what was elie wiesel's father's name?
Chlomo Wiesel
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 Ishmaelism in this more limited definition holds that Ishmael was both an important religious figure and eponymous ancestor for some of the Arabs of western Arabia . Prominence is given in Arab genealogical accounts to the first two of Ishmael 's twelve sons , Nebaioth ( Arabic : نبيت , Nabīt ) and Qedar ( Arabic : قيدار , Qaydār ) , who are also prominently featured in the Genesis account . It is likely that they and their tribes lived in northwestern Arabia and were historically the most important of the twelve Ishamelite tribes . 

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 Isaac ( / ˈaɪzək / ; Hebrew : יִצְחָק , Modern Yitshak , Tiberian Yiṣḥāq , ISO 259 @-@ 3 Yiçḥaq , " [ he ] will laugh " ; Ancient Greek : Ἰσαάκ Isaak Arabic : إسحاق or إسحٰق ʼIsḥāq ) as described in the Hebrew Bible and the Qur 'an , was the second son of Abraham , the only son Abraham had with his wife Sarah , and the father of Jacob and Esau . According to the Book of Genesis , Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born , and Sarah was past 90 . 

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 In 1498 , a monk named Annio da Viterbo published fragments known as " Pseudo @-@ Berossus " , now considered a forgery , claiming that Babylonian records had shown that Tuiscon or Tuisto , the fourth son of Noah , had been the first ruler of Scythia and Germany following the dispersion of peoples , with him being succeeded by his son Mannus as the second king . Later historians ( e.g. Johannes Aventinus ) managed to furnish numerous further details , including the assertion by James Anderson that this Tuiscon was in fact none other than the biblical Ashkenaz , son of Gomer . 

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 A theory current in the early part of the past century holds that Hammurabi was Amraphel , the King of Shinar in the Book of Genesis 14 : 1 . 

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 The year after joining Maples 's firm , Benjamin changed his surname from D 'Israeli to Disraeli . His reasons for doing so are unknown , but the biographer Bernard Glassman surmises that it was to avoid being confused with his father . Disraeli 's sister and brothers adopted the new version of the name ; Isaac and his wife retained the older form . 
