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101TOBIAS BEN MOSES HA-AVEL — (or ha Ma tik, the translator ; 11th century), karaite scholar. He laid the theoretical and educational foundations for establishing the Karaites in the Byzantine milieu. According to Elijah Bashyaẓi (Iggeret Gid ha Nasheh, 4a) Tobias studied… …
102ALEXANDER SUSSKIND BEN MOSES OF GRODNO — (d. 1793), Lithuanian kabbalist. Alexander lived a secluded life in Grodno, never engaging in light conversation so as not to be deterred from study and prayer. Many stories were told about him. According to a well substantiated one, several days …
103NAZIR, MOSES HA-LEVI — (second half of 17th century), rabbinic author and Hebron emissary. Moses was the son in law of Abraham b. Hananiah, a Jerusalem scholar. He was called Nazir because of his acceptance of the ascetic practices enjoined on the nazirite . At the… …
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105Mariamne (second wife of Herod) — For other holders of this name, see Mariamne (name). Mariamne I from Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum Mariamne I, also called Mariamne the Hasmonean (died 29 BCE) was the second wife of Herod the Great. She was known for her great beauty, as was… …
106NAJARA, ISRAEL BEN MOSES — (1555?–1625?), Hebrew poet. Born apparently in damascus , Israel served as secretary of that community, in which his father, moses najara , was rabbi. While acknowledging Israel s poetic ability, some of the rabbis of Damascus, e.g. menahem… …
107RIETI, MOSES BEN ISAAC DA — (1388–after 1460), Italian scholar, physician, and poet. He was born in Rieti. He devoted himself to medicine and philosophy, practicing as a physician in his home town until the death of his father (1422). Under the papacy of Eugene IV, he went… …
108HYAMSON, MOSES — (1863–1949), rabbi and scholar. Hyamson was born in Suwalki, Lithuania, and was taken to England at the age of five. He received his Jewish education at Jews College, London, where he was ordained in 1882, and his secular education at the… …
109KLEIN, ABRAHAM MOSES — (1909–1972), poet, novelist, journalist. Klein was the first Canadian Jewish writer to gain wide influence in English. Conversant in Hebrew and Yiddish, he brought the influence of these languages into his poetry, fiction, and journalism. A… …
110SAMUEL BEN DAVID MOSES HA-LEVI — (1625?–1681), Polish rabbi. Samuel was born in Poland and studied under david b. samuel ha levi and shabbetai horowitz . He lived at first in Mezhirech in the district of Poznan. When Mezhirech was destroyed by Czarniecki in 1656, Samuel escaped… …
