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Leiba is a given name and a surname of Jewish origin, a variant of Leib. Notable people with the surname include: Surname * Barry Leiba (born 1957), American computer scientist * Raw Leiba, American actor Given name * Avram Leiba Zissu (1888-1956), Jewish Romanian writer, political essayist, industrialist, Jewish community activist *Leiba Dobrovskii (1910-1969), Jewish Ukrainian soldier of the Soviet Red Army who was captured prisoner, hid his ethnic identity, escaped, and joined the Ukrainian Insurgent Army *Leiba Feldbin, birth name of Alexander Orlov (Soviet defector) *Ştrul Leiba Croitoru, birth name of Ion Călugăru (1902-1956), Jewish Romanian novelist, short story writer, journalist, and critic See also * *Leiva (other) Leiva may refer to: *Leiva, Nariño, a municipality and town in the Nariño Department, Colombia * Leiva, Boyacá, a municipality in Boyacá Department, Colombia, largest town Villa de Leyva * Leiva River, a river in Chile *Leiva, La Rioja, a mu ...
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Leib
Leib is a given name and (less often) a surname that are usually of Jewish origin.Leib
Baby Names Pedia Leib often stems from ''לייב'' (leib), the Yiddish word for lion. The word for lion is ''Löwe'', other - partly dialectal - German forms of the word are ''Löw'', ''Loew'', ''Löb'', ''Leb'' and ''Leib''. In Standard German, ''Leib'' means "body", but that is in general not the source for the Yiddish name. Leib may also be connected to the Hebrew word ''לב'' (lev or leb), meaning "heart".


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* Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (1847–1905), Polish rabbi *

Barry Leiba
Barry Leiba (born 1957) is a computer scientist and software researcher. He retired from IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York in February 2009, and now works for FutureWei Technologies as a Director of Internet Standards. His work has focused for many years on electronic mail and anti-spam technology, on mobile computing and the Internet of things, and on Internet standards. Work on e-mail and anti-spam technology Leiba's interest in e-mail began in the early 1980s, with IBM's PROFS system, and with a proprietary e-mail system developed for an IBM customer. In the early 1990s he and his team at IBM Research developed an early implementation of an integrated multimedia e-mail system, called ''Ultimail'', which became part of IBM's TCP/IP product for OS/2. The work on Ultimail led to development of the Internet Messaging Framework, a toolkit for developing Internet-standards-compliant clients and servers. He was part of the team that developed th ...
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Raw Leiba
Raw Leiba is an American actor, producer, stunt coordinator, former athlete and model. Career Leiba played Stringer Bell's bodyguard in three episodes of ''The Wire (TV series), The Wire'': "Reformation (The Wire episode), Reformation", "Middle Ground (The Wire episode), Middle Ground" and "Mission Accomplished (The Wire episode), Mission Accomplished". He was named ''Gym Magazines "Fittest Human" for 2007. In 2015, he appeared in a film called ''The Mint (film), The Mint''. Leiba appeared in the 2015 film ''Bone Tomahawk'', where he starred in a role as the main antagonist called "Wolf Skull", the savage and muteness, mute leader of an extremely violent Cannibalism, cannibalistic mute clan, called the "Cave dweller, Troglodytes". Filmography Film Television Video games References External links

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Avram Leiba Zissu
Abraham Leib Zissu (first name also Avram, middle name also Leiba or Leibu; he, אברהם לייב זיסו; January 25, 1888 – September 6, 1956) was a Romanian writer, political essayist, industrialist, and spokesman of the Romanian Jews, Jewish Romanian community. Of modest social origin and a recipient of Hasidic Judaism, Hasidic education, he became a cultural activist, polemicist, and newspaper founder, remembered primarily for his ''Mântuirea'' daily. During the 1910s, he involved himself in the effort to unify and reactivate the local Zionism, Zionist movement. By the end of World War I, Zissu also emerged as a theorist of Religious Zionism, preferring communitarianism and self-segregation to the Jewish assimilation, assimilationist option, while also promoting literary modernism in his activity as novelist, dramatist, and cultural sponsor. He was the inspiration behind the Jewish Party (Romania), Jewish Party, which competed with the mainstream Union of Romanian Jews ( ...
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Leiba Dobrovskii
Leyba-Itzko Dobrovsky or Dobrovskii (''Лейба Іцик Добровський''; 1910–1969) was a History of the Jews in Russia, Jewish Ukrainian soldier of the Soviet Red Army who was captured prisoner and hid his ethnic identity to survive the Holocaust. Early life and education Dobrovskii was born in 1910 in Olshanitsa of the Rokitnyansky district in the Kiev region to parents Josip and Perl. He went on to graduate from the Law Faculty of the Kiev State University and was accepted into the Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union), Communist Party of Ukraine, with membership No. 24170. War combat Dobrovskii was drafted for military service on 22 June 1941, in the 5th Red Banner Army, 5th Army, as soon as Nazi Germany Operation Barbarossa, invaded, and was sent to the Railway District's Military Committee of the city of Kiev assigned to work there as administrative clerk at one of the evacuation points. In the first days and weeks of the German invasion, the 5th Army fough ...
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Alexander Orlov (Soviet Defector)
Alexander Mikhailovich Orlov ( be, Аляксандар Мікалаевіч Арлоў, born Leiba Lazarevich Feldbin, later Lev Lazarevich Nikolsky, and in the US assuming the name of Igor Konstantinovich Berg; 21 August 1895 – 25 March 1973), was a colonel in the Soviet secret police and NKVD ''Rezident'' in the Second Spanish Republic. In 1938, Orlov refused to return to the Soviet Union due to fears of execution, and instead fled with his family to the United States. He is mostly known for secretly transporting the entire Spanish gold reserves to the USSR in exchange for military aid for Spanish Republic and for his book, ''The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes''. Throughout his career, Orlov was also known under the names of Lev Lazarevich Nikolsky, Lev Leonidovich Nikolaev, SCHWED (his OGPU/NKVD code name), Leo Feldbiene (as in his Austrian passport), William Goldin (as in his US passport), Koornick (the name of his Jewish relatives living in the US). Travelling in t ...
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Ion Călugăru
Ion Călugăru (; born Ștrul Leiba Croitoru, Ion Călugăru, Ioan Lăcustă''"Uzina care încearcă să gonească morții". Note nepublicate (1948)'' at thMemoria Digital Library retrieved February 17, 2010 also known as Buium sin Strul-Leiba Croitoru, Liviu Rotman (ed.), Demnitate în vremuri de restriște', Editura Hasefer, Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania & Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania, Bucharest, 2008, p.174. B. Croitoru;Călinescu, p.795; Crohmălniceanu, p.346Tudor Opriș, ''Istoria debutului literar al scriitorilor români în timpul școlii (1820-2000)'', Aramis Print, Bucharest, 2002, p.132. Ioana Pârvulescu"Personajul episodic iese în față" in '' România Literară'', Nr. 16/2002 February 14, 1902 – May 22, 1956) was a Romanian novelist, short story writer, journalist and critic. As a figure on Romania's modernist scene throughout the early interwar period, he was noted for combining a picturesque perspective ...
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