Liturgy, the, earliest additions to, 83.
  See Piyut, the.

Lorraine, the Kalirian Piyut in, 85.

Lost Ten Tribes, book on, 201.
  in Brazil, 208.

Lucas, Mrs. Alice, translations by, quoted, 63.

Lucian, used in “Josippon,” 214.

Luzzatto, Moses Chayim, Kabbalist and dramatist, 176.
  ethical work by, 193.
  as dramatist, 246-247.

Lydda, centre of Jewish learning, 20.

Machberoth, by Immanuel of Rome, 182-185.

Maggid, familiar of Joseph Karo, 239.

Maharil, collection of Customs, 238.

Maimonides, Moses, the forerunner of, 95.
  youth of, 134-135.
  activities of, 135-136.
  disinterestedness of, 136.
  attacks on, 137, 141.
  prominence of, 137-138.
  as a philosopher, 138-141, 142, 151.
  works of, translated, 148.
  and Nachmanides, 163.
  studied by Spinoza, 250.

Mainz, Rashi at, 122.

Majorca, the Spanish Piyut in, 85.

Manasseh ben Israel, and the Lost Tribes, 208-209, 243, 247-248.
  political activity of, 244, 248.
  life of, 244.
  attainments and friends of, 245.
  activities of, 247.
  as a pamphleteer, 248-249.
  and Spinoza, 250.

Manetho, historian, and Josephus, 36.

Massechtoth, tractates of the Mishnah, 31.

“Maxims of the Philosophers,” by Charizi, 189.

Mebo ha-Talmud, by Samuel Ibn Nagdela, 104.

Mechilta, a Midrashic work, 57.

Megillath Taanith. See “Scroll of Fasting, The.”

Meir, a Tanna, 23, 27-28.
  characterized, 27-28.
  fables by, 64.

Meir of Rothenburg, poet, 131, 235-237.
  writer of “Responses,” 235.

“Memorial Books,” historical sources, 216.

Menachem, the son of Zaruk, grammarian, 100, 101, 123.

Mendelssohn, Moses, antagonized by Ezekiel Landau, 238.
  life of, 253.
  objects to the separation of culture and religion, 254.
  service of, to Judaism, 254-255.
  and Lessing, 255-256.
  style of, 257.
  and Lavater, 258.
  translates the Pentateuch, 258-259.
  circle of, 259.
  influence of, 259-260.

Menorath ha-Maor, by Isaac Aboab, 192.

Meoer Enayim, by Azariah di Rossi, 220.

Meshullam of Lunel, patron of learning, 146, 147.

Messiah, the, Joshua on, 47.

Messilath Yesharim, by Moses Chayim Luzzatto, 193.

Metre, in Hebrew poetry, 84.

Michlol, by David Kimchi, 117.

Midrash, the, characterized, 55-57.
  poetical, 56, 57.
  popular homiletics, 57.
  works called, 57-58.
  style of, 58-59.
  proverbs in, 59-60.
  parables in, 60-64.
  beast fables in, 64-67.
  and the Piyut, 86, 88-89.
  used by Rashi, 123, 124.

Midrash Haggadol, a Midrashic work, 58.

Midrash Rabbah, a Midrashic work, 58.