Hillel is a Jewish masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to:
Friedman, Friedmann, and Freedman are surnames of German origin, and from the 17th century were also adopted by Ashkenazi Jews. It is the 9th most common surname in Israel and most common exclusively Ashkenazi name. They may refer to:
Horowitz is a Levitical Ashkenazi surname deriving from the Horowitz family, though it can also be a non Jewish surname as well. The name is derived from the town of Hořovice, Bohemia. Other variants of the name include Harowitz, Harrwitz, Harwitz, Horovitz, Horvitz, Horwicz, Horwitz, Hourwitz, Hurewicz, Hurwicz, Hurwitz, Gerovich, Gurovich, Gurevich, Gurvich, Gourevitch, Orowitz and Urwitz.
Some people named Kahane include:
Wertheimer is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname:
The surname Epstein is one of the oldest Ashkenazi Jewish family names. It is probably derived from the German town of Eppstein, in Hesse; the place-name was probably derived from Gaulish apa and German -stein.
Twersky, Twerski, or Tverski is the surname of a pedigree of rebbes in the Chernobyl Hasidic dynasty. It was begun by the Grand Rabbi Menachum Nachum Twerski. People with this name include:
Breuer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Zuckermann or Zuckerman is a Yiddish or German surname meaning "sugar man".
Metzger is a German/Yiddish (German-Jewish) occupational surname, meaning "butcher". Notable people with the name include:
Friedländer is a toponymic surname derived from any of German places named Friedland.
Rappaport is an Ashkenazi surname, with the individuals bearing it being descendants of the Rabbinic Kohenic Rappaport family. Variants of the name include Rapaport, Rapa Porto, Rappeport, Rappoport and Rapoport.
Shallit, Shalit, also transliterated as Schalit or Schallit, is a Hebrew-language surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The German surname Hecht comes from house shields. In Yiddish der hekht means spear, arms. In modern German Der Hecht is the fish known in English as a pike.
Heller is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Abraham Judah Klausner was a Reform rabbi and United States Army captain and chaplain who became a “father figure” for the more than 30,000 emaciated survivors found at Dachau Concentration Camp, 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Munich, shortly after it was liberated on April 29, 1945. He also cared for thousands more left homeless in camps as the victorious Allied Forces determined where they should go.
Azoulay, sometimes spelled Azoulai, Azulai or Azulay, etc. is a Sephardi Jewish surname, common among Jews of Moroccan descent.
Carlebach is the family name of a notable Jewish family originally from Germany that now lives all over the world, it can refer to:
Melamed is a Hebrew surname. "Melamed" translates to "teacher" in the Hebrew language and came into different languages in different spellings, e.g. Malamud, Malamed, Melamid, etc.
Auerbach and Averbuch and Aberbach is a German surname, commonly Jewish, derived from a toponym meaning meadow-brook. Another variant is Aberbach. Sometimes it is modified to Auerbacher, meaning someone coming from a town or village called Auerbach. Notable people with this surname include the following:
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