Famous People with Name Yaakov

Yaakov Kobi Baloul            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Yaakov Kobi Baloul: Height 202 cm Year of Birth 1973 Nationality Israeli Position Forward - Center

Yaakov Avigdor            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Yaakov Avigdor: was a Polish rabbi, author and Holocaust survivor, who served as Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazi Jewish community in Mexico. He was born into a rabbinic family in Tyrawa Woloska, a shtetl in the Austrian province of Galicia between the cities of Sanok and Przemysl (now southeast Poland) in 1896.

Yaakov Shabtai            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Yaakov Shabtai: was an Israeli novelist, playwright and translator, born in Tel Aviv.His best known work is Zikhron Devarim (1977), published in English in 1985 as Past Continuous. Written as a single paragraph, it was the first novel ever to be written in truly vernacular Hebrew. In its English translation the novel received international acclaim as a unique work of modernism, prompting critic Gabriel Josipovici of The Independent to name it the greatest novel of the decade, comparing it to Proust's In Search of Lost Time.