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Yankel
Boy NameYiddish Origin
Meaning
Yiddish diminutive of JACOB.
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Yankel Zhuravitzer
Rabbi Yaakov Zechariah Maskalik, known publicly as Reb Yankel Zhuravitzer (1897–1938) was an underground Chabad-Lubavitch activist in the early years of the Joseph Stalin regime.
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