Tsvi Hirsh, Tzvi Hirsh, Zebi Hirsh, Zvi Hirsh, etc. (including "Hirsh" spelled as Hirsch or Hersh, inversions such as Hirsh Tsvi, and hyphenated forms) () is a bilingual pleonasmic Jewish name doublet, literally "deer-deer", traceable back to the Hebrew word צבי tsvi "deer" and the Middle High German word hirz "deer".Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2003), Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew. Palgrave Macmillan. (access online via subscription)
Notable people with the name include:
Zvi Hirsch Gregor Belkovsky (1865–1948), jurist, economist, and Zionist activist Tsvi Hirsh Bonhardt (c. 1745–1810), Polish rabbi Tzvi Hersh Mordechai Bonhardt (1826–1866), Polish rabbi Zvi Hirsh Broide, Lithuanian rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Eichenstein (1763–1831), Galician rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Ferber (1879–1966), Lithuanian-British rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Filipowski (1816–1872), Lithuanian-British Hebraist and actuary Tzvi Hersh Friedlander, American rabbi Zvi Hirsch Grodzinsky (1857–1947), American rabbi Zebi Hirsch Kaidanover (c. 1650–1712), Lithuanian-born rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer (1785–1874), German rabbi and proto-Zionist Zvi Hirsch Masliansky, Belarusian-born American rabbi, lecturer and Zionist Samuel Zvi Hirsh "Henryk" Peltyn or Samuel Peltyn Zvi Hirsh Yosef HaKohen Resnick or Zvi Yosef Resnick (1841–1912), Russian rabbi Zebi Hirsch Scherschewski (1840–1909), Russian Hebrew-language writer Zebi Hirsch Sundeles, Polish Jewish scholar Tzvi Hersh Weinreb (born 1940), American rabbi Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov (1763–1831), Hasidic rabbi
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