Cultural References
A wide variety of modern day institutions have been named after Akiva. Examples include the Bnei Akiva youth movement and schools, such as Akiba Hebrew Academy near Philadelphia (now called the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy), and Yeshivat Akiva in Michigan. It is also a common Jewish name for males.
Rabbi Akiba appears in Katharine Kerr's novella Resurrection and the short story collection Freeze Frames, and is a leading character in Milton Steinberg's novel As a Driven Leaf.
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