Isaac Alfassi, Talmudist, 121-122.

Isaac Lurya, Kabbalist, 176.

Isaac Troki, Karaite author, 81.

Isaiah Hurwitz, Kabbalist, 176.

Isaiah, the Book of, Abraham Ibn Ezra on, 116.

Islam, sects of, 75-76.

Israel Baalshem, Kabbalist, 176-177.

Israel Isserlein, author of “Responses,” 237.

“It was at Midnight,” by Jannai, 86.

Italian Jewish literature, 178-180, 187.

Italy, the Kalirian Piyut in, 85.

“Itinera Mundi,” by Abraham Farissol, 206.

“Itinerary,” by Benjamin of Tudela, 203.

Jabneh. See Jamnia.

Jacob Ibn Chabib, writer, 192.

Jacob Anatoli, translator, 148.
  patron and friend of, 149.

Jacob Asheri, compiler of the Turim, 234, 239.

Jacob Weil, author of “Responses,” 237.

Jacobs, Mr. Joseph, quoted, 65, 66, 156, 158-159.

Jair Chayim Bacharach, author of “Responses,” 238.

Jamnia, centre of Jewish learning, 19-22.

Jannai, originator of the Piyut, 86.
  date of, 87.

Japhet, the son of Ali, Karaite author, 78, 79.

Jayme I of Aragon, orders a public disputation, 164.

Jehuda Halevi, models of, 107.
  subjects of, 109.
  prominence of, 126.
  youth of, 126-127.
  as a philosopher and physician, 127-128, 139.
  longs for Jerusalem, 128.
  on his journey, 128-129.
  quotation from, 129-130.
  works of, translated, 148.

Jerome, under Jewish influence, 48.

“Jerusalem,” by Mendelssohn, 256.

“Jewish War, The,” by Justus, 34.

“Jews, The,” by Lessing, 256.

Jochanan, the son of Napacha, Amora, 46, 47, 51.

Jochanan, the son of Zakkai, characterized, 20-21, 24.
  as a Tanna, 23-24.

Jochanan Aleman, Kabbalist, 174.

John of Capua, translator, 155.

Joseph Ibn Caspi, will of, 196.

Joseph Ibn Verga, historian, 218-219.

Joseph al-Bazir, Karaite author, 78, 79.

Joseph Albo, philosopher, 141.

Joseph Cohen, historian, 216-217, 219.

Joseph Delmedigo, on Gedaliah Ibn Yachya, 222.

Joseph Karo, prohibits the Machberoth, 183.
  compiler of the Shulchan Aruch, 233.
  life of, 238-239.
  See Shulchan Aruch, the.

Joseph Kimchi, exegete, 116.

Joseph Zabara, poet, 157-158.
  geographical notes by, 200.

Josephus, Flavius, historian, 34-38.
  works of, 34.
  characterized, 35-36.
  champion of Judaism, 36, 37-38.
  style of, 36-37.
  language used by, 37.
  used in “Josippon,” 214.

Joshua, the son of Levi, Amora, 47.

“Josippon,” a romance, 214.

Judah the Prince, a Tanna, 23, 28-29.
  characterized, 28-29.

Judah Ibn Ezra, anti-Karaite, 214.