=Farchi, Raphael Murad=, accused of ritual murder, =5=, 639. restored to his position, =5=, 661.
=Farchi family=, the, accused of ritual murder, =5=, 638.
=Farissol, Abraham.= _See_ Abraham Farissol.
=Farnese, Alexander.= _See_ Paul III, pope.
=Farnese, Alexander=, cardinal, intercedes for the Jews, =4=, 567.
=Faro=, Count of, friend of Isaac Abrabanel, =4=, 338.
=Faro=, Jewish center in Portugal, =4=, 159.
=Farraj Ibn-Solomon= (Farragut), physician to Charles of Anjou, =3=, 628.
=Farsistan=, the Exilarch’s income from, =3=, 96.
=Fast=, proclaimed under Jehoiakim, =1=, 304. in memory of Gedaliah, =1=, 325. in memory of the Blois martyrs, =3=, 380-1. during the disputation with Donin, =3=, 577. on the anniversary of the burning of the Talmud, =3=, 579. against Gonzalo Martinez, =4=, 85. to avert the Black Death persecutions, =4=, 100. during the Hussite war, =4=, 225-6. commemorating the Nemirov massacre, =5=, 13.
=Fast days=, observed by the Babylonian exiles, =1=, 337.
=Fast of Tammuz abolished=, by Sabbataï Zevi, =5=, 151-2. by the Sabbatians, =5=, 159.
=Fast of Tebeth=, abolished by Sabbataï Zevi, =5=, 143.
=Fatimide Caliphate=, the, Talmud schools established in, =3=, 210. Jewish science in, =3=, 211. fanaticism of, =3=, 212. Joseph ben Isaac Ibn-Abitur in, =3=, 238. the Jews of, persecuted, =3=, 247-8. extent of, =3=, 248. consequences of the fall of, =3=, 461.
=Fauma Kadin=, Sarah Zevi’s Mahometan name, =5=, 154.
=Fayum=, Saadiah’s birthplace, =3=, 188. the Jews of, in the twelfth century, =3=, 444.
=Feast of Ingathering=, celebrated in the eighth month, =1=, 186. _See_ Tabernacles, the feast of.
=February revolution=, the, completes the emancipation of the Jews, =5=, 696-7.
=Federation= of the German states, Act of, assures citizenship to the Jews, =5=, 518.
=Felgenhauer, Paul=, mystic, Messianic speculations of, =5=, 35-6.
=Felix=, governor of Galilee, husband of Drusilla, =2=, 235, 242, 245. rouses the Zealots against the Samaritans, =2=, 243. sides with the Galilæans, =2=, 244. procurator of Judæa, rapacity of, =2=, 245. allied with the Sicarii, =2=, 246. sides with the Greeks against the Judæans, =2=, 247.
=Felix Libertate=, Dutch club, joined by Jews, =5=, 453.
=Ferber, von=, and the Jews of Dresden, =5=, 344.