Judah Kalaz (Khallash) (JE | ) Cabalist and moralist; lived in Algeria, probably at Tlem&#231;en, at the beginning of the sixteenth century. The surname...
 * 2) Kalba Sabua& (JE | ) -- See B644: Ben Kalba Sabbua&#39;
 * 3) Moses ben Malka Kalifa (JE | ) Poet and controversialist; born at Safi, Morocco, toward the end of the seventeenth century. He belonged on his mother&#39...
 * 4) Kalilah wa-Dimnah (JE | ) Book of Indian fables which has been translated into most of the languages of the Old World. It appears to have been composed...
 * 5) Eleazar Kalir JE (JE | ) One of the earliest and the most prolific of the payye&#7789;anim or liturgical poets. In the acrostics of his hymns he usually...
 * 6) Bertha Kalisch (JE | ) Austrian actress; born at Lemberg; made her d&#233;but in 1893 at the Scarbeck Theater, Lemberg, in a minor r&#244;le in "Mignon"...
 * 7) David Kalisch JE (JE | ) German playwright and humorist; born at Breslau Feb. 23, 1820; died at Berlin Aug. 21, 1872. His infancy and early childhood...
 * 8) Isidor Kalisch (JE | ) American rabbi and author; born Nov. 15, 1816, at Krotoschin; died May 11, 1886, at Newark, N. J.; studied theology, philosophy...
 * 9) Ludwig Kalisch JE (JE | ) German novelist; born Sept. 7, 1814, at Lissa; died March 3, 1882, at Paris. When only twelve years of age he left his home...
 * 10) Marcus M Kalisch (JE | ) Hebraist and Bible commentator; born at Treptow, Pomerania, May 16, 1828; died in Derbyshire, England, Aug. 24, 1885. He was...
 * 11) Moses ben Benjamin Wolf Meseritz Kalisch (JE | ) Polish physician of the seventeenth century. He was the author of: "Yerushat Mosheh" (2 vols., Frankfort-on-the-Main and Wilmersdorf...
 * 12) Paul Kalisch JE (JE | ) German singer; born at Berlin Nov. 6, 1855; son of David Kalisch, founder of the "Kladderadatsch." Kalisch was destined for...
 * 13) Jehiel Michael ben Aryeh Kalischer (JE | ) Polish rabbi of the seventeenth century; died in 1713 at an advanced age. The name "Kalischer" indicates either that he was...
 * 14) Judah L&#246;b ben Moses Kalischer (JE | ) German Talmudist; died April 18, 1822, at Lissa, where he was dayyan. Kalischer was the head of the yeshibah of Lissa for...
 * 15) Solomon Kalischer JE (JE | ) German composer, pianist, and physicist; born Oct. 8, 1845, at Thorn, West Prussia. He studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary...
 * 16) Zebi Hirsch Kalischer JE (JE | ) German rabbi and colonizer; born March 24, 1795, at Lissa, Posen; died Oct. 16, 1874, at Thorn, on the Vistula. Destined for...
 * 17) Abraham ben Alexander ha-Kohen Kalisker (JE | ) Rabbi of Kaliska, Prussia, in the eighteenth century. Kalisker studied successively under Elijah Wilna and B&#228;r of Meseritz...
 * 18) Kalisz (JE | ) City in the government of the same name in Russian Poland; situated on the River Prosna, near the Prussian frontier. Its Jewish...
 * 19) Christian Kalkar (JE | ) Danish convert to Protestantism; born Nov. 27, 1802, at Stockholm; died at Gladsaxe, near Copenhagen, Feb. 3, 1886. He received...
 * 20) Kallah JE (JE | ) Name of a teachers&#39; convention which was held in Babylonian academies, after the beginning of the amoraic period, in the...

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 * 1) Eleazar b. Eleazar Kallir (JE | ) Hungarian rabbi and author; died at Kolin, Bohemia, in 1805; grandson of Me&#239;r Eisenstadt, author of "Panim Me&#39;irot...
 * 2) Kalman Vermeisa (Of Worms) (JE | ) Polish rabbi; died in Lemberg on April 28, 1560; the first known rabbi of that community and one of the earliest great rabbis...
 * 3) Kalmankes (JE | ) -- See J136: Jaffe
 * 4) Abraham ben Moses Kalomiti (JE | ) Turkish scholar of the fifteenth century. To him is attributed the rationalistic commentary on Job found in manuscript in...
 * 5) Kalonymus JE (JE | ) A prominent family (originally from Lucca, Italy), which, after the settlement at Mayence and Speyer of several of its members...
 * 6) Kalonymus JE (JE | ) -- See B457: Beaucaire
 * 7) Kalonymus ben David ben Todros (JE | ) French translator; lived in the first half of the fourteenth century. He translated (after 1328) from the Arabic into Hebrew...
 * 8) Kalonymus ben Gershon (JE | ) German Talmudist of the thirteenth century. He was a contemporary of Eleazar of Worms and Menahem ben Jacob, with whom he...
 * 9) Kalonymus ben Judah (JE | ) Italian physician; born in Naples; lived at Venice in the first half of the sixteenth century. He attained a high reputation...
 * 10) Kalonymus ben Kalonymus ben Me& JE (JE | ) Proven&#231;al philosopher and translator; born at Arles 1286; died after 1328. He was a descendant of a prominent Proven&#231...
 * 11) Kalonymus ben Meshullam JE (JE | ) Head of the community of Mayence at the time of the first Crusade. He is said to have sent a messenger to King Henry IV. in...
 * 12) Kalonymus Nasi (JE | ) Proven&#231;al liturgical poet; flourished at Beaucaire in the middle of the thirteenth century. He was the author of a liturgical...
 * 13) Kalonymus ben Shabbethai (JE | ) Halakist, exegete, and liturgical poet; born at Rome about 1030. His father was president of the Jewish community, and his...
 * 14) Kalonymus ben Todros JE (JE | ) French scholar; flourished at Narbonne in the second half of the twelfth century. He bore the title "Nasi," and was the leader...
 * 15) Joseph Kalti (JE | ) -- See J468: Joseph b. David ha-Yewani
 * 16) Kalvariya (JE | ) District town in the government of Suwalki, Russian Poland. In 1897 it had a total population of 8,420, including about 7...
 * 17) Moses Me& (JE | ) Polish Shabbethaian; lived at Zolkiev in the first half of the eighteenth century. An excellent Talmudist, and possessing...
 * 18) Kamenetz-Podolsk (JE | ) Russian city; capital of the government of Podolia. In 1900 it contained a population of 34,483, about half being Jews. Among...
 * 19) Kamhi (JE | ) -- See K217: &#7730;im&#7716;i
 * 20) Isaac ben Abraham Kaminer (JE | ) Russian physician and Hebrew poet and satirist; born at Levkiev, near Jitomir, in 1834; died at Bern, Switzerland, March 30...

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 * 1) Armand Kaminka (JE | ) Russian scholar; born at Berdychev May 5, 1866; educated at the rabbinical seminary of Israel Hildesheimer, Berlin (1880)...
 * 2) Kammerknechtschaft (JE | ) Expression for the political condition of the Jews in the German empire, signifying that the revenue derived from them was...
 * 3) Abraham ibn Kamnial (Kambil) (JE | ) Spanish physician and patron of poetry and literature; protector of the Jewish communities in Spain, Babylonia, and Egypt...
 * 4) Kamza (JE | ) Two persons who, according to a Talmudic legend (Gi&#7789;. 55b-56a), were the cause of the destruction of Jerusalem. A certain...
 * 5) Kanah Abigdor (JE | ) A cabalistic writer of the fifteenth century, who lived either in Spain (Graetz) or in Italy or in Greece (Jellinek). In the...
 * 6) August Kanitz JE (JE | ) Hungarian botanist; born April 25, 1843, at Lugos; died July 12, 1896, at Klausenburg. While a student at the University of...
 * 7) Felix Philipp Kanitz (JE | ) Hungarian archeologist and ethnographer; born at Budapest Aug. 2, 1829; died at Vienna Jan. 8, 1904. When only seventeen years...
 * 8) Edouard Kann (JE | ) French musician; born at Paris Feb. 28, 1857; pupil of Massenet and Duvernoy. In 1895, at Lyons, he produced "Ruth," an oratorio...
 * 9) Moses Kann JE (JE | ) German rabbi; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main; died there Dec. 1, 1762; son of L&#246;b Kann. He was chief rabbi of Hesse-Darmstadt...
 * 10) Kanna& (JE | ) -- See Z49: Zealots
 * 11) Kansas (JE | ) One of the northern central states of the United States; admitted to the Union in 1861. In 1830 immigrants settled in a spot...
 * 12) Kansas City (JE | ) -- See M663: Missouri
 * 13) Samuel Kansi JE (JE | ) French astronomer of the fourteenth century. The surname "Kansi" is an incorrectly formed adjective of the Hebrew noun...
 * 14) Judah L& (JE | ) Russian journalist; born in Wilna 1849; government rabbi of Libau, Courland. For a short time he studied at the rabbinical...
 * 15) Der J&, Wochenblatt f&#252;r die Gesammt-interessen Aller Kantoren und Cultusbeamten (JE | ) Weekly; published at Bromberg, Prussia, beginning in 1879. Its editor is A. Blaustein, the founder of the German Israelitish...
 * 16) Abraham Kaplan (JE | ) Russian Hebrew writer; born at Wilke July 25, 1839; died at Vienna Feb. 2, 1897. Having acquired a reputation as a good Hebrew...
 * 17) Jacques Kaplan (JE | ) Russian painter and designer; born at Sebastopol July 19, 1872. He went to Paris, and in 1885 entered the Paris Ecole des...
 * 18) Wolf ha-Kohen Kaplan (JE | ) Russian teacher and Hebrew poet; born at Trishki, government of Kovno, in 1826; died at Riga June 14, 1888; pupil of M. A...
 * 19) Hayyim Kaposi, Chayyim Kaposi (V07p435002jpg) (JE | ) Dayyan in Egypt about 1600. He became known later as the "Ba&#39;al ha-Nes," through a miracle which is said to have happened...
 * 20) Moriz Kap& (Kohn) (JE | ) Austrian dermatologist; born at Kaposv&#225;r, Hungary, Oct. 23, 1837; died March 6, 1902. After graduating (M.D., 1861) from...

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 * 1) Kapparah (redirects to Atonement in Judaism) >> Kapparot JE (JE | ) An animal used as a sort of vicarious sacrifice on the day previous to the Day of Atonement. As a rule, a cock is taken by...
 * 2) Siegfried Kapper (JE | ) Austrian poet and physician; born at Smichow near Prague, March 21, 1821; died at Pisa June 7, 1879; educated at the gymnasium...
 * 3) Abigdor ben Isaac Kara (JE | ) Bohemian cabalist and liturgical poet; died at Prague April 10, 1439. He lived for a time at Ratisbon, but settled permanently...
 * 4) Abraham ben Abigdor Kara (JE | ) Bohemian chief rabbi, rosh yeshibah, and liturgist; died at Prague Oct. 7, 1542. He wrote a super-commentary on Rashi to the...
 * 5) Joseph ben Simeon Kara (JE | ) French Bible exegete; lived in Troyes, where, probably, he was born about 1060-70; died between 1130 and 1140. His uncle and...
 * 6) Menahem ben Jacob Kara (JE | ) Bohemian scholar; flourished at Prague in the first half of the fifteenth century. He was a near relative, perhaps a half-brother...
 * 7) Simeon Kara JE (JE | ) French rabbi; lived in Mans in the eleventh century; brother of Menahem ben &#7716;elbo and father of Joseph Kara. For...
 * 8) Karaites and Karaism (JE | ) the Karaites = "Followers of the Bible") were a Jewish sect, professing, in its religious observances and opinions, to...
 * 9) W M Karamzin (JE | ) -- See R479: Russia
 * 10) Josef Kareis (JE | ) Austrian electrician and deputy; born at Semic, Bohemia, Feb. 14, 1837; studied at the technical institute in Prague. From...
 * 11) Karet (JE | ) -- See E544: Excommunication
 * 12) Aaron ben Judah L& JE (JE | ) Bohemian rabbi. After having successively filled the rabbinates of Gawartschew, Lask, Dasparschi, and Widowa, he was called...
 * 13) Siegfried Karfunkelstein JE (JE | ) German soldier; born at Beuthen, Silesia, Feb. 21,1848; died on the field of battle at Le Bourget Oct. 30, 1870. He volunteered...
 * 14) Mendel Kargau (JE | ) German Talmudist; born 1772 at Prostibor, Bohemia; died 1842 at F&#252;rth. He was a disciple of Ezekiel Landau in Prague...
 * 15) Karigel (JE | ) -- See C198: Carregal
 * 16) Karlin (JE | ) -- See P338: Pinsk
 * 17) Karlsbad (JE | ) Town in Bohemia; famous for its mineral springs; first made popular by the emperor Charles IV. in 1350. When King Ladislaus...
 * 18) Karlsruhe (Carlsruhe) JE (JE | ) German city; capital of the grand duchy of Baden. Jews began to settle there soon after its foundation (1715) by Margrave...
 * 19) Karlstadt (JE | ) -- See C893: Croatia
 * 20) Moritz K&#225;rm&#225;n (JE | ) Hungarian educator; born Dec. 25, 1843, at Szegedin. He was brought up under the influence of Leopold L&#246;w. While preparing...

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 * 1) Ha-Karmel (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 2) Karmi >> Mordecai Karmi JE (JE | ) Family name, the Biblical "Carmi" (Num. xxvi. 6); it was used, according to Gross, as a gentilic adjective to the French "Cr&#233...
 * 3) Karmion (Kirmion) (JE | ) One of the four principal rivers of Palestine (Yer. Kil. ix. 5; Yer. Ket. xii. 3; B. B. 74b). Owing to its small tributaries...
 * 4) Sofia Karp (JE | ) Rumanian Jewish actress; born at Galatz, Rumania, 1861; died in New York March 31, 1904; the first actress to appear on the...
 * 5) Eliezer Karpeles JE (JE | ) Austrian rabbi; born at Prague about 1754; died April 27, 1832, at Lieben, near Prague. For nearly forty years he was district...
 * 6) Gustav Karpeles JE (JE | ) Historian of literature; editor; son of Elijah Karpeles; born Nov. 11, 1848, at Eiwanowitz, Moravia; studied at the University...
 * 7) Joseph ben Nissim Kashabi (V07p451001jpg) (JE | ) Turkish Talmudist of the seventeenth century; died between 1696 and 1698. In 1650 he is mentioned as a distinguished dayyan...
 * 8) Kasher (JE | ) Original meaning, "fit," "proper" (as in Esth. viii. 5; Eccl. x. 10, xi. 6); later, in rabbinical literature, it took the...
 * 9) Kasmunah (JE | ) Jewish poetess, Andalusian by birth; lived in the twelfth or thirteenth century and wrote in Arabic. al-MakKari...
 * 10) Max Kassowitz (JE | ) Austrian physician; born at Presburg, Hungary, Aug. 14, 1842; M.D., Vienna, 1863. For many years assistant to L. Politzer...
 * 11) Bertha Katscher (JE | ) Hungarian writer; born at Treutschin, Hungary, June 12, 1860. She was educated by her aunt, by whom she was taken to Herzegovina...
 * 12) Kattina (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the second generation (3d cent.); known both as halakist and as haggadist. He was a pupil of Rab (Abba...
 * 13) Albert Katz (JE | ) Rabbi and author; born July 17, 1858, at Lodz (Russian Poland). He studied at the yeshibot of Lublin and Wilna and then (1881)...
 * 14) Ludwig Katz (JE | ) German otologist and laryngologist; born at Loslau Jan. 1, 1848; graduated (M.D.) from Berlin University in 1872. He began...
 * 15) Katzenellenbogen >> Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen JE, Meir ben Isaac Katzenellenbogen JE, Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen JE (JE | ) An old, widely ramified family counting many rabbis among its members, who were and are still found in Italy, Poland, Germany...
 * 16) Judah L& (JE | ) Russian physician; born in Bobruisk 1848. He studied in the rabbinical school of Jitomir and in the Imperial Medico-Surgical...
 * 17) Samuel Judah L& (JE | ) Bohemian rabbi; born at Prague about 1762; died there May 6, 1838. After having finished his studies in that city, he devoted...
 * 18) Alexander Arkadyevich Kaufman (JE | ) Russian political economist; born 1864. After graduating in law from the University of St. Petersburg, he was commissioned...
 * 19) Arkadya (Aaron) Kaufman (JE | ) Russian communal worker; born at Grodno early in the nineteenth century; died at St. Petersburg April 19, 1893. While receiving...
 * 20) Illarion Ignatyevich Kaufman (JE | ) Russian political economist; born at Odessa 1847. He graduated from the University of Kharkof, and entered the government...

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 * 1) David Kaufmann (JE | ) Austrian scholar; born at Kojetein, Moravia, June 7, 1852; died at Karlsbad, Bohemia, July 6, 1899. He was educated at Kojetein...
 * 2) Isidor Kaufmann JE (JE | ) Hungarian painter; born March 22, 1853, at Arad. He was originally destined for a commercial career, and could fulfil his...
 * 3) Moses Jekuthiel Kaufmann (JE | ) Polish Talmudist; born at Krotoschin about the middle of the seventeenth century. He was a son-in-law of Abraham Abele Gombiner...
 * 4) Kaula al-Yahudi (JE | ) Jewish general of the eighth century; appointed by Tarik; fought valiantly at Xerez against the Visigoths at the head...
 * 5) Kaulla >> Raphael Kaulla JE (JE | ) W&#252;rttemberg family, distinguished for patriotism and benevolence. The leading members have been: Jacob Raphael Kaulla:...
 * 6) Kavala (JE | ) Settlement in Macedonia, on the Aegean Sea opposite the island of Thasos. It is nine miles southwest of Old Kavala, the...
 * 7) Kawwanah (JE | ) Aside from the general idea of devotion conveyed by this Hebrew word (see Devotion), the term is used in the plural form by...
 * 8) Paul Kayser (jurist) (JE | ) German jurist and diplomat; born at Oels, Silesia, Aug. 9, 1845; died atLeipsic Feb. 13, 1898. He was admitted to the bar...
 * 9) Meyer Kayserling JE (JE | ) German rabbi and historian; born in Hanover June 17, 1829; died at Budapest, April 21, 1905; educated at Halberstadt, Nikolsburg...
 * 10) Simon Kayserling JE (JE | ) German educator and writer; born at Hanover Aug. 31, 1834; died there April 22, 1898; brother of Meyer Kayserling. He attended...
 * 11) Simeon Kayyara JE (JE | ) Babylonian halakist of the first half of the ninth century. The early identification of his surname with "Kahirah,"...
 * 12) Katz JE (JE | ) A frequent Jewish family name, spelled also "Katz," and found in similar forms, such as "Katzer." It is an abbreviation formed...
 * 13) Kazimierz (JE | ) -- See C848: Cracow
 * 14) Edmund Kean (JE | ) English actor; born in London Nov. 4 (?), 1787; died at Richmond, near London, May 15, 1833. He was the natural son of Aaron...
 * 15) Kecskem& (JE | ) -- See H970: Hungary
 * 16) Kedar (JE | ) One of the sons of Ishmael (Gen. xxv. 13; I Chron. i. 29). The name is also applied in Scripture to the tribe that sprang...
 * 17) Kedeshah (JE | ) the Kedeshot were sacred prostitutes attached to the Temple as priestesses of Ashtoreth or Astarte. The worship of Ashtoreth...
 * 18) Kedushshah (JE | ) the third benediction of the &#39;Amidah is called "Holiness of the Name" (R. H. iv. 4), to distinguish it from "Holiness...
 * 19) Keefar-nahun (JE | ) -- See C123: Capernaum
 * 20) Kefar-salama (Caphar-salama) (JE | ) Scene of Nicanor&#39;s unsuccessful attack upon Judas Maccabeus (I Macc. vii. 31; comp. Josephus, "Ant." xii. 10, &#167; 4)...

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 * 1) Kehillah (JE | ) -- See C696: Community, Organization of
 * 2) Keilah (JE | ) A city of Judah in the Shephelah, commonly identified with the modern Khurbat Kila, seven miles east of Eleutheropolis. The...
 * 3) Kelim (JE | ) Treatise in the Mishnah and in the Tosefta, dealing chiefly with a more precise definition of the rules in Lev. xi. 32 et...
 * 4) Naphtali Keller JE (JE | ) Austrian scholar; born at Tarnow, Galicia, Jan. 25, 1834; died at Ro&#382;nau, Moravia, Aug. 5, 1865; son of Israel Mendel...
 * 5) Leon Kellner (JE | ) Austrian scholar; born at Tarnow 1859. He studied Bible and Talmud up to the age of eighteen, then academic subjects at the...
 * 6) Kelmer Maggid (JE | ) See Moses Isaac of Chelm.
 * 7) Arthur Kelter (JE | ) American athlete; born in New York city March 3, 1869; went to San Francisco, Cal., when nine years old. Kelter became a gymnast...
 * 8) Friederike Kempner JE (JE | ) German poet; born at Opatow, Posen, June 25, 1836; died at Friederikenhof Feb. 23, 1904. She early developed aninterest in...
 * 9) Gabriel Kempner (JE | ) Polish jurist and author; born at Kalisz, Poland, July 4, 1855. After having finished his curriculum at Kalisz he studied...
 * 10) Max Kempner (JE | ) German author; born at Breslau March 5, 1863. He began his literary career when twenty-five, with a volume of poems, "Buch...
 * 11) Stanislaw Alexander Kempner (JE | ) Polish economist and publicist; born in 1857 at Kalisz, Poland; studied law in the University of Warsaw, and was graduated...
 * 12) Kenaz (JE | ) 1. Son of Eliphaz, and grandson of Esau; one of the dukes of Edom (Gen. xxxvi. 11, 16, 42). His clan, called "the Kenizzite"...
 * 13) Kenedeus (JE | ) -- See A801: Adiabene
 * 14) Keneset ha-Gedolah JE (JE | ) -- See G423: Synagogue, Great
 * 15) Kenezites (JE | ) -- See K172: Kenaz
 * 16) Kenites JE (JE | ) A tribe of Palestine, mentioned in the time of Abraham as possessing a part of the promised land (Gen. xv. 19). At the Exodus...
 * 17) Benjamin Kennicott (JE | ) English Christian Hebraist; born at Totness, England, April 4, 1718; died at Oxford Aug. 18, 1783. He was, at first, master...
 * 18) Kentucky (JE | ) One of the south central states of the United States; admitted in 1792. Its most important Jewish community is at Louisville...
 * 19) Kephas (JE | ) -- See C925: Peter
 * 20) Kere and Ketib (JE | ) -- See M246: Masorah

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 * 1) Kerem (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 2) Kerem Hemed (JE | ) Hebrew periodical, edited and published in Vienna in 1833 and 1836 (vols. i. and ii.) and in Prague from 1838 to 1843 (vols...
 * 3) Kermanshah (JE | ) Capital of the Persian province of Ardilan, on the road between Bagdad and Hamadan. Benjamin II. found there forty Jewish...
 * 4) Kerobot (JE | ) A term applied to the scheme of Piyyu&#7789;im in the earlier part of the repetition of the morning &#39;Amidah on special...
 * 5) Kertch (JE | ) Russian seaport at the eastern extremity of the Crimean peninsula; the ancient Panticap&#230;on. A Greek inscription on a...
 * 6) Kesitah (JE | ) -- See N368: Numismatics
 * 7) Ketubah (JE | ) A marriage contract, containing among other things the settlement on the wife of a certain amount payable at her husband&#39...
 * 8) Ketubim (JE | ) -- See H73: Hagiographa
 * 9) Ketubot (JE | ) Treatise in the Mishnah, the Tosefta, and in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. In the Mishnaic order of the Seder Nashim...
 * 10) Keturah (JE | ) Abraham&#39;s second wife, whom he married after the death of Sarah (Gen. xxv. 1; I Chron. i. 32). She was the ancestress...
 * 11) Key (JE | ) in Biblical times the key, as its Hebrew name indicates ("mafteach" = "the opener"), was used chiefly to open the door...
 * 12) Ephraim Keyser JE (JE | ) American sculptor; born at Baltimore, Md., Oct. 6, 1850; educated at the City College of Baltimore and at the art academies...
 * 13) Khaibar (JE | ) Fortified town of Arabia in the district of Hejaz, and four days&#39; journey northwest of the city of Medina. In the time...
 * 14) Kherson (JE | ) Russian city; capital of the government of the same name; situated on the right bank of the Dnieper, near its mouth. It was...
 * 15) Rachel Mironovna Khin (JE | ) Russian authoress; born in White Russia in 1863; educated at the Women&#39;s gymnasium, Moscow; studied medicine at St. Petersburg...
 * 16) Kholm (Chelm) (JE | ) Russian district town in the government of Lublin. Its Jews are mentioned in various documents of 1550 to 1569. In the latter...
 * 17) Khorasan (JE | ) One of the five great divisions of Persia, bounded on the east by Afghanistan; on the north by Zakaspie, the transcaspian...
 * 18) Khudaidad (JE | ) -- See J590: Jud&#230;o-Persian Literature
 * 19) Joseph Daniel Khurilkar (JE | ) BeniIsrael soldier; bahadur subahdar in the Anglo-Indian army. He enlisted in the Sixteenth Regiment Bengal Native Infantry...
 * 20) Samuel Ezekiel Khurilkar (JE | ) Beni-Israel soldier; subahdar in the Anglo-Indian army. He enlisted in the Sixteenth Native Infantry of Bengal in 1790, and...

201 – 220

 * 1) Kiamil Pasha (JE | ) Turkish official; born at Nicosia, Cyprus, in 1832. Educated on that island and in Egypt, he at the age of seventeen entered...
 * 2) Kibroth-hattaavah (JE | ) A station of the Israelites in the wilderness on the journey from Sinai to Kadesh (Num. xi. 34, xxxiii. 16). The name, which...
 * 3) Kid (JE | ) -- See G281: Goat
 * 4) Kiddush (JE | ) Ceremony and prayer by which the holiness of the Sabbath or of a festival is proclaimed. For the Sabbath the Scripture imposes...
 * 5) Kiddush Lebanah (JE | ) -- See N240: New-Moon
 * 6) Kiddush ha-Shem (JE | ) Terms denoting the highest positive and negative standards of Jewish ethics, the one indicating that everything within man&#39...
 * 7) Kiddushin (JE | ) Name of a treatise in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds; it is devoted chiefly to discussion...
 * 8) Kidnaping (JE | ) -- See A210: Abduction
 * 9) Kidron (JE | ) A ravine on the east of Jerusalem, separating the city from the Mount of Olives (comp. II Sam. xv. 23, 30). Except in II Kings...
 * 10) Kiera (Esther) (JE | ) Jewish favorite of the sultana Baffa, who was the wife of Murad III. and the mother of Mohammed III. (not, as Graetz designates...
 * 11) Kiev (JE | ) "The mother of Russian cities"; situated on the right bank of the Dnieper, in the government of the same name. In 1902 it...
 * 12) Kihaya (JE | ) Title of the political representatives of the rayas, i.e., the non-Mohammedan Turkish subjects, at the Porte. The Jewish representative...
 * 13) Kikkar (JE | ) the central and more extensive part of the Southern Jordan valley, referred to in Gen. xiii. 10, 12; xix. 17, 25, 28, 29; Deut. xxxiv...
 * 14) Kil&#39;ayim (JE | ) Name of a treatise of the Mishnah, Tosefta, and the Palestinian Talmud. It belongs to the order Zera&#39;im, and deals with...
 * 15) Ki Lo Na& (JE | ) A hymn, beginning thus, in the home-ritual for Passover eve, and one of the latest constituents of the Seder Haggadah, dating...
 * 16) Kimberley (JE | ) -- See S988: South Africa
 * 17) Kimhi >> Joseph Kimhi JE, Moses Kimhi, David Kimhi (JE | ) Name of a family of scholars, the earliest known members of which lived at the end of the eleventh and in the twelfth century...
 * 18) Solomon Kimhi JE (JE | ) Turkish rabbinical author; lived at Constantinople in the middle of the nineteenth century. In 1862 he published "Meleket...
 * 19) Kinah (JE | ) Lamentation chanted in honor of the dead; it has a halting movement peculiar to itself, and ranges from a dirge or wail to...
 * 20) Kinanah JE (JE | ) Opponent of Mohammed; son of the poet al-Rabi&#39; ibn abu al-&#7716;ukaik, who flourished at Medina in the seventh...

221 – 240

 * 1) Kindbettbrief (JE | ) -- See C451: Childbirth
 * 2) Aryeh L&#246;b Kinderfreund (JE | ) Polish scholar; born at Zamosc, government of Lublin, 1798; died at Lemberg 1873. In the earlier part of his life he was in...
 * 3) Kindling of lights (JE | ) -- See L412: Lights
 * 4) King (JE | ) Chief ruler of a nation.&#8212;Biblical Data: in Jewish history the first ruler called "king" was Saul, son of Kish, but in...
 * 5) Kingdom of God (JE | ) Targum to Zech. xiv. 9 and Ob. 21; "Malkut Shaddai ": &#39;Alenu; and "Malkut Shamayim": Ber. ii. 2, and elsewhere in Mishnah...
 * 6) Books of Kings (JE | ) Fourth book of the second canonical division of the Hebrew Bible, the Prophets . It contains a history of the kings of Judah...
 * 7) Kingston (JE | ) -- See J144: Jamaica.
 * 8) Kinnim (JE | ) Name of a treatise of the Mishnah in the series Kodashim. The Pentateuchal law ordains the sacrifice of two turtle-doves...
 * 9) Kinship (JE | ) -- See F33: Family and Family Life
 * 10) Kinsman (JE | ) -- See F33: Family and Family Life
 * 11) Kinyan (JE | ) -- See A1234: Alienation and Acquisition
 * 12) Yom ha-Kippurim (JE | ) -- See A2093: Atonement, Day of
 * 13) Kir (JE | ) A people and country subject to the Assyrian empire. In II Kings xvi. 9 and Amos i. 5, ix. 7, Kir is mentioned as the place...
 * 14) Imre Kiralfy (JE | ) Musical composer; born in Budapest, Hungary, Jan. 1, 1845. He received his musical education at Budapest, Vienna, and Paris...
 * 15) Raphael Kirchheim JE (JE | ) German scholar; born in Frankfort-on-the-Main 1804; died there Sept. 6, 1889. For some time he was shoche&#7789; in the...
 * 16) Abraham Kirimi JE (JE | ) Crimean rabbi of the fourteenth century. According to Firkovitch ("C. I. H." No. 50), Kirimi was a proselyte and a pupil of...
 * 17) Kirjath-arba (JE | ) -- See H497: Hebron
 * 18) Kirjath-jearim (JE | ) 1. A descendant of Caleb, the son of Hur (I Chron. ii. 50, 52, 53). 2. One of the towns of the Gibeonites (Josh. ix. 17),...
 * 19) Kirjath-sepher (JE | ) City in the hill-country of Judah (Josh. xv. 49), situated to the south of Hebron (x. 38), on a prominence not very far from...
 * 20) Kirjathaim (JE | ) City on the Moabite plateau, assigned by Moses to Reuben; mentioned with Heshbon and Elealeh (Num. xxxii. 37) as well as with...

241 – 260

 * 1) Abu Yusuf Ya& JE (JE | ) Karaite dogmatist and exegete; flourished in the first half of the tenth century; a native of Circassia (whence the name of...
 * 2) Kirk-kilisseh (JE | ) City in Thrace, European Turkey, 102 miles north of Constantinople. The name signifies in Turkish "forty churches."Kirk-Kilisseh...
 * 3) Eliezer Simon Kirschbaum JE (JE | ) Austrian physician and writer; born at Sieniawa, Galicia, 1797; died at Cracow 1860. After studying philosophy and medicine...
 * 4) Moritz Kirstein (JE | ) German physician; born at Filehne 1830; died in Berlin July 12, 1896. He studied at the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster, in Berlin...
 * 5) Kisch (JE | ) Family of some distinction; migrated in the 16th century from Chiesch in Bohemia; the founder of the family lived in Prague...
 * 6) Kish (JE | ) the father of Saul, the first king of Israel (I Sam. ix. 3, xii. 21, xiv. 51; I Chron. ix. 39, xii. 1, xxvi. 28). He was a...
 * 7) Kishinef (Kishinev) (JE | ) Russian city; capital of the government of Bessarabia; it has a population of 147,962 (1904), including about 50,000 Jews...
 * 8) Kishon (JE | ) River in central Palestine; it rises to the south of Mount Gilboa, flows through the middle of the plain of Esdraelon, traverses...
 * 9) Kislew (JE | ) the ninth month of the Jewish calendar, corresponding to December. It has either twenty-nine or thirty days. In the Septuagint...
 * 10) Joseph Kiss (JE | ) Hungarian poet; born Nov. 8, 1843, at Mez&#246;csat. Being obliged by the death of his mother and financial ruin of his father...
 * 11) Kiss and Kissing (JE | ) the custom of kissing is not found among savage races, among whom other forms of greeting, such as rubbing of noses, take...
 * 12) Kissingen (JE | ) Bavarian health-resort; it has a total population of 4,024, including 333 Jews. Jews lived in Kissingen as early as the thirteenth...
 * 13) Kite (JE | ) -- See V117: Vulture
 * 14) Michael Kittseer (JE | ) Talmudic author; born in Kittsee (K&#246;pcs&#232;ny), Hungary, about 1775; died at Presburg Sept. 28, 1845. He was a disciple...
 * 15) Jacob ben Joseph Kitzinger (JE | ) Author and poet; lived in the second half of the sixteenth and at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He wrote "&#7716...
 * 16) Kizweh (JE | ) in popular parlance, the weekly portion allotted to the local poor; also charity in general. The word "Kizbah...
 * 17) Alfred Klaar (JE | ) Austrian writer; born at Prague Nov. 7, 1848; studied law and, later, German philology at the universities of Vienna and Prague...
 * 18) Julian (Judah) Klaczko (JE | ) French publicist; born in Wilna, Russia, Nov. 6, 1825. His father belonged to one of the best Jewish families of Wilna, and...
 * 19) Levi Jerahmeel Klaczko (JE | ) Russian educator; born in Wilna June 28, 1840. Formerly a school-teacher in Berdyansk, Crimea, he now follows the same calling...
 * 20) Michael Klapp (JE | ) Austrian journalist and author; born in Prague 1834; died Feb. 25, 1888. He removed in 1855 to Vienna, where he devoted himself...

261 – 280

 * 1) Mordecai ben Asher Klatzko (JE | ) Russian rabbi and author; born in Wilna 1797; died in Lida July 2, 1883. He was a descendant of Rabbi Mayer Katzenellenbogen...
 * 2) Klaus (JE | ) An institution where Talmudic scholars are given free lodging, and often a stipend in addition, in order that they may devote...
 * 3) Klausenburg (Kolozsv&) (JE | ) Royal free city of Kolozs county, Hungary; formerly capital of the grand duchy of Transylvania (1691-1848). Until 1848 no...
 * 4) Abraham Klausner (JE | ) Austrian rabbi and ritualist; flourished at Vienna in the second half of the fourteenth century. He shared the rabbinical...
 * 5) Joseph Klausner (JE | ) Russian Hebrew writer; born at Olkeniki, government of Wilna, Aug. 14, 1874. In 1885 he went to Odessa and became a pupil...
 * 6) Clotilde Kleeberg (JE | ) Pianist; born at Paris June 27, 1866, of German parents. She studied with Mmes. Retz and Massart at the Conservatoire, where...
 * 7) Minna Cohen Kleeberg JE (JE | ) German-American poetess; born in Elmshorn, Holstein, Germany, July 21, 1841; died in New Haven, Conn., Dec. 31, 1878. Her...
 * 8) Adolph Klein (JE | ) German medical author; born at Merseburg-on-the-Saale May 18, 1829. He was educated at Leipsic (M.D. 1851), and practised...
 * 9) Charles Klein (JE | ) English dramatist; born at London Jan. 7, 1867; educated at the North London Collegiate School. Klein is the author of "A...
 * 10) Felix Klein (JE | ) German mathematician; born at D&#252;sseldorf April 24, 1849; educated at the University of Bonn, where he became assistant...
 * 11) Hermann Klein (JE | ) English musical critic; born at Norwich July 23, 1856. He studied singing under Manuel Garcia from 1874 to 1877, and in 1888...
 * 12) Hugo Klein (JE | ) Hungarian writer; born at Szegedin July 21, 1853; educated at the University of Budapest. He was for several years editor...
 * 13) Joseph Klein (JE | ) -- See K250: Kiss, Joseph
 * 14) Julius Klein (JE | ) Hungarian rabbi; born Aug. 2, 1850, at Zichyfalva; died July 24, 1895, at Alt-Ofen; educated at the gymnasia at Kecskemet...
 * 15) Julius Leopold Klein (JE | ) Hungarian poet and writer; convert to Christianity; born at Miskolcz, Hungary, 1810; died at Berlin Aug. 2, 1876; educated...
 * 16) Max Klein (JE | ) Hungarian sculptor; born Jan. 7, 1847, at G&#246;ncz; son of a poor country school-teacher. He was apprenticed first to a...
 * 17) Moritz Klein (JE | ) Hungarian rabbi; born July 7, 1842, at Miskolcz; studied philosophy at the University of Prague, attending at the same time...
 * 18) Philip Klein (JE | ) American rabbi; born May 22, 1848, at Baracska, Hungary. He was educated in the Talmudical schools of his native country and...
 * 19) Solomon Klein (oculist) JE (JE | ) Austrian oculist; born at Miskolcz, Hungary, Aug. 12, 1845; M.D., Vienna, 1870. Since his graduation he has practised in the...
 * 20) Solomon Klein JE (JE | ) French rabbi; born at Bischheim, Alsace, Oct. 14, 1814; died at Colmar, Alsace, Nov. 10, 1867. He was successively district...

281 – 300

 * 1) Th& (JE | ) French physician; born in Durmenach, Upper Rhine, May 30, 1845; died in Paris May 4, 1902; son of the chief rabbi of Colmar...
 * 2) Wilhelm Klein JE (JE | ) Austrian archeologist; born Nov. 28, 1850, at Kar&#225;nsebes, Hungary. He first studied Jewish theology and then philosophy...
 * 3) Georg Klemperer (JE | ) German physician; born at Landsberg-on-the-Warthe May 10, 1865; son of Wilhelm Klemperer; studied at the universities of Breslau...
 * 4) Guttmann Klemperer (JE | ) Austrian rabbi; born 1815 at Prague; died at Tabor, Bohemia, Jan. 20, 1882. On his mother&#39;s side he was a descendant of...
 * 5) Wilhelm Klemperer (JE | ) German rabbi; born March 30, 1839, at Prague; son of Guttmann Klemperer. After attending the gymnasium of his native city...
 * 6) Kletzk JE (JE | ) Russian town, in the government of Minsk. It is believed to have been founded in the eleventh century, but the earliest known...
 * 7) Israel Kley (JE | ) German preacher, educator, and writer; born at Bernstadt, Silesia, June 10, 1789; died at Hamburg Oct. 4, 1867. He attended...
 * 8) Wilhelm Kley (JE | ) German economist and educator; born at Steinbach, district of Meiningen, Germany, June 25, 1869. He taught for several years...
 * 9) Gustav Klinger (JE | ) -- See B1549: Buchbinder, Bernhard
 * 10) Louis Lucien Klotz (JE | ) French journalist and deputy; born in Paris Jan. 11, 1868; of Alsatian descent. After his education was finished, he was enrolled...
 * 11) Solomon ben Judah Aaron Kluger JE (JE | ) Chief dayyan and preacher of Brody, Galicia; born at Komarow, Russian Poland, in 1783; died at Brody June 9, 1869. He was...
 * 12) Peter Kmita (JE | ) -- See B1256: Bona Sforza
 * 13) Knasmahl (JE | ) -- See M213: Marriage
 * 14) Frederick Knefler (JE | ) American soldier; born in Hungary in 1833. He went to America, and when the Civil war broke out he enlisted as a private in...
 * 15) Knot (JE | ) Some form of quipu or knot-alphabet appears to have been adopted in Biblical, or, at least, in Talmudical times, to judge...
 * 16) Knoxville (JE | ) -- See T138: Tennessee
 * 17) Gustav Kober (JE | ) Austrian actor; born at Vienna April 21, 1849. He was trained for the stage by Emilie Dorr in that city and made his d&#233...
 * 18) Heinrich K& (JE | ) German physician; born at Breslau Dec. 2, 1838. He studied medicine at Berlin and Breslau (M.D. 1859), taking post-graduate...
 * 19) Kobo (JE | ) -- See C840: Covo
 * 20) Tam& (JE | ) -- See B868: Bermann, Adolf

301 – 320

 * 1) Kobryn (JE | ) District town in the government of Grodno, Russia; situated on the Muchavetz and Kobrynka rivers. In 1902 it contained more...
 * 2) Bezalel b. Solomon Kobryn (JE | ) -- See B1010: Bezalel b. Solomon of Kobryn
 * 3) Koburg (JE | ) -- See S290: Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
 * 4) Hermann Friedrich K&#246;cher (JE | ) German Christian Hebraist; born at Osnabr&#252;ck in 1747; died April 2, 1792. He was the author of "Specimen Observationum...
 * 5) Kodashim (JE | ) Name of the fifth of the six orders ("sedarim") of the Mishnah, so called because all the treatises belonging to it contain...
 * 6) Kodesh ha-Kodashim (JE | ) -- See H862: Holy of Holies
 * 7) Hendrik Jacob Koenen (JE | ) Dutch historian of the Jews; born at Amsterdam Jan. 11, 1809; died at Buitenrust, near Haarlem, Oct. 13, 1874. He was educated...
 * 8) Kof (JE | ) Nineteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet; for its form see Alphabet. The meaning ofthe name is uncertain. It corresponds in...
 * 9) Kohath; Kohathites (JE | ) Kohath was the second son of Levi (Gen. xlvi. 11; Ex. vi. 16; Num. iii. 17; I Chron. vi. 1) and progenitor of the Levitical...
 * 10) Kohelet Musar (JE | ) Hebrew weekly; founded at Berlin in 1750 by Moses Mendelssohn (at that time he was not more than twenty-one) and T. Bock....
 * 11) Kohelet Rabbah (Ecclesiastes Rabbah) JE (JE | ) Haggadic commentary on Ecclesiastes, included in the collection of the Rabbot. It follows the Biblical book verse by verse...
 * 12) Kohen (Kohanim) (JE | ) -- See A1980: Cohen
 * 13) Abraham Kohen Zedek (JE | ) -- See A430: Abraham ben Elijah ha-Kohen
 * 14) Joseph Kohen Zedek (JE | ) -- See K314: &#7826;ede&#7730;, Joseph Kohen
 * 15) Kohen Zedek II Kahana ben Joseph (JE | ) Gaon of Pumbedita from 917 to 935. Immediately after his appointment he took measures to change the existing system in the...
 * 16) Kaufmann Kohler JE (JE | ) Rabbi and theologian; born in F&#252;rth, Bavaria, May 10, 1843; a descendant of a family of rabbis. He received his rabbinical...
 * 17) Max J Kohler (JE | ) American lawyer; born at Detroit, Mich., May 22, 1871; son of Kaufmann Kohler; educated at the College of the City of New...
 * 18) Abraham Kohn JE (JE | ) Austrian rabbi; born Jan. 1, 1807, at Zaluzan, Bohemia; died at Lemberg, Galicia, Sept. 7, 1848. In 1828 he entered theUniversity...
 * 19) David Kohn (Kahana) JE (JE | ) Russian archeologist and Hebrew writer; born at Odessa in 1838. He received a rabbinic education; but at the age of fourteen...
 * 20) David Kohn (Pap) (JE | ) Hungarian political economist; born Dec. 2, 1868, at Csecse, Hungary; studied law in Budapest. In 1890 he attracted general...

321 – 340

 * 1) Gabriel ben Reuben Israel Kohn (JE | ) Hungarian Talmudist; born at Vagujhely about 1765; died at Rechnitz Dec. 29, 1850, where he became rabbi in 1822. The family...
 * 2) Jakob Kohn (JE | ) Austrian jurist; born Dec. 24, 1847, in Papa, Hungary; died at Vienna Jan. 20, 1902. He studied jurisprudence at the University...
 * 3) Joel Beer Kohn (JE | ) Russian writer; born at Volozhin 1816; died in Wilna Nov. 17, 1871. He translated F&#233;nelon&#39;s "Les Aventures de T&#233...
 * 4) Maier Kohn (JE | ) &#7716;azzan in Munich, Bavaria; born toward the close of the eighteenth century. He was the predecessor of Solomon Naumbourg...
 * 5) Meshullam Solomon Kohn (JE | ) -- See C650: Cohn, Meshullam Solomon
 * 6) Samuel Kohn (JE | ) Hungarian rabbi and author; born at Baja, Hungary, Sept. 21, 1841; grandson of the rabbi of that place, G&#246;tz Schwerin...
 * 7) Samuel Kohn (JE | ) Russian physician; born at Zhagory, government of Kovno, Feb. 11, 1865. After he had studied Talmud under private tutors,...
 * 8) Solomon Kohn (JE | ) Austrian ghetto poet; born March 8, 1825, at Prague. He studied philosophy and mathematics at the university in that city...
 * 9) Tobias Kohn (JE | ) American merchant and silk-manufacturer; born at Prague, Bohemia; died at Hartford, Conn., 1898. He emigrated to America as...
 * 10) Karl K& (JE | ) German jurist and economist; born at Danzig March 21, 1863. Since 1902 he has been privat-docent in commercial and technical...
 * 11) Moritz Kohner (JE | ) Founder of the Deutsch-Israelitische Gemeindebund; born at Neuern, Bohemia, April 4, 1818; died March 21, 1877. Destined for...
 * 12) Adolph Kohut (JE | ) German writer; born Nov. 10, 1848, at Mindszent, Hungary; brother of Alexander Kohut. For three years he attended the Jewish...
 * 13) Alexander Kohut JE (JE | ) Rabbi and Orientalist; born April 22, 1842, at Felegyhaza, Hungary; died May 25, 1894, in New York. He belonged to a family...
 * 14) Baruch Kojetein (JE | ) -- See G293: Goitein, Baruch
 * 15) David b. Samuel Kokabi (JE | ) -- See D137: David ben Samuel of Estella
 * 16) Joseph ben Abraham Kokabi (JE | ) German physician, a native of Ulm; lived at Ferrara in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. "Kokabi" is the Hebrew equivalent...
 * 17) Kokebe Yizhak (JE | ) Hebrew annual; published at Vienna from 1845 to 1872 by M. Stern, and from 1872 to 1873 by M. Weissmann (Chajes). The annual...
 * 18) Kol Bo JE (JE | ) Collection of ritual and civil laws, the meaning of the title being "all is in it"; who its author was has not yet been ascertained...
 * 19) Kol Mebasser (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 20) Kol Nidre JE (JE | ) Prayer recited in the synagogue at the beginning of the evening service on the Day of Atonement; the name is taken from the...

341 – 360

 * 1) Moses Koletkar (JE | ) Sirdar bahadur in the Anglo-Indian army. He enlisted in the Eighth Regiment Native Infantry April 1, 1842, and was later transferred...
 * 2) Kolin (JE | ) Town in Bohemia. Its Jewish community is one of the oldest in the country. A number of Jews were living here in the fourteenth...
 * 3) Baron Ignaz von Kolisch (JE | ) Hungarian merchant, journalist, and chess-master; born at Presburg April 6, 1837; died at Vienna April 30, 1889. Both in business...
 * 4) Rudolf Kolisch (JE | ) Austrian physician; born at Koritschan, Moravia, Dec. 10, 1867; studied medicine at Vienna and Heidelberg (M.D. 1891). In...
 * 5) Sigmund Kolisch (JE | ) Austrian poet and historical writer; born at Koritschan, Moravia, Sept.15, 1817. He was educated at the University of Vienna...
 * 6) Leopold Kompert JE (JE | ) Austrian author; born at M&#252;nchengr&#228;tz, Bohemia, May 15, 1822; died at Vienna Nov. 23, 1886. He studied at the universities...
 * 7) Kompse bar Kompse (JE | ) -- See K84: &#7730;am&#7827;a and Bar &#7730;am&#7827;a
 * 8) Friedrich Eduard K& (JE | ) German Protestant theologian; born at Reicheribach, Saxony, Nov. 15, 1846; Ph.D., 1874, Leipsic; D.D., 1888, Erlangen. He...
 * 9) Julius K& (JE | ) Hungarian mathematician; born Dec. 16, 1849, at Raab. He entered the University of Vienna to study medicine, but being more...
 * 10) K& (JE | ) A southeastern suburb of Prague. The city of K&#246;nigliche Weinberge was built within a few years after the Austro-Prussian...
 * 11) K& (JE | ) Capital of the province of East Prussia. It was founded by the knights of the Teutonic Order, the laws of which excluded the...
 * 12) Leo K& (JE | ) German mathematician; born in Posen Oct. 15, 1837. He studied in Berlin (Ph.D. 1860), and was appointed instructor in mathematics...
 * 13) Leopold K& (JE | ) Austrian oculist; born at Bisenz, Moravia, April 26, 1850; M.D., Vienna, 1873. On graduating he engaged in practise as an...
 * 14) K& (JE | ) A family that resided in K&#246;nigswarte, near Tachau, Bohemia, about the middle of the eighteenth century, when Jonas Hirsch...
 * 15) Konitz Affair JE (JE | ) An accusation of ritual murder, based on the unexplained assassination of the student Ernst Winter in Konitz, West Prussia...
 * 16) Konki (JE | ) -- See C730: Conque
 * 17) Kontres (JE | ) Usual designation, among the Tosafists, of Rashi&#39;s commentary on the Talmud. Rashi himself uses the expression once to...
 * 18) Henry Koplik JE (JE | ) American physician; born at New York Oct. 28, 1858; educated at the College of the City of New York and at the College of...
 * 19) Koppelmann (JE | ) Rabbi at Nuremberg toward the end of the fourteenth century. In 1406 Rabbi Israel went to Nuremberg and taught there, at first...
 * 20) Jacob ben Samuel Koppelmann (JE | ) German author and translator; born in the district of Breisgau 1555; died 1598. In 1583 he went to Frankfort-on-the-Main,...

361 – 380

 * 1) Kor (JE | ) -- See W81: Weights and Measures
 * 2) Korah (JE | ) 1. Son of Esau by Aholibamah; mentioned as a "duke" of the land of Edom (Gen. xxxvi. 5, 14, 18; I Chron. i. 35). 2. Son...
 * 3) Koran (JE | ) the sacred scriptures of Islam. According to Mohammedan belief, based upon the testimony of the book itself, the Koran consists...
 * 4) Friedrich Kor& (JE | ) Hungarian physician and medical writer; born Dec. 20, 1828, at Nagy-Kallo. In 1851 he took his doctor&#39;s degree at Budapest...
 * 5) Korban (JE | ) 1. A sacrifice of any kind, whether bloody or bloodless; term used by Josephus in the sense also of a vow-offering, or of...
 * 6) Solomon Koreff (JE | ) German Talmudist; born about 1700; died in Prague May 24, 1774. For more than forty years he presided over a large yeshibah...
 * 7) Koriyyat (JE | ) -- See C782: Coriat
 * 8) Selig Korn (Friedrich N Nork) (JE | ) German writer and mythologist; born April 26, 1803, at Prague; died at Teplitz Oct. 16, 1850. Expelled from the gymnasium...
 * 9) Moses b. Eliezer K& (JE | ) Russian Hebrew author of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; grandson of Yom-Tob Lipman Heller. He was for some...
 * 10) Aaron Kornfeld (JE | ) Austrian Talmudist; born Aug. 2, 1795, at Goltsch-Jenikau, Bohemia; died there Oct. 26, 1881. His only teacher was his father...
 * 11) Hermann Kornfeld (JE | ) German physician; born at Posen 1840; son of the Talmudist Samuel ben Nachman Kornfeld and grandson of R. Akiba Eger...
 * 12) Me& (Kurnik) (JE | ) German rabbi and calendar-maker; born at Glogau, where he was afterward rabbi; died at Hamburg Aug. 9, 1826. Kornik was the...
 * 13) Korobka (JE | ) That part of the Basket-Tax which is levied in Russia on kasher meat and poultry. The tax on salt, preserved provisions, flour...
 * 14) Joseph K& (JE | ) Hungarian statistician; born April 20, 1844, at Pesth. He was educated privately, and then accepted a position with an insurance...
 * 15) Kos (JE | ) An island belonging to the Sporades group in the Aegean Sea near the Carian coast; known also as Meropis and Nymph&#230...
 * 16) Raphael Kosch (JE | ) German physician and deputy; born at Lissa, Posen, Oct. 5, 1803; died at Berlin March 27, 1872. Educated at the University...
 * 17) Levi Kosini (JE | ) -- See C805: Cosin, Lewi
 * 18) Koslov (JE | ) -- See E516: Eupatoria
 * 19) Marks Kosminsky (JE | ) Founder of the town of Nhill in the colony of Victoria, Australia; died there May 6, 1895. He founded most of the local institutions...
 * 20) Julius Kossarski (JE | ) German poet; born 1812 at Bromberg; died there July 1, 1879. He went to Berlin to take up the study of literature, afterward...

381 – 400

 * 1) Ludwig Kossarski (JE | ) German poet and writer; brother of Julius Kossarski; born 1810 at Bromberg; died Nov. 3, 1873, at Berlin. He studied medicine...
 * 2) Kostel (Podivin) (JE | ) Town in Moravia. Its Jewish community is said to be the oldest in Moravia. According to Cosmas of Prague (d. 1125), a Jew...
 * 3) Abigdor ben Simon Kosteliz (Costellez) (JE | ) Egyptian rabbi and cabalist; born before 1572; died 1659. He studied under Moses ha-Kohen, head of the yeshibah in Egypt,...
 * 4) Kovel (JE | ) District town in the government of Volhynia, Russia. In the beginning of the fourteenth century it was given by Gedemin to...
 * 5) Joseph K& (JE | ) Hungarian painter; born at Nagy Karoly 1853. When only fourteen he left home, and, earning his living as he went, arrived...
 * 6) Saveli Grigoryevich Kovner (JE | ) Russian physician; born at Wilna 1837; died at Kiev Sept. 22, 1896; graduated from the University of St. Vladimir, Kiev, in...
 * 7) Kovno (JE | ) Russian fortified city in the government of the same name; situated at the junction of the Viliya and the Niemen.There is...
 * 8) Abraham Uri Kovner (JE | ) Russian Hebrew critic; born at Wilna about 1837. He became renowned on account of a campaign which he conducted against many...
 * 9) Moses Kozzi (JE | ) -- See M881: Moses b. Jacob of Coucy
 * 10) Jos Ignatz Kraczwski (JE | ) -- See P401: Poland
 * 11) Moses ben David Kr& (JE | ) Lithuanian Talmudist of the seventeenth century; died at Wilna Oct. 19, 1683. After officiating as rabbi in a number of Lithuanian...
 * 12) Isaac Kramsztyk (JE | ) Polish writer and preacher; born at Warsaw 1814; died there 1889. He graduated from the rabbinical school of Warsaw, in which...
 * 13) Stanislaus Kramsztyr (JE | ) Polish naturalist; born at Warsaw 1841; son of Isaac Kramsztyk; educated at the Warsaw gymnasium, and studied medicine in...
 * 14) Jacob Kranz (JE | ) -- See J103: Jacob ben Wolf Kranz of Dubno
 * 15) Horace Krasnopolski (JE | ) Austrian jurist; born Nov. 5, 1842, at Pistyn, Galicia, where he received his earliest education in the Cheder. From...
 * 16) Adolf Kraus (JE | ) American lawyer; born at Blowitz, Bobemia, Feb. 26, 1850; emigrated to the United States at the age of fifteen, and worked...
 * 17) Alfred, Baron von Kraus (JE | ) Austrian general; born 1822 at Pardubitz, Bohemia; the son of a Jewish tenant-farmer. He received his early education, which...
 * 18) Friedrich Kraus (JE | ) Austrian physician; born at Bodenbach, Bohemia, May 31, 1851. He studied at the gymnasium at Prague and at the universities...
 * 19) Leopold Gottlieb Kraus (JE | ) Austrian physician; born at Kolin, Bohemia, Dec. 22, 1824; died in 1901. He studied at the University of Prague, making a...
 * 20) Alexander Kraushar (JE | ) Polish jurist and author; born 1843 at Warsaw; educated at the Royal Gymnasium in that city and at the preparatory college...

401 – 420

 * 1) Joseph Krauskopf JE (JE | ) American rabbi and author; born in Ostrowo, Prussia, Jan. 21, 1858. He emigrated to America (New York) in July, 1872, and...
 * 2) Friedrich Salomon Krauss (JE | ) Austrian folklorist; born at Pozega, Slavonia, Oct. 7, 1859. He studied classical philology at the University of Vienna (Ph...
 * 3) Samuel Krauss (JE | ) Hungarian philologist and historian; born in Ukk, a village in the county of Szala, Hungary, Feb. 18, 1866. At the age of...
 * 4) Krefeld (JE | ) Prussian manufacturing town near D&#252;sseldorf, in the province of the Rhine. Small neighboring villages, embraced in the...
 * 5) Kremenetz (JE | ) District town in the government of Volhynia, Russia. The Jews of Kremenetz are first mentioned in a charter of privileges...
 * 6) Moses b. David Kremer (JE | ) -- See K391: Kr&#228;mer, Moses b. David
 * 7) Johanan b. Me&#239;r Kremnitzer (JE | ) Polish rabbinical author; lived in the seventeenth century at Kalisz.He wrote "Orach Mishor" (Sulzbach, 1692), a commentary...
 * 8) Simon Kremser (JE | ) German army commissary; born Sept. 15, 1775, at Breslau, Germany; died 1851. He became commissary agent to Bl&#252;cher in...
 * 9) Mordecai ben Naphtali Hirsch Kremsier (JE | ) German Talmudist and poet; lived at Cracow in the seventeenth century. He wrote: "Kinah" (Lublin [?], c. 1650), a dirge...
 * 10) Kremsir (JE | ) Town in Moravia, Austria, twelve miles southwest of Prerau. The oldest authentic records of its Jewish community date from...
 * 11) Krespia Nakdan (JE | ) Scribe of the thirteenth century. He is recorded as having copied in March, 1243, a manuscript of Maimonides&#39; "Yad ha-&#7716...
 * 12) Mordecai Krespin (JE | ) Turkish rabbi and writer; lived on the island of Rhodes in the first half of the eighteenth century; son-in-law of R. Moses...
 * 13) Kreti and Pleti (JE | ) -- See C426: Cherethites
 * 14) Kreuznach (JE | ) Prussian town and watering-place in the government of Coblenz. The first mention of Jews in Kreuznach occurs in an account...
 * 15) Isaac Kriegshaber (JE | ) -- See G436: Grieshaber, Isaac
 * 16) Krimchaks (JE | ) the so-called "Turkish Jews," inhabitants of the Crimea, whose center of population is Kara-Su-Bazar, one of the most densely...
 * 17) Samuel Kristeller (JE | ) German physician; born at Xions, Posen, May 26, 1820; died at Berlin June 15, 1900. He received his diploma as doctor of medicine...
 * 18) Abraham Krochmal (JE | ) Galician philosopher and writer; born at Brody about 1823; died in 1895; son of Nachman Krochmal. Very littleis known of his...
 * 19) Hayyim Krochmal (JE | ) Polish Talmudist; born 1626; died 1666 at Cracow; son-in-law of Abraham Chemiesch. He was for many years preacher ("darshan")...
 * 20) Menahem Mendel ben Abraham Krochmal JE (JE | ) Moravian rabbi; born at Cracow about 1600; died at Nikolsburg Jan. 2, 1661. His teacher in the Talmud was Joel Sirkes, author...

421 – 440

 * 1) Nachman Kohen Krochmal (JE | ) Austrian philosopher and historian; born at Brody, Galicia, Feb. 17, 1785; died at Tarnopol July 31, 1840. He began the study...
 * 2) Judah ben Eleazar Kron (JE | ) Russian teacher and author; born at Tuckum, Courland, Feb. 1, 1793; died at Mitau 1831. He was educated by Rabbis J. W. Blumenfeld...
 * 3) Hugo Kronecker (JE | ) German physiologist; born at Liegnitz, Prussian Silesia, Jan. 27, 1839; educated at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin...
 * 4) Leopold Kronecker (JE | ) German mathematician; born Dec. 7, 1823, at Liegnitz; died Dec. 29, 1891, at Berlin. Educated at the universities of Bonn...
 * 5) Baron Leopold Julian Kronenberg JE (JE | ) Polish-Russian banker; brother of Stanislaw Kronenberg; born in Warsaw 1849. After graduating from the gymnasium he studied...
 * 6) Stanislaw Leopold Kronenberg JE (JE | ) Polish-Russian financier; brother of Leopold Kronenberg; born at Warsaw 1846; died there 1894. After graduating from gymnasium...
 * 7) Theodor Kroner (JE | ) German rabbi; born at Dyhernfurth, Prussian Silesia, May 12, 1845. He was educated at the gymnasium at Glatz, the yeshibah...
 * 8) Moses ben Akiba of Glogau Kronik (Kroniker) (JE | ) Rabbi of Flatow (Zlotowo); lived in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was the author of "Tefillah we-Todah," hymns...
 * 9) Krotoschin (JE | ) -- See P467: Posen
 * 10) Krozhe JE (JE | ) Town in the district of Rossieny, government of Kovno, Russia. The Jewish community dates from the fifteenth century. With...
 * 11) Wilhelm Traugott Krug (JE | ) Christian advocate of the emancipation of the Jews; born June 22, 1770, in the village of Radis, near Wittenberg, Prussia...
 * 12) S Krumenau (JE | ) See Oppenheim, Simon b. Jacob.
 * 13) Judah L& (JE | ) Frankist leader; lived in Galicia in the eighteenth century. He filled the office of rabbi at Nadworna, Galicia, but joined...
 * 14) Kuba (JE | ) Chief town of the district of Kuba, government of Baku, Transcaucasia, having (1897) a total population of 15,346, in which...
 * 15) Abraham Kuenen (JE | ) Dutch Christian Old Testament scholar; born in Haarlem, North Holland, Sept. 16, 1828; died in Leyden Dec. 10, 1891. He was...
 * 16) Al-Kufah (JE | ) Ruined city of Asiatic Turkey, 88 miles south of Bagdad, situated on an affluent of the Euphrates; founded by Omar on the...
 * 17) David Kuh (JE | ) Austrian journalist and deputy; born in Prague 1818; died Jan. 26, 1879. He gave up the study of medicine and law, which he...
 * 18) Emil Kuh (JE | ) Austrian poet and novelist; born Dec. 13, 1828, at Vienna; died Dec. 30, 1876, at Meran; studied philosophy and history at...
 * 19) Ephraim Moses Kuh (JE | ) German poet; born 1731 in Breslau; died there April 3, 1790. His parents had chosen for him the career of a student of the...
 * 20) Abraham Kuhn (JE | ) German physician; born at Bissersheim, Alsace, Jan. 28, 1838; died at Strasburg Sept. 15, 1900. Kuhn was educated at the universities...

441 – 460

 * 1) Moriz Kuhn (JE | ) Austrian physicist; born in Br&#252;nn, Moravia, Jan. 11, 1843; educated at the Polytechnic high school there, and later at...
 * 2) Mikhail Ignatyevich Kulisher (JE | ) Russian lawyer and author; born July 7, 1847, in a Jewish agricultural colony near the village of Sophiefka, district of Lutsk...
 * 3) Reuben Moiseiyevich Kulisher (JE | ) Russian physician and educator; born at Dubno 1828; died at Kiev Aug. 9, 1896; educated at the local district school, at the...
 * 4) Adolf Kulka (JE | ) Austrian journalist; born Oct. 5, 1823, in Leipnik, Moravia; died in Vienna Dec. 5, 1898. He studied philosophy and jurisprudence...
 * 5) Eduard Kulke (JE | ) Austrian author; born at Kostel, near Nikolsburg, Moravia, May 28, 1831; died in Vienna March 20, 1897; educated at the polytechnic...
 * 6) Daniel al-Kumisi JE (JE | ) -- See D42: Daniel ben Moses al-&#7730;umisi
 * 7) Kuna (JE | ) Polish name for the pillory, the well-known implement of torture and punishment, used by the Polish and Lithuanian Jews of...
 * 8) Moses ben Menahem Kunitzer (JE | ) Rabbi in Ofen and dayyan in Budapest; born at Alt-Ofen; died Feb. 2, 1837. A descendant of Rabbi L&#246;we ben Bezaleel, he...
 * 9) Ignatz Kunos (JE | ) Hungarian authority on Turkish; born Sept. 20, 1861, at S&#225;mson, Hungary. He attended the gymnasium at Debreczin and the...
 * 10) Abraham (Avraam Aronovich) Kupernik (JE | ) Russian communal worker; born at Wilna 1821; died at Dembitza 1893, on his homeward journey from abroad; buried in Kiev. He...
 * 11) Kuppah (JE | ) -- See C371: Charity
 * 12) Ignaz Kuranda JE (JE | ) Austrian deputy and political writer; born in Prague May 1, 1812; died in Vienna April 3, 1884. His grandfather and father...
 * 13) Prince Kurbski (JE | ) -- See R479: Russia
 * 14) Kurdistan (JE | ) A country of western Asia, partly under Turkish and partly under Persian rule, although the Kurds pay but little attention...
 * 15) Kurland (JE | ) -- See C831: Courland
 * 16) Adolf Kurrein JE (JE | ) Austrian rabbi; born Jan. 28, 1846, at Trebitsch, Moravia. He received his doctor&#39;s degree from the University of Vienna...
 * 17) Rudolph Kusel (JE | ) German jurist and politician; born May 9, 1809, in Carlsruhe; died there Jan. 26, 1890. He studied law in Heidelberg and Munich...
 * 18) Kussiel (JE | ) -- See J214: Jekuthiel
 * 19) Kustendil (JE | ) Bulgarian city in the north of Macedonia, near the Servian city of Nish. Jews must have settled at Kustendil before the beginning...
 * 20) Kutais (JE | ) Russian city in the government of the same name; the scene of a trial for blood accusation in 1877. On April 16 of that year...

461 – 480

 * 1) Joshua H& (JE | ) Preacher at Lissa in the middle of the nineteenth century. He was the author of "Ha-Emunah weha-&#7716;akirah" (Breslau...
 * 2) Robert Kutner (JE | ) German surgeon; born at Ueckerm&#252;nde, Pomerania, April 11, 1867. Educated at Berlin, Kiel, Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Vienna...
 * 3) Abraham Gershon ben Ephraim Kuttower (JE | ) Polish rabbi and cabalist; born at Kuty, Galicia; died at Jerusalem about 1760. He was a follower of Isaac Luria&#39;s system...