Simcha (Hebrew: שִׂמְחָה śimḥāʰ; Hebrew pronunciation: [simˈχa], Yiddish pronunciation: [ˈsɪmχə]) is a Hebrew word that means gladness, or joy, and is...
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Look up simcha in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Simcha is Hebrew for happiness or joy. Simcha may also refer to: A joyous event in Judaism, such as...
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Simcha Jacobovici (/ˈsɪmxə jəˈkoʊboʊvɪtʃ/; born April 4, 1953) is a Canadian-Israeli journalist, documentary filmmaker and pseudoarcheologist. Simcha...
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Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (1843–1926) was a rabbi and prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe in the early 20th century. He was a kohen, and...
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Simcha Leiner (born 1989) is an American singer, composer and entertainer in the Contemporary Jewish religious music industry. Leiner started singing at...
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Sima Babovich (redirect from Simcha Babovitch)
Sima ben Salomon Babovich (Karaim: Сима Бабович - Sima Babovich, Russian: Сима Соломонович Бабович; 1790–1855) was a first Hakham of the Russian Crimean...
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Simcha Avraham Sheps (April 18, 1908 – November 5, 1998) was an American Orthodox rabbi. He served as rosh yeshiva (dean) of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas. Simcha...
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Simcha Dan Rothman (Hebrew: שִׂמְחָה דָּן רוֹטְמָן, born 13 August 1980) is an Israeli lawyer, right-wing activist, and politician. He is currently a member...
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Simcha Rotem (born Simcha (Szymon) Rathajzer, also known by his nom de guerre Kazik; 24 February 1924 – 22 December 2018) was a Polish-Israeli veteran...
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Max Nordau (redirect from Simcha Südfeld)
Degeneration is the book most often remembered and cited today. Simon (Simcha) Maximilian Südfeld (later Max Nordau) was born in Pest, Kingdom of Hungary...
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Simcha Eichenstein (born August 6, 1983) is an American politician from New York. He is a member of the New York State Assembly. Simcha Eichenstein was...
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Simcha Blass (November 27, 1897 – July 18, 1982; Hebrew: שמחה בלאס) was a Polish-Israeli engineer and inventor who developed the modern drip irrigation...
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Simcha Bunim Alter (Hebrew: שמחה בונים אלתר; April 6, 1898 – July 7, 1992), also known as the Lev Simcha (לב שמחה), after the works he authored, was the...
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Simcha Dinitz (Hebrew: שמחה דיניץ, 23 June 1929 - 23 September 2003) was an Israeli statesman and politician. He served as Director General of the Prime...
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Simcha Bunim Bonhardt of Peshischa (Yiddish: שמחה בונם בונהרט פון פשיסכע, [ˈsɪmχə ˈbʊnɪm ˈbʊnhaʁt ˈfʊn ˈpʒɪsχə]; c. 1765 – September 4, 1827) also known...
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Shalom (Simcha) Zorin (Hebrew: שלום זורין 1902–1974) was a Jewish Soviet partisan commander in Minsk. Many Jewish partisans in Byelorussia had their own...
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Simcha Holtzberg (sometimes spelled Holzberg) (Hebrew: שמחה הולצברג, April 18, 1924 – February 13, 1994) was an Israeli activist and Holocaust survivor...
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Rabbi Simcha Hagadol HaKohen Rappaport (Hebrew: שמחה הכהן ראפאפארט; b. 1650 - August 4, 1718) was a 17th-century Ukrainian rabbi and progenitor of the...
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Simha Erlich (redirect from Simcha Ehrlich)
Simha Erlich (Hebrew: שמחה ארליך, 15 December 1915 – 19 June 1983) was an Israeli politician. Erlich was leader of the Liberal Party and served in the...
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Jack Simcha Cohen (1936–2014) was an "18th consecutive communal rabbi in his family" and "the face of Orthodox Judaism" to a TV program "viewed by millions...
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Sidney Myer (redirect from Simcha Baevski Myer)
Sidney Myer (born Simcha Myer Baevski (Сімха Маер Баеўскі); 8 February 1878 – 5 September 1934) was a Belarusian-born Jewish-Australian businessman and...
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Simcha Shirman (Born 1947) is a German-born Israeli photographer and educator. Simcha Shearman was born in 1947 to Batya and David, both Holocoust survivors...
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Rabbi Simcha Binem Lieberman (29 December 1926 – 28 June 2009) was an Israeli Talmudic scholar, lecturer at Jews' College, London, and a prolific writer...
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Elazar Simcha Wasserman (1898 - October 29, 1992) was an Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva. Born in the Russian Empire, he was sent before World War II to...
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Simcha Felder (born December 30, 1958) is an American politician from Borough Park, Brooklyn. He represents the 22nd district of the New York State Senate...
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Shlomo Simcha Sufrin, better known as Shlomo Simcha (Hebrew: שלמה שמחה) is a UK-born Canadian Hasidic Jewish cantor and singer. Shlomo Simcha began his...
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Simcha Friedman (Hebrew: שמחה פרידמן, 1911 – 5 January 1990) was an Israeli rabbi, educator and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the...
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Rabbi Simcha Krauss (June 29, 1937 – January 20, 2022) was a rabbi associated with the liberal end of Centrist Orthodoxy. He was known for his role in...
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Simcha Soroker (Hebrew: שמחה סורוקר; 1928–2004) was an Israeli economist. Soroker was born in Jerusalem and raised in Rehovot and Tel Aviv. He fought in...
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Symcha Spira (redirect from Simcha Spira)
Symcha Spira (? – 1944), also known as Symche Spira, served as the head of the Krakow ghetto Jewish police during the Holocaust. According to survivors'...
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