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Zelik Akserlod
Zelig is a name meaning "blessed" in Yiddish. It may be both a given name and a surname. Variants: Zelik, Selig. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Froim-Zelig Aderca *Zelig Bardichever * Zelig Reuven Bengis * Zelig Bidner *Zelig Eshhar * Zellig Harris (1909–1992), American linguist *Zelig Kalmanovich * Zelig Mogulescu or Sigmund Mogulesko (1858–1914), actor in Yiddish theater *Yitzchak Zelig Morgenstern *Zelig Pliskin *Simcha Zelig Reguer *Zelig Sharfstein *Zelig Shtroch * Chaim Zelig Slonimski Surname * Jack Zelig (1888–1912), an American gangster *Dariusz Zelig See also * * *Seeliger *Seligmann (other) * Seligman (other) Seligmann is a name meaning "blessed man" in German and Yiddish. It may refer to: Places * Seligman, Arizona * Seligman, Missouri Other uses * Seligmann (name), for a list of people bearing the surname * Seligman Crystal, an award of the Interna ... {{given name, type=both Yiddish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yiddish Language
Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic. Most varieties of Yiddish include elements of Slavic languages and the vocabulary contains traces of Romance languages.Aram Yardumian"A Tale of Two Hypotheses: Genetics and the Ethnogenesis of Ashkenazi Jewry".University of Pennsylvania. 2013. Yiddish is primarily written in the Hebrew alphabet. Prior to World War II, its worldwide peak was 11 million, with the number of speakers in the United States and Canada then totaling 150,000. Eighty-five percent of the approximately six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust were Yiddish speakers,Solomon Birnbaum, ''Grammatik der jiddischen Sprache'' (4., erg. Aufl., Hambu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zelig Pliskin
Joshua Zelig Pliskin is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, writer, lecturer, and author of more than 25 books, including ''Gateway to Happiness'', ''Conversations With Yourself'', ''Building Your Self-Image and the Self-Image of Others,'' and ''Life Is Now.'' Early years Pliskin was born in 1946 in Baltimore, Maryland. As a young boy he attended Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim Talmudical Academy of Baltimore and later studied at the Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio. After his marriage to Raizel, they moved to Israel and he studied for five years at a Brisk yeshiva. He received his degree in Counseling Psychology at the State University of New York. Becoming an author Pliskin's father, Rabbi Shmuel Pliskin, had been a student of Israel Meir Kagan, popularly known as the Chofetz Chaim, at the Raduń Yeshiva in Poland and had written a Yiddish-language biography of him, ''Der Chofetz Chayim: Zine Leben un Shafen'' (Warsaw, 1936). In 1974, after writing an article for ''The Jewish Observer'' abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seligmann (other)
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Seligmann is a name meaning "blessed man" in German and Yiddish. It may refer to: Places * Seligman, Arizona * Seligman, Missouri Other uses * Seligmann (name), for a list of people bearing the surname * Seligman Crystal, an award of the International Glaciological Society * J. & W. Seligman & Co., investment bank founded in 1862 * Jacques Seligmann & Company, French and American company dealing in antiques and modern art * M. Seligman & Co., Israeli law firm See also *Selig (name) * Seliger, Seeliger *Zelig (other) ''Zelig ''Zelig'' is a 1983 American mockumentary film written, directed by and starring Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, a nondescript enigma, who, apparently out of his desire to fit in and be liked, unwittingly takes on the characteristics of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seeliger
Seeliger is a name meaning "blessed man" in German and Yiddish. It may refer to: * Hugo von Seeliger (1849–1924), German astronomer * Rudolf Seeliger (1886–1965), German physicist * Thomas Seeliger (born 1966, Medebach), German footballer and coach * Wolfgang Seeliger (born 1946), German choral conductor * Dr. Nicholas Edward Seeliger (born 1980), German-American Humanitarian and Professor of Family & Community Medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine. See also * Seeliger effect * Seeliger (crater) ; Related surnames: * Seliger * Selig (name) * Seligmann * Zelig (other) ''Zelig ''Zelig'' is a 1983 American mockumentary film written, directed by and starring Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, a nondescript enigma, who, apparently out of his desire to fit in and be liked, unwittingly takes on the characteristics of s ... {{surname, Seeliger German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dariusz Zelig
Dariusz Zelig (born 22 November 1957) is a Polish former basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ... player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics. References External links * 1957 births Living people Polish men's basketball players Olympic basketball players of Poland Basketball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics People from Koszalin Sportspeople from West Pomeranian Voivodeship {{Poland-basketball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Zelig
"Big" Jack Zelig (May 13, 1888 – October 5, 1912) was an American gangster and one of the last leaders of the Eastman Gang. Biography Born Selig Harry Lefkowitz in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, Zelig was a well-known pickpocket and thief by age 6. He was a member of Crazy Butch's pickpocket gang before joining the Eastman Gang in the late 1890s. Rising up the ranks, Zelig sought control over the fragmented Eastman Gang in 1908, after "Kid Twist" (Max Zwerbach) was murdered by a rival. Zelig's crew had more than 75 members, including satellite gangs such as the Lenox Avenue Gang in Harlem, led by "Gyp the Blood" (aka Harry Horowitz). During this period, when ethnic Jewish gangsters became predominant in the gang, Zelig was also known as "The Big Yid". Feud with Sirocco and Tricker After Zelig was arrested in 1911 for robbing a brothel, Sirocco and Tricker attempted to gain leadership of the gang by refusing to bail out their boss. Zelig was la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaim Zelig Slonimski
Ḥayyim Selig ben Ya'akov Slonimski () (March 31, 1810 – May 15, 1904), also known by his acronym ḤaZaS (), was a Hebrew publisher, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, science writer, and rabbi. He was among the first to write books on science for a broad Jewish audience, and was the founder of ''Ha-Tsfira'', the first Hebrew-language newspaper with an emphasis on the sciences. Biography Ḥayyim Selig Slonimski was born in Bialystok, in the Grodno Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Poland), the oldest son of Rabbi Avraham Ya'akov Bishka and Leah (Neches) Bishka. His father belonged to a family of rabbis, writers, publishers and printers, and his mother was the daughter of Rabbi Yeḥiel Neches, an owner of a well-known beit midrash in Bialystok. Slonimski had a traditional Jewish upbringing and Talmudic education; without a formal secular education, Slonimski taught himself mathematics, astronomy, and foreign languages. An advocate for the education of Easte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zelig Shtroch
Zelig Shtorch (born 9 May 1946) is an Israeli former sports shooter. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the 1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and ... and 1974 Asian Games. References 1946 births Living people Israeli male sport shooters Olympic shooters of Israel Shooters at the 1968 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1972 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Karaganda Asian Games medalists in shooting Shooters at the 1970 Asian Games Shooters at the 1974 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Israel Asian Games silver medalists for Israel Medalists at the 1970 Asian Games {{Israel-sportshooting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zelig Sharfstein
Ezriel Zelig Sharfstein (July 21, 1928– February 11, 2008) was a prominent Chabad rabbi, the Chief Rabbi of the ''Vaad Ho'ir'' of Cincinnati, and an international authority on Jewish law. He was a long time, distinguished member on the Executive Committee of Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbis. Life He was born in 1928 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He was ordained as a rabbi in 1952 and married Reba Kazornovsky in 1954. He was hand-picked by Rabbi Eliezer Silver, to teach in the city's Jewish Day School. In 1964, Silver, then the president of the Agudath HaRabbonim The Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada (UOR), often called by its Hebrew name, Agudath Harabonim or Agudas Harrabonim ("union of rabbis"), was established in 1901 in the United States and is the oldest organization of Orthod ... and one of American Jewry's foremost leaders, promoted him to the role of principal. References External linksBiographyon Chabad.org Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simcha Zelig Reguer
Rabbi Simcha Zelig Reguer (1864-1942), שמחה זעליג ריגר Dayan of Brisk, was the chief Rabbinical judge of Brest-Litovsk and surrounding Lithuania. Biography Rabbi Reguer and his family lived in the same house (but on separate floors) as Rabbi Chaim Soloveichik, head of the Volozhin Yeshiva, and his family. In his memoir, Menachem Begin Menachem Begin ( ''Menaḥem Begin'' (); pl, Menachem Begin (Polish documents, 1931–1937); ''Menakhem Volfovich Begin''; 16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. B ... recalls how Nazi soldiers publicly humiliated Rabbi Reguer in the town square, and slashed his beard.Sara Reguer, My Father's Journey: A Memoir of Lost Worlds of Jewish Lithuania, Academic Studies Press, Boston 2015 Rabbi Reguer perished in the holocaust along with most of his community. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Reguer, Simcha Zelig 1864 births 1942 deaths Belarusian Orthodox ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yitzchak Zelig Morgenstern
Yitzchak Zelig Morgenstern of Kotzk-Sokolov (Hebrew: יצחק זליג מורגנשטרן, מסוקולוב, Yiddish: זעליג מארגענשטערן, מסאקאלאוו, of Sokolov; 1866 - 16 October 1939 (3 Cheshvan 5700)) was an Admor and Rosh yeshiva, a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah and a leader of Polish Jewry before the Holocaust, who died shortly after the war began. Life Early years He was born in Kotzk in 1866 to Yocheved and Chaim Yisrael Morgenstern, who was the grandson of Menachem Mendel of Kotzk and son of David Morgenstern, the second Rebbe of Kotzk. He was educated in the Beit Midrash in Kotzk, the second largest dynasty that continued the tradition of Menachem Mendel of Kotzk. At the age of 16 he married Chaya Hinda and over the years they had 11 children. Even after his wedding, he continued to live near his father in Kotzk and later in Filov, near Lublin. He was the right hand of his father in managing all his affairs, including the publication o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zelik
Zelig is a name meaning "blessed" in Yiddish. It may be both a given name and a surname. Variants: Zelik, Selig. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Froim-Zelig Aderca * Zelig Bardichever *Zelig Reuven Bengis * Zelig Bidner *Zelig Eshhar * Zellig Harris (1909–1992), American linguist *Zelig Kalmanovich * Zelig Mogulescu or Sigmund Mogulesko (1858–1914), actor in Yiddish theater *Yitzchak Zelig Morgenstern *Zelig Pliskin *Simcha Zelig Reguer *Zelig Sharfstein *Zelig Shtroch * Chaim Zelig Slonimski Surname * Jack Zelig (1888–1912), an American gangster *Dariusz Zelig See also * * *Seeliger *Seligmann (other) Seligmann is a name meaning "blessed man" in German and Yiddish. It may refer to: Places * Seligman, Arizona * Seligman, Missouri Other uses * Seligmann (name), for a list of people bearing the surname * Seligman Crystal, an award of the Interna ... * Seligman (other) {{given name, type=both Yiddish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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