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Isaac La Peyerre (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M126: Manasseh b. Israel
Laban (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Bethuel, grandnephew of Abraham, and maternal uncle and father in-law of Jacob. His home being in Aram-naharaim (Mesopotamia; ......
Abraham Cohen Labatt JE S 2005-08-19 (JE | WP GWP G) American pioneer; born at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1802; died at Galveston, Texas, Aug. 16, 1899. He was one of ......
Leonard Labatt JE S 2005-08-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Swedish dramatic tenor; born in Stockholm Dec. 4, 1838; died at Christiania, Norway, March 7, 1897. He studied under Günther ......
Labi (JE | WP GWP G) A Turkish family of rabbis. The most prominent members were:David b. Joseph ibn Labi: Turkish scholar of the sixteenth century; ......
Joseph ibn Vidal Labi JE (JE | WP GWP G) Prominent Spanish scholar and orator; son of the philosopher Solomon ibn Labi; lived at Saragossa. He was one of the ......
Labi ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L197: Leon ha-Levi
Simon Labi (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish rabbi and scholar of the sixteenth century. He intended to go to the Holy Land, but when he arrived ......
Labor (JE | WP GWP G) Labor and the laborer are invested in Jewish literature with a dignity scarcely paralleled in other ancient religions or social ......
Lachish (JE | WP GWP G) Probably the greatest battle fought under the walls of Lachish was fought by Sennacherib's army in 701 B.C. (II Kings ......
Dob Bär b. Shnoer Zalman Ladier (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Ḥasidic rabbi; born about 1770; died 1834. He was the son of R. Shneor Zalman of Liady, the founder ......
Ladino (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J591: Judaeo-Spanish Language (Ladino) and Literature
Ladislaus (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P401: Poland
Jean-Baptiste Ladvocat [fr] (JE | WP GWP G) Christian Hebraist; born at Vaucouleurs Jan. 3, 1709; died at Paris Dec. 29, 1765. Though he achieved particular distinction as ......
Lag ba-Omer (JE | WP GWP G) -- See O62: Omer
Paul Anton de Lagarde (JE | WP GWP G) German Orientalist; born in Berlin Nov. 2, 1827; died in Göttingen Dec. 22, 1891. His father was Wilhelm Bötticher; and ......
Jacob Lagarto JE (JE | WP GWP G) South-American rabbi and Talmudist of the seventeenth century; probably a son of Simon Lagarto of Amsterdam. He went to Brazil ......
Daniel Israel Lopez Laguna [es] (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish poet; born in Portugal about the middle of the seventeenth century of Marano parents, who subsequently settled in southern ......
Laibach (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the Austrian province of Carniola. The first mention of Jews in Laibach dates from 1213, when it is ......
L'Albenc (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D81: Dauphiné

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Lama (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L483: Loans; E276: Elijah ben Moses.
Lamb in Sacrifice (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S35: Sacrifice
Mayer Lambert (JE | WP GWP G) French Orientalist; born Dec. 23, 1863, at Metz; son of Elie Lambert, author of religious text-books, grandson of Chief Rabbi ......
Lamden JE S 2005-08-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Late Hebrew expression for a man who is well informed in rabbinical literature, although not a scholar in the technical ......
Lamech (JE | WP GWP G) Descendant of Cain (Gen. iv. 18-24). He had two wives, Adah and Zillah. Adah bore him two sons, Jabal (the ......
Lamed (JE | WP GWP G) Twelfth letter of the Hebrew alphabet; on its form see Alphabet. The meaning of the name is uncertain. The letter ......
Lamed-Waw (JE | WP GWP G) The thirty-six hidden saints called among Russian Jews Lamed-waw-niks. The legend that there are in every generation thirty-six secret saints, ......
Lamego (JE | WP GWP G) City in Portugal. Its Jewry was formerly situated in the Cruz da Pedra street, the present Rua Nova. Lamego was ......
Simon Edler von Lämel JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian merchant; born at Tuschkau near Pilsen, Bohemia, Aug. 28, 1766; died at Vienna April 18, 1845. Early bereft of ......
Lamentations (JE | WP GWP G) In the manuscripts and printed copies of the Old Testament the book is called, after its initial word, "Ekah"; in ......
Lämmlein (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L178: Lemmlein, Asher
Lamp of Judaism (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Perpetual lamp (JE | WP GWP G) In synagogues a perpetual light is maintained in a lamp which consists generally of a glass vessel containing a wick ......
Sabbath lamp (JE | WP GWP G) Special lamp or chandelier used in Jewish households on Sabbath eve. The lighting of a special lamp on Sabbath eve, ......
Seven-branched lamp (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C87: Candlestick; M466: Menorah
Lampon (JE | WP GWP G) Enemy of the Jews; lived in the first century at Alexandria. During the reign of Caligula an outbreak against the ......
Isaac b. Samuel Lampronti JE (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi and physician; born Feb. 3, 1679, at Ferrara; died Nov. 16, 1756. His great-grandfather, Samuel Lampronti, emigrated from ......
Lancaster (JE | WP GWP G) Town founded in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1730; one of the six or seven cities in the United States containing ......
Leo Lánczy JE (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian deputy and financier; born in 1852. After having been connected for several years with the Anglo-Hungarian Bank and the ......
Land Laws (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A904: Agrarian Laws; L52: Landlord and Tenant; S18: Sabbatical Year.

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Landa-on-the-Tauber (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1097: Bischofsheim-on-the-Tauber
Landau >> Isaac Elijah Landau JE, Jacob ben Judah Landau JE (JE | WP GWP G) A family name said to have been derived from the name of a city situated in western Germany.The name is ......
Adolph Yefimovich Landau [he; ru] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian journalist and publisher; born at Rossienny, Russia, 1841; died at Berlin July 21, 1902. In 1862 he moved to ......
Leopold Landau JE (JE | WP GWP G) German gynecologist; born at Warsaw July 16, 1848. He studied at the universities of Breslau, Würzburg, and Berlin, graduating from ......
Wolf Landau [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and author; born at Dresden March 1, 1811; died there Aug. 24, 1886; grandson of Chief Rabbi David ......
M. H. Landauer JE (JE | WP GWP G) Writer on Jewish mysticism; born in 1808 at Kappel, near Buchau, Württemberg; died there Feb. 3, 1841. He was a ......
Samuel Landauer JE (JE | WP GWP G) German Orientalist and librarian; born at Hürben, Bavaria, Feb. 22, 1846. He received his education at the yeshibah of Eisenstadt ......
Max Landesberg (JE | WP GWP G) Rumanian oculist; born in 1840 at Jassy; died at Florence March 4, 1895. He was educated at the gymnasium at ......
Heinrich Landesmann JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian poet and philosophical writer; born at Nikolsburg Aug. 9, 1821; died at Brünn Dec. 4, 1902. From his earliest ......
Landesrabbiner JE (JE | WP GWP G) Spiritual head of the Jewish communities of a country, province, or district; met with in several parts of Germany and ......
Landesrabbinerschule in Budapest (Országos Rabbiképzö Intézet) JE (JE | WP GWP G) The efforts to found a rabbinical seminary in Hungary reach back to the beginning of the nineteenth century. The various ......
Landlord and Tenant (JE | WP GWP G) The Mishnah and later authorities speak of two kinds of tenants—the "aris," or the tenant on shares, the landlord receiving ......
Landmarks (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1368: Boundaries
Landowner (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R145: Real Estate
Landsberg (JE | WP GWP G) Russian family of scholars and philanthropists. Its founder was Abraham Landsberg of Kremenetz, who was born in 1756 and died ......
Max Landsberg (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi; born at Berlin Feb. 26, 1845; son of Meyer Landsberg, "Landrabbiner" at Hildesheim, Hanover. He was educated at ......
Meyer Landsberg (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Meseritz, Prussia, May 1, 1810; died at Hildesheim May 20, 1870. Landsberg's teacher, Aaron Wolfsohn, rabbi of ......
Hugo Landsberger (JE | WP GWP G) German novelist, dramatist, and editor; born at Berlin Aug. 25, 1861. His first production was "Der Neue Gott, Roman aus ......
Joseph Landsberger [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Posen Aug. 21, 1848; descendant of Aryeh Löb, who died as martyr in Posen in 1737; ......
Leser Landshuth JE (JE | WP GWP G) German liturgiologist; born Jan. 15, 1817, at Lissa, Posen; died in Berlin March 23, 1887. He went to Berlin as ......

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Jonah ben Elijah Landsofer (Landschreiber) (JE | WP GWP G) Bohemian Talmudist; born in 1678; died at Prague Oct. 9, 1712. Landsofer made a special study of the Masorah and ......
Maximilian Leopold Langenschwarz [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) German author and hydropathist; born 1801 at Rödelheim, near Frankfort-on-the-Main; died before 1860. His parents being very poor, a few ......
Languedoc (JE | WP GWP G) Ancient province of France corresponding to the present departments of Tarn, Aude, Gard, and Ardèche, with parts of Haute-Loire, Haute-Garonne, ......
Laniado (JE | WP GWP G) Sephardic family settled in Italy and the East; the best-known members are:Abraham ben Isaac Laniado: Oriental scholar of the sixteenth ......
Laodicea (JE | WP GWP G) Town in Phrygia on the River Lycus. Jews lived there, Antiochus the Great having transported 2,000 Jewish families from Babylonia ......
Aaron ben Isaac Lapapa JE (JE | WP GWP G) Oriental rabbi and Talmudist; died 1674. He was at first rabbi at Manissa, Turkey, and at an advanced age was ......
Lapidaria (JE | WP GWP G) Writings giving the qualities of precious and other stones, mostly composed in the Middle Ages. The rarest stones and minerals ......
Lapidation (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C128: Capital Punishment
Lapidoth (Lappidoth) (JE | WP GWP G) The husband of Deborah (Judges iv. 4), whom the Rabbis identify with Barak (= "lightning"); known also as Michael (so ......
Lapwing (JE | WP GWP G) The rendering in the Authorized Version of the Hebrew "dukifat," enumerated among the unclean birds in Lev. xi. 19 and ......
Ludwig L. Laqueur (JE | WP GWP G) German ophthalmologist; born at Fürstenberg, Silesia, July 25, 1839. Studied at Paris and Berlin (M.D. 1860). In 1860 he became ......
Cohen de Lara (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish family, members of which settled in Amsterdam, Hamburg, London, and America.Aaron Cohen de Lara: Ḥazzan of the Spanish-Portuguese community ......
Isidore de Lara (JE | WP GWP G) English composer; born in London Aug. 9, 1858. He was educated at Boulogne, and made his first appearance as a ......
Larceny (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T174: Theft and Stolen Goods
Larissa (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G424: Greece
La Rochelle (JE | WP GWP G) City and seaport of France; capital of the department of Charente-Inférieure; situated on the Atlantic coast. Its small Jewish community ......
Adolf L'Arronge (JE | WP GWP G) German dramatist and theatrical manager; born in Hamburg March 8, 1838; son of Eduard Theodor l'Arronge (Aaron). He received a ......
Larta (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1824: Arta
Jacob de las Leyes (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish compiler. He was commissioned by the son of Alfonso X. the Wise to compile an ethical work for the ......
Gershon Lasch (JE | WP GWP G) German teacher and author; born in 1803; died at Halberstadt March 3, 1883. In 1823 he was appointed instructor at ......

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Lashon ha-Kodesh (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H485: Hebrew Language
Abraham ben Jehiel Michael ha-Kohen Lask (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A564: Abraham b. Samuel Cohen of Lask
Eduard Lasker (JE | WP GWP G) German politician; born at Jarotschin, Posen, Oct. 14, 1829; died in New York city Jan. 5, 1884; educated at the ......
Emanuel Lasker (JE | WP GWP G) Chess champion of the world; born Dec. 24, 1868, at Berlinchen, Germany; educated at the universities of Berlin, Göttingen, and ......
Raphael Lasker (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi; born at Zirke, province of Posen, Feb. 19, 1838; educated by his father, who was rabbi of Zirke, ......
Ferdinand Lassalle (JE | WP GWP G) The founder of Social Democracy; born in Breslau, Germany, April 11, 1825; died Aug. 31, 1864, in Geneva. His father, ......
Lassar-Cohn (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C645: Cohn, Lassar
Oskar E. Lassar (JE | WP GWP G) German dermatologist and hygienist; born at Hamburg Jan. 11, 1849. He received his education at a gymnasium at Hamburg and ......
Eduard Lassen (JE | WP GWP G) Danish conductor and dramatic composer; born at Copenhagen April 13, 1830; died at Weimar Jan. 15, 1904. His father was ......
Adolf Lasson JE (JE | WP GWP G) German philosophical writer; born at Alt-Strelitz, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, March 12, 1832; educated at the Gymnasium Carolinum, Neu-Strelitz, and the University of ......
Samuel Lasz JE (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian scientist; born Dec. 18, 1859, at Szergeny; studied at Papa, Sopron, and Budapest. In 1882 he received an appointment ......
Philip László (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian portrait-painter; born June 1, 1869, at Budapest. As a highly talented student of the Model Drawing School of Budapest, ......
Lateran Councils (JE | WP GWP G) Councils of the Church held at Rome in the papal palace on Lateran Hill, whence their title. Those affecting Jewish ......
Joseph Latteiner (JE | WP GWP G) Judæo-German playwright; born at Jassy, Rumania, in 1853. After studying Talmud in the yeshibah there, Latteiner, at the age of ......
Lattes (Lattas) >> Isaac Lattes JE (JE | WP GWP G) Family that includes many scholars among its members. The name frequently occurs with the prefix "De" (V07p627001.jpg, V07p627002.jpg), and seems ......
Ferdinand Laub (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian violinist; born at Prague Jan. 19, 1832; died March 17, 1875, at Gries, near Bozen, Tyrol. He received his ......
Die Laubhütte (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Charles Henry Lauchheimer (JE | WP GWP G) American naval officer; born at Baltimore, Md., Sept. 22, 1859. In 1881 he graduated from the United States Naval Academy ......
Richard Laurence JE (JE | WP GWP G) English Christian Hebraist; born in Bath 1760; died in Dublin 1838. He was made regius professor of Hebrew and canon ......
Laurin (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D22: Damascus Affair

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Sigmund Lautenburg [de] (JE | WP GWP G) Theatrical manager; born at Budapest Sept. 11, 1852. In consequence of the poverty of his parents, he was obliged to ......
Edward Lauterbach (JE | WP GWP G) American lawyer; born in New York city Aug. 13, 1844; graduated from the College of the City of New York ......
Selig Lauterbach (JE | WP GWP G) Galician writer; born at Drohobicz Jan. 25, 1826; known as the author of the following works: "Minḥat Kohen," in two ......
John Caspar Lavater (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M446: Mendelssohn
Laver (JE | WP GWP G) V07p632001.jpgLaver and Basin.(In the British Museum, London.)In the Second Temple there was only one laver of brass, which served the ......
Civil Law (JE | WP GWP G) That system of jurisprudence established by the people of a state or nation for their government as citizens as distinguished ......
Codification of Law (JE | WP GWP G) A unified and coordinated body of law superseding all previous laws within its scope, or the reenactment of existing law ......
Law of the Land (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C720: Conflict of Laws
Oral Law (JE | WP GWP G) -- See O113: Oral Law
Reading from the Law (JE | WP GWP G) The custom of reading portions of the Pentateuch at the synagogue on Sabbath and holy days and at other stated ......
Law Schools (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A711: Academies in Palestine
John Zachariah Lawrence (JE | WP GWP G) English surgeon; born in 1828; died in London July 18, 1870. He studied at University College, London (M.B. 1857), and ......
Noachian Laws (JE | WP GWP G) Laws which were supposed by the Rabbis to have been binding upon mankind at large even before the revelation at ......
Lionel Lawson (JE | WP GWP G) English newspaper proprietor; born in 1823 in London; died there Sept. 20, 1879. He was educated in Germany. Inheriting a ......
Lawyer (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A710: Academies
Lazar (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B629: Eleazar
Bernard Lazare (JE | WP GWP G) French author; born at Nîmes June 14, 1865; died at Paris Sept. 1, 1903; educated in his native town and ......
Lazarus B. David (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B671: Bendavid, Lazarus
Emma Lazarus (JE | WP GWP G) American poet; born July 22, 1849, in New York city; died there Nov. 19, 1887; daughter of Moses and Esther ......
Josephine Lazarus (JE | WP GWP G) American essayist; born March 23, 1846, in New York city, where she has always resided; daughter of Moses and Esther ......

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Julius Lazarus [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Neusalz-on-the-Oder April 6, 1847; educated at the gymnasium of Görlitz, Silesia, and at the University of ......
Leyser Lazarus (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist; born at Filehne 1820; died at Breslau April 16, 1879; brother of Moritz Lazarus. He first attended yeshibot, ......
Moritz Lazarus JE (JE | WP GWP G) German philosopher; born at Filehne, in the Prussian province of Posen, Sept. 15, 1824; died at Meran, Tyrol, April 13, ......
Moses Lazarus (JE | WP GWP G) American merchant; born in New York city June 29, 1813; died there March 9, 1885. He was identified with the ......
Nahida Ruth Lazarus JE (JE | WP GWP G) German authoress; born Feb. 3, 1849, at Berlin; a descendant of a German Christian family. She was married first to ......
Lease (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L52: Landlord and Tenant
Leather (JE | WP GWP G) Skins of animals were employed for clothing as soon as man felt the need of covering his body to protect ......
Leaven (JE | WP GWP G) Fermenting dough (V07p655002.jpg = "to be sour," "fermented"; Aramaic, V07p655003.jpg). Leavened bread was probably a common article of food among ......
Leavenworth (JE | WP GWP G) -- See K91: Kansas
Lebanon (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a range of mountains in Syria. In prose, with the exception of IIChron. ii. 8 (Hebr.), the name ......
Abraham Dob Bär ben Chayyim Lebensohn JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Hebraist, poet, and grammarian; born in Wilna, Russia, about 1789; died there Nov. 19, 1878. Like all Jewish boys ......
Micah Joseph Lebensohn JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Hebrew poet; born in Wilna, Russia, Feb. 22, 1828; died there Feb. 17, 1852. His father, the poet Abraham ......
Hermann Lebert (Lewy) (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Breslau June 9, 1813; died at Bex, Canton Waadt, Switzerland, Aug. 1, 1878. He studied medicine ......
Siegmund Lebert (Siegmund Levy) (JE | WP GWP G) Music-teacher and writer on music; born at Ludwigsburg, Württemberg, Dec. 12, 1822; died at Stuttgart Dec. 8, 1884. After completing ......
Fürchtegott Lebrecht [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) German educator; born at Memmelbach, Bavaria, Nov. 16, 1800; died at Berlin, Sept. 1, 1876. He studied at Fürth, and ......
Lecce (JE | WP GWP G) Town of southern Italy, capital of the province of the same name (formerly Terra d'Otranto); contained one of the most ......
Le-Dawid Baruk (JE | WP GWP G) Familiar title for Ps. cxliv., from the initial words of the Hebrewtext, with especial reference to its employment, together with ......
Abraham Lederer JE (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian educator and writer; born Jan. 9, 1827, at Libochowitz, Bohemia. In 1840 he went to Prague, where he studied ......
Joachim K. Lederer [de] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian play-wright; born at Prague Aug. 28, 1808; died at Dresden July 31, 1876. Lederer received only a meager education ......
Sidney Lee (JE | WP GWP G) English editor; born in London Dec. 5, 1859; educated at City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford. Almost immediately ......

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Leeds (JE | WP GWP G) Manufacturing town in Yorkshire, England. It possessed a small Jewish community before the year 1840, divine service being held in ......
Isaac Leeser JE (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi, author, translator, editor, and publisher; pioneer of theJewish pulpit in the United States, and founder of the Jewish ......
Jacob Heymann de Leeuw (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch Talmudist; born at Leyden 1811; died at Amsterdam Sept. 15, 1883. He removed to the latter city in 1874, ......
Salomon Lefmann JE (JE | WP GWP G) German philologist; born at Telgte, Westphalia, Dec. 25, 1831, his family being old Westphalian settlers. He was educated at the ......
Legacy (JE | WP GWP G) -- See W188: Will
Legal Instruments (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D203: Deed
Legal Process (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P538: Procedure
Legalism (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N329: Nomism
Leghorn >> History of the Jews in Livorno JE (JE | WP GWP G) Seaport city of Tuscany. Its Jewish community, although the youngest among the large communities of Italy, was for some time ......
Behrend Lehmann (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B869: Bermann, Issachar ha-Levi
Emil Lehmann [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German jurist; born at Dresden Feb. 2, 1829; died there Feb. 25, 1898; son of the merchant Bonnier Lehmann. He ......
Joseph Lehmann [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German journalist; born at Glogau Dec. 28, 1801; died at Berlin Feb. 19, 1873. At the age of fifteen he ......
Joseph Lehmann [fr] (JE | WP GWP G) French chief rabbi; born at Belfort Nov. 1, 1843. He numbers among his ancestors on his father's side R. David ......
Leonce Lehmann (JE | WP GWP G) French lawyer; born at Augsburg, Bavaria, Feb. 24, 1836; died in Paris Dec. 27, 1892. He was educated in the ......
Marcus (Meyer) Lehmann JE (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born Dec. 29, 1831, at Verden, Hanover; died at Mayence April 14, 1890. After graduating from the gymnasium, ......
Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums (Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinical seminary at Berlin; founded in 1870 and opened in 1872 as the "Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums," which ......
Lehren >> Akiba Lehren JE, Hirsch Lehren JE (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch family whose name is derived from Lehrensteinfeld, a village in Württemberg.Akiba Lehren: Dutch banker and communal worker; born July ......
Lehrerheim (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Karl Ludwig (Kaufmann) Lehrs (JE | WP GWP G) German philologist; born at Königsberg, East Prussia, Jan. 2, 1802; died there June 9, 1878; brother of the philologist F. ......
Leibzoll JE S 2005-08-19 (JE | WP GWP G) A special toll which the Jews had to pay in most of the European states in the Middle Ages and ......

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Leicester (JE | WP GWP G) County town of Leicestershire, England. A Josce of Leicester is recorded in the Nottingham "Donum" of 1194 as living in ......
Max Leidesdorf (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian psychiatrist; born at Vienna June 27, 1818; died there Oct. 9, 1889; educated at the university of his native ......
William Leidesdorff JE (JE | WP GWP G) One of the earliest settlers in California; born (at Szathmar, Hungary ?) about 1802; died at San Francisco May 18, ......
David Leimdörfer JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi; born at Hlinik, Hungary, Sept. 17, 1851; educated at his native place and at Zsolna, Waitzen, Budapest, Presburg, and ......
Leipzig (JE | WP GWP G) A city of Saxony. The first mention of its Jewish community occurs in the middle of the thirteenth century in ......
Henry Marcus Leipziger [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) American educator; born at Manchester, England, Dec. 29, 1853; emigrated to New York in 1865; educated at the College of ......
Leiria (JE | WP GWP G) City of Portugal. In 1378 its Jews complained to the king that they were attacked and maltreated by the Christian ......
Benjamin Wolf Leitmeritz (JE | WP GWP G) German glossarist and theologian; son of Isaac Levi; lived at the beginning of the seventeenth century. In his "Amarot Ṭehorot," ......
William Gottlieb Leitner (JE | WP GWP G) Professor of Arabic; born at Budapest in 1841; died at Bonn March 22, 1899. He was educated at Constantinople and ......
Lejbowicz (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F305: Frank, Jacob
Lekah Dodi JE (JE | WP GWP G) The initial words of the refrain of a hymn for the service of inauguration of the Sabbath, written about the ......
Lel Shimmurim (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P98: Passover
Lelio de la Torre (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L173: Torre, Lelio de la
Moses Lemans (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch educationist; born at Naarden Nov. 5, 1785; died at Amsterdam Oct. 17, 1832. He was educated by his father ......
Lemberg (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of Galicia, Austria; 180 miles east of Cracow and 60 miles from the Russian frontier. Its population in 1869 ......
Judah Löb Lemberger (JE | WP GWP G) Judæo-German author of the seventeenth century. He was probably the son of the publisher Abraham Lemberger of Prague. Judah Löb ......
Lemberger Jüdische Zeitung (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Asher Lemmlein (Asher Lämmlin) (JE | WP GWP G) Pretended forerunner of the Messiah. He appeared in Istria, near Venice, in 1502, and announced the coming of the Messiah ......
Hartog Lemon [nl] (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch physician and worker for the emancipation of the Jews; born about the middle of the eighteenth century; died at ......
Henriette de Lemos (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H657: Herz, Henriette

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Lemuel (JE | WP GWP G) A king mentioned in the superscription to Prov. xxxi., which is addressed to him by his mother. Various theories have ......
Lenchitza (JE | WP GWP G) District town in the government of Kalisz, Russian Poland. On April 20, 1639, members of its Jewish community were accused ......
Felix Lengfeld (JE | WP GWP G) American chemist; born at San Francisco Feb. 18, 1863; educated at the San Francisco College of Pharmacy, the University of ......
Lentils (JE | WP GWP G) Edible seeds first mentioned in the Old Testament in Gen. xxv. 29-34, where it is related that Jacob gave Esau ......
Leo (JE | WP GWP G) Court physician to Grand Duke Ivan III. Vassilivich of Russia; executed at Moscow April 22, 1490. With the arrival at ......
Leo III; Leo IV (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C402: Chazars
Leo X (Giovanni de Medici) (JE | WP GWP G) Two hundred and twenty-fourth pope; born at Florence Dec. 11, 1475; elected March 11, 1513; died Dec. 1, 1521. His ......
Leo Hebraeus (Judah Abrvanel) (JE | WP GWP G) Physician, philosopher, and poet; born in Lisbon in the second half of the fifteenth century, and died at Venice in ......
Lewis Leo (JE | WP GWP G) Synagogue musician; born in London in 1809; died there Sept. 11, 1876; second son of the Rev. Simon Leo. He ......
Leon >> Judah Leon Templo JE (JE | WP GWP G) Ancient Spanish kingdom, bounded by Old Castile, Portugal, and Galicia. The Saracens ruled here until driven out by the Spaniards, ......
Leon (Leão) (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish-Portuguese family having branches in Italy, Holland, Germany, England, southern France, the Orient, the West Indies, especially Jamaica, and Surinam.1. ......
Leon de Bagnols (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L247: Levi b. Gershon
David Camden de Leon (JE | WP GWP G) American physician and surgeon; born in South Carolina in 1813; died at Sante Fé, N. M., Sept. 3, 1872; brother ......
Edwin de Leon JE (JE | WP GWP G) American diplomat and journalist; born at Columbia, S. C., 1818; died in 1891; brother of David Camden de Leon. His ......
Leon Joseph of Carcassonne (JE | WP GWP G) Physician; lived toward the end of the fourteenth century and at the beginning of the fifteenth. He devoted himself to ......
Leontin Leon (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J649: Judah ben Meïr ha-Kohen
Leon ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Provençal Jew who wrote a Purim parody under the pseudonym Labi ha-Levi because he feared that the Orthodox Jews would ......
Léon Lévy Brunswich (Lhérie) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1537: Brunswich, Léon Lévy
Messer David ben Messer Leon JE (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi; flourished in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He studied at Naples in the school of his father, Messer ......
Leon (Judah Aryeh) of Modena (JE | WP GWP G) Italian scholar, rabbi, and poet; son of Isaac of Modena and Diana Rachel; born April 23, 1571, at Venice; died ......

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Moses ben Shem-Tob de León (JE | WP GWP G) Cabalistic writer; author, or redactor, of the Zohar; born at Leon, Spain, about 1250; lived in Guadalajara, Valladolid, and Avila; ......
Thomas Cooper de Leon JE (JE | WP GWP G) Lecturer, journalist, author, and playwright; brother of Edwin de Leon; born at Columbia, S. C., 1839. He served in the ......
Leon di Leone (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J641: Judah Leon di Leone
Leone Ebreo (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J642: Judah Leone b. Isaac Sommo
Leonte (Judah) ben Moses (JE | WP GWP G) Roman rabbi; died in 1216. In the name of the community of Rome he sent a halakic decision to Judah ......
Leontopolis (JE | WP GWP G) Place in the nome of Heliopolis, Egypt, situated 180 stadia from Memphis; famous as containing a Jewish sanctuary, the only ......
Leopard (JE | WP GWP G) A ferocious carnivorous mammal. Several allusions are found in the Old Testament to this animal and its characteristics; e.g., its ......
Leprosy (JE | WP GWP G) Chronic skin-disease characterized by ulcerous eruptions and successive desquainations of dead skin.—Biblical Data: According to the Levitical text, the characteristic ......
Lerida (JE | WP GWP G) City in Catalonia, which as early as the fourteenth century had an important Jewish community possessed of several privileges. Thus, ......
Judah ben Samuel Lerma (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish Talmudist; flourished in the middle of the sixteenth century. He was the author of "Leḥem Yehudah," a commentary on ......
Ḥayyim Ẓebi Lerner (JE | WP GWP G) Russian grammarian and teacher of Hebrew; born at Dubno 1815; died at Jitomir 1889. His early education in Bible and ......
Joseph Judah (Ossip) Lerner (JE | WP GWP G) Russian journalist; born Jan. 1, 1849, at Berdychev; educated at the gymnasium of Jitomir. In 1866 he went to Odessa, ......
Maier Lerner [he] (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born in Galicia 1857. He studied in Berlin under Hildesheimer, became rabbi at Winzenheim, Alsace (1884-1890), and preacher ......
Henri Jean Baptiste Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu (JE | WP GWP G) French historian; born at Lisieux in 1842. The first works that appeared from his pen were "Une Troupe des Comédiens" ......
Lessee (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L52: Landlord and Tenant
Adolf Lesser (JE | WP GWP G) German physician and writer on medical jurisprudence; born at Stargard, province of Pomerania, Prussia, May 22, 1851; graduated from Berlin ......
Alexander Lesser (JE | WP GWP G) Polish painter; born at Warsaw 1814; died there 1884. He was educated at the Warsaw lyceum and studied art at ......
Edmund Lesser (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Neisse May 12, 1852; educated at the universities of Berlin, Bonn, and Strasburg (M.D. 1876). He ......
Louis Lesser (JE | WP GWP G) German soldier; born at Neustadt about 1850; served in the Second Brandenburg Dragoons in the Franco-Prussian war. On Nov. 18, ......
Ludwig Lesser [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German poet, editor, and publicist; born at Rathenow, province of Brandenburg, Prussia, Dec. 7, 1802; died at Berlin Dec. 2, ......

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (JE | WP GWP G) German poet and critic; born Jan. 22, 1729, at Kamenz, Upper Lusatia; died Feb. 15, 1781, at Brunswick.Toleration and a ......
Daniel Lessmann (JE | WP GWP G) German historian and poet; born at Soldin, Neumark, Jan. 18, 1784; committed suicide at a place between Kropstadt and Wittenberg ......
Jewish Letter-Carriers JE (JE | WP GWP G) Jews carried letters to their coreligionists, apart from the regular post. In those business centers where a large Jewish population ......
Letter-writing and Letter-writers (JE | WP GWP G) The art of conveying information by letter ("miktab," "iggeret," "sefer") was unknown to the Hebrews in the first stages of ......
Meïr Halevi (Max) Letteris JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian scholar and poet; born Sept. 13, 1800, at Zolkiev; died at Vienna May 19, 1871. He was a member ......
Letters in Evidence (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E530: Evidence
Lev Osipovitch Levanda (JE | WP GWP G) Russian author; born at Minsk 1835; died at St. Petersburg 1888. Levanda graduated from the rabbinical school in Wilna in ......
Manuel Leven (JE | WP GWP G) French physician; born in 1831. He studied in Paris at the Lycée Henri IV., and in 1851 entered the Institut ......
Narcisse Leven (JE | WP GWP G) French lawyer and communal worker; born at Urdingen, on the Rhine, Oct. 15, 1833; educated at the Lycée Henri IV. ......
Pavel Yakovlevich Levenson [ru] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian lawyer; born at Kamenetz, Podolia, 1837; died at St. Petersburg Jan. 16, 1894. In 1863 he went to St. ......
David Leventritt (JE | WP GWP G) American lawyer and judge; born at Winnsboro, South Carolina, Jan. 31, 1845; A. B. 1864, Free Academy (now College of ......
Oskar Ivar Levertin (JE | WP GWP G) Swedish poet and critic; born at Gryt, East Gotland, July 17, 1862; educated at the University of Upsala (Ph.D. 1882), ......
Celia Levetus (Celia Moss) (JE | WP GWP G) English writer; born at Portsea 1819; died at Birmingham 1873; daughter of Joseph and Amelia Moss of Portsea. At the ......
Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Third son of Jacob by Leah and one of the twelve Patriarchs of the tribes of Israel; born at Padan-aram ......
Levi (JE | WP GWP G) The tribe of Levi was descended from the patriarch Levi, the third son of Jacob and Leah (Gen. xxix. 34). ......
Levi I (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L267: Levi b. Sisi
Levi II JE (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian scholar of the third century (third amoraic generation); contemporary of Ze'era I. and Abba b. Kahana (Yer. Ma'as. iii. ......
Aaron Levi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M743: Montezinos, Antonio
Abraham Levi (JE | WP GWP G) German traveler; born at Horn, in the principality of Lippe, in 1702; died at Amsterdam Feb. 1, 1785. At the ......
Levi ben Abraham ben Chayyim (JE | WP GWP G) French encyclopedist; champion of the liberal party in Provence in the struggle for the study of secular sciences; born at ......

241 – 260

Benedikt Levi [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Worms Oct. 14, 1806; died at Giessen April 4, 1899; son of Samuel Wolf Levi, a ......
Borach Levi (Joseph Jean François Elie) (JE | WP GWP G) Convert to Christianity; born at Hagenau in 1721; son of a Jewish commissary. He went to Paris in March, 1751, ......
Carlo Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Italian physiologist; born at Genoa March 26, 1866; educated at the University of Modena (M.D. 1889). In 1888 he was ......
David Levi JE (JE | WP GWP G) Italian poet and patriot; born at Chieri 1816; died at Venice Oct. 18, 1898. Educated at the Jewish schools of ......
David Levi JE (JE | WP GWP G) Hebraist and author; born in London 1742; died 1801. He was destined by his parents for the rabbinate; but the ......
Eugenia Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Italian authoress; born Nov. 21, 1861, at Padua; educated in that city, and in Florence and Hanover. In 1885 she ......
Levi ben Gershon (JE | WP GWP G) French philosopher, exegete, mathematician, and physician; born at Bagnols in 1288; died April 20, 1344. Abraham Zacuto ("Yuḥasin," ed. Filipowski, ......
Hermann Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Musical director; born at Giessen, Germany, Nov. 7, 1839; died at Munich May 13, 1900. His mother was a pianist ......
Isaac, Yom-Tob and Jacob Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Sons of Abigdor ha-Levi Laniatore of Padua; founded a Hebrew printing establishment at Rome in 1518, which received special privileges ......
Levi Isaac ben Meïr (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi of the first half of the nineteenth century. After having been rabbi at Selichow and Pinsk, Levi Isaac ......
Israel Lévi [fr] (JE | WP GWP G) French rabbi and scholar; born at Paris July 7, 1856. He was ordained as rabbi by the Rabbinical Seminary of ......
Levi ben Japheth (ha-Levi) abu Sa'id JE (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite scholar; flourished, probably at Jerusalem, in the first half of the eleventh century. Although, like his father, he was ......
Jedidiah b. Raphael Solomon Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Alessandria and Sienna; died 1790; author of hymns for the reconsecration of the synagogueat Sienna 1786; these hymns ......
Judah Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Influential Jew at Estella, Navarre, from 1380 to 1391. In 1380 and the following years he was commissioned, with Samuel ......
Levi ben Lachma (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian haggadist of the third century. He seems to have been a pupil of Simeon ben Laḳish, whose haggadot he ......
Leo Napoleon Levi (JE | WP GWP G) American lawyer and communal worker; born Sept. 15, 1856, at Victoria, Texas; died in New York Jan. 13, 1904. Destined ......
Leone Levi + (JE | WP GWP G) English political economist; born in Ancona, Italy, in 1821; died in London May 7, 1888. Levi went to England at ......
Leone Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Italian author and journalist; born at Nizza-Monferrato in 1823; died at Turin Nov. 8, 1876; educated at the Collegio Foà ......
Lionello Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Italian philologist; born at Triest June 22, 1869; educated at the gymnasium of Triest and the universities of Pisa, Rome ......
Moritz Levi (JE | WP GWP G) American educator; born Nov. 23, 1857, at Sachsenhausen, Waldeck; educated at the University of Michigan (graduated 1887) and at the ......

261 – 280

Mose Giuseppe Levi [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Italian physician; born at Guastalla 1796; died at Venice Dec. 27, 1859. He graduated as doctor of medicine from the ......
Mose Raffaele Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Italian physician; born at Triest Aug. 9, 1840; died at Florence March 10, 1886. After graduating from the University of ......
Nathaniel Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Australian merchant and politician; born at Liverpool, England, Jan. 20, 1830. In 1853 he went to the gold-fields in Victoria; ......
Raphael Levi (JE | WP GWP G) German mathematician; died May 17, 1779, in Hanover, whither his father, Jacob Joseph Levi, a poor pedler, had gone with ......
Levi ben Shem-Tob (JE | WP GWP G) Portuguese convert; lived at the end of the fifteenth century; notorious for his hostility to his former coreligionists. According to ......
Simchah Aryeh ben Ephraim Fischel Levi [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Hebraist and author of the nineteenth century; born at Hrubieszow, government of Warsaw. He wrote a double commentary on ......
Levi b. Sisi (Sisyi; Susyi) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian scholar; disciple of the patriarch Judah I. and school associate of his son Simeon ('Ab. Zarah 19a); one of ......
Levi ben Solomon (JE | WP GWP G) Galician Talmudist; lived at Brody in the first half of the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Bet Lewi," ......
Solomon b. Isaac Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and scholar of the sixteenth century. He was born in Smyrna, became director of the academy 'Eẓ Ḥayyim at ......
Sylvain Lévi (JE | WP GWP G) French Orientalist; born at Paris March 28, 1863. He received his education at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, where he ......
Enrico Levi-Catellani (JE | WP GWP G) Italian lawyer; born at Padua June 12, 1856; educated at the university there. In 1885 he was appointed assistant professor, ......
Tullio Levi-Civita (JE | WP GWP G) Italian physicist; born at Padua March 29, 1873; educated at the university there (Ph. D). He was successively appointed assistant ......
Giustina Levi-Perotti (JE | WP GWP G) A poetess, supposed to be of Sassoferrato, and assumed, until recently, to have addressed to Petrarch a sonnet beginning "Io ......
Caspar Levias (JE | WP GWP G) American Orientalist; born in Szagarren Feb. 13, 1860; received his elementary education in Russia and his collegiate training at Columbia ......
Leviathan JE and Behemoth EL:JE (JE | WP GWP G) Names of gigantic beasts or monsters described in Job xl. The former is from a root denoting "coil," "twist"; the ......
Emanuel Borisovich Levin (JE | WP GWP G) Russian teacher and communal worker; born at Minsk Dec. 15, 1820; educated at the Molodechensk school for the nobility (1836-41). ......
Hirschel ben Aryeh Löb Levin (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Rzeszow, Galicia, in 1721; died at Berlin Aug. 26, 1800. His father (known also as Saul ......
Israel Solomon Levin (JE | WP GWP G) Danish grammarian and linguist; born in Randers 1810; died in Copenhagen 1883. He graduated from Randers high school, and afterward ......
Jacob Levin (JE | WP GWP G) Galician Hebraist; born at Brody in 1844. In 1865 he became coeditor with Werber on the Hebrew paper "'Ibri Anoki," ......
Joshua Höschel ben Elijah Zeeb Levin (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian Talmudist and author; born at Wilna July 22, 1818; died at Paris Nov. 15, 1883. After studying Talmud and ......

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Judah Löb (Jehalel) Levin (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew poet; born at Minsk, Russia, 1845. He studied Talmud under Rabbi Ḥayyim Selig and other prominent rabbis. At the ......
Lewis Charles Levin (JE | WP GWP G) American politician and writer; born at Charleston, S. C., Nov. 10, 1808; died in Philadelphia March 14, 1860. When still ......
Mendel Levin (JE | WP GWP G) Polish scholar and author; born in Satanow, Podolia, about 1741; died in Mikolayev, in the same province, 1819. He was ......
Moritz Levin [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born 1843 at Wongrowitz, Posen. He studied at the University of Berlin, and was prepared for his rabbinical ......
Poul Theodor Levin [da] (JE | WP GWP G) Danish author; born in Copenhagen June 17, 1869; educated at the University of Copenhagen (Ph.D. 1898). Levin, who has become ......
Rahel Antonie Friederrike Levin (nee Robert) (Rahel Varnhagen) JE (JE | WP GWP G) German writer; born at Berlin June 19, 1771; died there March 7, 1833. Her home life was uncongenial, her father, ......
Tzebi Hirsch Levin (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L277: Levin, Hirschel ben Aryeh Löb
Anna Henriette Levinsohn (JE | WP GWP G) Danish operatic singer; born in Copenhagen Jan. 8, 1839; died there March 22, 1899. She made her début at the ......
Isaac Baer Levinsohn (JE | WP GWP G) Russian-Hebrew scholar and writer; born at Kremenetz Oct. 13, 1788; died there Feb. 12, 1860. His father, Judah Levin, was ......
Feodor (Franz) Yulyevich Levinson-Lessing JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian geologist; born 1861. He graduated from the physico-mathematical faculty of the University of St. Petersburg in 1883, was placed ......
Gustav Levinstein [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) German manufacturer and writer; born in Berlin May, 1842. After graduating from the Köllnisches Gymnasium in Berlin he went to ......
Bernhard Louis Levinthal (JE | WP GWP G) Russian-American rabbi; born at Kovno, Russia, May 12, 1864. He was educated at the rabbinical schools of Kovno, Wilna, and ......
Levirate Marriage >> Yibbum JE (JE | WP GWP G) Marriage with a brother's widow. This custom is found among a large number of primitive peoples, a list of which ......
George Levisohn (Mordecai Gumpel Leive) (JE | WP GWP G) German surgeon; born in Berlin of a family known as "Schnaber" ; died in Hamburg Feb. 10, 1797. He evinced ......
Mordecai Gumpel Levisohn (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L294: Levisohn, George
Esaias Levison (JE | WP GWP G) Danish educationist and author; born in Copenhagen April 22, 1803; died there March 23, 1891; educated at the University of ......
Ferdinand Emanuel Levison [da] (JE | WP GWP G) Danish physician; born in Copenhagen Nov. 9, 1843; educated at the University of Copenhagen (M.D. 1868). He was successively assistant ......
Elijah Levita JE (JE | WP GWP G) Grammarian, Masorite, and poet; born at Neustadt, near Nuremberg, in 1468; died at Venice Dec., 1549.V08p047001.jpgTitle-Page from the First Edition ......
Isaac (Ilyich) Levitan (JE | WP GWP G) Russian painter; born near Eidtkuhnen Aug. 18, 1860; died at Moscow July 22, 1900. His father, who earned a livelihood ......
Levites (Temple Servants) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Of the Levites, Aaron and his sons were chosen for the priestly office (Ex. xxviii. 1 et seq.); the menial ......

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301 – 320

Leviticus (JE | WP GWP G) Contents.Ch. i.-vii.: A collection of laws relating to sacrifices. It falls into two portions: (1) ch. i.-vi. 7 (Hebr. i.-v.) ......
Levy (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E545: Execution
Aaron Levy [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Revolutionary patriot; founder of Aaronsburg, Pa.; born in Amsterdam in 1742; died in Philadelphia Feb. 23, 1815. He went to ......
Abraham Hirtzel Levy (JE | WP GWP G) Alsatian martyr; born at Wittolsheim; executed at Colmar, Alsace, Dec. 31, 1754. He was accused with three other Jews of ......
Albert Lévy (JE | WP GWP G) French sculptor; born at Paris May 4, 1864. A pupil of Etienne Leroux, he exhibited for the first time in ......
Alfred Lévy (JE | WP GWP G) French rabbi; born at Lunéville Dec. 14, 1840. He studied at the Collège de Lunéville and entered (1860) the Paris ......
Alphonse Lévy [fr] (JE | WP GWP G) French painter; born at Marmoutier, Alsace, in 1843; educated at the Strasburg lyceum. At the age of seventeen he went ......
Amy Levy (JE | WP GWP G) English novelist and poet; born Nov. 10, 1861, in London; died there Sept. 10, 1899. Verse written by her before ......
Armand (Abraham) Lévy (JE | WP GWP G) French mathematician and mineralogist; born at Paris 1794; died there June 26, 1841. He was a graduate of the Ecole ......
Asser Levy (Asser Levy van Swellem) (JE | WP GWP G) One of the first Jewish settlers of New Amsterdam, as New York city was known under the Dutch; probably born ......
August Michel Lévy (JE | WP GWP G) French engineer, geologist, and mineralogist; born at Paris Aug. 17, 1844; son of Michel Lévy. In 1862 he entered the ......
Benjamin Levy (JE | WP GWP G) Coloinal resident of Philadelphia. On Nov. 7, 1765, he signed, with other citizens of Philadelphia, the celebrated agreement not to ......
Eduard Constantin Levy [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German musician; born March 3, 1796, at Sanct Avold, Lorraine; died June 3, 1846, at Vienna. He received his first ......
Eleazar Levy (JE | WP GWP G) Colonial resident of New York city prior to the Revolution. He fled from New York on account of the British ......
Emil Levy [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German philologist; born at Hamburg Oct. 23, 1855; educated at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin (Ph.D. 1880). The following ......
Émile Lévy (JE | WP GWP G) French rabbi; born at Marmoutier, Alsace, Jan. 28, 1848. Educated at the lyceum at Strasburg and the seminary at Paris, ......
Ernst Levy [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Lauterburg, Alsace, March 5, 1864; educated at the universities of Strasburg, Heidelberg, and Paris (M.D.1887). Settling ......
Levy family (of America) (JE | WP GWP G) The following is a genealogical tree of the family descended from Benjamin Levy of Philadelphia:V08p059001.jpgJ. S. Wo. ......
Gustave Lévy [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) French engraver; born at Toul June 21, 1819; died at Paris in 1894; a pupil of Geille. He exhibited first ......
Hayman Levy (JE | WP GWP G) Colonial merchant of New York; born in 1721; died in New York in 1789. He engaged in business at an ......

321 – 340

Henri Léopold Lévy (JE | WP GWP G) French painter; born at Nancy Sept. 23, 1840; pupil of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and of Picot, Cabanel, and Fromentin. ......
Isaac Lévy [fr] (JE | WP GWP G) French rabbi; born Jan. 20, 1835, at Marmoutier, in the old department of Bas-Rhin (Alsace). When sixteen years old he ......
Jacob Levy [de; he] (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and lexicographer; born May, 1819, at Dabrzyze, Posen; died at Breslau Feb. 27, 1892. Having received his Talmudic ......
Jonas Phillips Levy JE (JE | WP GWP G) American merchant; son of Michael Levy and Rachel Phillips; born in Philadelphia 1807; died in New York 1883. He was ......
Joseph Hiam Levy (JE | WP GWP G) English economist; born 1838; educated at the City of London School and City of London College. He entered the British ......
Joseph Leonard Levy (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi; born Nov. 24, 1865, in London; educated at Jews' College and University College (B.A.), London, at Bristol University, ......
Joseph Moses Levy (JE | WP GWP G) Founder and proprietor of the London "Daily Telegraph"; born Dec. 15, 1812; died at Ramsgate Oct. 12, 1888. He was ......
Judah Levy (JE | WP GWP G) Tunisian rabbinical author; lived at Tunis and died there in the middle of the nineteenth century; son of Nathan Levy. ......
Judith Levy (JE | WP GWP G) English philanthropist; born in London 1706; died there Jan. 20, 1803; a daughter of Moses Hart, founder of the Great ......
Louis (Asher ben Moses) Levy (JE | WP GWP G) Poet and cantor of the Berlin synagogue; died Jan. 25, 1853. He wrote "Teḳufat ha-Shanah" (Berlin, 1842), poems on the ......
Louis Edward Levy (JE | WP GWP G) American photochemist; born at Stenowitz, Bohemia, Oct. 12, 1846. He went to America in early life, and was educated at ......
Ludwig Levy (JE | WP GWP G) German architect; born March 14, 1852, at Landau. After his return from Italy, where he completed his studies, he was ......
Maurice Lévy JE (JE | WP GWP G) French engineer and member of the Institut; born at Ribeauville, Alsace, Feb. 28, 1838. Educated at the Ecole Polytechnique and ......
Max Levy (JE | WP GWP G) American inventor; born at Detroit 1857. He invented the etched screen and the machinery for producing it now generally used ......
Meyer Levy [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German jurist; born in Wollstein, province of Posen, Jan. 17, 1833; died in Berlin Oct. 18, 1896. After practising as ......
Michel Lévy (JE | WP GWP G) French publisher; born at Pfalzburg Dec. 20, 1821; died in Paris May 6, 1875. In 1836 he settled in the ......
Michel Lévy (JE | WP GWP G) French physician; born at Strasburg Sept. 28, 1809; died at Paris March 13, 1872; educated at the University of Montpellier ......
Moritz Abraham Levy (JE | WP GWP G) German Orientalist; born at Altona March 11, 1817; died at Breslau Feb. 22, 1872. Having received a rabbinical education, he ......
Moritz Marcus (Carl Edvard Marius) Levy (JE | WP GWP G) Danish physician; born in Copenhagen Sept. 8, 1808; died there Dec. 30, 1865. He graduated as M. D. from the ......
Nathan Levy (JE | WP GWP G) Founder of the first Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia; born in Feb., 1704; died in Philadelphia Dec. 23, 1753. He probably ......

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Samson Levy JE >> Moses Levy JE (JE | WP GWP G) Colonial merchant of Philadelphia. He was one of the originators, in 1748, of the City Dancing Assembly, a famous social ......
Sara Levy (JE | WP GWP G) German philanthropist; born in Berlin June, 1761; died there March 11, 1854. She was a daughter of Daniel Itzig, and ......
Simon Lévy (JE | WP GWP G) French rabbi; born in 1829 at Lauterbourg, Alsace; died at Bordeaux Nov. 29, 1886. He studied first under Solomon Ulmann, ......
Uriah Phillips Levy (JE | WP GWP G) American naval officer; born in Philadelphia April 22, 1792; died in New York March 22, 1862. Levy was a cabin-boy ......
Abraham Lévy-Bacrat JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinical author of the beginning of the sixteenth century. Expelled from Spain in 1492, he settled at Tunis, where in ......
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (JE | WP GWP G) French philosopher; born at Paris April 10, 1857; educated at the Lycée Charlemagne and the Ecole Normale Supérieure. In 1879 ......
Salomon Frederik Levysohn [da] (JE | WP GWP G) Danish musician and critic; born in Copenhagen Oct. 14, 1858. He studied at the University of Copenhagen and at the ......
Fanny Lewald S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) German authoress; born May 24, 1811, in Königsberg, Prussia; died Aug. 5, 1889, in Dresden. In her seventeenth year she ......
Louis Lewandowski JE S 2005-08-19 (JE | WP GWP G) German composer of synagogal music; born at Wreschen, province of Posen, April 23, 1823; died Feb. 4, 1894, at Berlin. ......
Francis de Sales (Solomon) Lewental JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) Polish publisher; born at Wloclawek, Russian Poland, 1839; died at Wiesbaden Sept. 24, 1902. In 1862 Lewental, the son of ......
Joseph Lewi JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) American physician; born at Radnitz, Bohemia, Aug. 17, 1820; died at Albany, N. Y., Dec. 19, 1897; educated at the ......
Adolf Lewin JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and author; born at Pinne, Posen, Sept. 23, 1843. Lewin was educated at the Jewish Theological Seminary and ......
Georg Richard Lewin JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) German dermatologist; born at Sondershausen April 25, 1820; died at Berlin Nov. 1, 1896. He was educated at the universities ......
Louis Lewin JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) German pharmacologist and toxicologist; born at Tuchel, West Prussia, Nov. 9, 1850. He received his education at the gymnasium and ......
William C. J. Lewin S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) See Terris, William. ......
Abraham Lewinsky S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born March 1, 1866, at Loslau, Upper Silesia. He studied at the University of Breslau from 1884 to ......
Joshua Lewinsohn JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) Russian teacher and writer; born 1833 at Vyeshiuti, government of Kovno. He received his Talmudical education at Zhagory, in the ......
Joseph Lewinstein S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi and author; born at Lublin, Russian Poland, 1840. He is a member of a family of rabbis and ......
David Lewis JE (JE | WP GWP G) English merchant and philanthropist; born in London 1823; died in Liverpool Dec. 4, 1885. Settling in Liverpool in 1840, he ......
George Henry Lewis JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) English lawyer; born in London April 21, 1833; educated at University College, London. In 1850 he was articled to his ......

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Harry S. Lewis JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) English author and communal worker; born in London in 1861; educated at King's College School and St. John's College, Cambridge ......
Leopold Davis Lewis S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) English dramatist; born in London 1828; died there Feb. 23, 1890. Lewis was educated at the King's Collegiate School, London, ......
Samuel Lewis - We now have articles on both people. JE (JE | WP GWP G) English money-lender and philanthropist; born in Birmingham 1837; died in London Jan. 13, 1901. Lewis began work when thirteen years ......
Samuel A. Lewis JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) American politician and philanthropist; born in New York city 1831. He early engaged in business, and was so successful that ......
Leonard Lewisohn JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) American merchant and philanthropist; born in Hamburg Oct. 10, 1847; died in London March 5, 1902. His father, Samuel Lewisohn, ......
Gustaw Lewita JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Polish pianist; born at Plock, Poland, 1855; died at Paris Feb., 1889. After graduating from the Vienna Conservatorium with distinction, ......
Bergnart (Bernhard) Carl Lewy JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) Danish chemist; born in Copenhagen July 5, 1817; died there Jan. 1, 1863. He obtained the degree of graduate of ......
Israel Lewy JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) German scholar; born at Inowrazlaw in 1847; educated at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the University in Breslau. In 1874 ......
Abraham Lewysohn JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) Hebraist and rabbi of Peiskretscham, Upper Silesia; born Dec. 6, 1805; died Feb. 14, 1860. He left a large number ......
Ludwig Lewysohn JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born April 15, 1819, at Schwersenz, Posen; died at Stockholm May 26, 1901. Graduating from the Realgymnasium, Berlin, ......
Lex talionis S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R234: Retaliation
Lexicography S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D339: Dictionaries
Leyden S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N197: Netherlands
Lhérie S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1537: Brunswick, Léon Lévy
Bär of Liady (JE | WP GWP G) See: Ladier, Dob Bär b. Shneor Zalman
Libation S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S35: Sacrifice
Libau S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Russian city in the government of Courland. It has a population (1897) of 64,505, including 9,700 Jews. Among the latter ......
Libel and Slander S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S848: Slander
Libertines S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S850: Slaves and Slavery
Z. Libin S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H975: Hurewitz, Israel

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Jacob Liboschütz JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) Russian physician; born in 1741; died at Wilna Feb. 10, 1827. After studying at the University of Halle he went ......
Osip Yarovlevich Liboschütz (JE | WP GWP G) Russian physician; died at St. Petersburg in 1824; probably the son of Jacob Liboschütz. He studied medicine at Dorpat (M.D. ......
Nehemiah Samuel Libowitz JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Hebrew scholar and author; born Jan. 3, 1862, at Kolno, government of Lomza (Lomzha). He studied Talmud under R. ......
Libraries S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Very little is known concerning the methods employed by Jews in the collection and preservation of books. The Biblical writings ......
Libya S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) District in the north of Africa. The name "Libya" was often used by the ancients, sometimes to designate the whole ......
Cornel Lichtenberg JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian aurist; born in 1848 at Szegedin; studied at Budapest and Vienna (M. D. 1873). On receiving his degree he ......
Leopold Lichtenberg JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) Violinist; born at San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 22, 1861. He studied under Beaujardin, and made his first appearance in concert ......
Gabriel Judah Lichtenfeld JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) Polish mathematician and author; born at Lublin 1811; died at Warsaw March 22, 1887. He was a descendant of Moses ......
Moses Abigdor Lichtenstadt JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Polish Hebraist and Talmudist; born at Lublin, Russian Poland, July 15, 1787; died at Odessa Jan. 17, 1870. He was ......
Lichtenstadt Ours is dab (JE | WP GWP G) Bohemian Talmudist; lived at Prague in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was the author of "Shesh ha-Ma'arakah," ......
Hillel Lichtenstein JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian rabbi; born at Vecs 1815; died at Kolomea, Galicia, May 18, 1891. After studying at the yeshibah of Moses ......
Ludwig Lichtheim JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born Dec. 7, 1845, at Breslau, where he was educated at the gymnasium. He then studied medicine at ......
Ludwig Lichtenstein JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian rabbi; born in Komorn; died at Ofen in 1886. He studied at Papa, and was rabbinical assessor of Austerlitz, ......
Abraham b. Eliezer Lipman Lichtstein JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi and author; lived at the end of the eighteenth and at the beginning of the nineteenth century; grandson ......
Abraham Jekuthiel Salman ben Moses Joseph Lichtstein JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Plonsk, government of Warsaw, in the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work entitled "Zera' Abraham" ......
Adolf Lieben JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian chemist; born at Vienna Dec. 3, 1836. He studied at the universities of Vienna, Heidelberg (Ph.D. 1856), and Paris, ......
Aaron Liebermann (Arthur Freeman) JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) Russian writer; born at Wilna about 1840. Persecuted because of his participation in revolutionary movements, he fled to America, and ......
Benjamin Liebermann JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) German manufacturer; born at Märkisch Friedland Feb. 4, 1812; died in Berlin Jan. 15, 1901. In 1825 his family moved ......
Eliezer Liebermann (Libermann) (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist of the first half of the nineteenth century. According to G. Wolf, in his biography of Isaac Noah Mannheimer ......
Eliezer Dob Liebermann JE S 2005-08-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Russian writer; born in Pilvischok, government of Suwalki, April 12, 1820; died in Byelostok April 15, 1895. His father was ......

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401 – 420

Felix Liebermann (JE | WP GWP G) German historian; born July 20, 1851, in Berlin. Destined for a commercial career, he began business life in a Berlin ......
Mattathias ben Asher Lemle Liebermann (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and preacher in Prague in the second half of the seventeenth century; died there 1709. He was the author ......
Max Liebermann S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) German painter; born at Berlin July 29, 1849. After studying law at Berlin University for a year, he abandoned it ......
Das Liebermann'sche Jahrbuch (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Y27: Year-Books
Emil Liebling (JE | WP GWP G) German pianist; born at Pless, Silesia, April 12, 1851. After a course in piano at the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst, ......
Felix Liebrecht JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) German folklorist; born at Namslau, Silesia, March 13, 1812; died at St. Hubert Aug. 3, 1890. He studied philology at ......
Oskar Matthias Eugen Liebreich (JE | WP GWP G) German physician and pharmacologist; born at Königsberg, East Prussia, Feb. 14, 1839;younger brother of Richard Liebreich. He studied first chemistry ......
Richard Liebreich (JE | WP GWP G) English ophthalmologist; born at Königsberg, East Prussia, June 30, 1830; brother of Oskar Liebreich. He received his education at the ......
Liegnitz S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S712: Silesia
Lien S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) See Mortgage or Hypothec. ......
Life S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) The word "Hayyim" (= "life") denotes first of all the animal existence which, according to Scripture, begins when "the breath ......
Light S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) The primal element of Creation in all ancient cosmogonies; the first creation of God. Biblical Data: "God said, Let there be ......
Light and Air (JE | WP GWP G) See Neighboring Owners. ......
Light of Truth (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
John Lightfoot S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) English Christian divine and Talmudist; born at Stoke-upon-Trent 1602; died at Ely 1675. He passed through Christ's College, Cambridge, and ......
Benediction on Lightning (JE | WP GWP G) The Mishnah (Ber. ix. 2) prescribes, "At the sight of shooting stars or of lightning, and at hearing earthquakes, thunder, ......
Ephraim Moses Lilien (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian artist; born at Drohobicz, Galicia, in 1874. Lilien's artistic inclinations became evident early in life. He was apprenticed to ......
Moses Löb Lilienblum JE S 2007-03-06 (JE | WP GWP G) Russian scholar and author; born at Keidany, government of Kovno, Oct. 22, 1843. From his father he learned the calculation ......
Max Lilienthal (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and educator; born at Munich Nov. 6, 1815; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, April 5, 1882; educated at the University ......
Otto Lilienthal S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) German mechanical engineer and experimenter in aerial navigation; born May 23, 1848, at Anklam; died Aug. 9, 1896, at Rhinow. ......

421 – 440

Lilith S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Female demon. Of the three Assyrian demons Lilu, Lilit, and Ardat Lilit, the second is referred to in Isa. xxxiv. ......
Lily S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Rendering in the Bible of the Hebrew word V08p088001.jpg (I Kings vii. 19) or V08p088002.jpg (II Chron. iv. 5; Cant. ......
Moses b. Isaac Judah Lima JE (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian rabbinical scholar, one of the so-called Aḥaronim; born in the second decade of the seventeenth century; died about 1670. ......
Limerick S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Seaport town in Ireland, in which Jews began to settle about 1881, after the Russian exodus. A synagogue was founded ......
Limoges S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F288: France
Lincoln S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) County town of Lincolnshire, England; formerly the second town of importance in the country, and on that account largely populated ......
Baruch ben Judah Löb Lindau (JE | WP GWP G) German mathematician; born at Hanover in 1759; died at Berlin Dec. 5, 1849. He wrote: "Reshit Limmudim," a text-book of ......
Lindo (JE | WP GWP G) One of the oldest and most esteemed of London Sephardic families; it traces its descent back to Isaac Lindo, who ......
Alexander Lindo (JE | WP GWP G) English merchant; died in London in 1818. He was connected with the West India trade, and in this connection entered ......
David Abarbanel Lindo (JE | WP GWP G) English communal worker; born in London Aug. 14, 1772; died there Feb. 26, 1852. He was an uncle of Lord ......
Elias Chayyim Lindo (JE | WP GWP G) English author and historian; born in 1783; died in London June 11, 1865. He spent the first half of his ......
Mark Prager Lindo S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch writer; born in London Sept. 18, 1819; died at The Hague March 9, 1879. He went to Holland in ......
Moses Lindo (JE | WP GWP G) Planter and merchant in South Carolina; born probably in England; died at Charleston, S. C., April 26, 1774. He seems ......
Linen S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Cloth made of flax. The Biblical terms are "bad" (LXX. ?????? A. V. "linen"), "shesh," and "bu?" (LXX. ?;????? or ......
Isaac Joel Linetzki (JE | WP GWP G) Russo-Yiddish humorist; born at Vinnitza Sept. 8, 1839, in which town his father, Joseph Linetzki, was a Ḥasidic rabbi. At ......
Lion S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) There are several names for the lion in the Old Testament (comp. Job iv. 10 et seq.): "aryeh," or "ari," ......
Henri Julius Lion [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch journalist; born March 23, 1806, at Elberfeld; died Oct. 19, 1869. In 1824 he entered the Prussian army, and ......
Isaac Jacob Lion (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch journalist; born at Amersfort Dec. 17, 1821; died at The Hague Aug. 27, 1873. Settling in Amsterdam, he occupied ......
Siegfried Lipiner (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian poet; born at Yaroslav, Galicia, Oct. 24, 1856; educated at the gymnasia in Tarnow and Vienna and at the ......
Lipkin >> Yisroel Salanter (JE | WP GWP G) Russo-Jewish family which derives its origin from Dob Bär Lipkin, rabbi of Plungian in the first half of the eighteenth ......

441 – 460

Clara Lipman (JE | WP GWP G) American actress; born in Chicago. She made her début as an ingénue with Modjeska in 1888, and subsequently played similar ......
Samuel Philippus Lipman [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch jurist; born in London April 27, 1802; died at Hilversum July 7, 1871. He was educated at Glueckstadt, Hamburg, ......
Yom-Tob ben Solomon Lipmann-Mülhausen JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian controversialist, Talmudist, and cabalist of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. According to Bishop Bodecker of Brandenburg, who wrote a ......
Lipovetz (JE | WP GWP G) Town in the government of Kiev, Russia. In 1897 it had a total population of 6,068, of which 4,500 were ......
Lippe (Lippe-Detmold) S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Small sovereign principality in northwest Germany, with a Jewish population of 750; total population (1895) 123,515. The earliest traces of ......
Chaim David Lippe JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian publisher and bibliographer; born Dec. 22, 1823, at Stanislawow, Galicia; died Aug. 26, 1900, at Vienna. For some time ......
Edouard Lippmann (JE | WP GWP G) French engineer; born at Verdun Feb. 22, 1833. Educated at his native town, the lycée at Metz, and the Ecole ......
Eduard Lippmann [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian chemist; born at Prague Sept. 23, 1842; educated at the gymnasium of Vienna and the universities of Leipsic and ......
Gabriel Lippmann S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) French physicist; born at Hollerich, Luxemburg, in 1845. After being educated at the Ecole Normale and in Germany, he went ......
Gabriel Hirsch Lippmann [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Memmelsdorf, Bavaria; died at Kissingen May 26, 1864. He went in his early youth to Burgpreppach, ......
Maurice Lippmann [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) French engineer; born at Ville d'Avray (Seine-et-Oise) Sept. 27, 1847. He received his diploma as bachelor of law in 1869. ......
Lippold (JE | WP GWP G) German physician and financier; born at Prague; lived at Berlin in the sixteenth century. He was in great favor with ......
Rudolf Lipschitz S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) German mathematician; born May 14, 1832, at Königsberg, East Prussia; died at Bonn Oct. 8, 1903. Educated at his native ......
Lipschütz (Lüpschütz, Lipschitz, Libschitz) (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a family of Polish and German rabbis; derived from "Liebeschitz," name of a town in Bohemia.Aryeh Löb Lipschütz: ......
Solomon Lipschutz S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) American chess-player; born at Ungvar, Hungary, July 4, 1863. At the age of seventeen he emigrated to New York, where ......
Lisbon S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of Portugal. It had the largest Jewish community in the country and was the residence of the chief rabbi ......
Eugene Lisbonne [fr] (JE | WP GWP G) Lawyer, and a member of the French Senate; born at Nyons, near Avignon, Aug. 2, 1818; died at Montpellier Feb. ......
Abraham ben Chayyim Lisker (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi of the seventeenth century; native of Brest-Litovsk. After studying in the yeshibot of Lublin and Cracow, Lisker was ......
Lissa - Ours is a dab page - (JE | WP GWP G) Town of Prussia. Originally a village, it was incorporated in 1534; and soon afterward the first Jews settled there, with ......
Morris Lissack (JE | WP GWP G) English author and communal worker; born at Schwerin-on-the-Wartha, grand duchy of Posen, in 1814; died in London Jan. 13, 1895. ......

461 – 480

Abraham Lissauer (JE | WP GWP G) German physician and anthropologist; born at Berent, West Prussia, Aug. 29, 1832; educated at the gymnasium of his native town ......
Heinrich Lissauer (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Neidenburg Sept. 12, 1861; died at Hallstadt, Upper Austria, Sept. 21, 1891; son of Abraham Lissauer. ......
Eleazer ben Solomon (Zalman) Lisser (JE | WP GWP G) Polish scholar; lived at Kleczewo in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was the author of a twofold commentary on ......
Joshua Falk Lisser (JE | WP GWP G) Prominent rabbi and Talmudist of the second half of the eighteenth century; a descendant of Joshua Falk Kohen of Lemberg ......
Literaturblatt des Orients (JE | WP GWP G) -- See O127: Orient, Der
Hebrew Literature S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Under this designation may be comprised all the works written by Jews in the Hebrew and the Aramaic tongue. Works ......
Modern Hebrew literature << Hebrew Literature JE (JE | WP GWP G) Modern Hebrew literature (1743-1904), in distinction to that form of Neo-Hebraic literature known as rabbinical literature (see Literature, Hebrew), which ......
Lithuania S 2006-02-19 >> History of the Jews in Lithuania JE (JE | WP GWP G) Formerly a grand duchy, politically connected more or less intimately with Poland, and with the latter annexed to Russia.Lithuania originally ......
Lithuanian Council (JE | WP GWP G) Long before the Union of Lublin, probably with the beginning of the sixteenth century, the Jews of Poland and Lithuania ......
Lucius Nathan Littauer (JE | WP GWP G) American congressman and manufacturer; born in Gloversville, N. Y., Jan. 20, 1859. He graduated from Harvard University in 1878, after ......
Litte of Regensburg (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J587: Judæo-German Literature
Isaachar Bär Litthauer (JE | WP GWP G) Polish-German Talmudist; flourished at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He wrote: "Iggeret Yissakar," on morality and religion, in the form ......
Little Russia S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) NO DESCRIPTION...
Liturgische Zeitschrift (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Liturgy S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) The Jewish religious service falls, generally, into two main divisions: instruction and prayer. This division of the service has existed since ......
Juda Litwack [nl] (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch mathematician; born in Poland about 1760; died Jan. 15, 1836; buried at Ouerveen. A disciple of Moses Mendelssohn, he ......
Liver S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Glandular organ situated, in man, to the right beneath the diaphragm and above the stomach. In six passages of ......
Liverpool S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Chief seaport in the northwest of England, situated on the Mersey, and in the county of Lancashire. There was a ......
Livonia S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R291: Riga
Livorno S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L149: Leghorn

481 – 500

Liwa ben Bezaleel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J647: Judah Löw ben Bezaleel
Lizard S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) A saurian or lacertilian reptile. About forty species and twenty-eight genera of lizards found in Palestine have been enumerated, the ......
Loans S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) In the commonwealth of Israel, as among other nations of antiquity, loans of money, or of corn or like commodities, ......
Elijah ben Moses Ashkenazi Loans JE (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and cabalist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main 1555; died at Worms July, 1636. He belonged to the Rashi family, and ......
Jacob ben Jehiel Loans (JE | WP GWP G) Physician in ordinary to the German emperor Frederick III. (1440-93), and Hebrew teacher of Johann Reuchlin; died at Linz about ......
Joseph Loanz (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J440: Josel (Joselmann, Joselin) of Rosheim
Löb Aryeh ben Eliah of Bolochow (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi; born at Satanov, government of Podolia, 1801; died at Zaslavl, government of Volhynia, Sept. 2, 1881; a descendant ......
Löb Aryeh ha-Kohen of Styria (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Rozniatow and afterward at Styria; died in 1813. He was the author of the following works: "Ḳeẓot ha-Ḥoshen," ......
Löb Aryeh ben Meïr (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian rabbi; lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His notes on Rashi and on Elijah Mizraḥi's commentaries on the ......
Löb Aryeh ben Tobiah (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian Talmudic scholar and printer; died at Wilna Oct. 24, 1812. He enjoyed great consideration in Wilna on account of ......
Löb ben Baruch Bendet (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Byelostok, Russia, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; author of "Sha'agat Aryeh" (Byelostok, 1805), novellæ on the treatise ......
Eliezer Löb JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Pfungstadt, grand duchy of Hesse, 1837; died at Altona Jan. 23, 1892. He was educated at ......
Löb b. Joseph (Reb Löb Sarah's) (JE | WP GWP G) Early Ḥasidic rabbi; died in Yaltushkov, Podolia, about 1797. His was the strangest and most mysterious character of the many ......
Löb Judah b. Ephraim (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of the second half of the seventeenth century; probably born in Wilna, from which city his father, Ephraim b. ......
Löb Judah b. Isaac (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; died in Cracow about 1730; grandson of R. Joshua, author of "Maginne Shelomoh." He officiated as rabbi at ......
Löb Judah ben Joshua (JE | WP GWP G) Bohemian scholar; lived at Prague in the middle of the seventeenth century. He filled the office of secretary to Simon ......
Löb ha-Levi of Brody (JE | WP GWP G) Galician rabbi of the beginning of the nineteenth century; held office first at Podhajce, then at Brody. Among his contemporaries ......
Löb ben Meïr (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J649: Judah ben Meïr
Löb Mokiach of Polonnoye (JE | WP GWP G) Polish preacher and leader of the Ḥasidic party in the second half of the eighteenth century. Löb was a pupil ......
Löb ben Moses ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi of the eighteenth century; author of "Pene Aryeh" (Novidvor, 1787), novellæ on the Talmud, to which is added ......

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