XIXth century CE

Rabbi of Fez, nineteenth century. Died in 5584 of the Hebrew era (1824). Son of Messod, himself son of Nissim. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 75-4.

Rabbi of Fès, 19th century. Mentioned in 5609 of the Hebrew era (1849). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 75-4.

Rabbi of Tétouan, 19th century. Died in 5630 of the Hebrew era (1870). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 76-4.

Rabbi of Meknès, nineteenth century. Died in 5562 of the Hebrew era (1802). Son of Mordekhay. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 78-3.

Rabbi of Meknès, 19th century. Died in 5580 of the Hebrew era (1820). Son of Yekutiel. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 77-2.

Rabbi of Rabat, 19th century. Mentioned in 5586 of the Hebrew era (1826). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 77-3.

Rabbi of Tétouan, 19th century. Mentioned in 5602 of the Hebrew era (1842). Son of Abraham. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 75-2.

Rabbi of Fès, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5584 of the Hebrew era (1824). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 76-2.

Rabbi of Meknès, nineteenth century. Died in 5561 of the Hebrew era (1801). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 76-1.

Rabbi of Meknès, 19th century. Mentioned in 5590 of the Hebrew era (1830). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 76-1.

Rabbi of Tétouan, 19th century. Died in 5643 of the Hebrew era (1883). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 74-3.

Rabbi of Salé, 19th century. Mentioned in 5601 of the Hebrew era (1841). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 71-4.

Rabbi of Fès, 19th century. Mentioned in 5576 of the Hebrew era (1816). Son of Yehonatan II. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 76-1.

Rabbi of Rabat, 19th century. Mentioned in 5574 of the Hebrew era (1814). Son of Moshe. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 76-3.

Rabbi of Rabat, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5574 of the Hebrew era (1814). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 76-3.

4th Alexander Rebbe

Rabbi of Marrakech, 19th century. Mentioned in 5564 of the Hebrew era (1804). Son of Yaakov. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 72-2.

Rabbi of Tétouan, active in the 7th century of the Hebrew era (1840–1939). Son of Yosef. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), p. 73-4.

Rabbi of Demnate, 19th century. Mentioned in 5594 of the Hebrew era (1834). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 76-1.

« Itzele Peterburger », disciple of Salanter, chief rabbi of Saint Petersburg, figure of Mussar.

Hasidic rabbi

Great posek and rabbi of Kovno, major halakhic authority of the nineteenth century.

(1896-1977) Hasidic Kabbalist

rabbi

Son-in-law of the Alter of Slabodka, rosh yeshiva of Slabodka, refounded in Bnei Brak.

Romanian Jewish rabbi and translator (1837–1920)

Polish rabbi (1866–1939)

Polish Breslov rabbi

Eldest grandson of Rabbi Israël Friedman of Ruzhin, he established in Buhuşi (Bohush) a hassidic court in the Ruzhin style, which he directed until his death in 1896. His dynasty, which remained in…

Grandson of Rabbi Israël of Ruzhin, he established his court around 1887 in Boiany (Bukovina), founding the Hasidic dynasty of Boyan, a branch of Ruzhin-Sadigura. Nicknamed the « Pachad Yitzchok »,…

Russian rabbi

« Velvel », son of Reb Chaim; refounded the yeshiva of Brisk in Jerusalem, figure of mitnagdism.

Israeli rabbi

Israeli politician

Israeli rabbi

Russian rabbi and Jewish historian (1847-1914)

Son of Rabbi Alexander Sender Safrin (founder of the Komarno dynasty) and nephew, who raised him, of Tsvi Hirsch of Zhydachiv. Av Beit Din of Komarno, he was one of the most prolific expositors of…

Kabbalist born in Baghdad, Haredi figure in Israel, renowned for his blessings and amulets.

Poet of the Third Aliyah, author of the epic poem Massada (1927).

One of the eight sons of Rabbi Mordechaï Twersky, the Maggid of Chernobyl. He founded the Hasidic dynasty of Skver in the city of Skvyra (present-day Ukraine) in the middle of the 19th century, a…

« Reb Itzele Ponevezher », founder and rosh yeshiva of the yeshiva of Ponevezh, author of Zecher Yitzchak.

Israeli politician

Polish rabbi (1845–1923)

Youngest son of Rebbe Mordechai Twersky, the Maggid of Tchernobyl, he founded the Hasidic court of Rachmastrivka, a branch of the Tchernobyl dynasty. He died on 4 Nissan 5655 (March 29, 1895) in…

Rabbi of Tétouan, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5595 of the Hebrew era (1835). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 56-2.

American rabbi

Rabbi of Mogador (Essaouira), 19th century. Born in 5569 of the Hebrew era (1809). Son of Aharon. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 60-2.

Rabbi of Demnate, 19th century. Mentioned in 5594 of the Hebrew era (1834). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 60-2.

Rabbi of Salé, 19th century. Died in 5583 of the Hebrew era (1823). Son of Ayush. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 60-2.

Rabbi of Meknès, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5604 of the Hebrew era (1844). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 61-4.

Rabbi, 19th century. Died in 5581 of the Hebrew era (1821). Son of Maimon. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), p. 61-3.

Rabbi of Debdou, nineteenth century. Mentioned in {year} of the Hebrew calendar (1801). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), p. 59-1.

Rabbi of Brisk, author of the responsa and commentaries Beis Halevi, ancestor of the Soloveitchik dynasty.

Son of Aharon Chelouche, born in Jaffa in 1870. Building entrepreneur and industrialist, he was one of the founders of Tel-Aviv. He left a noted memoir on Judeo-Arab coexistence and the history of…

American rabbi

Polish Hasidic rabbi

Born in Jerusalem in 1886, died in Tel-Aviv in 1961 and buried at Har HaMenuhot. Banker, he is among the builders of the Yishuv listed in David Tidhar's Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of…

Hebrew-language writer born in Novi Mlyny (Ukraine, Russian Empire), founding figure of modern Hebrew literature and the Second Aliyah. Author of novels marked by desperate lucidity, he was…

(1851-1921)

Rabbi, 19th century. Died in 5638 of the Hebrew era (1878). Son of Israel. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 60-3.

Rabbi of Meknes, 19th century. Mentioned in 5590 of the Hebrew era (1830). Son of Moshe. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 60-2.

Rabbi, nineteenth century. Mentioned in 5616 of the Hebrew era (1856). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 61-1.

Rabbi of Rabat, 19th century. Died in 5614 of the Hebrew era (1854). Son of Yaakov. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 61-1.

Son-in-law of Eliezer Gordon, rosh yeshiva of Telshe, developed its educational system and Mussar.

American rabbi

Rabbi of Meknès, 19th century. Mentioned in 5612 of the Hebrew era (1852). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 57-2.

Born in Munkács, disciple of the rebbe of Zhidachov, he founded around 1873 his own Hasidic court in Spinka (Szaplonca), where he attracted thousands of followers. He is known by the name of his…

1818-1885

Rabbi of Fès, nineteenth century. Born in 5603 (1843), died in 5662 (1902) of the Hebrew era. Son of Yehoshua II, himself son of Matatiah I. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f.…

Israeli rabbi

Israeli rabbi

rabbi

Disciple of Salanter, founder of the yeshiva and network of Novardok of Mussar.

Israeli rabbi

Son of Samuele Colombo, born in Livorno on November 22, 1897, died in Milan on March 16, 1975. Trained at the Rabbinical College of Livorno from 1915 onwards, teacher and figure of Italian Jewish…

Author of « Séfer Tôldôt Ḥakhmé Tûnîs » (History of the Sages of Tunis), rich in biographical and bibliographical notices on the rabbis of Tunisia; written around 1909 and published for the first…

Rabbi in Algiers, son of the dayan Abraham Dadoun. He wrote the preface to the moral work « Tokhakhot Moussar » by rabbi Yossef Azoubib, published in Livorno in 1870.

Tunisian rabbi (1861-1934)

Ukrainian-born British spy

Chief Rabbi and dayan of Constantine, author of ~130 works and translator into Judeo-Arabic.

American rabbi

Raised in the Jewish mahallé, he learned the modes of Persian music from his father, a cantor, from childhood. Nicknamed the « Nightingale of Iran », he was the only Jewish singer to achieve national…

Born in Varniai (Kovno district), he studied at the yeshivot of Telz, Mir and Volozhin and received semikha from the Hafets Hayim at Radin. Emigrated to the United States in 1900, he was rabbi of…

Yiddish linguist and philologist, codirector of the Great Dictionary of the Yiddish language.

American politician born in Saint-Thomas, West Indies, in 1811, and died in New York on October 10, 1886. Established in Florida as a planter, he is elected delegate of this State to the…

Belarusian-American Yiddish-language poet and satirist

Russian physician born in Białystok, in the government of Grodno, on July 30, 1850. Admitted in 1869 to the military academy of medicine in Saint Petersburg, where he obtained his doctorate in 1874,…

Russian Hebraist scholar and author born in Białystok, in the Grodno Governorate, in 1803, and died in that same city on November 14, 1869. Devoted to the study of the Haggada, he publishes numerous…

Rabbi and scholar, founder of "positive-historical Judaism" which inspired the Masorti (Conservative) movement. He led the rabbinical seminary of Breslau.

Chief Rabbi of France, translator of the Bible

Syrian rabbi

American military officer and inventor born in Kórnik, Prussian Poland, on December 13, 1849, emigrated to the United States as a child in 1853. Volunteered in the army in 1864, served until the end…

American military officer born in New York on January 23, 1863. Enlisted as a private soldier in the regular army in 1885, he became sub-lieutenant of artillery in 1889, graduate of the Artillery…

Born in Białystok, went up to Eretz Israël in 1891. Hebrew journalist and writer: he collaborated from 1891 with Ḥabatselet, Hatsfira, Hamelits, was for a long time correspondent in Jerusalem for the…

Israeli politician

Russian rabbi

Lexicographer and historian of Yiddish literature, author of the « Leksikon ».

1850 or 1851-1923

Israeli politician and statesman

Yiddish and Hebrew poet and novelist.

Lithuanian rabbi

Hebrew and Yiddish writer (pseud. of Aronsohn), author of Reb Abba.

Yiddish short-story writer and playwright, painter of the Lower East Side proletariat.

Founder of Esperanto, born in Białystok in December 1859, son and grandson of language teachers. After studies in medicine in Warsaw and Moscow, where he received his doctorate in 1884, he practiced…

English novelist born in Bristol on July 25, 1869, brother of Israel Zangwill, educated at the Jews' Free School where he taught for a time before turning, with his brother, to printing and then…

Austrian playwright and journalist born in Vienna on January 28, 1845 and died in that city on January 31, 1892, son of manufacturer August Zappert. Entering in 1862 the commercial academy of Vienna…

Hungarian historian and archaeologist born in Alt-Ofen on December 7, 1806 and died in Vienna on November 23, 1859, trained at the Pest gymnasium and the University of Vienna. He abandoned medical…

Leading Zionist pioneer, active in organizing vintners and the wine industry (Carmel) in Palestine. He left memoirs published in Tel-Aviv in 1946, cited in research on early Zionist settlement.

Zecharia Gluska (born c. 1895 in the village of Nadir, North Yemen, died 1960) was a humanitarian activist dedicated to Yemenite Jews. He co-founded the youth organization Mizrah (1911) and the…

Hungarian-American Rabbi, writer and book seller (1886–1957)

Erudite and rabbinical preacher of Austro-English origin born in Lemberg in 1827 and died in London in 1903, trained by Joseph Saul Nathansohn, chief rabbi of Lemberg. He published patriotic Hebrew…

Russian Hebrew-learning journalist born in Samoście, in the district of Lublin, in 1816, and died in Saint Petersburg in 1893, founder and editor of « Ha-Meliẓ » and other Russian and Yiddish…

rabbi

Austrian chemist born in Lomnitz, Moravia, on April 11, 1854, trained at the German gymnasium in Brno then at the University of Vienna, where he obtained his doctorate in 1879. Privat-docent of…

American jurist born in Bielsko, Austria, on 11 April 1860, trained at the University of Vienna and then at Northwestern University in Chicago. Admitted to the Chicago bar, he is an assistant defense…

Austrian dermatologist born in Vierzighuben, near Zwittau in Moravia, on September 22, 1817, and died in Vienna on September 23, 1884, graduated from the University of Vienna in 1846. Assistant in…

Russian scholar and philanthropist born in Kiev on October 10, 1823 and died in Dresden on January 11, 1888. Raised near the Hasidim in Chernobyl then turned toward secular sciences and Hebrew…

Russian scholar and bibliographer born in Homel, in the province of Moghilev, around the middle of the nineteenth century. He devoted twenty years to the compilation of the « Ḳiryat Sefer », a…

Israeli rabbi

Austro-Italian poet born in Trieste in 1808 and died in that city in 1885, trained at the rabbinical college of Padua where he was the favorite student of Samuel David Luzzatto. He published notably…

Hungarian journalist and revolutionary born in Hungary around 1820. Editor-in-chief of "Der Ungar" in 1848, the year he also distinguishes himself as captain and adjutant of Schweichel in the honvéd…

Hungarian Hasidic Rebbe

rabbi of Jerusalem

Rabbi of Meknès, nineteenth century. Died in 5600 of the Hebrew era (1840). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 31-4.

Hungarian painter born in Budapest in 1861, trained at the national school of drawing and then at the Academy of Munich, before perfecting his education in Berlin, Paris and London. Specialized in…

Pietist and English scholar born in Fürth, in Bavaria, in March 1831, and died in London on 10 January 1895, renowned for intense piety inherited from a zealous Hasidic father. Settled in England…

German woman of letters born in Hamburg on March 25, 1846, settled in England from a young age where she lived until 1887, then in Florence. She publishes biographies of Schopenhauer (1873), Maria…

German poet and rabbinic scholar born in Fürth, Bavaria, on May 7, 1829, and died in Cincinnati on December 17, 1893. Educated in poetry in Munich then in Vienna, where his tragedy "Kassandra"…

Yiddish poet, theorist of « pure poetry » in the Di Yunge group.

French novelist born in Paris on April 2, 1840 and died in that city on September 29, 1902. It is only in his last years, when antisemitism had reached an acute degree in France, that he takes up the…

Polish scholar born in Łask in 1821 and died in Berlin in 1884, trained in rabbinical literature in his native country then, in Germany, under Joseph Shapiro and Jacob Ettinger, before studying at…

Community activist in Melbourne, Australia, born in London in 1837 and died on October 23, 1899, arrived in Melbourne at thirteen, where he successively engaged in gold panning, auctioneering and the…

opera singer

German chemist and industrialist born on 17 August 1871 in Uffenheim, Bavaria, trained in pharmacy and chemistry at the universities of Würzburg and Erlangen. While still a student, he successfully…

German librarian and author born on May 1, 1841, for a long time chief librarian of the University of Erlangen and specialist in art history. He notably published « Dürers Stellung zur Reformation »…

Rabbi and German Talmudist born in Ungarisch-Brod, in Moravia, on April 24, 1836. Rabbi in Pleschen, in Prussia, he is appointed on April 1, 1898 lecturer on the Mora-Leipziger foundation in Breslau.…

German scholar born in Breslau on October 9, 1818 and died in that city on December 17, 1891, trained in mathematics and astronomy. Associated in 1845 with Graetz to congratulate Zacharias Frankel on…

Chess player and physician born in Lublin, Russian Poland, on September 7, 1842, and died in London on June 20, 1888, son of a pastor converted from Judaism. Graduated in medicine from Breslau in…

« Badkhen » and Russian poet born in Vilno in 1845, who becomes locally known from age sixteen by setting his verses to music to sing at weddings, with fees reaching two hundred rubles. Since the…

German physiologist born in Bonn on October 6, 1847, educated at the university of his native city (doctorate in medicine in 1868). Assistant at the institute of physiology of that university, he…

Galician writer in Hebrew and Yiddish born in Drohobycz around 1850. He directs the Yiddish weekly « Drohobyczer Zeitung », founded in 1883, and the periodical « Ẓiyyon », first devoted to Hebrew…

American journalist

rabbi

Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki, Greece (1884-1945)

Lithuanian rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Russian rabbi

German gynecologist born in Höngg, near Zurich, on June 30, 1848, trained at the University of Zurich (doctorate in medicine in 1871). Received in the same year the venia legendi from the University…

Russian apologist and critical compiler born in Moghilev on April 15, 1815 and died in Glouchov on February 18, 1888, lecturer at the rabbinical seminary of Jitomir from 1853 until its closure in…