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501 – 520

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  1. Löb of Polonnoye (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L499: Löb Mokiaḥ
  2. Löb ben Samuel Tzebi Hirsch (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi; born probably at Pinczow, government of Kielce, Poland, about 1630; died at Brest-Litovsk 1714. Löb was on his ......
  3. Löb of Shpola (JE | WP GWP G) Early Ḥasidic rabbi; died at an advanced age Oct. 4, 1810. It is said that he was a poor "melammed" ......
  4. Löb (Aryeh) ben Zachariah (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; born at Cracow about 1620; died there 1671. When a young man he was called as rabbi to ......
  5. Lobato (JE | WP GWP G) Marano family, several of whose members lived at Amsterdam. The best-known members of the family are:Diego Gomez Lobato (called also ......
  6. Rehuel Lobatto (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch mathematician; born at Amsterdam June 6, 1797; died at Delft Feb. 9, 1866. He sprang from a Portuguese Marano ......
  7. Arthur Löbel (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian physician; born at Roman, Rumania, May 15, 1857; educated at the gymnasium of Czernowitz and the universities of Vienna ......
  8. Hirschel Löbel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L277: Levin, Hirschel
  9. Löbele of Prossnitz (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L509: Prossnitz, Löbele
  10. Moses Jeshurun Lobo (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish poet; lived at Amsterdam in the seventeenth century. He was one of the poets who celebrated the martyrdom of ......
  11. Lock S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) NO DESCRIPTION...
  12. Locust S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Of all the insects the locust is most frequently mentioned in the Old Testament. It occurs under the following nine ......
  13. Lodève S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Small town in the department of Hèrault, France. A Jewish community was founded here as early as the fifth century. ......
  14. Łódź (Lodzi) S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) City in the government of Piotrkow, Russian Poland, about 90 miles west of Warsaw. As late as 1821 it was ......
  15. Isidore Loeb JE (JE | WP GWP G) French scholar; born at Sulzmatt (Soultzmatt), Upper Alsace, Nov. 1, 1839; died at Paris, June 3, 1892. The son of ......
  16. Jacques Loeb JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) American biologist; born in Germany April 7, 1859; educated at the universities of Berlin, Munich, and Strasburg (M. D. 1884). ......
  17. Louis Loeb (JE | WP GWP G) American artist; born at Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 7, 1866. At the age of thirteen he was apprenticed to a lithographer ......
  18. Morris Loeb [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) American chemist; born at Cincinnati, Ohio, May 23, 1863; son of Solomon Loeb; educated at the New York College of ......
  19. Louis Loewe (JE | WP GWP G) English Orientalist and theologian; born at Zülz, Prussian Silesia, 1809; died in London 1888. He was educated at the yeshibot ......
  20. Ludwig Loewe S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) German manufacturer, philanthropist, and member of the Reichstag; born at Heiligenstadt Nov. 27, 1837; died at Berlin Sept. 11, 1886. ......

521 – 540

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  1. Eduard Loewenthal [fr] (JE | WP GWP G) German writer and editor; born March 12, 1836, at Ernsbach, Württemberg; educated at the high school at Stuttgart and at ......
  2. Emanuel Loewy (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian archeologist; born at Vienna Sept. 1, 1857; educated at the gymnasium and university of his native city (Ph.D. 1882). ......
  3. Maurice Loewy S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Astronomer; born at Vienna, Austria, April 15, 1833. A descendant of a Hungarian family, he received his education at his ......
  4. Logic S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) The science of correct thinking; the science of the principles governing the comparative and constructive faculties in the pursuit and ......
  5. The Logos (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M399: Memra
  6. David Lolli (JE | WP GWP G) Italian physician; born at Göritz 1825; died at Triest 1884; son of Samuel Vita Lolli; studied medicine at Padua and ......
  7. Eude Lolli [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi; born at Göritz Aug. 23, 1826; educated at the lyceum of his native town and at the rabbinical ......
  8. Lom (Lom-Palank) S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Town in Bulgaria, situated at the mouth of the River Lom. It has a population of about 8,000, of which ......
  9. Lomazy (JE | WP GWP G) Town in the district of Bialy, near Brest-Litovsk, Russia. Though in 1566 there was no Jew among its 400 house-owners, ......
  10. Lombroso (Lumbroso) >> Isaac Lumbroso JE (JE | WP GWP G) Sephardic family, members of which lived in Tunis, Marseilles, and Italy. The two forms of the family name are doubtless ......
  11. Cesare Lombroso S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Italian alienist and criminologist; born Nov. 18, 1835, at Verona. Both his paternal and his maternal ancestors belonged to the ......
  12. Lomza (Lomzha) S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the government of Lomza, Russian Poland; situated on the left bank of the River Narev. In 1897 it ......
  13. London S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Capital city of England. According to William of Malmesbury, William the Conqueror brought certain Jews from Rouen to London about ......
  14. London Committee of Deputies of British Jews (JE | WP GWP G) A body formed to safeguard the interests of British Jews as a religious community. It can be traced to a ......
  15. Jacob ben Judah Chazzan London (JE | WP GWP G) English scholar; born in London at the beginning of the eighteenth century. When quite young he went to Amsterdam, where ......
  16. Solomon b. Moses Raphael London (JE | WP GWP G) Russian author and publisher; lived at Novogrudok, Lithuania, in the first half of the eighteenth century. He was the pupil ......
  17. Long Branch S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N238: New Jersey
  18. Saadia ben Abraham Longo (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish Hebrew poet; lived at Constantinople about the middle of the sixteenth century. A manuscript in the Bodleian Library (Neubauer, ......
  19. Abraham ben Raphael de Lonzano (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian grammarian; lived at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He was baptized at Idstein and took the name of ......
  20. Menahem ben Judah ben Menahem de Lonzano JE (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian Masoretic and midrashic scholar, lexicographer, and poet; died after 1608 in Jerusalem. His nativity is unknown, but it has ......

541 – 560

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  1. Looking-Glass (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M657: Mirror
  2. Lopez (JE | WP GWP G) A family of Sephardic Jews several of whom were distinguished for scholarly attainments.Eliahu Lopez: Dutch ḥakam of the seventeenth century. ......
  3. Manasseh Masseh Lopez (JE | WP GWP G) English politician; born in Jamaica Jan. 22, 1755; died at Maristow House, Devonshire, 1831; descended from ancient Sephardic stock. Both ......
  4. Rodrigo Lopez S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Court physician to Queen Elizabeth; born in Portugal about 1525; executed June 7, 1594, for having attempted to poison the ......
  5. Lopez-Laguna (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L18: Laguna
  6. Lopez Rosa (JE | WP GWP G) Portuguese Marano family of Lisbon, which owned a printing establishment there in 1647.Duarte Lopez Rosa: Physician; born at Beja. Duarte ......
  7. Lord's Prayer S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Name given by the Christian world to the prayer which Jesus taught his disciples (Matt. vi. 9-13; Luke xi. 1-4). ......
  8. Lord's Supper S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Name taken from I Cor. xi. 20, and given by the Christian world to the rite known as the eucharist, ......
  9. Loria (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L627: Luria
  10. Achille Loria (JE | WP GWP G) Italian political economist; born at Mantua March 2, 1857; educated at the lyceum of his native city and the universities ......
  11. Gino Loria (JE | WP GWP G) Italian mathematician; born at Mantua May 19, 1862; educated at the Mantua lyceum and at the University of Turin, becoming ......
  12. Ibn Vives Lorki (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1269: Ibn Vives Allorqui
  13. Hieronymus Lorm S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L49: Landesmann, Heinrich
  14. Lorraine (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M524: Metz
  15. Los Angeles S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Commercial and manufacturing city in the state of California; situated on the left bank of the river of the same ......
  16. Lost Property (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F144: Finder of Property
  17. Lot S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Haran, Abraham's brother, and, consequently, nephew of Abraham; emigrated with his grandfather, Terah, from Ur of the Chaldees ......
  18. Lots (JE | WP GWP G) Means of determining chances. Primitive peoples, and occasionally those on a higher plane of culture, resort to lots for the ......
  19. Lotteries (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G58: Gambling
  20. Louisville S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See K178: Kentucky

561 – 580

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  1. Lousada (of Peak House) (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a family that has held for many generations large possessions in Jamaica. A member of the family was ......
  2. Love S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) The deep affection by which one person feels closely drawn to another and impelled to give up much, or do ......
  3. Love-Feast (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A888: Agape
  4. Robert Loveman (JE | WP GWP G) American poet; born at Cleveland, Ohio, April 11, 1864; educated and now (1904) residing at Dalton, Ga.; M.A., University of ......
  5. Ermanno Lövinson [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German historian; born in Berlin June 3, 1863; educated at Berlin University (Ph.D. 1888). Since 1889 he has lived in ......
  6. Israel Lovy (JE | WP GWP G) French cantor and synagogal composer; born near Danzig Sept., 1773; died in Paris Jan. 7, 1832. He received a Talmudic ......
  7. A. Maurice Low (JE | WP GWP G) Anglo-American writer; born in London July 14, 1860. Educated at King's College School in that city, and afterward in Austria, ......
  8. Asher ben Aryeh Löb Löw (JE | WP GWP G) Chief rabbi of Carlsruhe; born at Minsk in 1754; died at Carlsruhe July 23, 1837. He studied under his father, ......
  9. Benjamin Wolf Löw JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Polish-Hungarian rabbi; born in Wodzislaw, government of Kielce, Poland, 1775; died at Verbo, Hungary, March 6, 1851. His father, Eleazar ......
  10. Leopold Löw JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian rabbi; born at Czernahora, Moravia, May 22, 1811; died at Szegedin Oct. 13, 1875. He received his preliminary education ......
  11. Moritz Löw JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Astronomer; born at Mako, Hungary, in 1841; died in Steglitz, Berlin, May 25, 1900; studied at the universities of Leipsic ......
  12. Samuel Löw JE (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist; son of Naṭe (V08p193001.jpg = Nathan) ha-Levi; born at Kolin, Bohemia, about 1720; died May 20, 1806, at Boskowitz, ......
  13. August Löwe (JE | WP GWP G) Russian mathematician and author of mathematical works. Of his books the best known are: "Obscheponyatnaya Teoriya Perspectivy," 1858; "Obscheponyatnaya Prakticheskaya ......
  14. Löwe ben Bezaleel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J647: Judah Löw ben Bezaleel
  15. Joel Löwe JE (JE | WP GWP G) German commentator; born in 1760; died in Breslau Feb. 11, 1802. He signed his name in Hebrew writings as Joel ......
  16. Konrad Löwe (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian actor; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Feb. 6, 1856. He took a law course at the University of Vienna, and ......
  17. Ludwig Löwe [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born at Berlin March 11, 1844. After graduating from the gymnasium, he attended the universities of Jena, Würzburg, ......
  18. Moses Samuel Löwe (Johann Michael Siegfried Löwe) (JE | WP GWP G) German painter and engraver; born at Königsberg, Prussia, June 24, 1756; died there May 10, 1831. Aided by the friendship ......
  19. Julius Löwenberg [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German geographer; born at Strzelno, Prussia, 1800; died at Berlin Dec. 12, 1893. He was educated in Berlin, where he ......
  20. Leopold Löwenfeld [de; pl] (JE | WP GWP G) German physician; born in Munich Jan. 23, 1847; educated at the gymnasium and university in his native city (M.D. 1870). ......

581 – 600

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  1. Max Löwengard (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born in Württemberg; died at Basel May 25, 1876. He was a friend of Berthold Auerbach and a ......
  2. Levi Saul Löwenstamm (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1863: Aryeh Loeb ben Saul
  3. Saul Löwenstamm (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and Talmudist; born at Rzeszow 1717; died at Amsterdam June 19, 1790. He is known as the author of ......
  4. Baruch Solomon Löwenstein (JE | WP GWP G) Russian mathematician; born at Wolodarka, Russia, in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. He wrote: "Bikkure ha-Limmudiyyot," explanations of ......
  5. Bernhard Löwenstein [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi; born at Meseritz, province of Posen, Feb. 1, 1821; died at Lemberg March 15, 1889. Upon the recommendation ......
  6. L. H. Löwenstein (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew scholar; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main about 1850. He was reviser in the publishing-house of Isaac Lehrberger at Rödelheim, which office ......
  7. Leopold Löwenstein [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born in Gailingen, Baden, Dec. 1, 1843. He attended the gymnasium at Bischofsheim-on-the-Tauber, receiving at the same time ......
  8. Rudolf Löwenstein JE (JE | WP GWP G) German author; born at Breslau Feb. 20, 1819; died at Berlin Jan. 6, 1891. When only nine years of age ......
  9. Johann Jacob Löwenthal S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian chess-master; born July, 1810, in Budapest; died at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, England, July 20, 1876. He was educated at the ......
  10. Nathan Löwenthal (JE | WP GWP G) Russian histologist; born in 1856; educated at the Academy for Physicians and Surgeons at St. Petersburg and at the universities ......
  11. Naumann Löwenthal [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) German teacher and writer; born Feb. 25, 1819, at Schmiegel; died at Posen Feb. 28, 1855. He attended the gymnasium ......
  12. Isaac Löwi [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Adelsdorf, near Erlangen, Bavaria, Jan. 31, 1803; died at Fürth Dec. 26, 1873. He received his ......
  13. Jacob Mordecai ben Judah Löb Löwinsohn (JE | WP GWP G) Russo-Polish scholar and journalist; born in Grodno 1832; died in Warsaw Feb. 13, 1878. A son of the rabbi of ......
  14. Solomon Löwisohn JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Historian and poet; born in Mor, district of Stuhlweissenburg, Hungary, in 1788; died there April 27, 1821. He studied at ......
  15. Adolf Löwy (JE | WP GWP G) German physiologist; born in Berlin June 29, 1862; educated at the gymnasium and university of his native city (M.D. 1885), ......
  16. Albert Löwy (JE | WP GWP G) English rabbi and communal worker; born at Aussee, Moravia, Dec., 1816. He studied first at Olmütz, and then moved to ......
  17. Jacob Ezekiel Löwy (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and author; born at Hotzenplotz, Austrian Silesia, Aug. 24, 1814; died at Beuthen Nov. 20, 1864. After attending ......
  18. Luach (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1275: Almanac
  19. Heschel Abramovich Lubarsky (JE | WP GWP G) Russian writer; born at Balta Sept., 1878. He was educated in a family of Ḥasidim, in the Odessa Commercial School, ......
  20. Lübeck S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Free city of Germany; situated on the River Trave, not far from the Baltic Sea; it forms, with the surrounding ......

601 to 700

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601 – 620

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  1. Philipp Lubelski (JE | WP GWP G) Polish physician; born at Zamosc 1788; died at Warsaw Feb. 3, 1879. He began his career as an army surgeon ......
  2. Lublin S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) City of Russian Poland, in the government of the same name; situated 60 miles southeast of Warsaw; in importance the ......
  3. Meïr ben Gedaliah Lublin (MaHaRaM) (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; born at Lublin (?) 1558; died there May 3, 1616. He was descended from a family of rabbis, ......
  4. Hugo Lubliner (JE | WP GWP G) German dramatist; born at Breslau April 22, 1846. He studied at the industrial school in Berlin, and became manager of ......
  5. Oziasz Louis (Ludwik) Lubliner [pl] (JE | WP GWP G) Polish writer; born 1809; died at Warsaw 1868. After the Polish revolution of 1831 he settled in Brussels, where he ......
  6. Solomon Lublinsky (JE | WP GWP G) German journalist and writer; born at Johannisberg, Prussia, Feb. 18,1868. He was occupied for a time as a clerk in ......
  7. Luboml (JE | WP GWP G) Town in the government of Volhynia, Russia. Jews lived there as early as the sixteenth century, though the attitude of ......
  8. Louis Arthur Lucas [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) African explorer; born in London Sept. 22, 1851; died at sea Nov. 20, 1876. After traveling in the United States ......
  9. Lucca S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) City of Tuscany, Italy. Its Jewish community is known in literature especially through the Kalonymus family of Lucca, whose ancestor ......
  10. Lucena, Córdoba S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) City near Cordova, Spain, magnificently situated, and surrounded by strong walls and wide moats. In early times it was inhabited ......
  11. Lucerne S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) City of Switzerland, in the canton of the same name. Jews were living there as early as the middle of ......
  12. Lucifer S 2005-08-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Septuagint translation of "Helel [read "Helal"] ben Sha?ar" (= "the brilliant one," "son of the morning"), name of the day, ......
  13. Lucuas (JE | WP GWP G) Toward the end of the reign of the emperor Trajan, in 116, the Jews of Cyrene rebelled, their leader being ......
  14. Moriz Ludassy (Gans) JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian journalist; born at Komorn in 1825; died at Reichenau Aug. 29, 1885. As early as 1848 he was editor ......
  15. Luke (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N245: New Testament
  16. Lulab (JE | WP GWP G) Name given to the festive palm-branch which with the Etrog is carried and waved on the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot). ......
  17. Luliani ben Tabrin JE (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian scholar of the beginning of the fourth century. The name, which is the equivalent of "Julianus ben Tiberianus," has ......
  18. Lumbroso (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L530: Lombroso
  19. Jacob Lumbrozo JE (JE | WP GWP G) Physician, planter, and trader resident in the palatinate of Maryland, America, in the middle of the seventeenth century; born at ......
  20. Benjamin Lumley S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Director of Her Majesty's Theatre, Drury Lane, London; born in Canada 1811; died in London March 17, 1875. He was ......

621 – 640

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  1. Abraham Moses Luncz JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian scholar and editor; born Dec. 9, 1854, at Kovno, Russia; went when very young to Jerusalem, where he still ......
  2. Lunel S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Chief town of the department of Hérault, France; at times it is called V08p208002.jpg and V08p208003.jpg (see Zerahiah Gerundi, preface ......
  3. Solomon Ephraim Luntschitz S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E418: Ephraim, Solomon ben Aaron
  4. Luntz (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a family descended from the Loans, or Loanz, family of Worms. According to a family tradition, Elijah, the ......
  5. Isaac Luperio (Lupercio) (JE | WP GWP G) A Jew, perhaps a Marano, of Spanish descent; lived at Smyrna. His apology, written in Spanish and directed against a ......
  6. Lüpschütz (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L453: Lipschitz
  7. Luria - We have dab page which lists 6 different ones - (JE | WP GWP G) A family with wide ramifications and several of whose members were distinguished for mystical tendencies and rabbinical knowledge.Abraham b. Nissan ......
  8. Amatus Lusitanus JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J577: Juan Rodrigo de Castel-Branco
  9. Lust S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Y39: Yeẓer ha-Ra'
  10. Lustration S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A338: Ablution
  11. Martin Luther S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) German church reformer; born at Eisleben Nov. 10, 1483; died there Feb. 18, 1546. The Reformation originated in the Renaissance, ......
  12. Lutsk (Lutzk) S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) District city in the government of Volhynia, Russia, situated on the right bank of the Styr at its junction with ......
  13. Lutzyn (JE | WP GWP G) Russian town in the government of Vitebsk; it is situated near a chain of mountains and surrounded by lakes and ......
  14. Luxembourg S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Grand duchy of central Europe, its capital bearing the same name. The sources do not definitely indicate when Jews first ......
  15. Luz S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Older name of the city of Beth-el (Gen. xxviii. 19, xxxv. 6, xlviii. 3; Josh. xvi. 2, xviii. 13; Judges ......
  16. Simchah Isaac ben Moses Luzki (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite writer and bibliographer; born at Lutsk at the end of the seventeenth century; died, according to Firkovich, at Chufut-Kale, ......
  17. Luigi Luzzatti S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Italian statesman and political economist; born at Venice March 11, 1841; studied at the University of Padua (Doctor of Law ......
  18. Luzzatto (Luzzatti) S 2006-02-19 >> Samuel David Luzzatto JE, Filosseno Luzzatto JE (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a family of Italian scholars whose genealogy can be traced back to the first half of the sixteenth ......
  19. Aaron Moses ben Tzebi Hirsch Lwow (JE | WP GWP G) Grammarian, scribe, and dayyan of Lemberg in the eighteenth century. He wrote: "Shirah Ḥadashah" (Zolkiev, 1764), a Hebrew grammar in ......
  20. Lydda S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) City in Palestine, later named Diospolis; situated one hour northeast of Ramleh, about three hours southeast of Jaffa, and, according ......

641 – 660

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  1. Lying S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Telling a falsehood with the intent of deceiving. Biblical Data: Lying is most vigorously condemned in the Law: "Keep thee far ......
  2. Abraham de Lyon (JE | WP GWP G) One of the first Jewish settlers in Georgia, U. S. A.; ancestor of the well-known family of that name which ......
  3. George Lewis Lyon (JE | WP GWP G) English journalist and communal worker; born at Portsea, England, Dec. 11, 1828; died in London Feb. 14, 1904. After acting ......
  4. Hart Lyon (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H769: Hirsch, Levin Joseph
  5. Myer Leon (Myer Leoni) (JE | WP GWP G) Operatic singer and ḥazzan; died at Kingston, Jamaica, about 1800; uncle of John Braham; both he and his nephew were ......
  6. Robert Lyon DAB (JE | WP GWP G) American journalist; born in London, England, Jan. 15, 1810; died in New York city March 10, 1858. After a brief ......
  7. Lyons S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) City on the Rhône, France. Jews seem to have been established in the surrounding region at an early date. The ......
  8. Israel Lyons UNR (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew teacher and author; born in Poland; died 1770. He emigrated to England and settled in Cambridge. Here he practised ......
  9. Israel Lyons + (JE | WP GWP G) English astronomer, botanist, and mathematician; born at Cambridge 1739; died in London 1775; son of Israel Lyons. In his earliest ......
  10. Jacques Judah Lyons JE (JE | WP GWP G) American minister; son of Judah and Mary Lyons; born in Surinam, Dutch Guiana, Aug. 25, 1814; died in New York ......
  11. Nicolas de Lyra + (JE | WP GWP G) French exegete; born at Lyre, near Evreux, Normandy, about 1270; died at Paris Oct. 23, 1340. The only certain dates ......
  12. Lyre S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H298: Harp and Lyre
  13. Lysias + (JE | WP GWP G) Syrian statesman of royal descent; died 162 B.C. (I Macc. iii. 32; Josephus, "Ant." xii. 7, § 2). When Antiochus ......
  14. Lysimachus (JE | WP GWP G) Anti-Jewish Alexandrian writer; lived before Apion. Like the Stoic Chæremon, he went beyond even Manetho in his inimical account of ......
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