1640 – 1710 ) was the younger brother of Jacob Abendana, and became hakam of the Spanish Portuguese Synagogue in London after his brother died.

Jacob Abendana ( 1630 – September 12, 1695 ) was hakham of London from 1680 until his death.

Jacob was eldest the son of Joseph Abendana and brother to Isaac Abendana.

The Abendana brothers similarly impressed other Christian scholars, such as Johannes Buxtorf ( Basel ), Johann Coccejus ( Leyden ), and Jacob Golius ( Leyden ).

Jacob Abendana died childless in London in 1695 and was buried in the Portuguese cemetery at Mile End.

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* December 12 – Jacob Abendana, British rabbi ( b. 1630 )

* Jacob Abendana ( 1630 – 1695 ), hakam of London

* Jacob Abendana Sephardic Rabbi and Philosopher

* Jacob Abendana, 17th century Sephardic rabbi in England

* Isaac Abendana ( 1640 – 1710 ), hakam of London

* Kenneth Abendana Spencer, born: Kenneth Abandamo ( 1929 – 2005 ), a Jamaican artist

Isaac Abendana ( ca.

Abendana moved to England before his brother, in 1662, and taught Hebrew at Cambridge University.

While he was at Cambridge, Abendana sold Hebrew books to the Bodleian Library of Oxford, and in 1689 he took a teaching position in Magdalen College.

On May 3, 1655, Abendana delivered a famous memorial sermon on the Cordovan martyrs Marranos Nunez and Almeyda Bernal who had been burned at the stake.

Abendana responded with a Spanish translation of Rabbi Judah Halevi's Kuzari in 1663.

Among the best known of this formation are Ibn Aknin, Ibn Danan ( hence Abendana ), Ibn Latif, Ibn Migas, Ibn Verga.

The rationalistic method pursued by the new school of Maimonists ( including Levi ben Abraham ben Chayyim of Villefranche, near the town of Perpignan, and Jacob Anatolio ) especially provoked his indignation ; for the sermons preached and the works published by them seemed to resolve the entire Scriptures into allegory and threatened to undermine the Jewish faith and the observance of the Law and tradition.

This situation was resolved due to the efforts of Cyrus Adler, professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins University and founder of the Jewish Publication Society, who convinced a number of wealthy German Reform Jews including Jacob Schiff, David and Simon Guggenheim, Mayer Sulzberger, and Louis Marshall, to contribute $ 500, 000 to the faltering JTS.

Other Jewish thinkers, such as Nahmanides, Samuel ben Uri Shraga Phoebus, and Jacob Emden, strongly object to the idea that concubines should be forbidden.

Cardinal Grimani and other dignitaries, both of the state and of the Church, studied Hebrew and the Cabala with Jewish teachers ; even the warrior Guido Rangoni attempted the Hebrew language with the aid of Jacob Mantino ( 1526 ).

According to the classic Jewish texts, Jacob, as the third and last patriarch, lives a life that parallels the descent of his offspring, the Jewish people, into the darkness of exile.

Jewish Apocalyptic literature of the Hellenistic period includes many ancient texts with narratives about Jacob, many times with details different from Genesis.

There shall step forth a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel ... From Jacob shall issue out and destroy the remnant of the city ", which Jewish Biblical scholars expound refers to the king's victory over Israel's enemies.

Mieszko and his people were described around 966 by Abraham ben Jacob, a Sephardi Jewish traveller, who at that time visited the Prague court of Duke Boleslav I the Cruel.

Among those killed was Jacob of Orléans, a respected Jewish scholar.

He was given the surname Bar Kokhba ( Aramaic for " Son of a Star ", referring to the Star Prophecy of, " there shall step forth a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite through the corners of Moab ") by his contemporary, the Jewish sage Rabbi Akiva.

Debate continued over the generations ; Delmedigo's arguments were echoed by Leon of Modena ( d. 1648 ) in his Ari Nohem, and a work devoted to the criticism of the Zohar, Miṭpaḥat Sefarim, was written by Jacob Emden ( d. 1776 ), who, waging war against the remaining adherents of the Sabbatai Zevi movement ( in which Zevi, a false messiah and Jewish apostate, cited Messianic prophecies from the Zohar as proof of his legitimacy ), endeavored to show that the book on which Zevi based his doctrines was a forgery.

* September 3 – Jacob of Orléans, Jewish scholar

Ferber was born August 15, 1885, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to a Hungarian-born Jewish storekeeper and his Milwaukee, Wisconsin-born wife, Jacob Charles and Julia ( Neumann ) Ferber.

" The Damascene nobleman and historian Ibn al-Qalanisi in his chronicle also alludes at this time to the discovery of relics purported to be those of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, a discovery which excited eager curiosity among all three communities in the southern Levant, Muslim, Jewish, and Christian.

He reported: Here there is the great church called St. Abram, and this was a Jewish place of worship at the time of the Mohammedan rule, but the Gentiles have erected there six tombs, respectively called those of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Leah.

* January 24 – first Jewish doctor in US, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland.

* Jacob De Cordova, ( 1808 – 1868 ), Jewish Texan legislator

* Jacob Frankfort ( born 1801 ), first Jewish immigrant from Poland to Los Angeles, United States

Asher had eight sons, the most prominent of whom were Judah and Jacob, author of the Arba ' ah Turim, a code of Jewish law.

* Jacob Markowitz, Romania-born Canadian physician ( 1901 – 1969 ), AKA as the " Jungle Surgeon " who enlisted with the RAMC after being refused into the Canadian military for his Jewish heritage.

* Jacob Israël de Haan, Dutch Jewish journalist assassinated by the Haganah

Often also the works by the Flemish Jacob van Maerlant, as a whole, are regarded as an encyclopedia.

Paul Daniel Longolius ( November 1, 1704 – February 24, 1779 ) was the main editor of volumes 3 through 18 of Johann Heinrich Zedler's Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon ( an early encyclopedia ) from 1733 to 1739, replacing Jacob August Franckenstein, who had edited the first two volumes.