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1. Vaez ( JE | WP GWP G) Prominent family of Lisbon, whose foremost members, the four brothers Immanuel, Pedro, Ayres, and Salvador, resided in Portugal as Maranos ......
2. Albin Valabrègue [ fr ( JE | WP GWP G) French dramatist; born at Carpentras, Vaucluse, Dec. 17, 1853. He is one of the most prolific of modern French dramatists, ......
3. Mardochee-Georges Valabrègue ( JE | WP GWP G) French general; born at Carpentras, Vaucluse, Sept. 20, 1852. He was educated at the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole d'Application ......
4. Valence ( JE | WP GWP G) Chief town of the department of the Drome and former capital of the county of Valentinois in the ancient province ......
5. Valencia ( JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the former kingdom of the same name. During the dominion of the Moors, Valencia had a Jewish community ......
6. Gabriel Gustav Valentin ( JE | WP GWP G) German physiologist; born at Breslau July, 1810; died at Bern, Switzerland, May 24, 1883. He was educated at the University ......
7. Valentinois ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See V4: Valence
8. Samuel ben Judah Valerio ( JE | WP GWP G) Physician and author who lived in the Grecian Archipelago in the second half of the sixteenth century. He wrote the ......
9. Moses David Vali (Valle) ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi and physician; born at Padua; died there 1777. He was a cabalistic scholar of repute, and lectured before ......
10. Valladolid ( JE | WP GWP G) Former residence of the kings of Castile and Spain; noteworthy for the numerous assemblies of the Cortes which were held ......
11. Isaac Valentine ( JE | WP GWP G) English journalist and communal worker; born in Belgium 1793; died in London 1868; son of the Rev. N. I. Vallentine. ......
12. Raphael Valls ( JE | WP GWP G) Spanish Marano; burned at the stake by the Inquisition at Palma, Majorca, on May 6, 1691, as the "rabbi" of ......
13. Valuation ( JE | WP GWP G) Estimate of the value of the sacred gifts when a money substitute was required for them. The chief Biblical passage ......
14. Arminius Vámbéry JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian traveler and Orientalist; born at Duna-Szerdahely, on the island of Schütt, near Presburg, March 19, 1832. He was apprenticed ......
15. Franz van den Ende ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See S1016: Spinoza
16. Abraham van Oven ( JE | WP GWP G) Physician; died in England 1778; grandson of Samuel Basan, who, fleeing from Spain at the beginning of the eighteenth century, ......
17. Barnard van Oven ( JE | WP GWP G) English physician and communal worker; born in London 1796; died there July 9, 1860; youngest son of Joshua Van Oven. ......
18. Joshua van Oven ( JE | WP GWP G) English surgeon and communal worker; born in England 1766; died in Liverpool 1838; son of Abraham Van Oven. He was ......
19. William van Praagh ( JE | WP GWP G) Pioneer of lipreading for deaf-mutes in England; born in Rotterdam June 11, 1845. Having studied under Dr. Hirsch, who had ......
20. Samuel van Straalen ( JE | WP GWP G) English Hebraist and librarian; born at Gouda, Holland, 1845; died in London, England, 1902. In 1873 he was appointed Hebrew ......

21 – 40

1. Vancouver ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See C80: Canada
2. Vanities ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See I85: Idols
3. Rahel Varnhagen ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See L286: Levin (Robert), Rahel Antonie Friederike
4. Quintlius Varus ( JE | WP GWP G) Roman governor of Syria 6-4 B.C.; successor of Saturninus. He first became prominent in Jewish history when Herod the Great ......
5. Vashti ( JE | WP GWP G) The first wife of Ahasuerus; her disobedience and subsequent punishment furnish the theme for the introduction to the story of ......
6. Vatican Library ( JE | WP GWP G) Papal library; originally housed, with its archives, in the Lateran Palace, where it was enriched, in the course of time, ......
7. Johann Karl Wilhelm Vatke ( JE | WP GWP G) Christian Hebraist; born March 14, 1806, at Behndorf, Saxony; died in Berlin April 19, 1882. After studying in Halle, Göttingen, ......
8. Vav ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See W57: Waw
9. Wilhelm Vázsonyi JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian publicist and deputy; born at Sümegh (Sümeg) 1868. He was educated at Budapest, where his remarkable eloquence made him ......
10. Del Vecchio ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian family, tracing its descent from the period of the destruction of the Second Temple. Some members of this family ......
11. Joseph Vecinho (Vizino) JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Portuguese court physician and scientist at the end of the fifteenth century. He was a pupil of Abraham Zacuto, under ......
12. Joseph de la Vega JE ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P174: Penso, Joseph
13. Judah Vega JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and author; flourished in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Vega was the first rabbi of the second synagogue of ......
14. Vegetarianism ( JE | WP GWP G) The theory according to which it is desirable to sustain the body with vegetables and fruits, and abstain from eating ......
15. Leo Veigelsberg JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian publicist; born at Nagy-Boldogasszony Jan. 18, 1846; educated at Kis-Körös, Budapest, and Vienna. For a short time he taught ......
16. Veil ( JE | WP GWP G) A cover for the face; a disguise. From the earliest times it has been a sign of chastity and decency ......
17. Johannes Veit ( JE | WP GWP G) German painter; born in Berlin 1790; died at Rome 1854. He studied at Vienna and at Rome, where he especially ......
18. Philipp Veit ( JE | WP GWP G) German portrait- and genre-painter; born Feb. 13, 1793, in Berlin; died Dec. 18, 1877, at Mayence. His father died while ......
19. Ephraim Veitel ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See H538: Heine, Heinrich
20. Vellum ( JE | WP GWP G) Skins of animals constituted the ancient Oriental writing-material (Herodotus, v. 58; Strabo, xv. 1; Pauly-Wissowa, "Real-Encyc." ii. 944), and the ......

41 – 60

1. Vendor and Purchaser ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See S71: Sale
2. Ludwig Venetianer JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian rabbi and writer; born May 19, 1867, at Kecskemet. He studied at the rabbinical seminary and the University of ......
3. Emmanuel Felix Veneziani [ Wikidata ( JE | WP GWP G) French philanthropist; born at Leghorn in 1825; died at Paris Feb. 5, 1889. At an early age he went to ......
4. Venice ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian city; formerly capital of a republic embracing northeastern Italy and some islands in the Mediterranean. The first Venetian document, ......
5. Ventura >> Moses Ventura JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Family of rabbis and scholars prominent in Italy and Greece in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.Eliezer ben Samuel Ventura: ......
6. Rubino Ventura ( JE | WP GWP G) Soldier; born at Finale, Modena, 1795; died at Toulouse, France, April 5, 1858. At the age of seventeen he was ......
7. Mardochée Venture ( JE | WP GWP G) French scholar; flourished at Avignon in the latter part of the eighteenth century. In collaboration with Isaiah Vidal he composed ......
8. Lope de Vera y Alarcon ( JE | WP GWP G) Spanish martyr and knight ("caballero i mui emparentado," as he is designated by a contemporary) of noble family; born about ......
9. Verband der Vereine für Jüdische Geschichte und Literatur in Deutschland ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See V56: Verein Für Jüdische Geschichte und Literatur
10. Gregori Leontyevich Verblovski ( JE | WP GWP G) Russian jurist; born in the first quarter of the nineteenth century; died at Moscow 1900. He studied law at the ......
11. Vercelli ( JE | WP GWP G) City in the compartimento of Piedmont, Italy. The oldest document in existence concerning its Jews is dated Feb. 16, 1446, ......
12. Verdict ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See J691: Judgment
13. Verdun ( JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the department of Meuse, France. Jews resided there from the twelfth century; and among the scholars of the ......
14. Verein zur Abwehr des Anti-Semitismus [ de ( JE | WP GWP G) Name of two societies for combating anti-Semitism. The first was formed in Berlin toward the end of 1890 by twelve ......
15. Verein für Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden [ de; he ( JE | WP GWP G) Society founded at Berlin (Nov. 27, 1819) by Leopold Zunz, Eduard Gans, and Moses Moser. The objects of the society ......
16. Verein für Jüdische Geschichte und Literatur ( JE | WP GWP G) Name of societies founded in many German cities since about 1890 for the spread of the study of Jewish history ......
17. La Vérité Israélite ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
18. Verona ( JE | WP GWP G) Chief city of the Italian province of the same name. As early as the tenth century it numbered Jews among ......
19. Verse-Division ( JE | WP GWP G) The system of breaking up the Biblical text into verses may seem, both in the original and in the versions, ......
20. Versicle Themes ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See K184: Ḳerobot

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1. Elchanan Verveer [ nl; fr ( JE | WP GWP G) Dutch painter and vignette-engraver; born at The Hague April 19, 1826. He received instruction from his brother Samuel L. Verveer, ......
2. Samuel Leonardus Verveer ( JE | WP GWP G) Dutch landscape- and genre-painter; born at The Hague Nov. 30, 1813; died there Jan. 5, 1876. He was a pupil ......
3. Vesoul ( JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the department of Haute-Saône, France. Jews first settled there in the latter part of the thirteenth century, under ......
4. Vespasian ( JE | WP GWP G) Emperor of Rome from 69 to 79; founder of the Flavian dynasty. The defeat of Cestius Gallus convinced Nero that ......
5. Sacred Vessels ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See T122: Temple, Administration of
6. Il Vessillo Israelitico ( JE | WP GWP G) An Italian monthly; the continuation of the "Educatore Israelita" (founded 1853), which, upon the death of its editor Giuseppe Levi ......
7. Joseph Vészi JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian editor and deputy; born at Arad Nov. 6, 1858. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native town, ......
8. Victoria, Australia ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See A2151: Australia
9. Victoria, British Columbia ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See C80: Canada
10. Vidal b. Benveniste ibn Labi ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See L6: Labi, Joseph ibn
11. Menahem b. Solomon Meiri Vidal ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See M368: Me'iri, Menahem
12. Vidal of Tolosa JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Spanish scholar of the latter half of the fourteenth century. He resided in Catalonia, where he prepared his most important ......
13. Samuel Emanuel Vidal-Naquet ( JE | WP GWP G) French financier; born at Paris Aug. 22, 1859. Educated in his native city, he graduated from the Law Faculty and ......
14. Elijah b. Moses de Vidas ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See E278: Elijah b. Moses de Vidas
15. Samuel ben Chabib de Vidas ( JE | WP GWP G) Spanish scholar and Bible commentator of the fifteenth century; it is said, but not known with certainty, that he was ......
16. Vienna ( JE | WP GWP G) Capital of Austria-Hungary. Legend asserts that Jews settled in this city in the remotest antiquity, and it is alleged that ......
17. Vienne ( JE | WP GWP G) Town in the ancient province of Dauphiné, France. Jews dwelt there as early as the tenth century (Gross, "Gallia Judaica," ......
18. Villefranche ( JE | WP GWP G) Town in the mountain district of the department of Rousillon, France; belonged formerly to Aragon. It was founded in 1095, ......
19. Vine ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See G414: Grape
20. Vinegar ( JE | WP GWP G) In the Biblical period vinegar was prepared either from wine or from cider, the former variety being termed "ḥomeẓ yayin," ......

81 – 100

1. Vineyards ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See G414: Grape
2. Vinnitsa ( Vinitza) ( JE | WP GWP G) Russian town in the government of Podolia; situated on the banks of the Bug. Vinnitsa was founded in the fourteenth ......
3. Viol ( JE | WP GWP G) Musical instrument; next to the "kinnor," it was the one most used by the Israelites. The Old Testament furnishes no ......
4. Viper ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See S491: Serpent
5. Virginia ( JE | WP GWP G) One of the Middle Atlantic states and one of the thirteen original states of the United States of America; seceded ......
6. Original Virtue ( JE | WP GWP G) A term invented by S. Levy as a contrast to the expression "original sin," and designating the specifically Jewish concept ......
7. Visigoths ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See S992: Spain
8. Soma Visontai JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian lawyer and deputy; born at Gyöngyös Nov. 9, 1854; educated at Budapest, where he became an attorney ......
9. Vita ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See H71: Ḥayyim
10. Vita della Volta (Solomon Chayyim) ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian physician and Hebraist; born Sept. 24, 1772; died March 29, 1853; flourished in Mantua. He was the owner of ......
11. Vital >> Samuel Vital JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian family, including several scholars, of whom the best known are:Ḥayyim Vital: Cabalist; son of Joseph Vital; born at Safed ......
12. David b. Solomon Vital ha-Rofe Vital ( JE | WP GWP G) Spanish scholar; emigrated from Spain in the early part of the sixteenth century; died at Arta, or Narda, in Greece, ......
13. Benjamin Alessandro Vitale (Coen) ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See C566: Coen, Benjamin Vitale
14. Vitebsk ( JE | WP GWP G) Russian city; capital of the government of the same name; situated on both banks of the Düna. .....
15. Vitoria ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See B399: Basque Provinces
16. Campegius Vitringa (the Elder) JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Dutch Christian Hebraist; born at Leeuwarden May 16, 1669; died at Franeker March 31, 1722. He was educated at the ......
17. Simchah b. Samuel Vitry ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See M75: Maḥzor
18. Vizhainy ( Vizhuny, Vizan, Vizany) ( JE | WP GWP G) Russian town in the government of Suwalki. On Jan. 29, 1723, Moses Yefraimovich, an elder of the Grodno ḳahal, presented ......
19. Vocalization ( JE | WP GWP G) All Semitic script, excepting Ethiopic and Assyro-Babylonian, the latter of which in its origin is held by many to be ......
20. Sir Julius Vogel JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Agent-general in London for New Zealand; born in London Feb. 25, 1835; died there March 13, 1899. He was the son ......

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1. Hermann Vogelstein [ de ( JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and historian; born at Pilsen, Bohemia, Jan. 8, 1870. His father was Heinemann Vogelstein, rabbi of Stettin. Vogelstein ......
2. Voice of Heaven ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See B417: Bat Ḳol
3. Voice of Israel ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
4. Voice of Jacob ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
5. Void and Voidable Contracts ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See C753: Contract
6. Volozhin ( JE | WP GWP G) Russian town in the government of Wilna; at the present time (1905) it belongs to Prince ......
7. Voltaire ( JE | WP GWP G) French poet, historian, and essayist; born at Paris Nov. 21, 1694; died there May 30, 1778. His name was originally ......
8. Aaron Chai Volterra ( JE | WP GWP G) Liturgical poet of the first half of the eighteenth century; rabbi of the Italian communities in Massa e Carrara. He ......
9. Meshullam ben Menahem Volterra ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian jeweler of the fifteenth century. He lived in Florence, where he and his father, Menahem ben Aaron Volterra (who ......
10. Jacob Voorsanger [ Wikidata ( JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi; born at Amsterdam, Holland, Nov. 13, 1852. He was educated at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Amsterdam, and ......
11. Vorarlberg ( JE | WP GWP G) Extreme western district of the Austrian empire. In the Middle Ages it was called "Vor dem Arlberg," and was divided ......
12. Vorspiel ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See M213: Marriage
13. Voskhod ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See R479: Russia—Periodicals
14. Isaac Vossius ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See M126: Manasseh ben Israel
15. Vows ( Nedarim) ( JE | WP GWP G) Promises made under religious sanction. In Talmudic law distinction is made between two ......
16. Vulgate ( JE | WP GWP G) Latin version of the Bible authorized by the Council of Trent in 1546 as the ......
17. Vulture ( JE | WP GWP G) The Hebrew terms rendered in one or the other of the English versions by "vulture" are: "da'ah" (Lev. xi. 14) ...... Our article is about bird