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*"Light of God, The," by Chasdai Crescas, 141.
 * "Light of the Eyes, The," by Azariah di Rossi, 220, 223.
 * Literature, Jewish, oral, 21-22.
 * principle of, 23-24,
 * under the influence of Karaism, 77.
 * See Mishnah, the.
 * Liturgy, the, earliest additions to, 83.
 * See Piyut, the.
 * Lorraine, the Kalirian Piyut in, 85.
 * Lost Ten Tribes, book on, 201.
 * in Brazil, 208.
 * Lucas, Mrs. Alice, translations by, quoted, 63.
 * Lucian, used in "Josippon," 214.
 * Luzzatto, Moses Chayim, Kabbalist and dramatist, 176.
 * ethical work by, 193.
 * as dramatist, 246-247.
 * Lydda, centre of Jewish learning, 20.

*Manasseh ben Israel, continued.
 * Machberoth, by Immanuel of Rome, 182-185.
 * Maggid, familiar of Joseph Karo, 239.
 * Maharil, collection of Customs, 238.
 * Maimonides, Moses, the forerunner of, 95.
 * youth of, 134-135.
 * activities of, 135-136.
 * disinterestedness of, 136.
 * attacks on, 137, 141.
 * prominence of, 137-138.
 * as a philosopher, 138-141, 142, 151.
 * works of, translated, 148.
 * and Nachmanides, 163.
 * studied by Spinoza, 250.
 * Mainz, Rashi at, 122.
 * Majorca, the Spanish Piyut in, 85.
 * Manasseh ben Israel, and the Lost Tribes, 208-209, 243, 247-248.
 * political activity of, 244, 248.
 * life of, 244.
 * attainments and friends of, 245.
 * activities of, 247.
 * as a pamphleteer, 248-249.
 * and Spinoza, 250.
 * Manetho, historian, and Josephus, 36.
 * Massechtoth, tractates of the Mishnah, 31.
 * "Maximes of the Philosophers," by Charizi, 189.
 * Mebo ha-Talmud, by Samuel Ibn Nagdela, 104.
 * Mechilta, a Midrashic work, 57.
 * Megillath Taanith, See "Scroll of Fasting, The."
 * Meir, a Tanna, 23, 27-28.
 * characterized, 27-28.
 * fables by, 64.
 * Meir of Rothenburg, poet, 131, 235-237.
 * writer of "Responses," 235.
 * "Memorial Books," historical sources, 216.
 * Menachem, the son of Zaruk, grammarian, 100, 101, 123.
 * Mendelssohn, Moses, antagonized by Ezekiel Landau, 238.
 * life of, 258.
 * objects to the separation of culture and religion, 254.
 * service of, to Judaism, 254-255.
 * and Lessing, 255-256.
 * style of, 257.
 * and Lavater, 258.
 * translates the Pentateuch, 258-259.
 * circle of, 259.
 * influence of, 259-260.
 * Menorath ha-Maor, by Isaac Aboab, 192.
 * Meör Enayim, by Azariah di Rossi, 220.
 * Meshullam of Lunel, patron of learning, 146, 147.
 * Messiah, the, Joshua on, 47.
 * Messilath Yesharim, by Moses Chayim Luzzatto, 193.
 * Metre, in Hebrew poetry, 84.
 * Michlol, by David Kimchi, 117.
 * Midrash, the, characterized, 55-57.
 * poetical, 56, 57.
 * popular homileties, 57.
 * works called, 57-58.
 * style of, 58-59.
 * proverbs in, 59-60.
 * parables in, 60-64.