XVIIIth century CE

Rabbi of Marrakech. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 20-3.

Rabbi, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Son of Moshe. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 20-3.

Rabbi of Fes. Period not specified by the source. Son of Eliahu. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 20-1.

Rabbi of Debdou. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 20-3.

Rabbi of Rif, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5478 of the Hebrew era (1718). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 19-3.

Rabbi of Salé, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5513 of the Hebrew era (1753). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 20-1.

Rabbi of Sefrou, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 19-4.

Rabbi of Fès. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 20-2.

Rabbi and Tunisian author, member of the Djerba community.

Rabbi, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5491 of the Hebrew era (1731). Son of Abraham. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 19-4.

Rabbi of Salé, 18th century. Died in 5467 of the Hebrew era (1707). Son of Yeshua I. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 20-1.

Rabbi of Sefrou, eighteenth century. Died in 5521 of the Hebrew era (1761). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 19-4.

German rabbi established at Lehren-Steinsfeld, in Württemberg, at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He is the author of « Ha-Ohel ha-'Olam » (The Eternal Tent), novellas on the talmudic…

rabbi (1720/21–1758)

(1778-1835)

Glossator active in the eighteenth century, author of a collection of casuistic glosses on the talmudic treatises Zebaḥim and Menaḥot, published in Metz in 1767 under the title « Ma'yan Ganim »…

Judeo-German writer, born in Russia in the last quarter of the 18th century and died around 1868. First a Hasidic disciple of R. Nahman of Braslav, he later abandoned this circle to settle in Odessa,…

historical figure

Founder of the Jewish Board of Guardians of London, born in Cheltenham in 1800, died in London on November 13, 1882. A prosperous man of business, he becomes in 1858 warden of the Great Synagogue…

Emperor of Russia, born in Saint Petersburg on December 23, 1777, died in Taganrog on December 1, 1825. His reign (1801-25), begun upon the death of his father Paul I, assassinated in 1801, initiated…

Biblical scholar of the eighteenth century, author of the « Miẓnefet Bad » (The Linen Mitre), a collection of dissertations on the arrangement of the Pentateuch according to its weekly sections,…

Kabbalist of Grodno, author of Yessod ve-Choresh ha-Avoda, guide to Jewish prayer.

German author active in southern Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century, he writes on philosophical subjects from a rationalist perspective. Among his works: « Von dem Dasein Gottes,…

First Anglican bishop of Jerusalem, born to Jewish parents in Schönlanke, in the Grand Duchy of Posen, in May 1799, died in Belbeis, Egypt, on November 23, 1845. Educated in strict Orthodox fashion,…

Chess player, born in Hohenfeld-on-the-Main, Germany, around 1766, died in London on 16 November 1850. Assiduous habitué of the Café de la Régence in Paris, where he spends most of his life, eminent…

Rabbi of Cairo, born in 1764, died after 1840 — the year in which he provided decisive support to Crémieux and Solomon Munk in their effort to found schools for the Jews of Egypt, following the…

Commentator active in Jerusalem in the 18th century, author of a commentary on the "Hilkot Bekorot" (Laws on Primogeniture) of Naḥmanide, published in Livorno in 1794. Some attribute to him also the…

Casuist active in Turkey at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th. He writes the « Zekor le-Abraham » (Remember Abraham), alphabetical commentary on the laws of the four Ṭourim,…

Dissenting minister, educator and English author, born in Truro in 1771. He directs for thirty years a private school in Hackney, near London, where he dies on June 17, 1839. He is chiefly known for…

Writer active in Amsterdam at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He publishes in Portuguese the "Anagrama Achrostica do Sagrado Nome de Tora" (Amsterdam, 1706), dedicated to D. Abraham Israël…

French shipowner and philanthropist, born in Aleppo, Syria, in 1786, died in Aix on January 30, 1873. Son of a rabbi of Palestine, he left Jerusalem in 1806 to venture into the naval trade in…

Venetian rabbi of the eighteenth century, probably son of David Altaras, he notably edited a collection of prayers and canticles, published in Venice in 1718.

Rabbi of Salonika in the first half of the eighteenth century. He edits and annotates the works of his father, Solomon Amarillo, and himself composes novellae on legal questions treated by…

Talmudic author of the eighteenth century, Aaron ben Solomon Amarillo belonged to the Amarillo family, a lineage of scholars that gave several great rabbis to Turkey. Like his father Salomon and his…

Rabbi of Salonika, died in 1722, father-in-law of Salomon Abdallah and intimate friend of the learned rabbi Joseph Cobo. All his works are published during his lifetime by his son Moses: first his…

Philosophical writer, active in Rome in the first half of the 18th century. He devoted his life to a work on the universe, the « Pancosmosophia », first mentioned in the « Giornale de' Letterati » of…

Spanish Jew established in Temesvar, Hungary, in the second half of the eighteenth century, nicknamed « Re chico » (the little king) for his wealth and highly esteemed at the court of Marie-Thérèse.…

Author from Livorno, he wrote the « Tefilah le-David » (A Prayer of David), a commentary on the hundred daily blessings, published in Salonique in 1777.

Moroccan rabbi (1743-1782)

Rabbi, eighteenth century. Died in 5542 of the Hebrew era (1782). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 102-2.

Rabbi of Marrakech. Period not specified by the source. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 102-2.

French rabbi, born in the last quarter of the 18th century, died in Bordeaux in 1836. During the Terror (1793-94), his energy and eloquence prevented the installation of a guillotine in the…

Turkish biblical commentator, active in Salonique in the second half of the 18th century. He wrote the "'Ets Ḥayyim" (Tree of Life), disquisitions on Genesis, printed with the "Sefat Emet" of M.…

Turkish rabbi and preacher, active in Salonike around the mid-eighteenth century. He writes the « Sippour ha-Ḥayyim » (Tale of Life), a collection of funeral orations and various homilies on the…

French religious writer, born around 1800, died in September 1872, sole brother of Philippe Anspach. He was the first to translate the daily prayers from Hebrew into French. In 1842, he published his…

Honorary Counsel at the French Court of Cassation and officer of the Legion of Honour, born in Metz in 1800, died on December 3, 1875. Lawyer in Paris at the time of the July 1830 revolution, in…

German rabbi, born in Wongrowitz, Prussia, on February 6, 1796, died in the same city on September 22, 1865. Orphaned of his father in childhood, forced to earn his living from the age of twelve, he…

Austrian dramatist, grandson of the famous Viennese banker Adam Isaac von Arnstein, born in Vienna on October 15, 1765, died in the same city in 1840. Entered in 1782 in his grandfather's bank, he…

Figure of Viennese high society, born in Berlin on September 29, 1757, died near Vienna on June 8, 1818, daughter of the Berlin banker Daniel Itzig, head of the Berlin Jewish community. Close to…

German-Jewish banker

German physician and medical writer, born in 1774, died on 12 June 1807. Doctor of medicine in 1800, he subsequently became a teacher at the University of Berlin. He published several works,…

German physician, born in Metz on May 2, 1793, died in Strasbourg on September 8, 1861. He went to Strasbourg in 1809 to enroll at the Faculty of Medicine, obtained his doctorate in 1816, became…

Polish rabbi

Hasidic leader, known as Shpoler Zeide (Grandfather of Shpola)

First and only Chief Rabbi of Galicia, based in Brody.

Rabbi born in Grodno, kabbalist known as the Baal ha-Pardes, correspondent of the Gaon of Vilna.

Poet of the Galician Haskala, author of the collection Shirim Shonim.

Talmudist and German author, born in 1715, died in Hanover on March 6, 1789, son of the author of the « Pené Yehoshoua' », who died as rabbi of Frankfurt-on-the-Main in 1755. Assistant to his father…

Rabbi and author, son of Benjamin Asahel, chief rabbi of Salonique, where he lived in the first half of the 18th century. He is the author of the « Sam Ḥayyaï » (Spice of my life), a collection of…

Rabbi and German author, born in Posen, rabbi of Zell toward the end of the eighteenth century, from a learned family tracing back to Meïr of Lublin; his father Joseph was rabbi of Dessau, and one of…

German rabbi

German author and translator, born in Berlin on 8 February 1767, died in the same city on 8 December 1822. He begins his literary career as a defender of Jewish emancipation, before broadening his…

Hazan, born in Holland in 1789, died in London in December 1872. Reader and cantor of the Great Synagogue of London for thirty-seven years, he contributes, with composer Mombach, to systematizing…

Editor, bibliographer and writer, born in Kammin, Prussia, on August 23, 1800, died in Venice on September 1, 1853. Intended for commerce, he became a jeweler merchant in Saint Petersburg, where the…

Preacher in Prenzlau, in Prussia, and teacher in the school founded by his father. In 1701, he published in Dessau a collection of discourses entitled "Shemena Laḥmo" (a pun on his name Asher), in…

Talmudist active in the second half of the 18th century. He writes two works, both published in Fürth in 1785: the "Ben Emounim" (Son of the Faith), a homiletic commentary on the Bible, and the…

Chief of the beth-din of Slonim, in Lithuania, at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He wrote two works: "Otot le-Mo'adim" (Signs for the Festivals), novellæ on the treatise Pessaḥim and laws…

Polish talmudic scholar, active in the late 18th century. With his two sons, Yeḥiel Michel ha-Lévi of Glogau and Moses ha-Lévi of Glogau, he wrote homilies on the Pentateuch, published in 1820 under…

Polish commentator on the Shulḥan Arukh, dayan in Tykocin, Poland, in the first half of the eighteenth century. His succinct commentary on the three first parts of the Shulḥan Arukh is appended to…

Rabbi and Moravian author, born in the early eighteenth century, died on 16 July 1734. Rabbi of the communities of Aussee and Gewitsch, he lives in Aussee, at the home of his father-in-law, the rich…

Rabbi and author, born in Russia around the middle of the eighteenth century, officiating in Chodorow then in Lemberg, where he died on May 5, 1807. He is the author of the « Or ha-Ner » (Light of…

Commentator, ritualist, and liturgical editor, born in the second half of the eighteenth century, active in Tiberias, in Palestine, from where he was sent as a traveling communal agent in Europe,…

Polish rabbi and man of letters, born in the second half of the 18th century, died in Lublin on May 1, 1843, son of Rabbi Meshoulam Zalman of Pomarin — of the Orenstein family, whose brother…

Talmudist and author, born in Galicia around 1778, died in Safed, Palestine, in 1857. Rabbi in Tolcsva, Hungary, from 1803 to 1843, he emigrated thereafter to Palestine and settled permanently in…

Dutch jurist, son of Moïse Salomon Asser, born in Amsterdam on February 15, 1780, died on August 3, 1836. After studying law and philology at the Athenaeum of Amsterdam, he obtained his doctorate on…

Dutch jurist, born in Amsterdam in August 1754, died in the same city on November 4, 1826. Originally destined for commerce, he turned toward the study of commercial law and became, as a prosecutor…

German physician and poet, born in Königsberg in 1787, died April 25, 1842. He studied at the universities of Tübingen, Halle, Vienna and Göttingen, where he earned his doctorate on August 26, 1807,…

Talmudist from Galicia in the second half of the 18th century. He is the author of the « Meḥoḳeḳ Yehouda » (The Legislator of Judah), Lemberg, 1792, a commentary on the sections of the Ora'h Ḥayim of…

German rabbi, born in Buxweiler, Alsace, in the mid-eighteenth century, died in Bonn November 3, 1846. From an old rabbinical family, destined for the rabbinate from childhood, he was first trained…

Educator and philanthropist, born in Inowrazlaw, in the province of Posnania, in Prussia, on August 14, 1793, died in Berlin on January 22, 1864, founder and lifetime director of the Jewish orphanage…

Grammarian and commentator on Rashi, active in the early eighteenth century in Fürth, Amsterdam and Frankfurt-on-the-Main. Devoted like all Jewish scholars of his time to the exclusive study of the…

Polish Talmudist, active in the first half of the eighteenth century. He is the author of « Péér Halakha » (Ornament of the Halakha), Zolkiev, 1738, novellas on the Talmud, its commentaries, and the…

Rabbi and Talmudist, active in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Head of the rabbinical court (« beth din ») of Cracow, he had to leave his homeland in 1714 due to persecutions…

Hebrew scholar, born in Posen at the end of the eighteenth century, died in that same city in 1836. He translates Habakkuk into German with explanatory notes (Breslau, 1821), and collaborates on the…

French singer and songwriter

Austrian member of parliament and major industrialist, born in Vienna on July 7, 1837, from one of the oldest and most notable Jewish families of Moravia, established in the town of Auspitz from…

Rabbi of Bohemia, born in 1755, died March 25, 1855 in Goltsch-Jenikau. A representative of the strictest orthodoxy, he published in Prague in 1826 a polemical pamphlet against Aaron Chorin, the «…

Talmudist who lived in Morocco in the eighteenth century, he is the author of "'Oz we-Hadar", a work published in Livorno in 1855 and containing innovative commentaries on the Talmudic treatises…

18th-century Hasidic Rabbi

19th C. rabbi in Ciechanow

Talmudic judge

Hungarian rabbi

Rabbi of Tafilalet. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 102–1.

Rabbi of Rabat, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5533 of the Hebrew era (1773). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 102-1.

Rabbi of Salé, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 102-1.

Son of Judah Ayyas, he lived in Jerusalem from where he was sent to collect funds for the poor of Palestine; in 1783, he was received with great honors in Algiers, then answered a call from Ferrara…

Author and translator born in Fürth, Germany, he edited, with his own commentary on the thirteen hermeneutical rules, an excerpt from the 'Shulḥan 'Aruk' of his father-in-law Eliezer ha-Ḳaṭan,…

Kabbalist and rabbi in Livorno, born in the interior of Africa and died in Jerusalem in 1740, he had at Livorno a controversy with Abraham Ḥayyim Rodriguez before becoming rabbi in Aleppo and then in…

Hakam of Amsterdam in the eighteenth century, died in 1792, he devoted himself to rabbinical studies and was elected hakam of Amsterdam in 1782; he published in 1788 a sermon entitled « Triumphos da…

Rabbi of Fez, active in the sixth century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 102-1.

Grammarian who lived at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century, he left around 1700 his native city of Wilna to settle with his family in Frankfurt am Main. There he…

Rabbi of Algiers, died in Blida, Algeria, in January 1794, he assisted his father in his functions as rabbi of Algiers from his youth, whom he succeeded upon his death. He published, preceded by a…

Rabbi of Algiers, died in October 1785, he composed several prayers for the annual commemoration of the defeat of the O'Reilly expedition against Algiers in 1775; some of his Arabic poems appear in…

German rabbi

Founder of Hasidism in Podolia (Ukraine). His revolutionary teaching emphasized joy, fervent prayer, and the divine presence in all things, making spirituality accessible to the Jewish masses.…

Chronicler of Kashan, grandson of Babai ben Lutf, author of Kitab-i sarguzasht-i Kashan (1729).

German painter, born in Potsdam in May 1756 and died in Breslau on April 8, 1829 (1826 according to other sources), he received his initial training from Potsdam painter A. B. Krüger before entering,…

Italian miniature painter established in Paris in the middle of the eighteenth century, under the reign of Louis XV, he appears in a police list of Jews then residing in Paris, published by Paul…

Rabbi and talmudist born in Lithuania around 1775 and died in Seiny, in the government of Suwałki, on 25 April 1846, he descended at the seventh generation from Tobie Bachrach, beheaded with Israël…

Baer of Meseritz, called the Maggid, is the first apostle of Hasidism and its most important propagator, born in Volhynia in 1710 and died in Meseritz on 15 December 1772. Trained, as was then…

Russian rabbi of the first half of the eighteenth century, descendant of Rabbi Nathan Nata Shapira of Krakow, author of the « Megalleh 'Amuḳim », he himself composed the « Neṭa' Sha'ashuim », a…

Author of the eighteenth century, established in Altona, Germany, he wrote there in 1737 the "Be'er-Ṭob" (A Good Explanation), a work of casuistic and homiletic explanations of the Talmud.

Polish Hasidic writer of the late eighteenth century, son-in-law of Alexandre, who for several years was the secretary of the Besht, he held from his father-in-law precious information on the origins…

Founder of a bookbookselling house in Frankfurt am Main, born in the second half of the eighteenth century and died in 1851, he opened a small secondhand book stall in Bockenheim in 1785 before…

Court Jew of the Margrave Christian Ernst of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, died in 1712, he enjoyed great credit with the Margrave and used it for the good of his coreligionists, whose maintenance in peace…

Astronomer and politician, born in Paris on September 15, 1736 and guillotined on November 12, 1793, he was elected to the Academy of Sciences in 1763 then to the French Academy in 1784, before…

Chief of the Jews of Algeria and financier, born around 1770 and beheaded on 4 February 1811, he directed from a young age the house « Bakri Brothers » founded by his father, then, after his marriage…

Consul of France in Algiers before the French conquest, born in Algiers in 1763 and died in Paris on 23 November 1836, immensely rich and highly esteemed for his qualities, he was appointed consul…

Chief of the Jews of Algeria and financier, born in Algiers in the mid-eighteenth century and died in Livorno in 1817, he founded the house « Bakri Frères », which played a major role in Algerian…

Hungarian rabbi, born in 1773 in Alt-Ofen and died on December 28, 1854, son of the learned rabbi Jacob Banet, he distinguished himself early by his knowledge of the Talmud, to which he devoted his…

Italian officer and community notable, he lived in Rome at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. During the French occupation of the city, he was appointed major of the…

Christian translator of the travels of Benjamin of Tudela, born in Schwabach, Bavaria, in 1721 and died in 1740, he was only thirteen when he published in 1734 his annotated translation, in two…

Talmudist and rabbi, born around 1725 in Barby, near Halberstadt, in Prussia, and died on July 28, 1789 in Pressburg, he became dayyan and then, in 1756, serving rabbi in Halberstadt until 1763,…

Merchant and Hebrew scholar, born in Lemberg in 1794 and died in Vienna on April 11, 1864, he devoted his leisure to the study of Hebrew literature and composed « 'Aḳedat Yiṣḥaḳ », a drama adapted…

Grammarian who lived in Lithuania at the end of the eighteenth century, he is the author of « Ṭa'ame Torah » (The Accents of the Law), second part of a grammatical treatise published in Wilna in 1822…

Translator into Judeo-Spanish of prayers composed by Malachi ben Jacob on the occasion of the earthquake in Livorno, in January 1742, under the title "Traduccion de la Oracion del Ajuno de los…

French politician, member of the National Assembly, born in Grenoble, in Dauphiné, on 22 October 1761, and guillotined in Paris on 29 November 1793, from a Protestant family, he became known from age…

Dayyan in London, locally known as « Rabbi Aryeh Loeb », born in Krotoschin, in the Grand Duchy of Posen, in 1797, and died in London on February 10, 1878, son of the head of the rabbinical tribunal…

Dramatist and actor, born in 1800 and died in Montreal on March 18, 1856, trained first in music before turning to theater, he achieved success at Drury Lane in 1833 in "The Schoolfellows" by Douglas…

French painter, born in Besançon in 1816 and died in Geneva in 1885, one of the principal representatives of the historical genre in France, he painted especially the light side of the social life of…

Author who remained largely unknown, not to be confused with Daniel Levi de Barrios, he is the author of the work « Theologia Natural Contra los Atheos, Epicureos, y Sectarios del Tiempo », published…

Prussian diplomat and patron, uncle of composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, born May 13, 1779 in Berlin and died Protestant on July 27, 1825 in Rome, he converted to Protestantism in 1805 under the…

Polish Jewish mechanic from the early eighteenth century, established in Pogrebishche, he manufactured two large brass chandeliers for the synagogue of the city, from scrap metal collected over…

Austrian rabbi of the 18th century, born in Leipnik in Moravia, he officiated in Semlin, in Croatia. He is the author of "Zera' Shemuel", novellae on the treatise Ketoubot published in Vienna in…

Casuist who lived in Poland at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th. He is the author of "Shema'tatade-Rab," a collection of discussions on halakhic questions left unresolved by…

Rabbi and Talmudist

Hungarian rabbi

Russian rabbi and leader of the Hasidim of Ukraine, born around 1750 in Medzhibozh, Podolia, where he dies in 1810. Grandson of Israel Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidism, and twin brother of Moses…

(1762-1813)

Judeo-Polish merchant burned at the stake in Saint Petersburg on July 15, 1738, he had prospered in commerce thanks to the protection of nobles. In 1722, merchants from Smolensk accused him of having…

Writer (1744-1808)

Polish financier, agent of the Polish prime minister Count Brühl, born in Starokonstantinov, in Volhynia, in the early 18th century, and died probably between 1770 and 1780. Descendant of Rabbi…

Rabbi. Period not specified by the source. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 24-2.

Rabbi of Meknès, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 24-2.

Rabbi of Meknes, eighteenth century. Died in 5472 of the Hebrew era (1712). Son of Moshe. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 24-3.

Rabbi of Meknès, eighteenth century. Born in 5498 (1738), died in 5577 (1817) of the Hebrew era. Son of Yaakov. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 24-3.

Proofreader and author active in the second half of the eighteenth century, in Amsterdam and then in Hamburg. He composes poems published in the « Se'ah Solet » of Raphaël ben Gabriel Norzi…

Hakham of the Portuguese community of Hamburg, he published in 1755 a prayer for a day of fasting proclaimed by this congregation on the occasion of the great Lisbon earthquake.

German poet and teacher born in Posen on July 17, 1800, died in Berlin on September 24, 1841. A precocious child, capable of explaining the Talmud from his earliest years, he went to Berlin in 1817,…

Italian physician and medical writer born in Pisa in 1799, died in Florence on September 18, 1869. Educated at the secondary school and at the university of his native city, he obtained his diploma…

Architect born in London in 1794, died in Ely in 1845. Son of George Basevi, whose sister Maria had married Isaac Disraeli, he was the student of Sir John Soane, traveled in Italy and Greece in 1816…

Italian jurist born in Mantua in 1780, died in Milan in 1867. His reputation led him to be chosen to defend Andreas Hofer before the court martial. When the Austrian government replaced the French…

Italian rabbi of the first half of the eighteenth century, son of Israel Hezekiah Bassani and student of Moses Zacuto and Juda Briel of Mantua. Rabbi in Cento from 1702 to 1707, he then settled in…

Rabbi in Reggio, Italy, born in 1703, died in that city on January 20, 1790. Son of Isaïe Bassani, he was a skilled poet in both Hebrew and Italian: he composed eighty Hebrew poems in honor of…

English scholar specializing in the Bible and Hebrew, born around 1711, died in Arundel on January 20, 1771. Trained at St John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained his master's degree in 1740, he…

Christian author of a theology of the Old Testament, born in Hippolstein, Bavaria, on 14 August 1755, died on 13 January 1806. Appointed in 1789 professor of philosophy and oriental languages at the…

Dayan and shoḥet (ritual slaughterer) in Leipnik, in Moravia, at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th. He is the author of the « Zivhé Shelamim » (Sacrifices of Thanksgiving),…

French banker

French journalist born in Metz in 1759, died in Paris on July 21, 1805. At twenty-five, he publishes a French translation of Moses Mendelssohn's « Phaedo » under the title « Treatise on the Soul »,…

Principal cantor of the Jewish community of Berlin, born in 1738, died January 3, 1821, in the fiftieth year of his ministry as cantor. Endowed with a tenor voice exceptional for its range and power,…

German author born in July 1801 in Dresden, died in that city on 1 July 1861, descended through his mother from the Bondi family, established in Saxony in the mid-18th century. Self-taught, lacking…

Austrian pedagogue born February 19, 1758 in Neubydžov, Bohemia, died November 8, 1838 in Prague. Trained in the Talmud then, rarely, in German and Latin, he entered the yeshiva of Prague before…

Astronomer, brother of composer Giacomo Meyerbeer and poet Michael Beer, born in Berlin on January 4, 1797, died in that city on March 27, 1850. After participating in the campaigns of 1813 and 1815…

French surgeon and author born in Liège, Belgium, on November 2, 1793, died in Gorriquen, near Lacrouan, in Brittany, on April 13, 1859. Assistant surgeon during the Napoleonic campaigns, he became…

Rabbi and poet born in Tunis on 18 Ab 1773, died in London in 1853, with a career as curious as it was itinerant. First rabbi in Tunis and treasurer of the bey, pressed by creditors, he goes to…

English pugilist known as 'Aby' Belasco, born in London on April 9, 1797. He entered the ring in 1817 by defeating the protégé of Tom Cribb, then fought many bouts in the following years, notably…

English pugilist born in London in 1800, brother of the more famous Abraham "Aby" Belasco. He made his ring debut on July 23, 1817 at Moulsey Heath, where he was beaten by Ned Brown, then won on…

Journalist, translator and author of Judeo-Dutch school manuals, born in The Hague on September 24, 1761, died in that city on June 29, 1827. He founded in 1806 the first Judeo-Dutch newspaper, «…

Christian Hebraicist and professor of theology at the University of Berlin, born in Erfurt on September 23, 1754, died in Berlin on October 25, 1842. A graduate of Göttingen, he taught for four years…

Jurist and writer active in Surinam, in the Dutch Antilles, author of several works on colonial administration and the benevolent society of Surinam: « Over de Hervorming van het Regeringsstelsel in…

Poetess who lived in London in the early 18th century, sister of the patron Mardochai Nuñez Almeyda. She was among those who celebrated Lopez Laguna's « Espejo Fiel de Vidas » (London, 1720), and…

Dutch diplomat who lived in Amsterdam in the first half of the eighteenth century, nephew of Baron Manuel de Belmonte, whom he succeeded in 1706 as resident of the King of Spain in the Netherlands —…

One of the most eminent Oriental casuists, son of Moses Nuñez Belmonte, active in Smyrna at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th. He published a commentary on the first two parts of…

Chief rabbi of the Jewish community of Smyrna, in Asia Minor, in the second half of the eighteenth century, where he succeeded his father Abraham Ben-Ezra; he died in 1782. He is the author of a…

First grammarian and lexicographer Jewish of modern times, born near Cracow in 1764, died in Vienna on March 12, 1811. Married very young, he settled in Cracow with his parents-in-law, dividing his…

Lazarus Bendavid is a German philosopher and reformer born in Berlin on 18 October 1762 and died in the same city on 28 March 1832. Self-taught in mathematics, he became a convinced follower of…

Johann Heinrich Bender is a German jurist born in Frankfurt on May 29 or September 29, 1797 and died in the same city on September 6, 1859. He studied law at Giessen, where he taught from 1819 to…

Moses Benedict is a German banker and artist born in 1772 in Stuttgart and died in the same city on July 8, 1852. Intended for sculpture, he is sent in 1785 with his brother Seligmann Löb to the…

Naphtali ben Mordecai Benet, son of the chief rabbi of Moravia Mordecai Benet, is a rabbi and author born in the late eighteenth century and died in October 1857 in Schafa, in Moravia, where he was…

Mordecai Benet is a Talmudist, chief rabbi of Moravia, born in 1753 in Csurgő, Hungary, and died in Carlsbad on August 12, 1829. Sent as a child to his grandmother in Nikolsburg and then trained in…

Benjamin ben Aaron is a hasidic author active at the end of the eighteenth century, disciple of Israël Baal Chem Tov and Baer of Mezeritch; he is preacher in Zlazitz in 1790. He is the author of…

German Jewish district rabbi (Bezirksrabbiner), first district rabbi of Breisach am Rhein from 1825, died at age 28.

Printer and publisher active in Salonika around 1770. He edited and annotated the Sha'are Rahamim of Hayyim ha-Kohen and Solomon Abbadi. He belonged to the Ottoman branch of the Kimhi/Kamhi family,…

Born into a wealthy Sephardic Jewish family of Bordeaux (of Portuguese descent), doctor in mathematics from the University of Paris (1815). Principal disciple of Saint-Simon, he codified…

son of Solomon Zalman; disciple of the Gaon of Vilna

Benjamin Wolf ben Ẓebi Hirsch is a Judeo-German writer active in the eighteenth century in Germany, author of the « Sefer ha-Ḥesheḳ », a Judeo-German collection of medical prescriptions published in…

Polish-Hungarian rabbi

Benjamin Ze'eb Wolf ben Shabbethai is a dayyan active in Pinczow at the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth, editor of the Shulḥan 'Arukh, Ḥoshen Mishpaṭ, furnished…

Hillel Benjamin is a Polish architect of the second half of the eighteenth century, born in Lasko, known for having built the synagogue of Lutomierz under the reign of the last king of Poland,…

Simeon Benjamin, also known as Levi Benjamin, is an English Hebraist grammarian who publishes in London, in 1773, "Da'at Ḳedoshim", a short Hebrew grammar among the very first works composed by an…

Nathan Lazarus Benmohel, the first practicing Jew to obtain a degree from a British university, was born in Hamburg around 1800 and died in 1869. Settled in Dublin in 1829 as a languages teacher, he…

Solomon Bennett is an English theologian and engraver born in Russia before 1780 and died after 1841. Author of several biblical works, including "The Temple of Ezekiel" (1824) and "Critical Remarks…