David ben Zakkai

male, deceased (940)
David ben Zakkai was an exilarch. He is known in Jewish history especially for his controversy with Saadia. He was a relative of the prince of the...

Bahram V

male, deceased (438)
Bahram V was fourteenth Sassanid King of Persia (421-438). Also called Bahramgur, he was son of Yazdegerd I (399-421), after whose sudden death (or...

Rav Nachman

male, deceased (320)
Rav Nachman (d. 320) (Hebrew: רב נחמן בר יעקב) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora of the third generation,...

Hezekiah Gaon

male
Hezekiah Gaon was gaon of the Talmudic academy at Pumbedita from 1038-40. Hezekiah was a member of the exilarchal family. He was elected to the...

Yahia ben Yahi III

male, deceased (1185)
Yahia Ben Yahi III, also known as Jahia Negro Ibn Ya'isch, was a Sephardi Jew born in Cordoba in 1115 to Yahia Ben Rabbi, also known as Yahya...
Moshe Gil

Moshe Gil

male, 88 years old
Moshe Gil (b. 1921) is an Israeli historian who specializes in the historical interaction between Islam and the Jews, including the history of...

Yahia ben Rabbi

male
Yahia Ben Rabbi, also known as Yahya Ha-Nasi, Yahya Ibn Yaish, Dom Yahia "o Negro" or Don Yahia "El Negro" (died 1222), known as Lord of "Aldeia...
Yosef Dayan

Yosef Dayan

male
Yosef Dayan was born in 1945 in Mexico to Sephardic Jewish parents from Aleppo, Syria. The Dayan family traces its lineage directly to the...
David ben Boaz

David ben Boaz

male
David ben Boaz (in Arabic, Abu Sa'id Daud ibn Bu'az was a Karaite Jewish scholar who flourished in the tenth century CE. He is reported to have...
Saul ben Anan

Saul ben Anan

male, deceased (780)
Saul ben Anan was a Karaite Jewish leader of the eighth century CE. He was the son and successor of Anan ben David. He is styled by the later...