Gabbai+ (JE | WP GWPG) Tax-collector; in modern usage, treasurer of a synagogue. In Talmudic times the alms of the congregation appear to have been...
GabbaiUNR>>'Meir ben Ezekiel ibn GabbaiJE (JE | WP GWPG) A family the members of which were found in Spain in the fifteenth century, and in Italy and the Levant from the seventeenth...
Gabbatha (JE | WP GWPG) Town corresponding to the Biblical "Gibeah," mentioned in the Septuagint (I Chron. xii. 3), in Josephus ("Ant." v. 1, §...
Abraham ben Jacob Gabishon (JE | WP GWPG) Algerian physician and scholar; descended from a Granada family; died at Tlemçen in 1605. He established himself as a...
Gabriel (JE | WP GWPG) With Michael, Gabriel is mentioned by name in the Book of Daniel, where he explains to Daniel his visions (Dan. viii. 16-26...
Gabriel ben Judah of Vitry (JE | WP GWPG) Italian physician; flourished in the sixteenth century. His name seems to indicate that he was a native of Vitry, France,...
Gabriel of Milhaud (JE | WP GWPG) French physician and translator; flourished in the second half of the sixteenth century. He translated, in 1583, under the...
Ossip Gabrilovitch (JE | WP GWPG) Russian pianist; born in St. Petersburg Feb. 7, 1878. When only four years old he evinced a remarkable talent for music, and...
Gadara (JE | WP GWPG) A Hellenistic city, situated southeast of the Sea of Gennesaret. It was rebuilt by Pompey, and afterward given to Herod the...
Gadarenes (JE | WP GWPG) Inhabitants of Gadara, known from an alleged miracle of Jesus (Matt. viii.; Mark v.; Luke viii.) in which he transferred the...
Stephan (Daniel) von Gaden (JE | WP GWPG) Russian physician at the court of Moscow under the czars Alexis Mikhailovich and Feodor Alekseyevich; born in Poland, of Jewish...
Gadfly (JE | WP GWPG) Marginal rendering in the Revised Version of the Hebrew "Kerez" (Jer. xlvi. 20), where "destruction" is given...
Jacob Gaffarel (Gaffarellus) (JE | WP GWPG) French Christian rabbinical scholar; born at Mannes, Provence, 1601; died at Sigonce 1681. He devoted himself to the study...
Gagin (JE | WP GWPG) Rabbinical family of Castilian origin which emigrated to Morocco in 1492, and in the eight eenth century to Palestine. The...
John Gagnier (JE | WP GWPG) French Christian Orientalist; born at Paris about 1670; died at Oxford March 2, 1740. Gagnier devoted himself early to the...
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Solomon Gai (JE | WP GWPG) Italian scholar and Hebraist; born at Mantua 1600; died there Aug., 1638. Gai is chiefly known as the correspondent and friendof...
Gaillac (JE | WP GWPG) Small town in the department of Tarn, France; mentioned as in the Responsa (No. 47) of Nissim ben Reuben Gerundi. Jews were...
Maestro Gajo (Isaac ben Mordecai) JE (JE | WP GWPG) Physician to Pope Nicholas IV. or Boniface VIII. at the end of the thirteenth century. For him Nathan of Cento translated...
Galen (Galenus Claudius) (JE | WP GWPG) Greek physician and philosopher; born at Pergamus, Mysia, about 131; died about 200. Eclipsed by those of Aristotle, Galen'...
Galicia, Austria (JE | WP GWPG) Province of Austria; acquired at the partition of Poland, 1772, and which, except for some small territorial changes, has...
Galicia, Spain (JE | WP GWPG) An ancient province in the northwestern part of Spain; a barren, mountainous region where Jews settled sparsely in the eleventh...
Galilee (JE | WP GWPG) in the Greek period the customary name for the northern division of western Palestine. The name is formed from "ha-Galil,"...
Moses ben Elijah Galina (JE | WP GWPG) Greek scholar and translator; lived at Candia in the fifteenth century. His best known work is "Toledot Adam" (Constantinople...
Elijah Galipapa (JE | WP GWPG) Rabbi of Rhodes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; probably born in Bulgaria. He emigrated to Palestine, but later...
Hayyim Galipapa (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish rabbi; son of Abraham Galipapa; born at Monzon about 1310; died about 1380. He was rabbi at Huesca, and later at Pamplona...
Hayyim Meborak Galipapa (JE | WP GWPG) Bulgarian rabbi; lived and taught at Sofia about 1650 (Conforte, "Ḳore ha-Dorot," p. 52a).G. M. K. ...
Gallah (JE | WP GWPG) Epithet originally applied to Catholic priests on account of their tonsure. Later the same epithet was extended to Greek Orthodox...
Joseph Shalom de Shalom Gallego (JE | WP GWPG) Neo-Hebraic poet; died in Palestine Nov. 25, 1624. He was the first Chazzan of the first synagogue erected in Amsterdam...
Gallery (JE | WP GWPG) An elevated floor, or a balcony, in the interior of a church, synagogue, or other large building, resting on columns, and...
Elisha ben Gabriel Gallico (JE | WP GWPG) Palestinian Talmudist; died at Safed about 1583. He was a pupil of Joseph Caro. After the death of his master, Gallico was...
41 – 60
Samuel Gallico (JE | WP GWPG) Italian Talmudist and cabalist; lived in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was a pupil of Moses Cordovero and the...
Gallipoli (JE | WP GWPG) Seaport town in European Turkey, at the northeast end of the Dardanelles and about 135 miles from Constantinople. It has a...
Gallows (JE | WP GWPG) A framework consisting of one or more upright posts supporting a cross-beam, and used for executing those sentenced to death...
Caius Cestius Gallus (JE | WP GWPG) Consul "suffectus" in 42 C.E. Pliny ("Historia Naturalis," xxxiv. 48) calls him "consularis," i.e.," retired consul." According...
Galveston (JE | WP GWPG) Chief commercial city of the state of Texas; on Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. It was founded in 1836, and has a population...
Gaspard da Gama (JE | WP GWPG) German-Jewish mariner of the fifteenth century. According to his own story, Gaspard da Gama was born in Posen, and while still...
Vasco da Gama (JE | WP GWPG) Portuguese discoverer of the highway to India by sea. Like Columbus, he was materially aided in his voyage by Abraham Zacuto...
Gamala (JE | WP GWPG) City in Palestine, opposite Taricheæ, beyond Lake Tiberias. It had an unusually strong position on the side of a mountain...
Gamaliel (JE | WP GWPG) Name which occurs in the Bible only as a designation of the prince of the tribe of Manasseh (Num. i. 10; ii. 20; vii. 54,...
Gamaliel I (JE | WP GWPG) Son of Simon and grandson of Hillel: according to a tannaitic tradition (Shab.15a), he was their successor as nasi and first...
Gamaliel II (JE | WP GWPG) the recognized head of the Jews in Palestine during the last two decades of the first and at the beginning of the second century...
Gamaliel III (JE | WP GWPG) Son of Judah I., who before his death appointed him his successor as nasi (Ket. 103a). Scarcely anything has been handed down...
Gamaliel IV (JE | WP GWPG) Son and successor of the patriarch Judah II., and father of the patriarch Judah III. The period of activity of these patriarchs...
Gamaliel V (JE | WP GWPG) Son and successor of the patriarch Hillel II.; celebrated in connection with the perfecting of the Jewish calendar in 359...
Gamaliel VI (JE | WP GWPG) the last patriarch. The decree of the emperors Honorius and Theodosius II. (Oct. 17, 415) contains interesting data concerning...
Gamaliel ben Pedahzur [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWPG) the pseudonym of the unknown author of a work on the Jewish ritual, the title-page of which reads. "The Book of Religion,...
Gambling (JE | WP GWPG) Playing at games, especially games of chance, for money. Among the ancient Israelites no mention is made of games of chance...
Games and Sports (JE | WP GWPG) Playful methods of enjoying leisure moments. The ancient Hebrews practised target-shooting with arrows (I Sam. xx. 20; Job...
David ben Solomon ben Seligman Gans (JE | WP GWPG) German historian; astronomer; born at Lippstadt, Westphalia, 1541; died at Prague Aug. 25, 1613. After having acquired a fair...
Eduard Gans (JE | WP GWPG) German jurist; born at Berlin March 22, 1798; died there May 5, 1839. He was the son of the banker Abraham Gans, and received...
Solomon Philip Gans (JE | WP GWPG) German jurist; born 1788; lived at Celle, Hanover. He was the author of: "Das Erbrecht des Napoleonischen, Gesetzbuches fü...
Solomon Ganzfried (JE | WP GWPG) Hungarian rabbi and author; born at Ungvar about 1800; died there July 30, 1886. He frequented the yeshibah of Hirsch Heller...
Gaon (JE | WP GWPG) An influential Jewish family in Vitoria, Spain. Don Gaon: Chief farmer of taxes under Henry IV. of Castile, whose suite...
Gaon (JE | WP GWPG) the title of "gaon," probably an abbreviation of (Ps. xlvii. 5), was given to the heads of the two Babylonian academies...
Bernardo (Benjamin?) Nuñez Garcia (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish poet; lived in Amsterdam about the middle of the eighteenth century. His little burlesques and occasional poems are...
Samuel GarmisonJE (JE | WP GWPG) Palestinian rabbi of the seventeenth century. He was a native of Salonica, and settled in Jerusalem, where he became rabbi...
Nehorai Garmon (JE | WP GWPG) Rabbi of Tunis; poet; born at Tripoli about 1682; died at Tunis 1760. Garmon went to Tunis at twenty, and studied Talmud under...
Bet Garmu (JE | WP GWPG) A family of skilled bakers employed in the Temple at Jerusalem as bakers of the showbread (Ex. xxv. 30). They kept secret...
Garnishment (JE | WP GWPG) in law, the process by which A collects his demand from his debtor, B, by attaching money owing to b. from a third person;...
Joseph Gart (JE | WP GWPG) Provençal liturgical poet and commentator; probably lived at Aix in the fifteenth century. The surname is, according...
Gustav Gärtner (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian physician; born at Pardubitz, Bohemia, Sept. 28, 1855. He received his education at the gymnasium at Königgrä...
Abraham Gascon (JE | WP GWPG) Scholar of the sixteenth century. Gascon had in his possession Samuel of Sarsah's "Miklal Yofi," to which he added marginal...
81 – 100
Moses GasterJE (JE | WP GWPG) Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, London; born in Bucharest Sept. 16, 1856. Having taken a degree in his native...
Isaac GastfreundJE (JE | WP GWPG) Galician rabbinical scholar; born about 1845; died in Vienna after 1880. He was the author of "Toledot Rabbi 'Aḳ...
Gate (JE | WP GWPG) This denotes not so much a contrivance like a door () for barring ingress and egress, as the passageway and the group of buildings...
Gath (JE | WP GWPG) One of the five principal cities of the Philistines (Josh. xiii. 3; I Sam. vi. 17). The name occurs in the El-Amarna tablets...
Gatigno (JE | WP GWPG) Name (Spanish) of a family known in the fourteenth century, and still flourishing in Turkey; it is probably derived from the. gatigno de la gatine..
Gaulonitis (JE | WP GWPG) Section of country east of the Jordan and of the Sea of Galilee; so called particularly in the first century C.E. It is frequently...
Meïr Gavison (JE | WP GWPG) Egyptian scholar; flourished in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was one of the rabbis at Cairo at the time of...
Gaya (JE | WP GWPG) Town in the Austrian province of Moravia. In official records Jews at Gaya are first mentioned toward the end of the seventeenth...
Gaza (JE | WP GWPG) Palestinian city on the Mediterranean, about 85 kilometers southeast of Jerusalem. In early times it was one of the terminals...
Gazara (JE | WP GWPG) Fortified city in Palestine; situated on the borders of Azotus, not far from Emmaus-Nicopolis on the west. Gazara has been...
Geber (JE | WP GWPG) Son of Geber; mentioned (I Kings iv. 13) as one of Solomon's district commissariat officers who resided in the fortress...
Gebiha of Argizah (JE | WP GWPG) Babylonian scholar of the fifth century; contemporary of Ashi, the projector of the Babylonian Gemara compilation. Huna b...
Gebiha of Be-katil (JE | WP GWPG) Babylonian halakist of the fifth century; junior of Acha b. Jacob, Abaye, and Raba; from all of these he learned halakot...
Gebini (JE | WP GWPG) Officer of the Second Temple, whose duty was at certain times of each day to announce the rite to be performed, and to remind...
Gebini b. Harson (JE | WP GWPG) A Jewish Crœsus, cited as a realistic illustration of Eccl. iv. 8. The Midrash thus dissects the verse: "There is one...
Gebweiler (JE | WP GWPG) Town of Alsace, in the consistorial district of Colmar and rabbinate of Sulz. The first document referring to its Jewish community...
Don Judah Gedaliah (JE | WP GWPG) Portuguese printer; born in Lisbon, where he was engaged as foreman in the printing-house of Eliezer Toledano. Driven out...
Judah ben Moses Gedaliah (Gadilia) (JE | WP GWPG) Turkish rabbi; lived at Salonica in the sixteenth century. He was the author of (1) "Masoret Talmud Yerushalmi," an index...
Ge-harashim (JE | WP GWPG) Town—the name of which means "the valley of craftsmen"—founded by Joab, one of the tribe of Judah (I Chron. iv...
Gehazi (JE | WP GWPG) Elisha's servant (II Kings iv. 12 et seq.; v. 20, 21, 25; viii. 4-5).—Biblical Data: Gehazi is mentioned first in...
Gehenna (JE | WP GWPG) the place where children were sacrificed to the god Moloch was originally in the "valley of the son of Hinnom," to the south...
Ge-hinnom (JE | WP GWPG) Name of the valley to the south and south-west of Jerusalem (Josh. xv. 8, xviii. 16; Neh. xi. 30; II Kings xxiii. 10; II Chron...
Abraham Geiger (JE | WP GWPG) German rabbi and scholar; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main May 24, 1810; died at Berlin Oct. 23, 1874; son of Rabbi Michael Lazarus...
Lazarus Geiger (JE | WP GWPG) German philologist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main May 21, 1829; died there Aug. 29, 1870. His father was Solomon Michael Geiger...
Ludwig Geiger (JE | WP GWPG) German literary historian; son of Abraham Geiger; born at Breslau June 5, 1848. After having been educated for the rabbinate...
Simon von GeldernJE (JE | WP GWPG) Traveler and author; born 1720; died 1774. He was the great-uncle of Heine, who describes him in his "Memoirs" as an adventurer...
Gelilah (JE | WP GWPG) the wrapping of the scroll of the Law in its vestments after the lesson has been read from it. In the German ritual it follows...
Peter Isaacovich Geller [ru] (JE | WP GWPG) Russian painter; born at Shklov Dec. 10, 1862. He studied at the Odessa School of Design, and entered (1878) the St. Petersburg...
Gemara Niggun (JE | WP GWPG) the chant used by students in reading the Talmud. See Cantillation.
Gemariah (JE | WP GWPG) Son of Shaphan the scribe. It was in Gemariah's chamber that Baruch read to the people the prophecy of Jeremiah (Jer....
Gematria (JE | WP GWPG) A cryptograph which gives, instead of the intended word, its numerical value, or a cipher produced by the permutation of letters...
Deutsch-Israelitischer Gemeindebund [de; ru] (JE | WP GWPG) An association of Jewish corporations in Germany, founded July 3, 1869, on the occasion of the Jewish synod at Leipsic, and...
Gems (JE | WP GWPG) Precious stones, usually cut or polished for ornamental or other uses. Gems were not indigenous to Palestine; they were imported...
Elijah Hayyim ben Benjamin of Genazzano (JE | WP GWPG) Italian physician, theologian, and cabalist; flourished in the first half of the sixteenth century. He had a religious controversy...
Genealogy>>Jewish genealogyREF:JE (JE | WP GWPG) A list, in the order of succession, of ancestors and their descendants. The Pentateuchal equivalent for "genealogies" is "toledot"...
Generation (JE | WP GWPG) This many-sided word, like its equivalents in the modern versions of the Bible, is used to translate the Hebrew "dor" and...
Length of Generation (JE | WP GWPG) the number of years that elapse before the children of one set of human beings arrive at a marriageable age. This number has...
The Book of Genesis (JE | WP GWPG) the first book of the Torah, and therefore of the whole Bible, is called by the Jews "Bereshit," after the initial word; by...
Geneva (JE | WP GWPG) Capital of the Swiss canton of the same name; situated at the southwest end of Lake Geneva; population (1900) about 80,000...
GenizahJE (JE | WP GWPG) the storeroom or depository in a synagogue; a cemetery in which worn-out and heretical or disgraced Hebrew books or papers...
Lake of Gennesaret (JE | WP GWPG) A lake which takes its name ("Gennesaret" or "Gennesar"; I Macc. xi. 67; Luke v. 1; and in Josephus) from the small fruitful...
141 – 160
Genoa (JE | WP GWPG) An important Italian seaport on the Gulf of Genoa; also a former republic of the same name. It is very probable that even...
Gentile (JE | WP GWPG) A word of Latin origin (from "gens"; "gentilis"), designating a people not Jewish, commonly applied to non-Jews. The term...
Gentili (JE | WP GWPG) Italian family of Gorizia, several members of which were eminent rabbis and Talmudic authorities. Of these the most important...
Genubath (JE | WP GWPG) Son of Hadad the Edomite by an Egyptian princess, the sister-in-law of the Pharaoh who governed Egypt at the time of David...
Geographers (JE | WP GWPG) Persons proficient in describing the surface of the earth. Jews have contributed in different ways to the advancement of geographical...
Geomancy (JE | WP GWPG) Divination by means of points made in sand, or by means of pebbles or grains of sand placed on a piece of paper. Some Moslem...
Gerar (JE | WP GWPG) Seat of a Philistine prince (Gen. x. 19, xx. 1 et seq., xxvi. 20; I Chron. iv. 39 [LXX.]; II Chron. xiv. 12 et seq.). Following...
Daniel ben Elijah Gerasi (JE | WP GWPG) Turkish Talmudist and preacher of the seventeenth century; lived at Salonica, where he died about 1705. He was the author...
Friedrich Gerhard [de] (JE | WP GWPG) German Christian writer against the Jews; born in Frankfort-on-the-Main Jan. 2, 1779; died there Oct. 30, 1862. He was a Lutheran...
Mount Gerizim (JE | WP GWPG) Mountain south of the valley in which Shechem was situated; the present Jabal al-Tur (Deut. xi. 29, xxvii. 12; Josh...
Germany>>History of the Jews in GermanyJE (JE | WP GWPG) Country of central Europe. The date of the first settlement of Jews in the regions called by the Romans "Germania Superior...
161 – 180
Friedrich Gernsheim (JE | WP GWPG) German pianist and composer; born at Worms July 17, 1839. He was a pupil of L. Liebe, Pauer, Rosenhain (piano), I. C. Hauff...
Karl Gerö (JE | WP GWPG) Hungarian dramatist; born at Hévizgyörk Oct. 18, 1856; studied law at Kaschau and Budapest. While still a student...
Girona (JE | WP GWPG) Fortified city in northern Spain. As early as 1002 Pope Sylvester acknowledged to Bishop Odo of Gerona the receipt of the...
Isaac b. Zerahiah Halevi Gerondi (JE | WP GWPG) Talmudist; lived in Gerona in the twelfth century. He was the father of Zerahiah ha-Levi, author of "Sefer ha-Ma'or,"...
Moses b. Solomon d'Escola Gerondi [he] (JE | WP GWPG) Hebrew poet; relative of Moses Nachmanides; lived at Gerona, Catalonia, in the second half of the thirteenth century...
Gershom (JE | WP GWPG) First-born son of Moses and Zipporah (Ex. ii. 22, xviii. 3). The circumcision of a child of Moses described in Ex. iv. 25...
Gershom ben JudahJE (JE | WP GWPG) French rabbi; born at Metz in 960; died at Mayence in 1040. He was the founder of Talmudic studies in France and Germany....
Gershon ben Hezekiah (JE | WP GWPG) Provençal physician, astronomer, and grammarian; lived at Beaumes toward the end of the fourteenth century and at the...
Isaac Gershon (JE | WP GWPG) Rabbi and corrector of the press at Venice at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was...
Gershon b. Jacob ha-Gozer [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWPG) German Talmudist; flourished in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He was a grand-nephew, and probably pupil, of Ephraim...
Gershon ben Solomon of ArlesJE (JE | WP GWPG) Provençal philosopher; flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century; said to be the father of Gersonides....
181 – 200
Gershon ben Solomon ben Asher (JE | WP GWPG) French Talmudist; flourished at Béziers in the twelfth century. He was the author of a casuistic work entitled "Sefer...
Felix Napoleon Gerson (JE | WP GWPG) American lyrist, writer, and journalist; manager of "The Jewish Exponent" (Philadelphia); born in Philadelphia Oct. 18, 1862...
George Hartog Gerson (JE | WP GWPG) German physician; born in Hamburg 1788; died there 1843. After taking his degree he traveled in Norway and Sweden, and finally...
Karl Gerson (JE | WP GWPG) German physician; born at Hamm, Westphalia, July 19, 1866; educated at the universities of Munich, Rostock, Leipsic, and Bonn...
Henry Gersoni (JE | WP GWPG) American rabbi and journalist; born in Wilna, Russia, 1844; died in New York June 17, 1897. He attended the rabbinical seminary...
Jonah Gerstein (JE | WP GWPG) Lithuanian educationalist and Hebraist; born at Wilna Dec. 4, 1827; died there Dec. 6, 1891. Gerstein was one of the first...
Lewis Gerstle [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWPG) Californian pioneer; born in Ichenhausen, Bavaria, Dec. 17, 1824; died at San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 19, 1902. In 1845 he emigrated...
Adolf Joseph Gerstmann [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWPG) German author; born July 31, 1855, at Ostrowo, Prussia. In infancy he was taken by his parents to Berlin; there he attended...
Gerusia (JE | WP GWPG) A council of elders. Moses was assisted by a council of seventy elders (Num. xi. 16), and the elders as representatives of...
Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (JE | WP GWPG) Christian Hebraist and Orientalist; born at Nordhausen Feb. 3, 1786; died Oct. 23, 1842. At first devoting his attention to...
Geshan (JE | WP GWPG) One of the sons of Jahdai, of the family of Caleb (I Chron. ii. 47).E. G. H. M. Sel.
GeshemJE (JE | WP GWPG) One of the Hebrew words for "rain," applied mostly to the heavy rains which occur in Palestine in the fall and winter. This...
Geshem the Arabian (JE | WP GWPG) Ally of Sanballat and Tobiah and adversary of Nehemiah (Neh. ii. 19, vi. 1). In Neh. vi. 6 he is called "Gashmu," which is...
GeshurJE, Geshurites (JE | WP GWPG) Geshur was a territory in the northern part of Bashan, adjoining the province of Argob (Deut. iii. 14) and the kingdom of...
Jacob ben Isaac GesundheitJE (JE | WP GWPG) Polish rabbi; born in Warsaw 1815; died there Sept. 11, 1878. He conducted a yeshibah for forty-two years, some of his many...
Get (JE | WP GWPG) the earliest use of the geṭ, an institution peculiar to the Jews, can not be established with certainty. Although the...
201 to 300
201 – 220
Ge'ullah (JE | WP GWPG) the name of the benediction which follows the reading of the Shema'. It refers to God's redemption of Israel from...
Gezer (JE | WP GWPG) Ancient Canaanitish city mentioned in Egyptian inscriptions and the Amarna letters as being the seat of a local prince (comp...
Gezerah (JE | WP GWPG) A rabbinical enactment issued as a guard or preventive measure; also a prohibition or restriction generally; from the root...
Solomon b. Judah Ghayyat (JE | WP GWPG) Hebrew poet of the twelfth century; possibly a grandson of Isaac Gchayyat, the famous teacher of Lucena. Solomon was...
Ghent (JE | WP GWPG) Chief city of eastern Flanders, Belgium. That at the time of the Crusades there were Jews in Ghent is known, as they were...
Ghetto (JE | WP GWPG) Originally the street or quarter of a city in which the Jews were compelled to live, and which was closed every evening by...
Ghez (JE | WP GWPG) A Tunisian family including several authors. David Ghez: Talmudist; lived at Tunis in the second half of the eighteenth...
Ghiron (JE | WP GWPG) An old family originally from Gerona, Spain, and known in Hebrew as "the Geronim." It has produced many rabbis, among whom...
Ghirondi ((redirects to Mordecai GhirondiJE)) (JE | WP GWPG) Italian family of Padua, the founder of which settled there toward the end of the sixteenth century. The name indicates that...
Solomon Daniel Ghosalker (JE | WP GWPG) Beni-Israel soldier; born 1804; died at Dhulia, India, Oct. 14, 1869. He enlisted in the 25th regiment of the Bombay native...
Giants (JE | WP GWPG) Word derived from the Greek γίγας (in LXX.), denoting a man of extraordinary stature; in the English...
Judah ben Elijah ben Joseph Gibbor (JE | WP GWPG) Karaite scholar; flourished at Constantinople between 1500 and 1540. His main work, which was highly esteemed by the Karaite...
Gibeah (JE | WP GWPG) the name of several cities situated on hills. The difficulty of keeping these distinct is increased by the fact that sometimes...
Gibeon and Gibeonites (JE | WP GWPG) Gibeon was one of the four cities of the Hivites, reckoned in Josh. xviii. 25 among the cities of Benjamin. That it was not...
Gibraltar (JE | WP GWPG) British possession, south of Spain. Jews appear to have settled there shortly after the British took possession of the fortress...
221 – 240
Gideon (JE | WP GWPG) Son of Joash the Abiezrite; also called "Jerubbaal" (Judges vi. 32; "Jerubbesheth" in II Sam. xi. 21); one of the prominent...
Samson Gideon (JE | WP GWPG) English financier; born in London 1699; died 1762. He was a son of RowlandGideon (died 1720), a West-Indian merchant, who...
Gifts (JE | WP GWPG) the interchange of gifts was a custom common among the early Israelites in the ordinary transactions of life as well as at...
Gihon (JE | WP GWPG) the second river of Eden, surrounding the whole land of Cush or Ethiopia (Gen. ii. 13). Its identification has been a matter...
Joseph ben Abraham GikatillaJE (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish cabalist; born at Medinaceli, Old Castile, 1248; died at Peñafiel after 1305. Gikatilla was for some time a pupil...
Moses ibn Gikatilla (JE | WP GWPG) Grammarian and Bible exegete of the latter part of the eleventh century. His full name was "Moses b. Samuel haKohen," but...
Gil Vicente (JE | WP GWPG) Portuguese dramatist; born at Lisbon about 1470; called by the Portuguese their Plautus, their Shakespeare, and the father...
Gilboa (JE | WP GWPG) the ancient name given to the bow-shaped mountain chain situated north of the Ras Ibzik, separating the plain of Jezreel...
Gilds (JE | WP GWPG) Associations for the restriction of competition in the production and distribution of commodities. From the twelfth century...
Gilead (JE | WP GWPG) District, mountain, and city east of the Jordan. The name "Gilead" in Gen. xxxi. 48 is explained by popular etymology to mean...
Gilgal (JE | WP GWPG) the first camping-place of the Israelites in the land west of the Jordan (Josh. iv. 19); the place to which they could retreat...
GilyonimJE (JE | WP GWPG) Term used by the scribes flourishing between 100 and 135 to denote the Gospels. The designation as used by them did not imply...
Gimel (JE | WP GWPG) Third letter of the Hebrew alphabet, so called, perhaps, because the shape of the letter in the ancient West-Semitic script...
Gimzo (JE | WP GWPG) A city in the Judean plain; conquered by the Philistines according to II Chron. xxviii. 18; present village of Jimzu, southeast...
Christian David Ginsburg (JE | WP GWPG) English Masoretic scholar and Christian missionary; born at Warsaw Dec. 25, 1831. He was converted in 1846, and was for a...
Saul Moiseyevich Ginsburg (JE | WP GWPG) Russian lawyer and author; born at Minsk 1866; graduated from the law department of the University of St. Petersburg 1890...
Asher (Ahad Ha-'am) Ginzberg (JE | WP GWPG) Russian scholar; born at Skvira, government of Kiev, on Aug. 5, 1856. His father, Isaiah, belonged to a family of Ḥasidim...
Louis Ginzberg (JE | WP GWPG) Hebrew scholar; born at Kovno, Russia, Nov. 28, 1873. He received his early training in the Talmudical school at Telsh, Russia...
Enrique Claudio Girbal (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish scholar; born at Gerona Nov. 16, 1839. He was chronicler of his native city and member of several learned bodies....
Girgashites (JE | WP GWPG) One of the nations which possessed the land of Canaan before the Israelitish conquest. In Hebrew the name occurs only in the...
Girth of the Chest (JE | WP GWPG) While among most other races the average chest-girth measures over one-half the average stature, that of the Jews, it has...
Girzites (JE | WP GWPG) A tribe rich in cattle and apparel; with the Geshurites and the Amalekites it occupied the land between the south of Palestine...
Giscala (JE | WP GWPG) City of Galilee, not far from Tyre; known as the native city of the patriot John of Giscala. John tried to keep his fellow...
Gittin (JE | WP GWPG) Name of a treatise of the Mishnah and of the Tosefta, elaborated in the Palestinian and in the Babylonian Gemaras. It belongs...
Gittith (JE | WP GWPG) A musical instrument mentioned in Ps. viii. 1, lxxxi. 1, lxxxiv. 1. The word is explained by Gesenius ("Thesaurus," s. v....
GizaUNR (Gizai) (JE | WP GWPG) A sabora; head of the Babylonian school in the first half of the sixth century. In a very old source, the "Seder Tanna'...
Gladiator (JE | WP GWPG) A fighter in the gymnasium or arena. Gladiatorial contests were an aspect of Roman life which was intensely hated by the Jews...
Otto Glagau [de; fr] (JE | WP GWPG) Anti-Semitic writer; born in Königsberg, Prussia, Jan. 16, 1834; died in Berlin March 2, 1892. As a journalist and political...
Glaphyra (JE | WP GWPG) Daughter of the Cappadocian king Archelaus. Her first husband was Alexander, son of Herod I. and Mariamne. After his execution...
Adolf Glaser [de] (JE | WP GWPG) German author; born at Wiesbaden Dec. 15, 1829. He traded in art wares while preparing himself for the university. From 1853...
Eduard Glaser (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian traveler and Arabist; born March 15, 1855, at Deutsch-Rust, Bohemia. After completing his elementary and college...
Julius Anton (Joshua Glaser) GlaserJE (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian jurist and statesman; born at Pöstelberg, Bohemia, March 19, 1831; died at Vienna Dec. 26, 1886. After taking...
Glasgow (JE | WP GWPG) Seaport and largest city in Scotland, with a population in 1901 of 760,329, of whom about 6,500 were Jews. The Jewish community...
Glass (JE | WP GWPG) A fused mixture of metallic silicates, generally transparent or translucent. Its manufacture dates from the earliest times...
Gleaning of the Fields (JE | WP GWPG) the remains of a crop after harvesting, which must be left for the poor. The Mosaic law enjoins: "And when ye reap the harvest...
Glogau (JE | WP GWPG) Town in Prussian Silesia, Germany, with a population of 20,529, including 863 Jews. Jews were living there as early as the...
Jehiel Michael ben Uzziel Glogau (JE | WP GWPG) German rabbi; lived at Halberstadt in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was the author of "Nezer ha-Ḳodesh...
Abigdor ben Simhah ha-Levi Glogauer (JE | WP GWPG) German Hebrew scholar of the eighteenth century. He published "Dabar Tob," an elementary Hebrew grammar with paradigms...
Judah ben Hanina Selig Glogauer (JE | WP GWPG) German Talmudist of the beginning of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work entitled "Ḳol Yehudah," a collection...
Meïr ben Ezekiel Glogauer (JE | WP GWPG) Bohemian Talmudist; died at Prague in 1829. He wrote: "Dibre Meir," novellæ, on the Talmudic treatises Giṭṭ...
Moses ben Zebi Hirsch Glogauer (JE | WP GWPG) German scholar; lived at Hamburg in the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work entitled "Ḥebel le-Haḥ...
Heinrich GlücksmannJE (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian author; born at Rackschitz, Mähren, July 7, 1864. He began his literary career at sixteen, one of his first...
Gottlieb (Théophile) Gluge (JE | WP GWPG) Physician; born at Brakel in Westphalia June 18, 1812; died Dec. 22, 1898, at Nizza. He studied medicine at the Berlin University...
Glusker Maggid (JE | WP GWPG) the evidence that Abba Glusk Leczeka really existed and was not,as Kayserling holds ("Moses Mendelssohn," p. 431, Leipsic...
Gnosticism (JE | WP GWPG) An esoteric system of theology and philosophy. It presents one of the most obscure and complicated problems in the general...
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Goat (JE | WP GWPG) "'Ez" is the generic name for both sexes. Special terms for the he-goat: "'attud," Gen. xxxi. 10; Ps. l. 9, etc....
God (JE | WP GWPG) the Supreme Being, regarded as the Creator, Author, and First Cause of the universe, the Ruler of the world and of the affairs...
Children of God (JE | WP GWPG) the "sons of God" are mentioned in Genesis, in a chapter (vi. 2) which reflects preprophetic, mythological, and polytheistic...
Michael H. Godefroi [nl; de] (JE | WP GWPG) Dutch jurist and minister of justice; born at Amsterdam Jan. 13, 1814; died at Würzburg June 27, 1882. He devoted himself...
Godfather (JE | WP GWPG) Primarily, one who assists in the performance of the rite of circumcision by holding the child upon his knees; secondarily...
Göding (JE | WP GWPG) Town of Moravia, Austria; it has a population of about 10,000 (1900), of whom over 1,000 are Jews. The Jewish community there...
Godliness (JE | WP GWPG) the quality of being godly, i.e., godlike, manifested in character and conduct expressive of the conscious recognition and...
Leopold Godowsky (JE | WP GWPG) Russian pianist and composer; born at Wilna Feb. 13, 1870. At a very early age he showed remarkable talent for music, and...
Goel (JE | WP GWPG) Next of kin, and, hence, redeemer. Owing to the solidarity of the family and the clan in ancient Israel, any duty which a...
Gog and Magog (JE | WP GWPG) Magog is mentioned (Gen. x. 2; I Chron. i. 5) as the second son of Japheth, between Gomer and Madai. Gomer representing the...
Baruch (Benedit) Goitein [he; de] (JE | WP GWPG) Hungarian rabbi; died at Högyész, Hungary, Nov. 16, 1842. He occupied the rabbinate of Högyész for many...
Gold (JE | WP GWPG) One of the precious metals. There are six Hebrew words which denote "gold," four of which occur in Job (xxviii. 15-17): (1)...
Wilhelm Goldbaum [de] (JE | WP GWPG) German writer and journalist; born at Kempen, Posen, Jan. 6, 1843. After studying law for some time at the University of Breslau...
Albert Goldberg (JE | WP GWPG) German opera-singer; born at Brunswick June 8, 1847. Educated at the Conservatorium of Leipsic (1865-69), he made his dé...
Baer ben Alexander Goldberg [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWPG) Russian scholar; born at Soludna near Warsaw in 1799; died at Paris May 4, 1884. When he was scarcely fifteen years of age...
Sigismund Goldberger (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian jurist; born in Jägerndorf, Austrian Silesia, June 15, 1854. He was educated at the gymnasium of Troppau and...
Jacob Semenovich Goldblatt (JE | WP GWPG) Russian painter; born at Suwalki 1860; studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts from 1878 to 1888, gaining many...
The Golden Rule (JE | WP GWPG) By this name is designated the saying of Jesus (Matt. vii. 12): "All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should...
John Goldenberg (JE | WP GWPG) Russian merchant; born on the confines of Russia and Rumania; died 1895. He followed the army in the Crimea (1856-57) as a...
Samuel Löb Goldenberg (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian Hebraist; born at Bolechow, Galicia, 1807; died at Tarnopol Jan. 11, 1846. He was the founder and editor of the Hebrew...
Jacob Goldenthal (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian Orientalist; born at Brody, Galicia, April 16, 1815; died at Vienna Dec. 28, 1868; educated at the University of...
Abraham b. Hayyim Lippe Goldfaden (JE | WP GWPG) Hebrew and Yiddish poet and founder of the Yiddish drama; born at Starokonstantinov, Russia, July 12, 1840. He graduated from...
Henry Mayer Goldfogle (JE | WP GWPG) American lawyer and politician; born in New York city May 23, 1856; educated in the public schools and at Townsend College...
Bernard Goldman [pl; he] (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian deputy; born at Warsaw Feb. 20, 1842; died at Lemberg March 23, 1901. His father, Isaac Goldman, was the owner of...
Edwin Ellen Goldmann (JE | WP GWPG) German physician; born at Burghersdorp, Cape Colony, Nov. 12, 1862; studied medicine at the universities of Breslau, Freiburg...
Karl Goldmark (JE | WP GWPG) Hungarian violinist, pianist, and operatic composer; born at Keszthely, Hungary, May 18, 1830, where his father, Ruben Goldmark...
Adolph GoldschmidtJE (JE | WP GWPG) German art critic; born at Hamburg Jan. 15, 1863. After a short business career he devoted himself (1885) to the study of...
Henriette Goldschmidt (JE | WP GWPG) Wife of Rabbi A. M. Goldschmidt (m. 1855); born at Krotoschin, Prussia, Nov. 23, 1825; and now (1903) resident at Leipsic...
Hermann Goldschmidt (JE | WP GWPG) German painter and astronomer; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main June 17, 1802; died at Fontainebleau Sept. 10, 1866. Destined...
Hermann (Herman Taber) Goldschmidt [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWPG) German novelist and playwright; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main July 18, 1860. He attendedthe local gymnasium, and studied law...
Julius Goldschmidt [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWPG) German physician; born at Mayence Feb. 12, 1843. He studied at the universities of Würzburg and Giessen, receiving from...
Lazarus Goldschmidt (JE | WP GWPG) German writer; born at Plungiany, Lithuania, Russia, Dec. 17, 1871. He received his rabbinical education at the Talmudic school...
Levin GoldschmidtJE (JE | WP GWPG) German jurist; born at Danzig May 30, 1829; died at Wilhelmshöhe July 16, 1897. From 1847 to 1851 he pursued his studies...
Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt (JE | WP GWPG) Danish political writer; born Oct. 26, 1819, at Vordingborg, Denmark; died at Copenhagen Aug. 15, 1887. The dream of his youth...
Otto Goldschmidt (JE | WP GWPG) German pianist and composer; born at Hamburg Aug. 21, 1829. He studied under Jacob Schmidt and F. W. Grund; with Hans von...
Siegfried Goldschmidt (JE | WP GWPG) German Orientalist; born at Cassel Oct. 29, 1844; died at Strasburg Jan. 31, 1884. He was educated at the universities of...
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Guido Goldschmiedt (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian chemist; born in Triest Oct. 5, 1850; studied at Vienna and Heidelberg. First as assistant, later as associate professor...
Goldsmid (JE | WP GWPG) A family of English financiers, who trace descent from a certain Uri ha-Levi of Emden, as shown in the pedigree on opposite...
Lewis Goldsmith (JE | WP GWPG) English political writer and agitator; born 1763; died Jan. 6, 1846. Educated in London, he was trained for the legal profession...
Milton Goldsmith [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWPG) American merchant and author; born at Philadelphia May 22, 1861. In 1877 he went to Europe and studied three years at Zurich...
Goldsmiths and Silversmiths (JE | WP GWPG) the earliest descriptions of productions of the goldsmith's art refer to the work of Jewish goldsmiths. The Bible, which...
Eduard Goldstein [ru] (JE | WP GWPG) Russian musician; born at Odessa 1851; died at Leipsic Aug. 8, 1887. He was an accomplished pianist at the age of thirteen...
Joseph Goldstein (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian cantor and composer; born at Kecskemét, Hungary, March 27, 1836; died in Vienna June 17, 1899. He occupied the...
Joseph Goldstein (JE | WP GWPG) Political economist and statistician; born in Odessa, Russia, Jan. 9, 1869. After completing his studies at the gymnasium...
Michael Yulyevich Goldstein [ru] (JE | WP GWPG) Russian chemist; born at Odessa 1853; educated in the Richelieu Gymnasium of Odessa, and graduated from the Medico-Surgical...
Theodor Goldstücker (JE | WP GWPG) German Sanskritist; born at Königsberg, Prussia, Jan. 18, 1821; died in London March 6, 1872. In 1840 he gained his degree...
Joseph Goldszmidt (JE | WP GWPG) Polish lawyer; born at Hrubieszow, government of Lublin, 1846; (died 1896; graduate of the University of Warsaw. He wrote:...
Wilhelm Goldzieher [de; hu] (JE | WP GWPG) Hungarian oculist and ophthalmological writer, born at Köpcsény (= Kitsee), near Presburg, Jan. 1, 1849. He studied...
Ignaz Goldziher (JE | WP GWPG) Hungarian Orientalist; born in Stuhlweissenburg, Hungary, June 22, 1850; attended the gymnasium in his native town, and continued...
Golem (JE | WP GWPG) This word occurs only once in the Bible, in Ps. cxxxix. 16, where it means "embryo." in tradition everything that is in a...
Golgotha (JE | WP GWPG) Locality mentioned in the New Testament as the scene of Jesus' execution (Matt. xxvii. 33 and parallels). The name is...
Goliath (JE | WP GWPG) A Philistine giant of Gath (I Sam. xvii. 4). The name "Goliath" is probably connected with the Assyro-Babylonian "Guzali"...
Count Nicholas Golitzyn (JE | WP GWPG) Russian writer; born in the second half of the nineteenth century. He became notorious through his history of Russian legislation...
Hermann Gollancz (JE | WP GWPG) English rabbi; born at Bremen Nov. 30, 1852; educated at Jews' and University colleges, London. He officiated at several...
Israel Gollancz (JE | WP GWPG) Secretary of the British Academy; born in London 1864. He was educated at the City of London School and Cambridge University...
Hirsch Nissan Golomb (JE | WP GWPG) Russian Hebraist and writer on music; born at Podzelve, government of Wilna, Dec. 15, 1853. He studied in the yeshibah of...
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Joanniki Golyatovski [uk; ru; be] (JE | WP GWPG) Little-Russian cleric and anti-Jewish writer; died 1688. After having studied in the Kiev-Mogilian College, Golyatovski took...
Gomel Benshen [he] (JE | WP GWPG) the pronouncing of the benediction for escape from danger' after passing through the desert; after confinement in prison...
Gomer (JE | WP GWPG) Eldest son of Japheth, and father of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah (Gen. x. 2, 3; I Chron. i. 5, 6). In Yoma 10a and Yer...
Gomez (JE | WP GWPG) The Gomez family, or rather that branch of it which has established itself in America, traces its descent from Isaac Gomez, a Marano who left Madrid...
Antonio Enriquez Gomez (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish poet; born in Segovia toward the end of the sixteenth century; died in 1662. He was a son of the Marano Diego Enriquez...
Manuel Gomez (JE | WP GWPG) Physician; born about 1580 of Portuguese parentage at Antwerp. After studying medicine at Evora he settled as a physician...
Abraham Gomez de Sosa (Sossa) (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish physician; died at an advanced age Elul 21 (=Sept. 10), 1667. He was physician in ordinary to the infante Ferdinand...
Isaac Gomez de Sosa (Sossa) (JE | WP GWPG) Latin poet ("famoso poeta Latino," according to de Barrios); son of Abraham Gomez do Sosa. He was arbiter at the academy of...
Gomorrah (JE | WP GWPG) One of the destroyed cities of the Pentapolis. Comp. Sodom and Zoar.
Samuel Gompers (JE | WP GWPG) American labor-leader; born in London Jan. 27, 1850. At ten years of age he became a wage-earner, working in a shoe-factory...
Benjamin Gompertz (JE | WP GWPG) British actuary; born in London March 5, 1779; died there July 14, 1865. He was descended from the family of Gomperz of Emmerich...
Isaac Gompertz (JE | WP GWPG) English poet; brother of Benjamin and Lewis Gompertz: born 1774; died 1856. He wrote: "June, or Light and Shade," a poem in...
Lewis Gompertz (JE | WP GWPG) English inventor of London; died Dec. 2, 1861; brother of Benjamin Gompertz, the mathematician. He devoted his life to the...
Benjamin Gomperz [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian physician; born at Vienna Oct. 6, 1861. He was educated at the Leopoldstädter communal gymnasium and the University...
Julius, Ritter von Gomperz, (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian merchant and statesman; brother of Theodor Gomperz; born at Brünn 1824; studied at the gymnasium and Philosophische...
Theodor Gomperz (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian philologist; born at Brünn March 29, 1832. His great-grandfather, Benedictus Levi Gomperz, was the financial...
Gonzalo Garcia de Santa Maria (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish bishop and enemy of the Jews; born at Burgos in 1379; baptized as a boy of eleven, together with his father, Paul...
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Martinez Gonzalo (JE | WP GWPG) A poor Spanish knight who was promoted to high offices through the instrumentality of Joseph de Ecija, in whose service he...
Tobias Goodman (JE | WP GWPG) English preacher and author; died after 1824; one of the earliest preachers in English of the London Jewish community Tobias...
Goose (JE | WP GWPG) According to the Talmudists the domestic and the wild goose are two different species which should not be crossed (B. Ḳ...
Gopher-wood (JE | WP GWPG) the material of which the ark of Noah was made. The word "gofer" occurs but once in the Bible, viz., in the expression (Gen...
Jacob Gordin (Jakov Mikhailovich) (JE | WP GWPG) Yiddish playwright and reformer; born May 1, 1853, in Mirgorod, government of Poltava. He received a good education and acquired...
David ben Dov Baer Gordon (JE | WP GWPG) Russian journalist; born in Podmerecz, near Wilna, in 1826; died in Lyck, Prussia, May 21, 1886. At the age of ten he went...
Lord George Gordon (JE | WP GWPG) English agitator and convert to Judaism; born in London on Dec. 26, 1751; died in 1793; son of the third Duke of Gordon. After...
Leon Gordon (Judah Löb ben Asher) (JE | WP GWPG) Russian Hebrew writer and poet; born at Wilna Dec. 7, 1831; died at St. Petersburg Sept. 16, 1892. He graduated in 1853 from...
Michel Gordon [ru] (JE | WP GWPG) Judæo-German poet and Hebrew writer; born at Wilna Nov. 4, 1823; died at Kiev Dec. 26, 1890. While at the bet ha-midrash...
Samuel Gordon (JE | WP GWPG) English novelist; born at Buk, Germany, Sept. 10, 1871. He went to England with his parents in 1883, and was educated at the...
GorgiasJE (JE | WP GWPG) Syrian general of the second century B.C. After Judas Maccabeus had defeated the Syrians, they determined to send a stronger...
Bernard Gorin (JE | WP GWPG) Yiddish journalist; born in Lida, government of Wilna, April, 1868. He is the author of two short stories in Hebrew, "Ha-Naggar...
Goring ox (JE | WP GWPG) Two passages in Exodus treat of an ox doing harm: the first of harm to a person (xxi. 28-32); the second to the ox of another...
Goshen (JE | WP GWPG) Region of Egypt which the Israelites inhabited during their sojourn in that country. It is described as situated on the eastern...
Goslar (JE | WP GWPG) Town in the province of Hanover, Germany; on an affluent of the Ocker at the north-east foot of the Harz. According to the...
James Gotendorf [Wikidata] (James Nathan) (JE | WP GWPG) German-American merchant and litterateur; born Feb. 9, 1811, at Eutin, Holstein, Germany; died at Hamburg Oct. 5, 1888. He...
Gotha (JE | WP GWPG) Capital of the duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Germany. A Jew named Jacob who lived at Cologne in the middle of the thirteenth...
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Gustav GottheilJE (JE | WP GWPG) American rabbi; born at Pinne in Prussian Posen May 28, 1827; died in New York city April 15, 1903. He was educated in Posen...
Paul Eduard Gottheil (JE | WP GWPG) German Protestant missionary; born at Fraustadt, April 5, 1818; died at Stuttgart in 1893. A convert to Christianity, in 1848...
Richard James Horatio Gottheil (JE | WP GWPG) American Orientalist; professor of Semitic languages, Columbia University, New York; born in Manchester, England, Oct. 13...
William S. Gottheil [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWPG) American physician; born in Berlin Feb. 5, 1859; eldest son of Rabbi Gustav Gottheil. He was educated at Chorlton High School...
Göttingen (JE | WP GWPG) City in the province of Hanover, Germany; formerly capital of the principality of Grubenhagen under the dominion of the Guelfic...
Abraham Gottlieb [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWPG) Civil engineer and contractor; born at Tauss, Bohemia, June 17, 1837; died in Chicago, Ill., Feb. 9, 1894. Gottlieb graduated...
Abraham Baer Gottlober (JE | WP GWPG) Russian-Hebrew poet and author; born at Starokonstantinov, Volhynia,Jan. 14, 1811; died at Byelostok April 12, 1899. His father...
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (JE | WP GWPG) American pianist; born at New Orleans May 8, 1829; died at Rio de Janeiro Dec. 18, 1869. He completed his musical education...
Adolf Gottstein (JE | WP GWPG) German physician; born at Breslau Nov. 2, 1857. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native town, and at the universities...
Jacob Gottstein [de] (JE | WP GWPG) German physician; born at Lissa, Austria, Nov. 7, 1832; died at Breslau, Prussian Silesia, Jan. 10, 1895; graduated (M.D.)...
Joseph Issachar Baer ben Elhanan Götz (JE | WP GWPG) German rabbi; born at Frankfort-on-the-Oder about 1640; died at Jerusalem after 1701. In 1675 he was rabbi of his native town...
Michel Goudchaux (JE | WP GWPG) French statesman: born at Nancy March 18, 1797; died at Paris Dec. 27, 1862. After having been established for some time as...
Joel Emanuel Goudsmit [nl; de] (JE | WP GWPG) Dutch jurist; born in Leyden June 13, 1813; died there March 17, 1882. He graduated in law May 12, 1842. After practising...
Government (JE | WP GWPG) the only kind of political institution extant among the Israelites before the time of the Kings was the division into tribes...
Divine Grace (JE | WP GWPG) One of the attributes of God, signifying His loving-kindness and mercy, and particularly His compassion for the weak, the...
Grace At Meals (JE | WP GWPG) Benedictions before and after meals. In the prayer-book of the Spanish Jews grace after meals is called "bendicion de la mesa"...
GracianDAB (JE | WP GWPG) A prominent Spanish Jewish family descended from Judah ben Barzilai, the members of which, are known to have lived chiefly...
Shealtiel Gracian (Shealtiel Hen) (JE | WP GWPG) Rabbi of Barcelona; flourished in the beginning of the thirteenth century. During the lifetime of R. Nissim Gerondi, Shealtiel...
Gradis (JE | WP GWPG) Name of a family of prominent merchants in southern France, originally from Spain; flourished in Bordeaux in the eighteenth...
Ortuin de Graes (JE | WP GWPG) Anti-Jewish writer of the sixteenth century; born at Holtwick in Westphalia in 1491; died at Cologne May 21, 1542. He was...
Heinrich (Hirsch) GraetzJE (JE | WP GWPG) German historian and exegete; born Oct. 31, 1817, at Xions, province of Posen; died at Munich Sept. 7, 1891. He received his...
Leo Graetz (JE | WP GWPG) German physicist; son of Heinrich Graetz; born at Breslau Sept. 26, 1856. Graduating from the Elizabeth gymnasium at Breslau...
Grätz (JE | WP GWPG) Town in the province of Posen, Prussia, with a population of 3,784, of whom 319 are Jews (1903). The Jewish community there...
Gratz (JE | WP GWPG) American family prominent in the affairs of the city of Philadelphia and of the state of Pennsylvania. According to some authorities...
Gratz College (Philadelphia) (JE | WP GWPG) Jewish institution of higher learning, founded under a deed of trust executed by Hyman Gratz, dated December, 1856, which...
Jonas Grätzer [de] (JE | WP GWPG) German physician; born at Tost, Upper Silesia, Oct. 19, 1806; died at Breslau Nov. 25, 1889. He graduated (M.D.) from the...
Augusto Graziani [it; nl] (JE | WP GWPG) Italian economist; born at Modena Jan. 6, 1865. He obtained his education at the university of his native town, devoting himself...
Greece (JE | WP GWPG) Country of southeastern Europe. The number of its Jews is not more than 9,000, distributed as follows: Corfu, 3,500; Zante...
Greek Language and the Jews (JE | WP GWPG) This article will be confined to the Greek material found in rabbinical works, since the language of the Septuagint and the...
Aaron Levy Green (JE | WP GWPG) English rabbi; born in London Aug., 1821; died March 11, 1883. A precocious student, at the age of fourteen he was successful...
Samuel Greenbaum (JE | WP GWPG) American lawyer and jurist; born Jan. 23, 1854, in London; went to the United States with his parents in his infancy; educated...
Joseph B. Greenhut (JE | WP GWPG) American soldier; born in Germany. He enlisted as a private in the 12th Illinois Infantry at Chicago April, 1861. He served...
Forms of Greeting (JE | WP GWPG) Fixed modes of address on meeting acquaintances. With the ancient Hebrews the form of greeting depended upon the relationship...
Henri Grégoire (JE | WP GWPG) Jesuit priest, politician, and advocate of the Jews; born at Vého, near Lunéville, Dec. 4, 1750; died at Paris May...
Gregory I (Gregory the Great) (JE | WP GWPG) Pope from 590 to 604; born about 540; died 604. Descended from an old Roman senatorial family, he had held various high official...
Gregory XIII (Ugo Buoncompagni) (JE | WP GWPG) Pope from 1572 to 1585; born at Bologna Feb. 7, 1502; died at Rome April 10, 1585. His attitude toward the Jews was that of...
Gregory bar Hebraeus (JE | WP GWPG) Jacobite Syrian historian, physician, philosopher, and theologian; born at Malatia, Asiatic Turkey, 1226; died at Maragha...
Grenoble (JE | WP GWPG) Capital of the department of Isère, France. It possessed a Jewish community from the end of the thirteenth century. Jacob...
Isaac Grieshaber (Kriegshaber) (JE | WP GWPG) Polish-Hungarian rabbi at Paks, Hungary; born at Cracow. He was the author of "MakKel No'am" (Vienna, 1799)...
Abraham Avenirovich Griliches [ru] (JE | WP GWPG) Russian engraver; born at Wilna 1852; educated at the Wilna rabbinical school; graduated from the Wilna School of Designs...
Avenir Girschevich Griliches [ru] (JE | WP GWPG) Russian engraver; father of Abraham Avenirovich Griliches; born at Wilna April, 1822. Until the age of sixteen he studied...
Grodno (JE | WP GWPG) Russian city; capital of the government of the same name; formerly one of the chief cities of Lithuania and, later, of Poland...
Selig Gronemann (JE | WP GWPG) German rabbi; born at Flötenstein, West Prussia, Dec. 7, 1843; attended the gymnasium at Konitz and the seminary and...
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Charles Gross (JE | WP GWPG) American author; born at Troy, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1857; educated at the Troy High School; at Williams College, from which he...
Ferdinand Gross [de; ru] (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian writer; born in Vienna April 8, 1849; died at Kaltenleutgeben, near Vienna, Dec. 21, 1900. His ancestors lived in...
Heinrich GrossJE (JE | WP GWPG) German rabbi; born at Szenicz, Hungary, Nov. 6, 1835; pupil in rabbinical literature of Judah Aszod. After graduating from...
Jenny Gross [de; he] (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian actress; born at Szanto, Hungary. Educated for the stage by Cesarina Kupfer, she made her début in 1878 at the...
Julius Grosser (JE | WP GWPG) German physician; born at Freistadt, Prussian Silesia, Oct. 25, 1835; died at Prenzlau, Prussia, Oct. 25, 1901. He studied...
Rudolph Grossman (JE | WP GWPG) American rabbi; born at Vienna, Austria, July 24, 1867; B.L., University of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Rabbi and D.D., Hebrew Union...
Ignacz Grossmann (JE | WP GWPG) Hungarian physicist; born in Gönez-Ruszka, Abauj county, Feb. 16, 1823; died in Budapest May 21, 1866. He attended the...
Ignaz Grossmann (JE | WP GWPG) American rabbi; born at Trencsen, Hungary, July 30, 1825; died March 18, 1897, in New York city. He received his education...
Louis Grossmann (JE | WP GWPG) American rabbi and author; born at Vienna, Austria, Feb. 24, 1863; educated at the University of Cincinnati (B.A.) and at...
Ludwig Grossmann [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian mathematician and political economist; born at Leitomischl, Bohemia, March 14, 1854. As a boy he showed unusual aptitude...
Hugo Grotius (Huig van Groot) (JE | WP GWPG) Dutch Christian diplomat, theologian, and scholar; born at Delft, Holland, April 10, 1583; died at Rostock, Germany, Aug....
Groves and Sacred Trees (JE | WP GWPG) By many Oriental as well as Occidental peoples, whether of Semitic or non-Semitic stock, groves and single trees (oaks, terebinths...
Growth of the Body (JE | WP GWPG) from the studies of Majer for Galicia, Weissenberg for South Russia, Sack for Moscow, and Yashchinsky for Poland, which give...
Judah Löb ben Isaiah Reuben Grozovski (JE | WP GWPG) Russian Hebraist; born at Pogosti, government of Minsk, in 1861. After having attended the yeshibah of Volozhin, Grozovski...
Joseph Gruber (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian physician; born at Kosolup, Bohemia, Aug. 4, 1827; died at Vienna March 31, 1900. He graduated (M.D.) from the University...
David Gruby (JE | WP GWPG) French physician; born at Neusatz (Ujvidék), Hungary, Oct. 10, 1810; died in Paris Nov. 16, 1898. He studied medicine...
Maurice Grün [fr] (JE | WP GWPG) Russian painter; born at Reval, Russia, in 1870. He studied art at Munich and Geneva, and in 1890 went to Paris. There he...
Max (Maier) Grünbaum (JE | WP GWPG) German Orientalist; born in Seligenstadt, Hesse, July 15, 1817; died in Munich Dec. 11, 1898. Grünbaum studied philology...
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Elias Grünebaum [de] (JE | WP GWPG) German rabbi; born in the Palatinate Sept. 10, 1807; died in Landau Sept. 25, 1893. In 1823 he went to Mayence, where he became...
Alfred GrünfeldJE (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian pianist; born at Prague July 4, 1852; studied under Höger, under Krejci at the Prague Conservatorium, and under...
Heinrich GrünfeldJE (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian violoncellist; born at Prague April 21, 1855; a brother of Alfred Grünfeld. Educated at the Prague Conservatorium...
Josef Grünfeld [de] (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian physician and writer; born at Gyönk, Hungary, Nov. 19, 1840. After graduating from the gymnasium at Kaschau...
David Grünhut (JE | WP GWPG) German rabbi of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main, where his father was secretary of...
Karl Samuel Grünhut (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian jurist; born at Bur-St. Georgen, Hungary, Aug. 3, 1844. He became associate professor in the juridical faculty of...
Lazar Grünhut (JE | WP GWPG) Hungarian rabbi and writer; born at Gerenda, Hungary, in 1850. Receiving his diploma as rabbi while a mere youth, he went...
Max Grunwald [de] (JE | WP GWPG) German rabbi and folklorist; born at Zabrze, Prussian Silesia, Oct. 10, 1871; educated at the gymnasium of Gleiwitz and (1889)...
Moritz Grünwald [he] (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian rabbi; born March 29, 1853, at Ungarisch Hradisch, Moravia; died in London June 10, 1895. After a short stay in Prague...
Sidonie Grünwald-Zerkowitz (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian authoress; born in Tobitschau, Moravia, Feb. 17, 1852. Her early education she received from her father, a physician...
Guadalajara (JE | WP GWPG) City in Castile, Spain. When Tarik ibn Zaid conquered the city in 711, he found Jews there, as in Toledo and other places...
The Holy Child of La Guardia (JE | WP GWPG) Subject of a story invented by the Spanish Inquisition shortly after its institution. A Christian boy, whose name, age, and...
Guardian and Ward (JE | WP GWPG) the rule regarding persons of unsound mind and deaf-mutes is the same as that regarding minors; and an apotropos, who in Anglo-American...
Enrico Guastalla [it] (JE | WP GWPG) Italian soldier; born at Guastalla 1828; died at Milan Sept. 28, 1903. Though brought up to a commercial life, he joined the...
Moritz GüdemannJE (JE | WP GWPG) Austrian rabbi; born at Hildesheim, Germany, Feb. 19, 1835. He was educated at Breslau (Ph.D. 1858), and took his rabbinical...
Antoine GuenéeJE (JE | WP GWPG) French priest and Christian apologist; born at Etampes 1717; died 1803. He wrote, besides various apologetic works, "Lettres...
Yakir (Preciado) GueronJE (JE | WP GWPG) Turkish rabbi; born in 1813; died at Jerusalem Feb. 4, 1874. He was the sixth rabbi of Adrianople descended from the Gueron...
Karl Eduard Gueterbock [de] (JE | WP GWPG) German jurist; born at Königsberg, East Prussia, April 18, 1830. He studied history, later law, at the universities of...
Isaac Guetta (JE | WP GWPG) Talmudic scholar and promoter of Jewish learning, whose ancestors went to the Orient from Huete, Spain; born June 5, 1777...
Meyer Guggenheim (JE | WP GWPG) American merchant and mining magnate; born in Langenau, Switzerland, 1828. In 1847 he went to America with his father, who...
Randolph Guggenheimer (JE | WP GWPG) American lawyer; born at Lynchburg, Va., July 20, 1846. His family originally settled in Virginia, where his father was engaged...
Benjamin GuglielmoJE (JE | WP GWPG) Italian dancing-master; flourished in the fifteenth century at Pesaro. His master was Domenico di Ferrara, in whose "Liber...
Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer (JE | WP GWPG) German philologist and writer; born at Bojanowo, Prussian Poland, 1809; died at Breslau Jan. 5, 1854. He studied philology...
Agathius Guidacerius [it; fr] (JE | WP GWPG) Italian Christian Hebraist; born at Rocca-Coragio, Calabria, in the second half of the fifteenth century. Having studied Hebrew...
Guillaume of Auvergne (JE | WP GWPG) French scholastic; bishop of Paris from 1228 to 1249. He was one of the originators of Christian scholasticism in the thirteenth...
Guimarães (JE | WP GWPG) City of Portugal. In the fourteenth century it had a wealthy Jewish community, whose quarter was located on the site of the...
Zacharias de Guizolfi (Giexulfis) JE (JE | WP GWPG) Prince and ruler, in the fifteenth century, of the Taman peninsula on the east coast of the Black Sea; descendant of Simeone...
Aaron Solomon GumperzJE (JE | WP GWPG) German scholar and physician; born Dec. 10, 1723; died 1769. In March, 1751, Gumperz graduated as M.D. from the University...
Gumplin (JE | WP GWPG) German satirical poet of unknown date. The only poem of his that has been preserved is a satire of seven strophes, ending...
Ludwig Gumplowicz (JE | WP GWPG) Christian historian and jurist; born at Cracow March 9, 1838; studied at the universities of Cracow and Vienna, and practised...
Gumurjina (JE | WP GWPG) Town in European Turkey, west of Adrianople. It has a population of 26,000, including 1,200 Jews. The Jewish community possesses...
Guni (JE | WP GWPG) 1. A son of Naphtali (Gen. xlvi. 24; I Chron. vii. 13), and founder of the family of the Gunites (Num. xxvi. 48). In Hebrew...
Isidor Gunsberg (JE | WP GWPG) English merchant and chess-master; born in Budapest Nov. 2, 1854. When nine years old he went to England, in which country...
Karl Siegfried Günsburg (JE | WP GWPG) German author and preacher; born Dec. 9, 1784, at Lissa; died at Breslau Jan. 23, 1860. He studied philology and philosophy...