Zaks (surname)
Zaks is a surname. Among Jews, it can be a variant of the German surname, Sachs, the patronymic variant of the Hebrew biblical male personal name Yitzchak/Isaac or it can originate in the acronym surname Za'Ks, which stands for the Hebrew words, ''Zera Kodesh Shemo,'' literally meaning "his name is Holy Seed," a quotation from Isaiah 6:13 and implying "his name descends from martyrs." This acronym can also refer to the town of martyrdom, such as Speyer or Stendal, indicating a holy martyr from such a town. Notable people with the surname include: *Amram Zaks (1926–2012), Israeli Rosh yeshiva *Hillel Zaks (-2015), Israeli Rosh yeshiva *Jerry Zaks (born 1946), German actor *Mendel Zaks (1898–1974), American rabbi *Rodnay Zaks (born 1946), American author *Shmuel Zaks (born 1949), Israeli scientist See also *Gordon Zacks *Sachs *Sacks (surname) *Saks (other) *Sax (other) *Saxe (other) *Zaks (other) *Zax (other) Zax may refer to: *An ...
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Sachs
Sachs is a German surname, meaning "man from Saxony". Sachs is a common surname among Ashkenazi Jews from Saxony, in the United States sometimes adopted in the variant Zaks, supposedly in reference to the Hebrew phrase ''Zera Kodesh Shemo'' (ZaKS), literally "his name is Holy Seed," a quotation from Isaiah 6:13.Elsdon Coles Smith, Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) Notable people with the surname Sachs include: *Albie Sachs (born 1935), South African Constitutional Court Justice *Andrew Sachs (1930–2016), German-British actor *Bernard Sachs (1858–1944), American neurologist *Curt Sachs (also Kurth Sachs, 1881–1959), German music historian * Ed Sachs (1918–1996), American professional basketball player *Eddie Sachs (1927–1964), American racecar driver * Edwin Sachs (1870–1919), British architect *Ernest Sachs (1879–1958), American neurosurgeon *Ernest Sachs, Jr. (1916–2001), American neurosurgeon *Gunter Sachs (1932–2011), German photographer, researcher ...
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Rodnay Zaks
Rodnay Zaks (born 10 February 1946, Paris) is a French-born American author of many books on computer programming, including the seminal '' Programming the Z80'' and ''Programming the 6502''. He is the founder of independent computer book publisher Sybex and was its president and chief executive officer (CEO) until its takeover by John Wiley & Sons in May 2005. Zaks has an engineering degree from the École Centrale Paris and a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where he also was the third person to receive a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the then new computer science department. He began a career in training engineers and managers in the then new microprocessor technology, and subsequently founded Sybex in 1976. Zaks has been a director of Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Microarchitecture (SIGMICRO), and founded the non-profit organization EUROMICRO. An early publication of Zaks' from Sybex was ''A microprogramme ...
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Zaks (other)
Zaks are a construction toy. Zaks may also refer to: * Zaks (surname) * Zak's, a bus company in England See also *Zacks *Sachs *Sachse (other) *Sacks (surname) *Saks (other) *Sax (other) *Saxe (other) *Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) *Zax (other) Zax may refer to: *Andy Zax, music producer, historian, and information archivist *The Zax, a pair of Dr. Seuss characters from ''The Sneetches and Other Stories'' * Zax (Duke Power), a cartoon character used by Duke Power to educate children * Zax ...

Saxe (other)
Saxe, meaning “Saxon,” may refer to: Places Germany * Saxe-Lauenburg * Saxe-Wittenberg * Saxe-Altenburg * Saxe-Coburg * Saxe-Coburg and Gotha * Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach * Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld * Saxe-Eisenach * Saxe-Eisenberg * Saxe-Gotha * Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg * Saxe-Hildburghausen * Saxe-Jena * Saxe-Meiningen * Saxe-Römhild * Saxe-Saalfeld * Saxe-Weimar * Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach United States * Saxe, Virginia Other uses * Saxe (surname) * ''Porcelaine de Saxe'', the French name for Meissen porcelain See also * * * Sachs * Sachse (other) * Sacks (surname) * Saks (other) * Sax (other) * Saxony (other) * Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) * Zaks (other) * Zax (other) Zax may refer to: *Andy Zax, music producer, historian, and information archivist *The Zax, a pair of Dr. Seuss characters from ''The Sneetches and Other Stories'' * Zax (Duke Power), a cartoon character used by Duke Power to educate children * Zax ...

Sax (other)
Sax or SAX may refer to: * Saxophone (or sax), a family of woodwind instruments People * Oett M. Mallard (1915–1986), also known as Sax Mallard, Chicago-based jazz saxophonist and bandleader * Lincoln Thompson (1949–1999), Jamaican reggae singer, musician and songwriter also known as Sax * Sax (surname) * Sax Rohmer, pen name of Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883–1959), English novelist best known for creating the villain Fu Manchu Places * 3534 Sax, an asteroid * Sax, a village in the Sennwald municipality in Switzerland * Sax, Alicante, a municipality in Spain * Sax, Minnesota, United States, an unincorporated community * Shanxi, a province of China (Guobiao abbreviation SAX) Other * Sax (cigarette), an Italian brand * "Sax" (song), a 2015 song English recording artist Fleur East * Seax, also spelled sax, an ancient Germanic, single-edged knife * Simple API for XML, an event-driven parsing model for XML * Baron of Sax, later Sax-Hohensax, a Swiss title; see Hohensax ...
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Saks (other)
Saks can refer to: *Saks (surname) *Saks, Alabama, a community in the United States *Saks, Inc., holding company of Saks Fifth Avenue *Saks Fifth Avenue, U.S. luxury department store See also * * *Sachs *Sachse (other) *Sacks (surname) *Saksida *Sax (other) *Saxe (other) *Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) *Zaks (other) *Zax (other) Zax may refer to: *Andy Zax, music producer, historian, and information archivist *The Zax, a pair of Dr. Seuss characters from ''The Sneetches and Other Stories'' * Zax (Duke Power), a cartoon character used by Duke Power to educate children * Zax ...

Sacks (surname)
Sacks is a German surname meaning "man from Saxony" and may refer to: * Alan Sacks, US television producer * Andrew Sacks, US attorney * C. Jared Sacks, US founder of Channel Classics Records * David O. Sacks (b. 1972), South Africa-born US internet businessman and film producer * David Sacks (fl. 21st century), US television writer and producer * Gerald Sacks (b. 1933), US logician * Glenn Sacks (fl. 21st century), US radio personality * Greg Sacks (b. 1952), US racing car driver * Harvey Sacks (1935–1975), US sociologist * Hayley Anne Sacks (b. 1991), US figure skater who competed for Israel * Joel Sacks (b. 1989), Argentine football (soccer) player * Jonathan Sacks (1948–2020), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom's main body of Orthodox synagogues * Jonathan Sacks (composer) (b. 1950), US musician and composer * Leon Sacks (1902–1972), Democratic member of US House of Representatives * Leslie Sacks (1952-2013), US art dealer and collector * Mark Sacks (1953-2008), British p ...
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Gordon Zacks
Gordon Zacks (March 11, 1933 – February 1, 2014) was an American businessman, author and presidential adviser. Life Born in Indiana, Zacks lived in Bexley, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio State University. Business His mother, Florence Melton, was an inventor and with Gordon's father started the R.G. Barry Corporation: the world's largest supplier of comfort footwear. Zacks served as Chairman of the Board of R. G. Barry since 1979. He also served as President and Chief Executive Officer for 24 years until 2004, when he stepped down due to disappointing sales. Politics An expert on the Middle East and staunch advocate of Israel, he served as an adviser to George H. W. Bush in several capacities: from 1987-1988, he served as National Chairman of the Bush for President National Jewish Campaign Committee and Co-Chairman of the Bush for President National Finance Committee, he was Vice-Chairman of the Bush/Quayle National Finance Committee and Co-Chairman of the Middle East Policy Tas ...
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Shmuel Zaks
Schmuel Zaks (born 1949) is a computer scientist and mathematician who works in the fields of distributed computing and computer networks. He is a professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he holds the Joan Callner-Miller Chair in Computer Science. Zaks received his BSc degree from Technion in 1971 and MSc from Technion in 1972. In 1979 he received his PhD degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his PhD supervisor was Chung Laung Liu. Since then, he has done joint work with numerous co-authors, including the prolific mathematician Paul Erdős. During the 23rd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2009), a series of lectures was organized to celebrate Schmuel Zaks's and Michel Raynal's 60th birthdays and their contributions in the development of the field of distributed computing. In 2017, Zaks received the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing The Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing (also called SI ...
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Mendel Zaks
Menachem Mendel Yosef Zaks ( he, מענדיל זאקס; 1898–1974) (commonly known as Rabbi Mendel Zaks) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi in Belarus and the United States, best known for being the ''Rosh Yeshiva'' of the Raduń Yeshiva and being the son-in-law to Yisrael Meir Kagan, the ''Chofetz Chaim''. Early life Zaks was born in Siluva. Before joining the yeshiva in Radun, he studied in the Yeshiva Knesses Beis Yitzchok (while it was still in Slabodka, before it moved to Kaminetz). He was forced to leave Radun during World War I and then studied under Reuven Dov Dessler. He also studied under Meir Simcha of Dvinsk whose ''Meshech Chochmah'' he had helped print. After the war, Zaks returned to Radun where he studied with his future father-in-law. In 1922, he married Faiga Chaya, Kagan's youngest daughter (who was 64 at the time of her birth). By doing so, he joined Kagan as leader of the yeshiva and in all other communal affairs. Zaks was immediately recognized for his teac ...
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Isaac
Isaac; grc, Ἰσαάκ, Isaák; ar, إسحٰق/إسحاق, Isḥāq; am, ይስሐቅ is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He was the son of Abraham and Sarah, the father of Jacob and Esau, and the grandfather of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, twelve tribes of Israel. Isaac's name means "he will laugh", reflecting the laughter, in disbelief, of Abraham and Sarah, when told by God that they would have a child., He is the only patriarch whose name was not changed, and the only one who did not move out of Canaan. According to the narrative, he died aged 180, the longest-lived of the three patriarchs. Etymology The anglicized name "Isaac" is a transliteration of the Hebrew name () which literally means "He laughs/will laugh." Ugaritic language, Ugaritic texts dating from the 13th century BCE refer to the benevolent smile of the Canaanite religion, Canaanite deity El (deit ...
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Jerry Zaks
Jerry Zaks (born September 7, 1946) is an American stage and television director, and actor. He won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and Drama Desk Award for directing ''The House of Blue Leaves'', ''Lend Me a Tenor'', and ''Six Degrees of Separation'' and the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and Drama Desk Award for ''Guys and Dolls''. Early life Zaks was born in Stuttgart, Germany, the son of Holocaust survivors, Lily (Gliksman) and Sy Zaks, a butcher. His family immigrated to the United States in 1948, finally settling in Paterson, New Jersey, where he graduated from Eastside High School in 1963. He graduated from Dartmouth College and received a Master of Fine Arts from Smith College. Career ;Stage He made his Broadway acting debut in the original production of '' Grease'' as "Kenickie" and appeared in ''Tintypes'' in 1980. He made his directing debut in 1981 with the off-Broadway production of Christopher Durang's ''Beyond Therapy'', which co-starred S ...
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