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Chaya (Hebrew Given Name)
Chaya is a Hebrew female given name ( ', Classical Hebrew: , Israeli Hebrew: ; English pronunciations: , ). With its literal meaning "living", it is considered to be a feminine couterpart of the Hebrew masculine given name Haim. It has a number of other transliterations: Chaja, Haya, Khaya, Haia. East Slavic spelling: . Approximately before 1920s, for Ashkenazi Jews in Europe it was customary to record legal names of females in diminutive form. from the project "GIVEN NAMES, JUDAISM, AND JEWISH HISTORY" of JewishGen In the case of Chaya these were Chayka (), Chaika, Chajka, Khaika, Khayka, etc. East Slavic spelling: . Notable people with the given name include: Variants of Chaya *Chaja Florentin, interviewed in the 2009 German documentary ''Chaja & Mimi'' *Chaja Goldstein (1908–1999), Po ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaya Mushka Schneerson
Chaya Mushka (Moussia) Schneerson (; March 16, 1901 – February 10, 1988), referred to by Lubavitchers as ''The Rebbetzin'', was the wife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh and last rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism. She was the second of three daughters of the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn. She was named after the wife of the third Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn. Biography Early life She was born in Babinovichi, near the city of Lubavitch on Shabbat, the 25th of Adar of the year 5661 (March 16, 1901 ( NS); March 3, 1901 ( OS)). At the request of her grandfather, Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, she was named Chaya Mushka after her great great grandmother, the wife of Menachem Mendel Schneersohn. She lived in Lubavitch until the autumn of 1915 when due to World War I, she and her family fled to Rostov. In 1920, on the death of her grandfather, the fifth Lubavitcher rebbe, Sholom Dovbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haika Grossman
Haika Grossman (; 20 November 1919 – 26 May 1996) was an Israeli politician and member of Knesset. In her youth, she was a Zionist leader in Europe, a partisan, and a participant in the ghetto uprisings in occupied Poland. Grossman was born in Białystok, Poland. As a teenager, she joined HaShomer HaTzair. As a leader of the movement in Poland, she was sent to the town of Brześć Litewski to organize the movement's activities there and in the surrounding region. When World War II erupted, she moved to Wilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania), where she was active in the emergency underground leadership of HaShomer HaTzair. Upon the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, she returned to Białystok, where she helped organize the underground movement in the Białystok Ghetto. She served as a courier between that ghetto and those of Wilno, Lublin, Warsaw and others. Using forged papers, she managed to pass as a Polish woman named Halina Woranowicz. Her Polish identity enabled her to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chajka Klinger
Chajka Klinger (; September 25, 1917April 18, 1958) was the leader of the Jewish Fighting Organization in Będzin Ghetto, interrogated under torture by the Gestapo, escaped and was the first of the ghetto fighters to arrive to Israel. Biography Chajka Klinger was born on September 25, 1917, in the city of Będzin in the Zaglebie region of southwestern Poland. She was a member to a poor Hasidic family that barely supported itself through a grocery store run by Chajka's mother, Perla (Schwinkelstein) Klinger. Her father, Leibel, spent his time studying the Torah his whole life. Chajka was accepted into the bilingual Furstenberg Gymnasium in Bedzin. She became fluent in several languages, including: Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew and German. In the 1930, she joined the local branch of Hashomer Hatzair, it was a Zionist-Socialist youth movement, and quickly became the group leader and a member of the local leadership. In 1938, she joined her comrades in Kalisz to train and prepare for im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chajka
Chajka (''Czajka'') (d. after 14 November 1781), mistress of the Polish king Stanisław August Poniatowski. She was a Pole of Jewish ancestry. She was daughter of the Jewish merchant Abramek Lwowski (''Abramek of Lwów'') and lived in Żwaniec. In 1781, her portrait was painted by the court painter, Krzysztof Radzwiłłowski. Czajka had a daughter named Elia (Ella). See also * Esterka Esterka (Estera) refers to a mythical Jewish mistress of Casimir the Great, the historical King of Poland who reigned between 1333 and 1370. Medieval Polish and Jewish chroniclers considered the legend as historical fact and report a wonderful lov ... * Paradisus Judaeorum Sources Mistresses of Stanisław August Poniatowski 18th-century Polish Jews Jewish concubines {{Poland-noble-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haya Shenhav
Haya Shenhav (; born December 9, 1936) is an Israeli author of stories and poems for both children and adults. She is best known for her children's book ''Rasberry Juice'' (Hebrew: מיץ פטל) by Am Oved Publishing (1970). In 1985, Shenhav was awarded the . In 2004, she was awarded the Bialik Prize for Literature as an acknowledgment of a lifetime's work in children's literature.In 2024 she had another of her works called ''100 Rooms'' illustrated by prominent illustrator Yirmi Pinkus, translated into English and published by Kalaniot Books. Biography Shenhav was born in Moshav Kfar Yehoshua in the Jezreel Valley, the daughter of farmers. Her father, Shmuel Dagan, was born and raised in Eastern Poland and immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1920 and was one of the founders of the moshav. Her mother, Frida, born in Germany, immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1932. Shenhav spent her childhood in the moshav surrounded by animals and agricultural work and acquired her primary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haya Shalom
Haya Shalom (; born December 4, 1944, in Jerusalem, Israel) is a lesbian feminist and human rights activist. She graduated from Hebrew University in Jerusalem in History Studies. Shalom was nominated among 1000 women for The Nobel Peace Prize. She is of Sephardic extraction. Social activism She is active in women anti-war movement Women in Black, she founded a Community for Lesbian Feminist (1987) and co-founded Coalition of Women for Just Peace (1988). Shalom has been involved in movements and projects which focus on prevention of violence against women, solidarity, promotion of peace, non-violent resistance and the role of lesbians in society. Haya Shalom was the initiator and organizer of the Women Poet's Festival (1996). She has been a member of the International board of advisory of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC). She received the Community Prize of the Gay and Lesbian Community (2000) in recognition of her work and efforts to support t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haya Kaspi
Haya Kaspi (; born 6 October 1948) is an Israeli operations researcher, statistician, and probability theorist. She is a professor emeritus of industrial engineering and management at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Education and career Kaspi was born in HaOgen. She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1971, and a master's degree in applied mathematics at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1974. Next, she went to the US for her doctoral studies, completing a Ph.D. in operations research at Cornell University in 1979. Her dissertation, ''Ladder Sets of Markov Additive Processes'', was supervised by N. U. Prabhu. After postdoctoral study at Princeton University, she returned to the Technion in 1980 as a lecturer. She was promoted to full professor in 1997. Recognition In 2008, Kaspi was selected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics "for contributions to the general theory of Markov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haya Harareet
Haya Harareet (; 20 September 1931 – 3 February 2021) was an Israeli actress and screenwriter. One of her major film roles was playing Esther, Ben Hur's love interest in the 1959 Hollywood-made film ''Ben-Hur''. Early life Haya Neuberg () was born in Haifa, in what was then British Mandatory Palestine (now the state of Israel), the second of three children. Her Ashkenazi Jewish parents, Reuben and Yocheved Neuberg, emigrated to the pre-Israel Yishuv community of Palestine from Poland when they were young. Her father worked for the government in Tel Aviv. She received the surname Hararit (later changed to Harareet), which means "mountainous" in Hebrew, at school. Career Harareet began her career in Israeli films with '' Hill 24 Doesn't Answer'' (1955), which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. She played opposite Virna Lisi in Francesco Maselli's '' The Doll that Took the Town'' (1957), an Italian film. Her major role as Esther in ''Ben-Hur'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haya Freedman
Haya Freedman (; 1923–2005) was a Polish-born Israeli mathematician known for her research on the Tamari lattice and on ring theory, and as a teacher of mathematics at the London School of Economics. Early life and education Haya Freedman was born in Lviv, which at that time was part of Poland, and at the age of ten moved to Mandatory Palestine. She earned a master's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, studying abstract algebra there under the supervision of Jacob Levitzki. She began doctoral studies under Dov Tamari in the early 1950s, doing research on the Tamari lattice that she would much later publish with Tamari. However, at that time her husband wanted to shift his own research from mathematics to computer science, and as part of that shift decided to move to England. Freedman moved with him in 1956, breaking off her studies. Instead, she completed a PhD at Queen Mary College in 1960, under the supervision of Kurt Hirsch. Academic career In 1965, Freedman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haia Lifșiț
Haia Lifșiț or Lifschitz (; December 14, 1903 – August 17, 1929) was a Romanian communist who died as a result of a hunger strike while in detention for her political opinions. Biography She was born in Chișinău, Kishinev, Bessarabia, in a family of petty civil servants of Jews, Jewish origin. While in high school, she joined the local communist organisation. After finishing high school, Haia worked a schoolteacher, however she was soon arrested for her political options by the Romanian authorities, as Bessarabia had joined Greater Romania in 1918. She was set free, but not allowed to teach any more, so she had to work in a factory, where she continued her political activism. In 1923 Haia Lifșiț was elected in the local committee of the still legal Union of Communist Youth (UTC). In May 1924 she was arrested again for distributing manifestos for the Romanian Communist Party. She was included in a group of communists put under trial in a major case that was transferred sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libs Of TikTok
Libs of TikTok is a handle for various far-right and anti-LGBT social-media accounts operated by Chaya Raichik ( ), a former real estate agent. Raichik uses the accounts to repost content created by left-wing and LGBT people on TikTok or other social-media platforms, often with mocking or derogatory commentary. With millions of followers on Twitter/X, Libs of TikTok is influential among American conservatives and the political right. The accounts promote hate speech and transphobia, and spread false claims, especially relating to medical care of transgender children. Libs of TikTok posts regularly label LGBT people and mental-health providers as " groomers". Libs of TikTok's social-media accounts have received several temporary suspensions and a permanent suspension from TikTok. Libs of TikTok posts have resulted in threats or harassment by followers against teachers, medical providers, children's hospitals, libraries, LGBT venues, and educational facilities. Twenty-one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
