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Pablo Alvaro JE S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1229: Bodo
Pablo Christian (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C488: Christiani, Pablo
Pacific Messenger (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Pacifico case (JE | WP GWP G) An affair arising out of a claim made on the Greek government by one David Pacifico, commonly known as "Don ......
Padan-aram (JE | WP GWP G) the first element in the word is variously explained as meaning "road" or "field," "yoke," and "plow." It may indicate ......
Paderborn S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Town in the province of Westphalia, Prussia. The presence of Jews there is first mentioned in 1606, when the diet ......
Elishama Meïr Padovani (JE | WP GWP G) Italian Talmudist of the eighteenth century; born in Modena; died at Padua 1830. He was educated and first served as ......
Padua >> History of the Jews in Padua (JE | WP GWP G) City of upper Italy, 22 miles west of Venice, on the Bacchiglione; capital of the province of the same name. ......
Padua S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M303: Maẓliaḥ, Judah b. Abraham Padova
Jacob Meïr Padua (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi; born in Brest-Litovsk; died there Dec. 12, 1854. He was a descendant of the Katzenellenbogen family which had ......
Paganism >> Jewish Views of Paganism (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G142: Gentile
Hans Pagay [de] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian actor; born at Vienna Nov. 11, 1845. His father was a broker, and destined his son for the same ......
Josephine Pagay (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian actress; born at Vienna; died at Berlin Nov. 18, 1892. She made her first appearance at the age of ......
Julius Leopold Pagel JE S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) German physician and medical writer; born at Pollnow, Pomerania, May 29, 1851; educated at the gymnasium at Stolp and at ......
Angelo Paggi (JE | WP GWP G) Italian Hebraist; born at Sienna May 4, 1789; died at Florence June 7, 1867. He received his Hebrew training under ......
Jews in Pahlavi Literature (JE | WP GWP G) the Pahlavi or Middle Persian literature, extending approximately from the third to the tenth century C.E., is devoted mainly to ......
Painting >> Jewish Painting (JE | WP GWP G) the art least developed among the Hebrews. If it is borne in mind that painting was affected by the Mosaic ......
De Paiva (Family) (De Payba (family) (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish Marano family of Amsterdam, with some members in Mexico.Abraham de Paiva: Poet; lived in Amsterdam about 1687. A Spanish ......
La Paix (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Paks Conference (JE | WP GWP G) Meeting of rabbis held Aug. 20 and 21, 1844, at the town of Paks, Hungary. The discussions in the Hungarian ......

21 – 40

Biblical Palaces or Palaces in the Bible (JE | WP GWP G) the Hebrews learned from the Phenicians the art of erecting large buildings having several rooms. David's palace was built by ......
Samuel Palache (JE | WP GWP G) Moroccan envoy sent by the King of Morocco to the Netherlands about 1591; subsequently acted as consul there; died at ......
Abraham Palággi (Abraham Falaji) (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish rabbinical author; born at Smyrna in 1809; died there 1899; son of ?ayyim Palaggi. On the death of his ......
Chayyim Palaggi JE (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish rabbinical author; born at Smyrna 1788; died there 1869; maternal grandson of Joseph b. ?ayyim Hazan, author of "?i?re ......
Ludwig Palágyi (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian poet; born at Becse April 15, 1866; educated privately by his father, a former public school-teacher, and by his ......
Melchior Palágyi S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian writer; born at Paks Dec. 26, 1859. He received his primary instruction from his father, and then attended the ......
Pale of Settlement S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) A portion of Russia in which Jews are allowed to reside. Unlike other Russian subjects, the Jewish inhabitants do not ......
Palencia >> History of the Jews in Palencia (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the province of Palencia, Spain, situated between Burgos and Valladolid. A large and wealthy Jewish community settled here ......
Paleography S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Besides a certain number of pagan inscriptions mentioning Jewish affairs, about 500 texts referring directly to persons professing the Jewish ......
Palermo >> History of the Jews in Palermo (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the island of Sicily; situated on the northern coast. Its Jewish community dates from the Roman period. Under ......
Palestine S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) The portion of Syria which was formerly the possession of the Israelites. It includes the whole of the country between ......
Holiness of Palestine (JE | WP GWP G) the sacredness of Palestine in the esteem of the Jews is partly accounted for by the fact that it was ......
Laws and Customs Relating to Palestine (Mitzvot ha-Teluyot ba'Aretz) >> Laws and customs of the Land of Israel in Judaism JE (JE | WP GWP G) Special laws, operative only in the Holy Land, are called "mitzwot ha-teluyot ba-aretz," and may be classified as follows: (1) ......
Palestinian Talmud S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T32: Talmud
John Paley (JE | WP GWP G) American journalist; born Feb. 6, 1871, at Radoszkowice, government of Wilna, Russia. After receiving the usual education, he attended the ......
Francis Palgrave (Francis Cohen) S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) English historian; born in London July, 1788; died there July 6, 1861; son of Meyer Cohen, a member of the ......
Joseph Hirsh Palitschinetzki (JE | WP GWP G) Biblical scholar; born 1805; died at Berdychev Feb. 27, 1886. He was instructor in the Bible in the rabbinical seminary ......
Palm S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) An evergreen tree growing in tropical climates in a dry atmosphere. The term for it, common to the Aramaic, Ethiopic, ......
Palma >> History of the Jews in Palma (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the Spanish island of Majorca. As early as the Moorish period Jews were living in Almudayna, the most ......
Palmyra S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Latin name of a city in a well-watered oasis of the Syrian desert, five days' journey from the Euphrates, between ......

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Palti S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Name borne by two persons mentioned in the Old Testament; probably an abbreviation, or corruption, of Paltiel. 1. Son of ......
Paltiel UNR (JE | WP GWP G) Vizier to the Egyptian califs al-Mu'izz and 'Abd al-Mansur; lived in the second half of the tenth century. The Chronicle ......
Paltiya of Naweh (Pelatya of Naweh) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian haggadist of the third century. He is cited but once, as author of a derashah. The haggadists consider the ......
Paltoi ben Abayi (JE | WP GWP G) Gaon of Pumbedita from 842 to 858. He was the first of a series of prominent geonim at that academy, ......
Pamiers >> History of the Jews in Pamiers (JE | WP GWP G) One of the principal towns of the department of Ariège, France. A Jewish community existed here in the twelfth century. ......
Pamplona >> History of the Jews in Pamplona (JE | WP GWP G) Capital and oldest city of the kingdom of Navarra, Spain. Next to Tudela, it possessed the most important Jewish community. ......
Taube Pan (JE | WP GWP G) Judæo-German authoress of the sixteenth century; lived in the Prague ghetto at the time of Mordecai Meisel; daughter of R. ......
Panama >> History of the Jews in Panama (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S990: South and Central America
Paneas S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) See Caesarea Philippi. ......
Ezekiel Panet (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian rabbi; born 1783 at Bielitz, Silesia; died Nisan 20, 1845, at Karlsburg, Transylvania. He studied in the yeshibah of ......
Panzieri >> Shabbethai Panzieri JE (JE | WP GWP G) Portuguese family members of which are met with in Constantinople and Rome from the sixteenth century. The family is still ......
Betty Paoli (Barbara Elisabeth Glück) (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian poetess; born at Vienna Dec. 30, 1814; died at Baden, near Vienna, July 5, 1894. Her father, a physician, ......
Papa (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the fifth generation; born about 300; died 375; pupil of Raba and Abaye. After the death of ......
Paper and Papyrus S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M164: Manuscripts
Abraham Jacob Paperna JE S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Russian educator and author; born at Kopyl, government of Minsk, 1840. He received a fair education, including the study of ......
Eliezer ben Isaac Papo (JE | WP GWP G) Bulgarian rabbi and author; born in Sarajevo, Bosnia; died in 1824. He held the office of rabbi in Silistria, Bulgaria, ......
Pappenheim >> History of the Jews in Pappenheim (JE | WP GWP G) Small town in Mittelfranken, containing one of the oldest Jewish communities in Bavaria. The statement of Stern-Neubauer that the word ......
Israel Hirsch Pappenheim (JE | WP GWP G) Representative of the Bavarian Jews and champion of their emancipation; born at Munich; died there Sept. 8, 1837. He was ......
Simon Pappenheim [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) German writer; born at Dembiohammer 1773; died at Ratibor Aug. 6, 1840. He at first supported himself as a private ......
Solomon Pappenheim (JE | WP GWP G) German scholar; born Feb. 2, 1740, at Zülz, Silesia; died March 4 or 5, 1814, at Breslau; son of Associate ......

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Pappos ben Judah (JE | WP GWP G) Haggadist of the first half of the second century; contemporary and fellow prisoner of Akiba. At the time of the ......
Pappus S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Leader of a rebellion under Emperor Hadrian (117-138). He is always mentioned together with Luliani, who was probably his brother ......
Parable S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) A short religious allegory. That the Hebrew designation for "parable" is "mashal" (comp. David ?im?i's commentary on II Sam. xii. ......
Paraclete S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinical term adopted from the Greek ?????????? (= "advocate," "intercessor"): Targumic translation of V09p514003.jpg (Job xvi. 20, xxxiii. 23): "He ......
Paradise S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) The word "paradise" is probably of Persian origin. It occurs but three times in the Old Testament, namely, in Cant. ......
Parah S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a treatise in the Mishnah and the Tosefta, included in the order ?ohorot. The Pentateuchal law (Num. xix.) ......
Parallelism in Hebrew Poetry (JE | WP GWP G) It is now generally conceded that parallelism is the fundamental law, not only of the poetical, but even of the ......
Paran S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Desert, corresponding to the present Badiyyat al-Tih, bounded on the north by the Jabal al-Makhrah, on the south by the ......
Parashah S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) A section of the Pentateuch. The Sephardim apply the word to each of the fifty-four weekly lessons into which the ......
Parashiyyot S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Besides the weekly lesson or parashah that is read from the scroll of the Law every Sabbath, there is sometimes ......
Pardo S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) A family deriving its name from Prado in Castile. Its members have mostly distinguished themselves in the Levant. Among them ......
Parents S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F63: Father
Asher ben Jacob Parenzo (JE | WP GWP G) Hebrew printer in Venice from 1580 to 1600; brother of the printer Meïr b. Jacob. He was employed by Giovanni ......
Cesare Parenzo [it] (JE | WP GWP G) Italian senator and deputy; born at Rovigo 1839; died at Nervi, near Genoa, April 15, 1898. He studied law, but ......
Parchi (JE | WP GWP G) See Far?i. ......
Solomon ben Abraham ibn Parchon JE (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish philologist of the twelfth century; a native of Ḳal'ah (Ḳal'at Ayyub, Calatayud), Aragon. In the preface to his lexicon ......
Paris >> History of the Jews in Paris (JE | WP GWP G) Capital city of France. There were Jews in Paris prior to the date of the Frankish invasion. The councils of ......
Elias Parish-Alvars (JE | WP GWP G) English harpist and composer; born at Teignmouth, England, Feb. 28, 1810; died at Vienna Jan. 25, 1849; a pupil of ......
Parma >> History of the Jews in Parma (JE | WP GWP G) Italian city, formerly capital of the duchy of the same name; the seat of an ancient Jewish community. When the ......
Parnas S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Neo-Hebraic word designating the president or the trustee of a congregation. It is found in the Targum as the equivalent ......

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Parody S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) A composition either in verse or in prose, modeled more or less closely on an original work, or class of ......
Paronomasia S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1266: Alliteration
Parsa S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See W81: Weights and Measures
Parshandatha (JE | WP GWP G) the first-born son of Haman (Esth. ix. 7). In the twelfth century the name obtained a literary meaning. It was ......
Joseph Parsi (JE | WP GWP G) Mathematician; flourished toward the end of the fifteenth century. All that isknown of him is that he was the author ......
Parties to Action (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P538: Procedure
Partition S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J382: Joint Owners
Partnership S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) The word "shotefin" is used in the Mishnah almost always to denote joint owners, especially of land. In the language ......
Partridge S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) This bird is mentioned only in I Sam. xxvi. 20 (LXX., ?????????? = "kos" = "owl") and Jer. xvii. 11.The ......
Party Lines and Party Walls (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1368: Boundaries
Paschal Sacrifice JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P99: Passover Sacrifice
Wolf Pascheles JE S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian publisher; born at Prague May 11, 1814; died there Nov. 22, 1857. The son of needy parents, he gained ......
Heinrich Paschkis [de] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian pharmacologist; born at Nikolsburg, Moravia, March 21, 1849; educated at Vienna University (M.D. 1872). He was appointed assistant at ......
Pashur S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Immer the priest. He attacked Jeremiah on account of his prophecies of calamity and put him in the ......
Aaron de Pass (JE | WP GWP G) South-African pioneer; together with his brother Elias de Pass, he was connected with Cape Colony from the year 1846. His ......
Passau >> History of the Jews in Passau (JE | WP GWP G) Town of eastern Bavaria. Jews were settled here toward the end of the twelfth century, when they were under the ......
Ugo Passigli (JE | WP GWP G) Italian physician; born at Sienna Dec. 14, 1867; studied medicine at the Reale Istituto di Studi Superiori, Florence, and is ......
Passover S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) The Biblical account connects the term with the root V09p548003.jpg (= "to pass by," "to spare"; Ex. xii. 13, 23, ......
Passover Sacrifice JE (JE | WP GWP G) the sacrifice which the Israelites offered at the command of God during the night before the Exodus from Egypt, and ......
Leonid Osipovich Pasternak S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Russian painter; born at Odessa, 1862, of well-to-do parents. According to a family tradition, he is descended on his father's ......

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Pastoreaux (JE | WP GWP G) French religious fanatics of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In the year 1251 an unknown man, called "Le Maître de ......
Pasuch (JE | WP GWP G) Passive participle of the Aramaic word "pesa?" (to cut off), meaning a section or division. It is, however, used almost ......
Pater Synagogae (JE | WP GWP G) Title occurring frequently in the inscriptions of the Jewish catacombs at Rome. According to Berliner ("Gesch. der Juden in Rom," ......
Paternity S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Fatherhood. Doubtful paternity involves not only the right of inheritance, but also, if the father be a kohen, the claim ......
Paterson, New Jersey >> History of the Jews in Paterson, New Jersey (JE | WP GWP G) Manufacturing city in the state of New Jersey; center of the silk industry in the United States. It has attracted ......
Pathology S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M325: Medicine
Patiency (JE | WP GWP G) the Hebrew Scriptures have many words for "patience," corresponding to the varied meanings of this complex virtue; e.g., "erek af" ......
Patriachy in Judaism (Patriarchal family and authority) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F33: Family and Family Life
The Patriarchs (JE | WP GWP G) As early as the Biblical period Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are nearly always invoked together. God remembers the covenant which ......
Patricius S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Leader of the Jews against the Romans in the fourth century. When the Jews in Palestine were severely oppressed by ......
Patrimony S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I140: Inheritance
Patriotism S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Love for and devotion to one's country. The word is not used in the Hebrew Scriptures; but the virtue of ......
Benjamin Dias Patto (Benjamin Dias Pato) (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish ?akam and preacher; killed April, 1664; son of Jacob Dias Pato, and a pupil of Saul Levi Morteira, whose ......
Samson Gomez Patto (JE | WP GWP G) Member of the college of rabbis in Jerusalem in the eighteenth century. In 1705 he approved the work "Peri ?a-dash" ......
Paul de Burgos JE S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish archbishop; born at Burgos about 1351; died Aug. 29, 1435. His father, Isaac ha-Levi, had come from Aragon or ......
Paul de Santa Maria S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P115: Paul de Burgos
Paul of Tarsus S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S283: Saul of Tarsus
Holger Paulli (Oliger Pauli) (JE | WP GWP G) Danish religious fanatic; born in Copenhagen 1644; died there Aug., 1714. Of his early life little is known except that ......
Paulus of Prague (Elhanan ben Menahem) (JE | WP GWP G) Convert to Christianity; born apparently at Kholm (Chelm), Poland, about 1540; died at Prague about the end of the sixteenth ......
Paupers S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C371: Charity

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Pavia >> History of the Jews in Pavia (JE | WP GWP G) Italian city, situated on the River Ticino; the chief city of the province of Pavia. The first indication of the ......
Angelo Pavia (JE | WP GWP G) Italian deputy and lawyer; born at Venice Feb. 24, 1858. He is (1904) district attorney for the province of Como. ......
Julius da Pavia (Lulllus da Pavia) (JE | WP GWP G) Italian scholar of the eighth century; one of the first European Jews known by name. According to Alcuin, he sustained ......
Eugenia Pavia-Gentilomo-Fortis (JE | WP GWP G) Italian poetess; born at Milan Jan. 4, 1822; died at Asolo, near Treviso, Dec. 30, 1893. She was a pupil ......
Pawnbrokers S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P370: Pledges
Duarte de Paz (JE | WP GWP G) Portuguese Marano; representative of and attorney for his Portuguese coreligionists; died about 1541. He was a skilful diplomat but a ......
Enrique Enriquez de Paz (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G346: Gomez, Antonio Enriquez
Peh (JE | WP GWP G) Seventeenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Its name appears to be connected with "peh" = "mouth" (see Alphabet). "Pe" has ......
Peace S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) The primary meaning of the word is "prosperity," "health" (Jer. xxix. 7; Job xv. 21 [A. V. "prosperity"]; Isa. xlviii. ......
Kiss of Peace (JE | WP GWP G) Sacramental rite in the Christian Church, preceding the mass or communion service. It appears to be referred to in Rom. ......
Peace Offering JE (JE | WP GWP G) There are three kinds of peace-offering: (1) the thank-offering (V09p566001.jpg); (2) the votive-offering (V09p566002.jpg); and (3) the free-will offering (V09p566003.jpg). ......
Peach S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) This fruit and the plum (V09p568003.jpg; Prunus domestica) are mentioned only in late times: the former in the Mishnah (Kil. ......
Peacock S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Traditional rendering of "tukkiyyim," mentioned among the creatures brought by Solomon's ships from Tarshish (I Kings x. 22). The peacock ......
Pe'ah S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a treatise of the Mishnah, the Tosefta, and the Palestinian Talmud, defining the laws set forth in Lev. ......
Pear S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) The pear is mentioned in the Talmud (see Löw, "Aramäische Pflanzennamen," p. 152). It does not seem to have been ......
Pearl S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Since ancient times the precious product of the pearl-oyster (Mytilus margaritifer Linn.) has been known and has been an article ......
Feodosi Pecherski (JE | WP GWP G) Russian saint of the eleventh century (1057-74). According to the so-called Nestorian chronicles, while superior of the Kiev monastery he ......
Pécs >> History of the Jews in Pecs (or in Fünfkirchen) (JE | WP GWP G) Royal free city in the county of Baranya, Hungary. The few Jewish families which had settled there toward the end ......
Peculiar People S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C478: Chosen People
Pedagogics S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) The science of education. The fundamental law of Biblical pedagogy is that the child should be instructed in the doctrines ......

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Pedat ben Eleazar (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth generation (first half of the fourth century). He was his father's pupil (Ber. 77b; M. ......
Pedigree (Onomastics on Judaism and Jewish history) S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Table of descent and relationship; sometimes given in narrative form. Jews have always carefully recorded their genealogies (see article), but ......
Pedlers (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H381: Hawkers and Pedlers
Pedro I S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) King of Portugal (1357-67). This monarch, whose motto was "What the soul is to the body, justice is to the ......
Pedro II S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) King of Aragon (1196-1213). Inspired with a desire to receive his kingly crown from the pontiff himself, he journeyed in ......
Pedro II (Pedro d'Alcantara) S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Emperor of Brazil; born Dec. 2, 1825; died at Paris Dec. 5, 1891. He succeeded his father, Pedro I., and ......
Pedro III S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) King of Aragon (1276-85). Although Pedro III. protected the Jews from the hatred of the clergy, who destroyed their vineyards ......
Pedro IV S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) King of Aragon (1336-87). During the whole of his long reign he showed himself just toward the Jews in his ......
Pedro de la Caballeria (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C2: Caballeria, De la
Pedro de Luna S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B688: Benedict
Pedro de Toledo (JE | WP GWP G) Viceroy of Naples; friend and protector of the Jews; he employed (c. 1530) Don Samuel Abravanel, the youngest son of ......
Peg S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T139: Tent
Pechah (JE | WP GWP G) An office, based upon a Babylonian model, and which existed in Palestine as early as the Biblical period, being mentioned, ......
Peine >> History of the Jews in Peine (JE | WP GWP G) German town in the province of Hanover. It belonged formerly to the bishopric of Hildesheim. Jews lived there as early ......
Peirins (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D81: Dauphiné
Raphael ben Jacob Peiser (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi of Peisern in the eighteenth century. He was the author of the "Or la-Yesharim" or "En Ya'a?ob," containing novellæ ......
Simon ben Judah Löb Peiser (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi in Lissa; born at Peisern, Poland, about 1690. He was the author of "Na?alat Shim'oni," an important work of ......
Peixotto (JE | WP GWP G) American Jewish family, originally from Spain, whence members thereof migrated by way of Holland to Curaçao, in the West Indies. ......
Pekah (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Remaliah and a king of Israel in the period of anarchy between the fall of the dynasty of ......
Pekahiah S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) King of Israel in succession to his father (736-735 B.C.), according to P. Rost in Schrader, "K. A. T." 3d ......

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Pelethites S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C426: Cherethites
Pelican S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Unclean bird mentioned in Lev. xi. 18 and Deut. xiv. 17. Reference to its habit of living in ruins and ......
Samuel Hirsh Peltin (JE | WP GWP G) Polish author; born at Mariampol, government of Suwalki, May, 1831; died at Warsaw Sept. 30, 1896. In his youth he ......
Pen S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) An instrument for writing. The older expressions for "writing," which later occur as archaisms in lofty speech, mean "to cut ......
Raymund de Peñaforte S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Chaplain to Pope Alexander IV.; grand master of the Dominican order until 1240; confessor of James I. of Aragon; lived ......
Penalties S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F145: Fines and Forfeiture
Peniel (JE | WP GWP G) Place mentioned three times in the Old Testament. It was situated on the western bank of the Jordan, near the ......
Solomon ben Abraham Peniel (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar of unknown date and place. He was the author of a work entitled "Or 'Enayim," on the influence of ......
Penini (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B491: Bedersi
Penitence S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R216: Repentance
Penitential Days REF:JE (JE | WP GWP G) the first ten days of Tishri, beginning with the Day of Memorial (New-Year) and ending with the Day of Atonement. ......
Pennsylvania >> History of the Jews in Pennsylvania JE (JE | WP GWP G) One of the original thirteen states of the American Union; named after William Penn, who received a grant of the ......
Abraham Penso (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish rabbinical author; lived at Sarajevo, Bosnia, at the end of the eighteenth century; pupil of David Pardo. Penso was ......
Joseph Penso S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Merchant, poet, and philanthropist; born at Espejo, Spain, about 1650; died at Amsterdam Nov. 13, 1692. He was the son ......
Pentapolis S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) The five Sodomite cities Adamah, Gomorrah, Sodom, Zeboim, and Zoar, expressly called "Pentapolis" in Wisdom x. 6.2. The five Philistine ......
Pentateuch - ours simply redirects to Tora - (JE | WP GWP G) the five books of Moses. The word is a Greek adaptation of the Hebrew expression "?amishshah ?umshe ha-Torah" (five-fifths of ......
Pentecost (Shavuot) S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Name given by the Greek-speaking Jews to the festival which occurred fifty days (? ??????????, sc. ????? = "?ag ?amishshim ......
Peor S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Mountain in the plains of Zophim, overlooking Jeshimon, where Balak took Balaam to induce him to curse Israel. According to ......
Pe'ot (Payot) S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Side-locks worn by Jewish men, especially those of Poland and Russia. Strictly conforming themselves to the Biblical precept in Lev. ......
Peraea S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Division of Palestine, extending, according to Josephus ("B. J." iii. 3, � 3), from Macherus in the south to Pella ......

181 – 200

Aaron ben Chayyim ha-Kohen Perachyah (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi and author; flourished at Salonica in the seventeenth century; a pupil of ?asdai Pera?yah ha-Kohen. He was the author ......
Perachyah ben Nissim (JE | WP GWP G) Tosafist of the second half of the thirteenth century; the author of novellæ on certain Talmudic treatises, some of whichwere ......
Pereda (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the second generation; probably a pupil of R. Ammi, to whom he addressed a halakic question (Men. ......
Nahum Abramovich Pereferkovich [ru] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian author and translator; born at Stavropol, Caucasia, in 1871, receiving there his early education. In 1894 he was graduated ......
Diego Lopez Pereira (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A921: Aguilar, Diego d'
Jonathan Pereira S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) English physician and medical writer; born in London May 22, 1804; died there Jan. 20, 1853. He was educated at ......
Pereire S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) French family of which the following are the most distinguished members:(Jacob) Emile Pereire: French banker; grandson of Jacob Rodrigues Pereire; ......
Abraham Peretz (JE | WP GWP G) Russian financier; friend and contemporary of Nathan Notkin and Nevakhovich. He was a son of the rabbi of Levertov, Galicia, ......
Isaac Löb Peretz (JE | WP GWP G) Writer in Yiddish and Hebrew; born at Samoscz, government of Lublin, May 25, 1851. In the Hebrew school in which ......
Abraham Israel Pereyra (JE | WP GWP G) Spanish writer and philanthropist; born at Madrid; died 1699 at Amsterdam. He went to Venice to escape the persecution of ......
Perez S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Marano family of Cordova or Seville, several members of which were victims of the Inquisition in Spain and South America, ......
Perez ben Elijah of Corbeil JE S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) French tosafist; lived at Corbeil in the second half of the thirteenth century; died before 1298, probably in 1295; son ......
Perez ben Isaac Cohen Gerondi (JE | WP GWP G) Cabalist. The surname "Gerondi" is due to an unwarranted deduction by Jellinek ("Beiträge zur Gesch. der Kabbalah," ii. 64), and ......
Perez ben Menahem (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Dreux; took part in his old age in the great synod held before 1160 under the presidency of ......
Perfume S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Both fragrant ointments and perfumes ("ro?a?" or "ri??u?im") in general (comp. Incense) were known to the Israelites. There is nothing ......
Solomon ben Shalom Pergamenter of Brünn (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian Hebraist and poet of the earlier part of the nineteenth century. He was the author of "Yesode ha-Lashon," in ......
Pergamus (Bergama) S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) City of Asia Minor a few hours distant from Smyrna. Although there are no documents to show that Jews lived ......
Gustav Peringer von Lilienblad (JE | WP GWP G) Christian Orientalist; born 1651; died at Stockholm Jan. 5, 1710; studied under Wagenseil at Altdorf. He was professor of Oriental ......
Jewish Periodicals (JE | WP GWP G) in the broadest meaning of the term Jewish periodicals include all magazines as well as all newspapers which, either because ......
Perizzites S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Canaanitish tribe settled in the south of Palestine between Hor and Negeb, although it is not mentioned in the genealogy ......

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201 – 220

Perjury S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) The violation of an oath or solemn promise; solemn assertion of a falsity. While perjury was regarded as one of ......
Joseph Perl S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian Maecenas and man of letters; born at Tarnopol, Galicia, 1774; died there Oct. 1, 1839. The son of a ......
Max Perlbach [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German historian; born at Danzig, Prussia, Nov. 4, 1848. He attended the Friedrichs-Gymnasium at Breslau, and studied history at the ......
Perles >> Joseph Perles JE (JE | WP GWP G) A family probably originating in Prague many members of which have been rabbis and scholars.Aaron b. Moses Meïr Perles: Rabbinical ......
Issachar Perlhefter (JE | WP GWP G) Bohemian rabbi and author; died after Sept. 9, 1701. He was a native of Prague and a scion of the ......
Eliezer Perlman (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B642: Ben Judah, Eliezer
Pernambuco S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1427: Brazil
Perpignan >> History of the Jews in Perpignan (JE | WP GWP G) Ancient capital of the county of Roussillon, now the chief town of the department of Pyrénées-Orientales, France. Jews probably lived ......
Pietro Perreau (JE | WP GWP G) Christian librarian and Oriental scholar; born at Piacenza Oct. 27, 1827; studied in the Alberoni College of his native town ......
Persia >> History of the Jews in Persia (History of the Jews in Iran) JE, Persian Jews JE (JE | WP GWP G) One of the great kingdoms of the ancient world and a country connected in various ways with the history of ......
Personal Property S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P552: Property
Pertuis >> History of the Jews in Pertuis (JE | WP GWP G) Cantonal chief town of the department of Vaucluse, France. Jews were settled there as early as the thirteenth century. According ......
Peru >> History of the Jews in Peru (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S990: South and Central America
Perugia >> History of the Jews in Perugia (JE | WP GWP G) Town in Umbria, Italy. It had a Jewish congregation as early as the fourteenth century. Several Jewish scholars lived there; ......
Perushim S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P252: Pharisees
Pesach Haggadah S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1034: Haggadah
Pesach Peter (JE | WP GWP G) German baptized Jew of the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth century. He charged that the Jews ......
Pesach Sheni S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) The second Pesa? sacrifice. It was called also "Pesa? ?a?on" (Aramaic, "Pis?a Ze'ira") = "the lesser Pesa?" (R. H. i. ......
Pesachim S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Name of a treatise of the Mishnah and the Tosefta in Babli and Yerushalmi, treating chiefly of the regulations in ......
Pesakh S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Aramaic word used metaphorically of a (discussion cut short, and employed in rabbinical literature chiefly to denote a decision or ......

221 – 240

Moses ben Hayyim ben Shem-Tob Pesante [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish commentator of the second half of the sixteenth century. He was the author of "Yesha' Elohim," a commentary on ......
Pesaro S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Town in the Marches, Italy, formerly belonging to the duchy of Urbino. It has numbered some Jews among its inhabitants ......
Aaron Pesaro (JE | WP GWP G) Author of the work "Toledot Aharon," in which beside every Biblical verse is noted the place where the verse is ......
Pesel (JE | WP GWP G) Usually carved in wood, or hewn in stone, and called "massekah"; the ephod belonged to it as covering, as in ......
Peshat S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Term denoting simple Scriptural exegesis, and derived from the verb "pasha?." "Pasha?" in late Biblical Hebrew, as well as in ......
Peshitta S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) The oldest Syriac translation of both the Old and New Testaments. The term "Peshi?ta" means "the simple one" in distinction ......
Pesikta S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M587: Midrash Haggadah
Joseph Pesseles (JE | WP GWP G) One of the foremost representative Jews of Wilna during the middle and latter part of the eighteenth century. His father, ......
Pessimism S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See O109: Optimism and Pessimism
Pester Jüdische Zeitung [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian political journal in German, issued five times weekly, and printed in Hebrew type. It was founded in 1869 by ......
Pestilence S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) The dreaded infectious disease frequent in ancient Israel and proving fatal in the majority of cases was probably the bubonic ......
Petachyah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P236: Pethahiah
Peter [he] S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Tosafist of the twelfth century; pupil of Samuel ben Meir and Jacob Tam. His name occurs in Tos. Gi?. 8a ......
Peter of Alexandria (Petrus de Alexandria) S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Italian monk of the fourteenth century; born at Alessandria, Italy. He translated about 1342, at the request of Pope Clement ......
Peter the Great S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R479: Russia
Pethahiah ben Jacob ha-Laban (JE | WP GWP G) Traveler; born at Prague; flourished between 1175 and 1190. He journeyed from Ratisbon (Regensburg) to the East, traveling through Poland, ......
Pethor (JE | WP GWP G) Native city of Balaam. In Num. xxii. 5 it is called the city "by the river," and in Deut. xxiii. ......
Petit Guillaume Haguinet (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R244: Reuchlin
Petra S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of Edom in northern Arabia, lying in a rocky valley surrounded by mountains, of which the highest is Mount ......
Arbiter Petronius (JE | WP GWP G) Latin satirist; generally assumed to be a contemporary of Nero. In a fragment he ridicules the Jews, declaring that, even ......

241 – 260

Publius Petronius (JE | WP GWP G) Governor of Syria (39-42); died probably in the reign of Claudius. During his term of office Petronius had frequent opportunities ......
Petrus Leonis (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P307: Pierleoni
Pews (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1002: Synagogue
Peyrehorade >> History of the Jews in Peyrehorade (JE | WP GWP G) Cantonal chief town of the department of Landes, France. A number of Jews who had been expelled from Spain and ......
Pfalzburg >> History of the Jews in Pfalzburg (JE | WP GWP G) German city in the consistorial district of Metz; formerly in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle and in the consistorial district of ......
Johann Pfefferkorn (Joseph Pfefferkorn) JE S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) German convert to Christianity; born 1469; died after 1521. According to Grätz, he was a butcher by trade and illiterate, ......
Pfersee (JE | WP GWP G) Small locality near Augsburg, where Jews were living at an early date. About 1559 they were under the protection of ......
Pforzheim S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) City in the grand duchy of Baden. With this town is connected the earliest reference to Jews in the former ......
Phabi (JE | WP GWP G) High-priestly family which flourished about the period of the fall of the Second Temple.The name, with which may be compared ......
Phanagoria S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T39: Taman
Pharaoh S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) The term applied in the Old Testament to the kings of Egypt. The word is derived from the Egyptian "pr-'o" ......
Pharisees S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Party representing the religious views, practises, and hopes of the kernel of the Jewish people in the time of the ......
Pharpar JE S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) River flowing from Hermon south of Damascus, where it turns to the southeast and flows into the Lakes of the ......
Phasael JE S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Elder brother of Herod the Great. Both Phasael and Herod began their careers under their father, Antipater, who appointed the ......
Phasaelis (Phaselus) (JE | WP GWP G) City in Palestine founded by Herod the Great in honor of his brother Phasael (Phasaelus). It was situated in the ......
Phenicia S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) A district of somewhat indefinite limits stretching for about 200 miles along the east coast of the Mediterranean and extending ......
Pheroras (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Antipater and his wife Cypros; died in 5 B.C. (Josephus, "Ant." xvii. 3, § 3; "B. J." i. ......
Philadelphia >> History of the Jews in Philadelphia (JE | WP GWP G) Chief city of Pennsylvania, and the third, in point of population, in the United States. It is supposed that there ......
The Philanthropin (JE | WP GWP G) High school of the Hebrew community of Frankfort-on-the-Main. The institution, which has been in existence since Jan. 1, 1804, was ......
Philip S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Herod and Cleopatra of Jerusalem; ruled from 4 B.C. to 34 C.E. When Herod changed his will in ......

261 – 280

Philip IV S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) King of Spain; called the "poet king" because he was devoted to poetry and art; born at Valladolid April 8, ......
Philip d'Aquinas (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1677: Aquin, Philippe d'
Philip of Bathyra (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Jacimus and grandson of Zamaris, both of whom governed the city of Bathyra in Trachonitis. Agrippa II. honored ......
Isidor Philipp S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian pianist; born at Budapest Sept. 2, 1863. He went to Paris at the age of sixteen and entered the ......
Édouard Sylvain Philippe [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) French playwright; born at Paris April 18, 1840. Educated for a commercial career, he was engaged in business for more ......
Félix Philippe (JE | WP GWP G) French army officer; born 1825; died in Paris July 23, 1848. A lieutenant and instructor in artillery in the National ......
Léon Gabriel Philippe (JE | WP GWP G) French engineer; born at Paris Oct. 6, 1838; educated at the Ecole Polytechnique as an engineer of roads and bridges. ......
Friedrich Adolf Philippi JE S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Lutheran theologian; born at Berlin Oct. 15, 1809; died at Rostock Aug. 29, 1882. He was the son of a ......
Philippopolis >> History of the Jews in Philippopolis (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of eastern Rumelia, or southern Bulgaria. Historical data of the early years of its Jewish community are very meager. ......
Philippson S 2007-11-07 >> Ludwig Philippson JE, Alfred Philippson JE (JE | WP GWP G) German family made distinguished by Ludwig Philippson, the founder of the "Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums"; it traces its descent back ......
David Philipson (JE | WP GWP G) American rabbi; born at Wabash, Ind., Aug. 9, 1862; educated at the public schools of Columbus, Ohio, the Hebrew Union ......
Philistines S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) A people that occupied territory on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, south-west of Jerusalem, previously to and contemporaneously with ......
Phillips S 2007-11-07 >> Jonas Phillips JE (JE | WP GWP G) American family, especially prominent in New York and Philadelphia, and tracing its descent back to Jonas Phillips, who emigrated from ......
Barnet Phillips [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) American journalist; born in Philadelphia Nov. 9, 1828; educated at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, whence he was graduated in ......
Benjamin Samuel Phillips (JE | WP GWP G) Lord mayor of London; born in London in 1811; died there Oct. 9, 1889. He was a son of Samuel ......
George Lyon Phillips (JE | WP GWP G) Jamaican politician; born in 1811; died at Kingston, Jamaica, Dec. 29, 1886. One of the most prominent and influential residents ......
Morris Phillips [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) American journalist and writer; born in London, England, May 9, 1834.Phillips received his elementary education in Cleveland, Ohio, and later ......
Philip Phillips S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) American jurist; born in Charleston, S. C., Dec. 17, 1807; died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 14, 1884. He was ......
Phineas Phillips (JE | WP GWP G) Polish merchant; flourished about 1775. He held the position of chief of the Jewish community at Krotoschin, at that time ......
Samuel Phillips S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) English journalist; born at London 1815; died at Brighton Oct., 1854. He was the son of an English merchant, and ......

281 – 300

Philo Judaeus S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Alexandrian philosopher; born about 20 B.C. at Alexandria, Egypt; died after 40 C.E. The few biographical details concerning him that ......
Phinehas S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron (Ex. vi. 25; I Chron. v. 30, vi. 35 [A. V. vi. 4, ......
Phinehas S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Guardian of the treasury at Jerusalem. In the last days of Jerusalem, in the year 70 C.E., he followed the ......
Phinehas ben Clusoth (JE | WP GWP G) Leader of the Idumcans. Simon b. Giora undertook several expeditions into the territory of the Idumeans to requisition provisions for ......
Phinehas ben Chama (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth century; born probably in the town of Siknin, where he was living when his brother ......
Phinehas ben Jair JE S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the fourth generation; lived, probably at Lydda, in the second half of the second century; son-in-law of Simeon ......
Phinehas ben Samuel (JE | WP GWP G) the last high priest; according to the reckoning of Josephus, the eighty-third since Aaron. He was a wholly unworthy person ......
Phocylides S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P582: Pseudo-Phocylides
Phrygia S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Province in Asia Minor. Antiochus the Great transferred 2,000 Jewish families from Mesopotamia and Babylonia to Phrygia and Lydia (Josephus, ......
Phylacteries (Tefillin) S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) The laws governing the wearing of phylacteries were derived by the Rabbis from four Biblical passages (Deut. vi. 8, xi. ......
Physician S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M325: Medicine
Piatelli S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1483: Anaw
Bernard Picart S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) An English translation of the work cited was printed by William Jackson (London, 1733). It contains, in addition to Picart's ......
Haim Moses Picciotto (JE | WP GWP G) Communal worker; born at Aleppo 1806; died at London, England, Oct. 19, 1879. He was a member of an ancient ......
Adolf Pichler [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian painter; born in 1834 at Cziffer, in the county of Presburg, Hungary. At the age of thirteen he went ......
Joseph Pichon (Joseph Picho) (JE | WP GWP G) "Almoxarife" and "contador mayor" (i.e., tax-collector-in-chief) of the city and the archbishopric of Seville; appointed in 1369 by Henry II. ......
Joseph Pichon (Joseph Pitchon) (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinical author; lived in Turkey at the end of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Minhage ha-Bedi?ah be-'Ir ......
Aaron Pick (JE | WP GWP G) Biblical scholar; born at Prague, where he was converted to Christianity and lectured on Hebrew at the university; lived in ......
Alois Pick [de] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian physician, medical author, and dramatist; born at Karolinenthal, near Prague, Bohemia, Oct. 15, 1859. He studied medicine at the ......
Arnold Pick S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian psychiatrist; born at Gross-Meseritsch, Moravia, July 20, 1851; educated at Berlin and Vienna (M.D. 1875). He became assistant physician ......

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301 – 320

Behrendt Pick [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German numismatist and archeologist; born Dec. 21, 1861, at Posen. After passing through the Friedrich-Wilhelms Gymnasium of his native city, ......
Isaiah Pick (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B855: Berlin, Isaiah b. Loeb
Philipp Joseph Pick (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian dermatologist; born at Neustadt, Bohemia, Oct. 14, 1834. He studied natural sciences and medicine at Vienna (M.D. 1860) and ......
Count Giovanni Frederico Pico de Mirandola (JE | WP GWP G) Italian philosopher, theologian, and cabalist; born Feb. 24, 1463, at Mirandola; died at Florence Nov. 17, 1494. Gifted with high ......
Pictorial art (JE | WP GWP G) There are no ancient remains showing in what way, if any, the Jews of Bible times made use of painting ......
Pidyon ha-Ben (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P527: Primogenitcre
Pierleoni S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) Noble Roman family of Jewish origin. A Jewish banker of Rome who had acquired a princely fortune was baptized in ......
Pigeon S 2007-11-07 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D456: Dove
Pigo (JE | WP GWP G) Italian family of rabbis. Formerly the name was as a rule transcribed Figo; in an Italian document of 1643 it ......
Pi-hahiroth (JE | WP GWP G) A place in the wilderness where the Israelites encamped when they turned back from Etham. It lay between Migdol and ......
Abraham b. Elijah ha-Kohen Pikes (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; mentioned in "LikKuṭe Maharil," hilkots "Shabbat" and "Yom Kippur." He addressed two letters...
Pontius Pilate (JE | WP GWP G) Fifth Roman procurator of Judea, Samaria, and Idumæa, from 26 to 36 of the common era; successor of Valerius Gratus....
Pilegesh JE (JE | WP GWP G) A concubine recognized among the ancient Hebrews. She enjoyed the same rights in the house as the legitimate wife. Since it...
Pilgrimage (JE | WP GWP G) A journey which is made to a shrine or sacred place in performance of a vow or for the sake of obtaining some form of divine...
Pillar (JE | WP GWP G) the word "pillar" is used in the English versions of the Bible as an equivalent for the following Hebrew words:(1) "Omenot...
Pillar of Fire (JE | WP GWP G) the Israelites during their wanderings through the desert were guided in the night-time by a pillar of fire to give them light...
Daniel Pillitz (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1603: Bürger, Theodor
Pilpul (JE | WP GWP G) A method of Talmudic study. The word is derived from the verb "pilpel" (lit. "to spice," "to season," and in a metaphorical...
Pilsen (JE | WP GWP G) City in Bohemia. According to documents of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Jews were then living in Pilsen, and they...
Sara de Fonseca Pina y Pimentel (JE | WP GWP G) Poetess of Spanish descent; lived in England in the early part of the eighteenth century, as did also Abraham Henriques Pimentel...

321 – 340

Pin (JE | WP GWP G) -- See T139: Tent
De Pina (JE | WP GWP G) Portuguese Marano family some members of which were able to escape the Inquisition and to confess Judaism openly in Amsterdam...
Eliezer b. Judah Pinczow (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi; flourished at the end of the seventeenth century; grandson of R. Zebi Hirsch, rabbi of Lublin. He was...
Elijah b. Moses Gershon Pinczow (JE | WP GWP G) Polish physician and Talmudist of the eighteenth century. He was the author of: "Meleket Machashebet," part i., "Ir &#7716...
Joseph b. Jacob Pinczow (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi and author; flourished in Poland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; descendant of R. Jacob Pollak,...
Samson Pine (Pnie) (JE | WP GWP G) German translator of the fourteenth century. He was probably born at Peine, a city in the province of Hanover, whencehis name...
Hirsch Mendel Pineles (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian scholar; born at Tysmenitz, Galicia, Dec. 21, 1805; died at Galatz, Rumania, Aug. 6, 1870. After having studied Talmud...
Arthur Wing Pinero (Pinheiros) (JE | WP GWP G) English dramatist; born in London May 24, 1855; eldest son of John Daniel Pinero. He is descended from a Sephardic family...
Elijah b. Aaron Pines (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi at Shklov, government of Moghilef, Russia, in the eighteenth century; descendant of the families of Jacob Polak and...
Jehiel Michael Pines (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Talmudist and Hebraist; born at Rozhany, government of Grodno, Sept. 26, 1842. He was the son of Noah Pines and the...
Jacob Pinhas (JE | WP GWP G) German journalist and communal worker; born Aug., 1788; died in Cassel Dec. 8, 1861. He was the son of Salomon (1757-1837)...
Moses Pinheiro JE (JE | WP GWP G) One of the most influential pupils and followers of Shabbethai Zebi; lived at Leghorn in the seventeenth century. He...
Pinkes (JE | WP GWP G) Term generally denoting the register of any Jewish community, in which the proceedings of and events relating to the community...
Herman Pinkhof (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch physician; born at Rotterdam May 10, 1863; educated at the University of Leyden (M.D. 1886). He established himself...
Pinne (JE | WP GWP G) City in the province of Posen, Germany. Jews are first mentioned there in 1553, in connection with a "privilegium" issued...
Adolf Pinner JE (JE | WP GWP G) German chemist; born at Wronke, Posen, Germany, Aug. 31, 1842; educated at the Jewish Theological Seminary at Breslau and...
Ephraim Moses b. Alexander Süsskind Pinner [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German Talmudist and archeologist; born in Pinne about 1800; died in Berlin 1880. His first work, bearing the pretentious...
Pinsk (JE | WP GWP G) Russian city in the government of Minsk, Russia. There were Jews in Pinsk prior to the sixteenth century, and there may have...
Dob Bär b. Nathan Pinsker (JE | WP GWP G) Polish Talmudist of the eighteenth century. He was a descendant of Nathan Spira of Cracow, and the author of the Talmudical...
Lev (Lev Semionovich) Pinsker (JE | WP GWP G) Russian physician; born at Tomashev, government of Piotrkow (Piotrikov), Poland, 1821; son of Sim-Chah Pinsker; died...

341 – 360

Simhah Pinsker JE (JE | WP GWP G) Polish Hebrew scholar and archeologist; born at Tarnopol, Galicia, March 17, 1801; died at Odessa Oct. 29, 1864. He received...
Pinto >> Josiah ben Joseph Pinto JE, Isaac de Pinto JE (JE | WP GWP G) Family of financiers, rabbis, scholars, soldiers, and communal workers, originally from Portugal. Members of it lived in Syria...
Piotrkow (JE | WP GWP G) Town in Russian Poland, near Warsaw. For some time Piotrkow was the seat of the Polish diet. At the diet of 1538, held there...
Piove di Sacco (JE | WP GWP G) Small Italian city in the district of Padua; the first in that territory to admit Jews. A loan-bank was opened there by an...
Pipe (JE | WP GWP G) Musical instrument akin to the flute. The flute was a favorite instrument of the ancients. The monuments show flutes of various...
Settimio Piperno [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Italian economist: born at Rome 1834. He is (1905) professor of statistics and political economy in the Technical Institute...
Henry de Worms, Baron Pirbright (JE | WP GWP G) English statesman; born in London 1840; died at Guildford, Surrey, Jan. 9, 1903; third son of Solomon Benedict de Worms, a...
Pirhe Zafon (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Pirke Abot (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A354: Abot
Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer JE (JE | WP GWP G) Haggadicmidrashic work on Genesis, part of Exodus, and a few sentences of Numbers; ascribed to R. Eliezer b. Hyrcanus, and...
Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov (JE | WP GWP G) Russian physician and pedagogue; born 1810; died Nov., 1881. He was professor at the University of Dorpat. As a statesman...
Pisa (JE | WP GWP G) Town in Tuscany, Italy, at the mouth of the River Arno; formerly a port of the Tyrrhenian Sea. The settlement of Jews in Pisa...
Da Pisa (JE | WP GWP G) Italian family, deriving its name from the city of Pisa. It can be traced back to the fifteenth century. Abraham ben Isaac...
Pisgah (JE | WP GWP G) Mountain in Moab, celebrated as one of the stations of the Israelites in their journey through that country (Num. xxi. 20)...
Ha-Pisgah (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Pistachio-nut (JE | WP GWP G) -- See N382: Nut
Pithom JE (JE | WP GWP G) One of the cities which, according to Ex. i. 11, was built for the Pharaoh of the oppression by the forced labor of the Israelites...
Pittsburg >> History of the Jews in Pittsburgh JE (JE | WP GWP G) Second largest city in the state of Pennsylvania. With Allegheny, the twin-city on the north side of the Allegheny River,...
Pius IV (Gian Angelo Medici) (JE | WP GWP G) Pope from 1559 to 1565. He was a Milanese of humble origin. and became cardinal under Paul III., through the latter's...
Piyyut (JE | WP GWP G) Hymn added to the older liturgy that developed during the Talmudic era and up to the seventh century. The word is derived...

361 – 380

Pizmon (JE | WP GWP G) Hymn with a refrain; usually the chief poem in the scheme of selichot sung or recited by the cantor and congregation...
David ben Eliezer ha-Levi Pizzighettone (JE | WP GWP G) Italian Talmudist and physician; flourished in the first half of the sixteenth century. As physician he was active in. Cremona...
Abraham Marcus Pjurko (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Hebraist and pedagogue; born at Lomza Feb. 15, 1853. After having studied Talmud and rabbinics, he devoted himself...
Place-names (JE | WP GWP G) the geographical names of Palestine are not so often susceptible of interpretation as the personal names, which frequently...
Abraham Placzek (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi; born at-Prerau Jan., 1799; died at Boskowitz Dec. 10, 1884. In 1827 he became rabbi in his native city, and...
Baruch Jacob Placzek (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi; born at Weisskirchen, Moravia, Oct. 1, 1835; son and successor of Abraham Placzek. In 1858 he founded a high...
Plague (JE | WP GWP G) Word which is used in the English versions of the Bible as a rendering of several Hebrew words, all closely related in meaning...
Plants (JE | WP GWP G) the following names of plants and plant materials are found in the Old Testament: see [The plant-names in this table follow...
Platon (Platyon) of Rome (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar of the second century C.E. Like Todos (Theodorus) the Roman, his probable contemporary, Platon sought to inspire his...
Pledges (JE | WP GWP G) the law against taking pledges for debt is drawn from the following passages: "No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone...
Pleiades (JE | WP GWP G) the word "Kimah," which occurs in three passages in the Bible (Job ix. 9, xxxviii. 31, and Amos v. 8), each time in connection...
Elias Plessner [pl] (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; son of Solomon Plessner; born Feb. 19, 1841, at Berlin; died at Ostrowo March 30, 1898. He studied at the University...
Solomon Plessner (JE | WP GWP G) German preacher and Bible commentator; born at Breslau April 23, 1797; died at Posen Aug. 28, 1883. Having lost his father...
Solomon Pletsch (JE | WP GWP G) German physician of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; a native of Regensburg. Pletsch was in 1394 appointed city surgeon...
Plock (Plotzk) (JE | WP GWP G) Government in Russian Poland, with a Jewish population (1897) of 50,473 (in a total population of 553,094), which is the smallest...
Julius Plotke (JE | WP GWP G) German lawyer and communal worker; born at Borek, province of Posen, Oct. 5, 1857; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Sept. 27...
Plowing (JE | WP GWP G) No description of the plow ("machareshet") is found in the Bible; but it may be assumed with certainty that the implement...
Plum (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P132: Peach
Plungian (JE | WP GWP G) Old town in the government of Kovno, district of Telshi, Russia. Among the earlier rabbis of Plungian were Jacob b. &#7826...
Mordecai (Marcus) Plungian (Plungianski) (JE | WP GWP G) Russian Hebraist and author; born at Plungian, in the government of Wilna, 1814; died at Wilna Nov. 28, 1883. He was a descendant...

381 – 400

Plymouth (JE | WP GWP G) Seaport in the county of Devon, England; one of the principal ports of that country. A few Jewish families were living there...
Pobyedonostzev (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R479: Russia
Judah Löb ben Joseph Pochowitzer (Puchowitzer) (JE | WP GWP G) Russian rabbi and preacher; flourished at Pinsk in the latter part of the seventeenth century; died in Palestine, whither...
Edward Pocock (JE | WP GWP G) English Christian Orientalist and theologian; born at Oxford Nov. 8, 1604; died there Sept. 12, 1691. He studied Oriental...
David Podiebrad [cs] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian writer; born in 1816; died Aug. 2, 1882. He received his education in the yeshibah of Prague and by private tuition...
Podivin (JE | WP GWP G) -- See K382: Kostel
Podolia (JE | WP GWP G) Government in southwestern Russia, on the Austrian frontier (Galicia). It is a center of many important events in the history...
Poetry >> Biblical poetry JE (JE | WP GWP G) the question whether the literature of the ancient Hebrews includes portions that may be called poetry is answered by the...
Jacob (Joseph) b. Mordecai Poggetti (JE | WP GWP G) Italian Talmudist and writer on religious ethics; born at Asti, Piedmont; flourished in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries...
Messola Pogorelsky (JE | WP GWP G) Russian physician and writer; born at Bobruisk March 7, 1862; educated at the gymnasium of his native town; studied medicine...
Pogromy (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R479: Russia
Poimanniki (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R479: Russia
Poitiers (JE | WP GWP G) French city; capital of the department of Vienne. In 1236 the Jews of Poitiers and the adjacent country were harried by the...
Poitou (JE | WP GWP G) Ancient province of France. Several Jewish communities were founded there in the twelfth century, notably those of Niort,...
Pola (JE | WP GWP G) -- See I368: Istria
Vittorio Polacco [it; nl] (JE | WP GWP G) Italian jurist of Polish descent; born at Padua May 10, 1859. Since 1884 he has been professor of civil law at the University...
Gabriel Jacob Polak [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Talmudist and bibliographer; born June 3, 1803; died May 14, 1869, at Amsterdam, where he was principal of a school. He was...
Henri Polak (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch labor-leader and politician; born at Amsterdam Feb. 22, 1868. Till his thirteenth year he attended the school conducted...
Herman Josef Polak [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Dutch philologist; born Sept. 1, 1844, at Leyden; educated at the university of that city (Ph.D. 1869). From 1866 to 1869...
Jakob Eduard Polak (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian physician; born 1818 at Gross-Morzin, Bohemia; died Oct. 7, 1891; studied at Prague and Vienna (M.D.). About 1851...

401 to 500

401 – 420

Poland >> History of the Jews in Poland JE, History of Jews in Poland before the 18th century JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R479: Russia
Polemics and Polemical Literature (JE | WP GWP G) Although pagan nations as a rule were not prone to intolerance in matters of religion, they were so with regard to Judaism...
Polemon II (JE | WP GWP G) King, first of the Pontus and the Bosporus, then of the Pontus and Cilicia, and lastly of Cilicia alone; died in 74 C.E. Together...
Police Laws (JE | WP GWP G) Laws regulating intercourse among citizens, and embracing the care and preservation of the public peace, health, safety, morality...
David Polido (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D132: David Raphael ben Abraham Polido
Polisher Jüdel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Adam Politzer (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian aurist; born at Alberti-Irsa, Hungary, Oct. 1, 1835; studied medicine at the University of Vienna, receiving his...
Isaac b. Joseph Polkar (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P601: Pulgar, Isaac b. Joseph
Poll-tax (JE | WP GWP G) the custom of taxing a population at a certain amount per head dates back to very ancient times. The first time such a tax...
A. M. Pollak, Ritter von Rudin [cs; he] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian manufacturer and philanthropist; born at Wescheraditz, Bohemia, in 1817; died at Vienna June 1, 1884. Pollak was...
Jacob Pollak JE (JE | WP GWP G) Founder of the Polish method of halakic and Talmudic study known as the Pilpul; born about 1460; died at Lublin 1541. He was...
Joachim (Hayyim Joseph) Pollak JE (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi; born in Hungary in 1798; died at Trebitsch, Moravia, Dec. 16, 1879, where he officiated as rabbi from 1828...
Kaim Pollak (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian writer; born at Liptó-Szent-Miklós Oct. 6, 1835; educated in the Talmud at his native city, at Presburg...
Leopold Pollak [de] (JE | WP GWP G) Genre- and portrait-painter; born at Lodenitz, Bohemia, Nov. 8, 1806; died at Rome Oct. 16, 1880. He studied under Bergler...
Ludwig Pollak (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian archeologist; born in Prague Sept. 14, 1868 (Ph.D. Vienna, 1893). In 1893 he was sent for a year by the Austrian...
Moriz Pollak, Ritter von Borkenau (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian financier; born at Vienna Dec. 24, 1827; died there Aug. 20, 1904. After leaving the gymnasium of his native city...
Adolph Pollitzer JE (JE | WP GWP G) Violinist; born at Budapest July 23, 1832; died in London Nov. 14, 1900. In 1842 he left Budapest for Vienna, where he studied...
Amélie Pollonais (JE | WP GWP G) French philanthropist; born at Marseilles in 1835; died at Cap Ferrat July 24, 1898; daughter of Joseph Jonas Cohen, and wife...
Gaston Pollonais (JE | WP GWP G) French journalist; born at Paris May 31, 1865; son of Désiré Pollonais, mayor of Villefranche, and of Amélie...
Polna Affair JE (JE | WP GWP G) An accusation of ritual murder in Polna resulting from the murder of Agnes Hruza March 29, 1899. Polna, a city in the district...

421 – 440

Polonnoye (JE | WP GWP G) Town in the district of Novograd, Volhynia, Russia. It was a fortified place in the middle of the seventeenth century, when...
Polotsk (Polotzk) (JE | WP GWP G) District town in the government of Vitebsk, Russia. The first mention of its Jewish community occurs in 1551, when, at the...
Phinehas b. Judah Polotsk [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Polish commentator on the Bible; lived at Polotsk, Poland, in the eighteenth century. He wrote commentaries on four books...
Poltava (JE | WP GWP G) Government of Little Russia, which came under Russian domination in 1764, and whose present organization was established in...
Polygamy (JE | WP GWP G) the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at a time; usually, the practise of having a plurality of wives...
Polyglot Bible (JE | WP GWP G) -- See B1028: Bible Editions
Pomegranate (JE | WP GWP G) A tree of the myrtle family. The pomegranate was carried into Egypt in very early historic times (comp. Num. xx. 5), and was...
De Pomis (JE | WP GWP G) An old Italian Jewish family which claimed descent from King David. According to a legend, reproduced by de Pomis in the introduction...
Pompey the Great (JE | WP GWP G) Roman general who subjected Judea to Rome. In the year 65 B.C., during his victorious campaign through Asia Minor, he sent...
Poniewicz (Ponevyezh) (JE | WP GWP G) District city in the government of Kovno, Russia. In 1780 CountNikolai Tyszkiewicz by cutting down a forest that lay between...
Lorenzo Da Ponte ~~(Jeremiah Conegliano)~~ (JE | WP GWP G) Italian-American man of letters, composer, and teacher; born at Ceneda, Italy, 1749; died 1837. He belonged to a well-known...
Pontoise (JE | WP GWP G) French town; capital of an arrondissement in the department of Seine-et-Oise. It contained a Jewish community as early as...
Benjamin Pontremoli (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish rabbinical writer; lived at Smyrna at the end of the eighteenth century. He was the author of a work entitled "Shebe&#7789...
Esdra Pontremoli (JE | WP GWP G) Italian rabbi, poet, and educationist; born at Ivrea 1818; died in 1888; son of Eliseo Pontremoli, rabbi of Nizza, where a...
Hiyya Pontremoli (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish rabbinical author; died at Smyrna in 1832; son of Benjamin Pontremoli. Ḥiyya Pontremoli wrote, among other works...
Relief of Poor (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C371: Charity
Poor Laws (JE | WP GWP G) -- See C371: Charity
The Popes (JE | WP GWP G) the Roman Church does not claim any jurisdiction over persons who have not been baptized; therefore the relations of the popes...
Poppaea Sabina (JE | WP GWP G) Mistress and, after 62 C.E., second wife of the emperor Nero; died 65. She had a certain predilection for Judaism, and is...
David Popper (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian violoncellist; born at Prague June 18, 1845; a pupil of Goltermann at the Conservatorium in that city. At the age...

441 – 460

Josef Popper (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian engineer and author; born Feb. 22, 1838, at Kolin, Bohemia. Besides essays on machinery published in the "Sitzungsberichte...
Siegfried Popper (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian naval constructor; born at Prague 1848. Educated at the polytechnic high schools of Prague and Carlsruhe, he worked...
William Popper [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) American Orientalist; born at St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 29, 1874; educated at the public schools of Brooklyn, N. Y., the College...
Wilma Popper (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian authoress; born at Raab, Hungary, May 11, 1857; educated in her native town. She commenced to write at an early...
Jacob ben Benjamin Cohen Poppers [he] (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Prague in the middle of the seventeenth century; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1740. His father,...
Meïr ben Judah Löb ha-Kohen Ashkenazi Poppers JE (JE | WP GWP G) Bohemian rabbi and cabalist; born at Prague; died at Jerusalem in Feb. or March, 1662. He studied the Cabala under Israel...
Populär-wissenschaftliche Monatsblätter (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Porcupine (JE | WP GWP G) Rendering adopted by many commentators for the Hebrew "Kippod," for which the English versions have correctly Bittern...
Aaron b. Benjamin Porges (Porjes) (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi in Prague in the seventeenth century. Under the title "Zikron Aharon" he wrote an introduction to the "Ki&#7827...
Moses ben Israel Naphtali Hirsch Porges [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbinical author; lived at Jerusalem at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was the author of "Darke Ziyyon"...
Nathan Porges JE (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Dec. 21, 1848. He was educated in his native town, at the gymnasium at Olm&#252...
Porges von Portheim >> Moses Porges von Portheim JE, Joseph Porges von Portheim JE (JE | WP GWP G) Prominent Bohemian family of which the following members won particular distinction:Joseph Porges, Edler von Portheim: Austrian...
Porging (JE | WP GWP G) the cutting away of forbidden fat and veins from kasher meat. The Mosaic law emphatically forbids the eating of the fat and...
Pork (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S1200: Swine
Portaleone >> Abraham Portaleone JE (JE | WP GWP G) Jewish family of northern Italy, which probably derived its name from the quarter of Portaleone, situated in the vicinity...
Comte Joseph Marie Portalis (JE | WP GWP G) -- See S229: Sanhedrin
Portland (JE | WP GWP G) -- See O120: Oregon
Porto (Oporto) (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of the Portuguese province of Entre-Douro-e-Minho. After Lisbon it possessed in former times the largest Jewish congregation...
Porto (JE | WP GWP G) -- See R352: Rome
Porto DAB (JE | WP GWP G) Italian family of which the following members are noteworthy: Abraham b. Jehiel ha-Kohen Porto: Italian scholar; flourished...

461 – 480

Georges de Porto-Riche (JE | WP GWP G) French poet and dramatist; born of Italian parents at Bordeaux in 1849. He entered a banking-house at an early age, but was...
Portsea (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P463: Portsmouth
Portsmouth (JE | WP GWP G) English fortified seaport on the coast of Hampshire. The Portsmouth (Portsea) congregation is one of the oldest in the English...
Portugal (JE | WP GWP G) Kingdom in the southwest of Europe. The condition of its Jews, whose residence in the country is contemporaneous with that...
Benjamin Osipovich Portugalov [ru; uk] (JE | WP GWP G) Russian physician and author; born at Poltava 1835; died at Samara 1896. After studying medicine at the universities of Kharkov...
Posekim (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P220: Pesaḳ
Posen (JE | WP GWP G) Province of Prussia; formerly a part of the kingdom of Poland, it was annexed by the former country after the partition of...
Pösing (JE | WP GWP G) Small town in the county of Presburg, where on May 27, 1529 (Friday, Siwan 13), thirty Jews were burned to death on the accusation...
Adolf Posnanski [cs] (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi; born at Lubraniec, near Warsaw, June 3, 1854; educated at the gymnasium, the university, and the rabbinical...
Carl Posner (JE | WP GWP G) German physician and medical writer; born at Berlin Dec. 16, 1854; son of Louis Posner; educated at the universities of Berlin...
David ben Naphtali Herz Posner [Wikidata] (JE | WP GWP G) Polish Talmudic compiler; lived about the middle of the seventeenth century in Posen, and later in Krotoschin. He was the...
Karl Ludwig von Posner (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian manufacturer; born 1822; died 1887 at Budapest. In 1852 he founded the largest printing, lithographing, and bookbinding...
Meïr Posner [he] (JE | WP GWP G) Prussian rabbi; born 1735; died at Danzig Feb. 3, 1807. He was rabbi of the Schottland congregation in Danzig from 1782 till...
Solomon Zalman Posner (JE | WP GWP G) Polish rabbi: born at Landsberg about 1778 (?); died in Loslau in 1863; son of Joseph Landsberg, rabbi of Posen. At Solomon&#39...
Posquières (JE | WP GWP G) Town in the department of the Gard, France, where Jews are known to have lived since the twelfth century. When Benjamin of...
Posrednik (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
Ernst von Possart (JE | WP GWP G) German actor and author; born at Berlin May 11, 1841. When seventeen years old he was apprenticed to the Schroeder'sche...
Felix Possart [de] (JE | WP GWP G) German landscape and genre painter; born in Berlin March 7, 1837. He at first intended to pursue a juridical career, and held...
Abraham Abele Posveller [he] (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A369: Abraham Abele ben Abraham Solomon
Moses Potchi (JE | WP GWP G) Karaite scholar; lived at Constantinople in the second half of the sixteenth century. He belonged to the Maruli family, the...

481 – 500

Potiphar (JE | WP GWP G) Name of an Egyptian officer. The form "Potiphar" is probably an abbreviation of "Potiphera"; the two are treated as identical...
Count Valentine (Abraham b. Abraham) Potocki (Pototzki) JE (JE | WP GWP G) Polish nobleman and convert to Judaism; burned at the stake at Wilna May 24, 1749. There are several versions of the remarkable...
Potsdam (JE | WP GWP G) City in the Prussian province of Brandenburg. It was the residence of the electors of Brandenburg; and here the Great Elector...
Pottery (JE | WP GWP G) There can be no doubt that the Israelites first learned the art of making pottery on Palestinian soil. The nomad in his continual...
Poultry (JE | WP GWP G) the rearing of domestic fowl for various uses became a part of Palestinian husbandry only after the return from Babylon (see...
Poverty (JE | WP GWP G) Condition or proportion of poor in a population. Although the riches of the Jews have passed into a proverb, all social observers...
Power of Attorney (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A2100: Attorney, Power of
Samuel Poznanski JE (JE | WP GWP G) Arabist, Hebrew bibliographer, and authority on modern Karaism; rabbi and preacher at the Polish synagogue in Warsaw; born...
Moses Prado JE (JE | WP GWP G) Christian convert to Judaism; lived in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, first at Marburg, Germany, and later at Salonica...
Praefectus Judaeorum (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M436: Mendel
Jacob Prag (JE | WP GWP G) Professor of Hebrew and rabbi at Liverpool; born at Danzig 1816; died at Liverpool Dec., 1881. He studied at the rabbinical...
Joseph Prag (JE | WP GWP G) English communal and Zionist worker; born at Liverpool in 1859; educated at the Liverpool Institute and at Queen's College...
Moses Präger (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M908: Moses ben Menahem
Prague >> Old New Synagogue JE (JE | WP GWP G) Capital of Bohemia; the first Bohemian city in which Jews settled. Reference to them is found as early as 906, when the Jew...
Prat Maimon (JE | WP GWP G) -- See F353: Frat Maimon
Prayer (JE | WP GWP G) from the earliest epochs recorded in the Bible profound distress or joyous exaltation found expression in prayer. However...
Prayer-books (JE | WP GWP G) the collection, in one book, of the year's prayers for week-days, Sabbaths, holy days, and fast-days is generally known...
Prayer-motives (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M1022: Music, Synagogal
Preaching (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H874: Homiletics
Precedence (JE | WP GWP G) Priority and preference given to individuals as a matter of established rule or etiquette. The superiority of the husband...

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