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Benzion Eisenstadt
Ben-Zion, also spelled Ben Zion, and Benzion ( he, בן ציון, "Son of Zion") is a Hebrew given name. It may refer to the following people: Given name * Ben Zion Abba Shaul (1924–1998), rosh yeshiva, Porat Yosef Yeshiva * Ben-Zion Ben-Yehuda, birth name of Itamar Ben-Avi (1882–1943), first native speaker of Modern Hebrew as the son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda; journalist and Zionist activist * Ben-Zion Bokser (1907–1984), major Conservative rabbi of the United States * Ben-Zion Dinur (1884–1973), Israeli politician * Benzion Freshwater (born 1948), British billionaire property investor * Ben-Zion Gold (1923–2016), American rabbi * Ben-Zion Gopstein (born 1969), Israeli radical right-wing activist * Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam (born 1955), fifth Bobover Rebbe * Ben Zion Halberstam (1874–1941), second Bobover Rebbe * Ben-Zion Halfon (1930–1977), Israeli politician * Benzion Halper (1884–1924), Lithuanian-American Hebraist and Arabist * Ben-Zion Harel (1892–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zion
Zion ( he, צִיּוֹן ''Ṣīyyōn'', LXX , also variously transliterated ''Sion'', ''Tzion'', ''Tsion'', ''Tsiyyon'') is a placename in the Hebrew Bible used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole (see Names of Jerusalem). The name is found in 2 Samuel (5:7), one of the books of the Hebrew Bible dated to before or close to the mid-6th century BCE. It originally referred to a specific hill in Jerusalem (Mount Zion), located to the south of Mount Moriah (the Temple Mount). According to the narrative of 2 Samuel 5, Mount Zion held the Jebusite fortress of the same name that was conquered by David and was renamed the City of David. That specific hill ("mount") is one of the many squat hills that form Jerusalem, which also includes Mount Moriah (the Temple Mount), the Mount of Olives, etc. Over many centuries, until as recently as the Ottoman era, the city walls of Jerusalem were rebuilt many times in new locations, so that the particular hill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben-Zion Keshet
Ben-Zion Keshet (, born 1914, died 8 August 1984) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Gahal and Likud between 1969 and 1977. Biography Born in Riga in the Russian Empire (today in Latvia), Keshet attended a Hebrew high school in his home city. He joined the Betar youth movement and helped establish the Estonian branch in 1932. In 1934 he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine, where he became a member of the governing council of Betar in 1935. He also became a member of Betar's enlistment battalion and of the central committee of the National Labour Federation in Eretz-Israel, on which he served between 1939 and 1942. From 1942 until 1943 he was a member of the general staff of the Irgun, before being exiled to Eritrea in 1944. Knesset website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben (Hebrew)
The Hebrew word Ben (), meaning "son" or "boy", forms part of many surnames in Hebrew. In the English Bible, such names include: * Ben-ammi, "son of my people" * Benaiah, "son of Yah" * Bene-berak, "sons of lightning" * Ben-hadad, "son of Hadad" * Ben-hail, "son of valor" * Benjamin, "son of the right hand" or "son of the south" * Ben-oni, "son of my sorrow" * Ben-Zion, "son of Zion Zion ( he, צִיּוֹן ''Ṣīyyōn'', LXX , also variously transliterated ''Sion'', ''Tzion'', ''Tsion'', ''Tsiyyon'') is a placename in the Hebrew Bible used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole (see Nam ..." * Ben-Ishado, "son of ishado" See also * Bar {{surname, Ben ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben-Zion (artist)
Ben-Zion, also known as Ben-Zion Weinman (1897–1987) was a Russian-born American painter, printmaker, sculptor, educator, and poet. He was a member of "The Ten" group of expressionist artists. Early life Ben-Zion was born on July 8, 1897 in Starokostiantyniv, Russian Empire (present-day is Ukraine). His father, Hirsch Weinman was a Jewish cantor, and initially he wanted to enter the rabbinate. In 1909, the family moved to Galicia. At age 17, he travelled to Vienna to study art. He had been rejected from entering the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna due to antisemitism. Early in his career, he wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name "Benzion Weinman". Career He immigrated to the United States in 1920 after the death of his father, and started by teaching Hebrew language. When he started painting he dropped his last name and started hyphenating. His first large scale painting was ''Friday Evening'' (1933), depicting his family's Sabbath dinner table. Starting in 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehoshua Ben-Zion
Yehoshua Ben-Zion (1924 – 2004) ( he, יהושע בן ציון) was an Israeli banker. He served as the managing director of Israel-British Bank. Following the collapse of the bank in July 1974, owing British investors £46.6 million, Ben-Zion was convicted of embezzling £20 million ($39.4 million) from the bank. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. After urging of the Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin in 1977, Ben-Zion was pardoned by the Israeli president Ephraim Katzir, on medical grounds. He was released after serving three years. Ben-Zion was born in Mandate Palestine and spent his childhood in the United States. He was a member of the Irgun Irgun • Etzel , image = Irgun.svg , image_size = 200px , caption = Irgun emblem. The map shows both Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan, which the Irgun claimed in its entirety for a future Jewish state. The acronym "Etzel" i ... and later became a colonel in the Israel Defense Forces. In 1972 he was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Ben-Zion Ibn Alamani
Aaron Ben-zion ibn Alamani was an Egyptian Dayyan, or judge, and prominent Jew of Alexandria in the twelfth century. His family name probably means al-Umani, or "the man of Oman" (Judah ha-Levi, "Diwan," ed. Harkavy, p. 180; Steinschneider, "Jew. Quart. Rev." xi. 486). His father, whose name was Joshua, was, it seems, a physician of some repute. It was at Aaron's house that Judah ha-Levi lived while in Alexandria; and the poet is extravagant in the praise of his friend, who, to judge from the titles given him, must have been a man of importance. Two of Ha-Levi's poems are addressed to Aaron: one of them he sent with a letter in rimed prose, which letter is included in the "Diwan." Ha-Levi also mentions Aaron in a letter which he sent from Damietta Damietta ( arz, دمياط ' ; cop, ⲧⲁⲙⲓⲁϯ, Tamiati) is a port city and the capital of the Damietta Governorate in Egypt, a former bishopric and present multiple Catholic titular see. It is located at the Damietta b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben-Zion Witler
Ben-Zion Witler (1907–1961), also Ben-Tsion Vitler, BenZion Wittler, was a Jewish singer, actor, coupletist, comedian and composer. Early life At the age of six Witler moved with his family from Belz, Galisia, to Vienna, where he received a strict Chasidic religious upbringing. Career In 1919, at the age of 12, he joined the ''Freie jüdische Volksbühne'' theater in Vienna (1919–1922; no connection to the New York Folksbiene), secretly and under an alias, fearing his family's reaction. He worked briefly as a journalist at the German Zionist weekly ''Wiener Morgenzeitung'' (''Vienna Morning Times''), but in 1926 returned to the Vienna theater scene, performing in comedies and operettas, studying opera repertoire with Yulianovsky and Fuchs, touring (Paris, London, South Africa, France and Vienna). Witler spent three years in Poland in the mid-1930s, becoming a "public darling.Zalmen Zylbercweig, Leksikon fun Yidishn Teater (Volume 3), p. 2260-2261" In 1937 he appeared in Riga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel
Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (, born 23 May 1880, died 4 September 1953), sometimes rendered as Ouziel, was the Sephardi chief rabbi of Mandatory Palestine from 1939 to 1948, and of Israel from 1948 until his death in 1953. Biography Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel was born in Jerusalem, where his father, Joseph Raphael, was the chief justice of the Sephardi community of Jerusalem, as well as president of the community council. At the age of twenty he became a yeshivah teacher and also founded a yeshivah called Mahazikei Torah for Sephardi young men. Rabbinic career In 1911, Uziel was appointed '' Hakham Bashi'' of Jaffa and the district. There he worked closely with Abraham Isaac Kook, who was the spiritual leader of the Ashkenazi community. Immediately upon his arrival in Jaffa he began to work vigorously to raise the status of the Oriental congregations there. In spirit and ideas he was close to Kook, and their affinity helped to bring about more harmonious relations than previously exis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben-Zion Sternberg
Ben-Zion (Benno) Sternberg (1894 – May 31, 1962), was a Ukrainian Zionist and signatory of the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel. Sternberg was born in Czernowitz, Bukovina, a region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to a relatively prosperous local Jewish family. His father Abraham was a landowner in the thriving Jewish community of Bukovina. Pre World War II Sternberg was a prominent local Zionist from a young age. In 1914 put his nationalist aspirations on hold to serve as an officer of Austria-Hungary during the First World War. Prior to and following the war, Sternberg was a leading member of the Hebronia movement, a leading local Zionist movement. In 1920 he addressed 600 visiting Romanian dignitaries (Czernowitz became a part of newly enlarged Romania following the dissolution of Austria-Hungary) in Hebrew, marking the first significant attempt to bring the rebirth of the language to the attention of a non-Jewish audience. Following the Treat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Zion Solomon
Ben Zion Solomon is an American-born Israeli musician, best known as a founding member of the seminal Jewish rock group Diaspora Yeshiva Band, for whom he played fiddle and banjo from 1975 to 1983. A disciple of Shlomo Carlebach, Solomon and his family were among the first residents of Carlebach's moshav, Mevo Modi'im. His sons later founded the bands Moshav, Soulfarm, and Hamakor. Background Solomon graduated from Berklee College of Music, where he studied music history. While living in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in the early 1970s, Solomon attended gatherings at The House of Love and Prayer. There, he met the shul's founder, Rabbbi Shlomo Carlebach, who convinced him to move to Israel. Career Diaspora Yeshiva Band Solomon attended the Diaspora Yeshiva and co-founded the Diaspora Yeshiva Band in 1975 with fellow students Avraham Rosenblum, Simcha Abramson, Ruby Harris, Adam Wexler, and Gedalia Goldstein. Playing a mix of rock and bluegrass with Jewish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben-Zion Rubin
Ben-Zion Rubin ( he, בן-ציון רובין, born 6 January 1939) is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party and Tami between 1977 and 1984. Biography Born in Tripoli in Libya in 1939, Rubin made aliyah to Israel in 1949. He studied humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and earned a teaching certificate from the university's Education Department, going on to work as a teacher. He later also studied journalism at Tel Aviv University. In 1961 he joined the National Religious Party, and in 1969 became a member of Netanya city council, which he remained on until 1978. Between 1969 and 1973, and again from 1974 until 1978, he served as the city's deputy mayor. In 1977 he was elected to the Knesset on the NRP list. Towards the end of the Knesset term he left the party to join Aharon Abuhatzira's breakaway faction, Tami, which was largely composed of Sephardi Jews Sephardic (or Sephardi) Jews (, ; lad, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benzion Netanyahu
Benzion Netanyahu ( he, בֶּנְצִיּוֹן נְתַנְיָהוּ, ; born Benzion Mileikowsky; March 25, 1910 – April 30, 2012)''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC. Fee via Fairfax County Public Library, accessed 2009-05-18. Document Number: H1000072529. was an Israeli encyclopedist, historian, and medievalist. He served as Professor of History at Cornell University. A scholar of Judaic history, he was also an activist in the Revisionist Zionism movement, who lobbied in the United States to support the creation of the Jewish state. His field of expertise was the history of the Jews in Spain. He was an editor of the '' Hebrew Encyclopedia'' and Ze'ev Jabotinsky's personal secretary. Netanyahu was the father of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yonatan Netanyahu, ex-commander of Sayeret Matkal, and Iddo Netanyahu, a physician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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