Jacob Berab (Hebrew: יעקב בירב), also spelled Berav or Bei-Rav, known as Mahari Beirav (1474 – April 3, 1546), was an influential rabbi and talmudist...

Jacob ben Abba Mari ben Simson Anatoli (c. 1194 – 1256) was a translator of Arabic texts to Hebrew. He was invited to Naples by Frederick II. Under this...

a secret. Also remarkable is the story of its discovery. Lili Jacob (later Lili Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier) was selected for work at Auschwitz-Birkenau,...

Jacob Emden, also known as Ya'avetz (June 4, 1697 – April 19, 1776), was a leading German rabbi and talmudist who championed traditional Judaism in the...

Jacob ben David ben Yom Tov (also Yomtob or Jomtob or Bonjourn or Bonet), also known as ha-Poel (or Fu'al), was a Catalan Jewish astronomer and astrologer...

predominately descend from the tribe of Judah from Judah, the fourth son of Jacob. Together the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin made up the Kingdom...

People of the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein Organisation is a list of participants, associates and helpers of the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein Organization, which was...

Johann Jacob Rambach, also Johann Jakob Rambach (born 1693 in Halle, Germany; died 1735 in Giessen) was a Lutheran theologian and hymn writer. Rambach...

Jacob Batsheba Bassevi von Treuenberg (born Schmieles; 1570, in Verona – 2 May 1634, in Mladá Boleslav, Bohemia) was a Bohemian Court Jew and financier...

Jacob Nachod (22 March 1814 – 11 April 1882) was a German-Jewish businessman-banker and philanthropist. Jacob Nachod was born in Dresden. Naftali Simcha...

Jacob ben Moses di Algaba (Hebrew: יעקב בן משה די אלגבא) was a Hebrew translator, known for his version of the medieval romance Amadis de Gaul. This translation...

the "Jewish Council of Elders" (Jüdischer Ältestenrat or Ältestenrat der Juden). Jewish communities themselves had established councils for self-government...

Jacob Sonderling (19 October 1878 – 30 September 1964) was a German and American Rabbi. He was born in a chassidic family and was an early Zionist (Klal...

Jacob Mantino ben Samuel (died 1549) was a Jewish scholar and Italian physician, known also as Mantinus. His parents—and perhaps Mantino himself—were...

Samuel ben Jacob ibn Jam or Samuel ben Jacob Jam'a (Hebrew: שמואל בן יעקב אבן ג'אמע) was rabbi of the North-African community of קאבס (Gabès?) who flourished...

several brothers and sisters and is known to have been close to one of them, Jacob. Hans Luther, Martin's father, was ambitious for himself and his family...

relationship between his German and Jewish identities. Melusine (Novel, 1896) Die Juden von Zirndorf (English title: The Dark Pilgrimage) (Novel, 1897) Schläfst...

Jewish_Encyclopedia_Volume_2.pdf/40 Jacob Emden, Megillat Sefer (see Index); Gaster, History of Bevis Marks, pp. 22–31, 107-111; Grätz, Gesch. der Juden, x. 305, 309-325...

Farissol's manuscript, "Magen Abraham," or "Wikuaḥ ha-Dat." A pupil of Jacob Faber, Charles Bovillus (1470–1553), relates in the preface to his Dialogi...

Rudolph Bernhard (fl. 1700), originally rabbi Jacob Levi of Prague, was a Christian writer. He was baptised at Bern in 1694. In 1705 he published the...

the Baal Shem Tov comes from oral traditions handed down by his students (Jacob Joseph of Polonne and others) and from the legendary tales about his life...

The double-naved interior with bimah between columns, 1519 Pethahiah ben Jacob ha-Laban (born at Prague, flourished between 1175 and 1190), traveler Isaac...

gegen den Nationalsozialismus Helene Jacobs 15.02.1906 - 13.08.1993 Sie versteckte in ihrer Wohnung untergetauchte Juden und verhalf ihnen zur Flucht. Sie...

Rabbi Joseph ben Jacob ibn Tzaddik (Hebrew: יוסף אבן צדיק; died 1149) was a Spanish rabbi, poet, and philosopher. A Talmudist of high repute, he was appointed...

die Gefährdung des Wohlstandes und des Charakters der Deutschen durch die Juden (On the Danger Posed by the Jews to German Well-Being and Character), advocating...

Jacob ben Nissim ibn Shahin was a Jewish philosopher and mathematician who lived in Kairouan, Tunisia, in the 10th century; he was a younger contemporary...

Levi ben Jacob ibn al-Tabban (Hebrew: לוי בן יעקב אבן אלתבאן), also known with the Arabic surname Abu l'Fihm, was a Jewish grammarian and poet who lived...

17th and 18th centuries there was a campaign by Ashkenazi rabbis such as Jacob Emden and the Vilna Gaon to encourage final stress in accordance with the...

(1965). Der jüdische Parasit. Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte. Katz, Jacob (1990). Vom Vorurteil bis zur Vernichtung. Der Antisemitismus 1700–1933...

Isaac ben Jacob Canpanton (1360–1463) (Hebrew: יצחק קנפנטון) was a Spanish rabbi. He lived in the period darkened by the outrages of Ferrand Martinez...