Haim

Chaim ( other spellings are Hayyim Chayyim Haim Hyman ) is a Hebrew male first name ( there חַיִּים, dt "life" ). Its occurrence as a surname is rare.

In addition, LeChajim! ( לחיים, dt " to life! " ) In Hebrew a toast.

Well-known bearers of the name

First name

  • Hayyim b. Moses Attar ( Abenattar; 1696-1743 ), Jewish scholar and Kabbalist in Morocco
  • Hayyim b. Isaac (1749-1821), Jewish Talmudic scholar
  • Chaim Joseph David Azulai (acronym Chida; 1724-1807 ), Jewish scholar, Dezisor, Kabbalist and bibliographer
  • Chaim Berlin (1832-1912), Orthodox rabbi of Moscow
  • Chaim Bloch (1881-1973), Hasidic and Kabbalistic writers and rabbis
  • Chaim Brisker (1853-1918), Rabbi
  • Paul Chaim Eisenberg ( born 1950 ), Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community Vienna
  • Chaim Engel (1916-2003), Polish Holocaust survivor
  • Chaim Prince (1592-1653), businessman and court Jew in Hamburg
  • Hayim Greenberg (1889-1953), American Zionist
  • Hasas Chaim (1898-1973), Israeli writer
  • Chaim Herzog (1918-1997), sixth president of Israel
  • Chaim Hirsch son (1857-1935), rabbi
  • Chaim Kanievsky (* 1928), Rabbi
  • Chaim circle Wirth (1918-2001), Polish- Belgian Orthodox rabbi
  • Chaim Potok (1929-2002), American Jewish writers and rabbis
  • Chaim Rumkowski (1877-1944), Chairman of the Judenrat in the ghetto Lodz / Lodz
  • Chaim Schitlowsky (also: Chaim Chaim Zhitlowsky or Shitlowskij; 1865-1943 ), Yiddish writer and translator
  • Richard Chaim Schneider ( * 1957), German journalist, author and theater director
  • Chaim Seeligmann (1912-2009), Israeli- German pedagogue and historian
  • Gene Simmons ( born Chaim Witz as ) ( b. 1949 ), American musician
  • Joseph Chaim Sonnenfeld (1848-1932), Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem
  • Chaim Soutine (1893-1943), French painter Lithuanian- Jewish descent
  • Chaim Telzer ( Chaim Shalom Tuvia Rabinowitz; 1856-1930 ), Lithuanian rabbi
  • Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952), Israeli politician and chemist
  • Eli ibn Hayyim ( Eli ben Hayim, Elijah Chaim ibn etc.; * 1532, † 1606 ), Jewish scholar

Family name

  • Chaim Yosef (1832-1909), a Sephardic rabbi and kabbalist
  • Yossi Mar - Chaim ( b. 1940 ), Israeli composer
  • Male first name
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