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Brewer's: Isaac of York
The Jew in Ivanhoe, and father of Rebecca. (Sir Walter Scott.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894IsabelIsaac A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q…Rabi, Isidor Isaac
(Encyclopedia) Rabi, Isidor IsaacRabi, Isidor Isaacrŏbˈē [key], 1898–1988, American physicist, b. Austria, grad. Cornell, 1919, Ph.D. Columbia, 1927. A teacher at Columbia from 1929, he became…Crémieux, (Isaac) Adolphe
(Encyclopedia) Crémieux, (Isaac) AdolpheCrémieux, (Isaac) Adolpheēsäkˈ ädôlfˈ krāmyöˈ [key], 1796–1880, Jewish-French statesman and political writer. A lawyer, he served briefly as minister of…Al-Fasi, Isaac ben Jacob ha-Kohen
(Encyclopedia) Al-Fasi, Isaac ben Jacob ha-KohenAl-Fasi, Isaac ben Jacob ha-Kohenäl-fäˈsē [key], 1013–1103, prominent Jewish Talmudic scholar of the very late Gaonic period, b. near Fès, N Africa. He…Alexius III
(Encyclopedia) Alexius III (Alexius Angelus)Alexius IIIəlĕkˈsēəs, [key]Alexius IIIănˈjələs [key], d. after 1210, Byzantine emperor (1195–1203). He acceded to power by deposing and blinding his…Casaubon, Isaac
(Encyclopedia) Casaubon, IsaacCasaubon, Isaackəsôˈbən [key], Fr. Cartier, Jacquesēzäkˈ käzōbôNˈ [key], 1559–1614, Franco-English classical scholar and theologian, b. Geneva. He became professor of…Esek
(Encyclopedia) EsekEsekēˈsĕk [key], in the Bible, one of Isaac's wells.Silvestre de Sacy
(Encyclopedia) Silvestre de Sacy: see Sacy, Antoine Isaac, Baron Silvestre de.patriarch, in the Bible
(Encyclopedia) patriarchpatriarchpāˈtrēärk [key], in biblical tradition, one of the antediluvian progenitors of the race as given in Genesis (e.g., Seth) or one of the ancestors of the Jews (e.g.,…Allerton, Isaac
(Encyclopedia) Allerton, IsaacAllerton, Isaacălˈərtən [key], c.1586–1659, Pilgrim settler in Plymouth Colony. Possibly a London tailor, he was a merchant in Leiden before going to America on the…Trending
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