Famous People with Name Hayyim

Hayyim Nahman Bialik            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Hayyim Nahman Bialik: was a Jewish poet who wrote in Hebrew. Bialik was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poets and came to be recognized as Israel's national poet. Bialik was born in Radi, Volhynia in Ukraine to Yitzhak Yossef Bialik, a scholar and businessman, and his wif

Hayyim Selig Slonimski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Hayyim Selig Slonimski: was a Hebrew publisher, astronomer, inventor, and science author.When Slonimski was only twenty-four years old he finished writing a textbook on mathematics, but due to lack of funds, only the first part of which was published in 1834 under the title Mosede ?okmah.In 1835 Slonimski released Sefer Kukba di-Shebit (1835), a collection of essays on the Halley comet and other astronomy related topics such as laws of Kepler and Newton. This work significantly increased Slonimiski's popularity, because Halley's comet was widely discussed topic as the return of this periodic comet was expected in 1835.[2]