EDUCATORE ISRAELITA –
Monthly periodical founded by Giuseppe Levi, and published by him, in conjunction with Esdra Pontremoli, at Vercelli (1853-74). It advocated moderate Jewish reform, to be brought about by the cooperation of all communities....
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'EDUYOT –
Jewish School at Jerusalem, Showing Pupils Reading from Inverted Text.(From a photograph in the possession of Nissim Behar.)The seventh treatise in the order Neziḳin of the Mishnah. When, after the destruction of the Temple, it...
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'EFA –
Rabbinic scholar of the fourth century. He was a native of Babylonia, who, although but few halakot and fewer haggadot are associated with his name, acquired considerable fame as belonging to "the ingenious scholars of...
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EFES –
Scholar of the third century; secretary to the patriarch Judah I. (Gen. R. lxxv. 5), and one of the last tannaim. After Judah's death, while Efes conducted a college in southern Judea, on account of which he was called "Efes (in...
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