Shor
Anthropology
- Shor language, one of the Turkic languages
- Shor people, an indigenous ethnic group of southern Siberia
People with the name
Shor is a Jewish surname, notricon (acronym) shokhet u rav - "ritual slaughterer" and "rabbi".[1] Additionally, it means "ox" in the family named Shor that is descended from Joseph ben Isaac Bekhor Shor. Bekhor Shor means "first-born ox", which is the animal symbolic of Joseph in the biblical blessing found in Deuteronomy 33:17. Some of those with this last name are:
- Dan Shor, veteran actor, director, writer and teacher with a career spanning 28 years
- Ephraim Zalman Shor (1551-1633), descended from Joseph ben Isaac Bekhor Shor, also called Tevuot Shor after a book he wrote on ritual slaughtering[2]
- Ira Shor, composition and rhetoric professor
- Joseph ben Isaac Bekhor Shor (12th century), French rabbi, Talmudic scholar and poet. He was called Bekhor Shor after a biblical commentary he wrote.
- Naum Z. Shor (1937-2006), Ukrainian mathematician
- Peter Shor (b. 1959), American theoretical computer scientist
- Sol Shor, American screenwriter
- Toots Shor (1903-1977), proprietor of Toots Shor's Restaurant
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Shor (film), 1972 Hindi film
- Shor and Shorshor, 1926 Soviet film
Other uses
- Shor's algorithm, quantum algorithm for factoring a number N in O((log N)3) time and O(log N) space
- Toots Shor's Restaurant
References
- Hinckley, Richard (1963). STAR NAMES Their Lore and Meaning. Dover Publications, 1899. p. 380. ISBN 0-486-21079-0.
- Singer, Isidore & Adler, Cyrus (1904). "Leon-Moravia". The Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk & Wagnalls. p. 201.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
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