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Remah

(Encyclopedia) Remah: see Isserles, Moses ben Israel.

Gabirol

(Encyclopedia) Gabirol: see Ibn Gabirol, Solomon ben Judah.

Gaon of Vilna

(Encyclopedia) Gaon of Vilna: see Elijah ben Solomon.

Avicebron

(Encyclopedia) Avicebron: see Ibn Gabirol, Solomon ben Judah.

Maimonides

(Encyclopedia) MaimonidesMaimonidesmīmŏnˈĭdēz [key] or Moses ben MaimonMoses ben Maimonmīˈmən [key], 1135–1204, Jewish scholar, physician, and philosopher, the most influential Jewish thinker of the…

Aben Ezra

(Encyclopedia) Aben Ezra: see Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meir.

Glackens, William James

(Encyclopedia) Glackens, William James, 1870–1938, American landscape and genre painter and illustrator, b. Philadelphia. An illustrator for Philadelphia and New York City newspapers and magazines…

Duran

(Encyclopedia) Duran,&sp;DurandDuran,both: düräNˈ [key], or DuranteDuran,düräNtˈ [key], Jewish family of scholars. Profiat Isaac ben Moshe ha-Levi Duran, 1350–1414, called Efodi, was born…

Ananites

(Encyclopedia) Ananites: see Anan ben David; Karaites.

Eshkol, Levi

(Encyclopedia) Eshkol, LeviEshkol, Levilāˈvē ĕshˈkôl [key], 1895–1969, Israeli statesman, third prime minister of Israel, b. Ukraine; originally named Levi Shkolnik. In World War I he served in the…