Broker (JE | WPGWPG) One who acts as middleman between seller and buyer, or makes it his business to bring buyer and seller together; also one...
Jew Brokers (JE | WPGWPG) A term used to indicate the Jewish merchants who had the right of trading at the Royal Exchange, London. The word "brokers"...
Brotherly Love (JE | WPGWPG) the love for one's fellow-man as a brother. The expression is taken from the Greek word Φιλαδ...
Richard Brothers (JE | WPGWPG) English visionary and founder of Anglo Israelism; born Dec. 25, 1757, at Placentia, Newfoundland; died at London Jan. 25,...
Hugh Broughton (JE | WPGWPG) English Christian divine and rabbinical scholar; born 1549 at Oldbury, Shropshire; died at Tottenham, near London, Aug. 4...
Brovary (JE | WPGWPG) Small town in the government of Chernigov, Russia. In 1898 it had 1,344 Jewish inhabitants in a population of 5,166. Most...
William BrownJE (JE | WPGWPG) Scottish clergyman; born 1766; died 1835; for forty-three years minister of Eskdalemuir, Scotland. He is the author of "Antiquities...
Robert Browning (JE | WPGWPG) English poet; born in Clerkenwell, London, 1812; died at Venice Dec. 12, 1889. From his somewhat Jewish appearance, knowledge...
Isaac BroydéJE (JE | WPGWPG) Russian Orientalist; born at Porozowo, government of Grodno, Russia, Feb. 23, 1867. After attending the gymnasium at Grodnohe...
Bruchsal (JE | WPGWPG) City in the grand duchy of Baden. Jews resided here as early as the beginning of the twelfth century. In 1337 the Jews of...
Abraham Jacob Bruck (JE | WPGWPG) Russian educator; author of works in Hebrew and in Russian; born in the district of Rossienny 1820; died in Yekaterinoslav...
Jacob Bruck (JE | WPGWPG) Hungarian physician and author; born at Pápa Oct. 20, 1845; died at Budapest 1901; brother of Lajos Bruck. He studied...
Julius Bruck (JE | WPGWPG) German dentist and writer on dentistry; born at Breslau Oct. 6, 1840; died there, April 20, 1902. He studied dentistry and...
1521 – 1540
Lajos Bruck (JE | WPGWPG) Hungarian painter; born at Pápa, county of Veszprim, Nov., 1846. Though his father intended him for commercial life,...
Max (Miksa) Bruck (JE | WPGWPG) Hungarian painter; born at Budapest 1863; a brother of Lajos Bruck. He graduated from the schools of his native city, and...
Moses Bruck [de; hu] (JE | WPGWPG) Hungarian theological writer; born about 1812 in Prerau, Moravia; died in 1849. He studied at Prague, and, as he could find...
Solomon b. Hayyim Brück (JE | WPGWPG) Austrian Hebraist; born in the latter part of the eighteenth century; died about 1846. He is the author of "Ḥaḳ...
Henrietta Bruckman (JE | WPGWPG) Founder of the first Jewish women's lodge in America; born in Bohemia April, 1810; died in New York city April, 1888....
Adolf Brüll [de; he] (JE | WPGWPG) German writer and theologian; born in Kojetein, Moravia, April 27, 1846; son of Rabbi Jakob Brüll. He was educated at...
Ignaz Brüll (JE | WPGWPG) Austrian composer; born at Prossnitz, Moravia, Nov. 7, 1846. In 1848 his parents removed to Vienna, where he became a pupil...
Jakob Brüll [de; he] (JE | WPGWPG) Austrian Talmudist and author; born at Neu-Raussnitz, Moravia, Nov. 16, 1812; died at Kojetein Nov. 29, 1889. He attended...
Nehemiah BrüllJE (JE | WPGWPG) Rabbi and scholar of varied attainments; born March 16, 1843, at Neu-Raussnitz, Moravia; died Feb. 5, 1891, at Frankfort-on-the-Main...
Angelo Brunetti [it] (JE | WPGWPG) Popular Roman leader, and advocate of the emancipation of the Jews; born in Rome 1800; died there Aug. 10, 1849. Inspired...
Brünn (JE | WPGWPG) Capital of Moravia. It possessed a Jewish community as early as the twelfth century. At the instigation of Capistrano, the...
Arnold William Brunner (JE | WPGWPG) American architect; the son of William Brunner and Isabelle Solomon; was born in New York city Sept. 25, 1857. He was educated...
Sebastian Brunner (JE | WPGWPG) Austrian Catholic theologian, editor, and anti-Jewish writer; born Dec. 10, 1814, in Vienna; died in Währing, near Vienna...
Léon Lévy Brunswich (JE | WPGWPG) French dramatist; born at Paris April 20, 1805; died at Havre April 29, 1859. Favoritecollaborator of Ad. de Leuven, he wrote...
Brunswick (JE | WPGWPG) Duchy of Germany, the capital of which has the same name. The first settlement of Jews in the duchy was at Blankenburg; for...
Brusa (JE | WPGWPG) City of Anatolia, 54 miles from Constantinople and 21 miles from the port of Moudania. According to some chroniclers, the...
Brusilov (JE | WPGWPG) Town in the government of Kiev, Russia, with a Jewish population (1898) of 2,800, in a total of 6,500. Of the 541 Jewish artisans...
1541 – 1560
Brussels (JE | WPGWPG) Capital of Belgium. There are no records as to the date when Jews first settled in Brussels; but as many of them were scattered...
Brutish (JE | WPGWPG) A term applied by the Biblical writers to men whose disposition or spirit was like that of beasts. It is used in close conjunction...
Judah Loeb ben David Brutzkus (JE | WPGWPG) Russian writer; born 1870 at Polangen, in the government of Courland; studied at the gymnasium and University of Moscow, from...
Brüx (JE | WPGWPG) Town of Bohemia, 14 miles north of Saaz. Documents prove that, as early as the fourteenth century, Jews were living at Brü...
Bryansk (JE | WPGWPG) Town in the government of Grodno, Russia, with a Jewish population (1898) of 2,365, in a total population of 6,342. Of the...
Solomon BuberJE (JE | WPGWPG) Galician scholar and editor of Hebrew works; born at Lemberg Feb. 2, 1827. His father, Isaiah Abraham Buber, was versed in...
Charles Adolphus Buchheim [Wikidata] (JE | WPGWPG) Professor of the German language and German literature at King's College, London; born in Moravia1828; died at London...
Bucharest (JE | WPGWPG) Ancient capital of Wallachia, and the present capital of Rumania. The oldest Jewish tombstone is dated 1682; but Jews settled...
Bernhard Buchbinder (JE | WPGWPG) Austrian journalist; born July 6, 1854, in Budapest, where he received his education, being destined for a mercantile career...
Carl August Buchholz (JE | WPGWPG) German Christian lawyer and author; born in the latter half of the eighteenth century; died at Lübeck Nov. 15, 1843....
P. Buchholz (JE | WPGWPG) German rabbi; born Oct. 2, 1837; died in Emden, Hanover, Sept. 20, 1892. He became rabbi of Märkisch-Friedland in 1863...
Adolf BüchlerJE (JE | WPGWPG) Austrian historian and theologian; born Oct. 18, 1867, at Priekopa, Hungary. In 1887 he began his theological studies at the...
Alexander BüchlerJE (JE | WPGWPG) Born in Fülek, Hungary, in 1869; son of the Talmudist rabbi Phineas Büchler of Moór. He was educated at the...
Wolf b. David Hakohen Buchner (JE | WPGWPG) Hebrew stylist; born at Brody in the latter half of the eighteenth century and lived into the nineteenth. In his boyhood Buchner...
Buchsbaum (JE | WPGWPG) Family of Jewish physicians of Frankfort-on-the-Main, whose activity extended over a century. Its prominent members were:...
Purim of Buda (JE | WPGWPG) in 1684 the Christian armies laid siege to Buda (Ofen) to drive out the Turks, who had held possession of the city from 1541...
Budek (JE | WPGWPG) Polish Catholic priest; canon of Wislica at the beginning of the fifteenth century, and one of the most vigorous Jew-baiters...
Max Büdinger (JE | WPGWPG) Austrian historian; born April 1, 1828, at Cassel, Germany; died at Vienna Feb. 23, 1902; son of Moses Mordecai Büdinger...
Moses Israel ben Isaac Büdinger (JE | WPGWPG) Teacher at Metz at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth. He devoted himself to Hebrew grammar...
Moses Mordecai Büdinger (JE | WPGWPG) German educator; born at Maidorf, a village in Hessen, Jan., 1783; died at Cassel Jan. 31, 1841. At the age of twenty he became...
Simon Budny (JE | WPGWPG) Calvinist priest of Lithuania in the sixteenth century; founder of the Polish sect of the Budnians, who were surnamed "Half-Jews"...
Budushchnost (JE | WPGWPG) Russo-Jewish weekly, established (1900) and edited by S. O. Gruzenberg. Like the "Voskhod," it gives valuableinformation concerning...
Budweis (JE | WPGWPG) City of Bohemia. Jews were settled there in the first half of the fourteenth century, possibly earlier. In 1337 the community...
La Buena Espéranza (JE | WPGWPG) Title of a Jewish weekly, published in Judæo-Spanish and in rabbinic characters at Smyrna since 1874. It first appeared...
Bueno (Bonus) (JE | WPGWPG) Family of Spanish origin, members of which, including many physicians and scholars, have settled in southern France, Italy...
Buffalo (JE | WPGWPG) A name common to different species of Bovidœ. The best known is the Bubalus buffelus, or Bos bubalus, generally called...
Buffalo, New York (JE | WPGWPG) the second city in New York state. Its first connection with the history of the Jews occurred in 1825, when Mordecai M. Noah...
Buk (JE | WPGWPG) Town in Prussia, province of Posen, which, after the second partition of Poland, in 1793, passed under Prussian rule. Jews...
Bukki (JE | WPGWPG) 1. Son of Jogli, prince of the tribe of Dan, who represented his tribe in the division of the land (Num. xxxiv. 22). 2. Son...
Bukowina (JE | WPGWPG) An eastern province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire for the history of which see Czernowitz. ...
Bul (JE | WPGWPG) the name of the month in which the building of Solomon's Temple was completed, as mentioned in I Kings vi. 38. It would...
Raphael Moses ben Joseph de Bulah (JE | WPGWPG) Palestinian Talmudist and rabbi; died at Jerusalem March 23, 1773, where he had been rabbi, and had conducted a Talmudic school...
Solomon ben Raphael Moses de Bulah (JE | WPGWPG) Turkish Talmudist; born at Jerusalem, where his father, Raphael Moses ben Joseph de Bulah, was rabbi; died 1786 at Salonica...
Bulan (JE | WPGWPG) King of the Chazars, who in 620 embraced Judaism. Joseph, "Chaghan" (king) of the Chazars, in answer to a letter from Ḥ...
1581 – 1600
Abraham ibn Bulat (V03p425001jpg) (JE | WPGWPG) Talmudic scholar; lived in Spain in the fifteenth century. He was the disciple of Isaac de Leon, and in a vigorous dispute...
Bulgaria (JE | WPGWPG) Principality of southeastern Europe, under the suzerainty of Turkey. According to Josephus ("Ant." xxii.) and Belloguet ("Les...
Bun (JE | WPGWPG) As a personal prenomen this name is a dialectic abridgment of "Abun" ("Abin," "Rabin"; see Jastrow, "Dictionary," 147a; compare...
Edmund Bunney (JE | WPGWPG) English preacher and Hebrew scholar; born at Vache, near Chalfont, St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, in 1540; died at Carwood, Yorkshire...
Burden of Proof (JE | WPGWPG) in law, the obligation resting upon one or other of the parties to a suit to bring proof of a fact when the opposite party...
Meno Burg (JE | WPGWPG) German military officer; was born in Berlin Oct. 9, 1789; died there Aug. 26, 1853. His father was in very poor circumstances...
Burgdorf (JE | WPGWPG) Town in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. It contained a few Jewish inhabitants in the fourteenth century. In 1347 Simon, a...
Elijah Hai Vita Burgel (Burgil) (JE | WPGWPG) Rabbi of Tunis; son of Nathan Burgel. He is the author of "Migdanot Natan," a work in two parts. The first part, printed with...
Joseph Burgel (JE | WPGWPG) Rabbi of Tunis; son of Elijah Ḥai Burgel; born in 1791; died at Tunis in 1857. He was the author of "Zar'a de-Yosef...
Nathan ben Abraham Burgel (JE | WPGWPG) Rabbi at Tunis about 1750; pupil of Isaac Lumbroso. Considered a rabbinical authority, people from far and near brought him...
1601 to 1700
1601 – 1620
Hugo Bürger (JE | WPGWPG) German dramatist; born in Breslau April 22, 1846; now (1902) living at Berlin. He came to Berlin at the age of twelve, and...
Theodor Bürger (JE | WPGWPG) Rabbi and preacher in Szegedin, Hungary, 1843-47. Two years after entering upon his office he published a book, "Der Talmud...
Burglary (JE | WPGWPG) in English and American law burglary is the offense of breaking into a dwelling-house at night, with the intent to commit...
Burgos (JE | WPGWPG) City of Old Castile, having a long-established, large, wealthy, and cultured Jewish community up to the time of the expulsion...
Burial (JE | WPGWPG) Placing the corpse in the earth or in caves of the rock, the chief modes adhered to by the Jewish people of disposing of the...
Burial Society (JE | WPGWPG) Organization for providing proper burial rites. There is hardly a congregation of Jews in the world without an association...
Barthold Dowe BurmaniaJE (JE | WPGWPG) Dutch statesman and ambassador to the court of Vienna; lived in the eighteenth century. He was a man of broad humanitarian...
Burning Bush (JE | WPGWPG) the name commonly given to the tree from which the angel of Jehovah manifested himself to Moses in a flame of fire; the distinctive...
Burnt Offering (JE | WPGWPG) the ordinary translation in modern versions of the Hebrew "'olah" (). This term does not mean literally "burnt offering...
Bury St Edmunds (JE | WPGWPG) Town of Suffolk, England, and seat of a monastery the ruins of which still exist. Under the rule of Abbot Hugh (1173-80) the...
Isidor Bush (Busch) JE (JE | WPGWPG) Litterateur, publicist, and viticulturalist; born in Prague, Bohemia, Jan. 15, 1822; died in St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 5, 1898...
Lewis Bush (JE | WPGWPG) American soldier; born in Philadelphia; died 1777; member of the well-known Bush family, Jewish merchants of Philadelphia...
Solomon BushJE (JE | WPGWPG) American soldier; born in Philadelphia; son of Matthias Bush, one of the signers of the non-importation agreement (Oct. 25...
William Bertrand BusnachJE (JE | WPGWPG) French dramatist; born in Paris March 7, 1832; nephew of the composer Fromental Halévy. His father was associated with...
Naphtali BusnashJE (JE | WPGWPG) Chief of the Algerian Jews and statesman; born at Algiers in the middle of the eighteenth century; assassinated June 28, 1805...
Matheus ButrymowiczJE (JE | WPGWPG) Polish statesman and landlord of the eighteenth century; a descendant of one of the oldest families of Lithuania and Samogitia...
Laemmlein Buttenwieser (JE | WPGWPG) German Talmudist and linguist; born in Wassertrüdingen, Bavaria, Jan. 16, 1825; died in New York city Sept. 23, 1901...
Johannes Buxtorf (Buxtorff) + (JE | WPGWPG) the principal founder of rabbinical study among Christian scholars; born Dec. 25, 1564, at Kamen, Westphalia; died Sept. 13...
Johannes BuxtorfJE (JE | WPGWPG) Johannes Buxtorf, the son of the elder; known as Johannes Buxtorf II.; Christian Hebraist; born at Basel Aug. 13, 1599; died...
Johannes b. Buxtorf (JE | WPGWPG) Nephew of Johannes Jakob Buxtorf; born Jan. 8, 1663; died June 19, 1732. He was professor of Hebrew at Basel, and published...
Johannes Jakob BuxtorfJE (JE | WPGWPG) Professor of Hebrew at Basel; son of Johannes Buxtorf II. by his fourth wife; born Sept. 4, 1645; died April 4, 1705. According...
Johannes Rudolphus Buxtorf (JE | WPGWPG) Great-grandson of Johannes Buxtorf I.; born at Basel Oct. 24, 1747; died 1815. After completing his studies in his native...
Buz (JE | WPGWPG) Second son of Nahor (Gen. xxii. 21). From the language of the genealogical lists, however, it is to be inferred that the name...
William BuzagloJE (JE | WPGWPG) English inventor and empiric; died at London in 1788. His first claim to distinction was his introduction of stoves made on...
Byelaya Tzerkov (JE | WPGWPG) Town in the government of Kiev, Russia. Its Jewish settlement must have been formed after 1550, when the waywode of Kiev,...
Byelostok (JE | WPGWPG) Town in the government of Grodno, Russia; by rail 52 miles southwest of Grodno; one of the youngest in Lithuania. Little is...
Byelsk+ (JE | WPGWPG) Town in the government of Grodno, Russia. It is impossible to name the exact date when Jews first settled here. In the sixteenth...
Byeshenkovichi (JE | WPGWPG) Town in the district of Lepelsk, government of Vitebsk, Russia. In 1898, in a total population of 5,000, about 4,000 were...
Emil BykJE (JE | WPGWPG) Austrian lawyer and deputy; born Jan. 14, 1845, at Janow, near Trembowla, in Galicia.In 1885 Byk was chosen chairman of the...
Bykhov (JE | WPGWPG) District town in the government of Mohilev, Russia. At the census of 1898 the total population was 6,536, including 3,172...
1641 – 1660
George Gordon, Lord Byron (JE | WPGWPG) English poet; born in Halles street, London, Jan. 22, 1788; died at Missolonghi, Greece, April 19, 1824. The only one of his...
Byzantine Expire (JE | WPGWPG) Name given to the eastern division of the Roman empire. On May 11, 330, Constantinople became the capital of the Roman empire...