CabalaS>>KabbalahJE,
Masseket AzilutJE2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) The specific term for the esoteric or mystic doctrine concerning God and the universe, asserted to have come down as
De la CaballeriaJE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Marano family of Aragon, Spain, widely ramified, and influential through its wealth and scholarship, especially in Saragossa. The family descended ......
Bonafos CaballeriaJE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Anti-Jewish writer of the fifteenth century; son of Solomon ibn Labi de la Caballeria of Saragossa; assumed the name of ......
CabretJE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Spanish translator; lived in Spain toward the end of the fourteenth century. The surname "Cabret" or "Cabrit," borne by several ......
Cabul (
Kabul) JE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) A city on the boundary-line of Asher (Josh. xix. 27), identical with the modern Kabul (Buhl, "Geographie," p. 221). Josephus ......
Caceres - our article is unrelated dab (
JE | WPGWPG) A family, members of which have lived in Portugal, Holland, England, Mexico, Surinam, the West Indies, and the United States. ......
CadenetJE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Small village in the department of Vaucluse, France. Like all places situated along the river Durance, Cadenet had a Jewish ......
Caecilius of Calacte (
JE | WPGWPG) Rhetorician, critic, and historian; flourished in the first century B.C. at Calacte, a town on the northern coast of Sicily. ......
Caius Julius Caesar (
JE | WPGWPG) Roman dictator, consul, and conqueror; born July 12, 100 B.C. (according to Mommsen, 102 B.C.); assassinated March 15, 44 B.C.
CaesareaS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Ancient city of Palestine; called in early times "Strato's Tower" (????????? ??????, Josephus, "Ant." xiii. 11, � 2; xiv. 4, ......
Cage - our page is long dab, but it doesn't include JE's meaning (
JE | WPGWPG) A rendering for V03p489006.jpg in Jer. v. 27; but it is doubtful whether this translation is accurate. The Hebrew word ......
CagliariS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Capital of the island of Sardinia. It had a Jewish community in early times. When a Christianized Jew named ......
Abraham da CagliariJE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Rabbi at Cagliari, Sardinia, in the eighth century. He is mentioned by Antonio di Tharos, the historian of that epoch, ......
Abraham CahanS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Russian-American novelist and labor leader; born in Podberezhye, government of Wilna, July 7, 1860. His grandfather was a rabbi
Albert CahenJE (
JE | WPGWPG) French composer; born at Paris Jan. 8, 1846; a pupil of Cæsar Franck (composition) and Mme. Szarvady (pianoforte). He made
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Coralie Cahen (
JE | WPGWPG) French philanthropist; born at Nancy, 1832; died at Paris March 12, 1899; wife of Mayer Cahen, chief physician of the ......
Isidore Cahen [
fr;
he (
JE | WPGWPG) French scholar and journalist; born at Paris in 1826; died there March 6, 1902. After having brilliantly completed his education ......
Samuel CahenJE (
JE | WPGWPG) French Hebraist and journalist; born at Metz Aug. 4, 1796; died at Paris Jan. 8, 1862. He was brought up ......
Arnold Cahn [
de (
JE | WPGWPG) German physician; born at Worms April 11, 1858. After completing his course at the gymnasium, he studied medicine at the ......
David Léon CahunJE (
JE | WPGWPG) French Orientalist and writer; born June 23, 1841, at Haguenau, Alsace; died at Paris March 30, 1900. Cahun's family, which ......
Caiaphas (
JE | WPGWPG) (καïάφας, a Greek word; in the Hebrew original, probably not V03p493001.jpg, but V03p493002.jpg; compare Mishnah Parah iii. 5; Derenbourg, "Essai ......
Cain (
JE | WPGWPG) First-born of Adam and Eve, named "Cain" ("Ḳayin") because "gotten" (root, "ḳanah") "with the help of Yhwh." He became a ......
CalahS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Name of a city mentioned in Gen. x. 11 et seq., and forming with Nineveh, Re?oboth 'Ir, and Resen ......
Calahora (
Calahorra) (
JE | WPGWPG) A family of Spanish descent, resident in Cracow from the sixteenth century up to the present time, of which the ......
Calamus our article is disambig which doesn't mention JE's meaning (
JE | WPGWPG) One of the ingredients (Ex. xxx. 23) of the oil made specially for anointing the tabernacle (Ex. xxx. 26), its ......
Calcol (
JE | WPGWPG) A man famous for his wisdom, since the Biblical writer attests the wisdom of Solomon by saying that he surpassed
Calcutta (
JE | WPGWPG) Capital of Bengal, and seat of government of British India. The Jews of Calcutta now number about 2,150, of whom ......
41 – 60
Caleb (
JE | WPGWPG) According to the Biblical text, Caleb was of the tribe of Judah. He represented that tribe among the twelve spies ......
Calebites (
JE | WPGWPG) A branch of the Edomite clan of Kenaz (compare Judges i. 12 with Gen. xxxvi. 11, 15, 42) that, before ......
History of the Jewish Calendar (
JE | WPGWPG) The history of the Jewish calendar may be divided into three periods—the Biblical, the Talmudic, and the post-Talmudic. The first ......
Jewish CalendarJE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) A systematic arrangement of the days of the year. The Jewish calendar reckons the days from evening to evening, in ......
Golden CalfS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) A portable image overlaid with gold, made by Aaron at Mount Sinai (Ex. xxxii.). As the text stands, it narrates ......
Calf-Worship (
JE | WPGWPG) Among the Hebrews, as among the other agricultural Semites, the bull was associated with deity in a sacred character (see ......
Califs (
Caliph) (
JE | WPGWPG) The attitude of the first Mohammedan rulers toward their Jewish subjects was as much regulated by circumstances as had been ......
Caligula (
JE | WPGWPG) Third emperor of Rome; born Aug. 31, 12 C.E. ; assassinated at Rome Jan. 24, 41. He soon displayed the ......
Baruch Calimani (
JE | WPGWPG) Italian publisher; lived in the second half of the sixteenth and at the beginning of the seventeenth century at Venice. ......
Calitas (
JE | WPGWPG) Levite who had married a foreign wife, but, at the solicitation of Ezra, repudiated her (I Esd. ix. 23). ......
Calixtus II (
Guido of Burgandy) S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) One hundred and sixty-seventh pope (1119-24); born at Quigney, near Besan�on, France; died at Rome Dec. 12, 1124. His attitude ......
Johann Heinrich CallenbergJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Professor of theology and philology, and promoter of conversionist enterprise among the Jews; born of peasant parents at Molschleben Jan. ......
Callirrhoe - our article is a dab which doesn't mention JE's meaning (
JE | WPGWPG) Hot springs on the western side of the Dead Sea, near the Zerka Maim (Buhl, "Geographie des Alten Palästina," p. ......
CallisthenesJES2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) A Syrian who was believed to have been concerned in the burning of the gates of the Temple during the ......
Marie CalmJE (
JE | WPGWPG) German authoress and advocate of women's suffrage; born at Arolsen, Germany, April 3, 1832; died at Cassel, Germany, Feb. 22, ......
Liefmann CalmerJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Baron of Picquigny, an important personage in French Jewry of the eighteenth century; born in Aurich, Hanover, in 1711; died ......
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Augustin CalmetS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) French Catholic theologian, historian, and Biblical scholar; born 1672 at Mesnil-la-Horgne in Lorraine; died 1757 in Paris. In 1688 he
CalnehREF:JE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) City, mentioned together with Babylon, Erech, and Accad as forming part of the Babylonian kingdom of Nimrod (Gen. x. ......
Samuel ben Moses Calñi (
JE | WPGWPG) Turkish rabbi of the fifteenth century; born at Arta in the Morea. Calñi is the author of responsa entitled "Mishpeṭe ......
Calno (
JE | WPGWPG) A city mentioned with Hamath and Samaria, and compared to Carchemish (Isa. x. 9). Its identity is doubtful. It is ......
Calumny (
Lashon hara) (
JE | WPGWPG) Evil-speaking; a sin regarded with intense aversion both in the Bible and in rabbinical literature. The technical term for it ......
Thomas Calvert (
JE | WPGWPG) English Hebrew scholar; born 1606; died at York March, 1679. He wrote "The Blessed Jew of Morocco" (York, 1648), an ......
Emanuel CalvoJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Italian physician and Neo-Hebraic poet; born at Salonica toward the end of the seventeenth century; died before 1772. In early ......
Casper Calvör (
JE | WPGWPG) Lutheran theologian; born Nov. 8, 1650, at Hildesheim, Prussia; died at Clausthal May 11, 1725. He became master of arts ......
CambridgeS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) University town of England, and one of the earliest English towns inhabited by Jews. Fuller ("History of Cambridge," p. 8) ......
Camel (
JE | WPGWPG) The well-known ruminant, native in Asia and Africa. The word "camel" (Hebrew, V03p520001.jpg, gamal) is the same in the Assyrian, ......
CamondoS2007-03-04>>Abraham Salomon CamondoJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Well-known family of Jewish financiers and philanthropists of Spanish-Portuguese origin. Several centuries ago it established itself at Venice, where some ......
CampS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) A collection of tents (Judges vii. 13), or booths and huts (Neh. viii. 14), pitched or erected to give shelter ......
Isaac ben Jacob CampantonJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Spanish rabbi; born 1360; died at Penafeel in 1463. He lived in the period darkened by the outrages of Ferran ......
John van CampenJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Christian professor of Hebrew at Louvain and Cracow; died at Freiburg in Breisgau Sept. 6, 1538. He compiled a Hebrew ......
Camphire (
JE | WPGWPG) A shrub growing to a height of between eight and ten feet, and bearing cream-colored and very fragrant flowers. The ......
Canaan (
JE | WPGWPG) Name of the son of Ham, and a brother of Cush (Ethiopia), Mizriam (Egypt), and Put (Phut), occurring in the
Canaanites (
JE | WPGWPG) The expressions "Canaan" and "Canaanite" (V03p524004.jpg) are applied in the Old Testament sometimes to the collective non-Israelitish population west of ......
Canada>>History of the Jews in CanadaJE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) A federation of provinces in British North America. The earliest authentic records of the Jews in Canada go back to
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Canaim of Cagliari (
JE | WPGWPG) Italian archeologist of the eighth century, of whom nothing is known except that, like his contemporary towns-man Abraham di Cagliari, ......
Cancellation of documents (
JE | WPGWPG) An instrument in writing may be canceled by cross-lines or by other marks obliterating it, or by burning or tearing ......
CancerS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) A malignant growth of new tissue; usually in the form of a tumor. Whether removed or not, it tends to ......
Isaac ben Saul Chmelniker CandiaJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Hebrew poet; lived at Warsaw, Poland, in the first half of the nineteenth century. He is the author of an ......
Candlestick (
JE | WPGWPG) Mentioned as a secular object only in II Kings iv. 10. The candlestick in the Temple, however, is frequently referred ......
Jacob Canizal (
JE | WPGWPG) Flourished probably in the fifteenth century. He was the author of notes on Rashi's commentary to the Pentateuch, which were ......
Canneh (
JE | WPGWPG) A city mentioned in the long list of the contributors to Tyrian greatness and commercial power (Ezek. xxvii. 23).
CanonS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) A rule for the inclusion of certain books within a certain degree of sanctity; hence also the word "canonical." See ......
CansinoJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Spanish-Jewish family, famous in history for its wealth and influence, its scholars and poets.Jacob Cansino I. served as an interpreter ......
Abraham ben Jacob CansinoJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Poet; lived in the seventeenth century. He is the author of "Aguddat Ezob" (A Bunch of Hyssop), a collection of ......
Jacob CansinoJE (
JE | WPGWPG) "Vassal of his Catholic majesty and interpreter of languages in the places of Oran" (so styled by himself); died Sept. ......
Karl Friedrich CanstattJE (
JE | WPGWPG) German physician and medical author; born at Regensburg July 11, 1807; died at Erlangen March 10, 1850. He was one ......
Cantarini (
JE | WPGWPG) A distinguished family of Italian Jews tracing their descent from Gherescion (Grassin) Cantarini, who, when one year old, was driven ......
Samuel ben Gerson ha-Kohen Cantarini (
JE | WPGWPG) Official procurator of the Jewish community of Padua; born about 1561; died 1631 during the plague, to which also two ......
CanterburyS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Large town in Kent, England, containing the metropolitan cathedral. Jews were settled here in the twelfth century. They seem to ......
Cantheras (
JE | WPGWPG) Surname of Simon, the son of Boethus, the high priest, according to Josephus "Ant." xix. 6, §§ 2, 4; compare ......
CantillationS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Mode of intonation used in public recital of prayers and Holy Scripture. The infinite gradations of tone in ordinary speech ......
Isaac Berechiah Canton (
JE | WPGWPG) Italian Talmudist; flourished about the middle of the eighteenth century in Turin, in which city he established a yeshibah. He ......
Lelio CantoniJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Italian rabbi; born in 1802 at Gazzuolo (dukedom of Mantua); died in 1857 at Turin. In 1829 he went ......
CantonistsS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Sons of Russian private soldiers who from 1805 to 1827 were educated in special "canton schools" for future military service; ......
Georg CantorS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) German mathematician; born at St. Petersburg, Russia, March 3, 1845. He is distantly related to Moritz Cantor. He was only ......
Jacob A. Cantor (
Jacob Cantor) (
JE | WPGWPG) American lawyer and politician; born in New York city Dec. 6, 1854; grandson of Agil Hanau, cantor of Dukes Place ......
Moritz CantorS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) German historian of mathematics; born at Mannheim, Germany, on Aug. 23, 1829. He comes of a family that emigrated to ......
Joshua dei CantoriJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Assailant of the Talmud at Cremona in 1559. According to Steinschneider, he belonged to the family Cantarini (V03p552001.jpg). In consequence ......
Abraham CapadoceJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Convert to Christianity; born at Amsterdam 1795; died there Dec. 16, 1874. His parents, who were Portuguese Jews, gave him ......
Joseph ÇapateiroJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Portuguese traveler of the fifteenth century. After a so-journ in Bagdad, he returned to Lisbon to present a report to ......
Jean-Baptiste Honoré-Raymond Capefigue (
JE | WPGWPG) French Christian publicist and historian; born at Marseilles 1802; died at Paris Dec. 23, 1872. Among many historical works, Capefigue ......
Caper-berryREF:JE (
JE | WPGWPG) The feminine "abiyyonah" does not express "desire," but "the desiring thing," sc. "soul" [so Ḳimḥi]. The Septuagint, Vulgate, Peshiṭta, and ......
CapernaumS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Small town by the Lake of Gennesaret, mentioned in the Gospels as the home of Jesus, where he resided after ......
Capestang (
JE | WPGWPG) Village in the department of Hérault, near Béziers, France. Several official documents testify to the presence of many Jews there ......
CaphtorS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Original country of the Philistines before their emigration into Palestine, whence their name, "Caphtorim" (Deut. ii. 23; Amos ix. 7; ......
John of CapistranoS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Franciscan monk; born at Capistrano, Italy, 1386; died 1456. Owing to his remarkable power as a popular preacher, he was ......
Capital Punishment (
JE | WPGWPG) Warrants for the infliction of capital punishment, as opposed to private retribution or vengeance, are found in the Pentateuchal codes ......
Wolfgang Fabricius CapitoS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) German Hebrew scholar; born at Hagenau, Alsace, in 1478; died Nov., 1541. In 1515 he was appointed professor of theology ......
CappadociaS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Ancient province of Asia Minor. It was known to the Jews in its Greek form also, and is often mentioned ......
Louis Cappel (
Ludovicus Cappellus) S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Christian theologian and Hebrew scholar; descended from an old aristocratic French Hugue-not family; born Oct. 15, 1585; died June 18, ......
Capsali>>Moses CapsaliJE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Family of scholars in European Turkey during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, which came originally from Greece, where a certain ......
CaptainS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) One at the head of, and in command over, others; a chief or officer; the head man of a clan; ......
Captives (
JE | WPGWPG) The Bible makes no provision for the treatment of captives taken in war. Captives were considered as slaves, and as ......
CaptivityS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) By "exile" is meant any form of forced emigration in which the selection of his new habitation is left to ......
David Samuel CarassoJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Jewish traveler; born at Salonica, Turkey. On the occasion of a business trip to Yemen, Arabia, in 1874, he studied ......
CaravanS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) A convoy of travelers or merchandise. As the commerce of the Israelites was chiefly inland trade, products from regions that ......
Victor of CarbenJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Jewish convert; lived at Cologne (1442-1515). Like most converts, Victor endeavored to show his zeal for his new religion by ......
Carcas (
JE | WPGWPG) One of the seven chamberlains serving Ahasuerus and ordered by him to bring Queen Vashti into the royal presence (Esth. ......
Carcass (
JE | WPGWPG) The carcass of a clean animal that had not been properly slaughtered, or that of an unclean animal of the ......
CarcassonneS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Town in the department of Aude, France; the Carcaso or Carcassio of the Romans. It is variously transcribed in Hebrew ......
Adolphe Joseph CarcassonneJE (
JE | WPGWPG) French poet; born at Marseilles, 1826; died Sept. 22, 1891. His principal works are: (1) "Premières Lueurs," a selection of ......
David CarcassonneJE (
JE | WPGWPG) French physician; born Dec. 20, 1789, at Remoulins, a small town in the Gard department, France; died Nov. 15, 1861, ......
Léon CarcassonneJE (
JE | WPGWPG) French physician, municipal councilor, and member of the Academy of Nîmes. Son of David Carcassonne; died at Marseilles May 7,
CarchemishS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) City of northern Syria, on the Euphrates. Its importance seems to have been based on its situation at the end ......
Judah ben Isaac Cardinal (
Cardineal) JE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Translator; lived at the end of the twelfth century and the beginning of the thirteenth, probably in southern France. At ......
Cardinal Virtues need to incorporate JE's content (
JE | WPGWPG) Virtues regarded as fundamental, and under which, as heads, all others may be arranged. The term "cardinal virtues" is first ......
Elijah Aboab CardosoJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Philanthropist and founder of the Hamburg synagogue; lived in that city in the first half of the seventeenth century. He ......
Isaac CardosoJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Physician, philosopher, and polemic writer; born of Marano parents at Celorico in the province Beira, Portugal, before 1615; died at ......
Miguel CardosoJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Shabbethaian prophet and physician; born in Spain about 1630; died at Cairo 1706. He was a descendant of the Maranos ......
Don Aaron CardozaJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Consul for Tunis and Algiers at Gibraltar about 1805. He was a descendant of a Portuguese-Jewish family. Cardoza promoted the ......
CardozoS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) American Sephardic family, doubtless connected with the Cardozos of Amsterdam and London, though the connection has not been made out. ......
David de Jahacob Lopez CardozoJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Dutch Talmudist and prominent communal worker; born in Amsterdam, Holland, May 21, 1808; died there April 11, 1890. He was ......
Carians not clear if our article is about same people (
JE | WPGWPG) -- SeeC426: Cherethites
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Isaac Carillo (
JE | WPGWPG) Lived in Amsterdam in the latter part of the seventeenth century; member of the Academia de los Floridos, founded by ......
Carinthia need to incorporate JE's content (possibly in separate article) (
JE | WPGWPG) A crownland of Austria. It has but a small number of Jews, whose ancestors, with the Jews of the neighboring ......
Carites (
JE | WPGWPG) People mentioned in II Kings xi. 4, 19. The Kari (R. V., "Carites"; margin, "executioners", A. V., "captains") are mentioned ......
David Cohen Carlos (
JE | WPGWPG) Spanish writer; lived at Hamburg in the first half of the seventeenth century. He translated into Spanish the Song of ......
Carmanians (
JE | WPGWPG) A people mentioned in II Esd. xv. 30. The Carmanians are represented as joining battle with the "nations of the ......
CarmelS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) The title of a German and a Hungarian Jewish weekly. See Periodicals. ......
Mount CarmelS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) A well-known mountain ridge in Palestine; V03p578001.jpg ("the garden" or "garden land," with the definite article) is usually given in ......
CarmiS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) 1. A son of Reuben who came to Egypt with Jacob (Gen. xlvi. 9; Ex. vi. 14; I Chron. v. ......
CarmiS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Title of a small Hebrew review, published for some months in 1882 at Adrianople, under the editorship of Baruch Mitrani.Bibliography: ......
Eliakim CarmolyJE (
JE | WPGWPG) French scholar; born at Sulz (then in the French department of the Upper Rhine) August 5, 1802; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main ......
Isaachar Bär ben Judah CarmolyJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Alsatian rabbi; born at Ribeauville, Alsace, Sept. 15, 1735; died at Sulz May, 1781. At the age of ten he ......
Carmona (
JE | WPGWPG) City in the archbishopric of Seville, Spain, where Jews resided in very early times. In an old "Fuero de Carmona" ......
Carmona (
JE | WPGWPG) A family of Jewish financiers prominent in Turkey at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It is of Spanish ......
Carnabat (
JE | WPGWPG) Town of eastern Rumelia or southern Bulgaria. According to tradition, Jews first established themselves at Carnabat about 1580; but the ......
Carnival (
JE | WPGWPG) Among the Romans, a period of gaiety during the weeks before Lent, in which the Jews were made to play ......
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Abraham ben Raphael CaroJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Turkish rabbi; flourished at Adrianople in the first half of the eighteenth century. He was a descendant of R. Joseph ......
David CaroJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Prussian pedagogue; born about 1782 at Fordon, grand duchy of Posen; died Dec. 25, 1839, at Posen. He belonged to ......
Ezekiel Caro (
JE | WPGWPG) German rabbi and historian; born Nov. 26, 1844, at Pinne, near Posen; son of the exegete and homiletic writer Joseph ......
Georg Martin Caro [
Wikidata (
JE | WPGWPG) Lecturer on history at the University of Zurich, Switzerland; born Nov. 28, 1867, at Glogau, Prussia. Caro received his education ......
Isaac ben Joseph CaroJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Spanish Talmudist and Bible commentator; flourished in the second half of the fifteenth century and the first half of the ......
Jacob CaroJE (
JE | WPGWPG) German historian; born at Gnesen, province of Posen, Prussia, Feb. 2, 1836; son of Joseph Ḥayyim Caro. After several years ......
Joseph Caro (
Joseph ben Ephraim Caro) S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) The last great codifier of rabbinical Judaism, born in Spain or Portugal in 1488; died at Safed, Palestine, March 24, ......
Leone CarpiJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Italian political economist; born 1820 at Bologna, Italy. He was the first deputy elected to the Italian Parliament by the ......
Solomon Joseph ben Nathan Carpi (
JE | WPGWPG) Italian writer; born Dec. 27, 1715; lived at Leghorn. He engaged in the controversy with regard to Ḥayyon's book on ......
Zachariah CarpiJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Italian revolutionist; born at Revere in the second half of the eighteenth century. After the French Revolution he appears to ......
Johann Benedict Carpzov IIJE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) German Christian theologian and Hebraist; born 1639; died 1699. He was a member of a family which, like the Buxtorfs, ......
Johann Gottlob CarpzovJE (
JE | WPGWPG) German Christian Old Testament scholar; born Sept. 26, 1679, in Dresden; died April 27, 1767, at Lübeck; nephew of Johann ......
CarrascoJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Apologist; born at Madrid about 1670, of Marano parentage. At first an Augustin friar at Burgos and an excellent preacher, ......
Chayyim Moses ben Abraham Carregal (
JE | WPGWPG) Rabbi and editor; flourished in Palestine at the beginning of the eighteenth century, but lived in Holland for a time, ......
Raphael Chayyim Isaac Carregal (Caregal, Carigal, Carrigal, Karigal, Karigel, Karigol, Kargol, Kragol) JE (
JE | WPGWPG) Itinerant rabbi and preacher; born in Hebron, Palestine, Oct. 15, 1733; died at Barbados, West Indies, May 5, 1777. He ......
Ludovicus CarretusJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Convert to Christianity; lived at Florence in the middle of the sixteenth century. He was a native of France and ......
Carrion de los CondesJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Ancient city of Castile inhabited by Jews at an early date. Although superior to the Christians both in numbers and ......
Carsono,
CorsonoJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Spanish astronomer of the fourteenth century. He was commissioned by King Pedro IV. of Aragon to translate from Catalonian ......
CartS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) A translation of V03p593001.jpg ('agalah). The cart was generally drawn by two oxen, or sometimes by cows, harnessed with cords ......
CartagenaS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Ancient city on the eastern coast of the Spanish province of Murcia, referred to in the Talmud. The Cartagena mentioned ......
CarthageS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Ancient city and republic in northern Africa; of special interest to Jews on account of the Phenico-Semitic origin of its ......
Don Alfonso de CarthagenaJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Convert to Christianity; son of Paul of Burgos; diedat Burgos in 1456. He was baptized when quite young by his ......
Antonio Fernandez CarvajalJE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Portuguese merchant, and first endenizened English Jew; born about 1590, probably at Fund�o, Portugal; died in London Nov. 10, 1659. ......
Jules CarvalloJE (
JE | WPGWPG) French engineer; born at Talence, Gironde, France, in 1820. After having graduated with the highest honors at the Ecole Polytechnique ......
CasablancaS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Port of Morocco, Africa, on the Atlantic ocean. The Jewish community, numbering 6,000, in a total population of 20,000 inhabitants, ......
Casal Maggiore (
JE | WPGWPG) Town in Italy, about twenty-two miles east-southeast of Cremona. In Sept., 1485, Joshua Solomon and Moses, sons of Israel Nathan ......
CaseJE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) One of the foremost Polish rabbis and Talmudists of the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the ......
CasesDAB (
JE | WPGWPG) Jewish Italian family that included among its members rabbis, physicians, and scholars. The more numerous branch of the family lived ......
Michael CashmoreUNR (
JE | WPGWPG) Australian communal worker; born in 1814; died at South Melbourne Oct. 17, 1886. He was one of the oldest colonists ......
Casimir II the JustS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) King of Poland; born 1138; ascended the throne on the deposition of his brother Mieczyslaw III., 1177; died 1194. He ......
221 – 240
Casimir III the GreatS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) King of Poland; born 1309; succeeded 1333; died in Cracow Nov. 5, 1370. He was a peaceful ruler, and, ......
Casimir IV JagellonS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Grand duke of Lithuania and king of Poland; born 1427; died at Grodno 1492. He succeeded to the grand duchy ......
Casiphia (
JE | WPGWPG) The residence of the Nethinim, who were under the leadership of Iddo (Ezra viii. 17). Ezra sent them a message ......
CaslariJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Name of a family originally from Caylar (Latin, "Castalarium"), a village in the department of Hérault, France. A rather important ......
Abraham ben David CaslariJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Physician; lived at Besalu, Catalonia, in the first half of the fourteenth century. Caslari was considered one of the most ......
Israel ben Joseph Halevi CaslariJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Physician and poet, lived at Avignon in 1327. He was the author of a liturgic poem for Purim, beginning with ......
Joshua CaslariJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Liturgical poet; lived at Avignon about 1540. He wrote four elegies which are inserted in the manuscript Maḥzor of Avignon; ......
CasluhimJE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) According to Gen. x. 14 (= I Chron. i. 12), the Casluhim are sons of Mizraim; i.e., a part or ......
Charles Paul Caspari (
JE | WPGWPG) German Semite and Biblical scholar; born at Dessau 1814; died 1892. His parents were Jews, and he was reared in ......
Nathanael ben Nehemiah CaspiJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Provençal scholar; lived at the end of the fourteenth century and at the beginning of the fifteenth. He was a ......
Cassel (
JE | WPGWPG) City in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau. There was a persecution of the Jews at Wolfshagen, near Cassel, during the ......
David CasselJE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) German historian and theologian; born March 7, 1818, at Gross-Glogau, Silesia, Prussia, where he graduated from the gymnasium; died Jan.
Hartwig CasselJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Journalist and chess editor; born Nov. 2, 1850, at Konitz, West Prussia, where his father, Dr. Aaron Cassel, was rabbi. ......
Jacob Cassel (
JE | WPGWPG) German physician; born at Schwerin-on-the-Warta, province of Posen, Prussia, May 25, 1859. He was educated at the universities of Berlin ......
Paulus Stephanus CasselJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Convert to Christianity and missionary to the Jews; born Feb. 27, 1821, in Gross-Glogau, Silesia; died Dec. 23, 1892, in ......
Cassia our article is about a plant (
JE | WPGWPG) The term given as the translation for "ḳiddah" (Ex. xxx. 24; Ezek. xxvii. 19) and "ḳeẓi'ot" (Ps. xlv. 9). Ancient ......
Cassius Longinus (
JE | WPGWPG) Questor of Crassus in Syria in 53 B.C. After the unfortunate battle of Carrhæ, Syria, he became independent governor of ......
Judah CassutoJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Ḥazan of the Portuguese-Jewish community of Hamburg; born in Amsterdam 1808; died at Hamburg March 10, 1893. In 1827 he ......
241 – 260
Abraham CastanhoJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Spanish poet; lived at Amsterdam in the middle of the seventeenth century. He was the author of an elegy on ......
Samuel di Castel d’Ajano (
JE | WPGWPG) Italian physician and philosopher; lived at Mantua in the sixteenth century. A philosophical work of his on the articles of ......
Castel-Sarassin (
JE | WPGWPG) Chief town of the department of Tarn-et-Garonne, France. A somewhat important Jewish community existed here in the Middle Ages. When ......
Castellaccio da Asola (
JE | WPGWPG) Locality near Mantua, Italy, where there was a great slaughter of Jews in 1547. Gershon Cantarini, the ancestor of the ......
CastellazzoJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Italian-Jewish family which settled at the beginning of the sixteenth century in Cairo, where several members occupied the rabbinate with ......
David CastelliJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Italian scholar; born at Leghorn, Tuscany, Dec. 30, 1836; died 1901. He was educated at the rabbinical college of Leghorn, ......
Jacob Castello (
Jacob Castelo) JE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Poet at Amsterdam; died after 1684. He was a member of several academies of poetry in his native city, and ......
Joseph Castello (
Jospeh Castilho) JE (
JE | WPGWPG) Physician; born at Leghorn about 1746; son of Abraham Isaac. After studying medicine at Pisa, he returned to his native ......
Castellon de la PlanaS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) City of Valencia. In 1320 the Jews of Castellon obtained permission to lay out a cemetery; and in 1432 to ......
Samuel di CastelnuovoJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Secretary of the Jewish community of Rome; lived at the end of the sixteenth century and at the beginning of ......
Adolf de CastroJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Spanish historian; member of the Academia de la Historia of Madrid; lived in Cadiz; died there Oct., 1898. He wrote ......
De Castro familyJE>>Isaac Orobio de CastroJES2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) The various branches of this family are all of Spanish and Portuguese origin. Soon after the establishment of the Inquisition, ......
Jacob de Castro SarmentoJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Physician, naturalist, and poet; born about 1691 in Bragança, Portugal; died at London in 1761. At the age of seventeen ......
David ben Abraham Castro Tartas (
JE | WPGWPG) Printer in Amsterdam from 1663 to 1695, and publisher of a number of rabbinical writings, including prayer-books and ritualistic works, ......
Isaac de Castro TartasJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Marano and martyr; born at Tartas, Gascony, about 1623; died at Lisbon Dec. 15 (22), 1647. He was a brother ......
Castrojeriz (
JE | WPGWPG) Town in southern Castile, 18 miles west of Burgos. Jews lived there as early as the period of the Moorish ......
Cat (
JE | WPGWPG) There is no reference to the cat in the Old Testament, the domestication of that animal being later than the ......
Catacombs (
JE | WPGWPG) Underground galleries with excavations in their sides for tombs or in which human bones are stacked. The term is derived ......
Abraham Catalan (
JE | WPGWPG) Well-known Talmudist of the seventeenth century. He and his son, Abraham Catalan, and his brother, Elijah Catalan, were contemporaneous with ......
Abraham Catalan (
Abraham Catalano) (
JE | WPGWPG) Physician in Padua; died 1642. He is the author of "'Olam Hafuk," an unpublished manuscript treatise on the plague of ......
Gerson ben Solomon CatalanJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Author; lived at Arles in the middle of the thirteenth century; died (possibly) at Perpignan toward the end of the ......
Solomon Catalan (
JE | WPGWPG) Probably a grandson of Gerson b. Solomon Catalan. He was rabbi in the city of Coimbra in 1360.Bibliography: Kayserling, Gesch. ......
Catalogues of Hebrew Books (
JE | WPGWPG) These were of frequent use among the Jews in the Middle Ages. Judah ibn Tibbon (about 1200) speaks in loving ......
Shemariah CatarivasJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Talmudic writer of the eighteenth century. He was originally from Tiberias, and went to Tunis in 1750 as alms-collector, settling ......
Catechisms (
JE | WPGWPG) Manuals for religious instruction. The name as well as the form of Jewish catechisms has been adopted from the Christian ......
House of Catechumens (
JE | WPGWPG) A Roman institution for converting Jews to Catholicism, which the Jews, by means of taxes, were compelled to support. The ......
CategoryS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) A term introduced by Aristotle into the philosophical vocabulary, signifying "attribute," "predicate." According to him every word containedin a proposition ......
Catherine IIS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Empress of Russia; born in Stettin May 2, 1729; died in St. Petersburg Nov. 17, 1796. She was the wife ......
Cathua (
JE | WPGWPG) Name of a family of Nethinim returning from Babylon with Zerubbabel (I Esd. v. 30). In the order of enumeration ......
Carlo CattaneoS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Italian Christian jurisconsult; born in Milan June 15, 1801; died at Castagnole, near Lugano, Feb. 5, 1869. Although Cattaneo was ......
Cattle (
JE | WPGWPG) Term used to denote all domestic animals, the principal possession of nomadic and pastoral peoples.Cattle were very important in the ......
Caul (
JE | WPGWPG) Nowadays applied to the membrane surrounding the human fetus; used also in other senses. In the Bible:1. A rendering of ......
281 – 300
CautionS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Warning given to witnesses before testimony. Neither Biblical nor rabbinical law requires a witness to confirm his testimony by an ......
CavaillonS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Small town in the department of Vaucluse, France. In his book, "R�ponses de Rabbins Fran�ais et Lorrains" (Vienna, 1881), Jo�l ......
Cavallero,
Cavagliero (
JE | WPGWPG) Name of a family, with branches in Provence, Africa, Turkey, and Italy.1. Abraham ben Judah Cavallero: Lived at Fez between ......
Caves in Palestine (
JE | WPGWPG) By "me'arah" (V03p633003.jpg) the Hebrew designates natural caves. The mountains of Palestine, which for the greater part are formations of ......
Cayenne (
JE | WPGWPG) An island of South America, and a town of the same name situated on this island that lies at the ......
David CazèsJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Moroccan educator and writer; born at Tetuan in 1851. Sent to Paris in his early youth, he was educated by ......
Cedar (
JE | WPGWPG) A tree of the pine family frequently mentioned in the Old Testament, where the "cedar of Lebanon" is generally meant. ......
CedronS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Name of the brook Kidron as given in John xviii. 1. Near the stream was the garden in which Jesus ......
CelibacyS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Deliberate renunciation of marriage. In the Old Testament there is no direct reference to the subject. The prophet Jeremiah was ......
CelsusS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Greek polemical writer against Christianity; flourished in the second century. He was the first pagan who denounced Christianity, and in ......
CemeteryS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) A place for the burial of the dead. The word "cemetery" is derived from the Greek ???????????, "the place where ......
CenserS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) An implement shaped like a bowl or a pan, intended for the burning of incense. In the English Bible the ......
Censorship of Hebrew Books (
JE | WPGWPG) Censorship is the regulation, first decreed by the Church and then carried out either by that institution or by the ......
CensusS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) A numbering of the people. Several cases are given in the Bible. The first mentioned is that in Num. i. ......
CentoS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) City of 8,000 inhabitants in the province of Ferrara, central Italy. If the statement is correct that the Ha-Me'ati ......
Ceremonies and the
Ceremonial Law (
JE | WPGWPG) Symbolic rites and observances, expressive of certain thoughts or sentiments. As social life demands forms of etiquette (see Greetings), so ......
Karl Friedrich CerfJE (
JE | WPGWPG) German theatrical manager; born at Unterreissheim-on-the-Main in 1782; died at Berlin Nov. 6, 1845. He embraced Christianity when very young, ......
Herz Cerfbeer of MedelsheimJE (
JE | WPGWPG) French philanthropist; born at Bischheim, Alsace, in 1730; died at Strasburg in 1793. He was a contractor to the army, ......
Max-Théodore CerfbeerJE (
JE | WPGWPG) French officer and deputy; born at Nancy, Meurthe, Dec. 9, 1792; died Jan. 15, 1876. He entered the army at ......
Anatole CerfberrJE (
JE | WPGWPG) French journalist and author; born at Paris 1835; died at Neuilly 1896. Under various pseudonyms, among which were "Arthur Clary," ......
Auguste Édouard CerfberrJE (
JE | WPGWPG) French author; born at Epinal in 1811; died in 1858. Having completed his studies in law, Cerfberr entered the service ......
Frédéric CerfberrJE (
JE | WPGWPG) French consul; born at Strasburg Oct. 27, 1786; died at sea Sept. 18, 1842, on a voyage from New York ......
Samson Cerfberr of MedelsheimJE (
JE | WPGWPG) French soldier and author; born at Strasburg about 1780; committed suicide at Paris, 1826. He led an erratic and adventurous ......
Cervera (
JE | WPGWPG) Hill-town in Catalonia, Spain, which in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries had a Jewish community. In 1328 a quarter ......
CesenaS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) City of the Pontifical States. In early times a Jewish community existed here, of which the tosafist Eliezer is ......
ChaeremonS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Stoic philosopher and anti-Jewish writer (Origen, "Contra Celsum," i. 59; Eusebius, "Hist. Eccl." vi. 19), Egyptian priest (Porphyry, "De
Chaff (
JE | WPGWPG) Separated husks of grain. The Bible frequently compares things evanescent to chaff blown away by the wind (Zeph. ii.
Moses Avigdor Chaikin (
JE | WPGWPG) Rabbi and author; born at Sklow, government of Mohilev, in 1852, and removed at an early age with his father
ChainsS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) A word employed in English versions of the Bible as an equivalent for the various Hebrew terms applied to devices
Zebi Hirsch b. Meir Chajes (
JE | WPGWPG) Talmudist, literary historian, and rabbi; born at Brody Nov. 20, 1805; died at Lemberg Oct. 12, 1855. His father, a
ChalcisS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Capital of the island of Eubœa in the Ægean sea; under Greek dominion since 1832. Benjamin of Tudela found 200
ChaldeaJE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) The Hebrew "Kasdim" (generally without the article) usually designates the Chaldeans as a people sometimes also their country (Jer. l.
Châlons-sur-MarneS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Capital of the department of Marne, France. Little is known of the Jews of this city. In 1292 Davy and
Châlons-sur-SaôneS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Capital of the department of Saône-et-Loire, France. Jews were established in the city at an early period; the council that
341 – 360
Chalphi (
JE | WPGWPG) Father of Judas. The latter was one of the two captains who remained when all the others under Jonathan had
Chalyzians (
JE | WPGWPG) A people who, according to the Byzantine historian, John Cinnamus (twelfth century), accepted the Mosaic law. They fought, together with
Chamberlain (
JE | WPGWPG) The English rendering of V03p663006.jpg. This Hebrew word is also translated "officer" (Gen. xxxvii. 36; II Kings viii. 6). If
Houston Stewart ChamberlainS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Anglo-German musical critic and anti-Semitic writer; born Sept. 9, 1855, at Portsmouth, England; son of Admiral W. C. Chamberlain. He
Chambéry (
JE | WPGWPG) Capital of the department of Savoy, France. When the Jews were driven from France by Philippe Auguste in 1182, many
ChameleonS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) An animal of the genus Chamœleon, the only genus of the tribe Dendrosaura (also Chamœleonida, Rhiptoglossa, Vermilinguia), of the Chamœleontidœ
Chamois (
JE | WPGWPG) The rendering of the Hebrew V03p665002.jpg (zemer), both in the A. V. and in the R. V., probably on the
ChampagneS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) A former province of France, now known as the departments of Marne, Haute-Marne, Aube, and Ardennes, with part of Seine-et-Marne,
John ChapmanDAB (
JE | WPGWPG) English educationist and communal worker; born 1845. Educated at Jews' College, London, he became an assistant master in that institution,
Charaathalan (
JE | WPGWPG) Name occurring in I Esd. v. 36. It is a corruption of "Cherub," "Addan," and "Immer" (Ezra ii. 59 =
Characa (
JE | WPGWPG) A city about 750 stadia distant from Caspis. It was the seat of the Jews called "Tubieni." Judas Maccabeus went
CharesDAB (
JE | WPGWPG) Leader of the Zealots in the Judæo-Roman war, and one of the most eminent men of Gamala (Josephus, "B.
Charger (
JE | WPGWPG) A rendering of two Hebrew words and a Greek one: (1) V03p666001.jpg (ḳa'arah), occurring in the list of the donations
ChariotS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Vehicles are designated in Hebrew chiefly by two expressions, "'agalah" and "rakab," with "merkab" and "merkabah" derived from the latter.
Charity and
Charitable institutions (
Tzedakah) S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Charity is kindness shown to the needy; Hebrew, "ẓedaḳah"="righteousness" (Deut. xxiv. 13; Isa. xxxii. 17; Prov. xiv. 34; Ps. cvi.
Chartography (
Cartography) (
JE | WPGWPG) The art of making maps. In the development of this art, during the Middle Ages, an epoch is made by
ChartresS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Chief town of the department of Eure-et-Loire, France. From time immemorial Jews were established at Chartres, occupying a special quarter
Moses Chaseisch (
JE | WPGWPG) German Talmudist; died at Halberstadt in 1793. Chaseisch enjoyed an established reputation among his contemporaries as a Talmudist, and was
Moses ben Jacob Chaskes (
JE | WPGWPG) Neo-Hebrew poet and Russian translator; born in Wilna Sept. 27, 1848; removed later to Odessa. His first collection of Hebrew
ChashnikiS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Town in the government of Vitebsk, Russia, having (in 1897) a population of 4,590, of whom about 4,000 are Jews.
ChattelsS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) In English and American law property is divided into two kinds: real or landed, and personal or chattels; in Continental
Isaac Andreyevich ChatzkinJE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Russian physician; born 1832; died at Odessa June, 1902. He settled in that city in 1869, and practised there for
ChaussyJES2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) District town in the government of Mohilev, Russia. The Jewish community of Chaussy dates from the seventeenth century, as appears
Jewish Chautauqua Society (
JE | WPGWPG) A society formed in the United States for "the dissemination of knowledge of the Jewish religion by fostering the study
Chaves (
JE | WPGWPG) City in Portugal, which in the fourteenth century had a fairly large Jewish community, and an "aula," or school, "in
Chaves (
JE | WPGWPG) Jewish-Portuguese family that derived its name from its native place of Chaves in Portugal; members of it are found in
Joseph Chazanowicz [
he (
JE | WPGWPG) Russian physician, and founder of the Jewish National Library at Jerusalem; born at Goniondz, government of Grodno, Russia, Oct. 22,
Chazars (
Khazars) S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) A people of Turkish origin whose life and history are interwoven with the very beginnings of the history of the
Chebar (
JE | WPGWPG) Name of a Babylonian river or canal, by the side of which Ezekiel "saw visions" (Ezek. i. 1, 3; iii.
Chechelnik (
JE | WPGWPG) Town in the government of Podolia, Russia, having (1898) a population of about 7,000, including 1,967 Jews. Their principal occupation
ChecherskS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Town in the government of Mohilev, Russia, with a population (in 1898) of 2,819, including 1,692 Jews. The latter are
ChedorlaomerS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Name of a king of Elam (Gen. xiv. 1), who made conquests as far west as Canaan and exercised supremacy
Cheese (
JE | WPGWPG) The curd of milk run into molds and allowed to coagulate. This article of food was known to the ancient
Chelod (
JE | WPGWPG) A name occurring in Judith i. 6b, and designating apparently the Chaldeans. In place of the rendering of the A.
Chelub (
JE | WPGWPG) A Hebrew word meaning a cage, as in Jer. v. 27. It is also the name of two men: (1)
ChelubaiS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) This is probably another form of the name Caleb. It occurs in I Chron. ii. 9.E. G. H.G. B. L.
Chemarim (
JE | WPGWPG) Plural of V04p009001.jpg; occurs as transliteration of the Hebrew in the English translation of Zeph. i. 4, and also as
Chemerovtzy (
JE | WPGWPG) Small town in the government of Podolia, Russia, with (in 1898) an almost exclusively Jewish population of 1,282. About 160
ChemnitzS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Town in Saxony, with a Jewish population of 1,150. Jews first settled there in the latter half of the nineteenth
ChemoshJE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) The national god of the Moabites. He became angry with his people and permitted them to become the vassals of
Chenaanah (
JE | WPGWPG) Feminine form of "Canaan"; the name of two men: (1) The fourth-named of the seven sons of Bilham, son of
421 – 440
Chenaniah (
JE | WPGWPG) A Levite of the family of Izharites (I Chron. xxvi. 29) and chief of the Temple singers who conducted the
ChenstochovS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) City in the government of Petrokow, Russian Poland, the Jewish inhabitants of which in 1897 numbered 12,500 in a total
Chephirah (
JE | WPGWPG) City belonging originally to the Gibeonites (Josh. ix. 17), but which, in the apportionment of the land, fell to the
CheranS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) A name occurring in the genealogy of Seir the Horite (Gen. xxxvi. 26), and in the corresponding list in I
Cherei [
be;
he (
JE | WPGWPG) A small town in the government of Mohilev, Russia, with (1898) about 3,000 inhabitants, of whom 1,300 are Jews. The
CherethitesJE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Probably the name of a part of the Philistines; usually, however, designating the whole nation, as in Zeph. ii. 5,
Cherikov (
JE | WPGWPG) Town in the government of Mohilev, Russia. According to the last census (1897) it has 5,250 inhabitants, including 2,700 Jews.
CherithS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) The name of a brook or wadi near the Jordan, where Elijah, in the time of drought and famine, was
CherkassyS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) District town in the government of Kiev, Russia, situated on the right bank of the Dnieper, about 126 miles from
Chernevtzy (
JE | WPGWPG) Town in the government of Podolia, Russia; it has (1898) a population of about 15,000, including about 2,000 Jews. Of
Chernigov (
JE | WPGWPG) A city in Russia; capital of the government of the same name. The Jewish settlement at Chernigov is one of
Chernigov (
JE | WPGWPG) A government of Little Russia (Ukraine), with a Jewish population (1897) of 114,630 in a total population of 2,298,834, or
ChernobylS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Town in the government of Kiev, Russia; it has (1898) a population of 10,759, including 7,189 Jews. Of the latter,
CherubS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) The name of a winged being mentioned frequently in the Bible. The prophet Ezekiel describes the cherubim as a tetrad
Chesalon (
JE | WPGWPG) A border town of Judah (Josh. xv. 10), also known as "Mount Jearim." It lies in a directly west of
ChesedS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) A son of Nahor and Milcah (Gen. xxii.22). From the name the term "Casdim" (Chaldeans) is clearly derived.E. G. H.
Chess (
JE | WPGWPG) A game of skill, usually played by two persons, with sixteen pieces each, on a board divided into sixty-four squares
Chestnut tree S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) The rendering of V04p021001.jpg given in the A. V. (Gen. xxx. 37; Ezek. xxxi. 8); the R.V., however, preferring "plane-tree."
Thomas Kelly Cheyne (
JE | WPGWPG) English Christian Biblical critic, and Oriel professor of Biblical exegesis at the University of Oxford, England; born at London Sept.
Luigi Chiarini (
JE | WPGWPG) Italian abbé; born near Montepulciano, Italy, April 26, 1789; died at Warsaw Feb. 28, 1832. He was appointed professor of
The Chicago Israelite (
JE | WPGWPG) An American weekly newspaper devoted to Jewish interests; founded January, 1885, and first issued under the editorship of Leo Wise,
Chidon (
JE | WPGWPG) The owner of the threshing-floor at which Uzza or Uzzah, attempting to steady the Ark of the Covenant, was killed
ChiefS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Term used by the English Bible versions as an approximate rendering of a number of Hebrew words. The leaders of
ChildbirthS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) The following are some of the Biblical and Talmudical details touching the birth of children:In the Bible.The child might be
ChinnerethS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) The sea marking the eastern boundary of the Israelitish possessions, whence the boundary proceeded by the River Jordan to the
Chiun (
JE | WPGWPG) A word occurring in connection with "Siccuth" in Amos v. 26. Scholars have long been puzzled to know whether in
Bogdan Zinovi Chmielnicki (
JE | WPGWPG) Hetman of the Zaporogian Cossacks, born about 1595; died at Chigirin Aug. 16, 1675. Unlike many other Little-Russian pupils of
Choba (
JE | WPGWPG) A town included among those which the Jews fortified against the attacks of Holofernes. It is mentioned in two places
Choir (
JE | WPGWPG) A collection of singers with trained voices who take part in divine service and who are separated from the congregation.
Cholera Asiatica (
JE | WPGWPG) A specific and communicable disease, characterized by violent vomiting and purging. It prevails endemically in some parts of India,
Chor-Ashan (
JE | WPGWPG) This is, perhaps, better given, with the earlier manuscripts (Baer), as "Bor-ashan." The Septuagint also confirms the latter spelling,
Aaron Chorin (
Aaron Choriner) JES2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Hungarian rabbi; born at Weisskirchen, Moravia, Aug. 3, 1766; died at Arad, Hungary, Aug 24, 1844. At the age of
Franz Chorin (
JE | WPGWPG) Hungarian deputy; grandson of Aaron Chorin; born at Arad May 11, 1842. He studied law at Arad, Budapest, and Vienna,
Joseph Judah ChornyJE (
JE | WPGWPG) Russian traveler; born at Minsk April 20, 1835; died at Odessa April 28, 1880. His parents destined him for the
Chosaemus (
JE | WPGWPG) One of "the sons of Annas" that had "strange wives" (I Esd. ix. 32). The name can not be identified
Chosen People (
JE | WPGWPG) Name for the Jewish people expressive of the idea of their having been chosen by God to fulfil the mission
Chosroes II (
Khosru II) S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) King of Persia from 591 to 628. Chosroes, on the plea of avenging the death of his father-in-law, the
Joseph Chotzner (
JE | WPGWPG) English rabbi and author; born at Cracow, Austria, May 11, 1844; educated at the Breslau rabbinical seminary and the University
481 – 500
Chovevei ZionS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Associations, in Europe and the United States, of persons interested in agricultural settlement of Jews in Palestine and in
Joseph Choynski (
JE | WPGWPG) American heavyweight pugilist; born at San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 8, 1868. His first appearance in the prize-ring was in 1884,
ChristS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Septuagint translation of Hebrew "Mashiaḥ" ("Messiah"=The Anointed),applied by Christians exclusively to Jesus as the Messiah (see Jesus of Nazareth
ChristianS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) A word denoting a follower of Jesus as the Messiah or Christ. It originated, according to Acts xi. 26, in
Gustav Christopher Christian (
JE | WPGWPG) German author and Christian missionary; born of Jewish parents; baptized in 1719; died at Nuremberg about 1735. He was the
Friedrich Albrecht Christiani (
JE | WPGWPG) Jewish convert to Christianity; born in the middle of the seventeenth century; died at Prossnitz at the beginning of the
Moritz Wilhelm Christiani (
JE | WPGWPG) Author and Jewish convert to Christianity; born at Altorf at the end of the seventeenth century; died at Prague about
Pablo ChristianiJE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Jewish convert of Montpellier, France; contemporary of NaḤmanides. After having been baptized, Christiani joined the Order of the Dominicans and
Ludwig Chronegk (
JE | WPGWPG) German actor; born at Brandenburg-on-the-Havel Nov. 3, 1837; died at Meiningen July 8, 1890. He was the stage-manager and "Intendanzrath"
Book of ChroniclesS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) The two books of Chronicles form a history of the Temple and its priesthood, and of the house of David
ChronogramJE S2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Sentence or verse certain letters of which express a date, while the sentence itself alludes to or is descriptive
ChronologyS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) The science that treats of the computation and adjustment of time or periods of time, and of the record and
Chudnov (
JE | WPGWPG) Town in the government of Volhynia, Russia. A Jewish community existed here before the uprising of the Cossacks in 1648.
ChuetasS2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Names given to the descendants of the secret Jews in Majorca, who at heart were still faithful to Judaism, but
Chufut-KaleJES2007-03-04 (
JE | WPGWPG) Suburb of Bakhchiserai, a town in the government of Taurida, Russia. It is called by the Tatars "Kirk-er" (Place of