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Broder or Bröder is a surname. Notable people with the surname Broder / Bröder include: * Andrei Broder (born 1953), Research Fellow and Vice President of Emerging Search Technology for Yahoo! * Andrew Broder (1845–1918), Ontario farmer and merchant, member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1896 to 1911 *Annie Glen Broder (1857–1937), Canadian musician *Berl Broder (1817–1868), Ukrainian Jew and the most famous of the Broder singers *David S. Broder (1929–2011), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, columnist for ''The Washington Post'', and professor at the University of Maryland *Gavin Broder (born 1959), former chief Rabbi of Ireland * Henryk Broder (born 1946), German journalist, columnist for the daily newspaper ''Die Welt'' *Melissa Broder (born 1979), poet and writer *Mirko Bröder (1911–1943), Hungarian–Serbian chess master * Samuel Broder, co-developer of anti AIDS drugs and former Director of the National Cancer Institute See also *Broda (other) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Broder
Andrei Zary Broder (born April 12, 1953 in Bucharest) is a distinguished scientist at Google. Previously, he was a research fellow and vice president of computational advertising for Yahoo!, and before that, the vice president of research for AltaVista. He has also worked for IBM Research as a distinguished engineer and was CTO of IBM's Institute for Search and Text Analysis. Education and career Broder was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1953. His parents were medical doctors, his father a noted oncological surgeon. They emigrated to Israel in 1973, when Broder was in the second year of college in Romania, in the Electronics department at the Bucharest Polytechnic. He was accepted at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, in the EE Department. Broder graduated from Technion in 1977, with a B.Sc. summa cum laude. He was then admitted to the PhD program at Stanford, where he initially planned to work in the systems area. His first adviser was Prof. John L. Hennessy. After r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Broder
Andrew Broder (April 16, 1845 – January 4, 1918) was an Ontario farmer, merchant and political figure. He represented Dundas in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1875 to 1886 and in the House of Commons of Canada from 1896 to 1911 as a Conservative member. He was born in Franklin, Huntingdon County, Canada East in 1845, the son of Irish immigrants. He was educated at academies in Huntingdon and Malone, New York. Broder served in the militia during the time of the Fenian raids. He settled at West Winchester, Ontario in 1868 and set up in business there as a merchant. His election in 1875 was appealed but he was reelected in the by-election that followed and represented Dundas in the provincial assembly for eleven years. Broder was a customs agent at Morrisburg from 1892 to 1896, resigning this post to run for a seat in the House of Commons. He married Caroline Summers and his son Fred later became customs collector at Morrisburg. He was the maternal uncle of Aaron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Glen Broder
Annie Glen Broder ( – 19 August 1937), born in India and educated in England, was a teacher, singer, pianist, composer, lecturer and writer. She became a leading musician in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Early life and career She was born Eliza Ann Glen in Agra, India, a daughter of the Reverend William Glen, a missionary, and Eliza Harriet Davis. She was educated in England, and won a scholarship to the National Training School for Music, of which the principal was Arthur Sullivan; she was educated there as singer and pianist."Glen, Annie (baptized Eliza Ann) (Broder)" Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved 7 March 2019. In the 1880s and 1890s she gave singing recitals, and performed as an accompanist. She gave lectures about piano accompaniment, with musical examples, in many cities in England, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berl Broder
Berl Broder (1817–1868), born Berl Margulis, was a Ukrainian Jew born in Podkamen,https://archive.org/details/nybc207372 Dray doyres̀: lider fun Berl Broder (Margulies), feliṭonen fun Yom Hatsyoni (Yitsḥaḳ Margulies), poemen un lider fun Ber Margulies (1957) the most famous of the Broder singers (19th century Jewish singers comparable to the troubadours or Minnesänger) and reputed the first to be both a singer and an actor.Bercovici 1998. His nickname is the origin of the term ''Broder singer''.Roskies 1999, p. 94. Thirty of his songs survive; of these, 24 are in the form of dialogues, usually between craftsmen such as tailors or shoemakers; his songs are seen as a precursor to Yiddish theater. His childhood was taken up with religious studies at home, until his father's death when he was 16. A handsome, bright young man with a good voice, he taught himself the violin. He worked briefly as a brushmaker; his co-workers became his first audience, calling him "Berl der vertl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David S
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the third king of the United Kingdom of Israel. In the Books of Samuel, he is described as a young shepherd and harpist who gains fame by slaying Goliath, a champion of the Philistines, in southern Canaan. David becomes a favourite of Saul, the first king of Israel; he also forges a notably close friendship with Jonathan, a son of Saul. However, under the paranoia that David is seeking to usurp the throne, Saul attempts to kill David, forcing the latter to go into hiding and effectively operate as a fugitive for several years. After Saul and Jonathan are both killed in battle against the Philistines, a 30-year-old David is anointed king over all of Israel and Judah. Following his rise to power, David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Broder
Gavin Broder (born 1959) is the former Chief Rabbi of Ireland, serving from 1996 to October, 2000. Broder left Dublin in October 2000 to become London chaplain of Hillel, the Jewish student organization. He was inaugurated chief rabbi in 1996, at the age of 34, at the Adelaide Road Synagogue. See also *History of the Jews in Ireland The history of the Jews in Ireland extends back several centuries. Although the Jewish community in Ireland has always been small in numbers (not exceeding 5,500 since at least 1891), it is well established and has generally been well-accept ... References External linksJewish Student Chaplain for London Rabbi Gavin Broder 1959 births 20th-century rabbis 21st-century rabbis Chief rabbis of Ireland Living people {{Ireland-reli-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henryk Broder
Henryk Marcin Broder (born 20 August 1946, self-designation Henryk Modest Broder) is a Polish-born German journalist, author, and TV personality. Broder is known for polemics, columns, and comments in written and audiovisual media. Starting as author for liberal and left medias konkret, Frankfurter Rundschau and St. Pauli Report, he became more mainstream and wrote for the magazine ''Der Spiegel'', as well as its online version and the daily Berlin newspaper ''Der Tagesspiegel''. Since 2010, he has been writing for publications of conservative Springer SE ''Die Welt'', ''Welt am Sonntag'' and appears in Welt TV. He is co-editor of ' (The Jewish calendar), a compilation of quotes and texts relating to German Jewish culture, published annually. Besides his numerous publications, he appears as a frequent guest on German TV talk shows. In 2010 and 2011, he produced and starred, alongside Egyptian-German writer and political scientist Hamed Abdel-Samad, in the satirical TV series ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Broder
Melissa Broder is an author, essayist and poet. Her work includes novels ''The Pisces'' (Penguin Random House 2018) and ''Milk Fed''Simon and Schuster2021), the poetry collection ''Last Sext'' (Tin House 2016), and essay collection ''So Sad Today'' ( Grand Central 2016), as well as the popular Twitter feed also titled So Sad Today, on which the book is based. Broder has written for ''The New York Times'', ''Elle'', ''Vice'', ''Vogue Italia'', and ''New York'' magazine‘s ''The Cut''. Early life Broder grew up in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania with her younger sister Hayley. Her father Bob was a tax lawyer and her mother owned a stationery store. She attended the Baldwin School and became interested in poetry early, writing her first collection in third grade. Broder attended Tufts University where she edited the literary magazine ''Queen's Head and Artichoke''. She graduated in 2001 with a degree in English and then moved to San Francisco, where she worked odd jobs before she reloca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirko Bröder
Mirko (Imre) Bröder, or Broeder, Broder, Breder (1911–1943) was a Hungarian–born Yugoslav chess master. Born in Budapest, he grew up in Novi Sad, Voivodina (then Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes), where he studied law. He won a simultaneous game against Alexander Alekhine at Novi Sad 1930, took 2nd in 1930, 4th in 1931, and 2nd in 1933, all in Novi Sad (local tournaments), tied for 4-5th at Novi Sad 1936 (the 2nd Yugoslav Chess Championship, Vasja Pirc won), and tied for 9-10th at Ljubljana 1938 (the 4th YUG-ch, Boris Kostić won). Bröder played for Yugoslavia in 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936 on eighth board (+7 –2 =8), and in the 7th Chess Olympiad at Stockholm 1937 on first reserve board (+4 –2 =7). During World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Broder
Samuel Broder spent his childhood in Poland, in a group of Jewish guerrillas threatened by the Nazis. He emigrated to the United States with a group of Polish survivors and settled with his parents in an industrial neighborhood in Detroit, where they ran a snack bar that was razed to the ground during the riots in 1968 for the assassination of Martin Luther King. Broder didn’t like to work there, he had different goals. He thought that in science he could succeed without belonging to a high socioeconomic class, so he began to get good grades in science subjects and got a scholarship to Michigan State University. He was a co-developer of some of the first effective drugs for the treatment of AIDS and was Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) from 1989 to 1995. During the first years of the AIDS epidemic, he co-developed zidovudine (AZT), didanosine (ddI), and zalcitabine (ddC), which were the first effective drugs licensed for the treatment of AIDS. In 1989, he wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broda (other)
Broda may refer to: Places * Broda, Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in north Poland * Broda, a part of Neubrandenburg, Germany People with the name * Broda (surname) * Broda Otto Barnes (1906–1988), American physician * Broda Shaggi Samuel Animashaun Perry, known professionally as Broda Shaggi , is a Nigerian comedian, actor, Songwriter and musician. He is a native of Ishagamu in Ogun State but born in Ikene in Ogun state. At a young age, he took an interest in acting drama a ... (born 1993), Nigerian comedian See also * * Brode (other) * Braude (other) * Broder {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broder Singer
The ''Broderzinger'' () or Broder singers, from Brody in Ukraine, were Jewish itinerant performers in Austrian Galicia, Romania, and Russia, professional or semiprofessional songwriters and performers, who from at least the early 19th century sang and danced, often in comic disguises, and who performed short one-act plays.https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0019_0_19780.html Jewish virtual library They were often '' badchonim'' (traditional wedding entertainers) and meshorerim (singers in cantors' choirs). They were among the first to publicly perform Yiddish-language songs outside of Purim plays and wedding parties, and were an important precursor to Yiddish theatre. They erected miniature stages and entertained customers in taverns, wine cellars, and restaurant gardens.Zalmen Zylbercweig, ''Leksikon fun Yidishn teater'', Book one, pp. 216-217 The first written records of the Broder singers are the remarks of Jews passing through Brody, which was a tradi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
