Volume 8

The Jewish encyclopedia : a descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day / prepared ... under the direction of ... Cyrus Adler [and others] Isidore Singer ... managing editor.

Date:
1901-1906
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    Leon Leon, Edwin de THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA 2 title “Tnitadocle los Clierubim ” (Amsterdam, ICoJ); and his description of Moses’ tabernacle, written in 1647 in Dutcli, was published under the title “Re- trato del Taberuaculo de Moseli” (Amsterdam, 1664), and in English (1675). His last work was a Spanish paraphrase of the Psalms, which was printed with the text, under the title “Las Alaban^as de Santitad ” (Amsterdam, 1671), and, as is stated in the introduction, was written in seven months. The work was dedicated to Isaac Senior Teixeyra, financial agent, in Ham- burg, of Queen Christina of Sweden, and was ex- tolled hy many hakamim, scholars, and poets in He- brew, Latin, and Spanish verses. Jacol) Judah wrote also a dialogue (“Colloquium !Middelbui gense”) be- tween a rabbi and a Chris- tian scholar on the value of the Christian dogmas; and he left in manuscript “ Disputacionescon Difer- entes Theologos de la Cris- tiandad. ” He was a skilftd draftsman. The coat of arms of the English Grand Lodge of Masons with the motto mn'i? tinp, now “Holiness to the Lord,” is the work of the “famous and learned Hebrewist, architect, and brother, Rabi Jacob Jehudah Le- on.” He drew also more than 200 figures and vign- ettes to illustrate Talmudieal subjects, which his son Solomon gave to Surenhusius for liis Latin translation of the Mishnah. Bibliography : De Rossi-Hamberger, Hist. W6rterh. pp. 176 ct seq.-, Koenen, Geschiedenis der Jaden in Nederland, p. S17; Jost, Gesch. des Judenthums und Seiner Sekte)i, hi. 233; Griitz, Gesch. x. 24,200 et .seq.; Transaetiom Jew. Hist. Soc. Eng. ii. 1.56 et seq.-, Fiirst, Bihl. Jud. ii. 232 et seq.; Kayserling, Bihl. Esp.-Port.-Jud. pp. .58 et seci. 11. JosepR de Leon : Rabbi in Jerusalem about 1587. 12. Joseph, de Leon : Rabbi in Veniee in 1694. Bibliography: Frumkin, Ehen Shemiiel, p. 73; Nepi-Ghi- ronili, l.c. p. 170. 13. Judah de Leon: Rabbi; died about 1830. He went to Rome about 1792 as emissary from He- bron, and at the desire of the community remained as rabbi. In 1811 he was chief rabbi of the Jewish consistory in Rome. Judah’s is the first signature to a document protesting against the charge that religious reforms had been introduced into Italy. This document appeared in the “Letters of the Chief Rabbis in Italy” (Leghorn; German transl., Altona and Hamburg, 1790). Bibliography : Nepi-Ghirondi, l.c. p. 166; Vogelstein and Rieger, Gesch. der Juden in Rom, ii. 400 et seq.; Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. p. 394. 14. Judah Hayyim Leao (Leon): Hakamand leader in prayer in the synagogue of the Portuguese community in Hamburg. After forty years of active service he was pensioned in 1656, and his son- in-law, Isaac Namias, was appointed his successor. Bibliography : Grunwald, PortwjiesengrUber auf Deutscher Erdc, p. 106. 15. M. (P.) de Leon: Lived in Surinam. In collaboration with others, he wrote in 1791 “Ge- schiedenis der Kolonie van Suriname” (Amsterdam, 1791; 2d ed. ib. 1802). Bibliography: Publications Am. Jew. Hist. Soc. iv. 6. 16. Manuel de Leon (Leao) : Marano; writer of Spanish and Portu- guese poems; born in Lei- ria; died in Amsterdam after 1712. His published works are; “Triumpho Lusitano Aplausos Fes- tivos . . . Nos Augustos Desposorios do Indy to D. Pedro Segundo com a Ser. !Maria Sofia Isabel de Ba- viera, Monarcas de Portu- gal” (Brussels, 1688), a poem consisting of nine- ty^-three verses, with a description of festivities held at Lisbon Oct. 11-25, 1687, and dedicated to D. Geronimo Nuiiez da Cos- ta, Portuguese agent in Amsterdam; “ El Duclo delos Aplausos, y Trium- pho de los Triumplios, Retrato de Guilielmo HI., MonarchaBrilanico ” (Tlie Hague, 1691); “Examen de Obrigai^oens. Testifica hum Eilho, que os Pays Engendrao, Amao, Dou- trinao os Filhos por Dependencia. Discursos Mo- rales Dcduzidosda Sagrada Escritura ” (Amsterdam, 1712); “ Gryfo Emblcmatico, Enigma Moral. Dedl- cado a Diego de Chaves ” (ib. 1712). Llis “ Certa- men de las Musas en los Desposorios de Francisco Lopes Suasso, Barao de Auverne ” is extant in manu- script in Amsterdam. Bibliography: Barbosa Machado, Bihl. Lusit. iii. 293; Kay- serling, Sephardim, pp. 315 et seq.; idem, Bihl. Esp.-Po7't.- Jud. p. 57. 17. MeirdeLeon: Lived in Amsterdam; trans- lated Verga’s “ Shebet Yehudah ” into Spanish under the title “La Vara de Juda” (Amsterdam, 1640; 2d ed. ib. 1744). 18. Samuel de Leon (Liao): Member of the college Keter Torah in Amsterdam. He rvas the au- thor of the “Questoins [Questoes] com Suas Repos- tas, que Proper na Academia de Queter Tora,” Hamburg, 1679, and of a writing preserved in manu- script, under the title “ Libro de Diversas Questoins e Suas Repostas, Comp, por my . . . y Respond, em Yesiba.” Bibliography: Steinschnelder, Catalog der Hehrdischen Handschriften in der Stadtbibliotliek zu Hamburg, p. 167: Kayserling, Bihl. Esp.-Port.-Jud. p. .59. 19. Samuel Judah LeonTemplo: Brother of Solomon Raphael Judah (No. 20), mentioned by Jacob Judali Aryeh Leon Templo.