Zvi

Zvi (Hebrew: צְבִי and צבי, Tzvi, Ṣvi, "gazelle") is a Jewish masculine given name. It is sometimes paired with Hirsch, the German and Yiddish word for "deer", in a bilingual pleonasm.

Notable people with this name include:

Zvi Aharoni (1921–2012), Israeli Mossad agent
Zvi Arad (1942–2018), Israeli mathematician, acting president of Bar-Ilan University, president of Netanya Academic College
Zvi Hirsch Gregor Belkovsky (1865–1948), jurist, economist, and Zionist activist
Zvi Ben-Avraham (born 1941), Israeli geophysicist
Zvi Bern (born 1960), American physicist
Zvi Bodie (born 1943), American academic
Zvi Bornstein (1926–2024), Slovak antifascist fighter
Zvi Brenner (1915–1999), Zionist leader
Zvi Hirsch Chajes (1805–1855), Orthodox Polish rabbi
Zvi Chalamish, Israeli financier
Zvi Dror (1926–2025), Israeli historian
Zvi Elpeleg (1926–2015), Israeli academic
Zvi Galil (born 1947), Israeli computer scientist, mathematician, and President of Tel Aviv University
Zvika Greengold (born 1952), Israeli officer during the Yom Kippur War, awarded the Medal of Valor
Zvi Griliches (1930–1999), Jewish-American economist
Zvi Hirsch Grodzinsky (1857-1947), American rabbi
Zvi Elimelech Halberstam (born 1952), Israeli rebbe
Zvi Hecker (1931-2023), Israeli architect
Zvi Heifetz (born 1956), Israeli diplomat
Zvi Hendel (born 1949), Israeli politician
Zvi Hercowitz (born 1945), Israeli economist
Zvi Hirsch Kaidanover (1650–1712), German rabbi
Zvi Hirsch Kalischer (1795–1874), Orthodox German rabbi
Zvi Kogan (1996-2024), Israeli-Moldovan rabbi killed in the United Arab Emirates
Zvi Kolitz (1912-2002), Israeli film producer
Zvi Laron (born 1927), Israeli physician
Zvi Lieberman (1891–1985), Russian-born Israeli author
Zvi Luria (1906–1968), Israeli politician
Zvi Magen (born 1945), Israeli ambassador
Zvi Mazel (born 1939), Israeli diplomat
Zvi Mowshowitz (born 1979), American Magic: The Gathering player
Zvi Nishri (Orloff) (1878–1973), Russian/Palestinian/Israeli pioneer in modern physical education
Zvi Ofer (1932–1968), Israeli officer awarded the Medal of Valor
Zvi Yaakov Oppenheim (1854–1926), Lithuanian rabbi
Zvi Hermann Schapira (1840–1898), Russian mathematician
Zvi Schreiber (born 1969), British-Israeli entrepreneur
Zvi Segal (1901–1965), signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence
Zvi Sherf (born 1951), Israeli basketball coach
Zvi Sobolofsky, Orthodox American rabbi
Zvi Thau (born 1939), Israeli rabbi
Zvi Weinberg (1935–2006), Israeli politician
Zvi Yair (1915–2005), Hungarian rabbi
Zvi Yavetz (1925–2013), Israeli historian
Zvi Yehezkeli (born 1970), Israeli journalist
Zvi Yehuda (1887-1965), Israeli politician
Zvi Yehuda Kook (1891–1982), Jewish theologian
Zvi Zamir (1925–2024), Israeli general
Zvi Zilker (1933-2021), Israeli politician
Zvi Zimmerman (1913–2006), Israeli politician

References

↑ Guggenheimer, Heinrich Walter; Guggenheimer, Eva Auguste Horowitz (1992). Jewish Family Names and Their Origins: An Etymological Dictionary. Hoboken, N.J: KTAV Publishing House. p. 881. ISBN 978-0-88125-297-2. OCLC 25093664. Retrieved 29 June 2019.

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[Guggenheimer_Guggenheimer_1992-1] Guggenheimer, Heinrich Walter; Guggenheimer, Eva Auguste Horowitz (1992). Jewish Family Names and Their Origins: An Etymological Dictionary. Hoboken, N.J: KTAV Publishing House. p. 881. ISBN 978-0-88125-297-2. OCLC 25093664. Retrieved 29 June 2019.

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