Hillel The Elder

Hillel The Elder

male
Hillel (הלל) was a famous Jewish religious leader who lived in Jerusalem during the time of King Herod, Augustus, and probably Jesus; he is one of...
Rav Ashi

Rav Ashi

male, deceased (427)
Rav Ashi ("Rabbi Ashi") (352-427) was a celebrated Jewish religious scholar, a Babylonian amora, who reestablished the academy at Sura and was...

Yehudai Gaon

male
Yehudai ben Nahman or Yehudai Gaon was the head of the yeshiva in Sura from 757 to 761, during the Gaonic period of Judaism. He was author of the...

Michael Levi Rodkinson

male, deceased (1904)
Michael Levi Rodkinson known for being the first to translate the Babylonian Talmud to English. Born with the surname Frumkin, he is the son of...

Shila Of Kefar Tamarta

male
Shila of Kefar Tamarta was a Jewish Talmudist, an amora of the 3rd century, from the Land of Israel. In the Jerusalem Talmud sources he is called...

August Wünsche

male, deceased (1913)
Karl August Wünsche was a German Christian Hebraist. He devoted his attention almost exclusively to rabbinic literature. After completing his c...

Samuel Strashun

male, deceased (1872)
Samuel ben Joseph Strashun (Hebrew: שמואל שטראשון מוילנא), known also as Rashash (רש"ש) was a Russian Talmudist born in Zaskevich, government...
Aryeh Leib Yellin

Aryeh Leib Yellin

male, deceased (1886)
Aryeh Leib Yellin (or Jelin [in Russian], Hebrew: אריה ליב יעלין) was rabbi of Byelsk (present day Bielsk Podlaski, Poland), government of Grodno, R...

Kahana B. Tahlifa

male
Kahana b. Taḥlifa, is a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora of the third century. He is mentioned only twice in the Ba...
Aryeh Leib Epstein

Aryeh Leib Epstein

male, deceased (1775)
Aryeh Löb ben Mordecai Ha-Levi Epstein (1708 – June 26, 1775) was a Polish rabbi born in Grodno. At first he refused to become a rabbi, pre...