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Finkelstein
Finkelstein ( or , ) is a German and Yiddish surname originating from Old High German funko (spark) and stein (stone). Funkelstein meant pyrite (Adler German-English Dictionary, 1864). The Yiddish version of pyrite, finkelstein, could have denoted bareketh, one of the 12 tribe stones of High Priest's breastplate (Exodus 28:17).
Notable people with the surname include:
- Anthony Finkelstein (born 1959), British software engineer
- Arthur Fields (Abe Finkelstein), American singer and songwriter
- Arthur J. Finkelstein, US Republican political activist
- Avram Finkelstein, gay rights activist
- Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering pioneer
- David Finkelstein (1929-2016), professor of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology
- David Finkelstein, professor of Philosophy at University of Chicago
- Daniel Finkelstein, British journalist
- Eric Finkelstein, American health economist
- Israel Finkelstein (born 1949), Israeli archaeologist
- Jacob Finkelstein (Jackie Fields), American world champion welterweight & Olympic champion featherweight Hall of Fame boxer
- Louis Finkelstein (1895-1991), Talmud scholar
- Louis Finkelstein (artist) (1923-2000), painter and Queens College (CUNY) professor
- Max Finkelstein (died 1940), New York City policeman.
- Meir Finkelstein, cantor and composer of contemporary Jewish liturgical music
- Mel Finkelstein, American photojournalist
- Menachem Finkelstein, Israeli district judge, Israel's Military Advocate General from 2000 to 2004.
- Norman Finkelstein, American political scientist and writer.
- Norman Finkelstein (poet), poet and writer
- Peter Max (Peter Finkelstein)
- Salo Finkelstein
- William Zorach (born Finkelstein)