Spira (name)

Spira is an Ashkenazi Jewish family name. Famous people with this name include:

• Elijah Spira:
• Nathan Nata Spira:
• Harry Spira
• Eugen Spiro (Eugene Spiro), German painter
• György Spiró, Hungarian writer
• Harry Spira
• Rupert Spira, English studio potter
• Karl Spiro, German physicist
• Melford Spiro, American anthropologist

A number of other names have arisen from or are related to Spira:

• André Spire
• Afrikan Spir
• Edward Sapir (although there is a possibility of Sapirstein/sappirstein = sapphire)

See also

• Shapiro
• Spiro (name)

External links

• Bishop of Speyer: Grant of Lands & Privileges to the Jews, 1084 (from the Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
• Beth Hatefutsoth
• Jewish Encyclopedia
• Speyer Tourism : Jewish Quarter (The Mikveh of Speyer [1], is one of the oldest existing Jewish ritual baths in Europe)
• The Spiro Family of Gemzse in Hungary
• list of Jews from Speyer who were deported or survived Holocaust
• Massive family tree with lots of Spiras including R. Tzvi Elimelach Spira of Dinov (B'nei Yissachar) as "Hersh Mylech Spira"