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A

• Abalia, Isaac
• Abarbanel, Don Isaac
• Abuhatzeira, Rabbi Yisrael (Baba Sali)
• Alfasi, Rabbi Isaac
• Alter, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Rothenberg (The Chiddushei HaRim)
• Amar, Rabbi Shlomo
• Ash Family
• Azulai, Rabbi Chaim Yosef David (Chida)

B

• Baal Shem Tov, Rabbi Yisrael
• Baar, Herman
  
• Babad Family
  
• Babad, Joseph ben Moses
  
• Bacharach, Jair Hayyim ben Moses Samson
  
• Bacharach, Moses Samson ben Abraham Samuel
  
• Bacharach, Naphtali ben Jacob Elhanan
  
• Bachmann, Jacob
  
• Bachrach, Jacob ben Moses
  
• Bachrach, Judah ben Joshua Ezekiel
  
• Bachrach, Moses ben Isaiah Menahem
  
• Baer, Rabbi Dov
• Bagley, David
  
• Bahlul Family
  
• Bakshi-Doron, Rabbi Eliyahu
• Bakshi-Doron, Eliahu [Encyclopaedia Judaica]
  
• Bar Yochai, Rabbi Shimon
• Bebe, Pauline
  
• Belkin, Samuel
• ben Isaac of Volozhin, Rabbi Chaim
• ben Joseph, Rabbi Akiba
• ben Reuven, Rabbi Nissim (Ran)
• Berlin, Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Yehudah (The Netziv)
• Beruryah
  
• Rabbi Binyamin
• Bloch, Rabbi Yosef Yehudah Leib
• Borowitz, Eugene B.
  
• Brozofsky, Rabbi Shalom Noach
• Buzaglo (Buzaglio, Buzagli, Busaglo), Shalom ben Moses
  

C

• Cantoni, Lelio
  
• Cantor, Bernard
  
• Capsali, Elijah
  
• Carlebach, Rabbi Shlomo
• Caro, Rabbi Joseph ben Ephraim
• Casper, Bernard Moses
  
• Cass, Samuel
  
• Castello, Abraham Isaac
  
• Chaim, Chacham Yosef (The Ben Ish Chai)
• Charlop, Yechiel Michel
  
• Chavel, Charles (Dov) Ber
  
• Chazan, Eliyahu Simcha
  
• Chorin, Aaron
  
• Ciechanow (Tsekhanov), Abraham ben Raphael Landau of
  
• Cordovero, Rabbi Moshe
• Curiel, Israel ben Meir di
  
• Currick, Max Cohen
  

D

• Dahan Family
  
• Daiches Family
  
• Danglow, Jacob
  
• Dangoor, Ezra Sasson ben Reuben
  
• Danzig, Rabbi Avraham
• Dawidsohn, Hayyim
  
• Della Torre, Lelio
  
• Delmedigo, Elijah ben Moses Abba
  
• Delmedigo, Joseph Solomon
  
• Dembitzer, Hayyim Nathan
  
• Doron, Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi

E

• Edels, Rabbi Shmuel Eliezer (MaHarSha)
• Elbaz Family
  
• Eliyahu of Vilna, Rabbi (The Vilna Gaon)
• Eppenstein, Simon
  
• Epstein, Abraham
  
• Epstein, Abraham Meir ben Aryeh Leib
  
• Epstein, Aryeh Leib ben Mordecai
  
• Epstein, Rabbi Baruch HaLevi
• Epstein, Baruch Ha-Levi [Encyclopaedia Judaica]
  
• Epstein, Chaim Fischel
  
• Eybeshitz, Rabbi Yonason

F

• Falk, Samuel Jacob Hayyim
  
• Fano, Menahem Azariah da
  
• Feinstein, Rabbi Moshe
• Felder, Gedalia
  
• Feldman, Abraham Jehiel
  
• Figo, Rabbi Azariah
• Figo (Picho), Azariah [Encyclopaedia Judaica]
  
• Fonseca, Rabbi Isaac Aboab de
• Freehof, Solomon Bennett
  
• Frumkin, Rabbi Aryeh Leib
• Fuchs, Moses Zevi
  
• Funk, Solomon
  

G

• Gabbai Izidro (Ysidro), Abraham
  
• Gabbai, Meir ben Ezekiel Ibn
  
• Gabbai, Moses ben Shem-Tov
  
• Ganchoff, Moses
  
• Ganso, Joseph
  
• Gantman, Judah Leib
  
• Gedaliah Ha-Levi
  
• Geffen, Joel
  
• Geffen, Tobias
  
• Geiger, Abraham
  
• Gerber, Maynard
  
• Goren, Rabbi Shlomo
• Gottlieb, Rabbi Lynn
• Greenberg, Moshe
  
• Grossman, Yizhak-David

H

• Herstik, Naftali
  
• Herzog, Rabbi Isaac
• Herzog, Rabbi Jacob
• Hillel and Shammai
• Hirsch, Samuel
• Horowitz, Rabbi Isaiah ben Avraham Ha-Levi (The Shlah)
• Hurwitz, Shmarya Leib
  

I

• ibn Asevilli, Rabbi Yom Tov (“Ritva”)
• ibn Pakuda, Rabbi Bachaya
• Ibn Shem Tov, Isaac ben Shem Tov
  
• Isserles, Rabbi Moses ben Israel

J

• Jacobs, Solomon
• Jaffe, Mordecai-Gimpel
  
• Jaffe, Samuel ben Isaac Ashkenazi
  
• Jerusalimski, Moses Nahum ben Benjamin
  
• Jonas, Regina
• Joseph Hayyim ben Elijah al-Hakam
  
• Joseph (Josel) ben Ze’ev Wolf Ha-Levi
  
• Joseph (Joselmann) ben Gershon of Rosheim
  
• Joseph, Rabbi Jacob
  
• Judah Leib ben Enoch Zundel
  
• Judah Leib ben Hillel of Schwersenz
  
• Judah Loew (Liwa, Loeb) ben Bezalel
  

K

• Kadoorie, Sasson
  
• Kadushin, Max
  
• Kaempf, Saul Isaac
  
• Kafah (Kafih, קאפח ), Yosef
  
• Kahana, Abraham Aryeh Leib ben Shalom Shakhna
  
• Kahana, Jacob ben Abraham
  
• Kahana, Jehiel Zevi ben Joseph Mordecai
  
• Kahana (Kagan), Koppel
  
• Kahana, Nahman
  
• Kahana, Solomon David
  
• Kahane, Isaak
  
• Kahane, Rabbi Meir
• Kahaneman, Joseph
  
• Kahanov, Moses Nehemiah
  
• Kahanovitch, Israel Isaac
  
• Kahn, Robert I.
  
• Kahn, Zadoc
  
• Kaiser, Alois
  
• Kalai (Kal’i), Samuel ben Moses
  
• Kalai (Kali), Mordecai ben Solomon
  
• Kalfa, Isaak ben Joseph
  
• Kalib, Sholom
  
• Kalischer, Zevi Hirsch
  
• Kallir, Eleazar ben Eleazar
  
• Kallo, Yitzhak Isaac
  
• Kalmanowitz, Abraham
  
• Kamelhar, Jekuthiel Aryeh ben Gershon
  
• Kamenetsky, Yaakov
  
• Kaminetsky, Joseph
  
• Kaminka, Armand
  
• Kanievsky, Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael (The Steipler)
• Kanievsky, Jacob Israel (The Steipler) [Encyclopaedia Judaica]
  
• Kaplan, Alexander Sender ben Zerah Ha-Kohen
  
• Kaplan, Aryeh
• Kaplan, Aryeh [Encyclopaedia Judaica]
• Kaplan, Jacob
  
• Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem
• Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem [Encyclopaedia Judaica]
  
• Kapuzato, Moses Ha-Yevani
  
• Kara (Cara), Avigdor ben Isaac
  
• Kareh, Solomon
  
• Karelitz, Avraham Yeshayahu (The “Hazon Ish”)
• Karelitz, Avraham Yeshayahu [Encyclopaedia Judaica]
  
• Karfunkel, Aaron ben Judah Leib Ha-Kohen
  
• Kargau, Menahem Mendel ben Naphtali Hirsch
  
• Karliner, Baruch
  
• Karniol, Alter Yehiel
  
• Karp, Abraham J.
  
• Kasabi, Joseph ben Nissim
  
• Kasher, Menahem
  
• Kasovsky, Chayim Yehoshua
  
• Kattina, Jacob
  
• Katz (Wannfried), Menahem
  
• Katz, Naphtali ben Isaac
  
• Katz, Reuben Hoeshke ben Hoeshke (Joshua)
  
• Katzenellenbogen, David Tevel
  
• Katzenellenbogen, Meir ben Isaac
  
• Kauder, Samuel Judah ben David
  
• Kaufmann, David
  
• Kauvar, Charles Eliezer Hillel
  
• Kayserling, Meyer
  
• Kecskeméti, Ármin
  
• Kecskeméti, Lipót
  
• Kellermann, Benzion
  
• Khalaz, Judah ben Abraham
• Klein, Jason
  
• Klein, Philip
  
• Kohn, Eugene
  
• Kook, Rabbi Abraham Isaac
• Koppell, Rabbi Bonnie
• Koretz, Zvi
  
• Kotler, Aharon
• Kranz, Jacob ben Wolf (The Dubnow Maggid)
• Kushner, Rabbi Harold

L

• Lamm, Norman
• Landman, Isaac
  
• Lapapa, Aaron ben Isaac
  
• Lapidot, Alexander Moses
  
• Lau, Rabbi Israel Meir
• Lazaron, Morris Samuel
  
• Leeuw, Jacob ben Hayyim (Heymann) de
  
• Lefkowitz, David
  
• Leibush, Rabbi Meir (Malbim)
• Leiner, Gershon Hanokh (Henikh) ben Jacob
  
• Lelyveld, Arthur Joseph
  
• Lemberger, Moses ben Aaron
  
• Lerer, Joshua
  
• Lewy, Israel
  
• Lewysohn, Abraham
  
• Lewysohn, Yehudi Leib Ludwig
  
• Liber, Maurice
  
• Lichtenstein, Hillel ben Baruch
  
• Lichtstein, Abraham ben Eliezer Lipman
  
• Lichtstein, Abraham Jekuthiel Zalman ben Moses Joseph
  
• Lilienthal, Max
  
• Loew, Yehuda (The Maharal)
• Lolli, Eude
  
• Lublin, Meir ben Gedaliah
  
• Luzzatto, Jacob ben Isaac
  
• Luzzatto, Rabbi Moses Hayyim

M

• Maarsen, Isaac
  
• Magnes, Judah Leon
• Maimonides, Moses
  
• Malakh, Hayyim ben Solomon
  
• Malavsky, Samuel
  
• Malbim, Meir Loeb ben Jehiel Michael Weisser
  
• Malev, William S.
  
• Malkhi, Ezra ben Raphael Mordecai
  
• Malovany, Joseph
  
• Manischewitz, Hirsch
  
• Margolies, Isaac ben Elijah
  
• Margolies, Moses Zevulun
  
• Marmorstein, Arthur
  
• Mashash, Shlomo
  
• Maskileison (Maskil Le-Eitan), Abraham ben Judah Leib
  
• Masnut, Samuel ben Nissim
  
• Matlin, Moshe Meir
  
• Matt, C. David
  
• Mattuck, Israel I
  
• Medina, Samuel ben Moses de
  
• Medini, Hayyim Hezekiah ben Raphael Elijah
  
• Meir, Rabbi Jacob
• Meisels, Uzziel ben Zevi Hirsch
  
• Meklenburg, Jacob Zevi
  
• Melchior, Marcus
  
• Mendel of Kotzk, Rabbi Menachem
• Mendelson, Solomon
  
• Metzger, Rabbi Yona
• Michaelson, Ezekiel Zevi ben Abraham Hayyim
  
• Mielziner, Moses
  
• Minkowski, Pinchas
  
• Mizrahi, David ben Shalom
  
• Modena, Leon
  
• Modern, Judah
  
• Moellin, Jacob ben Moses
  
• Monzon, Abraham
  
• Morpurgo, Samson ben Joshua Moses
  
• Moses Ze’ev (Wolf) ben Eliezer of Grodno
  
• Motal, Abraham ben Jacob
  
• Mowshowitz, Israel
  
• Mueller, Joel
  
• Muhr, Abraham
  
• Munk Family
  

N

• Nachman of Breslov, Rabbi
• Nachmanides/Ramban
• Nachmanides/Ramban [Encyclopaedia Judaica]
  
• Nadich, Judah
• Naftali of Ropshitz, Rabbi
• Nahoum, Haim
  
• Najar Family
  
• Najara Family
  
• Narrowe, Morton
  
• Nawi Family
  
• Nazir, Moses Ha-Levi
  
• Nebenzahl, Itzhak Ernst
  
• Neriah (Menkin), Moshe Zevi
  
• Nethanel ben Moses Ha-Levi
  
• Nethanel of Chinon
  
• Neuda, Abraham
  
• Neulander, Arthur H.
  
• Neuman, Abraham Aaron
  
• Neumark, David
  
• Newfield, Morris
  
• Newman, Louis Israel
  
• Niemirower, Jacob Isaac
  
• Nieto, Isaac
  
• Nissenbaum, Isaac
  
• Nissim ben Reuben Gerondi
  
• Nissim, Isaac
  
• Noah
  
• Nobel, Nehemiah Anton
  
• Norzi, Jedidiah Solomon Raphael ben Abraham
  
• Noveck, Simon
  
• Nunes Vais Family
  
• Nussbaum, Max
  
• Nussbaum, Perry
  

O

• Obernik, Judah
  
• Offner, Stacy
  
• Olan, Levi Arthur
  
• Olitzky, Kerry M.
  
• Oliveyra, Solomon ben David de
  
• Olmo, Jacob Daniel ben Abraham
  
• Olschwanger, Isaac Wolf
  
• Onderwijzer, Abraham ben Samson Ha-Kohen
  
• Oshry, Ephraim
  
• Ostfeld, Barbara Jean
  
• Ottolengo, Samuel David ben Jehiel
  
• Ovchinski, Levi
  

P

• Pacifici, Riccardo
  
• Palache (Palaggi), Hayyim
  
• Panet, Ezekiel ben Joseph
  
• Pardo, Joseph
  
• Pardo, Moses ben Raphael
  
• Parzen, Herbert
  
• Pergola, Raphael Della
  
• Philippson Family
  
• Pilchik, Ely Emanuel
  
• Pinto, Josiah ben Joseph
  
• Pirkoi ben Baboi
  
• Plaut, W. Gunther
  
• Poppers (Popers), Jacob ben Benjamin Hakohen
  
• Porto (Rafa-Rapaport), Abraham Menahem ben Jacob Ha-Kohen
  
• Porto-Rafa (Rapaport), Moses ben Jehiel Ha-Kohen
  
• Porush, Israel
  
• Price, Abraham A.
  
• Prosstitz, Daniel
  
• Przysucha (Pshishkha), Jacob Isaac ben Asher
  
• Pukhovitser, Judah Leib
  

Q

R

• Radomsko (Radomsk), Solomon Ha-Kohen Rabinowich of
  
• Radoshitser (of Radoszyce), Issachar Baer
• Rafalin, David Shlomo
  
• Raffalovich, Isaiah
  
• Ragoler, Abraham ben Solomon
  
• Ragoler, Elijah ben Jacob
  
• Rahbar, Samuel
  
• Rapaport, David Ha-Kohen
  
• Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki)
• Rashi [Encyclopaedia Judaica]
  
• Ravitz, Shelomo
  
• Razumni, Ephraim Zalman
  
• Reggio, Abraham ben Ezriel
  
• Reggio, Isacco Samuel
  
• Reich, Koppel
  
• Reines, Isaac Jacob
• Reines, Isaac Jacob [Encyclopaedia Judaica]
  
• Reischer, Rabbi Jacob Back (The Shevus Yaakov)
• Reischer, Jacob ben Joseph (The Shevus Yaakov) [Encyclopaedia Judaica]
  
• Reizes Family
  
• Renassia, Yossef
  
• Resnick, Zvi (Hirsh) Yosef Hakohen
  
• Ricchi, Raphael Immanuel ben Abraham hai
  
• Rice, Abraham Joseph
  
• Richietti, Joseph Shallit ben Eliezer
  
• Rivlin, Shelomo Zalman
  
• Rokeah or Rokah (Landau), Elazar ben Shmelke
  
• Romain, Jonathan A.
  
• Rosanes, Judah ben Samuel
  
• Rosen, Moses
  
• Rosenfeld, Abraham Isaac Jacob
  
• Rozovski, Pinhas
  
• Rubenovitz, Herman H.
  
• Rubenstein, Richard Lowell
  
• Ruderman, Jacob Isaac
  
• Ruelf, Isaac
  
• Runkel, Solomon Zalman
  
• Ruzhin, Israel
  
• Rymanower (of Rymanow), Menahem Mendel
  
• Rymanower, Zevi Hirsh
  

S

• Saadiah ben Joseph Ha-Levi
• Sacerdoti, Angelo-Raphael Chaim
  
• Sacks, Rabbi Jonathan
• Safran, Alexander
  
• Salant, Samuel
• Salanter, Rabbi Israel
• Salfeld, Siegmund
• Salvendi, Adolf
• Samfield, Max
• Saraval, Judah Leib
• Sarna, Nahum M.
• Schacter, Herschel
• Schiller-Szinessy, Solomon Mayer
• Schmiedl, Adolf Abraham
• Schneerson, Rabbi Menachem Mendel
• Schonfeld, Victor
• Schwartz, Abraham Judah Ha-Kohen
• Seeligmann, Isac Leo
• Segal, Bernard
• Segre, Salvatore
• Seigel, Joshua
• Seligmann, Caesar
• Shach, Rabbi Eliezer Menachem
• Shag (Zwebner), Abraham
• Shankman, Jacob K.
  
• Shapira, Rabbi Kalonymous Kalman
• Siboni Family
  
• Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk, Rabbi Meir
• Sofer, Rabbi Abraham Samuel Benjamin
• Sofer, The Chasam Sofer-Rabbi Moshe
• Soloveitchik, Aharon
• Soloveitch, Joseph
• Soloveitchik, Rabbi Yoseph Ber (The Bais HaLevi)
• Sonnenfeld, Rabbi Joseph Chaim
• Steinsaltz, Adin

T

• Taenzer, Arnold
• Taeubler, Eugen
• Taglicht, David Israel
• Taitazak, Joseph
• Talker, Ezekiel Samuel
• Tam, Rabbeinu
• Tamakh, Abraham ben Isaac Ha-Levi
• Tarfon
• Ta-Shma, Israel Moses
• Taubes, Aaron Moses ben Jacob
• Tchernowitz, Chaim
• Teacher of Righteousness
• Teitelbaum, Rabbi Joel (The Satmarer Rebbe)
• Teomim, Aryeh Leib
• Tiktin
• Tishby, Isaiah
• Toledano Family
• Toledano, Jacob Moses
• Touati, Charles
• Trani, Joseph ben Moses
• Trebitsch, Nehemiah
• Treves Family
  
• Treves, Johanan ben Mattathias
• Tuska, Simon
• Twerski, Jacob Israel
  
• Tykocinski, Jehiel Michel
  
• Tyrnau, Isaac

U

V

• The Vilna Gaon-Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna
• Vorspan, Max
  

W

• Warschawski, Max
  
• Washofsky, Mark E.
  
• Wasserman, Rabbi Elchanan
• Weber, Koloman
  
• Weil, Nethanel ben Naphtali Zevi
  
• Weingarten, Joab Joshua
  
• Weissmandel, Michael Dov
  
• Wiedenfeld, Dov
  
• Wiernikorski, Judah
  
• Wise, Isaac Mayer
  
• Wise, Isaac Mayer [Judaic Treasures]
  
• Wolsey, Louis
  
• Wormser, Seckel
  
• Wurzburger, Walter S.
  

X

• Ximenes (Ish Yemeni), Solomon Mordecai 
  

Y

• Yitzchak of Berditchev, Rabbi Levi
• Yosef, Rav Ovadia

Z

• Zalman, Rabbi Shneur

 

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