Aaron (I) ben Joseph, the Elder, fixes the Karaite prayer-book, 71.
Aaron (II) ben Elia Nicomedi, Karaite philosopher, 95.
Abadia, de, Juan, plots against Arbues, 329–331.
Abba-Mari ben Moses (Astruc En-Duran), leader of obscurantists, 27–32, 36–42, 50.
and the Tibbonides, 39–42.
Abenacar, Isaac (Manuel Pimentel), Marrano in Holland, 672.
Abenhuacar. See Ibn-Wakar, Samuel.
Abi-Ayub, Jacob, physician, 553.
Abner of Burgos. See Alfonso Burgensis.
Aboab, Isaac, rabbi at Toledo, 341.
death, 366.
intercedes for Spanish exiles, 352, 365.
Aboab, Isaac, de Fonseca, rabbi at Amsterdam, 681, 682–683.
in Brazil, 693.
quoted, 694.
Aboget, supposed manufacturer of Black Death poison, 102.
Abrabanel, Isaac ben Judah, 409.
and the edict of banishment, 348.
and Yechiel of Pisa, 287.
as commentator, 341–343.
countenances Messianic speculations, 482.
in Castile, 336–337, 341, 343–344.
in Corfu and Sicily, 384.
in Naples, 359–360.
in Portugal, 337–339, 341.
in Venice, 385, 386.
opposes free thought, 479.
protects the Jews, 339–340.
quoted, 338, 388–389.
Abrabanel, Isaac, son of the preceding, physician, 340, 385.
Abrabanel, Judah Leon (Medigo), son of Isaac Abrabanel I, 340, 341, 409.
and Gonsalvo de Cordova, 384–385.
as author, 480–481.
flees to Naples, 360–361.
Abrabanel, Samuel (Juan de Seville), 337.
accepts baptism, 169.
ambassador to Martin V, 219.
appointed to a state office, 138.
efforts for the culture of Castilian Jews, 139–140.
intercedes for the Spanish Marranos, 322–323.
Abrabanel, Samuel, son of Isaac Abrabanel I, 340, 385, 543.
at Ferrara, 544.
at Naples, 409.
promotes Jewish learning, 410.
Abrabanela, Benvenida, wife of the preceding, 409–410.
honors David Reubeni, 493.
saves the Neapolitan Jews from the Inquisition, 543–544.
Abraham, copyist, 74.
Abraham, son of Manessier de Vesoul, 150.
Abraham ben Chiya, astronomer, 120.
Abraham of Granada, Kabbalist, 196–197.
Abudiel, Moses, officer at the Castilian court, 84, 85, 86.
Abulafia, agent of Ferdinand and Isabella, 313, 317.
Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, Kabbalist, 4–8, 10, 11, 14, 19, 622, 625.
his school accepts the Zohar, 20.
Abulafia, Joseph, Kabbalist, 2.
Abulafia, Levi, Kabbalist, 2.
Abulafia, Meïr, Maimuni's adversary, alluded to, 2.
Abulafia-Halevi, prominent family of Toledo, 113, 116.
Abulafia-Halevi, Samuel ben Meïr, (Allavi), privado of Pedro the Cruel, 116–121, 354.
builds synagogues, 119–120.
charged with peculation, 121.
Abulafia-Halevi, Todros ben Joseph, Kabbalist, 1–3, 52.
Abulhassan, of Morocco, makes war upon Castile, 84.
Abumelik, Moorish general, 85.
Accusation of child-murder, 223, 261–262, 276–279, 298–307, 343–344, 372, 440, 544–546, 642.
against Christians, 546.
by Eck, 547.
forbidden in Portugal, 372.
See also Blood-accusation.
Accusation of host desecration, 164–165, 223, 261, 277, 306, 439–440.
Accusation of well-poisoning, 57–58, 101–106.
Achmed I, sultan, alluded to, 629, 630.
Achmed Shaitan, viceroy of Egypt, conspires, 395–396.
Adolph of Nassau, emperor, 35, 36.
Adrianople, Karaites settle in, 269.
Spanish exiles settle in, 405.
Afia, Aaron, scholar, 405.
Africa, a refuge for Jewish exiles, 197, 318, 352, 389–392.
Agada, not authoritative, 214.
quoted, 242.
Agen, Jews of, massacred, 56.
Aguilar, Jews of, annihilated, 125.
Aix, Jews of, side with Abba-Mari, 33.
Akrish, Isaac ben Abraham, Spanish exile, 386.
Alami, Solomon, quoted, 154–155, 204.
Alagon, de, Blasco, plots against Arbues, 329.
Alashkar, Moses ben Isaac, Talmudist, 391–392, 393.
Albalag, Isaac, philosopher, alluded to, 24, 342.
Albassi, Jacob, translator of Maimuni, 60.
Albert II, emperor, 263.
imprisons Jews, 223–224, 249.
Albert, duke of Bavaria, hostile to Jews, 258.
Albert, of Brandenburg, influenced against the Jews, 463–464.
Albert, of Munich, alluded to, 428.
Albi, Jews of, annihilated, 57.
Albo, Joseph, philosopher, 239, 243.
at the Tortosa disputation, 208, 214, 215.
author of controversial works, 233.
his work, 239–243.
Alboacin. See Abulhassan.
Albrecht, emperor, 35, 37.
and the Jews, 36.
asserts authority over the French Jews, 47.
Alcala, academy at, 145.
Jews of, mocked at, 181.
Alcaldes appointed by the Jews of Castile, 116.
Alcañiz, Jews of, converted, 214.
Alcolea, Jews of, converted, 214.
Aldobrandini protects the Jews of Ferrara, 660–661.
Aleman, Jochanan, Kabbalist, 291.
Alenu, prayer, maligned, 178.
Alexander, convert, accuses the Jews of blasphemy, 591.
Alexander, of Poland, hostile to Jews, 419.
Alexander VI, pope, 434.
and Bonet de Lates, 407.
censures the Roman Jews, 363.
favorable to Portuguese Marranos, 378–379.
opposes the Spanish Inquisition, 319.
Alfarda, strangers' tax, 344.
Alfonsine Tables, author of, 367.
Alfonso Burgensis (Abner-Alfonso, Alfonso of Valladolid), apostate, 81–83, 213, 342.
Alfonso de Cartagena, counselor of Eugenius IV, 249–250.
Alfonso, Infante of Portugal, releases Marranos, 517.
Alfonso, of Aragon, archbishop, protects Marranos, 330.
Alfonso X, of Castile (the Wise), anti-Jewish laws of, 194–195.
Alfonso XI, of Castile, and Alfonso Burgensis, 83.
death, 113.
favorable to Jews, 75–76, 85, 86.
guardians, 52.
Jewish favorites, 79–81.
law of, renewed, 193.
war with Abulhassan, 84–85.
Alfonso XII, of Castile, brother of Henry IV, 278, 279.
Alfonso II, of Ferrara, alluded to, 660.
Alfonso II, of Naples, employs Isaac Abrabanel, 360, 383–384.
Alfonso V, of Portugal, alluded to, 340.
employs Jews, 337–339.
Alfonso of Valladolid. See Alfonso Burgensis.
Algiers, Jews in, 390–391.
Jews settle in, 197–199.
Spanish exiles flee to, 361.
Alguades, Meïr, physician and rabbi, 185, 190.
executed, 195–196.
translator of Aristotle's Ethics, 193.
Alkabez, Solomon, Kabbalist, 538.
Allatif. See Ibn-Latif, Isaac.
Allavi. See Abulafia-Halevi, Samuel ben Meïr.
Allegorizing of the Scriptures, 23–24.
Allorqui. See Joshua ben Joseph Ibn-Vives.
Almosnino, Moses, historian, 405, 607–608.
Almoxarif, minister of finance, 75, 79, 138, 160.
Alsace, Jews of, outlawed or burnt, 107.
Altona, Jewish cemetery at, 688.
Alva imprisons Jews, 662.
in the Netherlands, 601.
Alvalensi, Samuel, favorite in Morocco, 390, 392.
Alvarez, Alfonso, de Villasandino, satirist, 181.
Amadeus, of Savoy, imprisons Jews, 103.
Amazia, Jews of, persecuted, 553.
Amos, prophet, quoted, 177.
Amshel of Ratisbon, opponent of Israel Bruna, 302.
Amsterdam, German Jews settle in, 680–681.
Hebrew education, 681–682.
Hebrew printing-press, 675.
Jews in, 665–685.
Jews under restrictions, 673–674.
morality of Jews, 679–680.
Portuguese Marranos settle in, 665–666.
powers of rabbis, 684–685.
synagogues, 667, 671, 680.
wealth and culture of Jews, 677–678.
Anatoli, Jacob, Maimunist, 32.
defended, 41.
his sermons read and proscribed, 39, 40.
Ancona, a refuge for Jews and Marranos, 408, 544.
Ancona, Marranos of, imprisoned, 568.
persecuted, 570–571.
Angiel, Kabbalistic term, 17.
"Annals of Persecution," by Joseph Cohen, 590.
"Annals of the Kings of France and of the House of Othman, The," by Joseph Cohen, 556.
Antiochus Epiphanes, alluded to, 655.
Anti-Trinitarians, 541–542, 647–648.
Anusim, converts to Christianity, 179–180.
See Marranos, and Conversions to Christianity.
Antwerp, Jews settle in, 662.
Aquet, charged with the manufacture of poison, 104.
Aquinas, Thomas, alluded to, 183.
Aragon and the Inquisition, 319, 328–329.
Aragon, Jews of, buy protection, 172.
enjoy peace, 274–275.
loyal to their faith, 215.
persecuted, 77, 102–103, 170.
suffer through Ferrer, 206.
Aragon, Marranos of, 309.
Arama, Isaac, quoted, 332.
Aranda, counts of, oppose the Inquisition, 329.
Aranda, de, bishop, expelled, 333.
Arbues, Pedro, inquisitor, 326.
plot against, 329–331.
Argentière, Jews of, side with Abba-Mari, 33.
Arias, Juan, bishop, instigates a persecution, 279.
Aristotle, 66, 82, 93, 146, 232, 243, 290.
Ethics of, in Hebrew, 146.
studied by Polish Jews, 633.
Arles, Jews of, protected, 177.
Armleder, persecutors of the Jews, 97–98.
Arnheim, counselor of Alva, 62.
Arnoldists, party of Jew-haters, 456.
Ar-Rabbi Mor, chief rabbi of Portuguese Jews, 158–159, 380.
Arta, Jewish exiles in, 406.
Arzilla, Jewish slaves made at, 286, 339, 381.
Ascalona, Jews of, annihilated, 170.
Asher ben Yechiel (Asheri), rabbi of Toledo, 34–35, 37, 53, 86.
author of a Talmudic code, 51.
his descendants victims of persecution, 169–170.
his family visited by the Black Death, 113.
partisan of Abba-Mari, 37–38, 50.
relaxes Talmudic laws, 37.
sons of. See Jacob ben Asheri, and Jehuda Asheri.
Asher, of Udine, convert, denounces Jewish works, 584–585.
Asheri. See Asher ben Yechiel, Jacob ben Asher, and Jehuda Asheri.
Ashkenazi, Solomon ben Nathan, statesman, 602–607, 627–629.
agent of Mahomet Sokolli, 602–603.
and the Polish election, 604–605, 642.
and Venice, 605–606, 608.
rescues the Venetian Jews, 606–607.
supplants Joseph Nassi, 627.
widow of, 630.
Asia Minor, Spanish exiles in, 405–406.
Askaloni, Joseph, Hebrew publisher, 628.
Astorga, Jews of, baptized, 205.
Astruc En-Duran. See Abba-Mari ben Moses.
Athias, editor of the Spanish Bible translation, 576.
Athias, Isaac, rabbi at Hamburg, 689.
Aubriot, Hugues, prevôt of Paris, protects the Jews, 151.
Auditeurs des Juifs, superintendents over French Jews, 54.
"Augenspiegel," work by Reuchlin, 446–448, 450, 457.
approved, 455.
condemned by the University of Paris, 460.
Augsburg, bishop of, desires to possess Jews, 127–128.
Augsburg, Jews of, escape the Rindfleisch persecution, 36.
exiled, 249.
imprisoned, 163.
persecuted, 110.
Austria, Jews of, accused as poisoners, 110.
expelled, 585–586, 652.
persecuted, 36, 98, 223–224.
Auto-da-fé, the first in Spain, 317.
Averroes, alluded to, 82, 93, 94, 232, 290.
Avignon, Jews of, expelled, 592.
protected, 177.
side with Abba-Mari, 33.
Avila, Jews of, baptized, 205.
Kabbalistic center, 8–10.
law of, 229.
religious discussion at, 140–141.
Avila, de, bishop, expelled, 333.
Avis, Grand Master of, 160, 161.
Ayllon, home of a Kabbalist, 8.
Azael, Kabbalistic term, 17.
Azriel, Kabbalist, 14.
Baal ha-Turim. See Jacob ben Asheri.
Badajoz attacked by Spanish Marranos, 498.
Baffa, sultana, favors Esther Kiera, 629.
Bajazet (Bajasid) II, sultan, and Jews, 356, 364, 400.
Balmes, de, Abraham, physician and author, 411.
instructs Christians, 473.
Bamberg, council of, decrees Jew badges, 555.
Bandito, tortured on the charge of poisoning, 104.
Baptista, John (Solomon Romano), denounces the Talmud, 564.
Barbaro, Mark Antonio, Venetian consul, 605.
Barbastro, conversions in, 214.
Barcelona, ban against science in, 40.
Jews of, persecuted, 103, 171–172.
opposes the Inquisition, 332.
Barfat. See Isaac ben Sheshet Barfat, and Crescas Barfat.
Barfat, Zarak, poet, 140.
Baruch, Kabbalist, 481.
Bashyasi, Menachem and Moses, Karaites, 269.
Basle, authorities of, defend the Jews, 105–107.
Basle, council of, 248, 249, 250, 251.
laws of the, and Casimir IV, 264.
proscribes the Jews, 245–246.
Basle, Jews of, burnt, 107.
"Bastard, A, the Son of an Outcast," anti-Christian work, 590.
Bathori, Stephen, of Poland, friendly to Jews, 642.
"Battles of the Lord, The," work by Gersonides, 92–93.
Bavaria, Jews of, accused of child-murder, 545–546.
persecuted, 36, 98–99, 110, 225, 253–254.
Beatrice (Brites), Infanta of Portugal, and the succession in Castile, 158.
Beatrice, of Castile, and David Negro, 161.
Bechinath ha-Dath, work by Elias del Medigo, 293.
Bechinath Olam, poem by Yedaya Bedaresi, 49.
Bedaresi, Abraham, poet, 42.
Bedaresi, Yedaya En-Bonet ben Abraham (Penini), poet, 26, 42–45, 49.
espouses the Tibbonide cause, 42–44.
works by, 43, 49.