Benveniste
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Benveniste (Spanish bien venida = welcome) is the surname of an old, rich, and scholarly family of Narbonne, France, several branches of which were found all over Spain and the Provence, France, as well as at various places in the Orient. It is also borne by families in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Vienna, Austria. It was also used as a prænomen.[1]
[edit] People
- Gracia Mendes Nasi (1510-1569) a highly courageous and an excellent businesswoman, with her family's contacts and resources she helped Jews escape the Inquisition
- Asa Benveniste (1925-1990), American poet
- Benveniste de Porta, Jewish Bailie ("bayle") of Barcelona, Spain
- Émile Benveniste (1902-1976), French structural linguist
- Jacques Benveniste (1935-2004), French immunologist
- Joshua ben Israel Benveniste (c. 1590 - c. 1668), physician and rabbi in Constantinople
- Richard Ben-Veniste (born 1943), American lawyer
[edit] References
- ^ Moritz Steinschneider, "Cat. Bodl." No. 7348; Loeb, in "Rev. des Etudes Juives", xxi. 153
[edit] Sources
- This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.
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