Simcha information

Simcha (Hebrew: שִׂמְחָה śimḥāʰ; Hebrew pronunciation: [simˈχa], Yiddish pronunciation: [ˈsɪmχə]) is a Hebrew word that means gladness, or joy, and is...

Simcha Jacobovici (/ˈsɪmxə jəˈkoʊboʊvɪtʃ/; born April 4, 1953) is a Canadian-Israeli journalist, documentary filmmaker and pseudoarcheologist. Simcha...

Simcha Bunim Alter (Hebrew: שמחה בונים אלתר; April 6, 1898 – July 7, 1992), also known as the Lev Simcha (לב שמחה), after the works he authored, was the...

Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (1843–1926) was a rabbi and prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe in the early 20th century. He was a kohen, and...

Simcha Avraham Sheps (April 18, 1908 – November 5, 1998) was an American Orthodox rabbi. He served as rosh yeshiva (dean) of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas. Simcha...

Simcha Rotem (born Simcha (Szymon) Rathajzer, also known by his nom de guerre Kazik; 24 February 1924 – 22 December 2018) was a Polish-Israeli veteran...

Degeneration is the book most often remembered and cited today. Simon (Simcha) Maximilian Südfeld (later Max Nordau) was born in Pest, Kingdom of Hungary...

Sima ben Salomon Babovich (Karaim: Сима Бабович - Sima Babovich, Russian: Сима Соломонович Бабович; 1790–1855) was a first Hakham of the Russian Crimean...

Simcha Dan Rothman (Hebrew: שִׂמְחָה דָּן רוֹטְמָן, born 13 August 1980) is an Israeli lawyer, right-wing activist, and politician. He is currently a member...

Shalom (Simcha) Zorin (Hebrew: שלום זורין 1902–1974) was a Jewish Soviet partisan commander in Minsk. Many Jewish partisans in Byelorussia had their own...

Shlomo Simcha Sufrin, better known as Shlomo Simcha (Hebrew: שלמה שמחה) is a UK-born Canadian Hasidic Jewish cantor and singer. Shlomo Simcha began his...

Simcha Shirman (Born 1947) is a German-born Israeli photographer and educator. Simcha Shearman was born in 1947 to Batya and David, both Holocoust survivors...

Simcha Dinitz (Hebrew: שמחה דיניץ, 23 June 1929 - 23 September 2003) was an Israeli statesman and politician. He served as Director General of the Prime...

Sidney Myer (born Simcha Myer Baevski (Сімха Маер Баеўскі); 8 February 1878 – 5 September 1934) was a Belarusian-born Jewish-Australian businessman and...

Simcha Eichenstein (born August 6, 1983) is an American politician from New York. He is a member of the New York State Assembly. Simcha Eichenstein was...

Simcha Bunim Bonhardt of Peshischa (Yiddish: שמחה בונם בונהרט פון פשיסכע, [ˈsɪmχə ˈbʊnɪm ˈbʊnhaʁt ˈfʊn ˈpʒɪsχə]; c. 1765 – September 4, 1827) also known...

Simcha Blass (November 27, 1897 – July 18, 1982; Hebrew: שמחה בלאס) was a Polish-Israeli engineer and inventor who developed the modern drip irrigation...

Simha Erlich (Hebrew: שמחה ארליך, 15 December 1915 – 19 June 1983) was an Israeli politician. Erlich was leader of the Liberal Party and served in the...

Rabbi Simcha Hagadol HaKohen Rappaport (Hebrew: שמחה הכהן ראפאפארט; b. 1650 - August 4, 1718) was a 17th-century Ukrainian rabbi and progenitor of the...

Elazar Simcha Wasserman (1898 - October 29, 1992) was an Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva. Born in the Russian Empire, he was sent before World War II to...

Simcha Leiner (born 1989) is an American singer, composer and entertainer in the Contemporary Jewish religious music industry. Leiner started singing at...

Simcha Holtzberg (sometimes spelled Holzberg) (Hebrew: שמחה הולצברג, April 18, 1924 – February 13, 1994) was an Israeli activist and Holocaust survivor...

Simcha Felder (born December 30, 1958) is an American politician from Borough Park, Brooklyn. He represents the 22nd district of the New York State Senate...

Rabbi Simcha Krauss (June 29, 1937 – January 20, 2022) was a rabbi associated with the liberal end of Centrist Orthodoxy. He was known for his role in...

Simcha Soroker (Hebrew: שמחה סורוקר; 1928–2004) was an Israeli economist. Soroker was born in Jerusalem and raised in Rehovot and Tel Aviv. He fought in...

Simcha of Rome was a Jewish scholar and rabbi who lived in Rome in the last quarter of the 13th century . He was given an open letter by the community...

father's first marriage—including the fifth rebbe of Ger, Yisrael Alter, and Simcha Bunim Alter, the sixth rebbe of Ger. After World War II he married his cousin...

Simcha Friedman (Hebrew: שמחה פרידמן, 1911 – 5 January 1990) was an Israeli rabbi, educator and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the...

Symcha Spira (? – 1944), also known as Symche Spira, served as the head of the Krakow ghetto Jewish police during the Holocaust. According to survivors'...