Petachia

Petachja is the name of the following people:

• Petachja (Levite) , one of the Jewish returnees from Babylon, who had to cast his foreign wife at the behest of Ezra (Ezra 10:23)
• Petachja from Regensburg (Petachia von Regensburg, Petachja ben Jacob from Regensburg), Jewish traveler of the Middle Ages
• Karpel Lippe (actually Nathan Petachja; 1830–1915), doctor in Jassy, ​​Romania, and Zionist

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.