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 * 1) Saadia JE (JE | ) Biblical commentator, whose native country and epoch can not be precisely determined. Rapoport (in "Bikkure ha-&#39;Ittim...
 * 2) Saadia ben Abraham Longo (JE | ) -- See L538: Longo, Saadia ben Abraham
 * 3) Saadia (Sa&#39;id) b. David al-Adeni (JE | ) A man of culture living at Damascus and Safed between 1473 and 1485. He was the author of a commentary on some parts of Maimonides&#39...
 * 4) Saadia b. Joseph (Sa&) (JE | ) Gaon of Sura and the founder of scientific activity in Judaism; born in Dilaz, Upper Egypt, 892; died at Sura 942. The...
 * 5) Saadia b. Joseph Bekor Shor (JE | ) -- See B558: Bekor Shor, Saadia
 * 6) Saadia ben Maimon ibn Danan (JE | ) -- See I9: Ibn Danan
 * 7) Saadia ben Nahmani (JE | ) Liturgical poet and perhaps also Biblical commentator; lived in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. He was the author of a...
 * 8) Joseph Lewin Saalsch& (JE | ) German rabbi and archeologist; born March 15, 1801, at K&#246;nigsberg, East Prussia; died there Aug. 23, 1863. Having received...
 * 9) Louis Saalsch& (JE | ) German mathematician; born at K&#246;nigsberg, Prussia, Dec. 1, 1835; son of Joseph Levin Saalsch&#252;tz. From 1854 to 1860...
 * 10) Saba (JE | ) A word derived from the root, "to be white, old"; used in the Talmud with various meanings:(a) It designates an old man or...
 * 11) Saba (JE | ) -- See S565: Sheba
 * 12) Abraham Saba (JE | ) -- See A559: Abraham Saba
 * 13) Sabbath (JE | ) the seventh day of the week; the day of rest.&#8212;Biblical Data: On the completion of His creative work God blessed and...
 * 14) Sabbath Leaves (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 15) Sabbath Lights (JE | ) -- See L34: Lamp, Sabbath
 * 16) Sabbath-schools (JE | ) Among the Jews the Sabbath-school or congregational religious school is a product of the nineteenth century. True, in past...
 * 17) Sabbath and Sunday (JE | ) A brief consideration is desirable as to why and when the keeping of the seventh day as the Sabbath ceased among Christian...
 * 18) Sabbatical Year and Jubilee (JE | ) the septennate or seventh year, during which the land is to lie fallow, and the celebration of the fiftieth year after seven...
 * 19) Sabbionetta (JE | ) from 1551 to 1559 the printer Tobias ben Eliezer Foa produced several Hebrew works beginning with Joseph Shali&#7789;&#39...
 * 20) Sabeans (JE | ) the inhabitants of the ancient kingdom of Sheba in southeastern Arabia, known from the Bible, classical writers, and native...

21 – 40

 * 1) Sabina Poppaea (JE | ) -- See P439: Popp&#230;a Sabina
 * 2) Sabinus DAB (JE | ) Roman procurator; treasurer of Augustus. After Varus had returned to Antioch, between Easter and Pentecost of the year 4 B...
 * 3) Sabora (JE | ) Title applied to the principals and scholars of the Babylonian academies in the period immediately following that of the Amoraim...
 * 4) Hirsch Leib Sabsovich (JE | ) Mayor of Woodbine, N. J.; born at Berdyansk, Russia, Feb. 25, 1860. After his graduation from the classical gymnasium of his...
 * 5) Donato Sacerdote JE (JE | ) Italian poet; born at Fossano 1820; died there Nov. 27, 1883. Passionately devoted to the classics, Donato from his early...
 * 6) Bernhard Sachs (JE | ) American physician; born at Baltimore Jan. 2, 1858; educated at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., and at the universities...
 * 7) Johann Jacob (Joseph Isidor) Sachs (JE | ) German physician; born at M&#228;rkisch Friedland July 26, 1803; died at Nordhausen Jan. 11, 1846. Educated at the University...
 * 8) Julius Sachs (JE | ) American educator; born at Baltimore July 6, 1849; educated at Columbia University and Rostock (Ph.D. 1867). He founded the...
 * 9) Michael Jehiel Sachs (JE | ) German rabbi; born at Glogau Sept. 3, 1808; died in Berlin Jan. 31, 1864. He was educated in the University of Berlin, taking...
 * 10) Senior Sachs JE (JE | ) Russo-French Hebrew scholar; born at Kaidany, government of Kovno, June 17, 1816; died at Paris Nov. 18, 1892. When Senior...
 * 11) Wilhelm Sachs (JE | ) German dental surgeon; born at Wesenberg, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Sept. 22, 1849. He received his education at the University...
 * 12) Sackcloth (JE | ) Term originally denoting a coarsely woven fabric, usually made of goat&#39;s hair. It afterward came to mean also a garment...
 * 13) Abraham ben Joseph Sackheim (JE | ) Lithuanian scholar and Talmudist; died at Wilna June 26, 1872. He was well versed in rabbinics, as may be seen from his "Yad...
 * 14) Tobiah b. Aryeh L& (JE | ) Russian Talmudist and communal worker; died in Rosinoi, government of Grodno, at an advanced age, Jan. 28, 1822. He was a...
 * 15) Sacrifice (JE | ) the act of offering to a deity for the purpose of doing homage, winning favor, or securing pardon; that which is offered or...
 * 16) Sacrilege (JE | ) the act of profaning or violating sacred things. The prohibition of sacrilege was primarily in connection with the sanctuary...
 * 17) Moses b. Mordecai Sacuto (Zakuto) (JE | ) -- See Z8: Zacuto, Moses b. Mordecai
 * 18) Sa& JE (JE | ) Jewish physician and statesman; grand vizier from 1289 to 1291 under the Mongolian ruler in Persia, Argun Khan; assassinated...
 * 19) Shadakah ben abu al-Faraj Munajja (JE | ) Samaritan physician and philosopher; died near Damascus 1223. He was the court physician of al-Malik al-&#39;Adil, the Ayyubid...
 * 20) Sadducees (JE | ) Name given to the party representing views and practises of the Law and interests of Temple and priesthood directly opposite...

41 – 60

 * 1) Safed (JE | ) City of Upper Galilee (it has no connection with the Zephath of Judges i. 17). Its foundation dates from the second century...
 * 2) Sagerin (JE | ) Leader of the women in public prayer. The separation of the sexes at Jewish worship was insisted on even in the days of the...
 * 3) Sahagun (Sant Fagund) (JE | ) City in the old Spanish kingdom of Leon. On March 5, 1152, King Alfonso VII. granted to the thirty Jewish families living...
 * 4) Sahl (JE | ) Physician, astrologer, and mathematician of the ninth century (c. 786-845 ?); father of the physician Ali ben Sahl. Sahl translated...
 * 5) Sahl ben Mazliah ha-Kohen al-Mu& JE (JE | ) Karaite philosopher and writer; born at Jerusalem 910. He belonged to the Rechabites, and was one of the apostles of the Karaites...
 * 6) Isaac ben Solomon ibn abi Sahulah (JE | ) Spanish scholar and Hebrew poet of the thirteenth century; born, as some believe, at Guadalajara in 1244. Geiger, in "Melo...
 * 7) Sa& (JE | ) Jewish convert to Islam; lived in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. He was the author of an apologetic work entitled...
 * 8) Sailors (JE | ) -- See N139: Navigation
 * 9) Saint and Saintliness (JE | ) in Jewish tradition saintliness ("Chasidut") is distinguished from holiness ("Kedushah"), which is part of the...
 * 10) Saint Croix (JE | ) -- See W137: West Indies, Danish
 * 11) Saint Gall (St Gallen) (JE | ) Chief town of the canton of the same name in the northeast of Switzerland. The first information concerning its Jewish inhabitants...
 * 12) Saint-Gilles (JE | ) Town of France, in the department of Gard, about eleven miles south-southeast of N&#238;mes. It was an important commercial...
 * 13) Saint John& (JE | ) Fruit of the carobtree. It is not mentioned in the Masoretic text of the Old Testament, though Cheyne assumes that in three...
 * 14) Saint Joseph (JE | ) -- See M663: Missouri
 * 15) Saint Louis >> History of the Jews in St. Louis, Missouri JE (JE | ) Largest city in the state of Missouri, U. S. A. Its pioneer Jew was Wolf Bloch, a native of Schwihau, Bohemia, who is reported...
 * 16) Saint Paul (JE | ) -- See M639: Minnesota
 * 17) Saint Petersburg (JE | ) Capital city of Russia. Antonio Sanchez, a Spanish Jew and member of the Academy of Sciences, lived in St. Petersburg in the...
 * 18) Saint-Symphorien d& (JE | ) Town in the ancient province of Dauphin&#233;, France. In the fourteenth century it had a large and wealthy Jewish community...
 * 19) Saint Thomas (JE | ) -- See W137: West Indies, Danish
 * 20) Alad&#225;r Saj&#243; (JE | ) Hungarian author; born at Waitzen Sept. 8, 1869; educated for the law at Budapest, where he devoted himself at the same time...

61 – 80

 * 1) Jacob b. Benjamin Wolf Sak (JE | ) -- See J31: Jacob ben Benjamin Zeeb Sak
 * 2) Salahti (JE | ) -- See O65: Omnam Ken
 * 3) Annette A Salaman (JE | ) English authoress; died April 10, 1879; youngest daughter of S. K. Salaman, and sister of the musician of that name. In her...
 * 4) Charles Kensington Salaman (JE | ) English pianist, composer, and controversialist; born in London March 3, 1814; died there June 23, 1901. His musical talent...
 * 5) Charles Malcolm Salaman (JE | ) English journalist and dramatist; born in London Sept. 6, 1855; son of Charles Kensington Salaman, the composer. He is the...
 * 6) Salamanca (JE | ) Spanish city; capital of the province of the same name; famous for its university. The Jews of Salamanca rendered valuable...
 * 7) Salamander (JE | ) According to the Talmud, a species of toad which lives on land but enters the water at the breeding season (&#7716;ul. 127a...
 * 8) Nahum Salamon (JE | ) English inventor; born in London 1828; died there Nov. 23, 1900. He may be regarded as practically the founder of the British...
 * 9) Samuel Salant JE (JE | ) Chief rabbi of the Ashkenazic congregations in Jerusalem; born Jan. 2, 1816, at Byelostok, Russia. Samuel married the daughter...
 * 10) Israel Salanter JE (JE | ) -- See L440: Lipkin
 * 11) Sale (JE | ) the steps by which the title to land is changed in a gift or sale have been shown under Alienation. The conveyance might be...
 * 12) Sale and Seizure (JE | ) -- See E545: Execution
 * 13) Salem (JE | ) Name of a place, first mentioned in connection with Abraham&#39;s return from the battle with Chedorlaomer, when Melchizedek...
 * 14) Asher ben Immanuel Salem (JE | ) Turkish scholar of the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Ma&#7789;&#7789;eh Asher" (Salonica, 1748), containing responsa...
 * 15) Salem Shaloam David JE (JE | ) Chinese convert to Judaism; born at Hankow, China, of Chinese parents in 1853, and named Feba. Feba remained with his parents...
 * 16) Siegmund Salfeld JE (JE | ) German rabbi; born at Stadthagen, Schaumburg-Lippe, March 24, 1843. Having received his degree of Ph.D. from the University...
 * 17) Jakob Salg& (JE | ) Hungarian psychiatrist; born at Pesth in 1849; educated at Pesth, at Vienna (M. D., Vienna, 1874), and at G&#246;ttingen,...
 * 18) Saliva (JE | ) Spittle. To spit in a person&#39;s face was regarded as an expression of the utmost contempt for him (Num. xii. 14; Deut....
 * 19) Solomon ben Baruch Salkind (JE | ) Lithuanian Hebrew poet; teacher in the rabbinical seminary, Wilna; died there March 14, 1868. He was the author of: "Shirim...
 * 20) Isaac Edward Salkinson (JE | ) Russian Hebraist; convert to Christianity; born at Wilna; died at Vienna June 5, 1883. According to some, Salkinson was the...

81 – 100

 * 1) Geskel Saloman (JE | ) Painter; born of German parents April 1, 1821, at Tondern, Sleswick; died July 5, 1902, at Stockholm. Soon after his birth...
 * 2) Nota S Saloman (JE | ) Danish physician; born at Tondern, Sleswick-Holstein, March 21, 1823; died at Copenhagen March 20, 1885. Educated at the University...
 * 3) Siegfried Saloman (JE | ) Danish violinist and composer; born in Tondern, Sleswick-Holstein, Oct. 2, 1816; died July 22, 1899, on the island of Dalar&#246...
 * 4) Salomon (JE | ) American family tracing its descent back to Haym Salomon, "the financier of the American Revolution." the family tree is as...
 * 5) Gotthold Salomon (JE | ) German rabbi; born Nov. 1, 1784, at Sondersleben, Anhalt; died Nov. 17, 1862, in Hamburg. His first teacher in Bible and Talmud...
 * 6) Haym Salomon (JE | ) American financier; born at Lissa, Poland, in 1740; died in Philadelphia Jan. 6, 1785. It is probable that he left his native...
 * 7) Max Salomon (JE | ) German physician; born at Sleswick, Sleswick-Holstein, April 5, 1837; son of Jacob Salomon; educated at the gymnasium of his...
 * 8) William Salomon (JE | ) American financier; born at Mobile, Ala., Oct. 9, 1852; great-grandson of Haym Salomon. His parents removed to Philadelphia...
 * 9) Salomons (JE | ) English family descended from Solomon Salomons, a London merchant on the Royal Exchange in the eighteenth century. The following...
 * 10) Sir Julian Emanuel Salomons (JE | ) Australian statesman; born in Birmingham 1834. He was called to the bar  in Jan., 1861. Having emigrated to New South Wales...
 * 11) Carl Julius Salomonsen (JE | ) Danish bacteriologist; born at Copenhagen Dec. 6, 1847; son of Martin S. Salomonsen. He studied medicine at Copenhagen (M...
 * 12) Martin Salomonsen (JE | ) Danish physician; born in Copenhagen March 9, 1814; died there Dec. 21, 1889; father of Carl Julius Salomonsen. He graduated...
 * 13) Salonica (JE | ) Seaport city in Rumelia, European Turkey; chief town of an extensive vilayet of the same name which includes the sanjaks of...
 * 14) Salt (JE | ) A condiment for food. From earliest times salt was indispensable to the Israelites for flavoring food. Having a copious supply...
 * 15) Salt Lake City (JE | ) -- See U59: Utah
 * 16) Salt Sea (JE | ) -- See A1667: Dead Sea
 * 17) Salutation (JE | ) -- See G430: Greeting, Forms of
 * 18) Salvador (JE | ) -- See S990: South and Central America
 * 19) Francis Salvador (JE | ) Prominent patriot in the American Revolution; a member of the Salvador family of London, the name of which was originally...
 * 20) Joseph Salvador (JE | ) French historian; born at Montpellier Jan. 5, 1796; died March 17, 1873, at Versailles; buried, at his own request, in the...

101 – 120

 * 1) Joseph Salvador (JE | ) English philanthropist; flourished about 1753. He came of a distinguished family that emigrated from Holland in the eighteenth...
 * 2) Salvation (JE | ) the usual rendering in the English versions for the Hebrew words, , derivatives of the stem , which in the verb occurs only...
 * 3) Salzburg (JE | ) Austrian duchy (formerly a German archbishopric), and its capital of the same name. Jews, among them a physician, are mentioned...
 * 4) Sama b. Rabba (JE | ) Babylonian amora; last head of the Pumbedita Academy. He was the successor of Rachumai II., and officiated for about...
 * 5) Sama b. Rakta JE (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the sixth generation. He was a contemporary of Rabina I., with whom he disputed concerning a halakah (&#7730...
 * 6) Samael (JE | ) Prince of the demons, and an important figure both in Talmudic and in post-Talmudic literature, where he appears as accuser...
 * 7) Samara (JE | ) Babylonian river near which tradition has located Ezra&#39;s tomb. Many legends cluster round this sacred spot; and in former...
 * 8) Samarcand (JE | ) Town in Central Asia; chief town of the Zerafshan district of the Russian dominions. According to tradition, Samarcand was...
 * 9) Samaria (JE | ) City of Palestine; capital of the kingdom of Israel. It was built by Omri, in the seventh year of his reign, on the mountain...
 * 10) Samaritans (JE | ) Properly, inhabitants of Samaria. The name is now restricted to a small tribe of people living in Nablus (Shechem) and calling...
 * 11) Samau& (JE | ) -- See S140: Samuel ibn Adiya
 * 12) Joseph ben Isaac Sambari (Cattawi?) (JE | ) Egyptian chronicler of the seventeenth century; lived probably at Alexandria between 1640 and 1703. of lowly origin and in...
 * 13) Sambation, Sanbation, Sabbation (sambatyon) (JE | ) in rabbinical literature the river across which the ten tribes were transported by Shalmaneser, King of Assyria, and about...
 * 14) Joseph ben Benjamin Samegah (Samigah) (JE | ) Turkish Talmudist and cabalist of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; born at Salonica; died June 6, 1629, at Venice...
 * 15) Samek (JE | ) the fifteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Its name may be connected with "samek" ="prop," "support." On the original shape...
 * 16) Samek and Pe (JE | ) -- See G59: Games and Sports
 * 17) Julius Samelsohn (JE | ) German ophthalmologist; born at Marienburg, West Prussia, April 14, 1841; died at Cologne March 7, 1899. Educated at the universities...
 * 18) M Samfield (JE | ) American rabbi; born at Markstift, Bavaria, 1846. He received his education from his father, at the Talmudical school of Rabbi...
 * 19) A G Samiler (Eliakim G&) (Smieler]]) (JE | ) Russian Talmudist and a member of a prominent rabbinical family; born in Smiela about 1780; died at Brody July 17, 1854. He...
 * 20) Asher Sammter (JE | ) German rabbi; born at Derenburg, near Halberstadt, Jan. 1, 1807; died at Berlin Feb. 5, 1887. From 1837 to 1854 he was rabbi...

121 – 140

 * 1) David Samoscz (JE | ) German author of Hebrew books for the young; born at Kempen, province of Posen, Dec. 29, 1789; died at Breslau April 29, 1864...
 * 2) Samson JE >> Samson in rabbinic literature JE (JE | ) One of the judges of Israel, whose life and acts are recorded in Judges xiii.-xvi. At a period when Israel was under the oppression...
 * 3) Samson and the Samson School (JE | ) -- See W243: Wolfenb&#246;ttel
 * 4) Samson ben Abraham of Sens JE (JE | ) French tosafist; born about 1150; died at Acre about 1230. His birthplace was probably Falaise, Calvados, where lived his...
 * 5) Samson ben Eliezer (JE | ) German "sofer" (scribe) of the fourteenth century; generally called bar uk she-Amar, from the initial words of the blessing...
 * 6) Samson ben Isaac of Chinon JE (JE | ) French Talmudist; lived at Chinon between 1260 and 1330. In Talmudic literature he is generally called after his native place...
 * 7) Samson ben Joseph of Falaise (JE | ) Tosafist of the twelfth century; grandfather of the tosafists Isaac ben Abraham of Dampierre and Samson of Sens. Jacob Tam...
 * 8) Samson ben Samson (JE | ) French tosafist; flourished at the end of the twelfth and in the first half of the thirteenth century. Many of his explanations...
 * 9) Samuda (JE | ) Old Spanish, and Portuguese family, identified for some generations with the communal affairs of the London Jewry. The first...
 * 10) Samuel (JE | ) Samuel was the son of Elkanah and Hannah, of Ramathaim-zophim, in the hill-country of Ephraim (I Sam. i. 1). He was born while...
 * 11) Books of Samuel (JE | ) Two books in the second great division of the canon, the "Nebi&#39;im," or Prophets, and, more specifically, in the former...
 * 12) Midrash to Samuel (JE | ) Midrash Shemu&#39;el, a haggadic midrash on the books of Samuel, is quoted for the first time by Rashi in his commentary on...
 * 13) Samuel (JE | ) -- See S106: Samael
 * 14) Samuel (JE | ) Tax-gatherer and treasurer to King Ferdinand IV. of Castile (1295-1312); born in Andalusia. He was hated by the queen mother...
 * 15) Samuel (Sanwel) ben Aaron Benjamin (JE | ) Scribe at Worms in the seventeenth century. After the fire of 1689 (Lewysohn, "Nafshot Zaddikim," p. 73, Frankfort-on-the-Main...
 * 16) Samuel ben Abba JE (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the latter half of the third century. Although a pupil of Johanan, he did not receive ordination (Yer...
 * 17) Samuel ben Abbahu (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the fourth century. He engaged in a ritual controversy with R. Achai in regard to the use of the...
 * 18) Samuel ben Abigdor (JE | ) Russian rabbi; born about 1720; died 1793 at Wilna, where his father, who had been rabbi in Pruzhani, Rushany, and Wilkowyszky...
 * 19) Samuel ibn Abun b. Yahya (JE | ) Arabo-Jewish poet of the eleventh century; great-grandfather of Samuel ibn Nazar and a contemporary of Moses ibn Ezra. A poem...
 * 20) Samuel ibn & JE (JE | ) Poet and warrior; lived in Arabia in the first half of the sixth century. His mother was of the royal tribe of Ghassan, while...

141 – 160

 * 1) Samuel ben Alexander of Halberstadt (JE | ) German rabbi and scientist; perhaps a resident of Frankfort-on-the-Oder; died July 6, 1707. He was the author of "Peri Megadim...
 * 2) Samuel ben Ammi (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the beginning of the fourth century. He is known through his controversies with other scholars. He contended...
 * 3) Samuel bar  Asher (JE | ) Martyr; lived at Neuss, Rhenish Prussia, in the eleventh century. According to Salomon ben Simeon, he, with his two sons,...
 * 4) Samuel de Caceres JE (JE | ) -- See C6: Caceres
 * 5) Samuel ben David Moses ha-Levi of Meseritz (JE | ) Polish Talmudist; born about 1625; died April 24, 1681, at Kleinsteinbach, Bavaria. As a wandering scholar he is found for...
 * 6) Baron Denis de Samuel (JE | ) English financier; born 1782; died in London 1860. He came of a Polish family, and counted among his ancestors several eminent...
 * 7) Samuel (Sanwel) ben Enoch (JE | ) Polish rabbi; flourished in the seventeenth century; born at Lublin. He officiated as dayyan at Jassy and later at Mayence...
 * 8) Samuel of Escaleta (JE | ) French Talmudist, poet, and philanthropist of the fourteenth century. Jacob of Provence considers him one of the first poets...
 * 9) Samuel of Evreux JE (JE | ) French tosafist of the thirteenth century. He is identified by Gross with Samuel ben Shneor (not ben Yom-Tob, as given...
 * 10) Haeem Samuel (JE | ) Indian communal worker; born at Alibag, near Bombay, in 1830; educated at the Robert Money School in Bombay. Samuel entered...
 * 11) Harry Simon Samuel (JE | ) English politician; born Aug. 31, 1853; son of Horatio S. Samuel by his marriage with Henrietta Montefiore. He was educated...
 * 12) Samuel ibn Hayyim (JE | ) Medieval liturgical poet; the time and place of his birth are unknown. He composed eighty-two liturgical poems, of which the...
 * 13) Samuel Hayyim of Salonica (JE | ) Maternal grandson of Samuel of Modena; lived in Salonica during the sixteenth century. He wrote "Bene Shemu&#39;el," a collection...
 * 14) Herbert Samuel (JE | ) English politician; born in London 1870; youngest son of Edwin L. Samuel, and nephew of Sir Samuel Montagu. He was educated...
 * 15) Samuel b. Hiyya (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the second half of the third century of the common era. None of his halakic or haggadic maxims has been...
 * 16) Samuel ben Hofni JE (JE | ) Last gaon of Sura; died in 1034. His father was a Talmudic scholar and chief judge ("ab bet din," probably of Fez), one of...
 * 17) Isaac Samuel (JE | ) English Chazzan; born in London March 9, 1833. He was appointed minister of the Bristol congregation in 1860, and became...
 * 18) Samuel ben Isaac ha-Sardi JE (JE | ) Spanish rabbi; flourished in the first half of the thirteenth century. In his youth he attended the school of Rabbi Nathan...
 * 19) Samuel ben Isaac of Uceda (JE | ) Talmudist of Safed in the sixteenth century; descendant of a family of Uceda, which, when banished from Spain, settled at...
 * 20) Samuel ben Jacob of Capua (JE | ) Italian translator; lived, probably at Capua, at the end of the thirteenth century, if Steinschneider&#39;s supposition that...

161 – 180

 * 1) Samuel ben Jacob ibn Jam& JE (JE | ) Rabbi of a North-African community ; flourished in the twelfth century. He was on intimate terms with Abraham ibn Ezra,...
 * 2) Samuel ben Jacob of Troyes (JE | ) French Talmudist of the first half of the thirteenth century, a descendant of Rashi. In his youth he addressed a circular...
 * 3) Samuel ben Jehiel (JE | ) Martyr of Cologne in the First Crusade, June 25, 1096. When the Crusaders hunted the Jews of Cologne out of the villages where...
 * 4) Samuel ben Jonah (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the fourth century. He is perhaps identical with Samuel ben Inijah or Inia . Samuel ben Jonah once...
 * 5) Samuel ben Jose ben Bun (Abun) (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the fourth century, in whose time the Jerusalem Talmud is said to have been arranged and completed by...
 * 6) Samuel ben Joseph Joske (JE | ) Polish Talmudist of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; born at Lublin. He was the first known rabbi of Jung-Bunzlau...
 * 7) Samuel ben Joseph of Verdun (JE | ) French tosafist of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He was a disciple of Isaac ben Samuel the Elder of Dampierre, with...
 * 8) Samuel ben Judah (JE | ) Scholar and head of the Jewish community at Lemberg. He suffered martyrdom in a terrible form outside the city on the 8th...
 * 9) Samuel ben Judah (JE | ) French physician and translator; born at Marseilles 1294. He devoted himself early in life to the study of science, especially...
 * 10) Samuel b. Judah ibn Abun (JE | ) -- See A174: Abbas, Samuel abu Nasr, ibn
 * 11) Samuel ben Kalonymus he-Hasid of Speyer JE (JE | ) Tosafist, liturgical poet, and philosopher of the twelfth century; surnamed also "the Prophet" (Solomon Luria, Responsa, No...
 * 12) Samuel ben Kalonymus ha-Hazzan (JE | ) Leader of the congregation at Erfurt in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He is sometimes, but erroneously, referred to...
 * 13) Samuel ha-Katon (JE | ) Tanna of the second generation; lived in the early part of the second century of the common era. His surname "ha-Ka&#7789...
 * 14) Samuel ha-Kohen (JE | ) Rabbi of the sixteenth century. He was the author of the following works: "Derek &#7716;ayyim" (Constantinople, n.d.), on...
 * 15) Samuel ha-Kohen Di Pisa (JE | ) Portuguese scholar of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He wrote a commentary on the difficult passages in Ecclesiastes...
 * 16) Samuel Mar (JE | ) -- See S204: Samuel Yar&#7717;ina&#39;ah
 * 17) Sir Marcus Samuel, Bart (JE | ) English financier and lord mayor of London; born in London 1853; son of Marcus Samuel and senior partner of the shipping firm...
 * 18) Samuel ben Marta (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the third century. The word "mishkan," twice occurring in Ex. xxxviii. 21, is explained by him as having...
 * 19) Samuel b. Me& (Rashbam) (JE | ) French exegete of Ramerupt, near Troyes; born about 1085; died about 1174; grandson of Rashi on his mother&#39;s side, and...
 * 20) Moses Samuel (JE | ) English author; born in London 1795; died at Liverpool 1860. He acquired considerable reputation as a Hebrew scholar and an...

181 – 200

 * 1) Samuel ben Moses (JE | ) Russian cabalist; lived at Swislotz, government of Grodno, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was the author...
 * 2) Samuel b. Moses Phinehas (JE | ) Polish rabbi; died in Posen Nov. 25, 1806. He was a descendant of R. Joshua (d. 1648), the author of "Maginne Shelomoh," and...
 * 3) Samuel ha-Nagid (Samuel ha-Levi ben Joseph ibn Nagdela) (JE | ) Spanish statesman, grammarian, poet, and Talmudist; born at Cordova 993; died at Granada 1055. His father, who was a native...
 * 4) Samuel ben Nahman (Nahmani) JE (JE | ) Palestinian amora; born at the beginning of the third and died at the beginning of the fourth century. He was a pupil of R...
 * 5) Samuel ha-Nakdan (JE | ) Masorite and grammarian of the twelfth century. A grammatical work of his entitled "Deyakut" is extant in the Royal...
 * 6) Samuel ha-Nasi (JE | ) Exilarch in Bagdad, probably between 773 and 816. Until recently his existence was known only from a difficult passage in...
 * 7) Samuel ben Nathan (JE | ) Amora of the early part of the fourth century, He appears mostly as the transmitter of the sayings of &#7716;ama b. &#7716...
 * 8) Samuel ben Nathan (JE | ) Liturgical poet of the fourteenth century; place of birth and residence unknown. He was the author of three prayers, and is...
 * 9) Samuel ben Natronai (JE | ) German tosafist of the second half of the twelfth century. He was the pupil and son-in-law of R. Eliezer b. Natan (RABaN)...
 * 10) Samuel Phoebus ben Nathan Feitel (JE | ) Austrian historiographer; lived in Vienna in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was the author of "Ti&#7789...
 * 11) Samuel ben Reuben of B& (JE | ) French Talmudist; flourished at the beginning of the fourteenth century. He was one of Solomon ben Adret&#39;s numerous correspondents...
 * 12) Samuel ben Reuben of Chartres (JE | ) French liturgical poet. He wrote a "reshut" in Aramaic which was recited with the Targum of the haf&#7789;arah for the Feast...
 * 13) Sampson Samuel (JE | ) Solicitor and secretary to the London Board of Deputies; born in 1804; died in London Nov. 10, 1868. He began life on the...
 * 14) Sir Saul Samuel, Bart (JE | ) Australian statesman; born in London, England, Nov. 2, 1820; died there Aug. 29, 1900. In 1832 he emigrated with relatives...
 * 15) Samuel Schmelka ben Hayyim Shammash (JE | ) Preacher and actuary of the rabbinate of Prague under Ephraim Solomon of Lencziza in the second half of the sixteenth century...
 * 16) Samuel ben Shneor (JE | ) -- See S149: Samuel of Evreux
 * 17) Samuel ben Simeon (JE | ) French scholar; lived in Provence in the fourteenth century. His Hebrew surname was "Kenesi," incorrectly derived from "keneset"...
 * 18) Simon Samuel (JE | ) German pathologist; born at Glogau Oct. 5, 1833; died at K&#246;nigsberg, East Prussia, May 9, 1899. He studied medicine at...
 * 19) Samuel ben Solomon of Falaise JE (JE | ) Tosafist of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. His French name was Sir Morel, by which he is often designated in rabbinical...
 * 20) Samuel ben Solomon Nasi of Carcassonne (JE | ) French scholar of the thirteenth century. He was the author of a commentary on the "Moreh Nebukim," which is still extant...

201 – 220

 * 1) Samuel b. Solomon Sekili (JE | ) -- See S200: Samuel ben Solomon Nasi
 * 2) Sydney Montagu Samuel (JE | ) English author and communal worker; born in London June 21, 1848; died June, 1884; educated at University College, London...
 * 3) Samuel ben Uri Shraga Phoebus JE (JE | ) Polish rabbi and Talmudist of Woydyslaw in the second half of the seventeenth century. In his early youth he was a pupil of...
 * 4) Samuel Yarhina& (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the first generation; son of Abba b. Abba; teacher of the Law, judge, physician, and astronomer; born...
 * 5) Samuel and Yates (JE | ) Names of two families which led the congregation of Liverpool, England, in the early part of the nineteenth century. They...
 * 6) Samuel Zarfati (JE | ) Court physician to the popes Alexander VI. and Julius II.; died about 1519. The name "Zarfati" indicates that Samuel...
 * 7) Sir Bernhard Samuelson (JE | ) English merchant and politician; born at Liverpool Nov. 22, 1820; died May 10, 1905. After serving an apprenticeship in a...
 * 8) Nathan Samuely (JE | ) Austrian ghetto poet; born in Stry, Galicia, 1846. At the age of seventeen he published a story in Hebrew entitled "Shewa...
 * 9) Joseph Hayyim ibn Samun (JE | ) Italian Talmudist; lived at Leghorn in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was the author of "&#39;Edut bi-Yehosef"...
 * 10) San Antonio (JE | ) Largest city in Texas; founded by the Spaniards in 1718. Jews first settled there in 1854, when the cemetery was founded.Samuel...
 * 11) San Daniele del Friuli (JE | ) Italian town, near Udine. About 1600 two brothers named Luzzatto established themselves here, a descendant of one of whom...
 * 12) San Francisco (JE | ) Principal city of California; chief commercial city of the Pacific coast. The name of San Francisco was given to the village...
 * 13) San Jos&#233; (JE | ) -- See S990: South and Central America
 * 14) San Marino (JE | ) Ancient republic of central Italy; situated not far from the Adriatic Sea and founded in the fourth century by the Dalmatian...
 * 15) San Mill& (JE | ) Locality in Spain, not far from Najera, with a famous convent of great antiquity. Jews were living here as early as at Najera...
 * 16) San Salvador (JE | ) -- See S990: South and Central America
 * 17) Sana& (JE | ) -- See Y33: Yemen
 * 18) Sanballat (JE | ) One of the chief opponents of Nehemiah when he was building the walls of Jerusalem and carrying out his reforms among the...
 * 19) Antonio Ribeiro Sanchez (Sanches) (JE | ) Russian court physician; born 1699; died in Paris 1783; member of a Marano family of Penamacor, district of Castello Branca...
 * 20) Sancho (JE | ) Family name of frequent occurrence among Oriental Spanish Jews, and borne by several writers. Abraham ben Ephraim Sancho:...

221 – 240

 * 1) Sanctification of the Name (JE | ) -- See K206: &#7730;iddush ha-Shem
 * 2) Sanctuary (JE | ) A sacred place for divine service. There were six sanctuaries: (1) the Tabernacle in the wilderness, built by Moses in the...
 * 3) Sandalfon (JE | ) Name of an angel. It is a Greek formation and synonymous with &#963;&#965;&#957;&#940;&#948;&#949;&#955;&#966;&#959;&#962...
 * 4) Sandals (JE | ) in the warm countries of the East shoes are not such an indispensable part of clothing as in the colder northern countries...
 * 5) Sandek (Syndikus) (JE | ) -- See G287: Godfather
 * 6) Daniel Sanders (JE | ) German lexicographer; born in Altstrelitz, Mecklenburg, April 12, 1819; died March 12, 1897. He received his early education...
 * 7) Paul S& (JE | ) Hungarian merchant and deputy; born in 1860 at Hodmez&#246;v&#225;s&#225;rhely; studied at the academies of commerce in Budapest...
 * 8) Adolph L Sanger (JE | ) American lawyer and politician; born at Baton Rouge, La., in 1842; died in New York city Jan. 3, 1894. A graduate of the City...
 * 9) Sanhedrin (JE | ) Hebrew-Aramaic term originally designating only the assembly at Jerusalem that constituted the highest political magistracy...
 * 10) Sanhedrin (JE | ) Name of a treatise of the Mishnah, Tosefta, and both Talmudim. It stands fourth in the order Nezikin in most editions...
 * 11) French Sanhedrin JE (JE | ) Jewish high court convened by Napoleon I. to give legal sanction to the principles expressed by the Assembly of Notables in...
 * 12) Sanitation (JE | ) -- See H466: Health Laws
 * 13) Santa Maria (JE | ) -- See P115: Paul de Burgos
 * 14) Luis (Azarias) de Santangel (Sancto Angelos) (JE | ) Marano and learned jurist of Calatayud, Spain; died before 1459. He was converted by the sermons of Vicente Ferrer, and was...
 * 15) Santarem (JE | ) City of Portugal. Even before its conquest by the Portuguese in 1140, it possessed a Jewry, situated near the Church of S...
 * 16) Santob (Shem-Tob) de Carrion (JE | ) Spanish poet; born toward the end of the thirteenth century at Carrion de los Condes, a town in Castile, whence his cognomen...
 * 17) James Sanua (JE | ) Egyptian publicist; born at Cairo April, 1839. He studied in Egypt and in Italy, and at the age of sixteen commenced to contribute...
 * 18) Jacob Saphir JE (JE | ) Rabbi and traveler of Rumanian descent; born in 1822 at Oshmiany, government of Wilna; died in Jerusalem 1886. While still...
 * 19) Moritz Gottlieb Saphir (JE | ) Hungarian humorist; born at Lovas-Ber&#233;ny Feb. 8, 1795; died at Baden, near Vienna, Sept. 5, 1858. In 1806 he went to...
 * 20) Sigmund Saphir (JE | ) Hungarian journalist; born in Hungary 1806 (according to some, 1801); died at Pesth Oct. 17, 1866. He edited several German...

241 – 260

 * 1) Sapphire (JE | ) A highly prized sky-blue precious stone, frequently mentioned in the Old Testament and Apocrypha (Ex. xxiv. 10, xxviii. 18...
 * 2) Sar Shalom ben Boaz (JE | ) Gaon of Sura, where he died about 859 or 864, having held the gaonate for ten years. He succeeded Kohen Zedek...
 * 3) Saragossa (JE | ) Capital of the former kingdom of Aragon. The city is situated on the Ebro, which is crossed by a long stone bridge constructed...
 * 4) Joseph Saragossi (JE | ) Talmudist and cabalist of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. On being banished from Spain in 1492 he went successively...
 * 5) Sarah (Sarai) JE (JE | ) Wife of Abraham, who for a long period remained childless (Gen. xi. 29-30). She accompanied her husband from Haran to Canaan...
 * 6) Sarah Copia Shulam (JE | ) -- See S1157: Sullam, Sara Copia
 * 7) Sarajevo (JE | ) Capital of Bosnia. For the history of its Jewish community till 1850 see Bosnia.About 1850 Omar Pasha (Michael Lattas) granted...
 * 8) Kasriel H Sarasohn JE (JE | ) American journalist; born in Paiser, Russian Poland, 1835; died at New York city Jan. 12, 1905. He studied at home and prepared...
 * 9) Saratof (JE | ) Russian city, in the government of the same name; situated on the right bank of the Volga. The city is chiefly memorable for...
 * 10) Saraval (JE | ) Family of scholars, of whom the following deserve special mention: Abraham b. Judah L&#246;b Saraval:   Flourished in the...
 * 11) Sardinia (JE | ) An island in the Mediterranean, about 140 miles from the west coast of Italy, between 8&#176; 4&#8242; and 9&#176; 49&#8242...
 * 12) Sardis (JE | ) Ancient city of Asia Minor and capital of Lydia; situated on the Pactolus at the northern base of Mount Tmolus, about sixty...
 * 13) Sargenes (JE | ) A white linen garment which resembles a surplice and consists of a long, loose gown with flowing sleeves and with a collar...
 * 14) Sargon (JE | ) King of Assyria; died 705 B.C. He is mentioned in the Bible only in Isa. xx. 1; and his name is preserved by no classic writer...
 * 15) Michael Sargon (JE | ) Indian convert to Christianity; born in Cochin 1795; died about 1855. He was converted in 1818 by T. Jarrett of Madras, and...
 * 16) Joseph ben Judah Sarko (Zarko, Zarik) (JE | ) Italian grammarian and Hebrew poet of the first half of the fifteenth century. According to Carmoly ("Histoire des M&#233...
 * 17) Mohammed Sa& (JE | ) Persian poet of Jewish birth; flourished in the first half of the seventeenth century. He was born at Kashan of a rabbinical...
 * 18) Jacob de Castro Sarmento JE (JE | ) -- See C256: Castro Sarmento
 * 19) Samuel Sarphati (JE | ) Dutch physician and economist; born at Amsterdam Jan. 31, 1813; died there June 23, 1866. After finishing his medical studies...
 * 20) Jacob b. Joseph Sarsino (Sarcino) (JE | ) Italian rabbi of the seventeenth century; pupil of R. Zebi Hirsch b. Isaac in Cracow. He was rabbi in Venice, and labored...

261 – 280

 * 1) Moses ben Issachar ha-Levi S& (JE | ) -- See M919: Moses Saerteles ben Issachar ha-Levi
 * 2) Israel Sarug (Saruk) JE (JE | ) Cabalist of the sixteenth century. A pupil of Isaac Luria, he devoted himself at the death of his master to the propagation...
 * 3) Aaron ben Joseph Sason (JE | ) Rabbi of Salonica in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; died shortly before 1626. He was a pupil of Mordecai Matalon...
 * 4) Abraham Sason (JE | ) Italian cabalist; flourished in Venice at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was the author of the following works:...
 * 5) Jacob ben Israel Sason (JE | ) Palestinian Talmudist; flourished at Safed at the end of the seventeenth century; a pupil of Isaac Alfandari. He was the author...
 * 6) Joseph ben Jacob Sason (JE | ) Editor and, perhaps, author; lived in the sixteenth century. He edited the "Machazor Sefardi" (Venice, 1584); and a Jewish...
 * 7) Sasportas >> Jacob ben Aaron Sasportas JE (JE | ) Spanish family of rabbis and scholars, the earliest known members of which lived at Oran, Algeria, at the end of the sixteenth...
 * 8) Jacob Koppel ben Aaron Sasslower (JE | ) Russian Masorite of the seventeenth century; lived in Zaslav, government of Volhynia. He wrote "Nachalat Ya&#39;a&#7731...
 * 9) Sassoon JE (JE | ) Family claiming to trace its descent from the ibn Shoshans of Spain. The earliest member to attain distinction was David Sassoon...
 * 10) Satan (JE | ) Term used in the Bible with the general connotation of "adversary," being applied (1) to an enemy in war (I Kings v. 18 [A...
 * 11) Isaac ha-Levi Satanow JE (JE | ) Scholar and poet; born at Satanow, Poland, 1733; died in Berlin, Germany, Dec. 25, 1805. In early manhood he left his native...
 * 12) Satire (JE | ) Ironical and veiled attack, mostly in verse. Among the Hebrews satire made its appearance with the advent of the usurper....
 * 13) Satrap (JE | ) Ruler of a province in the governmental system of ancient Persia. The Old Persian form of the word, "khshathrapavan" (protector...
 * 14) Satyr (JE | ) Rendering by the English versions of the Hebrew "se&#39;irim" in Isa. xiii. 21, xxxiv. 14 (R. V., margin, "he-goats"; American...
 * 15) Saul JE (JE | ) the first king of all Israel. He was the son of Kish, "a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor" (I Sam. ix. 1). For many years...
 * 16) Saul JE (JE | ) Karaite leader; son and successor of Anan ben David; died about 780. He is styled by the later Karaites "nasi" (prince) and...
 * 17) Abba Saul (JE | ) Tanna of the third generation. In Ab. R. N. xxix. mention is made of an Abba Saul b. Nanos whom Lewy ("Ueber Einige Fragmente...
 * 18) Abba Saul b. Batnit (JE | ) Tanna of the second and first centuries B.C. According to Derenbourg, his mother was a Batanian proselyte, whence he derived...
 * 19) Saul b. Aryeh (JE | ) -- See L583: L&#246;wenstamm, Saul
 * 20) Saul Cohen Ashkenazi (JE | ) -- See A1991: Ashkenazi, Saul Cohen

281 – 300

 * 1) Saul ben David (JE | ) Russian rabbi; died 1623. He was the author of: "Tal Orot" (Prague, 1615), treatise, in verse, on the thirty-nine principal...
 * 2) Saul ben Joseph of Monteux (JE | ) French liturgical poet; lived at Carpentras in the second half of the seventeenth century. The ritual of Avignon contains...
 * 3) Saul of Tarsus (JE | ) the actual founder of the Christian Church as opposed to Judaism; born before 10 C.E.; died after 63. The records containing...
 * 4) Saul Wahl JE (JE | ) -- See W11: Wahl, Saul
 * 5) Louis F& (JE | ) Christian archeologist and numismatist; born at Lille March 19, 1807; died in Paris Nov. 5, 1880. He first adopted a military...
 * 6) Savannah (JE | ) Important commercial city of Chatham county, Georgia; situated on the Savannah River. It was founded in 1733 by Gen. James...
 * 7) Savior (JE | ) -- See M510: Messiah
 * 8) Savoy (JE | ) Ancient independent duchy; part of the kingdom of Sardinia from 1720; ceded to France in 1860; and now (1905) forming the...
 * 9) Julius Sax (JE | ) Electrical engineer; born at Sugarre, Russia, 1824; died in London Aug., 1890. He emigrated to England in 1851, and started...
 * 10) Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Weimar (JE | ) -- See S291: Saxon Duchies
 * 11) Saxon Duchies (JE | ) the four Saxon duchies are those of Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-Meiningen, and Saxe-Weimar. Saxe-Altenburg: ...
 * 12) Saxony (JE | ) Kingdom of the German empire. Jews are reported to have appeared in Saxony before the year 1000, in the train of the Lombards...
 * 13) Archibald Henry Sayce (JE | ) English archeologist; born at Shirehampton Sept. 25, 1846; educated at Grosvenor College, Bath, and Queen&#39;s College, Oxford...
 * 14) Scala Nova (JE | ) Important city of Anatolia opposite the island of Samos; seaport of Ephesus. The oldest epitaph in the Jewish cemetery is...
 * 15) Scapegoat (JE | ) -- See A2203: Azazel
 * 16) Scepter (JE | ) -- See S1036: Staff
 * 17) Schepsel Schaffer (JE | ) American rabbi; born May 4, 1862, at Bausk, Courland, Russia; descendant of Mordecai Jaffe, author of the "Lebush." He was...
 * 18) Nahum Me&#239;r (Shomer) Schaikewitz (JE | ) JE Russian Jud&#230;o-German novelist and play-wright; born at Nesvizh, government of Minsk, Dec. 18, 1849. Schaikewitz distinguished...
 * 19) Hermann Schapira JE (JE | ) Russian mathematician; born in 1840 at Erswilken, near Tauroggen, a small town in Lithuania; died at Cologne May 8, 1898,...
 * 20) Heinrich Schapiro (JE | ) Russian physician; born at Grodno 1853; died at St. Petersburg Feb. 14, 1901. After leaving the gymnasium at Grodno he studied...

301 – 320

 * 1) Moses b. Phinehas Schapiro (JE | ) Russian rabbi and printer; born probably in Koretz, Volhynia, about 1758; died in Slavuta 1838. He was the son of the &#7716...
 * 2) Moritz Scharf (JE | ) -- See T226: Tisza-Eszl&#225;r
 * 3) Boris Schatz (JE | ) Russian sculptor; born in 1866, in the government of Kovno. He was the son of a poor schoolmaster ("melammed"). He studied...
 * 4) Solomon Schechter (JE | ) President of the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; formerly reader in rabbinics at Cambridge University...
 * 5) Simon Baruch Schefftel (JE | ) German Hebraist; born June 14, 1813, at Breslau; died March 9, 1885. In 1848 he settled as a merchant at Posen. After his...
 * 6) Elie Scheid (JE | ) French communal worker and writer; born at Hagenau, Alsace, Oct. 24, 1841. After he had graduated from college, the impairment...
 * 7) Samuel b. Abraham (Saler) Scheindlinger (JE | ) Polish rabbi; died in Lemberg Aug. 7, 1796. He was probably a native of Dobromil, and was at first rabbi in Sale and afterward...
 * 8) Leopold Schenk (JE | ) Austrian embryologist; born at Urm&#233;ny, Comitat Neutra, Hungary, Aug. 23, 1840; died at Schwanberg, Styria, Aug. 18, 1902...
 * 9) Benjamin Scherschewski (JE | ) Russian physician; born in Brest-Litovsk 1857. He studied medicine at the University of Warsaw, from which he graduated in...
 * 10) Judah J& (JE | ) Lithuanian Talmudist and Hebraist; born in 1804; died at Kovno Sept. 20, 1866. After having studied Talmud and rabbinics under...
 * 11) Zebi Hirsch ha-Kohen Scherschewski JE (JE | ) Russian Hebrew writer; born at Pinsk in 1840. While still a boy he studied Hebrew grammar and archeology without a teacher...
 * 12) Jacob Moses David (Tebele) b. Michael Scheuer (JE | ) German Talmudist; born in the beginning of the eighteenth century at Frankfort-on-the-Main; died 1782 at Mayence. Scheuer...
 * 13) Philipp Schey, Baron von Koromla (JE | ) Hungarian merchant and philanthropist; born at G&#252;ns (K&#246;szeg) Sept. 20, 1798; died at Baden, near Vienna, June 28...
 * 14) Abraham ben Aryeh L& (JE | ) Lithuanian Talmudist and author of the nineteenth century; a native of Slonim, government of Grodno. Schick occupied himself...
 * 15) Baruch b. Jacob Schick (JE | ) -- See B343: Baruch b. Jacob (Shklover)
 * 16) Elijah ben Benjamin Schick (JE | ) Lithuanian rabbi and preacher; born at Vasilishok, government of Wilna, in 1809; died at Kobrin, government of Kovno, Sept...
 * 17) Schiff >> Meir Shiff JE (JE | ) Family of Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany. The earliest known member, Jacob Kohen Zedek Schiff, who is mentioned...
 * 18) Emil Schiff (JE | ) Austrian journalist; born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, May 30, 1849; died in Berlin Jan. 23, 1899. Schiff was the son of a petty...
 * 19) Josef Schiff (JE | ) Austrian stenographer; born Feb. 25, 1848, at Ragendorf, Hungary. In 1874 he was appointed teacher of stenography at the Vienna...
 * 20) Feiwel (Phoebus) Schiffer (JE | ) Russian Hebraist and poet; born in Lasezow, government of Lublin, about 1810; died after 1866. He lived successively in Josefov...

321 – 340

 * 1) Emanuel Schiffers (JE | ) Russian chess master; born of German parents at St. Petersburg May 4, 1850; died there Dec. 12, 1904. He was educated at the...
 * 2) Solomon Schill (JE | ) Hungarian philologist; born Oct. 14, 1849, in Budapest. He studied at Raab, Budapest, and Vienna; obtained his diploma as...
 * 3) Armand Schiller (JE | ) French journalist; born at Saint-Mand&#233; (Seine) Aug. 7, 1857. He studied at the Lyc&#233;e Condorcet, and, after receiving...
 * 4) Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy JE (JE | ) Reader in rabbinic at Cambridge University; born at Budapest (Alt-Ofen), Hungary, December 23, 1820; died at Cambridge March 11, 1890. After a distinguished...
 * 5) Solomon Schindler (JE | ) German-American rabbi and author; born at Neisse, Germany, April 24, 1842. In 1868 he was selected to take charge of a small...
 * 6) Schlemihl (JE | ) Popular Yiddish term for an unfortunate person. It occurs also in the form Schlimmilius ("J&#252;dische Volksbibliothek,"...
 * 7) Herman Schlesinger (JE | ) German physician; born at Adelebsen, Hanover, April 1, 1856. He was graduated an M. D. at G&#246;ttingen in the year 1879...
 * 8) Josef Schlesinger (JE | ) Austrian mathematician; born at M&#228;hrisch-Sch&#246;nberg Dec. 31, 1831. The son of very poor parents, he had to earn a...
 * 9) Ludwig Schlesinger (JE | ) Hungarian mathematician; born at Tyrnau (Nagyszombat) Nov. 1, 1864; educated at the Realschule, Presburg, and at the universities...
 * 10) Markus Schlesinger (JE | ) -- See G268: Glogauer, Me&#239;r ben Ezekiel
 * 11) Sigmund Schlesinger (JE | ) Austrian writer; born at Vienna 1811; educated at the Schottengymnasium and the University of Vienna (M. D. 1835). He published...
 * 12) Wilhelm S Schlesinger (JE | ) Austrian physician; born at Tinnye, Hungary, 1839. Educated at the University of Vienna (M.D. 1864), he established himself...
 * 13) Schlettstadt (JE | ) Town in Alsace, about 27 miles south-southwest of Strasburg. In the year 1349, under Emperor Charles IV., its Jewish inhabitants...
 * 14) Samuel ben Aaron Schlettstadt (JE | ) German rabbi; born at Schlettstadt; lived at Strasburg in the second half of the fourteenth century. He was rabbi and head...
 * 15) Max Schloessinger (JE | ) German philologist and theologian; born at Heidelberg Sept. 4, 1877; educated at the public school and the gymnasium of his...
 * 16) Gottfried S Schmelkes (JE | ) Austrian physician; born at Prague Sept. 22, 1807; died at Interlaken, Switzerland, Oct. 28, 1870. Educated at the universities...
 * 17) Anton Von Schmid (JE | ) Christian publisher of Hebrew books; born at Zwettl, Lower Austria, Jan. 23, 1765; died at Vienna June 27, 1855. His father...
 * 18) Adolf Schmiedl (JE | ) Austrian rabbi and scholar; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Jan. 26, 1821. He held the office of rabbi at Gewitsch, Moravia, from...
 * 19) Isidor Schnabel (JE | ) Austrian physician; born at Neubidschow, Bohemia, Nov. 14, 1842. Educated at the University of Vienna (M.D. 1865), he became...
 * 20) Louis Schnabel (JE | ) Austrian teacher and journalist; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, June 29, 1829; died at New York May 3, 1897. He was educated...

341 – 360

 * 1) Dob B& (JE | ) -- See L11: Ladier, Dob B&#228;r b. Shneor Zalman
 * 2) Eduard Schnitzer (JE | ) -- See E346: Emin Pasha
 * 3) Johann Schnitzler (JE | ) Austrian laryngologist; born at Nagy-Kanizsa, Hungary, April 10, 1835; died at Vienna May 2, 1893. Educated at the University...
 * 4) Schnorrer (JE | ) Jud&#230;o-German term of reproach for a Jewish beggar having some pretensions to respectability. In contrast to the ordinary...
 * 5) Nestor Ivan Schnurmann (JE | ) English educationist; born 1854 in Russia. He went to England about 1880, and began his career as a teacher of Russian and...
 * 6) Sir Alexander Schomberg (JE | ) British naval officer; born 1716; died in Dublin March 19, 1804; younger son of Meyer L&#246;w Schomberg. He entered the navy...
 * 7) Isaac Schomberg (JE | ) English physician; born at Cologne Aug. 14, 1714; died in London May 4, 1780; son of Meyer L&#246;w Schomberg. He received...
 * 8) Meyer L& (JE | ) English physician; born at Fetzburg, Germany, 1690; died in London March 4, 1761. He was the eldest son of a Jewish practitioner...
 * 9) Ralph (Raphael) Schomberg (JE | ) English physician and author; born at Cologne, Germany, Aug. 14, 1714; died at Reading, England, June 29, 1792; twin brother...
 * 10) Georg Von Sch& (JE | ) Austrian politician and anti-Semitic agitator; born at Vienna July 17, 1842. He devoted himself to agriculture, and in 1873...
 * 11) Baruch Sch& (JE | ) Hungarian Hebraist; born at Szenicz 1778; died at Budapest Dec. 29, 1852. He was a teacher in several towns of Hungary and...
 * 12) Joseph Sch& (JE | ) Russian author; born at Tiktin 1812; died at Suwalki Dec., 10, 1870. Sch&#246;nhak led a retired life, devoting his time to...
 * 13) School; School-teacher (JE | ) -- See E49: Education
 * 14) Abraham Hayyim ben Naphtali Hirsch Schor (JE | ) Galician rabbi; died at Belz, a small town near Lemberg, Jan. 3 (or 23), 1632; buried in Lemberg. He was rabbi in Satanow...
 * 15) (Moses) Ephraim Solomon (the Elder) Schor (JE | ) Polish rabbi; died in Lublin in 1633. He was the son of Naphtali Hirsch of Moravia and a descendant of the tosafist Joseph...
 * 16) Naphtali Hirsch ben Zalman Schor (JE | ) Moravian Talmudist of the sixteenth century. He was a pupil of Moses Isserles, who addressed to him many of his responsa,...
 * 17) Joshua Heschel Schorr (JE | ) Galician Hebrew scholar, critic, and communal worker; born at Brody May 22, 1814; died there Sept. 2, 1895. His parents were...
 * 18) Naphtali Mendel Schorr (JE | ) Galician Hebrew writer; died at Lemberg Dec. 14, 1883. He was the founder (1861) of the Hebrew weekly "Ha-&#39;Et," of which...
 * 19) Simon Wolf Schossberger de Torna (JE | ) Hungarian merchant and estate-owner; born 1796 at Sasvar (Sassin, Schossberg, Comitat Nyitra); died at Budapest March 25,...
 * 20) Benedict (Baruch) Schott (Schottl&) (JE | ) German educationist; born in Danzig March 11, 1763 (or 1764); died at Seesen July 21, 1846. Left an orphan at an early age...

361 – 380

 * 1) Julius Schottl& (JE | ) German merchant; born at M&#252;nsterberg, Silesia, March 22, 1835; educated at the public schools of his native town and...
 * 2) Julius Schottl& (JE | ) German gynecologist; born at St. Petersburg April 12, 1860. Studying at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg, he graduated...
 * 3) Emanuel Schreiber JE (JE | ) American rabbi; born at Leipnik, Moravia, Dec. 13, 1852. He received his education at the Talmudical college of his native...
 * 4) Moses b. Samuel Schreiber (JE | ) German rabbi; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Sept. 14, 1763; died at Presburg Oct. 3, 1839. His mother&#39;s name was Reisil...
 * 5) Simon Schreiber JE (JE | ) Austrian rabbi; born at Presburg, Hungary, 1821; died March 25, 1883, at Cracow; son of Moses Schreiber. In 1842 he became...
 * 6) Abraham Schreiner (JE | ) Austrian discoverer of petroleum; born in Galicia in the second decade of the nineteenth century; died after 1870. He was...
 * 7) Martin Schreiner (JE | ) Hungarian rabbi; born at Grosswardein July 8, 1863; educated at the local gymnasium and the rabbinical seminary and at the...
 * 8) Abraham Schrenzel (JE | ) -- See R112: Rapoport
 * 9) Jakob Schreyer (JE | ) Hungarian jurist; born Feb. 7, 1847, in Ugra. He studied at Nagyvarad, Debreczin, Budapest, and Vienna (Doctor of Law, 1870)...
 * 10) Johann Jakob Schudt JE (JE | ) German polyhistor and Orientalist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Jan. 14, 1664; died there Feb. 14, 1722. He studied theology...
 * 11) Mo& (JE | ) French rabbi; born at Westhausen, Alsace, May 2, 1845. He received his education at the lyceum at Strasburg and at the Rabbinical...
 * 12) Schul (JE | ) Jud&#230;o-German designation for the temple or the synagogue ("bet ha-midrash"), used as early as the thirteenth century...
 * 13) Moses Schulbaum (JE | ) Austrian Hebraist; born at Jezierzany, Galicia, April 25, 1835. His mother was a descendant of &#7716;akam Zebi. At...
 * 14) Sch& (JE | ) Organized attacks upon the Jews of different Polish cities by Christian youths, especially pupils of the many Jesuit schools...
 * 15) Isaac ben Zalman ben Moses Schulhof (JE | ) Austrian rabbi; born about 1650 at Prague; died there Jan. 19, 1733. He settled in Ofen as the rabbi of a small congregation...
 * 16) Julius Schulhoff JE (JE | ) Austrian pianist and composer; born at Prague Aug. 2, 1825; died at Berlin March 15, 1898. Kisch and Tedesco were his teachers...
 * 17) Schulklopfer JE (JE | ) Name given in the Middle Ages to a beadle who called the members of the congregation to service in the synagogue. It is stated...
 * 18) Kalman Schulman (JE | ) Russian author, historian, and poet; born at Bykhov, government of Moghilef (Mohilev), Russia, in 1819; died in Wilna Jan...
 * 19) Samuel Schulman (JE | ) American rabbi; born in Russia Feb. 14, 1865. He was taken to New York when hardly one year old, and was educated in the public...
 * 20) Ludwig Schulmann (JE | ) German philologist and writer; born at Hildesheim 1814; died at Hanover July 24, 1870. He studied philology at the University...

381 – 400

 * 1) Albert Schultens (JE | ) Dutch Orientalist; born at Gr&#246;ningen Aug. 23, 1686; died Jan. 26, 1756. He studied Arabic at Leyden under Van Til, and...
 * 2) William Schur (JE | ) American author; born at Outian, near Vilkomir, Russia, Oct. 27, 1844. He studied Talmud at his native town and at the Yeshibah...
 * 3) Arthur Schuster (JE | ) English physicist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Sept. 12, 1851. He was educated at Frankfort, at Owens College, Manchester...
 * 4) Schutzjude (JE | ) Jew under the special protection of the head of the state. In the early days of travel and commerce the Jews, like other aliens...
 * 5) L& (JE | ) Moravian rabbi; born at Krumau, Moravia, March 11, 1794; died April 3, 1857; pupil of R. Mordecai Benet in Nikolsburg, R....
 * 6) Mo& JE (JE | ) French librarian and author; born at Paris Sept. 18, 1839; educated at the Jewish school and the Talmud Torah at Strasburg...
 * 7) Julius Leopold Schwabach (JE | ) British consul-general in Berlin; born in Breslau 1831; died there Feb. 23, 1898. At the age of sixteen he entered the banking-house...
 * 8) Gustav Schwalbe JE (JE | ) German anatomist and anthropologist; born at Quedlinburg Aug. 1, 1844. Educated at the universities of Berlin, Zurich, and...
 * 9) Adolf Schwarz (JE | ) Austrian theologian; born July, 1846, at Ad&#225;sz-Tevel, near Papa, Hungary. He received his early instruction in the Talmud...
 * 10) Anton Schwarz (JE | ) Austrian chemist; born at Polna, Bohemia, Feb. 2, 1839; died at New York city Sept. 24, 1895. He was educated at the University...
 * 11) Gustav Schwarz (JE | ) Hungarian lawyer; born at Budapest 1858; educated in his native city and at German universities. In 1884 he became privat-docent...
 * 12) Israel Schwarz (JE | ) German rabbi; born at H&#252;rben, Bavaria, March 15, 1830; died at Cologne Jan. 4, 1875; educated by his father, R. Joachim...
 * 13) Joseph Schwarz (JE | ) Palestinian geographer; born at Flosz, Bavaria, Oct. 22, 1804; died at Jerusalem Feb. 5, 1865. When he was seventeen years...
 * 14) Peter Schwarz (JE | ) German Dominican preacher and anti-Jewish writer of the fifteenth century. According to John Eck ("Verlegung cines Juden-B&#252...
 * 15) Schwarzfeld (JE | ) Rumanian family which became prominent in the nineteenth century. Benjamin Schwarzfeld:   Rumanian educator and writer; father...
 * 16) Schweidnitz (JE | ) -- See S712: Silesia
 * 17) Schweinfurt (JE | ) Town in Lower Franconia. The first mention of its Jews dates from the year 1243, when Henry of Bamberg ordered 50 marks in...
 * 18) Schwerin (JE | ) -- See M319: Mecklenburg
 * 19) G& (JE | ) Hungarian rabbi and Talmudist; born in 1760 at Schwerin-on-the-Warthe (Posen); died Jan. 15, 1845; educated at the yeshibot...
 * 20) Marcel Schwob (Mayer Andr&) (JE | ) French journalist; born at Chaville (Seine-et-Oise) Aug. 23, 1867; died at Paris Feb. 27, 1905. He received his early instruction...

401 – 420

 * 1) Scopus (JE | ) An elevation seven stadia north of Jerusalem, where, according to tradition, the high priest and the inhabitants of the city...
 * 2) Scorpion (JE | ) An arachnid resembling a miniature flat lobster, and having a poisonous sting in its tail. It is common in the Sinaitic Peninsula...
 * 3) Scotland >> Giffnock Synagogue EL:JE (JE | ) Country forming the northern part of Great Britain. Jews have been settled there only since the early part of the nineteenth...
 * 4) Charles Alexander (Karl Blumenthal) Scott (JE | ) English author; born in London 1803; died at Venice Nov., 1866. At an early age he went to Italy, where he remained for a...
 * 5) Scourging (JE | ) -- See S1135: Stripes
 * 6) Scranton (JE | ) Third largest city in the state of Pennsylvania and capital of Lackawanna county. Jews settled there when the place was still...
 * 7) Scribes (JE | ) Body of teachers whose office was to interpret the Law to the people, their organization beginning with Ezra, who was their...
 * 8) Scroll of Antiochus JE (JE | ) -- See A1596: Antiochus, Scroll of
 * 9) Scroll of the Law (JE | ) the Pentateuch, written on a scroll of parchment. The Rabbis count among the mandatory precepts incumbent upon every Israelite...
 * 10) Scythians (JE | ) A nomadic people which was known in ancient times as occupying territory north of the Black Sea and east of the Carpathian...
 * 11) Scythopolis (JE | ) -- See B981: Beth-shean
 * 12) The Molten Sea (JE | ) -- See B1424: Brazen Sea
 * 13) Sea-mew (JE | ) For Biblical data see Cuckoo. In the Talmud (&#7716;ul. 62b) is mentioned an unclean bird under the name, and (ib. 102b)...
 * 14) Sea-monster (JE | ) -- See L275: Leviathan and Behemoth
 * 15) Seah (JE | ) -- See W81: Weights and Measures
 * 16) Seal (Device) (JE | ) It is noteworthy that a number of the seals which have been preserved belonged to women, although in later times it was not...
 * 17) Solomon Sebag (JE | ) English teacher and Hebrew writer; born in 1828; died at London April 30, 1892; son of Rabbi Isaac Sebag. He was educated...
 * 18) Sebaste (JE | ) -- See S109: Samaria
 * 19) Sebastus (JE | ) the port of C&#230;sarea on the Mediterranean Sea. C&#230;sarea itself, which Herod hadmade an important seaport, received...
 * 20) Pablo Marini Secchi (JE | ) Italian Christian merchant; lived at Rome in the sixteenth century. He made a wager with a Jew, Samson Ceneda, that Santo...

421 – 440

 * 1) Second Day of Festivals (JE | ) Day added by the Rabbis to all holy days except Yom Kippur. Jews living at a distance from Jerusalem were informed by messengers...
 * 2) The Second Temple (JE | ) -- See T122: Temple
 * 3) Sects (JE | ) -- See D452: Dositheus
 * 4) Security (JE | ) -- See S1174: Suretyship
 * 5) Joseph Sedbon (JE | ) Rabbinical and cabalistic author of Tunis in the second half of the eighteenth century. He composed a cabalistic treatise...
 * 6) Sedechias (JE | ) -- See Z73: Zedekiah
 * 7) Seder (JE | ) Before the schools of Hillel and Shammai arose in the days of King Herod, a service of thanks, of which the six "psalms of...
 * 8) Seder & JE (JE | ) Earliest post-exilic chronicle preserved in the Hebrew language. In the Babylonian Talmud this chronicle is several times...
 * 9) Seder & JE (JE | ) Anonymous chronicle, called "Zu&#7789;a" (= "smaller," or "younger") to distinguish it from the older "Seder &#39;Olam Rabbah...
 * 10) Seduction (JE | ) the act of inducing a woman or girl of previously chaste character to consent to unlawful sexual intercourse. The Mosaic law...
 * 11) Sée (JE | ) A family of Alsatian origin whose most important members are: Abraham Adolphe S&#233;e:   French bar  rister; born in Colmar...
 * 12) Josef Seegen (JE | ) Austrian balneologist; born at Polna May 20, 1822. He studied medicine at Prague and Vienna (M.D. 1847), becoming privat-docent...
 * 13) Seelig (Abi &#39;Ezri) ben Isaac Margolioth (JE | ) Polish Talmudist of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; born at Polock; died probably in Palestine. He was preacher...
 * 14) Seer (JE | ) Rendering in the English versions of the Hebrew, which in I Sam. ix. 9 is reported to have been the old popular designation...
 * 15) Seesen (JE | ) Town in the Harz Mountains, where in the fall of 1801 Israel Jacobson founded the school which was called after him (See Jacobson...
 * 16) Sefer ha-Torah (JE | ) -- See S409: Scroll of the Law
 * 17) Sefer Yezirah (JE | ) -- See Y40: Ye&#7827;irah, Sefer
 * 18) The Ten Sefirot >> Godhead (Judaism) REF:JE (JE | ) Potencies or agencies by means of which, according to the Cabala, God manifested His existence in the production of the universe...
 * 19) Segelmesa (JE | ) -- See M801: Morocco
 * 20) Judah ben Joseph Segelmessi (Sijilmissi) (JE | ) African liturgist; flourished about 1400; a native of Segelmesa, Morocco. Two selichot of his are extant, one beginning...

441 – 460

 * 1) Segol (JE | ) -- See A717: Accents in Hebrew
 * 2) Segovia (JE | ) City of Spain in Old Castile; situated between Burgos, Toledo, and Avila. When conquered by Alfonso VI. it already had a considerable...
 * 3) Segre DAB (JE | ) Italian family of scholars. Abraham ben Judah Segre (known as Rab ASI):   Rabbi in Casale in the seventeenth and eighteenth...
 * 4) Johann Christoph, Freiherr von Seherr-Thoss (JE | ) Austrian soldier; born at Lissen Feb. 17, 1670; died Jan. 14, 1743. He is known in Jewish history as having been the first...
 * 5) Joseph Seiberling (JE | ) Russian educator, censor, and communal worker; born in Wilna; died at an advanced age after 1882. His father, Isaac Markusewich...
 * 6) Seir (JE | ) Region that took its name from Seir the Horite, whose descendants occupied it, followed by Edom and his descendants. The earliest...
 * 7) Seixas (JE | ) American family, the founder of which removed from Portugal to the United States in 1730. Abraham Seixas:   American merchant...
 * 8) Sela (JE | ) -- See W81: Weights and Measures
 * 9) Selah JE (JE | ) Term of uncertain etymology and grammatical form and of doubtful meaning. It occurs seventy-one times in thirty-nine of the...
 * 10) John Selden (JE | ) English jurist and Orientalist; born Dec. 16, 1584, at Salvington, Sussex; died at Whitefriars, London, Nov. 30, 1654. He...
 * 11) Seleucia >> Seleucia Samulias JE (JE | ) Greek colony founded about the end of the third century B.C. on Lake Merom. According to the inference of Gr&#228;tz, based...
 * 12) Seleucidae (JE | ) Powerful Syrian dynasty, which exercised an influence on the history of the Jews for two centuries (312-112 B.C.). Seleucus...
 * 13) Self-defense (JE | ) -- See H873: Homicide
 * 14) Seligman >> Joseph Seligman EL:JE, Isaac Newton Seligman JE, J. & W. Seligman & Co. (JE | ) American Jewish family having its origin in Baiersdorf, Bavaria. The eight sons of David Seligman have formed merchantile...
 * 15) Franz Romeo Seligmann (JE | ) Austrian physician and Persian scholar; born at Nikolsburg June 30, 1808; died at Vienna Sept. 15, 1892. Educated at the gymnasium...
 * 16) Leopold, Ritter von Seligmann (JE | ) Austrian army surgeon; born at Nikolsburg Jan. 18, 1815; brother of Franz Romeo Seligmann. He received his education at the...
 * 17) Max Seligsohn JE (JE | ) Russian-American Orientalist; born in Russia April 13, 1865. Having received his rabbinical training at Slutsk, government...
 * 18) Samuel Seligsohn (JE | ) Hebrew poet; born at Samoczin, Posen, 1815; died there Oct. 3, 1866. He published "Ha-Abib" (Berlin, 1845), an epos. Another...
 * 19) Selihah (JE | ) Penitential prayers; perhaps the oldest portion of the synagogal compositions known under the term of Piyyu&#7789;im. The...
 * 20) Semahot JE (JE | ) Euphemistic name of the treatise known as "Ebel Rabbati," one of the so-called small or later treatises which in the editions...

461 – 480

 * 1) Semalion (JE | ) Name occurring in an obscure passage relating to the death of Moses (Sifre, Deut. 357; So&#7789;ab 13b), which modern scholars...
 * 2) Gedaliah Semiatitsch (JE | ) Lithuanian Talmudist of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was one of the &#7716;asidic party which in 1700 made...
 * 3) Semikah (JE | ) A ceremony obligatory on one who offered an animal sacrifice. The regulations governing its observance were as follows: The...
 * 4) Seminaire Israelite de France (JE | ) French rabbinical school. On Jan. 23, 1704, Abraham Schwab and Agathe, his wife, founded a yeshibah at Metz; and on Nov. 12...
 * 5) Semites (JE | ) Term used in a general way to designate those peoples who are said in Gen. x. 21-30 to be the descendants of the patriarch...
 * 6) Semitic Languages (JE | ) Languages spoken by the Semitic peoples (comp. Semites). These peoples are the North-Arabians, the South-Arabians, the Abyssinians...
 * 7) Harvard University Semitic Museum (JE | ) Founded by Jacob H. Schiff of New York in 1889, at Cambridge, Mass. Its objects are to gather, preserve, and exhibit all known...
 * 8) Charles Semon (JE | ) Philanthropist; born in Danzig 1814; died in Switzerland July 18, 1877. He emigrated to England and settled in the manufacturing...
 * 9) Sir Felix Semon (JE | ) English specialist in diseases of the throat; born at Danzig Dec. 8, 1849; nephew of Julius Semon. He studied medicine at...
 * 10) Sen Bonet Bonjorn (JE | ) -- See B1290: Bonet, Jacob Ben David
 * 11) Herman Senator (JE | ) German clinicist and medical author; born at Gnesen, province of Posen, Prussia, Dec. 6, 1834; M.D. Berlin, 1857. During his...
 * 12) Lucius Annaeus Seneca (JE | ) Stoic philosopher; born about 6 B.C.; died 65 C.E.; teacher of Nero. Like other Latin authors of the period, Seneca mentions...
 * 13) Seneh (JE | ) -- See B1363: Botany
 * 14) Abraham Senior (JE | ) Court rabbi of Castile, and royal tax-farmer-in-chief; born in Segovia in the early part of the fifteenth century; a near...
 * 15) Phoebus ben Jacob Abigdor Senior (JE | ) Talmudic scholar and author; lived in thefirst half of the eighteenth century. He wrote a commentary on the six orders of...
 * 16) Senlis (JE | ) Chief town of an arrondissement of the department of the Oise, France, and a noted health and pleasure resort. It possessed...
 * 17) Sennacherib (JE | ) King of Assyria, 705-681 B.C.; son and successor of Sargon. His reign was a warlike one, yet it was marked by grandeur in...
 * 18) Sens (JE | ) Chief town of an arrondissement of the department of the Yonne, France. Jews were among its inhabitants as early as the sixth...
 * 19) The Five senses (JE | ) According to the Aristotelian psychology, the human soul possesses, besides the rational and nutritive faculties, that of...
 * 20) Sentence (JE | ) -- See J691: Judgment

481 – 500

 * 1) Sephardim (JE | ) Descendants of the Jews who were expelled from Spain and Portugal and who settled in southern France, Italy, North Africa...
 * 2) Sepphoris (JE | ) City in Palestine which derived its name from the fact that it was perched like a bird on a high mountain. It is first mentioned...
 * 3) Septuagint (JE | ) -- See B1035: Bible Translations
 * 4) Sepulveda (JE | ) City in the bishopric of Segovia, Spain, inhabited by Jews as early as the eleventh century. Its old laws contained a paragraph...
 * 5) Isaac Henrique Sequira (JE | ) English physician; born at Lisbon 1738; died in London Nov., 1816. He came of a medical family, his grandfather, father, and...
 * 6) Serah (JE | ) Daughter of Asher, son of Jacob. She is counted among the seventy members of the patriarch&#39;s family who emigrated from...
 * 7) Seraiah (JE | ) A scribe, and one of the officials under David (II Sam. viii. 17; comp. xx. 25, where he appears under the name Sheva). In...
 * 8) Seraphim (JE | ) Class of heavenly beings, mentioned only once in the Old Testament, in a vision of the prophet Isaiah (vi. 2 et seq.). Isaiah...
 * 9) Serebszczyzna (JE | ) Land-tax imposed upon the inhabitants of Lithuania and Russia in the Middle Ages, and deriving its name from the fact that...
 * 10) Serene (Serenus) (JE | ) Pseudo-Messiah of the beginning of the eighth century; a native of Syria. The name is a Latin form of, which is found in...
 * 11) Serpent (JE | ) the following terms are used in the Old Testament to denote serpents of one kind or another: (1) "nachash," the generic...
 * 12) Serraglio Degli Ebrei (JE | ) -- See G210: Ghetto
 * 13) Serre (JE | ) -- See D81: Dauphin&#233;
 * 14) Servant (JE | ) -- See M252: Master and Servant
 * 15) Servant of God (JE | ) Title of honor given to various persons or groups of persons; namely, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Deut. ix. 27; comp. Ps. cv. 6...
 * 16) Servi Camerae (JE | ) -- See K82: Kammerknechtschaft
 * 17) Flaminio Ephraim Servi (JE | ) Italian rabbi; born at Pitigliano, Tuscany, Dec. 24, 1841; died at Casale-Monferrato Jan. 23, 1904. He received his education...
 * 18) Servia (JE | ) Kingdom of southeastern Europe; until 1876 a vassal state of Turkey. The history of the Jews of the country is almost identical...
 * 19) Service of Process (JE | ) -- See P538: Procedure in Civil Causes
 * 20) Karl Borrom& (JE | ) Anti-Jewish author; born at Breslau Dec. 20, 1786; died there Dec. 4, 1813. He studied philosophy and medicine in various...