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Saadia JE (JE | WP GWP G) Biblical commentator, whose native country and epoch can not be precisely determined. Rapoport (in "Bikkure ha-'Ittim...
Saadia ben Abraham Longo (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L538: Longo, Saadia ben Abraham
Saadia (Sa'id) b. David al-Adeni (JE | WP GWP G) A man of culture living at Damascus and Safed between 1473 and 1485. He was the author of a commentary on some parts of Maimonides&#39...
Saadia b. Joseph (Sa'id al-Fayyumi) (JE | WP GWP G) Gaon of Sura and the founder of scientific activity in Judaism; born in Dilaz, Upper Egypt, 892; died at Sura 942. The...
Saadia b. Joseph Bekor Shor (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B558: Bekor Shor, Saadia
Saadia ben Maimon ibn Danan (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I9: Ibn Danan
Saadia ben Nahmani (JE | WP GWP G) Liturgical poet and perhaps also Biblical commentator; lived in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. He was the author of a...
Joseph Lewin Saalschütz (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and archeologist; born March 15, 1801, at Königsberg, East Prussia; died there Aug. 23, 1863. Having received...
Louis Saalschütz (JE | WP GWP G) German mathematician; born at Königsberg, Prussia, Dec. 1, 1835; son of Joseph Levin Saalschütz. From 1854 to 1860...
Saba (JE | WP GWP G) A word derived from the root , "to be white, old"; used in the Talmud with various meanings:(a) It designates an old man or...
Saba (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S565: Sheba
Abraham Saba (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A559: Abraham Saba
Sabbath (JE | WP GWP G) the seventh day of the week; the day of rest.—Biblical Data: On the completion of His creative work God blessed and...
Sabbath Leaves (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Sabbath Lights (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L34: Lamp, Sabbath
Sabbath-schools (JE | WP GWP G) Among the Jews the Sabbath-school or congregational religious school is a product of the nineteenth century. True, in past...
Sabbath and Sunday (JE | WP GWP G) A brief consideration is desirable as to why and when the keeping of the seventh day as the Sabbath ceased among Christian...
Sabbatical Year and Jubilee (JE | WP GWP G) the septennate or seventh year, during which the land is to lie fallow, and the celebration of the fiftieth year after seven...
Sabbionetta (JE | WP GWP G) from 1551 to 1559 the printer Tobias ben Eliezer Foa produced several Hebrew works beginning with Joseph Shaliṭ&#39...
Sabeans (JE | WP GWP G) the inhabitants of the ancient kingdom of Sheba in southeastern Arabia, known from the Bible, classical writers, and native...

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Sabina Poppaea (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P439: Poppæa Sabina
Sabinus DAB (JE | WP GWP G) Roman procurator; treasurer of Augustus. After Varus had returned to Antioch, between Easter and Pentecost of the year 4 B...
Sabora (JE | WP GWP G) Title applied to the principals and scholars of the Babylonian academies in the period immediately following that of the Amoraim...
Hirsch Leib Sabsovich (JE | WP GWP G) Mayor of Woodbine, N. J.; born at Berdyansk, Russia, Feb. 25, 1860. After his graduation from the classical gymnasium of his...
Donato Sacerdote JE (JE | WP GWP G) Italian poet; born at Fossano 1820; died there Nov. 27, 1883. Passionately devoted to the classics, Donato from his early...
Bernhard Sachs (JE | WP GWP G) American physician; born at Baltimore Jan. 2, 1858; educated at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., and at the universities...
Johann Jacob (Joseph Isidor) Sachs (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Märkisch Friedland July 26, 1803; died at Nordhausen Jan. 11, 1846. Educated at the University...
Julius Sachs (JE | WP GWP G) American educator; born at Baltimore July 6, 1849; educated at Columbia University and Rostock (Ph.D. 1867). He founded the...
Michael Jehiel Sachs (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Glogau Sept. 3, 1808; died in Berlin Jan. 31, 1864. He was educated in the University of Berlin, taking...
Senior Sachs JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russo-French Hebrew scholar; born at Kaidany, government of Kovno, June 17, 1816; died at Paris Nov. 18, 1892. When Senior...
Wilhelm Sachs (JE | WP GWP G) German dental surgeon; born at Wesenberg, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Sept. 22, 1849. He received his education at the University...
Sackcloth (JE | WP GWP G) Term originally denoting a coarsely woven fabric, usually made of goat's hair. It afterward came to mean also a garment...
Abraham ben Joseph Sackheim (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian scholar and Talmudist; died at Wilna June 26, 1872. He was well versed in rabbinics, as may be seen from his "Yad...
Tobiah b. Aryeh Löb Sackheim (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Talmudist and communal worker; died in Rosinoi, government of Grodno, at an advanced age, Jan. 28, 1822. He was a...
Sacrifice (JE | WP GWP G) the act of offering to a deity for the purpose of doing homage, winning favor, or securing pardon; that which is offered or...
Sacrilege (JE | WP GWP G) the act of profaning or violating sacred things. The prohibition of sacrilege was primarily in connection with the sanctuary...
Moses b. Mordecai Sacuto (Zakuto) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Z8: Zacuto, Moses b. Mordecai
Sa'd al-Daulah JE (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish physician and statesman; grand vizier from 1289 to 1291 under the Mongolian ruler in Persia, Argun Khan; assassinated...
Shadakah ben abu al-Faraj Munajja (JE | WP GWP G) Samaritan physician and philosopher; died near Damascus 1223. He was the court physician of al-Malik al-'Adil, the Ayyubid...
Sadducees (JE | WP GWP G) Name given to the party representing views and practises of the Law and interests of Temple and priesthood directly opposite...

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Safed (JE | WP GWP G) City of Upper Galilee (it has no connection with the Zephath of Judges i. 17). Its foundation dates from the second century...
Sagerin (JE | WP GWP G) Leader of the women in public prayer. The separation of the sexes at Jewish worship was insisted on even in the days of the...
Sahagun (Sant Fagund) (JE | WP GWP G) City in the old Spanish kingdom of Leon. On March 5, 1152, King Alfonso VII. granted to the thirty Jewish families living...
Sahl (JE | WP GWP G) Physician, astrologer, and mathematician of the ninth century (c. 786-845 ?); father of the physician Ali ben Sahl. Sahl translated...
Sahl ben Mazliah ha-Kohen al-Mu'allim abu al-Sari JE (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite philosopher and writer; born at Jerusalem 910. He belonged to the Rechabites, and was one of the apostles of the Karaites...
Isaac ben Solomon ibn abi Sahulah (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish scholar and Hebrew poet of the thirteenth century; born, as some believe, at Guadalajara in 1244. Geiger, in "Melo...
Sa'id ben Hasan of Alexandria (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish convert to Islam; lived in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. He was the author of an apologetic work entitled...
Sailors (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N139: Navigation
Saint and Saintliness (JE | WP GWP G) in Jewish tradition saintliness ("Chasidut") is distinguished from holiness ("Kedushah"), which is part of the...
Saint Croix (JE | WP GWP G) -- See W137: West Indies, Danish
Saint Gall (St Gallen) (JE | WP GWP G) Chief town of the canton of the same name in the northeast of Switzerland. The first information concerning its Jewish inhabitants...
Saint-Gilles (JE | WP GWP G) Town of France, in the department of Gard, about eleven miles south-southeast of Nîmes. It was an important commercial...
Saint John's bread (JE | WP GWP G) Fruit of the carobtree. It is not mentioned in the Masoretic text of the Old Testament, though Cheyne assumes that in three...
Saint Joseph (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M663: Missouri
Saint Louis >> History of the Jews in St. Louis, Missouri JE (JE | WP GWP G) Largest city in the state of Missouri, U. S. A. Its pioneer Jew was Wolf Bloch, a native of Schwihau, Bohemia, who is reported...
Saint Paul (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M639: Minnesota
Saint Petersburg (JE | WP GWP G) Capital city of Russia. Antonio Sanchez, a Spanish Jew and member of the Academy of Sciences, lived in St. Petersburg in the...
Saint-Symphorien d'Ozon (JE | WP GWP G) Town in the ancient province of Dauphiné, France. In the fourteenth century it had a large and wealthy Jewish community...
Saint Thomas (JE | WP GWP G) -- See W137: West Indies, Danish
Aladár Sajó [hu; he] (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian author; born at Waitzen Sept. 8, 1869; educated for the law at Budapest, where he devoted himself at the same time...

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Jacob b. Benjamin Wolf Sak (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J31: Jacob ben Benjamin Zeeb Sak
Salahti (JE | WP GWP G) -- See O65: Omnam Ken
Annette A Salaman (JE | WP GWP G) English authoress; died April 10, 1879; youngest daughter of S. K. Salaman, and sister of the musician of that name. In her...
Charles Kensington Salaman (JE | WP GWP G) English pianist, composer, and controversialist; born in London March 3, 1814; died there June 23, 1901. His musical talent...
Charles Malcolm Salaman (JE | WP GWP G) English journalist and dramatist; born in London Sept. 6, 1855; son of Charles Kensington Salaman, the composer. He is the...
Salamanca (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish city; capital of the province of the same name; famous for its university. The Jews of Salamanca rendered valuable...
Salamander (JE | WP GWP G) According to the Talmud, a species of toad which lives on land but enters the water at the breeding season (Ḥul. 127a...
Nahum Salamon (JE | WP GWP G) English inventor; born in London 1828; died there Nov. 23, 1900. He may be regarded as practically the founder of the British...
Samuel Salant JE (JE | WP GWP G) Chief rabbi of the Ashkenazic congregations in Jerusalem; born Jan. 2, 1816, at Byelostok, Russia. Samuel married the daughter...
Israel Salanter JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L440: Lipkin
Sale (JE | WP GWP G) the steps by which the title to land is changed in a gift or sale have been shown under Alienation. The conveyance might be...
Sale and Seizure (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E545: Execution
Salem (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a place, first mentioned in connection with Abraham's return from the battle with Chedorlaomer, when Melchizedek...
Asher ben Immanuel Salem (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish scholar of the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Maṭṭeh Asher" (Salonica, 1748), containing responsa...
Salem Shaloam David JE (JE | WP GWP G) Chinese convert to Judaism; born at Hankow, China, of Chinese parents in 1853, and named Feba. Feba remained with his parents...
Siegmund Salfeld JE (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Stadthagen, Schaumburg-Lippe, March 24, 1843. Having received his degree of Ph.D. from the University...
Jakob Salgó (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian psychiatrist; born at Pesth in 1849; educated at Pesth, at Vienna (M. D., Vienna, 1874), and at Göttingen,...
Saliva (JE | WP GWP G) Spittle. To spit in a person's face was regarded as an expression of the utmost contempt for him (Num. xii. 14; Deut....
Solomon ben Baruch Salkind (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian Hebrew poet; teacher in the rabbinical seminary, Wilna; died there March 14, 1868. He was the author of: "Shirim...
Isaac Edward Salkinson (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Hebraist; convert to Christianity; born at Wilna; died at Vienna June 5, 1883. According to some, Salkinson was the...

81 – 100

Geskel Saloman (JE | WP GWP G) Painter; born of German parents April 1, 1821, at Tondern, Sleswick; died July 5, 1902, at Stockholm. Soon after his birth...
Nota S Saloman (JE | WP GWP G) Danish physician; born at Tondern, Sleswick-Holstein, March 21, 1823; died at Copenhagen March 20, 1885. Educated at the University...
Siegfried Saloman (JE | WP GWP G) Danish violinist and composer; born in Tondern, Sleswick-Holstein, Oct. 2, 1816; died July 22, 1899, on the island of Dalar&#246...
Salomon (JE | WP GWP G) American family tracing its descent back to Haym Salomon, "the financier of the American Revolution." the family tree is as...
Gotthold Salomon (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born Nov. 1, 1784, at Sondersleben, Anhalt; died Nov. 17, 1862, in Hamburg. His first teacher in Bible and Talmud...
Haym Salomon (JE | WP GWP G) American financier; born at Lissa, Poland, in 1740; died in Philadelphia Jan. 6, 1785. It is probable that he left his native...
Max Salomon (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Sleswick, Sleswick-Holstein, April 5, 1837; son of Jacob Salomon; educated at the gymnasium of his...
William Salomon (JE | WP GWP G) American financier; born at Mobile, Ala., Oct. 9, 1852; great-grandson of Haym Salomon. His parents removed to Philadelphia...
Salomons (JE | WP GWP G) English family descended from Solomon Salomons, a London merchant on the Royal Exchange in the eighteenth century. The following...
Sir Julian Emanuel Salomons (JE | WP GWP G) Australian statesman; born in Birmingham 1834. He was called to the bar in Jan., 1861. Having emigrated to New South Wales...
Carl Julius Salomonsen (JE | WP GWP G) Danish bacteriologist; born at Copenhagen Dec. 6, 1847; son of Martin S. Salomonsen. He studied medicine at Copenhagen (M...
Martin Salomonsen (JE | WP GWP G) Danish physician; born in Copenhagen March 9, 1814; died there Dec. 21, 1889; father of Carl Julius Salomonsen. He graduated...
Salonica (JE | WP GWP G) Seaport city in Rumelia, European Turkey; chief town of an extensive vilayet of the same name which includes the sanjaks of...
Salt (JE | WP GWP G) A condiment for food. From earliest times salt was indispensable to the Israelites for flavoring food. Having a copious supply...
Salt Lake City (JE | WP GWP G) -- See U59: Utah
Salt Sea (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1667: Dead Sea
Salutation (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G430: Greeting, Forms of
Salvador (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S990: South and Central America
Francis Salvador (JE | WP GWP G) Prominent patriot in the American Revolution; a member of the Salvador family of London, the name of which was originally...
Joseph Salvador (JE | WP GWP G) French historian; born at Montpellier Jan. 5, 1796; died March 17, 1873, at Versailles; buried, at his own request, in the...

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Joseph Salvador (JE | WP GWP G) English philanthropist; flourished about 1753. He came of a distinguished family that emigrated from Holland in the eighteenth...
Salvation (JE | WP GWP G) the usual rendering in the English versions for the Hebrew words , , derivatives of the stem , which in the verb occurs only...
Salzburg (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian duchy (formerly a German archbishopric), and its capital of the same name. Jews, among them a physician, are mentioned...
Sama b. Rabba (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora; last head of the Pumbedita Academy. He was the successor of Rachumai II., and officiated for about...
Sama b. Rakta JE (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the sixth generation. He was a contemporary of Rabina I., with whom he disputed concerning a halakah (&#7730...
Samael (JE | WP GWP G) Prince of the demons, and an important figure both in Talmudic and in post-Talmudic literature, where he appears as accuser...
Samara (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian river near which tradition has located Ezra's tomb. Many legends cluster round this sacred spot; and in former...
Samarcand (JE | WP GWP G) Town in Central Asia; chief town of the Zerafshan district of the Russian dominions. According to tradition, Samarcand was...
Samaria (JE | WP GWP G) City of Palestine; capital of the kingdom of Israel. It was built by Omri, in the seventh year of his reign, on the mountain...
Samaritans (JE | WP GWP G) Properly, inhabitants of Samaria. The name is now restricted to a small tribe of people living in Nablus (Shechem) and calling...
Samau'il ibn Adiya (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S140: Samuel ibn Adiya
Joseph ben Isaac Sambari (Cattawi?) (JE | WP GWP G) Egyptian chronicler of the seventeenth century; lived probably at Alexandria between 1640 and 1703. of lowly origin and in...
Sambation, Sanbation, Sabbation (sambatyon) (JE | WP GWP G) in rabbinical literature the river across which the ten tribes were transported by Shalmaneser, King of Assyria, and about...
Joseph ben Benjamin Samegah (Samigah) (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish Talmudist and cabalist of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; born at Salonica; died June 6, 1629, at Venice...
Samek (JE | WP GWP G) the fifteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Its name may be connected with "samek" ="prop," "support." On the original shape...
Samek and Pe (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G59: Games and Sports
Julius Samelsohn (JE | WP GWP G) German ophthalmologist; born at Marienburg, West Prussia, April 14, 1841; died at Cologne March 7, 1899. Educated at the universities...
M Samfield (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi; born at Markstift, Bavaria, 1846. He received his education from his father, at the Talmudical school of Rabbi...
A G Samiler (Eliakim Götzel Samiler) (Smieler]]) (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Talmudist and a member of a prominent rabbinical family; born in Smiela about 1780; died at Brody July 17, 1854. He...
Asher Sammter (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Derenburg, near Halberstadt, Jan. 1, 1807; died at Berlin Feb. 5, 1887. From 1837 to 1854 he was rabbi...

121 – 140

David Samoscz (JE | WP GWP G) German author of Hebrew books for the young; born at Kempen, province of Posen, Dec. 29, 1789; died at Breslau April 29, 1864...
Samson JE >> Samson in rabbinic literature JE (JE | WP GWP G) One of the judges of Israel, whose life and acts are recorded in Judges xiii.-xvi. At a period when Israel was under the oppression...
Samson and the Samson School (JE | WP GWP G) -- See W243: Wolfenböttel
Samson ben Abraham of Sens JE (JE | WP GWP G) French tosafist; born about 1150; died at Acre about 1230. His birthplace was probably Falaise, Calvados, where lived his...
Samson ben Eliezer (JE | WP GWP G) German "sofer" (scribe) of the fourteenth century; generally called bar uk she-Amar, from the initial words of the blessing...
Samson ben Isaac of Chinon JE (JE | WP GWP G) French Talmudist; lived at Chinon between 1260 and 1330. In Talmudic literature he is generally called after his native place...
Samson ben Joseph of Falaise (JE | WP GWP G) Tosafist of the twelfth century; grandfather of the tosafists Isaac ben Abraham of Dampierre and Samson of Sens. Jacob Tam...
Samson ben Samson (JE | WP GWP G) French tosafist; flourished at the end of the twelfth and in the first half of the thirteenth century. Many of his explanations...
Samuda (JE | WP GWP G) Old Spanish, and Portuguese family, identified for some generations with the communal affairs of the London Jewry. The first...
Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) Samuel was the son of Elkanah and Hannah, of Ramathaim-zophim, in the hill-country of Ephraim (I Sam. i. 1). He was born while...
Books of Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) Two books in the second great division of the canon, the "Nebi'im," or Prophets, and, more specifically, in the former...
Midrash to Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) Midrash Shemu'el, a haggadic midrash on the books of Samuel, is quoted for the first time by Rashi in his commentary on...
Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S106: Samael
Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) Tax-gatherer and treasurer to King Ferdinand IV. of Castile (1295-1312); born in Andalusia. He was hated by the queen mother...
Samuel (Sanwel) ben Aaron Benjamin (JE | WP GWP G) Scribe at Worms in the seventeenth century. After the fire of 1689 (Lewysohn, "Nafshot Zaddikim," p. 73, Frankfort-on-the-Main...
Samuel ben Abba JE (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the latter half of the third century. Although a pupil of Johanan, he did not receive ordination (Yer...
Samuel ben Abbahu (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the fourth century. He engaged in a ritual controversy with R. Achai in regard to the use of the...
Samuel ben Abigdor (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi; born about 1720; died 1793 at Wilna, where his father, who had been rabbi in Pruzhani, Rushany, and Wilkowyszky...
Samuel ibn Abun b. Yahya (JE | WP GWP G) Arabo-Jewish poet of the eleventh century; great-grandfather of Samuel ibn Nazar and a contemporary of Moses ibn Ezra. A poem...
Samuel ibn 'Adiya JE (JE | WP GWP G) Poet and warrior; lived in Arabia in the first half of the sixth century. His mother was of the royal tribe of Ghassan, while...

141 – 160

Samuel ben Alexander of Halberstadt (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and scientist; perhaps a resident of Frankfort-on-the-Oder; died July 6, 1707. He was the author of "Peri Megadim...
Samuel ben Ammi (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the beginning of the fourth century. He is known through his controversies with other scholars. He contended...
Samuel bar Asher (JE | WP GWP G) Martyr; lived at Neuss, Rhenish Prussia, in the eleventh century. According to Salomon ben Simeon, he, with his two sons,...
Samuel de Caceres JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C6: Caceres
Samuel ben David Moses ha-Levi of Meseritz (JE | WP GWP G) Polish Talmudist; born about 1625; died April 24, 1681, at Kleinsteinbach, Bavaria. As a wandering scholar he is found for...
Baron Denis de Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) English financier; born 1782; died in London 1860. He came of a Polish family, and counted among his ancestors several eminent...
Samuel (Sanwel) ben Enoch (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; flourished in the seventeenth century; born at Lublin. He officiated as dayyan at Jassy and later at Mayence...
Samuel of Escaleta (JE | WP GWP G) French Talmudist, poet, and philanthropist of the fourteenth century. Jacob of Provence considers him one of the first poets...
Samuel of Evreux JE (JE | WP GWP G) French tosafist of the thirteenth century. He is identified by Gross with Samuel ben Shneor (not ben Yom-Tob, as given...
Haeem Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) Indian communal worker; born at Alibag, near Bombay, in 1830; educated at the Robert Money School in Bombay. Samuel entered...
Harry Simon Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) English politician; born Aug. 31, 1853; son of Horatio S. Samuel by his marriage with Henrietta Montefiore. He was educated...
Samuel ibn Hayyim (JE | WP GWP G) Medieval liturgical poet; the time and place of his birth are unknown. He composed eighty-two liturgical poems, of which the...
Samuel Hayyim of Salonica (JE | WP GWP G) Maternal grandson of Samuel of Modena; lived in Salonica during the sixteenth century. He wrote "Bene Shemu'el," a collection...
Herbert Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) English politician; born in London 1870; youngest son of Edwin L. Samuel, and nephew of Sir Samuel Montagu. He was educated...
Samuel b. Hiyya (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the second half of the third century of the common era. None of his halakic or haggadic maxims has been...
Samuel ben Hofni JE (JE | WP GWP G) Last gaon of Sura; died in 1034. His father was a Talmudic scholar and chief judge ("ab bet din," probably of Fez), one of...
Isaac Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) English Chazzan; born in London March 9, 1833. He was appointed minister of the Bristol congregation in 1860, and became...
Samuel ben Isaac ha-Sardi JE (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish rabbi; flourished in the first half of the thirteenth century. In his youth he attended the school of Rabbi Nathan...
Samuel ben Isaac of Uceda (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist of Safed in the sixteenth century; descendant of a family of Uceda, which, when banished from Spain, settled at...
Samuel ben Jacob of Capua (JE | WP GWP G) Italian translator; lived, probably at Capua, at the end of the thirteenth century, if Steinschneider's supposition that...

161 – 180

Samuel ben Jacob ibn Jam' JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of a North-African community (); flourished in the twelfth century. He was on intimate terms with Abraham ibn Ezra,...
Samuel ben Jacob of Troyes (JE | WP GWP G) French Talmudist of the first half of the thirteenth century, a descendant of Rashi. In his youth he addressed a circular...
Samuel ben Jehiel (JE | WP GWP G) Martyr of Cologne in the First Crusade, June 25, 1096. When the Crusaders hunted the Jews of Cologne out of the villages where...
Samuel ben Jonah (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth century. He is perhaps identical with Samuel ben Inijah or Inia (). Samuel ben Jonah once...
Samuel ben Jose ben Bun (Abun) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth century, in whose time the Jerusalem Talmud is said to have been arranged and completed by...
Samuel ben Joseph Joske (JE | WP GWP G) Polish Talmudist of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; born at Lublin. He was the first known rabbi of Jung-Bunzlau...
Samuel ben Joseph of Verdun (JE | WP GWP G) French tosafist of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He was a disciple of Isaac ben Samuel the Elder of Dampierre, with...
Samuel ben Judah (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar and head of the Jewish community at Lemberg. He suffered martyrdom in a terrible form outside the city on the 8th...
Samuel ben Judah (JE | WP GWP G) French physician and translator; born at Marseilles 1294. He devoted himself early in life to the study of science, especially...
Samuel b. Judah ibn Abun (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A174: Abbas, Samuel abu Nasr, ibn
Samuel ben Kalonymus he-Hasid of Speyer JE (JE | WP GWP G) Tosafist, liturgical poet, and philosopher of the twelfth century; surnamed also "the Prophet" (Solomon Luria, Responsa, No...
Samuel ben Kalonymus ha-Hazzan (JE | WP GWP G) Leader of the congregation at Erfurt in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He is sometimes, but erroneously, referred to...
Samuel ha-Katon (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second generation; lived in the early part of the second century of the common era. His surname "ha-Ka&#7789...
Samuel ha-Kohen (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of the sixteenth century. He was the author of the following works: "Derek Ḥayyim" (Constantinople, n.d.), on...
Samuel ha-Kohen Di Pisa (JE | WP GWP G) Portuguese scholar of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He wrote a commentary on the difficult passages in Ecclesiastes...
Samuel Mar (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S204: Samuel Yarḥina'ah
Sir Marcus Samuel, Bart (JE | WP GWP G) English financier and lord mayor of London; born in London 1853; son of Marcus Samuel and senior partner of the shipping firm...
Samuel ben Marta (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third century. The word "mishkan," twice occurring in Ex. xxxviii. 21, is explained by him as having...
Samuel b. Meïr (Rashbam) (JE | WP GWP G) French exegete of Ramerupt, near Troyes; born about 1085; died about 1174; grandson of Rashi on his mother's side, and...
Moses Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) English author; born in London 1795; died at Liverpool 1860. He acquired considerable reputation as a Hebrew scholar and an...

181 – 200

Samuel ben Moses (JE | WP GWP G) Russian cabalist; lived at Swislotz, government of Grodno, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was the author...
Samuel b. Moses Phinehas (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; died in Posen Nov. 25, 1806. He was a descendant of R. Joshua (d. 1648), the author of "Maginne Shelomoh," and...
Samuel ha-Nagid (Samuel ha-Levi ben Joseph ibn Nagdela) (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish statesman, grammarian, poet, and Talmudist; born at Cordova 993; died at Granada 1055. His father, who was a native...
Samuel ben Nahman (Nahmani) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora; born at the beginning of the third and died at the beginning of the fourth century. He was a pupil of R...
Samuel ha-Nakdan (JE | WP GWP G) Masorite and grammarian of the twelfth century. A grammatical work of his entitled "Deyakut" is extant in the Royal...
Samuel ha-Nasi (JE | WP GWP G) Exilarch in Bagdad, probably between 773 and 816. Until recently his existence was known only from a difficult passage in...
Samuel ben Nathan (JE | WP GWP G) Amora of the early part of the fourth century, He appears mostly as the transmitter of the sayings of Ḥama b. &#7716...
Samuel ben Nathan (JE | WP GWP G) Liturgical poet of the fourteenth century; place of birth and residence unknown. He was the author of three prayers, and is...
Samuel ben Natronai (JE | WP GWP G) German tosafist of the second half of the twelfth century. He was the pupil and son-in-law of R. Eliezer b. Natan (RABaN)...
Samuel Phoebus ben Nathan Feitel (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian historiographer; lived in Vienna in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was the author of "Ti&#7789...
Samuel ben Reuben of Béziers (JE | WP GWP G) French Talmudist; flourished at the beginning of the fourteenth century. He was one of Solomon ben Adret's numerous correspondents...
Samuel ben Reuben of Chartres (JE | WP GWP G) French liturgical poet. He wrote a "reshut" in Aramaic which was recited with the Targum of the hafṭarah for the Feast...
Sampson Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) Solicitor and secretary to the London Board of Deputies; born in 1804; died in London Nov. 10, 1868. He began life on the...
Sir Saul Samuel, Bart (JE | WP GWP G) Australian statesman; born in London, England, Nov. 2, 1820; died there Aug. 29, 1900. In 1832 he emigrated with relatives...
Samuel Schmelka ben Hayyim Shammash (JE | WP GWP G) Preacher and actuary of the rabbinate of Prague under Ephraim Solomon of Lencziza in the second half of the sixteenth century...
Samuel ben Shneor (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S149: Samuel of Evreux
Samuel ben Simeon (JE | WP GWP G) French scholar; lived in Provence in the fourteenth century. His Hebrew surname was "Kenesi," incorrectly derived from "keneset"...
Simon Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) German pathologist; born at Glogau Oct. 5, 1833; died at Königsberg, East Prussia, May 9, 1899. He studied medicine at...
Samuel ben Solomon of Falaise JE (JE | WP GWP G) Tosafist of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. His French name was Sir Morel, by which he is often designated in rabbinical...
Samuel ben Solomon Nasi of Carcassonne (JE | WP GWP G) French scholar of the thirteenth century. He was the author of a commentary on the "Moreh Nebukim," which is still extant...

201 to 300

201 – 220

Samuel b. Solomon Sekili (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S200: Samuel ben Solomon Nasi
Sydney Montagu Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) English author and communal worker; born in London June 21, 1848; died June, 1884; educated at University College, London...
Samuel ben Uri Shraga Phoebus JE (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi and Talmudist of Woydyslaw in the second half of the seventeenth century. In his early youth he was a pupil of...
Samuel Yarhina'ah (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the first generation; son of Abba b. Abba; teacher of the Law, judge, physician, and astronomer; born...
Samuel and Yates (JE | WP GWP G) Names of two families which led the congregation of Liverpool, England, in the early part of the nineteenth century. They...
Samuel Zarfati (JE | WP GWP G) Court physician to the popes Alexander VI. and Julius II.; died about 1519. The name "Zarfati" indicates that Samuel...
Sir Bernhard Samuelson (JE | WP GWP G) English merchant and politician; born at Liverpool Nov. 22, 1820; died May 10, 1905. After serving an apprenticeship in a...
Nathan Samuely [de] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian ghetto poet; born in Stry, Galicia, 1846. At the age of seventeen he published a story in Hebrew entitled "Shewa...
Joseph Hayyim ibn Samun (JE | WP GWP G) Italian Talmudist; lived at Leghorn in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was the author of "'Edut bi-Yehosef"...
San Antonio (JE | WP GWP G) Largest city in Texas; founded by the Spaniards in 1718. Jews first settled there in 1854, when the cemetery was founded.Samuel...
San Daniele del Friuli (JE | WP GWP G) Italian town, near Udine. About 1600 two brothers named Luzzatto established themselves here, a descendant of one of whom...
San Francisco (JE | WP GWP G) Principal city of California; chief commercial city of the Pacific coast. The name of San Francisco was given to the village...
San José (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S990: South and Central America
San Marino (JE | WP GWP G) Ancient republic of central Italy; situated not far from the Adriatic Sea and founded in the fourth century by the Dalmatian...
San Millán de la Cogolla (JE | WP GWP G) Locality in Spain, not far from Najera, with a famous convent of great antiquity. Jews were living here as early as at Najera...
San Salvador (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S990: South and Central America
Sana'a (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Y33: Yemen
Sanballat (JE | WP GWP G) One of the chief opponents of Nehemiah when he was building the walls of Jerusalem and carrying out his reforms among the...
Antonio Ribeiro Sanchez (Sanches) (JE | WP GWP G) Russian court physician; born 1699; died in Paris 1783; member of a Marano family of Penamacor, district of Castello Branca...
Sancho (JE | WP GWP G) Family name of frequent occurrence among Oriental Spanish Jews, and borne by several writers. Abraham ben Ephraim Sancho:...

221 – 240

Sanctification of the Name (JE | WP GWP G) -- See K206: Ḳiddush ha-Shem
Sanctuary (JE | WP GWP G) A sacred place for divine service. There were six sanctuaries: (1) the Tabernacle in the wilderness, built by Moses in the...
Sandalfon (JE | WP GWP G) Name of an angel. It is a Greek formation and synonymous with συνάδελφο&#962...
Sandals (JE | WP GWP G) in the warm countries of the East shoes are not such an indispensable part of clothing as in the colder northern countries...
Sandek (Syndikus) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G287: Godfather
Daniel Sanders (JE | WP GWP G) German lexicographer; born in Altstrelitz, Mecklenburg, April 12, 1819; died March 12, 1897. He received his early education...
Paul Sándor (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian merchant and deputy; born in 1860 at Hodmezövásárhely; studied at the academies of commerce in Budapest...
Adolph L. Sanger (JE | WP GWP G) American lawyer and politician; born at Baton Rouge, La., in 1842; died in New York city Jan. 3, 1894. A graduate of the City...
Sanhedrin (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew-Aramaic term originally designating only the assembly at Jerusalem that constituted the highest political magistracy...
Sanhedrin (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a treatise of the Mishnah, Tosefta, and both Talmudim. It stands fourth in the order Nezikin in most editions...
French Sanhedrin JE (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish high court convened by Napoleon I. to give legal sanction to the principles expressed by the Assembly of Notables in...
Sanitation (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H466: Health Laws
Santa Maria (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P115: Paul de Burgos
Luis (Azarias) de Santangel (Sancto Angelos) (JE | WP GWP G) Marano and learned jurist of Calatayud, Spain; died before 1459. He was converted by the sermons of Vicente Ferrer, and was...
Santarem (JE | WP GWP G) City of Portugal. Even before its conquest by the Portuguese in 1140, it possessed a Jewry, situated near the Church of S...
Santob (Shem-Tob) de Carrion (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish poet; born toward the end of the thirteenth century at Carrion de los Condes, a town in Castile, whence his cognomen...
James Sanua (JE | WP GWP G) Egyptian publicist; born at Cairo April, 1839. He studied in Egypt and in Italy, and at the age of sixteen commenced to contribute...
Jacob Saphir JE (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and traveler of Rumanian descent; born in 1822 at Oshmiany, government of Wilna; died in Jerusalem 1886. While still...
Moritz Gottlieb Saphir (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian humorist; born at Lovas-Berény Feb. 8, 1795; died at Baden, near Vienna, Sept. 5, 1858. In 1806 he went to...
Sigmund Saphir [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian journalist; born in Hungary 1806 (according to some, 1801); died at Pesth Oct. 17, 1866. He edited several German...

241 – 260

Sapphire (JE | WP GWP G) A highly prized sky-blue precious stone, frequently mentioned in the Old Testament and Apocrypha (Ex. xxiv. 10, xxviii. 18...
Sar Shalom ben Boaz (JE | WP GWP G) Gaon of Sura, where he died about 859 or 864, having held the gaonate for ten years. He succeeded Kohen Zedek...
Saragossa (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the former kingdom of Aragon. The city is situated on the Ebro, which is crossed by a long stone bridge constructed...
Joseph Saragossi (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist and cabalist of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. On being banished from Spain in 1492 he went successively...
Sarah (Sarai) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Wife of Abraham, who for a long period remained childless (Gen. xi. 29-30). She accompanied her husband from Haran to Canaan...
Sarah Copia Shulam (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S1157: Sullam, Sara Copia
Sarajevo (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of Bosnia. For the history of its Jewish community till 1850 see Bosnia.About 1850 Omar Pasha (Michael Lattas) granted...
Kasriel H Sarasohn JE (JE | WP GWP G) American journalist; born in Paiser, Russian Poland, 1835; died at New York city Jan. 12, 1905. He studied at home and prepared...
Saratof (JE | WP GWP G) Russian city, in the government of the same name; situated on the right bank of the Volga. The city is chiefly memorable for...
Saraval (JE | WP GWP G) Family of scholars, of whom the following deserve special mention: Abraham b. Judah Löb Saraval: Flourished in the...
Sardinia (JE | WP GWP G) An island in the Mediterranean, about 140 miles from the west coast of Italy, between 8° 4′ and 9° 49&#8242...
Sardis (JE | WP GWP G) Ancient city of Asia Minor and capital of Lydia; situated on the Pactolus at the northern base of Mount Tmolus, about sixty...
Sargenes (JE | WP GWP G) A white linen garment which resembles a surplice and consists of a long, loose gown with flowing sleeves and with a collar...
Sargon (JE | WP GWP G) King of Assyria; died 705 B.C. He is mentioned in the Bible only in Isa. xx. 1; and his name is preserved by no classic writer...
Michael Sargon (JE | WP GWP G) Indian convert to Christianity; born in Cochin 1795; died about 1855. He was converted in 1818 by T. Jarrett of Madras, and...
Joseph ben Judah Sarko (Zarko, Zarik) (JE | WP GWP G) Italian grammarian and Hebrew poet of the first half of the fifteenth century. According to Carmoly ("Histoire des M&#233...
Mohammed Sa'id Sarmad (JE | WP GWP G) Persian poet of Jewish birth; flourished in the first half of the seventeenth century. He was born at Kashan of a rabbinical...
Jacob de Castro Sarmento JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C256: Castro Sarmento
Samuel Sarphati (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch physician and economist; born at Amsterdam Jan. 31, 1813; died there June 23, 1866. After finishing his medical studies...
Jacob b. Joseph Sarsino (Sarcino) (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi of the seventeenth century; pupil of R. Zebi Hirsch b. Isaac in Cracow. He was rabbi in Venice, and labored...

261 – 280

Moses ben Issachar ha-Levi Särteles (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M919: Moses Saerteles ben Issachar ha-Levi
Israel Sarug (Saruk) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Cabalist of the sixteenth century. A pupil of Isaac Luria, he devoted himself at the death of his master to the propagation...
Aaron ben Joseph Sason (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Salonica in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; died shortly before 1626. He was a pupil of Mordecai Matalon...
Abraham Sason (JE | WP GWP G) Italian cabalist; flourished in Venice at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was the author of the following works:...
Jacob ben Israel Sason (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian Talmudist; flourished at Safed at the end of the seventeenth century; a pupil of Isaac Alfandari. He was the author...
Joseph ben Jacob Sason (JE | WP GWP G) Editor and, perhaps, author; lived in the sixteenth century. He edited the "Machazor Sefardi" (Venice, 1584); and a Jewish...
Sasportas >> Jacob ben Aaron Sasportas JE (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish family of rabbis and scholars, the earliest known members of which lived at Oran, Algeria, at the end of the sixteenth...
Jacob Koppel ben Aaron Sasslower (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Masorite of the seventeenth century; lived in Zaslav, government of Volhynia. He wrote "Nachalat Ya'a&#7731...
Sassoon JE (JE | WP GWP G) Family claiming to trace its descent from the ibn Shoshans of Spain. The earliest member to attain distinction was David Sassoon...
Satan (JE | WP GWP G) Term used in the Bible with the general connotation of "adversary," being applied (1) to an enemy in war (I Kings v. 18 [A...
Isaac ha-Levi Satanow JE (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar and poet; born at Satanow, Poland, 1733; died in Berlin, Germany, Dec. 25, 1805. In early manhood he left his native...
Satire (JE | WP GWP G) Ironical and veiled attack, mostly in verse. Among the Hebrews satire made its appearance with the advent of the usurper....
Satrap (JE | WP GWP G) Ruler of a province in the governmental system of ancient Persia. The Old Persian form of the word, "khshathrapavan" (protector...
Satyr (JE | WP GWP G) Rendering by the English versions of the Hebrew "se'irim" in Isa. xiii. 21, xxxiv. 14 (R. V., margin, "he-goats"; American...
Saul JE (JE | WP GWP G) the first king of all Israel. He was the son of Kish, "a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor" (I Sam. ix. 1). For many years...
Saul JE (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite leader; son and successor of Anan ben David; died about 780. He is styled by the later Karaites "nasi" (prince) and...
Abba Saul (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the third generation. In Ab. R. N. xxix. mention is made of an Abba Saul b. Nanos whom Lewy ("Ueber Einige Fragmente...
Abba Saul b. Batnit (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the second and first centuries B.C. According to Derenbourg, his mother was a Batanian proselyte, whence he derived...
Saul b. Aryeh (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L583: Löwenstamm, Saul
Saul Cohen Ashkenazi (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1991: Ashkenazi, Saul Cohen

281 – 300

Saul ben David (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi; died 1623. He was the author of: "Tal Orot" (Prague, 1615), treatise, in verse, on the thirty-nine principal...
Saul ben Joseph of Monteux (JE | WP GWP G) French liturgical poet; lived at Carpentras in the second half of the seventeenth century. The ritual of Avignon contains...
Saul of Tarsus (JE | WP GWP G) the actual founder of the Christian Church as opposed to Judaism; born before 10 C.E.; died after 63. The records containing...
Saul Wahl JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See W11: Wahl, Saul
Louis Félicien Joseph Caignart de Saulcy (JE | WP GWP G) Christian archeologist and numismatist; born at Lille March 19, 1807; died in Paris Nov. 5, 1880. He first adopted a military...
Savannah (JE | WP GWP G) Important commercial city of Chatham county, Georgia; situated on the Savannah River. It was founded in 1733 by Gen. James...
Savior (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M510: Messiah
Savoy (JE | WP GWP G) Ancient independent duchy; part of the kingdom of Sardinia from 1720; ceded to France in 1860; and now (1905) forming the...
Julius Sax (JE | WP GWP G) Electrical engineer; born at Sugarre, Russia, 1824; died in London Aug., 1890. He emigrated to England in 1851, and started...
Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Weimar (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S291: Saxon Duchies
Saxon Duchies (JE | WP GWP G) the four Saxon duchies are those of Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-Meiningen, and Saxe-Weimar. Saxe-Altenburg: ...
Saxony (JE | WP GWP G) Kingdom of the German empire. Jews are reported to have appeared in Saxony before the year 1000, in the train of the Lombards...
Archibald Henry Sayce (JE | WP GWP G) English archeologist; born at Shirehampton Sept. 25, 1846; educated at Grosvenor College, Bath, and Queen's College, Oxford...
Scala Nova (JE | WP GWP G) Important city of Anatolia opposite the island of Samos; seaport of Ephesus. The oldest epitaph in the Jewish cemetery is...
Scapegoat (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A2203: Azazel
Scepter (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S1036: Staff
Schepsel Schaffer (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi; born May 4, 1862, at Bausk, Courland, Russia; descendant of Mordecai Jaffe, author of the "Lebush." He was...
Nahum Meïr (Shomer) Schaikewitz (JE | WP GWP G) JE Russian Judæo-German novelist and play-wright; born at Nesvizh, government of Minsk, Dec. 18, 1849. Schaikewitz distinguished...
Hermann Schapira JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian mathematician; born in 1840 at Erswilken, near Tauroggen, a small town in Lithuania; died at Cologne May 8, 1898,...
Heinrich Schapiro (JE | WP GWP G) Russian physician; born at Grodno 1853; died at St. Petersburg Feb. 14, 1901. After leaving the gymnasium at Grodno he studied...

301 to 400

301 – 320

Moses b. Phinehas Schapiro (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi and printer; born probably in Koretz, Volhynia, about 1758; died in Slavuta 1838. He was the son of the &#7716...
Moritz Scharf (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T226: Tisza-Eszlár
Boris Schatz (JE | WP GWP G) Russian sculptor; born in 1866, in the government of Kovno. He was the son of a poor schoolmaster ("melammed"). He studied...
Solomon Schechter (JE | WP GWP G) President of the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; formerly reader in rabbinics at Cambridge University...
Simon Baruch Schefftel [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) German Hebraist; born June 14, 1813, at Breslau; died March 9, 1885. In 1848 he settled as a merchant at Posen. After his...
Elie Scheid (JE | WP GWP G) French communal worker and writer; born at Hagenau, Alsace, Oct. 24, 1841. After he had graduated from college, the impairment...
Samuel b. Abraham (Saler) Scheindlinger (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; died in Lemberg Aug. 7, 1796. He was probably a native of Dobromil, and was at first rabbi in Sale and afterward...
Leopold Schenk (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian embryologist; born at Urmény, Comitat Neutra, Hungary, Aug. 23, 1840; died at Schwanberg, Styria, Aug. 18, 1902...
Benjamin Scherschewski (JE | WP GWP G) Russian physician; born in Brest-Litovsk 1857. He studied medicine at the University of Warsaw, from which he graduated in...
Judah Jüdel ben Benjamin Scherschewski (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian Talmudist and Hebraist; born in 1804; died at Kovno Sept. 20, 1866. After having studied Talmud and rabbinics under...
Zebi Hirsch ha-Kohen Scherschewski JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Hebrew writer; born at Pinsk in 1840. While still a boy he studied Hebrew grammar and archeology without a teacher...
Jacob Moses David (Tebele) b. Michael Scheuer (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist; born in the beginning of the eighteenth century at Frankfort-on-the-Main; died 1782 at Mayence. Scheuer...
Philipp Schey, Baron von Koromla (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian merchant and philanthropist; born at Güns (Köszeg) Sept. 20, 1798; died at Baden, near Vienna, June 28...
Abraham ben Aryeh Löb Schick (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian Talmudist and author of the nineteenth century; a native of Slonim, government of Grodno. Schick occupied himself...
Baruch b. Jacob Schick (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B343: Baruch b. Jacob (Shklover)
Elijah ben Benjamin Schick (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian rabbi and preacher; born at Vasilishok, government of Wilna, in 1809; died at Kobrin, government of Kovno, Sept...
Schiff >> Meir Shiff JE (JE | WP GWP G) Family of Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany. The earliest known member, Jacob Kohen Zedek Schiff, who is mentioned...
Emil Schiff (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian journalist; born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, May 30, 1849; died in Berlin Jan. 23, 1899. Schiff was the son of a petty...
Josef Schiff (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian stenographer; born Feb. 25, 1848, at Ragendorf, Hungary. In 1874 he was appointed teacher of stenography at the Vienna...
Feiwel (Phoebus) Schiffer (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Hebraist and poet; born in Lasezow, government of Lublin, about 1810; died after 1866. He lived successively in Josefov...

321 – 340

Emanuel Schiffers (JE | WP GWP G) Russian chess master; born of German parents at St. Petersburg May 4, 1850; died there Dec. 12, 1904. He was educated at the...
Solomon Schill (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian philologist; born Oct. 14, 1849, in Budapest. He studied at Raab, Budapest, and Vienna; obtained his diploma as...
Armand Schiller (JE | WP GWP G) French journalist; born at Saint-Mandé (Seine) Aug. 7, 1857. He studied at the Lycée Condorcet, and, after receiving...
Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy JE (JE | WP GWP G) Reader in rabbinic at Cambridge University; born at Budapest (Alt-Ofen), Hungary, December 23, 1820; died at Cambridge March 11, 1890. After a distinguished...
Solomon Schindler (JE | WP GWP G) German-American rabbi and author; born at Neisse, Germany, April 24, 1842. In 1868 he was selected to take charge of a small...
Schlemihl (JE | WP GWP G) Popular Yiddish term for an unfortunate person. It occurs also in the form Schlimmilius ("Jüdische Volksbibliothek,"...
Herman Schlesinger (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Adelebsen, Hanover, April 1, 1856. He was graduated an M. D. at Göttingen in the year 1879...
Josef Schlesinger (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian mathematician; born at Mährisch-Schönberg Dec. 31, 1831. The son of very poor parents, he had to earn a...
Ludwig Schlesinger (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian mathematician; born at Tyrnau (Nagyszombat) Nov. 1, 1864; educated at the Realschule, Presburg, and at the universities...
Markus Schlesinger (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G268: Glogauer, Meïr ben Ezekiel
Sigmund Schlesinger (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian writer; born at Vienna 1811; educated at the Schottengymnasium and the University of Vienna (M. D. 1835). He published...
Wilhelm S Schlesinger (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian physician; born at Tinnye, Hungary, 1839. Educated at the University of Vienna (M.D. 1864), he established himself...
Schlettstadt (JE | WP GWP G) Town in Alsace, about 27 miles south-southwest of Strasburg. In the year 1349, under Emperor Charles IV., its Jewish inhabitants...
Samuel ben Aaron Schlettstadt (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Schlettstadt; lived at Strasburg in the second half of the fourteenth century. He was rabbi and head...
Max Schloessinger (JE | WP GWP G) German philologist and theologian; born at Heidelberg Sept. 4, 1877; educated at the public school and the gymnasium of his...
Gottfried S Schmelkes (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian physician; born at Prague Sept. 22, 1807; died at Interlaken, Switzerland, Oct. 28, 1870. Educated at the universities...
Anton Von Schmid (JE | WP GWP G) Christian publisher of Hebrew books; born at Zwettl, Lower Austria, Jan. 23, 1765; died at Vienna June 27, 1855. His father...
Adolf Schmiedl (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi and scholar; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Jan. 26, 1821. He held the office of rabbi at Gewitsch, Moravia, from...
Isidor Schnabel (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian physician; born at Neubidschow, Bohemia, Nov. 14, 1842. Educated at the University of Vienna (M.D. 1865), he became...
Louis Schnabel (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian teacher and journalist; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, June 29, 1829; died at New York May 3, 1897. He was educated...

341 – 360

Dob Bär Schneiersohn (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L11: Ladier, Dob Bär b. Shneor Zalman
Eduard Schnitzer (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E346: Emin Pasha
Johann Schnitzler (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian laryngologist; born at Nagy-Kanizsa, Hungary, April 10, 1835; died at Vienna May 2, 1893. Educated at the University...
Schnorrer (JE | WP GWP G) Judæo-German term of reproach for a Jewish beggar having some pretensions to respectability. In contrast to the ordinary...
Nestor Ivan Schnurmann (JE | WP GWP G) English educationist; born 1854 in Russia. He went to England about 1880, and began his career as a teacher of Russian and...
Sir Alexander Schomberg (JE | WP GWP G) British naval officer; born 1716; died in Dublin March 19, 1804; younger son of Meyer Löw Schomberg. He entered the navy...
Isaac Schomberg (JE | WP GWP G) English physician; born at Cologne Aug. 14, 1714; died in London May 4, 1780; son of Meyer Löw Schomberg. He received...
Meyer Löw Schomberg (JE | WP GWP G) English physician; born at Fetzburg, Germany, 1690; died in London March 4, 1761. He was the eldest son of a Jewish practitioner...
Ralph (Raphael) Schomberg (JE | WP GWP G) English physician and author; born at Cologne, Germany, Aug. 14, 1714; died at Reading, England, June 29, 1792; twin brother...
Georg Von Schönerer (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian politician and anti-Semitic agitator; born at Vienna July 17, 1842. He devoted himself to agriculture, and in 1873...
Baruch Schönfeld (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian Hebraist; born at Szenicz 1778; died at Budapest Dec. 29, 1852. He was a teacher in several towns of Hungary and...
Joseph Schönhak (JE | WP GWP G) Russian author; born at Tiktin 1812; died at Suwalki Dec., 10, 1870. Schönhak led a retired life, devoting his time to...
School; School-teacher (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E49: Education
Abraham Hayyim ben Naphtali Hirsch Schor (JE | WP GWP G) Galician rabbi; died at Belz, a small town near Lemberg, Jan. 3 (or 23), 1632; buried in Lemberg. He was rabbi in Satanow...
(Moses) Ephraim Solomon (the Elder) Schor (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; died in Lublin in 1633. He was the son of Naphtali Hirsch of Moravia and a descendant of the tosafist Joseph...
Naphtali Hirsch ben Zalman Schor (JE | WP GWP G) Moravian Talmudist of the sixteenth century. He was a pupil of Moses Isserles, who addressed to him many of his responsa,...
Joshua Heschel Schorr (JE | WP GWP G) Galician Hebrew scholar, critic, and communal worker; born at Brody May 22, 1814; died there Sept. 2, 1895. His parents were...
Naphtali Mendel Schorr (JE | WP GWP G) Galician Hebrew writer; died at Lemberg Dec. 14, 1883. He was the founder (1861) of the Hebrew weekly "Ha-'Et," of which...
Simon Wolf Schossberger de Torna (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian merchant and estate-owner; born 1796 at Sasvar (Sassin, Schossberg, Comitat Nyitra); died at Budapest March 25,...
Benedict (Baruch) Schott (Schottländer) (JE | WP GWP G) German educationist; born in Danzig March 11, 1763 (or 1764); died at Seesen July 21, 1846. Left an orphan at an early age...

361 – 380

Julius Schottländer (JE | WP GWP G) German merchant; born at Münsterberg, Silesia, March 22, 1835; educated at the public schools of his native town and...
Julius Schottländer (JE | WP GWP G) German gynecologist; born at St. Petersburg April 12, 1860. Studying at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg, he graduated...
Emanuel Schreiber JE (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi; born at Leipnik, Moravia, Dec. 13, 1852. He received his education at the Talmudical college of his native...
Moses b. Samuel Schreiber (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Sept. 14, 1763; died at Presburg Oct. 3, 1839. His mother's name was Reisil...
Simon Schreiber JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi; born at Presburg, Hungary, 1821; died March 25, 1883, at Cracow; son of Moses Schreiber. In 1842 he became...
Abraham Schreiner (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian discoverer of petroleum; born in Galicia in the second decade of the nineteenth century; died after 1870. He was...
Martin Schreiner (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian rabbi; born at Grosswardein July 8, 1863; educated at the local gymnasium and the rabbinical seminary and at the...
Abraham Schrenzel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R112: Rapoport
Jakob Schreyer (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian jurist; born Feb. 7, 1847, in Ugra. He studied at Nagyvarad, Debreczin, Budapest, and Vienna (Doctor of Law, 1870)...
Johann Jakob Schudt JE (JE | WP GWP G) German polyhistor and Orientalist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Jan. 14, 1664; died there Feb. 14, 1722. He studied theology...
Moïse Schuhl (JE | WP GWP G) French rabbi; born at Westhausen, Alsace, May 2, 1845. He received his education at the lyceum at Strasburg and at the Rabbinical...
Schul (JE | WP GWP G) Judæo-German designation for the temple or the synagogue ("bet ha-midrash"), used as early as the thirteenth century...
Moses Schulbaum (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian Hebraist; born at Jezierzany, Galicia, April 25, 1835. His mother was a descendant of Ḥakam Zebi. At...
Schüler Gelauf (JE | WP GWP G) Organized attacks upon the Jews of different Polish cities by Christian youths, especially pupils of the many Jesuit schools...
Isaac ben Zalman ben Moses Schulhof (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi; born about 1650 at Prague; died there Jan. 19, 1733. He settled in Ofen as the rabbi of a small congregation...
Julius Schulhoff JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian pianist and composer; born at Prague Aug. 2, 1825; died at Berlin March 15, 1898. Kisch and Tedesco were his teachers...
Schulklopfer JE (JE | WP GWP G) Name given in the Middle Ages to a beadle who called the members of the congregation to service in the synagogue. It is stated...
Kalman Schulman (JE | WP GWP G) Russian author, historian, and poet; born at Bykhov, government of Moghilef (Mohilev), Russia, in 1819; died in Wilna Jan...
Samuel Schulman (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi; born in Russia Feb. 14, 1865. He was taken to New York when hardly one year old, and was educated in the public...
Ludwig Schulmann (JE | WP GWP G) German philologist and writer; born at Hildesheim 1814; died at Hanover July 24, 1870. He studied philology at the University...

381 – 400

Albert Schultens (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch Orientalist; born at Gröningen Aug. 23, 1686; died Jan. 26, 1756. He studied Arabic at Leyden under Van Til, and...
William Schur (JE | WP GWP G) American author; born at Outian, near Vilkomir, Russia, Oct. 27, 1844. He studied Talmud at his native town and at the Yeshibah...
Arthur Schuster (JE | WP GWP G) English physicist; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main Sept. 12, 1851. He was educated at Frankfort, at Owens College, Manchester...
Schutzjude (JE | WP GWP G) Jew under the special protection of the head of the state. In the early days of travel and commerce the Jews, like other aliens...
Löw Schwab (JE | WP GWP G) Moravian rabbi; born at Krumau, Moravia, March 11, 1794; died April 3, 1857; pupil of R. Mordecai Benet in Nikolsburg, R....
Moïse Schwab JE (JE | WP GWP G) French librarian and author; born at Paris Sept. 18, 1839; educated at the Jewish school and the Talmud Torah at Strasburg...
Julius Leopold Schwabach (JE | WP GWP G) British consul-general in Berlin; born in Breslau 1831; died there Feb. 23, 1898. At the age of sixteen he entered the banking-house...
Gustav Schwalbe JE (JE | WP GWP G) German anatomist and anthropologist; born at Quedlinburg Aug. 1, 1844. Educated at the universities of Berlin, Zurich, and...
Adolf Schwarz (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian theologian; born July, 1846, at Adász-Tevel, near Papa, Hungary. He received his early instruction in the Talmud...
Anton Schwarz (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian chemist; born at Polna, Bohemia, Feb. 2, 1839; died at New York city Sept. 24, 1895. He was educated at the University...
Gustav Schwarz (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian lawyer; born at Budapest 1858; educated in his native city and at German universities. In 1884 he became privat-docent...
Israel Schwarz (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Hürben, Bavaria, March 15, 1830; died at Cologne Jan. 4, 1875; educated by his father, R. Joachim...
Joseph Schwarz (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian geographer; born at Flosz, Bavaria, Oct. 22, 1804; died at Jerusalem Feb. 5, 1865. When he was seventeen years...
Peter Schwarz (JE | WP GWP G) German Dominican preacher and anti-Jewish writer of the fifteenth century. According to John Eck ("Verlegung cines Juden-B&#252...
Schwarzfeld (JE | WP GWP G) Rumanian family which became prominent in the nineteenth century. Benjamin Schwarzfeld: Rumanian educator and writer; father...
Schweidnitz (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S712: Silesia
Schweinfurt (JE | WP GWP G) Town in Lower Franconia. The first mention of its Jews dates from the year 1243, when Henry of Bamberg ordered 50 marks in...
Schwerin (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M319: Mecklenburg
Götz Schwerin (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian rabbi and Talmudist; born in 1760 at Schwerin-on-the-Warthe (Posen); died Jan. 15, 1845; educated at the yeshibot...
Marcel Schwob (Mayer André) (JE | WP GWP G) French journalist; born at Chaville (Seine-et-Oise) Aug. 23, 1867; died at Paris Feb. 27, 1905. He received his early instruction...

401 to 500

401 – 420

Scopus (JE | WP GWP G) An elevation seven stadia north of Jerusalem, where, according to tradition, the high priest and the inhabitants of the city...
Scorpion (JE | WP GWP G) An arachnid resembling a miniature flat lobster, and having a poisonous sting in its tail. It is common in the Sinaitic Peninsula...
Scotland >> Giffnock Synagogue EL:JE (JE | WP GWP G) Country forming the northern part of Great Britain. Jews have been settled there only since the early part of the nineteenth...
Charles Alexander (Karl Blumenthal) Scott (JE | WP GWP G) English author; born in London 1803; died at Venice Nov., 1866. At an early age he went to Italy, where he remained for a...
Scourging (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S1135: Stripes
Scranton (JE | WP GWP G) Third largest city in the state of Pennsylvania and capital of Lackawanna county. Jews settled there when the place was still...
Scribes (JE | WP GWP G) Body of teachers whose office was to interpret the Law to the people, their organization beginning with Ezra, who was their...
Scroll of Antiochus JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1596: Antiochus, Scroll of
Scroll of the Law (JE | WP GWP G) the Pentateuch, written on a scroll of parchment. The Rabbis count among the mandatory precepts incumbent upon every Israelite...
Scythians (JE | WP GWP G) A nomadic people which was known in ancient times as occupying territory north of the Black Sea and east of the Carpathian...
Scythopolis (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B981: Beth-shean
The Molten Sea (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1424: Brazen Sea
Sea-mew (JE | WP GWP G) For Biblical data see Cuckoo. In the Talmud (Ḥul. 62b) is mentioned an unclean bird under the name , and (ib. 102b)...
Sea-monster (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L275: Leviathan and Behemoth
Seah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See W81: Weights and Measures
Seal (Device) (JE | WP GWP G) It is noteworthy that a number of the seals which have been preserved belonged to women, although in later times it was not...
Solomon Sebag (JE | WP GWP G) English teacher and Hebrew writer; born in 1828; died at London April 30, 1892; son of Rabbi Isaac Sebag. He was educated...
Sebaste (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S109: Samaria
Sebastus (JE | WP GWP G) the port of Cæsarea on the Mediterranean Sea. Cæsarea itself, which Herod hadmade an important seaport, received...
Pablo Marini Secchi (JE | WP GWP G) Italian Christian merchant; lived at Rome in the sixteenth century. He made a wager with a Jew, Samson Ceneda, that Santo...

421 – 440

Second Day of Festivals (JE | WP GWP G) Day added by the Rabbis to all holy days except Yom Kippur. Jews living at a distance from Jerusalem were informed by messengers...
The Second Temple (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T122: Temple
Sects (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D452: Dositheus
Security (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S1174: Suretyship
Joseph Sedbon (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinical and cabalistic author of Tunis in the second half of the eighteenth century. He composed a cabalistic treatise...
Sedechias (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Z73: Zedekiah
Seder (JE | WP GWP G) Before the schools of Hillel and Shammai arose in the days of King Herod, a service of thanks, of which the six "psalms of...
Seder 'Olam Rabbah JE (JE | WP GWP G) Earliest post-exilic chronicle preserved in the Hebrew language. In the Babylonian Talmud this chronicle is several times...
Seder 'Olam Zuta JE (JE | WP GWP G) Anonymous chronicle, called "Zuṭa" (= "smaller," or "younger") to distinguish it from the older "Seder 'Olam Rabbah...
Seduction (JE | WP GWP G) the act of inducing a woman or girl of previously chaste character to consent to unlawful sexual intercourse. The Mosaic law...
Sée (JE | WP GWP G) A family of Alsatian origin whose most important members are: Abraham Adolphe Sée: French bar rister; born in Colmar...
Josef Seegen (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian balneologist; born at Polna May 20, 1822. He studied medicine at Prague and Vienna (M.D. 1847), becoming privat-docent...
Seelig (Abi 'Ezri) ben Isaac Margolioth (JE | WP GWP G) Polish Talmudist of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; born at Polock; died probably in Palestine. He was preacher...
Seer (JE | WP GWP G) Rendering in the English versions of the Hebrew , which in I Sam. ix. 9 is reported to have been the old popular designation...
Seesen (JE | WP GWP G) Town in the Harz Mountains, where in the fall of 1801 Israel Jacobson founded the school which was called after him (See Jacobson...
Sefer ha-Torah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S409: Scroll of the Law
Sefer Yezirah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Y40: Yeẓirah, Sefer
The Ten Sefirot >> Godhead (Judaism) REF:JE (JE | WP GWP G) Potencies or agencies by means of which, according to the Cabala, God manifested His existence in the production of the universe...
Segelmesa (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M801: Morocco
Judah ben Joseph Segelmessi (Sijilmissi) (JE | WP GWP G) African liturgist; flourished about 1400; a native of Segelmesa, Morocco. Two selichot of his are extant, one beginning...

441 – 460

Segol (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A717: Accents in Hebrew
Segovia (JE | WP GWP G) City of Spain in Old Castile; situated between Burgos, Toledo, and Avila. When conquered by Alfonso VI. it already had a considerable...
Segre DAB (JE | WP GWP G) Italian family of scholars. Abraham ben Judah Segre (known as Rab ASI): Rabbi in Casale in the seventeenth and eighteenth...
Johann Christoph, Freiherr von Seherr-Thoss (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian soldier; born at Lissen Feb. 17, 1670; died Jan. 14, 1743. He is known in Jewish history as having been the first...
Joseph Seiberling (JE | WP GWP G) Russian educator, censor, and communal worker; born in Wilna; died at an advanced age after 1882. His father, Isaac Markusewich...
Seir (JE | WP GWP G) Region that took its name from Seir the Horite, whose descendants occupied it, followed by Edom and his descendants. The earliest...
Seixas (JE | WP GWP G) American family, the founder of which removed from Portugal to the United States in 1730. Abraham Seixas: American merchant...
Sela (JE | WP GWP G) -- See W81: Weights and Measures
Selah JE (JE | WP GWP G) Term of uncertain etymology and grammatical form and of doubtful meaning. It occurs seventy-one times in thirty-nine of the...
John Selden (JE | WP GWP G) English jurist and Orientalist; born Dec. 16, 1584, at Salvington, Sussex; died at Whitefriars, London, Nov. 30, 1654. He...
Seleucia >> Seleucia Samulias JE (JE | WP GWP G) Greek colony founded about the end of the third century B.C. on Lake Merom. According to the inference of Grätz, based...
Seleucidae (JE | WP GWP G) Powerful Syrian dynasty, which exercised an influence on the history of the Jews for two centuries (312-112 B.C.). Seleucus...
Self-defense (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H873: Homicide
Seligman >> Joseph Seligman EL:JE, Isaac Newton Seligman JE, J. & W. Seligman & Co. (JE | WP GWP G) American Jewish family having its origin in Baiersdorf, Bavaria. The eight sons of David Seligman have formed merchantile...
Franz Romeo Seligmann (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian physician and Persian scholar; born at Nikolsburg June 30, 1808; died at Vienna Sept. 15, 1892. Educated at the gymnasium...
Leopold, Ritter von Seligmann (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian army surgeon; born at Nikolsburg Jan. 18, 1815; brother of Franz Romeo Seligmann. He received his education at the...
Max Seligsohn JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian-American Orientalist; born in Russia April 13, 1865. Having received his rabbinical training at Slutsk, government...
Samuel Seligsohn (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew poet; born at Samoczin, Posen, 1815; died there Oct. 3, 1866. He published "Ha-Abib" (Berlin, 1845), an epos. Another...
Selihah (JE | WP GWP G) Penitential prayers; perhaps the oldest portion of the synagogal compositions known under the term of Piyyuṭim. The...
Semahot JE (JE | WP GWP G) Euphemistic name of the treatise known as "Ebel Rabbati," one of the so-called small or later treatises which in the editions...

461 – 480

Semalion (JE | WP GWP G) Name occurring in an obscure passage relating to the death of Moses (Sifre, Deut. 357; Soṭab 13b), which modern scholars...
Gedaliah Semiatitsch (JE | WP GWP G) Lithuanian Talmudist of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was one of the Ḥasidic party which in 1700 made...
Semikah (JE | WP GWP G) A ceremony obligatory on one who offered an animal sacrifice. The regulations governing its observance were as follows: The...
Seminaire Israelite de France (JE | WP GWP G) French rabbinical school. On Jan. 23, 1704, Abraham Schwab and Agathe, his wife, founded a yeshibah at Metz; and on Nov. 12...
Semites (JE | WP GWP G) Term used in a general way to designate those peoples who are said in Gen. x. 21-30 to be the descendants of the patriarch...
Semitic Languages (JE | WP GWP G) Languages spoken by the Semitic peoples (comp. Semites). These peoples are the North-Arabians, the South-Arabians, the Abyssinians...
Harvard University Semitic Museum (JE | WP GWP G) Founded by Jacob H. Schiff of New York in 1889, at Cambridge, Mass. Its objects are to gather, preserve, and exhibit all known...
Charles Semon (JE | WP GWP G) Philanthropist; born in Danzig 1814; died in Switzerland July 18, 1877. He emigrated to England and settled in the manufacturing...
Sir Felix Semon (JE | WP GWP G) English specialist in diseases of the throat; born at Danzig Dec. 8, 1849; nephew of Julius Semon. He studied medicine at...
Sen Bonet Bonjorn (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1290: Bonet, Jacob Ben David
Herman Senator (JE | WP GWP G) German clinicist and medical author; born at Gnesen, province of Posen, Prussia, Dec. 6, 1834; M.D. Berlin, 1857. During his...
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (JE | WP GWP G) Stoic philosopher; born about 6 B.C.; died 65 C.E.; teacher of Nero. Like other Latin authors of the period, Seneca mentions...
Seneh (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1363: Botany
Abraham Senior (JE | WP GWP G) Court rabbi of Castile, and royal tax-farmer-in-chief; born in Segovia in the early part of the fifteenth century; a near...
Phoebus ben Jacob Abigdor Senior (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudic scholar and author; lived in thefirst half of the eighteenth century. He wrote a commentary on the six orders of...
Senlis (JE | WP GWP G) Chief town of an arrondissement of the department of the Oise, France, and a noted health and pleasure resort. It possessed...
Sennacherib (JE | WP GWP G) King of Assyria, 705-681 B.C.; son and successor of Sargon. His reign was a warlike one, yet it was marked by grandeur in...
Sens (JE | WP GWP G) Chief town of an arrondissement of the department of the Yonne, France. Jews were among its inhabitants as early as the sixth...
The Five senses (JE | WP GWP G) According to the Aristotelian psychology, the human soul possesses, besides the rational and nutritive faculties, that of...
Sentence (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J691: Judgment

481 – 500

Sephardim (JE | WP GWP G) Descendants of the Jews who were expelled from Spain and Portugal and who settled in southern France, Italy, North Africa...
Sepphoris (JE | WP GWP G) City in Palestine which derived its name from the fact that it was perched like a bird on a high mountain. It is first mentioned...
Septuagint (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1035: Bible Translations
Sepulveda (JE | WP GWP G) City in the bishopric of Segovia, Spain, inhabited by Jews as early as the eleventh century. Its old laws contained a paragraph...
Isaac Henrique Sequira (JE | WP GWP G) English physician; born at Lisbon 1738; died in London Nov., 1816. He came of a medical family, his grandfather, father, and...
Serah (JE | WP GWP G) Daughter of Asher, son of Jacob. She is counted among the seventy members of the patriarch's family who emigrated from...
Seraiah (JE | WP GWP G) A scribe, and one of the officials under David (II Sam. viii. 17; comp. xx. 25, where he appears under the name Sheva). In...
Seraphim (JE | WP GWP G) Class of heavenly beings, mentioned only once in the Old Testament, in a vision of the prophet Isaiah (vi. 2 et seq.). Isaiah...
Serebszczyzna (JE | WP GWP G) Land-tax imposed upon the inhabitants of Lithuania and Russia in the Middle Ages, and deriving its name from the fact that...
Serene (Serenus) (JE | WP GWP G) Pseudo-Messiah of the beginning of the eighth century; a native of Syria. The name is a Latin form of , which is found in...
Serpent (JE | WP GWP G) the following terms are used in the Old Testament to denote serpents of one kind or another: (1) "nachash," the generic...
Serraglio Degli Ebrei (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G210: Ghetto
Serre (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D81: Dauphiné
Servant (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M252: Master and Servant
Servant of God (JE | WP GWP G) Title of honor given to various persons or groups of persons; namely, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Deut. ix. 27; comp. Ps. cv. 6...
Servi Camerae (JE | WP GWP G) -- See K82: Kammerknechtschaft
Flaminio Ephraim Servi (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi; born at Pitigliano, Tuscany, Dec. 24, 1841; died at Casale-Monferrato Jan. 23, 1904. He received his education...
Servia (JE | WP GWP G) Kingdom of southeastern Europe; until 1876 a vassal state of Turkey. The history of the Jews of the country is almost identical...
Service of Process (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P538: Procedure in Civil Causes
Karl Borromäus Alexander Sessa (JE | WP GWP G) Anti-Jewish author; born at Breslau Dec. 20, 1786; died there Dec. 4, 1813. He studied philosophy and medicine in various...

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