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 * 1) Naamah (JE | ) Daughter of Lamech and Zillah and sister of Tubal-cain (Gen. iv. 22). According to Abba b. Kahana, Naamah was Noah&#39;s wife ...
 * 2) Naaman (JE | ) Syrian general whose miraculous recovery from leprosy is told in II Kings v. The name, meaning "pleasantness", is held by ...
 * 3) Isaac Naar (JE | ) &#7716;akam, and, according to de Barrios, physician of the seventeenth century; born at Amsterdam; studied with Moses Zacuto ...
 * 4) Naasites (JE | )—See O83: Ophites
 * 5) Nabal (JE | ) Calebite noble who appears in one of the incidents which marked David&#39;s wanderings (I Sam. xxv.). Nabal was a man of great ...
 * 6) Nabataeans (JE | ) Semitic tribe or group of tribes which overran the ancient Edomite country and established a kingdom which extended from Damascus ...
 * 7) Nablus (JE | )—See S573: Shechem
 * 8) Nabon >> Jonah Nabon JE (JE | ) Turkish family which, from the seventeenth century onward, produced several rabbinical writers. It had several branches, of ...
 * 9) Nabopolassar (JE | )—See N154: Nebuchadnezzar
 * 10) Naboth (JE | ) Jezreelite of the time of Ahab, King of Israel; owner of a small plot of ground near Jezreel (II Kings ix. 21, 25-26) and ...
 * 11) Nadab (JE | ) Eldest son of Aaron and Elisheba; one of the leaders of the children of Israel who went with Moses to Sinai and "saw the God ...
 * 12) Simon Yakovlevich Nadson (JE | ) Russian poet; born at St. Petersburg Dec. 26, 1862; died at Yalta Dec. 31, 1886. His father was a Jew who had entered the ...
 * 13) Nagar (JE | )—See N48: Najara
 * 14) Moses ben Judah Nagari JE (JE | ) Philosophical writer. According to Steinschneider, he lived at Rome about 1300, and his name should be read "Na&#39;ar" ...
 * 15) Nagasaki (JE | ) Commercial seaport in the ken of the same name, Japan. Of its Jewish community most of the members emigrated from Russia ...
 * 16) Benjamin Shalom Nagawkar (JE | ) Beni-Israel soldier; born at Bombay before 1830. He enlisted in the 25th Regiment Bombay Native Light Infantry July 1, 1848 ...
 * 17) Samuel Moses Nagawkar (JE | ) Beni-Israel soldier; born at Bombay about 1810. He enlisted in the 10th Regiment Native Infantry Oct. 1, 1832. He was on foreign ...
 * 18) Abu Husain Joseph ibn Nagdela (Nagrela) << 1066 Granada massacre JE (JE | ) Spanish statesman; born about 1031; died Dec. 30, 1066; son of Samuel ibn Nagdela. A highly educated and clever man, he succeeded ...
 * 19) Samuel ibn Nagdela (JE | )—See S183: Samuel ha-Nagid
 * 20) Nagid (JE | )—See E67: Egypt

21–40

 * 1) Nagy-Kanizsa (JE | ) Hungarian town, in the county of Szalad. The antiquity of its disused cemetery, which dates back to the end of the seventeenth ...
 * 2) Naharaim (JE | )—See A1701: Aram-naharaim
 * 3) Nahash JE (JE | ) King of the Ammonites. At the beginning of Saul&#39;s reign Nahash attacked Jabesh-gilead, and when the people of that place ...
 * 4) Benjamin Nahawendi (JE | )—See B745: Benjamin ben Moses Nahawendi
 * 5) Nahman ben Hayyim ha-Kohen (JE | ) French tosafist; flourished toward the end of the twelfth century. As Gross concludes from "Kol Bo" (ed. Venice, 1562), No ...
 * 6) Nahman bar Isaac (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the fifth generation; died in 356; like Raba, a pupil of R. Nachman b. Jacob. While he was still ...
 * 7) Nahman bar Jacob JE (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the third generation; died 320; pupil of Mar Samuel. He was chief justice of the Jews who were subject ...
 * 8) Nahman b. Samuel ha-Levi (JE | ) Frankist; rabbi of Busk, Galicia; lived in the first part of the eighteenth century. When Mikulski, the administrator of the ...
 * 9) Nahman b. Simhah of Bratzlav (JE | ) Founder of the &#7716;asidic sect known as "Bratzlaver &#7716;asidim"; born at Miedzyboz (Medzhibozh), Podolia, Oct. 9, 1770 ...
 * 10) Samson Hayyim ben Nahman Raphael Nahmani (JE | ) Italian Talmudist; flourished about the latter half of the eighteenth century. He was the pupil of Ephraim Cohen of Ostrog ...
 * 11) Moses Nahmanides (JE | )—See M910: Moses ben Na&#7717;man Gerondi
 * 12) Nahmias (Naamias, Nehmias) (JE | ) One of the most ancient and prominent Jewish families of Toledo. The oldest member known is Joseph Nachmias, son-in-law ...
 * 13) Joseph Nahmoli (JE | ) Talmudist and rabbi of Larissa in the eighteenth century; father-in-law of Isaac ibn Shangi (author of "Be&#39;er Yi&#7827 ...
 * 14) Nahor (JE | ) Son of Serug; father of Terah and, consequently, grandfather of Abraham. He is said to have lived one hundred and forty-eight ...
 * 15) Nahshon JE (JE | ) Son of Amminadab; descendant in the fifth generation from Judah and brother-in-law of Aaron (Ex. vi. 23; I Chron. ii. 4-10) ...
 * 16) Nahshon ben Zadok JE (JE | ) Gaon; head of the Academy of Sura from 874 to 882, in succession to Mar Amram ben Sheshna. He wrote explanations to difficult ...
 * 17) Nahum (JE | ) One of the so-called Minor Prophets. He is called, in the title of his book, "Nahum the Elkoshite". Where Elkosh was is not ...
 * 18) Book of Nahum (JE | ) One of the Minor Prophetical works which centers about the overflow of Nineveh. The dispirited people of Judah are aroused ...
 * 19) Nahum (JE | ) Liturgical poet; lived about 1300, probably in southern Spain. He possessed unusual talent. Some of his poems have been translated ...
 * 20) Nahum Eliezer ben Jacob (JE | ) Rabbi of the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century; born about 1660; diedabout 1746 ...

41–60

 * 1) Nahum of Gimzo JE (JE | ) Tanna of the second generation (first century). In the Talmud (Ta&#39;an. 21a; Yer. Shek. v. 15) he is called "ish gam ...
 * 2) Nahum the Mede (JE | ) Tanna of the first generation (first century); lived in Jerusalem. According to R. Nathan, he was one of the three most renowned ...
 * 3) Menahem Nahum, of Chernobyl (JE | ) &#7716;asidic leader in the last part of the eighteenth century. He was a pupil of Baer of Meseritz, by whom he was sent to ...
 * 4) Nahum ben Simai (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the third century; a son of the tanna Simai. He is cited as "Menahem" in Pes. 104a and in M. K ...
 * 5) Nahum ben Uzziel Kaplan (Reb Nahum Grodner) JE (JE | ) Preacher and philanthropist; born 1811; died at Grodno Oct. 25, 1879. Though he was a great Talmudist, he preferred to hold ...
 * 6) Nail (JE | ) the finger nail. In Hebrew the corresponding word occurs only in the plural, (Deut. xxi. 12), the singular of which denotes ...
 * 7) Naioth (JE | ) Place in which David and Samuel took refuge when the former was pursued by Saul (I Sam. xix. 18 et seq., xx. 1). The meaning ...
 * 8) Najara (Najar, Nijar, Nagar, Nagara) JE >> David Najar JE, Judah ben Jacob Najar JE, Maimun Najar JE, Mordecai Najar JE, Nathan Najar JE, Israel ben Moses Najara JE, Levi Najara JE, Moses Najara I JE, Moses Najara II JE (JE | ) Oriental Jewish family, originally from Najera, a Spanish city of Navarre, on the River Najerilla. In the history of rabbinical ...
 * 9) Najera, Nagera (JE | ) City in Spain, situated between Logro&#241;o and Burgos. In the tenth century it had a prosperous Jewish community. In the ...
 * 10) Nakdanim (JE | ) Punctuators or Masoretic annotators; the successors of the Masorites proper. Their activity consisted in collecting and conserving ...
 * 11) Names (Personal) >> Jewish name JE (JE | ) the conferring of a name upon a person was in early Biblical times generally connected with some circumstance of birth; several ...
 * 12) Names of God (JE | ) Like other Hebrew proper names, the name of God is more than a mere distinguishing title. It represents the Hebrew conception ...
 * 13) Nancy (JE | ) Chief town of the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, and the ancient capital of Lorraine; seat of a consistory whose ...
 * 14) Nantes (JE | ) Chief town of the department of the Loire-Inf&#233;rieure, France. According to Camille Mellinet ("La Commune et la Milice ...
 * 15) Naomi (JE | ) Wife of Elimelech and mother-in-law of Ruth. Naomi accompanied her husband and two sons into the land of Moab; but after the ...
 * 16) Naphtali (JE | ) Second son of Jacob and Bilhah, and younger full brother of Dan. According to Gen. xxx. 8, the name means "my wrestling", ...
 * 17) Tribe of Naphtali JE (JE | ) According to the two enumerations of the Israelites given in the Book of Numbers (i.-iii., xxvi.), the adult males of Naphtali ...
 * 18) Naphtali ben David (JE | ) Hebrew author; born at Witzenhausen, Germany; lived in Amsterdam at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He belonged to ...
 * 19) Naphtali Hirz ben Issachar (JE | )—See W132: Wessely
 * 20) Naphtali Herz ben Jacob Elhanan (JE | ) German cabalist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main in the second half of the sixteenth century. He lived in Palestine and was ...

61–80

 * 1) Naphtali Herz ben Zebi Hirsch Halberstadt (JE | ) Rabbi at Dubno, Russia, in the eighteenth century. Responsa of his in regard to the Cleve divorce case are found in Israel ...
 * 2) Naphtali Hirsch ben Menahem (JE | ) President of the community of Lemberg in the sixteenth century. He was the author of "Perush ha-Millot", explanations of difficult ...
 * 3) Naphtali Hirz ben Jacob Goslar (JE | ) German rabbi and philosopher of the eighteenth century. After acting as dayyan at Halberstadt for some time, he settled at ...
 * 4) Naphtali Hirz Treves (JE | )—See T321: Treves
 * 5) Naphtali b. Isaac ha-Kohen ((dupe of C624)) (JE | ) Polish-German rabbi; born in Ostrov, Poland, 1649; died at Constantinople 1719. His father was rabbi of Ostrov. In 1663 Naphtali ...
 * 6) Naphtali ha-Kohen (JE | )—See C624: Cohen, Naphtali
 * 7) Napoleon Bonaparte (JE | ) Emperor of the French; born in Ajaccio, Corsica, Aug. 15, 1769; died at St. Helena in 1821. Only those incidents in his career ...
 * 8) Alfred Joseph Naquet (JE | ) French chemist and politician; born at Carpentras, Vaucluse, Oct. 6, 1834. After studying in Paris he graduated as M.D. in ...
 * 9) David ben Joseph Narboni (JE | ) Rabbi; lived at Narbonne, France, in the first half of the twelfth century. He was probably the son of Joseph Gaon of Narbonne ...
 * 10) Narbonne (JE | ) Chief town in the department of Aude, France. Jews were settled here as early as the fifth century. They lived on the whole ...
 * 11) Nard (JE | ) A species of Valeriana spica Vahl = Nardostachys Jatamansi de Candolle, growing in eastern Asia. It was well known to the ...
 * 12) Naresh JE (JE | ) City in Babylonia, situated near Sura (Letter of Sherira Gaon, in Neubauer, "M. J. C." i. 32) on a canal (B. M. 93b). It may ...
 * 13) Moses Narol (JE | ) Rabbi of Metz; father of the physician Tobias Cohn; died at Metz in 1659. Narol was rabbi and physician at Narol, Galicia ...
 * 14) Sinai Simon Nascher (JE | ) Hungarian writer; born at Szent Miklos, Liptau, March 16, 1841; died at Baja July 25, 1901. He studied at Baja and Berlin ...
 * 15) Nashim (JE | ) Third order of the Talmud, treating of betrothal, marriage, divorce, and in general of all the relations of woman to man ....
 * 16) Nashville (JE | )—See T138: Tennessee
 * 17) Nasi (JE | ) the president of the Sanhedrin. According to the rabbinical tradition (&#7716;ag. ii. 2; Peah ii. 6), the Sanhedrin was presided ...
 * 18) David Nasi (JE | )—See N80: Nasi, Joseph
 * 19) Nasi Gracia Mendesia (JE | )—See M455: Mendesia, Gracia
 * 20) Joseph Nasi, Duke of Naxos (JE | ) Turkish statesman and financier; born in Portugal at the beginning of the sixteenth century; died at Constantinople Aug. 2 ...

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 * 1) Reyna Nasi (JE | ) Duchess of Naxos; born in Portugal; only daughter of the Marano Francisco Mendes-Nasi and Gracia Mendesia (Beatrice de Luna) ...
 * 2) Moses ibn Nasia (JE | )—See M869: Moses b. Isaac Hanessiah
 * 3) Nassau (JE | ) Formerly a German dukedom; since 1866 it has formed a part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau. In 1865, immediately ...
 * 4) Adolf Ritter von Nassau (JE | ) Austrian journalist; born at Pohrlitz, Moravia, Dec. 25, 1834; educated at Vienna. He became stenographer to the Austrian ...
 * 5) Nassy (JE | )—See M447: Mendes
 * 6) Isaac b. Solomon Nataf (JE | ) Rabbi at Tunis, Africa, at the end of the eighteenth and in the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was the author of ...
 * 7) Natality (JE | ) Proportionate number of births in a population, generally measured by the number per thousand of population. Since the writing ...
 * 8) Ludwik Natanson (JE | ) Polish physician; brother of Henryk Natanson; born 1821; died at Warsaw June 6, 1896. He studied medicine at the universities ...
 * 9) Za&#239;re Martel Nathalie (JE | ) French actress; born at Tournon, Seine-et-Marne, Sept. 3, 1816; died Nov. 17, 1885. She made her d&#233;but at the Folies ...
 * 10) Nathan + (JE | ) Prophet; lived in the reign of David. On three occasions he appears as the king&#39;s successful adviser. In connection with ...
 * 11) Nathan JE (JE | ) Palestinian tanna of the third generation (2d cent.); son of a Babylonian exilarch. For some unknown reason he left Babylonia ...
 * 12) Nathan (JE | ) American family that has been identified with both the general and the Jewish community of New York city since the latter ...
 * 13) Nathan of Avignon (JE | ) Talmudist; lived in the second half of the fourteenth century. He was the author of "Hilkot Shechi&#7789;ah u-Bedi&#7731 ...
 * 14) Barnett Nathan (JE | ) English dramatic and musical entrepreneur; born in 1793; died in London Dec. 6, 1856. Nathan was also a teacher of dancing ...
 * 15) Nathan Benjamin Ashkenazi (JE | )—See G208: Ghazzati, Nathan Benjamin
 * 16) Nathan of Cento JE (JE | )—See M314: Me&#39;ati, Ha-
 * 17) Elias Salomon Nathan (JE | ) German physician and author; born at Eutin about 1806; died at Hamburg July 5, 1862; educated at Kiel (M.D. 1830). He took ...
 * 18) Nathan the Exilarch (JE | )—See N120: Nathan de-Zuzita
 * 19) Nathan Feitel (JE | ) Rabbi at Hotzenplotz and Austerlitz in the seventeenth century. He wrote "&#7716;ok Natan", or "Derushim le-Kol &#7716 ...
 * 20) Nathan b. Hayyim Amram (JE | )—See A1435: Amram, Nathan ben &#7716;ayyim, Hebrew Wikipedia

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 * 1) Isaac Nathan (JE | ) English musician and composer; born at Canterbury, England, in 1792; died at Sydney, N. S. W., Jan. 15, 1864. He was intended ...
 * 2) Nathan b. Isaac Jacob Bonn (JE | ) Rabbi at Mayence, and later at Hamburg, in the middle of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Shikchat Le&#7731 ...
 * 3) Nathan Isaac ben Kalonymus ben Judah (JE | )—See I232: Isaac Nathan ben Kalonymus
 * 4) Nathan ben Isaac ha-Kohen Hababli JE (JE | ) Babylonian historian of the tenth century. He was the author of a history of the exilarchate that gives many interesting details ...
 * 5) Nathan Jedidiah ben Eliezer (JE | ) Italian poet; born at Orvieto in 1607. In 1625, being then at Sienna, he paraphrased in Hebrew terza-rima three "widduyim": ...
 * 6) Nathan ben Jehiel JE (JE | ) Italian lexicographer; born in Rome not later than 1035; died in 1106. He belonged to one of the most notable Roman families ...
 * 7) Nathan ben Joel Falaquera (Palaquera) (JE | ) Spanish physician of the latter half of the thirteenth century; perhaps identical with Nathan of Montpellier, the teacher ...
 * 8) Nathan ben Joseph & (JE | ) French rabbi and controversialist; lived at Sens in the second half of the thirteenth century. He was one of the most famous ...
 * 9) Nathan Judah ben Solomon JE (JE | ) Proven&#231;al physician of the fourteenth century. His Proven&#231;al names were En Bongodas and Bonjues and he was probably ...
 * 10) Nathan b. Labi (b. Judah) (JE | ) German liturgist; lived at the beginning of the fourteenth century. He was the author of a liturgical work entitled "Sefer ...
 * 11) Nathan ben Machir (JE | ) French Talumdist of the eleventh century. He was the brother of the liturgical poet Menahem b. Machir, to whom he gave responsa ...
 * 12) Sir Matthew Nathan (JE | ) English soldier and administrator; born in London Jan. 3, 1862; son of Jonah Nathan. He joined the Royal Engineers on May ...
 * 13) Nathan ben Me& (JE | ) French Talmudist and Biblical commentator; flourished in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He was the paternal grandfather ...
 * 14) Nathan Mordecai (JE | ) French physician; lived at Avignon in the middle of the fifteenth century. He was in correspondence with Joseph Colon, who ...
 * 15) Nathan (Nata) ben Moses (JE | )—See H261: Hannover, Nathan (Nata) ben Moses
 * 16) Moses b. Solomon b. Nathanael Nathan (JE | ) Proven&#231;al liturgist; his period and birthplace are unknown. He was the author of a didactic poem entitled "Toze&#39 ...
 * 17) Nathan Nata of Shklov (JE | )—See N351: Notkin, Nathan
 * 18) Nathan ben Samuel (JE | ) Spanish physician; flourished, as far as is known, at the beginning of the fourteenth century. He is designated in some manuscripts ...
 * 19) Wolf ben Abraham Nathan (JE | ) German Biblical exegete and theologian; born at Dessau July 8, 1751; died there Sept. 6, 1784. He wrote a commentary on the ...
 * 20) The Exilarch Nathan de-Zuzita (JE | ) According to Joseph b. &#7716;ama (Shab. 56b), Nathan de-Zuzita is to be identified with the exilarch &#39;U&#7731 ...

121–140

 * 1) Nathanael of Chinon (JE | ) French tosafist; flourished about 1220. He was a disciple of Isaac ben Samuel of Dampierre. After 1224 Nathanael was director ...
 * 2) Nathanael b. Nehemiah Caspi (JE | )—See C232: Caspi, Nathanael ben Nehemiah
 * 3) Bernhard Nathanson (JE | ) Russian-Hebrew journalist and author; born at Satanow, Podolia, April 15, 1832. He received his early Hebrew education under ...
 * 4) Jacob Nathanson (JE | ) Polish professor of chemistry; born at Warsaw 1832; died there Sept. 14, 1884; educated at the University of Dorpat. In 1862 ...
 * 5) Joseph Saul Nathanson (JE | ) Polish rabbi and author; born at Berzan 1808; died at Lemberg March 4, 1875; son of Aryeh Lebush Nathanson, rabbi at Berzan ...
 * 6) Marcus Nathanson (JE | ) Russian scholar; born at Wilna 1793; died at Telsh, government of Kovno, June 10, 1868. He was the son-in-law of Joshua Zeitels ...
 * 7) Mendel Levin Nathanson (JE | ) Danish merchant, editor, and economist; born in Altona Nov. 20, 1780; died in Copenhagen Oct. 6, 1868. When only eighteen ...
 * 8) National Farm School (JE | ) American institution having for its object the training of Jewish lads in practical and scientific agriculture; situated at ...
 * 9) The Seventy nations and languages (JE | ) the haggadic assumption that there are seventy nations and languages in the world is based upon the ethnological table given ...
 * 10) Natronai II, b. Hilai JE (JE | ) Gaon of the academy at Sura early in the second half of the ninth century; he succeeded Sar Shalom. His father had occupied ...
 * 11) Natronai b. Nehemiah (Mar Yanka) JE (JE | ) Gaon of Pumbedita from 719 to 730; son-in-law of the exilarch &#7716;asdai I. Vain of his family connections and secure in ...
 * 12) Natural History in the Bible (JE | )—See A1539: Animals of the Bible
 * 13) Samuel Naumbourg JE (JE | ) French composer; born at Dennenlohe, Bavaria, March 15, 1817; died at Saint-Mand&#233;, near Paris, May 1, 1880. After having ...
 * 14) Jacob Naumburg (JE | ) Rabbi of Mayence and Offenbach at the end of the eighteenth century. He was the grandson of Jonah Te&#39;omim, the author ...
 * 15) Louis Naumburg (JE | ) Cantor; born in Treuchtlingen, Bavaria, 1813; died in New York city March 4, 1902. He was descended from a family of cantors ...
 * 16) Abram Navarra (JE | ) Rabbi at Casale (Casale-Monferrato) in 1650. Responsa by him are found, in manuscript, in the collections of David Kaufmann ...
 * 17) Navarre (JE | ) Former kingdom in Spain, surrounded by Aragon, Castile, and the Basque Provinces; now comprised in the provinces of Navarre ...
 * 18) Navarro (JE | ) Portuguese family, the following members of which became well known: Judah ben Moses Navarro: Son of Moses Navarro, body-physician ...
 * 19) Navigation (JE | ) That the Israelites, practically, did not engage in navigation is due to the fact that they never held the sea-coast for any ...
 * 20) Nazarenes (JE | ) Sect of primitive Christianity; it appears to have embraced all those Christians who had been born Jews and who neither would ...

141–160

 * 1) Nazareth (JE | ) Town in Galilee, situated in a valley to the north of the plain of Esdraelon. It is about 1,200 feet above the level of the ...
 * 2) Nazarite (JE | ) One who lives apart; one who has made a vow of abstinence; in the former sense used as early as Sifra, Emor, iv. 3; Sifre ...
 * 3) Nazir JE (JE | ) A treatise of the Mishnah and the Tosefta and in both Talmuds, devoted chiefly to a discussion of the laws laid down in Num ...
 * 4) Isaac Nazir (JE | ) One of the earliest cabalists. According to an account which is not altogether trustworthy, he was the real founder of cabalistic ...
 * 5) Jacob b. Meshullam b. Jacob of Lunel Nazir (JE | )—See J85: Jacob Nazir
 * 6) Moses ha-Levi Nazir (JE | )—See M903: Moses ha-Levi ha-Nazir
 * 7) Johann August Wilhelm Neander (JE | ) German Church historian; born at G&#246;ttingen Jan. 17, 1789; died at Berlin July 14, 1850. Prior to his baptism his name ...
 * 8) Neapolis (JE | )—See S573: Shechem
 * 9) Ne& (JE | )—See N14: Nagari, Moses ben Judah
 * 10) Nebelah (JE | ) Biblical expression for the carcass of an animal, and sometimes for a dead human body(I Kings xiii. 24; Isa. xxvi. 19; Ps ...
 * 11) Nebich (Nebbich) << List of English words of Yiddish origin (JE | ) Jud&#230;o-German term carrying the sense of "regret" and "pity". It is used as a noun, an adverb, and most often as an interjection ...
 * 12) Mount Nebo (JE | ) According to Deut. xxxii. 49 and xxxiv. 1-3, it was from this mountain that Moses, just before his death, surveyed the promised ...
 * 13) Nebraska (JE | ) One of the central units of the United States of America; admitted into the Union in 1854. Jews traversed the state on their ...
 * 14) Nebuchadnezzar (JE | ) the son of Nabopolassar; became king of Babylon in 604 B.C. as Assyria was on the decline; died 561.His name, either in this ...
 * 15) Nebushasban (JE | ) the first-named of the four chief officers sent by Nebuzar-adan to take Jeremiah out of the court of the guard (Jer. xxxix ...
 * 16) Nebuzar-adan (JE | ) Captain of Nebuchadnezzar&#39;s body-guard. Nebuzar-adan entered Jerusalem in 586 B.C., burned the Temple, the king&#39;s ...
 * 17) Necho (JE | ) King of Egypt from 610 to 594 B.C.; son of Psam(m)ethik I., of the twenty-sixth Egyptian dynasty. According to Herodotus (ii ...
 * 18) Necromancy (JE | ) Divination by aid of the dead is said to have been common among the Persians (Strabo, xvi. 2, 39, &#957;&#949;&#954;&#965 ...
 * 19) Nedarim (JE | ) A treatise in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and both Talmuds, devoted chiefly to a discussion of the regulations contained in Num ...
 * 20) Het Nederlandsche Israeliet (JE | )—See P199: Periodicals

161–180

 * 1) Nega& (JE | ) A treatise of the order Tohorot in the Mishnah and the Tosefta, which treats of the rules concerning leprosy and the ...
 * 2) Negeb (JE | ) Tract of land in southern Judah, which, though fertile in comparison with the rest of Palestine, is nevertheless regarded ...
 * 3) Neginah (JE | )—See A717: Accents
 * 4) Negligence (JE | )—See F66: Fault
 * 5) Negotiable Instruments (JE | )—See D203: Deed
 * 6) Negropont (JE | )—See G424: Greece
 * 7) Judah Nehama (JE | ) Turkish rabbi; born in Salonica 1825; died there 1899. He was rabbi in his native place; for many years vice-president of ...
 * 8) Nehardea (Nearda) JE (JE | ) City of Babylonia, situated at or near the junction of the Euphrates with the Nahr Malka; one of the earliest centers of Babylonian ...
 * 9) Nehemiah (JE | ) Son of Hachaliah; rebuilder of the walls of Jerusalem. The sole source of information about Nehemiah is the canonical book ...
 * 10) Book of Nehemiah JE (JE | ) A work ascribed to Nehemiah, but bearing in some canons the title Esdras II. or Esdras III., having been attributed to Ezra ...
 * 11) Nehemiah of Beth-horon (JE | ) Amora of the first generation; lived in the third century at Beth-horon, a small town northwest of Jerusalem. In the different ...
 * 12) Nehemiah b. Hashiel (Ammid) (JE | )—See P581: Pseudo-Messiah
 * 13) Nehemiah ha-Kohen (JE | ) Polish cabalist and Shabbethaian preacher; died at Amsterdam shortly after 1690, or, according to another account, in Poland ...
 * 14) Nehemiah ben Kohen Zedek (JE | ) Gaon of Pumbedita from 960 to 968. While his predecessor, Aaron b. Sargado, was still in office, Nehemiah tried to have him ...
 * 15) Nehunya of Beth-horon (JE | )—See N171: Nehemiah of Beth-Horon
 * 16) Nehunya ben ha-Kanah JE (JE | ) Tanna of the first and second centuries. It appears from B. B. 10b that Nechunya was a contemporary, but not a pupil ...
 * 17) Nehushtan (JE | ) Bronze figure of a serpent which was broken in pieces by Hezekiah at the beginningof his reign (II Kings xviii. 4). It was ...
 * 18) Neighboring Landowners (JE | ) the legal maxim "Sic utere tuo ut alienum non l&#230;das" (So use your own that you may not injure another&#39;s [property]) ...
 * 19) Ne& (JE | ) the last of the five services held on the Day of Atonement. The earliest mention of it is in the Mishnah (Ta&#39;an. 26a) ...
 * 20) Julia (Mrs Fred Terry) Neilson (JE | ) English actress; born in London 1868; educated at Wiesbaden, Germany. Returning to London in 1883, she became a student at ...

181–200

 * 1) Albert Neisser (JE | ) German dermatologist; born at Schweidnitz Jan. 22, 1855. His father, Moritz Neisser, was physician and "Geheimer Sanit&#228 ...
 * 2) Nejran (JE | )—See S20: Sabeans
 * 3) Ambrosius Nem& (Neumann) (JE | ) Hungarian deputy; born at Peczel 1852; died in Budapest Dec. 13, 1904; studied law at Vienna and Paris (LL.D., Budapest)....
 * 4) Nemirov (JE | ) Town in the government of Podolia, Russian Poland. Of the period before 1648 it is only known that Nemirov was one of the ...
 * 5) Neo-christian (JE | )—See M169: Marano
 * 6) Neo-hebraic Literature (JE | )—See L467: Literature, Modern Hebrew
 * 7) Neologie; Neologen (JE | )—See M809: Mortara Case
 * 8) Neoplatonism (JE | )—See A1174: Alexandrian Philosophy
 * 9) Nephilim (JE | )—See F24: Fall of Angels
 * 10) Graziadio (Hananeel) Nepi (Neppi) (JE | ) Italian rabbi and physician; born in 1759 at Ferrara; died Jan. 18, 1836, at Cento. He studied at Ferrara for twelve years ...
 * 11) Nergal (JE | ) God of the Babylonian city of Cuthah or Cuth or Kutu. In II Kings xvii. 30 it is said that the men of Cuth, whom Sargon settled ...
 * 12) Nero (JE | ) Roman emperor; born at Antium Dec. 15, 37 C.E.; died near Rome in 68. His original name was Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, but ...
 * 13) Nervous Diseases (JE | ) the Jews are more subject to diseases of the nervous system than the other races and peoples among which they dwell. Hysteria ...
 * 14) Nesek (JE | ) Wine consecrated to use in idolatrous worship and therefore absolutely forbidden to a Jew. In a broader sense "nesek", or ...
 * 15) Nesvizh (JE | ) Small town in the government of Minsk, Russia; it was in existence in the thirteenth century. The census of 1897 gives it ...
 * 16) Nethaneel ben Isaiah JE (JE | ) Yemenite commentator and poet of the fourteenth century; author of a homiletic commentary on the Pentateuch entitled "Nur ...
 * 17) Netherlands >> History of the Jews in the Netherlands JE (JE | ) Country of western Europe, bounded by the North Sea, by Belgium, and by the Prussian provinces of Hanover and Westphalia, ...
 * 18) Nethinim (JE | ) Temple officials. They are first heard of as returning from Babylon to Palestine, after the Exile, in two batches, one numbering ...
 * 19) Charles Netter (JE | ) French philanthropist; born at Strasburg in 1828; died at Jaffa, Palestine, Oct. 2, 1882. He studied at Strasburg and Belfort ...
 * 20) Eugene Netter (JE | ) Roman Catholic archbishop at Manila; born 1840 at Bergheim, near Colmar, in Alsace. At the age of fourteen he and his brother ...

201–220

 * 1) Justin Arnold Netter (JE | ) French physician; born at Strasburg Sept. 20, 1855. He studied in the hospitals of Paris between 1876 and 1884 ("externe", ...
 * 2) Neu-orthodoxie (Neo-orthodoxy) (JE | )—See R169: Reform
 * 3) Adolf Neubauer JE (JE | ) Sublibrarian at the Bodleian Library and reader in Rabbinic Hebrew at Oxford University; born at Bittse, Hungary, March 11 ...
 * 4) Joseph Neuberg (JE | ) English litterateur; secretary to Thomas Carlyle; born at W&#252;rzburg, Bavaria, May 21, 1806; died in London March 23, 1867 ...
 * 5) Ferdinand Neuburger (JE | ) German dramatist; born at D&#252;sseldorf Aug. 28, 1839; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Oct. 27, 1895. He began life as a tutor ...
 * 6) Max Neuburger (JE | ) Austrian physician; born Dec. 8, 1868, at Vienna, at whose university he studied medicine (M.D. 1893). After three years of ...
 * 7) Abraham Neuda JE (JE | ) Austrian rabbi; born at Loschitz, Moravia, in 1812; died there Feb. 22, 1854. He was the son of R. Aaron Neuda of Loschitz ...
 * 8) Neue Israelitische Zeitung (JE | )—See P199: Periodicals
 * 9) Das Neue Zion (JE | )—See P199: Periodicals
 * 10) Daniel Neufeld (JE | ) Polish writer; born at Praszka, government of Kalisz, 1814; died at Warsaw in 1874. His activity was confined to his birth-place ...
 * 11) Ladislaus Neugebauer (JE | ) Hungarian writer; born at Budapest Feb. 22, 1845. After studying at Budapest and Vienna he entered the service of the Austro-Hungarian ...
 * 12) Neuilly-sur-Seine (JE | ) Town of France, and suburb of Paris. It has a population of 32,730. Its Jewish community, which now (1904) comprises about ...
 * 13) Abraham Neumann (JE | ) Russian rabbi; born at Gerolzhofen, near W&#252;rzburg, 1809; died at St. Petersburg Aug. 22, 1875. In 1822 he studied Talmud ...
 * 14) Angelo Neumann (JE | ) Austrian theatrical director; born at Vienna Aug. 18, 1838. Neumann went upon the stage in 1859, as a barytone, appearing ...
 * 15) Armin Neumann (JE | ) Hungarian deputy; born at Grosswardein Feb. 14, 1845. After having prepared for the rabbinical career at the Jewish theological ...
 * 16) Carl Friedrich Neumann (JE | ) German Orientalist and historian; born at Reichmansdorf, near Bamberg, Dec. 22, 1798; died in Berlin March 17, 1870. His parents ...
 * 17) Eleonora Neumann (JE | ) German violinist; born at Lissa in 1819; died at Triest in Jan., 1841. She received her musical education at Warsaw, where ...
 * 18) Isidor Neumann (JE | ) Austrian dermatologist; born at Misslitz, Moravia, March 2, 1832; educated at Vienna University (M.D. 1858). He became privat-docent ...
 * 19) Moses Samuel Neumann (JE | ) Hungarian poet; born at Ban, Hungary, in 1769; died at Budapest Nov. 29, 1831; son of a poor cantor who died prematurely ....
 * 20) Salomon Neumann (JE | ) German physician and statistician; born at Pyritz, Pomerania, Oct.22, 1819; studied medicine at Berlin and Halle (M.D. 1842) ...

221–240

 * 1) Wilhelm Heinrich Neumann (JE | )—See L539: Lonzano, Abraham ben Raphael de
 * 2) Naphtali Herz Neumanovitz (JE | ) Russian author; born at Jozefow, government of Lublin, Feb. 12, 1843; died at Warsaw, March 11, 1898. He was descended from ...
 * 3) Mirels (Meshullam Zalman ben Jacob David) Neumark (JE | ) German Talmudist; father of Zebi Ashkenazi; died at Hamburg Nov. 28, 1706. Meshullam Zalman was one of the most respected ...
 * 4) Leopold Neumegen (JE | ) English school-master; born in Posen in 1787; died at Kew, near London, April, 1875. He first taught in G&#246;ttingen, and ...
 * 5) Wilhelm Neurath (JE | ) Austrian economist; born at St. Georgen May 31, 1840. After winning his doctor&#39;s degree he became privat-docent at the ...
 * 6) Neuss (JE | ) City of Rhenish Prussia. Its Jewish community, which dates back to the eleventh century, is known for the series of persecutions ...
 * 7) Phinehas Neustadt (JE | ) German rabbi and author; born at Borek, province of Posen, Prussia, Sept. 23, 1823; died at Breslau Feb. 24, 1902. Neustadt ...
 * 8) Neustadt-Schirwindt (Wladyslavow) (JE | ) District town in the government of Suwalki, Russian Poland; built in 1643 under Ladislaus (Wladyslaw) IV., King of Poland ...
 * 9) Louis Neust& (JE | ) German portrait- and genre-painter; born in Munich Sept. 5, 1829; died in Tutzing, on the Starnbergersee, May 24, 1899. Neust&#228 ...
 * 10) Neutitschein (JE | ) City in the province of Moravia, Austria. It had a Jewish congregation in the Middle Ages, which was expelled Aug. 30, 1563 ...
 * 11) Elias Neuwiedel (JE | ) Russian grammarian; born at Neustadt-Sugind (Alexandrowo) 1821; died at Warsaw Sept. 16, 1886. He studied Talmud at the yeshibah ...
 * 12) Die Neuzeit (JE | )—See P199: Periodicals
 * 13) L& (JE | ) Russian writer; born in Letichev, Volhynia, in the second half of the eighteenth century; died in St. Petersburg Aug. 1 (13) ...
 * 14) Nevers (JE | ) Chief city of the department of the Ni&#232;vre, France, with a population of 27,108 (1904). In the twelfth century Jews were ...
 * 15) New Era Illustrated Magazine (JE | ) A monthly publication founded in Boston, Mass., as the New Era Jewish Magazine, by Raphael Lasker, in June, 1902. Its title ...
 * 16) New Hampshire (JE | ) One of the New England states of the United States of America, and one of the thirteen original states. Record is found as ...
 * 17) New Haven (JE | )—See C729: Connecticut
 * 18) New Jersey (JE | ) One of the North Atlantic states and one of the thirteen original states of the United States of America. It contains the ...
 * 19) New Mexico (JE | ) A territory in the western division of the United States; acquired after the war with Mexico by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ...
 * 20) New Moon (JE | ) the period of New Moon was, in pre-exilic times, celebrated by cessation of labor; it was superior even to the Sabbath-day ...

241–260

 * 1) Blessing of the New Moon (JE | ) the periodical reappearance of the moon, like the reappearance of everything that is a benefit to mankind, such as fruits ...
 * 2) New Nineveh (JE | )—See M959: Mosul
 * 3) New Orleans (JE | ) Largest city in the state of Louisiana, which passed into the possession of the United States in 1803. Among its earliest ...
 * 4) New South Wales (JE | )—See A2151: Australia
 * 5) New Testament (JE | ) the name of "New Testament" was given by the Christian Church, at the close of the second century, to the gospels and to other ...
 * 6) New-year (JE | ) in the earliest times the Hebrew year began in autumn with the opening of the economic year. There followed in regular succession ...
 * 7) New-year for trees (JE | ) the anniversary of the festival of trees, which occurs on the 15th of Sheba&#7789; (roughly corresponding to Feb. 1), is known ...
 * 8) New York (JE | ) Chief commercial city of the state of New York and the largest city of the United States; contains a larger Jewish population ...
 * 9) New York (JE | ) Most populous state of the American Union, with an estimated Jewish population of 750,000. The history of the Jews of the ...
 * 10) New Zealand >> History of the Jews in New Zealand (JE | ) A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, consisting of two large islands (North Island and South Island), a small island ...
 * 11) Newark (JE | ) Largest city of the state of New Jersey, U. S. A. Its first Jewish congregation was founded Aug. 20, 1848, under the name ...
 * 12) Joseph E Newburger (JE | ) American jurist; born in New York city 1853; educated in the public schools and at Columbia College (School of Law), New York ...
 * 13) Newcastle-upon-Tyne (JE | ) English seaport; center of the English coal-trade. It has a population of 214,803, including about 500 Jewish families. Jews ...
 * 14) Alfred Alvarez Newman (JE | ) English metal-worker and art-collector; born in London 1851; died there 1887. He revived the blacksmith&#39;s art in its medieval ...
 * 15) Leopold Newman (JE | ) American soldier. He entered in the Civil war as captain of Company B, 31st New York Infantry, and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel ...
 * 16) Selig Newman (JE | ) German Hebraist; born at Posen, Prussian Poland, in 1788; died at Williamsburg, N. Y., Feb. 20, 1871. He was educated at Posen ...
 * 17) Newport (JE | ) One of the capitals of the state of Rhode Island, U. S. A. Before the American Revolution, Newport excelled New York as a ...
 * 18) Jewish Newspapers (JE | )—See P199: Periodicals
 * 19) Next of Kin (JE | )—See A900: Agnates
 * 20) Sefer ha-Neyar (JE | ) Anonymous compendium of laws; compiled during the first third of the fourteenth century, after 1319, probably by a Proven&#231 ...

261–280

 * 1) Alfred Neymarck (JE | ) French economist and statistician; born at Ch&#226;lons-sur-Marne Jan. 3, 1848. He was editor of the "Revue Contemporaine" ...
 * 2) Nezhin (Nyezhin) (JE | ) Russian town, in the government of Chernigov; one of the centers of the tobacco-trade. In 1648 Nezhin was taken by the Cossacks ...
 * 3) Nezikin (JE | ) Order of the Mishnah and the Tosefta, in both the Babylonian and the Jerusalem Talmud. The name "Nezikin", which occurs ...
 * 4) Nibhaz (JE | ) One of the deities worshiped by the Avites(II Kings xvii. 31), who had been imported into the country about Samaria after ...
 * 5) Nicanor (JE | ) Son of Patroclus, and general and friend of Antiochus Epiphanes, who in 165 B.C. sent him and Gorgias with an army against ...
 * 6) Nicanor& (JE | )—See J242: Jerusalem
 * 7) Nicaragua (JE | )—See S990: South and Central America
 * 8) Nice (JE | ) City of southern France. Jews settled there in the fourth century, and, as in the other Gallic cities along the coast of the ...
 * 9) Nicholas I, Nicholas II (JE | )—See R479: Russia
 * 10) Nicholas III, Nicholas IV, Nicholas V (JE | )—See P438: Popes
 * 11) Nicholas of Damascus (Nicolaus Damascenus) (JE | ) Greek historian and philosopher; friend of King Herod the Great; born at Damascus, where his father, Antipater, filled high ...
 * 12) Nicodemus (JE | ) Prominent member of the Sanhedrin, and a man of wealth; lived in Jerusalem in the first century C.E. He is mentioned in John ...
 * 13) Nicodemus (Nakdimon) ben Gorion (JE | ) Lived at Jerusalem in the first century C.E.; the wealthiest and most respected member of the peace party during the revolution ...
 * 14) Nicolaus de Cusa (JE | )—See C937: Cusa, Nicolaus de.
 * 15) Nicopolis (JE | ) City of Bulgaria, situated on the right bank of the Danube, 160 kilometers southeast of Widdin. The settlement of Jews in ...
 * 16) Niddah (JE | ) A treatise in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and both Talmuds. In the Mishnah it stands seventh in the order Tohorot, but in ...
 * 17) Niddin (JE | )—See E544: Excommunication
 * 18) Niebla (JE | ) One of the oldest towns of Spain, situated 12 miles west of Seville and to the east of Huelva. It was one of the earliest ...
 * 19) Abraham ben Ephraim Niederl& (JE | ) Austrian mathematician of the sixteenth century; scribe of R. Judah L&#246;w ben Bezaleel (MaHaRaL) of Prague. He was the ...
 * 20) Ahasverus Samuel van Nierop (JE | ) Dutch jurist; born at Hoorn Jan. 24, 1813; died at Amsterdam May 15, 1878. He studied law at the Amsterdam Athen&#230;um, ...

281–300

 * 1) Frederik Salomon van Nierop (JE | ) Dutch economist; born at Amsterdam March 6, 1844. He took his degree as doctor of law at Leyden in 1866, established himself ...
 * 2) David Nieto JE (JE | ) Haham of the Sephardic community in London; born at Venice 1654; died in London Jan. 10, 1728. He first practised as a physician ...
 * 3) Isaac Nieto JE (JE | ) Haham of the Portuguese congregation Sha&#39;are Shamaim, Bevis Marks, London; born 1702; died at London 1774; son of David ...
 * 4) Nieuwe Israelietisches Weekblad (JE | )—See P199: Periodicals
 * 5) Niggun (JE | ) A Neo-Hebraic noun formed from the "pi&#39;el" of the verb = "to play strings", "make music"; hence meaning generally "tune ...
 * 6) Night (JE | ) the period between sunset and sunrise (see Calendar; Day). The older Biblical term for the whole day was "yom wa-lailah" or ...
 * 7) Moses Nigrin (Negrin) (JE | ) Cabalist; lived in Safed early in the sixteenth century; a contemporary of Moses di Trani. He is chiefly known as a commentator ...
 * 8) Simon (Solomon) Nigrin (Negrin) (JE | ) Author; lived in Jerusalem in the early part of the seventeenth century; a grandnephew of Moses Nigrin. He is the supposed ...
 * 9) Nijni-Novgorod (Nizhni-Novgorod) (JE | ) Russian city; capital of the government of the same name; famed for its fairs, which are held annually. It is without the ...
 * 10) Nikkur (JE | )—See P453: Porging
 * 11) Nikolaief (Nikolayev) (JE | ) Russian Black Sea port and naval station, in the government of Kherson; founded in 1784; now an important commercial center ...
 * 12) Nikolsburg (JE | ) Town in southern Moravia. The settlement of the Jews in Nikolsburg dates probably from 1420, when, after the expulsion from ...
 * 13) Nile (JE | ) the great river of Egypt; frequently referred to in the Bible. The Authorized Version everywhere renders the word employed ...
 * 14) N& (JE | ) Chief town of the department of Gard, France. Jews were settled here in very remote times. Hilderic, Count of N&#238;mes, ...
 * 15) Nimrod (JE | ) Son of Cush and grandson of Ham; his name has become proverbial as that of a mighty hunter. His "kingdom" comprised Babel ...
 * 16) Nineveh (JE | ) City of Assyria. The form of its name is derived from the Masoretic text. It answers as nearly as possible to the native Assyrian ...
 * 17) Ning-po (JE | )—See C461: China
 * 18) Nippur (JE | ) Ancient name of a great city in central Babylonia whose ruined site is now known as Nuffar (Niffer), which is the same word ...
 * 19) Nisan (JE | ) First ecclesiastical and seventh civil month (Neh. ii. 1; Esth. iii. 7). In the earlier Biblical books it is designated "&#7716 ...
 * 20) Nish (Nissa) (JE | ) City of Servia on the Nissava. Its Jewish community dates from the beginning of the eighteenth century, as is shown by a question ...

301–320

 * 1) Nishmat (JE | ) Literally, "the soul of". A part of the liturgy which on Sabbaths and festivals leads up to the short benediction ("yishtabba&#7717 ...
 * 2) Nisibis (JE | ) City in northeastern Mesopotamia, in the ancient province of Migdonia. The Biblical Accad (Gen. x. 10) is rendered "Ne&#7827 ...
 * 3) Henriette Nissen (Nissen-Saloman) (JE | ) Swedish singer; born in G&#246;teborg March 12, 1819; died in Harzburg Aug. 27, 1879. She studied pianoforte under Chopin ...
 * 4) Nissi ben Noah (JE | ) Karaite scholar; lived at Bassora, later at Jerusalem, in the eighth century. He is believed to have been the son of abu Nissi ...
 * 5) Don Nissim Benveniste (JE | ) Spanish scholar of the fifteenth century. His halakic consultations with Isaac Aboab were published, under the title "She&#39 ...
 * 6) Hayyim b. Elijah Nissim (JE | ) Turkish rabbi; probably lived in the second half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Maza &#7716;ayyim ...
 * 7) Nissim ben Jacob ben Nissim ibn Shahin (JE | ) African Talmud exegete and moralist; lived during the first half of the eleventh century in Kairwan. He received his early ...
 * 8) Nissim ben Moses of Marseilles (JE | ) Philosopher of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. He was the author of a philosophical commentary on the Pentateuch ...
 * 9) Nissim b. Reuben Gerondi (JE | ) Physician, astronomer, and halakist; flourished at Barcelona about 1340 to 1380. He had much to suffer at the hands of certain ...
 * 10) Nissim (The Elder) ibn Shahin (JE | )—See J86: Jacob ben Nissim ibn Shahin
 * 11) Niter (JE | ) the niter of the ancients was a mineral alkaline salt, carbonate of soda, found in great quantities in Egypt. Natron Lake ...
 * 12) Nittai of Arbela JE (JE | ) Vice-president of the Sanhedrin under the nasi Joshua b. Perachyah at the time of John Hyrcanus. In Yer. &#7716;ag. ii ...
 * 13) Nittel (JE | ) Jud&#230;o-German word for "Christmas"; derived from the medieval Latin "Natale Domini" (see Wetzer and Welte, "Kirchenlexikon ...
 * 14) Solomon ben Isaiah ben Eliezer Hayyim Nizza (JE | ) Rabbi of Venice in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; equally prominent as sage, Talmudist, and liturgical poet. His ...
 * 15) Nizzahon (JE | )—See M981: Lipmann-M&#252;hlhausen
 * 16) No-amon (JE | ) Name designating the city of Thebes, in Egypt, and equivalent to "No, the city of the god Amon"; found in Nah. iii. 8 (comp ...
 * 17) Noachian Laws (JE | )—See L113: Laws, Noachian
 * 18) Noah >> Noah in rabbinic literature JE (JE | ) Son of Lamech and the ninth in descent from Adam. In the midst of abounding corruption he alone was "righteous and blameless ...
 * 19) Hayyim Hirsch Noah (JE | )—See B861: Berlin, Noah &#7716;ayyim &#7826;ebi Hirsch b. Abraham Me&#239;r
 * 20) Mordecai Manuel Noah (JE | ) American politician, journalist, playwright, and philanthropist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 19, 1785; died in New York ...

321–340

 * 1) Noah b. Pesah (JE | ) Acting rabbi in Pinsk; died there in 1638. He wrote a commentary on Bereshit Rabbah under the title of "Toledot Noa&#7717 ...
 * 2) Nob (JE | ) City or village of priests where David received holy bread when in pressing need of food at the beginning of his persecution ...
 * 3) Nobah (JE | ) Apparently, a Manassite warrior who, during the conquest of the territory east of the Jordan, made himself master of Kenath ...
 * 4) Luis Noble (JE | )—See D501: Duarte, Luis
 * 5) Nogah ha-Yareah (JE | )—See P199: Periodicals
 * 6) Elijah ben Joseph di Nola (JE | ) Italian physician and rabbi of the sixteenth century. In 1563 he was living in Rome, where he occupied the position of rabbi ...
 * 7) Menahem Nola (John Paul Eusthatius) (JE | ) Italian convert to Christianity; born about 1540; died at Rome about 1602. Nothing is known of Nola&#39;s life before his ...
 * 8) Theodor N& (JE | ) German Orientalist; born March 2, 1836, at Harburg. He studied Oriental languages at G&#246;ttingen, Vienna, Leyden, and Berlin ...
 * 9) Nomism (JE | ) That religious tendency which aims at the control of both social and individual life by legalism, making the law the supreme ...
 * 10) Nones (JE | ) American family, tracing its descent from Benjamin Nones of Philadelphia, who lived at the end of the eighteenth century ....
 * 11) Noph (JE | ) City of ancient Egypt, mentioned in Isa. xix. 13, Jer. ii. 16, xliv. 1, xlvi. 14, and Ezek. xxx. 13, 16. All the ancient versions ...
 * 12) Max (Simon) Nordau (JE | ) Austrian litterateur and philosopher; born in Budapest July 29, 1849.His parents were very poor. His father, Gabriel S&#252 ...
 * 13) Joshua D Norden (JE | ) English soldier and adventurer; died at Graham&#39;s Town, Cape Colony, April 26, 1846. He was field commandant in the Kaffir ...
 * 14) Nordhausen (JE | ) Prussian manufacturing town, in the province of Saxony. The earliest mention of Jews at Nordhausen occurs in a document signed ...
 * 15) Isaac Nordheimer (JE | ) American Orientalist; born 1809 at Memelsdorf, near Erlangen, in Bavaria; died 1842. A very promising Talmudic student, he ...
 * 16) N& (JE | ) City in the district of Swabia, Bavaria; till 1803 a free city of the German empire. Like Augsburg, Nuremberg, W&#252;rzburg ...
 * 17) Friedrich N Nork (JE | )—See K368: Korn, Selig
 * 18) Normandy (JE | )—See F288: France
 * 19) North Carolina (JE | ) One of the South Atlantic states of the American Union, and one of the thirteen original states. In 1826 Isaac Harby estimated ...
 * 20) Northampton (JE | ) Capital of Northamptonshire, England. Jews were living there as early as 1180, when it is recorded that Samuel of Northampton ...

341–360

 * 1) Northeim (JE | ) Town in the province of Hanover, Prussia. It has a population of 6,695, of whom over 100 are Jews. Jews lived there as early ...
 * 2) Norway (JE | ) Northwestern division of the Scandinavian peninsula. It has a total population of 2,240,032. The census of 1897 counted over ...
 * 3) Norwich (JE | ) Capital town of the county of Norfolk, England. After London, Oxford, and Cambridge, it is the earliest English town mentioned ...
 * 4) Norzi (JE | ) Italian family, many members of which were distinguished as scholars and rabbis. Probably the family name is derived from ...
 * 5) Nose (JE | ) Anthropologists who consider the nose an important racial index (Topinard, Bertillon, Deniker, and others) in their classifications ...
 * 6) Nose-ring (JE | ) the Hebrew word (plural) is used for both earrings and nose-rings, but where the latter is referred to the word is added ...
 * 7) Alfred Nossig (JE | ) Austrian author and sculptor; born at Lemberg, Galicia, April 18, 1864. He studied law, philosophy, and natural science at ...
 * 8) Notaries and Scribes (JE | )—See S886: Soferim
 * 9) Notarikon (JE | ) A system of shorthand consisting in either simply abbreviating the words or in writing only one letter of each word. This ...
 * 10) Nothhandel (JE | ) Technical term used in the laws referring to the petty trading of the Jews, which laws aimed to exclude the Jews from such ...
 * 11) Nathan Notkin (Note) (JE | ) Russian army-contractor and financier; born at Shklov about the middle of the eighteenth century; died at St. Petersburg 1804 ...
 * 12) Osip Konstantinovich Notovich (JE | ) Russian journalist; born in 1849 at Kertch, where his father was rabbi. Notovich studied law at the University of St. Petersburg ...
 * 13) Menahem Noveira (JE | ) Italian rabbi of Verona and poet of the eighteenth century. He was a grandson of Hezekiah Mordecai Basan. His three responsa ...
 * 14) Novgorod (JE | ) One of the oldest of Russian cities, on the River Volkhoff; it has been in existence since the ninth century. In the first ...
 * 15) Novgorod-Syeversk (JE | ) Russian town in the government of Chernigov. The town dates its origin as far back as the eleventh century. Jews lived there ...
 * 16) Novgorod-Volhynsk (JE | ) Russian town in the government of Volhynia. It has a total population of 16,873, of whom about 9,000 are Jews (1897). The ...
 * 17) Novoaleksandrovsk (JE | ) Russian city in the government of Kovno. It has (1897) a total population of 6,370, of whom 4,277 are Jews. Among the latter ...
 * 18) Novogrudok (JE | ) Russian town in the government of Minsk. The first mention of Jews in connection with Novogrudok dates back to 1484, when ...
 * 19) Novokonstantinov ((Novyy Konstantinov/Novokostiantyniv, Ukraine 49.48333°N, 27.73333°W)) (JE | ) Russian town in the government of Podolia; it has a population of2,855, including 1,825 Jews. There are 245 Jewish artisans ...
 * 20) Novomoskovsk (JE | ) Russian city in the government of Yekaterinoslav; it has a total population of 12,862, including 1,147 Jews. Among the latter ...

361–380

 * 1) Novy-Dvor (JE | ) Village in the district of Grodno. In the sixteenth century Novy-Dvor had a well-organized Jewish community, some of whose ...
 * 2) Novy Israel (JE | ) Name of a Jewish reformed religious party or sect, with tendencies toward Christianity, which arose in Odessa at the end of ...
 * 3) Nuisance (JE | )—See N178: Neighboring Landowners
 * 4) Book of Numbers (JE | ) Fourth book of the Pentateuch. In the Septuagint version it bears the title &#39;&#913;&#961;&#953;&#920;&#956;&#959; in the ...
 * 5) Numbers Rabbah JE (JE | )—See B617: Bemidbar Rabbah
 * 6) Numbers and Numerals (JE | ) the letters of the alphabet were used as numerical symbols as early as the Maccabean period (comp. Numismatics). Whether such ...
 * 7) Numenius (JE | ) Son of Antiochus. Together with Antipater, son of Jason, he was sent to Sparta and Rome, first by Jonathan Maccabeus (I Macc ...
 * 8) Numismatics (JE | ) the study of Jewish coinage, strictly speaking, begins with the Maccabean period. Some information, however, concerning the ...
 * 9) Nun (JE | ) Fourteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The name signifies "fish", and perhaps indicates the original shape of the letter ...
 * 10) Henrique (Enrique) Nunes (JE | ) Jud&#230;o-Portuguese convert to Christianity; born in Borba, Portugal; died July, 1524. After being baptized in Castile, ...
 * 11) Robert Nunes (JE | ) Jamaican magistrate; born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Dec. 12, 1820; died at Falmouth, Jamaica, Jan. 31, 1889. Originally destined ...
 * 12) Manuela Nunes da Almeyda (JE | ) Spanish poetess; born in London; mother of Mordecai Nunes Almeyda, the patron of the Spanish poet Daniel Israel Lopez Laguna ...
 * 13) David Nu& (JE | ) &#7716;akam and editor; born probably at Amsterdam; died in 1728 at the Hague. He was preacher of the societies Abi Yetomim ...
 * 14) Nu& (JE | ) Marano family, of which the following members are known: Beatriz Nu&#241;ez: Burned, at the age of sixty, at the auto da ...
 * 15) Maria Nu& (JE | ) Daughter of the Portuguese Marano Gaspar Lopez Homem and Mayor Rodriguez; lived in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ...
 * 16) Samuel Nu& (Ribiero) (JE | ) Marano physician of the eighteenth century; born in Lisbon. He belonged to a distinguished family in that city, and was a ...
 * 17) Isaac Joseph Nu& (JE | ) Rabbi at Leghorn, Italy; died before 1788. A follower of the Cabala, he was highly respected by his contemporaries for his ...
 * 18) Jacob Nu& (JE | ) Editor and rabbi of Leghorn, Italy; died there about 1815; son of Isaac Joseph Nu&#241;ez-Vaes, and pupil of Isaac Nu&#241 ...
 * 19) Nuremberg (JE | ) Most important commercial city of Bavaria. According to Wagenseil ("De Civitate Norimburgi&#230;", p. 71), Jews were living ...
 * 20) Hilarius Nusbaum (JE | ) Polish historian and communal worker; born in Warsaw 1820; died there 1895. He was educated in the Warsaw rabbinical seminary ...

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 * 1) Myer Nussbaum (JE | ) American lawyer; born in Albany, N. Y.; son of Simon and Clara Nussbaum, who went to America from Neustadt-on-the-Saale, Bavaria ...
 * 2) Nut (JE | ) the rendering in the English versions of the two Hebrew words "egoz" and "bo&#7789;nim". 1. "Egoz." This is mentioned once ...
 * 3) Alexander Ny& (JE | ) Hungarian art critic; born Aug. 28, 1861, at Zala-Egersczeg; educated at Vienna under Hansen, receiving his diploma as architect ...
 * 4) Nyons (JE | ) Town in the ancient province of Dauphin&#233;, France. A Jewish community must have existed there before the fourteenth century ...