Letter of Jude, brief New Testament letter written to a general Christian audience. Although the epistle claims to have been written by St. Jude the Apostle, “a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James” (1:1), the author’s identity is uncertain. The cultivated Greek style is notable for

St. Jude ; Western feast day October 28, Eastern feast days June 19 and August 21) was one of the original Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He is the reputed author of the canonical Letter of Jude that warns against the licentious and blasphemous heretics. The Roman Catholic devotion to him as patron

Judaea, the southernmost of the three traditional divisions of ancient Palestine; the other two were Galilee in the north and Samaria in the centre. No clearly marked boundary divided Judaea from Samaria, but the town of Beersheba was traditionally the southernmost limit. The region presents a

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Education and first dramatic works.: …Maid”], Der Misogyn [“The Misogynist”], Die Juden [“The Jews”], Der Freigeist [“The Free Thinker”]) are witty commentaries on human weaknesses—bigotry, prejudice, nagging, fortune hunting, matchmaking, intrigue, hypocrisy, corruption, and frivolity. Set against this background are virtuous men and women who are considerate and selfless, sensitive and helpful, forthright, and faithful…

Annette, Freiin von Droste-Hülshoff: …a novella, Die Judenbuche (1842; The Jew’s Beech), is a psychological study of a Westphalian villager who murders a Jew. For the first time in German literature, the fate of the hero is portrayed as arising from his social environment; the crime becomes understandable within the context of the life…

death: Judaism: …that of the “bone called Luz” (or Judenknöchlein, as it was to be called by early German anatomists). In his Glossa magna in Pentateuchum (ad 210), Rabbi Oshaia had affirmed that there was a bone in the human body, just below the 18th vertebra, that never died. It could not…

Judenräte, Jewish councils established in German-occupied Poland and eastern Europe during World War II to implement German policies and maintain order in the ghettos to which the Nazis confined the country’s Jewish population. Reinhard Heydrich, chief of Nazi Germany’s Gestapo, established the

Israel: Zionism: Theodor Herzl began advocating a Jewish state as the political solution for both antisemitism (he had covered the sensational Dreyfus affair in France) and a Jewish secular identity. Herzl’s brief and dramatic bid for international support from the major powers at the First Zionist Congress (August 1897) failed, but, after…

Aramaic language: …northeast of Damascus), Palestinian-Christian, and Judeo-Aramaic. West Aramaic is still spoken in a small number of villages in Syria.

Ladino language, Romance language spoken by Sephardic Jews living mostly in Israel, the Balkans, North Africa, Greece, and Turkey. Ladino is very nearly extinct in many of these areas. A very archaic form of Castilian Spanish mixed somewhat with Hebrew elements (as well as Aramaic, Arabic, Turkish,

Ladino language, Romance language spoken by Sephardic Jews living mostly in Israel, the Balkans, North Africa, Greece, and Turkey. Ladino is very nearly extinct in many of these areas. A very archaic form of Castilian Spanish mixed somewhat with Hebrew elements (as well as Aramaic, Arabic, Turkish,

Antônio José da Silva was a Portuguese writer whose comedies, farces, and operettas briefly revitalized the Portuguese theatre in a period of dramatic decadence. Silva was born in Brazil, the son of Jews. Though his parents professed Christianity, his mother was accused by the Inquisition of

Louis Feuillade: Judex (1916) and La Nouvelle Mission de Judex (1917–18; “The New Mission of Judex”) feature Judex, the daring detective with the sweeping black cape, a righter of wrongs who was the prototype of many future film heroes. The tremendous success of these pictures saved the…

judge, public official vested with the authority to hear, determine, and preside over legal matters brought in a court of law. In jury cases, the judge presides over the selection of the panel and instructs it concerning pertinent law. The judge also may rule on motions made before or during a

boxing: Ring, rules, and equipment: … the contest along with two judges outside the ring. In most jurisdictions, however, the referee does not participate in the judging, and three ringside officials score the bout. The officials award points to each boxer for each round, and a boxer must win on two of the three scorecards to…

Bernhard Gillam: …of the pro-Republican comic weekly Judge, which he developed into a powerful political voice. During the presidential campaigns of 1888 and 1892, Gillam’s cartoons depicted the dangers of the free-trade policy of the Democrats and the benefits of Republican protectionism. Gillam’s career was cut short when he died of typhoid…

judge, public official vested with the authority to hear, determine, and preside over legal matters brought in a court of law. In jury cases, the judge presides over the selection of the panel and instructs it concerning pertinent law. The judge also may rule on motions made before or during a

Sylvester Stallone: …The Specialist (1994), Assassins (1995), Judge Dredd (1995), and Get Carter (2000). Although most of those films had only limited success at the box office in the United States, Stallone’s ability to attract audiences overseas proved enormous. In 2010 he cowrote, directed, and starred in The Expendables, a thriller about…

Jerry Springer: In 2019 Judge Jerry debuted, with Springer presiding over legal disputes. The show ended in 2022.

Judy Sheindlin is an American jurist and television personality who was best known for the show Judge Judy (1996–2021). Blum earned (1963) a Bachelor of Arts degree from American University, Washington, D.C. She was the only woman in her graduating class at New York Law School, New York City, when

Judy Sheindlin: …best known for the show Judge Judy (1996–2021).

Sholem Asch: Judge Not—). These novels describe the cultural and economic conflicts experienced by eastern European Jewish immigrants in America.

Spain: Granada: …“judge of the frontier” (juez de la frontera y de los fieles del rastro); the judge was a Muslim official who heard Christian complaints against the Granadans. This procedure did much to reduce frontier incidents between Muslims and Christians.

Ivan Klíma: …Loves); Soudce z milosti (1986; Judge on Trial), a Prague novel about a judge who is jeopardized by his friendships with liberals; and Láska a smetí (1988; Love and Garbage), the narrator of which is a banned Czech writer who sweeps streets for a living while meditating on Franz Kafka…

Hattie McDaniel: Hollywood debut and Oscar win: …Aunt Dilsey, in John Ford’s Judge Priest (1934). The movie gave her the opportunity to sing a duet with humorist Will Rogers. She gained wider notice with The Little Colonel (1935), starring Shirley Temple and Lionel Barrymore, in which she was Mom Beck, a genial cook for a family in…

Aaron Judge is a professional baseball player for the New York Yankees (2016– ) who in 2022 set the American League record for the most home runs hit in a season. His 62 home runs broke the 61-year-old record held by former Yankee Roger Maris. In December 2022, he agreed to a nine-year, $360

Aaron Judge is a professional baseball player for the New York Yankees (2016– ) who in 2022 set the American League record for the most home runs hit in a season. His 62 home runs broke the 61-year-old record held by former Yankee Roger Maris. In December 2022, he agreed to a nine-year, $360

Mike Judge is an American animator, writer, director, and producer who was one of the foremost satirists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Judge was born in Ecuador to an archaeologist father and teacher mother and was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He graduated with a physics degree

Mychal Judge was an American Roman Catholic priest, Franciscan friar, and New York City Fire Department chaplain who was the first identified casualty of the September 11 attacks. Several groups have called for his canonization in the Roman Catholic Church. Judge was the son of Irish immigrants,

Mike Judge is an American animator, writer, director, and producer who was one of the foremost satirists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Judge was born in Ecuador to an archaeologist father and teacher mother and was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He graduated with a physics degree

Mychal Judge was an American Roman Catholic priest, Franciscan friar, and New York City Fire Department chaplain who was the first identified casualty of the September 11 attacks. Several groups have called for his canonization in the Roman Catholic Church. Judge was the son of Irish immigrants,

Mychal Judge was an American Roman Catholic priest, Franciscan friar, and New York City Fire Department chaplain who was the first identified casualty of the September 11 attacks. Several groups have called for his canonization in the Roman Catholic Church. Judge was the son of Irish immigrants,

Vincent D’Onofrio: …Duvall) accused of wrongdoing in The Judge (2014). He portrayed a misguided security guard in Jurassic World (2015), a coach in the biopic Pele: Birth of a Legend (2016), and Jack Horne in the 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven. In addition, he played a supervillain in the Marvel Cinematic…

Milt Hinton was an American jazz musician, a highly versatile bassist who came of age in the swing era and became one of the favourite bassists of post-World War II jazz. Hinton grew up in Chicago, where he began playing bass in high school and then worked with jazz bands in the early to mid-1930s,

theosophy: History: Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907), and William Quan Judge (1851–96). A Russian aristocrat, Blavatsky immigrated to the United States in 1873 after many years of travel and study in Europe and the Middle East. Olcott, an American lawyer, newspaperman, and student of spiritualism—a 19th-century movement based on the belief that the…

judgment, in all legal systems, a decision of a court adjudicating the rights of the parties to a legal action before it. A final judgment is usually a prerequisite of review of a court’s decision by an appellate court, thus preventing piecemeal and fragmentary appeals on interlocutory

Marlene Dietrich: …Touch of Evil (1958), and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). She was also a popular nightclub performer and gave her last stage performance in 1974. After a period of retirement from the screen, she appeared in the film Just a Gigolo (1978). The documentary film Marlene, a review of her life…

Nicolas Poussin: The Raphael of our century: …Family on the Steps, and The Judgment of Solomon. In all of those the artist integrated the figures with their setting in a strict and uncompromising manner that resulted in scenes that are not only conceived in depth but also highly unified across the two-dimensional surface of the picture. The…

sampling: …alternative to probability sampling is judgment sampling, in which selection is based on the judgment of the researcher and there is an unknown probability of inclusion in the sample for any given case. Probability methods are usually preferred because they avoid selection bias and make it possible to estimate sampling…

United States: The judicial branch: The Judiciary Act of 1925 provided the justices with the sole discretion to determine their caseload. In order to issue a writ of certiorari, which grants a court hearing to a case, at least four justices must agree (the “Rule of Four”). Three types of cases…

crime: Interrogation and confession: …the police, known as the Judges’ Rules. Principally, the Judges’ Rules obliged the investigating police officer to caution suspects that they were not required to answer any question and that anything they did say might be given in evidence at trial. That caution was required to be stated at the…

Book of Judges, a book of the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) that, along with Deuteronomy, Joshua, I and II Samuel, and I and II Kings, belongs to a specific historical tradition (Deuteronomic history) that was first committed to writing about 550 bce, during the Babylonian Exile. (The traditional

judgment, in all legal systems, a decision of a court adjudicating the rights of the parties to a legal action before it. A final judgment is usually a prerequisite of review of a court’s decision by an appellate court, thus preventing piecemeal and fragmentary appeals on interlocutory

Nishida Kitarō: The stages of Nishida’s thought: According to Nishida, judgment is formed by analysis of the intuitive whole. For instance, the judgment that a horse runs is derived from the direct experience of a running horse. The truth of a judgment is grounded on the truth of the original intuitive whole from which the…

Judgment at Nuremberg, American dramatic film, released in 1961, that was based on the post-World War II Nuremberg trials of former Nazi leaders. The film explores the complicity of the German people in the crimes committed by the state, including the atrocities of the Holocaust. (Read Martin

Studs Lonigan: …of Studs Lonigan (1934), and Judgment Day (1935).

judgment: A judgment generally operates to settle finally and authoritatively matters in dispute before a court. Judgments may be classified as in personam, in rem, or quasi in rem. An in personam, or personal, judgment, the type most commonly rendered by courts, imposes a personal liability or…

conflict of laws: Differences between civil-law and common-law countries in the absence of a choice by the parties: …special rules governing suits for judgments in rem (Latin: “with respect to the thing”), which concern proprietary legal rights. Unlike actions for judgments in personam (Latin: “with respect to the person”), which concern personal legal rights and may seek money damages or injunctions to do or not to do an…

Gerard David: …securely are his great altarpieces—the Judgment of Cambyses (two panels, 1498) and the triptych of the Baptism of Christ (c. 1502–07) at Bruges; the Virgin and Child with Saints and Donor (c. 1505); the Annunciation (1506) on two panels; and, above all, the documented altarpiece of the Madonna with Angels…

Maat: …the dead (called the “Judgment of Osiris,” named for the god of the dead) was believed to focus upon the weighing of the heart of the deceased in a scale balanced by Maat (or her hieroglyph, the ostrich feather), as a test of conformity to proper values.

Thomas Arne: … (notable for “Rule, Britannia”) and The Judgment of Paris, both produced at the Prince of Wales’s residence at Cliveden in 1740. Arne’s settings of Shakespeare’s songs, written for revivals of As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Merchant of Venice in 1740–41, provide the culmination of this early style.

Lucas Cranach, the Elder: Paintings: …of Venus, Lucretia, the Graces, the judgment of Paris, and other subjects that serve as pretexts for the sensuous female nude, in which Cranach appears as a kind of 16th-century François Boucher. The naive elegance of these ladies, whose slender, sinuous bodies defy basic principles of anatomy, were clearly to…

Max Klinger: In 1887 The Judgment of Paris caused another storm of protest because of its rejection of all conventional attributes and its naively direct conception. In his painting Klinger aimed at neither classic beauty nor modern truth but at an impressive grimness with overtones of mysticism. His Pietà…

Giorgione: Works: …Trial of Moses and the Judgment of Solomon are generally agreed to number among the artist’s first works (c. 1495–1500). Although the figures look slightly archaic, the beauty of the landscape setting, with its soft melting distances, unmistakably reveals the hand of the painter of The Tempest. Most celebrated of…

Eric Ambler: …attacked Stalinism in the novel Judgment on Deltchev (1951), which marked his return to writing thrillers.

dilemma tale, typically African form of short story whose ending is either open to conjecture or is morally ambiguous, thus allowing the audience to comment or speculate upon the correct solution to the problem posed in the tale. Typical issues raised involve conflicts of loyalty, the necessity to

Last Judgment, a general, or sometimes individual, judging of the thoughts, words, and deeds of persons by God, the gods, or by the laws of cause and effect. The Western prophetic religions (i.e., Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) developed concepts of the Last Judgment that are

Rosh Hashana, a major two-day Jewish observance now accepted as inaugurating the religious New Year on Tishri 1 (September or October). Because the New Year ushers in a 10-day period of self-examination and penitence, Rosh Hashana is also called the annual Day of Judgment; during this period Jews

Thai literature: …award-winning novel Kham phiphaksa (1982; The Judgment), in which a well-meaning rural school janitor is turned into a social outcast through the narrow-minded gossip and hypocrisy of the community in which he has grown up. By publishing his own works, Chart achieved a degree of financial independence that most writers…

Franz Kafka: Works of Franz Kafka: Thus, in The Judgment a son unquestioningly commits suicide at the behest of his aged father. In The Metamorphosis the son, Gregor Samsa, wakes up to find himself transformed into a monstrous and repulsive insect; he slowly dies, not only because of his family’s shame and its…

Jacob Burckhardt: Works of Jacob Burckhardt: … (“Historical Fragments,” 1929 in Gesamtausgabe; Judgments on History and Historians, 1958) selects highlights from his lecture manuscripts and demonstrates impressively Burckhardt’s gift for visualizing history as a whole. Both books contain passages that can be interpreted as prophetic visions of the violent totalitarian states of the 20th century; but more…

Judicature Act of 1873, in England, the act of Parliament that created the Supreme Court of Judicature (q.v.) and also, inter alia, enhanced the role of the House of Lords to act as a court of appeal. Essentially, the act was a first modern attempt to reduce the clutter—and the consequent

Australia: An authoritarian society: …were no representative institutions, but Acts introduced in 1823 and 1828 provided for executive and legislative councils, with the major officers of government serving in both and an equal number of private individuals, chosen by nomination, in the latter. More significant at this stage was the articulation of a judicial…

judicial activism, an approach to the exercise of judicial review, or a description of a particular judicial decision, in which a judge is generally considered more willing to decide constitutional issues and to invalidate legislative or executive actions. Although debates over the proper role of

Cayman Islands: Government and society: A Judicial and Legal Services Commission advises the governor on judicial appointments and disciplinary control over the members of the judiciary. The commission has eight members, including the president of the Court of Appeal and seven others who are appointed by the governor in consultation with…

Democratizing the U.S. Supreme Court: But is the third federal branch so perfect that it is immune from reform?

ordeal: In ordeal by combat, or ritual combat, the victor is said to win not by his own strength but because supernatural powers have intervened on the side of the right, as in the duel in the European Middle Ages in which the “judgment of God” was…

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, British tribunal composed of certain members of the Privy Council that, on petition, hears various appeals from the United Kingdom, the British crown colonies, and members of the Commonwealth that have not abolished this final appeal from their courts. The

Judicial Conference of the United States, the national administrative governing body of the U.S. federal court system. It is composed of 26 federal judges (including the chief judge of the Court of International Trade) and the chief justice of the United States, who is the presiding officer. Acting

hypothec: Judicial hypothecs are instituted by the court against all the property, present and future, of a debtor. Legal hypothecs are rights given to married women over the property of their husbands, and to children and incapacitated individuals over the property of their guardians. This is…

judicial independence, the ability of courts and judges to perform their duties free of influence or control by other actors, whether governmental or private. The term is also used in a normative sense to refer to the kind of independence that courts and judges ought to possess. That ambiguity in

court: Judicial lawmaking: All courts apply preexisting rules (statutes) formulated by legislative bodies, though the procedures vary greatly between common-law and civil-law countries. In applying these rules, however, courts must also interpret them, typically transforming the rules from generalities to specifics and sometimes filling gaps to…

legislation: …which courts will take “judicial notice” of statute law. When such notice is taken, it is unnecessary for a litigant to prove what the law is. All courts must take judicial notice of the federal laws and the statutes of the state in which suit is brought. However, there…

obiter dictum: …to a passage in a judicial opinion which is not necessary for the decision of the case before the court. Such statements lack the force of precedent but may nevertheless be significant.

Eleventh Amendment, amendment (1795) to the Constitution of the United States establishing the principle of state sovereign immunity. Under the authority of this amendment, the states are shielded from suits brought by citizens of other states or foreign countries. It is, for all intents and

judicial restraint, a procedural or substantive approach to the exercise of judicial review. As a procedural doctrine, the principle of restraint urges judges to refrain from deciding legal issues, and especially constitutional ones, unless the decision is necessary to the resolution of a concrete

judicial review, power of the courts of a country to examine the actions of the legislative, executive, and administrative arms of the government and to determine whether such actions are consistent with the constitution. Actions judged inconsistent are declared unconstitutional and, therefore,

Zambia: Constitutional framework: …on the advice of the Judicial Services Commission. During the president’s absence, his duties are assumed by the vice president. From elected members of the legislature, called the National Assembly, the president also appoints a Cabinet that consists of ministers, deputy ministers, and provincial deputy ministers. In 1996 the government…

international law: Peaceful settlement: In a judicial settlement, a dispute is placed before an existing independent court. The most important and comprehensive of these courts is the ICJ, the successor of the Permanent Court of International Justice, created in 1920. Established by the UN Charter (Article 92) as the UN’s principal…

judiciary, branch of government whose task is the authoritative adjudication of controversies over the application of laws in specific situations. Conflicts brought before the judiciary are embodied in cases involving litigants, who may be individuals, groups, legal entities (e.g., corporations),

judiciary, branch of government whose task is the authoritative adjudication of controversies over the application of laws in specific situations. Conflicts brought before the judiciary are embodied in cases involving litigants, who may be individuals, groups, legal entities (e.g., corporations),

United States: The judicial branch: The Judiciary Act of 1925 provided the justices with the sole discretion to determine their caseload. In order to issue a writ of certiorari, which grants a court hearing to a case, at least four justices must agree (the “Rule of Four”). Three types of cases…

Judiciary Act of 1789, act establishing the organization of the U.S. federal court system, which had been sketched only in general terms in the U.S. Constitution. The act established a three-part judiciary—made up of district courts, circuit courts, and the Supreme Court—and outlined the structure

Judiciary Act of 1801, U.S. law, passed in the last days of the John Adams administration (1797–1801), that reorganized the federal judiciary and established the first circuit judgeships in the country. The act and the ensuing last-minute appointment of new judges (the so-called “midnight judges”)

Judiciary Act of 1801: Repeal and the Judiciary Act of 1802: Congress then passed the Judiciary Act of 1802 in April 1802, increasing the number of circuits from three to six, with each Supreme Court justice assigned to only one, where he would preside with the local district judges on circuit twice a year. In addition, the new law provided…

Ludwig Haetzer: …the use of images in Judicium Dei (1523; “The Judgment of God”) proved influential in the Reformers’ efforts to combat images in the churches. He wrote Ein Beweis (1524; “One Proof”), a work on the conversion of the Jews, and other works of theology and polemic. He also produced many…

Franz Grillparzer: Die Jüdin von Toledo (The Jewess of Toledo), based on a Spanish theme, portrays the tragic infatuation of a king for a young Jewish woman. He is only brought back to a sense of his responsibilities after she has been killed at the queen’s command. Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg…

Hebrew literature: Romanticism: …chief contribution was to the Jüdische Wissenschaft, a school of historical research with Romanticist leanings. The impact of Haskala ideas upon the humanistic Italo-Hebrew tradition produced a short literary renaissance. Its main connections were with the Jüdische Wissenschaft, to which Isaac Samuel Reggio contributed. Samuel David Luzzatto, a prolific essayist,…

Jewish Museum Berlin, museum in Berlin showcasing German Jewish cultural history and works of art. The Jewish Museum is among Germany’s most-visited museums and commemorates the history of German Jews. The original Jewish Museum existed from 1933 until 1938, when it was closed by the Gestapo and

Federico Della Valle: …of his other two tragedies, Judit (“Judith”) and Ester (“Esther”), also fight uncompromisingly for their faith in a world where the only redemption is offered by God in heaven. Della Valle’s tragic outlook also underlies his tragicomedy Adelonda di Frigia (1595; “Adelonda of Phrygia”), in which the heroine’s ideals are…

Croatian literature: …Croatian Verses,” usually known as Judita), a plea for the national struggle against the Ottoman Empire; Hanibal Lucić, author of Robinja (“The Slave Girl”), the first South Slav secular play; Marin Držić, who wrote pastoral dramas and comedies portraying Renaissance Dubrovnik (his comedy Dundo Maroje, first performed about 1551, played

Friedrich Hebbel: Hebbel’s powerful prose play Judith, based on the biblical story, brought him fame in 1840 upon its performance in Hamburg and Berlin. His poetic drama Genoveva was finished in 1841. Still in need of money, Hebbel received a grant from the Danish king to spend a year in Paris…

Giorgione: Works: Judith (c. 1505), though undocumented, evokes the same concept of universal beauty; she is more goddess than avenger of her people.

biblical literature: Judith: …but in the book of Judith it evidently has symbolic value. Judith is an exemplary Jewish woman. Her deed is probably invented under the influence of the account of the 12th-century-bce Kenite woman Jael (Judg. 5:24–27), who killed the Canaanite general Sisera by driving a tent peg through his head.

Judith Beheading Holofernes, oil painting created in 1620 by Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi. This is one of the most vivid treatments of the scene, almost shocking in its violence and immediacy. Gentileschi was trained by her father, Orazio Gentileschi, and by Agostino Tassi, a painter of

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, novel by Brian Moore, published in 1955 as Judith Hearne, about an aging Irish spinster’s disillusionment and her subsequent descent into alcoholism. The American version was published in 1956 as The Lonely Passion of Judith

Biograph Company: Griffith directed Sweet in Judith of Bethulia, the last film he made for Biograph. Filmed in 1913 and released in 1914, it was one of the first full-length feature films. Within several years of its release, the company stopped making movies. After a period of decline, Biograph ceased operations…

Book of Judith, apocryphal work excluded from the Hebrew and Protestant biblical canons but included in the Septuagint (Greek version of the Hebrew Bible) and accepted in the Roman canon. The book relates that Nebuchadrezzar, king of Assyria, sent his general Holofernes on an expedition against

Stevie Wonder is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century. Blind from birth and raised in inner-city Detroit, he was a skilled musician by age eight. Renamed Little Stevie Wonder

judo, system of unarmed combat, now primarily a sport. The rules of the sport of judo are complex. The objective is to cleanly throw, to pin, or to master the opponent, the latter being done by applying pressure to arm joints or to the neck to cause the opponent to yield. Techniques are generally