1 – 20

1. Pablo Alvaro JE S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1229: Bodo
2. Pablo Christian ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See C488: Christiani, Pablo
3. Pacific Messenger ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
4. Pacifico case ( JE | WP GWP G) An affair arising out of a claim made on the Greek government by one David Pacifico, commonly known as "Don ......
5. Padan-aram ( JE | WP GWP G) the first element in the word is variously explained as meaning "road" or "field," "yoke," and "plow." It may indicate ......
6. Paderborn S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Town in the province of Westphalia, Prussia. The presence of Jews there is first mentioned in 1606, when the diet ......
7. Elishama Meïr Padovani ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian Talmudist of the eighteenth century; born in Modena; died at Padua 1830. He was educated and first served as ......
8. Padua >> History of the Jews in Padua ( JE | WP GWP G) City of upper Italy, 22 miles west of Venice, on the Bacchiglione; capital of the province of the same name. ......
9. Padua S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See M303: Maẓliaḥ, Judah b. Abraham Padova
10. Jacob Meïr Padua ( JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi; born in Brest-Litovsk; died there Dec. 12, 1854. He was a descendant of the Katzenellenbogen family which had ......
11. Paganism >> Jewish Views of Paganism ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See G142: Gentile
12. Hans Pagay [ de ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian actor; born at Vienna Nov. 11, 1845. His father was a broker, and destined his son for the same ......
13. Josephine Pagay ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian actress; born at Vienna; died at Berlin Nov. 18, 1892. She made her first appearance at the age of ......
14. Julius Leopold Pagel JE S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) German physician and medical writer; born at Pollnow, Pomerania, May 29, 1851; educated at the gymnasium at Stolp and at ......
15. Angelo Paggi ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian Hebraist; born at Sienna May 4, 1789; died at Florence June 7, 1867. He received his Hebrew training under ......
16. Jews in Pahlavi Literature ( JE | WP GWP G) the Pahlavi or Middle Persian literature, extending approximately from the third to the tenth century C.E., is devoted mainly to ......
17. Painting >> Jewish Painting ( JE | WP GWP G) the art least developed among the Hebrews. If it is borne in mind that painting was affected by the Mosaic ......
18. De Paiva (Family) ( De Payba (family) ( JE | WP GWP G) Spanish Marano family of Amsterdam, with some members in Mexico.Abraham de Paiva: Poet; lived in Amsterdam about 1687. A Spanish ......
19. La Paix ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
20. Paks Conference ( JE | WP GWP G) Meeting of rabbis held Aug. 20 and 21, 1844, at the town of Paks, Hungary. The discussions in the Hungarian ......

21 – 40

1. Biblical Palaces or Palaces in the Bible ( JE | WP GWP G) the Hebrews learned from the Phenicians the art of erecting large buildings having several rooms. David's palace was built by ......
2. Samuel Palache ( JE | WP GWP G) Moroccan envoy sent by the King of Morocco to the Netherlands about 1591; subsequently acted as consul there; died at ......
3. Abraham Palággi ( Abraham Falaji) ( JE | WP GWP G) Turkish rabbinical author; born at Smyrna in 1809; died there 1899; son of ?ayyim Palaggi. On the death of his ......
4. Chayyim Palaggi JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Turkish rabbinical author; born at Smyrna 1788; died there 1869; maternal grandson of Joseph b. ?ayyim Hazan, author of "?i?re ......
5. Ludwig Palágyi ( JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian poet; born at Becse April 15, 1866; educated privately by his father, a former public school-teacher, and by his ......
6. Melchior Palágyi S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian writer; born at Paks Dec. 26, 1859. He received his primary instruction from his father, and then attended the ......
7. Pale of Settlement S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) A portion of Russia in which Jews are allowed to reside. Unlike other Russian subjects, the Jewish inhabitants do not ......
8. Palencia >> History of the Jews in Palencia ( JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the province of Palencia, Spain, situated between Burgos and Valladolid. A large and wealthy Jewish community settled here ......
9. Paleography S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Besides a certain number of pagan inscriptions mentioning Jewish affairs, about 500 texts referring directly to persons professing the Jewish ......
10. Palermo >> History of the Jews in Palermo ( JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the island of Sicily; situated on the northern coast. Its Jewish community dates from the Roman period. Under ......
11. Palestine S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) The portion of Syria which was formerly the possession of the Israelites. It includes the whole of the country between ......
12. Holiness of Palestine ( JE | WP GWP G) the sacredness of Palestine in the esteem of the Jews is partly accounted for by the fact that it was ......
13. Laws and Customs Relating to Palestine ( Mitzvot ha-Teluyot ba'Aretz) >> Laws and customs of the Land of Israel in Judaism JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Special laws, operative only in the Holy Land, are called "mitzwot ha-teluyot ba-aretz," and may be classified as follows: (1) ......
14. Palestinian Talmud S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See T32: Talmud
15. John Paley ( JE | WP GWP G) American journalist; born Feb. 6, 1871, at Radoszkowice, government of Wilna, Russia. After receiving the usual education, he attended the ......
16. Francis Palgrave ( Francis Cohen) S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) English historian; born in London July, 1788; died there July 6, 1861; son of Meyer Cohen, a member of the ......
17. Joseph Hirsh Palitschinetzki ( JE | WP GWP G) Biblical scholar; born 1805; died at Berdychev Feb. 27, 1886. He was instructor in the Bible in the rabbinical seminary ......
18. Palm S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) An evergreen tree growing in tropical climates in a dry atmosphere. The term for it, common to the Aramaic, Ethiopic, ......
19. Palma >> History of the Jews in Palma ( JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the Spanish island of Majorca. As early as the Moorish period Jews were living in Almudayna, the most ......
20. Palmyra S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Latin name of a city in a well-watered oasis of the Syrian desert, five days' journey from the Euphrates, between ......

41 – 60

1. Palti S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Name borne by two persons mentioned in the Old Testament; probably an abbreviation, or corruption, of Paltiel. 1. Son of ......
2. Paltiel UNR ( JE | WP GWP G) Vizier to the Egyptian califs al-Mu'izz and 'Abd al-Mansur; lived in the second half of the tenth century. The Chronicle ......
3. Paltiya of Naweh ( Pelatya of Naweh) ( JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian haggadist of the third century. He is cited but once, as author of a derashah. The haggadists consider the ......
4. Paltoi ben Abayi ( JE | WP GWP G) Gaon of Pumbedita from 842 to 858. He was the first of a series of prominent geonim at that academy, ......
5. Pamiers >> History of the Jews in Pamiers ( JE | WP GWP G) One of the principal towns of the department of Ariège, France. A Jewish community existed here in the twelfth century. ......
6. Pamplona >> History of the Jews in Pamplona ( JE | WP GWP G) Capital and oldest city of the kingdom of Navarra, Spain. Next to Tudela, it possessed the most important Jewish community. ......
7. Taube Pan ( JE | WP GWP G) Judæo-German authoress of the sixteenth century; lived in the Prague ghetto at the time of Mordecai Meisel; daughter of R. ......
8. Panama >> History of the Jews in Panama ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See S990: South and Central America
9. Paneas S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) See Caesarea Philippi. ......
10. Ezekiel Panet ( JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian rabbi; born 1783 at Bielitz, Silesia; died Nisan 20, 1845, at Karlsburg, Transylvania. He studied in the yeshibah of ......
11. Panzieri >> Shabbethai Panzieri JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Portuguese family members of which are met with in Constantinople and Rome from the sixteenth century. The family is still ......
12. Betty Paoli ( Barbara Elisabeth Glück) ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian poetess; born at Vienna Dec. 30, 1814; died at Baden, near Vienna, July 5, 1894. Her father, a physician, ......
13. Papa ( JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the fifth generation; born about 300; died 375; pupil of Raba and Abaye. After the death of ......
14. Paper and Papyrus S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See M164: Manuscripts
15. Abraham Jacob Paperna JE S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Russian educator and author; born at Kopyl, government of Minsk, 1840. He received a fair education, including the study of ......
16. Eliezer ben Isaac Papo ( JE | WP GWP G) Bulgarian rabbi and author; born in Sarajevo, Bosnia; died in 1824. He held the office of rabbi in Silistria, Bulgaria, ......
17. Pappenheim >> History of the Jews in Pappenheim ( JE | WP GWP G) Small town in Mittelfranken, containing one of the oldest Jewish communities in Bavaria. The statement of Stern-Neubauer that the word ......
18. Israel Hirsch Pappenheim ( JE | WP GWP G) Representative of the Bavarian Jews and champion of their emancipation; born at Munich; died there Sept. 8, 1837. He was ......
19. Simon Pappenheim [ Wikidata ( JE | WP GWP G) German writer; born at Dembiohammer 1773; died at Ratibor Aug. 6, 1840. He at first supported himself as a private ......
20. Solomon Pappenheim ( JE | WP GWP G) German scholar; born Feb. 2, 1740, at Zülz, Silesia; died March 4 or 5, 1814, at Breslau; son of Associate ......

61 – 80

1. Pappos ben Judah ( JE | WP GWP G) Haggadist of the first half of the second century; contemporary and fellow prisoner of Akiba. At the time of the ......
2. Pappus S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Leader of a rebellion under Emperor Hadrian (117-138). He is always mentioned together with Luliani, who was probably his brother ......
3. Parable S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) A short religious allegory. That the Hebrew designation for "parable" is "mashal" (comp. David ?im?i's commentary on II Sam. xii. ......
4. Paraclete S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinical term adopted from the Greek ?????????? (= "advocate," "intercessor"): Targumic translation of V09p514003.jpg (Job xvi. 20, xxxiii. 23): "He ......
5. Paradise S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) The word "paradise" is probably of Persian origin. It occurs but three times in the Old Testament, namely, in Cant. ......
6. Parah S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Name of a treatise in the Mishnah and the Tosefta, included in the order ?ohorot. The Pentateuchal law (Num. xix.) ......
7. Parallelism in Hebrew Poetry ( JE | WP GWP G) It is now generally conceded that parallelism is the fundamental law, not only of the poetical, but even of the ......
8. Paran S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Desert, corresponding to the present Badiyyat al-Tih, bounded on the north by the Jabal al-Makhrah, on the south by the ......
9. Parashah S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) A section of the Pentateuch. The Sephardim apply the word to each of the fifty-four weekly lessons into which the ......
10. Parashiyyot S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Besides the weekly lesson or parashah that is read from the scroll of the Law every Sabbath, there is sometimes ......
11. Pardo S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) A family deriving its name from Prado in Castile. Its members have mostly distinguished themselves in the Levant. Among them ......
12. Parents S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See F63: Father
13. Asher ben Jacob Parenzo ( JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew printer in Venice from 1580 to 1600; brother of the printer Meïr b. Jacob. He was employed by Giovanni ......
14. Cesare Parenzo [ it ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian senator and deputy; born at Rovigo 1839; died at Nervi, near Genoa, April 15, 1898. He studied law, but ......
15. Parchi ( JE | WP GWP G) See Far?i. ......
16. Solomon ben Abraham ibn Parchon JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Spanish philologist of the twelfth century; a native of Ḳal'ah (Ḳal'at Ayyub, Calatayud), Aragon. In the preface to his lexicon ......
17. Paris >> History of the Jews in Paris ( JE | WP GWP G) Capital city of France. There were Jews in Paris prior to the date of the Frankish invasion. The councils of ......
18. Elias Parish-Alvars ( JE | WP GWP G) English harpist and composer; born at Teignmouth, England, Feb. 28, 1810; died at Vienna Jan. 25, 1849; a pupil of ......
19. Parma >> History of the Jews in Parma ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian city, formerly capital of the duchy of the same name; the seat of an ancient Jewish community. When the ......
20. Parnas S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Neo-Hebraic word designating the president or the trustee of a congregation. It is found in the Targum as the equivalent ......

81 – 100

1. Parody S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) A composition either in verse or in prose, modeled more or less closely on an original work, or class of ......
2. Paronomasia S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1266: Alliteration
3. Parsa S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See W81: Weights and Measures
4. Parshandatha ( JE | WP GWP G) the first-born son of Haman (Esth. ix. 7). In the twelfth century the name obtained a literary meaning. It was ......
5. Joseph Parsi ( JE | WP GWP G) Mathematician; flourished toward the end of the fifteenth century. All that isknown of him is that he was the author ......
6. Parties to Action ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P538: Procedure
7. Partition S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See J382: Joint Owners
8. Partnership S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) The word "shotefin" is used in the Mishnah almost always to denote joint owners, especially of land. In the language ......
9. Partridge S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) This bird is mentioned only in I Sam. xxvi. 20 (LXX., ?????????? = "kos" = "owl") and Jer. xvii. 11.The ......
10. Party Lines and Party Walls ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1368: Boundaries
11. Paschal Sacrifice JE ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P99: Passover Sacrifice
12. Wolf Pascheles JE S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian publisher; born at Prague May 11, 1814; died there Nov. 22, 1857. The son of needy parents, he gained ......
13. Heinrich Paschkis [ de ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian pharmacologist; born at Nikolsburg, Moravia, March 21, 1849; educated at Vienna University (M.D. 1872). He was appointed assistant at ......
14. Pashur S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Son of Immer the priest. He attacked Jeremiah on account of his prophecies of calamity and put him in the ......
15. Aaron de Pass ( JE | WP GWP G) South-African pioneer; together with his brother Elias de Pass, he was connected with Cape Colony from the year 1846. His ......
16. Passau >> History of the Jews in Passau ( JE | WP GWP G) Town of eastern Bavaria. Jews were settled here toward the end of the twelfth century, when they were under the ......
17. Ugo Passigli ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian physician; born at Sienna Dec. 14, 1867; studied medicine at the Reale Istituto di Studi Superiori, Florence, and is ......
18. Passover S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) The Biblical account connects the term with the root V09p548003.jpg (= "to pass by," "to spare"; Ex. xii. 13, 23, ......
19. Passover Sacrifice JE ( JE | WP GWP G) the sacrifice which the Israelites offered at the command of God during the night before the Exodus from Egypt, and ......
20. Leonid Osipovich Pasternak S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Russian painter; born at Odessa, 1862, of well-to-do parents. According to a family tradition, he is descended on his father's ......

101 – 120

1. Pastoreaux ( JE | WP GWP G) French religious fanatics of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In the year 1251 an unknown man, called "Le Maître de ......
2. Pasuch ( JE | WP GWP G) Passive participle of the Aramaic word "pesa?" (to cut off), meaning a section or division. It is, however, used almost ......
3. Pater Synagogae ( JE | WP GWP G) Title occurring frequently in the inscriptions of the Jewish catacombs at Rome. According to Berliner ("Gesch. der Juden in Rom," ......
4. Paternity S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Fatherhood. Doubtful paternity involves not only the right of inheritance, but also, if the father be a kohen, the claim ......
5. Paterson, New Jersey >> History of the Jews in Paterson, New Jersey ( JE | WP GWP G) Manufacturing city in the state of New Jersey; center of the silk industry in the United States. It has attracted ......
6. Pathology S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See M325: Medicine
7. Patiency ( JE | WP GWP G) the Hebrew Scriptures have many words for "patience," corresponding to the varied meanings of this complex virtue; e.g., "erek af" ......
8. Patriachy in Judaism (Patriarchal family and authority) ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See F33: Family and Family Life
9. The Patriarchs ( JE | WP GWP G) As early as the Biblical period Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are nearly always invoked together. God remembers the covenant which ......
10. Patricius S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Leader of the Jews against the Romans in the fourth century. When the Jews in Palestine were severely oppressed by ......
11. Patrimony S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See I140: Inheritance
12. Patriotism S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Love for and devotion to one's country. The word is not used in the Hebrew Scriptures; but the virtue of ......
13. Benjamin Dias Patto ( Benjamin Dias Pato) ( JE | WP GWP G) Spanish ?akam and preacher; killed April, 1664; son of Jacob Dias Pato, and a pupil of Saul Levi Morteira, whose ......
14. Samson Gomez Patto ( JE | WP GWP G) Member of the college of rabbis in Jerusalem in the eighteenth century. In 1705 he approved the work "Peri ?a-dash" ......
15. Paul de Burgos JE S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Spanish archbishop; born at Burgos about 1351; died Aug. 29, 1435. His father, Isaac ha-Levi, had come from Aragon or ......
16. Paul de Santa Maria S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P115: Paul de Burgos
17. Paul of Tarsus S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See S283: Saul of Tarsus
18. Holger Paulli ( Oliger Pauli) ( JE | WP GWP G) Danish religious fanatic; born in Copenhagen 1644; died there Aug., 1714. Of his early life little is known except that ......
19. Paulus of Prague ( Elhanan ben Menahem) ( JE | WP GWP G) Convert to Christianity; born apparently at Kholm (Chelm), Poland, about 1540; died at Prague about the end of the sixteenth ......
20. Paupers S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See C371: Charity

121 – 140

1. Pavia >> History of the Jews in Pavia ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian city, situated on the River Ticino; the chief city of the province of Pavia. The first indication of the ......
2. Angelo Pavia ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian deputy and lawyer; born at Venice Feb. 24, 1858. He is (1904) district attorney for the province of Como. ......
3. Julius da Pavia ( Lulllus da Pavia) ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian scholar of the eighth century; one of the first European Jews known by name. According to Alcuin, he sustained ......
4. Eugenia Pavia-Gentilomo-Fortis ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian poetess; born at Milan Jan. 4, 1822; died at Asolo, near Treviso, Dec. 30, 1893. She was a pupil ......
5. Pawnbrokers S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P370: Pledges
6. Duarte de Paz ( JE | WP GWP G) Portuguese Marano; representative of and attorney for his Portuguese coreligionists; died about 1541. He was a skilful diplomat but a ......
7. Enrique Enriquez de Paz ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See G346: Gomez, Antonio Enriquez
8. Peh ( JE | WP GWP G) Seventeenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Its name appears to be connected with "peh" = "mouth" (see Alphabet). "Pe" has ......
9. Peace S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) The primary meaning of the word is "prosperity," "health" (Jer. xxix. 7; Job xv. 21 [A. V. "prosperity"]; Isa. xlviii. ......
10. Kiss of Peace ( JE | WP GWP G) Sacramental rite in the Christian Church, preceding the mass or communion service. It appears to be referred to in Rom. ......
11. Peace Offering JE ( JE | WP GWP G) There are three kinds of peace-offering: (1) the thank-offering (V09p566001.jpg); (2) the votive-offering (V09p566002.jpg); and (3) the free-will offering (V09p566003.jpg). ......
12. Peach S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) This fruit and the plum (V09p568003.jpg; Prunus domestica) are mentioned only in late times: the former in the Mishnah (Kil. ......
13. Peacock S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Traditional rendering of "tukkiyyim," mentioned among the creatures brought by Solomon's ships from Tarshish (I Kings x. 22). The peacock ......
14. Pe'ah S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Name of a treatise of the Mishnah, the Tosefta, and the Palestinian Talmud, defining the laws set forth in Lev. ......
15. Pear S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) The pear is mentioned in the Talmud (see Löw, "Aramäische Pflanzennamen," p. 152). It does not seem to have been ......
16. Pearl S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Since ancient times the precious product of the pearl-oyster (Mytilus margaritifer Linn.) has been known and has been an article ......
17. Feodosi Pecherski ( JE | WP GWP G) Russian saint of the eleventh century (1057-74). According to the so-called Nestorian chronicles, while superior of the Kiev monastery he ......
18. Pécs >> History of the Jews in Pecs (or in Fünfkirchen) ( JE | WP GWP G) Royal free city in the county of Baranya, Hungary. The few Jewish families which had settled there toward the end ......
19. Peculiar People S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See C478: Chosen People
20. Pedagogics S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) The science of education. The fundamental law of Biblical pedagogy is that the child should be instructed in the doctrines ......

141 – 160

1. Pedat ben Eleazar ( JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth generation (first half of the fourth century). He was his father's pupil (Ber. 77b; M. ......
2. Pedigree ( Onomastics on Judaism and Jewish history) S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Table of descent and relationship; sometimes given in narrative form. Jews have always carefully recorded their genealogies (see article), but ......
3. Pedlers ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See H381: Hawkers and Pedlers
4. Pedro I S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) King of Portugal (1357-67). This monarch, whose motto was "What the soul is to the body, justice is to the ......
5. Pedro II S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) King of Aragon (1196-1213). Inspired with a desire to receive his kingly crown from the pontiff himself, he journeyed in ......
6. Pedro II ( Pedro d'Alcantara) S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Emperor of Brazil; born Dec. 2, 1825; died at Paris Dec. 5, 1891. He succeeded his father, Pedro I., and ......
7. Pedro III S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) King of Aragon (1276-85). Although Pedro III. protected the Jews from the hatred of the clergy, who destroyed their vineyards ......
8. Pedro IV S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) King of Aragon (1336-87). During the whole of his long reign he showed himself just toward the Jews in his ......
9. Pedro de la Caballeria ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See C2: Caballeria, De la
10. Pedro de Luna S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See B688: Benedict
11. Pedro de Toledo ( JE | WP GWP G) Viceroy of Naples; friend and protector of the Jews; he employed (c. 1530) Don Samuel Abravanel, the youngest son of ......
12. Peg S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See T139: Tent
13. Pechah ( JE | WP GWP G) An office, based upon a Babylonian model, and which existed in Palestine as early as the Biblical period, being mentioned, ......
14. Peine >> History of the Jews in Peine ( JE | WP GWP G) German town in the province of Hanover. It belonged formerly to the bishopric of Hildesheim. Jews lived there as early ......
15. Peirins ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See D81: Dauphiné
16. Raphael ben Jacob Peiser ( JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Peisern in the eighteenth century. He was the author of the "Or la-Yesharim" or "En Ya'a?ob," containing novellæ ......
17. Simon ben Judah Löb Peiser ( JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi in Lissa; born at Peisern, Poland, about 1690. He was the author of "Na?alat Shim'oni," an important work of ......
18. Peixotto ( JE | WP GWP G) American Jewish family, originally from Spain, whence members thereof migrated by way of Holland to Curaçao, in the West Indies. ......
19. Pekah ( JE | WP GWP G) Son of Remaliah and a king of Israel in the period of anarchy between the fall of the dynasty of ......
20. Pekahiah S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) King of Israel in succession to his father (736-735 B.C.), according to P. Rost in Schrader, "K. A. T." 3d ......

161 – 180

1. Pelethites S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See C426: Cherethites
2. Pelican S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Unclean bird mentioned in Lev. xi. 18 and Deut. xiv. 17. Reference to its habit of living in ruins and ......
3. Samuel Hirsh Peltin ( JE | WP GWP G) Polish author; born at Mariampol, government of Suwalki, May, 1831; died at Warsaw Sept. 30, 1896. In his youth he ......
4. Pen S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) An instrument for writing. The older expressions for "writing," which later occur as archaisms in lofty speech, mean "to cut ......
5. Raymund de Peñaforte S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Chaplain to Pope Alexander IV.; grand master of the Dominican order until 1240; confessor of James I. of Aragon; lived ......
6. Penalties S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See F145: Fines and Forfeiture
7. Peniel ( JE | WP GWP G) Place mentioned three times in the Old Testament. It was situated on the western bank of the Jordan, near the ......
8. Solomon ben Abraham Peniel ( JE | WP GWP G) Scholar of unknown date and place. He was the author of a work entitled "Or 'Enayim," on the influence of ......
9. Penini ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See B491: Bedersi
10. Penitence S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See R216: Repentance
11. Penitential Days REF:JE ( JE | WP GWP G) the first ten days of Tishri, beginning with the Day of Memorial (New-Year) and ending with the Day of Atonement. ......
12. Pennsylvania >> History of the Jews in Pennsylvania JE ( JE | WP GWP G) One of the original thirteen states of the American Union; named after William Penn, who received a grant of the ......
13. Abraham Penso ( JE | WP GWP G) Turkish rabbinical author; lived at Sarajevo, Bosnia, at the end of the eighteenth century; pupil of David Pardo. Penso was ......
14. Joseph Penso S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Merchant, poet, and philanthropist; born at Espejo, Spain, about 1650; died at Amsterdam Nov. 13, 1692. He was the son ......
15. Pentapolis S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) The five Sodomite cities Adamah, Gomorrah, Sodom, Zeboim, and Zoar, expressly called "Pentapolis" in Wisdom x. 6.2. The five Philistine ......
16. Pentateuch - ours simply redirects to Tora - ( JE | WP GWP G) the five books of Moses. The word is a Greek adaptation of the Hebrew expression "?amishshah ?umshe ha-Torah" (five-fifths of ......
17. Pentecost ( Shavuot) S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Name given by the Greek-speaking Jews to the festival which occurred fifty days (? ??????????, sc. ????? = "?ag ?amishshim ......
18. Peor S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Mountain in the plains of Zophim, overlooking Jeshimon, where Balak took Balaam to induce him to curse Israel. According to ......
19. Pe'ot ( Payot) S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Side-locks worn by Jewish men, especially those of Poland and Russia. Strictly conforming themselves to the Biblical precept in Lev. ......
20. Peraea S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Division of Palestine, extending, according to Josephus ("B. J." iii. 3, � 3), from Macherus in the south to Pella ......

181 – 200

1. Aaron ben Chayyim ha-Kohen Perachyah ( JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and author; flourished at Salonica in the seventeenth century; a pupil of ?asdai Pera?yah ha-Kohen. He was the author ......
2. Perachyah ben Nissim ( JE | WP GWP G) Tosafist of the second half of the thirteenth century; the author of novellæ on certain Talmudic treatises, some of whichwere ......
3. Pereda ( JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the second generation; probably a pupil of R. Ammi, to whom he addressed a halakic question (Men. ......
4. Nahum Abramovich Pereferkovich [ ru ( JE | WP GWP G) Russian author and translator; born at Stavropol, Caucasia, in 1871, receiving there his early education. In 1894 he was graduated ......
5. Diego Lopez Pereira ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See A921: Aguilar, Diego d'
6. Jonathan Pereira S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) English physician and medical writer; born in London May 22, 1804; died there Jan. 20, 1853. He was educated at ......
7. Pereire S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) French family of which the following are the most distinguished members:(Jacob) Emile Pereire: French banker; grandson of Jacob Rodrigues Pereire; ......
8. Abraham Peretz ( JE | WP GWP G) Russian financier; friend and contemporary of Nathan Notkin and Nevakhovich. He was a son of the rabbi of Levertov, Galicia, ......
9. Isaac Löb Peretz ( JE | WP GWP G) Writer in Yiddish and Hebrew; born at Samoscz, government of Lublin, May 25, 1851. In the Hebrew school in which ......
10. Abraham Israel Pereyra ( JE | WP GWP G) Spanish writer and philanthropist; born at Madrid; died 1699 at Amsterdam. He went to Venice to escape the persecution of ......
11. Perez S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Marano family of Cordova or Seville, several members of which were victims of the Inquisition in Spain and South America, ......
12. Perez ben Elijah of Corbeil JE S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) French tosafist; lived at Corbeil in the second half of the thirteenth century; died before 1298, probably in 1295; son ......
13. Perez ben Isaac Cohen Gerondi ( JE | WP GWP G) Cabalist. The surname "Gerondi" is due to an unwarranted deduction by Jellinek ("Beiträge zur Gesch. der Kabbalah," ii. 64), and ......
14. Perez ben Menahem ( JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Dreux; took part in his old age in the great synod held before 1160 under the presidency of ......
15. Perfume S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Both fragrant ointments and perfumes ("ro?a?" or "ri??u?im") in general (comp. Incense) were known to the Israelites. There is nothing ......
16. Solomon ben Shalom Pergamenter of Brünn ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian Hebraist and poet of the earlier part of the nineteenth century. He was the author of "Yesode ha-Lashon," in ......
17. Pergamus ( Bergama) S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) City of Asia Minor a few hours distant from Smyrna. Although there are no documents to show that Jews lived ......
18. Gustav Peringer von Lilienblad ( JE | WP GWP G) Christian Orientalist; born 1651; died at Stockholm Jan. 5, 1710; studied under Wagenseil at Altdorf. He was professor of Oriental ......
19. Jewish Periodicals ( JE | WP GWP G) in the broadest meaning of the term Jewish periodicals include all magazines as well as all newspapers which, either because ......
20. Perizzites S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Canaanitish tribe settled in the south of Palestine between Hor and Negeb, although it is not mentioned in the genealogy ......

201 – 220

1. Perjury S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) The violation of an oath or solemn promise; solemn assertion of a falsity. While perjury was regarded as one of ......
2. Joseph Perl S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian Maecenas and man of letters; born at Tarnopol, Galicia, 1774; died there Oct. 1, 1839. The son of a ......
3. Max Perlbach [ de ( JE | WP GWP G) German historian; born at Danzig, Prussia, Nov. 4, 1848. He attended the Friedrichs-Gymnasium at Breslau, and studied history at the ......
4. Perles >> Joseph Perles JE ( JE | WP GWP G) A family probably originating in Prague many members of which have been rabbis and scholars.Aaron b. Moses Meïr Perles: Rabbinical ......
5. Issachar Perlhefter ( JE | WP GWP G) Bohemian rabbi and author; died after Sept. 9, 1701. He was a native of Prague and a scion of the ......
6. Eliezer Perlman ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See B642: Ben Judah, Eliezer
7. Pernambuco S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1427: Brazil
8. Perpignan >> History of the Jews in Perpignan ( JE | WP GWP G) Ancient capital of the county of Roussillon, now the chief town of the department of Pyrénées-Orientales, France. Jews probably lived ......
9. Pietro Perreau ( JE | WP GWP G) Christian librarian and Oriental scholar; born at Piacenza Oct. 27, 1827; studied in the Alberoni College of his native town ......
10. Persia >> History of the Jews in Persia ( History of the Jews in Iran) JE, Persian Jews JE ( JE | WP GWP G) One of the great kingdoms of the ancient world and a country connected in various ways with the history of ......
11. Personal Property S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P552: Property
12. Pertuis >> History of the Jews in Pertuis ( JE | WP GWP G) Cantonal chief town of the department of Vaucluse, France. Jews were settled there as early as the thirteenth century. According ......
13. Peru >> History of the Jews in Peru ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See S990: South and Central America
14. Perugia >> History of the Jews in Perugia ( JE | WP GWP G) Town in Umbria, Italy. It had a Jewish congregation as early as the fourteenth century. Several Jewish scholars lived there; ......
15. Perushim S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P252: Pharisees
16. Pesach Haggadah S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1034: Haggadah
17. Pesach Peter ( JE | WP GWP G) German baptized Jew of the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth century. He charged that the Jews ......
18. Pesach Sheni S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) The second Pesa? sacrifice. It was called also "Pesa? ?a?on" (Aramaic, "Pis?a Ze'ira") = "the lesser Pesa?" (R. H. i. ......
19. Pesachim S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Name of a treatise of the Mishnah and the Tosefta in Babli and Yerushalmi, treating chiefly of the regulations in ......
20. Pesakh S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Aramaic word used metaphorically of a (discussion cut short, and employed in rabbinical literature chiefly to denote a decision or ......

221 – 240

1. Moses ben Hayyim ben Shem-Tob Pesante [ Wikidata ( JE | WP GWP G) Turkish commentator of the second half of the sixteenth century. He was the author of "Yesha' Elohim," a commentary on ......
2. Pesaro S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Town in the Marches, Italy, formerly belonging to the duchy of Urbino. It has numbered some Jews among its inhabitants ......
3. Aaron Pesaro ( JE | WP GWP G) Author of the work "Toledot Aharon," in which beside every Biblical verse is noted the place where the verse is ......
4. Pesel ( JE | WP GWP G) Usually carved in wood, or hewn in stone, and called "massekah"; the ephod belonged to it as covering, as in ......
5. Peshat S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Term denoting simple Scriptural exegesis, and derived from the verb "pasha?." "Pasha?" in late Biblical Hebrew, as well as in ......
6. Peshitta S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) The oldest Syriac translation of both the Old and New Testaments. The term "Peshi?ta" means "the simple one" in distinction ......
7. Pesikta S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See M587: Midrash Haggadah
8. Joseph Pesseles ( JE | WP GWP G) One of the foremost representative Jews of Wilna during the middle and latter part of the eighteenth century. His father, ......
9. Pessimism S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See O109: Optimism and Pessimism
10. Pester Jüdische Zeitung [ Wikidata ( JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian political journal in German, issued five times weekly, and printed in Hebrew type. It was founded in 1869 by ......
11. Pestilence S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) The dreaded infectious disease frequent in ancient Israel and proving fatal in the majority of cases was probably the bubonic ......
12. Petachyah ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P236: Pethahiah
13. Peter [ he S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Tosafist of the twelfth century; pupil of Samuel ben Meir and Jacob Tam. His name occurs in Tos. Gi?. 8a ......
14. Peter of Alexandria ( Petrus de Alexandria) S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian monk of the fourteenth century; born at Alessandria, Italy. He translated about 1342, at the request of Pope Clement ......
15. Peter the Great S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See R479: Russia
16. Pethahiah ben Jacob ha-Laban ( JE | WP GWP G) Traveler; born at Prague; flourished between 1175 and 1190. He journeyed from Ratisbon (Regensburg) to the East, traveling through Poland, ......
17. Pethor ( JE | WP GWP G) Native city of Balaam. In Num. xxii. 5 it is called the city "by the river," and in Deut. xxiii. ......
18. Petit Guillaume Haguinet ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See R244: Reuchlin
19. Petra S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Capital of Edom in northern Arabia, lying in a rocky valley surrounded by mountains, of which the highest is Mount ......
20. Arbiter Petronius ( JE | WP GWP G) Latin satirist; generally assumed to be a contemporary of Nero. In a fragment he ridicules the Jews, declaring that, even ......

241 – 260

1. Publius Petronius ( JE | WP GWP G) Governor of Syria (39-42); died probably in the reign of Claudius. During his term of office Petronius had frequent opportunities ......
2. Petrus Leonis ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P307: Pierleoni
3. Pews ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1002: Synagogue
4. Peyrehorade >> History of the Jews in Peyrehorade ( JE | WP GWP G) Cantonal chief town of the department of Landes, France. A number of Jews who had been expelled from Spain and ......
5. Pfalzburg >> History of the Jews in Pfalzburg ( JE | WP GWP G) German city in the consistorial district of Metz; formerly in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle and in the consistorial district of ......
6. Johann Pfefferkorn ( Joseph Pfefferkorn) JE S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) German convert to Christianity; born 1469; died after 1521. According to Grätz, he was a butcher by trade and illiterate, ......
7. Pfersee ( JE | WP GWP G) Small locality near Augsburg, where Jews were living at an early date. About 1559 they were under the protection of ......
8. Pforzheim S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) City in the grand duchy of Baden. With this town is connected the earliest reference to Jews in the former ......
9. Phabi ( JE | WP GWP G) High-priestly family which flourished about the period of the fall of the Second Temple.The name, with which may be compared ......
10. Phanagoria S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See T39: Taman
11. Pharaoh S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) The term applied in the Old Testament to the kings of Egypt. The word is derived from the Egyptian "pr-'o" ......
12. Pharisees S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Party representing the religious views, practises, and hopes of the kernel of the Jewish people in the time of the ......
13. Pharpar JE S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) River flowing from Hermon south of Damascus, where it turns to the southeast and flows into the Lakes of the ......
14. Phasael JE S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Elder brother of Herod the Great. Both Phasael and Herod began their careers under their father, Antipater, who appointed the ......
15. Phasaelis ( Phaselus) ( JE | WP GWP G) City in Palestine founded by Herod the Great in honor of his brother Phasael (Phasaelus). It was situated in the ......
16. Phenicia S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) A district of somewhat indefinite limits stretching for about 200 miles along the east coast of the Mediterranean and extending ......
17. Pheroras ( JE | WP GWP G) Son of Antipater and his wife Cypros; died in 5 B.C. (Josephus, "Ant." xvii. 3, § 3; "B. J." i. ......
18. Philadelphia >> History of the Jews in Philadelphia ( JE | WP GWP G) Chief city of Pennsylvania, and the third, in point of population, in the United States. It is supposed that there ......
19. The Philanthropin ( JE | WP GWP G) High school of the Hebrew community of Frankfort-on-the-Main. The institution, which has been in existence since Jan. 1, 1804, was ......
20. Philip S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Son of Herod and Cleopatra of Jerusalem; ruled from 4 B.C. to 34 C.E. When Herod changed his will in ......

261 – 280

1. Philip IV S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) King of Spain; called the "poet king" because he was devoted to poetry and art; born at Valladolid April 8, ......
2. Philip d'Aquinas ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1677: Aquin, Philippe d'
3. Philip of Bathyra ( JE | WP GWP G) Son of Jacimus and grandson of Zamaris, both of whom governed the city of Bathyra in Trachonitis. Agrippa II. honored ......
4. Isidor Philipp S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian pianist; born at Budapest Sept. 2, 1863. He went to Paris at the age of sixteen and entered the ......
5. Édouard Sylvain Philippe [ Wikidata ( JE | WP GWP G) French playwright; born at Paris April 18, 1840. Educated for a commercial career, he was engaged in business for more ......
6. Félix Philippe ( JE | WP GWP G) French army officer; born 1825; died in Paris July 23, 1848. A lieutenant and instructor in artillery in the National ......
7. Léon Gabriel Philippe ( JE | WP GWP G) French engineer; born at Paris Oct. 6, 1838; educated at the Ecole Polytechnique as an engineer of roads and bridges. ......
8. Friedrich Adolf Philippi JE S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Lutheran theologian; born at Berlin Oct. 15, 1809; died at Rostock Aug. 29, 1882. He was the son of a ......
9. Philippopolis >> History of the Jews in Philippopolis ( JE | WP GWP G) Capital of eastern Rumelia, or southern Bulgaria. Historical data of the early years of its Jewish community are very meager. ......
10. Philippson S 2007-11-07 >> Ludwig Philippson JE, Alfred Philippson JE ( JE | WP GWP G) German family made distinguished by Ludwig Philippson, the founder of the "Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums"; it traces its descent back ......
11. David Philipson ( JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi; born at Wabash, Ind., Aug. 9, 1862; educated at the public schools of Columbus, Ohio, the Hebrew Union ......
12. Philistines S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) A people that occupied territory on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, south-west of Jerusalem, previously to and contemporaneously with ......
13. Phillips S 2007-11-07 >> Jonas Phillips JE ( JE | WP GWP G) American family, especially prominent in New York and Philadelphia, and tracing its descent back to Jonas Phillips, who emigrated from ......
14. Barnet Phillips [ Wikidata ( JE | WP GWP G) American journalist; born in Philadelphia Nov. 9, 1828; educated at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, whence he was graduated in ......
15. Benjamin Samuel Phillips ( JE | WP GWP G) Lord mayor of London; born in London in 1811; died there Oct. 9, 1889. He was a son of Samuel ......
16. George Lyon Phillips ( JE | WP GWP G) Jamaican politician; born in 1811; died at Kingston, Jamaica, Dec. 29, 1886. One of the most prominent and influential residents ......
17. Morris Phillips [ Wikidata ( JE | WP GWP G) American journalist and writer; born in London, England, May 9, 1834.Phillips received his elementary education in Cleveland, Ohio, and later ......
18. Philip Phillips S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) American jurist; born in Charleston, S. C., Dec. 17, 1807; died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 14, 1884. He was ......
19. Phineas Phillips ( JE | WP GWP G) Polish merchant; flourished about 1775. He held the position of chief of the Jewish community at Krotoschin, at that time ......
20. Samuel Phillips S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) English journalist; born at London 1815; died at Brighton Oct., 1854. He was the son of an English merchant, and ......

281 – 300

1. Philo Judaeus S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Alexandrian philosopher; born about 20 B.C. at Alexandria, Egypt; died after 40 C.E. The few biographical details concerning him that ......
2. Phinehas S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron (Ex. vi. 25; I Chron. v. 30, vi. 35 [A. V. vi. 4, ......
3. Phinehas S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Guardian of the treasury at Jerusalem. In the last days of Jerusalem, in the year 70 C.E., he followed the ......
4. Phinehas ben Clusoth ( JE | WP GWP G) Leader of the Idumcans. Simon b. Giora undertook several expeditions into the territory of the Idumeans to requisition provisions for ......
5. Phinehas ben Chama ( JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth century; born probably in the town of Siknin, where he was living when his brother ......
6. Phinehas ben Jair JE S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the fourth generation; lived, probably at Lydda, in the second half of the second century; son-in-law of Simeon ......
7. Phinehas ben Samuel ( JE | WP GWP G) the last high priest; according to the reckoning of Josephus, the eighty-third since Aaron. He was a wholly unworthy person ......
8. Phocylides S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P582: Pseudo-Phocylides
9. Phrygia S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Province in Asia Minor. Antiochus the Great transferred 2,000 Jewish families from Mesopotamia and Babylonia to Phrygia and Lydia (Josephus, ......
10. Phylacteries ( Tefillin) S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) The laws governing the wearing of phylacteries were derived by the Rabbis from four Biblical passages (Deut. vi. 8, xi. ......
11. Physician S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See M325: Medicine
12. Piatelli S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1483: Anaw
13. Bernard Picart S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) An English translation of the work cited was printed by William Jackson (London, 1733). It contains, in addition to Picart's ......
14. Haim Moses Picciotto ( JE | WP GWP G) Communal worker; born at Aleppo 1806; died at London, England, Oct. 19, 1879. He was a member of an ancient ......
15. Adolf Pichler [ Wikidata ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian painter; born in 1834 at Cziffer, in the county of Presburg, Hungary. At the age of thirteen he went ......
16. Joseph Pichon ( Joseph Picho) ( JE | WP GWP G) "Almoxarife" and "contador mayor" (i.e., tax-collector-in-chief) of the city and the archbishopric of Seville; appointed in 1369 by Henry II. ......
17. Joseph Pichon ( Joseph Pitchon) ( JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinical author; lived in Turkey at the end of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Minhage ha-Bedi?ah be-'Ir ......
18. Aaron Pick ( JE | WP GWP G) Biblical scholar; born at Prague, where he was converted to Christianity and lectured on Hebrew at the university; lived in ......
19. Alois Pick [ de ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian physician, medical author, and dramatist; born at Karolinenthal, near Prague, Bohemia, Oct. 15, 1859. He studied medicine at the ......
20. Arnold Pick S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian psychiatrist; born at Gross-Meseritsch, Moravia, July 20, 1851; educated at Berlin and Vienna (M.D. 1875). He became assistant physician ......

301 – 320

1. Behrendt Pick [ de ( JE | WP GWP G) German numismatist and archeologist; born Dec. 21, 1861, at Posen. After passing through the Friedrich-Wilhelms Gymnasium of his native city, ......
2. Isaiah Pick ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See B855: Berlin, Isaiah b. Loeb
3. Philipp Joseph Pick ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian dermatologist; born at Neustadt, Bohemia, Oct. 14, 1834. He studied natural sciences and medicine at Vienna (M.D. 1860) and ......
4. Count Giovanni Frederico Pico de Mirandola ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian philosopher, theologian, and cabalist; born Feb. 24, 1463, at Mirandola; died at Florence Nov. 17, 1494. Gifted with high ......
5. Pictorial art ( JE | WP GWP G) There are no ancient remains showing in what way, if any, the Jews of Bible times made use of painting ......
6. Pidyon ha-Ben ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P527: Primogenitcre
7. Pierleoni S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) Noble Roman family of Jewish origin. A Jewish banker of Rome who had acquired a princely fortune was baptized in ......
8. Pigeon S 2007-11-07 ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See D456: Dove
9. Pigo ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian family of rabbis. Formerly the name was as a rule transcribed Figo; in an Italian document of 1643 it ......
10. Pi-hahiroth ( JE | WP GWP G) A place in the wilderness where the Israelites encamped when they turned back from Etham. It lay between Migdol and ......
11. Abraham b. Elijah ha-Kohen Pikes ( JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; mentioned in "LikKuṭe Maharil," hilkots "Shabbat" and "Yom Kippur." He addressed two letters...
12. Pontius Pilate ( JE | WP GWP G) Fifth Roman procurator of Judea, Samaria, and Idumæa, from 26 to 36 of the common era; successor of Valerius Gratus....
13. Pilegesh JE ( JE | WP GWP G) A concubine recognized among the ancient Hebrews. She enjoyed the same rights in the house as the legitimate wife. Since it...
14. Pilgrimage ( JE | WP GWP G) A journey which is made to a shrine or sacred place in performance of a vow or for the sake of obtaining some form of divine...
15. Pillar ( JE | WP GWP G) the word "pillar" is used in the English versions of the Bible as an equivalent for the following Hebrew words:(1) "Omenot...
16. Pillar of Fire ( JE | WP GWP G) the Israelites during their wanderings through the desert were guided in the night-time by a pillar of fire to give them light...
17. Daniel Pillitz ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1603: Bürger, Theodor
18. Pilpul ( JE | WP GWP G) A method of Talmudic study. The word is derived from the verb "pilpel" (lit. "to spice," "to season," and in a metaphorical...
19. Pilsen ( JE | WP GWP G) City in Bohemia. According to documents of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Jews were then living in Pilsen, and they...
20. Sara de Fonseca Pina y Pimentel ( JE | WP GWP G) Poetess of Spanish descent; lived in England in the early part of the eighteenth century, as did also Abraham Henriques Pimentel...

321 – 340

1. Pin ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See T139: Tent
2. De Pina ( JE | WP GWP G) Portuguese Marano family some members of which were able to escape the Inquisition and to confess Judaism openly in Amsterdam...
3. Eliezer b. Judah Pinczow ( JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; flourished at the end of the seventeenth century; grandson of R. Zebi Hirsch, rabbi of Lublin. He was...
4. Elijah b. Moses Gershon Pinczow ( JE | WP GWP G) Polish physician and Talmudist of the eighteenth century. He was the author of: "Meleket Machashebet," part i., "Ir &#7716...
5. Joseph b. Jacob Pinczow ( JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi and author; flourished in Poland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; descendant of R. Jacob Pollak,...
6. Samson Pine ( Pnie) ( JE | WP GWP G) German translator of the fourteenth century. He was probably born at Peine, a city in the province of Hanover, whencehis name...
7. Hirsch Mendel Pineles ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian scholar; born at Tysmenitz, Galicia, Dec. 21, 1805; died at Galatz, Rumania, Aug. 6, 1870. After having studied Talmud...
8. Arthur Wing Pinero ( Pinheiros) ( JE | WP GWP G) English dramatist; born in London May 24, 1855; eldest son of John Daniel Pinero. He is descended from a Sephardic family...
9. Elijah b. Aaron Pines ( JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Shklov, government of Moghilef, Russia, in the eighteenth century; descendant of the families of Jacob Polak and...
10. Jehiel Michael Pines ( JE | WP GWP G) Russian Talmudist and Hebraist; born at Rozhany, government of Grodno, Sept. 26, 1842. He was the son of Noah Pines and the...
11. Jacob Pinhas ( JE | WP GWP G) German journalist and communal worker; born Aug., 1788; died in Cassel Dec. 8, 1861. He was the son of Salomon (1757-1837)...
12. Moses Pinheiro JE ( JE | WP GWP G) One of the most influential pupils and followers of Shabbethai Zebi; lived at Leghorn in the seventeenth century. He...
13. Pinkes ( JE | WP GWP G) Term generally denoting the register of any Jewish community, in which the proceedings of and events relating to the community...
14. Herman Pinkhof ( JE | WP GWP G) Dutch physician; born at Rotterdam May 10, 1863; educated at the University of Leyden (M.D. 1886). He established himself...
15. Pinne ( JE | WP GWP G) City in the province of Posen, Germany. Jews are first mentioned there in 1553, in connection with a "privilegium" issued...
16. Adolf Pinner JE ( JE | WP GWP G) German chemist; born at Wronke, Posen, Germany, Aug. 31, 1842; educated at the Jewish Theological Seminary at Breslau and...
17. Ephraim Moses b. Alexander Süsskind Pinner [ de ( JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist and archeologist; born in Pinne about 1800; died in Berlin 1880. His first work, bearing the pretentious...
18. Pinsk ( JE | WP GWP G) Russian city in the government of Minsk, Russia. There were Jews in Pinsk prior to the sixteenth century, and there may have...
19. Dob Bär b. Nathan Pinsker ( JE | WP GWP G) Polish Talmudist of the eighteenth century. He was a descendant of Nathan Spira of Cracow, and the author of the Talmudical...
20. Lev (Lev Semionovich) Pinsker ( JE | WP GWP G) Russian physician; born at Tomashev, government of Piotrkow (Piotrikov), Poland, 1821; son of Sim-Chah Pinsker; died...

341 – 360

1. Simhah Pinsker JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Polish Hebrew scholar and archeologist; born at Tarnopol, Galicia, March 17, 1801; died at Odessa Oct. 29, 1864. He received...
2. Pinto >> Josiah ben Joseph Pinto JE, Isaac de Pinto JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Family of financiers, rabbis, scholars, soldiers, and communal workers, originally from Portugal. Members of it lived in Syria...
3. Piotrkow ( JE | WP GWP G) Town in Russian Poland, near Warsaw. For some time Piotrkow was the seat of the Polish diet. At the diet of 1538, held there...
4. Piove di Sacco ( JE | WP GWP G) Small Italian city in the district of Padua; the first in that territory to admit Jews. A loan-bank was opened there by an...
5. Pipe ( JE | WP GWP G) Musical instrument akin to the flute. The flute was a favorite instrument of the ancients. The monuments show flutes of various...
6. Settimio Piperno [ Wikidata ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian economist: born at Rome 1834. He is (1905) professor of statistics and political economy in the Technical Institute...
7. Henry de Worms, Baron Pirbright ( JE | WP GWP G) English statesman; born in London 1840; died at Guildford, Surrey, Jan. 9, 1903; third son of Solomon Benedict de Worms, a...
8. Pirhe Zafon ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
9. Pirke Abot ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See A354: Abot
10. Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Haggadicmidrashic work on Genesis, part of Exodus, and a few sentences of Numbers; ascribed to R. Eliezer b. Hyrcanus, and...
11. Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov ( JE | WP GWP G) Russian physician and pedagogue; born 1810; died Nov., 1881. He was professor at the University of Dorpat. As a statesman...
12. Pisa ( JE | WP GWP G) Town in Tuscany, Italy, at the mouth of the River Arno; formerly a port of the Tyrrhenian Sea. The settlement of Jews in Pisa...
13. Da Pisa ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian family, deriving its name from the city of Pisa. It can be traced back to the fifteenth century. Abraham ben Isaac...
14. Pisgah ( JE | WP GWP G) Mountain in Moab, celebrated as one of the stations of the Israelites in their journey through that country (Num. xxi. 20)...
15. Ha-Pisgah ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
16. Pistachio-nut ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See N382: Nut
17. Pithom JE ( JE | WP GWP G) One of the cities which, according to Ex. i. 11, was built for the Pharaoh of the oppression by the forced labor of the Israelites...
18. Pittsburg >> History of the Jews in Pittsburgh JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Second largest city in the state of Pennsylvania. With Allegheny, the twin-city on the north side of the Allegheny River,...
19. Pius IV ( Gian Angelo Medici) ( JE | WP GWP G) Pope from 1559 to 1565. He was a Milanese of humble origin. and became cardinal under Paul III., through the latter's...
20. Piyyut ( JE | WP GWP G) Hymn added to the older liturgy that developed during the Talmudic era and up to the seventh century. The word is derived...

361 – 380

1. Pizmon ( JE | WP GWP G) Hymn with a refrain; usually the chief poem in the scheme of selichot sung or recited by the cantor and congregation...
2. David ben Eliezer ha-Levi Pizzighettone ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian Talmudist and physician; flourished in the first half of the sixteenth century. As physician he was active in. Cremona...
3. Abraham Marcus Pjurko ( JE | WP GWP G) Russian Hebraist and pedagogue; born at Lomza Feb. 15, 1853. After having studied Talmud and rabbinics, he devoted himself...
4. Place-names ( JE | WP GWP G) the geographical names of Palestine are not so often susceptible of interpretation as the personal names, which frequently...
5. Abraham Placzek ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi; born at-Prerau Jan., 1799; died at Boskowitz Dec. 10, 1884. In 1827 he became rabbi in his native city, and...
6. Baruch Jacob Placzek ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi; born at Weisskirchen, Moravia, Oct. 1, 1835; son and successor of Abraham Placzek. In 1858 he founded a high...
7. Plague ( JE | WP GWP G) Word which is used in the English versions of the Bible as a rendering of several Hebrew words, all closely related in meaning...
8. Plants ( JE | WP GWP G) the following names of plants and plant materials are found in the Old Testament: see [The plant-names in this table follow...
9. Platon (Platyon) of Rome ( JE | WP GWP G) Scholar of the second century C.E. Like Todos (Theodorus) the Roman, his probable contemporary, Platon sought to inspire his...
10. Pledges ( JE | WP GWP G) the law against taking pledges for debt is drawn from the following passages: "No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone...
11. Pleiades ( JE | WP GWP G) the word "Kimah," which occurs in three passages in the Bible (Job ix. 9, xxxviii. 31, and Amos v. 8), each time in connection...
12. Elias Plessner [ pl ( JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; son of Solomon Plessner; born Feb. 19, 1841, at Berlin; died at Ostrowo March 30, 1898. He studied at the University...
13. Solomon Plessner ( JE | WP GWP G) German preacher and Bible commentator; born at Breslau April 23, 1797; died at Posen Aug. 28, 1883. Having lost his father...
14. Solomon Pletsch ( JE | WP GWP G) German physician of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; a native of Regensburg. Pletsch was in 1394 appointed city surgeon...
15. Plock ( Plotzk) ( JE | WP GWP G) Government in Russian Poland, with a Jewish population (1897) of 50,473 (in a total population of 553,094), which is the smallest...
16. Julius Plotke ( JE | WP GWP G) German lawyer and communal worker; born at Borek, province of Posen, Oct. 5, 1857; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Sept. 27...
17. Plowing ( JE | WP GWP G) No description of the plow ("machareshet") is found in the Bible; but it may be assumed with certainty that the implement...
18. Plum ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P132: Peach
19. Plungian ( JE | WP GWP G) Old town in the government of Kovno, district of Telshi, Russia. Among the earlier rabbis of Plungian were Jacob b. &#7826...
20. Mordecai (Marcus) Plungian [ Wikidata ( Plungianski) ( JE | WP GWP G) Russian Hebraist and author; born at Plungian, in the government of Wilna, 1814; died at Wilna Nov. 28, 1883. He was a descendant...

381 – 400

1. Plymouth ( JE | WP GWP G) Seaport in the county of Devon, England; one of the principal ports of that country. A few Jewish families were living there...
2. Pobyedonostzev ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See R479: Russia
3. Judah Löb ben Joseph Pochowitzer ( Puchowitzer) ( JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi and preacher; flourished at Pinsk in the latter part of the seventeenth century; died in Palestine, whither...
4. Edward Pocock ( JE | WP GWP G) English Christian Orientalist and theologian; born at Oxford Nov. 8, 1604; died there Sept. 12, 1691. He studied Oriental...
5. David Podiebrad [ cs ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian writer; born in 1816; died Aug. 2, 1882. He received his education in the yeshibah of Prague and by private tuition...
6. Podivin ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See K382: Kostel
7. Podolia ( JE | WP GWP G) Government in southwestern Russia, on the Austrian frontier (Galicia). It is a center of many important events in the history...
8. Poetry >> Biblical poetry JE ( JE | WP GWP G) the question whether the literature of the ancient Hebrews includes portions that may be called poetry is answered by the...
9. Jacob (Joseph) b. Mordecai Poggetti ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian Talmudist and writer on religious ethics; born at Asti, Piedmont; flourished in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries...
10. Messola Pogorelsky ( JE | WP GWP G) Russian physician and writer; born at Bobruisk March 7, 1862; educated at the gymnasium of his native town; studied medicine...
11. Pogromy ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See R479: Russia
12. Poimanniki ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See R479: Russia
13. Poitiers ( JE | WP GWP G) French city; capital of the department of Vienne. In 1236 the Jews of Poitiers and the adjacent country were harried by the...
14. Poitou ( JE | WP GWP G) Ancient province of France. Several Jewish communities were founded there in the twelfth century, notably those of Niort,...
15. Pola ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See I368: Istria
16. Vittorio Polacco [ it; nl ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian jurist of Polish descent; born at Padua May 10, 1859. Since 1884 he has been professor of civil law at the University...
17. Gabriel Jacob Polak [ he ( JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist and bibliographer; born June 3, 1803; died May 14, 1869, at Amsterdam, where he was principal of a school. He was...
18. Henri Polak ( JE | WP GWP G) Dutch labor-leader and politician; born at Amsterdam Feb. 22, 1868. Till his thirteenth year he attended the school conducted...
19. Herman Josef Polak [ Wikidata ( JE | WP GWP G) Dutch philologist; born Sept. 1, 1844, at Leyden; educated at the university of that city (Ph.D. 1869). From 1866 to 1869...
20. Jakob Eduard Polak ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian physician; born 1818 at Gross-Morzin, Bohemia; died Oct. 7, 1891; studied at Prague and Vienna (M.D.). About 1851...

401 – 420

1. Poland >> History of the Jews in Poland JE, History of Jews in Poland before the 18th century JE ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See R479: Russia
2. Polemics and Polemical Literature ( JE | WP GWP G) Although pagan nations as a rule were not prone to intolerance in matters of religion, they were so with regard to Judaism...
3. Polemon II ( JE | WP GWP G) King, first of the Pontus and the Bosporus, then of the Pontus and Cilicia, and lastly of Cilicia alone; died in 74 C.E. Together...
4. Police Laws ( JE | WP GWP G) Laws regulating intercourse among citizens, and embracing the care and preservation of the public peace, health, safety, morality...
5. David Polido ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See D132: David Raphael ben Abraham Polido
6. Polisher Jüdel ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
7. Adam Politzer ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian aurist; born at Alberti-Irsa, Hungary, Oct. 1, 1835; studied medicine at the University of Vienna, receiving his...
8. Isaac b. Joseph Polkar ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P601: Pulgar, Isaac b. Joseph
9. Poll-tax ( JE | WP GWP G) the custom of taxing a population at a certain amount per head dates back to very ancient times. The first time such a tax...
10. A. M. Pollak, Ritter von Rudin [ cs; he ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian manufacturer and philanthropist; born at Wescheraditz, Bohemia, in 1817; died at Vienna June 1, 1884. Pollak was...
11. Jacob Pollak JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Founder of the Polish method of halakic and Talmudic study known as the Pilpul; born about 1460; died at Lublin 1541. He was...
12. Joachim (Hayyim Joseph) Pollak JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi; born in Hungary in 1798; died at Trebitsch, Moravia, Dec. 16, 1879, where he officiated as rabbi from 1828...
13. Kaim Pollak ( JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian writer; born at Liptó-Szent-Miklós Oct. 6, 1835; educated in the Talmud at his native city, at Presburg...
14. Leopold Pollak [ de ( JE | WP GWP G) Genre- and portrait-painter; born at Lodenitz, Bohemia, Nov. 8, 1806; died at Rome Oct. 16, 1880. He studied under Bergler...
15. Ludwig Pollak ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian archeologist; born in Prague Sept. 14, 1868 (Ph.D. Vienna, 1893). In 1893 he was sent for a year by the Austrian...
16. Moriz Pollak, Ritter von Borkenau ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian financier; born at Vienna Dec. 24, 1827; died there Aug. 20, 1904. After leaving the gymnasium of his native city...
17. Adolph Pollitzer JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Violinist; born at Budapest July 23, 1832; died in London Nov. 14, 1900. In 1842 he left Budapest for Vienna, where he studied...
18. Amélie Pollonais ( JE | WP GWP G) French philanthropist; born at Marseilles in 1835; died at Cap Ferrat July 24, 1898; daughter of Joseph Jonas Cohen, and wife...
19. Gaston Pollonais ( JE | WP GWP G) French journalist; born at Paris May 31, 1865; son of Désiré Pollonais, mayor of Villefranche, and of Amélie...
20. Polna Affair JE ( JE | WP GWP G) An accusation of ritual murder in Polna resulting from the murder of Agnes Hruza March 29, 1899. Polna, a city in the district...

421 – 440

1. Polonnoye ( JE | WP GWP G) Town in the district of Novograd, Volhynia, Russia. It was a fortified place in the middle of the seventeenth century, when...
2. Polotsk ( Polotzk) ( JE | WP GWP G) District town in the government of Vitebsk, Russia. The first mention of its Jewish community occurs in 1551, when, at the...
3. Phinehas b. Judah Polotsk [ he ( JE | WP GWP G) Polish commentator on the Bible; lived at Polotsk, Poland, in the eighteenth century. He wrote commentaries on four books...
4. Poltava ( JE | WP GWP G) Government of Little Russia, which came under Russian domination in 1764, and whose present organization was established in...
5. Polygamy ( JE | WP GWP G) the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at a time; usually, the practise of having a plurality of wives...
6. Polyglot Bible ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1028: Bible Editions
7. Pomegranate ( JE | WP GWP G) A tree of the myrtle family. The pomegranate was carried into Egypt in very early historic times (comp. Num. xx. 5), and was...
8. De Pomis ( JE | WP GWP G) An old Italian Jewish family which claimed descent from King David. According to a legend, reproduced by de Pomis in the introduction...
9. Pompey the Great ( JE | WP GWP G) Roman general who subjected Judea to Rome. In the year 65 B.C., during his victorious campaign through Asia Minor, he sent...
10. Poniewicz ( Ponevyezh) ( JE | WP GWP G) District city in the government of Kovno, Russia. In 1780 CountNikolai Tyszkiewicz by cutting down a forest that lay between...
11. Lorenzo Da Ponte ( Jeremiah Conegliano) ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian-American man of letters, composer, and teacher; born at Ceneda, Italy, 1749; died 1837. He belonged to a well-known...
12. Pontoise ( JE | WP GWP G) French town; capital of an arrondissement in the department of Seine-et-Oise. It contained a Jewish community as early as...
13. Benjamin Pontremoli ( JE | WP GWP G) Turkish rabbinical writer; lived at Smyrna at the end of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work entitled "Shebe&#7789...
14. Esdra Pontremoli ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi, poet, and educationist; born at Ivrea 1818; died in 1888; son of Eliseo Pontremoli, rabbi of Nizza, where a...
15. Hiyya Pontremoli ( JE | WP GWP G) Turkish rabbinical author; died at Smyrna in 1832; son of Benjamin Pontremoli. Ḥiyya Pontremoli wrote, among other works...
16. Relief of Poor ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See C371: Charity
17. Poor Laws ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See C371: Charity
18. The Popes ( JE | WP GWP G) the Roman Church does not claim any jurisdiction over persons who have not been baptized; therefore the relations of the popes...
19. Poppaea Sabina ( JE | WP GWP G) Mistress and, after 62 C.E., second wife of the emperor Nero; died 65. She had a certain predilection for Judaism, and is...
20. David Popper ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian violoncellist; born at Prague June 18, 1845; a pupil of Goltermann at the Conservatorium in that city. At the age...

441 – 460

1. Josef Popper ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian engineer and author; born Feb. 22, 1838, at Kolin, Bohemia. Besides essays on machinery published in the "Sitzungsberichte...
2. Siegfried Popper ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian naval constructor; born at Prague 1848. Educated at the polytechnic high schools of Prague and Carlsruhe, he worked...
3. William Popper [ Wikidata ( JE | WP GWP G) American Orientalist; born at St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 29, 1874; educated at the public schools of Brooklyn, N. Y., the College...
4. Wilma Popper ( JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian authoress; born at Raab, Hungary, May 11, 1857; educated in her native town. She commenced to write at an early...
5. Jacob ben Benjamin Cohen Poppers [ he ( JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Prague in the middle of the seventeenth century; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1740. His father,...
6. Meïr ben Judah Löb ha-Kohen Ashkenazi Poppers JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Bohemian rabbi and cabalist; born at Prague; died at Jerusalem in Feb. or March, 1662. He studied the Cabala under Israel...
7. Populär-wissenschaftliche Monatsblätter ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
8. Porcupine ( JE | WP GWP G) Rendering adopted by many commentators for the Hebrew "Kippod," for which the English versions have correctly Bittern...
9. Aaron b. Benjamin Porges ( Porjes) ( JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi in Prague in the seventeenth century. Under the title "Zikron Aharon" he wrote an introduction to the "Ki&#7827...
10. Moses ben Israel Naphtali Hirsch Porges [ Wikidata ( JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinical author; lived at Jerusalem at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Darke Ziyyon"...
11. Nathan Porges JE ( JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Dec. 21, 1848. He was educated in his native town, at the gymnasium at Olm&#252...
12. Porges von Portheim >> Moses Porges von Portheim JE, Joseph Porges von Portheim JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Prominent Bohemian family of which the following members won particular distinction:Joseph Porges, Edler von Portheim: Austrian...
13. Porging ( JE | WP GWP G) the cutting away of forbidden fat and veins from kasher meat. The Mosaic law emphatically forbids the eating of the fat and...
14. Pork ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See S1200: Swine
15. Portaleone >> Abraham Portaleone JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Jewish family of northern Italy, which probably derived its name from the quarter of Portaleone, situated in the vicinity...
16. Comte Joseph Marie Portalis ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See S229: Sanhedrin
17. Portland ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See O120: Oregon
18. Porto ( Oporto) ( JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the Portuguese province of Entre-Douro-e-Minho. After Lisbon it possessed in former times the largest Jewish congregation...
19. Porto ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See R352: Rome
20. Porto DAB ( JE | WP GWP G) Italian family of which the following members are noteworthy: Abraham b. Jehiel ha-Kohen Porto: Italian scholar; flourished...

461 – 480

1. Georges de Porto-Riche ( JE | WP GWP G) French poet and dramatist; born of Italian parents at Bordeaux in 1849. He entered a banking-house at an early age, but was...
2. Portsea ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P463: Portsmouth
3. Portsmouth ( JE | WP GWP G) English fortified seaport on the coast of Hampshire. The Portsmouth (Portsea) congregation is one of the oldest in the English...
4. Portugal ( JE | WP GWP G) Kingdom in the southwest of Europe. The condition of its Jews, whose residence in the country is contemporaneous with that...
5. Benjamin Osipovich Portugalov [ ru; uk ( JE | WP GWP G) Russian physician and author; born at Poltava 1835; died at Samara 1896. After studying medicine at the universities of Kharkov...
6. Posekim ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P220: Pesaḳ
7. Posen ( JE | WP GWP G) Province of Prussia; formerly a part of the kingdom of Poland, it was annexed by the former country after the partition of...
8. Pösing ( JE | WP GWP G) Small town in the county of Presburg, where on May 27, 1529 (Friday, Siwan 13), thirty Jews were burned to death on the accusation...
9. Adolf Posnanski [ cs ( JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi; born at Lubraniec, near Warsaw, June 3, 1854; educated at the gymnasium, the university, and the rabbinical...
10. Carl Posner ( JE | WP GWP G) German physician and medical writer; born at Berlin Dec. 16, 1854; son of Louis Posner; educated at the universities of Berlin...
11. David ben Naphtali Herz Posner [ Wikidata ( JE | WP GWP G) Polish Talmudic compiler; lived about the middle of the seventeenth century in Posen, and later in Krotoschin. He was the...
12. Karl Ludwig von Posner ( JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian manufacturer; born 1822; died 1887 at Budapest. In 1852 he founded the largest printing, lithographing, and bookbinding...
13. Meïr Posner [ he ( JE | WP GWP G) Prussian rabbi; born 1735; died at Danzig Feb. 3, 1807. He was rabbi of the Schottland congregation in Danzig from 1782 till...
14. Solomon Zalman Posner ( JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi: born at Landsberg about 1778 (?); died in Loslau in 1863; son of Joseph Landsberg, rabbi of Posen. At Solomon&#39...
15. Posquières ( JE | WP GWP G) Town in the department of the Gard, France, where Jews are known to have lived since the twelfth century. When Benjamin of...
16. Posrednik ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
17. Ernst von Possart ( JE | WP GWP G) German actor and author; born at Berlin May 11, 1841. When seventeen years old he was apprenticed to the Schroeder'sche...
18. Felix Possart [ de ( JE | WP GWP G) German landscape and genre painter; born in Berlin March 7, 1837. He at first intended to pursue a juridical career, and held...
19. Abraham Abele Posveller [ he ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See A369: Abraham Abele ben Abraham Solomon
20. Moses Potchi ( JE | WP GWP G) Karaite scholar; lived at Constantinople in the second half of the sixteenth century. He belonged to the Maruli family, the...

481 – 500

1. Potiphar ( JE | WP GWP G) Name of an Egyptian officer. The form "Potiphar" is probably an abbreviation of "Potiphera"; the two are treated as identical...
2. Count Valentine (Abraham b. Abraham) Potocki ( Pototzki) JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Polish nobleman and convert to Judaism; burned at the stake at Wilna May 24, 1749. There are several versions of the remarkable...
3. Potsdam ( JE | WP GWP G) City in the Prussian province of Brandenburg. It was the residence of the electors of Brandenburg; and here the Great Elector...
4. Pottery ( JE | WP GWP G) There can be no doubt that the Israelites first learned the art of making pottery on Palestinian soil. The nomad in his continual...
5. Poultry ( JE | WP GWP G) the rearing of domestic fowl for various uses became a part of Palestinian husbandry only after the return from Babylon (see...
6. Poverty ( JE | WP GWP G) Condition or proportion of poor in a population. Although the riches of the Jews have passed into a proverb, all social observers...
7. Power of Attorney ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See A2100: Attorney, Power of
8. Samuel Poznanski JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Arabist, Hebrew bibliographer, and authority on modern Karaism; rabbi and preacher at the Polish synagogue in Warsaw; born...
9. Moses Prado JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Christian convert to Judaism; lived in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, first at Marburg, Germany, and later at Salonica...
10. Praefectus Judaeorum ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See M436: Mendel
11. Jacob Prag ( JE | WP GWP G) Professor of Hebrew and rabbi at Liverpool; born at Danzig 1816; died at Liverpool Dec., 1881. He studied at the rabbinical...
12. Joseph Prag ( JE | WP GWP G) English communal and Zionist worker; born at Liverpool in 1859; educated at the Liverpool Institute and at Queen's College...
13. Moses Präger ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See M908: Moses ben Menahem
14. Prague >> Old New Synagogue JE ( JE | WP GWP G) Capital of Bohemia; the first Bohemian city in which Jews settled. Reference to them is found as early as 906, when the Jew...
15. Prat Maimon ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See F353: Frat Maimon
16. Prayer ( JE | WP GWP G) from the earliest epochs recorded in the Bible profound distress or joyous exaltation found expression in prayer. However...
17. Prayer-books ( JE | WP GWP G) the collection, in one book, of the year's prayers for week-days, Sabbaths, holy days, and fast-days is generally known...
18. Prayer-motives ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See M1022: Music, Synagogal
19. Preaching ( JE | WP GWP G) -- See H874: Homiletics
20. Precedence ( JE | WP GWP G) Priority and preference given to individuals as a matter of established rule or etiquette. The superiority of the husband...