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#[[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...

#[[Abraham al-Kabishi]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=5 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Abraham+al-Kabishi}}) Printer in Constantinople in the sixteenth century. Together with Judah Sason and Moses ben Joseph Hamon he published "Toledot...

#[[Eduard Kabos]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=6 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Eduard+Kabos}}) Hungarian journalist and writer; born Dec. 2, 1864, at Nagy-Karoly. He entered the University of Budapest for the purpose...

#[[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...

#[[Abraham Aryeh Löb Kahana]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=16 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Abraham+Aryeh+Löb+Kahana}}) Russian rabbi of the eighteenth century; author of "Or ha-Ne'erab," Talmudic commentary, with supplementary notes by his...

#[[Eliezer ben Reuben Kahana]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=18 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Eliezer+ben+Reuben+Kahana}}) Preacher and homiletic exegete in Karlin at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He wrote: "Siach Sefunim" (Zolkiev...

#[[Jacob ben Abraham Kahana]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=19 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Jacob+ben+Abraham+Kahana}}) Rabbinical author; died in Wilna 1826. His father was rabbi at Brestowitz, government of Grodno. Jacob was the son-in-law...

#[[Rab Kahana]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=20 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Rab+Kahana}}) Grand rabbi of Constantinople (1854-1860); born 1785; died 1860 (Franco, "Hist. des Isr. de l'Empire Ottoman," 1897).S...

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#[[Kahana b. Tahlifa]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=21 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kahana+b.+Tahlifa}}) Babylonian amora of the third century. He is mentioned only twice in the Babylonian Talmud; viz., in Men. 66b, where he refutes...

#[[Aaron Samuel ben Israel Kaidanover]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=28 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Aaron+Samuel+ben+Israel+Kaidanover}}) Polish rabbi; born at Wilna 1614; died at Cracow Dec. 1, 1676 (Michael; but Azulai and Horovitz give 1679; see bibliography)...

#[[Zebi Hirsch Kaidanover]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=29 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Zebi+Hirsch+Kaidanover}}) Native of Wilna; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main March 23, 1712; son of Rabbi Aaron Samuel Kaidanover; pupil of Joseph ben Judah...

#[[Kainan]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=32 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kainan}}) Son of Arphaxad and father of Salah; mentioned only in Gen. xi. 13 (LXX.), Book of Jubilees, viii. 1-4, and Luke iii. 36;...

#[[Kairwan]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=33 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kairwan}}) City in the regency of Tunis, thirty miles inland from Susa, and about eighty miles south of the capital. Next to Tunis, it...

#[[Samuel ben Joseph Kala'i]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=37 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Samuel+ben+Joseph+Kala'i}}) Karaite scholar of Chufut-Kale, Crimea; died Feb. 17, 1754. He was the author of a work entitled "Me'il Shemuel," a commentary...

#[[Samuel ben Moses Kala'i]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=38 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Samuel+ben+Moses+Kala'i}}) Italian Talmudist; flourished in the first half of the sixteenth century at Venice. He was a pupil of David Cohen of Corfu...

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#[[Judah Kalaz]] ([[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...

#[[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&#39...

#[[Kalilah wa-Dimnah]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=44 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kalilah+wa-Dimnah}}) Book of Indian fables which has been translated into most of the languages of the Old World. It appears to have been composed...

#[[Eleazar b. Eleazar Kallir]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=61 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Eleazar+b.+Eleazar+Kallir}}) Hungarian rabbi and author; died at Kolin, Bohemia, in 1805; grandson of Meïr Eisenstadt, author of "Panim Me'irot...

#[[Kalman Vermeisa]] ([[Of Worms]]) ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=62 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kalman+Vermeisa}}) Polish rabbi; died in Lemberg on April 28, 1560; the first known rabbi of that community and one of the earliest great rabbis...

#[[Abraham ben Moses Kalomiti]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=64 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Abraham+ben+Moses+Kalomiti}}) Turkish scholar of the fifteenth century. To him is attributed the rationalistic commentary on Job found in manuscript in...

#[[Kalonymus]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=65 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kalonymus}}) A prominent family (originally from Lucca, Italy), which, after the settlement at Mayence and Speyer of several of its members...

#[[Kalonymus ben David ben Todros]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=67 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kalonymus+ben+David+ben+Todros}}) French translator; lived in the first half of the fourteenth century. He translated (after 1328) from the Arabic into Hebrew...

#[[Kalonymus ben Gershon]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=68 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kalonymus+ben+Gershon}}) German Talmudist of the thirteenth century. He was a contemporary of Eleazar of Worms and Menahem ben Jacob, with whom he...

#[[Kalonymus ben Shabbethai]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=73 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kalonymus+ben+Shabbethai}}) Halakist, exegete, and liturgical poet; born at Rome about 1030. His father was president of the Jewish community, and his...

#[[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...

#[[Kalvariya]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=76 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kalvariya}}) District town in the government of Suwalki, Russian Poland. In 1897 it had a total population of 8,420, including about 7...

#[[Moses Meïr Kamanker]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=77 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Moses+Meïr+Kamanker}}) Polish Shabbethaian; lived at Zolkiev in the first half of the eighteenth century. An excellent Talmudist, and possessing...

#[[Kamenetz-Podolsk]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=78 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kamenetz-Podolsk}}) Russian city; capital of the government of Podolia. In 1900 it contained a population of 34,483, about half being Jews. Among...

#[[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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#[[Edouard Kann]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=88 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Edouard+Kann}}) French musician; born at Paris Feb. 28, 1857; pupil of Massenet and Duvernoy. In 1895, at Lyons, he produced "Ruth," an oratorio...

#[[Moses Kann]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=89 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Moses+Kann}}) German rabbi; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main; died there Dec. 1, 1762; son of Löb Kann. He was chief rabbi of Hesse-Darmstadt...

#[[Kansas]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=91 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kansas}}) One of the northern central states of the United States; admitted to the Union in 1861. In 1830 immigrants settled in a spot...

#[[Samuel Kansi]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=93 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Samuel+Kansi}}) French astronomer of the fourteenth century. The surname "Kansi" () is an incorrectly formed adjective of the Hebrew noun...

#[[Judah Löb b. Joseph Kantor]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=94 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Judah+Löb+b.+Joseph+Kantor}}) Russian journalist; born in Wilna 1849; government rabbi of Libau, Courland. For a short time he studied at the rabbinical...

#[[Simeon Kara]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=107 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Simeon+Kara}}) French rabbi; lived in Mans in the eleventh century; brother of Menahem ben Ḥelbo and father of Joseph Kara. For...

#[[Karaites]] and [[Karaism]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=108 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Karaites}}) the Karaites () = "Followers of the Bible") were a Jewish sect, professing, in its religious observances and opinions, to...

#[[Josef Kareis]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=110 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Josef+Kareis}}) Austrian electrician and deputy; born at Semic, Bohemia, Feb. 14, 1837; studied at the technical institute in Prague. From...

#[[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...

#[[Mendel Kargau]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=114 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Mendel+Kargau}}) German Talmudist; born 1772 at Prostibor, Bohemia; died 1842 at Fürth. He was a disciple of Ezekiel Landau in Prague...

#[[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]] ([[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...

#[[Moritz Kármán]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=120 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Moritz+Kármán}}) Hungarian educator; born Dec. 25, 1843, at Szegedin. He was brought up under the influence of Leopold Löw. While preparing...

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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 "Cr&#233...

#[[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...

#[[Simeon Kayyara]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=151 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Simeon+Kayyara}}) Babylonian halakist of the first half of the ninth century. The early identification of his surname with "Kahirah,"...

#[[Katz (name)|Katz]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=152 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kaz}}) A frequent Jewish family name, spelled also "Katz," and found in similar forms, such as "Katzer." It is an abbreviation formed...

#[[Edmund Kean]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=154 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Edmund+Kean}}) English actor; born in London Nov. 4 (?), 1787; died at Richmond, near London, May 15, 1833. He was the natural son of Aaron...

#[[Kedar]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=156 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kedar}}) One of the sons of Ishmael (Gen. xxv. 13; I Chron. i. 29). The name is also applied in Scripture to the tribe that sprang...

#[[Kedeshah]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=157 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kedeshah}}) the Kedeshot were sacred prostitutes attached to the Temple as priestesses of Ashtoreth or Astarte. The worship of Ashtoreth...

#[[Kedushshah]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=158 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kedushshah}}) the third benediction of the 'Amidah is called "Holiness of the Name" (R. H. iv. 4), to distinguish it from "Holiness...

#[[Kefar-salama]] ([[Caphar-salama]]) ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=160 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kefar-salama}}) Scene of Nicanor's unsuccessful attack upon Judas Maccabeus (I Macc. vii. 31; comp. Josephus, "Ant." xii. 10, § 4)...

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#[[Keilah]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=162 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Keilah}}) A city of Judah in the Shephelah, commonly identified with the modern Khurbat Kila, seven miles east of Eleutheropolis. The...

#[[Kelim]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=163 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kelim}}) Treatise in the Mishnah and in the Tosefta, dealing chiefly with a more precise definition of the rules in Lev. xi. 32 et...

#[[Stanislaw Alexander Kempner]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=171 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Stanislaw+Alexander+Kempner}}) Polish economist and publicist; born in 1857 at Kalisz, Poland; studied law in the University of Warsaw, and was graduated...

#[[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"...

#[[Kenites]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=176 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kenites}}) A tribe of Palestine, mentioned in the time of Abraham as possessing a part of the promised land (Gen. xv. 19). At the Exodus...

#[[Benjamin Kennicott]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=177 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Benjamin+Kennicott}}) English Christian Hebraist; born at Totness, England, April 4, 1718; died at Oxford Aug. 18, 1783. He was, at first, master...

#[[Kentucky]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=178 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kentucky}}) One of the south central states of the United States; admitted in 1792. Its most important Jewish community is at Louisville...

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#[[Kerem Hemed]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=182 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kerem+Hemed}}) Hebrew periodical, edited and published in Vienna in 1833 and 1836 (vols. i. and ii.) and in Prague from 1838 to 1843 (vols...

#[[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...

#[[Kertch]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=185 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kertch}}) Russian seaport at the eastern extremity of the Crimean peninsula; the ancient Panticapæon. A Greek inscription on a...

#[[Ketubah]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=187 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Ketubah}}) A marriage contract, containing among other things the settlement on the wife of a certain amount payable at her husband&#39...

#[[Ketubot]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=189 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Ketubot}}) Treatise in the Mishnah, the Tosefta, and in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. In the Mishnaic order of the Seder Nashim...

#[[Keturah]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=190 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Keturah}}) Abraham's second wife, whom he married after the death of Sarah (Gen. xxv. 1; I Chron. i. 32). She was the ancestress...

#[[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...

#[[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...

#[[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...

#[[Samuel Ezekiel Khurilkar]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=200 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Samuel+Ezekiel+Khurilkar}}) Beni-Israel soldier; subahdar in the Anglo-Indian army. He enlisted in the Sixteenth Native Infantry of Bengal in 1790, and...

#[[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...

#[[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 ha-Shem]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=206 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kiddush+ha-Shem}}) Terms denoting the highest positive and negative standards of Jewish ethics, the one indicating that everything within man&#39...

#[[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...

#[[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...

#[[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...

#[[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...

#[[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...

#[[Kinanah]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=220 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kinanah}}) Opponent of Mohammed; son of the poet al-Rabi' ibn abu al-Ḥukaik, who flourished at Medina in the seventh...

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#[[Aryeh Löb Kinderfreund]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=222 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Aryeh+Löb+Kinderfreund}}) Polish scholar; born at Zamosc, government of Lublin, 1798; died at Lemberg 1873. In the earlier part of his life he was in...

#[[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...

#[[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...

#[[Kir]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=233 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kir}}) A people and country subject to the Assyrian empire. In II Kings xvi. 9 and Amos i. 5, ix. 7, Kir is mentioned as the place...

#[[Imre Kiralfy]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=234 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Imre+Kiralfy}}) Musical composer; born in Budapest, Hungary, Jan. 1, 1845. He received his musical education at Budapest, Vienna, and Paris...

#[[Raphael Kirchheim]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=235 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Raphael+Kirchheim}}) German scholar; born in Frankfort-on-the-Main 1804; died there Sept. 6, 1889. For some time he was shocheṭ in the...

#[[Abraham Kirimi]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=236 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Abraham+Kirimi}}) Crimean rabbi of the fourteenth century. According to Firkovitch ("C. I. H." No. 50), Kirimi was a proselyte and a pupil of...

#[[Kirjath-jearim]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=238 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kirjath-jearim}}) 1. A descendant of Caleb, the son of Hur (I Chron. ii. 50, 52, 53). 2. One of the towns of the Gibeonites (Josh. ix. 17),...

#[[Kirjath-sepher]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=239 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kirjath-sepher}}) City in the hill-country of Judah (Josh. xv. 49), situated to the south of Hebron (x. 38), on a prominence not very far from...

#[[Kiss]] and [[Kissing]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=251 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kiss}}) the custom of kissing is not found among savage races, among whom other forms of greeting, such as rubbing of noses, take...

#[[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...

#[[Michael Kittseer]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=254 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Michael+Kittseer}}) Talmudic author; born in Kittsee (Köpcsèny), Hungary, about 1775; died at Presburg Sept. 28, 1845. He was a disciple...

#[[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 "&#7716...

#[[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...

#[[Hugo Klein]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=272 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Hugo+Klein}}) Hungarian writer; born at Szegedin July 21, 1853; educated at the University of Budapest. He was for several years editor...

#[[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...

#[[Julius Leopold Klein]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=275 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Julius+Leopold+Klein}}) Hungarian poet and writer; convert to Christianity; born at Miskolcz, Hungary, 1810; died at Berlin Aug. 2, 1876; educated...

#[[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...

#[[Wilhelm Kley]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=288 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Wilhelm+Kley}}) German economist and educator; born at Steinbach, district of Meiningen, Germany, June 25, 1869. He taught for several years...

#[[Louis Lucien Klotz]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=290 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Louis+Lucien+Klotz}}) French journalist and deputy; born in Paris Jan. 11, 1868; of Alsatian descent. After his education was finished, he was enrolled...

#[[Solomon ben Judah Aaron Kluger]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=291 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Solomon+ben+Judah+Aaron+Kluger}}) Chief dayyan and preacher of Brody, Galicia; born at Komarow, Russian Poland, in 1783; died at Brody June 9, 1869. He was...

#[[Frederick Knefler]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=294 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Frederick+Knefler}}) American soldier; born in Hungary in 1833. He went to America, and when the Civil war broke out he enlisted as a private in...

#[[Knot]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=295 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Knot}}) Some form of quipu or knot-alphabet appears to have been adopted in Biblical, or, at least, in Talmudical times, to judge...

#[[Gustav Kober]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=297 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Gustav+Kober}}) Austrian actor; born at Vienna April 21, 1849. He was trained for the stage by Emilie Dorr in that city and made his d&#233...

#[[Heinrich Köbner]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=298 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Heinrich+Köbner}}) German physician; born at Breslau Dec. 2, 1838. He studied medicine at Berlin and Breslau (M.D. 1859), taking post-graduate...

== 301 to 400 ==

==== 301 – 320 ====

#[[Kobryn]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=301 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kobryn}}) District town in the government of Grodno, Russia; situated on the Muchavetz and Kobrynka rivers. In 1902 it contained more...

#[[Hermann Friedrich Köcher]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=304 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Hermann+Friedrich+Köcher}}) German Christian Hebraist; born at Osnabrück in 1747; died April 2, 1792. He was the author of "Specimen Observationum...

#[[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...

#[[Hendrik Jacob Koenen]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=307 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Hendrik+Jacob+Koenen}}) Dutch historian of the Jews; born at Amsterdam Jan. 11, 1809; died at Buitenrust, near Haarlem, Oct. 13, 1874. He was educated...

#[[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...

#[[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....

#[[Kohelet Rabbah]] ([[Ecclesiastes Rabbah]]) '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=311 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kohelet+Rabbah}}) Haggadic commentary on Ecclesiastes, included in the collection of the Rabbot. It follows the Biblical book verse by verse...

#[[Kohen Zedek II Kahana ben Joseph]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=315 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kohen+Zedek+II+Kahana+ben+Joseph}}) Gaon of Pumbedita from 917 to 935. Immediately after his appointment he took measures to change the existing system in the...

#[[Kaufmann Kohler]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=316 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kaufmann+Kohler}}) Rabbi and theologian; born in Fürth, Bavaria, May 10, 1843; a descendant of a family of rabbis. He received his rabbinical...

#[[Joel Beer Kohn]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=323 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Joel+Beer+Kohn}}) Russian writer; born at Volozhin 1816; died in Wilna Nov. 17, 1871. He translated Fénelon's "Les Aventures de T&#233...

#[[Maier Kohn]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=324 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Maier+Kohn}}) Ḥazzan in Munich, Bavaria; born toward the close of the eighteenth century. He was the predecessor of Solomon Naumbourg...

#[[Samuel Kohn]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=326 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Samuel+Kohn}}) Hungarian rabbi and author; born at Baja, Hungary, Sept. 21, 1841; grandson of the rabbi of that place, Götz Schwerin...

#[[Samuel Kohn]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=327 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Samuel+Kohn}}) Russian physician; born at Zhagory, government of Kovno, Feb. 11, 1865. After he had studied Talmud under private tutors,...

#[[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...

#[[Joseph ben Abraham Kokabi]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=336 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Joseph+ben+Abraham+Kokabi}}) German physician, a native of Ulm; lived at Ferrara in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. "Kokabi" is the Hebrew equivalent...

#[[Kokebe Yizhak]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=337 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kokebe+Yizhak}}) Hebrew annual; published at Vienna from 1845 to 1872 by M. Stern, and from 1872 to 1873 by M. Weissmann (Chajes). The annual...

#[[Kol Bo]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=338 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kol+Bo}}) Collection of ritual and civil laws, the meaning of the title being "all is in it"; who its author was has not yet been ascertained...

#[[Kol Nidre]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=340 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kol+Nidre}}) Prayer recited in the synagogue at the beginning of the evening service on the Day of Atonement; the name is taken from the...

==== 341 – 360 ====

#[[Sigmund Kolisch]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=345 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Sigmund+Kolisch}}) Austrian poet and historical writer; born at Koritschan, Moravia, Sept.15, 1817. He was educated at the University of Vienna...

#[[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...

#[[Friedrich Eduard König]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=348 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Friedrich+Eduard+König}}) German Protestant theologian; born at Reicheribach, Saxony, Nov. 15, 1846; Ph.D., 1874, Leipsic; D.D., 1888, Erlangen. He...

#[[Julius König]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=349 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Julius+König}}) Hungarian mathematician; born Dec. 16, 1849, at Raab. He entered the University of Vienna to study medicine, but being more...

#[[Königswarter]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=354 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Königswarter}}) A family that resided in Königswarte, near Tachau, Bohemia, about the middle of the eighteenth century, when Jonas Hirsch...

#[[Konitz Affair]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=355 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Konitz+Affair}}) An accusation of ritual murder, based on the unexplained assassination of the student Ernst Winter in Konitz, West Prussia...

#[[Kontres]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=357 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kontres}}) Usual designation, among the Tosafists, of Rashi's commentary on the Talmud. Rashi himself uses the expression once to...

#[[Henry Koplik]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=358 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Henry+Koplik}}) American physician; born at New York Oct. 28, 1858; educated at the College of the City of New York and at the College of...

#[[Jacob ben Samuel Koppelmann]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=360 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Jacob+ben+Samuel+Koppelmann}}) German author and translator; born in the district of Breisgau 1555; died 1598. In 1583 he went to Frankfort-on-the-Main,...

==== 361 – 380 ====

#[[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...

#[[Korban]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=365 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Korban}}) 1. A sacrifice of any kind, whether bloody or bloodless; term used by Josephus in the sense also of a vow-offering, or of...

#[[Solomon Koreff]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=366 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Solomon+Koreff}}) German Talmudist; born about 1700; died in Prague May 24, 1774. For more than forty years he presided over a large yeshibah...

#[[Selig Korn]] ([[Friedrich N Nork]]) ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=368 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Selig+Korn}}) German writer and mythologist; born April 26, 1803, at Prague; died at Teplitz Oct. 16, 1850. Expelled from the gymnasium...

#[[Moses b. Eliezer Körner]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=369 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Moses+b.+Eliezer+Körner}}) Russian Hebrew author of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; grandson of Yom-Tob Lipman Heller. He was for some...

#[[Kos]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=375 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kos}}) An island belonging to the Sporades group in the Aegean Sea near the Carian coast; known also as Meropis and Nymph&#230...

#[[Raphael Kosch]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=376 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Raphael+Kosch}}) German physician and deputy; born at Lissa, Posen, Oct. 5, 1803; died at Berlin March 27, 1872. Educated at the University...

#[[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...

#[[Julius Kossarski]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=380 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Julius+Kossarski}}) German poet; born 1812 at Bromberg; died there July 1, 1879. He went to Berlin to take up the study of literature, afterward...

#[[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...

#[[Abraham Uri Kowner]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=388 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Abraham+Uri+Kowner}}) Russian Hebrew critic; born at Wilna about 1837. He became renowned on account of a campaign which he conducted against many...

#[[Moses ben David Krämer]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=391 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Moses+ben+David+Krämer}}) Lithuanian Talmudist of the seventeenth century; died at Wilna Oct. 19, 1683. After officiating as rabbi in a number of Lithuanian...

#[[Isaac Kramsztyk]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=392 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Isaac+Kramsztyk}}) Polish writer and preacher; born at Warsaw 1814; died there 1889. He graduated from the rabbinical school of Warsaw, in which...

#[[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...

#[[Horace Krasnopolski]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=395 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Horace+Krasnopolski}}) Austrian jurist; born Nov. 5, 1842, at Pistyn, Galicia, where he received his earliest education in the Cheder. From...

#[[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...

#[[Krefeld]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=404 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Krefeld}}) Prussian manufacturing town near Düsseldorf, in the province of the Rhine. Small neighboring villages, embraced in the...

#[[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...

#[[Johanan b. Meïr Kremnitzer]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=407 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Johanan+b.+Meïr+Kremnitzer}}) Polish rabbinical author; lived in the seventeenth century at Kalisz.He wrote "Orach Mishor" (Sulzbach, 1692), a commentary...

#[[Simon Kremser]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=408 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Simon+Kremser}}) German army commissary; born Sept. 15, 1775, at Breslau, Germany; died 1851. He became commissary agent to Blücher in...

#[[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-&#7716...

#[[Mordecai Krespin]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=412 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Mordecai+Krespin}}) Turkish rabbi and writer; lived on the island of Rhodes in the first half of the eighteenth century; son-in-law of R. Moses...

#[[Kreuznach]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=414 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Kreuznach}}) Prussian town and watering-place in the government of Coblenz. The first mention of Jews in Kreuznach occurs in an account...

#[[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...

#[[Samuel Kristeller]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=417 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Samuel+Kristeller}}) German physician; born at Xions, Posen, May 26, 1820; died at Berlin June 15, 1900. He received his diploma as doctor of medicine...

#[[Theodor Kroner]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=427 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Theodor+Kroner}}) German rabbi; born at Dyhernfurth, Prussian Silesia, May 12, 1845. He was educated at the gymnasium at Glatz, the yeshibah...

#[[Moses ben Akiba of Glogau Kronik]] ([[Kroniker]]) ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=428 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Moses+ben+Akiba+of+Glogau+Kronik}}) Rabbi of Flatow (Zlotowo); lived in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was the author of "Tefillah we-Todah," hymns...

#[[Krozhe]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=430 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Krozhe}}) Town in the district of Rossieny, government of Kovno, Russia. The Jewish community dates from the fifteenth century. With...

#[[Wilhelm Traugott Krug]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=431 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Wilhelm+Traugott+Krug}}) Christian advocate of the emancipation of the Jews; born June 22, 1770, in the village of Radis, near Wittenberg, Prussia...

#[[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...

#[[Eduard Kulke]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=445 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Eduard+Kulke}}) Austrian author; born at Kostel, near Nikolsburg, Moravia, May 28, 1831; died in Vienna March 20, 1897; educated at the polytechnic...

#[[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...

#[[Moses ben Menahem Kunitzer]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=448 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Moses+ben+Menahem+Kunitzer}}) Rabbi in Ofen and dayyan in Budapest; born at Alt-Ofen; died Feb. 2, 1837. A descendant of Rabbi Löwe ben Bezaleel, he...

#[[Ignatz Kunos]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=449 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Ignatz+Kunos}}) Hungarian authority on Turkish; born Sept. 20, 1861, at Sámson, Hungary. He attended the gymnasium at Debreczin and the...

#[[Abraham Kupernik|Abraham (Avraam Aronovich) Kupernik]] ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=450 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Abraham+Kupernik}}) Russian communal worker; born at Wilna 1821; died at Dembitza 1893, on his homeward journey from abroad; buried in Kiev. He...

#[[Ignaz Kuranda]] '''JE''' ([http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=K&artid=452 JE] | {{ShortSearch|Ignaz+Kuranda}}) Austrian deputy and political writer; born in Prague May 1, 1812; died in Vienna April 3, 1884. His grandfather and father...

#[[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...

#[[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...

#[[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...

#[[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...