The surnames Chajes (
Ashkenazic Hebrew
Ashkenazi Hebrew (, ) is the pronunciation system for Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew favored for Jewish liturgical use and Torah study by Ashkenazi Jewish practice.
Features
As it is used parallel with Modern Hebrew, its phonological differences ...
), Chayes, Hayyot, Hayyut, and Hiyyut are written in Hebrew characters as . The family name originated in the Jewish community of sixteenth-century Prague, one of many such matronymic names adopted by the community in the period.
It means "Chaya's
hild/children" The use of the Hebrew, rather than a Yiddish spelling, thus produced a double entendre seemingly intended to suggest "vitality".
means
animals
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia (). With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, have myocytes and are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and grow from a ...
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vitality
Vitality (, , ) is the capacity to live, grow, or develop. Vitality is also the characteristic that distinguishes life, living from non-living things. To experience vitality is regarded as a basic psychological drive and, in philosophy, a comp ...
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People with this surname
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Abram Chayes
Abram Chayes (July 18, 1922 – April 16, 2000) was an American scholar of international law closely associated with the administration of John F. Kennedy. He is best known for his "legal process" approach to international law, which attempt ...
(1922–2000), American legal scholar
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Benno Chajes (1880–1938), German physician and politician
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Isaac Hayyut (died 1726), Polish rabbi
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Jennifer Tour Chayes
Jennifer Tour Chayes is dean of the college of computing, data science, and society at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Berkeley, she was a technical fellow and managing director of Microsoft Research New England in Cambridg ...
(born 1956), mathematical physicist
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Menahem Manesh Hayyut (died 1636), Polish rabbi
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Oscar Chajes (1873–1928), Austrian-American chess player
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Sarah Chayes
Sarah Chayes (born March 5, 1962) is a former senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former reporter for National Public Radio, she also served as special advisor to the ch ...
(born 1962), American journalist
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Zvi Hirsch Chajes
Zvi Hirsch Chajes ( - November 20, 1805 - October 12, 1855; also Chayes or Hayot or Chiyos) was a Galician talmudic scholar. He is best known for his work ''Mevo Hatalmud'' (Introduction to the Talmud), which serves both as commentary and intr ...
(1805–1855), Galician rabbi
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Zwi Perez Chajes (1876–1927), Austrian rabbi
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J. H. Chajes (born 1965), Israeli-American professor of Jewish thought
See also
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Chai (symbol)
Chai or Hai ( "living" ') is a symbol that figures prominently in modern Jewish culture; the Hebrew letters of the word are often used as a visual symbol.
History
According to '' The Jewish Daily Forward'', its use as an amulet originates in 18 ...
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Chayyim
Haim can be a first name or surname originating in Hebrew or derived from the Old German name Haimo.
Etymology Hebrew
Chayyim ( ', Classical Hebrew: , Israeli Hebrew: ), also transcribed ''Haim, Hayim, Chayim'', or ''Chaim'' (English pronunciati ...
(''Haim'') (pl.)
* ''Chayyey'' (); e.g.
Chayei Sarah
* Surnamed people
Chaitin
Gregory John Chaitin ( ; born 25 June 1947) is an Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist. Beginning in the late 1960s, Chaitin made contributions to algorithmic information theory and metamathematics, in particular a computer- ...
, (Galith) Chayyat',
Chayat are from ''Chayyat /
Khayat /
Chait
Chait, also transliterated as Khait, is a Jewish family name, from Hebrew , “tailor
A tailor is a person who makes or alters clothing, particularly in men's clothing. The Oxford English Dictionary dates the term to the thirteenth century. ...
, a tailor (cf.Schneider/Shreyder)
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Hebrew-language names
Jewish matronymic surnames