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501 – 520

1. Luis Duarte (JE | WP GWP G) Chilean Marano; born in Evora, Portugal, at the end of the sixteenth century. He served for six years in the Chilean army...
2. Duarte de Pinel (JE | WP GWP G) -- See U57: Usque
3. Dublin (JE | WP GWP G) Chief city of Ireland. The Jewish community in Dublin is one of the oldest of those which have been founded in Great Britain...
4. Dubner Maggid JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J103: Jacob ben Wolf Kranz of Dubno
5. Dubnicza (JE | WP GWP G) Bulgarian town; 22 miles south of Sofia, and on the left bank of the Jerma. In tracing the origin of its population by the...
6. Dubno JE (JE | WP GWP G) Town in the government of Volhynia, Russia. According to the census of 1897 it had a population of 13,785, including 5,608...
7. Solomon ben Joel Dubno JE (JE | WP GWP G) Russian poet, grammarian, and student of the Masorah; born at Dubno, Volhynia, Oct., 1738; died at Amsterdam June 26, 1813...
8. Simon (Semion Markovich) Dubnow (JE | WP GWP G) Russo Jewish historian; born at Mstis. lavl, government of Mohilev, 1860. He attended the Jewish government school of his...
9. Dubosary (JE | WP GWP G) Village in the government of Kherson, Russia. In 1897 it had a population of 13,276, of whom about 5,000 were Jews. A considerable...
10. Dubrovna (JE | WP GWP G) Village situated on both banks of the Dnieper river, in the government of Mohilev, in northwestern Russia. Its total population...
11. Duderstadt (JE | WP GWP G) A city in Eichsfelde, province of Hanover. Jews have lived there as early as the beginning of the fourteenth century, as appears...
12. Isaac ben Meïr Dueren (JE | WP GWP G) German rabbi and codifier; lived in the second half of the thirteenth century at Dueren, from which place he took his name...
13. Dukan (JE | WP GWP G) the "platform" upon which (1) the Temple priests stood to pronounce the benediction (Mid. ii. 6), (2) the Levites stood during...
14. Leopold Dukes (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian historian of Jewish literature; born at Presburg, Hungary, 1810; died at Vienna Aug. 3, 1891. He studied Talmudical...
15. Dumah (JE | WP GWP G) Son of Ishmael (Gen. xxv. 14; I Chron. i. 30). Suk ("marKet") Dumah has been found in Dumat al-Jandal in Arabia, called...
16. Arnold Borisovich Dumashevski (JE | WP GWP G) Russian lawyer; born at Mohilev-on-the-Dnieper, 1836, of poor Orthodox Jewish parents; died at St. Petersburg 1887. He received...
17. Dumb (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D177: Deaf-Mutism
18. Dünaburg (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D540: Dvinsk
19. Dunash ben Labrat (JE | WP GWP G) Philologist and poet of the tenth century. For the name "Dunash," which Joseph Ḳimchi on one occasion ("Sefer ha-Galui...
20. Dunash ibn Tamim (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar of the tenth century and pioneer of scientific study among Arabic-speaking Jews. His Arabic name was "Abu Sahl"; his...

521 – 540

1. Dunayevtzy (JE | WP GWP G) Village in the government of Podolia, Russia. It had a population (1898) of 13,000, of whom 7,000 were Jews. The chief sources...
2. Joseph Hirsch Dünner (JE | WP GWP G) Rabbi; born at Cracow Jan., 1833; received his rabbinical education at his native place; studied philosophy and Oriental philology...
3. John Duns Scotus (JE | WP GWP G) Franciscan monk, theologian, and scholiast; born at Dunston, North umberland, England (according to some, at Dun, Ireland)...
4. Adrien Duport (JE | WP GWP G) French lawyer and friend of the Jews; born in 1758; died in exile 1798. He became a deputy to the States-General in 1789,...
5. Dura (JE | WP GWP G) A valley mentioned only in Daniel (iii. 1). Here Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image, to the dedication of which he summoned...
6. Duran DAB >> Profiat Duran JE, Simeon ben Zemah Duran JE, Solomon ben Simon Duran JE (JE | WP GWP G) A widely scattered family, originally from Provence, not from Oran ("d'Oran"), as some scholars think. A "Mosse Duram"...
7. Duress (JE | WP GWP G) in law, the use of such unlawful force against a contracting party as will entitle him to rescind a contract. The rabbinical...
8. Emile Durkheim (JE | WP GWP G) French writer; born at Epinal, in the department of Vosges, France, April15, 1858. He was educated at the college of his native...
9. Elcan Durlacher (JE | WP GWP G) Hebraist and publisher; born at Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1817; died Dec. 21, 1889. He went to Paris in 1845 as a teacher of...
10. John Dury (JE | WP GWP G) English divine of the seventeenth century. During his travels abroad he met Manasseh ben Israel in 1644, and heard from him...
11. Moritz Duschak (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian rabbi and author; born in Triesch, Moravia, Nov. 14, 1815; died in Vienna July 21, 1890. He was a pupil in Talmud...
12. Friedrich Duschenes (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian jurist; born at Prague Jan. 18, 1843; died there Jan. 11, 1901. He received his education at the Unter-Realschule...
13. Wilhelm Duschinsky (JE | WP GWP G) Austrian writer; born in Strasnitz, Moravia, May 6, 1860. He attended the gymnasium in Vienna, and afterward studied Romanic...
14. Düsseldorf (JE | WP GWP G) City in Rhenish Prussia, situated on the right bank of the Rhine. According to the census of 1900 it has about 2,600 Jews...
15. Dutch West Indies (JE | WP GWP G) A name by which the Dutch colonies of Curaçao and Surinam are sometimes designated. See under West Indies. ...
16. Duty (JE | WP GWP G) That which is due to God as the Master of life, or to a fellow man, or to oneself. "Duty" is an ethical term; its recognition...
17. Adolf Dux JE (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian writer; born at Presburg Oct. 25, 1822; died at Budapest Nov. 20, 1881; cousin of Leopold Dukes. He studied law...
18. Ludwig Dux (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D409: Dóczy, Ludwig
19. Christian Salomon Duytsch (JE | WP GWP G) Hungarian clergyman; born in Temesvár, Hungary, in 1734; died in 1797. He attended the Talmud Torah in Prague. Returning...
20. Dvinsk (JE | WP GWP G) City in the government of Vitebsk, Russia. It is situated on the River Düna, at the intersection of two railroads. It...

541 – 560

1. Dwarf (JE | WP GWP G) the rendering in A. V. of (Lev. xxi. 20, literally "thin"), denoting one of the physical disqualifications of priests for...
2. Dyatlovo (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G439: Grodno
3. Dybossari (JE | WP GWP G) -- See D509: Dubosary
4. Isadore Dyer (JE | WP GWP G) American merchant and communal worker; born in Dessau, Germany, 1813; died at Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1888. He went to America...
5. Leon Dyer (JE | WP GWP G) American soldier; born at Alzey, Germany, Oct. 9, 1807; died in Louisville, Ky., 1883. At an early age he went with his parents...
6. Dyes and Dyeing (JE | WP GWP G) Though not mentioned as a special art in the Bible, dyeing was probably practised as in Egypt by the fuller andthe tanner...
7. Dyhernfurth (JE | WP GWP G) Town in Prussian Silesia, with 1,463 inhabitants; founded Jan. 20, 1663. In that year the Austrian emperor Leopold I., desiring...
8. David Moses Dyte (David ben Meir Dyte) (JE | WP GWP G) English Jew who distinguished himself by saving the life of George III. of England under the following circumstances: On May...
9. Dyvin (JE | WP GWP G) Village in the government of Grodno, Russia. It has a very old Jewish community, but it is impossible to determine when Jews...

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