Benveniste

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Benveniste (from Bienvenida, bien venida) is a surname. The name of an old, rich, and scholarly family of Narbonne, the numerous branches of which were found all over Spain and the Provence, as well as at various places in the Orient. It is still borne by certain families in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Vienna. It was also used as a prænomen (see Steinschneider, "Cat. Bodl." No. 7348; Loeb, in "Rev. des Etudes Juives", xxi. 153).

It may refer to:

• Abraham Benveniste the Elder
• Abraham Benveniste
• Asa Benveniste
• Benveniste de Porta, Jewish Bailie ("bayle") of Barcelona, Spain, and brother of Nahmanides
• Chayyim ben Israel Benveniste (Ḥayyim ben Israel Benveniste)
• David Benveniste
• Émile Benveniste, French structuralist linguist
• Hayyim Benveniste
• Immanuel Benveniste
• Isaac Benveniste
• Isaac Benveniste (Zag)
• Israel ben Eliezer Benveniste
• Jacques Benveniste, French immunologist
• Joseph Benveniste
• Joseph Benveniste
• Joseph ben Benveniste
• Joseph ben Ephraim ha-Levi Benveniste
• Joshua ben Israel Benveniste
• Judah Benveniste
• Judah Benveniste
• Meïr ben Samuel Benveniste
• Moses ben Nissim Benveniste
• Richard Ben-Veniste, American lawyer
• Samuel Benveniste
• Sheshet ben Isaac ben Joseph Benveniste
• Solomon Benveniste (called the Elder)
• Vidal Benveniste
• Vidal Benveniste
• Vidal Benveniste

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.

• [1] by Richard Gottheil, Meyer Kayserling, Isaac Broydé