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Sarfati
Sarfati ( he, צרפתי; , variously transliterated and spelled Sarfatti, Sarphati, Serfaty, Sarfate, Sarfaty, Sarfity, Zarfati, Tsarfati, Tsarfaty, Tzarfati, Serfati) is a Sephardic Jewish surname. The surname literally means "French" in the Hebrew language, and is derived from the Biblical placename Tzarfat which in later times was identified in Jewish tradition as France. The term "Tzarfati" ( he, צרפתי) was frequently applied in rabbinical literature to Jews of French birth or descent. Origin One account places the origin of the surname as being linked to Rashi by way of his grandson Rabbeinu Tam, but the connection, although anchored in the Ketubot traditions has never been fully proven due to a seven generations gap in the genealogy after Jews were expelled from France by Philippe le Bel in 1306. At any case, numerous bearers of this name (whose ancestors came from France) lived in various parts of the Iberian Peninsula during the 14th-15th centuries: they appear in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Sarfati
Jonathan David Sarfati (born 1 October 1964) is a young Earth creationist who writes articles for Creation Ministries International (CMI), a non-profit Christian apologetics ministry. Sarfati has a PhD in chemistry, and was New Zealand national chess champion in 1987 and 1988. Background Born in Ararat, Victoria, Sarfati moved with his family to New Zealand as a child, where he became a dual Australian and New Zealand citizen. He attended Wellington College in New Zealand, later graduating from Victoria University of Wellington with a BSc (Hons.) in chemistry, and a PhD in the same subject for a thesis entitled "A Spectroscopic Study of some Chalcogenide Ring and Cage Molecules". He co-authored a paper on high-temperature superconductors that was published in ''Nature'' in 1987 ("Letters to Nature"), and from 1988 to 1995, had five papers on spectroscopy of condensed matter samples published in other peer-reviewed scientific journals. In 1996, he returned to Brisbane, Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Sarfati
Diana Sarfati (born 1967/1968) is New Zealand's Director–General of Health and a public health physician and health services researcher. She was formerly head of Te Aho o Te Kahu, the Cancer Control Agency in New Zealand. Career Sarfati was appointed Interim Chief Executive of the Cancer Control Agency on 1 December 2019, becoming the permanent chief on 1 July 2020 for what is now known as Te Aho o Te Kahu, Cancer Control Agency. In that role, she reported to the Minister and Associate Ministers of Health, and advises Government on cancer-related matters. Since being in this role, Te Aho o Te Kahu has produced a number of key reports including a state of nation in cancer report, regular reports on the impact of covid on cancer services, a cancer prevention report, and a report defining the gap in cancer medicine availability between Australia and New Zealand. Sarfati was also involved in the establishment of Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy in New Zealand. She also s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lydia Sarfati
Lydia Sarfati is a Polish-born American esthetician, entrepreneur, consultant and author. She is credited with having introduced seaweed-based skin treatments in the United States. In 1980, she founded the Sarkli-Repêchage, a seaweed-based cosmetics company, together with her husband David Sarfati. She is the author of several books on cosmetology and wellness. Early life Lydia Sarfati was born in Poland. She is the daughter of Polish Jews Szloma and Sofia Mops, both of whom were survivors of the Holocaust. Sarfati grew up in Legnica; during her time in Poland, she took her first professional training, a medically oriented skin care course. Her family migrated to Italy, and in 1970, the family got the opportunity to leave for the United States, and settled in New York City, where she got her first job as a makeup artist in a salon on Madison Avenue. In New York, she met her future husband, David Sarfati, and the two married in 1972. The couple had two children, and to support ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lise Sarfati
Lise Sarfati (born 1958) is a French photographer and artist. She is noted for her photographs of elusive characters, often young, who resist any attempt to being pinned down. Her work particularly explores the instability of feminine identity. Most recently, Sarfati’s photographs have focused on the relationship between individuals and the urban landscape. She has extensively worked in Russia and the United States. Life and work Born in Oran, French Algeria, and of Pieds-Noir descent, Sarfati spent her childhood in Nice, France, which whe credits as having inspired her sensitivity about colour in her work. She became interested in Russian culture and society following a holiday to the Soviet Union aged 15. She graduated with an MA in Russian Studies from the Sorbonne in 1979. In 1986, she became the official photographer for the Académie des Beaux Arts. From 1989 to 1998, she lived in the Soviet Union and then Russia, capturing the atmosphere of a country in transition. Her i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges-Elia Sarfati
Georges-Elia Sarfati is a philosopher, linguist, poet, and an existentialist psychoanalyst, author of written works in the domains of ethics, Jewish thought, social criticism, and discourse analysis. He has translated Viktor E. Frankl. He is the grand-nephew of the sociologist Gaston Bouthoul. Biography G.-E. Sarfati (born in Tunis, 20 October 1957) is a University professor (French linguistic), member of the teaching staff of thElie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies and educational director of thUniversity Center Sigmund Freud in Paris In 1989, he presented a doctorate thesis under the supervision of Oswald Ducrot at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Paris). In 1996, he was appointed as a research supervisor at the University Sorbonne-Paris IV. He is also a graduate of thSalomon Schechter Institute(Jerusalem, Israel), he has a doctorate in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Strasbourg. Main ideas Aware of the persistence of the "jewish questio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Sarfati
Sonia Sarfati (born May 29, 1960) is a Canadian author and journalist born in France and living in Quebec. The daughter of a Tunisian father and an Italian mother, she was born in Toulouse. She moved to Montreal with her family at the age of ten. She studied biology and journalism at the Université de Montréal and went on to teach biology at the secondary level. As well as writing books, Sarfati also contributes to the culture section of '' La Presse'' and hosted the radio program ''VSD bonjour'' on Radio-Canada. Selected works * ''Sauvetages'', stories (1989), received the * ''Tricot, piano et jeu vidéo'', children's literature (1992) * ''La ville engloutie'', children's literature (1992) * ''Les voix truquées'', children's literature (1993) * ''La comédienne disparue'', children's literature (1994) * ''Comme une peau de chagrin'', juvenile fiction (1995), received the Governor General's Award for French-language children's literature The Governor General's Award for Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Sarfati
Samuel Sarfati (died 1519), known as Gallo, was a prominent Italian physician and leader of the Jewish community in Rome. Family Samuel Sarfati was the father of Joseph Sarfati (d. 1527), personal physician and medical adviser to Pope Clement VII, and a poet in Hebrew. Activities in Rome Status and privileges Originally from Provence, Sarfati moved to Rome in 1498. After settling in Rome, Pope Alexander VI extended privileges on him such as permission to treat Christian patients and permission to not wear the special distinguishing Jewish badge that Jews were required to wear. He was a community leader, and represented the Jewish community at the coronation of Pope Julius II in 1503. Physician to the pope In 1504, Sarfati became the Pontifical Archiater during the reign of Pope Julius II. In August 1511, according to Erasmus, Sarfati successfully treated a "serious illness" of Pope Julius II, which some historians theorize might have been syphilis. Other notable pati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yitzhak Sarfati
Yitzhak Sarfati also spelt Tsarfati (Hebrew: יצחק צרפתי) was a German-born, Ashkenazi rabbi who settled in the Ottoman Empire prior to the fall of Constantinople, and served as the Chief Rabbi of Edirne. Biography Born in Germany sometime in the early 15th century, Sarfati was originally of French descent (his surname "Sarfati" means "French" in Hebrew). Not much is known of his early life but in , Sarfati moved to the Ottoman Empire where he was eventually made the Chief Rabbi of Edirne. That following year, he sent out a letter to the Jews of the Rhineland, Swabia, Styria, Moravia, and Hungary in which he spoke with great enthusiasm of the fortunate conditions of the Jews under Ottoman control, stating; "I proclaim to you that Turkey is a land wherein nothing is lacking, and where, if you will, all shall yet be well with you."{{Citation, last=Spolsky, first=Bernard, title=Jews in Slavic lands, url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107295292.014, work=The Language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semah Sarfati
Semah Sarfati (1624–1717) was a Tunisian rabbi who was chief rabbi of Tunisia and was a member of the Bet din of Tunisia. At the end of his life, he moved to the Holy Land, dying in Jerusalem in 1717. Following a schism between the Granas and Twansa communities, in which two of his students – Abraham Taïeb and Isaac Lumbroso respectively – both succeeded him as Chief Rabbi of Tunisia. Another student was Taïeb's successor, Messaoud-Raphaël El-Fassi. Sarfati played an important role in the revival of Jewish study in Tunisia in the 17th century. While his judgements and commentaries have not been published in their own volume, his work has been cited by his students and their successors. One of the oldest oratories in Hara, the Jewish quarter of Tunis ''Tounsi'' french: Tunisois , population_note = , population_urban = , population_metro = 2658816 , population_density_km2 = , timezone1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tzedi Tzarfati
Tzedi Tzarfati, Tsadi Tsarfati, or Tsedi Sarfati ( he, צדי צרפתי, also transliterated as , , and ; born 16 January 1941) is an Israeli television presenter, director, and former actor. Early and personal life Tzedi Tzarfati was born Zadok Zarfati in Tel Aviv, present-day Israel, on 16 January 1941. He is of Bulgarian and Greek descent and grew up in the Old North area of Tel Aviv with his father after his parents divorced shortly after his birth. His father remarried when Tzarfati was five, and he considers his stepmother to be his real mother, as he connected with her more than his biological mother. He has two younger siblings from his father and stepmother. He is gay and had to live closeted in Tel Aviv growing up, before it developed LGBTQ+ culture. In his Israel Defense Forces service he was assigned to an entertainment role in Central Command and was threatened by superiors when they suspected he was gay; they used slurs to interrogate him, leading him to retrea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lea Michele
Lea Michele Sarfati (; born August 29, 1986) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, and author. She began her career as a child actress on Broadway (theatre), Broadway, appearing in productions of ''Les Misérables (musical), Les Misérables'' (1995–1996), ''Ragtime (musical), Ragtime'' (1997–1999), ''Fiddler on the Roof'' (2004–2005), and ''Spring Awakening (musical), Spring Awakening'' (2006–2008). Michele came to prominence playing Rachel Berry on the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox series ''Glee (TV series), Glee'' (2009–2015), for which she received an Emmy Award nomination, two Golden Globe nominations and won four People's Choice Awards, three Teen Choice Awards and a Satellite Awards, Satellite Award. Michele and the rest of the ''Glee'' cast earned a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series from four nominations and three Grammy Award nominations for music recorded for the series, also spawning multiple hits on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tzarfat
Tzarfat ( he, צרפת) is a Biblical placename that may refer to Sarepta in Lebanon. In later times, it came to be identified with France. It is still the name of France in Modern Hebrew, and is analogous to Sefarad, and Ashkenaz. The epithet "Tzarfati" ( he, צרפתי) was frequently applied in rabbinical literature to Jews of French birth or descent. See also *Sarfati Sarfati ( he, צרפתי; , variously transliterated and spelled Sarfatti, Sarphati, Serfaty, Sarfate, Sarfaty, Sarfity, Zarfati, Tsarfati, Tsarfaty, Tzarfati, Serfati) is a Sephardic Jewish surname. The surname literally means "French" in the Heb ... References * * {{bible-stub Hebrew Bible places ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
