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Benzion Cohen
Ben-Zion () is a Hebrew given name. Alternative spellings in English include Ben Zion, Benzion, and Bension. It may refer to the following people: Given name * Ben Zion Abba Shaul (1924–1998), rosh yeshiva, Porat Yosef Yeshiva * Ben-Zion Alfes (1851–1941), rabbi * Ben-Zion Ben-Yehuda, birth name of Itamar Ben-Avi (1882–1943), first native speaker of Modern Hebrew as the son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda; journalist and Zionist activist * Benzion Judah Berkowitz (1803–1879), Hebrew scholar * Ben-Zion Bokser (1907–1984), American Conservative rabbi * Ben-Zion Dinur (1884–1973), Israeli politician * Bentsion Fleishman (born 1923), Russian mathematician * Benzion Freshwater (born 1948), British property investor * Ben-Zion Gold (1923–2016), American rabbi * Ben Zion Goldberg (1895–1972), American journalist * Ben-Zion Gopstein (born 1969), Israeli radical right-wing activist * Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam (born 1955), fifth Bobover Rebbe * Ben Zion Halberstam (1874� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben (Hebrew)
The Hebrew word Ben (), meaning "son" or "boy", forms part of many surnames in Hebrew. In the English Bible, such names include: * Ben-ammi, "son of my people" * Benaiah, "son of Yah(God)" * Bene-berak, "sons of lightning" * Ben-hadad, "son of Hadad" * Ben-hail, "son of valor" * Ben-Ishado, "son of Ishado" * Benjamin, "son of the right hand" or "son of the south" * Ben-oni, "son of my sorrow" * Ben-Zion, "son of Zion" See also * Bar (Aramaic) A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. It is the male equivalent of a matronymic. Patronymics are used, b ... {{surname, Ben ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Zion Halberstam
Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam (1874–1941) was the second Bobover Rebbe, known as the Baal Kedushas Tzion. He was murdered by the Nazis in 1941. Biography Halberstam was born in Bikofsk in 1874. His father was Shlomo Halberstam (1847–1905), the first Rebbe of Bobov, and a scion of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz. Upon his father's death Halberstam succeeded him as Rebbe. He authored a commentary on the Torah called ''Kedushas Tzion''. Lwów, where Halberstam then lived, fell under Nazi control in July, 1941. For about a month Halberstam hid in a room whose door was secretly blocked by a large bookcase. But a friend convinced him to come out of hiding, on the theory that the Germans were harsher to people who were found hiding. The friend also argued that the Germans would honor Halberstam’s official papers that declared he was a foreign resident. On Friday, July 25, he left his place of hiding and established himself openly in a separate room in the apartment. Early in the mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bentzi Moshel
Ben Zion Moshel (; born July 31, 1993) is an Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...i footballer who plays for Maccabi Ironi Ashdod. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Moshel, Bentzi 1993 births Living people Israeli men's footballers Footballers from Ashdod F.C. Ashdod players Hapoel Ashdod F.C. players Hapoel Ramat Gan Givatayim F.C. players Maccabi Ironi Ashdod F.C. players Israeli Premier League players Liga Leumit players Israeli people of Mountain Jewish descent Men's association football forwards 21st-century Israeli sportsmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bentsion Monastyrsky
Bentsion Monastyrsky (, 1903–1977) known in the Soviet Union as Boris Savelyevich Monastyrsky () was a Soviet cinematographer. Awards :1944: Order of the Red Star for the World War II film ''Rainbow'' :1947: Stalin State Prize of second degree for the film '' Cruiser 'Varyag''' *1948: Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta "for merits in the field of Polish-Soviet cooperation in the field of film art" Postanowienie o odznaczeniu z dnia 26 kwietnia 1948 r. za zasługi w dziedzinie współpracy polsko-radzieckiej na polu sztuki filmowej :1969: Honored Artist of the RSFSR
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Benzion Miller
Benzion Miller (, ; 8 December 1947 – 3 February 2025) was a German-born American cantor, schochet (kosher slaughterer) and mohel (circumciser). Early life and career Miller was born in a displaced persons camp in Fernwald, Germany. Miller's singing career began at the age of five. Miller studied music theory and solfège under Cantor Samuel B. Taube of Montreal. He studied voice production at the Champagne School for Music in Montreal and with Dr. Puggell, cantor Avshalom Zfira, and Allan Bowers. As an interpreter of liturgical music, Benzion Miller sang an operatic repertoire as well as Jewish and Chassidic folk music. He appeared with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, the Rishon L'Tzion Symphony, the Haifa Symphony and members of the London Symphony. He also recorded for the Milken Archive, in Barcelona, Spain with the Barcelona National Symphony Orchestra. Miller was among the first group of cantors to visit and sing in Eastern European count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben-Zion Leitner
Ben-Zion Leitner (; 1927 – March 25, 2012) was an Israeli soldier, who received the nation's highest military decoration, the Hero of Israel citation (now the Medal of Valor), for heroism during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Career He led an assault that blew up of a bunker at a police position in Iraq Suwaydan 'Iraq Suwaydan (, ) was a Palestinian Arab village located northeast of Gaza City. It was captured by Israeli forces in Operation Yoav against the defending Egyptian Army during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The village infrastructure, with the ex ..., in which half of his face became paralysed. He was a native of Odessa References 1920s births 2012 deaths Israeli soldiers Israeli military personnel of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War Military personnel from Odesa Odesa Jews Recipients of the Medal of Valor (Israel) Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine {{Israel-mil-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bension Kohen
Rabbi Bension Kohen or haKohen (; born in Djerba, Tunisia, died 1999 in Jerusalem) was a writer of literature on Hebrew grammar and literature. He was the author of ''Sfath Emeth'', a work on the pronunciation of the Hebrew alphabet. Lineage In the introduction to his work, Kohen provides a purported lineage going back over a dozen generations of kohanim born at Djerba. Among his claimed patrilineal ancestors are Rabbi (d. 1848), himself an author of multiple works on Hebrew grammar. Citing a similar lineage table from ''Heritage of Yehoyada HaKohen'' (), Kohen claims to trace the family back to Yitzchak HaKohen the Elder, who had emigrated from Israel to Djerba at the Second Temple Destruction. Sfath Emeth Kohen's flagship work, the ''Sfath Emeth'', was first printed in Jerusalem in 1987. The work purports to present the "authentic" pronunciation of the 22 Hebrew letters based on Geonic literature and the work of Hebrew grammarians such as Rav Saadya Gaon, Rabbi Yitzhak b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benzion Klatzko
Benzion Zvi Klatzko (born June 11, 1968) is a United States-based Orthodox rabbi best known as the founder of Shabbat.com. Education Klatzko graduated from Hebrew Academy of Cleveland in 1981, followed by Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem of Staten Island. He was ordained at the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York on August 13, 1993 by Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum. Career After completing his studies, Klatzko was Rabbi of the Agudath Israel synagogue of 14th Ave (Pirchei Minyan) in Brooklyn, New York, and was then the rabbi of congregation Shaarey Tefiloh in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. In 1999, he was appointed campus rabbi of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he organized outreach programs for college students through the Jewish Awareness Movement. During this period, he ran monthly classes on Jewish thought in Hollywood for many writers, producers, actors, and directors in the movie industry earning the moniker "The Hollywood Rabbi". Starting in 2003, Klatzko began to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben-Zion Keshet
Ben-Zion Keshet (; 5 August 1914 – 8 August 1984) was an Israeli politician. Biography Born on 5 August 1914, in Riga, Russian Empire (today in Latvia), Keshet attended a Hebrew high school in his home city. He joined the Betar youth movement and helped establish the Estonian branch in 1932. In 1934, he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine, where he became a member of the governing council of Betar in 1935. He also became a member of Betar's enlistment battalion and of the central committee of the National Labour Federation in Eretz-Israel, on which he served between 1939 and 1942. From 1942 until 1943, he was a member of the general staff of the Irgun, before being exiled to Eritrea in 1944. Knesset website He returned to Israel in 1948 and was amongst the founding membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Ben-Zion Ibn Alamani
According to the Old Testament of the Bible, Aaron ( or ) was an Israelite prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of Moses. Information about Aaron comes exclusively from religious texts, such as the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament (Luke, Acts, and Hebrews), and the Quran. The Hebrew Bible relates that, unlike Moses, who grew up in the Egyptian royal court, Aaron and his elder sister Miriam remained with their kinsmen in the northeastern region of the Nile Delta. When Moses first confronted the Egyptian king about the enslavement of the Israelites, Aaron served as his brother's spokesman to the Pharaoh. Part of the Law given to Moses at Sinai granted Aaron the priesthood for himself and his male descendants, and he became the first High Priest of the Israelites. Levitical priests or ''kohanim'' are traditionally believed and halakhically required to be of direct patrilineal descent from Aaron. According to the Book of Numbers, Aaron died at 123 years of age, on Moun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Zion Hyman
Ben Zion Hyman (October 22, 1891 – July 17, 1984) was a Canadian Jewish bookseller. Originally from Mazyr in what is now Belarus, Hyman graduated from the Odessa Polytechnical Institute. After coming to Canada (settling first in Guelph, Ontario), he graduated in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto. Hyman and his wife, Fannie (née Konstantynowski), (in Polish, Fela; in Yiddish, Faigel), opened Jewish Toronto's most prominent book store, Hyman's Book and Art Shoppe (later known as Hyman's Booksellers, and still later known as Hyman & Son) at 412 Spadina Avenue in 1926. In 1953, his son Gurion Hyman opened a branch at 1032 Eglinton Avenue West in the Cedarvale/Forest Hill area of Toronto. Hyman closed the store in the early 1970s after the death of his wife. During his life, Hyman was active as a member, founder and/or president of a number of organizations. These included: Hadassah, JIAS, Toronto Zionist Council, Toronto JNF, Keren Hatarbut, Poale Zion, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zivion
Benzion Hoffman (; 1 May 1874 – 14 October 1954), best known by the pen name Zivion (, ''Tsivyen''), was a Yiddish writer, journalist, and political activist. Biography Hoffman was born in the village of Krug, near Boysk, in the Courland Governorate. He studied at various ''yeshivas'' in the region, meanwhile becoming acquainted with Maskilic literature, before moving to Vilna at the age of sixteen. There, he was ordained as a rabbi by '' av beis din'' Rabbi Shlomo ha-Kohen. He later studied at the Universities of Karlsruhe, Heidelberg, Berlin, and Bern, and obtained a doctorate in engineering. Hoffman published under the pseudonyms Zivion (, a near-anagram of ), Tz. (), Ish Tikva (, 'Man of Hope'), Afna, and Rozman. His first articles appeared in Hebrew in ''Ha-Melitz'' in 1895; he would go on to contribute to ', ''Forverts'', '' Di tsukunft'', '' Der yidisher arbeyter'', '' Folkstsaytung'', and ''Fraynd'', among other periodicals. The following year, he co-founded a soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
