Ulla, itinerant preacher, 114 "Upon the Philosophy of Maimonides," prize essay, 145 Usque, Samuel, poet, 44 Usque, Solomon, poet, 98, 235 "Vale of Weeping, The," by Joseph Cohen, 44 Varnhagen, Rahel. See Levin, Rahel Varnhagen von Ense, German _littérateur_, 312 Vecinho, Joseph, astronomer, 96 Veit, Philip, painter, 308 Veit, Simon, husband of Dorothea Mendelssohn, 306 Venino, alluded to, 302 Venus of Milo and Heine, 362 Vespasian and Jochanan ben Zakkaï, 57 Walther von der Vogelweide, minnesinger, 182, 189 Wandering Jew, the, myth of, 350 "War of Wealth and Wisdom, The," satire, 34 "Water Song" by Gabirol, 200-201 Weil, Jacob, Talmudist, 102 Weill, Alexander, and Heine, 363-364 _Weltschmerz_ in Gabirol's poetry, 199 in Heine's poetry, 357 Wesseli, musician, 313 Wessely, Naphtali Hartwig, commentator, 48, 309 Wieland, poet, alluded to, 314 Wihl, poet, 49 Wine, creation of, 197-198 Withold, grandduke, and the Lithuanian Jews, 282, 284 Wohllerner, Yenta, poetess, 138 Wohlwill, Immanuel, friend of Zunz, letter to, 325 Wolfenbüttel, Jews' free school at, 320-321 Wolff, Hebrew scholar, 48 Wolfram von Eschenbach, minnesinger, 182, 185, 189 Woman, creation of, 197 in Jewish annals, 110 in literature, 106-107 in the Talmud, 64, 110-114 mental characteristics of, 121-122 satirized and defended, 223-224 services of, to Judaism, 115-116 "Woman's Friend" by Yedaya Penini, 216 Women, Jewish, in the emancipation movement, 133, 139 "Women of Israel, The" by Grace Aguilar, 134 "Women's Shield," by Judah Tommo, 224 "World as Will and Idea, The," by Schopenhauer, 357 Xemona. See Kasmune Yaltha, wife of Rabbi Nachman, 113-114 Yechiel ben Abraham, financier, 99 Yechiel deï Mansi, alluded to, 116 Yedaya Penini, poet, 40, 216 Yehuda ben Astruc, scientist, 92 Yehuda ben Zakkaï quoted, 68 Yehuda Charisi, poet, 32, 34 (note), 210-213 on Gabirol, 27 quoted, 214 traveller, 37 Yehuda Chayyug, alluded to, 257 Yehuda Hakohen, Talmudist, 36 Yehuda Halevi, as philosopher, 31, 34 as poet, 24, 27-28, 206-210 daughter of, 117 Yehuda Romano, translator, 90 Yehuda Sabbataï, satirist, 34, 214 Yehuda the Prince, Mishna compiler, 19, 58 lament over, 65-66 Yemen, Judaism in, 256 _Yesod_, Kabbalistic term, 41 _Yesod Olam_ by Moses Zacuto, 238-239 _Yezira_, Kabbalistic term, 41 "Yosippon," an historical compilation, 120, 249, 250, 321 Yucatan and the Ten Tribes, 259 Zacuto, Abraham, astronomer, 42, 96-97 Zacuto, Moses, dramatist, 238-239 Zarzal, Moses, physician, 179 _Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft_, Zunz contributor to, 337 Zeltner, J. G., on Rebekah Tiktiner, 119 Zerubbabel, alluded to, 253 Zohar, the, astronomy in, 91 authorship of, 39 Zöllner, friend of Henriette Herz, 313 Zunz, Adelheid, wife of Leopold Zunz, 337, 352