Jechiel

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Jechiel or Jehiel is the name or part of the name of the following people:

  • Asher ben Jechiel (* 1250, † 1327; also known under the names Asheri and Rosch), medieval Talmudist
  • Jehiel ben Jekuthiel Anaw (* 1260; † 1289), rabbinical author
  • Jehiel Baschan (Yehiel Bassan), Jewish scholar, author of Responsen and from 1602 to 1625 the Grand Rabbis (Hahambaşı) of Turkey in Constantinople
  • Jechiel ben Josef (also Jechiel ben Josef of Paris), Jewish scholar of the Middle Ages from northern France
  • Jechiel Michel Epstein (Yechiel Michel Epstein, Aruch ha Shulchan; 1829–1908), Halachic authority and Posek in Lithuania
  • Yehiel Feiner (1909–2001), Jewish writer and survivor of the Holocaust
  • Jechiel Heilprin (Jechiel ben Salomo (n) Heilprin; * around 1660; † 1746), rabbi, yeshiva leader, Talmudist and chronicler of Judaism
  • Nathan ben Jechiel (* around 1020 Rome, † 1106 Rome), author of a rabbinical dictionary ("Aruch")
  • Jacob ben Jechiel Loans († 1506), personal physician of Friedrich III.
  • Jechiel Michel Piness (also Yehiel Michael Pines; 1824-1913), one of the first religious Zionists and an outstanding personality of the first Aliyah
  • Jechiel Jaakov Weinberg (also Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg, Yehiel Yaakov Weinberg or Jehiel Jacob Weinberg; 1884–1966), Orthodox rabbi, Posek, Talmud scholar and Rosh Yeshiva
  • Jechiel Michael von Zloczow (* around 1731; † 1786), Hasidic rabbi and one of the early promoters of Hasidism in Galicia
  • Echiel Tschlenow (also Jechiel; 1864–1918), doctor in Moscow and one of the leaders of the Russian Zionists
  • Norman J. Whitney (actually Norman Jehiel Whitney; 1891-1967), American university professor, author, and peace activist