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#[[Kab (unit)|Kab]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=1 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kab}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/W#81_.E2.80.93_100|W81]]: Weights and Measures
#[[Ka'b al-Ahbar]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=2 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Ka'b+al-Ahbar}}) One of the most prominent fathers of Moslem tradition, and one of those who introduced into this branch of Arab literature...
#[[Ka'b al-Ashraf]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=3 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Ka'b+al-Ashraf}}) Jewish poet of Medina and an implacable enemy of Mohammed. His father was an Arab of the family of Nabhan (a branch of the...
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#[[Gustav Kadelburg]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=8 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Gustav+Kadelburg}}) German actor and dramatist; born Jan. 26, 1851. He made his first appearance at Leipsic in 1869, and two years later played...
#[[Kadesh (biblical)|Kadesh]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=9 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kadesh}}) A place on the western frontier of Edom, in the "wilderness of Paran," "eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of...
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#[[Saul Isaac Kaempf]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=11 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Saul+Isaac+Kaempf}}) Austrian rabbi and Orientalist; born at Lissa, Posen, May 6, 1818; died at Prague Oct. 16, 1892. He received his first lessons...
#[[Kaph|Kaf]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=12 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kaf}}) Eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The name is generally taken to mean "hollow of the hand," to which the shape of the...
#[[Feodosia|Kaffa]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=13 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kaffa}}) Town in the Crimea, Russia. It existed as a Greek colony at the beginning of the common era, and, like the rest of such colonies...
#[[Qahal|Kahal]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=14 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kahal}}) A Hebrew word meaning "assembly" or "community," and applied formerly to the local governments of the Jewish communities in...
#[[Abraham Kahan]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=15 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Abraham+Kahan}}) Russian Hebrew author; born Dec. 19, 1874, at Skomorochy, near Jitomir. He has written or edited the following works: an anthology...
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#[[Kahinah Dahiyah bint Thabitah ibn Tifan]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=22 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kahinah+Dahiyah+bint+Thabitah+ibn+Tifan}}) Jewish princess of a Berber tribe likewise called Kahinah; lived in the second half of the seventh century. According to the...
#[[Kahiya (title)|Kahiya]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=23 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kahiya}}) Title of a political representative in Turkey. The word, pronounced "kehya" or "kyahya," is Turkish and is a corruption of...
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#[[Lehman Kahn]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=25 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Lehman+Kahn}}) Belgian educationist and writer; born Sept. 9, 1827, at Breisach, Baden, Germany; educated at the Progymnasium of Breisach...
#[[Robert Kahn (composer)|Robert Kahn]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=26 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Robert+Kahn}}) German composer and pianist; born at Mannheim July 21, 1865; a pupil of Ernst Frank and Vincenz Lachner (Mannheim), Friedrich...
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#[[Judah Kalaz]] ([[Judah Khallash|Khallash]]) ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=41 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Judah+Kalaz}}) Cabalist and moralist; lived in Algeria, probably at Tlemçen, at the beginning of the sixteenth century. The surname...
#[[Kalba Sabua']] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=42 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kalba+Sabua'}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/B2#641_.E2.80.93_660|B644]]: Ben Kalba Sabbua'
#[[Moses ben Malka Kalifa]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=43 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Moses+ben+Malka+Kalifa}}) Poet and controversialist; born at Safi, Morocco, toward the end of the seventeenth century. He belonged on his mother'...
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#[[Paul Kalisch]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=52 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Paul+Kalisch}}) German singer; born at Berlin Nov. 6, 1855; son of David Kalisch, founder of the "Kladderadatsch." Kalisch was destined for...
#[[Jehiel Michael ben Aryeh Kalischer]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=53 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Jehiel+Michael+ben+Aryeh+Kalischer}}) Polish rabbi of the seventeenth century; died in 1713 at an advanced age. The name "Kalischer" indicates either that he was...
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#[[Solomon Kalischer]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=55 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Solomon+Kalischer}}) German composer, pianist, and physicist; born Oct. 8, 1845, at Thorn, West Prussia. He studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary...
#[[Zebi Hirsch Kalischer]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=56 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Zebi+Hirsch+Kalischer}}) German rabbi and colonizer; born March 24, 1795, at Lissa, Posen; died Oct. 16, 1874, at Thorn, on the Vistula. Destined for...
#[[Abraham ben Alexander ha-Kohen Kalisker]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=57 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Abraham+ben+Alexander+ha-Kohen+Kalisker}}) Rabbi of Kaliska, Prussia, in the eighteenth century. Kalisker studied successively under Elijah Wilna and Bär of Meseritz...
#[[Kalisz]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=58 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kalisz}}) City in the government of the same name in Russian Poland; situated on the River Prosna, near the Prussian frontier. Its Jewish...
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#[[Kallah]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=60 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kallah}}) Name of a teachers' convention which was held in Babylonian academies, after the beginning of the amoraic period, in the...
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#[[Kalonymus ben Meshullam]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=71 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kalonymus+ben+Meshullam}}) Head of the community of Mayence at the time of the first Crusade. He is said to have sent a messenger to King Henry IV. in...
#[[Kalonymus Nasi]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=72 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kalonymus+Nasi}}) Provençal liturgical poet; flourished at Beaucaire in the middle of the thirteenth century. He was the author of a liturgical...
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#[[Kalonymus ben Todros]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=74 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kalonymus+ben+Todros}}) French scholar; flourished at Narbonne in the second half of the twelfth century. He bore the title "Nasi," and was the leader...
#[[Joseph Kalti]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=75 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Joseph+Kalti}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/J#461_.E2.80.93_480|J468]]: Joseph b. David ha-Yewani
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#[[Isaac ben Abraham Kaminer]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=80 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Isaac+ben+Abraham+Kaminer}}) Russian physician and Hebrew poet and satirist; born at Levkiev, near Jitomir, in 1834; died at Bern, Switzerland, March 30...
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#[[Kammerknechtschaft]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=82 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kammerknechtschaft}}) Expression for the political condition of the Jews in the German empire, signifying that the revenue derived from them was...
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#[[Kamsa and Bar Kamsa|Kamza]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=84 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kamza}}) Two persons who, according to a Talmudic legend (Giṭ. 55b-56a), were the cause of the destruction of Jerusalem. A certain...
#[[Kanah Abigdor]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=85 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kanah+Abigdor}}) A cabalistic writer of the fifteenth century, who lived either in Spain (Graetz) or in Italy or in Greece (Jellinek). In the...
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#[[Abraham Kohen Kaplan|Abraham Kaplan]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=96 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Abraham+Kaplan}}) Russian Hebrew writer; born at Wilke July 25, 1839; died at Vienna Feb. 2, 1897. Having acquired a reputation as a good Hebrew...
#[[Jacques Kaplan]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=97 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Jacques+Kaplan}}) Russian painter and designer; born at Sebastopol July 19, 1872. He went to Paris, and in 1885 entered the Paris Ecole des...
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#[[Hayyim Kaposi]], [[Chayyim Kaposi]] (V07p435002jpg) ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=99 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Hayyim+Kaposi}}) Dayyan in Egypt about 1600. He became known later as the "Ba'al ha-Nes," through a miracle which is said to have happened...
#[[Moriz Kapósi]] ([[Kohn]]) ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=100 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Moriz+Kapósi}}) Austrian dermatologist; born at Kaposvár, Hungary, Oct. 23, 1837; died March 6, 1902. After graduating (M.D., 1861) from...
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#[[Aaron ben Judah Löb ha-Kohen Karfunkel]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=112 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Aaron+ben+Judah+Löb+ha-Kohen+Karfunkel}}) Bohemian rabbi. After having successively filled the rabbinates of Gawartschew, Lask, Dasparschi, and Widowa, he was called...
#[[Siegfried Karfunkelstein]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=113 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Siegfried+Karfunkelstein}}) German soldier; born at Beuthen, Silesia, Feb. 21,1848; died on the field of battle at Le Bourget Oct. 30, 1870. He volunteered...
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#[[Karigel]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=115 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Karigel}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/C#181_.E2.80.93_200|C198]]: Carregal
#[[Karlin (Pinsk)|Karlin]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=116 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Karlin}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/P#321_.E2.80.93_340|P338]]: Pinsk
#[[Karlovy Vary|Karlsbad]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=117 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Karlsbad}}) Town in Bohemia; famous for its mineral springs; first made popular by the emperor Charles IV. in 1350. When King Ladislaus...
#[[Karlsruhe]] ([[Karlsruhe|Carlsruhe]]) '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=118 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Karlsruhe}}) German city; capital of the grand duchy of Baden. Jews began to settle there soon after its foundation (1715) by Margrave...
#[[Karlovac|Karlstadt]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=119 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Karlstadt}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/C2#881_.E2.80.93_900|C893]]: Croatia
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#[[Karmi]] '''>>''' [[Mordecai Karmi]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=122 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Karmi}}) Family name, the Biblical "Carmi" (Num. xxvi. 6); it was used, according to Gross, as a gentilic adjective to the French "Cré...
#[[Karmion]] ([[Kirmion]]) ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=123 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Karmion}}) One of the four principal rivers of Palestine (Yer. Kil. ix. 5; Yer. Ket. xii. 3; B. B. 74b). Owing to its small tributaries...
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#[[Kattina]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=132 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kattina}}) Babylonian amora of the second generation (3d cent.); known both as halakist and as haggadist. He was a pupil of Rab (Abba...
#[[Albert Katz]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=133 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Albert+Katz}}) Rabbi and author; born July 17, 1858, at Lodz (Russian Poland). He studied at the yeshibot of Lublin and Wilna and then (1881)...
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#[[Katzenellenbogen]] '''>>''' [[Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen]] '''JE''', [[Meir ben Isaac Katzenellenbogen]] '''JE''', [[Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=135 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Katzenellenbogen}}) An old, widely ramified family counting many rabbis among its members, who were and are still found in Italy, Poland, Germany...
#[[Judah Löb b. Israel Katzenelson]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=136 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Judah+Löb+b.+Israel+Katzenelson}}) Russian physician; born in Bobruisk 1848. He studied in the rabbinical school of Jitomir and in the Imperial Medico-Surgical...
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#[[Kavala]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=146 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kavala}}) Settlement in Macedonia, on the Aegean Sea opposite the island of Thasos. It is nine miles southwest of Old Kavala, the...
#[[Kawwanah]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=147 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kawwanah}}) Aside from the general idea of devotion conveyed by this Hebrew word (see Devotion), the term is used in the plural form by...
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#[[Meyer Kayserling]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=149 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Meyer+Kayserling}}) German rabbi and historian; born in Hanover June 17, 1829; died at Budapest, April 21, 1905; educated at Halberstadt, Nikolsburg...
#[[Simon Kayserling]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=150 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Simon+Kayserling}}) German educator and writer; born at Hanover Aug. 31, 1834; died there April 22, 1898; brother of Meyer Kayserling. He attended...
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#[[Arthur Kelter]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=167 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Arthur+Kelter}}) American athlete; born in New York city March 3, 1869; went to San Francisco, Cal., when nine years old. Kelter became a gymnast...
#[[Friederike Kempner]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=168 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Friederike+Kempner}}) German poet; born at Opatow, Posen, June 25, 1836; died at Friederikenhof Feb. 23, 1904. She early developed aninterest in...
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#[[Kenaz]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=172 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kenaz}}) 1. Son of Eliphaz, and grandson of Esau; one of the dukes of Edom (Gen. xxxvi. 11, 16, 42). His clan, called "the Kenizzite"...
#[[Kenedeus]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=173 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kenedeus}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/A2#801_.E2.80.93_820|A801]]: Adiabene
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#[[Kerem]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=181 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kerem}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/P#181_.E2.80.93_200|P199]]: Periodicals
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#[[Kermanshah]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=183 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kermanshah}}) Capital of the Persian province of Ardilan, on the road between Bagdad and Hamadan. Benjamin II. found there forty Jewish...
#[[Kerobot]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=184 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kerobot}}) A term applied to the scheme of Piyyuṭim in the earlier part of the repetition of the morning 'Amidah on special...
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#[[Key]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=191 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Key}}) in Biblical times the key, as its Hebrew name indicates ("mafteach" = "the opener"), was used chiefly to open the door...
#[[Ephraim Keyser]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=192 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Ephraim+Keyser}}) American sculptor; born at Baltimore, Md., Oct. 6, 1850; educated at the City College of Baltimore and at the art academies...
#[[Khaybar|Khaibar]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=193 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Khaibar}}) Fortified town of Arabia in the district of Hejaz, and four days' journey northwest of the city of Medina. In the time...
#[[Kherson]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=194 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kherson}}) Russian city; capital of the government of the same name; situated on the right bank of the Dnieper, near its mouth. It was...
#[[Rachel Mironovna Khin]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=195 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Rachel+Mironovna+Khin}}) Russian authoress; born in White Russia in 1863; educated at the Women's gymnasium, Moscow; studied medicine at St. Petersburg...
#[[Chełm|Kholm]] ([[Chelm]]) ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=196 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kholm}}) Russian district town in the government of Lublin. Its Jews are mentioned in various documents of 1550 to 1569. In the latter...
#[[Greater Khorasan|Khorasan]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=197 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Khorasan}}) One of the five great divisions of Persia, bounded on the east by Afghanistan; on the north by Zakaspie, the transcaspian...
#[[Khudaidad]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=198 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Khudaidad}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/J2#581_.E2.80.93_600|J590]]: Judæo-Persian Literature
#[[Joseph Daniel Khurilkar]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=199 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Joseph+Daniel+Khurilkar}}) BeniIsrael soldier; bahadur subahdar in the Anglo-Indian army. He enlisted in the Sixteenth Regiment Bengal Native Infantry...
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#[[Kiamil Pasha]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=201 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kiamil+Pasha}}) Turkish official; born at Nicosia, Cyprus, in 1832. Educated on that island and in Egypt, he at the age of seventeen entered...
#[[Kibroth-hattaavah]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=202 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kibroth-hattaavah}}) A station of the Israelites in the wilderness on the journey from Sinai to Kadesh (Num. xi. 34, xxxiii. 16). The name, which...
#[[Goat|Kid]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=203 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kid}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/G#281_.E2.80.93_300|G281]]: Goat
#[[Kiddush]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=204 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kiddush}}) Ceremony and prayer by which the holiness of the Sabbath or of a festival is proclaimed. For the Sabbath the Scripture imposes...
#[[Kiddush Lebanah]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=205 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kiddush+Lebanah}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/N#241_.E2.80.93_260|N240]]: New-Moon
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#[[Nashim|Kiddushin]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=207 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kiddushin}}) Name of a treatise in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds; it is devoted chiefly to discussion...
#[[Kidnaping]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=208 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kidnaping}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/A#201_.E2.80.93_220|A210]]: Abduction
#[[Kidron Valley|Kidron]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=209 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kidron}}) A ravine on the east of Jerusalem, separating the city from the Mount of Olives (comp. II Sam. xv. 23, 30). Except in II Kings...
#[[Esther Handali|Kiera]] ([[Esther]]) ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=210 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kiera}}) Jewish favorite of the sultana Baffa, who was the wife of Murad III. and the mother of Mohammed III. (not, as Graetz designates...
#[[Kiev]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=211 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kiev}}) "The mother of Russian cities"; situated on the right bank of the Dnieper, in the government of the same name. In 1902 it...
#[[Kihaya]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=212 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kihaya}}) Title of the political representatives of the rayas, i.e., the non-Mohammedan Turkish subjects, at the Porte. The Jewish representative...
#[[Kikkar]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=213 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kikkar}}) the central and more extensive part of the Southern Jordan valley, referred to in Gen. xiii. 10, 12; xix. 17, 25, 28, 29; Deut. xxxiv...
#[[Kil'ayim (tractate)|Kil'ayim]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=214 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kil'ayim}}) Name of a treatise of the Mishnah, Tosefta, and the Palestinian Talmud. It belongs to the order Zera'im, and deals with...
#[[Ki Lo Na'eh]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=215 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Ki+Lo+Na'eh}}) A hymn, beginning thus, in the home-ritual for Passover eve, and one of the latest constituents of the Seder Haggadah, dating...
#[[Kimberley, Northern Cape|Kimberley]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=216 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kimberley}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/S2#981_.E2.80.93_1000|S988]]: South Africa
#[[Kimhi]] '''>>''' [[Joseph Kimhi]] '''JE''', [[Moses Kimhi]], [[David Kimhi]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=217 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kimhi}}) Name of a family of scholars, the earliest known members of which lived at the end of the eleventh and in the twelfth century...
#[[Solomon Kimhi]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=218 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Solomon+Kimhi}}) Turkish rabbinical author; lived at Constantinople in the middle of the nineteenth century. In 1862 he published "Meleket...
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#[[Kindbettbrief]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=221 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kindbettbrief}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/C#441_.E2.80.93_460|C451]]: Childbirth
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#[[Kindling of lights]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=223 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kindling+of+lights}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/L#401_.E2.80.93_420|L412]]: Lights
#[[King]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=224 JE] | {{ShortSearch|King}}) Chief ruler of a nation.—Biblical Data: in Jewish history the first ruler called "king" was Saul, son of Kish, but in...
#[[Kingdom of God]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=225 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kingdom+of+God}}) Targum to Zech. xiv. 9 and Ob. 21; "Malkut Shaddai ": 'Alenu; and "Malkut Shamayim": Ber. ii. 2, and elsewhere in Mishnah...
#[[Books of Kings]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=226 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Books+of+Kings}}) Fourth book of the second canonical division of the Hebrew Bible, the Prophets (). It contains a history of the kings of Judah...
#[[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=227 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kingston}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/J#141_.E2.80.93_160|J144]]: Jamaica.
#[[Kinnim]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=228 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kinnim}}) Name of a treatise of the Mishnah in the series Kodashim. The Pentateuchal law ordains the sacrifice of two turtle-doves...
#[[Kinship]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=229 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kinship}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/F#21_.E2.80.93_40|F33]]: Family and Family Life
#[[Kinship|Kinsman]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=230 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kinsman}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/F#21_.E2.80.93_40|F33]]: Family and Family Life
#[[Kinyan]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=231 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kinyan}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/A3#1221_.E2.80.93_1240|A1234]]: Alienation and Acquisition
#[[Yom ha-Kippurim]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=232 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Yom+ha-Kippurim}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/A5#2081_.E2.80.93_2100|A2093]]: Atonement, Day of
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#[[Kirk-kilisseh]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=242 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kirk-kilisseh}}) City in Thrace, European Turkey, 102 miles north of Constantinople. The name signifies in Turkish "forty churches."Kirk-Kilisseh...
#[[Eliezer Simon Kirschbaum]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=243 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Eliezer+Simon+Kirschbaum}}) Austrian physician and writer; born at Sieniawa, Galicia, 1797; died at Cracow 1860. After studying philosophy and medicine...
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#[[Kisch]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=245 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kisch}}) Family of some distinction; migrated in the 16th century from Chiesch in Bohemia; the founder of the family lived in Prague...
#[[Kish (Bible)|Kish]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=246 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kish}}) the father of Saul, the first king of Israel (I Sam. ix. 3, xii. 21, xiv. 51; I Chron. ix. 39, xii. 1, xxvi. 28). He was a...
#[[Kishinef]] ([[Kishinev]]) ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=247 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kishinef}}) Russian city; capital of the government of Bessarabia; it has a population of 147,962 (1904), including about 50,000 Jews...
#[[Kishon River|Kishon]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=248 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kishon}}) River in central Palestine; it rises to the south of Mount Gilboa, flows through the middle of the plain of Esdraelon, traverses...
#[[Kislew]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=249 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kislew}}) the ninth month of the Jewish calendar, corresponding to December. It has either twenty-nine or thirty days. In the Septuagint...
#[[Joseph Kiss]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=250 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Joseph+Kiss}}) Hungarian poet; born Nov. 8, 1843, at Mezöcsat. Being obliged by the death of his mother and financial ruin of his father...
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#[[Kissingen]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=252 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kissingen}}) Bavarian health-resort; it has a total population of 4,024, including 333 Jews. Jews lived in Kissingen as early as the thirteenth...
#[[Kite]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=253 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kite}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/V#101_.E2.80.93_120|V117]]: Vulture
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#[[Jacob ben Joseph Kitzinger]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=255 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Jacob+ben+Joseph+Kitzinger}}) Author and poet; lived in the second half of the sixteenth and at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He wrote "Ḥ...
#[[Kizweh]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=256 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kizweh}}) in popular parlance, the weekly portion allotted to the local poor; also charity in general. The word "Kizbah...
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#[[Julian Klaczko|Julian (Judah) Klaczko]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=258 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Julian+Klaczko}}) French publicist; born in Wilna, Russia, Nov. 6, 1825. His father belonged to one of the best Jewish families of Wilna, and...
#[[Levi Jerahmeel Klaczko]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=259 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Levi+Jerahmeel+Klaczko}}) Russian educator; born in Wilna June 28, 1840. Formerly a school-teacher in Berdyansk, Crimea, he now follows the same calling...
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#[[Charles Klein]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=269 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Charles+Klein}}) English dramatist; born at London Jan. 7, 1867; educated at the North London Collegiate School. Klein is the author of "A...
#[[Felix Klein]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=270 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Felix+Klein}}) German mathematician; born at Düsseldorf April 24, 1849; educated at the University of Bonn, where he became assistant...
#[[Herman Klein|Hermann Klein]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=271 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Hermann+Klein}}) English musical critic; born at Norwich July 23, 1856. He studied singing under Manuel Garcia from 1874 to 1877, and in 1888...
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#[[Joseph Klein]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=273 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Joseph+Klein}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/K#241_.E2.80.93_260|K250]]: Kiss, Joseph
#[[Julius Klein (rabbi)|Julius Klein]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=274 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Julius+Klein}}) Hungarian rabbi; born Aug. 2, 1850, at Zichyfalva; died July 24, 1895, at Alt-Ofen; educated at the gymnasia at Kecskemet...
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#[[Moritz Klein]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=277 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Moritz+Klein}}) Hungarian rabbi; born July 7, 1842, at Miskolcz; studied philosophy at the University of Prague, attending at the same time...
#[[Philip Klein (rabbi)|Philip Klein]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=278 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Philip+Klein}}) American rabbi; born May 22, 1848, at Baracska, Hungary. He was educated in the Talmudical schools of his native country and...
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#[[Solomon Klein]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=280 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Solomon+Klein}}) French rabbi; born at Bischheim, Alsace, Oct. 14, 1814; died at Colmar, Alsace, Nov. 10, 1867. He was successively district...
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#[[Théodore Klein]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=281 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Théodore+Klein}}) French physician; born in Durmenach, Upper Rhine, May 30, 1845; died in Paris May 4, 1902; son of the chief rabbi of Colmar...
#[[Wilhelm Klein]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=282 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Wilhelm+Klein}}) Austrian archeologist; born Nov. 28, 1850, at Karánsebes, Hungary. He first studied Jewish theology and then philosophy...
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#[[Kletzk]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=286 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kletzk}}) Russian town, in the government of Minsk. It is believed to have been founded in the eleventh century, but the earliest known...
#[[Israel Kley]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=287 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Israel+Kley}}) German preacher, educator, and writer; born at Bernstadt, Silesia, June 10, 1789; died at Hamburg Oct. 4, 1867. He attended...
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#[[Bezalel b. Solomon Kobryn]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=302 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Bezalel+b.+Solomon+Kobryn}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/B3#1001_.E2.80.93_1020|B1010]]: Bezalel b. Solomon of Kobryn
#[[Koburg]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=303 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Koburg}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/S#281_.E2.80.93_300|S290]]: Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
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#[[Kodashim]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=305 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kodashim}}) Name of the fifth of the six orders ("sedarim") of the Mishnah, so called because all the treatises belonging to it contain...
#[[Kodesh ha-Kodashim]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=306 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kodesh+ha-Kodashim}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/H2#861_.E2.80.93_880|H862]]: Holy of Holies
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#[[Kaph|Kof]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=308 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kof}}) Nineteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet; for its form see Alphabet. The meaning ofthe name is uncertain. It corresponds in...
#[[Kohath]]; [[Kohathites]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=309 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kohath}}) Kohath was the second son of Levi (Gen. xlvi. 11; Ex. vi. 16; Num. iii. 17; I Chron. vi. 1) and progenitor of the Levitical...
#[[Kohelet Musar]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=310 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kohelet+Musar}}) Hebrew weekly; founded at Berlin in 1750 by Moses Mendelssohn (at that time he was not more than twenty-one) and T. Bock....
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#[[Max J Kohler]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=317 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Max+J+Kohler}}) American lawyer; born at Detroit, Mich., May 22, 1871; son of Kaufmann Kohler; educated at the College of the City of New...
#[[Abraham Kohn]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=318 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Abraham+Kohn}}) Austrian rabbi; born Jan. 1, 1807, at Zaluzan, Bohemia; died at Lemberg, Galicia, Sept. 7, 1848. In 1828 he entered theUniversity...
#[[David Kohn]] ([[David Kahana|Kahana]]) '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=319 JE] | {{ShortSearch|David+Kohn}}) Russian archeologist and Hebrew writer; born at Odessa in 1838. He received a rabbinic education; but at the age of fourteen...
#[[David Kohn (economist)|David Kohn]] ([[Pap]]) ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=320 JE] | {{ShortSearch|David+Kohn}}) Hungarian political economist; born Dec. 2, 1868, at Csecse, Hungary; studied law in Budapest. In 1890 he attracted general...
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#[[Tobias Kohn]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=329 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Tobias+Kohn}}) American merchant and silk-manufacturer; born at Prague, Bohemia; died at Hartford, Conn., 1898. He emigrated to America as...
#[[Karl Köhne]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=330 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Karl+Köhne}}) German jurist and economist; born at Danzig March 21, 1863. Since 1902 he has been privat-docent in commercial and technical...
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#[[Adolph Kohut]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=332 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Adolph+Kohut}}) German writer; born Nov. 10, 1848, at Mindszent, Hungary; brother of Alexander Kohut. For three years he attended the Jewish...
#[[Alexander Kohut]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=333 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Alexander+Kohut}}) Rabbi and Orientalist; born April 22, 1842, at Felegyhaza, Hungary; died May 25, 1894, in New York. He belonged to a family...
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#[[Moses Koletkar]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=341 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Moses+Koletkar}}) Sirdar bahadur in the Anglo-Indian army. He enlisted in the Eighth Regiment Native Infantry April 1, 1842, and was later transferred...
#[[Kolín|Kolin]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=342 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kolin}}) Town in Bohemia. Its Jewish community is one of the oldest in the country. A number of Jews were living here in the fourteenth...
#Baron [[Ignaz von Kolisch]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=343 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Ignaz+von+Kolisch}}) Hungarian merchant, journalist, and chess-master; born at Presburg April 6, 1837; died at Vienna April 30, 1889. Both in business...
#[[Rudolf Kolisch (physician)|Rudolf Kolisch]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=344 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Rudolf+Kolisch}}) Austrian physician; born at Koritschan, Moravia, Dec. 10, 1867; studied medicine at Vienna and Heidelberg (M.D. 1891). In...
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#[[Leopold Kompert]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=346 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Leopold+Kompert}}) Austrian author; born at Münchengrätz, Bohemia, May 15, 1822; died at Vienna Nov. 23, 1886. He studied at the universities...
#[[Kompse bar Kompse]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=347 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kompse+bar+Kompse}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/K#81_.E2.80.93_100|K84]]: Ḳamẓa and Bar Ḳamẓa
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#[[Homer (unit)|Kor]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=361 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kor}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/W#81_.E2.80.93_100|W81]]: Weights and Measures
#[[Korah]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=362 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Korah}}) 1. Son of Esau by Aholibamah; mentioned as a "duke" () of the land of Edom (Gen. xxxvi. 5, 14, 18; I Chron. i. 35). 2. Son...
#[[Koran]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=363 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Koran}}) the sacred scriptures of Islam. According to Mohammedan belief, based upon the testimony of the book itself, the Koran consists...
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#[[Koslov]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=378 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Koslov}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/E2#501_.E2.80.93_520|E516]]: Eupatoria
#[[Marks Kosminsky]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=379 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Marks+Kosminsky}}) Founder of the town of Nhill in the colony of Victoria, Australia; died there May 6, 1895. He founded most of the local institutions...
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#[[Podivín|Kostel]] ([[Podivín|Podivin]]) ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=382 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kostel}}) Town in Moravia. Its Jewish community is said to be the oldest in Moravia. According to Cosmas of Prague (d. 1125), a Jew...
#[[Abigdor ben Simon Kosteliz]] ([[Costellez]]) ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=383 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Abigdor+ben+Simon+Kosteliz}}) Egyptian rabbi and cabalist; born before 1572; died 1659. He studied under Moses ha-Kohen, head of the yeshibah in Egypt,...
#[[Kovel]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=384 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kovel}}) District town in the government of Volhynia, Russia. In the beginning of the fourteenth century it was given by Gedemin to...
#[[Joseph Köves]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=385 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Joseph+Köves}}) Hungarian painter; born at Nagy Karoly 1853. When only fourteen he left home, and, earning his living as he went, arrived...
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#[[Kovno]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=387 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kovno}}) Russian fortified city in the government of the same name; situated at the junction of the Viliya and the Niemen.There is...
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#[[Moses Kozzi]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=389 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Moses+Kozzi}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/M2#881_.E2.80.93_900|M881]]: Moses b. Jacob of Coucy
#[[Jos Ignatz Kraczwski]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=390 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Jos+Ignatz+Kraczwski}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/P#401_.E2.80.93_420|P401]]: Poland
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#[[Stanislaus Kramsztyr]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=393 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Stanislaus+Kramsztyr}}) Polish naturalist; born at Warsaw 1841; son of Isaac Kramsztyk; educated at the Warsaw gymnasium, and studied medicine in...
#[[Jacob Kranz]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=394 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Jacob+Kranz}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/J#101_.E2.80.93_120|J103]]: Jacob ben Wolf Kranz of Dubno
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#[[Adolf Kraus]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=396 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Adolf+Kraus}}) American lawyer; born at Blowitz, Bobemia, Feb. 26, 1850; emigrated to the United States at the age of fifteen, and worked...
#[[Alfred von Kraus|Alfred, Baron von Kraus]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=397 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Alfred+von+Kraus}}) Austrian general; born 1822 at Pardubitz, Bohemia; the son of a Jewish tenant-farmer. He received his early education, which...
#[[Friedrich Kraus]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=398 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Friedrich+Kraus}}) Austrian physician; born at Bodenbach, Bohemia, May 31, 1851. He studied at the gymnasium at Prague and at the universities...
#[[Leopold Gottlieb Kraus]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=399 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Leopold+Gottlieb+Kraus}}) Austrian physician; born at Kolin, Bohemia, Dec. 22, 1824; died in 1901. He studied at the University of Prague, making a...
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#[[Kremenetz]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=405 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kremenetz}}) District town in the government of Volhynia, Russia. The Jews of Kremenetz are first mentioned in a charter of privileges...
#[[Moses b. David Kremer]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=406 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Moses+b.+David+Kremer}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/K#381_.E2.80.93_400|K391]]: Krämer, Moses b. David
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#[[Kremsir]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=410 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kremsir}}) Town in Moravia, Austria, twelve miles southwest of Prerau. The oldest authentic records of its Jewish community date from...
#[[Krespia Nakdan]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=411 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Krespia+Nakdan}}) Scribe of the thirteenth century. He is recorded as having copied in March, 1243, a manuscript of Maimonides' "Yad ha-Ḥ...
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#[[Isaac Kriegshaber]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=415 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Isaac+Kriegshaber}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/G#421_.E2.80.93_440|G436]]: Grieshaber, Isaac
#[[Krimchaks]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=416 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Krimchaks}}) the so-called "Turkish Jews," inhabitants of the Crimea, whose center of population is Kara-Su-Bazar, one of the most densely...
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#[[Hayyim Krochmal]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=419 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Hayyim+Krochmal}}) Polish Talmudist; born 1626; died 1666 at Cracow; son-in-law of Abraham Chemiesch. He was for many years preacher ("darshan")...
#[[Menahem Mendel ben Abraham Krochmal]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=420 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Menahem+Mendel+ben+Abraham+Krochmal}}) Moravian rabbi; born at Cracow about 1600; died at Nikolsburg Jan. 2, 1661. His teacher in the Talmud was Joel Sirkes, author...
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#[[S Krumenau]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=432 JE] | {{ShortSearch|S+Krumenau}}) See Oppenheim, Simon b. Jacob.
#[[Judah Löb ben Nathan Krysa]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=433 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Judah+Löb+ben+Nathan+Krysa}}) Frankist leader; lived in Galicia in the eighteenth century. He filled the office of rabbi at Nadworna, Galicia, but joined...
#[[Quba|Kuba]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=434 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kuba}}) Chief town of the district of Kuba, government of Baku, Transcaucasia, having (1897) a total population of 15,346, in which...
#[[Abraham Kuenen]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=435 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Abraham+Kuenen}}) Dutch Christian Old Testament scholar; born in Haarlem, North Holland, Sept. 16, 1828; died in Leyden Dec. 10, 1891. He was...
#[[ Al-Kufah]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=436 JE] | {{ShortSearch|+Al-Kufah}}) Ruined city of Asiatic Turkey, 88 miles south of Bagdad, situated on an affluent of the Euphrates; founded by Omar on the...
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#[[Ephraim Moses Kuh]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=439 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Ephraim+Moses+Kuh}}) German poet; born 1731 in Breslau; died there April 3, 1790. His parents had chosen for him the career of a student of the...
#[[Abraham Kuhn]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=440 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Abraham+Kuhn}}) German physician; born at Bissersheim, Alsace, Jan. 28, 1838; died at Strasburg Sept. 15, 1900. Kuhn was educated at the universities...
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#[[Mikhail Ignatyevich Kulisher]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=442 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Mikhail+Ignatyevich+Kulisher}}) Russian lawyer and author; born July 7, 1847, in a [[Jewish agricultural colonies in the Russian Empire?|Jewish agricultural colony]] near the village of Sophiefka, district of Lutsk...
#[[Reuben Moiseiyevich Kulisher]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=443 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Reuben+Moiseiyevich+Kulisher}}) Russian physician and educator; born at Dubno 1828; died at Kiev Aug. 9, 1896; educated at the local district school, at the...
#[[Adolf Kulka]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=444 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Adolf+Kulka}}) Austrian journalist; born Oct. 5, 1823, in Leipnik, Moravia; died in Vienna Dec. 5, 1898. He studied philosophy and jurisprudence...
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#[[Daniel al-Kumisi]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=446 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Daniel+al-Kumisi}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/D#41_.E2.80.93_60|D42]]: Daniel ben Moses al-Ḳumisi
#[[Kuna]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=447 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kuna}}) Polish name for the pillory, the well-known implement of torture and punishment, used by the Polish and Lithuanian Jews of...
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#[[Prince Kurbski]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=453 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Prince+Kurbski}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/R#461_.E2.80.93_480|R479]]: Russia
#[[Kurdistan]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=454 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kurdistan}}) A country of western Asia, partly under Turkish and partly under Persian rule, although the Kurds pay but little attention...
#[[Courland|Kurland]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=455 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kurland}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/C2#821_.E2.80.93_840|C831]]: Courland
#[[Adolf Kurrein]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=456 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Adolf+Kurrein}}) Austrian rabbi; born Jan. 28, 1846, at Trebitsch, Moravia. He received his doctor's degree from the University of Vienna...
#[[Rudolph Kusel]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=457 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Rudolph+Kusel}}) German jurist and politician; born May 9, 1809, in Carlsruhe; died there Jan. 26, 1890. He studied law in Heidelberg and Munich...
#[[Kussiel]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=458 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kussiel}}) -- ''See'' [[:Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics/J#201_.E2.80.93_220|J214]]: Jekuthiel
#[[Kustendil]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=459 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kustendil}}) Bulgarian city in the north of Macedonia, near the Servian city of Nish. Jews must have settled at Kustendil before the beginning...
#[[Kutaisi|Kutais]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=460 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kutais}}) Russian city in the government of the same name; the scene of a trial for blood accusation in 1877. On April 16 of that year...
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