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Brecher
Brecher or Bröcher is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Amaya Brecher, cast member of '' The Real World: Hawaii'' * Aviva Brecher (born 1945), American applied physicist and transportation scientist * Bob Brecher (born 1949), British philosopher * (born 1951), Israeli historian and author * Edward M. Brecher (1912–1989), American author * Egon Brecher (1880–1946), Austro-Hungarian actor and director * Gary Brecher (born July 1955), American military writer * Gideon Brecher (1797–1873), Jewish Bohemian-Austrian physician and writer * Gustav Brecher (1879–1940), Jewish Bohemian-German conductor and composer * Irving Brecher (1914–2008), American screenwriter * Jeremy Brecher, historian, documentary filmmaker, activist, and author * John Brecher, wine columnist of ''The Wall Street Journal'' * Mark Elliott Brecher (born 1956), Retired Chief Medical Officer LabCorp, Emeritus Professor University of North Carolina * Michael Brecher (1925–202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Brecher
John Carroll Dolan (born July 1955) is an American poet, author and essayist.Profile New Zealand Book Council; retrieved August 4, 2017. He has been identified as the once-secret identity behind the pseudonym Gary Brecher, fictional author of the War Nerd column for the newspaper '''' which has ceased publication. John Dolan writes as the War Nerd, but no longer "in full character"Gary Brecher "The War Nerd: Escape From East Timor (Part One)" pando.com, May 3, 2015; retrieved August 4, 2017. as B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Brecher
Jeremy Brecher is a historian, documentary filmmaker, activist, and author of books on Labor economics, labor and social movements. Career Labor History In 1969, Brecher and other collaborators including Paul Mattick Jr., Paul Mattick, Jr., Stanley Aronowitz, and Peter Rachleff began sporadically publishing a magazine and pamphlet series called ''Root & Branch'' drawing on the tradition of workers councils and adapting them to contemporary America. In 1975 they published the collection ''Root & Branch: The Rise of the Workers’ Movements''. History from Below Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Connecticut Humanities Council, the project involved participation of more than 200 workers and community members who provided documents, participated in interviews, served on an advisory committee, and reviewed the project’s products. Brecher has continued to create community-based historical and cultural products in the Naugatuck Valley. From 1988 to 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Brecher
Gustav Brecher (5 February 1879 – May 1940) was a German conductor, composer, and music critic. As director of the Leipzig Opera, he conducted world premieres of works by Ernst Krenek and Kurt Weill, including '' Jonny spielt auf'' and '' Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny''. He was dismissed by the Nazis in 1933, lived at risk in Stalingrad, Berlin, Prague, and finally Ostend, where he took his life together with his wife's. Life Brecher was born in Eichwald, Ore Mountains, then in Austria-Hungary. His Jewish family moved from Bohemia to Leipzig in 1889. Brecher was taught there by Salomon Jadassohn. Richard Strauss conducted his tone poem ''Rosmersholm'' in 1896. Brecher made his debut in 1897 at the Leipzig Opera. From 1901, he conducted at the Vienna Court Opera alongside Gustav Mahler. Between 1903 and 1911 he was Kapellmeister at the Hamburg State Opera, where he conducted the world premiere of Busoni's '' Die Brautwahl''. After conducting at the Cologne Oper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irving Brecher
Irving S. Brecher (January 17, 1914 – November 17, 2008) was a screenwriter who wrote for the Marx Brothers among many others; he was the only writer to get sole credit on a Marx Brothers film, penning the screenplays for ''At the Circus'' (1939) and '' Go West'' (1940). He was also one of the numerous uncredited writers on the screenplay of '' The Wizard of Oz'' (1939). Some of his other screenplays were ''Shadow of the Thin Man'' (1941), ''Ziegfeld Follies'' (1945) and ''Bye Bye Birdie'' (1963). Early years Born in the Bronx, New York, Brecher's first professional involvement with movies came when he became an usher at a Manhattan, New York movie theater at age 19. Even as a teenager he was writing jokes, sending them to newspaper columnists Walter Winchell and Ed Sullivan on postcards. Career He created, produced, and was head writer for the original radio and early TV edition of ''The Life of Riley''. He also wrote for Al Jolson on radioKatz, Ephraim (1979). ''The Film En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aviva Brecher
Aviva Brecher (born July 4, 1945) is a Romanian-American applied physicist and transportation scientist who studied magnetic levitation for many years at the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, a research center of the United States Department of Transportation. Early life and education Brecher was born on July 4, 1945, to a Jewish family in Bucharest, where her father was a gynecologist. Her family moved to Israel when she was 15. While attending high school in Israel, she meet and became involved with her future husband, Kenneth Brecher, a physics student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who had visited Israel to work with Nathan Rosen. After graduating as valedictorian from high school in Kiryat Haim, she began her university studies in applied physics at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, but transferred to MIT to be closer to Brecher, whom she married in Israel before moving to the US and becoming a naturalized US citi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Brecher
Steve Brecher (born 1945) is an American professional poker player. Poker career In 1999, Brecher placed 8th in the World Series of Poker $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em event for $15,000. In 2004, he reached the final table of the World Poker Tour $25,000 No Limit Championship, finishing in 6th place and winning $232,000. In 2005, he finished 3rd in the $9,700 No Limit Hold'em event at the United States Poker Championship, pocketing $218,000. In 2009, Brecher took his first major tournament title by winning the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament. He beat over 300 other players to win more than $1 Million, defeating Kathy Liebert heads up after the longest final table in WPT history. He finished 31st in the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event, winning $242,636. As of November 2015, his career cashes were $3.0 million. Computer programming career Before turning his hand to professional poker, Brecher was a computer programmer and writer who was instrumental in creating some of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gideon Brecher
Gideon Brecher (; 12 January 1797 – 14 May 1873), also known by the pen name Gedaliah ben Eliezer (, was an Austrian writer and physician. He was a central figure in the Moravian Haskalah. Biography Brecher was born in Prossnitz, Moravia, and attended yeshivot in Eibenschütz and Nikolsburg. He was the first Jew of Prossnitz to study medicine or any other professional field. Brecher received a graduate degree in surgery and obstetrics at the University of Pest in 1824, and obtained a doctorate in medicine at the University of Erlangen in 1849, with the thesis ''Das Transcendentale, Magie und Magische Heilarten im Talmud'' (Vienna, 1850). Brecher's fame in Jewish literature rests principally on this work and upon his lucid commentary on the '' Kuzari'' of Judah ha-Levi, which appeared with the text in four parts (Prague, 1838–1840). His correspondence with Samuel David Luzzato about this commentary was also published. In addition to many contributions to scientific and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Brecher
Michael Brecher (14 March 1925 – 16 January 2022) was a Canadian political scientist and teacher in Quebec. Life and career Brecher was born on 14 March 1925. He obtained his PhD in International Relations from Yale University in 1953, and joined the faculty of McGill University in 1954. He was R.B. Angus Professor of Political Science at McGill University until his retirement. His areas of research included; theory of crisis, conflict and war, protracted conflicts/enduring rivalries, foreign policy theory, international systems, the Middle East and South Asia international relations. He retired after 69 years, thereafter becoming R.B. Angus Professor of Political Science Emeritus, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada. Brecher died on 16 January 2022, at the age of 96. Selected publications Books * ''The Struggle for Kashmir'', Oxford University Press, 1953. * ''Nehru: A Political Biography'', Oxford University Press, 1959 & 2005. * ''Israel, the Korean War and Chin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Elliott Brecher
Mark Elliot Brecher is a physician specializing in pathology, in particular blood transfusion. Biography In 1982, Brecher earned a MD at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine; he also had his residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology there. He subsequently completed a blood banking and transfusion medicine fellowship at the Mayo Clinic The Mayo Clinic () is a nonprofit American academic medical center focused on integrated health care, education, and research. It employs over 4,500 physicians and scientists, along with another 58,400 administrative and allied health staff, .... Professional career He was a member of the faculty of the Mayo Clinic Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology from 1988 to 1992, and then moved to the University of North Carolina as a member of the faculty and vice-chair in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine from 1992 to 2009. In 2009 he became the Chief Medical Officer for the Laboratory Corp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egon Brecher
Egon Brecher (18 February 1880 – 12 August 1946) was an Austria-Hungary-born actor and director, who also served as the chief director of Vienna's Stadttheater, before entering the motion picture industry. Early years The son of a professor, Brecher began studying philosophy in 1900 at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He did not finish his studies, deciding instead to become an actor. Career He appeared on several provincial stages in Germany and Austria until 1910, and then played in Vienna on various occasions, directed by Josef Jarno until 1921. In 1907, he founded an initiative (which lasted for one or two years) to play modern Yiddish theatre in German language with Siegfried Schmitz and members of the student club ‘Theodor Herzl’ like Hugo Zuckermann and Oskar Rosenfeld. In 1919 he was a co-founder, along with Isaak Deutsch, Jacob Mestel, and others, of the Freie Jüdische Volksbühne in Vienna, a Yiddish theatre, which existed until 1922. In 1906 and 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Brecher
Bob Brecher (born 1949) is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Brighton. He is known for his expertise on ethics and political philosophy Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, l .... Brecher is co-director of Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics and a former president of Association for Social and Political Philosophy (2000-2003). He founded '' Res Publica'' in 1995. Books * ''Anselm's Argument: the Logic of Divine Existence'' (Gower, 1985) * '' Torture and the Ticking Bomb'' (Blackwell, 2007) * ''Getting What You Want? A Critique of Liberal Morality'' (Routledge, 1997) Edited * ''Liberalism and the New Europe'', with Otakar Fleischmann (Avebury, 1993) * ''The University in a Liberal State'', with Otakar Fleischmann (Avebur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brecker
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Brecker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Randy Brecker (b. 1945), American musician, brother of Michael * Michael Brecker (1949–2007), American musician, brother of Randy * Allison Shearmur (née Brecker; 1963–2018), American film executive and producer See also *Brecher Brecher or Bröcher is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Amaya Brecher, cast member of '' The Real World: Hawaii'' * Aviva Brecher (born 1945), American applied physicist and transportation scientist * Bob Brecher (born 1949), B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
