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Ta'amim (JE | WP GWP G) -- redirects to Cantillation
Ta'anit S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Treatise in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and both Talmuds, devoted chiefly to the fast-days, the practises peculiar to them, and the ......
Tabernacle S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) The portable tent-like structure that served the Israelites as a sanctuary during their wanderings in the wilderness and in the ......
Feast of Tabernacles (JE | WP GWP G) Third of the great festivals on which all males were required to make pilgrimages to the Temple at Jerusalem. The ...... --redirects to Sukkot
Tabi (JE | WP GWP G) Slave of Gamaliel II., known for his acquaintance with the Talmudic laws and for his piety; mentioned in several instances ......
Table (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F457: Furniture, Household
Golden Table (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S662: Showbread
Tables of the Law (JE | WP GWP G) Tablets containing the Ten Commandments.—Biblical Data: Moses, bidden to go up to God on the mountain to receive "tables of ......
Tabor (JE | WP GWP G) Mountain of Palestine, the modern Jabal al-Ṭur, on the northern edge of the plain of Jezreel. It is a dome-shaped ......
Robert Tábóri JE S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian author; born at Almas Nov. 10, 1855; educated at Baja, Budapest, and Vienna. He began his literary career in ......
Tabyomi (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the fifth century; died at the end of Yom Kippur, 468. He achieved a reputation as a ......
Tachau (JE | WP GWP G) City in Bohemia, thirty-three miles west of Pilsen; seat of one of the oldest Jewish communities of the country, as ......
Tacitus (JE | WP GWP G) -- links to a Roman emperor of some sort
Tadmor (JE | WP GWP G) -- links to the ancient city of Palmyra
Tadshe JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- redirects to Midrash Tadshe, move to page M2?
Tagin S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Decorative "crowns" which are sometimes placed on the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The taga is regularly composed of three ......
Tachanun (Tahanun) S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Prayer for grace; said after the "'Amidah" of the morning ("sha?arit") and afternoon ("min?ah") prayers on week-days. It is so ......
Taharah S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Ceremony of washing a dead body before burial. This rite is performed by the members ("mit'assekim") of the "?ebra ?addisha." ......
Tachash (Tahash) S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) A word translated in the A. V. by "badger." Ta?ash-skins were used in making the outer covering of the tent ......
Tachkemoni (Tahkemoni) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1227: Al-Ḥarizi, Judah

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Gedaliah ben Abraham Menahem Taikos (JE | WP GWP G) German scholar of the eighteenth century. Under the title "Be'er ha-Torah" he translated into German the Pentateuch, the Hafṭarot, and ......
Taitazaq (Taitazak) JE >> Jacob ben Samuel Taitazak JE, Joseph ben Solomon Taitazak JE, Judah ben Solomon Taitazak JE, Samuel Taitazak JE (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a prominent Spanish family, several members of which distinguished themselves as Talmudic authorities. Various opinions have been expressed ......
Taqqanah (Takkanah) JE (JE | WP GWP G) An enactment which (1) revises an ordinance that no longer satisfies the requirements of the times or circumstances, or which ......
Tal (JE | WP GWP G) -- the Tefillat Tal?
Tobias Tal (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch rabbi; born at Amsterdam 1847; died at The Hague Oct. 24, 1898; studied at Dünner's theological seminary (1862-74) and ......
Daniel Rahamim Talkar (JE | WP GWP G) Beni-Israel soldier; enlisted in the 4th Rifles on April 1, 1842. He was made jemidar and native adjutant on Jan. ......
Ezekiel Talkar (JE | WP GWP G) Beni-Israel soldier; born at Ahmedabad, India, in 1848; joined the 3d Regiment, Native Light Infantry, now called Bombay Rifles, on ......
Tallage JE S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) A tax arbitrarily imposed upon a community, which was made collectively responsible for the entire sum. This tax was frequently ......
Tallit S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Mantle with fringes (?i?it) at the four corners; a prayer-shawl worn over the garments, and used by men after marriage ......
Tally (JE | WP GWP G) A piece of wood on which is written a deed of indebtedness, the sum due being indicated by notches along ......
Talmid Chakam (Talmid Hakam) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Honorific title given to one well versed in the Law. Prizing knowledge, especially that of the Torah, above all worldly ......
Talmud S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Name of two works which have been preserved to posterity as the product of the Palestinian and Babylonian schools during ......
Talmud Commentaries (JE | WP GWP G) The commentaries on the Talmud constitute only a small part of halakic literature in comparison with the responsa literature and ......
Talmud Hermenutics JE (JE | WP GWP G) The science which defines the rules and methods for the investigation and exact determination of the meaning of the Scriptures, ......
Talmudic Law (JE | WP GWP G) The development of thousands of years is represented by the Jewish law asit is found in the Shulḥan 'Aruk, Ḥoshen ...... -- links to Talmud
Talmud Torah JE S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Public free school for poor and orphaned boys, who are there given an elementary education in Hebrew, the Scriptures (especially ......
Jacob Tam (JE | WP GWP G) -- links to Rabbeinu Tam; same person?
Jacob b. David ibn Yachya Tam (Jacob b. David ibn Yahya Tam) (JE | WP GWP G) Portuguese-Turkish rabbi and physician; born in Portugal in the second half of the fifteenth century;died in Constantinople between 1534 and ......
Taman (JE | WP GWP G) Peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azof; now included in the Russian province of Kuban. It contains ......
Tamar (JE | WP GWP G) City mentioned in the vision of Ezekiel (Ezek. xlvii. 19) as one terminus of the southern boundary-line of Canaan, which ......

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Tamar (JE | WP GWP G) Daughter-in-law of Judah. After the death of her husband, Er, she married his brother Onan; but when he also died, ......
Tamarisk (JE | WP GWP G) Tree, several species of which are found in and around Palestine. The Hebrew term for the tamarisk is doubtful. The ......
Tamid (JE | WP GWP G) Treatise in the Mishnah and the Babylonian Gemara; devoted chiefly to the regulations regarding the morning and evening burnt offerings ......
Tammuz (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian deity supposed to be referred to in Ezek. viii. 14. He is regarded as the husband, or sometimes as ......
Tammuz (JE | WP GWP G) Fourth ecclesiastical and tenth civil month of the Hebrew calendar. It consists of twenty-nine days, and corresponds to part of ......
Abraham Tang (JE | WP GWP G) English author; flourished in London in the latter half of the eighteenth century. In 1773 he published a philosophic commentary ......
Tangier (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M801: Morocco
Tanchum b. Eliezer (Tanhum b. Eliezer) (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian rabbi and merchant; born 1746; died in Grodno Jan. 12, 1819. He was the son of R. Eliezer of ......
Tanchum bar Chanilai (Tanhum bar Hanilai) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third century, although his father's name suggests a Babylonian origin. He transmitted the sayings of Joshua ......
Tanchum b. Chiyya (Tanhum b. Hiyya) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third century; a pupil of Simeon b. Pazzi, whose sayings he transmits. In the Babylonian Talmud ......
Tanchum bar Jeremiah (Tanhum bar Jeremiah) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth century; pupil of R. Manis the Elder. In the town of Ḥefer in Galilee he ......
Tanchum ben Joseph Yerushalmi (Tanhum ben Joseph Yerushalmi) (JE | WP GWP G) Oriental philologist and exegete of the thirteenth century. He was a scholar of great merit and was one of the ......
Tanchum of Nave (Tanhum of Nave) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I362: Tanḥuma b. Abba
Tanchuma b. Abba (Tanhuma b. Abba) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fifth generation; one of the foremost haggadists of his time. He was a pupil of Ḥuna ......
Midrash Tanchuma (Midrash Tanhuma) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Name given to three different collections of Pentateuch haggadot; two are extant, while the third is known only through citations. ......
Tanchuma b. Skolastiqai (Tanchuma b. Skolastikai) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian teacher of the Law. His period is not known, but according to a conjecture (see "'Aruk," s.v. "Askolastika") he ......
Tanna (JE | WP GWP G) See Tannaim and Amoraim.
Tanna Debe Eliyahu JE (JE | WP GWP G) Composite name of a midrash, consisting of two parts, whose final redaction took place at the end of the tenth ......
Tannaim and Amoraim (JE | WP GWP G) The name "tanna" is derived from the Aramaic "teni" or "tena" (="to teach"), and designates in general a teacher of ......
Abner Tannenbaum (JE | WP GWP G) Yiddish and Hebrew journalist; born at Schirwind, East Prussia, March 1, 1848. He studied in Kamenetz-Podolsk and in the Kisbinef ......

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Ishmael ha-Horen Tanuji (JE | WP GWP G) Egyptian rabbi and author of the sixteenth century. He was a descendant of the Tanuji (from "Tanjah" ="Tangiers") family of ......
Tanya (JE | WP GWP G) Collection of ritual laws and customs, published first at Mantua, 1514, then at Cremona, 1565, and later in two other ......
Aaron Tänzer JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi; born at Presburg, Hungary, Jan. 30, 1871; studied at the Presburg Rabbinerschule, and Oriental philology and history at ......
Tappuah (JE | WP GWP G) City in the Shefelah, described as lying between the towns of En-gannim and Enam; probably situated north of the ......
Tarascon (JE | WP GWP G) City in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, France. In 1276 King Charles I. intervened in behalf of its Jews against the ......
Tarfon (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the third generation, living in the period between the destruction of the Temple and the fall of Bethar. ......
Targum (JE | WP GWP G) The Aramaic translation of the Bible. It forms a part of the Jewish traditional literature, and in its inception is ......
Tarnopol JE (JE | WP GWP G) Town of eastern Galicia, Austria; situated on the Sereth. It was founded in 1540 by the Polish hetman Johann Tarnowski. ......
Tarnow (JE | WP GWP G) Town of Austrian Galicia. An organized community existed there in the middle of the sixteenth century. The Jews were, for ......
Tarragona (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the province of Tarragona, Spain; the ancient Tarraco. It was called the "City of the Jews" by Edrisi ......
Siegbert Tarrasch (JE | WP GWP G) German physician and chess-master; born at Breslau March 5, 1862; studied medicine at the universities of Berlin, Halle, and Nuremberg, ......
Tarrega (JE | WP GWP G) City of Catalonia. Jews were among its inhabitants when the counts of Barcelona took Catalonia from the Moors. They enjoyed ......
Tarshish (JE | WP GWP G) In the genealogical table of the Noachidæ, Tarshish is given as the second son of Javan and is followed by ......
Tarsus (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish town in the vilayet of Adana, 12 miles from the Mediterranean, on the River Cydnus. During the Roman period ......
Tartak (JE | WP GWP G) Deity mentioned but once in the Bible (II Kings xvii. 31). His name occurs together with that of Nibhaz or ......
Tartan (JE | WP GWP G) Title of an Assyrian official; twice mentioned in the Bible. A tartan, accompanied by a "rabsaris" and a "rab-shakeh," was ......
David Tartas (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C257: Castro Tartas, David b. Abraham
Isaac de Castro Tartas JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C258: Castro Tartas, Isaac
Taryag Mitzwot (Taryag Mizwot, Taryag Mitzvot) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C689: Commandments, The
Tashlik (JE | WP GWP G) Propitiatory rite, the name of which is derived from the passage (Micah vii. 18-20) recited at the ceremony. In illustration ......

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Tatnai (JE | WP GWP G) Governor of Cœle-Syria under Darius Hystaspes (Ezra v. 3). He was one of those who tried to prevent Zerubbabel and ......
Die Taube (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Tauber-Bischofsheim (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1097: Bischofsheim-on-the-Tauber
Aaron Moses b. Jacob Taubes [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Rumanian rabbi and author; born in Lemberg 1787; died in Jassy 1852. He became rabbi of Sniatyn and its districts ......
Taurida, Russia (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C888: Crimea
Carl Tausig (JE | WP GWP G) Polish pianist and composer; born at Warsaw [Nov. 4, 1841; died at Leipsic July 17, 1871. He received his early ......
Edward David Taussig (JE | WP GWP G) American naval officer; born at St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 20, 1847. Educated at the public schools of his native city, ......
Eduard Tauwitz JE (JE | WP GWP G) German composer; born Jan. 21, 1812, at Glatz; died July 26, 1894, at Prague. While studying law at the University ......
Taw (Tav) (JE | WP GWP G) The twenty-second letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Its name is connected with "taw" = "sign" ( see Alphabet). "Taw" has ......
Jacob b. Joseph Tawus (JE | WP GWP G) Persian translator of the Bible; flourished in the sixteenth century. The polyglot Pentateuch printed at Constantinople in 1546 included a ......
Abraham ben Jacob ibn Tawwah (JE | WP GWP G) Algerian Talmudist; flourished at Algiers in the sixteenth century. On his mother's side he was a grandson of Solomon b. ......
Tax-Gatherers (JE | WP GWP G) During the Egyptian government of Palestine the taxes of each city were annually leased to the highest bidder (Josephus, "Ant." ......
Taxation (JE | WP GWP G) The Bible gives scant information concerning the secular or political taxes of the Jews. Practically all that can be gathered ......
Taxo (JE | WP GWP G) The mysterious name of "the man of the tribe of Levi" who, under a Roman governor in the time of ......
Charles Taylor JE (JE | WP GWP G) English Christian Hebraist; born in London 1840; educated at King's College, London, and St. John's College, Cambridge, of which he ......
Tayyib (JE | WP GWP G) Tunisian family, first known in the second half of the seventeenth century. The more prominent members are the following:Abraham ṭayyib: ......
Tebet (JE | WP GWP G) Tenth ecclesiastical and fourth civil month; it invariably has twenty-nine days. The name, like those of the other months, appears ......
Tebul Yom (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a treatise in the Mishnah and in the Tosefta; in most editions of the Mishnah it is tenth ......
Marco Tedeschi (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi and poet; born at Piova, Piedmont, in 1817; died at Triest in1870. He removed to Vercelli with his ......
Moses Isaac Tedeschi (JE | WP GWP G) Italian translator, Biblical commentator, and teacher; born at Triest June 6, 1821; died there June 17, 1898. He lectured on ......

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Ignaz Amadeus Tedesco [ru; uk] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian pianist; born at Prague 1817; died at Odessa Nov. 13, 1882; a pupil of Triebensee and Tomaschek at Prague. ......
Tefillin (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P290: Phylacteries
Teheran (JE | WP GWP G) Capital and commercial center of Persia; situated about seventy miles south of the Caspian Sea. The chief development of the ......
Abba Techina (Abba Tehina) (JE | WP GWP G) A leader of the Zealots. Together with Eleazar Ben Dinai, he is mentioned in the remarkable dictum of Johanan ben ......
Techinnah (Tehinnah) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D315: Devotional Literature
Moses Teitelbaum JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian Ḥasid; died July 17, 1841. According to Löw, he signed his name Tamar, this being the equivalent of Teitelbaum, ......
Teixeira (JE | WP GWP G) Noble Portuguese Marano family, originally bearing the surname of Sampayo. In accordance with a decree of King Philip IV. of ......
Pedro Teixeira (JE | WP GWP G) Portuguese traveler; born at Lisbon of Marano parents; died about the middle of the seventeenth century either at Verona (according ......
Teqi'ah (Teki'ah) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S653: Shofar
Tekoa (JE | WP GWP G) City of southern Judea, frequently mentioned in the Old Testament. The "wise woman" who brought about the recall of Absalom ......
Tequfah (Tekufah) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Season of the year. The four teḳufot are: (1) Teḳufat Nisan, the vernal equinox (March 21), when the sun enters ......
Telassar (JE | WP GWP G) City, along with Gozan, Haran, and Reseph, which Rabshakeh mentions as having been conquered by Sennacherib's predecessors (II Kings xix. ......
Eduard Telcs JE (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian sculptor; born at Baja May 12, 1872. At the age of twelve he went to Budapest and studied decorative ......
Telesinus (JE | WP GWP G) Jew of Telesia, who lived at Rome about 480. Not only did Pope Gelasius refer to him, in a letter ......
Tell El-Amarna (JE | WP GWP G) Name derived from the Beni'Amran or El-Amarna Bedouins, and now given to the extensive ruins and rock-cut tombs which are ......
Leopold Teller JE (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian actor; born at Budapest April 3, 1844. For a time he studied medicine at the University of Vienna, but ......
Probst Teller (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F398: Friedländer, David
Caroline Tellheim (JE | WP GWP G) See Bettelheim, Caroline von. ......
Teman (JE | WP GWP G) Originally, the name of a tribe and then of a district of the Edomites. In Biblical genealogy it is the ......
Jacob ben Eliezer Temerls (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist and cabalist; born at Worms at the end of the sixteenth century; died at Vienna about 1667. At ......

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Temesvar (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian city. The oldest gravestone in the Jewish cemetery is dated 1636, and was erected in memory of Azriel Assach ......
Administration and Service of Temple (JE | WP GWP G) The affairs of the Second Temple were managed by a board of fifteen appointed officers ("memunnim"). The Mishnah records the ......
Temple of Herod (JE | WP GWP G) In the eighteenth year (20-19 B.C.) of his reign Herod rebuilt the Temple on a more magnificent scale. There are ......
Temple of Mount Gerizim (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G158: Gerizim, Mount
Temple of Onias JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L206: Leontopolis
Plan of Second Temple (JE | WP GWP G) The plan and description of the Second Temple according to Talmudic sources were as follows:Mount Moriah, known as the "Har ......
Temple in Rabbinical Literature (JE | WP GWP G) Mount Moriah was allotted by Joshua to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. The area of the mount, the halls, ......
Second Temple (JE | WP GWP G) The Temple of Solomon was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C. (II Kings xxv. 9). It is usually supposed that ......
Temple of Solomon JE (JE | WP GWP G) David, according to II Sam. vii. 2 et seq., desired to build a temple for Yhwh, but was not permitted ......
Bernhard Templer (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian theologian; born at Brzesko, Galicia, May 1, 1865; educated at the University and the Bet ha-Midrash of Vienna, and ......
Temurah (JE | WP GWP G) Treatise in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Babylonian Talmud mainly concerned with the regulations in Lev. xxvii. 10, 33 regarding the ......
Midrash Temurah JE (JE | WP GWP G) Ethical haggadic work consisting of three chapters. Its tendency is to prove that changes and differences are necessary to the ......
Ten (JE | WP GWP G) The art of counting was founded on the number of the fingers and toes, which constituted the basis for the ......
Ten Commandments (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D192: Decalogue
Ten Plagues (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P367: Plague
Tenant (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L52: Landlord and Tenant
Paul Tenczer JE (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian author; born at Nagy Bejom April 11, 1836; died at Budapest Feb. 6, 1905. He was educated at Keszthely ......
Tennessee (JE | WP GWP G) State of the Southern States of the American Union; admitted in 1796—the third after the incorporation of the original thirteen; ......
Tent (JE | WP GWP G) The usual home of nomads, who are accordingly described as dwelling in tents (Gen. iv. 20). As distinguished from the ......
Hezekiah (Feiwel) ben Jonah Te'omim (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Przemysl; lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was the author of "Teḳa' be-Shofar" (Breslau, 1719), containing ......

141 – 160

Jonah ben Isaiah Te'omim (JE | WP GWP G) Bohemian rabbi at Prague; died at Metz April 16, 1669. After having exercised the function of rabbi at Nikolsburg and ......
Jonah (Chayyim) ben Joshua Feiwel Te'omim (Jonah (Hayyim) ben Joshua Feiwel Te'omim) (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi successively at Przemysl, Zülz, and Breslau; lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; son-in-law of David Oppenheim, rabbi of ......
Joseph ben Meïr Te'omim (JE | WP GWP G) Galician rabbi; born at Lemberg in 1727; died at Frankfort-on-the-Oder in 1793. While still young he succeeded his father in ......
Joshua Feiwel ben Jonah Te'omim (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Przemysl in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was the author of "Panim Masbirot," a polemical work directed ......
Löb ben Moses Te'omim (Aryeh Judah) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and scholar of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; lived in Pinczow, and later in Plotzk. He was the author ......
Meïr ben Samuel Te'omim (JE | WP GWP G) Polish Talmudist of the eighteenth century; died July, 10, 1773. Meïr was a grandson of Joseph Te'omim, and was a ......
Baruch ben David Te'omim-Fränkel (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Wisnicz, Austrian Galicia, and at Leipnik, Moravia, during the first half of the nineteenth century; grandson of Aryeh ......
Teplitz (JE | WP GWP G) Town in northern Bohemia, about 46 miles northwest of Prague. The earliest documentary evidence of the presence of Jews there ......
Terah (JE | WP GWP G) Father of Abraham, Nahor, and Haran (Gen. xi. 26). His original home was Ur of the Chaldees; but later he ......
Teraphim JE (JE | WP GWP G) Plural word of unknown derivation used in the Old Testament to denote the primitive Semitic house-gods whose cult had been ......
Terebinth S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See O1: Oak and Terebinth
Terefah (JE | WP GWP G) Term signifying originally the flesh of a clean animal that had been torn or mortally wounded by beasts of prey, ......
Daniel ben Moses David Terni (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi, poet, and Biblical commentator of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; a native of Ancona. After having taught for ......
Mattathiah Nissim ben Jacob Israel Terni (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi and poet; flourished in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was rabbi at Florence, Urbino, Pesaro, and Sinigaglia. ......
Raphael Benito Terongi (JE | WP GWP G) Martyr. He, his teacher Raphael Valls, and his sister Catalina Terongi were together publicly burned as "Judios impenitentes" at the ......
Olry Terquem (JE | WP GWP G) French mathematician; born at Metz June 16, 1782; died at Paris May 6, 1862. In 1801 he began his studies ......
Terracino (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbinical family, of which the following members are known:David Mordecai Terracino: Rabbi at Asti in the nineteenth century.Hezekiah Terracino: ......
Territorialists (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Z132: Zionism
Teru'ah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S653: Shofar
Teruel (JE | WP GWP G) City of Aragon. In the Middle Ages it possessed a prominent Jewish community, which enjoyed several privileges, and which paid ......

161 – 180

Terumot (JE | WP GWP G) Treatise in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Palestinian Talmud. There were two kinds of heave-offerings or gifts to the priest: one ......
Testament (JE | WP GWP G) See Wills. ......
Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs JE (JE | WP GWP G) Title of twelve connected documents which purport to record the last words and exhortations of the twelve sons of Jacob. ......
Tet (JE | WP GWP G) Ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The signification of its name is uncertain. Its sound is that of an emphatic ......
Tetragrammaton S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) The quadriliteral name of God, V12p118001.jpg, which is thus referred to in Josephus, in the Church Fathers, in the magic ......
Tetrarch (JE | WP GWP G) A governor of a quarter of a province; the title of several feudal lords of Palestine and neighboring countries who ......
Tetuan (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M801: Morocco
Heinrich Teweles [de] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian dramatist; born at Prague Nov. 13, 1856. He made his début in 1881 with a drama entitled "Die Schauspielerin." ......
Texas (JE | WP GWP G) Largest state in the American Union; admitted in 1845; seceded Feb. 1, 1861; and readmitted in 1870. Previous to its ......
Texeira (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T107: Teixeira
Thanskgiving (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B697: Benedictions
Koppel Theben [Wikidata] (Jacob ben Abraham Mandl) (JE | WP GWP G) President of the Jewish community in Presburg; died at Prague Aug. 26, 1799. As "sheṭadlan" of the Hungarian Jews he ......
Thebes (JE | WP GWP G) Ancient and famous city of Greece; capital of Bœotia. Although there is no documentary evidence of the presence of Jews ......
Theft and Stolen Goods (JE | WP GWP G) To steal is to break one of the Ten Commandments, "Thou shalt not steal"; and it is immaterial whether one ......
Theocracy (JE | WP GWP G) System of state organization and government in which God is recognized as the ruler in whose name authority is exercised ......
Julius (Judah) Theodor [he] (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born Dec. 28, 1849, at Schmalleningken, East Prussia. He studied philosophy and Orientalia at the University of Breslau ......
Theodora (JE | WP GWP G) Queen of Bulgaria from 1335 to 1355; born at Tirnova la Grande, capital of the ancient kingdom of Bulgaria, of ......
Theodore of Mopsuestia (JE | WP GWP G) Christian bishop and Church father; born and educated at Antioch; died at Mopsuestia about 429; teacher of Nestorius and Theodoret, ......
Theodosia (JE | WP GWP G) -- See K13: Kaffa
Theodotion (JE | WP GWP G) One of the Greek translators of the Old Testament (see Jew. Encyc. iii. 187, s.v. Bible Translations). He is the ......

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Theology (JE | WP GWP G) The science that treats of God and of His relation to the world in general and to man in particular; ......
Theophany (JE | WP GWP G) Manifestation of a god to man; the sensible sign by which the presence of a divinity is revealed. If the ......
Theophilus (JE | WP GWP G) High priest; son of Anan, and brother of Jonathan, who was deposed by Vitellius in 37 C.E. in favor of ......
Theosophy (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C1: Cabala
Therapeutae (JE | WP GWP G) A community of Jewish ascetics settled on Lake Mareotis in the vicinity of Alexandria at the time of Philo, who ......
Thessalonica (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S93: Salonica
Thessaly (JE | WP GWP G) Province of northern Greece, on the Ægean Sea. It numbered Jews among its inhabitants at a very early date, although ......
Theudas (JE | WP GWP G) Pseudo-Messiah, who appeared during the consulate of Cuspius Fadus and succeeded in winning a large number of adherents. In proof ......
Thief (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T174: Theft and Stolen Goods
Thiengen (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T372: Typography
Thistles (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T196: Thorns and Thistles
Emile Thomas [de] (Emil Tobias) (JE | WP GWP G) German actor; born at Berlin Nov. 24, 1836. Thomas has had a most varied career. He made his début in ......
Father Thomas (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D22: Damascus Affair
Boris Thomashefski (JE | WP GWP G) Judæo-German actor; born at Kiev May 30, 1866. He went to New York to seek work in 1881 and soon ......
Thorn (JE | WP GWP G) Town of West Prussia, founded in 1233 by the Knights of the Teutonic Order. Jews were not permitted to dwell ......
Thorns and Thistles (JE | WP GWP G) The desert flora of Palestine is unusually rich in thorns and thistles, containing a whole series of acanthaceous shrubs and ......
Thrashing-Floor (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A910: Agriculture
Three (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N366: Numbers and Numerals
Threshold (JE | WP GWP G) In early times the threshold had a special sanctity; and that of the Temple was a marked spot, indicating specific ......
Throne (JE | WP GWP G) A royal seat, or chair of state. The king sits "upon the throne of his kingdom" (Deut. xvii. 18). Pharaoh ......

201 to 300

201 – 220

Thunder (JE | WP GWP G) The sound that follows lightning. The proper Hebrew term for it is V12p142001.jpg (Ps. lxxvii. 19 et passim; Job xxvi. ......
Thurgau (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S1201: Switzerland
Tiao Kiu Kiaou (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C461: China
Tibbon (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I52: Ibn Tibbon
Tiberias (JE | WP GWP G) City founded by Herod Antipas in the year 26 C.E., and named in honor of the emperor Tiberius; situated on ......
Lake Tiberias (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C462: Chinnereth
Julius Alexander Tiberius (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1159: Alexander, Tiberius Julius
Tibni (JE | WP GWP G) One of the rulers of the kingdom of Israel during the interregnum between Zimri and Omri; son of Ginath. When ......
Tien-Tsin (Tianjin) (JE | WP GWP G) Commercial city of China. Its Jewish inhabitants number about 150, most of whom are Russian and Polish. They have not ......
Hermann Tietz JE (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Birnbaum, Posen, Germany, Sept. 3, 1834, and educated at the University of Berlin (Ph. D. Halle). He ......
Tiflis (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C279: Caucasus
Tiglath-Pileser (JE | WP GWP G) King of Assyria from 747 to 727 B.C.; designated by modern Oriental historians as Tiglath-pileser III. He first appears under ......
Tigris (JE | WP GWP G) One of the four streams mentioned in Gen. ii. 14 as watering the Garden of Eden, and described, from the ......
Tiktin (JE | WP GWP G) A Silesian family of rabbis originating from Tiktin, a town in Poland.Abraham ben Gedaliah Tiktin: German rabbi; born at Schwersenz, ......
Judah Löb ben Simchah Tiktiner (Judah Löb ben Simhah Tiktiner) (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi of the eighteenth century. He officiated as ab bet din in Zagora, and later was a resident of ......
Rebecca bat Meïr Tiktiner (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian authoress of the sixteenth century; flourished at Prague, where she died, apparently in 1550. She wrote two works: (1) ......
Chayyim Judah Löb b. Samuel Tiktinski (Hayyim Judah Löb b. Samuel Tiktinski) (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian Talmudist; born in Mir Oct. 13, 1823; died in Warsaw March 30, 1899. He was the second son of ......
Timbrel (JE | WP GWP G) Musical instrument. In the Hebrew music of Old Testament times, as indeed in Oriental music to-day, rhythm was of much ......
Timnath-serah (JE | WP GWP G) Town in Mount Ephraim, situated on the northern slope of the hill of Gaash (Josh. xxiv. 30). It was given ......
Tin (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M516: Metals

221 – 240

Jacob Tirado JE (JE | WP GWP G) Convert to Judaism in Amsterdam in the sixteenth century; died in Jerusalem. With several Maranos he sailed from Portugal in ......
Tirhakah (JE | WP GWP G) King of Ethiopia (i.e., Nubia). When Sennacherib and his general (Rabshakeh) were besieging Lachish, Libnah, and Jerusalem, it was reported ......
Tirzah (JE | WP GWP G) Ancient Canaanitish capital (Josh. xii. 24), which, from the context, seems to have been situated in the northern part of ......
Elijah Tishbi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L298: Levita, Elijah
Judah ben Elijah Tishbi (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite scholar and liturgical poet; flourished at Belgrade in the first half of the sixteenth century; grandson of Abraham ben ......
Tisza-Eszlar Affair JE (JE | WP GWP G) Accusation of ritual murder brought against the Jews of Tisza-Eszlar, a Hungarian town situated on the ......
Tithe (JE | WP GWP G) The tenth part of anything, appropriated as tax or sacrifice.—Biblical Data: Tithing one's possessions was a very ancient custom, existing ......
Title Page (JE | WP GWP G) Decorations.In the early sixteenth century the colophon still predominated. The title of the "Sefer Minhag Abot," the condensed liturgical code ......
Titles of Hebrew Books (JE | WP GWP G) In Hebrew literature, books, with few exceptions, are recognized by their titles independently of their authors' names. Citations from and ......
Titles of Honor (JE | WP GWP G) Words and phrases applied to persons to distinguish their noble birth, or their official or social rank and station, or ......
Titus (JE | WP GWP G) Emperor of Rome from 79 to 81; born in 39 or 41; died Sept. 13, 81; son of Vespasian, the ......
Arch of Titus (JE | WP GWP G) A triumphal arch erected at Rome in honor of the emperor Titus and in celebration of his victory over the ......
Joseph Tob 'Elem JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1296: Bonfils, Joseph b. Samuel
Tob le-Hodot (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M672: Mizmor Shir le-Yom ha-Shabbat
Tobacco (JE | WP GWP G) The use of tobacco for smoking and in the form of snuff is commonamong Jews, who in some countries control ......
Tobia ben Moses ha-Abel (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite scholar, Biblical commentator, liturgical poet, and translator; flourished at Constantinople in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Fürst ("Gesch. des ......
Tobiads (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish party in the Maccabean period. A combination of the statements of Josephus ("Ant." xii. 4, §§ 1-11) and of ......
Tobiah ben Eliezer JE (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist and poet of the eleventh century; author of the "Leḳaḥ Ṭob" or "Pesiḳta Zuṭarta," a midrashic commentary on the ......
Tobiah ben Elijah of Vienne (Burgundy) (JE | WP GWP G) French tosafist of the thirteenth century. He was a younger contemporary, and perhaps also a pupil, of Isaac ben Abraham ......
Emil Tobias (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T192: Thomas, Emile

241 – 260

Book of Tobit (JE | WP GWP G) A late Jewish work, never received into the Jewish canon, and included in the Apocrypha by Protestants, although it was ......
Mordecai ben Abraham Tockels (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist; born at Lissa; died in Berlin June 12, 1743. As a poor young man he went to Berlin, ......
Hermann Todesco (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian financier and philanthropist; born at Presburg 1792; died there Nov. 23, 1844. At first engaging in the silk trade, ......
Todros of Beaucaire (JE | WP GWP G) (called Ha-Ḳaẓin). One of the chief poets of the second half of the thirteenth century; resided in Montpellier. In 1277 ......
Todros of Cavaillon (JE | WP GWP G) French physician of the latter part of the fourteenth century, who flourished, according to Carmoly, about 1375. He was the ......
Todros ben Isaac (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist; lived in Italy or in southern France in the latter part of the thirteenth century and the early part ......
Todros ben Kalonymus (JE | WP GWP G) French scholar and liturgical poet; lived at Narbonne in the first half of the twelfth century; son of Kalonymus the ......
Todros ben Meshullam ben David (JE | WP GWP G) Provençal translator; born at Arles in the early part of the fourteenth century. Of his life no details are known ......
Todros ben Moses Yom-Tob (JE | WP GWP G) French physician; flourished at Cavaillon in the second half of the fourteenth century; identified by Steinschneider with Todros of Cavaillon. ......
Tohorot (JE | WP GWP G) Name of the sixth and last order in the Mishnah and the Tosefta. "Ṭohorot" is a euphemism for uncleanness, all ......
Tokachah (Tokahah) (JE | WP GWP G) The term used to connote the prediction by Moses of due punishment in case of disobedience of the divine law ......
Tola (JE | WP GWP G) A son of Issachar who had journeyed to Egypt with Jacob (Gen. xlvi. 13). In the census of the people ......
Toledano (JE | WP GWP G) A family taking its name from Toledo, the city in which it originated, and including printers, Talmudic scholars, rabbis, and ......
Toledo (JE | WP GWP G) Several Jewish authors who wrote in Arabic were born and probably educated at Toledo, even after its conquest by the ......
Toledo, Ohio (JE | WP GWP G) -- See O37: Ohio
Toledot Yeshu' (JE | WP GWP G) See Jesus in Jewish Legend. ......
Toleranzpatent (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J443: Joseph
Toll (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L160: Leibzoll
Jacob b. Simeon Tomashov (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi of the seventeenth century. His father is styled "ha-Ḳadosh," a term generally given to a martyr, so that ......
Tombs (JE | WP GWP G) From the earliest times the Hebrews practised burial of the dead (V12p183001.jpg, whence "ḳeber" = "tomb"), so that cremation, which ......

261 – 280

Tombstones (JE | WP GWP G) The custom of marking a grave by a stone which bore an inscription describing the qualities of the deceased and ......
Topaz (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G131: Gems
Topeka (JE | WP GWP G) -- See K91: Kansas
Tophet (JE | WP GWP G) Old Testament term used chiefly by Jeremiah (vii. 31, 32; xix. 6, 11, 12, 13, 14) and once in II ......
Torah (JE | WP GWP G) Name applied to the five books of Moses, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. The contents of the Torah as ......
Torat Kohanim (Sifra) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M587: Midrash Haggadah
Tordesillas (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish city near Valladolid, with a Jewish community, which was visited by Vicente Ferrer toward the end of 1411 for ......
Moses Ha-Kohen de Tordesillas JE (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish controversialist, who was called upon to suffer for his faith, an attempt being made to convert him to Christianity ......
Toronto (JE | WP GWP G) Canadian city; capital of the province of Ontario. Toronto possesses four regularly organized Jewish congregations, the oldest being the Holy ......
Tomas de Torquemada (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A2155: Auto da Fé
Lelio (Hillel) della Torre (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi and educator; born in Cuneo, Piedmont, Jan. 11, 1805; died in Padua July 9, 1871. His father, Solomon ......
Tort (JE | WP GWP G) Any wrongful act, neglect, or default whereby legal damage is caused to the person, property, or reputation of another. Liability ......
Tortoise (JE | WP GWP G) Rendering in the Authorized Version of the Hebrew word "ẓab" (Lev. xi. 29; see Lizard). Some commentators assume "gallim" in ......
Tortosa (JE | WP GWP G) City in Catalonia where Jews lived and owned land as early as the Roman period. This Jewish community was one ......
Löb b. Abraham Tortschiner (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C774: Cordovero, Aryeh Löb
Tosafot JE >> List of Tosafists JE, Isaac ben Abraham of Dampierre JE, Judah ben Nathan JE (JE | WP GWP G) Critical and explanatory glosses on the Talmud, printed, in almost all editions, on the outer margin and opposite Rashi's notes. ......
Tosefta (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a collection of baraitot which treat in a more complete form than does the Mishnah the subject of ......
Tötbrief (JE | WP GWP G) Term applied in Germany to the edicts issued by the kings and emperors, to the papal bulls, and to the ......
Totemism (JE | WP GWP G) A primitive social system in which members of a clan reckoned kinship through their mothers, and worshiped some animal or ......
Toul (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of an arrondissement in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, with a Jewish population dating from the thirteenth century. Among ......

281 – 300

Toulon (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of an arrondissement in the department of the Var, France. Like most of the principal cities of Provence, Toulon ......
Toulouse (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the department of Haute-Garonne, France, where a large number of Jews lived as early as the beginning of ......
Judah Touro (JE | WP GWP G) American philanthropist; born at Newport, R. I., June 16, 1775; died at New Orleans, La., Jan. 13, 1854; son of ......
Tours (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the department of Indre-et-Loire, France. Since the first half of the sixth century Jews have lived either in ......
Tower (JE | WP GWP G) A building of strength or magnificence (Isa. ii. 15; Cant. iv. 4, vii. 4), and, with a more limited connotation, ......
Crawford Howell Toy (JE | WP GWP G) American Christian Orientalist; born at Norfolk, Va., March 23, 1836. He was educated at the University of Virginia, and studied ......
Trabot (Trabotti) (JE | WP GWP G) Family of Italian scholars of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, which immigrated to Italy from France, so that several ......
Herman Trachtenberg JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian jurist; born in Jitomir 1839; died there 1895. He studied law at the University of St. Petersburg, and at ......
Trade (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C693: Commerce
Trade unionism (JE | WP GWP G) Excepting in Holland, the creation of a Jewish proletariat has everywhere followed immigration from the east-European centers, where the massing ......
Das Traditionelle Judenthum (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Traditions (JE | WP GWP G) Doctrines and sayings transmitted from father to son by word of mouth, and thus preserved among the people. Such traditions ......
Trajan (JE | WP GWP G) Roman emperor from 98 to 117. Like Vespasian, Titus, and Hadrian, he is frequently mentioned by Jewish writers; and he ......
Trani UNR >> Moses ben Joseph di Trani JE, Joseph Trani JE (JE | WP GWP G) Family of scholars, members of which were prominent in Spain and the Levant.Aaron di Trani: Spanish tosafist; born in Castile; ......
Transfer (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1234: Alienation and Acquisition
Translations (JE | WP GWP G) After the early victories of the Mohammedans and the consequent spread of Arabic civilization, the Jews of the Eastern countries ......
Transliteration (JE | WP GWP G) The Greek and Latin words which entered into the language of the Hebrews are transcribed in the Talmud, Midrash, and ......
Transmigration of souls (JE | WP GWP G) The passing of souls into successive bodily forms, either human or animal. According to Pythagoras, who probably learned the doctrine ......
Transvaal (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S988: South Africa
Transylvania (JE | WP GWP G) A district which has formed a part of Hungary since 1867. According to one tradition, the first Jewish settlers of ......

301 to 400

301 – 320

Trastevere S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R352: Rome
Ludwig Traube S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) German physician and medical author; born at Ratibor, Prussian Silesia, Jan. 18, 1818; died at Berlin April 11, 1876; elder ......
Horace Traubel (JE | WP GWP G) American editor; born at Camden, N. J., Dec. 19, 1858; educated in the public schools of his native town. In ......
Travelers S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Jews early became accustomed to wandering, either by compulsion, as in the Exile and in the Diaspora, or through natural ......
Travnik S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Town of Bosnia. The first Jews settled there at the beginning of the nineteenth century, during the reign of the ......
Treason S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) In the strictest sense there is no record in the Bible of an attempt to betray one's country, nor is ......
Treasure-Trove (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F144: Finder of Property
Tomas Trebino de Sobremonte (Tomas Tremino de Sobremonte) (JE | WP GWP G) Martyr; burned at the stake at Mexico, or Lima, April 11, 1649. He had previously been reconciled by the Inquisition; ......
Abraham ben Reuben Chayyat Trebitsch (Abraham ben Reuben Hayyat Trebitsch) JE S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian scholar; born at Trebitsch, Moravia, about 1760; died at Nikolsburg in the first half of the nineteenth century. He ......
Nehemiah (Menahem Nahum) Trebitsch JE S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi; born at Prague Aug. 14, 1779; died there July 4, 1842. He was a son of Selig Trebitsch, ......
Tree of Life S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) According to Gen. ii. 9, there stood in the midst of the Garden of Eden a "tree of life," apparently ......
Tree worship S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Trees have been objects of worship in all parts of the world (comp. Mannhardt, "Wald- und Feldkulte," Berlin, 1875). They ......
Laws Concerning Trees (JE | WP GWP G) Cutting down fruit-bearing and useful trees is forbidden by the Mosaic law. In time of war the fruit-trees about...
John Immanuel Tremellius JE (JE | WP GWP G) Italian Hebraist; born at Ferrara 1510; died at Sedan Oct. 9, 1580. He was educated at the University of Padua. ......
Isaac Trenel (JE | WP GWP G) French rabbi; born at Metz Dec. 28, 1822; died at Paris in 1890. He studied at Marmoutier under his uncle ......
Trent S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Oldest city of the Tyrol; a sovereign bishopric from 1027 to 1803. During the first half of the fourteenth century ......
Trespass S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Injury done directly, in most cases purposely, to the person or property of another. Trespass on the person has been ......
Trespass-Offerings (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S35: Sacrifice
Der treue Zionswächter (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Jacob Treuenburg (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B410: Bassevi, Jacob

321 – 340

Treves S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) City of Rhenish Prussia, formerly an electorate comprising upper and lower bishoprics with Treves and Coblenz as capitals (see Jew. ......
Treves >> Abraham ben Solomon Treves JE, Naphtali Hirsch Treves JE (JE | WP GWP G) Family which derived its name from the Prussian city of Treves, famous for its prominentmen. No other family can boast ......
Trévoux S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Principal town of the arrondissement of the same name in the department of Ain, France. Henry of Villars, Archbishop of ......
Trial S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P538: Procedure in Civil Causes
Lost Ten Tribes S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) According to the Bible, Tiglath-pileser (II Kings xv. 29) or Shalmaneser (ib. xvii. 6, xviii. 11), after the defeat of ......
Twelve Tribes (JE | WP GWP G) The individual tribes having been treated under their respective captions, it is proposed to discuss in the present article the ......
Triennial Cycle (JE | WP GWP G) A cycle of three years, in the course of which the whole Law is read on Sabbaths and festivals. This ......
Ernst Johannes Trier (JE | WP GWP G) Danish educator; born in Copenhagen Jan. 23, 1837; died at Vallekilde Dec. 29, 1893. He was graduated from the University ......
Jacob Frederik Trier (JE | WP GWP G) Danish physician; born in Copenhagen June 14, 1831; died there May 17, 1898. He studied at the Metropolitan School and ......
Herman Trier (JE | WP GWP G) Danish educator, writer, and politician; born in Copenhagen May 10, 1845. He received his early education at the Von Westenske ......
Salomon Meyer Trier (JE | WP GWP G) Danish pharmacist; born in Copenhagen in 1804; died there in Dec., 1888. He was graduated from the Copenhagen College of ......
Seligmann Meyer Trier (JE | WP GWP G) Danish physician; born in Copenhagen June 7, 1800; died there Dec. 20, 1863. He was the son of poor parents, ......
Triesch S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) City in Moravia. Its Jewish congregation was most probably founded by exiles from Iglau shortly after 1426. In the latter ......
Friedrich Gustav Triesch (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian dramatist; born at Vienna June 16, 1845. Triesch studied sculpture for a time at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, ......
Triest S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) A commercial city and an important seaport, situated at the head of the Adriatic; ethnographically Italian, but politically Austrian. Although ......
Gabriel Trieste (JE | WP GWP G) Italian merchant and philanthropist; born Dec. 24, 1784; died at Padua March 9, 1860. He was president of the Jewish ......
Eliezer ben Joseph Yospa Trillinger (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi; lived in the latter half of the seventeenth and at the beginning of the eighteenth century; died at ......
Trinity S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) The fundamental dogma of Christianity; the concept of the union in one God of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as ......
Trinquetaille S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Suburb of Arles, France, on the right bank of the Rhone. Its Jewish community was of much importance in the ......
Tripoli S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Seaport on the northern coast of Africa; capital of the Turkish vilayet of the same name. Local tradition states that ......

341 – 360

Henry Baker Tristram S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) English clergyman, Biblical scholar, and traveler in Palestine; born May 11, 1822, at Eglingham, Northumberland. He was educated at Durham ......
Joseph Elijah Triwosch (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Hebrew writer and poet; born at Wilna Jan. 18, 1856; settled at Grodno as a teacher of Hebrew and ......
Troki S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) District city in the government of Wilna, Russia. It was an important Jewish center in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth ......
Troki (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite family deriving its name from the city of Troki, in the government of Wilna, Russia. The more important members ......
Trop (JE | WP GWP G) Judæo-German term for tropes, the short musical cadences, called "distinctions" in theChurch plain-song, which are the traditional vocal interpretation of ...... -- links to Cantillation
Troy, New York S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) City and the capital of Rensselaer county in the state of New York; situated on the east bank of the ......
Troyes S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the department of Aube, France. It contained a Jewish population as early as the tenth century, as is ......
Henry Clay Trumbull S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) American Christian Orientalist; born at Stonington, Conn., June 8, 1830; died at Philadelphia Dec. 8, 1903. He was educated at ......
Trumpet S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) In Shab. 36a (comp. Suk. 34a) it is noted that since the destruction of the Temple the names for the ......
Feast of Trumpets S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N246: New-Year
Trusts and Trustees (JE | WP GWP G) It has been shown under Guardian and Ward and under Community how the Jewish law took notice of the various ......
Tryphon S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Theudion; one of the four envoys sent by the Jews in 45 C.E. to petition Emperor Claudius that ......
Tschernigoff (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C431: Chernigov
Tubal-Cain (JE | WP GWP G) Brother of Jabal and Jubal, sons of Lamech, who appear to have been the originators of several industries and arts. ...... -- redirects to Lamech
Tuberculosis S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C751: Consumption
Jules Tuchmann [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) French folklorist; born in Paris March 23, 1830; died there Feb. 28, 1901. Privately educated, he devoted his whole life ......
Tudela JE S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) The oldest and most important Jewish community in the former kingdom of Navarre. When Alfonso the Valiant captured the city ......
Jacob Tugenhold [pl] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian educator and author; born in Breslau 1791; died at Warsaw April 20, 1871. Realizing that education was one of ......
Wolf Tugenhold (JE | WP GWP G) Russian educator and author; brother of Jacob Tugendhold. He was teacher in the rabbinical school of Wilna and also censor ......
Edmund Tull JE S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian artist; born at Szekesfejervar 1870. He was educated at Budapest, Milan, and Paris, being in the last-named city a ......

361 – 380

Tunis S 2007-12-01 >> History of the Jews in Tunisia JE (JE | WP GWP G) Formerly one of the Barbary States of North Africa, but since 1881 a dependency of France; situated between latitude 31� ......
Naphtali Wolf Tur (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Hebraist; born at Wilna; died there May 29, 1885 (according to Zeitlin, June 8, 1884). Tur settled in Warsaw, ......
Turim (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J29: Jacob ben Asher
Turin S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Italian city on the River Po; formerly capital of the duchy of Savoy, and later of the kingdom of Sardinia; ......
Turkey S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Empire of southeastern Europe and western Asia. For present purposes Turkey is taken to mean that part of Europe which ......
Wilhelm Turteltaub (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian physician and poet; born at Rzeszow, Galicia, March 25, 1816. At the age of twelve he wrote a comedy ......
Turtle dove S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D456: Dove
Jacob Tus (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T90: Tawus
Tushiyyah [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Publishing establishment founded in Warsaw in 1896, which, though a private enterprise, is in reality a Hebrew publication society striving ......
Olaus Gerhard Tychsen S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Christian Hebraist and Orientalist; born at Tondern in Sleswick, Denmark, Dec. 14, 1734; died at Rostock, Germany, Dec. 30, 1815. ......
Anthropological types (JE | WP GWP G) Correlated norms of racial qualities. Individuals who present an interrelation between the color of the hair...
Typography S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) The art of printing. The invention of printing was welcomed by the Jews as "the art of writing with many ......
Tyre S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Principal city of Phenicia. By "the strong city Tyre," mentioned in Josh. xix. 29 and II Sam. xxiv. 7 as ......
Tyria (JE | WP GWP G) City of Asia Minor, sixty miles from Smyrna. Its Jewish community is of ancient date, the earliest members having arrived ......
Tyrnau S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Manufacturing town of western Hungary. It was the scene of two martyrdoms of Jews: the first, in 1494, when fourteen ......
Tyrol S 2007-12-01 (JE | WP GWP G) Crownland of Austria. The earliest documents referring to its Jews date from thebeginning of the fourteenth century. The statement, found ......

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