Menahem or Menachem (Hebrew: מְנַחֵם, Modern: Mənaḥēm, Tiberian: Menaḥēm, "consoler" or "comforter"; Akkadian: 𒈪𒉌𒄭𒅎𒈨 Meniḫîmme [me-ni-ḫi-im-me]; Greek:...
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Menahem Golan (Hebrew: מנחם גולן; May 31, 1929 – August 8, 2014, originally Menachem Globus) was an Israeli film producer, screenwriter, and director...
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Menahem Pressler (Hebrew: מנחם פרסלר; 16 December 1923 – 6 May 2023) was a German-born Israeli-American pianist and academic teacher. He was known for...
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Menahem or Menachem was a Jewish king. Menahem or Menachem may also refer to: Menachem or Manahen or Manaen, a teacher of the early Christian Church who...
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Hanina Ben-Menahem is an Oxford trained scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who specializes in Jewish law (Halakha). Ben-Menahem is critical...
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Menaḥem of Merseburg (Hebrew: מנחם ממירזבורק) was a German rabbi and author who lived at Merseburg between 1420 and 1450. Of his life few details are...
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Menachem Begin (redirect from Menahem Begin)
Menachem Begin (Hebrew: מְנַחֵם בֵּגִין Menaḥem Begin, pronounced [menaˈχem ˈbeɡin] ; Polish: Menachem Begin (Polish documents, 1931–1937); ‹See Tfd›Russian:...
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Kfar Menahem (Hebrew: כְּפַר מְנַחֵם, lit. Menahem Village) is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located about 7 km east of Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under...
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Menahem Mann Ben Solomon ha-Levi Amelander was a Dutch-Jewish author and historian of the 18th century. He died before 1767. His 1743 Old Yiddish chronicle...
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Menahem ben Issac Noveira (1717–1777), also known as Menaḥem b. Noṿairah or Menahem Navarra, was an Italian physician and poet who was the rabbi of Verona...
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Menahem ben Judah lived around the time of the First Jewish–Roman War and is mentioned by Josephus. He was the leader of a faction called the Sicarii...
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Menahem ben Moses Egozi (Hebrew: מנחם בן משה אגוזי) was a Turkish Talmudist, who lived in Constantinople in the sixteenth century. He was the author of...
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Talmud, Menahem ben Hezekiah was a quasi-messianic Jewish teacher born on the day the Second Temple was destroyed (AD 70). He may be the same as Menahem ben...
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Menahem Saleh Daniel (1846-1940) was an Iraqi Jewish businessman, landowner, philanthropist and politician who served as a member of the Senate of Iraq...
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Meshullam of Volterra (redirect from Meshullam ben Menahem Volterra)
Meshullam ben Menahem of Volterra (Hebrew: משולם בן מנחם; d. 1508), also known as Meshullam da Volterra, was an Italian Jewish businessman who traveled...
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Menahem-Mendl (Yiddish: מנחם מענדל) is a series of stories and in Yiddish by Sholem Aleichem about hilarious exploits of an optimistic shlemiel Menahem-Mendl...
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Menahem the Essene (Hebrew: מנחם) was a Jewish tanna sage living during the era of the Zugot (lit. "pairs"). As such, he was "paired" with Hillel the...
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House of Gadi (redirect from House of Menahem)
dynasty is so named because Menahem was the son of Gadi. Two kings of Israel came from the dynasty - Menahem and Pekahiah. Menahem became king of Israel in...
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Aaron Hazzan (redirect from Abraham Aaron B Menahem Man (= Aaron Maneles) Bacharach)
Abraham Aaron Bacharach was a writer on religious subjects, and cantor of Posen, hence known also as Aaron Ḥazzan. He flourished during the seventeenth...
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Menahem ben Judah ben Menahem de Lonzano (Hebrew: מנחם די לונזאנו), often Menahem di Lonzano, was a rabbi, Masoretic scholar, lexicographer, and poet...
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Menachem Bello (redirect from Menahem Bello)
Menachem 'Miko' Bello (Hebrew: מנחם בלו; born 26 December 1947) is a former Israeli football defender, who played for the Israel national team between...
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Mordecai Kaplan (redirect from Mordecai Menahem Kaplan)
Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (June 11, 1881 – November 8, 1983) was an American Modern Orthodox rabbi, writer, Jewish educator, professor, theologian, philosopher...
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Menahem Manus Bendetsohn (Yiddish: מנחם מאנוש בענדעטסזאהן, romanized: Menaḥem Manush Bendeṭszohn; 1817 – March 20, 1888) was a Russian educator and Hebrew...
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Azriel of Gerona (redirect from Azriel ben Menahem)
Azriel ibn Menahem ibn Ibrahim al-Tarās (Arabic: عزريل بن مناحيم بن ابراهيم التاراس Azrēyl bin Mināḥīm ben Ibrāhim āl-Tārās; Hebrew: עזריאל בן מנחם בן...
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Menahem ben Aaron ibn Zerah (Hebrew: מנחם בן אהרן בן זרח; died 1385) was a Navarrese rabbi and codifier born in the Kingdom of Navarre, probably at Estella...
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Ari Ben-Menahem (Schlanger) has been professor of mathematics and geophysics at the Weizmann Institute of Science since 1964 and visiting professor at...
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Council of Ephesus (redirect from Menahem Macina)
The Council of Ephesus was a council of Christian bishops convened in Ephesus (near present-day Selçuk in Turkey) in AD 431 by the Roman Emperor Theodosius...
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Kiryat Mal'akhi–Yoav railway station (redirect from Kfar Menahem railway station)
קריית מלאכי – יואב) is a railway station in southern Israel, next to Kfar Menahem and Highway 6. It is named after the closest city, Kiryat Mal'akhi, and...
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Menahem Shemuel Halevy (Hebrew: מנחם שמואל הלוי; lived 1884–1940) was a prominent Iranian Rabbi of the early 20th century. He fought against persecution...
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Menahem ben Solomon ben Isaac was a rabbi and author of the Sekel Ṭob and the Eben Boḥan. The presence of twenty-five Italian glosses in his works indicates...
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