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Gershon

Meaning

Variant of GERSHOM. This is the name of a son of Levi in the Old Testament.

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Famous People Named Gershon

Gershon Mesika

Gershon Mesika (, born 5 July 1952) an Israeli lawyer and politician.

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Gershon Shofman

Gershon Shofman (Hebrew: גרשון שופמן) (born 1880; died 1972) was an Israeli writer and painter.

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Gershon Iskowitz

Gershon Iskowitz (November 21, 1921 – January 26, 1988) was a Canadian artist of Jewish background originally from Poland.

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Gershon Henoch Leiner

Grand Rabbi Gershon Chanoch Henech Leiner of Radzyn (1839 – December 15, 1890) was a rebbe of the Izhbitza – Radzin dynasty, and the first to be known as "the Radzyner Rebbe".

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Gershon Yankelewitz

Gershon Yankelewitz (November 23, 1909 – August 19, 2014) was a senior rosh yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University.

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Gershon in Other Languages

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