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Jewish Encyclopedia A DESCRIPTIVE RECORD OF

THE HISTORY, RELIGION, LITERATURE, AND CUSTOMS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY Prepared by More than Four Hundred Scholars and Specialists UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE FOLLOWING EDITORIAL BOARD Cyrus Adler, Ph.D.

(Departments

of Post-

Biblical Antiquities ; the Jews of America)

Gotthard Deutsch, Ph.D. History from 1492

Louis

to

(Department of

igo2)

Morris Jastrow,

Kauhmann Kohler,

Ginzberg, Ph.D. (Department of Rab-

Talmudic Literature)

(Departments

of

Frederick de Sola Mf.ndes, Ph.D. (Chief of the

Richard Gottheil, Ph.D. (Departments of History from Ezra to 1492 ; History of Post-

Ph.D.

and Philosophy)

Theology

binical Literature)

Ph.D. (Department of the

Jr.,

Bible)

Bureau of Translation ; Revising Editor)

Herman Rosenthal

(Department of the Jews of

Russia and Poland).

Joseph Jacobs, B.A. (Departments of the Jews of England and A nthropology; Revising Editor).

Isidore Singer, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Biography from J?JO to iqo2).

Marcus Jastrow, Ph.D. (Department

Crawford

of the

Talmud)

II.

Toy, D.D., LL.D. (Departments

of Hebrew Philology

K. FUNK, D.D., IX.D. Chairman of the Board

ISAAC

ISIDORE SINGER,

FRANK

and

H.

Hellenistic Literature).

VIZETELLY

Secretary of the

Board

Ph.D.

Projector and Managing Editor

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