"War of Wealth and Wisdom, The," satire, 34
"Water Song" by Gabirol, 200-201
Weil, Jacob, Talmudist, 102
Weill, Alexander, and Heine, 363-364
Weltschmerz in Gabirol's poetry, 199 in Heine's poetry, 357
Wesseli, musician, 313
Wessely, Naphtali Hartwig, commentator, 48, 309
Wieland, poet, alluded to, 314
Wihl, poet, 49
Wine, creation of, 197-198
Withold, grandduke, and the Lithuanian Jews, 282, 284
Wohllerner, Yenta, poetess, 138
Wohlwill, Immanuel, friend of Zunz, letter to, 325
Wolfenbüttel, Jews' free school at, 320-321
Wolff, Hebrew scholar, 48
Wolfram von Eschenbach, minnesinger, 182, 185, 189
Woman, creation of, 197 in Jewish annals, 110 in literature, 106-107 in the Talmud, 64, 110-114 mental characteristics of, 121-122 satirized and defended, 223-224 services of, to Judaism, 115-116
"Woman's Friend" by Yedaya Penini, 216
Women, Jewish, in the emancipation movement, 133, 139
"Women of Israel, The" by Grace Aguilar, 134
"Women's Shield," by Judah Tommo, 224
"World as Will and Idea, The," by Schopenhauer, 357
Xemona. See Kasmune
Yaltha, wife of Rabbi Nachman, 113-114
Yechiel ben Abraham, financier, 99
Yechiel deï Mansi, alluded to, 116
Yedaya Penini, poet, 40, 216
Yehuda ben Astruc, scientist, 92
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