Shimshon Holzman

male
Shimshon Holzman (1907-1986) (variant name Shimson Holzman) was an Israeli landscape and figurative painter, born in 1907 in Sambir, Galicia. He...

Samuel de Medina

male, deceased (1589)
Rabbi Samuel ben Moses de Medina, was a Talmudist and author; born 1505; died October 12, 1589, at Salonica. He was principal of the Talmudic...

Dhaher El-Omar

male, deceased (1775)
Dhaher El-Omar (Arabic ظاهر العمر الزيداني "<u>z</u>āhir al-`umar az-zaydānī", born ca. 1690, died August 21, 1775) was the Arab-Bedouin ruler o...
Joseph Kossonogi

Joseph Kossonogi

male
Joseph Kossonogi (1908-1981) (variant names Yosef Kossonogy, Yossef Kossonogi) was an Israeli painter, born in 1908 in Budapest, Hungary. After...
Yaakov Culi

Yaakov Culi

male, deceased (1732)
Rabbi Yaakov Culi (a.k.a Kuli or Chuli) was a Talmudist and Biblical commentator of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and passed away in...

Samuel Vital

male
Samuel ben Hayyim Vital was a Kabalist born in Damascus in the latter half of the sixteenth century. While still young he married a daughter of...

Yisroel Ben Shmuel Of Shklov

male, deceased (1839)
Yisroel ben Shmuel Ashkenazi of Shklov was a Talmudist, one of a group of Talmudical scholars of Shklov who were attracted to Vilna by Elijah Gaon...

Levi Ibn Chaviv

male, deceased (1545)
Rabbi Levi Ibn Habib was rabbi of Jerusalem; born at Zamora, Spain, about 1480; died at Jerusalem about 1545. Under King Manuel of Portugal, and...
Mordechai Avniel

Mordechai Avniel

male, deceased (1989)
Mordechai Avniel (1900-1989) (variant name Mordecai Avniel) was an Israeli painter and sculptor, born in 1900 in Minsk, present-day Belarus. He...

Abraham ben Mordecai Galante

male, deceased (1560)
Abraham ben Mordecai Galante was an Italian kabalist born in Rome at the beginning of the 16th century. Abraham, like his father Mordecai and his...