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Akiba (given Name)
Akiva or Akiba is a Jewish-ethnic name, arising in Aramaic from he, יַעֲקֹב, and thus cognate to English Jacob. Among Jews, "Ya'akov" and "Akiva" - though essentially variants of the same name - are treated as completely separate, arousing different historical and religious associations: the one recalls the Biblical Patriarch Jacob, the other relates to the Roman period Rabbi Akiva. Akiva * Rabbi Akiva (c. 50 – c. 135 AD), Judean religious leader * Akiva Eger (1761–1837), central European religious leader * Akiva Ehrenfeld (1923–2012), president of Kiryat Mattersdorf, Jerusalem * Akiva Eiger (1761–1837), Polish Talmudic scholar and rabbi * Akiva Eldar (born 1945), Israeli journalist and author * Akiva Frankfurt (died 1597), German poet and rabbi * Akiva Goldsman (born 1962), American writer * Akiva Govrin (1902–1980), Israeli politician * Akiva Grunblatt ( fl. 2000s), American religious leader * Akiva ha-Kohen (died 1496), Hungarian scholar and rabbi * Akiva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aramaic
The Aramaic languages, short Aramaic ( syc, ܐܪܡܝܐ, Arāmāyā; oar, 𐤀𐤓𐤌𐤉𐤀; arc, 𐡀𐡓𐡌𐡉𐡀; tmr, אֲרָמִית), are a language family containing many varieties (languages and dialects) that originated in the ancient region of Syria. For over three thousand years, It is a sub-group of the Semitic languages. Aramaic varieties served as a language of public life and administration of ancient kingdoms and empires and also as a language of divine worship and religious study. Several modern varieties, namely the Neo-Aramaic languages, are still spoken in the present-day. The Aramaic languages belong to the Northwest group of the Semitic language family, which also includes the Canaanite languages such as Hebrew, Edomite, Moabite, and Phoenician, as well as Amorite and Ugaritic. Aramaic languages are written in the Aramaic alphabet, a descendant of the Phoenician alphabet, and the most prominent alphabet variant is the Syriac alphabet. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiva Librecht
Akiva Librecht ( he, עקיבא ליברכט) (1876 – March 3, 1958) was a founding member of Petah Tikva, Israel, and a member of its first council, which he headed in 1912–13. He was also a member of the Kfar Saba council. Librecht was born in 1876 in Jerusalem, then in the Ottoman Empire. His father made Aliyah in the 1840s, and was one of the builders of the new Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem outside the Old City's walls. Akiva Librecht received a religious education, and also studied in Germany and Austria. Librecht managed the winery in Petah Tikva, and built the first modern artificial beehives in the Land of Israel The Land of Israel () is the traditional Jewish name for an area of the Southern Levant. Related biblical, religious and historical English terms include the Land of Canaan, the Promised Land, the Holy Land, and Palestine (see also Isra .... He was married to Shoshana Levit Gotlieb, with two children, David and Leah. References * 1876 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiba Ben Judah Loeb
Akiba ben Judah Loeb was a German rabbi, who lived in Lehren-Steinsfeld, Württemberg, at the beginning of the eighteenth century. He wrote ''Ha-Ohel 'Olam'' (''Everlasting Tent''), containing novellæ on the Talmudic treatise ''Ketubot'' (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1714). Appended to it are four ''responsa'' as well as an essay from his unpublished works, on ''Seder Zera'im.'' In addition to these he left two books on ''Seder Taharot ''Tohorot'' (Hebrew: טָהֳרוֹת, literally "Purities") is the sixth and last order of the Mishnah (also of the Tosefta and Talmud). This order deals with the clean/unclean distinction and family purity. This is the longest of the orders in t ...,'' which are still extant in manuscript. References 18th-century German rabbis Year of birth missing Year of death missing {{Germany-rabbi-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiba Lehren
Akiba Mozes Lehren (30 July 1795 – 19 November 1876) was a Dutch banker and communal worker, younger brother of Ẓebi Hirsch Lehren and Jacob Meïr Lehren. He was president of the organization Pekidim and Amarcalim of Amsterdam, and in 1844 became involved in the literary dispute of his brother Hirsch concerning the administration of the Ḥaluḳḳah (see Fürst in ''Der Orient,'' 1844, p. 17). He died in Amsterdam on 19 November 1876. Both Akiba and his brother Meïr possessed very rich and valuable collections of Hebrew books, a sale catalogue of which was arranged and published by J. L. Joachimsthal, Amsterdam, 1899 (comp. ''Zeit. für Hebr. Bibl.'' 1899, p. 152). Akiba published a very poor edition of Isaac ben Moses' ''Or Zarua','' parts i. and ii., according to an Amsterdam manuscript, Jitomir, 1862 (Steinschneider Moritz Steinschneider (30 March 1816, Prostějov, Moravia, Austrian Empire – 24 January 1907, Berlin) was a Moravian bibliographer and Ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiba Eisenberg
Dr. Akiba Eisenberg (20 September 1908 – 8 April 1983) was a former Chief Rabbi of Vienna. Biography Eisenberg was born in Vác, near Budapest. During World War II, he survived by hiding with his brother in the outlying area with non-Jewish farmers. In 1948 Eisenberg became the Chief Rabbi of Vienna, after having served as the rabbi of Győr, Hungary. He would establish a Beth Din with the help of the Jewish Agency and advocate as a Zionist while serving this role. He would also be the target of an antisemitic terrorist attack, when a pipe bomb was detonated outside of his home on 4 February 1982. Eisenberg, working from Seitenstettengasse, the only synagogue in Vienna not destroyed by the Nazis, began Jewish education within the city. In 1969, he was given the title 'Doctor,' by the President of Austria for his work in education. Eisenberg died on 8 April 1983, at the age of 74, from heart failure Heart failure (HF), also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiva Yaglom
Akiva Moiseevich Yaglom (russian: Аки́ва Моисе́евич Ягло́м; 6 March 1921 – 13 December 2007) was a Soviet and Russian physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist. He was known for his contributions to the statistical theory of turbulence and theory of random processes. Yaglom spent most of his career in Russia working in various institutions, including the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics. From 1992 until his death, Yaglom worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a research fellow in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He authored several popular books in mathematics and probability, some of them with his twin brother and mathematician Isaak Yaglom. Education and career Akiva Yaglom was born on 6 March 1921 in Kharkiv, Ukraine to the family of an engineer. He had a twin brother Isaak. The family moved to Moscow when the Yaglom brothers were five years old. During their school years they were keen on mathematics. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiva Weingarten
Rabbi Akiva Weingarten (born December 23, 1984, in Monsey, New York) is a German-American liberal rabbi. He serves as the rabbi of the city of Dresden, Germany from 2019, and the Liberal Jewish community "Migwan" in Basel, Switzerland. He is the founder of the Haichal Besht synagogue in Bnei Brak, the Haichal Besht synagogue in Berlin, and the Besht Yeshiva in Dresden. Early life and education Weingarten grew up in the Satmar Hasidic community in New Jersey. The eldest of eleven siblings, his mother tongue is Yiddish. His family on his father's side emigrated from post-World War II Hungary, and his maternal ancestors came from Lithuania. He was a "critical thinker" from an early age, and asked questions in the yeshivot, which was met with rejection in his Hasidic community. He received his first rabbinic ordination at the age of 17. The following year, he went to Israel to continue his studies, and lived in the Haredi city of Bnei Brak for ten years. At the age of 19, he was e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiva Vroman
Akiva Jaap Vroman ( he, עקיבא פרומן; 21 May 1912 in Gouda – 1989 in Herzliya) was an Israeli geologist. Biography Vroman was born in the Netherlands, where he studied geology and theology at the Utrecht University. He immigrated to the then British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel) in 1940, having previously lived there in mid-1930s. In 1936, he pursued geological work in Zichron Ya'akov, studying the geological history of the Carmel Mountains. He married Gonny Betsy DeLeo, with whom he had three daughters, all born in Jerusalem. Scientific career In 1939, he published his doctoral thesis, "Geology of the Region of Southwest Carmel (Palestine). in 1940, he was invited to work as a geologist in Palestine. He joined Hebrew University professor Leo Picard, head of the Department of Geology on Mount Scopus. In 1945-1948, he served as the field geologist of the Jordan Exploration Company, which was searching for oil in the region of Ein Gedi. He drew up maps of the region, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiva Aryeh Weiss
Akiva Arieh Weiss, also spelled Aryeh (1868-1947), was a Zionist activist, architect, and city planner in Palestine. He is best known as the primary founder of Tel Aviv. He had been the initiator of the project to create the "first Hebrew city" in Palestine and presided over its establishment. He also helped establish the Jewish diamond industry and textile industry in Palestine. Biography Weiss, a jeweler and watchmaker, was born to a Jewish family in Hrodna (in present day Belarus) in 1868, but raised in Lodz, Poland. Along with his wife and six children, he immigrated from Russian Poland to Palestine in 1906. As president of the then newly established building cooperative named simply ''Ahuzat Bayit'', Hebrew for Building Society, Weiss wrote and presented a prospectus to the group in which he laid out his vision for a new Jewish city. Arthur Ruppin's memoirs recount that Weiss demanded the creation of "a Hebrew urban centre in a healthy environment, planned according to the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiva Tor
Akiva Tor is currently the Israeli Ambassador to the Republic of Korea since November 2020. Born on Fort Jackson, South Carolina, Tor received his B.A. in analytical philosophy from Columbia University in 1985, then received his MA in Political Science and Contemporary Jewish Thought from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School in 2003 with the support of the Wexner Foundation. He was a Goldman Fellow at Tel Aviv University in 2020. He made aliyah at age 24 and served as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces from 1985 to 1987, and was honorably discharged from the IDF reserves as a captain in 2008. Tor entered the Israel Foreign Ministry cadet course in November 1987 and began his diplomatic career as Director at the Israel Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei in 1996. On return to Israel he served as Deputy Spokesman from 1998 to 2000 and Deputy Director of the Department for Palestinian Affairs from 2000 to 2002. From 2003 to 2006, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiva Tatz
Akiva Tatz is a prominent South African Orthodox rabbi, inspirational speaker and writer who is heavily involved in Orthodox Jewish outreach. He is also a doctor and world-renowned expert in Jewish medical ethics. Biography Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, graduating with distinction in surgery. He then spent a year in St. Louis, Missouri as an American Field Service Scholar and subsequently returned there for elective work in internal medicine at Washington University School of Medicine. He then served as a medical officer in the South African Defence Force and served in the Angolan Bush War. After practicing in both South Africa and the United States, he moved to Israel, and worked both in private practice as well as in a hospital setting in Jerusalem. Not raised as an observant Jew, Tatz discovered Orthodox Judaism in adulthood and became a ''baal teshuva''. He is currently on s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiva Yosef Schlesinger
Akiva Yosef Schlesinger (1838-1922) (Hebrew: עקיבא יוסף שלזינגר) was a noted Orthodox Jewish rabbi who served as the rabbinical leader of what was then Pressburg, Hungary but what is now Bratislava, Slovakia. Early years Schlesinger was born in Hungary but emigrated to Palestine. Scholarship Schlesinger was a disciple of Rabbi Samuel Benjamin Sofer (the ''Ktav Sofer'') and Moshe Schick (the ''Maharam Schick''). He was the author of the ''Lev haivri'', a commentary on the last will and testament of Rabbi Moses Sofer (the ''Chatam Sofer''), a previous head rabbi of Pressburg and the father of one of his main teachers. Additionally, he is known for his unsuccessful attempt to reinstate the blowing of the ''shofar'' when Rosh Hashana falls on Shabbat, which had been banned since the times of the Talmud under the edict known as ''gezeirah d'Rabbah'', named after Rabbah bar Nahmani, a noted '' amora'' of the late 3rd-early 4th centuries. Controversy At times, he made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
