Isidore Singer

male, deceased (1939)
Isidore Singer (1859-1939) was an editor of the "Jewish Encyclopedia" and founder of the American League for the Rights of Man. Singer was...
Cyrus Adler

Cyrus Adler

male, deceased (1940)
Cyrus Adler (September 13, 1863, Van Buren, Arkansas - April 7, 1940, Philadelphia) was a U.S. educator, Jewish religious leader and scholar. Adler...
Marcus Jastrow

Marcus Jastrow

male, deceased (1903)
Marcus Mordechai Jastrow (June 5, 1829, Rogasen, Prussian Poland - October 13, 1903, Germantown, Pennsylvania) was a renowned Talmudic scholar,...
Wilhelm Bacher

Wilhelm Bacher

male, deceased (1913)
Wilhelm Bacher was a Hungarian scholar, Orientalist, and linguist, born in Liptó-Szent-Miklós, Hungary to the Hebrew writer Simon Bacher. Wilhelm wa...

Malachi

male
Malachi or Mal'achi was a prophet in the Bible, the Christian Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh. He was the first of the minor prophets, and the...
Elisha ben Abuyah

Elisha ben Abuyah

male
Elisha ben Abuyah was a rabbi and Jewish religious authority born in Jerusalem sometime before 70 CE. After he adopted a worldview considered...

Samuel Krauss

male, deceased (1948)
Samuel Krauss was professor at the Jewish Teachers' Seminary, Budapest, 1894-1906, and at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Vienna, 1906-1938. He...

Alexander Harkavy

male, deceased (1939)
Alexander Harkavy (Александр Гаркави "Aleksandr Garkavi", May 5, 1863, born at Nowogrudok, Minsk guberniya ("governate"), Russia (now Navahrudak,...

Max Seligsohn

male, 144 years old
Max Seligsohn was a Russian-American Orientalist. Having received his rabbinical training at Slutsk, government ("guberniya") of Minsk, he went in...

Nicodemus

male
Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin, who, according to the Gospel of John, showed favour to Jesus. He appears three times in the...