Levite
Levites (or Levi) (, he, ''Lǝvīyyīm'') are Jewish males who claim patrilineal descent from the Tribe of Levi. The Tribe of Levi descended from Levi, the third son of Jacob and Leah. The surname ''Halevi'', which consists of the Hebrew de ...
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Levi
Levi (; ) was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's third son), and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Levi (the Levites, including the Kohanim) and the great-grandfather of Aaron, Moses and ...
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* An Israelite man descended patrilineally from the tribe of
Levi
Levi (; ) was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's third son), and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Levi (the Levites, including the Kohanim) and the great-grandfather of Aaron, Moses and ...
, and his full name may be written as (personal name) ''HaLevi'' (family name). The prefix " ה" (HAY), in the Hebrew language, means ''the''. "HaLevi" means THE Levite.
* Someone whose family name is ''Halevi''
As a title
* Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein was a Levi
* Rabbi Yisroel Belsky was a Leviper HaLevi in:
*Rabbi Baruch ha-Levi Epstein (1860–1941), a Lithuanian rabbi
Some more examples of having the title HaLevi, but not in their last name are:
As a family name
Some people whose family name is Halevi are:
*Rabbi
Abraham ibn Daud
Abraham ibn Daud ( he, אַבְרָהָם בֵּן דָּוִד הַלֵּוִי אִבְּן דָּאוּד; ar, ابراهيم بن داود) was a Spanish-Jewish astronomer, historian, and philosopher; born at Córdoba, Spain about 1110; die ...
Aharon HaLevi
Rabbi Aharon ben Joseph ha-Levi ( he, אהרון הלוי; 1235 – c. 1290), known by his Hebrew acronym ''Ra'aH'' (), was a medieval rabbi, Talmudic scholar and Halakhist.
Rabbi Aaron ha-Levi was born in Girona, Catalonia (present- ...
(1235 – c. 1290; he, אהרן הלוי)
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Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel
Abraham Fraenkel ( he, אברהם הלוי (אדולף) פרנקל; February 17, 1891 – October 15, 1965) was a German-born Israeli mathematician. He was an early Zionist and the first Dean of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ...
*Rabbi
David HaLevi Segal
David ha-Levi Segal (c. 1586 – 20 February 1667), also known as the Turei Zahav (abbreviated Taz ()) after the title of his significant '' halakhic'' commentary on the ''Shulchan Aruch'', was one of the greatest Polish rabbinical authorities ...
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Daniel Halévy
Daniel Halévy (12 December 1872 – 4 February 1962) was a French historian.
Life
The son of Ludovic Halévy, Daniel was born in and died in Paris. His family was of Jewish descent, but his parents were Protestant and he was brought up as a Pr ...
, French historian
* Efraim Halevy (; born 1934)
* Élie Halévy, French philosopher and historian
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Élie Halévy (Chalfan)
Élie Halévy (Ḥalfan/Chalfan), or Élie Halfon-Halévy ( Fürth 1760 – Paris 5 November 1826), was a French-Jewish author who composed his works, most notably his poetry, in Hebrew. He is the father of Fromental and Léon Halévy.
Life ...
, French Hebrew poet and author
*Rabbi
Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi Eliezer ben Yoel HaLevi of Bonn (Hebrew acronym Ra'avyah; 1140–1225To be more precise, it is only known that he died after 1220.) was a Rabbinic scholar in Germany. He had a significant influence on Asher ben Jehiel (the ROSH). As a Rishon, he w ...
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Fromental Halévy
Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy (; 27 May 179917 March 1862), was a French composer. He is known today largely for his opera ''La Juive''.
Early career
Halévy was born in Paris, son of the cantor ...
, French composer
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Geneviève Halévy
Marie-Geneviève Raphaëlle Halévy-Bizet-Straus (26 February 1849 – 22 December 1926) was a French salonnière who was the wife of Georges Bizet. She inspired Marcel Proust as a model for the Duchesse de Guermantes and Odette de Crécy in ''À l ...
, French salonnière, daughter of Fromental Halévy and wife of Georges Bizet.
* Herzl Halevi, Major General, Israel Defence Forces, Director of Israeli Military Intelligence.
* Ilan Halevi (1943–2013), French-Israeli Jewish pro-Palestinian journalist and politician
* Joseph Halévy, French Orientalist (Hebraist) and traveller
* Léon Halévy, French author and dramatic writer; brother of Jacques François Fromental Halévy
* Louise Halévy, a character in ''
Mobile Suit Gundam 00
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Tzachi Halevy
Tzachi Halevy (or Tsahi HaLevi, he, צחי הלוי; born March 12, 1975) is an Israeli film and television actor and a singer.
Early and personal life
Tzachi Halevy was born in Petah Tikva, Israel, to a Sephardic Jewish family.Yehuda Halevi ()
* Rabbi
Yihya Yitzhak Halevi
Yiḥya Yitzḥak Halevi, son of Moshe (Musa) Yitzḥak Halevi ( he, יחיא יצחק הלוי also commonly known as ''Mori'' Yiḥya Yitzḥak from the house of Yitzḥak Halevi) (1867 – 1932), was a Yemeni born rabbinical scholar who s ...
Yitzhak HaLevi ben Mordechai Raitzes
Yitzhak HaLevi ben Mordechai Raitzes ( 1730 – 14 June 1799) was a Polish rabbi.
Biographical information
Yitzhak HaLevi was born circa 1730 in Lviv to Mordechai Halevi Raitzes the ''Rosh Mesivta'' in Lviv, who was the son of Yehoshua (Joshua) ...
Rabbi
A rabbi () is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi – known as '' semikha'' – following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud. The basic form o ...
*Rabbi
Yosef Zvi HaLevy Yosef Zvi HaLevy ( he, יוסף צבי הלוי: 1874 – 13 March 1960) was an Israeli rabbi and head of the rabbinical court for Tel Aviv-Yafo.
Biography
HaLevy was born in 1874 in Vilijampolė, Kaunas, Lithuania, then part of the Russian Em ...
(1874–1960), Israeli rabbi
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Yossi Klein Halevi
Yossi Klein Halevi ( he, יוסי קליין הלוי, born 1953) is an American-born Israeli author and journalist.
Biography
Yossi Klein Halevi was born and raised in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York in a Jewish family. His parents, Zoltan a ...
(; born 1953), American author, journalist and researcher of Israeli culture
*Rabbi Zerachiah ha-Levi of Girona (1115-1186)
* Saadia Kobashi (1904–1990), the Levite
Yemenite Jewish
Yemenite Jews or Yemeni Jews or Teimanim (from ''Yehudei Teman''; ar, اليهود اليمنيون) are those Jews who live, or once lived, in Yemen, and their descendants maintaining their customs. Between June 1949 and September 1950, the ...