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501 to 600

501 – 520

  1. Löb of Polonnoye (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See L499: Löb Mokiaḥ
  2. Löb ben Samuel Tzebi Hirsch (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Russian rabbi; born probably at Pinczow, government of Kielce, Poland, about 1630; died at Brest-Litovsk 1714. Löb was on his ......
  3. Löb of Shpola (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Early Ḥasidic rabbi; died at an advanced age Oct. 4, 1810. It is said that he was a poor "melammed" ......
  4. Löb (Aryeh) ben Zachariah (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Polish rabbi; born at Cracow about 1620; died there 1671. When a young man he was called as rabbi to ......
  5. Lobato (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Marano family, several of whose members lived at Amsterdam. The best-known members of the family are:Diego Gomez Lobato (called also ......
  6. Rehuel Lobatto (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Dutch mathematician; born at Amsterdam June 6, 1797; died at Delft Feb. 9, 1866. He sprang from a Portuguese Marano ......
  7. Arthur Löbel (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Austrian physician; born at Roman, Rumania, May 15, 1857; educated at the gymnasium of Czernowitz and the universities of Vienna ......
  8. Hirschel Löbel (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See L277: Levin, Hirschel
  9. Löbele of Prossnitz (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See L509: Prossnitz, Löbele
  10. Moses Jeshurun Lobo (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Spanish poet; lived at Amsterdam in the seventeenth century. He was one of the poets who celebrated the martyrdom of ......
  11. Lock S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) NO DESCRIPTION...
  12. Locust S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Of all the insects the locust is most frequently mentioned in the Old Testament. It occurs under the following nine ......
  13. Lodève S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Small town in the department of Hèrault, France. A Jewish community was founded here as early as the fifth century. ......
  14. Łódź (Lodzi) S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) City in the government of Piotrkow, Russian Poland, about 90 miles west of Warsaw. As late as 1821 it was ......
  15. Isidore Loeb JE (JE | Template:ShortSearch) French scholar; born at Sulzmatt (Soultzmatt), Upper Alsace, Nov. 1, 1839; died at Paris, June 3, 1892. The son of ......
  16. Jacques Loeb JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) American biologist; born in Germany April 7, 1859; educated at the universities of Berlin, Munich, and Strasburg (M. D. 1884). ......
  17. Louis Loeb (JE | Template:ShortSearch) American artist; born at Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 7, 1866. At the age of thirteen he was apprenticed to a lithographer ......
  18. Template:Ill (JE | Template:ShortSearch) American chemist; born at Cincinnati, Ohio, May 23, 1863; son of Solomon Loeb; educated at the New York College of ......
  19. Louis Loewe (JE | Template:ShortSearch) English Orientalist and theologian; born at Zülz, Prussian Silesia, 1809; died in London 1888. He was educated at the yeshibot ......
  20. Ludwig Loewe S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) German manufacturer, philanthropist, and member of the Reichstag; born at Heiligenstadt Nov. 27, 1837; died at Berlin Sept. 11, 1886. ......

521 – 540

  1. Template:Ill (JE | Template:ShortSearch) German writer and editor; born March 12, 1836, at Ernsbach, Württemberg; educated at the high school at Stuttgart and at ......
  2. Emanuel Loewy (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Austrian archeologist; born at Vienna Sept. 1, 1857; educated at the gymnasium and university of his native city (Ph.D. 1882). ......
  3. Maurice Loewy S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Astronomer; born at Vienna, Austria, April 15, 1833. A descendant of a Hungarian family, he received his education at his ......
  4. Logic S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) The science of correct thinking; the science of the principles governing the comparative and constructive faculties in the pursuit and ......
  5. The Logos (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See M399: Memra
  6. David Lolli (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Italian physician; born at Göritz 1825; died at Triest 1884; son of Samuel Vita Lolli; studied medicine at Padua and ......
  7. Template:Ill (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Italian rabbi; born at Göritz Aug. 23, 1826; educated at the lyceum of his native town and at the rabbinical ......
  8. Lom (Lom-Palank) S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Town in Bulgaria, situated at the mouth of the River Lom. It has a population of about 8,000, of which ......
  9. Lomazy (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Town in the district of Bialy, near Brest-Litovsk, Russia. Though in 1566 there was no Jew among its 400 house-owners, ......
  10. Lombroso (Lumbroso) >> Isaac Lumbroso JE (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Sephardic family, members of which lived in Tunis, Marseilles, and Italy. The two forms of the family name are doubtless ......
  11. Cesare Lombroso S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Italian alienist and criminologist; born Nov. 18, 1835, at Verona. Both his paternal and his maternal ancestors belonged to the ......
  12. Lomza (Lomzha) S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Capital of the government of Lomza, Russian Poland; situated on the left bank of the River Narev. In 1897 it ......
  13. London S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Capital city of England. According to William of Malmesbury, William the Conqueror brought certain Jews from Rouen to London about ......
  14. London Committee of Deputies of British Jews (JE | Template:ShortSearch) A body formed to safeguard the interests of British Jews as a religious community. It can be traced to a ......
  15. Jacob ben Judah Chazzan London (JE | Template:ShortSearch) English scholar; born in London at the beginning of the eighteenth century. When quite young he went to Amsterdam, where ......
  16. Solomon b. Moses Raphael London (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Russian author and publisher; lived at Novogrudok, Lithuania, in the first half of the eighteenth century. He was the pupil ......
  17. Long Branch S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See N238: New Jersey
  18. Saadia ben Abraham Longo (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Turkish Hebrew poet; lived at Constantinople about the middle of the sixteenth century. A manuscript in the Bodleian Library (Neubauer, ......
  19. Abraham ben Raphael de Lonzano (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Austrian grammarian; lived at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He was baptized at Idstein and took the name of ......
  20. Menahem ben Judah ben Menahem de Lonzano JE (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Palestinian Masoretic and midrashic scholar, lexicographer, and poet; died after 1608 in Jerusalem. His nativity is unknown, but it has ......

541 – 560

  1. Looking-Glass (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See M657: Mirror
  2. Lopez (JE | Template:ShortSearch) A family of Sephardic Jews several of whom were distinguished for scholarly attainments.Eliahu Lopez: Dutch ḥakam of the seventeenth century. ......
  3. Manasseh Masseh Lopez (JE | Template:ShortSearch) English politician; born in Jamaica Jan. 22, 1755; died at Maristow House, Devonshire, 1831; descended from ancient Sephardic stock. Both ......
  4. Rodrigo Lopez S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Court physician to Queen Elizabeth; born in Portugal about 1525; executed June 7, 1594, for having attempted to poison the ......
  5. Lopez-Laguna (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See L18: Laguna
  6. Lopez Rosa (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Portuguese Marano family of Lisbon, which owned a printing establishment there in 1647.Duarte Lopez Rosa: Physician; born at Beja. Duarte ......
  7. Lord's Prayer S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Name given by the Christian world to the prayer which Jesus taught his disciples (Matt. vi. 9-13; Luke xi. 1-4). ......
  8. Lord's Supper S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Name taken from I Cor. xi. 20, and given by the Christian world to the rite known as the eucharist, ......
  9. Loria (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See L627: Luria
  10. Achille Loria (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Italian political economist; born at Mantua March 2, 1857; educated at the lyceum of his native city and the universities ......
  11. Gino Loria (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Italian mathematician; born at Mantua May 19, 1862; educated at the Mantua lyceum and at the University of Turin, becoming ......
  12. Ibn Vives Lorki (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See A1269: Ibn Vives Allorqui
  13. Hieronymus Lorm S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See L49: Landesmann, Heinrich
  14. Lorraine (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See M524: Metz
  15. Los Angeles S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Commercial and manufacturing city in the state of California; situated on the left bank of the river of the same ......
  16. Lost Property (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See F144: Finder of Property
  17. Lot S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Son of Haran, Abraham's brother, and, consequently, nephew of Abraham; emigrated with his grandfather, Terah, from Ur of the Chaldees ......
  18. Lots (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Means of determining chances. Primitive peoples, and occasionally those on a higher plane of culture, resort to lots for the ......
  19. Lotteries (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See G58: Gambling
  20. Louisville S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See K178: Kentucky

561 – 580

  1. Lousada (of Peak House) (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Name of a family that has held for many generations large possessions in Jamaica. A member of the family was ......
  2. Love S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) The deep affection by which one person feels closely drawn to another and impelled to give up much, or do ......
  3. Love-Feast (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See A888: Agape
  4. Robert Loveman (JE | Template:ShortSearch) American poet; born at Cleveland, Ohio, April 11, 1864; educated and now (1904) residing at Dalton, Ga.; M.A., University of ......
  5. Template:Ill (JE | Template:ShortSearch) German historian; born in Berlin June 3, 1863; educated at Berlin University (Ph.D. 1888). Since 1889 he has lived in ......
  6. Israel Lovy (JE | Template:ShortSearch) French cantor and synagogal composer; born near Danzig Sept., 1773; died in Paris Jan. 7, 1832. He received a Talmudic ......
  7. A. Maurice Low (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Anglo-American writer; born in London July 14, 1860. Educated at King's College School in that city, and afterward in Austria, ......
  8. Asher ben Aryeh Löb Löw (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Chief rabbi of Carlsruhe; born at Minsk in 1754; died at Carlsruhe July 23, 1837. He studied under his father, ......
  9. Benjamin Wolf Löw JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Polish-Hungarian rabbi; born in Wodzislaw, government of Kielce, Poland, 1775; died at Verbo, Hungary, March 6, 1851. His father, Eleazar ......
  10. Leopold Löw JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Hungarian rabbi; born at Czernahora, Moravia, May 22, 1811; died at Szegedin Oct. 13, 1875. He received his preliminary education ......
  11. Moritz Löw JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Astronomer; born at Mako, Hungary, in 1841; died in Steglitz, Berlin, May 25, 1900; studied at the universities of Leipsic ......
  12. Samuel Löw JE (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Talmudist; son of Naṭe (V08p193001.jpg = Nathan) ha-Levi; born at Kolin, Bohemia, about 1720; died May 20, 1806, at Boskowitz, ......
  13. August Löwe (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Russian mathematician and author of mathematical works. Of his books the best known are: "Obscheponyatnaya Teoriya Perspectivy," 1858; "Obscheponyatnaya Prakticheskaya ......
  14. Löwe ben Bezaleel (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See J647: Judah Löw ben Bezaleel
  15. Joel Löwe JE (JE | Template:ShortSearch) German commentator; born in 1760; died in Breslau Feb. 11, 1802. He signed his name in Hebrew writings as Joel ......
  16. Konrad Löwe (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Austrian actor; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Feb. 6, 1856. He took a law course at the University of Vienna, and ......
  17. Template:Ill (JE | Template:ShortSearch) German physician; born at Berlin March 11, 1844. After graduating from the gymnasium, he attended the universities of Jena, Würzburg, ......
  18. Moses Samuel Löwe (Johann Michael Siegfried Löwe) (JE | Template:ShortSearch) German painter and engraver; born at Königsberg, Prussia, June 24, 1756; died there May 10, 1831. Aided by the friendship ......
  19. Template:Ill (JE | Template:ShortSearch) German geographer; born at Strzelno, Prussia, 1800; died at Berlin Dec. 12, 1893. He was educated in Berlin, where he ......
  20. Template:Ill (JE | Template:ShortSearch) German physician; born in Munich Jan. 23, 1847; educated at the gymnasium and university in his native city (M.D. 1870). ......

581 – 600

  1. Max Löwengard (JE | Template:ShortSearch) German rabbi; born in Württemberg; died at Basel May 25, 1876. He was a friend of Berthold Auerbach and a ......
  2. Levi Saul Löwenstamm (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See A1863: Aryeh Loeb ben Saul
  3. Saul Löwenstamm (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Rabbi and Talmudist; born at Rzeszow 1717; died at Amsterdam June 19, 1790. He is known as the author of ......
  4. Baruch Solomon Löwenstein (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Russian mathematician; born at Wolodarka, Russia, in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. He wrote: "Bikkure ha-Limmudiyyot," explanations of ......
  5. Template:Ill (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Austrian rabbi; born at Meseritz, province of Posen, Feb. 1, 1821; died at Lemberg March 15, 1889. Upon the recommendation ......
  6. L. H. Löwenstein (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Hebrew scholar; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main about 1850. He was reviser in the publishing-house of Isaac Lehrberger at Rödelheim, which office ......
  7. Template:Ill (JE | Template:ShortSearch) German rabbi; born in Gailingen, Baden, Dec. 1, 1843. He attended the gymnasium at Bischofsheim-on-the-Tauber, receiving at the same time ......
  8. Rudolf Löwenstein JE (JE | Template:ShortSearch) German author; born at Breslau Feb. 20, 1819; died at Berlin Jan. 6, 1891. When only nine years of age ......
  9. Johann Jacob Löwenthal S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Hungarian chess-master; born July, 1810, in Budapest; died at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, England, July 20, 1876. He was educated at the ......
  10. Nathan Löwenthal (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Russian histologist; born in 1856; educated at the Academy for Physicians and Surgeons at St. Petersburg and at the universities ......
  11. Template:Ill (JE | Template:ShortSearch) German teacher and writer; born Feb. 25, 1819, at Schmiegel; died at Posen Feb. 28, 1855. He attended the gymnasium ......
  12. Template:Ill (JE | Template:ShortSearch) German rabbi; born at Adelsdorf, near Erlangen, Bavaria, Jan. 31, 1803; died at Fürth Dec. 26, 1873. He received his ......
  13. Jacob Mordecai ben Judah Löb Löwinsohn (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Russo-Polish scholar and journalist; born in Grodno 1832; died in Warsaw Feb. 13, 1878. A son of the rabbi of ......
  14. Solomon Löwisohn JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Historian and poet; born in Mor, district of Stuhlweissenburg, Hungary, in 1788; died there April 27, 1821. He studied at ......
  15. Adolf Löwy (JE | Template:ShortSearch) German physiologist; born in Berlin June 29, 1862; educated at the gymnasium and university of his native city (M.D. 1885), ......
  16. Albert Löwy (JE | Template:ShortSearch) English rabbi and communal worker; born at Aussee, Moravia, Dec., 1816. He studied first at Olmütz, and then moved to ......
  17. Jacob Ezekiel Löwy (JE | Template:ShortSearch) German rabbi and author; born at Hotzenplotz, Austrian Silesia, Aug. 24, 1814; died at Beuthen Nov. 20, 1864. After attending ......
  18. Luach (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See A1275: Almanac
  19. Heschel Abramovich Lubarsky (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Russian writer; born at Balta Sept., 1878. He was educated in a family of Ḥasidim, in the Odessa Commercial School, ......
  20. Lübeck S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Free city of Germany; situated on the River Trave, not far from the Baltic Sea; it forms, with the surrounding ......

601 to 700

601 – 620

  1. Philipp Lubelski (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Polish physician; born at Zamosc 1788; died at Warsaw Feb. 3, 1879. He began his career as an army surgeon ......
  2. Lublin S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) City of Russian Poland, in the government of the same name; situated 60 miles southeast of Warsaw; in importance the ......
  3. Meïr ben Gedaliah Lublin (MaHaRaM) (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Polish rabbi; born at Lublin (?) 1558; died there May 3, 1616. He was descended from a family of rabbis, ......
  4. Hugo Lubliner (JE | Template:ShortSearch) German dramatist; born at Breslau April 22, 1846. He studied at the industrial school in Berlin, and became manager of ......
  5. Template:Ill (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Polish writer; born 1809; died at Warsaw 1868. After the Polish revolution of 1831 he settled in Brussels, where he ......
  6. Solomon Lublinsky (JE | Template:ShortSearch) German journalist and writer; born at Johannisberg, Prussia, Feb. 18,1868. He was occupied for a time as a clerk in ......
  7. Luboml (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Town in the government of Volhynia, Russia. Jews lived there as early as the sixteenth century, though the attitude of ......
  8. Template:Ill (JE | Template:ShortSearch) African explorer; born in London Sept. 22, 1851; died at sea Nov. 20, 1876. After traveling in the United States ......
  9. Lucca S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) City of Tuscany, Italy. Its Jewish community is known in literature especially through the Kalonymus family of Lucca, whose ancestor ......
  10. Lucena, Córdoba S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) City near Cordova, Spain, magnificently situated, and surrounded by strong walls and wide moats. In early times it was inhabited ......
  11. Lucerne S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) City of Switzerland, in the canton of the same name. Jews were living there as early as the middle of ......
  12. Lucifer S 2005-08-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Septuagint translation of "Helel [read "Helal"] ben Sha?ar" (= "the brilliant one," "son of the morning"), name of the day, ......
  13. Lucuas (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Toward the end of the reign of the emperor Trajan, in 116, the Jews of Cyrene rebelled, their leader being ......
  14. Moriz Ludassy (Gans) JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Hungarian journalist; born at Komorn in 1825; died at Reichenau Aug. 29, 1885. As early as 1848 he was editor ......
  15. Luke (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See N245: New Testament
  16. Lulab (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Name given to the festive palm-branch which with the Etrog is carried and waved on the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot). ......
  17. Luliani ben Tabrin JE (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Palestinian scholar of the beginning of the fourth century. The name, which is the equivalent of "Julianus ben Tiberianus," has ......
  18. Lumbroso (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See L530: Lombroso
  19. Jacob Lumbrozo JE (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Physician, planter, and trader resident in the palatinate of Maryland, America, in the middle of the seventeenth century; born at ......
  20. Benjamin Lumley S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Director of Her Majesty's Theatre, Drury Lane, London; born in Canada 1811; died in London March 17, 1875. He was ......

621 – 640

  1. Abraham Moses Luncz JE (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Russian scholar and editor; born Dec. 9, 1854, at Kovno, Russia; went when very young to Jerusalem, where he still ......
  2. Lunel S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Chief town of the department of Hérault, France; at times it is called V08p208002.jpg and V08p208003.jpg (see Zerahiah Gerundi, preface ......
  3. Solomon Ephraim Luntschitz S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See E418: Ephraim, Solomon ben Aaron
  4. Luntz (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Name of a family descended from the Loans, or Loanz, family of Worms. According to a family tradition, Elijah, the ......
  5. Isaac Luperio (Lupercio) (JE | Template:ShortSearch) A Jew, perhaps a Marano, of Spanish descent; lived at Smyrna. His apology, written in Spanish and directed against a ......
  6. Lüpschütz (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See L453: Lipschitz
  7. Luria - We have dab page which lists 6 different ones - (JE | Template:ShortSearch) A family with wide ramifications and several of whose members were distinguished for mystical tendencies and rabbinical knowledge.Abraham b. Nissan ......
  8. Amatus Lusitanus JE (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See J577: Juan Rodrigo de Castel-Branco
  9. Lust S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See Y39: Yeẓer ha-Ra'
  10. Lustration S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See A338: Ablution
  11. Martin Luther S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) German church reformer; born at Eisleben Nov. 10, 1483; died there Feb. 18, 1546. The Reformation originated in the Renaissance, ......
  12. Lutsk (Lutzk) S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) District city in the government of Volhynia, Russia, situated on the right bank of the Styr at its junction with ......
  13. Lutzyn (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Russian town in the government of Vitebsk; it is situated near a chain of mountains and surrounded by lakes and ......
  14. Luxembourg S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Grand duchy of central Europe, its capital bearing the same name. The sources do not definitely indicate when Jews first ......
  15. Luz S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Older name of the city of Beth-el (Gen. xxviii. 19, xxxv. 6, xlviii. 3; Josh. xvi. 2, xviii. 13; Judges ......
  16. Simchah Isaac ben Moses Luzki (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Karaite writer and bibliographer; born at Lutsk at the end of the seventeenth century; died, according to Firkovich, at Chufut-Kale, ......
  17. Luigi Luzzatti S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Italian statesman and political economist; born at Venice March 11, 1841; studied at the University of Padua (Doctor of Law ......
  18. Luzzatto (Luzzatti) S 2006-02-19 >> Samuel David Luzzatto JE, Filosseno Luzzatto JE (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Name of a family of Italian scholars whose genealogy can be traced back to the first half of the sixteenth ......
  19. Aaron Moses ben Tzebi Hirsch Lwow (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Grammarian, scribe, and dayyan of Lemberg in the eighteenth century. He wrote: "Shirah Ḥadashah" (Zolkiev, 1764), a Hebrew grammar in ......
  20. Lydda S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) City in Palestine, later named Diospolis; situated one hour northeast of Ramleh, about three hours southeast of Jaffa, and, according ......

641 – 660

  1. Lying S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Telling a falsehood with the intent of deceiving. Biblical Data: Lying is most vigorously condemned in the Law: "Keep thee far ......
  2. Abraham de Lyon (JE | Template:ShortSearch) One of the first Jewish settlers in Georgia, U. S. A.; ancestor of the well-known family of that name which ......
  3. George Lewis Lyon (JE | Template:ShortSearch) English journalist and communal worker; born at Portsea, England, Dec. 11, 1828; died in London Feb. 14, 1904. After acting ......
  4. Hart Lyon (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See H769: Hirsch, Levin Joseph
  5. Myer Leon (Myer Leoni) (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Operatic singer and ḥazzan; died at Kingston, Jamaica, about 1800; uncle of John Braham; both he and his nephew were ......
  6. Robert Lyon DAB (JE | Template:ShortSearch) American journalist; born in London, England, Jan. 15, 1810; died in New York city March 10, 1858. After a brief ......
  7. Lyons S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) City on the Rhône, France. Jews seem to have been established in the surrounding region at an early date. The ......
  8. Israel Lyons UNR (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Hebrew teacher and author; born in Poland; died 1770. He emigrated to England and settled in Cambridge. Here he practised ......
  9. Israel Lyons + (JE | Template:ShortSearch) English astronomer, botanist, and mathematician; born at Cambridge 1739; died in London 1775; son of Israel Lyons. In his earliest ......
  10. Jacques Judah Lyons JE (JE | Template:ShortSearch) American minister; son of Judah and Mary Lyons; born in Surinam, Dutch Guiana, Aug. 25, 1814; died in New York ......
  11. Nicolas de Lyra + (JE | Template:ShortSearch) French exegete; born at Lyre, near Evreux, Normandy, about 1270; died at Paris Oct. 23, 1340. The only certain dates ......
  12. Lyre S 2006-02-19 (JE | Template:ShortSearch) -- See H298: Harp and Lyre
  13. Lysias + (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Syrian statesman of royal descent; died 162 B.C. (I Macc. iii. 32; Josephus, "Ant." xii. 7, § 2). When Antiochus ......
  14. Lysimachus (JE | Template:ShortSearch) Anti-Jewish Alexandrian writer; lived before Apion. Like the Stoic Chæremon, he went beyond even Manetho in his inimical account of ......

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