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Joseph Jacobs

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Joseph Jacobs 1854-1916, Jewish writer, historian, and folklorist, b. Australia. He lived in England until 1900, when he went to the United States to edit a revision of The Jewish Encyclopedia. He was later a teacher at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City and editor of the American Hebrew. His major contributions to Jewish history include Jews of Angevin England (1893), An Inquiry into the Sources of the History of the Jews in Spain (1894), and Jewish Contributions to Civilization (1919), an incomplete fragment. His Story of Geographical Discovery (1899) went... Read more
Jacob Joseph of Polonnoye
Jacob Joseph of Polonnoye ( c. 1710–84), Ḥ...Yosef , ‘The Generations of Jacob Joseph’, 1780). Already a rabbi, he met...x2019;. His other major works (alluding to Joseph in the title) were Ben Porat Yosef (‘... Read more
Zaddik, Joseph ben Jacob Ibn
Zaddik, Joseph ben Jacob Ibn (d. 1149). Spanish poet and philosopher. Zaddik was the author of Sefer ha-ʿOlam ha-Katan (ed. 1854), which... Read more

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