Halevi
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Halevi or Halevy (Hebrew: הלוי, lit. 'the Levi or the Levite') may refer to:
- An Israelite man descended patrilineally from the tribe of Levi,[1] and his full name may be written as (personal name) HaLevi (family name).
- Someone whose family name is Halevi
As a title
[edit]- Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein was a Levi[2]
- Rabbi Yisroel Belsky was a Levi[3]
- 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:
- Abraham Fraenkel
- Shmuel Wosner
- Meir Abulafia
- Samuel ibn Naghrillah
- Yehuda Ashlag
- Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik
- Pinchas Horowitz
- Hillel Paritcher
- Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin, The Chozeh (Seer) of Lublin
- Shmuel Schecter
- Joseph H. H. Weiler
- Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller
- Abraham ibn Daud
- Salomon ibn Parhon
- Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz
- Shlomo Wahrman
- Issachar Berend Lehmann
- Avraham Bromberg
- Max Letteris
- Joseph ibn Migash
- Yechezkel Landau
- Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin
- Luis de Torres
- Chaim Herzog
- Avraham Gombiner
As a family name
[edit]Some people whose family name is Halevi are:
- Rabbi Abraham ibn Daud ha-Levi
- Rabbi Aaron ben Abba ha-Levi ben Johanan
- Rabbi Aharon HaLevi (1235 – c. 1290; Hebrew: אהרן הלוי)
- Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel
- Rabbi David HaLevi Segal
- Daniel Halévy, French historian
- Efraim Halevy (אפרים הלוי; born 1934)
- Élie Halévy, French philosopher and historian
- Élie Halévy (Chalfan), French Hebrew poet and author
- Rabbi Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi
- Fromental Halévy, French composer
- Geneviève Halévy, 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
- Ludovic Halévy, French dramatist
- Moses Isaac Ha-Levi Horowitz
- Odelya Halevi, Israeli actress
- Rabbi Samuel Neta HaLevi
- Shai Halevi, Israeli computer scientist
- Tzachi Halevy (born 1975), Israeli film and television actor and singer
- Rabbi Yehuda Halevi (יהודה הלוי)
- Rabbi Yihya Yitzhak Halevi (1867–1932), Yemenite Rabbi and President of Rabbinic Court
- Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog
- Rabbi Yitzhak Isaac Halevy Rabinowitz, Jewish historian, and founder of the Agudath Israel organization.
- Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi ben Mordechai Raitzes, Polish Rabbi
- Rabbi Yosef Zvi HaLevy (1874–1960), Israeli rabbi
- Yossi Klein Halevi (יוסי קליין הלוי; 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 leader who signed the Israeli Declaration of Independence using using the name "Saadia Kobashi HaLevi".
References
[edit]- ^ "Medical Definition of Levite". Retrieved 2017-02-19.
- ^ per HaLevi in: Or Yechezkel : Rav Yechezkel HaLevi Levenstein (7 Vol.). Retrieved 2017-02-19.
- ^ per HaLevi in: "HaRav Chaim Yisroel HaLevi Belsky, Zatsal: Recorded, Remembered". 9 March 2016. Retrieved 2017-02-19.