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Blumenfeld is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alan Blumenfeld, American actor * Amir Blumenfeld, Israeli-American writer and comedian * Anat Blumenfeld, Israeli biochemist * Benjamin Blumenfeld (1884–1947), Russian chess player * Daniel Blumenfeld, American Grammy-winning music producer *Erwin Blumenfeld (1897–1969), German-American photographer * Fannie Zeissler (born Blumenfeld) (1863–1927), Austrian-American pianist * Felix Blumenfeld (1863–1931), Russian composer, conductor, and pianist * Hugh Blumenfeld (b. 1958), American folk musician * Isadore Blumenfeld (commonly Kid Cann, 1900–1981), American mobster * J. C. Blumenfeld (–), Polish-British poet * (1921–2002), Soviet Russian physicist * Samuel Blumenfeld, American author and educator * Simon Blumenfeld (1907–2005), English columnist, novelist, playwright and editor * Simon Blumenfeldt (1760 or 1770 – 1826), Russian Hebrew calligrapher See also * Blumfeld * Bloomfield (disam ...
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Amir Blumenfeld
Amir Shmuel Blumenfeld (; he, אמיר שמואל בלומנפלד; born January 18, 1983) is an Israeli-American comedian, actor, writer, Television presenter, television host, and member of the American comedy duo, Jake and Amir. Born in Israel, he moved to Los Angeles when he was two, and was hired by the New York City-based CollegeHumor in 2005. As well as contributing to its books and articles, he has written and starred in original videos for the comedy website—appearing in series such as ''Hardly Working'' and ''Very Mary-Kate''—and was a cast member on its short-lived MTV program ''The CollegeHumor Show''. Amir first came to national prominence in 2004 when he was a semi-finalist during Yahoo's inaugural national IM Live contest, losing to the eventual champions. Now, he is best known for appearing in the web series ''Jake and Amir#Jake and Amir (web series), Jake and Amir'' with Jake Hurwitz, in which he plays an annoying and exaggerated version of himself. Original ...
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Kid Cann
Isadore Blumenfeld (September 8, 1900 – June 21, 1981), commonly known as Kid Cann, was a Romanian Jewish-American organized crime enforcer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for over four decades. He remains the most notorious mobster in the history of Minnesota. He was associated with several high-profile crimes in the city's history, including the 1924 murder of cab driver Charles Goldberg, the attempted murder of police officer James H. Trepanier, and the December 1935 assassination of investigative journalist Walter Liggett. He is also thought to have participated in the fraudulent dismantling of the Twin City Rapid Transit street railway during the early 1950s. Blumenfeld was convicted of violating the federal Mann Act in 1959 and, after a short prison term, retired to Miami Beach, Florida, where he and Meyer Lansky operated a real estate empire. He was involved in organized crime in Miami Beach and Havana, Cuba, until his death. Life Early life Blumenfeld was born i ...
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Erwin Blumenfeld
Erwin Blumenfeld (26 January 1897 – 4 July 1969) was an American photographer of German origin. He was born in Berlin, and in 1941 emigrated to the United States, where he soon became a successful and well-paid fashion photographer, working as a free-lancer for ''Harper's Bazaar'', ''Life'' and American ''Vogue''. His personal photographic work showed the influence of Dadaism and Surrealism; his two main areas of interest were death and women. He was expert in laboratory work, and experimented with photographic techniques such as distortion, multiple exposure, photo-montage and solarisation. History Blumenfeld was born in Berlin on 26 January 1897, to atheistic Jewish free-thinker parents. As a young man he worked in the clothes trade and wrote poetry. In 1918 he went to Amsterdam, where he came into contact with Paul Citroen and Georg Grosz. In 1933 he made a photomontage showing Hitler as a skull with a swastika on its forehead; this image was later used in Allied pr ...
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Hugh Blumenfeld
Hugh Blumenfeld (born October 11, 1958) is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter from Connecticut. He was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, graduated with degrees in Biology and Humanities from M.I.T. in 1980, and got a master's degree in English Literature from the University of Chicago in 1981. He was active in the Greenwich Village music scene in the 1980s, attending the Cornelia Street Songwriters Exchange and performing at Folk City and Speak Easy while working on a PhD in Poetics from New York University. He also helped to edit the ''Fast Folk Musical Magazine'' (now part of the Smithsonian-Folkways collection) and recorded songs for a dozen issues. After earning his PhD in 1991, he worked as an English professor until 1994, when he began writing and performing full-time. Over the next 10 years he toured mainly in the Northeast and Midwest, with several short tours in Europe and one in Israel. In 1999 he was appointed Connecticut State Troubadour. In the fa ...
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Felix Blumenfeld
Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (russian: Фе́ликс Миха́йлович Блуменфе́льд; – 21 January 1931) was a Russian and Soviet composer, conductor of the Imperial Opera St-Petersburg, pianist, and teacher. He was born in Kirovograd (in present-day Ukraine), Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire, the son of Mikhail Frantsevich Blumenfeld, of Austrian Jewish origin, and the Maria Szymanowska. Blumenfeld studied with Gustav Neuhaus, married to his older sister. Then he studied composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and piano under Fedor Stein between 1881 and 1885. He then taught piano there himself from 1885 until 1918, whilst also serving as conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre until 1911. The Mariinsky saw the premieres of the operas composed by his mentor Rimsky-Korsakov. He was also the conductor at the Russian premiere of Wagner's opera ''Tristan und Isolde''. In 1908, he conducted the Paris premiere of Modest Mu ...
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Simon Blumenfeld
Simon Blumenfeld (25 November 1907 – 13 April 2005) was a British columnist, author, playwright, theatre critic, editor and communist. Although he described himself as Jewish, he was born to a family of Sicily#Demographics, Sicilian refugees, who eventually settled in Whitechapel, in the East End of London. During World War II he served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps as an expert in German munitions, before becoming a scriptwriter for ''Stars in Battledress'', an army talent show. At the end of the war he founded the entertainment magazine ''Band Wagon'',Named for the radio show ''Band Waggon''. with Norman Kark. He adopted a number of pseudonyms for his writing, including Sidney Vauncez (the Yiddish word for moustache), CV Curtis, and Peter Simon. He founded the ''Weekly Sporting Review'', which collapsed when sued for libel by the managers of Tommy Steele; and then ''Record Mirror'' with Benny Green (saxophonist), Benny Green. Simon Blumenfeld died at Barnet Hospital in ...
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Samuel Blumenfeld
Samuel Blumenfeld (born 1926 in New York, died 2015 in Waltham) was a phonics advocate and conservative writer. He frequently lectured in favor of systematic phonics instruction in the teaching of reading and wrote over a dozen books on education. Biography Growing up in the South Bronx, Blumenfeld saw combat in Italy during World War II and later graduated from the City College of New York. He published multiple books on education and spent much of his career investigating the decline in American literacy, the rise in learning disabilities in American children, sex Sex is the trait that determines whether a sexually reproducing animal or plant produces male or female gametes. Male plants and animals produce smaller mobile gametes (spermatozoa, sperm, pollen), while females produce larger ones ( ova, of ... and drug education, and other topics related to education. Blumenfeld was an advocate of homeschooling. Blumenfeld was also active in the Shakespeare authorship q ...
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Benjamin Blumenfeld
Benjamin Blumenfeld (24 May 1884, Vilkaviškis – 5 March 1947, Moscow) was a Russian chess master. He was born in Vilkaviškis, in the Suwałki Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Lithuania). In 1905/06 he tied for second/third with Akiba Rubinstein, behind Gersz Salwe, in St. Petersburg (the fourth Russian championship). In 1907 he tied for second/third with Georg Marco, behind Mikhail Chigorin, in Moscow. In 1920 he took eighth in Moscow (Russian Chess Olympiad, 1st URS-ch). The event was won by Alexander Alekhine. In 1925 he tied for second/third with Boris Verlinsky, behind Aleksandr Sergeyev (chess player), Aleksandr Sergeyev, in the Moscow championship. He invented the Blumenfeld Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nf3 b5). In 1945 Blumenfeld defended PhD thesis on psychology, based on cognition in chess. Notable gamesBenjamin Markovich Blumenfeld vs Aron Nimzowitsch, Berlin 1903, Scotch Game: Schmidt Variation (C45), 1-0 References External links

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Simon Blumenfeldt
Simon Blumenfeldt (; 1760 or 1770 – 1826), also known as Simon Sofer (), was a Russian Hebrew calligrapher and writer. He possessed the gift of writing in characters so small that they could be read only by the aid of a microscope. The Lord's Prayer was thus written by him nine times on a piece of paper the size of a square inch. He could write readable letters and words even on the very edge of ordinary vellum paper. He was also a skilful draftsman, and he used to embellish his excellent pencil sketches with all kind of verses and sentences. He traveled extensively through Europe, and received rewards from many sovereigns. Blumenfeldt presented numerous script portraits to Emperor Alexander I of Russia, and a Torah, of the size of a finger, to Pope Pius VII Pope Pius VII ( it, Pio VII; born Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti; 14 August 1742 – 20 August 1823), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 14 March 1800 to his death in August 1823. ...
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Anat Blumenfeld
Anat Blumenfeld is an Israeli research biochemist at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. Blumenfeld discovered a chromosome responsible for the serious disease Familial dysautonomia which affects the nerves of fetuses. About 100 families in Israel of Ashkenazi Jewish origin have one or more children with the disease, and they suffer from nausea, high blood pressure, and some food entering their lungs. Dr. Blumenfeld says the disease was discovered about 40 years ago, but researchers did not know what caused it and whether it was genetic. She collected blood specimens for three years from the affected families and checked all their chromosomes and identified No. 9 as causing the disease. Apart from the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, where Blumenfeld works, the test is now used only in New York. See also *Health care in Israel Healthcare in Israel is universal and participation in a medical insurance plan is compulsory. All Israeli residents are entitled to basic health care as ...
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Alan Blumenfeld
Alan Blumenfeld (born September 4, 1952) is an American character actor, best known for his role in NBC's TV series ''Heroes'' as Maury Parkman, the telepath father of Matt Parkman played by Greg Grunberg, and as Bob Buss in the telefilm ''2gether''. He has played Greg Grunberg's father in both '' Felicity'' and ''Heroes''. Life and career Blumenfeld has been acting since the age of 7 in his first grade, and has appeared in prime time television shows such as ''Grey's Anatomy'', '' JAG'', ''Gilmore Girls'', '' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', ''Without a Trace'', and '' Judging Amy''. He has also appeared in movies, including '' The Ring'', '' In Her Shoes'', and '' Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives''. He was also the voice of Glottis and Boyd Cooper on the cult video-games ''Grim Fandango'' and ''Psychonauts'' respectively. Blumenfeld currently lives in Los Angeles and is still active in theater, film and television acting. He also teaches acting at Pomona College in Cl ...
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Fannie Zeissler
Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler (July 16, 1863 – August 20, 1927) was an Austrian-born U.S. pianist. Biography Zeisler was born Fannie Blumenfeld on July 16, 1863, in Bielitz, Austrian Silesia, to Jewish parents. She emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 4 in 1867. The family settled in Chicago, Illinois, where they later changed their name to Bloomfield. She was the sister of Maurice Bloomfield and the aunt of Leonard Bloomfield. At the age of six, before receiving any musical instruction, she began picking out tunes on the piano. Her first teachers were in Chicago; Bernard Ziehn and Carl Wolfsohn. In 1877, Annette Essipova, then on tour in the United States, heard her play and advised that she became a pupil of Theodor Leschetizky. She made her debut at the age of 11 in February 1875. In 1878, she returned to Austria to study in Vienna, under Leschetizky. While in Austria, she changed her name from Blumenfeld to Bloomfield. She returned to Chicago in 1883. ...
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