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Ascher is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Daisy Ascher (1944–2003), Mexican photographer * Fritz Ascher (1893–1970), German artist * Joseph Ascher (1829–1869), Dutch composer and court pianist to Eugénie de Montijo * Kate Ascher, author and executive vice president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation * Kenneth Lee Ascher (born 1944), American jazz pianist and composer * Leo Ascher Leo Ascher (17 August 1880 – 25 February 1942) was an Austrian composer of operettas, popular songs and film scores. Biography Ascher was born in Vienna. His father, Moritz Ascher, was a local umbrella manufacturer. Leo wrote his first com ... (1880–1942), Jewish composer * Marcia Ascher (1935–2013), American mathematician * Mathias Ascher (pseudonym of Nathan Birnbaum) (1864–1937), Austrian Jewish journalist and philosopher * Saul Ascher (1767–1822), Jewish narrative writer and publicist * Tova Ascher, Israeli female film editor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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German Language
German ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and Official language, official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italy, Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and German-speaking Community of Belgium, Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch language, Dutch, English language, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots language, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic languages, North Germanic group, such as Danish lan ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Daisy Ascher
Daisy Ascher Oved (25 April 1944–31 March 2003) was a Mexican photographer. Much of her work consists of portraits, including of Mexican cultural figures such as José Luis Cuevas and Juan Rulfo. Biography Daisy Ascher was born in Mexico City in 1944 to Samuel Ascher and Luisa Oved. She studied at Universidá Motolinía and at Universidá Anáhuac. She died of cancer on 31 March 2003, at 58. Education She studied art at Motolinía University and Universidad Anáhuac, and also studied with the Photographic Club of Mexico. She published ten books of her photography, including ''Formas Silenciosas'' and ''Cien retratos por Daisy Ascher''. Ascher's influences included Eugene Atget, Alfred Stieglitz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Manuel Alvarez Bravo as well as Richard Avedon, Yousuf Karsh and Sam Haskins, all of them dedicated to portraits. Work Ascher was part of the Photographic Club of México and ventured into various themes and photographic genres making photographs fo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fritz Ascher
Fritz Ascher (17 October 1893 in Berlin, Germany – 26 March 1970 in Berlin, Germany) was a German artist, whose work is characterized by Expressionist and Symbolist sensitivity. In paintings, works on paper and poetry he explored existential questions and themes of contemporary social and cultural relevance, of spirituality and mythology. Ascher's expressive strokes and intense colors create emotionally intense and authentic work. Early life and work Fritz Ascher was born in Berlin, on 17 October 1893, the son of the dental surgeon and businessman Dr. Hugo Ascher (born Neugard 27 July 1859 – died 18 August 1922 Berlin) and Minna Luise Ascher (born Schneider; Berlin, 17 January 1867 – died 17 October 1938). His sisters Charlotte Hedwig and Margarete Lilly (Grete) were born 8 October 1894 and 11 June 1897. Hugo Ascher converted his three children to Protestantism in 1901, his wife remained Jewish. Hugo Ascher's business was successful, and in 1909 the family moved into a vi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Joseph Ascher
Joseph Ascher (3 June 1829 – 20 June 1869) was a Dutch-Jewish composer and pianist. He lived in Paris and London for most of his life. Life Ascher was born in Groningen, the son of the ''chazzan'' of the city, who went on to become a cantor in London. He started his musical studies in London and continued them at the Leipzig Conservatory with Ignaz Moscheles as his teacher, but did not graduate.he died at age 40 His pianistic gifts were recognized by the Empress Eugénie of France, who asked him to become her court pianist in 1849. In 1865, Ascher moved back to London, while in Paris he was succeeded as court pianist by Émile Waldteufel. He died in London from the result of what some 19th-century sources call "a dissolute life". Brown (1886) regarded him as a "composer who, had he been more careful in his worldly relations, might have proved one of the greatest among recent musicians." Music Ascher composed about 170 works for piano, piano four- and eight-hands, as well as ba ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kate Ascher
Kate Ascher is an author and was executive vice president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Her 2005 book, ''The Works: Anatomy of a City'', a textual and graphic exploration of how the complicated and often overlapping infrastructure of a modern city works, garnered wide discussion and praise when it was published. She left the NYCEDC in 2007 for Vornado Realty Trust. She formerly held positions with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and in corporate finance. In the wake of the 2007 New York City steam explosion Ascher was quoted by several media outlets on the history and nature of utility steam use. "We are an older city with infrastructure that was sophisticated in its time," she told the New York Sun. "In any one of those systems, there is older pipe and newer pipe." Asher is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Education Ascher received her M.Sc. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kenneth Lee Ascher
Kenneth Lee Ascher (born October 26, 1944 in Washington, D.C.) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who is active in jazz, rock, classical, and musical theater genres — in live venues, recording studios, and cinema production.''Who's Who in Rock Music'', by William York, Charles Scribner's Sons (1982); With Paul Williams, he wrote the song "Rainbow Connection" for ''The Muppet Movie''. Both Williams and Ascher received Oscar nominations for the 1979 Academy Awards for Best Original Song ("Rainbow Connection") and Best Original Score (''The Muppet Movie'' Soundtrack). The song was also nominated for the Golden Globes for "Best Original Song" that same year. His work Ascher's work through the years has included keyboard parts and string arrangements on John Lennon's albums ''Mind Games'', '' Walls and Bridges'' and '' Rock 'n' Roll'' and Yoko Ono's ''A Story'', music for several songs from Barbra Streisand's remake of '' A Star Is Born'' (where he also ser ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Leo Ascher
Leo Ascher (17 August 1880 – 25 February 1942) was an Austrian composer of operettas, popular songs and film scores. Biography Ascher was born in Vienna. His father, Moritz Ascher, was a local umbrella manufacturer. Leo wrote his first composition, a waltz at the age of 13 in 1893. He studied law at the University of Vienna where he received his doctorate in 1904. He also attended the Vienna Conservatory from 1898 and studied composition under Robert Fuchs and Franz Schmidt. He married Luise Frankl and they had one daughter, the writer Franzi Ascher-Nash, who was born in Vienna on 28 November 1910 and died in Millersville, Pennsylvania, on 1 September 1991. Ascher was briefly arrested during the Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938; once released, he left Austria forever. Via France and England he emigrated to the US, where he lived from December 1939 until his death in New York City in 1942. His artistic estate is kept at the Leo Ascher Centre of Operetta Music at Millersville ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marcia Ascher
Marcia Alper Ascher (April 23, 1935 – August 10, 2013) was an American mathematician, and a leader and pioneer in ethnomathematics. She was a professor emerita of mathematics at Ithaca College. Life Ascher was born in New York City, the daughter of a glazier and a secretary. She graduated from Queens College, City University of New York in 1956, and married Robert Ascher, an anthropologist graduating from Queens College in the same year. They both became graduate students at the University of California, Los Angeles; she completed a master's degree in 1960, and moved with her husband to Ithaca, New York, where he had found a faculty position at Cornell University. She joined the mathematics department at Ithaca college in 1960, as one of the founders of the department. She retired as full professor emerita in 1995. She died on August 10, 2013. Books With her husband, Ascher co-authored the book ''Code of the Quipu, Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mathias Ascher
Nathan Birnbaum ( he, נתן בירנבוים; pseudonyms: "Mathias Acher", "Dr. N. Birner", "Mathias Palme", "Anton Skart", "Theodor Schwarz", and "Pantarhei"; 16 May 1864 – 2 April 1937) was an Austrian writer and journalist, Jewish thinker and nationalist. His life had three main phases, representing a progression in his thinking: a Zionist phase (c. 1883 – c. 1900); a Jewish cultural autonomy phase (c. 1900 – c. 1914) which included the promotion of the Yiddish language; and religious phase (c. 1914–1937) when he turned to Orthodox Judaism and became staunchly anti-Zionist. He married Rosa Korngut (1869–1934) and they had three sons: Solomon (Salomo) Birnbaum (1891–1989), Menachem Birnbaum (1893–1944), and Uriel Birnbaum (1894–1956). Early life Birnbaum was born in Vienna into an Eastern European Jewish family with roots in Austrian Galicia and Hungary. His father, Menachem Mendel Birnbaum, a merchant, hailed from Ropshitz, Galicia, and his mother, Mir ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Saul Ascher
Saul Ascher (6 February 1767 in Berlin – 8 December 1822 in Berlin) was a German writer, translator and bookseller. Life Saul Ascher (born Saul ben Anschel Jaff), was the first child of Deiche Aaron (c. 1744 Frankfurt – 1820 Berlin) and bank broker Anschel Jaffe (1745 Berlin – 1812 Berlin). In 1785, he attended high school in ''Landsberg an der Warthe'' (now Gorzów Wielkopolski). Ascher married Rachel Spanier on 6 June 1789 in Hanover. Spanier was the daughter of Nathan Spanier, the head of the Ravensberg Jewish community. On 6 October 1795, their only child, a daughter Wilhelmine, was born. On 6 April 1810, Ascher was arrested in Berlin, but was released on April 25 due to political pressure. On 6 October, he was awarded a doctoral degree ''in absentia'' from the University of Halle. In 1812, the year his father died, Ascher received his letter of citizenship. Ascher joined the Jewish reform-oriented ''Gesellschaft der Freunde'' (Society of Friends) in 1816. At the boo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tova Ascher
Tova Ascher, also Tova Asher ( he, טובה אשר) is an Israeli film director and film editor.Melanie Goodfellow"Interview: Tova Ascher" ''Screen Daily'' She edited over 50 films. Personal life and career Ascher was born in Netanya. After graduating from the Netanya High School, she moved to Tel Aviv, where she received a bachelor's degree in philosophy and sociology from Tel Aviv University. Her first editorial work was for the Hebrew-language version of the film ''Diamonds''. ''The Jerusalem Post'' wrote that she is one of Israel’s most in-demand film editors. British magazine ''Screen Daily'' describes her as "one of Israel's most respected film editors." Her sister, , is also a film editor; in an interview, Tova Ascher said that her interest in film-making began when Lapid suggested her as an assistant editor in David Perlov's 1972 film ''The Pill''. She has two other siblings, a sister and a brother. She is married to Yoni Ascher, a historian at the University of H ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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William Ascher
William Ascher (born January 3, 1947) is the Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, where he served as academic vice president and dean of the faculty (2000–2005). Previously, as professor of public policy and political science, Ascher directed Duke University's Center for International Development Research (1985–2000). He studies strategic planning, policymaking in developing countries, natural resource and environmental policy, Latin American and Asian political economy, political psychology, and forecasting methods. He has authored ''Forecasting: An Appraisal for Policymakers and Planners'' (1978), ''Scheming for the Poor: The Politics of Redistribution in Latin America'' (1984), ''Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries'' (1990), ''Communities and Sustainable Forestry in Developing Countries'' (1994), ''Why Governments Waste Natural Resources'' (1999), and ''Bringing in the Future: Str ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |