Francis Barrett

male
Francis Barrett (born probably in London around 1770-1780) was an English occultist. Barrett, an Englishman, claimed himself to be a student of...
Chaim Volozhin

Chaim Volozhin

male, deceased (1821)
Chaim Volozhin (1749-1821) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, Talmudist, and ethicist. Popularly known as "Reb Chaim Volozhiner", or simply "Reb Chaim",...
Abraham Azulai

Abraham Azulai

male, deceased (1643)
Abraham Azulai (Hebrew: אברהם בן מרדכי) was a Kabbalistic author and commentator born at Fez about 1570.
Menachem Mendel Of Kotzk

Menachem Mendel Of Kotzk

male, deceased (1859)
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Morgensztern of Kotzk, better known as the Kotzker Rebbe (1787-1859) was a Hasidic leader. Born to a non-Hasidic family in...
Ithell Colquhoun

Ithell Colquhoun

female, deceased (1988)
Ithell Colquhoun was a British Surrealist painter and author. She was born in Shillong, Assam, India. From the 1930s to her death, her work was...
Chaim Halberstam

Chaim Halberstam

male, deceased (1876)
Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz (1793-1876) (Hebrew: חיים הלברשטאם מצאנז), known as the "Divrei Chaim" after his magnum opus on halakha, was a fa...

Eleazar Kalir

male
Eleazar ben Kalir was one of Judaism's earliest and most prolific of the "paytanim", liturgical poets. Many of his hymns have found their way into...
Paul Palnik

Paul Palnik

male, 63 years old
Paul Palnik (born 1946) is a Jewish-American artist, writer and educator. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Palnik introduced kabbalistic, spiritual themes,...

Hezekiah ben Manoah

male
Hezekiah ben Manoah (known as the Hizkuni, Hebrew: חזקוני) was a French rabbi and exegete. In memory of his father, who lost his right hand throug...

Judah Ben Samuel Of Regensburg

male
Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg (12th - 13th centuries), also called He-Hasid or 'the Pious' in Hebrew, was the initiator of the Chassidei Ashkenaz,...