Ibn Alfange (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish author; flourished in the eleventh century. Nothing is known of his life except that he embraced Christianity in 1094...
Abu Ibrahim Ishak ibn Barun (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish grammarian; lived in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, probably at Barcelona. He was a pupil of the grammarian Levi...
David ben Yom-Tob ibn BiliaJE (JE | WP GWPG) Portuguese philosopher; lived in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Steinschneider believes him to have been the father...
Saadia ben Maimun ben Moses ibn Danan (JE | WP GWPG) Lexicographer, philosopher, and poet; flourished at Granada in the second half of the fifteenth century. He exercised the...
Abraham ben Meïr ibn Ezra (Aben Ezra) (JE | WP GWPG) Scholar and writer; born 1092-1093; died Jan. 28 (according to Rosin, Reime und Gedichte, p. 82, n. 6, 1167 (see his application...
Isaac (Abu Sa'd) ibn Ezra (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish poet of the twelfth century; son of Abraham ibn Ezra. He won fame as a poet at an early age, probably while still...
Joseph ben Isaac ibn EzraJE (JE | WP GWPG) Oriental rabbi of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; descendant of the ibn Ezra family of Spain. Brought up in Salonica...
Judah ibn EzraJE (JE | WP GWPG) Son of Joseph ibn Ezra of Granada; Spanish state official of the twelfth century. He was raised by Alfonso VII. of Castileto...
Solomon ben Moses ibn Ezra (JE | WP GWPG) Rabbi of Venice; flourished in the second half of the seventeenth century. He was a disciple of Joseph Escapa and wrote a...
Isaac ben Judah ibn GhayyatJE (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish rabbi, Biblical commentator, philosopher, and liturgical poet; born at Lucena in 1038 (Graetz cites 1030); died at...
Judah ben Isaac ibn Ghayyat (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish Talmudist and Hebrew poet of the twelfth century. He was the author of a Hebrew translation, from the Arabic, of a...
Ibn Husain (Abu Sulaiman) Daud (JE | WP GWPG) Karaite liturgical poet; flourished in the first half of the tenth century. He compiled a prayer-book for the Karaites, entitled...
Abu al-Walid Merwan ibn Janah (JE | WP GWPG) Greatest Hebrew philologist of the Middle Ages; born at Cordova between 985 and 990; died at Saragossa in the first half of...
Jacob ibn JauJE (JE | WP GWPG) Silk-manufacturer at Cordova, occupying a high position at the court of the calif Hisham; died about 1000. Amador de los Rios...
Isaac b. Abraham ibn Latif (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish physician and cabalist; probably born at Toledo; died at Jerusalem, whither he had gone in indigent circumstances...
Judah ben Nissim (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish philosopher; flourished either in Spain or in Africa in the middle of the fourteenth century. He was imbued with Neoplatonic...
Judah ben Solomon ha-Kohen ibn Matkah (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician; born at Toledo in 1215. On his mother's side he was the grandson of...
Abraham ben Isaac ha-Levi ibn Migas (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish physician and rabbinical scholar; lived at Constantinople in the sixteenth century. He was court physician to Sulaiman...
Joseph ibn Migas (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish Jew of the eleventh century; ancestor of an important family of scholars. Joseph ibn Migas, greatly respected among...
Meïr ibn Migas (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish rabbi, and president of the bet ha-midrash of Seville; flourished in the eleventh century. He was the son of Joseph...
Jacob ibn Nuñez (JE | WP GWPG) Physician to King Henry IV. of Castile and his chief judge ("juez mayor"); also rabbi, as he calls himself. In 1474 he was...
Isaac ben Joseph ibn PulgarJE (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish philosopher, poet, and controversialist; flourished in the first half of the fourteenth century. Where he lived is...
Abu Omar Joseph ben Jacob ibn Sahl (JE | WP GWPG) Poet and scientist; died at Cordova 1124. He was a pupil of Isaac ibn Ghayyat, was rabbi at Cordova for nine years, and was...
Sheb-Tob ben Isaac ibn Shaprut (Shafrut) JE (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish philosopher, physician, and polemic; born at Tudela in the middle of the fourteenth century; often confused with the...
Isaac ibn Shem-Tob (JE | WP GWPG) Philosophical commentator of the fifteenth century; younger brother of Joseph ibn Shem-Tob, and a follower of Maimonides...
Joseph ibn Shem-Tov (ben Shemtob) JE (JE | WP GWPG) One of the most prolific Judæo-Spanish writers of the fifteenth century; born in Castile; died 1480. He lived in various...
Shem-Tob (ben Joseph?) ibn Shem-TobJE (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish cabalist; a fanatical opponent of rationalistic philosophy; president of a yeshibah in Spain; lived about 1390-1440...
Ibn Shoshan>>Issachar ben Mordecai ibn SusanJE (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish family of Toledo, which can be traced back to the twelfth century and which is known to have existed up to the seventeenth...
Joel ibn Shu'aibJE (JE | WP GWPG) Rabbi, preacher, and commentator of the fifteenth century; born in Aragon; lived also at Tudela. He wrote: "'Olat Shabbat...
Joshua ibn Shu'aib (JE | WP GWPG) Preacher and cabalist; flourished about 1328. He was a pupil of Solomon ben Adret and the teacher of Menahem ibn Zerah. Together...
Joseph ibn VergaJE (JE | WP GWPG) Turkish rabbi and historian; lived at Adrianople at the beginning of the sixteenth century; son of Solomon ibn Verga, author...
Judah ibn VergaJE (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish historian, cabalist, perhaps also mathematician, and astronomer, of the fifteenth century; born at Seville; martyred...
Solomon ibn VergaJE>>Scepter of JudahJE (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish historian and physician; lived in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. His relationship to Judah ibn Verga can not...
Hayyim ibn Vives (Vivas) (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish translator; translated from Arabic into Hebrew for David ibn Bilia the farewell letter of ibn al-Sha'igh...
Juan ibn Vives (JE | WP GWPG) Grandson of one of the richest Jews of Valencia, and one of the most influential and respected of the citizens of that city...
Joseph ben Abraham ibn Wakar (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish cabalist and Talmudist; lived at Toledo in the fourteenth century. Moses Narboni, who began his commentary on the...
Judah ben Isaac ibn Wakar (Wakkar, Huacar, Hucar), of Cordova (JE | WP GWPG) Tax-collector for, and representative and traveling companion (about 1320) of, the infante Don Juan Manuel; the author of...
Samuel ibn Wakar (Huacar) (JE | WP GWPG) Physician to King Alfonso XI. of Castile; astronomer and astrologer; flourished in the fourteenth century. A favorite of the...
David ibn Yahya (JE | WP GWPG) Grammarian and philisopher; son of the martyr Don Joseph; born at Lisbon 1465; died 1543. He was a pupil of David ben Solomon...
Joseph ben David ibn Yahya (JE | WP GWPG) Italian exegete and philosopher; born at Florence 1494; died at Imola 1539. His parents were Spanish exiles who had lived...
Baruch ben Isaac ibn Ya'ish (JE | WP GWPG) Philosopher and translator of the fifteenth century; apparently a native of Spain, though he lived in Italy. Ibn Ya'ish...
Ibn Zabarra (JE | WP GWPG) Judæo-Spanish family-name, found as early as the twelfth century; derived perhaps from a place-name. In Spanish documents...
Judah ibn Zabarra (JE | WP GWPG) Poet and theologian; flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; probably a native of Spain, where the surname...
Ibrahim ibn Ya'kub, the Israelite (JE | WP GWPG) Jewish merchant-traveler of the tenth century. The little that is known about Ibrahim ibn Ya'Kub is from his own...
Ibzan (JE | WP GWPG) Judge of Israel for seven years after Jephthah; a native of Beth-lehem he had thirty sons and thirty daughters, and was buried...
IchabodJE (JE | WP GWPG) Son of Phinehas and grandson of Eli. Born after the death in battle of his father and the tragic death of his grandfather...
Iddo (JE | WP GWPG) A seer (), or prophet (), whose prophecies were directed against Jeroboam (II Chron. ix. 29). In the Masoretic text his name...
Proof of Identity (JE | WP GWPG) in criminal cases the witnesses were required to be certain of the identity both of the accused and of the victim, as well...
Idi (JE | WP GWPG) Name of several Babylonian amoraim who flourished from the middle of the second to the middle of the fifth century. In the...
Idi b. Abin Naggara (JE | WP GWPG) Babylonian amora of the fourth period (about 350). His father, whose name ("Naggara"="carpenter") probably indicates his occupation...
Idi b. Gershom (Ada b. Gershon) (JE | WP GWPG) Babylonian amora of the tannaitic period (about 150); father of Idi b. Idi (Ḥul. 98a; comp. Yer. Ter. x. 10). There...
Idi b. Jacob II (JE | WP GWPG) Babylonian amora of the second period (about 250). Idi was a disciple of Johanan. The journey from Idi's home in Babylonia...
Idiocy (JE | WP GWPG) Mental deficiency, depending upon disease or imperfect development of the nervous system, and dating from birth or from early...
Idit (JE | WP GWPG) Name of an amora who is known only from a passage preserved by Nachman (Sanh. 38b), the passage being a part of a controversy...
Lazar Elias Igel (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian rabbi; born Feb. 28, 1825, at Lemberg, where his father was a second-hand bookseller; died at Czernowitz March 26...
Iglau (JE | WP GWPG) Mining-town in Moravia, Austria. While Jews settled at Brünn at a very early time, regulations concerning the Jews of...
Count Nikolai Pavlovich Ignatiev (Ignatyev, Ignatieff) (JE | WP GWPG) Russian statesman; born 1832. He was one of the prime movers in the reactionary anti-Jewish legislation of the last quarter...
Ignorance of the Law (JE | WP GWPG) Through the institution of Hatra'ah, warning by the witnesses before the crime was committed was made by the Rabbis a...
Shemariah b. Elijah Ikriti, of Negropont (V06p559001jpg) (JE | WP GWPG) Italian philosopher and Biblical exegete; contemporary of Dante and Immanuel; born probably at Rome about 1275, the descendant...
Henry Iliowizi (JE | WP GWPG) American rabbi and author; born in Choinick, in the government of Minsk, Russia, Jan. 2, 1850. His father was affiliated with...
'Ilish (JE | WP GWPG) Babylonian scholar of the fourth century (fourth amoraic generation); contemporary of Raba (B. M. 96a). He and the daughters...
Illegitimacy (JE | WP GWPG) the state of being born out of lawful wedlock; in Jewish law, the state of being born of any of the marriages prohibited in...
Jacob Di Illescos (JE | WP GWPG) Bible commentator, probably of Italian origin; lived in the fourteenth century. He was the author of "Imre No'am," an...
Illinois (JE | WP GWPG) One of the Central States of the United States of America; admitted to the Union Dec. 3, 1818. The Jewish pioneer of Illinois...
Bernhard Illowy (JE | WP GWPG) American rabbi; born at Kolin, Bohemia, 1814; died near Cincinnati, Ohio, June 22, 1871. He was descended from a family of...
Naphtali Herz Imber (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian Hebrew poet; born at Zloczow, Galicia, in 1856. After the usual Talmudic training he began his wandering life by...
Imma Shalom (JE | WP GWPG) Wife of Eliezer ben Hyrcanus and sister of Gamaliel II. Of her early life but little is known. She was probably brought up...
Immanuel (JE | WP GWPG) This name occurs only thrice in the Bible, in Isa. vii. 14 and viii. 8, 10 (in the last-cited verse the rendering "God is...
Immanuel ben Jekuthiel of Benevento (JE | WP GWPG) Grammarian and corrector for the press at Mantua; lived in the second half of the sixteenth century. He was connected with...
Siegmund (Solomon Jacob) Immanuel [de] (JE | WP GWPG) German philologist; born at Hamburg Sept. 4, 1792; died at Minden Dec. 28, 1847. Educated at the gymnasium of Altona and later...
Immanuel ben Solomon ben JekuthielJE (JE | WP GWPG) Italian scholar, satirical poet, and the most interesting figure among the Jews of Italy; born at Rome c. 1270; died probably...
Immortality of the Soul (JE | WP GWPG) the belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body is a matter of philosophical or theological...
Imprisonment (JE | WP GWPG) Imprisonment as a punishment for crime is not known in Mosaic law. The few apparent cases mentioned in the Pentateuch (Lev...
Incantation (JE | WP GWPG) the invocation of magical powers. All peoples, civilized as well as savage, have believed and still believe in magical influences...
Incense (JE | WP GWPG) An aromatic substance which exhales perfume during combustion; the odor of spices and gums burned as an act of worship. In...
Incest (JE | WP GWPG) Marriage or carnal commerce between persons of a close degree of consanguinity. Even in modern times the connotation of "incestuous"...
Incunabula>>Hebrew incunabulaJE (JE | WP GWPG) Works printed in the fifteenth century. Those of Jewish interest consist of (a) works printed in Hebrew and (b) works in other...
Indemnity (JE | WP GWPG) That by which a surety who has been compelled to pay the debt of his principal is reimbursed, either by the principal or from...
India (JE | WP GWPG) An extensive region of southern Asia, comprising many countries, races, and sects. Including about 2,800 in the settlement...
Indiana (JE | WP GWPG) One of the Central States of the American Union; admitted 1816. The earliest Jewish congregation, the Achduth Vesholom congregation...
Legal Aspect of Infancy (JE | WP GWPG) Infants, the deaf, and those of unsound mind are always named together, as not liable for torts, nor punishable for offenses...
Inheritance (JE | WP GWPG) Among the early Hebrews, as well as among many other nations of antiquity, custom decided that the next of kin should enter...
Ink (JE | WP GWPG) the only passage in the Old Testament in which ink is mentioned is Jer. xxxvi. 18. It would evidently, however, be a mistake...
Inn (JE | WP GWPG) House of entertainment for travelers. In the Bible references are made to lodging-places ("malon") where caravans or parties...
Innocent III (Lothario Conti) (JE | WP GWPG) Pope from 1198 to 1216; born at Anagni in 1161; elected June 8, 1198; died July 17, 1216. A Roman writer said of him, "Thy...
Innocent XI (Benedetto Odescalchi) (JE | WP GWPG) Pope from 1676 to 1689; born at Como in 1611; elected Sept. 21, 1676; died Aug. 12, 1689. That the Jews were not excluded...
Innsbruck (JE | WP GWPG) Capital of Tyrol, Austria. While Jews settled throughout Tyrol, especially in the southern part, as early as the beginning...
Inquisition (JE | WP GWPG) Court for the punishment of heretics and infidels, established as early as the reigns of the emperors Theodosius and Justinian...
Insanity (JE | WP GWPG) Mental disease. Among the Jews the proportion of insane has been observed to be very large. From statistics collected by Buschan...
Insects (JE | WP GWPG) Under this head are treated the species not described in separate articles under their individual names, as Ant; Bee; Beetle...
Inspiration (JE | WP GWPG) the state of being prompted by or filled with the spirit of God. Bezaleel was "filled with the spirit of God" (Ex. xxxi. 3...
Institutum JudaicumJE (JE | WP GWPG) A special academic course for Protestant theologians who desire to prepare themselves for missionary work among Jews. The...
Intelligencers (JE | WP GWPG) Persons who supply intelligence or secret information; Stuart English for "spies." A number of crypto-Jews in London supplied...
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Intention (JE | WP GWPG) An intelligent purpose to do a certain act. In criminal cases wrongful intent must accompany the wrongful act in order to...
Intermarriage (JE | WP GWPG) Marriage between persons of different races or tribes. A prohibition to intermarry with the Canaanites is found in Deut. vii...
Invocation (JE | WP GWPG) A form of praise or blessing greatly in vogue in medieval Hebrew literature. In ancient times the invocation was an essential...
Iowa (JE | WP GWPG) One of the north-central states of the American Union. A part of the Louisiana Purchase (1803), it was incorporated successively...
Ireland (JE | WP GWPG) An island west of Great Britain, forming part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The earliest mention of...
Iron (JE | WP GWPG) the invention of the art of working in brass and iron is ascribed to Tubal-cain (Gen. iv. 22), and thus placed in prehistoric...
Ir-shemesh (JE | WP GWPG) A city of Dan, mentioned with Shaalabbin and Ajalon (Josh. xix. 41-42). Its parallel name in Judges (i 35, Hebr.) is "Har-Ḥ...
Isaac (JE | WP GWPG) Second patriarch; son of Abraham and Sarah. He was the child of a miracle, for at the time of his birth his mother, hitherto...
Isaac (JE | WP GWPG) Member of the embassy sent in 797 by Charlemagne to Harun al-Rashid, calif at Bagdad, probably as interpreter for the ambassadors...
Isaac b. Abba Mari (JE | WP GWPG) French codifier; born in Provence about 1122; died after 1193 (in Marseilles ?). Isaac's father, a great rabbinical authority...
Isaac ben Abraham Ancona al-Kustantini (JE | WP GWPG) Italian Talmudist; lived at Ancona in the first half of the eighteenth century. He carried on a scientific correspondence...
Isaac ben Abraham ha-Gorni (JE | WP GWPG) Provençal poet; lived at Luc in the second half of the thirteenth century. He is known in Hebrew literature under the...
Isaac ben Abraham of Neustadt (JE | WP GWPG) Dutch cabalist; lived at Amsterdam in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was an assistant rabbi at Amsterdam, where...
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Isaac ben Abraham of Posen (JE | WP GWPG) Polish rabbi and author; died in Posen 1685. He was the pupil of R. Jonah Teomim, author of "Kikayon de-Yonah...
Isaac ben Asher II (JE | WP GWPG) Tosafist, apparently of the beginning of the thirteenth century. He is quoted by Mordecai b. Hillel (M. K No. 504),...
Isaac ben Asher ha-Levi (Riba) JE (JE | WP GWPG) Tosafist; lived at Speyer in the eleventh century; son-in-law of Eliakim ben Meshullam and pupil of Rashi. His are the earliest...
Isaac (abu Jacob) bar Bahlul (JE | WP GWPG) Karaite scholar; lived at the end of the eleventh, or at the beginning of the twelfth, century. Two decisions of his have...
Isaac ben Eleazar ha-Levi (JE | WP GWPG) German Talmudist and liturgical poet; flourished at Worms; died, according to Abraham Zacuto ("Yuchasin ha-Shalem," p...
Isaac ben Eliakim of Posen (JE | WP GWPG) German moralist and author; lived in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was the author of "Leb Tob" (Prague...
Isaac ben Eliezer (JE | WP GWPG) Ethical writer at Worms; flourished from 1460 to 1480. He attended the lectures of Moses ben Eliezer ha-Darshan (Zunz, "Z...
Isaac ben Eliezer ha-Levi (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish grammarian of the fourteenth century. He was the author of "Sefer ha-Rikmah," a grammatical treatise still extant...
Isaac ben Elijah Sheni (Shani) (JE | WP GWPG) Turkish rabbi; lived at Constantinople in the first half of the sixteenth century. The name "Sheni" is followed by the letters...
Isaac of Evreux (JE | WP GWPG) French rabbinical scholar and Biblical commentator; flourished in the thirteenth century. His authority was invoked by Mordecai...
Abu Ibrahim Isaac ibn Halfon (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish poet of the eleventh century. According to Moses ibn Ezra's treatise on poetry (Neubauer, "Cat. Bodl. Hebr. MSS...
Isaac ben Hayyim ben Abraham ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWPG) Italian exegete; lived successively at Bologna, Jesi, Recanati, and Rome, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He was...
Isaac ben Hayyim of Volozhin (JE | WP GWPG) Russian Talmudist; born at Volozhin, government of Wilna; died at Ivenitz, government of Minsk, June 16, 1849. Isaac was a...
Isaac ben Isaac (JE | WP GWPG) French tosafist of the second half of the thirteenth century; mentioned in Tos. Naz. 16b; identical, according to Gross and...
Jacob Isaac (Isachok) (JE | WP GWPG) Court physician to King Sigismund I. of Poland; son of Abraham of Jerusalem; died at Kazimierz, a suburb of Cracow, about...
Isaac (Eisak) ben Jacob Haber (JE | WP GWPG) Rabbi at Tikotzyn and Suwalki, Poland; lived in the first half of the nineteenth century. He wrote: "Bet YizChaḳ...
Isaac ben Jacob ha-LavanJE (JE | WP GWPG) Tosafist and liturgical poet; flourished at Prague in the twelfth century; the brother of the traveler Pethahiah of Regensburg...
Isaac ben Jacob the Levite (JE | WP GWPG) Rabbi and cantor at Venice; born in 1621. He was the son of a cabalist and a grandson of Judah de Modena, whose "Bet Yehudah"...
Isaac ibn Jasos ibn Saktar (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish grammarian; born 982; died at Toledo about 1057-58. He is identified by Steinschneider with the physician Isḥ...
Johann Levita Isaac [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWPG) German professor of Hebrew; born 1515; died at Cologne 1577. At first a rabbi at Wetzlar, he was baptized as a Protestant...
Isaac ben Joseph of CorbeilJE (JE | WP GWPG) French ritualist; flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century. He was the son-in-law of R. Jehiel ben Joseph of...
Isaac Joshua ben Immanuel de Lattes (JE | WP GWPG) Italian Talmudist and publisher: born at Rome at the end of the fifteenth century: died at Ferrara about 1570. He was the...
Isaac ben Judah (JE | WP GWPG) Talmudist of the twelfth century; teacher of Solomon ben Isaac (Rashi). He was a native of Lorraine ("Ha-Pardes," 35a), but...
Isaac ben Judah ha-Levi (JE | WP GWPG) French exegete and tosafist; lived at Sens, probably, in the second half of the thirteenth century. He was the pupil of Ḥ...
Isaac ben Judah Löb (JE | WP GWPG) Rabbi at Offenbach in the first half of the eighteenth century. He wrote "Be'er YizChak," a commentary...
Isaac ha-Kohen of Manosque (JE | WP GWPG) French Talmudist of the first half of the fourteenth century; rabbi at Manosque, in the department of Basses-Alpes. He is...
Isaac ha-Kohen of Narbonne (JE | WP GWPG) French Talmudist; lived in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; a disciple of Abraham ben David of Posquières. He was...
Isaac ha-Kohen of Ostrog (JE | WP GWPG) Russian rabbi; lived in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was the author of a work entitled "Mattenot 'Ani,"...
Isaac de LeonJE (JE | WP GWPG) One of the last rabbis of Castile; lived at Toledo. He was a native of Leon, and a pupil of Isaac Campanton, and, like Moses...
Isaac Leon ben Eliezer ibn Zur Sefardi (JE | WP GWPG) Rabbi at Ancona in the first half of the sixteenth century. He belonged to a Spanish family which settled in Italy after the...
Isaac ben Levi of Provence (JE | WP GWPG) French liturgical poet; flourished in the twelfth century. Among the piyyuṭim for New-Year's Day contained in the...
Isaac ben Levi ben Saul of Lucena (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish grammarian and liturgical poet; flourished in the first half of the eleventh century; a contemporary of Isaac Gikatilla...
Marc Jacob Isaac (JE | WP GWPG) French educationist and writer; born March 10, 1828, at Niederhomburg, near Saargemünd, Lorraine. After attending the...
Isaac ben Meïr of Narbonne (JE | WP GWPG) French liturgical poet of the first half of the twelfth century. He is mentioned as a liturgical poet by Joseph Kara...
Isaac ben Melchizedek of Siponto (JE | WP GWPG) Italian rabbi and Talmudist; lived about 1110-70; born in Siponto, a seaport of Apulia and an ancient seat of Jewish learning...
Isaac b. Menahem the Great (JE | WP GWPG) French Talmudist; flourished in the second half of the eleventh century. Isaac, who lived at Orléans, was a pupil of...
Isaac ben Merwan ha-LeviJE (JE | WP GWPG) French Talmudist; flourished in the first third of the twelfth century; elder son of Merwan of Narbonne. As highly respected...
Isaac ben Mordecai Gershon (JE | WP GWPG) Talmudist of the fifteenth century. He was the author of "Shelom Ester," a commentary on the scroll of Esther (Constantinople...
Isaac ben Mordecai ha-Levi (JE | WP GWPG) Rabbi of Lemberg; died in Cracow 1799. His father was chief of the yeshibah at Lemberg, and Isaac himself officiated as rabbi...
Isaac ben Moses Eli (ha-Sefardi) (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish mathematician of the fifteenth century; born at Oriola, Aragon. According to Steinschneider, he may have been one...
Isaac ben Moses of ViennaJE (JE | WP GWPG) German halakist, a descendant of a learned family; probably born in Bohemia; lived about 1200-70. He mentions as his teachers...
Isaac Nathan ben KalonymusJE (JE | WP GWPG) French philosopher and controversialist; lived at Arles, perhaps at Avignon also, and in other places, in the fourteenth and...
Isaac ben Noah Cohen Shapira (JE | WP GWPG) Polish rabbi; lived in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; grandson of Hirsh and teacher of Joel Sirkes. He received...
Isaac of Norwich (Isaac b. Eliab) JE (JE | WP GWPG) English financier of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He was among the Jews imprisoned by King John in 1210 ("Select...
Isaac b. Reuben Albargeloni (Albarceloni) (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish Talmudist and liturgical poet; born at Barcelona in 1043. He was a judge in the important community of Denia, where...
Isaac ben Samson ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWPG) Bohemian Talmudist; died May 30, 1624, in Prague. He was assistant rabbi and magistrate of the community, and was son-in-law...
Samuel Isaac (JE | WP GWPG) Promoter of the Mersey Tunnel, near Liverpool, England; born at Chatham, England, 1812; died in London Nov. 22, 1886. He went...
Isaac ben Samuel of AcreJE (JE | WP GWPG) Palestinian cabalist; flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. According to Azulai ("Shem ha-Gedolim,"s.v.)...
Isaac ben Samuel ha-Levi (JE | WP GWPG) Polish rabbi; born at Vladimir, government of Volhynia, Russia, about 1580; died before 1646. He was the elder brother and...
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Isaac ben Samuel of Narbonne (JE | WP GWPG) French scholar; flourished in the first half of the twelfth century. He is quoted in an anonymous commentary to Chronicles...
Isaac ben Samuel ha-Sefardi (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish Biblical exegete; flourished in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. From his commentary, which is written in Arabic...
Isaac ben Samuel ha-ZakenJE (JE | WP GWPG) French tosafist and Biblical commentator; flourished at Ramerupt and Dampierre in the twelfth century. He died, according...
Isaac ben Sheshet Barfat (Ribash) JE (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish Talmudic authority; born at Valencia in 1326; died at Algiers in 1408. He settled early in life at Barcelona, where...
Isaac ibn Sid (Zag; Çag) JE (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish astronomer; flourished at Toledo in the second half of the thirteenth century. From the surname "haḤazzan,"...
Isaac ben Solomon (JE | WP GWPG) Liturgical poet; lived in Germany in the first half of the fourteenth century; author of the selichah "Ani hu ha-Geber...
Isaac ben Solomon ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWPG) Biblical commentator; lived at Constantinople in the middle of the sixteenth century. He was the author of a commentary on...
Isaac ben Todros (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish rabbi and Talmudist toward the end of the thirteenth century. He was the teacher of Shem-Tob ibn Gaon and Nathan...
Isaac b. Todros (JE | WP GWPG) French physician at Avignon during the second half of the fourteenth century. In 1373 he was the pupil of the astronomer Immanuel...
Isaac Tyrnau (JE | WP GWPG) Hungarian rabbi and ritualist; flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. He was a pupil of Abraham Klausner of...
Abram Samuel Isaacs (JE | WP GWPG) American rabbi, professor, and editor; born in New York city Aug. 30, 1852. He was educated at New York University (B.A. 1871...
Sir Henry Aaron Isaacs (JE | WP GWPG) Former Lord Mayor of London; born in that city Aug. 15, 1830. For a quarter of a century he labored in the best interests...
Isaac A Isaacs (JE | WP GWPG) Australian statesman and jurist; born at Melbourne, Victoria, Aug. 6, 1855; educated at Melbourne University, and admitted...
Jacob Isaacs (JE | WP GWPG) American inventor of the colonial and revolutionary period; died 1798. He was resident in Newport in 1755 ("Publications Am...
Myer Samuel Isaacs (JE | WP GWPG) American lawyer; born in New York city May 8, 1841; educated at the University of New York. He was admitted to the bar of...
Nathaniel Isaacs (JE | WP GWPG) African traveler; born in England 1808; died after 1840. He left England in 1822 for St. Helena, where his uncle was consul...
Rebecca Isaacs (JE | WP GWPG) English actress and singer; born in London June 26, 1828; died there April 21, 1877. Her father, John Isaacs, an actor and...
Samuel Hillel Isaacs (JE | WP GWPG) American calendarer; born 1825 at Raczek, Poland; educated under Judah Bacharach, Moses Leib of Kutna, and others; emigrated...
Samuel Myer Isaacs (JE | WP GWPG) Rabbi and journalist; born at Leeuwarden, Holland, Jan. 4, 1804; died in New York city May 19, 1878. His father, on the approach...
Isaiah>>Isaiah in rabbinic literatureJE (JE | WP GWPG) the greatest of the Hebrew prophets of whom literary monuments remain. He resided at Jerusalem, and so contrasts with Micah...
Book of Isaiah (JE | WP GWPG) Ch. i.: One of the finest specimens of prophetic rhetoric known. It is in its present form a general prophecy, full of edification...
Ascension of Isaiah (JE | WP GWPG) Apocryphal book, consisting of three different parts, which seem originally to have existed separately; one is of Jewish,...
Isaiah ben Abba Mari (JE | WP GWPG) French rabbi of the second half of the fourteenth century; famous for his controversies and for the divisions he caused among...
Isaiah ben Abraham (JE | WP GWPG) Polish rabbi of the seventeenth century; author of "Be'er Heṭeb," a commentary on Shulchan 'Aruk, Oraḥ...
Isaiah Menahem ben Isaac (JE | WP GWPG) Rabbi of Cracow; died Aug. 16, 1599. At first chief of the yeshibah of Szezebrscyn, government of Lublin, Poland, he was later...
Isaiah (Ben Elijah) di Trani (The Younger) JE (JE | WP GWPG) Italian Talmudist and commentator; lived in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. He was the grandson, on his mother'...
Isaiah (Ben Mali) di Trani (The Elder; Rid) JE (JE | WP GWPG) Prominent Italian Talmudist; born about 1180. He originated in Trani (Conforte, "Kore ha-Dorot," p. 15a), an ancient...
'Isawites (JE | WP GWPG) -- SeeI275: Isḥaḳ ben Ya'ḳub Obadiah Abu 'Isa al-Isfahani
Barbu (Judah) Iscovescu [ro; he] (JE | WP GWPG) Rumanian painter; born 1816 at Bucharest; died Oct. 24, 1854, at Constantinople. The son of a house-painter, he served his...
Ise (Isi, Jose) ben Judah (JE | WP GWPG) Palestinian tanna of the second century; contemporary of Simeon ben Yochai and of R. Meïr. Bacher thinks it probable...
Ishak ibn 'Ali ibn Ishak (JE | WP GWPG) Karaite scholar of the eleventh century. The "Chronicle" of ibn al-Hiti contains a warm eulogy of the scholarly attainments...
Ish-bosheth (JE | WP GWPG) Fourth and youngest son of Saul, and, as the sole male survivor in direct line of descent, his legitimate successor to the...
Ishmael (JE | WP GWPG) Eldest son of Abraham by his concubine Hagar; born when Abraham was eighty-six years of age (Gen. xvi. 15, 16). God promised...
Ishmael b. Abraham ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWPG) Talmudic scholar and author; chief rabbi of Modena; born 5484 (=1724); died 5571 (=1811). He was recognized as a profound...
Ishmael of Akbara (JE | WP GWPG) Founder of the Jewish sect of Akbarites; flourished in the time of the calif al-Mu'taṣim (833-841). He was a native...
Ishmael b. ElishaJE (JE | WP GWPG) Tanna of the first and second centuries (third tannaitic generation). He was a descendant of a wealthy priestly family in...
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Ishmael ben Johanan ben Baroka (JE | WP GWPG) Tanna of the second century (fourth tannaitic generation); contemporary of Simon b. Gamaliel II. These two rabbis are often...
Ishmael ben Jose ben HalaftaJE (JE | WP GWPG) Tanna of the beginning of the third century. Ishmael served as a Roman official together with Eliezer b. Simon, and was instrumental...
Ishmael ben Kimhit (Kamhit, v06p650002jpg) (JE | WP GWPG) High priest under Agrippa I.; probably identical with Simon, son of Κάμιθος (or Κά...
Ishmael ben Phabi (Fiabi) II (JE | WP GWPG) High priest under Agrippa II.; not to be identified (as by Grätz and Schürer) with the high priest of the same name...
Lazard Isidor (JE | WP GWPG) Chief rabbi of France; grandson, on his mother's side, of Hirsch Katzenellenbogen, chief rabbi of Upper Alsace; born at...
Isidorus Hispalensis (JE | WP GWPG) Archbishop of Seville; flourished in the sixth and seventh centuries. He presided over the fourth Council of Toledo, called...
Isis (JE | WP GWPG) Egyptian deity, at whose instigation, it was alleged, the Jews were forced to leave Egypt. Cheremon, the enemy of the Jews...
Islam>>Islamic – Jewish relationsJE (JE | WP GWPG) Arabic word denoting "submission to God"; the name given to the religion of Mohammed and to the practises connected therewith...
'Abd al-Hakk ak-Islami (JE | WP GWPG) Jewish convert to Islam; lived at Ceuta, Morocco, in the first half of the fourteenth century. He wrote an Arabic work against...
Meyer Isler [de] (JE | WP GWPG) German philologist; born Dec. 14, 1807, at Hamburg; died there Aug. 19, 1888; studied philology at the universities of Bonn...
Ispahan (JE | WP GWPG) City in the district of Jabal, Persia, situated on the Zendarud. The Jews pretend to have founded Ispahan, saying that it...
Kingdom of Israel (JE | WP GWPG) in the article People of Israel the history of the Northern Kingdom in its wider relations is briefly set forth; here the...
People of Israel (JE | WP GWPG) in the Bible "Israel" is the national name of the people who are known racially as "Hebrews." in the tribal condition no comprehensive...
Israel (JE | WP GWPG) First "Hochmeister" (chief rabbi) of Germany; lived at the beginning of the fifteenth century. He was called to this office...
Israel (JE | WP GWPG) An Eastern family of rabbis and authors whose members dwelt in Alexandria, Jerusalem, and Rhodes, where they held important...
Israel of Bamberg (JE | WP GWPG) Tosafist; flourished about the middle of the thirteenth century. He was a pupil of Samuel of Bamberg, to whose rabbinate he...
Israel Bruna ben Hayyim (JE | WP GWPG) German rabbi of the fifteenth century. He was at first rabbi of Brünn, and after the expulsion of the Jews from that...
Edward Israel (JE | WP GWPG) American arctic explorer; born July 1, 1859, at Kalamazoo, Mich.; died May 27, 1884; educated at the University of Ann Arbor...
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Hayyim Abraham Israel (JE | WP GWPG) Italian rabbi of the eighteenth century; lived at Candia and Ancona. He wrote: (1) "Bet Abraham" (Leghorn, 1786), a casuistical...
Israel Isser ben Ze'eb Wolf [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWPG) Russian rabbi; lived at Vinnitsa, Podolia, in the nineteenth century. He wrote: "Sha'ar Mishpaṭ," novellæ on...
Jacob Israel (JE | WP GWPG) Russian rabbi and author; flourished 1623-78. He is said to have been born in Temesvar, and to have been rabbi in Belzyce...
James Israel (JE | WP GWPG) German physician; born at Berlin Feb., 1848; M.D. Berlin, 1870. Settling in the German capital, he became in 1875 assistant...
Jedidiah Israel (JE | WP GWPG) Rabbi at Alexandria, Egypt, from 1802 to 1827; died 1827; son of Israel Israel, who had held the rabbinate from 1773 to 1784...
Israel ben Jehiel Ashkenazi (JE | WP GWPG) Italian rabbi; lived at the end of the fifteenth and in the early part of the sixteenth century. He was corrector of the edition...
Israel Joshua of Kutno (JE | WP GWPG) Russian-Polish rabbi; died at Kutno, in the government of Warsaw, July 11, 1893, at an advanced age. He studied in the yeshibah...
Israel Kohen ben Joseph (JE | WP GWPG) Polish scholar; lived in the second half of the sixteenth century. He edited the anonymous philosophical work "She'elot...
Israel of KremsJE (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian rabbi; flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. He was the great-grandfather of Israel ben Pethahiah...
Israel ben Meïr (JE | WP GWPG) Printer and author; lived at Prague in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was the author of a work entitled "Hanhagot...
Israel b. Moses (JE | WP GWPG) Polish cabalist; lived at the end of the sixteenth century. He is known only through his book "Tamim Yachdaw," in which...
Israel ben Moses ha-Levi of Zamosc (JE | WP GWPG) Galician scholar; born at Boberka at the beginning of the eighteenth century; died at Brody April, 1772. His father instructed...
Oskar Israel (JE | WP GWPG) German physician; born at Stralsund Sept. 6, 1854; educated at the universities of Leipsic, Kiel, and Berlin (M.D. 1877)....
Israel ben Samuel Ashkenazi of ShklovJE (JE | WP GWPG) Talmudic casuist; born at Shklov about 1770; died at Tiberias May 13, 1839. One of a group of Talmudical scholars of Shklov...
Israel Samuel ben Solomon (JE | WP GWPG) Polish Talmudic and halakic author of . About 1620 he lived in Cracow. His father, a physician, was of Spanish origin. Israel...
Israel ben Shabbethai of Kozienice (JE | WP GWPG) Hasidic rabbi, cabalist, and thaumaturge; born at Kozienice, government of Radom, Russian Poland, about 1745; died in 1815...
Israel ben Uri Shraga (JE | WP GWPG) German tosafist of the thirteenth century; died before 1298. Little is known of his life or of his family. He was a pupil...
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Israel of Valabregue (JE | WP GWPG) French Talmudist of the first half of the fourteenth century. He lived apparently at Tarascon, and was among the small number...
Isaac ben Joseph (The Younger) IsraeliJE (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish astronomer; flourished at Toledo in the first half of the fourteenth century. He was a pupil of Asher ben Jehiel,...
Israel Israeli (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish scholar; died at Toledo 1326; probably identical with Israel ben Joseph of Toledo, brother of the astronomer Isaac...
Der Israelit (JE | WP GWPG) Biweekly periodical published in Galicia since 1868. It is the organ of the Shomer Yisrael Association of Lemberg, of which...
Der Israelit (JE | WP GWPG) Formerly, a weekly, now a semiweekly journal published at Mayence, Germany. It was founded in 1860 by M. Lehmann and edited...
Israelitische Allianz zu Wien (JE | WP GWPG) Society for the promotion of Jewish interests, founded at Vienna in 1872 by Joseph Ritter von Wertheimer, and modeled on the...
Israelitische Annalen [de; he] (JE | WP GWPG) Weekly journal; published in Frankfort-on-the-Main. The first number appeared Jan. 4, 1839; it discontinued publication Dec...
Israelitische Volkslehrer (JE | WP GWPG) Monthly, published at Frankfort-on-the-Main. It was founded in 1851, and continued to 1862. It was edited by Leopold Stein...
Abraham Hartog Israels [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWPG) Dutch medical historian; born at Groningen March 27, 1822; died at Amsterdam. Jan. 16, 1883; educated at the university of...
Joseph Israels (JE | WP GWPG) Dutch genre painter; born at Groningen, Holland, June 27, 1824. It was his mother's desire that he should enter the rabbinate...
Issachar (JE | WP GWPG) Ninth son of Jacob and fifth of Leah, born a considerable length of time after her other children (Gen. xxx. 17, 18; comp...
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Tribe of Issachar (JE | WP GWPG) A tribe of Israel, descended from Issachar. The numbers accredited to Issachar are: 54,400 in Num. i. 29; 64,300 in Num. xxvi...
Issachar Bär b. Tanhum (JE | WP GWPG) Russian rabbi; born (in Grodno ?) 1779; died at Wilna July 31, 1855. He became one of the "more Zedek" ("dayyanim")...
Issachar Dob ben Jacob Joshua (JE | WP GWPG) Rabbi of Podhajee, Galicia; born at Lisko, Galicia, 1712; died in Berlin Oct. 28, 1744. His father was the author of "Pene...
Issachar ben Issachar Cohen Gersoni (JE | WP GWPG) Bohemian printer and author; lived in Prague in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In 1691 he was employed at Fü...
Moses ben Israel (Rema) Isserles (JE | WP GWPG) Polish rabbi, code annotator, and philosopher; born at Cracow about 1520; died there May 1, 1572. His father was a rich and...
Istria (JE | WP GWPG) A small peninsula at the northern end of the Adriatic Sea, having about 320,000 inhabitants, of whom 285 are Jews. Ethnographically...
Italy>>History of the Jews in ItalyJE (JE | WP GWPG) Kingdom of southern Europe, with a total population of about 32,000,000, in which there are about 34,653 Jews (1901). This...
Ithamar (JE | WP GWPG) Youngest son of Aaron by Elisheba (Ex. vi. 23). Together with his father and three brothers he was consecrated to the priesthood...
ItureaJE (JE | WP GWPG) Greek name of a province, derived from the Biblical "Jetur," name of a son of Ishmael (comp. Gen. xxv. 15, 16). The name of...
Itze (Isaac) of ChernigovJE (JE | WP GWPG) Russian scholar of the twelfth century, frequently consulted by his contemporaries on questions of Biblical exegesis. He is...
Itzig (JE | WP GWPG) Wealthy German family which did much in the eighteenth century for the development of modern culture among the Jews. Babette...
Ivan IV, Vassilivich, the Terrible (JE | WP GWPG) When the Russian army occupied the flourishing Polish city of Polotzk, which at that time (1563) had a prosperous Jewish community...
Ixar (Hijar) (JE | WP GWPG) Town in Aragon, Spain, 62 miles to the northeast of Teruel. Here were printed by Eliezer Alantansi two parts of the Spanish...
Iyyar (JE | WP GWPG) the second month in the Jewish calendar, consisting always of twenty-nine days, and falling between the tenth of April and...
IzatesJE (JE | WP GWPG) Proselyte; King of Adiabene; son of Queen Helena and Monobaz I.; born in the year 1 of the common era; died in 55. While in...
Izraelita (JE | WP GWPG) Jewish weekly in the Polish language, published in Warsaw since 1865. It was the successor of the Jutrzenka. At the beginning...