Zelig is a name meaning "blessed" in

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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 *Zeli ...

, Selig. Notable people with the name include:

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* Froim-Zelig Aderca *

Zelig Bardichever Zelig Leib Bardichever ( yi, זעליק לייב באַרדיטשעװער; 1903–1937) was a Yiddish poet and composer from Bessarabia. His simple yet elegant poems and songs were written in a folkloric style and described the lives and poverty ...

* Zelig Reuven Bengis * Zelig Bidner *

Zelig Eshhar Zelig Eshhar is an Israeli immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. He was Chairman of the Department of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute twice, in the 1990s and 2000s. Biography Zelig Lipka ...

Zellig Harris Zellig Sabbettai Harris (; October 23, 1909 – May 22, 1992) was an influential American linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist of science. Originally a Semiticist, he is best known for his work in structural linguistics and dis ...

(1909–1992), American linguist *

Zelig Kalmanovich __NOTOC__ Zelig Hirsch Kalmanovich ( lv, Zēligs Hiršs Kalmanovičs) (1885–1944) was a Litvak Jewish philologist, translator, historian, and community archivist of the early 20th century. He was a renowned scholar of Yiddish. In 1929 he settl ...

* Zelig Mogulescu or

Sigmund Mogulesko Sigmund Mogulesko (16 December 1858 – 4 February 1914) — Yiddish: זעליק מאָגולעסקאָ ''Zelik Mogulesko'', first name also sometimes spelled as Zigmund, Siegmund, Zelig, or Selig, last name sometimes spelled Mogulescu &m ...

(1858–1914), actor in Yiddish theater *

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 Ros ...

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 No ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

* Chaim Zelig Slonimski

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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 ...

(1888–1912), an American gangster *

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 shoo ...

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