Hayyoth (names)

The surnames Chajes (Ashkenazic Hebrew), Chayes, Hayyot, Hayyut, Hiyyut are from the Hebrew word Hebrew: חיות‎.

Hebrew: חיוֹת‎ means animal; Hebrew: חיוּת‎ means vitality

• Abram (Joseph) Chayes
• Benno Chajes (1880, Danzig - 1938), German physician, hygienist (SPD)^[1]
• Herman Chayes (1879, L'vov - 1933, New York), dentist.
• Jennifer Tour Chayes, mathematical physicist and managing director of Microsoft Research New England
• Julius Chajes (1910, Lemberg - 1985, Detroit), pianist, composer^[2]
• Michael Frederic Chayes (1930, New York - 2011, Amsterdam), psychiatrist, psychoanalyst; son of Herman Chayes.
• Oscar Chajes
• Sarah Chayes
• Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Chajes (Hebrew: חיות‎ also transliterated as Chayes, Hayyut, Hiyyut or Hayot)
• Rabbi Zwi Perez Chajes (1876, Brody - 1927), Austrian rabbi^[3]
  • Zwi-Perez-Chajes-Schule (ZPC), school in Vienna^[4]

See also

• Chai (symbol)
• Chayyim (Haim) (pl.)
• Chayyey (Hebrew: חַיֵּי ‎); e.g. Chayei Sarah

• Surnamed people Chaitin, (Galith) Chayyat', Chayat are from Chayyat', a tailor (cf.Schneider/shreyder)

1. ^ de:Benno Chajes
2. ^ de:Julius Chajes
3. ^ de:Zwi Perez Chajes
4. ^ de:Zwi-Perez-Chajes-Schule

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