Famous People with Name Yehoshua

Yehoshua Rokeach            Origin/Culture/Country: Belz

Yehoshua Rokeach: was the second rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty. He combined Torah scholarship with practical common sense to guide thousands of Hasidim and to fight the Haskalah ("Enlightenment") movement that was making inroads in Jewish communities in Poland during the nineteenth century. His pioneering activities included founding the Machzikei Hadas organization.

Yehoshua Feigenbaum            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Yehoshua Feigenbaum: a former Israeli footballer. As a striker, he holds many records with the Israeli national football team.

Yehoshua Bar-Hillel            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Yehoshua Bar-Hillel: was a philosopher, mathematician, and linguist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, best known for his pioneering work in machine translation and formal linguistics.During World War II, he served in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army. He fought with the Haganah during the Israeli War of Independence, losing an eye.Bar-Hillel received his PhD in Philosophy from the Hebrew University where he also studied mathematics under Abraham Fraenkel, with whom he eventually coauthored Foundations of Set Theory (1958, 1973).

Yehoshua Kenaz            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Yehoshua Kenaz: is an Israeli novelist.After the Holidays (1964) is about the disintegration of a family in a small farming community in Palestine during the British Mandate.[4] The Great Woman of the Dreams (1973) depicts the lives of the tenants of a rundown apartment house in Tel Aviv.[5] Musical Moments (1980) is a collection of four stories dealing with themes of the rites of manhood and the disruption of innocence.[

Yehoshua Sobol            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Yehoshua Sobol: is an Israeli playwright, writer and director at theatres in Israel and abroad. Yehoshua Sobol is married to Edna, set and costume designer. They have a daughter, Neta, and a son, Yahli.

Abraham B. ("Bulli") Yehoshua            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Abraham B. ("Bulli") Yehoshua: is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. His pen name is A. B. Yehoshua.From the end of his military service, Yehoshua began to publish fiction. His first book of stories, "Mot Hazaken" (The Death of the Old Man) was published in 1962. He became a notable figure in the "new wave" generation of Israeli writers who differed from earlier writers in their focus on the individual and interpersonal rather than the group.