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Jewish Encyclopedia A DESCRIPTIVE R.ECORD 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 141)2

Louis

to

Morris Jastrow,

(Department of

Kaufmann Kohler, Theology

1902)

Ginzeerg, Ph.D. (Department of Rab-

binical Literature)

Talmudic Literature) the

Jews

of England and Anthropology ; Revising Editor).

Marcus Jastrow, Ph.D. (Department

of the

Talmud)

Ph.D.

and Philosophy)

(Departments of

.

Frederick de Sola Mendes, Ph.D. (Chief of the

Richard Gottheil, Ph.D. (Departments of History from- Ezra to 1492 ; History of PostJoseph Jacobs, B.A. (Departments of

Ph.D. (Department of the

Jr.,

Bible)

Bureau of Translation ; Revising Editor)

Herman Rosenthal

(Department of the Jews of

Russia and Poland).

Isidore Singer, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Biography from 1750 to igo2).

Crawford H. Toy,

D.D., LL.D. (Departments of Hebrew Philology and Hellenistic Literature).

FRANK

ISAAC

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

H.

VIZETELLY

Secretary of the

ISIDORE SINGER,

Board

Ph.D.

"Projector and Managing Editor

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