Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/E

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1. Eagle (JE | WP GWP G) the rendering in the English Bible versions of the Hebrew "nesher." the nesher, however, was bald; nested on high rocks; and...
2. Earnest-money (JE | WP GWP G) Part payment of the price by the buyer of a commodity as a guaranty that he will stand by the bargain.Wherever the payment...
3. Earnings (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M252: Master and Servant
4. Earring (JE | WP GWP G) A ring or hook passed through the lobe of the ear. Earrings, so widely used by Eastern peoples, have no particular designation...
5. Earth (JE | WP GWP G) the Hebrew expression for "earth" means primarily earth or soil as an element, and also the surface of the earth and plowed...
6. Earthquake (JE | WP GWP G) the Hebrew word "ra'ash," as well as its Assyrian and Arabic equivalents designating an earthquake, is indicative of a...
7. Easement (JE | WP GWP G) An incorporeal, right, existing distinct from the ownership of the soil, consisting of a liberty, privilege, or use of another&#39...
8. East (JE | WP GWP G) Worshipers of the sun turned toward the east, with their backs to the Holy of Holies (Ezek. viii. 16; comp. Suk. v. 4), whereas...
9. East Indies (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C558: Cochin
10. Easter (JE | WP GWP G) Name given by Anglo-Saxons to the Christian Passover as the Feast of Resurrection, and rather incorrectly used for the Jewish...
11. Eating (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B215: Banquets
12. Ebal (JE | WP GWP G) 1. A bare mountain 2,900 feet high, north of Sichem, opposite Mt. Gerizim. At the base toward the north are several tombs...
13. Ebed-melech (JE | WP GWP G) A Cushite officer at the court of King Zedekiah, who interceded in behalf of Jeremiah, and was sent by the king with thirty...
14. Ebed Tob (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A196: Abdi Ḥeba
15. Ebel Rabbati JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S460: SemaḤot
16. Eben-ezer JE (JE | WP GWP G) Scene of two battles in which the Israelites were defeated by the Philistines. In the first engagement they lost 4,000 men...
17. Eber (JE | WP GWP G) the eponymous ancestor of the Hebrews; grandson of Arphaxad and great-grandson of Shem; father of Joktan, the ancestor of...
18. Eber ben Pethahiah (JE | WP GWP G) Moravian scholar; lived in Ungarisch-Brod at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Steinschneider indicates the possibility...
19. Abraham ben Judah Eberlen (JE | WP GWP G) German mathematician; lived at Frankfort-on-the-Main in the first half of the sixteenth century. He was the author of a work...
20. George Friedrich Felix Eberty [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German jurist and author; born in Berlin Jan. 26,1812; died at Arnsdorf (Riesengebirge) July 7, 1884. He was educated at the...

21 – 40

1. Ebiasaph (JE | WP GWP G) A Levite, descendant of Kohath, and one of the ancestors of the prophet Samuel and of Heman, the singer. In Exodus vi. 24...
2. Ebionites (JE | WP GWP G) Sect of Judæo-Christians of the second to the fourth century. They believed in the Messianic character of Jesus, but...
3. Ebony (JE | WP GWP G) This word is mentioned only once in the Old Testament, namely, Ezek. xxvii. 15, where it is stated that the Arabian merchant...
4. Ebron (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A207: Abdon, of which it is a variant form
5. Wilhelm Ebstein JE (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born in Jauer, Prussian Silesia, Nov. 27, 1836. He studied medicine at the universities of Breslau and Berlin...
6. Book of Ecclesiastes (JE | WP GWP G) the name "Ecclesiastes"—literally, "Member of an Assembly," often thought to mean (after Jerome) "Preacher"—is...
7. Ecclesiasticus (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S836: Sirach
8. Echo Des Judenthums (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
9. Ecija (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish city in the province of Seville. A charge of ritual murder occurred in the time of the "great king" Alfonso (Alfonso...
10. Joseph de Ecija (JE | WP GWP G) See Benveniste, Joseph ben Ephraim ha-Levi.
11. Johann Maier von Eck (JE | WP GWP G) Catholic theologian; born at Eck, Bavaria, Nov. 13, 1486; died in Ingolstadt Feb. 10, 1543. One of the most active antagonists...
12. Ed JE (JE | WP GWP G) Name supplied by the English versions for the altar erected by the tribes on the east of the Jordan (Joshua xxii. 34). The...
13. 'Edah Kedoshah (JE | WP GWP G) Two Hebrew appellations signifying respectively "holy congregation" and "sacred college"; the former being peculiar to the...
14. Eddinus (JE | WP GWP G) One of the three "holy singers . . . , the sons of Asaph" (I Esd. i. 15), at Josiah's Passover. He alone belonged to the...
15. Judah Löw ben Moses ha-Levi Edel (JE | WP GWP G) Russian preacher; born at Zamoscz, government of Lublin, Poland; died at Slonim 1827. He was a pupil of Elijah Wilna, and...
16. Hirsch Edelmann (Hen-Tob) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Author and editor; born in Swislocz, Russia, 1805; died at Berlin, Nov. 20, 1858. He was the son of a rabbinical scholar,...
17. Simhah Reuben Edelmann JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian grammarian and commentator; born in Wilna Jan., 1821; died in Warsaw Dec., 1892. He received a good Talmudical education...
18. Samuel Eliezer ben Judah Edels (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; born in Posen, 1555; died at Ostrog Nov. 30, 1631. He was a son-in-law of Rabbi Moses Ashkenazi, author of "Zikron...
19. Garden of Eden (JE | WP GWP G) Name given to the "earthly paradise" occupied by Adam and Eve before their fall through sin. The word "Eden," perhaps an Assyrian...
20. Eder, Edar (JE | WP GWP G) A place near Ephrath, i.e., Bethlehem. Jacob, while journeying from Bethlehem to Hebron, encamped "beyond the tower of Eder"...

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1. Alfred Edersheim (JE | WP GWP G) Christian theologian and missionary to the Jews; born at Vienna, of Jewish parents, March 7, 1825; died at Menton March 16...
2. Edessa (JE | WP GWP G) the present Urfa, a city in the vilayet of Aleppo, Asiatic Turkey. No mention of the name is found in Jewish writings, except...
3. Edinburgh (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of Scotland. When the Jews began to settle in Scotland early in the nineteenth century, they appear to have been attracted...
4. Markus Edinger [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German deputy; born at Worms Jan. 14, 1808; died at Mannheim Feb. 9, 1879. He was the first Jew summoned by the government...
5. Edom, Idumea (JE | WP GWP G) Edom is the name which was given to Esau, the first-born son of Isaac, on the day he sold his birthright to Jacob for a mess...
6. Moses Edrehi (JE | WP GWP G) Moroccan cabalist and teacher of modern and Oriental languages of the earlier part of the nineteenth century; born in Morocco...
7. Edrei (JE | WP GWP G) Ancient city in the Jordan valley, at present Der'at, southeast of Muzerib. The city is apparently mentioned as "Otara"...
8. Edris (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E383: Enoch in Arabic Literature
9. Education (JE | WP GWP G) the moral and religious training of the people from childhood up was regarded by the Jews from the very beginning of their...
10. Educational Alliance (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N248: New York
11. Educatore Israelita (JE | WP GWP G) Monthly periodical founded by Giuseppe Levi, and published by him, in conjunction with Esdra Pontremoli, at Vercelli (1853-74)...
12. 'Eduyot (JE | WP GWP G) Following is a synopsis of the longer portions of the treatise:Chapter i.: in 1-3 a matter of dispute between Hillel and Shammai...
13. 'Efa [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinic scholar of the fourth century. He was a native of Babylonia, who, although but few halakot and fewer haggadot are...
14. Efes JE (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar of the third century; secretary to the patriarch Judah I. (Gen. R. lxxv. 5), and one of the last tannaim. After Judah&#39...
15. Efodi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D526: Duran
16. Amram ben Nathan Efrati [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Valencia in the second half of the fourteenth century. He was a contemporary of Nissim b. Reuben, rabbi of Barcelona...
17. Eger (JE | WP GWP G) Bohemian town, on the right bank of the River Eger. The population of Eger in 1890 was 17,148, including 508 Jews. The oldest...
18. Eger >> Akiva ben Moses Eger (JE | WP GWP G) A family established for a long time at Halberstadt, Germany. It appears to have been originally known by the name of "Gins"...
19. Egesippus (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J473: Joseph b. Gorion
20. Eggs (JE | WP GWP G) the Old Testament refers to eggs of birds (Deut. xxii. 6) and of vipers (Isa. lix. 5, A. V., "cockatrice"), and to the well-known...

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1. Eglah (JE | WP GWP G) Mother of Ithream, David's sixth son (I Chron. iii. 3). The expression "wife of David" (II Sam. iii. 5) probably means...
2. Eglath-shelishiyah [he] (JE | WP GWP G) A place mentioned in ancient oracles against Moab (Isa. xv. 5, R. V.; Jer. xlviii. 34, R. V.), together with Zoar, Luhith...
3. Eglon (JE | WP GWP G) A king of Moab, who overcame the Israelites and captured the "city of palm-trees," by which is probably meant Jericho (Judges...
4. Menahem ben Moses Egozi (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish Talmudist; lived at Constantinople during the sixteenth century. He was the author of "Gal shel Egozim," expositions...
5. Egotism (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1334: Altruism
6. Meshullam ben Samson Egra (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi; born in Galicia 1733; died at Presburg Sept. 21, 1785. Egra's father was of Buczacz, Galicia, but Meshullam...
7. Egypt >> History of the Jews in Egypt JE (JE | WP GWP G) the valley of the Nile north of the first cataract, having an area of 9,000-12,000 square miles of arable ground. Almost rainless...
8. Ehad Mi Yodea' (JE | WP GWP G) Initial words of a Hebrew nursery-rime which, with Chad Gadya, is recited at the close of the Seder on Passover eve....
9. Benjamin Wolf Ehrenkranz JE (JE | WP GWP G) Galician Yiddish poet; born in Zbaraz, Galicia, about 1812; died about 1882. He spent many years in Rumania and southern Russia...
10. Moses Levi Ehrenreich JE (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi; born at Brody, Galicia, 1818; died at Rome Dec. 27, 1899. Having graduated from the gymnasium of his native...
11. Moritz Ehrentheil [hu; he] (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian educator and writer; born at Szilágy-Nagyfalu in 1825; died at Budapest Dec. 27, 1894. After teaching in various...
12. Adolph Ehrlich [de; he] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian educator and rabbi; born in Mitau, Courland, Sept. 20, 1837. In 1858 he became teacher of the Hebrew language and...
13. Arnold Ehrlich (JE | WP GWP G) Bible critic; born in Volodovka, near Brest-Litovsk, Russia, Jan. 15, 1848. Educated at the universities of Leipsic and Berlin...
14. Heinrich Ehrlich (JE | WP GWP G) German composer, pianist, and musical critic; born at Vienna Oct. 5, 1822; died Dec. 20, 1899. He began his musical career...
15. Meshullam Ehrlich (JE | WP GWP G) Polish philologist; born at Lublin 1818; died at Paris 1861. He was one of the leading Talmudic scholars of his time, as well...
16. Paul Ehrlich (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Strehlen, Prussian Silesia, March 14, 1854. He studied medicine at the universities of Breslau,...
17. Daniel Ehrmann [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi; born at Muttersdorf, Bohemia, in 1816; died at Brünn Nov. 15, 1882. After studying at Budapest and Prague...
18. Ehud (JE | WP GWP G) Second judge of Israel; a Benjamite, the son of Gera. Concealing under his garment a two-edged sword, he carried a present...
19. Albert Eibenschütz [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German pianist; born in Berlin April 15, 1857; studied pianoforte under Reinecke and composition under Paul at the Leipsic...
20. David Solomon Eibenschütz JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi and author; died in Safed, Palestine, 1812. He was a pupil of Rabbi Moses Zebi Heller, author of "Geon...

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1. Ilona Eibenschütz JE (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian pianist; born at Budapest May 8, 1872. She received her first instruction in music from her cousin Albert Eibensch&#252...
2. Jonathan Eibenschütz (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E556: Eybeschütz, Jonathan
3. Simon Aaron Eibeschütz [da] (JE | WP GWP G) Danish philanthropist; born Nov. 14, 1786 in Copenhagen; died there Nov. 25, 1856. He left a fortune amounting to about 1...
4. Julia Eichberg [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R419: Rosewald, Julia Eichberg
5. Julius Eichberg (JE | WP GWP G) Violinist, director of music, and composer; born in Düsseldorf, Germany, June 13, 1824; died at Boston, Mass., Jan. 18...
6. Pauline Eichberg (JE | WP GWP G) -- See W98: Weiller, Pauline Eichberg
7. Jacob Eichenbaum (JE | WP GWP G) Russian educator, poet, and mathematician; one of the pioneers of modern education among the Russian Jews; born in Krasnopolie...
8. Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (JE | WP GWP G) Orientalist and Biblical scholar; born at Dörrenzimmern, in the principality of Hohenlohe-Oehringen, Oct. 16, 1752; died...
9. Gustave d'Eichthal JE (JE | WP GWP G) French publicist and Hellenist; born at Nancy March 22, 1804; died at Paris April 9, 1882. At the age of thirteen he became...
10. Moses Zarah Eidlitz [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian Talmudist; born before 1725; died May 17, 1786, at Prague. Following the custom of the time, he conducted a Talmud...
11. Eighteen Benedictions (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S612: Shemoneh 'Esreh
12. Issachar Baer ben Israel Leyser Eilenburg [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; born in Posen about 1570; died in Austerlitz, Moravia, in 1623. His father gave him a thorough training in the...
13. Einbeck (JE | WP GWP G) Town in the province of Hanover, Prussia. That Jews lived there at a very early date is shown by the fact that some Einbeck...
14. David Einhorn (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi, preacher, and theological writer; leader of the Reform movement in America; born at Dispeck, Bavaria, Nov. 10...
15. Ignatz Einhorn [hu; de; he] (Eduard Horn) (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian preacher and political economist; born at Vágh-Ujhely Sept. 25, 1825; died at Budapest Nov. 2, 1875. He was...
16. Max Einhorn (JE | WP GWP G) Physician; born Jan. 10, 1862, at Grodno, Russia; studied medicine at the universities of Kiev and Berlin, graduating as M...
17. Edwin Einstein (JE | WP GWP G) Born at Cincinnati Nov. 18, 1842; educated in New York city; received the degree of master of arts at Union College, Schenectady...
18. Eiragoly (JE | WP GWP G) -- See K387: Kovno
19. Johann Andreas Eisenmenger JE (JE | WP GWP G) Anti-Jewish author; born in Mannheim 1654; died in Heidelberg Dec. 20, 1704. The son of an official in the service of the...
20. Eisenstadt + (JE | WP GWP G) City in the county of Oedenburg (Sopron), Hungary. The Jewish community of Eisenstadt is the only community of Hungary that...

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1. Eisenstadt UNR >> Abraham Hirsch ben Jacob Eisenstadt of Byelostok JE (JE | WP GWP G) Polish family which, when the Jews were compelled to adopt family names, selected the name of Eisenstadt, a town in Hungary...
2. Julius (Judah David) Eisenstein JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian-American writer; born in Meseritz, government of Siedlec, Russian Poland, Nov. 21, 1855. He emigrated in 1872 to the...
3. Eishishki (JE | WP GWP G) -- See W194: Wilna
4. Leopold Eisler [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi; born Feb. 11, 1825, at Boskowitz, Moravia; studied Talmud under Rabbi Abraham Placzek, and Oriental languages...
5. Moritz Eisler [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian educator and philosophical writer; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Jan. 20, 1823; died at Troppau, Silesia, Dec. 21,...
6. Rudolph Eisler (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian writer; born in Vienna Jan. 7, 1873. He was educated at the universities of Berlin, Vienna, and Leipsic, graduating...
7. Alexander, Ritter von Eiss (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian colonel; born at Piesling, Moravia, 1832. He entered the Austrian army at the age of fifteen, and took part in the...
8. Ejectment (JE | WP GWP G) An action to recover the immediate possession of real property, with damages for wrongful withholding.The general principle...
9. Ekah (Lamentations) Rabbati JE (JE | WP GWP G) the Midrash on Lamentations, like Bereshit Rabbah and the Pesikta ascribed to Rab Kahana, belongs to the oldest works...
10. Ekaterinoslav (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Y30: Yekaterinoslav
11. Ekron (JE | WP GWP G) One of the five cities belonging to the Philistines (Josh. xiii. 3), situated in the maritime plain. It is mentioned in connection...
12. El 'Elyon (JE | WP GWP G) the most high God (Gen. xix. 18-20, 22, A. V.; R. V. "God most high"), as whose priest Melchizedek blesses Abraham (compare...
13. El Male Rahamin (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H453: Hazkarat Neshamot
14. El Nora 'Alilah EL:JE (JE | WP GWP G) A hymn attributed to Moses ibn Ezra, and chanted, in the Sephardic liturgy, before the commencement of the "Ne'ilah" or...
15. El Shaddai (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G282: God
16. Ela (Hela, Ilaa, Ilai, Ili, La, Leia, Yela) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian scholar of the third amoraic generation (third and fourth centuries). In one form or another, his name frequently...
17. Eladah (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Tahath and father of Tahath, found in the genealogical list of Ephraim in I Chron. vii. 20, but not mentioned in the...
18. Elah (JE | WP GWP G) King of Israel; son of Baasha, who seized the throne of northern Israel after the murder of Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, its...
19. The Valley of Elah (JE | WP GWP G) Scene of the combat between David and Goliath (I Sam. xvii. 2, xxi. 9). It is identified with the fertile Wadi al-San&#7789...
20. Elam (JE | WP GWP G) the great plain north of the Persian Gulf and east of the lower Tigris and the mountainous districts by which it is enclosed...

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1. El'asah (JE | WP GWP G) Amora, whose epoch is uncertain; known chiefly on account of a controversy which he had with a certain Philippus (or a philosopher)...
2. Elath (JE | WP GWP G) Idumean port at the northern end of the Aelanitic Gulf, the later Aila. According to the Old Testament, the name of the...
3. Ismar Elbogen JE (JE | WP GWP G) German scholar; born at Schildberg Sept. 1, 1874. Educated by his uncle, Jacob Levy, author of the "Neuhebräisches W&#246...
4. Elcesaites (JE | WP GWP G) A Judæo-Christian sect of Gnostic tendencies, whose period of influence extended from about 100 to 400. The Church Fathers...
5. Elche (JE | WP GWP G) City in the former kingdom of Valencia. When Don Jaime I. of Aragon took the city from the Moors, he gave houses and land...
6. Eldad ben Mahli ha-Dani JE (JE | WP GWP G) Merchant and traveler of the ninth century. He professed to have been a citizen of an independent Jewish state in eastern...
7. Eldad and Medad (JE | WP GWP G) Two men who prophesied in the camp during the wanderings in the wilderness (Num. xi. 26-29). According to an old rabbinical...
8. Elder (JE | WP GWP G) in primitive times age was a necessary condition of authority. Not only among the ancient Jews, but also among other nations...
9. Rebellious Elder (JE | WP GWP G) An elder who defies the authoritative rabbinic interpretation of the Mosaic Law. In the period when the Sanhedrin flourished...
10. Elead (JE | WP GWP G) A descendant of Ephraim, found in the genealogical list in I Chron. vii. 21. He joined a party of raiders to take away the...
11. Elealah (JE | WP GWP G) Town of the Moabite plateau, conquered by Gad and Reuben and rebuilt by the latter (Num. xxx ii. 3, 37). It is mentioned,...
12. Eleazar (JE | WP GWP G) High priest; third son of Aaron. After his two elder brothers, Nadab and Abihu, had suffered death for offering strange fire...
13. Eleazar I (Lazar) (Eleazar b. Shammua') JE (JE | WP GWP G) Mishnaic teacher of the fourth generation, frequently cited in rabbinic writings without his patronymic (Ab. iv. 12; Gi&#7789...
14. Eleazar II (Lazar) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third century (second and third generations). In the Midrashim he is frequently cited with his patronymic...
15. Eleazar b. Abina (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian haggadist of the fourth amoraic generation (fourth century C. E.); junior contemporary of Acha III., in whose...
16. Abraham Eleazar (JE | WP GWP G) Fictitious author of an ancient work on alchemy published in Leipsic in 1760, and bearing the title "R. Abrahami Eleazaris...
17. Eleazar ben Ahwai (Ahbai) (JE | WP GWP G) Probably identical, according to Bacher ("Ag. Tan." ii. 553), with Eleazar b. Mahbai or Machbai, a tanna of the second...
18. Eleazar ben 'Arak JE (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second generation (first century C.E.). Being first among the disciples of R. Johanan ben Zakkai (Ab. ii. 8;...
19. Eleazar b. Azariah JE (JE | WP GWP G) Mishnaic scholar of the second generation (first century C.E.); junior contemporary of Gamaliel II., Eliezer b. Hyrcanus,...
20. Eleazar of Bartota (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E152: Eleazar B. Judah of Bartota

141 – 160

1. Eleazar b. Dama (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B629: Ben Dama
2. Eleazar b. Dinai (JE | WP GWP G) Leader of the Zealots (35-60, C.E.). When the Jews of Peræea had boundary disputes with the pagan population of Philadelphia...
3. Eleazar b. Durdaia (JE | WP GWP G) A famous penitent, quoted both as a warning against debauchery, which leads to death, and as an encouragement to repentance...
4. Eleazar b. Eleazar ha-Kappar (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B236: Bar Ḳappara
5. Eleazar (Eliezer) b. Enoch (JE | WP GWP G) A scholarly contemporary of 'Akabia b. Mahalalel and Gamaliel II. According to the statement of Judahb. 'Illai...
6. Eleazar of Hagronia (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian scholar of the fourth amoraic generation (fifth century); junior of Acha b. Jacob and Raba (b. Joseph). He...
7. Eleazar (Eliezer) b. Hisma JE (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second and third generations (second century); disciple of Joshua b. Hananiah and Gamaliel II. (Ḥag. 3a...
8. Eleazar b. Jacob JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E224: Eliezer B. Jacob
9. Eleazar b. Jair (JE | WP GWP G) Leader of the Sicarii, the remnant of whom, driven from Jerusalem about 70 by Eleazar b. Ananias, retired to Masada. Eleazar...
10. Eleazar (Lazar) ben Jose I (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the fourth and fifth generations (second century). He was second among the five learned sons of Jose b. Ḥalafta...
11. Eleazar (Lazar) b. Jose II (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fifth generation (fifth century); senior of Nachman II. and Acha III. (Pesik. v....
12. Eleazar (Eliezer, Lazar) b. Judah of Bartota (Biria, Birta, Birtota) (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar and philanthropist of the third tannaitic generation (first and second centuries); disciple of Joshua b. Hananiah...
13. Eleazar ben Judah ben Kalonymus of Worms JE (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist and cabalist; born, probably at Mayence, about 1176; died at Worms in 1238. He was a descendant of the great Kalonymus...
14. Eleazar (Eliezer) ha-Kappar (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the fourth generation (second century); father of bar Ḳappara, who is sometimes cited by the same name. Eleazar...
15. Eleazar Lasi ben Joseph (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist; born in Berlin Sept. 24, 1740; died at Hamburg Jan. 22, 1814. He studied under Tebele Scheuer, rabbi of...
16. Eleazar b. Mahbai (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E137: Eleazar B. AḤwai
17. Eleazar b. Malai (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian scholar of the fourth century, whose name is mentioned but once, in the Babylonian Talmud, and then only as the...
18. Eleazar b. Mattai (Matthias) (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the third and fourth generations (second century); contemporary of Hananiah b. Ḥakinai, ben 'Azzai, and...
19. Eleazar b. Menahem (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian scholar of the fourth amoraic generation (fourth century). No halakot and but few haggadot are connected with...
20. Eleazar of Modi'im (Modaim) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar of the second tannaitic generation (first and second centuries); disciple of Johanan ben Zakkai (B. B. 10b), and contemporary...

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1. Eleazar b. Nathan (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E233: Eliezer B. Nathan
2. Eleazar ben Pedat (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E134: Eleazar II
3. Eleazar ben Perata I JE (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the third generation (second century); junior contemporary of Eleazar of Modi'im (Tosef., Sanh. iv. 8; Yer. Meg...
4. Eleazar ben Perata II (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second and third centuries; grandson of Eleazar ben Perata I.; sometimes designated as "Eleazar b. Perata, the...
5. Eleazar ben Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi; born at Cracow about 1665; died at Safed, Palestine, 1742. On the completion of his studies he became dayyan of Cracow...
6. Eleazar ben Samuel of Metz (JE | WP GWP G) French tosafist; died 1198. He was a pupil of R. Tam, and is often quoted in tosafot—sometimes as "RAM," sometimes as...
7. Eleazar b. Shammua' JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E133: Eleazar
8. Eleazar ben Simon (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second century. He was the son of Simon b. Yochai, and since he participated in many of his father's...
9. Eleazar b. Zadok (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E169: Eliezer B. Zadok
10. Eleazar ben Zita abu al-Sari (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite Bible exegete; lived probably in Egypt in the tenth century. He supported the rigid, ascetic, and Sadducean doctrines...
11. Elegy (JE | WP GWP G) -- See K219: Ḳinah
12. Elephant (JE | WP GWP G) A pachydermatous mammal of the family of the Elephantidæ. It is now commonly agreed that the elephant (Elephas indicus)...
13. Eleutheropolis (JE | WP GWP G) Greek name of a city called "Bet Gubrin" in the Talmud and "Baitogabra" by Ptolemy. In the Old Testament the name can not...
14. Uzziel Elha'ik (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and preacher in Tunis, of which place he was a native; died there 1812. He left two works which were printed long after...
15. Elhanan (JE | WP GWP G) According to II Sam. xxi. 19, R. V., the son of Jaareoregim, the Bethlehemite, who in a battle with the Philistines at Gob...
16. Elhanan ben Bezalel Uri Hefez (JE | WP GWP G) Polish scholar; lived in Posen in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was the author of a work called "Ḳiryat...
17. Elhanan Hendel (Haenle) ben Benjamin Wolf Kirchhan [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Ethical writer; lived at Frankfort-on-the-Main at the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth....
18. Elhanan ben Isaac of Dampierre (JE | WP GWP G) Tosafist and liturgist; martyred in 1184 (Solomon Luria, Responsa, No. 29; see Azriel). He was on his grandmother's side...
19. Elhanan ben Issachar Katz (JE | WP GWP G) Religious writer in Hebrew and Judæo-German; lived in the second half of the seventeenth century and at the beginning...
20. Elhanan ben Samuel (Sanwel) Ashkenazi [de; he] (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Schottland, near Danzig; born in 1713; died Sept. 27, 1780. At the age of eighteen he became rabbi of Fordon, Prussia...

181 – 200

1. Elhanan ben Shemariah (JE | WP GWP G) Egyptian Talmudist; flourished in the tenth and eleventh centuries. He was the son of Shemariah b. Elhanan of Kairwan, who...
2. Elhanan b. Simon (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1501: Andreas
3. Eli JE (JE | WP GWP G) High priest at Shiloh and judge over Israel (I Sam. i. 3, iv. 18, xiv. 3; I Kings ii. 27). He was a descendant of Aaron&#39...
4. Eli b. Judah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D229: Judah B. Eli
5. Eli Ziyyon (JE | WP GWP G) the alphabetical hymn closing the series of "Kinot" chanted in the northern rituals on the morning of the Fast of Ab...
6. Eliab (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Helon and leader of the tribe of Zebulun at the time when the census was taken in the wilderness (Num. i. 9; ii. 7...
7. Eliada (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B497: Beeliada
8. Eliakim (JE | WP GWP G) Name borne by three Biblical personages. 1. Son of Hilkiah; appointed successor of Shebna, the "treasurer" (R. V. "scribe...
9. Eliakim (JE | WP GWP G) A Palestinian scholar of the third century. His name is connected with no halakot, and with a single haggadah only. He construes...
10. Eliakim ben Abraham [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Cabalist and grammarian; lived at London in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His works are: "'Asarah Ma'amarot...
11. Eliakim ben Asher Selig (JE | WP GWP G) Polish Talmudic scholar; lived at Yampol in the eighteenth century. He was sent by the Polish Jews (1757) to Rome to defend...
12. Eliakim Gottschalk of Rothenburg (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist; lived in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was a descendant of Meïr of Rothenburg, and, according...
13. Eliakim (Götz) ben Jacob (JE | WP GWP G) Galician cantor, teacher, and translator; born at Komarno; died at Amsterdam before 1709. He was the author of: "Leshon Limmudim...
14. Eliakim (Götz) ben Meïr (JE | WP GWP G) Polish Talmudist; flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In his youth, at Posen, he devoted himselfto the...
15. Eliakim ben Meshullam (ha-Levi) JE (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist and payyeṭan; born about 1030; died at the end of the eleventh century in Speyer, Rhenish Bavaria....
16. Eliakim ben Naphtali (JE | WP GWP G) Italian ethical writer; lived in the fifteenth century; author of "Tob Shem. Tob," selections from the Talmud...
17. Eliam ((redirects to King David's Warriors JE)) (JE | WP GWP G) One of David's heroes (II Sam. xxiii. 34); son of Ahithophel the Gilonite (comp. I Chron. xi. 36).2. Father of Bath-sheba...
18. Vittorio Eliano (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish convert to Christianity; grandson of Elijah Levita; lived in Italy in the sixteenth century; became priest and canon...
19. Elias Cretensis (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D227: Delmedigo, Elijah
20. Julius Elias (JE | WP GWP G) German author; born at Hoya, Hanover, June 21, 1861. He was educated at Dorotheenstadt industrial school, Friedrich Werder...

201 – 220

1. Elias Levita JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L298: Levita, Elijah
2. Ney Elias (JE | WP GWP G) British consul-general at Meshed, Persia, and explorer; died in London May 31, 1897. At an early age he found his way to China...
3. Elias Pasha (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C592: Cohen, Elias
4. Samuel Elias (JE | WP GWP G) English pugilist, popularly known as "Dutch Sam"; born April 4, 1775, in London; died July 3, 1816. After successful contests...
5. Bezaleel Judah Eliasberg (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Hebraist; born at Ivenitz 1800; died at Minsk 1847. Under the title "Marpe le-'Am," with a supplement entitled...
6. Jonathan b. Mordecai Eliasberg [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi; born in Kovno 1850; died in Volkovisk, government of Grodno, Nov. 20, 1898. His first rabbinate was in Pumpian...
7. Mordecai b. Joseph Eliasberg [de; he] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi; born in Chaikishok, government of Grodno, Feb., 1817; died in Bausk, Courland, Dec. 11, 1889. His father-in-law...
8. Eliezer (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Servant of Abraham; mentioned by name only in Gen. xv. 2, a passage which presents some difficulties. Eliezer is described...
9. Eliezer (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fifth century; contemporary of Abdimi (Yer. 'Er. x. 26a) and of Berechiah II. (Gen. R. lxxvii...
10. Eliezer the Astronomer (JE | WP GWP G) German scholar of the sixteenth century; author of "Ge Ḥizzayon," an astrological compilation from Hebrew, Arabic, and...
11. Eliezer of Beaugency (JE | WP GWP G) French exegete of the twelfth century; born at Beaugency, capital of a canton in the department of Loiret; pupil of Samuel...
12. Eliezer of Bourgogne (JE | WP GWP G) French Talmudist of the thirteenth century. Gross identifies him with Eliezer ben Aaron of Bourgogne, one of the six rabbis...
13. Eliezer ben Faruh (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish mathematician, said by certain Mohammedan authors to have first established the Jewish calendar. He is mentioned by...
14. Eliezer b. Hisma (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E214: Eleazar b. Ḥisma
15. Eliezer (Liezer) ben Hyrcanus JE (JE | WP GWP G) One of the most prominent tannaim of the first and second centuries; disciple of R. Johanan ben Zakkai (Ab. ii. 8; Ab. R....
16. Eliezer (Eleazar) ben Immanuel of Tarascon (JE | WP GWP G) Member of a family of scholars established in that city since the first half of the thirteenth century. Although he wrote...
17. Eliezer b. Isaac (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D212: Del Bene, David
18. Eliezer ben Isaac of Bohemia (JE | WP GWP G) See Tosafists.
19. Eliezer Isaac Cohen ben Abraham Ashkenazi of Viterbo (JE | WP GWP G) Italian physician and Talmudic authority; born at Rome at the beginning of the sixteenth century; died, probably at Sienna...
20. Eliezer ben Isaac ha-Gadol JE (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi of the eleventh century. He was a pupil of his cousin R. Simon ha-Gadol of Mayence and of R. Gershom Me'or...

221 – 240

1. Eliezer D'Italia (JE | WP GWP G) Printer of Mantua at the beginning of the seventeenth century; established a printing-office in Mantua in 1612 after an interval...
2. Eliezer (Liezer-eleazar) b. Jacob >> Eliezer ben Jacob I JE, Eliezer ben Jacob II JE (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the first century; contemporary of Eleazar b. Ḥisma and Eliezer b. Hyrcanus, and senior of 'Illai (Pes...
3. Eliezer ben Jacob Bellin Ashkenazi (JE | WP GWP G) German scholar of the seventeenth century. He prepared a calendar ("'Ibronot," Lublin, 1615) based upon the work of Jacob...
4. Eliezer b. Jacob Nahum (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N37: Nahum
5. Eliezer ben Joel ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist; born probably at Bonn 1160-65; died about 1235. He belonged to a German family of scholars; his father,...
6. Eliezer b. Jose ha-Gelili JE (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the fourth generation (second century); one of Akiba's later disciples (Ber. 63b; Cant. R. ii. 5; Eccl. R. xi...
7. Eliezer ben Joseph of Chinon (JE | WP GWP G) French Talmudist; born about 1255; martyred on the Jewish New-Year, Sept. 25, 1321; a pupil of Perez ben Elijah of Corbeil...
8. Eliezer ben Judah (JE | WP GWP G) See Eleazar ben Judah of Bartota.
9. Eliezer Liepmann ben Judah Löb Levi Brody (JE | WP GWP G) Cabalist of Galicia in the eighteenth century; author of two cabalistic commentaries: one on the Psalms, "Migdal Dawid," with...
10. Eliezer ben Meïr ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Pinsk, Russia; flourished in the second half of the eighteenth century. He wrote: "Siach ha-Sadeh," Pentateuchal...
11. Eliezer ben Menahem Mannes Sternburg (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Petach 'Enayim," an index to Biblical passages found...
12. Eliezer b. Naphtali of Frankfort (JE | WP GWP G) See Treves, Eliezer b. Naphtali.
13. Eliezer ben Nathan of Mayence JE (JE | WP GWP G) Halakist and liturgical poet; flourished in the first half of the twelfth century. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Eliakim...
14. Eliezer ben Reuben (JE | WP GWP G) -- See K18: Kahana, Eliezer ben Reuben
15. Eliezer ben Samson (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and liturgist of Cologne, of the twelfth century; a relative of the tosafist R. Eliezer b. Nathan; studied at Speyer...
16. Eliezer b. Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) See Treves, Eliezer b. Samuel.
17. Eliezer ben Samuel of Verona JE (JE | WP GWP G) Italian tosafist; lived about the beginning of the thirteenth century. He was a disciple of Rabbi Isaac the elder, of Dampierre...
18. Eliezer b. Taddai (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second century; contemporary of Simon b. Eleazar (Tosef., 'Er. vii. [v.] 9); and quoted in some baraitot...
19. Eliezer of Toledo (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi in Constantinople in the first half of the nineteenth century and a contemporary of Ḥiyya Pontremoli. He was the...
20. Eliezer of Toulouse (JE | WP GWP G) French tosafist; died about 1234. In his youth Eliezer was a tutor in the house of the wealthy scholar Hezekiah ben Reuben...

241 – 260

1. Eliezer of Touques JE (JE | WP GWP G) French tosafist; lived at Touques in the second half of the thirteenth century. He abridged the tosafot of Samson of Sens...
2. Eliezer (Eleazar) b. Zadok (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the first century; disciple of Johanan the Horonite (Tosef., Suk. ii. 3; Yeb. 15b). He traced his descent from Shinhab...
3. Eliezer ben Zeeb Wolf (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi; lived about the middle of the eighteenth century. He was the author of two works: (1) "Imre Shefer," containing...
4. Elihu (JE | WP GWP G) Name of several Biblical personages. It has two forms— and —and its meaning is "He is my God," i.e., "He remains...
5. Elijah (JE | WP GWP G) the name means "Yhwh is (my) God," and is a confession that its bearer defended Yhwh against the worshipers of Baal and of...
6. Apocalypse of Elijah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1643: Apocalyptic Literature
7. Elijah's Chair (JE | WP GWP G) At every circumcision Elijah, "the angel of the covenant," as he is called in Malachi (iii. 1), is supposed to be seated at...
8. Elijah ben Abraham (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite scholar of the twelfth century. He was the author of a work entitled "ḤalukKot ha-Ḳara&#39...
9. Elijah b. Abraham ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See O169: Öttingen
10. Elijah Ha-'adeni (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and payyeṭan cf Cochin, India; dates of birth and death unknown. He was a native of Aden, and was therefore called...
11. Elijah Alamannus (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish physician and diplomat of the fifteenth century, and court physician of the Duke of Bourbon (probably Louis II. of...
12. Elijah b. Azriel of Wilna (JE | WP GWP G) Grammarian and author, died after 1748. He wrote: "Ma'aneh Eliyahu," rules for Hebrew reading, Frankfort-on-the-Main,...
13. Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chelm (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; born in 1550; died at Chelm. About 1565 he entered the yeshibah of Rabbi Solomon Luria of Lublin, and, after...
14. Elijah ha-Babli (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T58: Tanna debe, Eliyahu
15. Elijah Bahur (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L298: Levita, Elijah
16. Elijah Be'er (Fonte) b. Shabbethai (JE | WP GWP G) Italian physician; born in Germany at the end of the fourteenth century. He settled in Italy, where the Senate accorded him...
17. Elijah ben Benjamin ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish rabbi; flourished in Constantinople in the sixteenth century. He succeeded one of his teachers, Elijah Mizra&#7717...
18. Elijah Cohen ben Moses ben Nissim (JE | WP GWP G) Oriental scholar of the second half of the thirteenth century. He translated an Arabic makamah, similar to the "Assemblies"...
19. Elijah b. Eliezer (JE | WP GWP G) See Delmedigo, Elijah B. Eliezer.
20. Elijah ben Ezekiel (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Byelgorai, Poland, in the eighteenth century. His father, Ezekiel, was rabbi of Ostrovtsi, Galicia, and he washimself...

261 – 280

1. Elijah of Ferrara (JE | WP GWP G) Italian Talmudist and traveler of the earlier part of the fifteenth century. He was engaged in 1437 as lecturer and teacher...
2. Elijah Gaon (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E284: Elijah b. Solomon
3. Elijah Hayyim b. Benjamin (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G133: Genazzano, Elijah Ḥayyim
4. Elijah ben Isaac of Carcassonne (JE | WP GWP G) French Talmudist; flourished in the first half of the thirteenth century; progenitor of the de Latas, or Lattes, family. He...
5. Elijah ben Jacob (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and cabalist of Ulianov, Galicia; lived in the eighteenth century. He was a contemporary of Jonathan Eybeschütz...
6. Elijah b. Joseph (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N326: Nola, Elijah b. Joseph
7. Elijah ben Joseph (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish Talmudist and commentator; lived at Salonica in the sixteenth century. He wrote: "Ḳol Teru'ah," homilies...
8. Elijah b. Joseph (Yoske) (JE | WP GWP G) See Spira, Elijah b. Joseph.
9. Elijah b. Judah Löob of Wischnitz (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi and author; died in 1715. At an early age he left Poland and went to Fulda, Germany, where he became rabbi. He...
10. Elijah ben Judah of Paris (JE | WP GWP G) French Talmudist of the twelfth century, often quoted by later Talmudists as an important authority. He became well known...
11. Elijah ben Kalonymus (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudical scholar; lived at Lublin in the seventeenth century. He was the author of a commentary on the Pentateuch, entitled...
12. Elijah Magistratus (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G133: Genazzano, Elijah Ḥayyim
13. Elijah ben Menahem ha-Zaken (JE | WP GWP G) French liturgical poet; flourished at Le Mans in the eleventh century. According to Solomon Luria, (Responsa, No. 29), he...
14. Elijah Mizrahi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E274: Mizraḥi, Elijah
15. Elijah ben Mordecai (JE | WP GWP G) Payyeṭan of the eleventh century, possibly a native of Italy. Of his poetic productions a "Kerobah" for the Min&#7717...
16. Elijah ben Moses Gershon (JE | WP GWP G) Eighteenth-century Polish physician, mathematician, and Talmudist; lived at Pinczow, government of Kielce, Russian Poland...
17. Elijah ben Moses Israel (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian rabbi; born at Jerusalem; died at Alexandria Jan. 7, 1786. In 1763 he became rabbi of Rhodes, and was later offered...
18. Elijah b. Moses de Vidas (JE | WP GWP G) Cabalist at Safed in the sixteenth century; pupil of R. Moses Cordovero. He went to Poland, but returned to Palestine, and...
19. Elijah of Pesaro (JE | WP GWP G) Italian Talmudist and philosopher of the sixteenth century. After a long residence in Venice as Talmudic teacher, he started...
20. Elijah Rabbenu (Ben Judah Tishbi) (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite scholar; died about 1584. He wrote in 1579 at Constantinople a work called "Pe'er" (="Perush Eliyahu Rabbenu")...

281 – 300

1. Elijah b. Samuel of Lublin (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; died at Hebron, Palestine, 1735. He became rabbi of Byala, and later, after residing for some time at Brest-Litovsk...
2. Elijah ben Samuel ben Parnes of Stephanow (JE | WP GWP G) Bulgarian exegete and poet; lived in the second half of the fifteenth century, probably first at Widdin, and later at Constantinople...
3. Elijah ben Shemaiah (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi and liturgical poet; lived at Bari in the twelfth century. He was one of the teachers of Samuel b. Na&#7789...
4. Elijah ben Solomon (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian Talmudist, cabalist, grammarian, and mathematician; born at Wilna April 23, 1720; died there Oct. 9, 1797. He gave...
5. Elijah ben Solomon Abraham ha-Kohen JE (JE | WP GWP G) Dayyan of Smyrna; almoner and preacher; died 1729. Elijah produced over thirty works, of which the principal, according to...
6. Elijah Wilna (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E284: Elijah b. Solomon
7. Elijah of York (JE | WP GWP G) Tosafist; supposed to have been killed in the York massacre of 1190. In Tosef., Yoma, 27a, he is called Elijah of , and in...
8. Elim (JE | WP GWP G) the second camping-place of the Israelites on the march from Egypt. It had twelve springs and seventy palm-trees (Ex. xv....
9. Elimelech (JE | WP GWP G) A man of the tribe of Judah, living in Bethlehemjudah at the time of the Judges (Ruth i. 2). Scarcity of food compelled him...
10. Eliphaz (JE | WP GWP G) the first of the three visitors of Job (Job ii. 11), surnamed "the Temanite"; supposed to have come from Teman, an important...
11. Eliphelet ((redirects to King David's Warriors JE)) (JE | WP GWP G) the last of the eleven sons born to David in Jerusalem (II Sam. v. 16). In I Chron. iii. 6, 8; xiv. 5, 7, two sons of this...
12. Eliseus (JE | WP GWP G) Learned Jew at the court of Murad I. at Brusa and Adrianople during the second half of the fourteenth century. After a time...
13. Elisha (JE | WP GWP G) Successor to the prophet Elijah. The name (in the LXX. Ελισά, Ελισα&#953...
14. Elisha ben Abraham (JE | WP GWP G) Hebraist and Talmudist; flourished at the end of the fifteenth century. He was the author of "Magen Dawid," a vindication...
15. Elisha ben Abraham ben Judah (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi; died at Grodno July 1, 1749. He was rabbi and chief of the yeshibah of Lucicz, Volhynia, Russia. Elisha was...
16. Elisha ben Abuyah JE (JE | WP GWP G) Born in Jerusalem before 70; flourished in Palestine at the end of the first century and the beginning of the second. At one...
17. Elishah (JE | WP GWP G) Name occurring in the so-called table of generations, Gen. x. 4 (comp. I Chron. i. 7) and in Ezek. xxvii. 7. In Gen. x. 4...
18. Elizabethgrad (JE | WP GWP G) A Russian city, the name of which is given variously Elisabetgrad, Elizabethgrad, and Yelisa vetgrad. ...
19. Elizaphan (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Uzziel; prince of the Kohathites Who bore the sanc-tuary and its furniture during the wandering in the wilderness (Num...
20. Meïr Elkan (JE | WP GWP G) See Fürth, Meïr b. Elhanan.

301 – 320

1. Moses Elkan (JE | WP GWP G) Russian physician and Hebrew scholar; born at Tulchin, government of Podolsk; died at St. Petersburg Jan. 31, 1822. He wrote:...
2. Elkanah (JE | WP GWP G) Father of Samuel, living at Ramah (I Sam. i. 19, ii. 11; comp. xxviii. 3), in the district of Zuph. Hence in I Sam. i. 1 his...
3. Benjamin Elkin (JE | WP GWP G) Prominent reformer in the London community; born at Portsea, England, Jan. 9, 1783; died in London Jan., 1848. At the age...
4. Arkadi Danilowich Elkind [ru; be] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian physician and anthropologist; born in Mohilev-on-the-Dnieper in 1869; graduated (M.D.) from Moscow University in 1893...
5. Elkoshite (JE | WP GWP G) Obscure ethnic or patronymic name of the prophet Nahum (Nahum i. 1). According to Jerome, Elkosh, the birthplace of the prophet...
6. Isaac ben Moses Elles (Elis) (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi of the sixteenth century; author of "Yesod Emunah," a treatise on the dogmas of Judaism, Cracow, 1582. He also...
7. Moritz Ellinger (JE | WP GWP G) American journalist; born in Fürth, Bavaria, Oct. 17, 1830. Emigrating to the United States in 1854, he became interested...
8. Nathan bar Yospa Ellinger (Ellingen) (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born 1772; died July 4, 1839, at Bingen-on-the-Rhine. According to the archives of Mayence, he and his brother...
9. Sir Barrow Helbert Ellis (JE | WP GWP G) Indian statesman; born in London Jan. 24, 1823; died at Savoy June 20, 1887; son of S. H. Ellis, for some time treasurer of...
10. Elloji Shahir (JE | WP GWP G) Beni-Israel poet of the eighteenth century; born and lived at Bombay, British India; his natal name was "Elloji Nagawkar."...
11. Moritz Ellstätter (JE | WP GWP G) Minister of finance of the grand duchy of Baden; born March 11, 1827, at Carlsruhe, where his father was a furniture-manufacturer...
12. Joseph de Aaron Elmaleh (JE | WP GWP G) Honorary chief rabbi of Mogador, Morocco; born at Rabat in 1809; died in London Jan. 9, 1886. He removed to Mogador at the...
13. Elmira (JE | WP GWP G) City in the state of New York. The first settlement of Jews dates from about 1851. In 1860 twelve families organized a congregation...
14. Elnathan (JE | WP GWP G) An inhabitant of Jerusalem, and the maternal grandfather of Jehoiachin (II Kings xxiv. 8), probably identical with the son...
15. Elohim (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G282: God
16. Elohist (JE | WP GWP G) Assumed author of those parts of the Hexateuch characterized by the use of the Hebrew word "Elohim" (= "God"). The term is...
17. Elon (JE | WP GWP G) 1.—Biblical Data: the tenth judge of Israel. He was a Zebulonite, and succeeded Ibzan as judge. He judged Israel for...
18. El-paran (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E122: Elath
19. Jacob Elsenberg (JE | WP GWP G) Polish teacher; born in 1817; died at Warsaw July 10, 1886. He was educated at the rabbinical seminary of Warsaw. Elsenberg...
20. Eltekeh (JE | WP GWP G) One of the towns allotted to Dan, mentioned twice in Joshua— (xix. 44) and (xxi. 23). Eltekeh with its suburbs was...

321 – 340

1. Elvira (JE | WP GWP G) the ancient Illiberis; capital of the province of the same name, situated on a hill northwest of Granada, Spain, and now in...
2. Elyas of London JE (JE | WP GWP G) Presbyter of the Jews of England 1237-1257; died in London 1284. He succeeded Aaron of York, represented London at the so-called...
3. Elymais (JE | WP GWP G) Generally denoting the Persian province of Elam (). It occurs in two places (I Macc. vi. 1; Josephus, "Ant." xii. 9, &#167...
4. 'Elyon (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G282: God
5. Abraham Elzas (JE | WP GWP G) Minister and author; born in Elbergen, Holland, in 1835; died at Hull, England, 1880. He was educated in Holland, and went...
6. Barnett Abraham Elzas (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi; born at Eydtkuhnen, Germany, 1867; educated at Jews' College (1880-90), University College, London ("Hollier...
7. Emadabun (JE | WP GWP G) A Levite, and one of the overseers at the restoration of the Temple (I Esd. v. 58). Probably a mere doublet of "Eliadun,"...
8. Emanation (JE | WP GWP G) the doctrine that all existing things have been produced not by any creative power, but as successive outflowings from the...
9. Emancipation of slaves (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S850: Slaves
10. Emanu-el (JE | WP GWP G) A weekly journal published in San Francisco, Cal. The first number was issued in May, 1895. Jacob Voorsanger is the editor...
11. Lewis Emanuel (JE | WP GWP G) Secretary and solicitor to the Board of Deputies of British Jews; born at Portsmouth May 14, 1832; died in London June 19...
12. Embden (Emden) (JE | WP GWP G) A family deriving its name, perhaps, from Emden, Germany. Carl Adam Emden, privy councilor and high bailiff of Prince Salm-Salm...
13. Charlotte Embden [de] (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H538: Heine, Heinrich
14. Eleazar Solomon von Embden (Eliezer Leser Levi) (JE | WP GWP G) German physician and traveler; born at Emrich, near Cleves, between 1770 and 1780; graduated at Frankfort-on-the-Oder in 1800...
15. Embezzlement (JE | WP GWP G) the fraudulent conversion to one's own use of goods or money entrusted to one's care and control. The offense differs...
16. Embroidery (JE | WP GWP G) Ornamental needlework on cloth, more frequently on linen, often executed in variegated colors and designs. Among the Egyptians...
17. The Embron family (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1375: Ambron
18. Embryo (JE | WP GWP G) the young of a mammal while still connected with the body of its mother. The child "en ventre sa mere" of English law was...
19. Emden (JE | WP GWP G) Prussian maritime town in the province of Hanover. It is not known when Jews first settled there. In the sixteenth century...
20. Hermann Seligmann Emden (JE | WP GWP G) German engraver and photographer; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Oct. 18, 1815; died there Sept. 6, 1875. Early evincing a...

341 – 360

1. Jacob Israel ben Zebi Ashkenazi Emden (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist and anti-Shabbethaian; born at Altona June 4, 1697; died there April 19, 1776. Until seventeen Emden studied...
2. Emerald (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G131: Gems
3. Emet We-yazzib ((-> Emet v'yatziv)) (JE | WP GWP G) the initial words of the morning benediction following the Shema' and closing with the Ge'ullah ("Redemption"). Recited...
4. Emigration (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M602: Migration
5. Emim (JE | WP GWP G) A name applied (Deut. ii. 10) to the original inhabitants of Moab, though the Septuagint reads for it Ομμ&#943...
6. Emin Pasha (Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer) (JE | WP GWP G) German explorer; born at Oppeln, Prussian Silesia, March 28, 1840; killed at Kinena Station, Kongo Free State, Oct. 23 or...
7. Emissary (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A894: Agency, Law of
8. Emmanuel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I112: Immanuel
9. Emmaus (JE | WP GWP G) Name of three places in Palestine. 1. A town, or place, memorable for the defeat of Gorgias by Judas Maccabeus (I Macc. iii...
10. Emmerich family (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G356: Gomperz
11. Empedocles of Agrigentum (JE | WP GWP G) Greek philosopher and disciple of Pythagoras; flourished in the fifth century B.C.Empedocles' system, modified by the...
12. Constantin L'Empereur, of Oppijck (JE | WP GWP G) Professor of theology and Oriental languages; born at Bremen July, 1591; died at Leyden July 1, 1648. His father, Antonius...
13. Employer and Employee (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M252: Master and Servant
14. Solomon ben Gumpel Emrich (JE | WP GWP G) Dayyan of Prague in the second half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work called "Shishshah Zir'one &#39...
15. En Kelohenu (JE | WP GWP G) Ancient hymn, familiar from its occurrence in immediate succession to the Additional Service (Musaf) at festivals, and in...
16. En-mishpat (JE | WP GWP G) Another name for Kadesh (Gen. xiv. 7, R. V.), probably Kadeshbarnea, the place where Chedorlaomer with his three companions...
17. En Sof JE (JE | WP GWP G) Cabalistic term for the Deity prior to His self-manifestation in the production of the world, probably derived from ibn Gabirol&#39...
18. Rab 'Ena (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian scholar of the third amoraic generation (third century); contemporary of Rab Judah b. Ezekiel. The two were known...
19. Enchantment (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D395: Divination
20. Encyclopedia (JE | WP GWP G) A work containing information on all subjects, or exhaustive of one subject, arranged in systematic, usually alphabetical...

361 – 380

1. Endingen (JE | WP GWP G) Town of Baden, near Freiburg, famous in Jewish history through the blood accusation of 1470. In that year three Jews were burned...
2. Endingen-Lengnau (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A3: Aargau
3. Samuel Benzion Endler (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist; lived at Prague (?) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was the author of "Emunat Yisrael," treating...
4. Endogamy (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M213: Marriage
5. Endor (JE | WP GWP G) Town in the territory of Issachar, allotted to Manasseh (Josh. xvii. 11). It is identified with the modern Endur, on the northern...
6. The Witch of Endor (JE | WP GWP G) A necromancer consulted by Saul in his extremity when forsaken by Yhwh, and whose ordinary oracles (dreams, urim, and prophets)...
7. Treatment of an enemy (JE | WP GWP G) Hatred of an enemy is a natural impulse of primitive peoples; willingness to forgive an enemy is a mark of advanced moral...
8. Enfranchisement (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S850: Slaves
9. Engaddi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E371: Engedi
10. Engagements (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B995: Betrothal
11. Engedi (JE | WP GWP G) A town in the wilderness of Judah (Josh. xv. 62), on the western shore of the Dead Sea (Ezek. xlvii. 10). It was the hiding-place...
12. Gàbor (Gabriel) Engel (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian physician and surgeon; born at Maros-Vásárhely, Hungary, in 1852. After studying at Budapest and Leipsic...
13. Joseph Engel (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian sculptor; born 1815; died in Budapest June 29, 1902. His father, a poor merchant, destined him for the rabbinate...
14. Hermann Engelbert (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born in Gudensberg, Hessen, July 29, 1830; died at St. Gall, Switzerland, Feb. 5, 1900. He attended the Talmudic...
15. England (JE | WP GWP G) the southern portion of the island of Great Britain. Owing to the dominance of the capital city in England, most of the episodes...
16. Gabriel Hirsch Engländer (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian scholar; lived at Vienna in the first half of the nineteenth century. He wrote: "Emunah Lishene 'Afar," prayers...
17. Sigmund Engländer (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian writer; born at Vienna; died at Turin Nov. 30, 1902. After graduating from the University of Vienna he devoted himself...
18. Berthold Englisch (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian chess-player; born 1851 at Hotzenplotz, Austrian Silesia; died Oct. 19, 1897, in Vienna. In 1879 he gained the first...
19. Engraving and Engravers (JE | WP GWP G) Engraving is the act and art of cutting letters, figures, and the like, on stone, wood, or metal. The account of the equipment...
20. Adolphe Philippe D'Ennery (JE | WP GWP G) French dramatic author; born in Paris June 17, 1811; died there Jan. 26, 1899. By turn a lawyer's clerk, painter, and...

381 – 400

1. Jonas Ennery JE (JE | WP GWP G) French deputy; born at Nancy Jan. 2, 1801; died at Brussels May 19, 1863. He was for twenty-six years attached to the Jewish...
2. Marchand Ennery JE (JE | WP GWP G) French rabbi; brother of Jonas Ennery; born at Nancy 1792; died at Paris Aug. 21, 1852; studied Talmud under Baruch Guggenheim...
3. Enoch (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Cain (Gen. iv. 17). A city was named after him.2. Biblical Data: Name of the seventh progenitor of the race in the...
4. Books of Enoch (Ethiopic and Slavonic) (JE | WP GWP G) Apocryphal works attributed to Enoch. From Gen. v. 24 ("Enoch walked with God" and "God took him") a cycle of Jewish legends...
5. Books of Enoch (Hebrew) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1643: Apocalyptic Literature
6. Enoch ben Abraham (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist and popular preacher; died .after 1662. Enoch belonged to a famous family of scholars of the community of Posen...
7. Enoch ben Judah Löb (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist and rabbi of Schnaittach; flourished at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He studied with his father...
8. Enoch ben Moses (JE | WP GWP G) Prominent rabbi of Cordova, 950-1024. His father was one of the four scholars who, according to tradition, were taken prisoners...
9. Samuel Enoch JE (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born in Hamburg Oct. 8, 1814; died in Fulda Dec. 31, 1876; attended the Johannæum in Hamburg and the Talmudic...
10. Enoch ben Solomon al-Kustantini (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish philosopher and cabalist (according to Wolf, "Bibl. Hebr." i., No. 635, also a physician); lived at Constantinople...
11. Enoch Zundel ben Joseph JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Talmudist; died at Byelostok 1867. He wrote: a commentary on Midr. Rabbah of the five Megillot, in two parts (Wilna...
12. Enos (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Seth, Adam's third son. In his time men began to call upon Yhwh (Gen. iv. 26). At the age of ninety he begat Cainan...
13. Enriquez (Henriquez) (JE | WP GWP G) Frequently recurring Spanish surname, often found combined with other surnames, as "Bueno Enriquez," "Gomez Enriquez," "Gabay...
14. Moses Ensheim (JE | WP GWP G) French mathematician and liturgical poet; born at Metz 1750; died at Bayonne April 9, 1839. He was destined for the rabbinate...
15. Enticing (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A210: Abduction
16. Entre-Rios (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A905: Agricultural Colonies in the Argentine Republic
17. Baron Joseph Eötvös (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian statesman; emancipator of the Hungarian Jews; born at Ofen Sept. 13, 1813; died at Budapest Feb. 2, 1871. On the...
18. Karl Eötvös (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T226: Tisza-Eszlár
19. Ephah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See W81: Weights and Measures
20. Ephesus (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of Ionia, Asia Minor, and later, under the Romans, capital of Asia Proconsularis. Many Jews lived in this large Greek...

401 – 420

1. Ephod (JE | WP GWP G) in the Old Testament this word has two meanings; in one group of passages it signifies a garment; in another, very probably...
2. Ephor (JE | WP GWP G) An official in Sparta and in other parts of Greece. Officials called "ephori" were employed among the Jews: (1) in the service...
3. Ephraem Syrus (JE | WP GWP G) Church father; born at Nisibis, Syria (whence his surname "Syrus"), or at Edessa, at the beginning of the fourth century....
4. Ephraim (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Son of Joseph. The name is connected with the root ("to be fruitful": Gen. xli. 52). He was the younger of the two sons...
5. Mountain of Ephraim (JE | WP GWP G) the northern part of the mountain range west of the Jordan, extending from Beer-sheba to the great plain of Esdraelon. Its...
6. Ephraim b. Aaron Nabon (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E406: Nabon, Ephraim b. Aaron
7. Ephraim b. Gershon (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish preacher and physician of the middle of the fifteenth century; lived in Negropont and Constantinople. He was a friend...
8. Ephraim b. Isaac of Regensburg (JE | WP GWP G) German tosafist and liturgical poet of the twelfth century; died in Regensburg about 1175, probably at an advanced age. He...
9. Ephraim b. Jacob (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist, liturgical poet, and chronographer; born in 1133; died after 1196. Ephraim belonged to a prominent family...
10. Ephraim ben Jacob ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian Talmudist; born at Wilna 1616; died June 3, 1678, at Ofen, Hungary. Driven by the Chmielnicki persecutions from...
11. Ephraim ben Joseph of Chelm (Jambrower) (JE | WP GWP G) Polish liturgist; born at Chelm, Poland, at the end of the sixteenth century; died at Wreshna, Poland, about 1650. His father...
12. Ephraim ben Judah (JE | WP GWP G) Liturgical poet of the twelfth century. According to Zunz ("Literaturgesch." p. 348) he lived in the northern part of France...
13. Ephraim Maksha'ah (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar of the second century; disciple of R. Meïr. He is known only for several homiletic remarks in the name of his...
14. Ephraim Moisich (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1487: Anbal the Jassin
15. Ephraim b. Nathan (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist of the thirteenth century; died before 1293. He was a pupil of Simchah of Speyer and of Isaac b. Moses...
16. Ephraim Safra (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian scholar of the third century; disciple of Simeon b. Lakish, in whose name he reports a civil law (B. M....
17. Ephraim ben Samson (JE | WP GWP G) Bible exegete; flourished in France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He was the author of "Perush 'Al ha-Torah...
18. Ephraim Solomon ben Aaron of Lencziza (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and popular preacher at Prague; born probably at Lencziza, Poland; died at Prague March 3, 1619. After having filled...
19. Ephraim of Sudilkov (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi and preacher among the Ḥasidim of the Ukraine; born at Medzhibozh, Podolia, about 1750; died at Sudilkov...
20. Veitel-Heine Ephraim (JE | WP GWP G) German financier; died at Berlin in 1775. The name means "Veitel, the son of Heine [German for "Ḥayyim"], the son of...

421 – 440

1. Vidal Ephraim (JE | WP GWP G) Pupil of R. Nissim of Gerona, rabbi in Palma, and teacher of Simeon Duran. He was greatly esteemed by Isaac b. Sheshet, and...
2. Ephrath (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Wife of Caleb (son of Hezron) and mother of Hur (I Chron. ii. 19, 50; iv. 4). 2. Another name for Bethlehem (Gen. xxxv...
3. David (Tebele) Ephrati (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Talmudist; born in Vitebsk 1850; died in Frankfort-on-the-Main Oct. 24, 1884. Among his ancestors were: R. Liva b...
4. Ephron (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Zohar the Hittite; possessor of a field called "Machpelah," which he sold to Abraham for 400 shekels (Gen. xxiii. 8...
5. Epic Poetry >> Hebrew and Jewish epic poetry JE (JE | WP GWP G) Though an abundance of historical reminiscence and a mass of soul-stirring legend lay in the storehouse of Jewish literature...
6. Epicurus and Epicureanism (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1640: Apiḳoros
7. Epigrams (JE | WP GWP G) Short poems with an unexpected yet pointed ending; much in favor among Jewish writers because of the play of wit which they...
8. Epigraphy (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P29: Paleography
9. Epilepsy (JE | WP GWP G) Disease of the nervous system, manifesting itself by attacks of unconsciousness, with or without convulsions. It frequently...
10. Epiphanius (JE | WP GWP G) Bishop of Constantia, Cyprus; born at Bezanduke near Eleutheropolis, Palestine, between 310 and 320 (according to Bartolocci...
11. Episcopus Judaeorum (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1100: Bishop of the Jews
12. Epistolography (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L224: Letter-Writing
13. Epitaphs (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P29: Paleography
14. Epithalamia (JE | WP GWP G) -- See W72: Wedding-Songs
15. Epitomists (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L148: Legalism
16. Epstein >> Abraham Epstein JE, Aryeh Leib Epstein JE, Julius Epstein (pianist) JE, Kalonymus Kalman Epstein JE (JE | WP GWP G) the surname "Eppstein" is one of the oldest Jewish family names in the Slavic countries. Nathan ha-Levi Eppstein and Solomon...
17. Er (JE | WP GWP G) First son of Judah by Shuah the Canaanite (Gen. xxxviii. 3; Num. xxvi. 19). He died soon after marrying Tamar, because he...
18. Era (JE | WP GWP G) A historical period or reckoning of years, dating from some important event or fixed point of time. A striking event of a...
19. Erach (JE | WP GWP G) A tax on property for communal purposes. The direct taxes which were levied by the Jewish congregations were mostly twofold:...
20. Erech (JE | WP GWP G) the second of the four Babylonian cities founded, according to Gen. x. 10, by Nimrod.The site of the city is now known as...

441 – 460

1. Erfurt (JE | WP GWP G) Chief town of the district of the same name in Prussian Saxony, situated on the Gera. If the dates on the tombstones found...
2. Joseph ben Immanuel Ergas (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi and cabalist; born in Leghorn 1685; died May 19, 1730. He is frequently mentioned by Meldola in his responsa...
3. Camille Erlanger (JE | WP GWP G) French composer; born at Paris May 25, 1863; studied at the Conservatoire and (1888) obtained the first Prix de Rome in the...
4. Jules Erlanger (JE | WP GWP G) French composer; born at Weissenburg, Alsace, 1830; died at Brussels 1895; son of Israel Süsskind Erlanger, rabbi at...
5. Michel Erlanger (JE | WP GWP G) French communal worker; born in Weissenburg, Alsace, 1828; died in Paris Sept. 27, 1892. Having received a thorough Jewish...
6. Johann August Ernesti (JE | WP GWP G) Protestant theologian; classical scholar; born Aug. 4, 1707, at Tennstädt, Thuringia; died 1781 at Leipsic, in the university...
7. Abrao Errera (JE | WP GWP G) Italian banker and deputy; born Dec. 8, 1791; died at Venice Dec. 25, 1860; father of Jacques Errera. His family traces its...
8. Giorgio Errera (JE | WP GWP G) Italian chemist; born Oct. 26, 1860, at Venice; educated at the universities of Padua and Turin, from which latter place he...
9. Leo-Abram Errera (JE | WP GWP G) Belgian botanist; born at Laeken, Belgium, Sept. 4, 1858; died at Brussels, Aug. 1, 1905. He was educated first at the Ath&#233...
10. Paul Joseph Errera (JE | WP GWP G) Belgian barrister; born at Laeken, Belgium, July 23, 1860; educated at the University of Brussels; professor in the law department...
11. Isaac Erter JE (JE | WP GWP G) Satirist; born 1792 at Janischok, Galicia; died 1851 at Brody. The first part of his life was full of struggles and hardships...
12. 'Erub (JE | WP GWP G) Mixture or amalgamation; ideal combination of things separate. There are several kinds of 'Erub. 'Erub (par excellence):...
13. 'Erubin (JE | WP GWP G) the second treatise of the Mishnah Seder Mo'ed, forming an appendix to the treatise Shabbat. It contains regulations concerning...
14. Erusin (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B995: Betrothal
15. Erwig (JE | WP GWP G) -- See V87: Visigoths
16. Esar-haddon (JE | WP GWP G) King of Assyria from 680 to 668 B.C.; son and successor of Sennacherib and predecessor of Assurbanipal. He was one of the...
17. Esau (JE | WP GWP G) Jacob's elder brother (Gen. xxv. 25-34, and elsewhere; comp. Josh. xxiv. 4). The name alternates with "Edom," though only...
18. Escalona (JE | WP GWP G) City of Castile; said to have been named after Ascalon in Palestine. Jews were living there at a very early date. The fuero...
19. Joseph ben Saul Escapa JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Smyrna; flourished in the first half of the seventeenth century; probably born at Uskup, European Turkey, after which...
20. Eschatology (JE | WP GWP G) Gen. xlix. 1; comp. Gen. R. xcviii., "the Messianic end" ; Isa. ii. 1; also "the end," Dent. xxxii. 20; Ps. lxxiii. 17;...

461 – 480

1. Lorenço Escudero (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish poet; born at Cordova of Marano parentage; died about 1683. After his conversion to Judaism he lived in great poverty...
2. Esdraelon (Esrelon) (JE | WP GWP G) the later Greek form of the more ancient Jezreel, and the name of the boundary-plain between the Ephraimitic and the Galilean...
3. Books of Esdras (JE | WP GWP G) Apocryphal writings ascribed to Ezra. I Esdras: Name and Versions. (see image) Plain of Esdraelon, with Mount Tabor in...
4. Eshcol (JE | WP GWP G) Brother of Mamre and Aner. The three brothers were princes of the Amorites and allies of Abraham (Gen. xiv. 13), whom they...
5. Eshtaol (JE | WP GWP G) A town in the lowland of Judah (Josh. xv. 33), generally mentioned in company with Zoreah, both towns being allotted to Dan...
6. Eshtemoa (JE | WP GWP G) A town in Judah allotted with its suburbs to the priests (Josh. xv. 50, xxi. 14; I Chron. vi. 57). David frequented this place...
7. Bernhard Freiherr von Eskeles JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian financier; born at Vienna 1753; died at Hietzing, near Vienna, Aug. 7, 1839. He was the posthumous son of Rabbi Berush...
8. Gabriel ben Judah Löw Eskeles (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; died at Nikolsburg, Moravia, Feb. 2, 1718. At first dayyan at Cracow during the rabbinate of his teacher, Aaron...
9. Issachar Berush Eskeles (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi and financier; born 1692; died at Vienna March 2, 1753; son of Gabriel Eskeles and son-in-law of Samson Wertheimer...
10. Gabriel Esperanssa (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Safed contemporaneously with Jonathan Galante (middle of seventeenth century). It is supposed that he was received...
11. Esperanza Israelitica (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
12. Samuel Esperial (JE | WP GWP G) Physician of Cordova, Spain. He was the author of a treatise on surgery written for David of Jaen in Spanish, but with Hebrew...
13. Alfonso D' Espina (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1204: Spina, Alfonso de
14. Benjamin Espinosa (JE | WP GWP G) Italian Hebraist of the eighteenth century; member of the rabbinical college at Leghorn. He published "Peri'Ez,...
15. Elia Esra (JE | WP GWP G) Philanthropist; born at Calcutta Feb. 20, 1830; son of David Joseph Esra; died March, 1886. He was one of the wealthiest merchants...
16. Essek (JE | WP GWP G) Fortified town in Austria-Hungary, the second largest of Croatia; situated on the Drave. It has a population of about 18,000...
17. Essen (JE | WP GWP G) City in the Prussian district of Düsseldorf with 96,000 inhabitants (1895), including about 2,000 Jews. It developed...
18. Essenes (JE | WP GWP G) A branch of the Pharisees who conformed to the most rigid rules of Levitical purity while aspiring to the highest degree of...
19. Estella (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of a district of the same name in Navarre. Its Jewish community dates as far back as those of Tudela and Pamplona...
20. Estelle, France (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E505: Etoile

481 – 500

1. Esterhazy (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D482: Dreyfus Case
2. Esterka (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C221: Casimir
3. Esther >> Esther in rabbinic literature JE, Targum Sheni REF:JE (JE | WP GWP G) Name of the chief character in the Book of Esther, derived, according to some authorities, from the Persian "stara" (star)...
4. Apocryphal Book of Esther (JE | WP GWP G) the canonical Book of Esther undoubtedly presents the oldest extant form of the Esther story. In times of oppression the Jews...
5. Feast of Esther (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P613: Purim
6. Esther Rabbah JE (JE | WP GWP G) Midrash to the Book of Esther in the current Midrash editions. From its plan and scope it is apparently an incomplete collection...
7. Esthonia (JE | WP GWP G) Government of Russia; one of the three Baltic Provinces. It has a total population (1897) of 404,709, of whom 1,468 are Jews...
8. Estimate (JE | WP GWP G) Estimate differs greatly from Appraisement. The latter is a valuation put upon land or upon some commodity by men acting in...
9. Estrumba (JE | WP GWP G) Oriental Jewish family which has produced several rabbinical authors; takes its name from "Strumnitza" in Macedonia. Daniel...
10. 'Et Sha'are Razon (JE | WP GWP G) A long poem on the binding of Isaac upon the altar ('AḲedah), written by Judah ben Samuel ibn Abbas, a twelfth-century...
11. Etam (JE | WP GWP G) Village of the tribe of Simeon (I Chron. iv. 32), not found in the parallel list of localities in Joshua.2. Place in Judah...
12. Etampes (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the arrondissement of the department of Seine-et-Oise, France. The origin of the Jewish community of Etampes seems...
13. Eternal Life (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E460: Eschatology
14. Eternal Punishment (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E460: Eschatology
15. Ethan (JE | WP GWP G) A man famous for his wisdom (I Kings iv. 31); it is said that Solomon was wiser than he, although it is not clear from this...
16. Alexander ben Moses Ethausen (JE | WP GWP G) German scholar; lived at Fulda in the seventeenth century. He was the author of a Judæo-German work in two parts: the...
17. Ether (JE | WP GWP G) One of the cities in the lowland of Judah allotted to Simeon (Josh. xv. 42, xix. 7).E. G. H. M. Sel. ...
18. Society for Ethical Culture JE (JE | WP GWP G) A non-sectarian, ethicoreligious society founded at New York by Prof. Felix Adler in 1876. The society assumed the motto "Deed...
19. Ethics (JE | WP GWP G) the science of morals, or of human duty; the systematic presentation of the fundamental principles of human conduct and of...
20. Ethics of the Fathers (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A354: Abot