Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.

He thought: I am a Jew from Bavaria.

In his book The Physician ( 1988 ) Noah Gordon tells the story of a young English medical apprentice who disguises himself as a Jew to learn from Avicenna, the great master of his time.

An illustration from an 1919 Austrian postcard showing a caricature d Judaism | Jew stabbing the German Army in the back with a dagger.

Nebuchadnezzar, who had made a drinking-cup from the skull of a murdered Jew, was greatly astonished when, at the moment that the three men were cast into the furnace, the bodies of the dead boys moved, and, striking him in the face, cried out: " The companion of these three men revives the dead!

His father, Achille La Guardia, was a lapsed-Catholic from Cerignola, and his mother, Irene Coen, was a Jew from Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ; his maternal grandmother Fiorina Luzzatto Coen was a Luzzatto, a member of the prestigious Italian Jewish family of scholars, kabbalists and poets and had among her ancestors the famous rabbi Samuel David Luzzatto better known as Shadal.

Lang's fears would be realized following his departure from Austria, as under the Nuremburg Laws he would be identified as a Jew even though his mother was a converted Roman Catholic, and he was raised as such.

Here John adapts the doctrine of the Logos, God's creative principle, from Philo, a 1st-century Hellenized Jew.

They cover what are claimed to better ways for a Jew to live, based on what is not stated, but has been derived from the Hebrew Bible.

In the case of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast this was not necessary, since it had been created from the start at the far-Eastern end of Siberia, where no Jew had ever lived.

The question of what determines Jewish identity in the State of Israel was given new impetus when, in the 1950s, David Ben-Gurion requested opinions on mihu Yehudi (" who is a Jew ") from Jewish religious authorities and intellectuals worldwide in order to settle citizenship questions.

* Bar mitzvah and Bat mitzvah-This passage from childhood to adulthood takes place when a female Jew is twelve and a male Jew is thirteen years old among Orthodox and some Conservative congregations.

Graetz even goes to the length of regarding Anatoli as identical with the Jew Andreas, who, according to Roger Bacon, assisted Michael Scot in his philosophic translations from the Arabic, seeing that Andreas might be a corruption of Anatoli.

* Jew, derived from Hebrew " Yehudi " יהודי ( literally, " Judean "); the derivation is more clear in German " Jude " and in Slavic " Zhid "

In chapter 129 of his Dialogue with Trypho, a Jew, Justin makes a clear distinction, indicating that the " God " he refers to as Christ, is numerically distinct, but '... not ( different ) in will ...', from another, who is " Lord of the Lord ", and causes the " God " Christ to have his power and authority.

Teddy Kollek, an Austrian Jew, former agent of Mossad and mayor of Jerusalem, recognised him from their prewar Vienna days, saw them together and assumed that Angleton had " turned " Philby into a triple agent.

An assimilated Alsatian Jew from an academic family in Paris, he was deeply affected in his youth by the Dreyfus Affair.

Its goals include pressing for religious pluralism, working for an equitable distribution of funding from the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency for Conservative Zionist programs in Israel and America, promoting civil rights in Israel for all people, encouraging electoral reform in Israel, and opposing any change in " Who Is a Jew?

* the degree to which an Orthodox Jew should integrate and / or disengage from secular society

To the Orthodox Jew, halakha is a guide, God's Law, governing the structure of daily life from the moment he or she wakes up to the moment he goes to sleep.

William Blackstone, a notable English jurist writing in 1769, speculated that the name may have derived from the legal word " starr " meaning the contract or obligation to a Jew ( from the Hebrew שטר ( shetar ) meaning ' document ').

He is the author of the first translation of the Torah from Hebrew to Polish to be made by a Jew after the Second World War.

Her poem " To be a Jew in the Twentieth Century " ( 1944 ), on the theme of Judaism as a gift, was adopted by the American Reform and Reconstructionist movements for their prayer books, something Rukeyser said " astonished " her, as she had remained distant from Judaism throughout her early life.

For several years Mathews took bit parts, but on 15 May 1803 he made his first London appearance at the Haymarket, as Jabel in Cumberland's The Jew and as Lingo in The Agreeable Surprise.

In danger of being classified as a Jew under the Nazi racial laws, he had to spend parts of World War II in hiding under aliases, predominantly " Laurent Sélimartin ".

Manifestation and presentation was happening concurrently with all the other parts of the development process for The Arab and the Jew.

The Roman church would have to accept that the gospel was for the " Jew first and also to the Greek.

Epiphanius, writing of Joseph of Tiberias, a wealthy Roman Jew who converted to Christianity in the time of Constantine, says he claimed to have received an imperial rescript to build Christian churches in Jewish towns and villages where no gentiles or Samaritans dwell, naming Tiberias, Diocaesarea, Sepphoris, Nazareth and Capernaum.

as " the unity of religion and politics, of spirit and nature, of god and man ", qualified by the observation that " man " in the Pagan view is always defined by ethnicity, i. e. Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Jew, etc., so that each Pagan tradition is also a national tradition.

George Sylvester Viereck and Paul Eldridge wrote a trilogy of novels My First Two Thousand Years, an Autobiography of the Wandering Jew, ( 1928 ), in which Isaac Laquedem is a Roman soldier who, after being told by Jesus that he will " tarry until I return ," goes on to influence many of the great events of history ; he frequently encounters Solome ( described as ' The Wandering Jewess '), and travels with a companion, to whom he has passed on his immortality via a blood transfusion ( another attempt to do this for a woman he loved ended in her death ).

His favourite adviser was the Jew Josef Süss Oppenheimer, and suspicions arose that master and servant were aiming at the suppression of the diet ( the local parliament ) and the introduction of Roman Catholicism.

Although Bloom has never been a practicing Jew, converted to Roman Catholicism to marry Molly, and has in fact received Christian baptism on three different occasions, he is of Jewish heritage and is constantly mistaken and ridiculed for being a Jew.

Notably, Josephus, a Roman citizen and former general in the Galilee, who survived the Roman-Jewish wars of the 1st century CE, was a Jew who was captured and cooperated with the Romans ; writing his books in Rome ; leaving some to question his impartiality and credibility as a historian.

In the film, a Roman soldier derides Simon ( who helps Jesus bear the cross ) by derisively calling him Jew.

There is no contemporary evidence for Thomas being in the subcontinent, though it was possible for a Roman Jew of the time to make such a trip.

It is a conversation about the nature of truth between seven educated men, each with a distinct religious or philosophical orientation-a natural philosopher, a Calvinist, a Muslim, a Roman Catholic, a Lutheran, a Jew, and a skeptic.

His Latin work Colloquium heptaplomeres de rerum sublimium arcanis abditis (" The Colloqium of the Seven ") portrays a conversation about the nature of truth between seven cultivated men from diverse religious or philosophical backgrounds: a natural philosopher, a Calvinist, a Muslim, a Roman Catholic, a Lutheran, a Jew, and a skeptic.

In keeping with the Maccabee legend of the revolt at Modin the patriarch Mattathias remained steadfast to the Jewish religion when ordered to make sacrifice to Roman gods and at great personal risk stops an apostate Jew from offering sacrifice to false gods.

Along with Cardinal Francis Arinze and Bishop Jean-Baptiste Gourion of Jerusalem, Lustiger was one of only three prelates of his time who were converts to the Roman Catholic faith and he and Gourion were the only two who were born Jewish and still considered themselves ' Jewish'all their lives., He said he was proud of his Jewish origins and described himself as a " fulfilled Jew ," for which he was chastised by Christians and Jews alike.

The historical Jesus is believed to be a Galilean Jew who undertook at least one pilgrimage to Jerusalem, then part of Roman Judaea, during a time of messianic and apocalyptic expectations in late Second Temple Judaism.

As a result, of the sixty members of the first Senate, as well as 36 Roman Catholics, there were 20 Protestants, 3 Quakers and 1 Jew.

Pietro, of Jewish descent ( only one of his 8 great-great grandparents, Benedictus, maybe Baruch in Hebrew, was a Jew who converted into Christianity ), was born to the powerful Roman family of the Pierleoni, the son of the Consul Pier Leoni.

A similar tactic was used for the third legion, where Onkelos compared his mezuzah to a symbol of God guarding the home of every Jew, in contrast to a Roman king who has his servants guard him.

Among his other publications are: A Dialogue between a Christian and a Jew ( 1888 ); a translation ( with introduction and notes ) of Eusebius's Church History ( 1890 ); and The Apostle's Creed ( 1902 ), in which he attempted to prove that the old Roman creed was formulated as a protest against the dualism of Marcion and his denial of the reality of Jesus's life on earth.

* Bernhard von Eskeles ( 1753 – 1839 ), a court Jew of Joseph II and Francis II of the Holy Roman Empire and I of Austria

Her mother, née Falk, was an Austrian-born Jew who converted to the Roman Catholic Church prior to her marriage.

His popular " Casca " series centers on the title character, Casca Rufio Longinius ( a sort of combination of Saint Longinus and The Wandering Jew ), the Roman soldier who stabbed Christ during the crucifixion, and is thus cursed to remain a soldier until the Second Coming.

Ben-Hur is a wealthy Jew and boyhood friend of the powerful Roman Tribune, Messala.