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Hillel

//hɪˈlɛl// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A male given name from Hebrew.

    "Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power."

  2. 2
    A surname.

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew הִלֵּל (Hillḗl).

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