chaim

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A male given name

Chaim Jacob Lipchitz Potok Chaim Soutine Chaim Weizmann Chaim Azriel

{i} male first name (Hebrew)

Связанные Термины

Chaim Azriel Weizmann

born Nov. 27, 1874, Motol, Pol., Russian Empire died Nov. 9, 1952, Reovot, Israel Russian-born Israeli chemist and first president of Israel (1949-52). After studying in Germany and Switzerland, he earned a doctorate in chemistry and patented several dyestuffs before moving to England to teach in 1904. His 1912 discovery of a bacterium that could convert carbohydrate to acetone proved of great value to the British armaments industry in World War I (1914-18), and in return the government aided his negotiations for the Balfour Declaration (1917). In 1919 he obtained an agreement on Jewish-Arab coexistence in Palestine from Faysal I, and in 1920 he became president of the World Zionist Organization, a post from which he was ousted in 1931. He settled in Reovot, Palestine, in 1937. Despite conflicts with more extreme Zionists, he was sent to the U.S. to secure support for Israel in 1948, and in 1949 he was elected president

Chaim Herzog

{i} (1918-1997) sixth president of Israel

Chaim Potok

orig. Herman Harold Potok born Feb. 17, 1929, New York, N.Y., U.S. died July 23, 2002, Merion, Pa. U.S. rabbi and novelist. The son of Polish immigrants, he was reared in an Orthodox Jewish home and was ordained a Conservative rabbi. He taught until he began a career as an editor and writer of scholarly and popular articles and reviews in the 1960s. His novels, which have introduced to American fiction the spiritual and cultural life of Orthodox Jews, include The Chosen (1967; film, 1981), The Promise (1969), and My Name Is Asher Lev (1972). Three connected novellas, Old Men at Midnight, appeared in 2001. Notable among Potok's nonfiction writings are Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews (1978), in which the author combines impressive scholarship with dramatic narrative, and The Gates of November (1996), a chronicle of a Soviet Jewish family and the rise and fall of the Soviet Union

Chaim Soutine

born 1893/94?, Smilovichi, near Minsk, Russian Empire died Aug. 9, 1943, Paris, Fr. Russian-born French painter. After studying art in Vilnius, he went to Paris in 1913 to study at the École des Beaux-Arts. An art dealer enabled him to paint for three years in southern France, where his mature style emerged. His highly individualistic style, stimulated by Expressionism, is characterized by thick impasto, agitated brushwork, convulsive compositional rhythms, and disturbing psychological content. Best known are his studies of choirboys and cooks, his series of page boys, and his paintings of hung poultry and beef carcasses, which vividly convey the colour and luminosity of putrescence

Chaim Topol

{i} (born in Tel-Aviv in 1935) Israeli stage and international movie actor, known for his starring role in Fiddler on the Roof which earned him an Academy Award (he starred in "Cast a Giant Shadow" and the James Bond movie "For Your Eyes Only")

Chaim Weizmann

born Nov. 27, 1874, Motol, Pol., Russian Empire died Nov. 9, 1952, Reovot, Israel Russian-born Israeli chemist and first president of Israel (1949-52). After studying in Germany and Switzerland, he earned a doctorate in chemistry and patented several dyestuffs before moving to England to teach in 1904. His 1912 discovery of a bacterium that could convert carbohydrate to acetone proved of great value to the British armaments industry in World War I (1914-18), and in return the government aided his negotiations for the Balfour Declaration (1917). In 1919 he obtained an agreement on Jewish-Arab coexistence in Palestine from Faysal I, and in 1920 he became president of the World Zionist Organization, a post from which he was ousted in 1931. He settled in Reovot, Palestine, in 1937. Despite conflicts with more extreme Zionists, he was sent to the U.S. to secure support for Israel in 1948, and in 1949 he was elected president

Yosef Chaim Brenner

{i} Y. H. Brenner, Yosef Haim Brenner (1881-1921) Ukrainian-born Israeli story-teller and author and publicist, killed by Arabs in an orchard in Jaffa

Расстановка переносов

Cha·im

Турецкое произношение

hayîm

Произношение

/ˈhīəm/ /ˈhaɪɪm/