Jacob Samuel Speyer information

Jacob Samuel Speyer (20 December 1849 – 1 November 1913) was a Dutch philologist and translator from Sanskrit. Born to a Jewish family in Amsterdam, Jacob...

Kalonymus ben Isaac the Elder was a scholar and parnas in Speyer (died 1126). His father Samuel, also called HeHasid "the Pious", HaKadosh "the Holy", and...

Samuel ben Kalonymus he-Hasid of Speyer (Hebrew: שמואל החסיד; 1120–1175), was a Tosafist, liturgical poet, and philosopher of the 12th century, surnamed...

York branch, Philipp Speyer & Co. (1876 renamed Speyer & Co.). Married in 1850 Charlotte Stern (1824-1906), daughter of Jacob Samuel Hayum Stern (1780-1833)...

The history of the Jews in Speyer reaches back over 1,000 years. In the Middle Ages, the city of Speyer (formerly Spira), Germany, was home to one of the...

Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi (1013–1103) (Arabic: إسحاق الفاسي, Hebrew: ר' יצחק אלפסי) - also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym, the Rif (Rabbi Isaac...

in the edited tosafot (Berachot 12a; Nazir 53a; et al.). Flourished at Speyer about 1130; a student of Kalonymus b. Isaac the Elder. He was the author...

mostly in Lucca and in Rome, which, after the settlement at Mainz and Speyer of several of its members, took during many generations a leading part in...

Jacob b. Meïr Tam, whom he seems to have known (see Tam's Sefer ha-Yashar, No. 522, p. 29a). From Rus' Moses carried on a correspondence with Samuel ben...

primary shipper. Jacob was always written with a 'c' in the records of Walldorf's Reformed Church, but Walldorf's Rev. Georg Speyer spelled the name with...

Benjamin Samuel Faudel-Phillips, 2nd Baronet Sir Lionel Lawson Faudel Faudel-Phillips, 3rd Baronet Speyer baronets of Grosvenor Street Sir Edgar Speyer, 1st...

Ashkenazi surname. The surname is derived from Spira, the medieval name of Speyer in Germany; compare with Spire, the French name for that city. Other name...

be-Sefarad u-ve-Provence, vol. 1, 1959. In 1422, Provencal Jewish scholar Jacob ben Chayyim Comprat Vidal Farissol published a commentary on the Kuzari...

Jacob ben Asher (c. 1270 - 1340), also known as Ba'al ha-Turim as well as Rabbi Yaakov ben Raash (Rabbeinu Asher), was an influential Medieval rabbinic...

Jacob ben Meir (1100 – 9 June 1171 (4 Tammuz)), best known as Rabbeinu Tam (Hebrew: רבינו תם), was one of the most renowned Ashkenazi Jewish rabbis and...

Moses ben Jacob ibn Ezra, known as Ha-Sallaḥ ("writer of penitential prayers") (Arabic: أَبُو هَارُون مُوسَى بِن يَعْقُوب اِبْن عَزْرَا, Abu Harun Musa...

which attracted many students. One of his most noteworthy students was Jacob Weil. Moelin lived through the mass slaughter of Jews in Austria in 1420...

Nissim ben Jacob (Hebrew: ניסים בן יעקב), also known as Nissim Gaon (Hebrew: רבנו נסים גאון, lit. 'Our teacher Nissim the Gaon'; 990–1062), was a rabbi...

Yocheved, married Meir ben Samuel; their four sons were Shmuel (Rashbam; born 1080), Yitzchak (Rivam; born 1090), Jacob (Rabbeinu Tam; born 1100), and...

rabbi (c. 1122 – c. 1193) Jacob ben Meir, 12th century Talmudist, halakhist, and Biblical philologist (1100–1171) Simhah ben Samuel of Vitry, 11th century...

learning. He had many pupils from different countries, like Eleazar ben Isaac, Jacob ben Yakar, Elijah ben Menahem, and Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi. The fame of...

yeshiva of Jacob ben Meir in Provins. Then he returned to Germany, and studied under the mystic Eleazar ben Judah at Worms, and, at Speyer, under Simha...

scholar of the same name, who lived in 1200 and corresponded with Simḥah of Speyer. The activity of Bonfils was many-sided. A number of his decisions which...

Joel ben Isaac ha-Levi Jacob ben Judah Landau Samuel ben Natronai Alexander Suslin Jacob Weil Isaac ben Asher ha-Levi Simha of Speyer Isaac Asir HaTikvah...

which enacted the body of regulations known as "Takkanot Shum" (ShUM = "Speyer, Worms, Mainz"), of which he was a signatory. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia...

Nathan (the RaABaN). Asher had eight sons, the most prominent of whom were Jacob (author of the Arba'ah Turim) and Judah. In 1286, King Rudolf I had instituted...