Aelia Capitolina
Israel
Aelia Capitolina was the Roman colony that the emperor Hadrian founded around 130 CE on the ruins of Jerusalem, largely destroyed in 70 CE; this entry stands for the same site, today's Jerusalem, across its later history. Under Roman rule Jews were barred from the city except to mourn on Tisha B'Av, a ban that lasted until the Muslim conquest of 636/637. Under Constantine, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was built there, and the Christian chronographer Julius Africanus lived nearby at Emmaus. The Roman name lingered for centuries, surviving in the early Arabic name Iliya. Jewish life later revived, and from the 18th and 19th centuries Jerusalem grew into a major centre of Torah study and rabbinic life.
130 teachers
Teachers who lived here
Julius Africanus
Julius Africanus (160–240)
birthplace, early life 160–190
Maimon ben Yossef HaDayan
Maimon ben Yossef HaDayan (1110–1170)
Aharon Ibn Hayyim
Aharon Ibn Hayyim (1515–1632)
Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah
Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah (1600–1667)
Moses ben Jonathan Galante
Moses ben Jonathan Galante (1621–1689)
Semah Sarfati
Semah Sarfati (1624–1717)
Moses ibn Habib
Moses ibn Habib (1654–1696)
Judah HeHasid
Judah HeHasid (1660–1700)
Abraham ben David Yiẓḥaki
Abraham ben David Yiẓḥaki (1661–1729)
Moses Hagiz
Moses Hagiz (1670–1750)
born 1670
Mosheh Yiśraʼel
Mosheh Yiśraʼel (1670–1740)
born 1670
Yisrael Meir Mizrachi
Yisrael Meir Mizrachi (1700–1756)
Abraham Gershon of Kitov
Abraham Gershon of Kitov (1701–1761)
Raphael Meyuchas ben Samuel
Raphael Meyuchas ben Samuel (1701–1771)
born 1701
Jonah Nabon
Jonah Nabon (1713–1760)
Jonah Nabon
Jonah Nabon (1713–1760)
born 1713
David Pardo
David Pardo (1718–1790)
Ḥayim Modaʻi
Ḥayim Modaʻi (1720–1794)
Menahem Mendel of Shklov
Menahem Mendel of Shklov (1740–1827)
Joseph ben Hayyim Hazan
Joseph ben Hayyim Hazan (1741–1819)
Nathan Borgel
Nathan Borgel (1750–1791)
Abraham Eliezer ha-Levi
Abraham Eliezer ha-Levi (1758–1825)
born 1758
Vidal Cuenca
Vidal Cuenca (1795–1862)
Rabbi Joseph Schwarz
Rabbi Joseph Schwarz (1804–1865)
Eliyahu Yosef Rivlin
Eliyahu Yosef Rivlin (1805–1865)
Nathan Coronel
Nathan Coronel (1810–1890)
Yaakov Yehuda Leib Levi
Yaakov Yehuda Leib Levi (1812–1889)
Samuel Salant
Samuel Salant (1816–1909)
Moshe Nehemiah Kahanov
Moshe Nehemiah Kahanov (1817–1887)
Yosef Refaʼel ʻUziʼel
Yosef Refaʼel ʻUziʼel (1829–1894)
born 1829
Akiva Yosef Schlesinger
Akiva Yosef Schlesinger (1837–1922)
Tzvi Hirsch Leiten
Tzvi Hirsch Leiten (1840–1915)
Rabbi Avraham Merkado Romano
Rabbi Avraham Merkado Romano (1853–1937)
Shalom Alshech
Shalom Alshech (1859–1944)
Bentsiyon Avraham Cuenca
Bentsiyon Avraham Cuenca (1867–1936)
born 1867
Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky
Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (1867–1948)
Solomon David Kahana
Solomon David Kahana (1869–1953)
Yekuthiel Aryeh Kamelhar
Yekuthiel Aryeh Kamelhar (1871–1937)
Raphael Joshua Azriel
Raphael Joshua Azriel (1874–1959)
born 1874
Shmuel Hillel Shinker
Shmuel Hillel Shinker (1875–1956)
Hanania-Habib Azoulay
Hanania-Habib Azoulay (1876–1953)
born 1876
Yitsḥaḳ ben Y. Ḥ. Alfiyah
Yitsḥaḳ ben Y. Ḥ. Alfiyah (1878–1955)
Samuel Klein
Samuel Klein (1886–1940)
David Cohen
David Cohen (1887–1972)
Yisroel Ber Odesser
Yisroel Ber Odesser (1888–1994)
Yitzchak Levi
Yitzchak Levi (1888–1948)
born 1888
Wolf Gold
Wolf Gold (1889–1956)
Avraham Chaim Naeh
Avraham Chaim Naeh (1890–1954)
Eliezer Hager
Eliezer Hager (1891–1946)
Solomon M. Neches
Solomon M. Neches (1891–1954)
born 1891
Menaḥem Menasheh
Menaḥem Menasheh (1892–1968)
Shmuel Weintraub
Shmuel Weintraub (1894–1942)
Yitzhak Arieli
Yitzhak Arieli (1896–1974)
born 1896
Levi Yitzchok Bender
Levi Yitzchok Bender (1897–1989)
Julius Merzbach
Julius Merzbach (1900–1980)
Gedaliah Alon
Gedaliah Alon (1901–1950)
Chaim-Moshe Shapira
Chaim-Moshe Shapira (1902–1970)
Nissan Neminov
Nissan Neminov (1903–1984)
Yehuda Ẓevi Brandwein
Yehuda Ẓevi Brandwein (1903–1969)
Chaskel S. Lipshitz-Halbershtam
Chaskel S. Lipshitz-Halbershtam (1908–1994)