Judah

Judah

The name Judah can refer to:

• Judah (Biblical person), fourth son of the Biblical patriarch Jacob (Israel)

All later individuals, groups and places of this name are directly or indirectly derived from this Judah.

Ethnic, political and geographic names and terms

• The Tribe of Judah, the Hebrew tribe whose members regarded the above as their eponymous ancestor
• The Kingdom of Judah, the Biblical kingdom ruled by the royal line of David
• Yehud Medinata, the Babylonian and Persian province organised from the former kingdom of Judah
• Judea, the former territory of the Kingdom of Judah after its demise (c. 586 BC), being successively a Babylonian, a Persian, a Ptolemaic and a Seleucid province, an independent kingdom under the Hasmoneans regarding itself as successor of the Biblical one, a Roman dependent kingdom and a Roman province
• Iudaea Province, Roman province, with the Latin spelling
• Jew, derived from Hebrew "Yehudi" יהודי (literally, "Judean"); the derivation is more clear in German "Jude" and in Slavic "Zhid"
• Judean Mountains, modern Israeli name for the mountains around Jerusalem, politically divided between Israel and the Occupied West Bank
• Judea and Samaria, official Israeli name for the West Bank

Other places

• Judah, Indiana, a small town in the United States

People

Given name

People called Judah

• Judah Maccabee, leader of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid empire
• Jude of James and Judas Iscariot, two apostles of Jesus
• Judah the Prince, chief redactor of the Mishnah and second-century Jewish leader
• Judah II, third-century Jewish sage
• Judah III, third- and fourth-century sage
• Judah IV, 4th-century talmudic sage
• Judah b. Meremar, Babylonian sage
• Yehuda Halevi, prominent Medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet

Persons that had Judah as their first or middle name

• Judah P. Benjamin, politician and lawyer in the United States and Confederate States of America
• Judah Bergman ("Jack Kid Berg"), English world champion Hall of Fame junior welterweight boxer
• Judah Ben-Hur, main character of the 1880 Lew Wallace novel, "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ". Also the 1959 film "Ben-Hur", which starred Charlton Heston.
• Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the Maharal, important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, and philosopher who served as a leading rabbi in Prague (now in the Czech Republic) for most of his life
• Dr. Judah Folkman, American cellular biologist, founder of the field of antiangiogenesis
• Judah Friedlander, American actor. *30 Rock
• Judah Nagler, singer, guitarist, and songwriter for indie-pop band The Velvet Teen
• Yehuda Alharizi, prominent Medieval Spanish rabbi, translator, poet and traveler
• Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet
• Yehuda Amital, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion and a former member of the Israeli cabinet
• Yehuda Gilad (musician), clarinetist
• Yehuda Gilad (politician), rabbi and politician
• Yehuda Krinsky, Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi
• Yehuda Poliker (born 1950), Israeli singer-songwriter
• Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, Rosh yeshiva of the Volozhin yeshiva and author of several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuania
• Yehudi Menuhin, world-famous violinist
• Yehuda Tzadka, Rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef Yeshiva, Jerusalem

Surname

• Henry M. Judah, American soldier
• Theodore Judah, American engineer who dreamed of the first transcontinental railroad
• Gerry Judah, Artist and Designer
• Tim Judah, historian and journalist
• Yoel Judah, American 3x world champion kickboxer and boxer & trainer
• Zab Judah ("Super"), American world champion junior welterweight & world champion welterweight boxer

Organizations

• Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C., Israeli football team (literally, "Sons of Judah" or "Sons of Judea")
• Hapoel Mahane Yehuda F.C., Israeli football team
• Yehuda Matzos, an Israeli matza company
• Young Judaea, a peer-led Zionist youth movement of Hadassah
• Mateh Yehuda Regional Council
• Mahane Yehuda Market

Related Names

• Jude
• Judas