XIXth century CE

English pedagogue, born in Russia in 1854. Having arrived in England around 1880, he taught Russian to army officers and was examiner of Bulgarian for the civil service, before becoming assistant…

Austrian politician and antisemitic agitator, born in Vienna on July 17, 1842. He entered the Austrian Diet in 1873 as a member of the Pan-German party, was sentenced in 1888 to four months in prison…

Russian author, born in Tiktin in 1812, died in Suwałki on December 10, 1870. Leading a secluded life devoted to study, he published a natural history in three parts, Toledot ha-Arets (Warsaw, 1841),…

Hebrew scholar, critic and Galician community activist, born in Brody on May 22, 1814, died in that city on September 2, 1895. Trained under Isaac Erter, he was also influenced by Samuel David…

Hebraist Galician writer, died in Lemberg on December 14, 1883. He founded in 1861 the Hebrew weekly Ha-'Et, of which only twenty-two issues appeared, and edited in 1855 in Lemberg the Behinat…

German merchant, born in Münsterberg, Silesia, on March 22, 1835. Established as a wool and grain merchant in Münsterberg, he moved his business to Breslau in 1859, rented the city mill from 1864 to…

Austrian oil discoverer, born in Galicia in the second decade of the 19th century, died after 1870. A merchant in Boryslaw, he succeeded in 1853 in producing oil from a local tar-like substance,…

Hungarian jurist, born on 7 February 1847 in Ugra. Doctor of law in 1870, he was admitted to the Budapest bar in 1872 and was still sitting in 1905 on the municipal council; in 1893, Justice Minister…

Austrian Hebraist, born in Jezierzany, Galicia, on April 25, 1835, descended through his mother from Hakham Tsevi. Proofreader from 1870 at the printing house of Michael Wolf in Lemberg, he taught…

Austrian pianist and composer, born in Prague on August 2, 1825, died in Berlin on March 15, 1898. Student of Kisch and Tedesco for piano and Tomaschek for theory, he made his debut in Dresden in…

American rabbi, born in Russia February 14, 1865, taken to New York before the age of one. Rabbinic graduate of the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums in Berlin, he served in Helena and…

Philologist and German writer, born in Hildesheim in 1814, died in Hanover on July 24, 1870. After studying philology in Göttingen, he campaigned from 1842 for the systematic training of Jewish…

American author, born in Outian, near Vilkomir, in Russia, on October 27, 1844. After studying Talmud then theology in Berlin (1868-70), he taught Hebrew in Constantinople then, from 1873, in Cairo…

English physicist, born in Frankfurt am Main on 12 September 1851. Trained in Frankfurt, at Owens College Manchester, and at the University of Heidelberg, where he obtained his doctorate in 1873, he…

Consul General of Great Britain in Berlin, born in Breslau in 1831, died in that city on February 23, 1898. Entered the Bleichröder bank at sixteen, he became a partner twenty years later, then, from…

German anatomist and anthropologist, born in Quedlinburg on August 1, 1844. He received his medical degree in 1866, was a privatdocent in Halle in 1870 then in Fribourg-en-Brisgau in 1871, assistant…

Austrian theologian, born in July 1846 in Adász-Tevel, near Pápa, in Hungary, son of a rabbi who gave him his first talmudic instruction. After studies in philosophy in Vienna and a period at the…

Austrian chemist, born in Polna, Bohemia, on February 2, 1839, died in New York on September 24, 1895. Graduated in chemistry from the Prague Polytechnicum in 1861, he worked in breweries in Budapest…

Hungarian jurist, born in Budapest in 1858. Privatdozent in Roman law at Budapest in 1884, he was appointed assistant professor nine years later then professor the following year, member in 1895 of…

German rabbi, born in Hürben, Bavaria, on March 15, 1830, died in Cologne on January 4, 1875, trained by his father, rabbi Joachim Schwarz. District rabbi in Bayreuth until 1856, when he was called…

English author, born in London in 1803, died in Venice in November 1866. Settled early in Italy, where he traveled extensively and mastered several languages, he took part in 1848 in the Italian…

English teacher and Hebraist writer, born in 1828, died in London on April 30, 1892, son of rabbi Isaac Sebag. Educated at the orphans' school of the Portuguese congregation of London, he became a…

German rabbi

Austrian balneologist, born in Polna on May 20, 1822. Graduated in medicine from Vienna in 1847, where he became privatdozent in 1854 and assistant professor in 1859, practicing each summer in…

Russian educator, censor and community activist, born in Wilna, died at an advanced age after 1882, son of physician Isaac Markusewich. Graduate of a German university, he was for about fifteen years…

German rabbi

German rabbi

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Austrian physician and Persianist, born in Nikolsburg on June 30, 1808, died in Vienna on September 15, 1892. He obtained his medical diploma in Vienna in 1830, became privatdozent there in 1833,…

Austrian military surgeon, born in Nikolsburg on January 18, 1815, brother of Franz Romeo Seligmann. Graduated in medicine in Vienna in 1843, he was appointed assistant surgeon of the army the same…

Hebrew poet, born in Samoczin, in the province of Posen, in 1815, died in that city on October 3, 1866. He published Ha-Aviv, an epic (Berlin, 1845); another epic, on the destruction of Jerusalem, as…

German physician

homme politique russe

Emigre journalist

Philanthropist, born in Danzig in 1814, died in Switzerland on 18 July 1877. Established in Bradford, Yorkshire, he became one of its most prominent citizens, was elected mayor in 1874, member and…

English specialist in throat diseases, born in Danzig on December 8, 1849, nephew of Julius Semon. Trained in medicine at Heidelberg, Berlin, Vienna, Paris and at St Thomas Hospital in London, where…

Physician by training (studies at the Sorbonne), he published his first short story in 1897 (« The Tailor: Scenes from Everyday Jewish Life ») and was encouraged by Maxim Gorky to describe Jewish…

German clinician and medical author, born in Gnesen, in the province of Posen, on December 6, 1834, doctor of medicine from Berlin in 1857. Established as a physician in Berlin in 1858, he became…

Russian painter

Italian rabbi, born in Pitigliano, Tuscany, on December 24, 1841, died in Casale-Monferrato on January 23, 1904. Trained in Padua, then at the rabbinical school and university of Florence, he served…

Rabbi, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5602 of the Hebrew era (1842). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 125-3.

Rosh yeshiva of Slonim, refounded in Ramat Gan after the Shoah.

Israeli politician

Rabbi of Meknes, 19th century. Died in 5660 of the Hebrew era (1900). Son of Shmuel. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 113-2.

Rabbi of Fès, 19th century. Mentioned in 5652 of the Hebrew era (1892). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 113-1.

Rabbi of Marrakech, nineteenth century. Mentioned in the year 5609 of the Hebrew era (1849). Son of Hanania. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 113-1.

Rabbi

Celebrated Kabbalist rabbi of the Bohbot family, established in Jerusalem, reputed for his miracles (Toledano). His son Shemouel taught at the yeshiva of Kabbalists Bet El.

Russian rabbi

rabbi (1862–1944)

rabbi

Ukrainian rabbi

Rabbi Shalom Perlow, of the Koidanov dynasty, is the author of Divrei Shalom (1882), an anthology of the teachings of the rebbes of Koidanov augmented with genealogies, and of Mishmeret Shalom, a…

Professor of medieval Hebrew literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1944–1973), considered one of the great scholars of Judaism of his generation. Author of 'The Last Trial' (study…

Chief Rabbi of the Yemenite community in Tel-Aviv (1925-1961), decisor and manuscript editor.

Polish-German rabbi and author, born in Memel, Prussia, on July 28, 1828, died in Czortków, Galicia, on January 9, 1887. Around 1845, he studied philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy, and published…

Polish merchant of fraudulent antiquities, born around 1830, who committed suicide in Rotterdam on March 11, 1884. Converted to Christianity then established in Palestine as an antiquarian, he sold…

Russian photographer and Hebrew poet, born in Grodno in 1841, died in Saint Petersburg on March 23, 1900. Trained in the yeshivot while secretly studying Hebrew like other maskilim, he left his…

Hebraist author Russian, born in Karlin in 1825, died in Kiev on August 24, 1899, who lived by his pen in precarious material conditions and spent the last twenty years of his life in Kiev. His most…

Rabbi of Fez, 19th century. Died in 5579 of the Hebrew era (1819). Son of Saadia III, himself son of Yaakov. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 111-3.

Rabbi of Fès, 19th century. Died in 5631 of the Hebrew era (1871). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 111-4.

Rabbi of Fès, 19th century. Died in 5567 of the Hebrew era (1807). Son of Matatiah I. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 111-1.

Rabbi of Marrakech, 19th century. Mentioned in 5606 of the Hebrew era (1846). Son of David. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 112-1.

Rabbi of Sefrou, 19th century. Died in 5569 of the Hebrew era (1809). Son of Yitshak. Registered in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 111-2.

Russian ethnographer, born in 1826, died in Riga on August 14, 1900. Trained at the University of Moscow, he became, after his conversion to Protestantism, professor of Russian in the district…

Rabbi in Algiers at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, author of a commentary book titled « Sefer Néoré Or », published in Algiers in 1893.

From an eminent rabbinical family of Baghdad and descendant of Sadqa Bekhor Hussein, he founded in 1867 the third Hebrew printing press in Baghdad. He translated into Judeo-Arabic parts of the…

4th Rebbe of Zvihl

British rabbi

Rabbi of Tétouan, 19th century. Mentioned in 5641 of the Hebrew era (1881). Son of Yitshak. Registered in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 120-3.

Orthodox rabbi

Rabbi of Meknès, active in the 7th century of the Hebrew era (1840–1939). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 126-4.

American actor

Brother of Rahamim Joseph Jiani, rabbi in Séfrou in the nineteenth century. He left numerous scattered writings that his son Elisha collected and had edited in Jerusalem under the title Ramat Shemuel.

rabbi

Israeli philosopher born in Austria-Hungary (1883-1975)

Rabbi of Mogador (Essaouira), active in the 7th century of the Hebrew era (1840–1939). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 126-3.

Born in Mogador in 1859, he studied and taught Torah there, then settled in Casablanca in 1931 where he taught at the yeshiva Keter Torah. Returning to Mogador, he sat on the rabbinical court of…

Hakham and Kabbalist of Baghdad, author of works on Jewish philosophy and mysticism.

Rabbi of Marrakech, 19th century. Mentioned in 5641 of the Hebrew calendar (1881). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 126-3.

Hungarian rabbi

Moroccan rabbi

Descendant of the Amshinov dynasty, he led the court of Otwock. During the Shoah he reached Lithuania and then, via transit visas, Japan (Kobe) and Shanghai with many refugees, before settling in the…

Lithuanian rabbi

Hungarian rabbi

rabbi

Russian journalist, born in Yelisavetgrad in 1865. From the age of sixteen, he collaborated with periodicals in southern Russia, before being accused of revolutionarism in 1886 and deported to…

Rabbi of Fès, 19th century. Born in 5608 (1848), died in 5689 (1929) of the Hebrew era. Son of Moshe. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 114-4.

Rabbi of Fès, nineteenth century. Born in 5565 (1805), died in 5603 (1843) of the Hebrew era. Son of Rafael. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 117-1.

Rabbi of Marrakech, 19th century. Mentioned in 5627 of the Hebrew era (1867). Son of David. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 114-2.

Rabbi of Fez, 19th century. Died in 5660 of the Hebrew era (1900). Son of Shmuel. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 118-4.

Rabbi, active in the 7th century of the Hebrew era (1840–1939). Son of Yosef. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 118-3.

Rabbi of Debdou, 19th century. Mentioned in 5630 of the Hebrew era (1870). Son of Yaakov. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 118-3.

Rabbi of Marrakech, active in the 7th century of the Hebrew era (1840–1939). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 118-3.

Rabbi of Meknès, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5587 of the Hebrew era (1827). Son of Yaakov, himself son of Yekutiel. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 118-2.

Rabbi of Debdou, nineteenth century. Died in 5641 of the Hebrew era (1881). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 116-2.

Rabbi of Salé, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5588 of the Hebrew era (1828). Son of Mordekhay. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 114-2.

Rabbi of Marrakech, 19th century. Mentioned in 5641 of the Hebrew era (1881). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 114-3.

Rabbi of Meknès, 19th century. Mentioned in 5590 of the Hebrew era (1830). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 117-1.

Rabbi of Fès, 19th century. Born in 5582 (1822), died in 5630 (1870) of the Hebrew era. Son of Yaakov. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), p. 116-2.

Lithuanian kabbalist, author of Leshem Shevo Ve'Achlama, of the school of the Gaon of Vilna.

Av beth din and posek of Vilna, author of Heshek Shlomo and the responsa Binyan Shlomo.

Rabbi, 19th century. Mentioned in 5579 of the Hebrew era (1819). Son of Makhluf. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 118-1.

Rosh yeshiva of the Ramailles in Vilna and then of Mesivta Torah Vodaath (Brooklyn) from 1935.

Rabbi of Tétouan, nineteenth century. Died in the year 5572 of the Hebrew era (1812). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 113-4.

Rabbi of Marrakech, 19th century. Mentioned in 5579 of the Hebrew era (1819). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 114-3.

Eldest son of Mullah Yousef Kohan-Sedgh, head of a religious Jewish family of Tehran. Polyglot (Persian, French, English, Hebrew), he contributed to founding the Otzar Ha-Torah cultural center and…

Rabbi of Fès, 19th century. Mentioned in 5652 of the Hebrew era (1892). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 117-1.

Rabbi of Meknès, 19th century. Mentioned in 5564 of the Hebrew era (1804). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 118-3.

Rabbi of Meknès, 19th century. Mentioned in 5564 of the Hebrew era (1804). Registered in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 114-3.

Ottoman rabbi

American rabbi

Rabbi of Marrakech, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5641 of the Hebrew era (1881). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 114-3.

The « Meitcheter Illuy »; Talmudic prodigy, rosh yeshiva of RIETS at Yeshiva University (New York).

Polish rabbi

Rabbi of Mogador (Essaouira), 19th century. Mentioned in 5641 of the Hebrew era (1881). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 114-3.

Chief Rabbi of Russia (1889–1957)

Polish Rabbi, Rabbinical Judge, and Rosh Yeshiva

Rabbi of Demnate, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5594 of the Hebrew era (1834). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 119-1.

Rabbi of Meknes, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5587 of the Hebrew era (1827). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 116-3.

Rabbi of Meknes, 19th century. Born in 5618 (1858), died in 5637 (1877) of the Hebrew era. Son of Yaakov. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 116-4.

Orthodox rabbi

Lithuanian rabbi

rabbi from Subcarpathian Ruthenia, then in Transylvania, in Hungary and Romania

Belarusian rabbi

Writer and agronomist, Zionist pioneer, childhood friend of Ben-Gurion.

Yiddish essayist and literary critic, critic for the daily « Der Tog ».

Russian rabbi

Russian rabbi

Rabbi of Debdou, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5596 of the Hebrew era (1836). Son of Yosef. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 126-4.

German-Israeli physicist and historian of science, professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Prize laureate (1968) for his work on the history of ancient and medieval physical concepts.

Rabbi of Fès, nineteenth century. Died in 5632 of the Hebrew era (1872). Son of Menashe. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 124-2.

Jewish Orthodox mystical thinker, philosopher, and individualist anarchist

Rabbi of Meknès, nineteenth century. Died in the year 5650 of the Hebrew era (1890). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 125-3.

Rabbi of Fès, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5570 of the Hebrew era (1810). Son of Yosef. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 125-3.

Rabbi, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5611 of the Hebrew era (1851). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 125-3.

Israeli rabbi

Rabbi, nineteenth century. Died in {year} of the Hebrew calendar (1879). Son of Yaakov. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), p. 121-3.

Bulgarian rabbi

Polish rabbi

Slovak rabbi

Rabbi of Sefrou, nineteenth century. Died in 5604 of the Hebrew era (1844). Son of Yehuda. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 121-1.

Rabbi and renowned mashpia of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Sent by the Rabbi RaShaB then active in the Caucasus (Azerbaijan, Georgia) where he founded schools and yeshivot; imprisoned in Siberia…

Israeli painter born in a village in Ukraine (Orthodox Jewish family). He studied in Odessa where he met Boris Schatz, founder of Bezalel, then at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem from 1914. Member…

Rabbi of Rabat, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5561 of the Hebrew era (1801). Son of Shlomo, himself son of Moshe I. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 123-2.

Rabbi of Tétouan, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5641 of the Hebrew era (1881). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 125-1.

Rabbi of Fès, 19th century. Mentioned in 5646 of the Hebrew era (1886). Son of Shaul II, himself son of Matatiah I. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 122-1.

Rabbi of Meknès, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5581 of the Hebrew era (1821). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 122-2.

Rabbi of Tétouan, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5641 of the Hebrew era (1881). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 123-2.

Elder brother of Daniel Charney, born Shmuel Charney, he became the most important Yiddish literature critic of his time, under the pen name Niger. The third brother, Baruch Charney Vladeck, was a…

Chief Rabbi Ashkenazi of Jerusalem for nearly seventy years.

Rabbi of Rif, 19th century. Mentioned in 5578 of the Hebrew era (1818). Son of Shem Tov. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 122-3.

rabbi

Merchant and Talmudist, founder in 1815 of the yeshiva of Mir, which he directed until his death.

Grandson of the founder, surnamed « der Foter » (the Father), he led the court of Slonim and left the work Divrei Shmuel.

British rabbi

rabbi

Born Sholem Nokhem Rabinovich in Pereïaslav (Ukraine), he adopted the Yiddish pseudonym Sholem Aleichem. Creator of Tevye the dairyman (source of "Fiddler on the Roof"), of Menakhem-Mendl and of Motl…

Russian rabbi

American rabbi

New Zealand politician, born in Posen, Prussia, in 1828, died in Auckland, New Zealand, on 25 June 1902. A merchant in London from 1847, he emigrated to Melbourne in 1859 then to New Zealand in 1861,…

Romanian rabbi

Hebrew-writing Russian author, born in Stary Bychow, died in Amsterdam around 1830. He edited the Zeker Rav of Mussafia (Chklov, 1797), furnished with an index of biblical words translated into…

American merchant and philanthropist, born in Prussia on May 31, 1839, brought as a child to the United States where his family settled in Newburgh, New York; he worked the land until age thirteen…

Rabbi of Marrakech, 19th century. Mentioned in 5619 of the Hebrew era (1859). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 124-3.

Russian scholar, active in Shklov in the nineteenth century, author of the Otsar ha-Shemot, concordance of biblical proper names supplementing the general concordance published in Vilna in 1878, and…

French oculist, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1802, died in Paris on November 14, 1868. Graduate in medicine from Berlin in 1825, he perfected himself in Paris, where he opened in 1836 an…

German painter, born in Mainz on January 8, 1843. Trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1859-62) under Julius Schrader, he obtained in 1863 a scholarship thanks to his painting Joseph…

Algerian rabbi

Associated with the Board of Deputies of British Jews, he was linked to the Jewish Defence Committee created in 1936 to counter antisemitism and propaganda from Oswald Mosley's British Union of…

Hungarian rabbi and author, born in Nadas on January 23, 1815, died in Tyrnau on December 18, 1891. Educated at the yeshiva of Moïse Sofer, he opened his own yeshiva in his native city, was elected…

Russian Hebraist, died in Warsaw on April 2, 1879, who devoted himself particularly to apocryphal literature, translating into Hebrew and Judeo-German, with commentaries and introductions, the Book…

American merchant, born in Eubigheim, Germany, on March 17, 1852. He emigrated to the United States at fifteen and founded in 1876 the firm Siegel, Hartsfield & Co, then ten years later the large…

German lawyer, art dealer (1891-1978)

German rabbi

Born in Berlin in a Jewish family, theater critic from his adolescence. In 1905 he founded the journal Die Schaubühne, which he renamed Die Weltbühne in 1918 and directed until his death — one of the…

English poet and writer

German rabbi

German Protestant theologian, born in Magdeburg on January 22, 1830, died in Jena on January 9, 1903. Professor of theology at the University of Jena from 1875 onward, he published notably Spinoza…

German rabbi

Danish poet and editor, born in Copenhagen on May 4, 1803, died in that city on November 28, 1884, brother of Oskar Siesby. He published his first collection of poems, Lyriske Forsøg, in 1826, then…

Danish philologist, born in Ebeltoft, in Jutland, on July 19, 1833, brother of Gottlieb Siesby. A graduate of the University of Copenhagen in 1850, he taught Latin and Greek there from 1853, was…

American lawyer

German rabbi

German rabbi and Hebraist journalist, born in Königsberg, Prussia, on September 7, 1819, died in Lyck, Prussia, on March 15, 1882. Raised after his father's death (1823) by his mother's family in…

German rabbi, born in Witzenhausen, Hesse-Nassau, on November 21, 1834, diploma from the Jewish theological seminary of Breslau in 1859 and doctor of the University of Berlin in 1860. He was…

American philosophical writer, born in Kovno, Russia, on March 10, 1845. Ordained rabbi in 1864, he served from 1867 to 1868 as rabbi of Dershunisok, in the province of Kovno, before emigrating to…

Rabbi, poet and Judeo-Persian apologist from Mashhad, author of Hayat al-Ruh.

Slovakian-German rabbi