Yehuda

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Yehuda or Jehuda is a first name and family name .

Origin and meaning

The name Yehuda (יהודה) is of Hebrew origin and the name for a Judean or Jew. For the first time the descendants of Judah and later the inhabitants of the kingdom of Judah were so named.

variants

Well-known namesake

First name

Yehuda

Yehuda

  • Jehuda ben Isaak Abravanel (* around 1460, † after 1521), Jewish philosopher, doctor and poet
  • Jehuda Amichai (1924–2000), German-Israeli poet
  • Jehuda Bacon (* 1929), Israeli artist, draftsman and university professor
  • Jehuda ha-Levi (* around 1075, † 1141), philosopher and the most important Sephardic poet of the Middle Ages
  • Jehuda Leib Maimon (1875–1962), Israeli rabbi, politician and leader of the religious Zionism movement
  • Jehuda ha-Nasi (* approx. 165; † 217), Jewish scholar and patriarch
  • Jehuda Schenhaw (* 1952), Israeli sociologist
  • Jehuda Wallach (1921–2008), Israeli officer and military historian of German origin

Intermediate name

family name

  • Eliezer Ben-Jehuda (Eliezer Jitzchak Perlman; 1858–1922), journalist and author of the first modern Hebrew dictionary
  • Gerschom ben Jehuda (~ 960 – before 1040), Jewish Talmudic scholar and liturgical poet

Others

See also