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Abraham Goldfaden
(1840–1908), playwright, theater director, poet, and impresario; considered the “Father of Yiddish Theater.” Avrom Goldfadn’s productions emerged during the period of the Haskalah movement in Russia and the cultural-nati…
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Abraham Gombiner
(1635–1682), author of commentaries on the Shulḥan ‘arukh (Oraḥ ḥayim) and Yalkut Shim‘oni. He was born in Gombin, Poland (hence his family name), where his father was martyred in 1655, in the aftermath of the Khmel’nyts…
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Abraham ibn Esra
Span.-jüd. Exeget, Dichter, Astrologe, Astronom
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Abraham Isaac Kook
(1865–1935), rabbinic leader, halakhist, theologian, and mystic. Best known as the first Ashkenazic chief rabbi of modern Palestine and the major theologian of religious Zionism, Kook lived in Latvia and Lithuania before…
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Abram Fjodorowitsch Joffe
(1880–1960), physicist. A graduate of the Saint Petersburg Institute of Technology (1902), Abram Ioffe began his scientific career in Munich, where he worked as a doctoral student in the laboratory of Wilhelm Röntgen, th…
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Achad Ha'am
(1856–1927), Zionist thinker. Born in Skvira, Ukraine, Ahad Ha-Am (born Asher Ginzberg; Heb., more properly Aḥad ha-‘Am, a pen name that translates as “One of the People”) was a Hebrew essayist of singular power and auth…
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Achimaats ben Paltiel
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Adam
Monthly journal, issued in Bucharest from 1929 to 1940. Adam followed the traditions of the Jewish cultural press in Romania, and in this sense was similar to the publications Anuar pentru israeliți (Yearbook for Israeli…
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Adin Steinsaltz
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Aetheria
Vorsteherin eines Frauenklosters in Südfrankreich oder Nordwestspanien; spätantike Schriftstellerin aus Gallien, die als Pilgerin von 381 bis 384 das Heilige Land bereiste und darüber einen Reisebericht in Form eines …
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Agobard
Erzbischof von Lyon 816-840, nur in Lyon als Lokalheiliger verehrt, Heiligsprechung umstritten
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Aharon Amir
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Aharon ben Shemuʾel
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Aharon Ḳaminḳa
1886 Reifeprüfung am Staatsgymnasium in Riga, 1882-1886 RS Berlin, seit 1886 Univ. Berlin (semitische Sprachen, Philosophie und Volkswirtschaft), 1888-1889 Univ. Sorbonne, Paris, 1889-1892 HWJ, 1893 Rabbinatszeugnis an d…
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Al-Kindi
Arab. Philosoph, Wissenschaftler, Mathematiker, Arzt und Musiker. In Bagdad ließ er zahlreiche Schriften u.a. von Aristoteles, Platon, Alexander von Aphrodisias und Johannes Philoponos ins Arabische übersetzen
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Alexander von Aphrodisias
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Alexander, Isaak
Studierte in Heidelberg, seit ca. 1735 Hauslehrer in Regensburg, 1753 von der dortigen neugegründeten Gemeinde als Lehrer, Vorsänger und Schächter angestellt, bildete sich in Fürth weiter und kehrte Dezember 1765 als ord…
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Alfonso III of Asturias
42. König von Spanien ; 45. König von Spanien (Asturien, Leon, Galicien)
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Alter Drujanow
(1870–1938), Hebrew writer, researcher, editor, and Zionist activist. Alter Druyanow was born in the shtetl of Druja, in the Vilna region, to a rabbinic family. In 1886, he entered the Volozhin yeshiva, where he joined t…
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Archimedes
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