HaKohen


HaKohen is a Jewish given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:
  • Nathan HaKohen Adler, German kabbalist
  • Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk, rabbi and prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe
  • Shneur Chaim HaKohen Gutnick, Orthodox Jewish Chabad rabbi in Australia
  • Aaron ben Jacob ben David Hakohen Provençal rabbi, living at Narbonne, France who suffered the expulsion of the Jews in 1306
  • Abraham ben Shabbetai Hakohen, Jewish physician, rabbi, religious philosopher and poet on Zante
  • Akhiyahu HaKohen, rabbi and Hebrew-language grammarian in Tiberias
  • Alexandri HaKohen, prominent 14th century rabbinic authority born in Erfurt, Germany
  • David Hakohen, late thirteenth-century Hebrew liturgical poet from Avignon
  • Isaac Hakohen, Moroccan Talmudist and posek
  • Ishmael ben Elisha Hakohen, leader of the first generation of the Tannaim
  • Joseph Hakohen, historian and physician of the 16th century
  • Malachi ben Jacob HaKohen, renowned Talmudist, methodologist, Kaballists
  • Matityahu ben Yochanan HaKohen, Jewish priest with a role in the Jewish revolt against the Syrian Greeks
  • Shabbatai HaKohen, 17th Century talmudist and halakhist
  • Shlomo HaKohen , the famed Av Beis Din and Posek of Vilna
  • Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen, is a major Orthodox yeshiva in the United States based in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, New York
  • Yisroel Meir HaKohen, influential rabbi of the Musar movement, a Halakhist, posek, and ethicist
  • Yonatan Hakohen, leading French tosafist
  • Zadok HaKohen of Lublin, a significant Jewish thinker and Hasidic leader
  • Abraham HaKohen Kalisker, prominent Chassidic Rabbi of the 3rd generation of Chassidic leaders
  • Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin, of Aleksander, served as the rebbe of a community of thousands of Hasidim
  • Shlomo HaKohen of Lissa, rabbi and biblical commentator
  • Yehuda HaKohen ben Meir, German rabbi and Talmudic scholar of the late tenth and early eleventh century CE from Mainz
  • Isaac HaKohen Rapoport, 18th-century rabbi who lived in Palestine; born and died at Jerusalem, a pupil of rabbi Hezekiah da Silva
  • Zvi Yosef HaKohen Resnick, orthodox Russian rabbi and Rosh yeshivah
  • Mnachem Hakohen Risikoff, orthodox rabbi in Russia and the United States, prolific author of scholarly works
  • Mordechai HaKohen of Safed, scholar and kabbalist who flourished in the second half of the sixteenth century in Safed
  • Aaron HaKohen ibn Sargado, tenth-century AD gaon in Pumbedita, Babylonia
  • Sholom HaKohen Schwadron, Haredi rabbi and orator
  • Meir HaKohen Shiff, German rabbi and Talmud scholar
Category:Surnames of Jewish origin