Halevi
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Halevi or ha-Levi may refer to:
- Rabbi Abraham ibn DaudAbraham ibn DaudAbraham ibn Daud was a Spanish-Jewish astronomer, historian, and philosopher; born at Toledo, Spain about 1110; died, according to common report, a martyr about 1180. He is sometimes known by the abbreviation Rabad I or Ravad I. His mother belonged to a family famed for its learning...
ha-Levi - Rabbi Aaron ben Abba ha-Levi ben Johanan
- Rabbi Aharon HaLeviAharon HaLeviAaron ben Joseph ha-Levi of Barcelona , known by his Hebrew acronym RaaH , was a medieval rabbi, Talmudic scholar and Halakhist....
(אהרן הלוי; 1235-c. 1290) - Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel
- Rabbi Baruch ha-Levi EpsteinBaruch EpsteinBaruch Epstein or Baruch ha-Levi Epstein was a Lithuanian rabbi, best known for his Torah Temimah commentary on the Torah...
(1860-1941) , a Lithuanian rabbi - Rabbi David HaLevi SegalDavid HaLevi SegalDavid ha-Levi Segal , also known as the Turei Zahav after the title of his significant halakhic commentary on the Shulchan Aruch, was one of the greatest Polish rabbinical authorities....
- Daniel HalévyDaniel HalévyDaniel Halévy was a French historian.The son of Ludovic Halévy, Daniel was born and died in Paris...
, French historian - Efraim Halevy
- Élie HalévyÉlie HalévyÉlie Halévy was a French philosopher and historian who wrote studies of the British utilitarians, a history of 19th-century England and the acclaimed book of essays, Era of Tyrannies.-Biography:...
, French philosopher and historian - Élie Halévy (Chalfan)Élie Halévy (Chalfan)Élie Halévy , or Élie Halfon-Halévy was a French Hebrew poet and author. He is the father of Fromental and Léon Halévy.-Biography:...
, French Hebrew poet and author - Rabbi Eliezer ben Joel HaLeviEliezer ben Joel HaLeviEliezer ben Yoel HaLevi was a noted rabbi and Talmudic scholar. He was a grandson of Eliezer ben Nathan , and authored Sefer Avi Ezri which is more commonly known by its author's acronym as Sefer Ra'avyah. He had a significant influence on Asher ben Jehiel...
- Fromental HalévyFromental HalévyJacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy , was a French composer. He is known today largely for his opera La Juive.-Early career:...
, French composer - Ilan HaleviIlan HaleviIlan Halevi is a Jewish Palestinian journalist and politician, and one of the very few high ranking Jewish members of the Palestine Liberation Organization ....
- Joseph HalévyJoseph HalévyJoseph Halévy was an Ottoman born Jewish-French Orientalist and traveller.He did his most notable work was done in Yemen, which he crossed during 1869 to 1870 in search of Sabaean inscriptions, no European having traversed that land since AD 24; the result was a most valuable collection of 800...
, French Orientalist (Hebraist) and traveller - Léon HalévyLéon HalévyLéon Halévy , was a French civil servant, historian, and dramatist.Born to a Jewish family, the son of the writer and chazzan Élie Halévy, Léon was the younger brother of the composer Jacques François Fromenthal Halévy.After finishing a course at the Lycée Charlemagne, Halévy became a disciple and...
, French author and dramatic writer; brother of Jacques François Fromental Halévy - Ludovic HalévyLudovic HalévyLudovic Halévy was a French author and playwright. He was half Jewish : his Jewish father had converted to Christianity prior to his birth, to marry his mother, née Alexandrine Lebas.-Biography:Ludovic Halévy was born in Paris...
, French dramatist - Moses Isaac Ha-Levi HorowitzMoses HorowitzMoses Ha-Levi Horowitz , also known as Moishe Hurvitz, Moishe Isaac Halevy-Hurvitz, etc., was a playwright and actor in the early years of Yiddish theater...
- Rabbi Samuel Neta HaLevi
- Rabbi Yehuda HaleviYehuda HaleviJudah Halevi was a Spanish Jewish physician, poet and philosopher. He was born in Spain, either in Toledo or Tudela, in 1075 or 1086, and died shortly after arriving in Palestine in 1141...
- Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi HerzogYitzhak HaLevi HerzogRabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog , also known as Isaac Herzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, his term lasting from 1921 to 1936...
- Rabbi Yitzhak Isaac Halevy RabinowitzYitzhak Isaac Halevy RabinowitzYitzhak Isaac Halevy was a rabbi, Jewish historian, and founder of the Agudath Israel organization. Relatively little of his correspondence survived the Holocaust, and so information concerning his activities is scarce...
, Jewish historian, and founder of the Agudath IsraelAgudath IsraelAgudath Israel can refer to any of several related organizations, including:*World Agudath Israel, an international movement*Agudath Israel of America, an American organization*Agudat Yisrael, an Israeli political party...
organization. - Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi ben Mordechai RaitzesYitzhak HaLevi ben Mordechai RaitzesYitzhak HaLevi ben Mordechai Raitzes 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 Raitzes who was martyred in Lviv on 13 May 1728...
, PolishPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
RabbiRabbiIn Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי , meaning "My Master" , which is the way a student would address a master of Torah... - Rabbi Yosef Zvi HaLevyYosef Zvi HaLevyYosef Zvi HaLevy 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 Empire, and was the son of Rabbi Avraham HaLevy...
(1874-1960), Israeli rabbi - Yossi Klein HaleviYossi Klein HaleviYossi Klein Halevi is an Israeli author and journalist.-Biography:Halevi was born and raised in New York in a Jewish family. He completed a BA in Jewish Studies in Brooklyn College in 1978, and completed his MA in Journalism at Northwestern University...
, American author, journalist and researcher of Israeli culture - Rabbi Zerachiah ha-Levi of GironaZerachiah ha-Levi of GironaZerachiah ben Isaac Ha-Levi Gerondi , called the ReZaH, RaZBI or Baal Ha-Maor was born about 1125 in the town of Girona, Spain – hence the name Gerondi – and died after 1186 in Lunel...
- Saadia KobashiSaadia KobashiSaadia Kobashi was a leader of the Yemenite Jewish community in Israel, and one of the signatories of the country's declaration of independence.Born in Yemen, he immigrated to Ottoman Palestine in 1909, settling in Jerusalem....
, the Levite Yemenite JewishYemenite JewsYemenite Jews are those Jews who live, or whose recent ancestors lived, in Yemen . Between June 1949 and September 1950, the overwhelming majority of Yemen's Jewish population was transported to Israel in Operation Magic Carpet...
leader who signed the Israeli Declaration of Independence Saadia Kobashi HaLevi.