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    Marcus Jastrow (June 5, 1829 – October 13, 1903) was a German-born American Talmudic scholar and rabbi, most famously known for his authorship of the popular...
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  • ecologist Marcus Jastrow (1829–1903), Jewish scholar Morris Jastrow, Jr. (1861–1921), Polish-American Orientalist, son of Marcus Jastrow Robert Jastrow (1925–2008)...
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    jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved March 3, 2019. Morris Jastrow, Ira Maurice Price, Marcus Jastrow, Louis Ginzberg, & Duncan B. MacDonald; "Babel, Tower...
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    Rabbi Marcus Jastrow to its pulpit in acknowledgment of his heroic activism against the Russia-dominated Polish government. Leeser and Jastrow then helped...
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  • called Y'hudi, meaning to say, a Y'hudi, a believer in One God. — Marcus Jastrow, Jastrow's Dictionary In modern English and other contemporary languages...
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    Jastrow accomplished through speaking tours, popular print media, and the radio. Jastrow was born in Warsaw, Poland. A son of Talmud scholar Marcus Jastrow...
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    British Museum. "Chagigah 15a:6". Sefaria. Jastrow, Marcus (1903). "Jastrow, מִיטָטוֹר". Sefaria. Jastrow, Marcus (2004) [1903]. A Dictionary of the Targumim...
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    Natan A. 16, B. 30; Midrash Tehillim 9:2; Ecclesiastes Rabbah 9:15  Marcus Jastrow; Kaufmann Kohler (1906). "Bar Miẓwah". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds...
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    Midrashic Literature Archived April 19, 2009, at the Wayback Machine by Marcus Jastrow. (London, 1903) 1971/2004 reprinting ISBN 1-932443-20-7. p.206 Ginsberg...
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  • means "hen of chicks" or the entire phrase is a foreign word for "hen". Marcus Jastrow proposed that the phrase is native to Hebrew and should be read "covering...
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  • Miller 1980s [Chryssides 2001]: 96  Conservative Judaism Sabato Morais, Marcus Jastrow, H. Pereira Mendes 1887 Rabbinic Judaism [Melton 2003]: 943  [Beit-Hallahmi...
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    ISBN 0-8160-2988-1 Jastrow, Marcus, 1996, A dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Bavli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic literature compiled by Marcus Jastrow, PhD...
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    Congress Poland, and came to Philadelphia in 1866 when his father, Marcus Jastrow, a renowned Talmudic scholar, accepted a position as Rabbi of Congregation...
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    Rabbah". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. (entry by Marcus Jastrow and J. Theodor) Sacred Texts: Judaism: The Bereshith or Genesis Rabba...
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    Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Marcus Jastrow; Frants Buhl (1901–1906). "Bethulia (Bαιτουλοόα, Bαιτουλία, Bετυλοόα...
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  • 6:4, 75b Marcus Jastrow, S. Mendelsohn (1906). "Capital punishment". Jewish Encyclopedia. Mishneh Torah Hilchot Sanhedrin 15:10 Marcus Jastrow, S. Mendelsohn...
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    and Crawford Howell Toy. Morris Jastrow, Jr. and Frederick de Sola Mendes assisted with volumes I to II; Marcus Jastrow with volumes I, II, and III; Louis...
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    the Distinction", Diné Yisrael 24 (2007): page 23 (English section). Marcus Jastrow, A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and...
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  • "Gob'batha of Sepphoris," situate some 3 biblical miles from Sepphoris. Marcus Jastrow explains "Gob'batha" as meanings "hills". In J. Payne Smith's A Compendious...
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  • contempt before a Torah scholar. — Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 99b:14 Marcus Jastrow, in his dictionary identifies the term as in fact being an enlargement...
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    fashion of wear mentioned therein is wearing the sudra around one's neck, Marcus Jastrow suggests that it also had been worn over one's arms. The Orach Chayim...
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    Jeremy (2002). Musical Instruments of the Bible, Scarecrow Press, p. 15. Marcus Jastrow, Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the...
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  • Elisabeth Jastrow (October 7, 1890 – September 1981) was a German-born American classical archaeologist. Her research focus included arulae (small altars)...
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    Archaeologist, December 1984, p.237 Quran 2:102 Morris Jastrow, Ira Maurice Price, Marcus Jastrow, Louis Ginzberg, and Duncan B. MacDonald; "Babel, Tower...
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    Latin word actio, meaning "action", which refers to any legal document. Marcus Jastrow posits a Semitic root, arguing that it derives from the Hebrew word...
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    Sidon is almost always spelt in Hebrew as צִידוֹן, with a waw (ו). Marcus Jastrow also follows the general view that צידן is none other than Sidon of...
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  • Bloch Publ'g Co.) page 892. Niddah 13b; Shabbat 40a Ketubot 7,31c Marcus Jastrow, A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi and the...
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  • Goldberg, Chaim Binyamin (1991). Mourning in Halachah. ISBN 0-89906-171-0. Marcus Jastrow, Dictionary of Targumim, Talmud and Midrashic Literature Mourning in...
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    member of first Ryder Cup team Bernard Hopkins, professional boxer Marcus Jastrow, Talmudic scholar Eve, rapper, actress Edwin Jellett, writer Lindley...
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    ministers: Henry Hochheimer, Frederick de Sola Mendes, Aaron Wise, Marcus Jastrow, and Benjamin Szold. They joined Kohut, Morais and the others in seeking...
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