=Eighteen Benedictions.= _See_ Berachoth.
“=Eighteen Things=, The,” decreed by the school of Shammai, =2=, 270. permitted by Judah II, =2=, 483-4.
=Eisenach=, the Jews of, during the Black Death persecutions, =4=, 109.
=Eisenmenger, John Andrew=, Hebraist, revives the blood accusation, =5=, 187. title of the book by, against the Jews, =5=, 188. charges raised against the Jews by, =5=, 188-9. work of, suppressed, =5=, 190. death of, =5=, 190. _See_ “Judaism Unmasked.”
“=Eisenmenger the Second=, an open letter to Fichte,” by Saul Asher, =5=, 463.
=Ekron=, Philistine city, =1=, 54. left in the possession of the Philistines, =1=, 117. center of Baal-zebub worship, =1=, 207. given to Jonathan Haphus, =1=, 496. fortified by the Syrians, =1=, 529.
=Elah=, king of Israel, dissipation and death of, =1=, 192.
=El-Arish=, the river of Egypt, boundary under David, =1=, 129.
=Elath=, port on the Red Sea, =1=, 170, 171, 177, 230.
=Elchanan ben Isaac=, descendant of Rashi, Tossafist, martyr, =3=, 404.
=Eldad=, Karaite, adventurer, =3=, 182. spreads the news of the Jewish Chazar kingdom, =3=, 220.
=Elder=, title of the ordained, =2=, 361.
=Elders=, Council of the, formed by Moses, =1=, 25-6.
=Eleanor=, mother of Edward I, hostile to the Jews, =3=, 641, 645.
=Eleanor=, wife of Edward I, favorably inclined to the Jews, =3=, 644.
=Eleanora=, wife of Louis VII of France, accompanies him on the second crusade, =3=, 349.
=Eleasa=, camp of Judas Maccabæus at, =1=, 486. the battle of, Judas Maccabæus falls in, =1=, 487.
=Eleazar=, Galilæan Judæan, persuades Izates of Adiabene to be circumcised, =2=, 217.
=Eleazar=, high priest, and the Septuagint, =1=, 514.
=Eleazar=, Jewish name of Bishop Bodo, =3=, 169.
=Eleazar=, one of David’s warriors, =1=, 116.
=Eleazar of Antioch=, refuses to sacrifice to the Greek gods, =1=, 456.
=Eleazar of Modin=, member of the Jamnia Synhedrion, =2=, 357. prays for Bethar, =2=, 417. accused as a spy, =2=, 417-18.
=Eleazar ben Ananias=, leader of the Zealots, =2=, 256. brings about the rupture with Rome, =2=, 258-9. relations of, to the leader of the Sicarii, =2=, 260-1. destroys the Roman garrison of Jerusalem, =2=, 261. disinterestedness of, =2=, 261. governor of Idumæa, =2=, 270.