Finkelstein (פֿינק(ע)לשׁטײַן, פינקלשׁט(י)ין, Финкельштейн) is a German The German people are people descended from several Germanic tribes that inhabited what became the German-speaking part of Europe, collectively known as Germany and Yiddish Yiddish is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. It developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages. It is written in the Hebrew alphabet surname A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name; the family-name meaning of "surname" first appeared in 1375. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name". In Western countries, it is also commonly known as a "last name," (originated from German Karfunkelstein, a "carbuncle stone") shared by a number of notable individuals:
- Arthur Fields (Abe Finkelstein)
- Arthur J. Finkelstein, a US Republican The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP, despite being the younger of the two major parties. The party's platform is generally considered right of center political activist
- Avram Finkelstein, a gay rights activist
- Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering pioneer
- David Finkelstein David Ritz Finkelstein is currently an emeritus professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Finkelstein obtained his Ph.D. in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953. Later, from 1964 to 1976, he was professor of physics at Yeshiva University, professor of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public, coeducational research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. It is a part of the University System of Georgia and has satellite campuses in Savannah, Georgia; Metz, France; Athlone, Ireland; Shanghai, China; and Singapore
- Israel Finkelstein, Israeli Israelis , are citizens or nationals of the modern state of Israel. Although Israel is considered a Jewish state, it is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds, most numerously Jews, as well as smaller populations of Muslims, Christians, Arabs, Druze, Circassians, and others. As a result, some Israelis archaeologist Archaeology, or archeology , is the study of past human societies, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data which they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes. Due to the fact that archaeology employs a wide range of different procedures, it can be
- Louis Finkelstein, Talmud The Talmud is a central text of mainstream Judaism, in the form of a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, philosophy, customs and history scholar
- Louis Finkelstein (artist) (1923-2000) for the painter and Queens College (CUNY) professor.
- Max Finkelstein — (died 1940) New York City policeman.
- Menachem Finkelstein — Israeli Israel , officially the State of Israel (Hebrew: מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל (help·info), Medīnat Yisrā'el; Arabic: دَوْلَةُ إِسْرَائِيلَ, Dawlat Isrā'īl), is a parliamentary republic in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the district judge, Israel's Military Advocate General from 2000 to 2004.
- Norman Finkelstein Norman Gary Finkelstein is an American political scientist and author whose primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. He is a graduate of Binghamton University and received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers, American political scientist and the author of The Holocaust Industry and Beyond Chutzpah.
- Peter Max (Peter Finkelstein)
- Salo Finkelstein
- William Zorach (born Finkelstein)
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