THE
Jewish Encyclopedia A DESCRIPTIVE R.ECORD OF
THE HISTORY, RELIGION, LITERATURE, AND CUSTOMS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY Prepared by More than Four Hundred Scholars and Specialists UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE FOLLOWING EDITORIAL BOARD Cyrus Adler, Ph.D.
(Departments
of Post-
Biblical Antiquities ; the Jews of America)
Gotthard Deutsch, Ph.D. History from 141)2
Louis
to
Morris Jastrow,
(Department of
Kaufmann Kohler, Theology
1902)
Ginzeerg, Ph.D. (Department of Rab-
binical Literature)
Talmudic Literature) the
Jews
of England and Anthropology ; Revising Editor).
Marcus Jastrow, Ph.D. (Department
of the
Talmud)
Ph.D.
and Philosophy)
(Departments of
.
Frederick de Sola Mendes, Ph.D. (Chief of the
Richard Gottheil, Ph.D. (Departments of History from- Ezra to 1492 ; History of PostJoseph Jacobs, B.A. (Departments of
Ph.D. (Department of the
Jr.,
Bible)
Bureau of Translation ; Revising Editor)
Herman Rosenthal
(Department of the Jews of
Russia and Poland).
Isidore Singer, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Biography from 1750 to igo2).
Crawford H. Toy,
D.D., LL.D. (Departments of Hebrew Philology and Hellenistic Literature).
FRANK
ISAAC
K. FUNK, D.D., LL.D. Chairman of the Board
H.
VIZETELLY
Secretary of the
ISIDORE SINGER,
Board
Ph.D.
"Projector and Managing Editor
ASSISTED BY AMERICAN AND FOREIGN BOARDS OF CONSULTING EDITORS
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IN
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EMBELLISHED WITH MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND ILLUSTRATIONS
