Peretz

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The Jewish name Peretz may refer to the following people

as a given name:

• Peretz Markish, (1895 - 1952), a Soviet Yiddish-language poet.
• Peretz Hirshbein, (1880–1948), a Yiddish-language playwright
• Peretz Smolenskin, (1842–1885), a Russian Jewish novelist

as a surname:

• Amir Peretz (born 1952), former Defense Minister and Labour Party leader in Israel
• I.L. Peretz, (1852–1915), a modernist Yiddish language author and playwright
• Jesse Peretz (born 1968), rock video director and son of Martin
• Martin Peretz (born 1938), Harvard University lecturer and owner of The New Republic
• Omer Peretz (born 1986), Israel U21 footballer and son of Vicky
• Vicky Peretz (born 1953), former Israeli international footballer
• Yitzhak Peretz, an Israeli politician who served as Deputy Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism.
• Yitzhak Peretz, an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Internal Affairs, Minister of Immigrant Absorption and Minister without Portfolio.
• Yitzhak Peretz (Chief Rabbi of Raanana and member on Israeli Chief Rabbinate Council)

Other similar names

• David Paretz, a Bulgarian painter
• Perec (a Slavonic name) (occasionally, pronounced faultily like [perek])
• Pharez used in the Book of Genesis (also written as Peretz, Perets)
• Perutz
• Perez and Peres (an Iberian family name, confused by some writers with a similar term meaning 'son of the father' and by others with a patronymic for "child of Peter"). Perez is the Spanish form of the Hebrew family name Peretz. It was adopted as a family name by Spanish Hebrew (Sephardi Jews) families during a time of religious intolerance (1318 c.e.) in Spain. The name is also one of the names of the Messiah in Rabbinic tradition. It is a common family name among descendants of Spanish Jewish families that converted during the Inquisition.