His father was the enormously wealthy financier Judah Herz Beer ( 1769 – 1825 ) and his mother, Amalia ( Malka ) Wulff ( 1767 – 1854 ), to whom he was particularly devoted, also came from the moneyed elite.

Both Judah Herz Beer and his wife were close to the Prussian court ; when Amalia was awarded in 1816 the Order of Louise, she was given, by Royal dispensation, not the traditional Cross but a portrait bust of the Queen.

According to the Talmud ( Avodah Zarah 10a-b ), Rabbi Judah was very wealthy and greatly revered in Rome.

During Ahab's reign, Moab, which had been conquered by his father, remained tributary ; while Judah, with whose king, Jehoshaphat, he was allied by marriage, was probably his vassal.

David, who was accepted as king by Judah alone, was meanwhile reigning at Hebron, and for some time war was carried on between the two parties.

Amos was a prophet during the reign of Jeroboam ben Joash ( Jeroboam II ), ruler of Israel from 793 BC to 753 BC, and the reign of Uzziah, King of Judah, at a time when both kingdoms ( Israel in the North and Judah in the South ) were peaking in prosperity.

# Abijah ( king ) of the Kingdom of Judah, also known as Abijam ( אבים ' aḄiYaM " My Father is Yam "), who was son of Rehoboam and succeeded him on the throne of Judah.

In the traditional literature he is referred to almost exclusively as Rav, " the Master ", ( both his contemporaries and posterity recognizing in him a master ), just as his teacher, Judah I, was known simply as Rabbi.

His father, Aibo, was a brother of Chiyya, who lived in Palestine, and was a highly esteemed scholar in the collegiate circle of the patriarch Judah I.

While Judah I was still living, Rav, having been duly ordained as teacher — though not without certain restrictions ( Sanhedrin 5a )— returned to Babylonia, where he at once began a career that was destined to mark an epoch in the development of Babylonian Judaism.

Samuel, another disciple of Judah I, at the same time brought to the academy at Nehardea a high degree of prosperity ; in fact, it was at the school of Rav that Jewish learning in Babylonia found its permanent home and center.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia on David descendant Jehoash of Judah: In Rabbinical Literature: As the extermination of the male descendants of David was a divine retribution for the extermination of the priests because of David ( comp.

When David ascended the throne of Judah, Abiathar was appointed High Priest ( 1 Chr.

King Joash of Judah was recorded as being assassinated by his own servants, Joab assassinated Absalom, King David's son and King Sennacherib of Assyria was assassinated by his own sons.

God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

In the early 6th century Judah rebelled against Babylon and was destroyed.

According to the book, the Prophet Jeremiah was a son of a priest from Anatot in the land of Benjamin, who lived in the last years of the Kingdom of Judah just prior to, during, and immediately after the siege of Jerusalem, culminating in the destruction of Solomon's Temple and the raiding of the city by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

Isaiah's warning that Judah would meet the same fate as Israel was ignored.

The book ends with the prediction of the downfall of kingdoms, with one Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, as the Lord ’ s chosen leader.

* Judah the Prince, chief redactor of the Krishnah and second-century Jewish leader

* Judah he-Hasid, 17th-century immigration leader

Classical rabbinical sources refer to the passage "... a ruler came from Judah ", from, to imply that Judah was the leader of his brothers, terming him the king.

Since rabbinical sources held Judah to have been the leader of his brothers, these sources also hold him responsible for this deception, even if it was not Judah himself who brought the coat to Jacob.

Even if Judah had been trying to save Joseph, the classical rabbinical sources still regard him negatively for it ; these sources argue that, as the leader of the brothers, Judah should have made more effort, and carried Joseph home to Jacob on his ( Judah's ) own shoulders.

* Johanan, son of Kareah, mentioned as a leader of the army who led the remnant of the population of the Kingdom of Judah to Egypt for safety ( against the advice of Jeremiah – see ), after the Babylonian dismantling of the kingdom in 586 BC and the subsequent assassination of Gedaliah, the Babylon-appointed Jewish governor (, )

* Judas Maccabeus, also known as Judah the Hammer, leader of the Maccabean revolt ( 167 – 160 BCE ) against the Seleucid Empire

During Bar Kokhba's revolt against Roman Empire ( 132-135 ), the supreme religious authority Rabbi Akiva sanctioned Simon bar Kokhba to be a war leader, whereas during the 2nd century Judah haNasi was not only the supreme temporal leader sanctioned by Rome, but also edited the original work of the Mishnah which became the " de-facto constitution " of the world's Jewry.

Rabbi Judah the Pious ( Rav Yehuda Ha-Hassid ) of Regensburg was the foremost leader of the Chassidei Ashkenaz.

Judah, the eldest of the brothers and therefore their leader, merely dismisses this but Jacob is uncertain.

* Judah Alkalai ( 1798 – 1878 ), Serbian religious leader & activist

Lew Wallace's Judah Ben-Hur is sent to the galleys as a murderer but manages to survive a shipwreck and save the fleet leader, who frees and adopts him.

His son, Judah Löb Mokiach, an eminent Talmudist, died in Pressburg December 7, 1742 ; the latter's sons were David Berlin ( Mokiach ) and Isaiah Berlin ( Mokiach ), known also as Isaiah Pick.

( 1 ) The first edition of the " Sheiltot " appeared in Venice, 1546, and was succeeded by the following: ( 2 ) An edition with a short commentary by Isaiah Berlin ( Dyhernfurth, 1786 ); ( 3 ) another under the title תועפות ראם, with the commentary of Isaac Pardo, Salonica, 1800 – 01 ; ( 4 ) with an extended commentary by Naphtali Ẓebi Judah Berlin ( Wilna, 1861, 1864, 1867 ), which latter edition contains the commentary of Isaiah Berlin, as well as a number of variant readings taken from a manuscript of the year 1460, and a short commentary by Saul ben Joseph, who probably lived in the first half of the 14th century.

In Jewish lore, blood libels were the impetus for the creation of the Golem of Prague by Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel in the 16th century.

11th to 12th century grammarians of the Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain included Judah ben David Hayyuj, Jonah ibn Janah, Abraham ibn Ezra, Joseph Kimhi, Moses Kimhi and David Kimhi.

Other important landmarks include the replacement of Hebrew by Aramaic as the everyday language of Judah ( although it continued to be used for religious and literary purposes ), and Darius's reform of the administrative arrangements of the empire, which may lie behind the redaction of the Jewish Torah.

The Hasmonean kingdom was a conscious attempt to revive the Judah described in the Bible: a Jewish monarchy ruled from Jerusalem and stretching over all the territories once ruled by David and Solomon.

Judaism ( from the Latin Iudaismus, derived from the Greek Ioudaïsmos, and ultimately from the Hebrew יהודה, Yehudah, " Judah "; in Hebrew: י ַ ה ֲ דו ּ ת, Yahadut, the distinctive characteristics of the Judean ethnos ) is the religion, philosophy and way of life of the Jewish people.

Major Jewish philosophers include Solomon ibn Gabirol, Saadia Gaon, Judah Halevi, Maimonides, and Gersonides.

The Kingdom of Judah continued as an independent state until it was conquered by a Babylonian army in the early 6th century BCE, destroying the First Temple that was at the center of ancient Jewish worship.

It commemorates the assassination of the righteous governor of Judah of that name, which ended any level of Jewish rule following the destruction of the First Temple.

* Judah II, third-century Jewish sage

* Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the Maharal, important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, and philosopher who served as a leading rabbi in Prague ( now in the Czech Republic ) for most of his life

Reuvein Margolies suggests that as the Mishnah was redacted after the Bar Kochba revolt, Rabbi Judah could not have included discussion of Hanukkah which commemorates the Jewish revolt against the Syrian-Greeks ( the Romans would not have tolerated this overt nationalism ).

* May 14 – Sephardi Jewish philosopher Judah Halevi sets off from Alexandria on a pilgrimage to Palestine.

* Rabbi Yehudah ha-Nasi or Judah haNasi, Talmudic scholar ( according to Jewish tradition, he was born the same day Rabbi Akiva died a martyr's death )

* September 8 – Sephardi Jewish philosopher Judah Halevi, having completed the Kuzari, arrives in Alexandria on a pilgrimage to Palestine.

* Jewish Eretz Yisraeli scholar Judah ha-Nasi compiles tracts of the Mishnah, beginning the creation of Talmudic law.

According to it the staff is a fragment of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and was successively in the possession of Shem, of the three Patriarchs, and of Judah, just as in the Jewish legend.

Jewish neo-Aristotelian philosophers, who are still influential today, include Maimonides, Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon, and Gersonides.

The Babylonian captivity ( or Babylonian exile ) was the period in Jewish history during which the Jews of the ancient Kingdom of Judah were captives in Babylon.

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

" Judas " ( like the Hebrew " Judah ") refers to Judean identity, either membership in the state of Judea of the Graeco-Roman period or the Jewish people more generally.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia on David's descendant Joash ( Jehoash of Judah ), Rabbinical literature would deem the extermination of the male descendants of David as a divine retribution for David's action which led to the extermination of the priests by Saul ( cf.

Many important Jewish leaders have belonged to the tribe of Judah.