Schleifer is a German-language surname. Its Polonized form is
Szlajfer, Russified of Yiddish:
Shleifer.
Notable people with this surname include.
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Abdallah Schleifer
S. Abdallah S. Schleifer (born Marc Schleifer; 1935) is a prominent Middle East expert; a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (United States) and at the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought (Jordan).
Career
A former ...
v S. Abdallah Schleifer (b. Marc Schleifer, 1935), prominent Middle East expert
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James T. Schleifer a.k.a. James Thomas Schleifer, American historian
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Meyer Schleifer (1908–1994), American bridge player
Schleifer is also the German term for
Slide (musical ornament)
The slide (Schleifer in German, Coulé in French, Superjectio in Latin)Donington, p. 217. is a musical ornament often found in baroque musical works, but used during many different periods. It instructs the performer to begin two or three scale ...
and the
Schleifer dialect
The Schleifer dialect ( wen, Slepjanska narěč) is a transitional dialect of the Upper and Lower Sorbian languages spoken in the Schleife region. Among the Sorbian dialects, the Schleifer dialect is most closely related to the , whose language ...
, which is transitional between the Upper and Lower Sorbian languages.
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German-language surnames