Jewish Biographies: Rabbis & Religious Figures
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A
- Abalia, Isaac
- Abravanel, 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
- Gittelsohn, Roland
- Goren, Rabbi Shlomo
- Gottlieb, Rabbi Lynn
- Greenberg, Moshe
- Grossman, Yizhak-David
H
- Herstik, Naftali
- Hertz, Rabbi Joseph
- 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
- Jakobovits, Immanuel
- 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
- Kadoorie, Sasson
- Kadushin, Max
- Kaempf, Saul Isaac
- Kafah (Kafih, ???? ), 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
- Linfield, Rabbi Dr. Harry Sebee
- Lintup, Rabbi Pinchas HaKohenp
- 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
- Morais, Sabato
- 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
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
Y
Z
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