Peretz
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The Jewish name Peretz may refer to the following people
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Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
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- Peretz MarkishPeretz MarkishPeretz Davidovich Markish was a Soviet/Russian Jewish poet and playwright who wrote in Yiddish.Peretz Markish was born in Polonnoye in 1895. His distant ancestors lived in Spain. As a child he attended a cheder and sang in the choir of the local synagogue. He served as a private in the Russian...
, (1895–1952), a Soviet Yiddish-languageYiddish languageYiddish 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...
poet. - Peretz HirshbeinPeretz HirshbeinPeretz Hirshbein was a Yiddish-language playwright, instrumental in the revival of Yiddish theater in Russia shortly after the 1904 lifting of the 1883 ban on theatrical performances in that language...
, (1880–1948), a Yiddish-languageYiddish languageYiddish 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...
playwright - Peretz Smolenskin, (1842–1885), a RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n Jewish novelist
as a surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
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- Amir PeretzAmir PeretzAmir Peretz is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for the Labour Party. He is a former Defense Minister of Israel and former leader of the Labour Party, having left those positions in June 2007....
(born 1952), former Defense Minister and Labour Party leader in Israel - I.L. PeretzI.L. PeretzIsaac Leib Peretz , also known as Yitskhok Leybush Peretz and Icchok Lejbusz Perec or Izaak Lejb Perec , best known as I.L. Peretz, was a Yiddish language author and playwright. Payson R. Stevens, Charles M...
, (1852–1915), a modernistModernismModernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...
Yiddish languageYiddish languageYiddish 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...
author and playwright - Jesse PeretzJesse PeretzJesse Peretz is an American bass guitar player, feature film director, and Grammy-Award winning music video director.-Life and career:...
(born 1968), rock video director and son of Martin - Martin PeretzMartin PeretzMartin H. "Marty" Peretz , is an American publisher. Formerly an assistant professor at Harvard University, he purchased The New Republic in 1974 and took editorial control soon afterwards. He retained majority ownership until 2002, when he sold a two-thirds stake in the magazine to two financiers...
(born 1938), Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
lecturer and former owner of The New RepublicThe New RepublicThe magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States... - Moshe PeretzMoshe PeretzMoshe Peretz is an Israeli Mizrahi Pop singer-songwriter and composer. He was born on May 10, 1983 in Tiberias.-Biography:Born in Tiberias To a Moroccan-Iraqi Jewish family....
(born 1983), Israeli singer-songwriter - Omer PeretzOmer PeretzOmer Peretz is an Israeli footballer who currently plays at Sektzia Nes Tziona in Liga Leumit. His father, Vicky, was also a footballer in Israel as was his uncle, Avi Cohen and his cousin Tamir Cohen.-Footnotes:...
(born 1986), Israel U21 footballer and son of Vicky - Vicky PeretzVicky PeretzYitzhak "Vicky" Peretz is a former Israeli international footballer and currently acts as a manager.-Playing career:Peretz was the leading scorer of the Israel national under-19 football team that competed at the 1972 AFC Youth Championship...
(born 1953), former Israeli international footballer - Yitzhak PeretzYitzhak Peretz (politician born 1936)Yitzhak Peretz was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1974 and 1988.-Biography:Born in Casablanca in Morocco in 1936, Peretz made aliyah to Israel in 1950. He attended the Mikveh Yisrael agricultural high school, and later Bar-Ilan University. In 1956 he joined...
, an Israeli politician who served as Deputy Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism. - Yitzhak PeretzYitzhak Peretz (politician born 1938)Rabbi Yitzhak Haim Peretz is a former Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios during the 1980s and early 1990s.-Biography:...
, an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Internal Affairs, Minister of Immigrant Absorption and Minister without Portfolio. - Yitzhak Peretz (Chief Rabbi of Raanana and member on Israeli Chief Rabbinate Council)
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- David Paretz, a BulgariaBulgariaBulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
n painter - PerecPerecPerec is a Slavic name, which is the surname of several French people, including:* Georges Perec, , a French novelist* Marie-José Pérec, , a French athlete...
(a SlavonicSlavic languagesThe Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.-Branches:Scholars traditionally divide Slavic...
name) (occasionally, pronounced faultily like [perek]) - PharezPharezAccording to the Book of Genesis, Pharez/Pיrez was the son of Tamar and of Judah, and was the twin of Zerah. The text argues that he was called Perez because he was the first twin to be born, and thus had breached the womb...
used in the Book of Genesis (also written as Peretz, Perets) - PerutzPerutzPerutz is a surname and may refer to:* Hugo Perutz ∞ Adele Goldschmidt** Max Perutz , Jewish Austrian-British molecular biologist ∞ Gisela Clara Peiser, sister of Lily Palmer*** Robin Perutz , son of Max, chemist...
- PerezPérezPérez is a surname with at least two distinct origins. One is a Spanish surname meaning "son of Pero, Pedro, or Peter." In Castilian Spanish, the name is pronounced ; in Latin America, . In American English, it is often the hyperforeign ....
and PeresPeresPeres is a Portuguese and Galician surname. Originally a patronymic, meaning Son of Pedro or Son of Pero , it has another version: Pires...
(an Iberian family name, confused by some writers with a similar term meaning 'son of the father' and by others with a patronymicPatronymicA patronym, or patronymic, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother or a female ancestor is a matronymic. Each is a means of conveying lineage.In many areas patronyms...
for "child of Peter"). Perez is the Spanish form of the Hebrew family name Peretz. It was adopted as a family name by Spanish Hebrew (Sephardi JewsSephardi JewsSephardi Jews is a general term referring to the descendants of the Jews who lived in the Iberian Peninsula before their expulsion in the Spanish Inquisition. It can also refer to those who use a Sephardic style of liturgy or would otherwise define themselves in terms of the Jewish customs and...
) families during a time of religious intolerance (1318 c.e.) in Spain. The name is also one of the names of the Messiah in Rabbinic tradition. It is a common family name among descendants of Spanish Jewish families that converted during the Inquisition.