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Heifetz

American  
[hahy-fits] / ˈhaɪ fɪts /

noun

  1. Jascha 1901–1987, U.S. violinist, born in Russia.


Heifetz British  
/ ˈhaɪfɪts /

noun

  1. Jascha (ˈjæʃə). 1901–87, US violinist, born in Russia

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Heifetz is grounded in her decision by a central tenet of Earthseed, the fictional religion Butler constructs in “Parable of the Sower.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Merrilee Heifetz, agent to the Estate and to Butler while she was alive, agreed that the author never envisioned a world wherein she had the massive following she does today.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Sinatra famously studied jazz and popular singers like Crosby and Billie Holiday and musicians like Tommy Dorsey as a young man, but also classical virtuosos like Jascha Heifetz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

As the management guru Ronald Heifetz put it brilliantly: “What people resist is not change per se, but loss.”

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2023

And when did Heifetz ever take a run like that?

From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben