Löb ben Samuel Tzebi Hirsch (JE | WPGWPG) Russian rabbi; born probably at Pinczow, government of Kielce, Poland, about 1630; died at Brest-Litovsk 1714. Löb was on his ......
Löb of Shpola (JE | WPGWPG) Early Ḥasidic rabbi; died at an advanced age Oct. 4, 1810. It is said that he was a poor "melammed" ......
Löb (Aryeh) ben Zachariah (JE | WPGWPG) Polish rabbi; born at Cracow about 1620; died there 1671. When a young man he was called as rabbi to ......
Lobato (JE | WPGWPG) Marano family, several of whose members lived at Amsterdam. The best-known members of the family are:Diego Gomez Lobato (called also ......
Rehuel Lobatto (JE | WPGWPG) Dutch mathematician; born at Amsterdam June 6, 1797; died at Delft Feb. 9, 1866. He sprang from a Portuguese Marano ......
Arthur Löbel (JE | WPGWPG) Austrian physician; born at Roman, Rumania, May 15, 1857; educated at the gymnasium of Czernowitz and the universities of Vienna ......
Moses Jeshurun Lobo (JE | WPGWPG) Spanish poet; lived at Amsterdam in the seventeenth century. He was one of the poets who celebrated the martyrdom of ......
LocustS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Of all the insects the locust is most frequently mentioned in the Old Testament. It occurs under the following nine ......
LodèveS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Small town in the department of Hèrault, France. A Jewish community was founded here as early as the fifth century. ......
Łódź (Lodzi) S2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) City in the government of Piotrkow, Russian Poland, about 90 miles west of Warsaw. As late as 1821 it was ......
Isidore LoebJE (JE | WPGWPG) French scholar; born at Sulzmatt (Soultzmatt), Upper Alsace, Nov. 1, 1839; died at Paris, June 3, 1892. The son of ......
Jacques LoebJE S2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) American biologist; born in Germany April 7, 1859; educated at the universities of Berlin, Munich, and Strasburg (M. D. 1884). ......
Louis Loeb (JE | WPGWPG) American artist; born at Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 7, 1866. At the age of thirteen he was apprenticed to a lithographer ......
Morris Loeb [Wikidata] (JE | WPGWPG) American chemist; born at Cincinnati, Ohio, May 23, 1863; son of Solomon Loeb; educated at the New York College of ......
Louis Loewe (JE | WPGWPG) English Orientalist and theologian; born at Zülz, Prussian Silesia, 1809; died in London 1888. He was educated at the yeshibot ......
Ludwig LoeweS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) German manufacturer, philanthropist, and member of the Reichstag; born at Heiligenstadt Nov. 27, 1837; died at Berlin Sept. 11, 1886. ......
Eduard Loewenthal [fr] (JE | WPGWPG) German writer and editor; born March 12, 1836, at Ernsbach, Württemberg; educated at the high school at Stuttgart and at ......
Emanuel Loewy (JE | WPGWPG) Austrian archeologist; born at Vienna Sept. 1, 1857; educated at the gymnasium and university of his native city (Ph.D. 1882). ......
Maurice LoewyS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Astronomer; born at Vienna, Austria, April 15, 1833. A descendant of a Hungarian family, he received his education at his ......
LogicS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) The science of correct thinking; the science of the principles governing the comparative and constructive faculties in the pursuit and ......
David Lolli (JE | WPGWPG) Italian physician; born at Göritz 1825; died at Triest 1884; son of Samuel Vita Lolli; studied medicine at Padua and ......
Eude Lolli [Wikidata] (JE | WPGWPG) Italian rabbi; born at Göritz Aug. 23, 1826; educated at the lyceum of his native town and at the rabbinical ......
Lom (Lom-Palank) S2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Town in Bulgaria, situated at the mouth of the River Lom. It has a population of about 8,000, of which ......
Lomazy (JE | WPGWPG) Town in the district of Bialy, near Brest-Litovsk, Russia. Though in 1566 there was no Jew among its 400 house-owners, ......
Lombroso (Lumbroso) >>Isaac LumbrosoJE (JE | WPGWPG) Sephardic family, members of which lived in Tunis, Marseilles, and Italy. The two forms of the family name are doubtless ......
Cesare LombrosoS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Italian alienist and criminologist; born Nov. 18, 1835, at Verona. Both his paternal and his maternal ancestors belonged to the ......
Lomza (Lomzha) S2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Capital of the government of Lomza, Russian Poland; situated on the left bank of the River Narev. In 1897 it ......
LondonS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Capital city of England. According to William of Malmesbury, William the Conqueror brought certain Jews from Rouen to London about ......
Jacob ben Judah Chazzan London (JE | WPGWPG) English scholar; born in London at the beginning of the eighteenth century. When quite young he went to Amsterdam, where ......
Solomon b. Moses Raphael London (JE | WPGWPG) Russian author and publisher; lived at Novogrudok, Lithuania, in the first half of the eighteenth century. He was the pupil ......
Saadia ben Abraham Longo (JE | WPGWPG) Turkish Hebrew poet; lived at Constantinople about the middle of the sixteenth century. A manuscript in the Bodleian Library (Neubauer, ......
Abraham ben Raphael de Lonzano (JE | WPGWPG) Austrian grammarian; lived at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He was baptized at Idstein and took the name of ......
Menahem ben Judah ben Menahem de LonzanoJE (JE | WPGWPG) Palestinian Masoretic and midrashic scholar, lexicographer, and poet; died after 1608 in Jerusalem. His nativity is unknown, but it has ......
Lopez (JE | WPGWPG) A family of Sephardic Jews several of whom were distinguished for scholarly attainments.Eliahu Lopez: Dutch ḥakam of the seventeenth century. ......
Manasseh Masseh Lopez (JE | WPGWPG) English politician; born in Jamaica Jan. 22, 1755; died at Maristow House, Devonshire, 1831; descended from ancient Sephardic stock. Both ......
Rodrigo LopezS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Court physician to Queen Elizabeth; born in Portugal about 1525; executed June 7, 1594, for having attempted to poison the ......
Lopez Rosa (JE | WPGWPG) Portuguese Marano family of Lisbon, which owned a printing establishment there in 1647.Duarte Lopez Rosa: Physician; born at Beja. Duarte ......
Lord's PrayerS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Name given by the Christian world to the prayer which Jesus taught his disciples (Matt. vi. 9-13; Luke xi. 1-4). ......
Lord's SupperS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Name taken from I Cor. xi. 20, and given by the Christian world to the rite known as the eucharist, ......
Achille Loria (JE | WPGWPG) Italian political economist; born at Mantua March 2, 1857; educated at the lyceum of his native city and the universities ......
Gino Loria (JE | WPGWPG) Italian mathematician; born at Mantua May 19, 1862; educated at the Mantua lyceum and at the University of Turin, becoming ......
Los AngelesS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Commercial and manufacturing city in the state of California; situated on the left bank of the river of the same ......
LotS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Son of Haran, Abraham's brother, and, consequently, nephew of Abraham; emigrated with his grandfather, Terah, from Ur of the Chaldees ......
Lots (JE | WPGWPG) Means of determining chances. Primitive peoples, and occasionally those on a higher plane of culture, resort to lots for the ......
Lousada (of Peak House) (JE | WPGWPG) Name of a family that has held for many generations large possessions in Jamaica. A member of the family was ......
LoveS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) The deep affection by which one person feels closely drawn to another and impelled to give up much, or do ......
Robert Loveman (JE | WPGWPG) American poet; born at Cleveland, Ohio, April 11, 1864; educated and now (1904) residing at Dalton, Ga.; M.A., University of ......
Ermanno Lövinson [de] (JE | WPGWPG) German historian; born in Berlin June 3, 1863; educated at Berlin University (Ph.D. 1888). Since 1889 he has lived in ......
Israel Lovy (JE | WPGWPG) French cantor and synagogal composer; born near Danzig Sept., 1773; died in Paris Jan. 7, 1832. He received a Talmudic ......
A. Maurice Low (JE | WPGWPG) Anglo-American writer; born in London July 14, 1860. Educated at King's College School in that city, and afterward in Austria, ......
Asher ben Aryeh Löb Löw (JE | WPGWPG) Chief rabbi of Carlsruhe; born at Minsk in 1754; died at Carlsruhe July 23, 1837. He studied under his father, ......
Benjamin Wolf LöwJES2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Polish-Hungarian rabbi; born in Wodzislaw, government of Kielce, Poland, 1775; died at Verbo, Hungary, March 6, 1851. His father, Eleazar ......
Leopold LöwJES2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Hungarian rabbi; born at Czernahora, Moravia, May 22, 1811; died at Szegedin Oct. 13, 1875. He received his preliminary education ......
Moritz LöwJES2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Astronomer; born at Mako, Hungary, in 1841; died in Steglitz, Berlin, May 25, 1900; studied at the universities of Leipsic ......
Samuel LöwJE (JE | WPGWPG) Talmudist; son of Naṭe (V08p193001.jpg = Nathan) ha-Levi; born at Kolin, Bohemia, about 1720; died May 20, 1806, at Boskowitz, ......
August Löwe (JE | WPGWPG) Russian mathematician and author of mathematical works. Of his books the best known are: "Obscheponyatnaya Teoriya Perspectivy," 1858; "Obscheponyatnaya Prakticheskaya ......
Joel LöweJE (JE | WPGWPG) German commentator; born in 1760; died in Breslau Feb. 11, 1802. He signed his name in Hebrew writings as Joel ......
Konrad Löwe (JE | WPGWPG) Austrian actor; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Feb. 6, 1856. He took a law course at the University of Vienna, and ......
Ludwig Löwe [Wikidata] (JE | WPGWPG) German physician; born at Berlin March 11, 1844. After graduating from the gymnasium, he attended the universities of Jena, Würzburg, ......
Julius Löwenberg [de] (JE | WPGWPG) German geographer; born at Strzelno, Prussia, 1800; died at Berlin Dec. 12, 1893. He was educated in Berlin, where he ......
Leopold Löwenfeld [de; pl] (JE | WPGWPG) German physician; born in Munich Jan. 23, 1847; educated at the gymnasium and university in his native city (M.D. 1870). ......
Saul Löwenstamm (JE | WPGWPG) Rabbi and Talmudist; born at Rzeszow 1717; died at Amsterdam June 19, 1790. He is known as the author of ......
Baruch Solomon Löwenstein (JE | WPGWPG) Russian mathematician; born at Wolodarka, Russia, in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. He wrote: "Bikkure ha-Limmudiyyot," explanations of ......
Bernhard Löwenstein [Wikidata] (JE | WPGWPG) Austrian rabbi; born at Meseritz, province of Posen, Feb. 1, 1821; died at Lemberg March 15, 1889. Upon the recommendation ......
L. H. Löwenstein (JE | WPGWPG) Hebrew scholar; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main about 1850. He was reviser in the publishing-house of Isaac Lehrberger at Rödelheim, which office ......
Leopold Löwenstein [de] (JE | WPGWPG) German rabbi; born in Gailingen, Baden, Dec. 1, 1843. He attended the gymnasium at Bischofsheim-on-the-Tauber, receiving at the same time ......
Rudolf LöwensteinJE (JE | WPGWPG) German author; born at Breslau Feb. 20, 1819; died at Berlin Jan. 6, 1891. When only nine years of age ......
Johann Jacob LöwenthalS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Hungarian chess-master; born July, 1810, in Budapest; died at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, England, July 20, 1876. He was educated at the ......
Nathan Löwenthal (JE | WPGWPG) Russian histologist; born in 1856; educated at the Academy for Physicians and Surgeons at St. Petersburg and at the universities ......
Naumann Löwenthal [Wikidata] (JE | WPGWPG) German teacher and writer; born Feb. 25, 1819, at Schmiegel; died at Posen Feb. 28, 1855. He attended the gymnasium ......
Isaac Löwi [Wikidata] (JE | WPGWPG) German rabbi; born at Adelsdorf, near Erlangen, Bavaria, Jan. 31, 1803; died at Fürth Dec. 26, 1873. He received his ......
Solomon LöwisohnJES2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Historian and poet; born in Mor, district of Stuhlweissenburg, Hungary, in 1788; died there April 27, 1821. He studied at ......
Adolf Löwy (JE | WPGWPG) German physiologist; born in Berlin June 29, 1862; educated at the gymnasium and university of his native city (M.D. 1885), ......
Albert Löwy (JE | WPGWPG) English rabbi and communal worker; born at Aussee, Moravia, Dec., 1816. He studied first at Olmütz, and then moved to ......
Jacob Ezekiel Löwy (JE | WPGWPG) German rabbi and author; born at Hotzenplotz, Austrian Silesia, Aug. 24, 1814; died at Beuthen Nov. 20, 1864. After attending ......
Heschel Abramovich Lubarsky (JE | WPGWPG) Russian writer; born at Balta Sept., 1878. He was educated in a family of Ḥasidim, in the Odessa Commercial School, ......
LübeckS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Free city of Germany; situated on the River Trave, not far from the Baltic Sea; it forms, with the surrounding ......
Philipp Lubelski (JE | WPGWPG) Polish physician; born at Zamosc 1788; died at Warsaw Feb. 3, 1879. He began his career as an army surgeon ......
LublinS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) City of Russian Poland, in the government of the same name; situated 60 miles southeast of Warsaw; in importance the ......
Meïr ben Gedaliah Lublin (MaHaRaM) (JE | WPGWPG) Polish rabbi; born at Lublin (?) 1558; died there May 3, 1616. He was descended from a family of rabbis, ......
Hugo Lubliner (JE | WPGWPG) German dramatist; born at Breslau April 22, 1846. He studied at the industrial school in Berlin, and became manager of ......
Oziasz Louis (Ludwik) Lubliner [pl] (JE | WPGWPG) Polish writer; born 1809; died at Warsaw 1868. After the Polish revolution of 1831 he settled in Brussels, where he ......
Solomon Lublinsky (JE | WPGWPG) German journalist and writer; born at Johannisberg, Prussia, Feb. 18,1868. He was occupied for a time as a clerk in ......
Luboml (JE | WPGWPG) Town in the government of Volhynia, Russia. Jews lived there as early as the sixteenth century, though the attitude of ......
Louis Arthur Lucas [Wikidata] (JE | WPGWPG) African explorer; born in London Sept. 22, 1851; died at sea Nov. 20, 1876. After traveling in the United States ......
LuccaS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) City of Tuscany, Italy. Its Jewish community is known in literature especially through the Kalonymus family of Lucca, whose ancestor ......
Lucena, CórdobaS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) City near Cordova, Spain, magnificently situated, and surrounded by strong walls and wide moats. In early times it was inhabited ......
LucerneS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) City of Switzerland, in the canton of the same name. Jews were living there as early as the middle of ......
LuciferS2005-08-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Septuagint translation of "Helel [read "Helal"] ben Sha?ar" (= "the brilliant one," "son of the morning"), name of the day, ......
Lucuas (JE | WPGWPG) Toward the end of the reign of the emperor Trajan, in 116, the Jews of Cyrene rebelled, their leader being ......
Moriz Ludassy (Gans)JE S2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Hungarian journalist; born at Komorn in 1825; died at Reichenau Aug. 29, 1885. As early as 1848 he was editor ......
Lulab (JE | WPGWPG) Name given to the festive palm-branch which with the Etrog is carried and waved on the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot). ......
Luliani ben TabrinJE (JE | WPGWPG) Palestinian scholar of the beginning of the fourth century. The name, which is the equivalent of "Julianus ben Tiberianus," has ......
Jacob LumbrozoJE (JE | WPGWPG) Physician, planter, and trader resident in the palatinate of Maryland, America, in the middle of the seventeenth century; born at ......
Benjamin LumleyS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Director of Her Majesty's Theatre, Drury Lane, London; born in Canada 1811; died in London March 17, 1875. He was ......
Abraham Moses LunczJE (JE | WPGWPG) Russian scholar and editor; born Dec. 9, 1854, at Kovno, Russia; went when very young to Jerusalem, where he still ......
LunelS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Chief town of the department of Hérault, France; at times it is called V08p208002.jpg and V08p208003.jpg (see Zerahiah Gerundi, preface ......
Luntz (JE | WPGWPG) Name of a family descended from the Loans, or Loanz, family of Worms. According to a family tradition, Elijah, the ......
Isaac Luperio (Lupercio) (JE | WPGWPG) A Jew, perhaps a Marano, of Spanish descent; lived at Smyrna. His apology, written in Spanish and directed against a ......
Luria - We have dab page which lists 6 different ones - (JE | WPGWPG) A family with wide ramifications and several of whose members were distinguished for mystical tendencies and rabbinical knowledge.Abraham b. Nissan ......
Martin LutherS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) German church reformer; born at Eisleben Nov. 10, 1483; died there Feb. 18, 1546. The Reformation originated in the Renaissance, ......
Lutsk (Lutzk) S2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) District city in the government of Volhynia, Russia, situated on the right bank of the Styr at its junction with ......
Lutzyn (JE | WPGWPG) Russian town in the government of Vitebsk; it is situated near a chain of mountains and surrounded by lakes and ......
LuxembourgS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Grand duchy of central Europe, its capital bearing the same name. The sources do not definitely indicate when Jews first ......
LuzS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Older name of the city of Beth-el (Gen. xxviii. 19, xxxv. 6, xlviii. 3; Josh. xvi. 2, xviii. 13; Judges ......
Simchah Isaac ben Moses Luzki (JE | WPGWPG) Karaite writer and bibliographer; born at Lutsk at the end of the seventeenth century; died, according to Firkovich, at Chufut-Kale, ......
Luigi LuzzattiS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Italian statesman and political economist; born at Venice March 11, 1841; studied at the University of Padua (Doctor of Law ......
Aaron Moses ben Tzebi Hirsch Lwow (JE | WPGWPG) Grammarian, scribe, and dayyan of Lemberg in the eighteenth century. He wrote: "Shirah Ḥadashah" (Zolkiev, 1764), a Hebrew grammar in ......
LyddaS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) City in Palestine, later named Diospolis; situated one hour northeast of Ramleh, about three hours southeast of Jaffa, and, according ......
LyingS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) Telling a falsehood with the intent of deceiving. Biblical Data: Lying is most vigorously condemned in the Law: "Keep thee far ......
Abraham de Lyon (JE | WPGWPG) One of the first Jewish settlers in Georgia, U. S. A.; ancestor of the well-known family of that name which ......
George Lewis Lyon (JE | WPGWPG) English journalist and communal worker; born at Portsea, England, Dec. 11, 1828; died in London Feb. 14, 1904. After acting ......
Myer Leon (Myer Leoni) (JE | WPGWPG) Operatic singer and ḥazzan; died at Kingston, Jamaica, about 1800; uncle of John Braham; both he and his nephew were ......
Robert LyonDAB (JE | WPGWPG) American journalist; born in London, England, Jan. 15, 1810; died in New York city March 10, 1858. After a brief ......
LyonsS2006-02-19 (JE | WPGWPG) City on the Rhône, France. Jews seem to have been established in the surrounding region at an early date. The ......
Israel LyonsUNR (JE | WPGWPG) Hebrew teacher and author; born in Poland; died 1770. He emigrated to England and settled in Cambridge. Here he practised ......
Israel Lyons+ (JE | WPGWPG) English astronomer, botanist, and mathematician; born at Cambridge 1739; died in London 1775; son of Israel Lyons. In his earliest ......
Jacques Judah LyonsJE (JE | WPGWPG) American minister; son of Judah and Mary Lyons; born in Surinam, Dutch Guiana, Aug. 25, 1814; died in New York ......
Nicolas de Lyra+ (JE | WPGWPG) French exegete; born at Lyre, near Evreux, Normandy, about 1270; died at Paris Oct. 23, 1340. The only certain dates ......
Lysias+ (JE | WPGWPG) Syrian statesman of royal descent; died 162 B.C. (I Macc. iii. 32; Josephus, "Ant." xii. 7, § 2). When Antiochus ......
Lysimachus (JE | WPGWPG) Anti-Jewish Alexandrian writer; lived before Apion. Like the Stoic Chæremon, he went beyond even Manetho in his inimical account of ......