title: Schleifer
text: # Schleifer
  
  Schleifer is a German-language surname. Its Polonized form is Szlajfer, Russified of Yiddish: Shleifer.
  
  Notable people with this surname include.
  
  * Abdallah Schleifer v S. Abdallah Schleifer (b. Marc Schleifer, 1935), prominent Middle East expert
  * James T. Schleifer a.k.a. James Thomas Schleifer, American historian
  * Meyer Schleifer (1908–1994), American bridge player
  
  Schleifer is also the German term for Slide (musical ornament) and the Schleifer dialect, which is transitional between the Upper and Lower Sorbian languages.
  
  