XVIIIth century CE

Rabbi, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 23-4.

Rabbi of Meknes, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5558 of the Hebrew era (1798). Son of Yihye I. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 23-4.

Benzion, whose full name is Benjamin Ze'eb Wolf ben Jacob ha-Lévi, is a talmudist active probably in Galicia in the mid-eighteenth century, author of "'Et Raṣon", a collection of moral essays…

German rabbi

Aryeh Löb ben Abraham Meïr Berlin, also called Berliner, is a German rabbi born in 1738 in Fürth, Bavaria, and died in Cassel on May 21, 1814. Dayyan then rabbi of Baiersdorf in his youth, he became…

Jacob Berlin, called Yokob, is a German Talmudist born in 1707, probably in Berlin, and died in 1749 in Fürth, Bavaria, student of Jacob ha-Cohen, author of the « Sheb Ya'aḳob », and established in…

Esther Bernard, née Gad, later Domeier, is a German poetess and woman of letters born in Breslau, Silesia, around 1770 and died around 1814, granddaughter through her mother of the famous rabbi…

Abraham Bernard is a Russian physician born in 1762. Trained in London in 1789, he practices in Hasenpoth in Courland, becomes district physician in Chavli in the government of Wilna, then inspector…

Hermann Bernard is professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge, England, born of Austrian parents in Ouman, in southern Russia, in 1785; his father, a converted Jew, raised him in…

Gottfried Bernhardy is a German philologist and historian of literature born in Landsberg, in Brandenburg, on March 20, 1800, and died in Halle on May 14, 1875. Supported by uncles in Saint…

Christian Günther, count of Bernstorff, is a Danish and then Prussian statesman born 3 April 1769 in Copenhagen and died 28 March 1835. Entered diplomacy in 1787 through his father, count Andreas…

Merchant/manufacturer in Nancy, elected in 1789 by the Jews of Alsace-Lorraine, he pleaded the cause of emancipation before the Constituent Assembly until the vote of September 27, 1791. He published…

Berr Isaac Berr, known as of Turckheim, is a French manufacturer born in Nancy in 1744 and died in Turckheim, near Nancy, on November 5, 1828, heir to the title of syndic of the Jewish community of…

Michel Berr, first Jew to practice as a lawyer in France, was born in Nancy in 1780 and died in the same city on July 4, 1843, son of Isaac Berr of Turique. Trained by eminent masters, he began…

Bernard Bertensohn is a Russian teacher and translator born in Odessa at the end of the eighteenth century and died in the same city in 1859. Trained at the school of Basilius Stern, he taught…

Abbé Bertolio is a French ecclesiastic, member of the Commune of Paris in 1790. When the Jews of France petitioned the National Assembly, on December 24, 1789, to obtain citizenship already granted…

Auguste Arthur, count of Beugnot, is a French statesman and scholar born in Bar-sur-Aube in March 1797 and died in Paris on March 15, 1865. A lawyer by training, he soon devoted himself entirely to…

German rabbi

Samuel Bapuji Bhorupkar is a Beni-Israel soldier born near Bombay around 1790, who entered the Fourth Regiment of Bombay on February 2, 1811. After serving in numerous campaigns in Gujarat,…

Christian Hermann Friedrich Bialloblotzky is a Jew converted to Christianity, born on April 9, 1799 in Pattensen, near Hanover, and died on March 28, 1868 in Ahlden-on-the-Aller. Doctor of theology…

Dmitri Gavrilovitch Bibikov is a Russian military officer, administrator and statesman born in 1792 and died in 1870, appointed in 1837 military governor of Kiev and governor general of Volhynia and…

Jacob Samuel Bick is an Austrian writer born in the eighteenth century and died in Brody in 1831, a talented satirist and one of the pioneers of the Haskalah among the Jews of Galicia, known for his…

Joachim Heinrich Biesenthal, born Raphael Hirsch, is a theologian and author born in Lobsens, in the province of Posen, in 1800, and died in Berlin in 1886. Destined for the rabbinate, he became…

Kabbalist active in Turkey in the eighteenth century, author of several kabbalistic works: « Golel Or », on metempsychosis according to the teachings of Isaac Louria, Hayyim Vital and Azariah of Fano…

Raphaël (Nathan) Bischoffsheim is a merchant and philanthropist born in Bischofsheim-sur-la-Tauber in 1773 and died in Mainz on January 22, 1814. Settled in Mainz during the French Revolution, he…

Naḥman ben Benjamin Cohen Ṣedeḳ Bishka is a Russian Talmudist active in the second half of the eighteenth century, co-author with his brother Shabbetai of the « Shebet Aḥim », essays on various…

Mordecai Loeb Bisliches, or Bisseliches, is an editor of medieval Hebrew works born in Brody, Austria, at the end of the eighteenth century and died around 1851. Married at age thirteen and then…

Isaac Bittoon, sometimes called Pittoon, is an English pugilist and master of arms born in 1778 and died in February 1838. After defeating Tom Jones at Wimbledon on July 31, 1801, he fought to draws…

Piotr Blanc is an 18th-century Polish financier, banker of the court under King Stanislas Auguste Poniatowski, died in Warsaw in 1797. He created the tobacco monopoly in 1776 and then the state…

Maria Theresa Bland, née Romanzini, is an English actress and singer born in 1769 to Italian-Jewish parents and died in London on 15 January 1838. She first appeared on stage at the age of four and…

Benjamin Blayney is an English theologian and Hebraist born in 1728 and died on September 20, 1801. Trained at Oxford, he became fellow and vice-principal of Hertford College in 1768, and prepared…

Friedrich Bleek is a Christian theologian born on July 4, 1793 in Ahrensböck, Holstein, and died in Bonn in 1859. Trained in Kiel then in Berlin under Schleiermacher, De Wette and Neander, he became…

Marcus Eliezer Bloch is a German ichthyologist and physician born in Ansbach in 1723 and died in Carlsbad on 6 August 1799. Virtually illiterate until nineteen years old due to lack of education, he…

Samson (Simson) b. Isaac ha-Levi Bloch is a Galician author born in Kulikow, near Lemberg, in 1782, and died in the same city on October 7, 1845. Trained in Talmud, Bible and Hebrew grammar, he…

Simon Blumenfeldt, also known as Simon Sofer, is a Russian calligrapher born in Mitau, Courland, in 1770, and died in the same town in 1826, gifted with the talent of writing in microscopic…

Johann Christian Georg Bodenschatz is a German Protestant theologian born in Hof on May 25, 1717 and died on October 4, 1797 in Baiersdorf, near Erlangen. Trained in oriental languages at the…

Moses Böhm is a German physician active in the mid-eighteenth century, engaged in 1740 by the Jewish community of Halberstadt to care for its poor members, a function he exercised with regular salary…

Joseph b. Meïr Böhmer is a Lithuanian rabbi and Talmudist born in Skoudas in 1796 and died on May 7, 1864, in Sloutsk, one of the most eminent students of R. Ḥayyim of Volozhin, whose logical and…

Louis-Gabriel-Ambroise de Bonald was a French philosopher, politician and anti-Jewish polemicist born on October 2, 1774 and died in Nomma on November 23, 1840. Opposed to the Revolution, he…

Abraham ben Yom-Ṭob Bondi is a Bohemian Talmudist who died in 1787 in Prague. His posthumous work, « Zera' Abraham », essays on various Talmudic treatises and on post-Talmudic authors dealing with…

Elijah ben Selig Bondi is an Austrian preacher born in Prague at the end of the eighteenth century and died in the same city around 1860. Trained in the Talmud in Presbourg under Meshoulam Tismenitz…

Kalman ben Phineas Seligman Borkum is the court Jew of Duke Peter Biron of Courland, born in the middle of the eighteenth century and died in Mitau in 1828, the same day as his brother Simson.…

Karl Ludwig Börne, born Loeb Baruch, is a German political and literary writer born on May 6, 1786 in Frankfurt am Main and died in Paris on February 12, 1837. Sent to study medicine with Dr. Marcus…

Ḥayyim ben Jacob Boskowitz is a Palestinian author active in the middle of the eighteenth century, author of the "Toṣeot Ḥayyim", a commentary on the Pentateuch published with the text in Amsterdam…

John Braham, stage name of John Abraham, is an English tenor born in London in 1774 and died in the same city on 17 February 1856. Orphaned at an early age, chorister at the synagogue of Duke's Place…

Bezaleel ben Moses Brandeis ha-Lévi is a Bohemian rabbi and author who died around 1750 in Jung-Bunzlau, where he was district rabbi and directed a Talmudic academy, son of a rabbi of Mainz nicknamed…

Mordecai ben Eliezer Brandes is a German Talmudist active in Frankfurt am Main in the mid-eighteenth century, employed by the Jewish community as « porsher » (responsible for removing prohibited…

Benjamin Raphaël Dias Brandon was a Dutch Hebraic talmudist and author who died around 1750 in Amsterdam, where he was a cantor. He wrote « Orot ha-Miṣwot », on the purpose of biblical and talmudic…

Moritz Wilhelm August Breidenbach is a German jurist born in Offenbach-am-Main on 13 November 1796 and died in Darmstadt on 2 April 1857, son of Wolf Breidenbach. Graduate in law from Heidelberg…

Wolf Breidenbach is a German court agent and champion of Jewish emancipation, born in the village of Breidenbach, in Hesse-Cassel, in 1751, and died in Offenbach on February 28, 1829. Arriving poor…

John Frederick Breithaupt is a Christian Hebraist and rabbinic scholar of the early eighteenth century, court advisor to the Emperor and the Duke of Gotha. He produces a learned edition of the…

Aryeh Löb ben Hayyim Breslau is a German talmudist and rabbi born in 1741 in Breslau, Prussia, and died on 22 April 1809 in Rotterdam. After Lissa, Posen and Berlin, then Emden as city rabbi, he is…

Meïr Israel Bresselau is a German notary and secretary of the reformed community of Hamburg, born around 1785, died in Hamburg on December 25, 1839. Engaged from the beginning in the reformed…

Victor-Claude, Prince of Broglie, is a French statesman opposed to the emancipation of Jews, born in Paris in 1757 and executed by the guillotine in 1794 for plotting against the French Revolution.…

William Brown is a Scottish minister born in 1766, died in 1835, minister for forty-three years of the parish of Eskdalemuir, in Scotland. He is the author of the « Antiquities of the Jews, carefully…

Salomon b. Hayyim Bruck is an Austrian Hebraist born in the second half of the eighteenth century and died around 1846. He is the author of "Hakirat ha-Emet" (Altona, 1839; 2nd ed., Vienna, 1842), a…

Jacob Éliézer Brunswick is a German Talmudic rabbi and author of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, died in Vienna on April 16, 1729. Rabbi first in Kanitz, in Moravia, then in Vienna, where…

Carl August Buchholz is a German jurist and Christian author born in the second half of the eighteenth century and died in Lübeck on November 15, 1843, where he held at his death the position of…

Wolf b. David ha-Cohen Buchner is a Hebrew stylist born in Brody in the second half of the eighteenth century. A peddler of Hebrew books throughout Germany, Galicia, Poland and Lithuania, he also…

Abraham David Buczacz, son of Asher Anshel, is a Galician talmudist born in 1770 in Nadworna and died in 1840 in Buczacz; a child prodigy of the Talmud, he was chosen as a bridegroom at the age of…

Moses Israel ben Isaac Büdinger is a teacher in Metz in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, specialized in Hebrew grammar and literature, training many Hebrew grammarians and…

Moses Mordecai Büdinger is a German educator born in January 1783 in Maidorf, Hesse, and died in Cassel on January 31, 1841, father of historian Max Büdinger. Having become a shochet, hazan and…

Raphael Moses ben Joseph of Bulah is a Palestinian Talmudist and rabbi who died in Jerusalem on March 23, 1773, where he was rabbi and directed a Talmudic school. He wrote « Guet Mekouchar » on the…

Solomon ben Raphael Moïse of Bulah is a Turkish Talmudist born in Jerusalem, where his father Raphael Moïse ben Joseph of Bulah was rabbi, and died in 1786 in Salonika, where he had settled. He is…

Jean-Rodolphe, Count of Buol-Schauenstein, is an Austrian diplomat born November 21, 1763 and died February 12, 1834 in Vienna. Ambassador at The Hague in 1790 and at Basel in 1792, he was elected in…

Rabbi of Tunis, son of Nathan Burgel, he is the author of "Migdanot Natan," in two parts. The first, printed with a text by his father (Leghorn, 1778), includes a commentary on the Talmudic tractate…

Joseph Burgel is a rabbi of Tunis, son of Élie Haï Burgel, born in 1791 and died in Tunis in 1857. He is the author of « Zéra de-Yossef », on the Tosafot (Livorno, 1849), and of « Va-Yiken Yossef »,…

Nathan ben Abraham Burgel is a rabbi of Tunis around 1750, student of Isaac Lombroso, reputed rabbinical authority consulted from afar; having grown old, he traveled to Jerusalem, where he died…

Barthold Dowe von Burmania is a statesman and Dutch ambassador at the court of Vienna in the eighteenth century, sincere friend of the Jews. When, on 18 December 1744, Maria Theresa orders the…

Lewis Bush is an American soldier born in Philadelphia and died in 1777, member of the celebrated Jewish merchant family Bush of Philadelphia. Appointed first lieutenant of the sixth battalion of…

Salomon Bush is an American soldier born in Philadelphia, son of Matthias Bush, signatory of the Non-Importation Agreement of 1765. Officer of the Pennsylvania militia (1777-87), he was appointed…

Naphtali Busnash is the leader of the Jews of Algeria and statesman, born in Algiers in the mid-eighteenth century and assassinated on 28 June 1805. Associated with the Bakri brothers, he dominates…

Mathieu Butrymowicz is an eighteenth-century Polish statesman and landowner, one of the most enlightened members of the Diet assembled in Warsaw from 1788 to 1792. Convinced of the importance of…

Johannes Rudolphus Buxtorf, great-great-grandson of Johannes Buxtorf I, was born in Basel on October 24, 1747 and died in 1815. After completing his studies in his native city, he became private…

Chalom ben Moïse Buzaglio is a Kabbalist born in Morocco, where his father directed a yeshiva, in the early eighteenth century, and died in 1780. A student of the Kabbalist Abraham Azoulaï, rabbi of…

William Buzaglo is an English inventor and empiricist who died in London in 1788, first known for his stoves of a new model intended for heating large public buildings. He subsequently practiced…

George Gordon, lord Byron, is an English poet born in London on January 22, 1788, and died in Missolonghi, in Greece, on April 19, 1824. The only one of his works linked to Jewish themes is his «…

Joshua Abraham ben Simha Calamani is an Italian Talmudist born in Venice in 1704. A precocious child, he left only a single work, written at thirteen years of age, « Millé de-Vedihouta » (Words of…

Simha ben Abraham Calimani is a Venetian rabbi and author who died in Venice on August 2, 1784, a versatile linguist, poet, orator and Talmudist, also a proofreader at the Hebrew printing house of…

Important figure in the French Jewish community of the eighteenth century, born in 1711 in Aurich, Hanover, and died in Paris in 1784. First settled in The Hague before establishing himself in…

Physician, rabbi, poet and Italian writer, active in Padua in the second half of the seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth, where he was also an instructor at the yeshiva. He…

Italian Talmudist active around the middle of the eighteenth century in Turin, where he founded a yeshiva. He is the author of a responsum published in the Shemesh Ẓedaḳah of Simson Morpurgo, and…

Converted to Christianity, born in Amsterdam in 1795 and died in that city in 1874. Son of Portuguese Jews who gave him an entirely secular education with a view to medical studies, he was, after his…

Jewish convert, professor of Hebrew language in Helmstedt

German banker

Turkish rabbi active in Adrianople in the first half of the eighteenth century, descendant of Joseph Caro. Son-in-law and student of R. Eliezer b. Jacob Naḥum, author of the Ḥazon Naḥum,…

Preacher in Posen in the second half of the eighteenth century, author of El ha-Millu'im, a homiletical commentary on the Pentateuch and the Song of Songs, published with additions entitled Abne…

Prussian pedagogue, born around 1782 in Fordon, in the Grand Duchy of Posen, died on December 25, 1839 in Posen. Member of the school of the Meassefim, he devotes his literary talent to Jewish…

German-Russian rabbi, born in 1800 and died in Wloclawek in 1895. Orthodox Talmudist trained in Konin, he was first a merchant in Gnesen before becoming, around age forty, rabbi of Pinne, then of…

Italian writer, born in 1715 and settled in Leghorn. He took part in the controversy stirred up by Ḥayyon's work on Shabbetai Tsevi, writing a refutation against him of which extracts were published…

Italian revolutionary, born in Revere in the second half of the eighteenth century. After the French Revolution, he engaged in plots against the Austrian government of Lombardy and was imprisoned in…

Wealthy Tunisian merchant, died in January 1785 at an advanced age, who devoted part of his time to rabbinical studies and succeeded in 1752 to his master Isaac Lumbroso as rabbi of the congregation…

Rabbi, preacher and poet, born in Ancona in 1726 and died in Leghorn in 1789. Arrived poor at thirteen years old in Leghorn, he became cantor thanks to his beautiful voice, succeeded his…

Physician, born in Leghorn around 1746, son of Abraham Isaac Castello. After medical studies in Pisa, he returned to his native city, where he acquired a solid reputation; a medical work of his,…

Empress of Russia, born in Stettin in 1729 and died in Saint Petersburg in 1796, wife and successor of Peter III, whose throne she usurped in 1762. Although of liberal inclination, she could not,…

General superintendent of the Jewish nation of Alsace from 1764 to 1788, financier supplier of armies and close to royal authorities. He led the pre-revolutionary fight for the voice of Jews at the…

German theater director, born in 1782 and died in Berlin in 1845. Converted to Christianity at a very young age, he had to provide for his father's family at seventeen, then, after practicing the…

French officer and deputy, born in Nancy in 1792 and died in 1876. Entering the army very young and made an officer by Napoleon I, he became captain of the general staff in 1827, squadron commander…

French consul, born in Strasbourg in 1786 and died at sea in 1842, during a crossing from New York to France. Passionate about travel and languages, he obtained in 1809 the position of secretary of…

French soldier and author, born in Strasbourg around 1780 and died by suicide in Paris in 1826. Leading an errant and adventurous life, changing his name and religion several times, he served in turn…

Chief Rabbi of Ottoman Palestine

Av Beit Din in Smyrna, then chief Sephardi rabbi (Rishon LeZion) of Jerusalem from 1861.

Most eminent disciple of the Gaon of Vilna, he founded in 1803 the Etz Chaïm yeshiva of Volozhin, the matrix of the world of Lithuanian yeshivot, which remained open for nearly 90 years (until 1892).…

Polish rabbi

Rosh yeshiva of Salé, grandfather and master of the author of the Or HaHaïm.

rabbi of Tiberias

Grand Rabbi and tsaddik of Mogador, venerated for his miracles; annual pilgrimage to his tomb.

Hungarian rabbi

Polish rabbi

German Talmudist, died in Halberstadt in 1793. Enjoying among his contemporaries an established reputation as a Talmudist and loved for his modesty, he could have, by his learning, aspired to the…

Italian abbé, born near Montepulciano in 1789 and died in Warsaw in 1832. Appointed professor of history and oriental languages at the University of Warsaw in 1826, he was a prominent member of the…

German author and Christian missionary, born of Jewish parents, baptized in 1719 and died in Nuremberg around 1735. He is the author of two works in Judeo-German, Yesod Emunat Yeshu'a, published in…

Spanish poet of Amsterdam. He translated from Hebrew into Spanish a Purim song, published in Amsterdam in 1772, a poem of one hundred ten stanzas of nine lines each.

Rabbi, born and died in Amsterdam (1729-1794). Settled in Hasenpoth, in Courland, first as a jeweler, he subsequently served for a long time as rabbi there and composed 'Arugah Ḳeṭannah, in which the…

French rabbi and author, born around 1717, died in Metz in the first half of the 18th century. Student of Rabbi Jacob, author of the Shebut Ya'aḳob, he serves as dayan in Metz. He is the author of…

Italian rabbi and scholar, born around 1750 in Reggio nell'Emilia, died on March 28, 1834. Trained under Sansone Naḥmani and Isaiah Vita Carmi, he founded in his native city a school that trained…

Banker in Ferrara, Italy, in the 18th century. He conducts business with popes Clement XIII, who asks him on February 22, 1764 to supply the papal government with as much wheat as possible as well as…

French man of letters, born in Amersfoort, Netherlands, on October 17, 1781, died in Paris on April 6, 1848. After beginning in journalism, he settled in Paris in 1809, became censor for foreign…

Philanthropist, born in 1798 in Amsterdam, died in Paris on July 15, 1856. Settled in Paris where he pursued a prosperous commercial career, he presides over the committee of Israeli charities in…

Financier and English community notable, born in Amsterdam in 1740, died in England in 1808, son of Barent Cohen, wealthy merchant of Amsterdam. Established in London with his brother, he developed…

English community notable, born in London in September 1799, died on March 15, 1882. Dominant figure of the Anglo-Jewish community for two generations, he was elected in 1837 marshal of the Great…

North African rabbi, born in Djerba in 1772, died in the same city in April 1848. Blind and very poor, he is nevertheless the author of several works, including Netib Miẓwoteka, commentaries on the…

Polish hebraist, born in Meseritz (Międzyrzecz), Poland, on December 23, 1772, died in Hamburg on February 20, 1845. He left for Berlin at the age of seventeen, connected with the poet Wessely, who…

French philanthropist and scholar, born in Pressburg, Hungary, on September 14, 1814, died in Paris on March 15, 1877, from an Alsatian family settled in Hungary in the 18th century. Educated in…

Italian author who lived in Modena in the 18th century. He writes a Hebrew correspondence guide, the Megillat Sefer, preserved in manuscript and containing thirty-one letters, and copies a similar…

Active editor at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century, son of Jacob b. Moses Raphael of Cordova. After a stay in Brazil, he settled in Amsterdam where, like his brother…

Rabbi and preacher active in Amsterdam around the middle of the 18th century. He is the author of a moral sermon preached in the synagogue Talmud Torah, published in Amsterdam in 1744.

Wealthy Jewish merchant of 18th-century London, he became, a rare occurrence for a Jew at the time, administrator of the Bank of England. In 1727, he took action against the Russia Company which…

Philanthropist, born in 1704, died in England in 1764, descended from one of the oldest and most honorable Portuguese Jewish families and counted among the first Hebrew merchants of his time. He…

Librarian and member of the Royal Society of London, science writer, born in 1717, died in 1791, son of Abraham Mendez da Costa, who came from Normandy to settle in England around 1696 and married in…

Dutch poet, born January 14, 1798 in Amsterdam, died in that city April 28, 1860, son of Daniel da Costa, relative of Uriel Acosta. Trained at the Latin school from 1806 to 1811, he was connected…

Donor of the Hebrew library of the British Museum, active around 1760. A merchant by profession, he amassed a fortune devoted largely to works of piety and charity. Thanks to his credit with several…

French Hebraicist, born in Étain, in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, in 1791, died in Paris on January 7, 1872. Secretary of the Committee of Israelite Charity, he devoted himself to the…

German educator and theologian, born in Mainz May 16, 1789, died in Frankfurt-on-Main August 5, 1842. Trained traditionally in talmudic studies, he opened to secular knowledge at sixteen during the…

Hebraist and French judge, born in 1800, died in 1878, son of Mordecai Crémieux. Talmudic scholar, he taught Hebrew to Jewish children in Aix and often served as shoḥet, mohel and hazzan, before…

French statesman, born in Nîmes on April 22, 1796, died in Paris on February 9, 1880. Admitted to the bar of Nîmes at his majority in 1817, he became known through the defense of royalist bandit…

Rabbi of Aix-en-Provence, born in Carpentras in 1749, died on May 22, 1825. He is the author of Ma'amar Mordekai, a commentary on the Shulḥan 'Aruk, Ora'h 'Hayyim, in two parts, published in Livorno…

Scholar, born in Carpentras, France, in 1766, died on 4 May 1837, nephew and son-in-law of Mordecai Crémieux. Settled in Aix, Provence, in 1790, he founded there a Hebrew printing house from which he…

Warder Cresson, who became Michael C. Boaz Israël after his conversion, is a religious zealot born in Philadelphia on July 13, 1798 and died in Jerusalem on November 6, 1860. Raised a Quaker, seized…

German publicist who lived in Neuwied, in Prussia, in the eighteenth century. He founds in 1758 in Neuwied the Jewish periodical Der Grosse Schauplatz (The Great Theater), printed in German.

English dramatist born on February 19, 1732 in Cambridge and died on May 7, 1811 in Tunbridge Wells, Richard Cumberland was trained at Bury St Edmunds and Westminster before entering Trinity College.…

Polish Hasidic rabbi

Polish statesman and author born in Poryck, Volhynia, on August 28, 1765, and died in Dubno on February 8, 1813, Tadeusz Czacki was appointed school inspector of Volhynia, Podolia, and Ukraine under…

Polish statesman and patriot born in Warsaw on January 14, 1770 and died at the château of Montfermeil, near Paris, on July 15, 1861, Prince Adam Czartoryski entered in 1795 the service of the…

Musician and composer born in Bordeaux on January 17, 1778 and died in the same city on November 29, 1864, Isaac-Francis Dacosta was a student at the Music Conservatory in 1798. First cornet at the…

Archbishop of Mainz then grand duke of Frankfurt, Karl Theodor von Dalberg was born February 8, 1744 and died February 10, 1817. Prince and statesman among the most enlightened in Germany, favorable…

French Army officer and community organizer born in Mutzig, in Bas-Rhin, in 1776 and died on May 11, 1840, Simon Mayer Dalmbert participates in the early campaigns of the Empire and then organizes,…

Rabbi of Meknès, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5477 of the Hebrew era (1717). Son of Yehuda. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 29-1.

Rabbi of Meknès. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 29-2.

Rabbi of Meknès. Period not specified by the source. Son of Yosef. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 28-4.

Rabbi of Meknès. Period not specified by source. Son of Yosef, himself son of Daniel I. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 29-1.

Banker and Master of the Mint (with Veitel Heine Ephraim), court Jew of Frederick II and Frederick William II. First Prussian Jew to receive full naturalization (Naturalisationspatent, 1791) for…

Rabbi of Meknes, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 28-4.

Sephardic Jewish prizefighter born in Whitechapel to Sephardic parents (Abraham Aaron Mendoza and Esther Lopez). Considered the father of « scientific » boxing. Beyond the ring, he left a written…

Rabbi of Fès, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), p. 28-4.

Rabbi of Meknès. Period not specified by the source. Son of Moshe, himself son of Barukh. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 29-1.

Rabbi of Meknes, eighteenth century. Died in 5537 of the Hebrew era (1777). Son of Yehuda. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 29-1.

Rabbi of Meknès. Period not specified by the source. Son of Haim. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 29-1.

Lithuanian codifier born in Danzig in 1747 or 1748 and died in Vilna on September 12, 1820, Abraham ben Jehiel Danzig, from a family of scholars of western Prussia, studies the Talmud at the yeshiva…

French Orientalist born on March 28, 1849 in Château-Salins, in Lorraine, and died on October 19, 1894 in Paris, James Darmesteter is the youngest son of a family of bookbinders and booksellers…

German Talmudist active in the second half of the 18th century, student of Mordecai Halberstadt, author of the "Ma'amar Mordecai", Joseph ben Meïrẓebi Darmstadt wrote the "'Eṣ Yosef", Talmudic…

Founder of the Lelov Hasidic dynasty, disciple of the Seer of Lublin (himself a disciple of Elimelech of Lizhensk). Renowned for his extreme compassion toward others; the Seer of Lublin held him to…

Rabbi of Agadir, 18th century. Mentioned in 5495 of the Hebrew era (1735). Son of Asher. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 28-2.

Rabbi of Marrakech, 18th century. Mentioned in 5511 of the Hebrew calendar (1751). Son of Yosef. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 28-2.

Rabbi of Mogador (Essaouira), active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 25-3.

Regarded as one of the greatest Moroccan Jewish poets and a major figure in Sephardic liturgical poetry. Disciple and son-in-law of Rabbi Mordekhaï Berdugo, he traveled through the communities of…

Moroccan poet of the second half of the 18th century, David ben Aaron ibn Ḥusain composed in 1790 an elegy on the persecutions suffered that year by the Jews of Morocco following the death of Sultan…

Rabbi of Marrakech, 18th century. Mentioned in 5510 of the Hebrew era (1750). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 28-1.

Hebrew scholar of the 18th century, David ben Elijah translates into Hebrew, under the title « Leshon Zahab » (Language of Gold), the second Targum of Esther, a translation published in…

Rabbi of Sefrou. Period not specified by the source. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 25-3.

The most famous paytan of Moroccan Judaism, born in Meknès, author of the collection Tehila le-David.

Rabbi of Szereszów, in the governorate of Grodno, one of the most influential rabbis of Lithuania in the late 18th century, David ben Jacob is the author of « Ḥomot Yerushalayim » (Frankfurt an der…

Dayyan and preacher in Krotoschin, in Prussia, in the eighteenth century, David ben Joseph ha-Kohen is the author of « Pa'amone Zahab », a homiletic commentary on the first forty chapters of the…

Rabbi and Russian author born in Turets, in the Minsk Governorate, in 1792 and died in Minsk on April 27th, 1861, David Tevele ben Moses studied from age fifteen at the yeshiva of Volozhin under…

Russian rabbi born in 1769 and died at Novogroudok, in the governorate of Minsk, in 1836. David ben Moses of Novogroudok became its rabbi in 1794 and remained so for forty-three years, until his…

Rabbi. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 28–3.

Chief Rabbi of Berlin, master of Mendelssohn, commentator on the Jerusalem Talmud.

Rabbi of Marrakech, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5513 of the Hebrew era (1753). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 26-3.

Rabbi of Tétouan. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 28-2.

Rabbi of Fès. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 25-3.

Rabbi of Marrakech, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5469 of the Hebrew era (1709). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 25-1.

Polish Rabbi (1746-1814)

Rabbi of Fès, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5530 of the Hebrew era (1770). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 28-2.

Jewish physician born on December 20, 1789 in Remoulins (Gard). He defended his thesis at the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier in 1811, was surgeon of the Grande Armée and followed Napoleon to…

Rabbi, eighteenth century. Died in 5521 of the Hebrew era (1761). Son of Barukh. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 28-2.

Rabbi of Tétouan, eighteenth century. Died in 5468 of the Hebrew era (1708). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 25-1.

Rabbi of Debdou. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 28-2.

Rabbi of Debdou, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Son of Haim. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 27-1.

Rabbi, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 26-4.

Dutch rabbi

London resident in 1720, he composed a Latin poem celebrating the Spanish translation of the Psalms by Daniel Israel Lopez Laguna, « Espejo Fiel de Vidas ».

Scholar, physician and Jewish planter of Surinam. In 1788 he publishes the « Essai historique sur la colonie de Surinam », an erudite defence of the place of Jews in the history of the colony, in…

Liturgical poet established in L'Isle, France, around 1764, David de Milhau is the author of a responsum whose manuscript is preserved in the Montefiore library, under a call number taken from the…

Rabbi of Mogador (Essaouira), active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 26-4.

Rabbi of Marrakech, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 25-3.