Ashkenazi (surname)
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Ashkenazi is a surname, and may refer to:
- Abraham AshkenaziAbraham AshkenaziAbraham Ashkenazi was the Sephardi chief rabbi of Palestine.Ashkenazi was born at Janishar, near Salonica, in 1813. Aged fifteen, he was taken by his father to Jerusalem, where he studied rabbinical literature in the various colleges...
, 19th-century rabbi at Jerusalem - Bezalel AshkenaziBezalel AshkenaziBezalel ben Abraham Ashkenazi was a rabbi and talmudist who lived in Ottoman Palestine during the 16th century. He is best known as the author of Shittah Mekubetzet, a commentary on the Talmud. He is very straightforward in his writings and occasionally offers textual amendments to the Talmud...
, 16th-century rabbi and Talmud scholar - Dan AshkenaziDan AshkenaziDan Ashkenazi was a 13th century German Talmudist and exegete. He was a prominent Talmudists of Germany and the teacher of Mordecai ben Hillel....
(13th century), German Talmudist - Eliezer ben Elijah AshkenaziEliezer ben Elijah AshkenaziEliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi was a Talmudist, rabbi, physician, and many-sided scholar. Though of a German family , he was probably born in the Levant, and received his Talmudic education under Joseph Taitazak in Salonica...
(1512-1585), rabbi, Talmudist, and physician - Gabi AshkenaziGabi AshkenaziGavriel "Gabi" Ashkenazi , was the Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defence Forces from 2007 to 2011.- Background and early life :...
(born 1954), Chief of the Israel Defense Forces General Staff - Jacob ben Isaac AshkenaziJacob ben Isaac AshkenaziRabbi Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi , of Janów , was the author of the Tseno Ureno, sometimes called the "Women's Bible", a 1616 Yiddish-language prose work whose structure parallels the weekly portions of the Pentateuch and Haftorahs used in Shabbat services.He also authored a supplement, the Melitz...
(1550-1625), rabbi and author of the Tseno UrenoTseno UrenoThe Tseno Ureno , sometimes called the Women's Bible, was a 1616 Yiddish-language prose work whose structure parallels the weekly portions of the Pentateuch and Haftorahs used in Jewish worship services... - Israel Sarug AshkenaziIsrael SarugIsrael Sarug Ashkenazi was a pupil of Isaac Luria, and devoted himself at the death of his master to the propagation of the latter's kabalistic system, for which he gained many adherents in various parts of Italy...
(16th century), pupil of Isaac LuriaIsaac LuriaIsaac Luria , also called Yitzhak Ben Shlomo Ashkenazi acronym "The Ari" "Ari-Hakadosh", or "Arizal", meaning "The Lion", was a foremost rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of Safed in the Galilee region of Ottoman Palestine... - Yisroel ben Shmuel Ashkenazi of ShklovYisroel ben Shmuel of ShklovYisroel ben Shmuel Ashkenazi of Shklov was a Talmudist, one of a group of Talmudical scholars of Shklov who were attracted to Vilna by Elijah Gaon...
- Leon Ashkenazi (Manitou)Leon Ashkenazi (Manitou)Rav Yehuda Leon Ashkenazi , also known as Manitou , a Jewish philosopher and educator, was a spiritual leader of 20th century French Jewry.- Life and Endeavors :Rav Ashkenazi's life encompassed two different cultures, which resulted in his ability to bridge...
(1922-1996), French rabbi and Jewish leader - Lior AshkenaziLior AshkenaziLior Ashkenazi , is an award-winning Israeli screen and stage actor.- Biography :Lior Ashkenazi was born to Sephardi Jewish immigrants from Turkey who moved to Israel in 1964. He grew up in the Neveh Yehoshua neighborhood in Ramat Gan. His father, Shmuel, worked as a printer. His mother, Victoria,...
(born 1969), Israeli actor - Malkiel AshkenaziMalkiel AshkenaziMalkiel Ashkenazi was a Sephardic rabbi and leader of the Jewish community in Hebron in 1540.In 1517, when the Ottoman Turks conquered Palestine, Sephardic Jews living in Ottoman Salonika were allowed to move to the Holy Land. Many of these Jews had been expelled from Spain in 1492...
(16th century), Sephardic rabbi in Hebron - Meir AshkenaziMeir AshkenaziMeir Ashkenazi was a sixteenth century Crimean Jew.An envoy of the Khan of Crimea in the sixteenth century, Ashkenazi was killed by pirates on a voyage from Gava to Dakhel , between the 15th and the 25th day of Tammuz , 1567...
(16th century), envoy of the Khan of Crimea - Mordecai ben Hillel Ashkenazi (1250-1298), German rabbi and legal authority
- Moses Ashkenazi (died 1701), also known as Johann Peter Spaeth, a German convert to Judaism
- Avraham Ashkenazi, Chacham Bashi of Jerusalem
- Motti AshkenaziMotti AshkenaziMotti Ashkenazi was a reserve captain in the Israel Defense Forces , who spearheaded a protest after the Yom Kippur War that led to the resignation of Prime Minister Golda Meir's government....
(contemporary), Israeli reserve captain - Tzvi AshkenaziTzvi AshkenaziRabbi Tzvi Hirsch ben Yaakov Ashkenazi , known as the Chacham Tzvi , for some time rabbi of Amsterdam, was a resolute opponent of the followers of the false messiah, Sabbatai Zevi. He had a chequered career, owing to his independence of character...
(1656-1718), rabbi of Amsterdam - Vladimir AshkenazyVladimir AshkenazyVladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy is a Russian-Icelandic conductor and pianist. Since 1972 he has been a citizen of Iceland, his wife Þórunn's country of birth. Since 1978, because of his many obligations in Europe, he and his family have resided in Meggen, near Lucerne in Switzerland...
(born 1937), Russian conductor and pianist - Yitzhak AshkenaziIsaac LuriaIsaac Luria , also called Yitzhak Ben Shlomo Ashkenazi acronym "The Ari" "Ari-Hakadosh", or "Arizal", meaning "The Lion", was a foremost rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of Safed in the Galilee region of Ottoman Palestine...
(1534-1572), also called Isaac Luria, rabbi and mystic, founder of an important branch of Kabbalah