XIXth century CE

English rabbi of the first half of the 19th century, author of « Netibot Emet », a defense of talmudic traditions against the attacks of the Reverend Alexander McCaul in « Old Paths ». Only the first…

Hungarian rabbi

Russian-Soviet Yiddish baritone singer (Mikhail Iosifovich Epelbaum), named Honored Artist of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic in 1937.

Yiddish and Hebrew poet (1823–1890)

Hungarian rabbi

Hungarian rabbi

French journalist and dramatist, born in Paris in 1836, died in the same city on October 22, 1892, son of Moïse Millaud. Entering « Figaro » in 1869, whose feuilleton style he created, he published…

French lawyer and statesman, born in Tarascon on September 27, 1834, admitted to the Lyon bar in 1856. An opponent of the imperial regime who became prosecutor general of Lyon after its fall, he sat…

French journalist and banker, born in Bordeaux on August 27, 1813, died in Paris in 1871, son of a modest Jewish merchant. He founded in Paris in 1836 « Le Gamin de Paris », the first newspaper sold…

American politician

Russian cantor, born in Bila Tserkva in April 1859, son of cantor Mordecai, descendant of Yom-Ṭob Lipmann Heller. Trained in singing by his father and then by Nisan Spivak, he obtained in Vienna a…

German physician, born in Alexoten, near Kovno, on January 13, 1858, educated in Fribourg, Strasbourg and Königsberg (doctorate 1881). Assistant to the medical clinic in Königsberg in 1882 then…

Physician and psychoanalyst, founding member of the Swiss Psychoanalytic Society (1919).

Australian singer, born in Melbourne in 1876, daughter of two singers. Trained in Europe under Mademoiselle de Garette and Madame Richard of the Grand Opéra de Paris, she sang at the operas of…

French financier, born in Bordeaux on December 9, 1809, died in Marseille in 1871. Broker in 1848, he bought the "Journal des Chemins de Fer", founded the "Conseiller du Peuple" with Lamartine, and…

Yiddish novelist born near Minsk, pioneer of popular women's fiction.

Yiddish poetess of Łódź, voice of folk tradition, died at Auschwitz.

American violinist of Russian origin

Composer born into a Jewish, musical family in Bialystok (then Russian Empire), renowned for Weimar-era Berlin cabaret and theatre songs; emigrated after 1933 to Britain, where he became a prolific…

Virtuoso violinist and Jewish Hungarian composer born in Presbourg, trained at the Vienna Conservatory. He gave concerts throughout Europe, the Americas and Australia. Entry in the Jewish…

Russian Hebraist, born in May 1836, died in Wilna on July 23, 1887. Writer of Hebrew prose and poetry, he lived mainly from teaching Hebrew; a collection of his poems, « Kinnor Dawid », appeared in…

American-Russian rabbi

Rabbi-judge at the rabbinic court of Tunis, sitting under the authority of the rabbis Yéhoshoua Bessis and Nathan Borgel. Died in Tunis in 1893. No written work is attributed to him by the source.

Polish rabbi born in the 19th century

Italian orientalist, born in Cento in 1841, trained at the Istituto degli Studi Superiori in Florence. Compiler of several library catalogs, he publishes notably "Sara Copia Sullam" and "Di una…

Traveler, naturalist and Italian author, born in Florence on June 13, 1861, graduate of Pavia in 1883. Passionate from an early age about natural sciences and travel, he explores the Malay peninsula…

American actor

American actor, born in Kaloraush (Bessarabia) on December 16, 1858, residing in New York. A renowned choir singer from his youth, he studied at the Bucharest Conservatory and then joined Abraham…

Russian rabbi and Zionist, born in Hluboka (government of Wilna) on April 25, 1824, died in Bialystok on June 10, 1898. Rabbi successively of his native city, of Szaki, Suwałki, Radom then Bialystok…

Born in Tangier in 1870, educator who developed the network of Alliance Israélite Universelle schools in Morocco before becoming a farmer in the Gharb. Figure of a Jewish notable in a colonial…

Nicknamed « the Angel of Salonica ». Doctor of medicine from the University of Pisa, he took over the family business in 1834 and became one of the city's greatest entrepreneurs: Allatini mill…

French rabbi

Polish preacher, born in Kozienice, where he died in 1825. Son of Israel of Kozienice and, like him, a disciple of the Hasidic leader Elimelek of Lyzhensk, he published "Be'er Mosheh," homilies on…

French rabbi and historian of Alsatian Judaism

Descendant of the Hariri family (son of Abraham ben Phinehas Hariri, who left six works in manuscript). Teacher possessing a large library of religious books, he wrote at least three works, including…

Russian preacher, known as the "Maggid of Kelmy", born in Slonim (Grodno Province) in 1828, died in Lida (Wilna Province) on November 9, 1899. Raised by his maternal grandfather after losing his…

Russian rabbi and author, born in Tourets (Minsk governorate), died in Minsk in 1889. Son-in-law of rabbi David Tébélé of Minsk, to whom he succeeds in the rabbinate of the city, he prepares with his…

Polish painter

Chief rabbi (Hahambasi) of Constantinople and of the Ottoman Empire from 1872 to 1908.

French rabbi

Rabbi of the community of Alexandria from 1871 until his death; author of Shemo Moshe (responsa).

French rabbi

French linguist, translator, historian and librarian

Chief rabbi of Pressburg, leader of Orthodoxy against the Reform movement, founder of one of the largest yeshivot in Europe. His maxim "the new is forbidden by the Torah" sums up his thought.

Italian Jewish teacher, author and Biblical commentator

Lithuanian rabbi from the beginning of the 19th century, born in Grodno, died in Białystok. Head of the yeshiva of Grodno, he became rabbi of Tykocin in 1813, then rabbi of Białystok in 1824, a…

American rabbi, born in Kletchevo (Prussian Poland) on May 3, 1840, died in Louisville (Kentucky) on January 7, 1902. Trained in Talmud and then at the Breslau rabbinical seminary, he enlisted in…

American rabbi, born on December 8, 1847 in Santomischel (Posnania), trained in Santomischel, Gleiwitz and Breslau. Emigrated to America, he is rabbi successively in Quincy (1879), Milwaukee…

President of the Bank of Bombay, second son of M. S. Moses, born in Bombay November 23, 1845. Related to the Sassoon family, he worked young in China for David Sassoon & Co., then returned in 1880 to…

Portuguese Jewish economist

Croatian rabbi

German physician, born in Lissa on May 4, 1862, trained in Breslau, Freiburg, Jena, and Berlin (doctorate 1885). After advanced studies in Vienna, Budapest, London, Paris, and Nancy, he settled in…

Musician and composer, born in Pfungstadt in 1813, died in London on February 8, 1880. Musically trained in London from 1828, he entered the choir of the Great Synagogue and then became its director…

Jurist, archaeologist, and historian, born November 30, 1817 in Garding (Schleswig-Holstein), died November 1, 1903 in Charlottenburg, near Berlin. Author of « Römische Geschichte », in which he…

Danish painter of portraits and genre scenes, born in Copenhagen on June 3, 1812, died in the same city on April 29, 1894. Admitted to the school of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1824, twice awarded…

rabbi, perhaps French

English numismatist and jurist, died in London on February 18, 1895, son of Samuel Moses whose name he adopted, Montagu. An expert in bankruptcy law, he became one of the greatest numismatists of his…

Banker and English Jewish community leader, born in Liverpool on December 21, 1832. Settled in London in 1847, he founded in 1853 the bank Samuel Montagu & Co. and played a central role in the London…

Member of the Gluckstein family who emigrated from Germany to London. With his brother Isidore Gluckstein, Alfred Salmon and Joseph Lyons, he founded in 1887 the catering firm J. Lyons & Company. He…

Anglo-American Jewish writer born in Manchester, settled in New York in 1890. Trained as a lawyer, he achieved success with the comic fictional duo Abe Potash and Morris Perlmutter — Jewish merchants…

German otologist, born in Randegg, near Constance, on July 15, 1831, died in Heidelberg on July 15, 1895, doctor of medicine (1856). Established in Heidelberg from 1859, associate professor in 1866,…

Writer and Zionist, first Hebrew speaker at Congress, co-founder of Tel-Aviv.

Karaite scholar, active in Krasnoï-Ostroh (Poland) in the 17th and 18th centuries, educated under Joseph ben Samuel, hazzan of Kalisz, and David ben Chalom ha-Zaḳen. He is best known for his « Dod…

Satirist of the late Haskala, storyteller of Galician Jewish life in Ha-Shahar.

Russian rabbi

Hebrew poet born in Siedlce, author of poetry and prayer collections.

Lyric poet and painter, author of Mas'at Nafshi, died at age 27.

Historian and ethnographer of Libyan Jewry, judge in Benghazi; author of Higgid Mordecai.

Swiss rabbi

Son of the founder; his teachings form the corpus of Hasidic thought of the group. Author notably of Maamar Mordechai.

Born Mordechai Nemirovsky in Ukraine, leader of labor Zionism, secretary general of the Histadrout, Israeli ambassador/consul in Moscow (1949–1950), Minister of Labor then mayor of Tel Aviv…

Born in Skala (Poland), he went to Palestine in 1920 and took the name Narkiss. Director of the Bezalel National Museum, historian of Jewish art, father of Bezalel Narkiss.

Israeli politician

rabbi (1824–1894)

American rabbi

Disciple of Simcha Bunim of Peshischa and then of Menachem Mendel of Kotzk, from whom he parted in 1839 to establish his court in Izbica. His thought, centered on inner freedom and divine will…

Jewish spiritual and political leader in Latvia

Rabbi, decisioner and liturgical poet of Aleppo, author of « Maayan Ganim » and compiler of the Bakkashot.

Born in 1827, elected Chief Rabbi of Tangier around 1853 and served until his death in 1917. A major rabbinic authority consulted by many rabbis of Morocco and beyond, he presided over the beth-din…

Rabbi of Marrakech, 19th century. Mentioned in 5565 of the Hebrew era (1805). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 87-2.

Rabbi of Meknès, nineteenth century. Died in 5639 of the Hebrew era (1879). Son of Yaakov, himself son of Yekutiel. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 88-1.

Rabbi of Meknès, 19th century. Mentioned in 5564 of the Hebrew era (1804). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 86-3.

Rabbi of Marrakech, nineteenth century. Died in 5645 of the Hebrew era (1885). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 87-2.

Rabbi of Marrakech, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5641 of the Hebrew era (1881). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 87-2.

Rabbi of Meknes, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5590 of the Hebrew era (1830). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 88-1.

Rabbi of Fès, 19th century. Mentioned in 5577 of the Hebrew era (1817). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 86-2.

German landscape painter, born in Frankfurt-on-the-Main on October 25, 1812, died in the same city on January 10, 1893, trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He visits in 1834 the Bavarian…

German woman of letters and social activist, born in Breslau on November 25, 1830. Married in 1854 to Theodor Morgenstern, she settled in Berlin, where she joined in 1859 the society for the…

Russian jurist and author, born in Berditchev on March 25, 1837. Trained at the rabbinical school of Jitomir, he obtained his diploma in 1861, entered after three years with the support of Pirogov at…

Hungarian journalist

Rabbi

Hungarian rabbi (1842-1895)

German composer

Journalist and Jewish community leader born in Bavaria, executive secretary of B'nai B'rith, editor of the Menorah Monthly and founder of the Jewish Times.

Bulgarian Chief Rabbi (1853–1895)

Austrian rabbi

German psychologist

German opinion journalist (1837–1904)

Jewish bibliographer and orientalist from Moravia

German chemist

American naval engineer, born in Cincinnati (Ohio) on 8 June 1860, graduate of the College of the City of New York in 1877 and of the Naval Academy of Annapolis in 1881. Promoted assistant…

Entered in 1877 as an apprentice at the ancient bookstore Joseph Baer & Co. in Frankfurt, he became its manager (1890) and then co-owner (1901). A specialist in book history, bibliophilia and…

Austrian engraver and painter (1885-1915)

Austrian Jewish businessman and art collector (1854-1939)

Jewish labor activist

Riga-born American lawyer, politician and art collector (1869-1933)

American orientalist and librarian (1861–1921)

Yiddish socialist poet, « grandfather » of Yiddish worker literature.

American actor, born in Jamaica in 1845. Emigrated to the United States, he joined the federal army during the Civil War then took to the stage in 1865 alongside Lawrence Barrett in New Orleans,…

American lawyer, brother of Leopold Morse, born in Wachenheim (Rhine Bavaria) on May 19, 1846, emigrated to America in 1854. Graduate of Harvard College (1870) and then Harvard Law School (1872), he…

Merchant and member of the American Congress, born in Wachenheim (Rhineland Bavaria) on August 15, 1831, died in Boston on December 15, 1892. Emigrated to the United States in 1849, he settled in…

English journalist and dramatist, born in 1858, long drama critic of the « Referee » and other London newspapers. He published « Travellers' Tales » (1892) and « Man and Beast » (prefaced by I.…

American playwright, born on October 10, 1865 in New York, trained in public schools and then at Normal College. Among her plays are « The Refugee's Daughter » (1886), « The Merchant », premiered at…

American physician and journalist, born in Danzig on June 11, 1815, settled in Philadelphia in 1850, died in that city on December 13, 1893. Doctor of medicine from Berlin in 1840, he published in…

prominent Yugoslavian/Serbian Communist (1890–1957)

English artist, born in London on February 8, 1833, trained in painting in Paris and Antwerp, exhibiting at the Royal Academy and the Grosvenor and New galleries in London. Active advocate of…

Rabbi, editor

English financier, born in Clifton in 1855, trained at Bristol Grammar School and settled in South Africa among the first settlers of Kimberley. He equipped at his own expense the Princess Christian…

German poet, born in Marieney (Saxony) on 3 July 1803, died in Oldenburg on 10 October 1867. After studies in law interrupted by his father's death, he became in 1831 judge in Kohren, then lawyer in…

Austrian dramatist and poet, born in Cassel (Hesse-Nassau) January 14, 1821, died in Vienna February 17, 1877. Established in Vienna from 1841, he achieved his first great theatrical success with…

American politician

Russian-British rabbi

Hungarian rabbi

Austrian theologian (1812–1849)

German-American biblical scholar, trained at the universities of Würzburg, Leipzig and Heidelberg (Ph.D. 1897). From 1897, professor of biblical exegesis at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.…

Russian public figure of Jewish origin

British-Romanian academic and rabbi

"Professor" Moyshe Hurwitz, prolific playwright of early Yiddish theatre.

British rabbi

American rabbi

German rabbi

Moroccan-born British-Jewish businessman and communal activist based in Manchester, regarded by some as the first Zionist activist of Moroccan Jewry; founded schools and Zionist organizations in…

American rabbi and author (1828–1903)

British financier and philanthropist, defender of persecuted Jews around the world. He financed the first Jewish neighborhoods outside the walls of Jerusalem.

Swedish composer, conductor and music critic

American rabbi

German Rabbi

Polish politician and rabbi (1874–1941)

German theologian and rabbi

Russian-Hebraist author, born in Kovno in 1841. Settled with her parents in Suwałki, she pursues her Hebrew studies under the Hebraist Paradiesthal while training in German and French, and translates…

Rabbi of Fès, 19th century. Died in 5616 of the Hebrew era (1856). Son of Haim. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 96-2.

Rabbi of Fès, nineteenth century. Died in 5617 of the Hebrew era (1857). Son of Shmuel, himself son of Menashe. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 96-2.

Rosh yeshiva at RIETS (Yeshiva University) for more than 45 years.

Rabbi of Rabat, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5599 of the Hebrew era (1839). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 89-1.

Rabbi, 19th century. Died in 5640 of the Hebrew era (1880). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 89-1.

Jewish religious figure

Born in Veprik (Russia) and trained as a physician (1913), he settled after the First World War in Italy where he was active in the Zionist movement and published Italian translations of works of…

Rabbi of Tanger, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5595 of the Hebrew era (1835). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 94-3.

Rabbi of Debdou, 19th century. Mentioned in 5579 of the Hebrew era (1819). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 91-2.

Disciple of the tsaddikim Mordechaï and then Noaḥ of Lyakhovichi (Lechowitz), he became upon the latter's death the rebbe of the hasidim of Kobrin and the surrounding areas. Known for truthfulness,…

Rabbi of Mogador (Essaouira), nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5621 of the Hebrew era (1861). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 89-4.

Born in Bosnia, he became in the Land of Israel one of the great documenters of Sephardic and Eastern Judaism. His major work, Yehudei ha-Mizrah be-Eretz Yisrael (1928), gathers the biographies of…

Târgu Lăpuș town Rabbi (Romania), one of the Teitelbaum family rabbi dynasty

Rabbi of Mogador (Essaouira), nineteenth century. Died in 5589 of the Hebrew era (1829). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 92-3.

Rabbi of Meknès, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5564 of the Hebrew era (1804). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 96-1.

Rabbi of Meknès, 19th century. Mentioned in 5602 of the Hebrew era (1842). Son of Yosef. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 90-2.

Rabbi, 19th century. Died in 5655 of the Hebrew era (1895). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 90–2.

Chief decisor of Djerba (Ramach), author of the responsa Shoel ve-Nishal and Brit Kehouna.

Lithuanian rabbi

Rabbi of Agourai, nineteenth century. Died in 5655 of the Hebrew calendar (1895). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), p. 90-3.

Lithuanian rabbi

Direct descendant of the Chernobyl dynasty, he was the rebbe of Makarov (Makarover) in Berdytchiv and Kiev. At his death in 1920, his sons Shmuel Abba (1872–1947, later rebbe of Makarov in Winnipeg)…

Sephardic Ottoman decisioner, author of the collection of responsa Maim Kedoshim, whose second volume was published in Izmir in 1852. Cited in the historiography of Sephardic halakha in Ottoman…

Rabbi and Talmudist from Belarus

Greek rabbi

Rabbi of Marrakech, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5592 of the Hebrew era (1832). Son of Yitshak. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 93-3.

Rabbi of Marrakech, 19th century. Mentioned in 5609 of the Hebrew era (1849). Son of Abraham. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 93–3.

author of "Nezer HaKodesh"

Mashgiach ruchani of the yeshiva of Lomza; author of Mussar works (Yesodei Hadaas).

Hungarian rabbi

researcher, journalist, essayist, ethnographer, and humanist of the interwar period

The Lomza Rov, talmudic scholar, later rosh yeshiva at RIETS (New York).

Hungarian rabbi and Talmudist (1856-1924)

Rabbi

Son of Chaim Soloveitchik, rosh yeshiva at the RIETS seminary of Yeshiva University.

Rabbi of Meknès, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5564 of the Hebrew era (1804). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 95-4.

Rabbi of Meknès, 19th century. Mentioned in 5602 of the Hebrew era (1842). Son of Haim. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 95-1.

chief Sephardic rabbi (1837–1917)

French rabbi

Israeli rabbi

German-born rabbi (1881–1976)

American genre painter, born in New York June 6, 1841, raised in Cincinnati where he began painting in childhood. Trained in Düsseldorf from 1863 then under Hébert in Paris, he returned to Cincinnati…

American philanthropist, born in Philadelphia on May 25, 1831, died in the same city on April 19, 1895, eldest son of Eliezer L. Moss. Having become a mechanic and then founder of the Wiler & Moss…

American writer, born in Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia) on September 24, 1864. Prolific contributor to magazines since 1902, she published her Jewish novel « Julian Meldola » in « Lippincott's Magazine…

German physician, born on August 3, 1808 in Grätz (province of Posen), died in the same city on November 10, 1865. Municipal councillor then president of the Jewish community from a young age, he…

German publisher and philanthropist, son of Dr. Markus Moses, born on May 8, 1843 in Grätz (Posnania). He founded in Berlin an advertising agency that made a fortune, and published or financed…