XIXth century CE

Israeli rabbi

Hungarian historian, keeper of the state archives, born in Veszprém on December 31, 1833. He took part in the Hungarian struggle for freedom of 1848 and then in the Italian war of independence of…

Yiddish prose writer close to Di Khalyastre; murdered at Auschwitz.

Polish rabbi

Russian rabbi, born and died in Brest-Litovsk, December 12, 1854, descendant of the Katzenellenbogen family established in this city for over three centuries. Rabbi of Pinsk-Karlin, he was chosen in…

Austrian actor, born in Vienna on November 11, 1845. Intended by his father, a broker, for a commercial career, he preferred the theater, debuting as a chorister then singing comic operetta roles in…

Austrian actress, born in Vienna, died in Berlin on 18 November 1892. She made her debut at fourteen in the role of Cupid in « Orpheus in der Unterwelt » at the Quaitheater in Vienna, and achieved…

German physician and historian of medicine, born in Pollnow, in Pomerania, on May 29, 1851. Doctor of medicine from Berlin in 1875, he established himself as a practitioner there from 1876, obtained…

Hungarian actor

Hungarian politician

Hungarian poet, born in Becse on April 15, 1866, trained by his father and his older brother Melchior Palágyi. He began writing at thirteen, his first poem appearing in 1879 in the « Magyar Népbarát…

Hungarian writer, born in Paks on 26 December 1859. Trained by his father and then at the lycées of Temesvar and Kassa, he entered in 1877 the Budapest School of Technology, where he published in…

American journalist, born February 6, 1871 in Radoszkowice, in the government of Wilna, in Russia. Trained in the talmudic colleges of Minsk, Volozhin and Libau, he emigrated in 1889 to New York,…

Biblical scholar, born in 1805, died in Berditchev on February 27, 1886. Bible instructor at the rabbinic seminary of Jitomir until its closure, he devoted his life to study and published « Ḳera…

Austrian poetess born in Vienna on December 30, 1814, died in Baden, near Vienna, on July 5, 1894. Orphaned of her father very young and forced to earn her living, she first taught in Russian Poland…

Bulgarian rabbi and author, born in Sarajevo, in Bosnia, died in 1824. Rabbi of Silistria, in Bulgaria, until his death, he led an ascetic life that earned him the nickname « the Holy One »…

Representative of the Jews of Bavaria and architect of their emancipation, born and died in Munich, September 8, 1837. Liberal and progressive, he pleaded as early as February 24, 1805 in a letter…

Italian senator and deputy, born in Rovigo in 1839, died in Nervi, near Genoa, on April 15, 1898. After studying law, he enlisted in 1860 as a volunteer under Garibaldi and took part in the Sicilian…

English harpist and composer, born in Teignmouth on February 28, 1810, died in Vienna on January 25, 1849, student of Dizi, Labarre, and Bochsa. After a tour in Germany in 1831 and then in Italy in…

Austrian pharmacologist, born in Nikolsburg, Moravia, on March 21, 1849, graduate of the University of Vienna (doctor of medicine in 1872). Assistant at the university hospital, he becomes…

South African pioneer, linked with his brother Elias de Pass to the Cape colony from 1846. Their house, De Pass, Spence & Co., develops whale fishing, sealing, guano and fish, becomes the main…

Italian physician, born in Siena on December 14, 1867, trained at the Istituto di Studi Superiori in Florence, where he was attached in 1904 to the city's hygiene service. Author of numerous medical…

Austrian physicist born in Vienna to Jewish parents from Loštice (Moravia). Major contributions to statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics (Ehrenfest theorem, classification of phase…

legal scholar

French rabbi

Born in Vienna to a family of landowners, a Zionist, Paul Joseph Diamant was a genealogist and historian of Austrian Jews. He founded the short-lived « Archiv für jüdische Familienforschung »…

German entrepreneur

German art historian

German rabbi

Born in Ronchamp from a family partly Alsatian, son of Isidore Strauss, a Jewish cloth merchant. Senator for the Seine from 1897 to 1936, he served as Minister of Health, Welfare and Social Foresight…

First female rabbi in the United States

Czech painter active in Hamburg

Hungaro-Italian opera singer (1876–1924)

Born Pinchus Boruch in a poor Jewish family of innkeepers in the Chernigov governorate. Initially close to Bakunin, he turned to Marxism and co-founded in 1883, with Plekhanov, the group…

Italian poet, born in Milan on January 4, 1822, died in Asolo, near Treviso, on December 30, 1893. A student of Luigi Carrer, she held a salon in Venice frequented by patriots and men of letters, and…

Lawyer and Italian deputy, born in Venice on February 24, 1858, prosecutor of the province of Como in 1904. Chosen in January 1894 to succeed Genala as deputy of Soresina, in the province of Cremona,…

Emperor of Brazil, born on 2 December 1825, died in Paris on 5 December 1891. He succeeded his father Pedro I and took personal control of government in July 1840, before spending his final years in…

Polish author, born in Mariampol, in the government of Suwałki, in May 1831, died in Warsaw on 30 September 1896. Trained in the Bible, Talmud and sciences, he settled in Warsaw in 1855 and founded…

Russian author and translator, born in Stavropol, in the Caucasus, in 1871. Graduated in 1894 from the faculty of oriental languages of the University of Saint Petersburg, with a gold medal for his…

English physician and medical writer, born in London on 22 May 1804, died in that city on 20 January 1853. Apothecary graduate in 1823 and honorary doctor of Erlangen in 1840, he became in 1826…

Born in Polonnoïe (Volhynia). Major figure of Yiddish modernism (Kiev group with Hofstein and Kvitko; expressionist anthology « Di Chaliastre », Warsaw 1922). Settled in the USSR in 1926, highly…

Born around 1842 in the Smolensk region. Founder, editor, and principal contributor of the Hebrew journal Ha-Shahar ("The Dawn"), published in Vienna from 1868 to 1884, a major literary platform of…

Writer in Yiddish and Hebrew, born in Zamość, in the government of Lublin, on May 25, 1851, distinguished very young as a prodigy of Hebrew studies. After a period of Haskalah marked by criticism of…

Hebraist and Austrian poet of the early nineteenth century, author of the 'Yesode ha-Lashon', a self-teaching manual of Hebrew in Judeo-German (Vienna, 1813; 2nd revised edition, 1832), as well as…

German historian, born in Danzig, Prussia, on November 4, 1848, doctorate in philosophy from Göttingen in 1871 after studies in Breslau and Heidelberg. University librarian in Königsberg (1872-1876),…

Librarian and Christian orientalist, born in Piacenza on October 27, 1827, educated at the Alberoni college in his native city from 1844 to 1849. Placed in 1860 at the head of the oriental collection…

Rosh yeshiva, founder of the yeshivot of Shklov and Kobrin, principal teacher of Moshe Feinstein.

Austrian writer

German rabbi

Russian-English architect

British politician

American rabbi

German historian

German rabbi and educator

Austro-Hungarian neuropathologist

Member of the Speyer Jewish banking dynasty of Frankfurt. Emigrated to the United States in 1837, he founded Philipp Speyer & Co. in New York in 1845 (later Speyer & Co.). First banker to place Union…

Hungarian pianist, born in Budapest on September 2, 1863. Left for Paris at sixteen, he enters the Conservatory in the class of Mathias and wins in 1883 the first prize for piano, before perfecting…

French playwright, born in Paris on April 18, 1840. Initially destined for commerce, he abandoned it in 1869 for music, served as a volunteer in the Breton Legion during the Franco-Prussian War,…

French officer, born in 1825, died in Paris on July 23, 1848. Instructing lieutenant of artillery in the National Guard, he was charged with the defense of the Paris Town Hall during the 1848…

French engineer, born in Paris on October 6, 1838, trained at the École polytechnique as an engineer of highways and bridges. Major of auxiliary engineers in the Army of the North during the…

American journalist, born in Philadelphia on November 9, 1828, graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1847. After studying and beginning his journalism career in Europe, he joined the "New…

Jamaican statesman, born in 1811, died in Kingston, Jamaica, on December 29, 1886. An influential figure on the island, he held the presidency of the Privy Council and other high executive posts, and…

American journalist and writer, born in London on May 9, 1834, educated in Cleveland then in New York, where he studied law before becoming, from September 1854, associate editor of the « New York…

American jurist, born in Charleston, South Carolina, on December 17, 1807, died in Washington on January 14, 1884. Admitted to the bar in 1829, he established himself in Cheraw then, after a stint in…

English journalist, born in London in 1815, died in Brighton in October 1854. Began as an actor at Covent Garden at fifteen, passed through Cambridge and Göttingen before turning, in London in 1841,…

Lord Mayor of London, born in London in 1811, died in that city on October 9, 1889, son of tailor Samuel Phillips. Married in 1833, he founds with his brother-in-law Henry Faudel the house Faudel,…

Adolf Pichler is an Austrian painter born in 1834 in Cziffer, in the county of Pressburg (Hungary). After studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, where he teaches drawing, he goes to Munich…

Aaron Pick is a biblical scholar born in Prague, where he converted to Christianity, before teaching Hebrew at the university; he lived in England in the first half of the nineteenth century. He…

Alois Pick is an Austrian physician, medical author, and playwright born on October 15, 1859 in Karolinenthal, near Prague. Graduating in medicine from Prague in 1883, he became privatdozent at the…

Arnold Pick is an Austrian psychiatrist born on July 20, 1851 in Gross-Meseritsch, Moravia, trained in Berlin and Vienna (doctor of medicine in 1875). He practiced as an assistant physician in the…

Behrendt Pick is a German numismatist and archaeologist, born on December 21, 1861 in Posen. Trained at the University of Berlin (doctorate in 1884), where he specializes in epigraphy and numismatics…

Philipp Joseph Pick is an Austrian dermatologist born on October 14, 1834 in Neustadt, Bohemia. Doctor of medicine from Vienna in 1860, he established himself in Prague in 1868 as a privatdocent,…

Born in Turin in a wealthy Italian Jewish family (father Angelo Sraffa, mother Irma Tivoli; ancestors merchants in Pisa for several generations). Invited by Keynes, he settled in Cambridge in 1927.…

Born André Isaac in Châlons-sur-Marne into an Alsatian Jewish family (butcher father). Master of the absurd and the pun, he founded in 1938 the humorous weekly L'Os à moelle. During the war he hosted…

French gallery owner

Rebbe (1876–1941)

Lithuanian rabbi

German rabbi

Born near Grodno (Lithuania), immigrated to the United States at age 16. Founder of the Jewish Legion at the beginning of World War I, he served with the British Army in Palestine. In the…

Hasidic rabbi who served in Pilica and Czestochowa, Poland (1848 - 1920)

French painter, lithographer and sculptor of Lithuanian origin (1890-1981)

Arthur Wing Pinero is an English dramatist, born in London on May 24, 1855, eldest son of John Daniel Pinero and descendant of a Sephardic family. First a clerk in a law office then an actor at the…

Jehiel Michael Pines was a Russian Talmudist and Hebraist, born on September 26, 1842 in Rojany, in the province of Grodno, son of Noah Pines and son-in-law of Shemaria Luria, rabbi of Moghilev.…

Notable of Tangier, community leader and journalist, having contributed to newspapers in Madrid (Moroccan Jewish archive).

Turkish rabbi

Herman Pinkhof is a Dutch physician born in Rotterdam on May 10, 1863, graduate of the university of Leiden in 1886. Established as a physician in Amsterdam, he collaborated from 1893 onward on the «…

Adolf Pinner is a German chemist born on August 31, 1842 in Wronke, in the province of Posen, trained at the Jewish theological seminary of Breslau and then at the University of Berlin, where he…

Lev Pinsker is a Russian physician born in 1821 in Tomashev, in the governorate of Piotrków, in Poland, son of Simḥa Pinsker, died in Odessa on 21 December 1891. Trained in medicine in Moscow, where…

Simḥa Pinsker is a Hebrew scholar and Polish archaeologist, born in Tarnopol, Galicia, on 17 March 1801, and died in Odessa on 29 October 1864. Trained by his father Shebaḥ ha-Levi, he founded a…

Settimio Piperno is an Italian economist born in Rome in 1834, professor of statistics and political economy at the Technical Institute of Rome and director of the Cesi technical school, as well as a…

Nikolaï Ivanovitch Pirogov is a Russian physician and pedagogue, born in 1810 and died in November 1881, professor at Dorpat University. His article "Voprosy K Jizni", published in 1856 in the…

German rabbi (1872-1936)

Abraham Marcus Pjurko is a Russian hebraist and pedagogue, born in Łomża on February 15, 1853, who devotes himself after his talmudic studies to modern Hebrew literature. He publishes notably the…

Baruch Jacob Placzek is an Austrian rabbi, born on 1 October 1835 in Weisskirchen, Moravia, son and successor of Abraham Placzek. He founded in 1858 a secondary school in Hamburg, assisted his father…

Elias Plessner is a German rabbi, son of Salomon Plessner, born on February 19, 1841 in Berlin and died in Ostrowo on March 30, 1898. Doctor of the University of Tübingen in 1870, he becomes «…

Julius Plotke is a German jurist and community activist, born on October 5, 1857 in Borek, in the province of Posen, and died in Frankfurt-on-Main on September 27, 1903. After his studies at Berlin…

Mordekhaï Plungian is a Hebrew scholar and Russian author, born in 1814 in Plungian, in the government of Wilna, and died in Wilna on 28 November 1883, descendant of Mardochée Jaffé, author of the…

David Podiebrad is an Austrian writer, born in 1816 and died on August 2, 1882, trained at the yeshiva of Prague and by private tutor. Passionate about the history of the Jews of Prague, where he…

Messola Pogorelsky is a Russian physician and writer, born in Bobruysk on March 7, 1862, graduated in medicine from Saint Vladimir University of Kyiv in 1890, the year he was also appointed…

Gabriel Jacob Polak is a talmudist and bibliographer, born June 3, 1803 and died May 14, 1869 in Amsterdam, where he directed a school. He published in Amsterdam several works: a Dutch-Hebrew almanac…

Henri Polak is a Dutch trade unionist and politician, born in Amsterdam on 22 February 1868, who became a diamond cutter after attending Halberstadt school. After stays in London where he becomes…

Herman Josef Polak is a Dutch philologist, born on September 1, 1844 in Leiden, holder of a doctorate from that university in 1869. He taught classical letters at the gymnasium in Leiden from 1866 to…

Jakob Eduard Polak is an Austrian physician, born in 1818 in Gross-Morzin, Bohemia, died on October 7, 1891, trained in Prague and Vienna. Engaged around 1851 as professor for the military school of…

Adam Politzer is an Austrian otologist, born on October 1, 1835 in Alberti-Irsa, in Hungary, graduated in medicine from the University of Vienna in 1859. He becomes there privat-docent in auricular…

A. M. Pollak, Knight von Rudin, is an Austrian industrialist and philanthropist, born in Wescheraditz, in Bohemia, in 1817, died in Vienna on June 1, 1884. He founded in 1836 a match factory in…

Kaim Pollak is a Hungarian writer, born on October 6, 1835 in Liptó-Szent-Miklós, trained in the Talmud in his native city, in Pressburg and in Sátoraljaújhely. After attending the courses of…

Leopold Pollak is a genre painter and portraitist, born November 8, 1806 in Lodenitz, Bohemia, died in Rome on October 16, 1880. Trained under Bergler at the Prague Academy, then in Munich, he…

Moriz Pollak, knight von Borkenau, is an Austrian financier, born in Vienna on 24 December 1827 and died in the same city on 20 August 1904. After taking over his father's wholesale leather business,…

Adolph Pollitzer is a violinist, born in Budapest on 23 July 1832 and died in London on 14 November 1900. He left Budapest for Vienna in 1842, where he studied violin under Böhm and won first prize…

Amélie Pollonais is a French philanthropist, born in Marseille in 1835 and died in Cap-Ferrat on July 24, 1898, daughter of Joseph Jonas Cohen and wife of Désiré Pollonais. She published in 1868 her…

Gaston Pollonais is a French journalist, born in Paris on May 31, 1865, son of Désiré Pollonais, mayor of Villefranche, and Amélie Pollonais. He began in journalism around 1890, contributed to…

Ḥiyya Pontremoli is a Turkish rabbinical author, son of Benjamin Pontremoli, who died in Smyrna in 1832. He is the author, among other works, of the "Ẓappiḥit bi-Debash", a collection of responsa on…

Josef Popper is an Austrian engineer and author, born on February 22, 1838 in Kolín, Bohemia. He was the first to conceive the idea of the transmission of electrical energy, which he presented as…

Siegfried Popper is an Austrian naval engineer, born in Prague in 1848, trained at the polytechnic schools of Prague and Karlsruhe. After two years spent in the workshop, he enters in 1869 the…

William Popper is an American orientalist, born in Saint-Louis, Missouri, on October 29, 1874, graduated from Columbia College in 1896 and then from Columbia University (master's degree 1897,…

Wilma Popper is a Hungarian novelist, born in Győr on 11 May 1857, who began writing from a very young age. In addition to numerous essays in German journals, she publishes several collections of…

George de Porto-Riche is a French poet and dramatist, born of Italian parents in Bordeaux in 1849. After renouncing a banking career and then a legal career to devote himself to writing, he publishes…

Benjamin Ossipovitch Portugalov is a Russian physician and author, born in Poltava in 1835 and died in Samara in 1896. Trained in medicine in Kharkov and Kiev, he served as a military surgeon then…

Carl Posner is a German physician and medical author, born in Berlin on December 16, 1854, son of Louis Posner, doctor of philosophy of Leipzig (1875) and doctor of medicine of Giessen (1880).…

Karl Ludwig von Posner is a Hungarian industrialist, born in 1822 and died in 1887 in Budapest. He founded in 1852 the largest printing, lithography and bookbinding establishment in Hungary, and…

Ernst von Possart is a German actor and author, born in Berlin on May 11, 1841. After an apprenticeship in a Berlin publishing house, he debuts as a comedian in 1861 at the amateur theater Urania in…

Félix Possart is a German painter of landscapes and genre scenes, born in Berlin on March 7, 1837. Originally destined for a legal career, which he practiced for some years as « Amtsrichter », he…

Joseph Prag is an English community activist and Zionist, born in Liverpool in 1859, educated at Liverpool Institute and Queen's College Liverpool. Loyal to Chovevei Zion, of which he founded the…

Jacob Prague is professor of Hebrew and rabbi in Liverpool, born in Danzig in 1816 and died in Liverpool in December 1881. Trained at the rabbinical school of Libau, he becomes rabbi of Shoenek, in…

Moses Alexandrovich Presse is a Russian engineer and technologist, born in 1861 and died in Sankt Blasien in 1901. A graduate of the Saint Petersburg Institute of Technology, he collaborated on the…

Alfred Pribram is an Austrian physician, born in Prague on May 11, 1841, graduate of medicine from his native city in 1861. After being assistant at the general hospital in Prague, he becomes…

Austrian chemist born in Prague on April 21, 1847, trained in Prague and Munich, where he obtains his doctorate in 1869, before a postdoctoral stay in Leipzig. Privat-docent in Prague from 1872 to…

Traveler, artist and English journalist born in London around 1858, trained in London, Brussels and the École des beaux-arts in Paris. Correspondent of the Illustrated London News during the…

German botanist born in Wziesko, Upper Silesia, on November 30, 1823, and died in Berlin on October 6, 1894. Trained in Breslau, Leipzig, Berlin (doctorate in 1848) and Paris, he became privatdocent…

Russian Hebraist born in Keidani, in the Kovno province, on January 1, 1840, trained in Talmud in several yeshivas. After a stay in Vilna in 1858, he became Hebrew tutor in Kovno in 1863, where he…

Romanian writer and historian born in Botoshani on 6 June 1820 and died in Bucharest on 22 March 1901. First a musician, leader of a traveling Romani orchestra, he devotes himself after an incident…

Rabbi born in 1829 in Neustadt-Sherwint, Poland, and died on November 23, 1899 in Riga. Trained at the yeshiva of Georgenburg and at the rabbinical school of Wilna, he is called to the rabbinate of…

German antisemitic agitator born on October 9, 1860 in Rogau, near Breslau, doctor of law from Breslau University. From 1899, he became known for speeches of extreme violence calling for attacks on…

State Rabbi and Russian author born in Vilna in 1835 and died in Riga on April 26, 1893. Graduate of the rabbinical school of Vilna in 1859, he became in 1861 State Rabbi of Ponevej, in the Kovno…

English lawyer born in Chatham on April 21, 1854 and died in Brighton on March 26, 1899, son of the beadle of the Central Synagogue of London. Admitted to the bar on June 13, 1877 after studies in…

Originally from Marrakech, he studied in Salé and then worked in Constantine as a ritual slaughterer and judge in the rabbinical court. He left two printed works in Tunis: a treatise on ritual…

Sage of the Enkaoua / Ankava family, whose article recalls that the name derives from «al-Nqawa» under the influence of Arabic. In his laments (kinot), he signed in acrostic «Avraham Ankava» or…

Moreh-tzedek in Safi. In one of his judgments he writes: "I reside in the city of Asfi, and I do not have the books at my disposal," which attests to his residence in the city. Signatory of another…

Founder of the Ouazana lineage ("Aït Ouazana"), born in Skoura near Ouarzazate in the early nineteenth century. Having reached the Land of Israel, he was sent to Morocco as a rabbinic emissary…

Son of Rabbi Avraham Ouazana, recognized from childhood as a worthy heir to his father. Upon the latter's death, he appeased the Jews of Ouarzazate who wished to repatriate the body of the saint,…

Born in Aleppo, he was judge at the rabbinical court there, then settled in Jerusalem (1912) where he founded the Magen David congregation and a Torah school. Before World War I he moved to New York,…

One of the greatest decisors of modern Judaism, author of the Mishna Berura, the standard commentary on the Shulhan Arukh. His treatise Hafetz Hayyim on the ethics of speech (the prohibition of…

Born in Hungary in 1884, he emigrated to England and settled in Leeds. His wife Fanny and his son Elimelech Shimshon were murdered at Auschwitz. He published in Leeds in 1942 his work Sefer BeAchrit…

Rabbi originally from Tripoli (Libya), invited in 1846 to Malta to become the first rabbi of the island since the expulsion of 1492, the Maltese Jewish community being then quite numerous again.

Born in Marrakech, he became a shohet and rabbi-judge in Constantine where he founded a yeshiva. Author of a treatise on ritual slaughter and a collection of sermons, printed in Tunis in the early…

Born around the year 5600 (1840) in Rabat, son of Rabbi Elazar. He studied in his youth under the gaon Rabbi David ben Shimon (called Tzouf Devach); sixty renowned scholars attended this yeshiva,…

Born in Turkey in 1892, student of the sages of Bursa and Istanbul (including R. Shlomo Eliezer Alfandari). Founder in Jerusalem of the study center "Chevrat Ahavat Chaim," he was a figure in the…

Rabbi of Oran, appointed president (Av Beth Din) of the first rabbinical court of Oran established in 1835, alongside rabbis Jacob Sénanès and Farouz Karcenty as assessors.

Ukrainian hazzan (1813–1884)

Born in Salé on the 2nd of Tevet 5608 (1848), son of Rabbi Mordekhaï Enkaoua (a family originally from Toledo) and Beïda bat Rabbi Refael Bibas (a family of those exiled from Castile). A student of…

His ancestors came from Fès, where he was born; he subsequently settled in Safi as moreh-tzedek, then av beit-din. Hiloula on 10 Kislev. Signatory of an approbation of 1862 alongside the sages of…

Born in 1831 in Rabat, kabbalist nicknamed « Hameloumad benissim » (rabbi reputed to be a miracle-worker). Disciple of Rabbi David Ben-Shim'on, he ascended to the Land of Israel in 1854 and became…

Rabbi in Tunis in the second half of the 19th century, cited by Joseph Toledano (« A History of Families ») in the note devoted to the surname Boublil. No work is attributed to him by the source.

Studied at the yeshivot of Ponevezh and Slabodka in Lithuania, immigrated to Palestine in 1924. In 1928 he married Batya-Miriam, daughter of Rav Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook. After the death of Rav…

Sage of Habban who composed a siddur (prayer book) founded on traditions specific to Habban, also incorporating the baladi and shami usages of Yemen. He did not live long enough to see the first…

Counted among the great rabbis of Tunisia, son of Rabbi David Dana. He founded and directed the yeshiva « Ḥevrat ha-Talmud » in Tunis, in reaction to the decline of traditional education in the face…

Talmudic scholar and judge at the Tunis rabbinate, nephew of Judah Cohen Tanugi. Author of several halakhic and exegetical works printed in Livorno and Pisa.

Born in Zliten (Libya) in 1885, he was appointed judge (dayan) to the rabbinical court of Tripoli (from 1933–1935 onward) and became the last great spiritual authority of Libya's Jewish community…

During the second half of the 19th century, he was the chief rabbi and spiritual guide of the Salé community. He notably trained Rabbi Refael Enkaoua, who was his disciple and son-in-law and…

Principal hakham of Baghdad in the 19th century, authority on halakha and master Kabbalist. Prolific author of around sixty works, he is best known for the Ben Ish Hai, an exposition of the laws of…

Kabbalist born in Aleppo, son of Rabbi Mordechai Yedid HaLevi and disciple of Rabbi Avraham Ades. He went up to Eretz Israël in 1890 (Safed), then settled in Jerusalem in 1911 where he was appointed…

Rabbi born in Rabat in 1847, son of Moché, died in 1925.

Born in 1885 in Hara Sghira (Djerba), son of Rabbi Avraham Boukris, he studied under Rabbi David Cohen Gdisha alongside Rabbi Haïm Houri. From 1915 he served as judge and decisioner in the Hara…

Talmudic scholar and antiquary born in Novo-Jagory, in the government of Kovno, in 1835, and died in Kiev on November 28, 1888. Established in Munich after leaving Russia, he discovers in the royal…

Russian-French author and translator born in Horodetz, near Kobrin, in the province of Grodno, on June 6, 1818, and died in London on May 27, 1893, son and grandson of rabbis of Horodetz. Trained in…

Publicist and neo-Hebrew Russian historian born in Taurogen, in the government of Kovno, on April 8, 1845, raised in Wilna where his father became rabbi of the Chnipichok suburb. Ordained rabbi after…

Austrian Hebraist and pedagogue born in Lemberg on January 23, 1826. After classical rabbinical training, he teaches from 1860 onwards at the Jewish school of Czernowitz, in Bukovina, then in 1867…

Russian Jewish writer and journalist born January 14, 1817 in Kobeliaki, in the governorate of Poltava, and died in Meran, in the Tyrol, October 16, 1869. Trained in Hebrew and European languages by…

Russian physicist and journalist born in Brestovitz, in the Grodno governorate, on January 2, 1862, descendant of Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller through his father and of Meïr Eisenstadt through his mother.…

Russian rabbi born in Chat, near Kaidan, in 1818, and died in Niasvij, in the Minsk governorate, on March 18, 1887. Trained in Talmud by his father, he married at eighteen the daughter of a notable…

Russian rabbi and author born in Kholm, in the province of Kovno, in 1857. Rabbi in Jevie in 1887, then called the same year to Alexoty, he is a delegate to the Zionist congress in Basel in 1897 and…

Russian journalist and novelist born in Pereïaslav, in the government of Poltava, in 1859, known under the pseudonym of Sholem Aleikhem. State rabbi at twenty-one years of age, he then settles in…

Physician born in Kovno, Russia, on August 22, 1871, trained at the Universities of Zurich and Berne, where she obtained her doctorate, before pursuing bacteriological studies in Berlin under…

Russian rabbi born in Pikeln, in the Kovno province, on June 11, 1845, trained in the Talmud by his father, rabbi successively at Chilel, Rogova and Vilkomir. Called in 1873 to the rabbinate of…

Russian scholar and publicist born in Linkovo, near Ponévej, in the government of Kovno, on 23 February 1832, and died in Saint Petersburg on 16 January 1889. Educated in the sciences by his father,…

Russian poet born in Kovno on October 13, 1846 and died in New York on March 9, 1900. Initiated into Hebrew grammar by Abraham Mapou at fourteen, he entered the rabbinical school of Wilna at…

Russian missionary to the Jews, born in Orheiu, Bessarabia, on September 23, 1837, and died in Kishinev on May 12, 1899. Raised in Hasidism then acquired to secular culture, he practiced law for a…

Israeli political figure

French actress (1821-1858)

Yiddish poetess and short-story writer, born in Galicia, settled in Montreal.

American rabbi born in Neustadt-Schirwindt, Poland, on 5 August 1848. Trained in Talmud at Volojine and Eisiskes, he studied at the universities of Berlin, Königsberg and Greifswald, where he…

Poet and Hungarian author born in Mór on June 29, 1862, son of grammarian Adolf Roder. Trained in classical and modern philology in Szombathely and Budapest, he began journalism in 1880 and received…

Rabbi of Fès, nineteenth century. Born in 5570 (1810), died in 5677 (1917) of the Hebrew era. Son of Shlomo. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 105-3.

Rabbi of Sefrou, 19th century. Died in 5563 of the Hebrew era (1803). Son of Shaul Yeshua. Registered in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 106-4.

Rabbi of Fez, 19th century. Born in 5603 (1843), died in 5650 (1890) of the Hebrew era. Son of Haim. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 108-2.

Rabbi of Rabat, nineteenth century. Born in 5608 of the Hebrew era (1848). Son of David. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 108-1.

Rabbi of Fès, nineteenth century. Died in 5600 of the Hebrew era (1840). Son of Yedidia Moshe. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 105-3.

Rabbi of Rabat, 19th century. Born in 5608 of the Hebrew era (1848). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 108-1.

Rabbi of Fez, 19th century. Died in 5617 of the Hebrew era (1857). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 106-2.

Rabbi of Salé, 19th century. Mentioned in 5587 of the Hebrew era (1827). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 108-4.

Rabbi of Fès, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5581 of the Hebrew era (1821). Son of Nehemia Yehuda. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 106-2.

Rabbi of Meknes, 19th century. Born in 5592 (1832), died in 5592 (1832) of the Hebrew era. Son of Yaakov, himself son of Yekutiel. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 108-2.

Rabbi of Fès, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5599 of the Hebrew era (1839). Son of Abraham. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 107-2.

Rabbi, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5595 of the Hebrew era (1835). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 108-2.

Rabbi of Meknès, nineteenth century. Died in 5640 of the Hebrew era (1880). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 106-4.

Rabbi of Fès, nineteenth century. Died in 5603 of the Hebrew era (1843). Son of Eliahu. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 108-2.

Turkish rabbi

Rabbi of Marrakech, 19th century. Mentioned in 5619 of the Hebrew era (1859). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 108-1.