XVIIIth century CE

Turkish Talmudist, born in Constantinople in 1780 and died in that same city in 1850. He succeeds Samuel Ḥayyim as hakham bashi (chief rabbi) of the Ottoman Empire in 1839. He is the author of a…

Bohemian Talmudist born in Tuschkau in December 1794, died in Prague on June 18, 1881. Trained under Eleazar of Triesch and Baruch Fränkel of Leipnik and then at the Prague yeshiva, he became rabbi…

German banker and scholar born in 1779, died in Breslau on December 3, 1859. Although one of the principal bankers of the city, he devoted much time to study, particularly to religious philosophy and…

German physician born April 20, 1790 in Königsberg, died in 1851 in Halle. Doctor of medicine from the University of Königsberg (1812), he participated in the 1813 campaign as far as Paris as chief…

German entrepreneur

German author and Hebraist born around 1755 in Berlin, died on February 19, 1810 in Amsterdam. Trained at the school of the Berlin Meassefim, he settled in 1781 in Amsterdam where he became one of…

German Christian writer hostile to Jews, born in Barby, Saxony, on August 23, 1773, died in Jena on August 10, 1843. He taught philosophy at the University of Jena from 1801, became professor of…

Bavarian mathematician born in Friesenhausen around the middle of the eighteenth century, died in Gyulafehérvár on March 23, 1828. After devoting his youth to the study of the Talmud, he turns for…

German writer born in Berlin on October 4, 1783, date of death unknown. Daughter of a wealthy merchant named Salomo, she marries at eighteen, in 1801, a certain Friedländer, an unhappy marriage from…

Born in Paris, son of the hazzan Élie Halfon Halévy, secretary of the Jewish community of Paris and Hebrew writer. The patronym, originally « Lévy », was changed to « Halévy » following the decree of…

Italian poet of the 18th century, born in Siena, died in Livorno in 1794. After his Hebrew and secular studies completed in Siena, he went to Livorno where he entered the yeshiva and struck up a…

German Talmudist born in Frankfurt-on-Main on 2 December 1790, died in that same city on 2 December 1847. Refusing the position of rabbi, he nevertheless took an active part in the religious debates…

Spanish author and publisher established in Amsterdam around 1723. He publishes that year "Varios y Honestos Entretenimientos..." as well as a "Tratados desde el Principio del Mundo hasta Moseh el…

Poet, translator, and German Hebraist born in Głogów in 1781, died in Breslau on February 16, 1855. He devoted the bulk of his work to the modernization of Jewish worship, translating into German the…

French banker born in Saint-Esprit on April 11, 1797, died in Bayonne on May 20, 1883, descendant of a Portuguese family and nephew of Abraham Furtado, president of the Assembly of Jewish Notables…

German writer and teacher limitedly attached to the school of the Meassefim, whose reformist orientations he nevertheless combats. He annotates a mathematical work by Abraham Joseph Mentz published…

Rabbi of Rhodes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, probably born in Bulgaria. He emigrates to Palestine before settling in Rhodes, where he composes « Yede Eliyahu », a work on rabbinic…

German jurist born in Berlin on March 22, 1798, died in that city on May 5, 1839, son of banker Abraham Gans. Trained at the University of Berlin from 1816 and then at Göttingen and, in 1818, at…

German jurist born in 1788, established in Celle, Hanover. He published « Das Erbrecht des Napoleonischen Gesetzbuches für Westphalen » (Hanover, 1810), « Ueber die Verarmung der Städte und des…

Hungarian rabbi and author born in Ungvár around 1800, died in that city on 30 July 1886. After an unsuccessful commercial career, he accepts in 1830 the rabbinate of Brezovica, which he holds until…

The greatest talmudic genius of Lithuanian Judaism, known as the Gaon of Vilna. A master of all disciplines (Talmud, Kabbalah, mathematics, astronomy), he opposed nascent Hasidism. His disciples…

Spanish poet established in Amsterdam around the middle of the 18th century, whose burlesques and occasional poems survive in manuscript. Among them is an epithalamium composed in 1735 for the…

German Christian writer hostile to Jews, Lutheran pastor in Frankfurt am Main, born in that city on January 2, 1779 and died on October 30, 1862. At one time editor of the religious journal "Der…

First Jewish religious leader born in the United States. From 1768 he led the Sephardic congregation Shearith Israel of New York for approximately half a century. First American Jewish clergyman to…

German physician born in Hamburg in 1788, died in that city in 1843. After traveling in Norway and Sweden and practicing in London, he becomes in 1811 assistant surgeon of the German Legion,…

Christian Hebraist and orientalist born in Nordhausen on February 3, 1786, died on October 23, 1842. Teaching in Heiligenstadt from 1809, he became adjunct professor of theology at Halle the…

Trained at the Talmud Torà of Rome, he became one of the most learned Roman rabbis of the 19th century and was appointed director of Rome's rabbinical school, where he introduced teaching reforms…

Franco-German composer

Austrian-Jewish physician from Prossnitz, Moravia, and central figure of the Moravian Haskalah; the first Jew of Prossnitz to study medicine, author of a commentary on Judah ha-Levi's Kuzari and of…

German rabbi active in Halberstadt in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, author of « Nezer ha-Ḳodesh », glosses on the Bereshit Rabbah (Jessnitz, 1719). A long responsum from his hand,…

German Hebrew scholar of the eighteenth century, author of an elementary Hebrew grammar, "Dabar Ṭob," printed with the "Marpe Lashon" of Moses ibn Ḥabib (Prague, 1783). He also edits letters of…

German Talmudist of the early eighteenth century, author of « Ḳol Yehudah », a collection of Talmudic notes by various rabbis of his time, accompanied by his own remarks (Amsterdam, 1729, reprinted…

German scholar active in Hamburg in the 18th century, author of « Ḥebel le-Haḥayot », a collection of moral essays, riddles and charades (Altona, 1803).

Baer ben Alexander Goldberg is a Russian Hebrew scholar born near Warsaw in 1799 and died in Paris on May 4, 1884. Settled in Berlin then in London, he settled permanently in Paris in 1852, where he…

Lewis Goldsmith is an English publicist and political agitator born in 1763 and died on January 6, 1846. First an enthusiastic defender of the French Revolution, he took refuge in Paris in 1803 where…

Benjamin Gompertz is a British actuary born in London on 5 March 1779 and died in that city on 14 July 1865. Mathematician active at the London Stock Exchange, he was elected a member of the Royal…

Isaac Gompertz is an English poet, brother of Benjamin and Lewis Gompertz, born in 1774 and died in 1856. Author notably of The Modern Antique (London, 1813), of June, or Light and Shade, a poem in…

Lord George Gordon is an English political agitator converted to Judaism, born in London on 26 December 1751 and died in 1793, son of the third Duke of Gordon. Elected to Parliament for Inverness in…

German rabbi and politician

Italian physician

Henri Grégoire is a Catholic priest, politician, and defender of the Jews born in Vého, near Lunéville, on December 4, 1750, and died in Paris on May 28, 1831. In 1789, he published in Metz his Essay…

Traveler and author born in 1720, died in 1774, great-uncle of Heine who describes him in his Memoirs as an adventurer and utopian dreamer, nicknamed « the Oriental » for his long journeys in…

Antoine Guenée is a French priest and Christian apologist born in Étampes in 1717 and died in 1803, author of Lettres de quelques Juifs portugais, allemands et polonais à M. de Voltaire (Paris,…

Aaron Solomon Gumperz, also called Emrich or Emmerich, is a German scholar and physician born on December 10, 1723 and died in 1769. Doctor of Medicine from the University of Frankfurt-an-der-Oder in…

Karl Siegfried Günsburg is a German writer and preacher born on December 9, 1784 in Lissa and died in Breslau on January 23, 1860. Trained in philology and philosophy in Berlin, he preached for some…

Benjamin Wolf Günzburg is an 18th-century Polish physician and Talmudist who, contrary to the practice of Polish Talmudists of his time, also studies the profane sciences at the University of…

Gabriel Jacob Günzburg, son of Naphtali Hirz, is a Lithuanian financier and philanthropist born in Vilna around 1793 and died in Simferopol, Crimea, on May 2, 1853. Settled in Kamenetz-Podolsk after…

Mordecai Aaron Günzburg, son of Judah Asher, is a Hebrew-writing Russian author born in Salant, in the government of Kovno, on December 3, 1795, and died in Wilna on November 5, 1846. Trained in…

Moses M. Haarbleicher is a German writer born in Hamburg on 14 November 1797 and died in that city on 25 September 1869, son of the founder of the Jewish school of Hamburg. Active in establishing the…

Simḥah ben Joshua Haas is a traveler and preacher born in Dobrovice, Bohemia, in 1710, and died in Brahilov in 1768, father-in-law of Solomon Dubno. Preacher in Brahilov, he wrote in 1764 the account…

Rabbi of Marrakech, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 32-4.

Solomon von Haber is a German banker born in Breslau on November 3, 1760 and died on February 20, 1839, son of poor parents who became a leading banker in Carlsruhe, where he financed several major…

Rabbi of Meknès, 18th century. Died in 5476 of the Hebrew era (1716). Son of Haim. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 32-1.

Rabbi of Meknes, 18th century. Born in 5560 of the Hebrew era (1800). Son of Eliezer. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 32-3.

Elisha ben Solomon Ḥabillo is an eighteenth-century Venetian Talmudist, descended from a renowned Palestinian family and disciple of David Pardo. He publishes at Livorno several liturgical and ritual…

Isaac Ḥaddad is a Talmudist from Djerba, an island near Tunis, where he died in 1755, student of Ẓemaḥ ha-Kohen. He is the author of Toledot Yiṣḥaḳ, novellae on the Haggada and the Midrashim,…

August Hahn is a German theologian and orientalist born in Grossosterhausen, Saxony, on March 27, 1792, and died in Silesia on May 13, 1863. Trained in theology and Oriental languages in Leipzig, he…

Rabbi and kabbalist of Tunis venerated as a holy miracle-worker (« Lo Met »).

Moses ben Joseph Haida is a German mathematician active in Hamburg in the 17th and 18th centuries, grandson of Samuel Haida, author of the Ziḳḳuḳin de-Nura. He is the author of a treatise on…

Rabbi of Fès, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-3.

Rabbi of Marrakech. Era not specified by the source. Son of Yaakov, himself son of Mordekhay. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-1.

Rabbi of Mogador (Essaouira), active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-2.

Rabbi of Fes. Period not specified by the source. Registered in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 36-2.

Rabbi, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Son of Benyamin. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-2.

Rabbi. Period not specified by the source. Son of David, himself son of Mordekhay. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 41-1.

Son of Amram ben Diwan, saint venerated buried in Ouirgane, near Marrakech.

Rabbi of Marrakech. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 34-3.

Rabbi of Debdou. Period not specified by the source. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-1.

Rabbi of Fès, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Son of Shlomo. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-2.

Rabbi of Fès, 18th century. Born in 5510 (1750), died in 5586 (1826) of the Hebrew era. Son of Matatiah I. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 36-3.

Rabbi of Sefrou, 18th century. Died in 5490 of the Hebrew era (1730). Son of Amor. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-3.

Rabbi. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-3.

Rabbi of Salé, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5465 of the Hebrew era (1705). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 34-3.

Rabbi. Period not specified by the source. Son of Daniel. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 36-4.

Rabbi of Meknès, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Son of Abraham II. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-2.

Rabbi, 18th century. Died in 5493 of the Hebrew era (1733). Son of Yaakov. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 38-3.

Rabbi, 18th century. Died in 5509 of the Hebrew era (1749). Son of Moshe. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 37-2.

Rabbi of Salé, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Son of Yehuda, himself son of Haim III. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 37-4.

Rabbi of Meknès, 18th century. Mentioned in 5486 of the Hebrew era (1726). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 38-4.

Rabbi of Meknes, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Son of Moshe. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-2.

Rabbi of Meknès, 18th century. Born in 5526 (1766), died in 5546 (1786) of the Hebrew era. Son of Moshe. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 41-3.

Rabbi of Fès, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Son of Yehonatan II. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-1.

Rabbi of Draa Valley. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 33-4.

Rabbi of Meknès, active in the sixth century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-3.

Chief rabbi of Smyrna, author of more than 70 works in Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish.

Rabbi of Mogador (Essaouira), active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-2.

Rabbi of Rif, eighteenth century. Mentioned in the year 5478 of the Hebrew era (1718). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-2.

Rabbi of Meknès. Period not specified by the source. Son of Barukh. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 38-1.

Rabbi of Fès, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 36-2.

Alexander Haindorf is a German physician, writer and philanthropist born in Lenhausen, Westphalia, on May 12, 1784, and died in Hamm on October 16, 1862. Orphaned of poor parents, a peddler in his…

Abraham Halberstadt ben Menki is a German Hebraist and Talmudist who died in Halberstadt around 1780, a student of Jonathan Eybeschütz whose memory he defended in a letter dated 1770. Author of an…

Judah ben Benjamin Halberstadt, also called Stadthagen, is a rabbinical author of the eighteenth century, author of the Minḥat Yehudah, which explains the passages where Rachi employs the expression…

Élie Halévy, called Ḥalfan, is a French Hebraist poet and author born in Fürth in 1760 and died in Paris on 5 November 1826, father of Fromental and Léon Halévy. Having become a cantor in Paris from…

Jacques François Fromental Élie Halévy, of the family name Levi, is a French composer born in Paris on May 27, 1799 and died in Nice on March 17, 1862, son of Élie Halévy. Admitted to the Paris…

Uri Sheraga Phoebus ben Eliezer Manneles Ḥalfan is a rabbi of Ungarisch-Brod, in Moravia, in the first half of the eighteenth century, author of Dat Esh, a collection of responsa and commentary on…

Joseph Hambro is a royal privy councillor of the King of Denmark, born in Copenhagen on November 2, 1780 and died in London on October 3, 1848. After beginning in a trading house in Hamburg, he…

Jacob ben Mordecai Wiener Hamburger is grand rabbi of Prague, died on November 12, 1753. He appears in 1725 among the rabbis signing the address warning the Jews of Poland against the Sabbatean…

Mordecai Hamburger, also called Marcus Moses, is an English community leader born in Hamburg around 1660 and died in London around 1730, founder of the Hambro' synagogue. Son of R. Moïse ben Löb, he…

Wolf Hamburger (Abraham Benjamin) was a Talmudist and head of the yeshiva of Fürth, born on January 26, 1770 and died on May 15, 1850, contemporary of R. Moses Sofer, who cites him in his Ḥatam…

Isaac Hanan is a Turkish rabbi active in Salonique around the middle of the 18th century, author of a collection of homilies and responsa entitled Bene Yiṣḥaḳ (Salonique, 1757).

Rabbi. Period not specified by the source. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 42-3.

Physician and rabbi of Florence, from the Ferrarese branch of the Cases family. He defended Maimonides' Sefer ha-Mitzvot against Nahmanides' criticisms and left halakhic glosses on the Yoreh Deʿah.…

From Fès, he worked as rabbi, notary and judge in Meknès in the 18th century. He is credited with the Hebrew rendering of a work related to Rabbi Samuel of Avila, under the title Ozen Chemouel («…

Raphaël Hanno is a German writer born in Hanau in 1791 and died in Heidelberg in 1871. Converted to Christianity, he became in 1824 professor of Oriental languages at the University of Heidelberg, a…

Moses Phinehas ben Israel Ḥarif is a Polish rabbi and author who died in Lemberg in 1722, grandson of Moses Ḥarif the Elder and father of Israel and Hirsch Ḥarif, the latter becoming rabbi of…

Anton Theodor Hartmann is a German author born in Düsseldorf on June 25, 1774 and died in Rostock on April 20, 1838. Directed by Eichhorn toward the study of the Old Testament and oriental languages,…

Rabbi of Tangier, 18th century. Died in 5488 of the Hebrew era (1728). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 42-3.

Rabbi of Meknès. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 42-3.

Moses ben Asher Anshel Hausen is a Danish Talmudist born in Copenhagen in 1752 and died on June 28, 1782. He is attributed the Ḳaran Or Pene Mosheh, homiletic commentary on Genesis published…

Polish businessman (1740 - 1785)

Ḥayyim (Josué) Pheibel ben Israël of Tarnogrod is an 18th-century geographer, author of a Hebrew geography of Palestine, Ḳaṣwe Areṣ (Żółkiew, 1772), reissued in Grodno in 1818 under the title Ereṣ…

Cited by Laredo as rabbi of Smyrne, died in Jerusalem in 1794. Bearer of the patronym Alazraqui in its modern spelling.

Ḥayyim Abraham ben Aryeh Löb is a Russian preacher active in Mogilev in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is the author of Milḥamah be-Shalom, a dramatization of the history of Joseph and…

Ottoman rabbi and Talmudist

Ḥayyim ben Isaac of Volojine is a Russian rabbi and pedagogue born in Volojine, in the governorate of Wilna, on January 21, 1749, and died in that city on June 14, 1821. A reputed Talmudist and…

Ḥayyim ben Menahem of Glogau is a German scholar active in the 17th and 18th centuries, author of Mar'eh ha-Ketab bi-Leshon Ashkenaz we-Rashe Tebot (Berlin, circa 1717), a manual intended mainly for…

Ḥayyim ben Zeboulon Jacob Perlmutter is rabbi of Ostropol, in Russia, in the eighteenth century, author of Elef Omer, a collection of sentences beginning with the letter aleph according to the…

Ḥayyim Jacob ben Jacob David is a rabbi of Smyrna active in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, disciple of Ḥayyim ben Jacob Aboulafia, author of 'Eṣ Ḥayyim. Established in Safed, he is sent on…

Polish rabbi

Chief Rabbi of Aleppo (from 1858) and head of the Beth Din, author of the responsa « Nokhah ha-Shulchan ».

rabbi

Rabbi and preacher of Salonika, author of Sippour ha-Hayyim.

Scholar, bibliographer, and emissary of the Land of Israel, author of the Shem ha-Gedolim, a vast register of rabbis and works. He traveled through Europe and the East as a collector.

Talmudist active in the eighteenth century, he is the author of « Peri Ëtz Ḥayyim » (Amsterdam, 1742), which gathers responsa, annotations to Maimonides' « Yad ha-Ḥazaka » and the « Arba Tourim », as…

Moïse ben Aaron Ḥayyon is rabbi of Jerusalem then of Safed, active at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, colleague of Abraham Yitzḥaki and son-in-law of Jacob Ḥagiz. In 1701, he…

Isaac ben Jacob Ḥayyut is a Polish rabbi died in Skala, near Lemberg, in September 1726, descended from an ancient Provençal family established in Bohemia and grandson of R. Menahem Manesh Ḥayyut of…

Jacob Raphael Hezekiah Ḥazaḳ is an Italian rabbi of the 18th century, born in 1689 and died in Padua in 1782, disciple of Mordekhaï Basan of Verona and then, in Padua, of Moses Ḥayyim Luzzatto. He…

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is a German philosopher born in Stuttgart in 1770 and died in Berlin in 1831. After studying in Tübingen and tutoring in Berne and Frankfurt, he becomes lecturer in 1801…

Wolf ben Samson Heidenheim is a German exegete and grammarian born in Heidenheim in 1757 and died in Rödelheim on February 23, 1832. Trained in Talmud in Fürth under Joseph Steinhardt then Hirsch…

David Heilbron is a Dutch physician born in The Hague on July 4, 1762 and died in Amsterdam in 1847, doctor of medicine from Leiden in 1784. He practices in his native city from 1785 to 1800, before…

Abraham ben Juda Heilbut is a German Talmudist active in Altona in the mid-eighteenth century, who drafted in July 1751 the Binah Rabbah, an unpublished commentary on the Midrash Rabba, focusing…

German bibliographer

Jeremiah Heinemann is a German author born in Sandersleben on July 20, 1778 and died in Berlin on October 16, 1855, son of Rabbi Joachim Heinemann. Appointed in 1808 lay member of the consistory of…

Ephraim ben Samuel Sanvel Hekscher was president of the Jewish community of Altona in the early 18th century, author of Dibre Ḥakamim we-Ḥidotam, on the sources and interpretations of many rabbinic…

German rabbi of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, great-grandson, through his father, of Salomon Louria, he was chief rabbi of Warta, in Poland, then of Glogau. During his stay in Vienna, he…

Elkan Henle is one of the very first defenders of the emancipation of Bavarian Jews, born on December 7, 1761, in Fürth, and died in that city on October 14, 1833. He published notably Ueber die…

Emma Henry is an English poetess born on September 17, 1788 and died on December 30, 1870, daughter of Reverend Salomon Lyon, professor of Hebrew at Cambridge, and wife of Abraham Henry. Considered…

Henry A. Henry is an Anglo-American rabbi and Hebraist born in London in 1800 and died in San Francisco on September 4, 1879. Director of the Jews' Free School in London until 1842, he compiled a…

August Wilhelm Eduard Theodor Henschel is a German physician and botanist born in Breslau on 20 December 1790 and died in that city on 24 July 1856, doctorate in medicine in 1813. He practiced…

Elias H. Henschel is a German physician born in Breslau on April 4, 1755 and died in 1839, father of A. W. Henschel. Clerk and then valet of a physician in his youth, he entered the University of…

Johann Gottfried von Herder is a Protestant theologian, poet and German writer born in Mohrungen, in East Prussia, on August 25, 1744, and died in Weimar on December 21, 1803, trained in theology and…

Czech rabbi

Sir William Herschel is an English astronomer born in Hanover on November 15, 1738 and died in Slough, near Windsor, on August 22, 1822, whose Jewish ancestry is attested by his biographer Holden.…

Salomon Herschell is the Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazim of England, born in London in 1762, during the rabbinate of his father R. Hirsch Levin, and died in that city on October 31, 1842. Taken as a…

Henrik Hertz is a Danish poet born on August 25, 1798 in Copenhagen and died in this city on February 25, 1870. After studying law at the University of Copenhagen, he devoted himself to literature…

Hartog Hertzveld is a Dutch rabbi born in Glogau on November 19, 1781 and died in Zwolle on January 30, 1864, son of the rabbi of Königsberg. Leaving as a young man for Amsterdam, where he was…

Elise Herz, née von Lämel, is an Austrian philanthropist born in Prague on December 20, 1788 and died in Vienna on July 25, 1868, whose Prague residence was a recognized intellectual center. At the…

Jacques-Simon Herz is a pianist born in Frankfurt am Main on 31 December 1794 and died in Nice on 27 January 1880. Leaving for Paris as a child, he is admitted in 1807 to the Conservatory, where he…

Markus Herz is a German physician and philosophy lecturer born on June 17, 1747 in Berlin and died in that city on January 19, 1803, son of modest parents. Sent in 1762 to Königsberg for a commercial…

Adolf Herzfeld is a German actor born April 9, 1800 in Hamburg and died in Vienna on March 24, 1874, son of Jacob Herzfeld. He made his debut in Hamburg in 1821, performed there until 1829, then was…

Jacob Herzfeld is a German actor and theater director born in Dessau on January 3, 1769 and died in Hamburg on October 24, 1826. After studying medicine at the University of Leipzig, he became an…

Isaac Hess is a defender of Jewish emancipation in Württemberg born in Lauchheim, near Ellwangen, in 1789, and died on October 6, 1866. Destined for the rabbinate, he spent four years at the Talmudic…

Michael Hess is a German pedagogue and author born in Stadt-Lengsfeld, Saxe-Weimar, on 9 April 1782, and died in Frankfurt am Main on 26 February 1860, brother of Mendel Hess. Destined for the…

Orthodox Jewish Chabad Rabbi

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Hungarian rabbi

German rabbi

Polish rabbi

Jacob von Hirsch is a German banker, grandfather of Maurice de Hirsch, born in 1764 in Königshofen, near Würzburg, and died on 23 March 1841 in Munich. Although he received in his youth an…

British rabbi

Levi Elias Hirschel is a German physician born on October 8, 1741 in Berlin and died in that city on December 17, 1772, trained at the Joachimsthal gymnasium and at the University of Halle, where he…

Moïse Hirschel, who became Christian Moritz after his baptism in 1804, is a German writer born on September 13, 1754 in Breslau, where he continues to live. He publishes notably Das Schach (Breslau,…

Austrian merchant born on June 10, 1759 in Prostiebor, near Kladrau, in Bohemia, died in Vienna on December 12, 1849. Employed and then partner of the trading house of Joel Baruch in Vienna from…

Austrian educator and writer born in Lieben, near Prague, in September 1749, died on August 24, 1841. Trained in Talmud in Prague, Pressburg and Gross-Glogau, he turned toward pedagogy under the…

Austrian tobacco manufacturer born in Kuttenplan, in Bohemia, in October 1724, died in Vienna on January 19, 1808, the first Jew ennobled in Austrian history. Son of a modest merchant, he entered the…

German jurist and writer born in Hamburg on March 5, 1763, died in Bamberg on June 27, 1853. After studies in Bamberg, he became a lawyer, then district president in 1803, before being appointed in…

Rabbi and Talmudic author born in Poland around 1731, died in Frankfurt am Main on 1 July 1805, descendant of a long rabbinical lineage. Trained in Talmud by his elder brother Schmelke, he became…

Rabbi and Kabbalist born in Poland in 1726, died in Nikolsburg on April 28, 1778, son of Hirsch Horowitz, rabbi of Czortkow, and brother of Phinehas Horowitz of Frankfurt am Main. Disciple of the…

Physician and Austrian writer born in Bydzov, Bohemia, in 1788, died November 7, 1859 in Nagy-Kanizsa, Hungary, where he practiced medicine since 1811. He devoted himself especially to the work of…

Daughter of the martyr Be'er ben Ḥizqiya ha-Lévi Horwitz and wife of Joseph ben Ḥayyim Ḥazzan, who died in Prague in 1713. She published in 1705 « Gesch. des Hauses David », and, with Rachel Porges,…

Polish scholar born in Lublin around 1740, died in Paris in 1812. He left his native country while young, lived in Berlin, where he frequented Moses Mendelssohn, then in Nancy, Metz and Strasbourg,…

German Christian biblical scholar born in Marburg on March 31, 1796, died in Halle on April 24, 1866. Professor of Old Testament exegesis at Marburg from 1825 to 1843, he succeeded Gesenius at Halle.…

Professor of Hebrew and author born in 1770, died in 1844, originally from Poland where he acquired great proficiency in biblical and Talmudic studies before settling in England. Aided by friends, he…

Russian physician and writer born in Wilna in the first half of the eighteenth century, died in Grodno on November 12, 1797. Graduate in medicine from the University of Padua, he traveled through…

Companion of King David, generally called the Arkite. When David had to flee before Absalom, he sent Ḥoushaï to thwart the latter's plans; feigning to rally to his cause, Ḥoushaï made his counsel…

Rabbi of Fès, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5510 of the Hebrew era (1750). Son of Yosef. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 103-2.

Rabbi of Fès, 18th century. Mentioned in 5494 of the Hebrew era (1734). Son of Yehonatan II. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 103-2.

Rabbi of Fes, 18th century. Born in 5465 of the Hebrew era (1705). Son of Yehoshua I. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 103-1.

Rabbi of Fès, eighteenth century. Died in 5530 of the Hebrew era (1770). Son of Matatiah II, himself son of Haim David. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 103-2.

German philologist born in Hamburg on September 4, 1792 and died in Minden on December 28, 1847. Converted to Christianity in 1809, he studied theology and philology at Helmstedt, Göttingen and…

Son of Joseph Aboulker, Grand Rabbi of Algiers, described as a learned sage. He is said to have been beheaded on the order of the Dey of Algiers along with several notables for defending the…

Italian Talmudist, active in Ancona in the first half of the eighteenth century. He maintained scientific correspondence with Isaac Lampronti, who mentions him frequently in his "Paḥad Yiẓḥaḳ".

Dutch Kabbalist, assistant rabbi in Amsterdam in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries, where he devoted himself to the editing of Kabbalistic texts. In 1701, he published from a manuscript in his…

Scholar, rabbinical judge (dayyan) and poet of Meknès, cited by the Encyclopaedia Judaica in the « Sebag » family entry. He is credited with piyyoutim, including a long poem preserved in the…

Born in Aleppo in 1755, dayyan and teacher at the city's yeshiva. After his family's death in the plague of 1787, he undertook around 1814 a long journey (Land of Israel, Egypt, France, Italy),…

Rabbi in Offenbach in the first half of the 18th century. He is the author of « Be'er Yiẓḥaḳ », a commentary on the Haftarot with the text (1729), and « Me'irat 'Enayim », on the six hundred and…

Rabbi of Lemberg, died in Kraków in 1799, son of the head of the yeshivah of Lemberg. He first officiated as rabbi in Leshnow, in Galicia, then in Chelm, in Poland, before leaving the latter city in…

Chief rabbi of Tétouan, decisioner; author of the responsa Vayomer Yitzhak.

Member of the Judeo-Portuguese community of Amsterdam, Isaac ben Elijah Cohen Belinfante was a preacher, poet of Hebrew language and great bibliophile. Active from the 1750s onwards in the Hebrew…

British writer

Satirist and poet of the Galician Haskala, author of Ha-Tsofeh le-Veit Yisrael.

Born in Tripoli into a family tracing back to Jews from Huete (Spain). He lived long in Trieste then settled in the Holy Land, where he played a key role in founding talmudic seminaries in Tiberias…

Peerage person ID=714520

Born in Lisbon in a Portuguese Jewish family, trained in Bordeaux and Leiden. Extraordinary physician of the Portuguese Embassy to the court of St James in London and honorary physician to the…

Ottoman rabbi

Isaac Samuel Avigdor, banker and merchant of Nice, was deputy to the Grand Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon (1806–1807), whose secretariat he held alongside Isaac Rodrigues, under the presidency of…