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History of the Jews, Vol. 6 (of 6): Containing a Memoir of the Author by Dr. Philip Bloch, a Chronological Table of Jewish History, an Index to the Whole WorkGraetz, Heinrich

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History of the Jews, Vol. 6 (of 6): Containing a Memoir of the Author by Dr. Philip Bloch, a Chronological Table of Jewish History, an Index to the Whole Work

Name: History of the Jews, Vol. 6 (of 6): Containing a Memoir of the Author by Dr. Philip Bloch, a Chronological Table of Jewish History, an Index to the Whole Work
Author: Graetz, Heinrich

Graetz, Heinrich

Jews -- History

=Abulsari Sahal ben Mazliach Kohen=, propagandist for Karaism,
        =3=, 203-5.
    as controversialist, =3=, 204-5.
    Hebrew style of, =3=, 204, 206.

  =Abulvalid Mervan Ibn-Janach.= _See_ Jonah Marinus.

  =Abu Mansur Samuel ben Chananya=, Nagid, invites Jehuda Halevi to
        Cairo, =3=, 340-1.
    successor of, =3=, 443.

  =Abumelik=, leads a Moorish army against Castile, =4=, 84.
    killed, =4=, 85.

  =Abunassar Azaria=, son of Joseph Ibn-Nagrela, flees to Lucena, =3=,
        279.
    death of, =3=, 284.

  =Abu-Sahal Ali= (835-853), medical writer, =3=, 146.

  =Abusahal Dunash ben Tamim.= _See_ Dunash ben Tamim.

  =Abu Said ben Chalfon Halevi=, friend of Jehuda Halevi, =3=, 340.

  =Abu-Yussuf Chasdaï ben Isaac Ibn-Shaprut.= _See_ Chasdaï
        Ibn-Shaprut.

  =Abu-Yussuff Almansur=, Almohade prince, introduces a garb for
        apostate Jews, =3=, 511-12.

  =Abuzurj-Mihir=, inventor of chess, =3=, 7.

  =Abydos=, Sabbataï Zevi imprisoned at, =5=, 148, 151.
    enriched by the Sabbatians, =5=, 149.

  =Academies, the Babylonian=, authority of the principals of, =2=, 547.
    closed under Kobad, =3=, 4.
    re-opened, =3=, 5.
    work of, =3=, 6.
    give religious instruction to the Arabian Jews, =3=, 59.
    principals of, deposed by the Exilarchs, =3=, 91.
    independent of each other in internal affairs, =3=, 96.
    organization of, under the caliphs, =3=, 96-7.
    office of the president of, not hereditary, =3=, 96.
    meetings of, in Adar and Elul, =3=, 97.
    income of, =3=, 97-8.
    prayers for the departed at, =3=, 101.
    the heads of, excommunicate Anan ben David, =3=, 134.
    the Karaites on, =3=, 134-5.
    and the election of the Exilarch, =3=, 137.
    hold aloof from Islam theology, =3=, 148.
    respect paid to, in the ninth century, =3=, 160.
    _See also under_ Pumbeditha _and_ Sora.

  =Academies, the Babylonian=, list of:
    Firuz-Shabur,
    Machuza,
    Nahardea,
    Nares,
    Nisibis,
    Pumbeditha,
    Shekan-Zib,
    Silhi,
    Sora.

  =Academies, the Palestinian=, origin of, =2=, 324.
    established by the disciples of Jochanan ben Zakkai, =2=, 335.
    frequented by Babylonian students, =2=, 511, 531.
    decline of, =2=, 543, 548, 560.
    method of, =2=, 557-8.
    _See under_ Acbara; Bekiin; Cæsarea; Emmaus; Jamnia; Lydda;
        Sepphoris; Tiberias; Schools.

  =Academy at Jerusalem=, founded by the Vegas, =5=, 126.

  =Academy of Sciences at Berlin=, prize of, won by Mendelssohn,
        =5=, 303-4.
    Mendelssohn proposed as member of, =5=, 308.

  =Acbara=, seat of Jannaï’s academy, =2=, 470.

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