Famous People with Name Chava

Chava Alberstein            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Chava Alberstein: an Israeli singer, lyricist, composer and musical arranger. Alberstein is one of Israel's most beloved musical artists, with a career spanning over 40 years.a former German city, annexed to Poland by the Allies in 1945 (now north-western Poland), Chava Alberstein came to Israel at age four and grew up in Kiryat Haim. In 1964, when she was 17, a nightclub appearance in Jaffa led to a CBS recording contract. Early in her career, she appeared at the Amami Cinema in Haifa's Neve Sha'anan neighborhood. Haaretz columnist Neri Livneh describes her as "a little slip of a thing in a blue youth movement shirt, her face covered by huge glasses." [1]

Chava Rosenfarb            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Chava Rosenfarb: is a Holocaust survivor and Jewish-Canadian author of Yiddish poetry and novels, a major contributor to post-World War II Yiddish Literature. Rosenfarb began writing poetry as young as eight. After surviving the Lódz ghetto (known as Ghetto Litzmannstadt), Rosenfarb was deported to Auschwitz, where her father died, and then sent to a work camp at Sasel (subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp), where she built houses for the bombed out Germans of Hamburg. At the end of the war she was sent to Bergen-Belsen, where she fell ill with nearly-fatal Typhus Fever in April 1945. After the end of the war, Rosenfarb married the future nationally-famous Canadian abortion activist Henry Morgentaler (the two divorced in 1975). She had published three volumes of poetry by 1950. The same year, Morgentaler and Rosenfarb, pregnant with Goldie, their daughter, emigrated from Europe to Canada, landing in Montréal in the winter of 1950, to a reception of Yiddish writers at Windsor Station.

Chavalit Yongchaiyudh            Origin/Culture/Country: Thai

Chavalit Yongchaiyudh: a Thai politician and general who started his political career as Defence Minister, Deputy Prime Minister during the term of Chatichai Choonhavan from 1988 to 1991, as Minister of Interior from 1992 to 1994 and again Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence from 1995 to 1996. He was Thailand's 22nd Prime Minister from (1996-1997), and is of Sino-Thai and Lao descent.[1]In late 1996, following the Royal Decree of Parliament Closure a general election was held. On November 16, 1996, the New Aspiration Party led by Chavalit won the most seats and, with the approval of six minor coalition parties, namely New Aspiration, Chart Pattana, Social Action, Thai Citizen,