Shraga

Shraga (Talmudic Aramaic: שרגא) is a Jewish given name (meaning "candle" in Talmudic Aramaic) and may refer to:

  • Samuel ben Uri Shraga Phoebus, Polish rabbi and Talmudist of Woydyslaw in the second half of the 17th century
  • Shraga Bar (born 1948), former Israeli football defender, who played for the Israel national team between 1968 and 1972
  • Shraga Feivish Hager the rebbe of the Kosov Hasidic dynasty, dayan ("rabbinic judge"), and noted orator
  • Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz (1886–1948), early leader of American Orthodoxy and founder of key institutions such as Torah Vodaath
  • Shraga Feivel Zimmerman, the ABD (Town rabbi) of the Jewish community in Gateshead
  • Shraga Goren (1898–1972), Israeli politician
  • Shraga Simmons (born 1961), influential rabbi involved in kiruv (Jewish outreach)
  • Shraga Weil (1918–2009), Israeli painter
  • Shraga Weinberg (born 1966), Israeli wheelchair tennis player
  • Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam, (1813–1898), the eldest son of the Divrei Chaim, Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz
  • Shraga Weiss, (1981–present), the middle son of Jacob and Susan Weiss. Renowned international animated film artist and philanthropist.

See also

Name list
This page or section lists people that share the same given name.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article.