Schachter, Schächter or Schechter (from Yiddish

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, 'to slaughter'.

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:שכטר also Shechter) is a Yiddish and German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

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Daniel Schacter Daniel Lawrence Schacter (born June 17, 1952) is an American psychologist. He is William R. Kenan, Jr.'s endowed professor of psychology at Harvard University. His research has focused on psychological and biological aspects of human memory and a ...

, psychologist, neuroscientist, researcher in human memory *

Binyumen Schaechter Binyumen Schaechter (born 1963) is a conductor, music director, composer, arranger, solo performer, and piano accompanist in the world of Yiddish music. He also lectures on topics related to Yiddish music, language, and culture. He is a composer (k ...

, composer, arranger, conductor *

Carl Schachter Carl E. Schachter (born June 1, 1932"Carl E. Schachter," in "New Jersey, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1956–1964" on ''Ancestry.com'') is an American music theorist noted for his expertise in Schenkerian analysis. Born in Chicago, he attended Austi ...

, music theorist specializing in Schenkerian analysis *

Hershel Schachter Hershel Schachter (born ) is an American Orthodox rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), part of Yeshiva University in New York City. Schachter is a halakhic advisor to the Orthodox Union and ...

, Rosh Yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary * Herschel Schacter (1917–2013), American Orthodox rabbi *

Joshua Schachter Joshua Schachter (; born January 1, 1974) is an American entrepreneur and the creator of Delicious and GeoURL, and co-creator of Memepool. He holds a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Sch ...

, creator of the website ''Delicious'' *

Mioara Mugur-Schächter Mioara Mugur-Schächter is a French-Romanian physicist specialized in fundamental quantum mechanics, probability theory, and theory of communication of information. She is also an epistemologist. As a professor at the University of Reims, she f ...

, French specialist on Physics and Epistemology *

Norm Schachter Norm Schachter (April 30, 1914 – October 2, 2004), born in Brooklyn, New York, was an American football official in the National Football League (NFL) for 22 years from 1954 to 1975. Over his career in the NFL, he worked three Super Bowl ...

, American football official in the NFL * Oscar Schachter, international law and diplomacy professor *

Rafael Schächter Rafael Schächter (born 25 May 1905, died on the death march during the evacuation of Auschwitz in 1945), was a Czechoslovak composer, pianist and conductor of Jewish origin, organizer of cultural life in Terezín concentration camp. Life H ...

, Czechoslovakian composer, pianist and conductor, organizer of cultural life in Terezín concentration camp *

Sam Schachter Samuel Schachter (born May 8, 1990) is a Canadian Olympic beach volleyball player. In 2010 he won the FIVB World Junior (U-21) Championship with Garrett May. He and partner Josh Binstock were 2014 Canadian national champions, and represented Ca ...

, Canadian Olympic beach volleyball player *

Stanley Schachter Stanley Schachter (April 15, 1922 – June 7, 1997) was an American social psychologist best known for his development of the two factor theory of emotion in 1962 along with Jerome E. Singer. In his theory he states that emotions have two ing ...

, American psychologist * Steven Schachter, American director and screenwriter * Zalman Schachter (1924–2014), Jewish activist

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* Aaron Schechter, rosh yeshiva of the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin. * Alan Schechter, political scientist * Ben Schechter, American filmmaker *

Daniel Schechter Daniel S. Schechter (born 1962 in Miami, Florida) is an American and Swiss psychiatrist known for his clinical work and research on intergenerational transmission or "communication" of violent trauma and related psychopathology involving parents ...

, American psychiatrist, developmental neuroscientist, researcher in trauma and attachment *

Daniel Schechter (director) Daniel Schechter is an American film director, Film editing, editor and screenwriter. His film ''Supporting Characters'' debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012. His third film, Life of Crime (film), ''Life of Crime'', which stars Jennifer A ...

, American filmmaker and director *

Danny Schechter Daniel Isaac Schechter (June 27, 1942 – March 19, 2015) was an American television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic. He wrote and spoke about many issues including apartheid, civil rights, economics, foreign policy, jo ...

, American television producer and filmmaker *

Eric Schechter Eric Schechter (born August 1, 1950) is an American mathematician, retired from Vanderbilt University with the title of professor emeritus. His interests started primarily in analysis but moved into mathematical logic. Schechter is best known fo ...

, American mathematician *

Harold Schechter Harold Schechter (born June 28, 1948) is an American true crime writer who specializes in serial killers. He is a Professor Emeritus at Queens College, City University of New York where he taught classes in American literature and myth criticism ...

, American writer *

Itay Shechter Itay Menachem Shechter (or Etey Schechter, ; born 22 February 1987) is a retired Israeli professional footballer who played as a striker. Early life Shechter was born in Ramat Yishai, Israel, to a family of Ashkenazi Jewish ( Romanian-Jewish) ...

, Israeli footballer currently playing for Beitar Jerusalem. *

Jody Scheckter Jody David Scheckter (; born 29 January 1950) is a South African former racing driver and businessman, who competed in Formula One from to . Scheckter won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in with Ferrari, and remains the only Afric ...

, retired racing driver now farmer * Martin Schechter (epidemiologist), Canadian medical epidemiologist recognized for contributions to HIV and addiction research * Mathilde Roth Schechter, American founder of the U.S. National Women's League of Conservative Judaism. * Ofer Shechter, Israeli actor, entertainer, model and TV host. * Paul L. Schechter, American astronomer *

Peter Schechter Peter Schechter (born 1959) is an American political consultant and the executive producer and host of Altamar, a foreign policy podcast. Until June 2017, he was the Atlantic Council's Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and the foun ...

, American political consultant and author * Sarah Schechter, American rabbi *

Solomon Schechter Solomon Schechter (‎; 7 December 1847 – 19 November 1915) was a Moldavian-born British-American rabbi, academic scholar and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the ...

, rabbi *

Susan Schechter Susan Schechter (1 May 1946 – 3 February 2004) was an American feminist and activist against domestic violence. She wrote three books on the subject and helped found one of the first women's shelters. Education and career Schechter was origina ...

(1946–2004), American domestic violence activist * Susan Schechter Bortner, American statistician * Yaakov Meir Shechter leader and teacher in the Breslov Hasidic movement in Israel.

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