Chajes

The surnames Chajes (Ashkenazic Hebrew), Chayes, Hayyot, Hayyut, and Hiyyut are written in Hebrew characters as Hebrew: חיות.[citation needed] The family name originated in the Jewish community of sixteenth-century Prague, one of many such matronymic names adopted by the community in the period.[1] It means "Chaya's [child/children]." The use of the Hebrew, rather than a Yiddish spelling, thus produced a double entendre seemingly intended to suggest "vitality".

Hebrew: חיוֹת means animals; Hebrew: חיוּת means vitality.

## People with this surname

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* Abram Chayes (1922–2000), American legal scholar
* Benno Chajes (1880–1938), German physician and politician
* Isaac Hayyut (died 1726), Polish rabbi
* Jennifer Tour Chayes (born 1956), mathematical physicist
* Menahem Manesh Hayyut (died 1636), Polish rabbi
* Oscar Chajes (1873–1928), Austrian-American chess player
* Sarah Chayes (born 1962), American journalist
* Zvi Hirsch Chajes (1805–1855), Galician rabbi
* Zwi Perez Chajes (1876–1927), Austrian rabbi
* J. H. Chajes (born 1965), Israeli-American professor of Jewish thought

## See also

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* Chai (symbol)
* Chayyim (Haim) (pl.)
* Chayyey (Hebrew: חַיֵּי); e.g. Chayei Sarah
* Surnamed people Chaitin, (Galith) Chayyat', Chayat are from Chayyat' / Khayat / Chait, a tailor (cf.Schneider/Shreyder)[citation needed]

## References

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1. ^ Timm, Erika (1999). See Erika Timm, Matronymika im aschkenasischen Kulturbereich. doi:10.1515/9783110912586. ISBN 978-3-484-10792-2. Retrieved 2023-09-06.

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