XVIIIth century CE

Transylvanian-born German rabbi

Polish rabbi died in Cracow around 1730, grandson of R. Joshua, author of the « Maginne Shelomoh ». Rabbi of Shidlow, representative of Cracow at the Council of the Four Lands, he becomes after 1715…

Polish preacher and leader of the Hasidic movement in the second half of the eighteenth century, student of Israël Baal Chem Tov and of Bär of Meseritz, and he contributed to spreading the miraculous…

Dutch mathematician born in Amsterdam on June 6, 1797, died in Delft on February 9, 1866, descended from a family of Portuguese Marranos settled in Holland in 1604. Trained by Littwack and Van…

English scholar, born in London in the early eighteenth century; while still young, he settled in Amsterdam where he lived for a long time, then traveled through Italy, where he was for a time taken…

Austrian grammarian who lived in the early eighteenth century; baptized in Idstein, he took the name Wilhelm Heinrich Neumann. His Hebrew grammar, the Ḳinyan Abraham, is published in Zolkiew in 1723.

English politician, born in Jamaica on 22 January 1755 and died at Maristow House, Devon, in 1831, descended from an old Sephardic family; converted to Christianity with his father in 1802, he…

Born in Mainz in 1800, apprentice to banker Hayum Salomon Goldschmidt, he developed an international banking house (Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, London, Paris). In January 1872 he played a major…

Austro-Hungarian rabbi (1794-1857)

Asher ben Aryeh Löb (Löw) is Grand Rabbi of Carlsruhe, born in Minsk in 1754 and died in Carlsruhe on July 23, 1837. Trained by his father, Aryeh Löb, rabbi of Metz, whose yeshiva he assisted when…

Talmudist, son of Naṭe ha-Lévi, born in Kolín, Bohemia, around 1720 and died on May 20, 1806 in Boskovice, Moravia, where he directed a yeshiva for nearly sixty years. He is the author of Maḥaẓit…

Joël Löwe, called Brill, is a German commentator born in 1760 and died in Breslau on 11 February 1802. He left for Berlin at twenty, where he receives instruction from Isaac Satanow, befriends Moses…

German painter and engraver, born in Königsberg on June 24, 1756 and died in the same city on May 10, 1831. Having acquired such a reputation by 1780 that Empress Catherine II of Russia commissioned…

German geographer, born in Strzelno, Prussia, in 1800, and died in Berlin on 12 December 1893; trained in Berlin, he befriends Alexander von Humboldt, who helps him in various ways. Author of…

Polish physician, born in Zamość in 1788 and died in Warsaw on February 3, 1879. He began his career as a military surgeon under Napoleon I, who made him an officer of the Legion of Honor, became…

Grammarian, scribe and dayan of Lemberg in the 18th century, author of a Hebrew grammar in verse, Shirah Ḥadashah, published in Zolkiev in 1764, then of a complete Hebrew grammar in four parts, Ohel…

Opera singer and hazzan, died in Kingston, Jamaica, around 1800, uncle of John Braham, with whom he sang in the choir of the Great Synagogue of London. He made his debut at Covent Garden in 1775 in…

One of the first Jewish settlers of Georgia, in the United States, ancestor of a family that counted among the most notable of that state; according to family tradition born in Spain, but always…

Hebrew teacher and author, born in Poland and died in 1770, emigrated to England where he settled in Cambridge and worked as a goldsmith while gaining a reputation as a Hebraist, which earned him…

French mathematician, born in France in 1792 and died in Paris on February 27, 1865. Gifted for mathematics, he entered in 1813 the École Normale of Paris, whose studies were interrupted by the…

German painter, born in Berlin on January 7, 1799, died in the same city on August 8, 1872. After studies in medicine, architecture and then philosophy, he devoted himself to painting at the Academy…

German mathematician, born in Berlin on 15 March 1790, died in that city on 25 September 1861, cousin of Heinrich Gustav Magnus. After serving as an artilleryman during the Napoleonic Wars…

Elder of the Jewish community of Berlin in the first quarter of the eighteenth century, court Jew of the crown prince who became King Frederick William I. His disputes with his rival Jost Liebmann…

German printer, born in Dyhernfurth on December 29, 1764, died in Breslau on December 1, 1810. He takes over with his brother the printing house founded by their father in Dyhernfurth. A Talmudist,…

Rabbi of Rabat, 18th century. Mentioned in 5490 of the Hebrew era (1730). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 81-2.

Rabbi of Fès, 18th century. Mentioned in 5489 of the Hebrew era (1729). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 82-3.

Rabbi of Marrakech, 18th century. Mentioned in 5548 of the Hebrew era (1788). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 82-3.

Rabbi of Sefrou. Period not specified by the source. Registered in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 81-2.

Rabbi of Sefrou. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), p. 82-1.

Rabbi of Fès. Period not specified by the source. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 81-4.

Rabbi of Meknès, 18th century. Born in 5527 (1767), died in 5584 (1824) of the Hebrew era. Son of Rafael. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 81-2.

Rabbi of Fès. Era not specified by the source. Son of Yosef. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 81-3.

Rabbi of Tétouan, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5526 of the Hebrew era (1766). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 82-2.

Rabbi. Period not specified by the source. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 81-2.

Rabbi of Tétouan, 18th century. Died in 5516 of the Hebrew era (1756). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 82-2.

Rabbi of Meknès, 18th century. Died in 5515 of the Hebrew era (1755). Registered in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 81-4.

Rabbi of Fès, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5523 of the Hebrew era (1763). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 81-4.

Rabbi of Marrakech. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 81-2.

Rabbi of Fès, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5492 of the Hebrew era (1732). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 81-4.

Rabbi of Salé, 18th century. Mentioned in 5486 of the Hebrew era (1726). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 82-3.

Philosophical writer, born in Nieszwicz (Lithuania) in 1754, died in Niedersiegersdorf (Silesia) on November 22, 1800. Trained very young in rabbinical literature, he then turned to the study of…

Rabbi of Salé, 18th century. Mentioned in 5490 of the Hebrew era (1730). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 83-2.

Rabbi of Tafilalet. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 83-1.

Rabbi, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 82-3.

Rabbi of Meknes. Period not specified by the source. Registered in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 83-1.

Rabbi of Meknès, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5521 of the Hebrew era (1761). Son of Yosef, himself son of Makhluf I. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 83-1.

Rabbi. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 83-1.

Rabbi of Safi, 18th century. Mentioned in 5548 of the Hebrew era (1788). Son of Shalem. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 82-4.

Rabbi. Period not specified by the source. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 82-4.

Talmudist and methodologist, last great rabbi of Italy, died before 1790. Dayyan in Livorno, he took the side of Eybeschütz in his controversy with Emden and rendered in 1732 a decision concerning a…

Rabbinic writer and Russian philosopher, also known as Ben Porat, born in Smorgon, government of Wilna, in 1767, died in Ilye, in the same government, in 1831. From his earliest youth devoted to…

Hungarian linguist, born around 1780 in Pressburg, died in Paris on 22 December 1836. Considered one of the greatest linguists of his time, he is said to have surpassed in knowledge of foreign…

Russian Hebraist and author, born in Zhagory towards the end of the 18th century, died in Simferopol on 8 May 1886. Employed by the Günzburgs for more than forty years, he is their representative in…

Jewish preacher, born in Copenhagen on October 17, 1793, died in Vienna on March 17, 1865, son of a hazzan. First catechist appointed after the emancipation of Danish Jews in 1814, he organized in…

Rabbi and Egyptian author, settled in Salonique around the end of the 18th century. He is the author of « Ẓur Todah » (Salonique, 1783), a commentary on the Yad ha-Ḥazaḳah, of « Ben Pedahẓur »…

French poet and author, born in Carpentras around 1780, died in Paris on February 21, 1825; his name is said to have originally been Moïse. Abducted in 1787 by the Catholic clergy and forcibly…

French physician, born in Amsterdam on November 4, 1771, died in Paris on January 12, 1841. Doctor of medicine from Erlangen in 1792, he settled in Paris in 1795 where he co-founded the Medical…

Chief Rabbi of France

Rabbi of the Livornese congregation of Tunis, successor of Isaac Lumbroso.

German Catholic orientalist, born in Höchstädt, near Bamberg, in January 1800; date of death unknown. Professor at the gymnasium of Bamberg, he published in 1837 a Hebrew chrestomathy, « Tif'eret…

German music writer, born in Halle on May 15, 1799, died in Berlin on May 17, 1866. Renouncing the legal career wanted by his father, he devoted himself to music in Berlin, a student of Zelter, and…

German physician, born in Bonn in 1743, died in Hanover on January 24, 1789, doctor of medicine from Halle (1765). After study travels in Holland and England, where he frequents doctor John…

Russian rabbi and author born in 1788, died in Minsk in 1848, descendant of Rabbi Israel Jaffé of Shklov, author of the « Or Israël ». Refusing to profit from his Kabbalistic knowledge as…

Chief Rabbi of Tunis, author of Mishha de-Rabbuta, commentary on the Shulchan Aruch.

Rabbi of Fès, 18th century. Died in 5550 of the Hebrew era (1790). Son of Menahem I. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 98-1.

Rabbi and Italian liturgist, author of poems and responsa.

German convert to Christianity, born in Fürth in 1715, died in Nuremberg in 1779. After studying the Talmud in Prague under his father and teaching in Fürth under the name of Simeon, he announces in…

Hungarian soldier and philanthropist, born in 1763 in Stampfen (Hungary), died on November 22, 1842. Entered the service of the Jewish hospital of Vienna, he became its superintendent in 1799, then…

German music publisher who worked in Paris

Biblical exegete of the eighteenth century, author of commentaries on the Pentateuch and the former prophets (Olomouc, 1757), then on the books of Chronicles, Ezra, Tobit and Judith (1758).

banker (1744–1812)

French rabbi

Austrian rabbi

German military physician, born in Frankfurt-am-Main, where his father already practiced medicine, and diploma from a German university. After the Frankfurt council refused to authorize him to…

English Christian missionary and author, born in Dublin on May 16, 1799, died in London on November 13, 1863. Sent on mission to Poland in 1821, he studied Hebrew and German in Warsaw, where he…

German rabbi

Purveyor to the English armies, active around 1711. A wealthy Jew who came to England with William III, known by the name of the « Jew Medina », he accompanied the Duke of Marlborough during the War…

German philologist, born in Glogau (Silesia) on January 1, 1796, died in Halle on December 5, 1855. Converted to Christianity in 1817, doctorate from Berlin (1818), he became a private lecturer at…

Appointed banker of the Sublime Porte under Selim III (1789-1807), he held a position close to that of a finance minister and exercised great influence in government. He was assassinated by the…

Rabbi of Salé, 18th century. Mentioned in 5533 of the Hebrew era (1773). Son of Haim. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 81-1.

Talmudist and biblical exegete of early eighteenth-century Austria, native of Zolkiew. Under the title « Liḳḳuṭe Shoshannim » (Jessnitz, 1722), he compiled the commentaries of the Geonim on the…

Rabbi of Meknès. Period not specified by source. Son of Rafael, himself son of Mordekhay. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 81-1.

Rabbi of Sefrou, eighteenth century. Died in 5490 of the Hebrew era (1730). Son of Yosef. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), p. 80-3.

Rabbi of Meknès. Period not specified by the source. Son of Yaakov, himself son of Mordekhay. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 81-1.

Rabbi of Marrakech. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 80-4.

Hungarian rabbi

Poet, editor and translator, student of Krochmal, master of the historical ballad.

Rabbi, 18th century. Mentioned in 5505 of the Hebrew era (1745). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 81-1.

Rabbi

Printing compositor and translator in Livorno (1777-93), son of Jacob Raphaël Melol and brother of David Ḥayyim Melol. He translates or edits the "Sefer Azharot ha-Ḳodesh" and the Book of Ruth…

German rabbi, died in Posen(?) in 1724, student of R. Heschel and Aaron Samuel Kaidanover. He is the author of the « Ẓinẓenet Menaḥem » (Berlin, 1719), clarifications of difficult passages in the…

Polish rabbi and author, died in Lemberg in 1742, descendant of R. Joseph Cohen of Kraków, of R. Isaac Shrenzel and of R. Saül Wahl. Dayyan in Lemberg under the presidency of R. Ḥayyim Rapoport, he…

Menachem Mendel Morgenstern, the "Kotzker Rebbe," disciple of Rabbi Bunim of Pshiskha whom he succeeded, founded the Hasidic school of Kotsk, renowned for its radical demand for truth, intellectual…

1728–1793

Disciple of the Maggid, spread Hasidism in Belarus then emigrated to the Land of Israel.

Founder of the Chernobyl dynasty, author of the Meor Einayim among the earliest Hasidic writings.

Disciple of the Baal Shem Tov and the Maggid of Mezeritch, he is the paternal ancestor from whom the entire Twersky dynasty descends, including the Rachmastrivka branch. His work Meor Einayim is a…

Rabbi of Tétouan, eighteenth century. Mentioned in {year} of the Hebrew calendar (1788). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), p. 84-2.

Rabbi of Tétouan, 18th century. Mentioned in 5472 of the Hebrew era (1712). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 84-2.

Rabbi of Tétouan, 18th century. Mentioned in 5483 of the Hebrew era (1723). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 84-1.

Rabbi of Fès. Period not specified by the source. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 84-2.

Rabbi of Taza, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5521 of the Hebrew era (1761). Son of Yeshua. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 84-2.

Rabbi of Fès, 18th century. Died in 5461 of the Hebrew calendar (1701). Son of Haim David. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 83-2.

Rabbi of Taza. Period not specified by the source. Son of David. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 84-2.

Rabbi of Fès, eighteenth century. Born in 5453 (1693), died in 5479 (1719) of the Hebrew era. Son of Yehoshua I. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 83-3.

Rabbi of Fès, eighteenth century. Died in 5540 of the Hebrew era (1780). Son of Matitiah I. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 83-4.

Lithuanian Talmudist of the eighteenth century, born in Shklov, died in Palestine. A disciple of Elijah of Vilna, he edits and publishes several of his commentaries — on Proverbs, the Shulhan Arukh,…

Famous Hasidic rebbe, one of the five principal disciples and disseminators of Elimelech of Lizhensk in Poland and Galicia. His Torah teachings were collected by his students (notably R. Yehezkel…

Nicknamed 'Ahavat Shalom' after his work, he was a rebbe and founder of the Hasidic dynasty of Kosov, which he led from 1802 until his death in 1825. A student of Moshe Leib of Sassov and Meshulam…

hasidic rebbe (1768–1825)

Rabbi of Tétouan, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5548 of the Hebrew era (1788). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 84-2.

Rabbi of Fès, 18th century. Died in 5527 of the Hebrew era (1767). Son of Abraham. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 84-2.

Rabbi of Fès, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Son of Shmuel. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 84-3.

Danish merchant and press man (1780–1868)

German rabbi

English poet and playwright, born in London, died in Old Buckenham (Norfolk) on February 4, 1758, son of James Mendes and grandson of Fernando Mendes, trained at St Mary Hall, Oxford (1750). Becoming…

Austrian painter, born in Aussig (Bohemia) on 12 March 1728, died in Rome on 29 June 1779, son of Ismael Israel Mengs. Taken to Rome as early as 1741, he was appointed court painter to King Augustus…

German author

matriarch of the Hebron community

Rabbi in Frankfurt-on-the-Main in the early eighteenth century. He drafts an elementary manual of mathematics, « Reshit Limmudim », in three parts devoted to algebra, geometry and astronomy, of which…

British Chief Rabbi

Rabbi of Azaouia, 18th century. Mentioned in 5527 of the Hebrew era (1767). Son of Makhluf. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 85-2.

Rabbi of Marrakech, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 85-3.

Rabbi of Fez. Period not specified by the source. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 85-4.

Rabbi, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 86-2.

Rabbi, 18th century. Mentioned in 5542 of the Hebrew era (1782). Son of Shlomo. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 86–1.

Rabbi. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 85-1.

Rabbi of Sefrou, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5486 of the Hebrew era (1726). Son of Yosef. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 86-2.

Rabbi of Tangier, 18th century. Mentioned in 5489 of the Hebrew era (1729). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 84-4.

Rabbi of Mogador (Essaouira), active in the sixth century of the Hebrew Era (1740–1839). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 85-2.

Rabbi of Bagris. Period not specified by the source. Son of Shlomo, himself son of Messod. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 84-4.

Rabbi of Meknes, 18th century. Died in 5480 of the Hebrew era (1720). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 85-4.

Rabbi of Sefrou, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Son of Yomtov I. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 84-4.

Rabbi of Meknes, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5483 of the Hebrew era (1723). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 84-4.

Rabbi of Demnate. Period not specified by the source. Son of Yaakov. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 84-4.

Rabbi. Period not specified by the source. Registered in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 84-3.

Rabbi of Fès, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 86-2.

Rabbi of Ksar el-Kébir, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5489 of the Hebrew era (1729). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 85-2.

Rabbi of Meknès, eighteenth century. Died in 5480 of the Hebrew era (1720). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 85-2.

Rabbi of Meknes, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5528 of the Hebrew era (1768). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 85-1.

Rabbi of Safi. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 85-3.

German Reform rabbi (1785–1839)

German rabbi (1744-1826)

Danish financier, born in Copenhagen on January 18, 1753, died in the same city on August 30, 1813. Associated with his nephew S. S. Trier after his brother's death, he founded the house Meyer &…

Danish genre painter, born on May 11, 1797 in Altona (Schleswig-Holstein), died in Rome on February 1, 1861. Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts and Lorentzen's school in Copenhagen, he won two…

Polish poet, born in the village of Sluzewo (governorate of Warsaw) in 1796, died on March 25, 1869. Sent by his father to Berlin in 1810 to be trained in commerce, he there revealed a poetic talent,…

Danish author, born in Gandersheim (Brunswick) on January 3, 1780, died in Copenhagen on July 28, 1854. Naturalized Danish in 1810, he directed the national debt office before resigning in 1821 with…

German woman of letters and salon hostess, born in Berlin in the second half of the eighteenth century, died in Oranienburg on December 11, 1828. She counts among her friends Goethe, Lessing, and…

Danish physician and author, born in Copenhagen November 26, 1756, died in the same city April 6, 1844, son of physician Christian de Meza with whom he converted to Christianity in 1783, the year he…

Danish physician, born in Amsterdam on September 4, 1727, died in Copenhagen in June 1800, son of Portuguese rabbi Abraham de Meza. Trained in Amsterdam and then in Utrecht (doctorate 1749), he…

Czech rabbi

German poet

Born in Pressburg in 1769, engraver then jeweler (he engraved the imperial seal in 1798, became court jeweler in 1830), he founded one of Austria's first banks. Leading figure in the birth of…

Orientalist and Christian polyhistor, born in Halle on 27 February 1717, died in Göttingen on 22 August 1791, grand-nephew of Johann Heinrich Michaelis. Professor at the University of Göttingen since…

Born in Nancy in 1797, son of Jewish banker Gerson-Jacob Goudchaux, he settled in Paris in 1825 and joined the liberal opposition. After the revolution of 1848, he was twice Minister of Finance of…

French rabbi and historian of Alsatian Judaism

French scholar and poet, active in Carpentras in the second half of the 18th century, probably father of Joseph ben Moïse Milhau. He publishes in Livorno in 1787 three works: 'Mishpaṭ Emet', a…

English historian, born in London on 10 February 1791, died in the same city on 24 September 1868. Known first for his dramatic poems, including « Fazio » (1815), he publishes in 1830 a rationalist «…

German lexicographer, active in Berlin in the middle of the eighteenth century. He publishes in 1760, with the approval of the rabbinates of Berlin and Halberstadt, the first Hebrew-German dictionary…

French statesman of the revolutionary era, born in Bignon on March 9, 1749, died in Paris on April 2, 1791. Familiar in Berlin with the Jewish circle of Henriette Herz and Dohm, he published in…

German Talmudist, rabbi of Schwerin in the mid-18th century, first trained in London then in various yeshivas before becoming rabbi of Wreschen, in Poland, then of Schwerin. He is the author of «…

Lithuanian Talmudist of the 18th century, native of Mir (governorate of Minsk). He publishes in Königsberg in 1769 a funeral oration for R. Abraham, chief rabbi of Frankfurt-on-the-Main, then, having…

Rabbi in Séfrou (Morocco), author of a collection of sermons and novelties (derushim ve-hiddushim), according to the rabbi records of the Jewish Moroccan Archive.

Court Jew of Margrave Wilhelm-Friedrich of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1703-1723). Exempted from customs duties and holder from 1691 of the privilege of printing the Talmud, he also uses his influence in…

Turkish rabbinical author, active in Salonika at the end of the 18th century, from a family originating in Modena, Italy. Correspondent of Ḥayyim ben David Aboulafia, rabbi of Smyrna, he publishes «…

Moshe Wallich, of Worms, selected and versified in Judeo-German 34 fables drawn from Aesop, Arabic sources and medieval Hebrew and German tales. His 'Sefer Meshalim' (Book of Fables,…

Rabbi of Salonika in the first half of the 18th century.

Moravian and German rabbi, born in Lemberg around 1705, died in Nikolsburg (Moravia) on December 28, 1757. Rabbi of Leipnik from his youth, he is imposed as Chief Rabbi of Berlin by a decree of…

Convert from Christianity to Judaism, printer and author, born in Nikolsburg, died in Amsterdam in 1733 or 1734. Printer in Amsterdam from 1690 to 1694, he established a printing house in Halle in…

Karaite scholar and poet, active in Tchufut-Kalé, Crimea, in the eighteenth century. He is the author of « Darosh Darash Mosheh », a collection of treatises on various subjects, and an elegy composed…

Polish rabbi of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, disciple of Salomon Louria, successively rabbi of Miedzyboz, Brody and Przemysl. He is credited with certainty to « Pene Mosheh », a…

German Talmudist and Hebraist of the early 18th century, nicknamed by his contemporaries « the father of interpreters by gematria ». He is the author of « 'Iṭṭur Soferim » (Hamburg, 1715), a Hebrew…

Rabbi of Salonika in the first half of the 18th century, author of a collection of responsa, « Kehunnat 'Olam » (Constantinople, 1740), followed by novellæ on the Ṭour Yoreh De'ah.

Chief rabbi of Lemberg, where he dies on 17 September 1702, grandson of Moses Ḥarif I ben Salomon, probably born in Lemberg. First chief rabbi of the two communities, urban and suburban, of the city,…

Austrian moralist writer, active in Prague in the 17th and 18th centuries. He is the author of a « Ẓawwa'ah » of ethical instructions (Prague, 1717), part of which was published by Hirsch ben Meïr as…

Italian kabbalist, poet and moralist, author of the Messilat Yecharim (The Path of the Just), a classic of Jewish ethics. He was a pioneer of modern literary Hebrew.

Berlin philosopher, father of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment). His Jerusalem (1783) defends freedom of conscience and the separation of Church and State. His translation of the Torah into German…

Cabalist and Turkish Talmudist, born in 1747, died in Baghdad in 1831, where he lived. He publishes « Ḳol Sason », on ethics (Leghorn, 1859), « Dabar be-'Itto », commentary on the Pentateuch and…

Polish rabbi

German Christian Kabbalist, born on 8 June 1779 in Ober-Ursel (Taunus), died in Frankfurt-am-Main on 23 March 1860. Initially influenced by Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Baader's theosophy, he turned,…

Writer and educator of Vilna, called the father of Hebrew prose.

Russian grammarian and av bet din of Slawatyetz-on-the-Bug, active in the early eighteenth century. He composed "Mera Dakya" (Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, 1734, often reprinted), a grammatical commentary…

Italian rabbi

Disciple of Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin, he founded at Lyakhavichy the Hasidic dynasty of Lechovitch, root of the courts of Kobrin, Slonim, Koidanov and Novominsk. His Hasidout, in the line of Karlin,…

Moravian Talmudist

Dayan of Meknès called « Ha-Marbitz » (the spreader of Torah); author of Mishne la-Melekh.

Disciple of Yehiel Mikhl of Zloczów (himself a student of the Maggid of Mezritch). Renowned for his great erudition and devotion to the settlement of cases of agunot (abandoned women). The Seer of…

Rabbi of Marrakech. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 88-2.

Rabbi of Marrakech, active in the 6th century of the Hebrew era (1740–1839). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 86-3.

Rabbi of Salé. Period not specified by the source. Son of Moshe. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 88-1.

Rabbi of Demnate. Period not specified by the source. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 87-3.

Rabbi of Marrakech. Period not specified by the source. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 87-3.

Rabbi of Baiza, eighteenth century. Mentioned in 5506 of the Hebrew era (1746). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 86-3.

Rabbi of Meknès. Period not specified by the source. Son of Rafael, himself son of Mordekhay. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 87-4.