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Burstyn (other)
Burstyn, Burshtyn, Burshtin, Birshtyn, or Bursztyn are derived from Polish (''bursztyn'') or Ukrainian (Бурштин) for ''amber''. It corresponds to German and Yiddish surname Bernstein. It may refer to: People * Burshtin (Hasidic dynasty) * Dina Bursztyn (born 1948), Argentine sculptor * Ellen Burstyn, American actress, host of ''The Ellen Burstyn Show'' * Feliza Bursztyn, Colombian sculptor * Gunther Burstyn (1879-1945), Austrian inventor and officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army * Igal Bursztyn, Israeli film director, writer, producer * Joseph Burstyn (1899–1953), Polish-American film distributor * Mike Burstyn (born 1945), American actor * Thomas Burstyn (born 1954), Canadian cinematographer Places * Burshtyn, Ukraine ** Burshtyn TES See also *Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson ''Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson'', 343 U.S. 495 (1952), also referred to as the ''Miracle Decision'', was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court that largely marked the decline of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amber
Amber is fossilized tree resin that has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times. Much valued from antiquity to the present as a gemstone, amber is made into a variety of decorative objects."Amber" (2004). In Maxine N. Lurie and Marc Mappen (eds.) ''Encyclopedia of New Jersey'', Rutgers University Press, . Amber is used in jewelry and has been used as a healing agent in folk medicine. There are five classes of amber, defined on the basis of their chemical constituents. Because it originates as a soft, sticky tree resin, amber sometimes contains animal and plant material as inclusions. Amber occurring in coal seams is also called resinite, and the term ''ambrite'' is applied to that found specifically within New Zealand coal seams. Etymology The English word ''amber'' derives from Arabic (ultimately from Middle Persian ''ambar'') via Middle Latin ''ambar'' and Middle French ''ambre''. The word was adopted in Middle English in the 14th century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernstein
Bernstein is a common surname in the German language, meaning "amber" (literally "burn stone"). The name is used by both Germans and Jews, although it is most common among people of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. The German pronunciation is , but in English it is pronounced either as or . Notable people sharing the surname "Bernstein" A–H * Aaron Bernstein (1812–1884), German short story writer and historian * Abe Bernstein (1892–1968), American mobster * Abraham Bernstein (other), several people * Adam Bernstein (born 1960), American film, music video, television director, and screenwriter * Al Bernstein (born 1950), American sportscaster, writer, stage performer, recording artist, and speaker * Al Bernstein (born 1949), Austrian contemporary artist * Al Bernstein (born 1950), American boxing commentator * Alan Bernstein (born 1947), Canadian medical researcher * Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil (1936–2010), British television executive and politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burshtin (Hasidic Dynasty)
Burshtin is a Hasidic dynasty headed by Grand Rabbi David Eichenstein, the Burshteiner Rebbe. The main Burshteiner synagogue is located in Borough Park, Brooklyn. The group originated in Burshtyn, now located in Ukraine, but was once part of Austria-Hungary. The Grand Rebbe is a scion of many great rabbinical dynasties, including Zidichov and Stretin. He has authored several books of Hasidic lore. He is a disciple of Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum of Satmar. His brother, Grand Rabbi Isaac Menachem Eichenstein, is the Galanter Rebbe of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. His son, Rabbi Zeideleh has, in recent years, been functioning as a "Rebbe in Waiting" offering auxiliary and complementing Rebbe services alongside the Grand Rebbe. The second son, Rabbi Luzer, leads the local chapter in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Name The name 'Burshtin' is derived from Polish-Yiddish ('' bursztyn'') or Ukrainian (Бурштин) for ''amber'' (German and Yiddish: ''Bernstein'', ''Börnsteen'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dina Bursztyn
Dina Bursztyn (born 1948) is an Argentine writer and visual artist whose works have been exhibited in Art museum, galleries, museums and public spaces throughout America and abroad. Personal life Bursztyn was born and raised in Argentina. She moved to the Bronx, New York, New York City in 1976. Education Bursztyn has a Master's degree, Masters in Latin American literature from the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina. Featured works Bursztyn's works have been featured at: Art in General (New York City), Artists Space, The Arts Exchange, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx Museum, the Center for Book Arts, the Central Library of Mexico, the Chappaqua, the Ex Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), the Library Gallery, and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Neuberger Museum. Views from Above is displayed on the New York City Subway as part of MTA Arts and Design. Her works have also been exhibited at the following events: Bronx Bound at Lehman College of Art, Bronx, Moving Targets, at the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn (born Edna Rae Gillooly; December 7, 1932) is an American actress. Known for her portrayals of complicated women in dramas, she is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards, making her one of the few performers to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting". Born in Detroit, Michigan, Burstyn left school and worked as a dancer and model. At age 24, she made her acting debut on Broadway in 1957 and soon started to make appearances in television shows. Stardom followed several years later with her acclaimed role in ''The Last Picture Show'' (1971), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her next appearance in ''The Exorcist'' (1973), earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. The film has remained popular and several publications have regarded it as one of the greatest horror films of all time. She followed this with Martin Scorsese's '' Alice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feliza Bursztyn
Feliza Bursztyn (8 September 1933 – 8 January 1982) was a Colombian sculptor. Biography Feliza Bursztyn was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1933 to Polish Jewish immigrants. Her parents had just been visiting Bogotá at the time of her birth in 1933. When they received news of Adolf Hitler's election to the German Chancellorship, they decided to remain in Colombia, where her father founded a small textile factory. Bursztyn's father managed a prosperous textile factory and the family rose to the elite ranks of industrialists in a nation that underwent a swift process of modernisation. Her father's textile factory allowed her to pursue studies in Bogotá, then at the Art Students League of New York to study painting, and lastly the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris to study sculptures. At the Academia Grande Chaumière, she was taught by the cubist sculptor Ossip Zadkine. On her second trip to Europe she learned to melt and work scrap metal with the sculptor César Bal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunther Burstyn
Gunther Adolf Burstyn (6 July 1879 in Bad Aussee, Steiermark – 15 April 1945 in Korneuburg, Lower Austria) was an inventor, technician, and officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army. He is best known for his ''Motorgeschütz'', the first detailed concept of a modern tank. Personal life Burstyn's father Adolf Burstyn came from a Jewish family in Lviv, but Burstyn converted to Catholicism along with his spouse Juliane ( Hoffman). Burstyn was initially christened "Günther," but in later life chose to omit the umlaut and use the name "Gunther". Invention of the tank In 1911, he produced and patented the first design of a cross-country fighting vehicle with swivelling gun turret (a tank), based on the gun turrets from naval warships and armoured vehicles using the then decade-old combustion engine. He called his tank the Motorgeschütz (literally "motor-gun"). His draft design, more advanced than some of the tank designs of World War I, was rejected both by Austria-Hungary and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igal Bursztyn
Igal Bursztyn (born May 27, 1941) is an Israeli film director, writer, producer and adjunct full professor at the Tel Aviv University Film and TV Department. Biography Bursztyn was born in Manchester, England, his parents were born in Poland. In 1949, his family returned to Warsaw and in 1957 they immigrated to Israel. His father was a scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Chemistry, Polymer Department), his mother worked there as a librarian. After his military service (artillery) Bursztyn studied mathematics, philosophy and literature graduating (Tel Aviv University, 1966) in philosophy. In 1967 studied for few months at the London School for Film Techniques. During the years 1965-1967 wrote literary and film criticism for newspapers Al Hamishmar, LaMerhav, Haaretz and Keshet. During the years 1985-1991 wrote for Haaretz, Maariv and Ha'ir. He has been teaching at the Film & TV Department of the Tel Aviv University since 1973, received tenure in 1984, since 1995 was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Burstyn
Joseph Burstyn (born Jossel Lejba Bursztyn; December 15, 1899 – November 29, 1953) was a Polish-American film distributor who specialized in the commercial release of foreign-language and American independent film productions. Life and career Burstyn was born as Jossel Bursztyn to a Jewish family in Sokoły, Poland in 1899. On May 7, 1921, he arrived in the U.S. with his family, parents Pinches Herszko (a merchant; born 1871 to Chaim Wolf and Chaja z Wolfów-Pinchesów Bursztyn) and Gittel "Gitla" Rotbart, and siblings Chaim Kielman, Cypa, Berko, Joel Szloma and Bejla. The family settled in Cleveland, where an aunt lived. His legal name was Joseph Burstein but he later spelled it Burstyn. He became a US citizen in 1934.''New York, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794-1940'' He initially worked as a public relations representative for the Yiddish theater circuit in New York City before becoming active in film distribution with business partner Arthur Mayer from the lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Burstyn
Michael Burstein ( he, מייק בורשטיין; born July 1, 1945) is an Israeli-American actor known onstage as Mike Burstyn. He was born in New York City to the late Yiddish-language actors, Pesach Burstein and Lillian Lux. His first cousin was Borsch Belt comedian, Jay Lester. Mike began performing on stage at Yiddish theaters from childhood, in musicals and melodramas produced by his father, Pesach Burstein, especially as part of the Four Bursteins. (Mike and his twin sister were billed as ''Motele'' and ''Zisele'') in standard Pesach Burstein productions like A Khasene in Shtetl (''A Wedding in the Village'').What a Life! The Autobiography of Pesach'ke Burstein, Yiddish Matinee Idol; By Pesach'ke Burstein with Lillian Lux Burstein; Syracuse University Press, 2003 () He headed out on his own after reaching adulthood, in a bid to reach audiences bigger than the Yiddish stage. He has performed on television in the United States, Israel, and the Netherlands. He has perfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Burstyn
Thomas Burstyn (born 1954 in Montreal, Quebec), sometimes credited as Tom Burstyn, is a Canadian cinematographer and documentary filmmaker. He is most noted for his work on the 1995 film ''Magic in the Water'', for which he won the Genie Award for Best Cinematography at the 16th Genie Awards. He was nominated in the same category on two other occasions, at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989 for ''The Tadpole and the Whale (La Grenouille et la baleine)'', and at the 14th Genie Awards in 1993 for '' The Lotus Eaters''. As a filmmaker he directed the documentary film '' Some Kind of Love'',"Some Kind of Love: Thomas Burstyn" '''', June 12, 2015. for which he received a |
Burshtyn
Burshtyn ( uk, Буршти́н, translit=Burshtyn) is a city located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine, to the north of Halych. It is accessible by rail. Burshtyn hosts the administration of Burshtyn urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: It developed rapidly and significantly grew in population during the Soviet period. Administratively, Burshtyn is incorporated as a city of regional significance. The town, which was one of the Jewish shtetls, and whose name in Ukrainian and Polish literally means ''amber'', was only granted city status in 1993 and has a special administrative status in Halych Raion. As an urbanized settlement from 1944 to 1962, it was the main town of the raion. There is an old Roman Catholic Church in the center of the city, which was restored at the beginning of the 21st century. One of its landmarks is the Burshtyn TES coal-fired power station, which is situated on a reservoir approximately 8 km long and 2 km wid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
