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Moses M. Haarbleicher JE (JE | WP GWP G) German author; born in Hamburg Nov. 14, 1797; died there Sept. 25, 1869. Following the example of his father, the founder...
Robert Haas (JE | WP GWP G) German Lutheran minister; lived in the first half of the nineteenth century, in the duchy of Nassau; pastor in the villages...
Simhah ben Joshua Haas (JE | WP GWP G) Traveler and preacher; born in Dobrowitz, Bohemia, 1710; died in Brahilov 1768. He was father-in-law to Solomon Dubno, and...
Solomon ben Jekuthiel Haas (JE | WP GWP G) Moravian rabbi of the first half of the nineteenth century. Haas was successively dayyan at Holleschau and rabbi of Strassnitz...
Ha-Asif (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew year-book, edited and published by Nahum Sokolow in Warsaw. Its first volume (5645) appeared in 1884; it continued...
Habaiah (JE | WP GWP G) Head of a family of priests who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel; not being able to prove their genealogy, they were...
Habakkuk JE (JE | WP GWP G) Prophet; author of the eighth in the collection of the twelve minor prophetical books. The etymology of the name of the prophet...
Book of Habakkuk (JE | WP GWP G) One of the twelve minor prophetical books. It readily falls into two parts: (1) ch. i. and ii.; (2) ch. iii. The first part...
Habar UNR (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Z147: Zoroastrianism
Habaziniah (JE | WP GWP G) the head of a family of Rechabites. His grandson Jaazaniah was a chief of the Rechabites in the time of Jeremiah (Jer. xxxv...
Habazzelet (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Habdalah (JE | WP GWP G) the rabbinical term for the benedictions and prayers by means of which a division is made between times of varying degrees...
Haber (JE | WP GWP G) Term ordinarily used in rabbinical lore in its original Biblical sense, "companion," "friend" (Ps. cxix. 63; Ab. ii. 9, 10)...
Solomon von Haber (JE | WP GWP G) German banker; born at Breslau Nov. 3, 1760; died Feb. 20, 1839. The son of poor parents, he rose to a position of wealth...
Kalman (Kalonymus) Haberkasten EL:JE (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi of the sixteenth century. He is the first known rabbi of the city of Ostrog, Volhynia, where he settled after...
Jacob (ben Solomon) ibn Habib JE (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish Talmudist; born at Zamora about 1460; died at Salonica 1516. In his youth Ḥabib studied the Talmud under R....
Joseph ibn Habib JE (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish Talmudist; flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Like his predecessor, R. Nissim b. Reuben (RaN),...
Levi ben Jacob ibn Habib JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Jerusalem; born at Zamora, Spain, about 1480; died at Jerusalem about 1545. Under King Manuel of Portugal, and when...
Moses ibn Habib (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian rabbi of the seventeenth century. He was a disciple of Jacob Ḥagiz, one of whose daughters he married. He...
Moses b. Shem-Tob ibn Habib (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew grammarian, poet, translator, and philosopher of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Being a native of Lisbon, he...

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Elijah ben Joseph Habillo (Xabillo); (Maestro Manoel) (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish philosopher; lived at Monzon, Aragon, in the second half of the fifteenth century. He was an admirer of the Christian...
Elisha ben Solomon Habillo (Chavillo) (JE | WP GWP G) Venetian Talmudist of the eighteenth century; descendant of a prominent Palestinian family. Judah Chavillo is mentioned as...
Simon ben Judah ben David Habillo (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Hebron in the middle of the seventeenth century; contemporary of Moses Zacuto, who approved his works. Ḥabillo...
Habinenu (JE | WP GWP G) Initial word, also the name, of a prayer containing in abridged form the Eighteen Benedictions (see Shemoneh 'Esreh),...
Ha-Boker Or (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Habor (JE | WP GWP G) River flowing through the land of Gozan; the classical "Chaboras." to the banks of this river Tiglath-pileser carried "the...
Hill of Hachilah (JE | WP GWP G) A hill in the wooded country of the wilderness of Ziph, where David hid himself from Saul (I Sam. xxiii. 19; xxvi. 1, 3).E...
The Son of Hachmoni (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Jashobeam, one of David's mighty men (I Chron. xi. 11). 2. Jehiel, tutor of David's children (ib. xxvii.32). The...
Sol Hachuel (JE | WP GWP G) Moorish martyr; beheaded at Fez 1834. On account of domestic troubles she fled from her home to some Mohammedan friends. Two...
Had Gadya (JE | WP GWP G) An Aramaic song, which is recited at the conclusion of the Seder service, held on the first two evenings of the Passover ("Pesa&#7717...
Hadad (JE | WP GWP G) Name of an Aramaic, and possibly of an Edomitish, deity. It occurs as an element in personal names, for instance, in "Hadadezer...
Hadad (JE | WP GWP G) Name of several Idumean kings, the meaning of which is "a loud noise." It was primitively the name of an Aramean divinity...
Hadadezer (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Rehob, and King of Aram-zobah, who, while he was on his way to establish his dominion on the Euphrates, was defeated...
Hadadrimmon (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T44: Tammuz
Auguste Hadamard [fr] (JE | WP GWP G) French painter; born at Metz 1823; died in Paris 1886. A pupil of Paul Delaroche, he established himself at Paris, where,...
Zélie Hadamard (JE | WP GWP G) French actress; born at Oran, Algeria, in 1849. The daughter of an army interpreter and professor of Arabic, she wentto Paris...
Hadassah (JE | WP GWP G) Earlier name of Esther, Mordecai's cousin (Esth. ii. 7). The name "Hadassah" occurs here only. It is not given by the...
Judah ben Elijah Haabel Hadassi (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite scholar, controversialist, and liturgist; flourished at Constantinople in the middle of the twelfth century. Regarding...
Isaac Haddad (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudic scholar of Gerba (an island near Tunis), where he died in 1755. He was a pupil of Zemach ha-Kohen, and...
Hades (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S614: Sheol

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Hadid (JE | WP GWP G) City mentioned with Lod and Ono (Ezra ii. 33; Neh. vii. 37; xi. 34, 35). From the last-given passage it would seem that Hadid...
Abraham ben Judah Hadida (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish Talmudist of the fifteenth century. He was the author of a commentary (unpublished) to Ecclesiastes, Esther, and the...
Hadith (JE | WP GWP G) An Arabic word signifying "narrative" or "communication"; the name given to sayings traced to the prophet Mohammed, or to...
Hadlai (JE | WP GWP G) An Ephraimite; father of Amasa, who was one of the chiefs of his tribe in the time of Pekah (II Chron. xxviii. 12).E. G. H...
Hadoram (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Son of Joktan; progenitor of one of the Arabian tribes (Gen. x. 27; I Chron. i. 21). 2. Son of Tou, King of Hamath; sent...
Hadrach (JE | WP GWP G) Name occurring in Zech. ix. 1. The connection seems to indicate that it was the country in which Damascus was situated, or...
Hadrian (JE | WP GWP G) Roman emperor (117-138). At the very beginning of his reign he was called upon to suppress the final outbreaks of Jewish rebellion...
Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine (JE | WP GWP G) Bacteriologist; born at Odessa, Russia, 1860; graduated from the University of Odessa in 1884 (D.Sc.). He resided for the...
Haftarah (JE | WP GWP G) That portion of the Prophets read immediately after the reading of the Torah in the morning services on Sabbaths, feast-days...
Hafz (Ibn al-Birr) al-Kuti (JE | WP GWP G) Author of the eleventh century, or earlier; according to Steinschneider, possibly identical with Ḥafz (Ḥefe&#7827...
Hagab (JE | WP GWP G) Family of Nethinim, which returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezra ii. 46). In I Esd. v. 30 the name is given as "Agaba...
Hagaba, Hagabah (JE | WP GWP G) Family of Nethinim, which came back from captivity with Zerubbabel (Ezra ii. 45; Neh. vii. 48). In I Esd. v. 29 the name is...
Hagar REF:JE (JE | WP GWP G) Egyptian Handmaid of Sarah, and mother of Ishmael. According to one narrative, Sarah, Having no children, requested Abraham...
Hagar, Hagrim (JE | WP GWP G) Names used by Jewish medieval writers to designate Hungary and the Hungarians. The expression "Erez Hagar" occurs in...
Hagarenes, Hagarites (JE | WP GWP G) A nomadic people dwelling in the east of Palestine, against whom the tribe of Reuben was victorious in the time of Saul, seizing...
Abraham Hagege (JE | WP GWP G) Chief rabbi at Tunis, where he died in 1880. After his death Israel Zeitoun of Tunis and Aaron ben Simon of Jerusalem published...
Hagenau (JE | WP GWP G) Fortified town of Alsace, situated on the Moder, sixteen miles north of Strasburg. Attracted by the numerous privileges granted...
Hagenbach (JE | WP GWP G) Village in Upper Franconia, Bavaria. That an old Jewish colony existed there is proved by "Das Martyrologium des Nürnberger...
Haggadah (JE | WP GWP G) Derived from the verb (Kal ), "to report," "to explain," "to narrate." the verb sometimes introduces Halakic explanations...
Haggadah (Shel Pesah) (JE | WP GWP G) Ritual for Passover eve. Ex. xiii. 8, R. V., reads: "And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying, It is because of that...

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Haggadah—traditional Music (JE | WP GWP G) See Addir Hu; Cantillation; Ḥad Gadya; Hallel; Ḳiddush; Ki lo Naeh. ...
Haggadists (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M587: Midrash Aggadah
Haggai (JE | WP GWP G) Judean prophet of the early post-exilic period; contemporary with Zechariah (Ezra v. 1; III Ezra [I Esd.] vi. 1, vii. 3).(Hilprecht...
Book of Haggai (JE | WP GWP G) One of the so-called minor prophetical books of the Old Testament. It contains four addresses. The first (i. 2-11), dated...
Haggeri (JE | WP GWP G) Father of Mibhar, one of David's chosen warriors (I Chron. xi. 38 [R. V. "Hagri"]). In the parallel list, II Sam. xxiii...
Haggi (JE | WP GWP G) Second son of Gad and progenitor of the Haggites (Gen. xlvi. 16; Num. xxvi. 15). The name is the same for individual and for...
Haggiah (JE | WP GWP G) Levite of the family of Merari; son of Shimea and father of Asaiah (I Chron. vi. 15 [A. V. 30]). In the Septuagint the name...
Haggites (JE | WP GWP G) Tribal name of the descendants of Haggi, second son of Gad (Num. xxvi. 15); given "Agitæ" in the Vulgate, and 'A&#947...
Haggith (JE | WP GWP G) One of David's wives; known also as the mother of Adonijah (II Sam. iii. 4; I Kings i. 5, 11; ii. 13; I Chron. iii. 2)...
Hagia (JE | WP GWP G) Servant of Solomon (I Esd. v. 34), whose children returned from the Captivity with Zerubbabel. Ezra ii. 57 and Neh. vii. 59...
Hagin Deulacres (JE | WP GWP G) Last presbyter or chief rabbi of England; appointed May 15, 1281. He appears to Have been raised to this position by the favor...
Hagin fil Mossy JE (JE | WP GWP G) Presbyter or chief rabbi of the Jews of England. He appears to Have been the chirographer of the Jews of London, and obtained...
Hagiographa (JE | WP GWP G) the third part of the Old Testament canon, the other two being the Law () and the Prophets (). It includes the three books...
Jacob Hagiz JE (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian Talmudist; born of a Spanish family at Fez in 1620; died at Constantinople 1674. Ḥagiz's teacher was...
Moses Hagiz JE (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian rabbi and author; born at Jerusalem in 1671; died at Safed after 1750. His father, Jacob Ḥagiz, died while...
Samuel ben Jacob ben Samuel Hagiz, of Fez (JE | WP GWP G) Father of Jacob Ḥagiz and grand-father of Moses Ḥagiz; according to an epitaph, died in 1634. He edited Solomon...
The Hague (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N197: Netherlands
Hahiroth (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P310: Pi-Hahiroth
August Hahn (JE | WP GWP G) German theologian and Orientalist; born at Grossosterhausen, Saxony, March 27, 1792; died in Silesia May 13, 1863. He studied...
Joseph Yuspa Nördlinger Hahn (Joseph ben Phinehas Nördlingen) (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main in the latter half of the sixteenth century; died there April 3, 1637. He received...

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Hai ben David (JE | WP GWP G) Dayyan, and later gaon in Pumbedita from 890 to 897. He is mentioned in Isaac ibn Ghayyat's "Halakot," in connection with...
Hai ben Nahshon (JE | WP GWP G) Gaon of Sura (889-896) and president of the school of Nehardea. He was, according to a manuscript in the Vatican Library,...
Hai ben Sherira (JE | WP GWP G) Gaon of Pumbedita; born in 939; died March 28, 1038. He received his Talmudic education from his father, Sherira, and in early...
Ha-'Ibri (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Abraham ben Simeon Haida (JE | WP GWP G) Printer in Prague between 1612 and 1628; son of Simeon Haida. In 1610, with Moses Uṭiz and Gershon Popers, he...
Moses ben Joseph Haida (JE | WP GWP G) German mathematician; lived at Hamburg in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was a grandson of Samuel Haida, author...
Samuel Haida (JE | WP GWP G) Bohemian cabalistic author; died June 1, 1685, in Prague, where he was dayyan and preacher, and which was probably his native...
Haidamacks (JE | WP GWP G) Russian brigand bands of the eighteenth century. The disorganized condition of Poland during the eighteenth century made it...
Haifa (JE | WP GWP G) Syrian seaport, at the foot of Mount Carmel, and ten kilometers from Acre. Near Haifa are two grottos, one associated with...
Hail (JE | WP GWP G) Frozen rain falling in pellets of various sizes and shapes. The Hebrew words for "hail" are: , the most usual term: (Ezek...
Israel Behor Haim (JE | WP GWP G) Servian author; born at Belgrade, Servia. He left his home in 1813 in consequence of the invasion of the Dahjas, and settled...
Alexander Haindorf (JE | WP GWP G) German physician, writer, and philanthropist; born at Lenhausen, a village in Westphalia, May 12, 1784; died at Hamm Oct....
Hair (JE | WP GWP G) the Hair of the ancient Hebrews was generally black (comp. Cant. iv. 1, v. 11). In Eccl. xi. 10 black Hair is designated as...
Menahem Manus Hajes (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H441: Ḥayyut, Menahem
Zebi Hirsch b. Meïr Hajes (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C332: Chajes, Ẓebi Hirsch b. Meïr
Hakam (JE | WP GWP G) A wise or skilful man. The word is generally used to designate a cultured and learned person: "He who says a wise thing is...
Samuel Hakan (Samuel ha-Levi ibn Hakim) (JE | WP GWP G) Egyptian rabbi of the sixteenth century, first at Cairo, subsequently at Jerusalem (Levi ibn Ḥabib, Responsa, Nos. 10...
Ha-Karmel (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew periodical, edited and published by Samuel Joseph Fuenn in Wilna. It was founded in 1860 as a weekly, and was continued...
Ha-Kerem (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Hakkafot (JE | WP GWP G) Processional circuits of the congregation in the synagogue on the Feast of Tabernacles, usually around the Almemar, reminiscent...

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Hakkoz (JE | WP GWP G) 1. A priest, chief of the seventh course, appointed by David (I Chron. xxiv. 10). In this passage the ח is considered...
Hakman ibn Ishmael (JE | WP GWP G) Egyptian rabbi of the sixteenth century. He wrote novellæ on the Talmud and on Maimonides' "Yad," some of which were...
Ha-Kol (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Halafta (JE | WP GWP G) Name of several tannaim and amoraim; frequently interchanged with Ḥalfa, Ḥalifa, Ḥilfa, Ḥilfai, Ilfa...
Halafta (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar of the first and second centuries (second tannaitic generation), always cited without patronymic or cognomen; his...
Halafta of Huna (Huga, Hewah, Hefa) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third century; senior of R. Johanan. The latter communicates to Ḥalafta's sons a Halakah...
Abba Halafta (Hilfai) b. Karuya (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second century, contemporary of Gamaliel II. Gamaliel once visited him at Ḳaruya (Kiryava; see Neubauer...
R. Halafta of Kefar Hananiah (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second century; junior of R. Meïr, in whose name he transmits the legal maxim: When the condition is expressed...
Halakah (JE | WP GWP G) Noun, derived from the verb , "to go," "to walk." the act of going or walking is expressed by , while the closely related...
Halakot (JE | WP GWP G) the body of religious law which constitutes one of the three main divisions of Jewish oral tradition. Later, the singular...
Halalah (JE | WP GWP G) the female issue of a priest's connection with a divorced woman or widow, a connection regarded as illegal. According...
Ignaz Halász [hu; he] (Fischer) (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian philologist; born at Tés in 1855; died at Budapest April 9, 1901. He studied at the gymnasia of Veszprim and...
David ben Samuel Halayo (JE | WP GWP G) Probably a son of the Samuel Ḥalayo of Bersak () who was in correspondence with Simon ben Zemach Duran. David...
Heinrich, Ritter von Halban (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian statesman; born at Cracow 1846; died at Gastein Aug. 13, 1902. Halban, whose name was originally Blumenstock, studied...
Leo von Halban (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1196: Blumenstock von Halban, Leo
Halberstadt (JE | WP GWP G) Thirteenth to Sixteenth Century. Town in the Prussian province of Saxony. The earliest documentary evidence of the presence...
Abraham Halberstadt, ben Menki (JE | WP GWP G) German Hebraist and Talmudic scholar; died at Halberstadt about 1780. His "Pene Abraham" (unpublished), a treatise on the...
Judah ben Benjamin Halberstadt (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinical author of the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Minchat Yehudah," giving explanations of all passages...
Mordecai Halberstadt (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Halberstadt at the beginning of the eighteenth century; died at Düsseldorf about 1770. After studying...
Solomon Joachim Halberstam JE >> Isaac Halberstam JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian scholar; born at Cracow Feb. 23, 1832; died at Bielitz March 24, 1900. His father, Isaac Halberstam, was a prominent...

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Haleb (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1115: Aleppo
Ha-Lebanon (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1478: Brill, Jehiel
Élie Halévy (Halfan) JE (JE | WP GWP G) French Hebrew poet and author; born at Fürth in 1760; died at Paris Nov. 5, 1826; father of Fromenthal and Léon...
Jacques François Fromenthal Élie Halévy EL:JE (JE | WP GWP G) French composer; born at Paris May 27, 1799; died at Nice March 17, 1862. His family name was "Levi"; his father, Élie...
Joseph Halévy JE (JE | WP GWP G) French Orientalist; born at Adrianople Dec. 15, 1827. While a teacher in Jewish schools, first in his native town and later...
Léon Halévy JE (JE | WP GWP G) French author and dramatic writer; brother of Jacques François Fromenthal Halévy; born at Paris Jan. 14, 1802; died...
Ludovic Halévy (JE | WP GWP G) French dramatist; born in Paris Jan. 1, 1834; a son of Léon Halévy and a nephew of Jacques François Fromenthal...
Half-blood (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F33: Family and Family Life
Uri Sheraga Phoebus ben Eliezer Manneles Halfan (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia, in the first half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work entitled "Dat Esh...
Abba Mari Halfon (JE | WP GWP G) Italian astronomer of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In 1492 he was at Naples, where he studied astronomy. &#7716...
Abraham ben Raphael Halfon (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Tripoli, North Africa; died about 1803. He was the author of a work entitled "Ḥayye Abraham," a treatise on...
Elijah Menahem Halfon (JE | WP GWP G) Italian Talmudist and physician; son of the astronomer Abba Mari and son-in-law of Kalonymus ben David (Maestro Calo); flourished...
George Edward Halford (JE | WP GWP G) Private in the mounted infantry of the City of London Imperial Volunteers; born 1878; died at Karee, near Bloemfontein, May...
Halhul (JE | WP GWP G) City in the hill country of Judah, mentioned in the list of cities in the inheritance of that tribe (Josh. xv. 58). Halhul...
Hali (JE | WP GWP G) Town on the boundary of Asher, mentioned in Josh. xix. 25 between Helkath and Beten. The Septuagint gives the name as "Aleph...
Halilah (JE | WP GWP G) Biblical term denoting "far be it [from me, thee, etc.]." in Talmudic literature it Has two distinct meanings, derived from...
Halizah JE (JE | WP GWP G) the ceremony of the taking off of a brother-in-law's shoe by the widow of a brother who Has died childless, through which...
Hallah (JE | WP GWP G) the priest's share of the dough. The Biblical law in the case of Challah (Num. xv. 17-21; comp. Neh. x. 38), as in...
Halle-on-the-Saale (JE | WP GWP G) University town in the Prussian province of Saxony. Jews settled there soon after the city was founded, in the beginning of...
Aaron ben Wolf Halle JE (JE | WP GWP G) Translator and commentator of the Bible; born 1754 at Halle; died at Fürth March 20, 1835; son of Dr. Wolf of F&#252...

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Hallel (JE | WP GWP G) the name given in the Talmud and in rabbinical writings to Ps. cxiii.-cxviii. considered as a single composition, which they...
Halleluiah (JE | WP GWP G) A doxological expression signifying "Praise ye the Lord," the sacred name being shortened to its first two letters. Except...
Ely Halperine-Kaminsky [fr; ru] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian writer; born at Vassilkof April 9, 1858. After Having completed his studies at the University of Odessa he went (1880)...
Fernand Halphen (JE | WP GWP G) French composer; born at Paris Feb. 18, 1872; pupil of J. Massenet, G. Fauré, and André Gedalge. In 1895 he won...
Georges-Henri Halphen (JE | WP GWP G) French army officer and mathematician; born at Rouen Oct. 30, 1844 died at Versailles May 21, 1889. He studied at the Ecole...
Joseph Haltern (JE | WP GWP G) One of the Meassefim; died in Berlin Sept. 5, 1818 (1817, according to Philippson in "Allg. Zeit. des Jud." ii. 216). He wrote...
Halukkah JE (JE | WP GWP G) An organized collection of funds for distribution among the indigent Jews in the Holy Land, and for the aid of those who,...
Ham (JE | WP GWP G) Second son of Noah (Gen. v. 32); mentioned second in the table of the nations (Gen. x. 6), where his descendants are given...
Hama (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian scholar of the fourth amoraic generation; contemporary of Papa (Ket. 86a), and successor of Nachman b. Isaac...
Hama b. Bisa (Bisai) (JE | WP GWP G) Amora of the third century, who formed the middle link of a scholarly trio, and who exceeded his predecessor, as his successor...
Hama b. Hanina (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third century; contemporary of R. Johanan (Shab. 147b). Like his father, Ḥanina b. Ḥama...
Ha-Mabdil [he] (JE | WP GWP G) A hymn signed with the acrostic "Isaac ha-Ḳaṭon" (Isaac ben Judah ibn Ghayyat, 1030-89), obviously written for...
Hamadan (JE | WP GWP G) Persian city; 160 miles west-southwest of Teheran. Hamadan is generally identified with the ancient Ecbatana, the Achmetha...
Ha-Maggid (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Hamai (JE | WP GWP G) Pseudonym of a cabalist belonging, according to Jellinek, to the school of Isaac the Blind. The works which bear this name...
Haman the Agagite REF:JE >> Haman in rabbinic literature JE (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Hammedatha; chief minister of King Ahasuerus (Esth.iii.1-2). As his name indicates, Haman was a descendant of Agag...
Hamath (JE | WP GWP G) A city and district on the northern frontier of Palestine (Num. xiii. 22, xxxiv. 8; I Kings viii. 65; and elsewhere), situated...
Hamath-zobah (JE | WP GWP G) A place mentioned in II Chron. viii. 3, as Having been taken by Solomon. Some conjecture that Hamath-zobah is the same as...
Ha-Mazkir (JE | WP GWP G) A bibliographical magazine published by M. Steinschneider, twenty-one volumes of which, covering the years 1858-82, were issued...
C H Hamberger (JE | WP GWP G) Physician in Leipsic; died March 2, 1847, at an advanced age. He translated G. B. de Rossi's "Dizionario Storico degli...

161 – 180

Joseph Hambro (JE | WP GWP G) Aulic councilor to the King of Denmark; born at Copenhagen Nov. 2, 1780; died in London Oct. 3, 1848. He began hiscareer with...
Hambro' Synagogue (JE | WP GWP G) Founded in London by Mordecai Hamburger in 1702, as a protest against the tyranny of Abraham of Hamburg, the parnas of the...
Hamburg >> Portuguese Jewish community in Hamburg JE (JE | WP GWP G) German city on the right bank of the Elbe, between Sleswick-Holstein and Hanover. The first Jewish settlers were Portuguese...
Jacob Hamburger (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and author; born at Loslau, Silesia, Nov. 10, 1826. He received his early education in Ratibor, and then attended...
Jacob ben Mordecai Wiener Hamburger (Hamburg) (JE | WP GWP G) Chief rabbi of Prague; died Nov. 12, 1753. Hamburger was one of the rabbis who in 1725 signed the address to the Polish Jews...
Mordecai Hamburger (JE | WP GWP G) English communal leader; born in Hamburg about 1660; died in London about 1730; founder of the Hambro' Synagogue. He was...
Wolf (Abraham Benjamin) Hamburger [de; he] (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudical scholar and head of the yeshibah in Fürth; born Jan. 26, 1770; died May 15, 1850. He was a contemporary of...
Ha-Meassef (JE | WP GWP G) See Meassefim; Periodicals.
Ha-Mebasser (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Ha-Mehakker (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Ha-Meliz JE (JE | WP GWP G) the oldest Hebrew newspaper in Russia. It was foundedby Alexander Zederbaum, in Odessa, in 1860, as a weekly, and was transferred...
Hameln (JE | WP GWP G) Prussian town on the Hamel and Weser. Jews are recorded as present in Hameln as early as 1277. About the middle of the following...
Glückel of Hameln (Glückel von Hameln) (JE | WP GWP G) German diarist; born about 1646 in Hamburg; died 1724 at Metz. In 1649, when the German Jews were expelled from Hamburg, Gl&#252...
Hamez (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L128: Leaven
Hammath (JE | WP GWP G) One of the fortified cities of Naphtali (Josh. xix. 35). It is probably the same as Hammoth-dor, which was allȯtted to...
Tower of Hammeah (JE | WP GWP G) Tower near the sheep-gate of Jerusalem (Neh. iii. 1, xii. 39). The rendering of the Greek version, "the tower of the hundred...
Hammedatha (JE | WP GWP G) Father of Haman (Esth. iii. 1, 10; viii. 5; ix. 10, 24). He is generally designated as the "Agagite," being referred to only...
Hammer (JE | WP GWP G) the following designations for "hammer" are found in the Hebrew Bible:1. "MakKabah" ("makKebet"):...
Joseph Hammerschlag (Nathan Nat'a Hazzan ben Moses Naphtali Hirsch) (JE | WP GWP G) Moravian cabalist; lived in the seventeenth century. He was the author of the following: "Or ha-Ganuz," commentary on part...
Oscar Hammerstein (JE | WP GWP G) American theatrical manager; born at Berlin May 8, 1848, where he was educated. In March, 1863, he emigrated to America and...

181 – 200

Hammon (JE | WP GWP G) A place in the territory of Asher, mentioned in Josh. xix. 28, between Rehob and Kanah. It is believed that the ruins now...
Hammurabi (JE | WP GWP G) King of Shinar; perhaps identical with Abraham's contemporary, Amraphel, who is mentioned in Gen. xiv. 9; the sixth king...
Hamnuna I (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the third century; senior to Joseph b. Ḥiyya (Ket. 50b; Tosef., Ket. s.v. ). He was a disciple of...
Hamnuna II (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the third and fourth centuries; in the Babylonian Talmud sometimes referred to as Hamnuna Saba ("the elder")...
Hamnuna of Babylonia (JE | WP GWP G) Teacher of the Bible; junior of Ḥanina b. Ḥama and senior of Jeremiah b. Abba, both of whom he consulted on an...
Hamnuna Zuta (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the fourth century; junior and contemporary of Hamnuna II. (hence his cognomen "Zuṭa" ). Hamnuna...
Ha-Modia' la-Hadashim (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Hamon >> Moses Hamon JE (JE | WP GWP G) Ancient family, originally from Spain, which settled in Turkey and produced several physicians. The following were among its...
Hamon-gog (JE | WP GWP G) A glen at one time known as "the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea," so named after the burial there of "Gog...
Hamor (JE | WP GWP G) A Hivite prince; father of Shechem, whose defilement of Dinah caused the destruction of a whole city, including his own family...
Hamram (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H580: Hemdan
Hamuel (JE | WP GWP G) the son of Mishma, a descendant of Simeon (I Chron. iv. 26).E. G. H. M. Sel.
Hamul (JE | WP GWP G) the younger son of Pharez, Judah's son by Tamar, and head of the family of the Hamulites (Gen. xlvi. 12; Num. xxvi. 21...
Hamul Eliezer Mazliah b. Abraham de Viterbo (JE | WP GWP G) Roman rabbi and physician in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was of a family of rabbis, physicians, and merchants...
Hamutal (JE | WP GWP G) Daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah and mother of Kings Jehoahaz and Zedekiah (II Kings xxiii. 31, xxiv. 18; Jer. lii. 1). In the...
Hana (Huna) b. Bizna (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian scholar of the third and fourth centuries; judge at Pumbedita, (B. Ḳ. 12a). He especially cultivated the...
Hana b. Hanilai (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian scholar and philanthropist of the third century; the junior of Huna I. and Ḥisda (Bezah 21a, 40a)....
Hanameel (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Shallum and cousin of Jeremiah. The latter purchased a field from him for seventeen shekels of silver in token of his...
Hanameel the Egyptian JE (JE | WP GWP G) High priest; flourished in the first century B.C. After assuming the government of Palestine, Herod surrounded himself with...
Hanan (JE | WP GWP G) 1. A. Benjamite chief (I Chron. viii. 23). 2. The sixth son of Azel, also a Benjamite, of the family of Saul (ib. viii. 38)...

201 to 300

201 – 220

Hanan (Hanin, Haninan) (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar of the third amoraic generation (third century). He was probably a Babylonian by birth and a late pupil of Rab, in...
Abba Hanan (Hanin) (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second century; younger contemporary of Simon of Shezur, Josiah, and Jonathan (Mek., Mishpaṭim, 8, 12,...
Hanan b. Abishalom (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H204: Hanan the Egyptian
Hanan the Egyptian (JE | WP GWP G) 1. (Hanan b. Abishalom.) One of the police judges at Jerusalem in the last decades of its independence (see Admon b. Gaddai)...
Isaac Hanan (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish rabbi; lived at Salonica about the middle of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work called "Bene Yi&#7827...
Hanan of Iskiya (Asikia) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rector of the Talmudical academy at Pumbedita. Hormizd IV. Having disgraced the latter years of his reign by cruel persecutions...
Hananeel (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian scholar of the third century; disciple of Rab (Abba Arika) and colleague of Beruna and Isaac b. Machseiah...
Hananeel ben Amittai (JE | WP GWP G) Spiritual leader of the Jewish community of Oria, Italy, in the ninth century. He is said to Have been descended from a Jerusalem...
Hananeel ibn Askara (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S594: Shem-Ṭob ben Abraham Gaon
Hananeel ben Hushiel (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Kairwan; Biblical and Talmudical commentator; born at Kairwan about 990; died, according to Abraham Zacuto ("Yu&#7717...
Hananiah (JE | WP GWP G) 1. A son of Heman the singer, and chief of the sixteenth of the twenty-four musical divisions into which the Levites were...
Hananiah (Ahunai) (JE | WP GWP G) Exilarch (761-771?). He was a younger brother of Anan ben David, the founder of Karaism; according to the Karaites, whose...
Hananiah (Hanina) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third and fourth centuries; junior of Ḥiyya b. Abba and Ze'era I. (Yer. Ber. vii. 11b)...
Hananiah (Hanina) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian scholar of the fourth amoraic generation (fourth century); nephew of R. Hoshaiah, junior of Ze'era I., and...
Hananiah (Hanina) (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second century; contemporary of Judah b. Bathyra, Matteya b. Ḥeresh, and Jonathan (Sifre, Deut. 80). Who...
Hananiah (Hanina) b. 'Akabia (Akiba) (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second century; contemporary of Judah b. 'Ilai (M. Ḳ. 21a), and probably one of the younger pupils...
Hananiah b. 'Akashiah (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna whose name became very popular by reason of a single homiletic remark, as follows: "The Holy One—blessed be He!&#8212...
Hananiah (Hanina) b. Hakinai JE (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second century; contemporary of ben 'Azzai and Simon the Temanite (Tosef., Ber. iv. 18; see Ḥalafta)...
Hananiah b. Judah (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second century; contemporary of Akiba. His name appears only twice in rabbinic lore: once in connection with...
Hananiah (Hanina) of Ono (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second century. Hananiah is remembered for a feat he accomplished in the interest of traditional law. While Akiba...

221 – 240

Hananiah (Hanina) ben Teradion (JE | WP GWP G) Teacher and martyr in the third tannaitic generation (second century); contemporary of Eleazar ben Perata I. and of...
Ahub ben Meïr Hanasia (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I34: Ibn Muhajar Ahub
Hanau (JE | WP GWP G) Town in the province of Hesse-Nassau, Prussia. Jews settled in the territory of the counts of Hanau in the first half of the...
Solomon ben Judah Hanau (JE | WP GWP G) German grammarian; born at Hanau (whence his surname) in 1687; died at Hanover Sept. 4, 1746. When but twenty-one he published...
Zebi Hirsh ha-Levi ben Haggai Enoch Hanau (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Vienna in 1662; died at Gemund, Bavaria, in 1740. He resided for many years at Frankfort-on-the-Main...
Lily Hanbury (JE | WP GWP G) English actress; educated in London, where she is still (1903) residing. Her début was made in 1888 at a revival of W...
Hand (JE | WP GWP G) Traces of the custom of tattooing are found in the expression "to inscribe the Hands for some one (Isa. xliv. 5, xlix. 16...
Handicrafts (JE | WP GWP G) Since the article Artisans was written, the preliminary results of an inquiry made during the years 1898-99 by the Jewish...
Handwriting (JE | WP GWP G) -- See W290: Writing
Hanes (JE | WP GWP G) City in Egypt (Isa. xxx. 4); identified by Jonathan b. Uzziel and by the modern critics with Tahpanhes or Taphne (see Cheyne...
Ha-Nesher (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Hanging (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C128: Capital Punishment
Hanina I (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H241: Ḥanina b. Ḥama
Hanina (Hananiah) II (JE | WP GWP G) Amora of the fifth century; contemporary of the Palestinian Mani II., and of Rabina, one of the compilers of the Babylonian...
Hanina (Hananiah) ben Abbahu (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth generation, sometimes cited as Ḥanina of Cæsarea (Cant. R. i. 2). The Talmud relates...
Hanina (Hananiah; Hinena) ben Adda (Idda) (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian scholar of the third century. He was skilled in both Halakah and Haggadah; Adda B. Ahabah appears to Have beenhis...
Hanina ben 'Agul (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian scholar of the third century; junior contemporary of Ḥiyya b. Abba and Tanchum b. Ḥanilai. &#7716...
Hanina (Hananiah) ben Antigonus (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of priestly descent; contemporary of Akiba and Ishmael (Bek. vii. 5). It is supposed that in his youth he had witnessed...
Hanina ben Dosa JE (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar and miracle-worker of the first century; pupil of Johanan b. Zakkai (Ber. 34b). While he is reckoned among the Tannaim...
Hanina (Hananiah) ben Gamaliel II (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the first and second centuries; witness, and perhaps victim, of the Roman persecutions, when, of thousands of scholars...

241 – 260

Hanina ben Hama JE (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian Halakist and Haggadist; died about 250; frequently quoted in the Babylonian and the Palestinian Gemara, and in...
Hanina ben Iddi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H236: Ḥanina b. Adda
Hanina (Hinena) ben Ika (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar of the fourth century; contemporary with Pappa and Zebia (Ber. 25b; Niddah 52a). That he was a Babylonian by birth...
Hanina (Hinena) ben Isaac (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian Haggadist of the fourth century; contemporary of Samuel b. Ammi, with whom he engaged in an exegetical controversy...
Hanina Katoba (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian scribe or notary, who acquired some familiarity with law. Only one Halakah, which he learned from Acha, is...
Hanina ben Pappa JE (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora, Halakist, and Haggadist; flourished in the third and fourth centuries; a younger contemporary of Samuel...
Hanina (Hanin) ben Pazzi (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian Haggadist of the third and fourth centuries. His teachings are confined to the midrashic literature. It is suggested...
Hanina of Sepphoris (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H234: Ḥanina (Hananiah) II.
Hanina (Hananiah) of Shalka (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian Haggadist of the fourth century; a contemporary of Joshua of Siknin. He Has left no original Haggadot. In the...
Hanina of Sura (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian scholar of the fifth century; the junior of Mar Zuṭra, who reports to Ashi a Halakic objection raised by...
Hanina ben Teradion JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H221: Hananiah b. Teradion
Hanina (Hinena) ben Torta (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian scholar of the third century; disciple of Johanan and contemporary of Ammi and Isaac Nappacha (Tem. 29a,...
Haninai (Hanina) Kahana ben Abraham (JE | WP GWP G) Principal (gaon) of the academy at Pumbedita (782-786). Nothing is known of his life and labors except that he displeased...
Haninai (Hanina) Kahana ben Huna (JE | WP GWP G) Gaon of Sura (765-775); contemporary of Malka b. Acha, principal of the academy at Pumbedita. Ḥaninai was a pupil...
Hannah (JE | WP GWP G) One of the two wives of El-kanah and mother of the prophet Samuel. The first chapter of I Samuel and the first half of the...
Hannathon (JE | WP GWP G) City of Zebulun, apparently on the northern boundary, about midway between the Sea of Galilee and the valley of Jiphthah-el...
Emmanuel Hannaux (JE | WP GWP G) French sculptor; born at Metz in 1855. He began to study at the industrial school at Strasburg, but returned to Metz on the...
Judah Löb ben Meïr Hanneles (Haneles) (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinical author of the sixteenth century. He wrote "Wayiggash Yehudah" (Lublin, 1599), a commentary on Jacob ben Asher&#39...
Hanniel (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Son of Ephod; prince of the tribe of Manasseh; appointed by God to assist Joshua in the division of the promised land (Num...
Raphael Hanno (JE | WP GWP G) German writer; born in Hanau 1791; died in Heidelberg 1871. He embraced Christianity and became professor (1824) of Oriental...

261 – 280

Nathan (Nata) ben Moses Hannover JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian historian, Talmudist, and cabalist; died, according to Zunz ("Kalender," 5623, p. 18), at Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia...
Raphael Levi Hannover JE (JE | WP GWP G) Mathematician and astronomer; son of Jacob Joseph; born at Weikersheim, Franconia, 1685; died at Hanover May 17, 1779. He...
Hanoch (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Third son of Midian, the son of Abraham by Keturah (Gen. xxv. 4; I Chron. i. 33). 2. Eldest son of Reuben and founder of...
Hanover (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the Prussian province of the same name. Jews lived there as early as the first half of the fourteenth century,...
Hanukkah (JE | WP GWP G) the Feast of Dedication, also called "Feast of the Maccabees," celebrated during eight days from the twenty-fifth day of Kislew...
Hanukkah Trendel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G59: Games
Hanun JE (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Son of Nahash, King of Ammon. Having dishonored David's messengers, Hanun involved the Ammonites in a war with David...
Hapax Legomena (JE | WP GWP G) Words or forms of words that occur once only. There are about 1,500 of these in the Old Testament; but only 400 are, strictly...
Haphraim (JE | WP GWP G) City of Issachar, between Shunem and Shihon (Josh. xix. 18, 19). In the "Onomastica Sacra," s.v. "Aphraim," it is spoken of...
Ha-Pisgah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Happiness (JE | WP GWP G) Everywhere in the Old Testament the joyous and Harmonious notes of life are accentuated. Life is synonymous with good and...
Hara (JE | WP GWP G) District mentioned in I Chron. v. 26 as one of those to which Tiglath-pileser brought the Reubenites, Gadites, and the Half...
Haradah (JE | WP GWP G) One of the stations of the Israelites during their wanderings in the desert (Num. xxxiii. 24, 25).E. G. H. M. Sel. ...
Haran (JE | WP GWP G) Third son of Terah and consequently the youngest brother of Abraham; he was born in Ur of the Chaldees, where he died while...
Haran (JE | WP GWP G) City to which Terah went from Ur of the Chaldees, and where Terah died (Gen. xi. 31, 32). It was situated in Aram-naharaim...
Judah (Aryeh) Harari (JE | WP GWP G) Liturgical poet; lived at Montpellier in the second half of the thirteenth century. He is highly praised by Abraham Bedersi...
Hararite (JE | WP GWP G) Epithet applied to some of David's heroes. Owing to the discrepancy which exists generally between the books of Samuel...
Harbona, Harbonah (JE | WP GWP G) One of the seven eunuchs who served Ahasuerus and to whom the order was given to bring Queen Vashti before the king (Esth...
Harburg (JE | WP GWP G) City on the Elbe, six miles south of Hamburg, in the Prussian province of Hanover. Jews were not admitted to Harburg until...
Heinrich Harburger [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) German jurist; born at Bayreuth, Bavaria, Oct. 2, 1851. He received his education at the gymnasium of his native town and...

281 – 300

Harby (JE | WP GWP G) American family, resident in the southern part of the United States. Solomon Harby: First of the family in North America...
Maximilian Harden (JE | WP GWP G) German author; born at Berlin Oct. 20, 1861. Educated in the German capital, where he still resides, he became well known...
Hermann von der Hardt (JE | WP GWP G) German Protestant theologian and philologist; born at Melle, Westphalia, Nov. 15, 1660; died Feb. 28, 1746. He studied at...
Hare (JE | WP GWP G) Animal mentioned in Lev. xi. 6 and Deut. xiv. 7 among the unclean animals, "because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the...
Harfidil (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a Gothic Jew occurring in a Hebrew epitaph found near Parthenit. Chwolson places the inscription in the fifth century...
Harif Moses Phinehas ben Israel (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi and author; died in Lemberg 1722. He was the grandson of Moses Ḥarif the Elder and the father of Israel...
Zebi Hirsch Harif (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C831: Courland
Hariph (JE | WP GWP G) the children of Hariph, to the number of one hundred and twelve, returned from captivity with Zerubbabel (Neh. vii. 24). Hariph...
Harith ibn 'Amr (JE | WP GWP G) Yemenite king who embraced Judaism; born about 260; ascended the throne about 320; died about 330. Nothing is known of this...
Judah b. Solomon Harizi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1227: Al-Ḥarizi, Judah b. Solomon
Harkavy (JE | WP GWP G) Russo-Jewish family. It originated, according to a tradition current in the family, with Mordecai Jaffe, author of the "Lebushim...
Albert (Abraham Yakovlevich) Harkavy JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Orientalist and historian; born at Novogrudok, government of Minsk, Oct. 27, 1839. His father, Jacob Harkavy, was...
Henry Harland (JE | WP GWP G) American author; born at St. Petersburg March, 1861; educated at the College of the City of New York and at Harvard. From...
Harlot (JE | WP GWP G) See Prostitution.
Haro (JE | WP GWP G) City in La Rioja, in the diocese of Calahorra, Spain. In the fifteenth century it contained a Jewish community, the members...
Harod (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a well beside which Gideon and his army encamped on the morning of the day which ended in the rout of the Midianites...
Harosheth (Harosheth of the Gentiles) (JE | WP GWP G) City supposed to Have stood near Hazor, in the northern part of Canaan, afterward known as Upper Galilee, or Galilee of the...
Harp and Lyre (JE | WP GWP G) the ancient Hebrews had two stringed instruments, the "kinnor" () and the "nebel" (). In the English versions of the Old Testament...
Sir Augustus Glossop Harris (JE | WP GWP G) English actor, playwright, and theatrical manager; born in Paris 1852; died at Folkestone, England, June 22, 1896. Harris...
David Harris (JE | WP GWP G) English soldier and mine-director; born in London 1852. He arrived at the Kimberley diamond fields about 1873, and in dealing...

301 to 400

301 – 320

Mark Harris (JE | WP GWP G) English surveyor and soldier; born March 15, 1869; killed in action in Bechuanaland April 6, 1897. He was a son of Ephraim...
Maurice Henry Harris (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi; born Nov. 9, 1859, in London, England; educated in London and at Columbia College, New York city, graduating...
Harrisburg (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P172: Pennsylvania
Harrow (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A910: Agriculture
Daniel Harrwitz (JE | WP GWP G) German chess master; born 1823 in Breslau, Silesia; died Jan. 9, 1884, at Botzen, Tyrol; received most of his chess-training...
Abraham al-Harselani (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite scholar; flourished in Babylonia in the tenth century. He is cited in al-Hiti's chronicle as Having disputed with...
Harsith (JE | WP GWP G) One of the gates of Jerusalem, mentioned in Jer. xix. 2 (R. V.); it led into the Valley of Hinnom. The meaning of the name...
Hart + (JE | WP GWP G) One of the clean animals enumerated in Deut. xiv. 5 (comp. xii. 15, 22; xv. 22), and among those provided for the table of...
Hart >> Ephraim Hart JE, Joel Hart (doctor) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Several families of this name, of Anglo-Jewish origin, settled early in the English possessions in America, including Canada...
Aaron Hart (JE | WP GWP G) First chief rabbi of the Ashkenazic Jews in England; born at Breslau in 1670; died in the year 1756. After studying at a yeshibah...
Emanuel B. Hart (JE | WP GWP G) American congress-man; born in New York Oct. 29, 1809; died Aug. 29, 1897. When twenty years old he joined the volunteer fire...
Ernest Abraham Hart (JE | WP GWP G) English physician and editor; born in London 1836; died there Jan. 7, 1898. He was educated at the City of London School and...
Henry John Hart (JE | WP GWP G) Australian magistrate; born in New York May 7, 1820; died 1884. Educated at Columbia College, New York, he was destined for...
Sir Israel Hart (JE | WP GWP G) Ex-mayor of Leicester, England; born 1835. Chairman of the Hart and Levy Company, wholesale clothing manufacturers, he Has...
Moses Hart (JE | WP GWP G) Founder of Duke's Place Synagogue, London; born in Breslau; died in London 1756; brother of Rabbi Uri Phoebus (Aaron Hart)...
Solomon Alexander Hart (JE | WP GWP G) Artist, and librarian at the Royal Academy, London; born at Plymouth April, 1806; died in London June 11, 1881. In 1823 he...
Hartford (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C729: Connecticut
Anton Theodor Hartmann [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) German author; born at Düsseldorf June 25, 1774; died at Rostock April 20, 1838. At Göttingen, Eichhorn led him...
Moritz Hartmann (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian poet; born at Przibram, Bohemia, Oct., 1821; died at Oberdöbling, near Vienna, May 13, 1872. He was educated...
Cécile Hartog (JE | WP GWP G) English composer and pianist; born in London. She studied music under C. K. Salaman, and afterward at the Royal Academy of...

321 – 340

Edouard de Hartog (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch composer; born in Amsterdam Aug. 15, 1826; studied under Bartelmann, Döhler, Mme. Dulcken, and Hoch; subsequently...
Levi de Hartog (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch jurist; born at Gorinchem (Gorkum), Holland, Nov. 6, 1835; studied law and (under Professor Dozy) Oriental languages...
Marion Hartog (JE | WP GWP G) English writer; born at Portsea on Oct. 22, 1821; fifth daughter of Joseph Moss. She was educated by her parents, and at an...
Numa Edward Hartog (JE | WP GWP G) First Jewish senior wrangler; born in London May 20, 1846; died June 19, 1871. At Pinches' Commercial School and afterward...
Philip Joseph Hartog (JE | WP GWP G) English chemist and educationist; born in London March 2, 1864; educated at University College School, at Owens College, Manchester...
Abraham Frans Karel Hartogh (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch jurist and deputy; born at Amsterdam Dec. 29, 1844; died at the Hague Feb. 13, 1901; LL.D. Leyden 1869. Hartogh settled...
Anton Hartvigson (JE | WP GWP G) Danish pianist; born at Aarhus, Jutland, Oct. 16, 1845; brother of Frits Hartvigson. He studied under Neupert and Tausig....
Frits Hartvigson (JE | WP GWP G) Danish pianist; born at Grenaae, Jutland, May 31, 1841. His first instructors in piano were his mother and Anton Rée...
Harvest (JE | WP GWP G) the Palestinian Harvest began in April with the cutting (hence "Kazir") of the barley. The lentil and pea ripened...
Hasa (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the third century, contemporary of Nachman (b. Jacob) and of Ammi (B. M. 57a). Though he was a poor...
Hasan ben Mashiah (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite teacher of the ninth or tenth century. According to Sahl ben Mazliach (see Pinsker, "LikKu&#7789...
Hasdai I (JE | WP GWP G) Third exilarch of the Arabian period; died in 730. He was a descendant of Bostanai I. and a successor of Ḥanina b. Adai...
Abraham ben Samuel Halevi Hasdai (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew translator; lived in Barcelona about 1230. He is supposed to Have been the son of the poet Samuel ibn Abraham ibn &#7716...
Abu al-Fadl ben Joseph ibn Hasdai (Hisdai) (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish convert to Islam; lived at Saragossa in the second half of the eleventh century. Ibn Abi 'Uṣaibia ("&#39...
Abu Omar Joseph ibn Hasdai (JE | WP GWP G) Judæo-Spanish poet of the eleventh century; probably born at Cordova; died between 1045 and 1055. Ibn Janach, in...
Hasdai abu Yusuf (ben Isaac ben Ezra) ibn Shaprut JE (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish physician, diplomat, and patron of Jewish science; born about 915 at Jaen; died 970 or 990 at Cordova. His father...
Hasdai ben Samuel ben Perahyah ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish rabbi; born at Salonica; died there Sept., 1677; claimed descent from Joseph ben Gorion. He was a son of the learned...
Hasdai ben Solomon (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish rabbi; born probably in Tudela. He was a pupil of R. Nissim Gerondi in Barcelona. His friend (and probably fellow...
Haselbauer (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E556: Eybeschütz, Jonathan
Hashabiah (JE | WP GWP G) Name of several Levites, chiefly in the time of the return from Babylon. The most important are: 1. The fourth son of Jeduthun...

341 – 360

Ha-Shahar (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew monthly; published at Vienna from 1869 to 1884 by P. Smolenskin, who was also its editor. It resembled the German "Monatsschrift...
Ha-Shiloah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Hashkabah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H453: Hazkarat Neshamot
Hashmonah (JE | WP GWP G) Thirtieth station of the Israelites during their wandering in the wilderness (Num. xxxiii. 29, 30). It was situated not far...
Hashub (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Son of Pahath-moab, who assisted Nehemiah in the repair of the walls of Jerusalem (Neh. iii. 11). 2. Another Hashub, engaged...
Ha-Shulammit (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Hashum (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Chief of a family the members of which, two hundred and twenty-three in number, returned from captivity with Zerubbabel...
Hasidaeans JE (JE | WP GWP G) Religious party which commenced to play an important rôle in political life only during the time of the Maccabean wars...
Hasidim, Hasidism (JE | WP GWP G) Ḥasidism is a religious movement which arose among the Polish Jews in the eighteenth century, and which won over nearly...
Haskalah JE (JE | WP GWP G) Generally, "haskalah" indicates the beginning of the movement among the Jews about the end of the eighteenth century in Eastern...
Hasmoneans (JE | WP GWP G) the family name of the Hasmonean dynasty originates with the ancestor of the house, ΑΣαμων&#945...
Joseph ibn Hason (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist; author of a work entitled "Sefer Bet ha-Melek," containing a commentary on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah; responsa...
Solomon ben Aaron Hason (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish rabbi of the sixteenth century. Of his works the following are known: "Bet Shelomoh," responsa, at the end of which...
Hassenaah (JE | WP GWP G) the sons of Hassenaah rebuilt the fish-gate in the wall of Jerusalem (Neh. iii. 3). The name occurs twice (Ezra ii. 35 and...
Simon Hassler (JE | WP GWP G) American musician; born in Bavaria July 25, 1832; died in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 25, 1901; son of Henry Hassler, also a musician...
Marcus Hast [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) London cantor and composer; born at Warsaw in 1840. In 1864 he went to Germany to study music, and on his arrival at Breslau...
Hat (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H465: Head-Dress
Hatan Bereshit (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1469: Bridegroom of the Law
Hatan Torah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1469: Bridegroom of the Law
Hathach (JE | WP GWP G) One of the eunuchs in the palace of Ahasuerus (Xerxes), in immediate attendance on Esther, who employed him in her communications...

361 – 380

Ha-Tor (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Hatra'ah (JE | WP GWP G) Caution or warning given to those who are about to commit a crime. The Rabbis consider the fact that not all men are lawyers...
Hatred (JE | WP GWP G) Feeling of bitter hostility and antagonism toward others. It is intrinsically wrong when the good is Hated, but it is proper...
Ignaz Hatsek [hu] (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian chartographer and engraver; born April 7, 1828, at Olmütz. He was educated in the public and the Jewish schools...
Hattarat Hora'ah (JE | WP GWP G) A rabbinical diploma; a written certificate given to one who, after a thorough examination, proves himself competent and worthy...
Hattush (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Son of Shemaiah, a descendant of the kings of Judah, in the fifth generation from Zerubbabel (I Chron. iii. 22). He returned...
Hauran (JE | WP GWP G) A region east of the Jordan and north of Gilead, reaching east to the desert. It is mentioned in Ezek. xlvii. 16, 18, in connection...
Moses ben Asher Anshel Hausen (JE | WP GWP G) Danish Talmudic scholar: born at Copenhagen 1752; died June 28, 1782. He wrote a work entitled "Ḳaran Or Pene Mosheh...
Carl Frankl Hauser (JE | WP GWP G) American humorist and writer; born Dec. 27, 1847, at Janoshaza, Hungary; received a rudimentary secular and Talmudic education...
Miska (Michael) Hauser [de; it; ru] (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian violin virtuoso; born at Presburg, Hungary, 1822; died at Vienna Dec. 8, 1887; pupil of Joseph Matalay, and later...
Philipp Hauser (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian physician, and writer on medical topics; born at Nádas, Hungary, April 2, 1832. For several years he attended...
Der Hausfreund (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
David Haussmann [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Ratibor, Silesia, July 22, 1839; died at Berlin May 26, 1903. He received his education in the Jewish...
Adolf Havas [hu] (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian dermatologist; born in Szt. Gál, Hungary, Feb. 14, 1854; studied in Veszprim, Budapest, and Vienna, taking...
Havilah (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a district, or districts, in Arabia. According to I Sam. xv. 7, Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah to Shur (the...
Simon ben Judah Havilio (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H23: Ḥabillo, Simon ben Judah ben David
Havoth-jair JE (JE | WP GWP G) Certain villages or towns on the east of the Jordan in Bashan and in Gilead, named after their conquerors. 1. The towns of...
Havre + (JE | WP GWP G) French seaport, on the estuary of the Seine. It Has a population of 118,478, of whom about 50 are Jews (1903). In 1850 a dozen...
Hawaiian Islands (JE | WP GWP G) Group of twelve islands in the North Pacific Ocean, eight of which are inhabited. They Have a population of 154,000 (1902)...
Hawk (JE | WP GWP G) the rendering of given by the English versions; it is enumerated among the unclean birds in Lev. xi. 16; Deut. xiv. 15. The...

381 – 400

Hawkers and Pedlers (JE | WP GWP G) in primitive countries trading was monopolized by traveling merchants. Palestine, an agricultural country, knew the traders...
Ha-Yehudi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Armand-Lazare Hayem [fr] (JE | WP GWP G) French author; born in Paris July 24, 1845; died there 1889; son of Simon Hayem. Hayem forsook commerce for literature and...
Charles Hayem (JE | WP GWP G) French collector and art patron; born in Paris in 1839; died there May 13, 1902; eldest son of Simon Hayem. His wife was the...
Georges Hayem (JE | WP GWP G) French physician; born in Paris Nov. 25, 1841; son of Simon Hayem. He became doctor of medicine in 1868, and later "agr&#233...
Ha-Yo'ez (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Ha-Yonah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Hays (JE | WP GWP G) Family which emigrated from Holland in the first quarter of the eighteenth century and settled in and near New York city....
Judah ben Jacob Hayyat (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish cabalist; lived in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Himself one of the exiles from Spain, he describes in vivid...
Hayyim (JE | WP GWP G) A common prænomen among the Jews, especially during the Middle Ages. In its Latin form it occurs on the Hebrew mosaic...
Hayyim (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B849: Berlin
Aaron ibn Hayyim (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Hebron, later at Smyrna; grandson of Aaron ben Abraham ibn Ḥayyim, author of the "Ḳorban Aharon." He...
Abigdor Hayyim (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist; lived in the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Peri 'Ez Ḥayyim" (Amsterdam, 1742), containing...
Abraham Hayyim (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A441: Abraham ben Ḥayyim
Hayyim Abraham ben Aryeh Löb (JE | WP GWP G) Russian preacher; lived at Moghilef in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He wrote: "Milchamah be-Shalom," the...
Abraham Israel Hayyim (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I301: Israel Ḥayyim Abraham
Abraham ben Judah ibn Hayyim (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish scholar and scribe of the thirteenth century. He wrote a Spanish treatise on the preparation of gold-foil and colors...
Hayyim ben Bezaleel (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist; died at Friedberg on the Shabu'ot festival, 1588. He was the eldest of the four sons of Bezaleel ben...
Hayyim Cohen (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C598: Cohen, Ḥayyim
Hayyim b. Elijah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N306: Nissim, Ḥayyim B. Elijah

401 to 500

401 – 420

Elijah ibn Hayyim (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Constantinople, perhaps the immediate successor of Elijah. Mizrachi; born about 1532; died in the beginning...
Hayyim of Falaise (Hayyim Paltiel?) JE (JE | WP GWP G) French Biblical commentator of the thirteenth century; grandson of the tosafist Samuel of Falaise (Sir Morel). An anonymous...
Hayyim Garmon (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G75: Garmon, Nehorai
Hayyim of Hameln (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H173: Hameln, Glückel of
Hayyim b. Hananeel ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) French tosafist of the second half of the twelfth century. He was a pupil of R. Jacob b. Meïr (Tam), with whom he discussed...
Hayyim ben Isaac Reizes (JE | WP GWP G) Head of the yeshibah at Lemberg; born 1687; martyred May 13, 1728. Ḥayyim and his brother Joshua were thrown into prison...
Hayyim ben Isaac of Volozhin (Hayyim Volozhiner) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi and educator; born at Volozhin, government of Wilna, Jan. 21, 1749; died there June 14, 1821. Both he and his...
Hayyim ben Israel (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish philosopher and author; lived in Toledo about 1272-77; a descendant of the Israeli family and a relative of Isaac...
Hayyim Jacob ben Jacob David (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Smyrna; lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. According to Michael, he was born at Smyrna and was a...
Hayyim Jacob ben Judah Löb Slutzki (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbinical scholar; lived in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was the author of "Niṭe'e Na&#39...
Hayyim ben Jehiel Hefez Zahab (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist of the fourteenth century; died 1314. He was a brother of Asher ben Jehiel (Rosh). He was educated by his father...
Hayyim b. Joseph (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I56: Ibn Vives Ḥayyim
Hayyim ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Prague at the end of the sixteenth century; died at Posen about the middle of the seventeenth century...
Hayyim ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Physician, and chief rabbi of the united congregations in the archbishopric of Toledo. As the chief rabbi, Zulaimah Alfahan...
Hayyim Lisker (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H415: Lisker, Ḥayyim
Hayyim Mal'ak (JE | WP GWP G) Polish Shabbethaian agitator; lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. According to Jacob Emden ("Torat ha-&#7730...
Hayyim Marini (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H426: Marini, Ḥayyim Shabbethai
Hayyim ben Menahem of Glogau (JE | WP GWP G) German scholar; lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He wrote a work entitled "Mar'eh ha-Ketab bi-Leshon...
Hayyim b. Moses 'Attar (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi; born at Sale, near Brescia, Italy, 1696; died in Jerusalem 1743. He was educated under the care of his grandfather...
Hayyim ibn Musa (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M1014: Musa, Ḥayyim ibn

421 – 440

Hayyim ben Nathan (JE | WP GWP G) German scholar of the seventeenth century. He translated into Judæo-German the historical portions of the Bible. In the...
Hayyim (Joshua), Pheibel ben Israel, of Tarnigrod (JE | WP GWP G) Geographer of the eighteenth century. He wrote a geography of Palestine, in Hebrew, entitled "Ḳazwe Are&#7827...
Hayyim b. Samuel b. David of Toledo (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish rabbi and author; lived at the end of the thirteenth century and at the beginning of the fourteenth. He was a pupil...
Hayyim Samuel Falk (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F18: Falk, Ḥayyim Samuel
Hayyim b. Samuel ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F20: Falk, Joshua ben Alexander ha-Kohen
Hayyim Shabbethai (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Salonica; born about 1556; died 1647. After studying in the yeshibah of Salonica under Aaron Sason, Ḥayyim...
Hayyim b. Solomon (JE | WP GWP G) Russo-Polish preacher; born at Wilna; died there Dec., 1804 (1794?), at an advanced age. His father, R. Solomon b. &#7716...
Hayyim ben Solomon of Moghilef (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and cabalist; died at Jerusalem in 1813. He was one of the Ḥasidic followers of Israel Ba'al Shem, and after...
Hayyim ben Tobiah (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi; lived in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was among the pupils of Elijah of Wilna, and settled in...
Hayyim Vital (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H430: Vital, Ḥayyim
Hayyim Zanger (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H120: Halberstamm, Solomon Joachim
Hayyim b. Zebi Hirsch (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B861: Berlin, Noah Ḥayyim Ẓebi Hirsch
Hayyim ben Zebulon Jacob Perlmutter (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Ostropol, Russia, in the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Elef Omer," a collection of sayings beginning...
Gedaliah Hayyon (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish rabbi: pupil of Alfandari the Younger (see Azulai, "Shem ha-Gedolim," and Grätz, "Gesch." x. 360); born at Constantinople...
Moses b. Aaron Hayyon (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Jerusalem, later of Safed; flourished at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century....
Judah b. David Hayyuj (Abu Zakariyya Yachya ibn Daud Hayyuj) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish-Hebrew grammarian; born in Fez, Morocco, about 950. At an early age he went to Cordova, where he seems to Have remained...
Aaron ben David Hayyun (JE | WP GWP G) Cabalist; lived at Jerusalem in the seventeenth century. He, together with David YizChaki and Jacob Molko...
Abraham ben Nissim Hayyun (JE | WP GWP G) Portuguese scholar; father of Don Joseph Ḥayyun, rabbi of Lisbon; lived in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He...
Nehemiah Hiyya ben Moses Hayyun JE (JE | WP GWP G) Bosnian cabalist; born about 1650; died about 1730. His parents, of Sephardic descent, lived in Sarajevo, Bosnia, where probably...
Isaac ben Jacob Hayyut (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; died at Skala, near Lemberg, Sept., 1726. He was descended from an old Provençal family which first settled...

441 – 460

Menahem (Manesh, Manus, Manish, Mannusch) b. Isaac Hayyut (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; died at Wilna about May, 1636. He was the son of R. Isaac b. Abraham Ḥayyut, a descendant of a pious Proven&#231...
Hazael (JE | WP GWP G) the most powerful of the kings of Damascus, and a ruler of general historical as well as of Biblical importance. While Ahab...
Jacob Raphael Hezekiah Hazak (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi of the eighteenth century; born 1689; died at Padua 1782 (Ab 16). He was a pupil of Mordecai Basan of Verona...
Hazakah (JE | WP GWP G) the term Has various meanings in the Talmud; the one most cognate to the original meaning of the Hebrew root is that of "taking...
Hazar-enan (JE | WP GWP G) Place on the boundary of Palestine, apparently to the northeast, between Zephron and Shepham, not far from the district of...
Hazar-shual (JE | WP GWP G) Town in the south of Judah (Josh. xv. 28; Neh. xi. 27), between Beth-palet and Beer-sheba, afterward included in the territory...
Hazar-susah (JE | WP GWP G) City in the extreme south of Judah, allotted to Simeon (Josh. xix. 5). In the parallel passage I Chron. iv. 31, the reading...
Hazarmaveth (JE | WP GWP G) Third son of Joktan, of the family of Shem (Gen. x. 26; I Chron. i. 20). The name is preserved in the modern Hadramaut, a...
Hazazon-tamar (JE | WP GWP G) Dwelling-place of the Amorites when the four kings made their invasion and fought with the five kings (Gen. xiv. 7 [A. V....
Ha-Zebi [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew weekly, published at Jerusalem, beginning in 1876, by Eliezer Benjudah. At the end of 1899 he began to publish a supplement...
Ha-Zefirah (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew newspaper; founded by Ḥayyim Selig Slonimski at Warsaw Jan. 25, 1862. In 1863 it was suspended on account of...
Hazeroth (JE | WP GWP G) A station of the Israelites in the desert (Num. xi. 35, xii. 16, xxxiii. 17; Deut. i. 1). It was at Hazeroth that Miriam,...
Hazkarat Neshamot (JE | WP GWP G) Memorial service, held, according to the German ritual, after the readings of the Law and the Prophets in the morning service...
Abraham ben Hezekiah Hazkuni (JE | WP GWP G) Galician Talmudist and cabalist; born at Cracow in 1627; died at Tripoli, Syria. He was a disciple of Yom-Tob Lipman...
Hezekiah Hazkuni (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H704: Hezekiah ben Manoah
Hazor (JE | WP GWP G) Fortified city between Ramah and Kadesh, on the high ground overlooking Lake Merom. It was the seat of Jabin, a powerful Canaanitish...
Hazot (Chazot) (JE | WP GWP G) See Midnight.
Hazzan (JE | WP GWP G) Communal official. The word is probably borrowed from the Assyrian "Chazanu," "Chazannu" (overseer, director; see...
Hazzan, Hazan >> Israel Moses Hazan JE (JE | WP GWP G) An Oriental rabbinical family, probably of Spanish origin, members of which are found in Spain, and in Smyrna, Alexandria...
Abraham ben Judah Hazzan (JE | WP GWP G) Cantor at Kremenetz, Volhynia, in the sixteenth century. In 1595, after recovering from a terrible malady which ended in a...

461 – 480

Eleazar ha-Hazzan (JE | WP GWP G) Precentor; lived in Speyer toward the end of the eleventh century. He was the teacher of Samuel the Pious, and perhaps identical...
Hazzanut (JE | WP GWP G) Originally, as in the Siddur of Saadia Gaon, the term was applied to the piyyuṭim which it was the function of the official...
He (JE | WP GWP G) Fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet; on its form see Alphabet. It is a guttural, pronounced as the English "h," standing midway...
Covering of Head (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B286: Bareheadedness
Head-dress (JE | WP GWP G) Covering or ornament for the head. Very little information is obtainable as to the adornment and covering for the head in...
Health Laws (JE | WP GWP G) the preservation of physical well-being is looked upon in Judaism as a religious command. "And live through them, but not...
Hearsay Evidence (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E530: Evidence
Heart (JE | WP GWP G) the seat of the emotional and intellectual life. "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life"...
Heathen (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G142: Gentile
Heathenism (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P11: Paganism
Heave-offering (JE | WP GWP G) Present made to the Tabernacle or Temple for the use of the priests. (from , "to lift," that is, to set apart for a special...
Heaven (JE | WP GWP G) Chiefly, the upper part of the universe in contradistinction to the earth (Gen. i. 1); the region in which sun, moon, and...
Heber (JE | WP GWP G) 1. Grandson of Asher and founder of the family of the Heberites (Gen. xlvi. 17; Num. xxvi. 45). 2. Heber the Kenite, husband...
Hebra Kaddisha, Chebra Kaddisha (JE | WP GWP G) Name for a charitable society which cares for the sick, especially for the dying, and buries the dead. The name "Chebra...
Hebrah Se'udah, Chebrah Se'udah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H474: Ḥebra Ḳaddisha
Christian Hebraists JE (JE | WP GWP G) the work of Christian scholars in the field of Hebrew literature demands special treatment, not only as part of the history...
Hebrew (JE | WP GWP G) the expression "Hebrews" is used as a name for Israelites in contrast with Egyptians, or by Egyptians for Israelites, in both...
The Hebrew (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish weekly; established in San Francisco, Cal., in 1863, by Philo Jacoby, a son of Isaac Jacoby, rabbi of Lauenburg, Pomerania...
Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia (JE | WP GWP G) Organized July 16, 1848, largely through the efforts of Isaac Leeser; one of the oldest societies of its kind in the United...
The Hebrew Globe (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals

481 – 500

Hebrew Grammar (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G411: Grammar, Hebrew
Hebrew Institute (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N248: New York
Hebrew Intelligencer (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
The Hebrew Journal (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Hebrew Language (JE | WP GWP G) the designation "Hebrew language" for the language in which are written the Old Testament (with the exception of Ezra iv....
The Hebrew Leader (JE | WP GWP G) Weekly newspaper; published in New York city by Jonas Bondy, who edited it. The first number was issued in May, 1850, and...
Hebrew Literature (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L466: Literature, Hebrew
The Hebrew National (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
The Hebrew Observer (JE | WP GWP G) Periodical; published in London by Abraham Benisch. The first and only number appeared Jan. 7, 1853.G. A. M. F. ...
The Hebrew Review (JE | WP GWP G) Literary magazine; published at Cincinnati, Ohio, during the years 1881 and 1892 (2 vols.) by the Rabbinical Literary Association...
The Hebrew Review and Magazine of Rabbinical Literature (JE | WP GWP G) Journal; published in London by Morris Jacob Raphail from Oct. 3, 1834, to and including Sept., 1835 (2 vols.). The object...
Hebrew Sabbath-school Union of America [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Organized at Cincinnati, Ohio, July, 1886. "to provide a uniform system for all Hebrew Sabbath-schools in the United States...
The Hebrew Standard (JE | WP GWP G) Weekly; founded in New York city by J. P. Solomon on Sept. 23, 1881. Solomon Has been its sole editor and proprietor. The...
Hebrew Union College (JE | WP GWP G) A rabbinical college founded by Dr. Isaac M. Wise at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1875. In 1854 Dr. Wise had made an attempt to establish...
Hebrew Union College Journal (JE | WP GWP G) Monthly magazine, edited and published by students of Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio, in the interests of that institution...
Epistle to Hebrews (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N245: New Testament
Hebron (JE | WP GWP G) A city of Asher, properly "Ebron"; called also Abdon.2. Town in Palestine, about 17 miles southwest of Jerusalem; it Has a...
Hechim (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H824: Höchheimer
Hechingen (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H843: Hohenzollern
Hecht (JE | WP GWP G) Family, resident at Boston, Mass. Jacob H. Hecht: Born at Heinstadt, Germany, March 15, 1834; died Feb. 24, 1903. He went...

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