Vaez (JE | WP GWPG) Prominent family of Lisbon, whose foremost members, the four brothers Immanuel, Pedro, Ayres, and Salvador, resided in Portugal as Maranos ......
Albin Valabrègue [fr] (JE | WP GWPG) French dramatist; born at Carpentras, Vaucluse, Dec. 17, 1853. He is one of the most prolific of modern French dramatists, ......
Mardochee-Georges Valabrègue (JE | WP GWPG) French general; born at Carpentras, Vaucluse, Sept. 20, 1852. He was educated at the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole d'Application ......
Valence (JE | WP GWPG) Chief town of the department of the Drome and former capital of the county of Valentinois in the ancient province ......
Valencia (JE | WP GWPG) Capital of the former kingdom of the same name. During the dominion of the Moors, Valencia had a Jewish community ......
Gabriel Gustav Valentin (JE | WP GWPG) German physiologist; born at Breslau July, 1810; died at Bern, Switzerland, May 24, 1883. He was educated at the University ......
Samuel ben Judah Valerio (JE | WP GWPG) Physician and author who lived in the Grecian Archipelago in the second half of the sixteenth century. He wrote the ......
Moses David Vali (Valle) (JE | WP GWPG) Italian rabbi and physician; born at Padua; died there 1777. He was a cabalistic scholar of repute, and lectured before ......
Valladolid (JE | WP GWPG) Former residence of the kings of Castile and Spain; noteworthy for the numerous assemblies of the Cortes which were held ......
Isaac Valentine (JE | WP GWPG) English journalist and communal worker; born in Belgium 1793; died in London 1868; son of the Rev. N. I. Vallentine. ......
Raphael Valls (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish Marano; burned at the stake by the Inquisition at Palma, Majorca, on May 6, 1691, as the "rabbi" of ......
Valuation (JE | WP GWPG) Estimate of the value of the sacred gifts when a money substitute was required for them. The chief Biblical passage ......
Arminius VámbéryJE (JE | WP GWPG) Hungarian traveler and Orientalist; born at Duna-Szerdahely, on the island of Schütt, near Presburg, March 19, 1832. He was apprenticed ......
Abraham van Oven (JE | WP GWPG) Physician; died in England 1778; grandson of Samuel Basan, who, fleeing from Spain at the beginning of the eighteenth century, ......
Barnard van Oven (JE | WP GWPG) English physician and communal worker; born in London 1796; died there July 9, 1860; youngest son of Joshua Van Oven. ......
Joshua van Oven (JE | WP GWPG) English surgeon and communal worker; born in England 1766; died in Liverpool 1838; son of Abraham Van Oven. He was ......
William van Praagh (JE | WP GWPG) Pioneer of lipreading for deaf-mutes in England; born in Rotterdam June 11, 1845. Having studied under Dr. Hirsch, who had ......
Samuel van Straalen (JE | WP GWPG) English Hebraist and librarian; born at Gouda, Holland, 1845; died in London, England, 1902. In 1873 he was appointed Hebrew ......
Quintlius Varus (JE | WP GWPG) Roman governor of Syria 6-4 B.C.; successor of Saturninus. He first became prominent in Jewish history when Herod the Great ......
Vashti (JE | WP GWPG) The first wife of Ahasuerus; her disobedience and subsequent punishment furnish the theme for the introduction to the story of ......
Vatican Library (JE | WP GWPG) Papal library; originally housed, with its archives, in the Lateran Palace, where it was enriched, in the course of time, ......
Johann Karl Wilhelm Vatke (JE | WP GWPG) Christian Hebraist; born March 14, 1806, at Behndorf, Saxony; died in Berlin April 19, 1882. After studying in Halle, Göttingen, ......
Wilhelm VázsonyiJE (JE | WP GWPG) Hungarian publicist and deputy; born at Sümegh (Sümeg) 1868. He was educated at Budapest, where his remarkable eloquence made him ......
Del Vecchio (JE | WP GWPG) Italian family, tracing its descent from the period of the destruction of the Second Temple. Some members of this family ......
Joseph Vecinho (Vizino) JE (JE | WP GWPG) Portuguese court physician and scientist at the end of the fifteenth century. He was a pupil of Abraham Zacuto, under ......
Judah VegaJE (JE | WP GWPG) Rabbi and author; flourished in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Vega was the first rabbi of the second synagogue of ......
Vegetarianism (JE | WP GWPG) The theory according to which it is desirable to sustain the body with vegetables and fruits, and abstain from eating ......
Leo VeigelsbergJE (JE | WP GWPG) Hungarian publicist; born at Nagy-Boldogasszony Jan. 18, 1846; educated at Kis-Körös, Budapest, and Vienna. For a short time he taught ......
Veil (JE | WP GWPG) A cover for the face; a disguise. From the earliest times it has been a sign of chastity and decency ......
Johannes Veit (JE | WP GWPG) German painter; born in Berlin 1790; died at Rome 1854. He studied at Vienna and at Rome, where he especially ......
Philipp Veit (JE | WP GWPG) German portrait- and genre-painter; born Feb. 13, 1793, in Berlin; died Dec. 18, 1877, at Mayence. His father died while ......
Vellum (JE | WP GWPG) Skins of animals constituted the ancient Oriental writing-material (Herodotus, v. 58; Strabo, xv. 1; Pauly-Wissowa, "Real-Encyc." ii. 944), and the ......
Ludwig VenetianerJE (JE | WP GWPG) Hungarian rabbi and writer; born May 19, 1867, at Kecskemet. He studied at the rabbinical seminary and the University of ......
Emmanuel Felix Veneziani [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWPG) French philanthropist; born at Leghorn in 1825; died at Paris Feb. 5, 1889. At an early age he went to ......
Venice (JE | WP GWPG) Italian city; formerly capital of a republic embracing northeastern Italy and some islands in the Mediterranean. The first Venetian document, ......
Ventura>>Moses VenturaJE (JE | WP GWPG) Family of rabbis and scholars prominent in Italy and Greece in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.Eliezer ben Samuel Ventura: ......
Rubino Ventura (JE | WP GWPG) Soldier; born at Finale, Modena, 1795; died at Toulouse, France, April 5, 1858. At the age of seventeen he was ......
Mardochée Venture (JE | WP GWPG) French scholar; flourished at Avignon in the latter part of the eighteenth century. In collaboration with Isaiah Vidal he composed ......
Lope de Vera y Alarcon (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish martyr and knight ("caballero i mui emparentado," as he is designated by a contemporary) of noble family; born about ......
Gregori Leontyevich Verblovski (JE | WP GWPG) Russian jurist; born in the first quarter of the nineteenth century; died at Moscow 1900. He studied law at the ......
Vercelli (JE | WP GWPG) City in the compartimento of Piedmont, Italy. The oldest document in existence concerning its Jews is dated Feb. 16, 1446, ......
Elchanan Verveer [nl; fr] (JE | WP GWPG) Dutch painter and vignette-engraver; born at The Hague April 19, 1826. He received instruction from his brother Samuel L. Verveer, ......
Samuel Leonardus Verveer (JE | WP GWPG) Dutch landscape- and genre-painter; born at The Hague Nov. 30, 1813; died there Jan. 5, 1876. He was a pupil ......
Vesoul (JE | WP GWPG) Capital of the department of Haute-Saône, France. Jews first settled there in the latter part of the thirteenth century, under ......
Vespasian (JE | WP GWPG) Emperor of Rome from 69 to 79; founder of the Flavian dynasty. The defeat of Cestius Gallus convinced Nero that ......
Il Vessillo Israelitico (JE | WP GWPG) An Italian monthly; the continuation of the "Educatore Israelita" (founded 1853), which, upon the death of its editor Giuseppe Levi ......
Joseph VésziJE (JE | WP GWPG) Hungarian editor and deputy; born at Arad Nov. 6, 1858. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native town, ......
Vidal of TolosaJE (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish scholar of the latter half of the fourteenth century. He resided in Catalonia, where he prepared his most important ......
Samuel Emanuel Vidal-Naquet (JE | WP GWPG) French financier; born at Paris Aug. 22, 1859. Educated in his native city, he graduated from the Law Faculty and ......
Samuel ben Chabib de Vidas (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish scholar and Bible commentator of the fifteenth century; it is said, but not known with certainty, that he was ......
Vienna (JE | WP GWPG) Capital of Austria-Hungary. Legend asserts that Jews settled in this city in the remotest antiquity, and it is alleged that ......
Vienne (JE | WP GWPG) Town in the ancient province of Dauphiné, France. Jews dwelt there as early as the tenth century (Gross, "Gallia Judaica," ......
Villefranche (JE | WP GWPG) Town in the mountain district of the department of Rousillon, France; belonged formerly to Aragon. It was founded in 1095, ......
Vinegar (JE | WP GWPG) In the Biblical period vinegar was prepared either from wine or from cider, the former variety being termed "ḥomeẓ yayin," ......
Vinnitsa (Vinitza) (JE | WP GWPG) Russian town in the government of Podolia; situated on the banks of the Bug. Vinnitsa was founded in the fourteenth ......
Viol (JE | WP GWPG) Musical instrument; next to the "kinnor," it was the one most used by the Israelites. The Old Testament furnishes no ......
Virginia (JE | WP GWPG) One of the Middle Atlantic states and one of the thirteen original states of the United States of America; seceded ......
Original Virtue [he] (JE | WP GWPG) A term invented by S. Levy as a contrast to the expression "original sin," and designating the specifically Jewish concept ......
Vita della Volta (Solomon Chayyim) (JE | WP GWPG) Italian physician and Hebraist; born Sept. 24, 1772; died March 29, 1853; flourished in Mantua. He was the owner of ......
Vital>>Samuel VitalJE (JE | WP GWPG) Italian family, including several scholars, of whom the best known are:Ḥayyim Vital: Cabalist; son of Joseph Vital; born at Safed ......
David b. Solomon Vital ha-Rofe Vital (JE | WP GWPG) Spanish scholar; emigrated from Spain in the early part of the sixteenth century; died at Arta, or Narda, in Greece, ......
Campegius Vitringa (the Elder)JE (JE | WP GWPG) Dutch Christian Hebraist; born at Leeuwarden May 16, 1669; died at Franeker March 31, 1722. He was educated at the ......
Vizhainy (Vizhuny, Vizan, Vizany) (JE | WP GWPG) Russian town in the government of Suwalki. On Jan. 29, 1723, Moses Yefraimovich, an elder of the Grodno ḳahal, presented ......
Vocalization (JE | WP GWPG) All Semitic script, excepting Ethiopic and Assyro-Babylonian, the latter of which in its origin is held by many to be ......
Sir Julius VogelJE (JE | WP GWPG) Agent-general in London for New Zealand; born in London Feb. 25, 1835; died there March 13, 1899. He was the son ......
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Hermann Vogelstein [de] (JE | WP GWPG) German rabbi and historian; born at Pilsen, Bohemia, Jan. 8, 1870. His father was Heinemann Vogelstein, rabbi of Stettin. Vogelstein ......
Volozhin (JE | WP GWPG) Russian town in the government of Wilna; at the present time (1905) it belongs to Prince ......
Voltaire (JE | WP GWPG) French poet, historian, and essayist; born at Paris Nov. 21, 1694; died there May 30, 1778. His name was originally ......
Aaron Chai Volterra (JE | WP GWPG) Liturgical poet of the first half of the eighteenth century; rabbi of the Italian communities in Massa e Carrara. He ......
Meshullam ben Menahem Volterra (JE | WP GWPG) Italian jeweler of the fifteenth century. He lived in Florence, where he and his father, Menahem ben Aaron Volterra (who ......
Jacob Voorsanger [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWPG) American rabbi; born at Amsterdam, Holland, Nov. 13, 1852. He was educated at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Amsterdam, and ......
Vorarlberg (JE | WP GWPG) Extreme western district of the Austrian empire. In the Middle Ages it was called "Vor dem Arlberg," and was divided ......
Vows (Nedarim) (JE | WP GWPG) Promises made under religious sanction. In Talmudic law distinction is made between two ......
Vulgate (JE | WP GWPG) Latin version of the Bible authorized by the Council of Trent in 1546 as the ......
Vulture (JE | WP GWPG) The Hebrew terms rendered in one or the other of the English versions by "vulture" are: "da'ah" (Lev. xi. 14) ...... Our article is about bird