It was paid for and made by Yom-Tob ben Levi Athias ( the Spanish Marrano Jerónimo de Vargas, as typographer ) and Abraham ben Salomon Usque ( the Portuguese Jew Duarte Pinhel, as translator ), and was dedicated to Ercole II d ' Este.

Shabbethai Ben Abraham, better known as Shabbethai Donnolo, ( 913-c 982 ), was a 9th century Italian Jew and the author of an early Hebrew text, Antidotarium.

The first document to back this up was in 1505, mentioning the Jew Abraham of Grodzisk In Yiddish and Hebrew, the town is known as גרידץ ( Gritz or Gritza )

Abraham the Jew may refer to:

The Book of Abramelin tells the story of an Egyptian mage named Abramelin, or Abra-Melin, who taught a system of magic to Abraham of Worms, a German Jew presumed to have lived from c. 1362 – c. 1458.

'</ ref > Part of the contention was due to Obermeyer and Chaim's conflicting views on promotion of the Zohar .< ref > Abraham Stahl, ' Ritualistic Reading among Oriental Jews ', Anthropological Quarterly, 52 / 2 ( 1979 ), 115 – 20 < http :// www. jstor. org / stable / 3317261 >, p. 115 ; ' Jacob Obermeyer, a German Jew who lived in Baghdad from 1869 to 1880, found that many people read the Zohar although they did not understand its meaning.

Shortly afterward, the Ukrainian Jew Abraham Goldfaden, generally considered the founder of the first professional Yiddish theatre troupe, attended that same rabbinical school, and while there is known to have played ( in 1862 ) a woman's role in a play, Serkele, by Solomon Ettinger.

Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was one inclining toward truth, a Muslim to Allah.

The first Jew known to have resided in Quebec City was Abraham Jacob Franks, who settled there in 1767.

The Ukrainian Jew Abraham Goldfaden founded the first professional Yiddish-language theatre troupe in Iaşi, Romania in 1876.

A Lithuanian Jew who moved at the age of 16 to Berdichev, Ukraine, Russian Empire, the Broder singer and actor was in Iaşi, Romania in 1876 when Abraham Goldfaden recruited him as the first actor for what became the first professional Yiddish theater troupe.

A Jew, presumably of Ukrainian or Romanian origin, nothing is known about his life before Abraham Goldfaden recruited him in Iaşi in 1876 as the second actor after Israel Grodner for what became the first professional Yiddish theater troupe.

* Abraham Kaufman, founder of Far Eastern Jewish Council and Betarim Jew Zionists Movement

Abraham Zelmanowitz ( 1946 – 2001 ) ( also known as Abe, Avrame, and Avremel ) was an Orthodox Jew who worked as a computer programmer for Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield on the 27th floor of Tower One of the World Trade Center in New York City.

In one of those meetings in which the patriarch Abraham, also known as Pope Abraam and a Jew named Yaqub ibn Killis ( and in another account of this story, was known as Moses ) were present, Abraham got the upper hand in the debate.

In The Earth is the Lord's: The Inner World of the Jew in Eastern Europe, Abraham Joshua Heschel evokes the world of Eastern European Jewish life.

" Son of David " was a common messianic title, while " son of Abraham " was an expression that could refer to any Jew.

F. Murray Abraham performed as both Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and Barabas in The Jew of Malta at the Theatre for a New Audience in February and March 2007.

In the quarrels which afterward took place between the Moors and the governors of Azamur in 1526, Abraham ben Zamaira and Abraham Cazan, the most influential Jew in Azemmour in 1528, served the Portuguese as negotiators.

In 1780 Jacob ben Abraham Benider was sent as minister from Morocco to King George III ; in 1794 a Jew named Sumbal and in 1828 Meïr Cohen Macnin were sent as Moroccan ambassadors to the English court

Abraham ibn Ezra translated Al-Mattani's Canons of the Khwarizmi Tables, and in his introduction tells a remarkable story of a Jew in India who helped Jacob ben Tarik to translate the Indian astronomical tables according to the Indian cycle of 432, 000 years.

Its name came about due to its having been described in a medieval grimoire called The Book of Abramelin written by Abraham the Jew.

Rather than wait, Herschel and his parents decided that he should go to live with his uncle and aunt, Abraham and Chawa Grynszpan, in Paris.

Some famous people went through Chrisman, Illinois like Barack Obama when he was going to Paris, Illinois to campaign for the Illinois Seanate seat and Abraham Lincoln to stay up in a hotel in Danville, Illinois.

On April 30, 1865, a nine-car funeral train carrying Abraham Lincoln's body and about 300 mourners, stopped for memorial ceremonies at New Paris, one of many stops of the president's " national funeral " procession from Washington to Springfield, Illinois.

Silvestre de Sacy was born in Paris to a notary named Abraham Silvestre, of Jewish origin.

Abraham Lincoln, was elected President in 1860, Lincoln appointed him American Consul in Paris in 1861, progressing to Chargé d ' Affaires, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Napoleon III.

* In the fifth-season episode " Fallen Idols " of CW television series Supernatural, Leshii is portrayed as an eastern-European forest demi-god that feeds on people who are fans of the form he takes, and as such he takes the forms of Gandhi, James Dean, Abraham Lincoln, and Paris Hilton.

Alkan was born Charles-Valentin Morhange on 30 November 1813 at rue des Blancs-Manteaux in Paris to Alkan Morhange ( 1780 – 1855 ) and Julie Morhange née Abraham.

The original line-up included singer Helno ( also known as Helno Rota de Lourcqua, born Noël Rota in Paris, December 25, 1963-January 22, 1993 ), Jo Roz ( also known as l ' Ami Ro ; real name Joe Ruffier des Aimes ) ( piano ), Stéfane Mellino ( guitar ), Jean-Marie Paulus ( bass ), Gaby ( drums ), Matthias Canavese ( accordion ), Michel Ochowiak ( trumpet ), Abraham Sirinix ( also known as Abraham Braham ) ( trombone ) and Iza Mellino ( backing vocals ).

This system of government for education, characterized by public school jurisdictions with ( more or less ) corresponding separate school jurisdictions, can be traced to the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Treaty of Paris, 1763.

Held began working in the garment industry, then found work as a singer in Jewish theatres in Paris and, later, after her father's death, London, where her roles included the title role in a production by Jacob Adler of Abraham Goldfaden's Shulamith ; she was also in Goldfaden's ill-fated Paris troupe, whose cashier stole their money before they ever played publicly.

Christopher Plummer portrayed Professor Abraham Van Helsing in Dracula 2000 ( he had previously appeared as a rather ineffective vampire hunter, Professor Paris Catalano, in Vampire in Venice ).

In 1961 Abraham Yakin won the international Adolphe Neumann Prize in Paris.

The favorable position of English Jews was shown, among other things, by the visit of Abraham ibn Ezra in 1158, by that of Isaac of Chernigov in 1181, and by the resort to England of Jews who were exiled from France by Philip Augustus in 1182, among them probably being Judah Sir Leon of Paris.

A French version of the Beschreibung was published by Abraham de Wicquefort ( Voyages en Moscovie, Tartarie et Perse, par Adam Olearius, Paris, 1656 ), an English version was made by John Davies of Kidwelly ( Travels of the Ambassadors sent by Frederic, Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia, London, 1662 ; and 1669 ), and a Dutch translation by Dieterius van Wageningen ( Beschrijvingh van de nieuwe Parciaensche ofte Orientaelsche Reyse, Utrecht, 1651 ); an Italian translation of the Russian sections also appeared ( Viaggi di Moscovia, Viterbo and Rome, 1658 ).

In the earlier century they were visited by such eminent authorities as Abraham ibn Ezra, Judah Sir Leon of Paris, Yom Tov of Joigny, and Jacob of Orleans.

The favourable position of the English Jews was shown, among other things, by the visit of Abraham ibn Ezra in 1158, by that of Isaac of Chernigov in 1181, and by the resort to England of the Jews who were exiled from France by Philip Augustus in 1182, among them probably being Judah Sir Leon of Paris.

To the Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon at Paris ( 1807 ), Italy sent four deputies: Abraham Vita da Cologna ; Isaac Benzion Segre, rabbi of Vercelli ; Graziadio Neppi, physician and rabbi of Cento ; and Jacob Israel Karmi, rabbi of Reggio.

* The children of Abraham, ( exhibition catalogue ), Intervalles, Paris 2006

In 1647 he moved to Paris where he worked with the engraver Abraham Bosse and the painter Philippe de Champaigne.

It was entrusted to painters Martino Altomonte, Jan Rayzner of Lviv, Michelangelo Palloni, sculptor Stefan Szwaner and stucco decorators Szymon Józef Bellotti, Antoni of Wilanów and Abraham Paris.

" In Paris and Rio de Janeiro, on land or sea ", wrote Abraham Lincoln's biographer, Carl Sandburg, Webb " believed that Lincoln should have appointed him major general, rating himself a grand strategist, having fought white men in duels and red men in frontier war.

In 1869, the eighty-six-year old patriarch followed his grandsons Behor Abraham Camondo and Nissim de Camondo to Paris, France, a city the family had previously frequented and where they had established business connections.