Joseph Zedner — (born at Gross Glogau, February 101804; died at Berlin October 101871) was a German Jewish bibliographer and librarian.After completing hiseducation, he acted as teacher in the Jewish school in Strelitz (Mecklenburg), where the lexicographer… … Wikipedia
Joseph Escapa — (c. 1572 1662) served in the rabbinate of Smyrna. He was probably born at Uskup, European Turkey, after which place he is named. At first rabbi and chief of the yeshivah at Salonica, he later filled the same offices at Smyrna, where at the… … Wikipedia
Abraham Jekuthiel Salman ben Moses Joseph Lichtstein — was the rabbi of Płońsk in the region of Warsaw, in the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work entitled Zera Abraham (Dyhernfurth, 1811), a commentary on the Sifre, followed by Biblical and Talmudical indexes, and accompanied with the… … Wikipedia
Jacob ben Abraham Faitusi — (d. July 1812, Algiers) was a Tunisian Jewish scholar. He settled in the later part of his life at Jerusalem, whence he was sent as a collector of alms to Italy and Algeria.Faitusi was the author of Berit Ya aqob (Livorno, 1800), the contents of… … Wikipedia
HEBRAISTS, CHRISTIAN — (1100–1890). Factors governing gentile enterprises in Hebrew scholarship prior to the latest phase of more widespread secular attitudes may be distinguished as (1) motivation; (2) scholarly facilities; and (3) occasion; appreciation and… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Jüdische Literatur — Jüdische Literatur, im weitern Sinne das gesamte Schrifttum der Juden vom Abschluß der Bibel bis zur Gegenwart. Sie wurzelt in der hebräischen Literatur, deren Pflege und Weiterbildung sie übernimmt. Zu der überkommenen eignen Gelehrsamkeit tritt … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
Josippon — is the name usually given to a popular chronicle of Jewish history from Adam to the age of Titus, attributed to an author Josippon or Joseph ben Gorion. The chronicle was probably compiled in Hebrew early in the 10th century, by a Jewish native… … Wikipedia
ASH — ASH, family which during the 18th and 19th centuries produced a number of distinguished rabbis, both in Poland and in Germany. These included: (1) ABRAHAM ASH (18th century), rabbi and author who was born in Posen and became rabbi at Celle. He… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Samuel de Medina — Rabbi Samuel ben Moses de Medina (abbreviated RaShDaM, Hebrew רשד ם or Maharashdam ), was a Talmudist and author; born 1505; died October 12, 1589, at Salonica. He was principal of the Talmudic college of that city, which produced a great number… … Wikipedia
Kalonymus ben Kalonymus — ben Meir (né à Arles en 1286 et décédé après 1328), est un rabbin provençal, philosophe et traducteur. Il étudie la philosophie et la littérature rabbinique à Salonique sous la direction d Astruc de Noves l Ainé et de Moses ben Solomon de… … Wikipédia en Français
