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 * 1) Joseph Zabara (JE | ) -- See J535: Joseph Zabara
 * 2) Zabdai ben Levi (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the first generation (third century). He belonged to the scholarly group of which Hoshaiah Rabbah was the ......
 * 3) Zabim (JE | ) Ninth tractate in the Mishnah and Tosefta of the sixth Talmudic order Ṭohorot. It deals with the uncleanness caused by ......
 * 4) Israel (Isidor) Zabludowski (JE | ) Russian physician; born at Byelostok, in the government of Grodno, July 30, 1850. At the age of twelve he wrote ......
 * 5) Jehiel Michael ben Chayyim Zabludowski (Jehiel Michael ben Hayyim Zabludowski) (JE | ) Russian Hebrew scholar and author; born at Byelostok, government of Grodno, in 1803; died there Nov. 14, 1869. He devoted ......
 * 6) Zachariah of Kiev (JE | ) -- See J668: Judaizing Heresy
 * 7) Abraham ben Samuel Zacuto S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Spanish astronomer mathematician, and historian; born at Salamanca about 1450; died in Turkey after 1510. An astronomer of wide-spread reputation, ......
 * 8) Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Cabalistic writer and poet; born about 1625; died at Mantua Oct. 1, 1697. It is generally supposed that his birthplace ......
 * 9) Tzaddiq (Tzaddik, Zaddik) S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) -- See H349: &#7716;asidim
 * 10) Tzadduqim (Tzaddukim, Zaddukim) S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) -- See S40: Sadducees
 * 11) Zadok (JE | ) A priest, perhaps the high priest during the reign of David. He was the son of Ahitub (II Sam. viii. ......
 * 12) Zadok Gaon (JE | ) Gaon of Sura from 820 to 821. On the basis of a responsum quoted in the "Sha'are Ẓedeḳ" (iv. 311, ......
 * 13) Zadok 'Imani (JE | ) African liturgical poet, who wrote the following eight poems that are found in the Tripolitan Maḥzor: (1) "El hekal ḳodsho"; ......
 * 14) Zag S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) See Benveniste, Isaac; Malea, Meïr de; Isaac ibn Sid; Alfonsine Tables. ......
 * 15) Tzahalon (Zahalon) >> Yom Tov Tzahalon JE (JE | ) A family of Spanish origin; represented by members who, after the exile from Spain, settled in Italy and the Orient, ......
 * 16) Zakkai (JE | ) Palestinian tanna of the second century; contemporary of Judah ha-Nasi I. and apparently a pupil of Simeon b. Yoḥai. He ......
 * 17) Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski (JE | ) American soldier and inventor; born at Kurnich, Prussian Poland, Dec. 13, 1849. In 1853 his parents emigrated to the United ......
 * 18) Moses G. Zalinski (JE | ) American soldier; born in New York city Jan. 23, 1863; educated in the public schools. He joined the regular army ......
 * 19) Zalmunna S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Midianite king defeated and slain by Gideon (Judges viii. 5-7, 10, 12, 15, 18, 21; Ps. lxxxiii. 12 [A. V. ......
 * 20) Lazarus Ludwig Zamenhof S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Founder of the universal language "Esperanto"; born at Byelostok in Dec., 1859. His father, Markus Zamenhof, and his grandfather, Fabian ......

21 – 40

 * 1) Abraham ben Isaac ha-Kohen Zamosz (JE | ) Polish rabbi and anti-Shabbethaian of the eighteenth century; rabbi of Tarly. He was very prominent in persecuting the Shabbethaians who ......
 * 2) Israel ben Moses ha-Levi Zamosz (JE | ) Polish Talmudist and mathematician; born at Buberki about 1700; died at Brody April 20, 1772. He was appointed one of ......
 * 3) Joseph ben Jacob Isaac Zamosz (JE | ) Polish rabbi of the eighteenth century; rabbi of Zamosz. He was the author of "Mishnat Ḥakamim" (Lemberg, 1792), an analytical ......
 * 4) Tzebi Hirsch ben Benjamin Zamosz (Zebi Hirsch ben Benjamin Zamosz) (JE | ) German rabbi; born in 1740; died at Altona in 1807. He was rabbi of several communities, including Brody and ...
 * 5) Zamzam (JE | ) A sacred well in the mosque of Mecca; identified by Islamitic legend with the spring from which Hagar and Ishmael ......
 * 6) Israel Zangwill (JE | ) English man of letters; born in London Feb. 14, 1864. When he was young his parents ......
 * 7) Louis Zangwill JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) English novelist; born at Bristol, England, July 25, 1869; brother of Israel Zangwill. He was educated at Jews' Free School, ......
 * 8) Zante S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Island in the Aegean Sea. According to a study, as yet unpublished, by Leonidas Zoë, a lawyer of Zante, Jews ......
 * 9) Abraham Zante (JE | ) -- See A573: Abraham ben Shabbethai Cohen of Zante
 * 10) Joseph Zapateiro (JE | ) -- See C119: &#199;apateiro, Joseph
 * 11) Zaphnath-Paaneah (JE | ) Name given by Pharaoh to Joseph (Gen. xli. 45). It seems to be an Egyptian name, but its etymology is ......
 * 12) Bruno Zappert (JE | ) Austrian dramatist and journalist; born in Vienna Jan. 28, 1845; died there Jan. 31, 1892. The Zappert family, many members ......
 * 13) George Zappert JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Hungarian historian and archeologist; born in Alt-Ofen Dec. 7, 1806; died in Vienna Nov. 23, 1859. The son of well-to-do ......
 * 14) Israel L. Zappert (JE | ) Austrian philanthropist; elder brother of George and grandfather of Bruno Zappert; born at Prague in 1795; died there in 1865. ......
 * 15) Tzara'at (Zara'at) S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) -- See L208: Leprosy
 * 16) Tzarfati, Tzarefati (Zarfati, Zarefati) (JE | ) Epithet frequently applied in rabbinical literature to Jews of French birth or descent. Among those so called may be mentioned: ......
 * 17) Tzarfati (Zarfati) (JE | ) Oriental Jewish family, traced by the bibliographer Azulai to a line of French rabbis descended from Rashi through his grandson ......
 * 18) Tzarifa (Zarifa) (JE | ) Name of a goddess mentioned in a single passage of the Talmud ('Ab. Zarah 12a) as having been worshiped at ......
 * 19) Zarka S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) -- See A717: Accents in Hebrew
 * 20) Judah ben Abraham Zarqo (Judah ben Abraham Zarko) (JE | ) Hebrew poet distinguished for the elegance of his style; flourished at Rhodes in the sixteenth century. During a residence at ......

41 – 60

 * 1) Samuel ibn Seneh Zarza JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Spanish philosopher; lived at Valencia in the second half of the fourteenth century. According to Zunz, his surname is derived ......
 * 2) Abraham bin Zarzal (JE | ) Spanish physician and astronomer; flourished in the first half of the fourteenth century at the court of the Nasserites in ......
 * 3) Moses ibn Zarzal (JE | ) Spanish physician and poet; physician in ordinary to Henry III. of Castile; flourished in the latter half of the fourteenth ......
 * 4) Jacob David ben Isaac Zausmer (JE | ) Polish Masorite of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; rabbi of Zausmer, near Cracow; died before 1644. He was the author ......
 * 5) Jacob ben Samuel Zausmer (JE | ) Polish rabbi and preacher; flourished at Zausmer in the seventeenth century. He was the author of the "Bet Ya'aḳob." (Dyhernfurth, ......
 * 6) Zayin (?) S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The meaning of the name is uncertain. In sound the letter is a sonant ......
 * 7) Zbarazer (JE | ) -- See E69: Ehrenkranz, Benjamin Wolf
 * 8) Samuel Zbitkover (JE | ) -- See W43: Warsaw
 * 9) Zealots S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Zealous defenders of the Law and of the national life of the Jewish people; name of a party opposing with ......
 * 10) Zebachim (Zebahim) (JE | ) Treatise in the Mishnah, the Tosefta, and the Babylonian Talmud, dealing mainly with the laws and regulations to be observed ......
 * 11) Tzeba'ot Adonai (Zeba'ot Adonai) (JE | ) -- See A840: Adonai
 * 12) Zebedee S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Father of the apostles James and John, and husband of Salome; a native of Galilee and a fisherman by calling ......
 * 13) Tzebi ben Aaron (Zebi ben Aaron) (JE | ) -- See K29: Kaidanover, &#7826;ebi Hirsch
 * 14) Tzebi Ashkenazi (Zebi Ashkenazi) JE (JE | ) -- See A1970: Ashkenazi, &#7826;ebi Hirsch ben Jacob
 * 15) Tzebi Hirsch ben Chayyim (Zebi Hirsch ben Hayyim) (JE | ) Dayyan and ḥazzan at Posen toward the end of the seventeenth century. Under the title "Sefer Or Yashar" he edited ......
 * 16) Tzebi Hirsch ben Isaac Jacob (Zebi Hirsch ben Isaac Jacob) (JE | ) Shoḥeṭ at Cracow in the sixteenth century; a pupil of Moses Isserles. He was the author of "Haggahot le-Sefer Sheḥiṭah ......
 * 17) Tzebi Hirsch ben Joseph ben Tzebi ha-Kohen (Zebi Hirsch ben Joseph Zebi ha-Kohen) (JE | ) Polish Talmudist of the seventeenth century; studied for some time at Cracow under Yom-Ṭob Lipmann Heller. He was the author ......
 * 18) Tzebi Hirsch b. Simon (Zebi Hirsch b. Simon) (JE | ) Lithuanian Talmudist; lived in the middle of the eighteenth century. He was dayyan and preacher in the community of Vitebsk ......
 * 19) Zebid (JE | ) Babylonian amora of the fourth century; a contemporary of Abaye, whose halakot he transmitted, and of whom he was perhaps ......
 * 20) Zebu'im (JE | ) -- See H1000: Hypocrisy

61 – 80

 * 1) Zebulun S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) The sixth son of Leah (Gen. xxx. 20), and hence the name of the tribe descended from him (Num. i. ......
 * 2) Zechariah S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) One of the Minor Prophets, to whom is attributed the collection of prophecies and apocalyptic visions constituting the book bearing ......
 * 3) Book of Zechariah S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Prophetical book composed of fourteen chapters; the eleventh in the order of the Minor Prophets, following Haggai and preceding Malachi. ......
 * 4) Zechariah ben Abqilus (Zechariah ben Abkilus, Amphikalos) (JE | ) Palestinian scholar and one of the leaders of the Zealots; lived in Jerusalem at the time of the destruction of ......
 * 5) Zechariah ben Jehoiada S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) A reforming priest who lived under King Joash of Judah. He reproved the idolaters, announcing God's judgment against them; and ......
 * 6) Zechariah ha-Kohen (JE | ) Greek or Turkish Biblical commentator and liturgical poet of the fifteenth century; maternal grandfather of Menahem ben Moses Tamar. According ......
 * 7) Zechariah Mendel ben Aryeh Löb JE (JE | ) Polish Talmudist of the eighteenth century; a native of Cracow, and in later life chief rabbi and head of the ......
 * 8) Zechariah Mendel ben Aryeh Löb JE (JE | ) Galician and German preacher and scholar; born at Podhaice in the early part of the eighteenth century; died at Frankfort-on-the-Oder ......
 * 9) Zechariah ibn Sa'id al-Yamani (JE | ) Author of an Arabic version of the "Yosippon"; flourished in the tenth or eleventh century. His version exists in three ......
 * 10) Zechariah ben Solomon Zebsil (JE | ) German Talmudist of the sixteenth century; rabbi of the Ashkenazic community at Jerusalem, where he died. He was the father-in-law ......
 * 11) Tzedaqah Box (Tzedakah Box) (JE | ) A receptacle in which voluntary charitable contributions are deposited. Theearliest mention of such a device is in connection with Jehoiada ......
 * 12) Joseph Kohen-Tzedeq (Joseph Kohen-Tzedek, Joseph Kohen-Zedek) (JE | ) Austro-English rabbinical scholar and preacher; born in Lemberg 1827; died in London 1903. His family claimed to trace its ancestry ......
 * 13) Zedekiah S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) One of the four hundred prophets (I Kings xxii. 11, 24, 25) whom Ahab summoned to inquire of them before ......
 * 14) Zedekiah ben Abraham JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) -- See A1486: Anaw, Zedekiah ben Abraham
 * 15) Zedekiah ben Benjamin (JE | ) Italian Talmudist and liturgist; lived in Rome in the thirteenth century; died after 1280; elder cousin of Zedekiah b. Abraham ......
 * 16) Alexander Ossypovitch Zederbaum JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Russian Hebrew journalist; born in Samostye, Lublin, 1816; died in St. Petersburg 1893; founder and editor of "Ha-Melitz," and other ......
 * 17) Joseph Zedner JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) German bibliographer and librarian; born at Gross-Glogau Feb. 10, 1804; died at Berlin Oct. 10, 1871. After completing hiseducation, he ......
 * 18) Israel Zeebi (JE | ) Prominent Talmudist; son of Benjamin Zeebi, and on his mother's side a grandson of Abraham Azulai; born at Hebron in ......
 * 19) Tz'enah U-Re'enah (Ze'enah U-Re'enah S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Judaeo-German paraphrase of the Pentateuch, the Haftarot, and the Five Megillot, written by Jacob b. Isaac of Janow, who flourished ......
 * 20) Ze'era JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the third generation; born in Babylonia, where he spent his early youth. He was a pupil of ......

81 – 100

 * 1) Ha-Zefirah (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 2) Ze'iri (JE | ) Amora of the third century; born in Babylonia. He sojourned for a long time in Alexandria, and later went to ......
 * 3) Simon Zeisel (JE | ) Austrian chemist; born at Lomnitz, Moravia, April 11, 1854; educated at the German gymnasium of Brünn and at the University ......
 * 4) Sigmund Zeisler JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) American jurist; born at Bielitz, Austria, April 11, 1860; educated at the University of Vienna and at the Northwestern University, ......
 * 5) Hermann von Zeissl (JE | ) Austrian dermatologist; born at Vierzighuben near Zwittau, Moravia, Sept. 22, 1817; died at Vienna Sept. 23, 1884; educated at the ......
 * 6) Die Zeit S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 7) Der Zeigeist (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 8) Joshua Zeitlin JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Russian rabbinical scholar and philanthropist; born at Shklov in 1742; died at Kherson Aug. 18, 1822. He was a pupil ......
 * 9) Joshua b. Aaron Zeitlin JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Russian scholar and philanthropist; born at Kiev Oct. 10, 1823; died at Dresden Jan. 11, 1888. While he was still ......
 * 10) William Zeitlin JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Russian scholar and bibliographer; born at Homel, government of Moghilef, about the middle of the nineteenth century. He is known ......
 * 11) Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 12) Zeitschrift für die Religiösen Interessen des Judenthums (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 13) Zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 14) Zeitung (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 15) Zekor Berit (JE | ) A poem by Gershom ben Judah (960-1040), the "Light of the Exile" (Zunz, "Literaturgesch." p. 239); it is chanted in ......
 * 16) Catherine Zelazowska JE (JE | ) Polish convert to Judaism; born in 1460; martyred at Cracow in 1540. She was the widow of an alderman of ......
 * 17) Samuele Vita Zelman (JE | ) Austro-Italian poet; born at Triest in 1808; died there in 1885. He was educated at the rabbinical college of Padua, ......
 * 18) Zelophehad S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) A Manassite who in one passage is called the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the grandson of Manasseh ......
 * 19) Tzemach ben Chayyim (Zemah ben Hayyim) JE (JE | ) Gaon of Sura from 889 to 895. He was the stepbrother and successor of Nahshon ben Zadok, and has become ......
 * 20) Jacob ben Chayyim Tzemach (Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah) JE (JE | ) Portuguese cabalist and physician; died at Jerusalem in the second half of the seventeenth century. He received a medical training ......

101 – 120

 * 1) Tzemach ben Kafnai (Zemah ben Kafnai) (JE | ) Gaon of Pumbedita from 936 to 938, at the time when Saadia had been reinstated in the gaonate of Sura ......
 * 2) Magister Zematus (JE | ) -- See M568: Michael b. Shabbethai
 * 3) Zemirot (JE | ) A term applied by the Sephardim to the Psalms in the earlier sections of the morning service. The Ashkenazim, on ......
 * 4) Zend-Avesta S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) -- See A2165: Avesta
 * 5) Zenobia Septimia S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Empress of Palmyra; regent (from 267 to 273) for her minor son Vollabathus, who had been appointed imperator by the ......
 * 6) Zephaniah S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) One of the twelve Minor Prophets who describes himself as "the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son ......
 * 7) Zephaniah ben Mordecai Troki (JE | ) Karaite scholar and author; flourished during the latter part of the sixteenth century; brother of Joseph b. Mordecai Troki. He ......
 * 8) Zerahiah ben Isaac Ha-Levi Gerondi JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Talmudic author and liturgical poet of the twelfth century; disciple of Moses ben Joseph of Narbonne. Azulai and many others, ......
 * 9) Zerahiah ha-Yewani (RaZaH) JE (JE | ) Byzantine ethical writer of the thirteenth or fourteenth century. Of his life no details are known, except that he was ......
 * 10) Zera'im S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) The first order of the Mishnah, containing eleven treatises: Berakot, Pe'ah, Demai, Kil'ayim, Shebi'it, Terumot, Ma'aserot, Ma'aser Sheni, ?allah, 'Orlah, ......
 * 11) Brook Zered (JE | ) One of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness, indicated as the end of the thirty-eighth year of wandering ......
 * 12) Gustav Zerffi JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Hungarian journalist and revolutionist; born in Hungary about 1820. He was the author of "Wiener Lichtbilder und Schattenspiele," with twelve ......
 * 13) Zerika (JE | ) Palestinian amora of the fourth century; a pupil of Eleazar, whose halakic maxims he transmitted (Soṭah 4b; Zeb. 93b; Men. ......
 * 14) Raphael Jedidiah Solomon ben Jeshua Tzeror (Raphael Jedidiah Solomon ben Jeshua Zeror) (JE | ) Algerian rabbi; born at Algiers Sept. 8, 1681; died there Dec. 21, 1737. He was a descendant of a family ......
 * 15) Zerubbabel S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Son of Shealtiel (Ezra iii. 2, 8; Hag. i. 1; "Pedaiah" in I Chron. iii. 19 is probably a scribal ......
 * 16) Zevast (JE | ) -- See W188: Will
 * 17) Zhidovstvuyushchaya Yeres (JE | ) -- See J668: Judaizing Heresy
 * 18) Zhitomir (Jitomir) JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Russian city; capital of the government of Volhynia. It is one of the oldest towns in European Russia, having become ......
 * 19) Zidon (Sidon) S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Eldest son of Canaan (Gen. x. 15; I Chron. i. 13).2. According to Strabo (xvi. 2), the oldest city of ......
 * 20) Ignaz Ziegler JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Austrian rabbi; born at Also-Kubin, Hungary, Sept. 29, 1861; educated at the Rabbinical Seminary and at the University of Budapest ......

121 – 140

 * 1) Ziklag S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Simeonitic town which, after the union of the tribes of Simeon and Judah, became Judean; first mentioned in the account ......
 * 2) Antal Zilzer (Anton Zilzer) JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Hungarian painter; born at Budapest in 1861. He was a pupil of Rauscher, Gregusz, and Szekely at the national model ......
 * 3) Nathan Löb David Zimmer (JE | ) English pietist and scholar; born at Fürth, Bavaria, in March, 1831; died at London Jan. 10, 1895. He was noted ......
 * 4) Helen Zimmern (JE | ) German authoress; born at Hamburg March 25, 1846. She went to England at an early age, and resided there till ......
 * 5) Zimrat ha-Aretz (Zimrat ha-Arez) (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 6) Zimri S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Son of Zerah and grandson of Judah (I Chron. ii. 6), identical with Zabdi (Jos. vii. 1).2. Son of Salu, ......
 * 7) Zin (JE | ) Frontier post of Judah on the south, mentioned in the description (Num. xxxiv. 4; Josh. xv. 3) of the frontier ......
 * 8) Zinc S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) -- See B1412: Brass
 * 9) Zion S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) -- See J242: Jerusalem
 * 10) Zion S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 11) Zionides JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) The songs of Zion, i.e., the lyrical hymns which express the longing of the Jewish nation to see the hill ......
 * 12) Zionism S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Movement looking toward the segregation of the Jewish people upon a national basis and in a particular home of its ......
 * 13) Der Zionist (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 14) Zippor S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Father of Balak, King of Moab, who hired Balaam to curse Israel. All the passages which mention Zippor name him ......
 * 15) Zipporah S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Daughter of Jethro and wife of Moses. According to the Bible,Moses met the daughters of Jethro when they were being ......
 * 16) Maier Zipser JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Hungarian rabbi; born at Balassa-Gyarmath Aug. 14, 1815; died at Rechnitz Dec. 10, 1869. He studied in various yeshibot, among ......
 * 17) Heinrich Zirndorf (JE | ) German poet and rabbinical scholar; born at Fürth, Bavaria, May 7, 1829; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 17, 1893; educated ......
 * 18) The Ziz, mythological flying creature the size of Leviathan in Jewish Lore
 * 19) Tzitzit (Zizit) S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) -- See F423: Fringes
 * 20) Znaim (JE | ) City in the Austrian province of Moravia. Jews probably settled there during the twelfth century; for in a document of ......
 * 21) Zoan S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) An important Egyptian city of great antiquity, almost as old as Hebron (Num. xiii. 22). The "princes of Zoan" are ......

141 – 160

 * 1) Zodiac S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) An imaginary zone of the heavens containing the twelve signs within which lie the paths of the principal planets, and ......
 * 2) Zohar S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) A pseudepigraphic work which pretends to be a revelation from God communicated through R. Simeon ben Yo?ai to the latter's ......
 * 3) Emile Zola S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) French novelist; born in Paris April 2, 1840; died there Sept. 29, 1902. It was only in his last years, ......
 * 4) Bernhard (Bär) Zomber (JE | ) Polish scholar; born at Lask in 1821; died at Berlin in 1884. Having acquired a fair knowledge of rabbinical literature ......
 * 5) Zor S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) -- See T373: Tyre
 * 6) Samuel ha-Levi Tzoref (Samuel ha-Levi Zoref) (JE | ) Rabbi at Posen; died between 1710 and 1716. He was the author of "Maẓref la-Kesef" (Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 1681), containing extracts from ......
 * 7) Zoroastrianism S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) The religion of ancient Persia as founded by Zoroaster; one of the world's great faiths that bears the closest resemblance ......
 * 8) Ephraim Lamen Zox (JE | ) Communal worker of Melbourne, Australia; born in London 1837; died Oct. 23, 1899. He was thirteen years old when he ......
 * 9) Zsidó Hiradó (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 10) Alfred Zucker (JE | ) Chemist and manufacturer of Dresden, Germany; born Aug. 17, 1871, in Uffenheim, Bavaria. He studied pharmacy and chemistry at the ......
 * 11) Marcus Zucker (JE | ) German librarian and author; born May 1, 1841. He was for some time chief librarian at the University of Erlangen, ......
 * 12) Emil Zuckerkandl JE S 2005-08-19 (JE | ) Austrian anatomist; born at Raab, Hungary, in 1849; educated at the University of Vienna (M.D. 1874). In 1875 he became ......
 * 13) Moses Samuel Zuckermandel JE (JE | ) German rabbi and Talmudist; born at Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia, April 24, 1836. He became a rabbi in Pleschen, Prussia, and was ......
 * 14) Benedict Zuckermann JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) German scientist; born at Breslau Oct. 9, 1818; died there Dec. 17, 1891. He received a thorough Hebrew and secular ......
 * 15) Aryeh Loeb Charif b. Moses (Aryeh Loeb Harif b. Moses) (JE | ) Polish rabbi; born at Pinczow about 1773; died at Warsaw 1833. He was a thorough Talmudic scholar, and was also ......
 * 16) Zug S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) -- See S1201: Switzerland
 * 17) Zugot JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Name given to the leading teachers of the Law in the time preceding the Tannaim. The period of the Zugot ......
 * 18) Johannes Hermann Zukertort S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Chess-player and physician; born at Lublin, Russian Poland, Sept. 7, 1842; died in London June 20, 1888; son of a ......
 * 19) Die Zukunft S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 20) Maier Zunder (JE | ) -- See C729: Connecticut

161 – 180

 * 1) Eliakim Zunser S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Russian "badḥan" and poet; born at Wilna in 1845. At the age of sixteen he had gained a local reputation ......
 * 2) Nathan Zuntz S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) German physiologist; born at Bonn Oct. 6, 1847; educated at the university of his native city (M.D. 1868). Becoming an ......
 * 3) Leopold Zunz - need to incorporate the text into our article - (JE | ) Founder of the modern "science of Judaism" and pioneer in the history of Jewish literature, religious poetry, and the ritual ......
 * 4) Zuph JE S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) A Levite, and one of the ancestors of the prophet Samuel (I Sam. i. 1); in the parallel passage, I ......
 * 5) Aaron Hirsch Zupnik (JE | ) Galician Hebrew and Judæo-German writer; born at Drohobycz c. 1850. In addition to editing the "Drohobyczer Zeitung," a Judæo-German weekly ......
 * 6) Zurich S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) Capital of the Swiss canton of the same name. Jews first settled there in the early part of the fourteenth ......
 * 7) Moses ben Samuel Zuriel (JE | ) Mathematician of the seventeenth century; author of "Meḥaddesh Ḥodashim" (Venice, 1653), a calendar for 5414-34 (= 1654-74).Bibliography: Steinschneider, in Monatsschrift, ......
 * 8) Zurishaddai S 2007-08-11 (JE | ) The father of Shelumiel, a chief of the tribe of Simeon, who was chosen to aid Moses in numbering the ......
 * 9) Zurita (JE | ) Fortified city of Castile on the River Tajo, one and one-half miles from Pastrana. It had a Jewish community as ......
 * 10) Mar Zutra I (JE | ) Exilarch from 401 to 409. He was the successor of Mar Kahana and a contemporary of R. Ashi, whose enactments ......
 * 11) Mar Zutra II (JE | ) Exilarch; born about 496; died about 520; ruled from 512 to 520. He was the son of Huna, who was ......
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