Avigdor (name)

Avigdor (Hebrew: אביגדור‎, also Abigdor, Awigdor, from I Chronicles 4.18, אבי גדור = Avi Gedor) is a Hebrew given-name. Figdor, Viktor, Victor are Europeanised forms. Avigdora is the female form.

[edit] Given names

• Avigdor Aptowitzer
• Avigdor Arikha, Israeli-French painter, printmaker, and art historian
• Abigdor Cohen of Vienna (c. 13th century), Austrian Talmudist
• Avigdor Dagan (1912-2006), also known as Viktor Fischl, Israeli writer, playwright and diplomat
• Avigdor Eskin, Russian-Israeli political activist
• Avigdor Kahalani, Israeli soldier and politician
• Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli politician, leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu party
• Avigdor Miller (1908-2001), American rabbi, author and lecturer
• Avigdor Nebenzahl, former chief rabbi of the Old City of Jerusalem
• Avigdor Yitzhaki, Israeli politician, former member of the Knesset for Kadima
• Ephraim Avigdor Speiser

[edit] Surnames

• Avigdor (French family) (or d'Avigdor), a French Jewish pedigree; (de)
• Abraham Abigdor (b. 1350), French-Jewish physician, philosopher, and translator
• Maestro Abraham Abigdor
• Henri Salomon d'Avigdor
• Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid
• Isaak Samuel d'Avigdor (Isaac Samuel d'Avigdor)
• James d'Avigdor-Goldsmid
• Jacob Avigdor (1896–1967), also known as Yaakov Avigdor, author and rabbi in Poland and Mexico
• Solomon Avigdor (b. 1384), French-Jewish translator of Hebrew

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