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INDEX


  • "Light of God, The," by Chasdai Crescas, 141.
  • "Light of the Eyes, The," by Azariah di Rossi, 220, 223.
  • Literature, Jewish, oral, 21-22.
    • principle of, 23-24,
    • under the influence of Karaism, 77.
    • See Mishnah, the.
  • 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.
  • Manasseh ben Israel, continued.
    • and Spinoza, 250.
  • Manetho, historian, and Josephus, 36.
  • Massechtoth, tractates of the Mishnah, 31.
  • "Maximes 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, 258.
    • 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.
  • Meör 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 homileties, 57.
    • works called, 57-58.
    • style of, 58-59.
    • proverbs in, 59-60.
    • parables in, 60-64.
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