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Maggid (disambiguation)

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Maggid may refer to:

  • Maggid shiur (or Magid Shiur), a lecturer, generally lecturing in one place, on a given topic, on a fixed schedule
  • Maggid (or Magid), a title or profession: a wandering lecturer, often collecting funds
  • Maggid of Mezritch, Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritch, disciple and successor of Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism

Surname

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  • Hillel Noah Maggid (1829-1903) Russian-Jewish genealogist and historian
  • Sofia Magid (sometimes spelled Maggid, c. 1892-1954) Soviet Jewish Ethnographer and Folklorist

See also

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