Leib
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Leib
Gender: Male
Origin: Yiddish
Meaning: Yiddish meaning: "Lion".


Leib is a name (though more unusual as name) and also a surname present particularly among people of Yiddish-speaking
Yiddish language
Yiddish is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. It developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages...

 Jewish ascent and may refer to:
As name:
  • Aharon Leib Shteinman
  • Aryeh Judah Leib ben Moses Teomim
    Aryeh Judah Leib ben Moses Teomim
    Aryeh Judah Leib ben Moses Teomim was a rabbi and scholar of the 17th and 18th centuries who lived in Pińczów, and later in Plotzk. He was the author of the following works:* Ya'alat Chen , sermons on different parashiyyot...

  • Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg
    Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg
    Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg , also known as the Shaagas Aryeh , was an Ashkenazi rabbi and author....

  • Aryeh Leib ben Saul
    Aryeh Leib ben Saul
    Aryeh Leib ben Saul Lowenstam was a Polish rabbi.-Life:Aryeh Leib came of a famous family of rabbis. His father Saul had been rabbi of Cracow from 1700 to 1704, his grandfather was Rabbi Hoeschl of Cracow...

  • Aryeh Leib Dulchin
  • Aryeh Leib Epstein
    Aryeh Leib Epstein
    Aryeh Löb ben Mordecai Ha-Levi Epstein was a Polish rabbi born in Grodno. At first he refused to become a rabbi, preferring to devote himself entirely to study, but in 1739 he was forced by poverty to accept the rabbinate of Brestovech, Lithuania, and in 1745 he became rabbi of Königsberg,...

  • Aryeh Leib Frumkin
    Aryeh Leib Frumkin
    Aryeh Leib Frumkin was a rabbi, Zionist, a founder and pioneer of Petah Tikva, the first yishuv created in the pre-state of Israel. He also was an author of halachic texts, a teacher, and operator of a wine shop, L. Frumkin and Company....

  • Aryeh Leib HaCohen Heller
    Aryeh Leib HaCohen Heller
    Aryeh Leib Heller-Kahane was a Rabbi, Talmudist, and Halachist in Galicia. He was known as "the Ketzos" based on his greatest work, Ketzot Hachoshen, קצות החושן.-Biography:...

  • Aryeh Leib Malin
    Aryeh Leib Malin
    Rabbi Aryeh Leib Malin was a Rabbi, Talmudist, and Mussarist in both Europe and America.-Biography:Rabbi Malin was born in Białystok. In his early years, Reb Leib learned in Grodno under Rabbi Shimon Shkop. Later, he learned by Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman and Rabbi Baruch Ber Lebowitz...

  • Aryeh Leib Schochet
    Aryeh Leib Schochet
    Rabbi Aryeh Leib Schochet was a Russian rabbi who emigrated to the United States in 1906. He published one of the first books on Chassidus in America titled Lekutim Yekarim.- Biography :...

  • Aryeh Leib Yellin
    Aryeh Leib Yellin
    Aryeh Leib Yellin was rabbi of Bielsk Podlaski, Poland....

  • Leib Gurwicz
    Leib Gurwicz
    Aryeh Ze'ev Gurwicz was an influential Orthodox rabbi and Talmudic scholar. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Elyah Lopian and best known as Rosh Yeshiva of the Gateshead Yeshiva in Gateshead, England, where he taught for over 30 years.He studied at various yeshivas in Lithuania and Poland before...

  • Leib Sarah's
    Leib Sarah's
    Rabbi Leib Sarah's was a Chassidic Rebbe and a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov.-External links:*...

  • Leib Tropper
    Leib Tropper
    Rabbi Leib Tropper is a founder of the Kol Yaakov Yeshiva and Torah Center in Monsey, New York. He is a grandson of the late Rabbi Leib Forer, the "Valbolneker Iluy".-Education:...

  • Yaakov Yehuda Aryeh Leib Frenkel
    Yaakov Yehuda Aryeh Leib Frenkel
    Yaakov Yehuda Aryeh Leib Frenkel was born roughly in the year 1855 to his father Rabbi Yom Tov Tzvi. Rabbi Yom Tov Tzvi was the son of Rabbi Yaakov from the town of Oshvar.Frenkel served as the town Rabbi of Piricse for over fifty years...

  • Yakov Leib HaKohain
    Yakov Leib HaKohain
    Yakov Leib HaKohain is a kabbalist, religious philosopher, poet and founder of Donmeh West, a "Virtual Community for the Study and Practice of Neo-Sabbatian Kabbalah"....

  • Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter
    Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter
    Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter , also known by the title of his main work, the Sfas Emes, was a Hasidic rabbi who succeeded his grandfather, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter, as the av beis din and Rav of Góra Kalwaria, Poland , and succeeded the Rebbe, Reb Heynekh of Alexander, as Rebbe of the Gerrer...



As surname:
  • Ethan Leib
    Ethan Leib
    Ethan J. Leib is a law professor at Fordham Law School. He is the author of several books, including Deliberative Democracy in America: A Proposal for a Popular Branch of Government....

  • Gary Leib
    Gary Leib
    Gary Leib is an American underground cartoonist, animator, and musician. Best known for the comic book Idiotland , Leib's work has also appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Musician Magazine, The New York Observer, RAW, BLAB! and as weekly...

  • Karl Leib
    Karl Leib
    Karl Leib was a German SS officer.Leib was son-in-law of the head if the SS-Hauptamt Gottlob Berger, and served as a SS officer in that office during World War II...

  • Michael Leib
    Michael Leib
    Michael Leib was an American physician, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and philosopher born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served Pennsylvania in both houses of the state legislature and represented Pennsylvania in both the U.S...



It may also refer to the ICAO code for Ibiza Airport
Ibiza Airport
Ibiza Airport is the airport serving the Balearic islands of Ibiza and Formentera in Spain, used by 95% of all people who arrive at or depart from these two islands...

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