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Zev Wolf or Ze'ev Wolf (Yiddish: זאב-וואָלף) is a bilingual pleonasmic Jewish name doublet. "Ze'ev" (Hebrew: זאב, romanized: zeév) means "wolf", and "Wolf" has the same meaning in Yiddish and German.[1]: 138 Notable people with the name include:
- Zev Wolf of Zbaraz (died 1822), Hasidic rabbi
- Zev Wolf of Zhitomyr (died 1798), Hasidic rabbi
- Zev Wolf Buchner (1750–1820), Hebrew-language grammarian and poet
- Zev Wolf Gold (1889–1956), rabbi and Jewish activist
- Zev Wolf Kitzes (born c. 1685, died between 1764 and 1775), Hasidic rabbi
- Zev Wolf Mendlin (1842–1912), Russian economist
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References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2003), Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew. Palgrave Macmillan. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). [1]
