Gedaliah (name)

Gedaliah Gedalia () and some other spellings, is a Hebrew given name. It means "made great by God." Notable people with the name include:

Biblical figures

Gedaliah, son of Ahikam (2 Kings and Jeremiah) Fast of Gedaliah, an annual Jewish day of fasting, the third day of Tishrei Gedaliah, son of Pashhur, one of the nobles who conspired against Jeremiah (Jeremiah 38:1) Gedaliah, son of Amariah (Zephaniah 1:1)

Others Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph (c.1515 – c.1587), a 16th-century Italian talmudist Gedaliah Alon (1901–1950), an Israeli historian Gedaliah Anemer (1932-2010), an Orthodox rabbi Gedaliah Bublick (1875–1948), a Yiddish writer and Zionist leader Gedalia Gal (b. 1933), an Israeli politician Gedalio Grinberg (1931-2009), a Cuban-born watchmaker Gedale B. Horowitz (1932-2020), an American banker Gedaliah Aharon Koenig (1921-1980), an Israeli rabbi (1916-1981), a Soviet engineer Gedaliah Nadel (1923-2004), an Israeli rabbi Gedalia Schorr (1910–1979), a Polish-American rabbi who was Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of Torah Vodaath Gedaliah Silverstone (1871-1944), an Orthodox rabbi Gedali Szapiro (1929-1972), a Polish-Israeli chess master Gedalyahu Fuchs (1911-1966), a Romanian footballer Gedalia Dov Schwartz (b. 1925), head of the Chicago Rabbinical Council Geoff Schwartz (born 1986), American football player whose birth name was Gedalia Yitzhak Schwartz (1865-1943), an architect and engineer from the Russian Empire

Fictional "Gedali", a short story by Isaac Babel from the Red Cavalry

Gedaliah (name)

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