History of the Jews, Vol. 6 (of 6) / Containing a Memoir of the Author by Dr. Philip Bloch, a Chronological Table of Jewish History, an Index to the Whole Work

Transcriber's Note

Punctuation was made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise it was not changed.

Variations in hyphenation and spelling, particularly in the use of accent marks, have not been changed unless they clearly referred to the same person and a preferred variation was predominant.

Simple typographical errors were corrected.

Occasional unpaired quotation marks were remedied when the intent was clear; otherwise they were left unchanged.

Some dates and spellings in this book differ from dates given in other sources.

Hyperlinks and Cross-References

Many cross-reference links in the Index are approximate: they lead to similarly-spelled entries, rather than to exact matches.
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Index references to pages in other volumes of this series have not been checked systematically for spelling, accuracy, or validity. These references were corrected based on examination of the other volumes of this series:

Page 150: “Acra”, volume1, page524, referred to page585.
Page 238: “Cromwell”, volume5, page43, referred to volume4.
Page 275: “Ezra’s opinion of intermarriages”, volume1, pages 367–8, referred to volume2.
Page 311 “Havayot”, volume2, page585, referred to volume1.
Page 346: “Jacob, Syrian priest”, volume5, page662, referred to volume2.
Page 459: “Talmudist, under Moses ben Isaac Alashkar”, volume4, page392, referred to volume5.
Page 528: “ReÏs”, volume3, page443, referred to volume5.
Page 604: “Tiberius, death of”, volume2, page174, referred to volume3.

Hebrew Translations and Transliterations

Page 3: Beyt Shmuel Acharon is the title of a book.
Page 7: Cheshbon Ha’itim: An Accounting of the Seasons.
Page 11: Igeret Tzafon: Letter to the North.
Page 12: Igeret Tzafon: Letter to the North.
Page 13: Berachot: Tractate Berachot (“Benedictions”), the first volume of the Talmud.
Page 16: Yoter mishe’egel rotzeh linak, haparah rotzah l’hanik: Literally, this Talmudic doctrine means, “More than the calf desires to suck, the cow desires to suckle.” Figuratively it means that the teacher is more anxious to teach than the pupil is to learn.
Page 16: Pesach haba aleynu l’tovah: Next Passover, may it be for good. In the original book, the Hebrew text used character-spanning zargas on pages 16 and 27, indicating abbreviations. In this eBook, zargas have been replaced by gershayim (quotation marks), as that is the convention in Modern Hebrew.
Footnote 6, originally on page16: Yoter mimah she’egel rotzeh linak, haparah rotzah l’hanik: this is a variant phrasing of the “More than the calf....” Talmudic doctrine.
Page 18: Pesach: Passover.
Page 20: Sh’eylot: Questions of Jewish law.
Page 20: Divrei ervah: Matters of of ervah (literally “nakedness”); these are laws regarding physical or sexual immodesty.
Page 20: tamei: Unclean or ritually taboo.
Page 20: M’tamei: Resulting in ritual impurity.
Page 23: Toldot Avot: Title of a book, meaning “The History of the Forefathers”.
Page 27: Rifim: The works of the “Rif”. An acronym for the 11th Century Talmudist, Rabbi Isaac Al-Fasi. In the original book, the Hebrew text used a zarga, which has been replaced here as explained earlier.
Page 27: Nefilim: giants.
Page 27: Rav: rabbi, particularly one held in great esteem.
Page 30: Sefer Yetzirah: the mystical tome, “Book of Creation”. The Hebrew was misprinted in the 1956 edition from which this transcription was made, but was printed correctly in the 1898 edition; the correct Hebrew spelling is used in this eBook.
Page 37: Hatarat hora’ah: Authorization to issue rabbinic rulings.
Page 65: tet: the Hebrew letter tet; kof: the Hebrew letter kof.
Page 65: Titus: Titus; Kitus: Quietus.

Genealogy Charts on pages 130 and 134

In the original book, some marriages were indicated by “m.” and others by “=”. To conserve the width of these charts, some of the “=” notation has been replaced by “m.”
Names originally printed in boldface are shown here in UPPERCASE.
This eBook is derived from images at The Internet Archive (www.archive.org). Some names and dates were missing from those images because they had been printed too close to the binding to be scanned. The missing information has been reconstructed by examining the Chronological Table beginning on page 90 and a physical copy of an earlier edition of the book.

Errata and Corrections

Page xi refers to four maps that were included in the original 1898 edition but not in this 1956 printing.

Page 154: Under “Agrippa II”, Transcriber added a comma between “Varus” and “representative”.

Page 164: “Al-muktadir Billah” was printed with a lower-case “m”.

Page 211: “fixed adopted by Hillel II” was printed without a comma.

Page 382: Under “JudÆans”, there are two sub-entries for “repudiate their heathen wives”.

Page 443: “Simon ben YochaÏ” is printed as “Simon bar YochaÏ” on the referenced page in volume4.

Page 457: “Morea, the, the Jews of” was printed with two “the”s.

Page 473: “Neriglissar murders Evil-Merodach” was printed as “merodach”, but has been changed here to match how it is printed on the referenced page.

Page 588: In the list of Roman governors of Syria, “Cassius Longinus, Caius” was printed twice in a row.

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