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Uziel (other)
Uziel or Uzziel () is documented as a Jewish family name in early 15th century Spain. Notable people with this surname include: * Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel * Isaac Uziel * Jacob Uziel * Joseph Uziel * Judah Uziel * Oren Uziel * Samuel Uziel * Yonatan Uziel See also

* (the father of) Jonathan ben Uzziel * Hayyim ben Abraham Uziel * Samuel ben Joseph Uziel * Uziel Gal, designer of the Uzi submachine gun * Uzi * Uziel (angel) {{surname Surnames of Jewish origin Hebrew-language surnames Surnames of Sephardic origin ...
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Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of historical History of ancient Israel and Judah, Israel and Judah. Jewish ethnicity, nationhood, and religion are strongly interrelated, "Historically, the religious and ethnic dimensions of Jewish identity have been closely interwoven. In fact, so closely bound are they, that the traditional Jewish lexicon hardly distinguishes between the two concepts. Jewish religious practice, by definition, was observed exclusively by the Jewish people, and notions of Jewish peoplehood, nation, and community were suffused with faith in the Jewish God, ...
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Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel
Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (, born 23 May 1880, died 4 September 1953), sometimes rendered as Ouziel, was the Sephardi chief rabbi of Mandatory Palestine from 1939 to 1948, and of Israel from 1948 until his death in 1953. Biography Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel was born in Jerusalem, where his father, Joseph Raphael, was the chief justice of the Sephardi community of Jerusalem, as well as president of the community council. At the age of twenty he became a yeshivah teacher and also founded a yeshivah called Mahazikei Torah for Sephardi young men. Rabbinic career In 1911, Uziel was appointed '' Hakham Bashi'' of Jaffa and the district. There he worked closely with Abraham Isaac Kook, who was the spiritual leader of the Ashkenazi community. Immediately upon his arrival in Jaffa he began to work vigorously to raise the status of the Oriental congregations there. In spirit and ideas he was close to Kook, and their affinity helped to bring about more harmonious relations than previously exi ...
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Isaac Uziel
Isaac ben Abraham Uziel (died 1 April 1622, Amsterdam) ( he, יצחק בן אברהם עזיאל) was a Moroccan physician, poet and grammarian, born at Fez, Morocco. At one time he held the position of rabbi at Oran, Algeria, but late in life he left that city to settle in Amsterdam, where he opened a Talmudical school which counted among its pupils Manasseh ben Israel and Isaac Aboab da Fonseca. Dissatisfied with the laxity in religious matters which he noticed among many members of the Sephardic community, Uziel delivered a series of lectures which led to the foundation of a new congregation under the name of "Neveh Shalom". In 1610, at the death of Judah Vega, the first rabbi of the new congregation, Uziel was called to the rabbinate. Uziel was the author of a Hebrew grammar, ''Ma'aneh Lashon,'' edited by his pupil Isaac Nehemiah at Amsterdam in 1627 (2nd ed. 1710). He left also in manuscript many Hebrew and Spanish poems (''Libros Poeticos en Declaracion de Todos los ...
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Jacob Uziel
Jacob Uziel (died 1630 in Zante) was a physician and poet of the 17th century. He was of Spanish extraction, but emigrated to Italy at an early age, and settled in Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400  ..., where he became famous for his medical skill. He was the author of ''Dawid'' (Venice, 1624), an epic poem in twelve cantos, written in Italian. References * 1630 deaths Jewish poets Italian Sephardi Jews Venetian Jews Year of birth unknown {{Judaism-bio-stub ...
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Joseph Uziel
Joseph Uziel (died 1572 in Ferrara) was an Italian scholar and rabbi. He was a pupil of Isaac Aboab of Castile, and left a responsum ''Responsa'' (plural of Latin , 'answer') comprise a body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed to them. In the modern era, the term is used to describe decisions and rulings made by scholars ..., which is included in the collection of Joseph di Trani (i. 39). References * 1572 deaths 16th-century Italian rabbis Year of birth unknown {{italy-rabbi-stub ...
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Judah Uziel
Judah Uziel (d. 1634, Venice, probably; ''Jewish Encyclopedia'' of 1971 says he died ca. 1600) was an Italian scholar of the 16th century, born in Spain. He was the author of sixteen sermons on the Pentateuch The Torah (; hbo, ''Tōrā'', "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. In that sense, Torah means the sa ..., which were published under the title ''Bet ha-'Uzzieli'' (Venice, 1603-4). References * Italian theologians 1634 deaths Year of birth unknown {{Judaism-bio-stub ...
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Oren Uziel
Oren Uziel (born June 28, 1974) is an American film screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his work on '' Mortal Kombat: Rebirth'' (2010), ''22 Jump Street'' (2014), ''The Cloverfield Paradox'' (2018), and '' The Lost City'' (2022). Early life Oren Uziel was born on June 28, 1974, in Evanston, Illinois. Career In April 2010, Uziel began his career when he co-wrote the fan film '' Mortal Kombat: Rebirth'', which led to New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. hiring him to script a feature-length '' Mortal Kombat'' film in September 2011. After languishing in development hell for nearly a decade, the film was eventually released in April 2021, with Uziel credited as a co-story writer. In December 2010, his screenplay for the comedy horror film ''The Kitchen Sink'' appeared on The Black List, before being picked up by Sony Pictures in February 2012 and eventually released as '' Freaks of Nature'' in October 2015. In 2011, he scripted the horror film ''Shimmer Lake'', wh ...
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Samuel Uziel
Samuel Uziel was a Talmudist and scholar of the 17th century, rabbi of Livorno Livorno () is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of 158,493 residents in December 2017. It is traditionally known in English as Leghorn (pronou .... He is mentioned in a responsum in the collection ''Mayim Rabbim'' of Raphael Meldola. References * Uziel Livornese Jews {{Italy-rabbi-stub ...
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Yonatan Uziel
Yonatan Uziel ( he, יונתן עוזיאל; born March 26, 1975) is an Israeli actor and model best known for appearing in ''Prisoners of War'' and '' Hostages''. Early life and education Uziel was born in Jerusalem and grew up in Tel Aviv. His mother is a former school principal and his father is an importer. He served as a youth counselor in the Education Corps and after completing his army service he began studying towards a BA in Economics and Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Then he turned to acting, taking classes at Nissan Nativ Acting Studio, which he completed in 2002. From 2003 to 2004, he studied at the Akt-Zent Studio in Moscow and Berlin performing in several plays. In 2004–2008 he studied for a BA in philosophy and theater at Tel Aviv University and received a teaching certificate. Uziel began teaching acting classes during this period and in 2009 he founded the theater department at the Kfar HaYarok youth village and managed it until 2016. ...
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Jonathan Ben Uzziel
Jonathan ben Uzziel ( he, יונתן בן עוזיאל) was one of the 80 ''tannaim'' who studied under Hillel the Elder during the time of Roman-ruled Judea. A book of kabbalah known as ''Sefer Migdanim'' has been attributed to him. Jonathan ben Uzziel is mentioned several times in the Talmud. Jonathan rendered an Aramaic translation of the Major and Minor Prophets which still survives today.Babylonian Talmud, ''Megillah'' 3a When he wished to procure a translation of the Ketuvim, a Divine voice (Hebrew: ''bat ḳol'') was heard telling him that what he had done was sufficient for humanity. The Rabbis have taught: Hillel the Elder had eighty disciples; thirty of whom were worthy that the Divine Presence (''Shekhina'') rest upon them, like Moses our Master; thirty of whom were worthy that the sun stand still for them, like Joshua, the son of Nun; twenty of whom were average. The greatest of them all was Jonathan ben Uzziel; the least of them all was Rabban Johanan ben Zakkai. ...
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Hayyim Ben Abraham Uziel
Hayyim ben Abraham Uziel (Hebrew: חיים בן אברהם עזיאל) was a Sephardic Jew scholar and author who flourished in the latter half of the 16th century in the Ottoman Empire. He wrote ''Meḳor Ḥayyim'' (3 vols., Smyrna, n.d.), an ethical work in Judæo-Spanish Judaeo-Spanish or Judeo-Spanish (autonym , Hebrew script: , Cyrillic: ), also known as Ladino, is a Romance language derived from Old Spanish. Originally spoken in Spain, and then after the Edict of Expulsion spreading through the Ottoman Em .... References * 16th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire 16th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire Sephardi Jews from the Ottoman Empire Judaeo-Spanish-language writers {{Judaism-bio-stub ...
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Samuel Ben Joseph Uziel
Samuel ben Joseph Uziel (16th–17th century) was a rabbi A rabbi () is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi – known as '' semikha'' – following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud. The basic form o ... and physician of Spanish extraction who officiated as rabbi at Salonica, where he also practised medicine. References * 16th-century Sephardi Jews 17th-century Sephardi Jews Rabbis from Thessaloniki Year of death unknown 16th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire 17th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire Year of birth unknown {{Greece-rabbi-stub ...
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