The surnames Chajes (

Ashkenazic Hebrew Ashkenazi Hebrew ( he, הגייה אשכנזית, Hagiyya Ashkenazit, yi, אַשכּנזישע הבֿרה, Ashkenazishe Havara) is the pronunciation system for Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew favored for Jewish liturgical use and Torah study by Ashk ...

), Chayes, Hayyot, Hayyut, and Hiyyut are written in Hebrew characters as he, חיות. 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". he, חיוֹת means

animals Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the Kingdom (biology), biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals Heterotroph, consume organic material, Cellular respiration#Aerobic respiration, breathe oxygen, are Motilit ...

; he, חיוּת means

vitality Vitality (, , ) is the capacity to live, grow, or develop. More simply it is the property of having life. The perception of vitality is regarded as a basic psychological drive and, in philosophy, a component to the will to live. As such, peo ...

People with this surname

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 attempted ...

(1922–2000), American scholar of international law *

Benno Chajes Benno Chajes (14 November 1880 – 3 October 1938) was a German physician, professor for Social medicine and politician. He was a member of the Prussian parliament representing the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Chajes was born in Danzig, ...

(1880–1938), German physician and politician * Rabbi

Isaac Hayyut Isaac ben Jacob Ḥayyut (died 1726) was a History of the Jews in Poland, Polish rabbi. He was descended from an old Provence, Provençal family which first settled in Bohemia, and was the grandson of Rabbi Menahem Manesh Hayyut of Wilna. He bec ...

(died 1726), Polish rabbi *

Jennifer Tour Chayes Jennifer Tour Chayes is Associate Provost of the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society and Dean of the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Berkeley, she was a Technical Fellow and Managing Dir ...

(born 1956), mathematical physicist and managing director of Microsoft Research New England * Rabbi Menahem Manesh Hayyut (died 1636), Polish rabbi *

Oscar Chajes Oscar Chajes (pronounced "HA-yes") (December 14, 1873 – February 28, 1928)* was an American chess player. Biography Chajes was Jewish and was born in Brody, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Galicia, Austria-Hungary, in what is now Ukraine. In 1 ...

(1973–1928), Austrian-American chess player *

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 C ...

(born 1962), American journalist * Rabbi

Zvi Hirsch Chajes Zvi Hirsch Chajes ( he, צבי הירש חיות - November 20, 1805 - October 12, 1855; also Chayes or Hayot or Chiyos) was one of the foremost Galician talmudic scholars. He is best known for his work ''Mevo Hatalmud'' (Introduction to the Tal ...

(1805–1855), Galician rabbi * Rabbi

Zwi Perez Chajes Zwi Perez Chajes, also Tzvi-Peretz Hayot, (13 October 1876 – 13 December 1927) was a rabbi, historian, biblical scholar and a notable Zionist leader. Biography Zwi Perez Chajes was born in 1876 in Brody, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in Uk ...

(1876–1927), Austrian rabbi * J. H. Chajes (born 1965), Israeli-American professor of Jewish thought

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